With gas and oil prices at an all-time high, the alternative solution for residents throughout Amherst and the country for energy is hemp.

I think that America needs to stop being ignorant to the fact that there is a conceivable way in which we can save this planet. The cannabis plant should be used, because it doesn’t release dangerous amounts of chemical smoke into the atmosphere, like fossil fuels do. I believe that the cannabis plant ought to be America’s answer to how and why to break the oil ties to the Middle East.

We took a little drive in the car of the future recently, and the exhaust of the future smells like French fries. That’s because this car runs on non-polluting vegetable oil instead of sky-smudging, non-renewable, war-greasing petroleum.

Although the world’s petroleum supplies have turned out to be far greater than some pessimists believed a few decades ago, sooner or later oil will inevitably be either hard to get or outrageously expensive—or both.