The American Government does not have any ones intrestin their heart but their own.

Thanks for the debate e2. I'm not going to answer my opponent's arguments from the comments section - those are comments, not arguments. There's a character limit for a reason. 1) The topic - does government care about anything other than self-interest My opponent claims I skipped his first paragraph and just started talking about hemp. His first paragraph was about EFA's, which he immediately related to hemp oil. I argued against the topic and what he actually argued. He claims that if politicians had OUR interests, they'd NEVER pass a bill that would be bad for their careers. But politicians must sometimes force their constituents to make tough choices that ultimately is in the country's best interest. If a politician does something that is not in their own interest, it clearly refutes the resolution. My opponent never answers how JFK risked his own life during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Actually, later he says that JFK was the one exception - I'm sure he'd keep saying that to every example I bring up. LBJ made such tough decisions for the country, and he did not even seek re-election. http://www.historyplace.com... He was clearly not making these decisions (Civil Rights Act, tough war decisions) to benefit his own political career. So government obviously care about things other than themselves. I really don't understand how banning hemp benefits any political careers anyways. 2) Trans fat The trans fat revolution initially happened because of lobbyist groups that ran campaigns against McDonald's and other fast food chains for having saturated fat and forced them to replace it with trans fat. The big chain restaurants all voluntary switched to what was ultimately found to be a LESS health form of cooking oil, BUT government had nothing to do with this switch (according to the documentary called "The Fast Food Diet." 3) Government recommended diet My opponent never provided evidence that the government recommended diet is unhealthy. In fact, the USDA food pyramid is a little carb heavy, but it is the perfect diet for ectomorphic body types. In contrast, endomorphic body types should consume fewer carbs and more protein. All diets really depend on the person and few people blindly follow USDA recommendations, as evidenced by how few people eat the USDA recommended 3-4 servings of fruits and vegetables each day. All of this has little, however, to do with essential fatty acids. My opponent recommends people take omega supplements. The typical omega supplements taken in the US are fish oil and flax seed oil. Personally, I prefer flax seed oil, taken in pill form. You can eat hemp seed oil, I suppose, if you prefer. However, remember that Ori Hofmekler recommends you limit your intake of omega-3 and try to increase your intake of omega-6. 4) Medicine In my opponent's last round, he asks why he should be forced into something. I already explained how his use of the emergency room, as an uninsured person, is just robbing money from insured people. His other justification is that NO MEDICINE treats the root cause of disease. That's just silly. Penicillin kills the harmful bacteria that cause certain diseases (syphilis, strep and other infections), HIV meds treat the HIV virus, etc. Changing your diet cannot cure all diseases, as my opponent asserts. He claims, without evidence, that most maladies are from malnutrition. I've seen people claim, on the other end, that fasting for 3 weeks can cure all maladies because we eat too many toxins in our diet. So which is it: do we eat too much or too little? 5) States can't grow it I provided evidence that 8 states legalized the growth of hemp. My opponent never refutes this directly. He claims it's too expensive because bandits will try to steal the plants unless they are protected by dogs and fences, but remember, hemp does not have enough THC content to be used as a drug, so there's no point in stealing it. 6) EFA My opponent claims again that we need the correct balance of EFA and that we shouldn't drink milk. This is just ridiculous. Supplement your diet to get omega-3, 6 and 9, if you want. But we also need milk, since our bodies require calcium. Our bones completely rebuild themselves every 6 months. If we don't drink enough calcium, they rebuild themselves weaker each time, since calcium is the building block of bones. My opponent seems to claim we should eat raw meat in his last round. That's just weird - raw food advocates claim we should eat CURED meat, i.e. salted and AGED meat, which is never cooked. But eating meat "raw" or "fresh" as my opponent suggests, is extremely dangerous and there is no evidence humans ever did that. Since I'm not gonna refute the comments section, that's all I have. I should win $100,000 since my opponent drops all my arguments that hemp cannot cure all our energy needs and replace petroleum, that it sucks for clothing, and that it cannot replace the paper we currently use. If it WAS better and cheaper, people would already buy hemp clothes and paper from Canada or the EU. But hemp sincerely sucks. My opponent also never substantiates the claim that 30% of medicine can be replaced by hemp, so I guess I really do win $100,000. Awesome. If my opponent is an honorable person, he will collect the $100,000 and mail it to me. I'd be happy to provide him with a PO box where he can send it. Negated.