Hello Everyone,
Here are some links to recent articles concerning law suites against the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in an effort to end the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) ban on commercial hemp farming in the United States.
http://www.examiner.com/p-26~North_Dakota_Farmers_to_File_Lawsuit_Against_DEA_to_Grow_Industrial_Hemp.html
http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2008/03/13/ag_news/regional_news/regi12.txt
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/us/21hemp.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1
Monday, September 1, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Hemp Facts
Hemp
1. "Approximately 30 countries in Europe, Asia, and North America currently permit farmers to grow hemp, although most banned production for certain periods of time in the past. The United States is the only developed nation in which industrial hemp is not an established crop. Great Britain lifted its ban in 1993 and Germany followed suit in 1996. In order to help reestablish a hemp industry, the European Union administered a subsidy program in the 1990s for hemp fiber production. "In 1998, Canada authorized production for commercial purposes, following a three-year experimental period and a 50-year prohibition. As a condition of receiving a license to grow industrial hemp, Canadian farmers are required to register the GPS coordinates of their fields, use certified low-THC hemp seed, allow government testing of their crop for THC levels, and meet or beat a 10ppm standard for maximum allowable THC residue in hemp grain products. Agriculture Canada (the Canadian department of agriculture) estimates that more than 100 farmers nationwide are growing hemp, with the majority in central and western Canada. "Despite the number of nations where industrial hemp production is permissible, the number of acres worldwide devoted to hemp production in 2004 was estimated to be 250,000."
Source: Rawson, Jean M., Congressional Research Service, "Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity (updated)" (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, July 8, 2005), pp. 3-4.
2. "Strictly speaking, the CSA does not make Cannabis illegal; rather, it places the strictest controls on its production, making it illegal to grow the crop without a DEA permit. DEA officials confirm issuing a permit for an experimental plot in Hawaii in the 1990s (now expired), and they confirm that DEA still has not ruled on an application submitted in 1999 by a North Dakota researcher. Hemp industry officials assert that the security measures the DEA requires are substantial and costly, and deter both public and private interests from initiating research projects requiring growing plots. All hemp products sold in the United States are imported or manufactured from imported hemp materials."
Source: Rawson, Jean M., Congressional Research Service, "Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity (updated)" (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, July 8, 2005), p. CRS-3.
3. According to David West, PhD, "The THC levels in industrial hemp are so low that no one could ever get high from smoking it. Moreover, hemp contains a relatively high percentage of another cannabinoid, CBD, that actually blocks the marijuana high. Hemp, it turns out, is not only not marijuana; it could be called 'antimarijuana.'"
Source: West, David P, Hemp and Marijuana: Myths and Realities (Madison, WI: North American Industrial Hemp Council, 1998), p. 3.
4. Although opponents of hemp production claim that hemp fields will be used to hide marijuana fields, this is unlikely because cross-pollination between hemp and marijuana plants would significantly reduce the potency of the marijuana plant. On March 12, 1998, Canada legalized hemp production and set a limit of 0.3% THC content that may be present in the plants and requires that all seeds be certified for THC content.
Source: West, David P, Hemp and Marijuana: Myths and Realities (Madison, WI: North American Industrial Hemp Council, 1998)., pp. 4, 21.
5. In a July 1998 study issued by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Kentucky, researchers concluded that Kentucky hemp farmers could earn a net profit of $600 per acre for raising certified seeds, $320 net profit per acre for straw only or straw and grain production, and $220 net profit per acre for grain only production. The only crop found to be more profitable was tobacco.
Source: Tompson, Eric C., PhD, Berger, Mark C., PhD, and Allen, Steven N., Economic Impacts of Industrial Hemp in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, Center for Business and Economic Research, 1998), p. 21.
6. In a July 1998 study issued by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Kentucky, researchers estimated that if Kentucky again became the main source for industrial hemp seed (as it was in the past), the state could earn the following economic benefits:
Scenario
Full time jobs created
Worker Earnings
Main source for certified industrial seeds only
69 jobs
$1,300,000.00
Certified seeds, plus one processing facility
303 jobs
$6,700,000.00
Certified seeds, plus two processing facilities
537 jobs
$12,100,000.00
Certified seeds, one processing facility, one industrial hemp paper-pulp plant
771 jobs
$17,600,000.00
7. Source: Tompson, Eric C., PhD, Berger, Mark C., PhD, and Allen, Steven N., Economic Impacts of Industrial Hemp in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, Center for Business and Economic Research, 1998), p. iv.
8. In February 2004, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration cannot ban hemp products. The Associated Press reported that "On Friday, the court said that though the DEA has regulatory authority over marijuana and synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the agency did not follow the law in asserting authority over all hemp food products as well. 'They cannot regulate naturally-occuring THC not contained within or derived from marijuana,' the court ruled, noting it's not possible to get high from products with only trace amounts of the mind-altering chemical. Hemp is an industrial plant related to marijuana. Fiber from the plant long has been used to make paper, clothing, rope and other products. Its oil is found in body-care products such as lotion, soap and cosmetics and in a host of foods, including energy bars, waffles, milk-free cheese, veggie burgers and bread." The case is Hemp Industries Association v. Drug Enforcement Administration, number 01-71662.
Source: Terence Chea, Associated Press, "Appeals Court Rejects DEA Bid To Outlaw Hemp Foods," Feb. 6, 2004, from the web at http://www.mapinc.org/newscsdp/v04/n231/a07.html, last accessed Feb. 18, 2004.
1. "Approximately 30 countries in Europe, Asia, and North America currently permit farmers to grow hemp, although most banned production for certain periods of time in the past. The United States is the only developed nation in which industrial hemp is not an established crop. Great Britain lifted its ban in 1993 and Germany followed suit in 1996. In order to help reestablish a hemp industry, the European Union administered a subsidy program in the 1990s for hemp fiber production. "In 1998, Canada authorized production for commercial purposes, following a three-year experimental period and a 50-year prohibition. As a condition of receiving a license to grow industrial hemp, Canadian farmers are required to register the GPS coordinates of their fields, use certified low-THC hemp seed, allow government testing of their crop for THC levels, and meet or beat a 10ppm standard for maximum allowable THC residue in hemp grain products. Agriculture Canada (the Canadian department of agriculture) estimates that more than 100 farmers nationwide are growing hemp, with the majority in central and western Canada. "Despite the number of nations where industrial hemp production is permissible, the number of acres worldwide devoted to hemp production in 2004 was estimated to be 250,000."
Source: Rawson, Jean M., Congressional Research Service, "Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity (updated)" (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, July 8, 2005), pp. 3-4.
2. "Strictly speaking, the CSA does not make Cannabis illegal; rather, it places the strictest controls on its production, making it illegal to grow the crop without a DEA permit. DEA officials confirm issuing a permit for an experimental plot in Hawaii in the 1990s (now expired), and they confirm that DEA still has not ruled on an application submitted in 1999 by a North Dakota researcher. Hemp industry officials assert that the security measures the DEA requires are substantial and costly, and deter both public and private interests from initiating research projects requiring growing plots. All hemp products sold in the United States are imported or manufactured from imported hemp materials."
Source: Rawson, Jean M., Congressional Research Service, "Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity (updated)" (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, July 8, 2005), p. CRS-3.
3. According to David West, PhD, "The THC levels in industrial hemp are so low that no one could ever get high from smoking it. Moreover, hemp contains a relatively high percentage of another cannabinoid, CBD, that actually blocks the marijuana high. Hemp, it turns out, is not only not marijuana; it could be called 'antimarijuana.'"
Source: West, David P, Hemp and Marijuana: Myths and Realities (Madison, WI: North American Industrial Hemp Council, 1998), p. 3.
4. Although opponents of hemp production claim that hemp fields will be used to hide marijuana fields, this is unlikely because cross-pollination between hemp and marijuana plants would significantly reduce the potency of the marijuana plant. On March 12, 1998, Canada legalized hemp production and set a limit of 0.3% THC content that may be present in the plants and requires that all seeds be certified for THC content.
Source: West, David P, Hemp and Marijuana: Myths and Realities (Madison, WI: North American Industrial Hemp Council, 1998)., pp. 4, 21.
5. In a July 1998 study issued by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Kentucky, researchers concluded that Kentucky hemp farmers could earn a net profit of $600 per acre for raising certified seeds, $320 net profit per acre for straw only or straw and grain production, and $220 net profit per acre for grain only production. The only crop found to be more profitable was tobacco.
Source: Tompson, Eric C., PhD, Berger, Mark C., PhD, and Allen, Steven N., Economic Impacts of Industrial Hemp in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, Center for Business and Economic Research, 1998), p. 21.
6. In a July 1998 study issued by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Kentucky, researchers estimated that if Kentucky again became the main source for industrial hemp seed (as it was in the past), the state could earn the following economic benefits:
Scenario
Full time jobs created
Worker Earnings
Main source for certified industrial seeds only
69 jobs
$1,300,000.00
Certified seeds, plus one processing facility
303 jobs
$6,700,000.00
Certified seeds, plus two processing facilities
537 jobs
$12,100,000.00
Certified seeds, one processing facility, one industrial hemp paper-pulp plant
771 jobs
$17,600,000.00
7. Source: Tompson, Eric C., PhD, Berger, Mark C., PhD, and Allen, Steven N., Economic Impacts of Industrial Hemp in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, Center for Business and Economic Research, 1998), p. iv.
8. In February 2004, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration cannot ban hemp products. The Associated Press reported that "On Friday, the court said that though the DEA has regulatory authority over marijuana and synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the agency did not follow the law in asserting authority over all hemp food products as well. 'They cannot regulate naturally-occuring THC not contained within or derived from marijuana,' the court ruled, noting it's not possible to get high from products with only trace amounts of the mind-altering chemical. Hemp is an industrial plant related to marijuana. Fiber from the plant long has been used to make paper, clothing, rope and other products. Its oil is found in body-care products such as lotion, soap and cosmetics and in a host of foods, including energy bars, waffles, milk-free cheese, veggie burgers and bread." The case is Hemp Industries Association v. Drug Enforcement Administration, number 01-71662.
Source: Terence Chea, Associated Press, "Appeals Court Rejects DEA Bid To Outlaw Hemp Foods," Feb. 6, 2004, from the web at http://www.mapinc.org/newscsdp/v04/n231/a07.html, last accessed Feb. 18, 2004.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
USDA and Industrial Hemp
Hello There,
Here's what the United States Department of Argiculture (USDA) has to say about Industrial Hemp. What's your view.....
http://www.agmrc.org/agmrc/commodity/biomass/industrialhemp/industrialhempprofile.htm
Here's what the United States Department of Argiculture (USDA) has to say about Industrial Hemp. What's your view.....
http://www.agmrc.org/agmrc/commodity/biomass/industrialhemp/industrialhempprofile.htm
Industrial Hemp in Canada
Hello There,
Please view this video and information on the history and farming of Industrial Hemp in Canada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxd64t6H3_4
Hemp Farming in Canada
By Chris Blank
Cannabis sativa- Hemp
"Hemp is of first necessity....to the wealth and protection of the country." Thomas Jefferson (1791)
"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere." George Washington (1794)
During a Cannabis Canada interview, appearing in the June 5, 1997 issue, Geof Kime (one of the owners of the Hempline company, which is a commercial producer of hemp) commented that:
"Hemp is about business and the environment, marijuana is a moral question about the government's control of what drugs people consume. These two questions with nothing in common but the shape of the leaf, and we have to separate the issues. " It appears Canada has indeed finally seperated these issues. As of March 1, 1998 farmers could officially apply for licenses to grow and process hemp.
The wonder of hemp is that it is a crop that does not require heavy pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides because the hemp's own THC acts as a natural repellant to insects. In an age when cancer rates are attrocious and people are constantly exposed to noxious chemicals, the idea of a crop which is multi-purpose, yet environment and human friendly, is encouraging.
One problem faced in hemp farming is that the crop does not like the ground being too wet. But with proper drainage, this minor problem should be overcome. Another problem, though, is with equipment. Regular farming equipment has proven inadequate when dealing with the crop, so in order to maximize crop yields the machinery industry will have to take greater interest. In Europe there are specialized machines, but in Canada no such technology exists.
There is a limit of 0.3% THC (delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol) content (Health Canada determined this level to not have psychoactive qualities), measured from the top third of the plant (the top 15cm of the plant contains the most concentrated THC levels). However, the stalk and seeds do not have any THC content and are the primary portion used in production of textiles and foods. As well, hemp is grown tightly together to maximize stalk growth, unlike its sister plant marijuana which is grown in wide open areas to maximize leaf growth and encourage higher THC levels. Marijuana typically has THC levels between 5% to 20%, which means that industrial hemp simply IS NOT marijuana and COULD NOT be utilized for its psychoactive qualities.
If someone bothered to try and grow marijuana in with their hemp plants, the cross-pollination of the two would produce a lower THC strain of marijuana, not a higher THC strain of hemp.
I think The Body Shop's founder Anita Roddick came up with the best quote: "Ignorance confuses hemp with marijuana, even though you'd need a joint the size of a telegraph pole to get any kind of buzz". Adam Nicolson of the The Sunday Telegraph (London), July 23, 1995 p.12, jokes that "Perhaps there might be a market in the cannabis equivalent of alcohol-free lager or decaffeinated coffee."
Hemp's History
For more than 12,000 years hemp has been grown. It was the Chinese who first cultivated hemp for the production of hempen cloth. Hundreds of years later it spread around to areas such as India, and later spread to Europe and then to South and North America.
As early as 1801, the Lieutenant Governor of the province of Upper Canada, on behalf of the King of England, distributed hemp seed free to Canadian farmers. The government offered to pay premiums and bounties to the "deserving cultivators and exporters of hemp in the Province." As a result hemp became an important Canadian cash crop. The London, Ontario region was especially well suited to the cultivation of hemp. At its peak, several thousand acres of hemp were grown in Western Ontario alone.
Commercial Hemp Cultivation in Canada: "An Economic Justification"by David Marcus
Hemp was banned under the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act in 1938 due to the fear of THC in the plant. It saw a short revival due to World War II, but was quickly banned again afterwards. In 1942 the U.S. Department of Agriculture even put out an propaganda film for farmers entitled "Hemp for Victory". As Colorado State Senator Lloyd Casey said in 1996, "Does it take a World War to make hemp legal?"
Hemp has been grown on an experimental basis for scientific purposes under supervision of Health Canada since 1961, but it wasn't possible to grow as a whole crop because the growing regulations weren't set yet. Crop growing trials have been conducted in Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario. However, as mentioned, it is only this year that industrial hemp is being cultivated- the first time since 1938. Finally, people like Canada's Health Minister Allan Rock, realize and support the potential for both jobs and the environment that industrial hemp can provide.
There are more than 25 countries that cultivate industrial hemp, with China and Poland, for example, never having outlawed it. The Hemp Industries Association have a hempfacts page which goes over how various countries are currently producing and utilizing hemp.
Uses for hemp include everything from textiles to making hemp cheese (reputedly easier to digest and almost as nutritious as soy) as well as hemp chocolate (dairy free). The stalk is typically used for textiles, pulp and paper, and building materials (insulation, etc) while the seeds are used for everything from foods to cosmetics to paint to beer brewing. The Body Shop has even started a line of products using hemp seed oil. As well, interest has been raised by the auto industry, as hemp could provide cheap durable parts for some aspects of production; something which the German company BMW has already done in its 5 Series.
As to why it fell out of favour in North America in the 1930's? One suggestion has it that the anti-hemp campaign was led by William Randolph Hearst (the real "Citizen Kane"), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the DuPont corporation (it feared hemp could compete with nylon manufacturing). Another suggested possibility is it was due to the film "Reefer Madness" that people became terrified of the plant, and what they saw as its potential to destroy the lives of their children after only one puff of marijuana. Understandably, there is a certain amount of fear that hemp growers will use this license to try and grow marijuana. However, this is improbable since the government can easily keep track of anyone who has a license to grow. And if they don't have a license to grow you can simply bust them.
And the environment?
According to Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, the world demand for paper has doubled in the past 20 years and is expected to double again by the year 2010. This combined with increasing restrictions on logging produces a gap that hemp can fill. Also, hemp paper can be recylcled more times than wood based paper products.
Please view this video and information on the history and farming of Industrial Hemp in Canada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxd64t6H3_4
Hemp Farming in Canada
By Chris Blank
Cannabis sativa- Hemp
"Hemp is of first necessity....to the wealth and protection of the country." Thomas Jefferson (1791)
"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere." George Washington (1794)
During a Cannabis Canada interview, appearing in the June 5, 1997 issue, Geof Kime (one of the owners of the Hempline company, which is a commercial producer of hemp) commented that:
"Hemp is about business and the environment, marijuana is a moral question about the government's control of what drugs people consume. These two questions with nothing in common but the shape of the leaf, and we have to separate the issues. " It appears Canada has indeed finally seperated these issues. As of March 1, 1998 farmers could officially apply for licenses to grow and process hemp.
The wonder of hemp is that it is a crop that does not require heavy pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides because the hemp's own THC acts as a natural repellant to insects. In an age when cancer rates are attrocious and people are constantly exposed to noxious chemicals, the idea of a crop which is multi-purpose, yet environment and human friendly, is encouraging.
One problem faced in hemp farming is that the crop does not like the ground being too wet. But with proper drainage, this minor problem should be overcome. Another problem, though, is with equipment. Regular farming equipment has proven inadequate when dealing with the crop, so in order to maximize crop yields the machinery industry will have to take greater interest. In Europe there are specialized machines, but in Canada no such technology exists.
There is a limit of 0.3% THC (delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol) content (Health Canada determined this level to not have psychoactive qualities), measured from the top third of the plant (the top 15cm of the plant contains the most concentrated THC levels). However, the stalk and seeds do not have any THC content and are the primary portion used in production of textiles and foods. As well, hemp is grown tightly together to maximize stalk growth, unlike its sister plant marijuana which is grown in wide open areas to maximize leaf growth and encourage higher THC levels. Marijuana typically has THC levels between 5% to 20%, which means that industrial hemp simply IS NOT marijuana and COULD NOT be utilized for its psychoactive qualities.
If someone bothered to try and grow marijuana in with their hemp plants, the cross-pollination of the two would produce a lower THC strain of marijuana, not a higher THC strain of hemp.
I think The Body Shop's founder Anita Roddick came up with the best quote: "Ignorance confuses hemp with marijuana, even though you'd need a joint the size of a telegraph pole to get any kind of buzz". Adam Nicolson of the The Sunday Telegraph (London), July 23, 1995 p.12, jokes that "Perhaps there might be a market in the cannabis equivalent of alcohol-free lager or decaffeinated coffee."
Hemp's History
For more than 12,000 years hemp has been grown. It was the Chinese who first cultivated hemp for the production of hempen cloth. Hundreds of years later it spread around to areas such as India, and later spread to Europe and then to South and North America.
As early as 1801, the Lieutenant Governor of the province of Upper Canada, on behalf of the King of England, distributed hemp seed free to Canadian farmers. The government offered to pay premiums and bounties to the "deserving cultivators and exporters of hemp in the Province." As a result hemp became an important Canadian cash crop. The London, Ontario region was especially well suited to the cultivation of hemp. At its peak, several thousand acres of hemp were grown in Western Ontario alone.
Commercial Hemp Cultivation in Canada: "An Economic Justification"by David Marcus
Hemp was banned under the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act in 1938 due to the fear of THC in the plant. It saw a short revival due to World War II, but was quickly banned again afterwards. In 1942 the U.S. Department of Agriculture even put out an propaganda film for farmers entitled "Hemp for Victory". As Colorado State Senator Lloyd Casey said in 1996, "Does it take a World War to make hemp legal?"
Hemp has been grown on an experimental basis for scientific purposes under supervision of Health Canada since 1961, but it wasn't possible to grow as a whole crop because the growing regulations weren't set yet. Crop growing trials have been conducted in Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario. However, as mentioned, it is only this year that industrial hemp is being cultivated- the first time since 1938. Finally, people like Canada's Health Minister Allan Rock, realize and support the potential for both jobs and the environment that industrial hemp can provide.
There are more than 25 countries that cultivate industrial hemp, with China and Poland, for example, never having outlawed it. The Hemp Industries Association have a hempfacts page which goes over how various countries are currently producing and utilizing hemp.
Uses for hemp include everything from textiles to making hemp cheese (reputedly easier to digest and almost as nutritious as soy) as well as hemp chocolate (dairy free). The stalk is typically used for textiles, pulp and paper, and building materials (insulation, etc) while the seeds are used for everything from foods to cosmetics to paint to beer brewing. The Body Shop has even started a line of products using hemp seed oil. As well, interest has been raised by the auto industry, as hemp could provide cheap durable parts for some aspects of production; something which the German company BMW has already done in its 5 Series.
As to why it fell out of favour in North America in the 1930's? One suggestion has it that the anti-hemp campaign was led by William Randolph Hearst (the real "Citizen Kane"), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the DuPont corporation (it feared hemp could compete with nylon manufacturing). Another suggested possibility is it was due to the film "Reefer Madness" that people became terrified of the plant, and what they saw as its potential to destroy the lives of their children after only one puff of marijuana. Understandably, there is a certain amount of fear that hemp growers will use this license to try and grow marijuana. However, this is improbable since the government can easily keep track of anyone who has a license to grow. And if they don't have a license to grow you can simply bust them.
And the environment?
According to Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, the world demand for paper has doubled in the past 20 years and is expected to double again by the year 2010. This combined with increasing restrictions on logging produces a gap that hemp can fill. Also, hemp paper can be recylcled more times than wood based paper products.
The results of hemp farming seem only positive in terms of environmental impact. Here are the results found in a study by Sara K. Francis, for her Masters in Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University. She "sent surveys to as many hemp farmers as possible around the world. In the end, 14 were returned. The results confirmed that:
- Hemp is extremely disease and pest resistant. There were minimal reports of using pesticides. The financial costs of using such compounds normally exceeded the damage caused by the pests or disease.
- Hemp is effective as a natural herbicide. It was used to clear weeds from fields before plantingother crops, an attractive point to organic farmers.
- Hemp did require the use of fertilizers but these need not be synthetic, though there were onlytwo reports of using animal manure. The average yield for total dry matter of hemp was 9 ton/ha."
This is in great contrast to the fact that the percentage of worldwide insecticides used on cotton production is 25% (stat. from Ecolution.)
The clear, obvious strengths of commercial hemp promise a positive future for the growth, cultivation, and production of hemp and hemp products in Canada. The only negative aspects are ones relating to pesticide producers and other manufacturers whose product sales will be damaged by the hemp revival.
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*A more thorough historical perspective is available in the "YEARBOOK OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE--1913, pages 283-346, available from the North American Industrial Hemp Council, Inc..
Friday, August 15, 2008
Get Educated on Industrial Hemp!!!!
This information is to educate our long duped public and our lawmakers on a Billion Dollar Crop that can help reduce our dependence on foreign oil. That Billion Dollar crop is Hemp.
For 200 years Hemp was highly valued, especially in Virginia. In the 1985 book “The Emperor Wears No Clothes", the very first hemp law in this country was written in Jamestown, which made it illegal NOT to grow Hemp.
Hemp was use to make lamp oils, sails, ropes, paper and clothing. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were drafted on Hemp paper. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it. Ben Franklin owned a Hemp mill.
Hemp remained an important crop until 1937, when Congress blindsided by the Petrochemical Industry, added it to the Marijuana Prohibitive Tax. This proved over time to be a very bad decision.
As a biofuel, Hemp burns clean, won’t add to greenhouse gases and can reduce or eliminate our nation’s dependence on oil, foreign or domestic. A bill Industrial Hemp Farming Act (H.R. 1009) is held up in the House Committee on the Judiciary. So what are we waiting for???? Contact your member of Congress and let’s change the law.
Reference: Tamara Dietrich, Dailypress.com
For 200 years Hemp was highly valued, especially in Virginia. In the 1985 book “The Emperor Wears No Clothes", the very first hemp law in this country was written in Jamestown, which made it illegal NOT to grow Hemp.
Hemp was use to make lamp oils, sails, ropes, paper and clothing. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were drafted on Hemp paper. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it. Ben Franklin owned a Hemp mill.
Hemp remained an important crop until 1937, when Congress blindsided by the Petrochemical Industry, added it to the Marijuana Prohibitive Tax. This proved over time to be a very bad decision.
As a biofuel, Hemp burns clean, won’t add to greenhouse gases and can reduce or eliminate our nation’s dependence on oil, foreign or domestic. A bill Industrial Hemp Farming Act (H.R. 1009) is held up in the House Committee on the Judiciary. So what are we waiting for???? Contact your member of Congress and let’s change the law.
Reference: Tamara Dietrich, Dailypress.com
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Vote Hemp for America’s Future!!!
Hello Everyone,
Check out this site for more information on how Hemp will improve America’s Future.....
http://www.votehemp.com/
Check out this site for more information on how Hemp will improve America’s Future.....
http://www.votehemp.com/
Congressman Co-Sponsor HR 1009
Hello Everyone,
Please get your Congressman Co-Sponsor HR 1009. We need this bill passed as soon as possible....
Please get your Congressman Co-Sponsor HR 1009. We need this bill passed as soon as possible....
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