Jackson Jambalaya

Oh....like dude.....so groovy. Chill.

While she's certainly got the wrong forum (I don't know who she is, so I'm excluding the meditation information from my comment), hemp is controversial only among science phobic people. Otherwise known as Theocratic Republicans.

Jackson a destination city + Jackson a hemp capital = Jackson the drug capital. Political dialogue is always shadow of reality.

Jackson needs a middle class population that is not tied to the school district or public employment.

In short, we need legalized marijuana that can be produced and marketed by the unskilled and dependent class here in the 'destination city'. The hemp lady is correct. It might just be the 'path to citizenship' our alienated youth desperately need.

Good gravy, people. Hemp is not psychoactive cannabis. Maybe she meant cannabis with psychoactive Delta 9-but maybe, maybe she meant HEMP.

Ignorance - Mississippi's number 1 export.

Actually, she lost ME at Ajiculcha.

Lost me at Ajiculcha, too.....pretty sure it is near Apalachicola.

Jackson is so fucked...

Hemp bread! Hemp fabric! Who knew this under-cultivated crop was so versatile? And as Madame Candidate assures us, "it is not marijuana!" Oh, with visionaries like her, can a Golden Age for Mississippi be far off? Now, if only hemp could be made into something that increases fertility, and improves young people's sex drives, perhaps our state can move up from its mere #2 spot in repeat-birth rates for teen babymamas.

I remember swinging on giant hemp ropes in the gym in high school. Maybe it could be cultivated here and processed into dreads. Talk about a market!

Forget hemp....maybe we could do something with kudzu....no planting required, just harvest the stuff.

Wish you would have recorded the part where our "mayor" said he was going to make Jackson a destination city. WTF has he done for 12 years in office to promote ANYTHING?

Jackson is a destination city. People delivering pounds of hemp's sister arrive from Atlanta everyday.

How did those 2 guys keep a straight face??? Her dreads looked suspiciously like hemp....kinda close to the brain.

Now, if only hemp could be made into something that increases fertility, and improves young people's sex drives, perhaps our state can move up from its mere #2 spot in repeat-birth rates for teen babymamas.

Don't worry Mississippi ignorance fueled by oppressive religion and and abstinence only education will get you there in no time at all.

Jackson a destination? Right. If you would like to visit Mogadishu but can't afford the airfare, then Jackson would be an ideal destination for you.

Poor woman. She'll be crucified by the ignorant for the sin of being informed regarding the benefits of growing this highly useful plant. Hilarious - and telling - to read how many knee-jerk responses there are from people who clearly have no idea that there's a difference between the psychoactive marijuana and hemp, a harmless agricultural product. Not growing hemp makes about as much sense as not allowing people to eat portabello mushrooms because a couple of other kinds of mushrooms are psychoactive. If you do just a tiny bit of research, you'll discover that growing hemp is as American as apple pie. Founding father George Washington grew it as one of his three cash-producing crops. She's completely right: We'd be incredibly prosperous if we grew hemp, but as long as there is ignorance regarding this topic (and many others here) then we'll never move ahead.

Ignorant racists of Mississippi were did you go did it get to intelligent in here for you?

Ignorant racists of Mississippi were did you go did it get to intelligent in here?

1:38 and 1:43 please read what you wrote. Did you take English grammar and if so, please do tell where?

I will GUARANTEE you that you are observing a public school education.

I thought hemp was the same botanical species as Marijuana minus THC. if so there could be certain confusion in the legislative writing of such law.

Dear Gawd. This thread is a wonderfully accurate picture of ignorance in Mississippi. Yes, she is nuts for making a mayoral candidacy her forum for such ideas.

HOWEVER, in proper context, hemp IS a profitable agricultural product. And it is NOT psychoactive cannabis.

You know, people from other states can read this shit too, so if you're going to make some ill informed comment, please note whethere you voted for Mahmoud Bryant and his Mullah crew.

What's the difference between hemp and marijuana?

Marijuana and hemp are different varieties of the same species of plant, Cannabis sativa L. There are different varieties of Cannabis, just as Chihuahuas and wolves are different breeds of Canis lupus. They are scientifically different and cultivated in different ways.

Source: The Cap Times

Could she be Jackson's version of Memphis's Prince Mongo? http://youtu.be/4DmTOY7sXy0

Perhaps some of you should talk to those who are involved with the IBC or Mississippi Marathon or the parades or other events.

The increasing numbers who come think our city is beautiful, our food is outstanding, our music, and art exceptional and they, thankfully get to see the best of our hospitality rather than meet those whose ignorance, and negative attitudes reinforce our national negative image.

They come far more concerned about gun toting, hostile rednecks and encountering gross incompetence than about anything else!

Our national negative image is a Mississippi image not a Jackson image and it's thanks to ignorance and racism.

Every place has crime. Every place has minorities and poverty. Every place has greedy, incompetent, embarrassing politicians. It's not "them", it's " you". Get out of your provincial bubble and grow up!

April 4, 2013 at 7:17 AM ... YAWN

"They come far more concerned about gun toting, hostile rednecks "

So, it was "rednecks" who gave Jacktown the highest per capita murder rate in the country?

Name two of those rednecks, please (bonus points if you remember the Rankin Co klansman type who pled guilty recently used a truck to murder his victim, not a gun).