From: bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Re: Land use
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:11:35 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In article <Bw869M.HDv@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> olmstead@sail.uwaterloo.ca () writes:
>Kuhn Thian's stuff:
>
>>A while ago, one of us mentioned about the danger of a very rapid
>>deforestation in our country.  Here is just an opinion from a person with
>>no experience in science and agriculture like me.
>>I've recently seen many documents pointing many advantages of marijuana. 
>>It's known to be an excellent source to make paper, cclothings,
>>furnitures, cooking oil, alternative fuels, madizines, etc.  Also
>>marijuana grows almost in any climate without much attention from farmers
>
>Given the high prices that Thai and Farang criminals will pay for drugs
>the cultivation of marijuana would be a policing nightmare. Production of
>drugs to treat glaucoma and relieve the suffering of AIDS
>and cancer patients may be viable though. 
>
>>Another thought I've had is that Thailand should skip all toxic and
>>waistful type of industry that most western countries have been through. 
>>Instead, we should use many alternative, new age approach, such as, a
>>hightech and environmentally sound food and health industry.  I think we
>>should take advantage of having one of the most fertile lands in the world
>>in a more constructive way.
>
>Being a student of civil and environmental engineering I can tell you 
>that there is a huge mess in the west. As many postings have pointed
>out though Thailand already has lots of industry and it may be a little
>late to completly "skip" everything. 
>
>I don't know much about the new age view of life.  I assume they
>borrow eastern ideals in the sense they look at things as a whole, or a
>system. Farang should have done this a long time ago, instead, we beleived
>that the earth was here at our disposal. Now look what we've done.
>
>>Any commends and/or suggestions are definitely welcomed here.
>
>Thailand's development is the responsibilty of the Thais. It is
>hypocritical of the west to say you shouldn't strip your forests or dump
>heavy metals in your rivers when we continue to do so. Even if we
>stopped it is not our place to offer solutions to your country. Our
>mistakes speak for themselves.
>
>In business terms, any country would be wise to develop
>environmentaly friendly technology. Everyone is going to have to buy it
>sooner or later.
>
>Mike
>olmstead@sail.uwaterloo.ca
>
>s.c.t. math: number of messages posted is inversley proportional to the
>amount of assignments and essays that are due.


As I've previously mentioned, marijuana is no worse than ciggarett or
liquor.  Please don't missunderstand me as I don't smoke at all and have
no plan to what so ever.  Many traditional Thais have been using marijuana
in their cooking for a long time.  Believe it or not, in the U.S., people
used to be required to grow marijuana during their cevil war.  It was
illegalized under the heavy influence by big chemical companies during the
turn of the 20th century because they wanted to promote their synthetic
and toxic products.  I've heard that marijuana can produce far better
quality fiber than  cottons or synthetic materials.

Thian
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