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