Letters to the Editor

What You Say

What city do you think you live in?

The reporters at the City Paper should really question your blind faith to the Democratic Party [News, "We Could Do Worse," Doron Taussig, March 26, 2009]. I am a Democrat myself. This city has been run for 40 years by Democrats and the mismanagement is multiplying every year.

Yes, we've reached peak oil and gas and if we're lucky there will be a presidential order to halt mountaintop stripping [Slant, "The Other White Meat," David Faris, March 26, 2009].

Where do we turn? Well, it seems that you've forgotten that industrial hemp is the only perfect substitute for petroleum and petroleum byproducts. It can satisfy all of the world's heating, energy, transportation and textile needs. It is much better than wood as a source for print material, and it has untold medicinal value. Moreover, repealing 1937 legislation prohibiting the cultivation of industrial hemp would save this nation hundreds of billions by eliminating costs associated with drug enforcement, wasteful ethanol production, costly safeguarding of nuclear waste, and expenditures for oil imports. If the politicians are wringing their perfumed hands over this pending crisis they only need to bite the bullet on the issue of legalizing Cannabis Sativa L.

Wake up, America. We have a solution to peak oil, we just don't have the smarts to use it.

Perhaps someone can explain why some journalists aren't satisfied with a byline at a single publication but feel compelled to pontificate in interviews in other publications ad nauseam and write annoying "letters to the editor" [Feedback, "Already Famous," Stu Bykofsky, March 26, 2009]. Stu Bykofsky has created a cottage industry doing this. He has his own forum but nevertheless felt it necessary to use your pages to "straighten out" one of your readers. Yeesh! As your aptly put headline said, he's "already famous." So why isn't that enough?