DEAth Set To Battle Pot Advocates Over Hemp Use

DdC · 09-08-2003, 08:30 PM

Consuming a chunk of organic health food is a act of drug abuse in the eyes of the Drug Enforcement Administration — if it contains, as some snacks do, hemp as an ingredient. An appeals court in Alaska says residents can possess up to a quarter-pound of pot for their own use.

In a Zogby poll conducted last month in New Hampshire, 84 percent of voters said they supported changing federal law to allow patients to use medicinal marijuana without fear of arrest.

Marijuana continues its beeline for the mainstream after years of reefer madness. Federal officials are ready to do battle, with the next target being hemp as food.

While it sounds simple enough — one side of mostly pro-marijuana advocates looking to climb another rung on the ladder toward pot tolerance — the fact that the hemp food case even has legs portrays the continued move toward societal legitimacy of the illegal weed.

"There is a lot more tolerance for marijuana," said Bruce Mirken, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, which favors pot legalization and most other liberalization of marijuana laws. "And it appears that there are more people rallying around this issue."

What people are not seeing, said Ed Childress, a DEA spokesman in Washington, "is the marijuana-legalization lobby at work behind the scenes, with better resources."

Two years ago, DEA head Asa Hutchinson said that foods using seeds from the hemp plant violated federal law. He ordered a crackdown on the foods, but his dictate was stayed by a court order.

Courtroom wrangling has drawn out the battle. For now, purveyors of the products are free to sell. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will begin hearing arguments in the case next week.

"It was really a matter of hemp not existing as something that can be consumed," said Richard Meyer, a DEA spokesman in San Francisco.

If the DEA gets its way, insisting that hemp-as-food violates federal law, Lynn Gordon says, she stands to lose $800,000.

Miss Gordon's Minneapolis-based French Meadow Bakery produces, among other things, bread with hemp seeds as a primary ingredient. She distances herself from the pro-pot lobby.

"I don't advocate marijuana use, I don't smoke marijuana," Miss Gordon said. But her multigrain Healthy Hemp bread uses hemp seeds that she purchases legally from Canada, where hemp plants are grown for industrial use and consumption. "This is not to get people high, it is something that tastes good."

Hemp-food advocates say sterilized hemp seed and oil are exempt from the Controlled Substances Act under the statutory definition of marijuana, just as poppy seeds are exempted under the statutory definition of the opium poppy.

The growing support for marijuana in all forms is at odds with a federal government that has gone to great lengths to fight it. Increasing leniency, such as that in Alaska, eventually could doom the federal efforts.

"I do not believe in drugs," said Erwin A. Sholts, chairman of the North American Industrial Hemp Council, which advocates the use of hemp for both food and industrial use. "But if the DEA doesn't wake up and smell the flowers, there may be something passed in Congress that they can't live with."

Complete Title: DEA Set To Battle Pot Advocates Over Hemp Use in Food

DEA Set To Battle Pot Advocates Over Hemp Use
Author: Steve Miller, The Washington Times
Published: September 8, 2003
Website * Contact: letters@washingtonti mes.com

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In the later times, some shall speak lies in hypocrisy commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.(Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-6)
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NAIHC
Marijuana Policy Project
Court Declares a Haven for Hemp
Appellate Court Overturns Ban On Hemp In Food
Hemp Foods On The Ropes

Ganja/hemp lnfolinx

* Hemp extracts can be used to treat a variety of physical and mental ailments which include tuberculosis, glaucoma, depression, and the side effects of cancer therapy. Prior to this century, cannabis extracts were the most commonly used medicines throughout the world.

House Votes To Let Farmers Grow Industrial Hemp

* “The hemp seed is the highest of any plant in essential amino acids and essential fatty acids. These essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune response...and contribute to…more disease resistance.” (Hempseed Nutrition by Lynn Osburn).

* Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away. (Czechoslovakia Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955.)

* Hemp seed protein more closely resembles that of the human body than soy; it is also easier to digest. Hemp contains a richer source of essential fatty acid oils than soy. These oils prevent heart disease and build the immune system. Hemp also resists UV-B light, which is a kind of sunlight that is blocked by the ozone layer. Soy beans do not take UV-B light very well. If the ozone layer were to deplete by 16%, which by some estimates is very possible, soy production would fall by 25-30%. We may have to grow hemp or starve -- and it won't be the first time that this has happened. Hemp has been used to "bail out" many populations in time of famine.

* Hemp grain is the most nutritionally complete seed on the planet for human consumption. Each hemp seed contains 25% protein. This protein is more easily digestible than the protein in soybeans because it contains a perfect ratio of essential fatty acids (EFA's). EFA's are important for strengthening your immune system and protecting you from disease. Fish oil and flax oil are also high in EFA's, but hemp contains the most perfect ratio of EFA's for human consumption. Hemp grain is also high in iron and calcium and is an excellent source of dietary fiber

* Ralph Loziers, general counsel of the National Institute of Oilseed Products, told the Congressional committee studying marijuana prohibition in 1937 that, “Hemp seed… is used in all the Oriental nations and also in a part of Russia as food. It is grown in their fields and used as oatmeal.

* Hemp seed oil has been called Nature's perfect blend of Essential Fatty Acids due to the large amount of these substances contained in the oil. Specifically Hemp seed oil has large amounts of Lineolenic (Omega-3), and Lineoleic (Omega-6) fatty acids. These are considered to be essential by nutritionists since humans are unable to synthesize them, thus they must consume them from an external source.

Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again

DdC · 09-08-2003, 08:32 PM

* Many Essential Nutrients Found in Hemp Seed July 27, 2000
By Nancy Ross Ryan - Chicago Tribune
Source: Spokane.net http://www.spokane.net http://www.cannabisnews.com
According to the latest research, there are about 45 nutrients that humans can't live without and which their bodies can't manufacture: 21 minerals, 13 vitamins, eight amino acids and two essential fatty acids. No single food has them all. But when a food is discovered that is a rich source of several essential nutrients, such as hemp seed, it makes nutrition news. Its promoters bill hemp seed as the soybean of the new millennium. In addition to containing vitamins and minerals (calcium, iron, thiamine, niacin and riboflavin), hemp seed, like the soybean, is a vegetable source of complete protein, having all eight amino acids. Hemp oil (pressed from the hemp seed) is, according to many, the best source of the two essential fatty acids (or EFAs) we can't live without: omega 3 alpha-linolenic acid and omega 6 linoleic acid.

In 1992 a consortium of 20 British farmers requested permission to grow industrial hemp, a crop that had been banned since 1971. Home Office Minister Michael Jack saw no reason to oppose the request since industrial hemp had been grown for years on the Continent "without any problems". The farmers received licenses to cultivate 1500 acres. In 1993 a consortium of 10 Canadian farmers requested permission to grow hemp, a crop that had been banned since 1923. The federal government informed them the law would have to be changed before commercial plots could be harvested. However, seeing that "farmers in Canada are very interested in it", Health Minister Diane Marleau issued a permit for 18 acres of experimental plots. The next year Parliament enabled commercial harvests.

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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
~Genesis 3:19~
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HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
Energy Farming in America

Hemp Food Association
VOTE HEMP
The Hemp Conspiriacy

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"On either side of the river, was there the tree of life,
which bare 12 manner of fruits, and yielding her fruit every month;
and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." (Rev. 22:1-2)
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HIA Hemp FAQ's
FAQ#1: What are the benefits of hemp seeds and hemp oil for food?
For informative answers to this question, see:
Hemp Seed, The Royal Grain, by Chris Bennett
Traditional Uses of Culinary Hemp Seed by Dr. Alexander Sumach
Centuries of Safe Consumption of Hemp Foods by Cynthia Thielen
Essential Fatty Acids Can Affect Your Baby's Intelligence! by Hempola, Inc.
Nutritional Analysis of Hempseed and Hempseed Oil by The Ohio Hempery
Nutritional Analysis of HempNut Hulled Hempseed by Richard Rose

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A wise man will hear, and will increase learning:
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. (Proverbs 1:5)
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Hemp seed: A cure for the common cold?

Alive Foods raw hemp foods
Wellness retreat centre based on people who cured themselves from cancer

Motherhemp launch the succesful organic dairy free hemp ice-cream alternative to EU market at Biofach, visit them at the British Pavillion, Hall 1, Stand 440

Hemp Seed Cookbook, SCRAP, PO Box 510, Cazadero, CA 94521, (707) 847-3642,
$2.25.

Fats and Oils: The Complete Guide to Fats and Oils in Health and Nutrition,
Alive Books, PO Box 80055, Burnaby BC, Canada V5H 3X5, $20.

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"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;
that which cometh out of the mouth defileth a man." (Mat. 15:11)
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From: "Hemp Food Industries Association" subscriber@hemp.co.u k
Tune In, Turn on, Eat Up
Dr Dave West of the NAIHC educates us to some 28 pages of hemp myths and facts in adobe acrobat format
Australia's bumper harvest

Nutiva
Nutiva Recipes
Pacific Hemp now safari seeds
Hemp Rella
Ohio Hempery
Hungry Bear Hemp Foods
Galaxy Global Eatery
Hemp.co.uk
Hempen Ale Home
Humboldt Brewing Company Hemp Beer!
A recipe for hemp oil vinaigrette

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And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land,
neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. (Ezekiel 34:29)
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guru the third · 09-08-2003, 11:18 PM

they just HATE to admit they were wrong, though. So instead they'll build jails for pot smokers and dust legit farmers crops.

09-08-2003, 08:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,117 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 51 Thanked 607 Times in 399 Posts	DEAth Set To Battle Pot Advocates Over Hemp Use Consuming a chunk of organic health food is a act of drug abuse in the eyes of the Drug Enforcement Administration — if it contains, as some snacks do, hemp as an ingredient. An appeals court in Alaska says residents can possess up to a quarter-pound of pot for their own use. In a Zogby poll conducted last month in New Hampshire, 84 percent of voters said they supported changing federal law to allow patients to use medicinal marijuana without fear of arrest. Marijuana continues its beeline for the mainstream after years of reefer madness. Federal officials are ready to do battle, with the next target being hemp as food. While it sounds simple enough — one side of mostly pro-marijuana advocates looking to climb another rung on the ladder toward pot tolerance — the fact that the hemp food case even has legs portrays the continued move toward societal legitimacy of the illegal weed. "There is a lot more tolerance for marijuana," said Bruce Mirken, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, which favors pot legalization and most other liberalization of marijuana laws. "And it appears that there are more people rallying around this issue." What people are not seeing, said Ed Childress, a DEA spokesman in Washington, "is the marijuana-legalization lobby at work behind the scenes, with better resources." Two years ago, DEA head Asa Hutchinson said that foods using seeds from the hemp plant violated federal law. He ordered a crackdown on the foods, but his dictate was stayed by a court order. Courtroom wrangling has drawn out the battle. For now, purveyors of the products are free to sell. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will begin hearing arguments in the case next week. "It was really a matter of hemp not existing as something that can be consumed," said Richard Meyer, a DEA spokesman in San Francisco. If the DEA gets its way, insisting that hemp-as-food violates federal law, Lynn Gordon says, she stands to lose $800,000. Miss Gordon's Minneapolis-based French Meadow Bakery produces, among other things, bread with hemp seeds as a primary ingredient. She distances herself from the pro-pot lobby. "I don't advocate marijuana use, I don't smoke marijuana," Miss Gordon said. But her multigrain Healthy Hemp bread uses hemp seeds that she purchases legally from Canada, where hemp plants are grown for industrial use and consumption. "This is not to get people high, it is something that tastes good." Hemp-food advocates say sterilized hemp seed and oil are exempt from the Controlled Substances Act under the statutory definition of marijuana, just as poppy seeds are exempted under the statutory definition of the opium poppy. The growing support for marijuana in all forms is at odds with a federal government that has gone to great lengths to fight it. Increasing leniency, such as that in Alaska, eventually could doom the federal efforts. "I do not believe in drugs," said Erwin A. Sholts, chairman of the North American Industrial Hemp Council, which advocates the use of hemp for both food and industrial use. "But if the DEA doesn't wake up and smell the flowers, there may be something passed in Congress that they can't live with." Complete Title: DEA Set To Battle Pot Advocates Over Hemp Use in Food DEA Set To Battle Pot Advocates Over Hemp Use Author: Steve Miller, The Washington Times Published: September 8, 2003 Website * Contact: letters@washingtonti mes.com ****************** **************** **** In the later times, some shall speak lies in hypocrisy commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.(Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-6) **************** **************** ****** NAIHC Marijuana Policy Project Court Declares a Haven for Hemp Appellate Court Overturns Ban On Hemp In Food Hemp Foods On The Ropes Ganja/hemp lnfolinx * Hemp extracts can be used to treat a variety of physical and mental ailments which include tuberculosis, glaucoma, depression, and the side effects of cancer therapy. Prior to this century, cannabis extracts were the most commonly used medicines throughout the world. House Votes To Let Farmers Grow Industrial Hemp * “The hemp seed is the highest of any plant in essential amino acids and essential fatty acids. These essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune response...and contribute to…more disease resistance.” (Hempseed Nutrition by Lynn Osburn). * Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away. (Czechoslovakia Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955.) * Hemp seed protein more closely resembles that of the human body than soy; it is also easier to digest. Hemp contains a richer source of essential fatty acid oils than soy. These oils prevent heart disease and build the immune system. Hemp also resists UV-B light, which is a kind of sunlight that is blocked by the ozone layer. Soy beans do not take UV-B light very well. If the ozone layer were to deplete by 16%, which by some estimates is very possible, soy production would fall by 25-30%. We may have to grow hemp or starve -- and it won't be the first time that this has happened. Hemp has been used to "bail out" many populations in time of famine. * Hemp grain is the most nutritionally complete seed on the planet for human consumption. Each hemp seed contains 25% protein. This protein is more easily digestible than the protein in soybeans because it contains a perfect ratio of essential fatty acids (EFA's). EFA's are important for strengthening your immune system and protecting you from disease. Fish oil and flax oil are also high in EFA's, but hemp contains the most perfect ratio of EFA's for human consumption. Hemp grain is also high in iron and calcium and is an excellent source of dietary fiber * Ralph Loziers, general counsel of the National Institute of Oilseed Products, told the Congressional committee studying marijuana prohibition in 1937 that, “Hemp seed… is used in all the Oriental nations and also in a part of Russia as food. It is grown in their fields and used as oatmeal. * Hemp seed oil has been called Nature's perfect blend of Essential Fatty Acids due to the large amount of these substances contained in the oil. Specifically Hemp seed oil has large amounts of Lineolenic (Omega-3), and Lineoleic (Omega-6) fatty acids. These are considered to be essential by nutritionists since humans are unable to synthesize them, thus they must consume them from an external source. Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again

09-08-2003, 08:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,117 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 51 Thanked 607 Times in 399 Posts	****************** **************** ****** * Many Essential Nutrients Found in Hemp Seed July 27, 2000 By Nancy Ross Ryan - Chicago Tribune Source: Spokane.net http://www.spokane.net http://www.cannabisnews.com According to the latest research, there are about 45 nutrients that humans can't live without and which their bodies can't manufacture: 21 minerals, 13 vitamins, eight amino acids and two essential fatty acids. No single food has them all. But when a food is discovered that is a rich source of several essential nutrients, such as hemp seed, it makes nutrition news. Its promoters bill hemp seed as the soybean of the new millennium. In addition to containing vitamins and minerals (calcium, iron, thiamine, niacin and riboflavin), hemp seed, like the soybean, is a vegetable source of complete protein, having all eight amino acids. Hemp oil (pressed from the hemp seed) is, according to many, the best source of the two essential fatty acids (or EFAs) we can't live without: omega 3 alpha-linolenic acid and omega 6 linoleic acid. In 1992 a consortium of 20 British farmers requested permission to grow industrial hemp, a crop that had been banned since 1971. Home Office Minister Michael Jack saw no reason to oppose the request since industrial hemp had been grown for years on the Continent "without any problems". The farmers received licenses to cultivate 1500 acres. In 1993 a consortium of 10 Canadian farmers requested permission to grow hemp, a crop that had been banned since 1923. The federal government informed them the law would have to be changed before commercial plots could be harvested. However, seeing that "farmers in Canada are very interested in it", Health Minister Diane Marleau issued a permit for 18 acres of experimental plots. The next year Parliament enabled commercial harvests. ****************** **************** **** In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. ~Genesis 3:19~ **************** **************** **** HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD Part One by Lynn Osburn Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE Energy Farming in America Hemp Food Association VOTE HEMP The Hemp Conspiriacy **************** **************** **** "On either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare 12 manner of fruits, and yielding her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." (Rev. 22:1-2) **************** **************** **** HIA Hemp FAQ's FAQ#1: What are the benefits of hemp seeds and hemp oil for food? For informative answers to this question, see: Hemp Seed, The Royal Grain, by Chris Bennett Traditional Uses of Culinary Hemp Seed by Dr. Alexander Sumach Centuries of Safe Consumption of Hemp Foods by Cynthia Thielen Essential Fatty Acids Can Affect Your Baby's Intelligence! by Hempola, Inc. Nutritional Analysis of Hempseed and Hempseed Oil by The Ohio Hempery Nutritional Analysis of HempNut Hulled Hempseed by Richard Rose **************** **************** **** A wise man will hear, and will increase learning: and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. (Proverbs 1:5) **************** **************** **** Hemp seed: A cure for the common cold? Alive Foods raw hemp foods Wellness retreat centre based on people who cured themselves from cancer Motherhemp launch the succesful organic dairy free hemp ice-cream alternative to EU market at Biofach, visit them at the British Pavillion, Hall 1, Stand 440 Hemp Seed Cookbook, SCRAP, PO Box 510, Cazadero, CA 94521, (707) 847-3642, $2.25. Fats and Oils: The Complete Guide to Fats and Oils in Health and Nutrition, Alive Books, PO Box 80055, Burnaby BC, Canada V5H 3X5, $20. **************** **************** **** "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; that which cometh out of the mouth defileth a man." (Mat. 15:11) **************** **************** **** From: "Hemp Food Industries Association" subscriber@hemp.co.u k Tune In, Turn on, Eat Up Dr Dave West of the NAIHC educates us to some 28 pages of hemp myths and facts in adobe acrobat format Australia's bumper harvest Nutiva Nutiva Recipes Pacific Hemp now safari seeds Hemp Rella Ohio Hempery Hungry Bear Hemp Foods Galaxy Global Eatery Hemp.co.uk Hempen Ale Home Humboldt Brewing Company Hemp Beer! A recipe for hemp oil vinaigrette **************** **************** **** And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. (Ezekiel 34:29) **************** **************** ****** __________________ Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze/Ethanol then Ganja//Hemp.

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