Shouldn't funds aid promising research?

I don't disagree that the U.S. is bizarre in many ways these days, but lumping the issues of growing hemp and prohibition in with embryonic stem cell research is what seems bizarre to me. The Bush Administration's so-called "hostility toward stem cell science" clearly clouds the facts. The only stem cell science Bush objected to was that which involved destroying human embryonic life. Adult and cord blood stem cell science was fully supported, and with good reasons apart from the fact that these avenues do not require taking the life of a very early stage pre-born human being. No embryonic stem cell treatments for disease have been successful but many adult stem cell and cord blood stem cell treatments have been successful. Isn't that where the money should go, to the research that has shown promise and success? If Canada's economy grew at the cost of human life, just exactly which nation's policy is bizarre? After all, it is also in Canada where a pastor can be arrested for preaching parts of the Bible with which some groups have a problem (Romans 1, to be specific). Of course, if the open-ended hate crime legislation making its way through Congress gets passed, the same thing could happen here.

P.J. Bertrand

Wood Dale