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Southern Humboldt Hempfest in Redway

This Saturday, "hempsters" from all over Northern California will come together at the Mateel Community Center in Redway for the Southern Humboldt Hempfest. The Southern Humboldt Hempfest is an event of education and celebration concerning the uses of industrial hemp.

According to the pro-hemp Web site -- votehemp.com -- it is currently illegal to grow industrial hemp in the United States because it is improperly classified as a drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

The plant that provides industrial hemp is a non-psychoactive variety of the cannabis sativa plant. Co-coordinator of the Hempfest, Lenda Hand, explained how hemp differs from marijuana.

"Hemp is grown for the seed and the fiber to make food, clothing, paper and things," said Hand. "It grows one long stalk that could be up to 8 feet tall... you couldn't get high smoking hemp."

Hand belongs to the Hemp Awareness Group, a coalition of pro-hemp activists who have put on the Southern Humboldt Hempfest for 13 years now.

"We had to do something to raise awareness about hemp," said Hand. "For example, we would have shipments of hemp fabric confiscated by the federal government and they'd punch holes in hemp hats we had made," Hand said.

The punched-out holes were used by the federal government for lab tests to see if the fabric contained any psychoactive properties.

Hand is also the founder of Humboldt Hemp Foods, a company that makes edible goods from hemp seed. She explained how hemp can be used for dietary purposes as well.

"Its the most nutritional seed on the planet," said Hand. "It has a perfect ratio of omega threes and sixes... I do organic blue corn hemp chips and hempseed coffee with whole roasted hempseed from Canada in it."

Although the Hempfest will be focusing on industrial hemp, there will also be guests there who will speak on the benefits of medical marijuana.

Elvy Musika, one of the few federal recipients of medical marijuana, will be one of the speakers at the Hempfest. There will also be some venders present such as the Merry Hempsters from Oregon with their line of hemp-based body care products.

Musicians such as The I-Deals and the NonProphets will also play for the crowd.

The Southern Humboldt Hempfest is this Saturday beginning at noon at the Mateel Community Center in Redway. For more information contact Lenda Hand at (707) 986-7759.

Note: Darryl Cherney spoke at last year's Southern Humboldt Hempfest. --
http://darrylcherney.com

Southern Humboldt Hempfest in Redway By Daniel Mendez
Source: Lumberjack, The (CA Edu) November 05, 2003
Contact: thejack@humboldt.edu * Website

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* Kannabis—of the (Hellenized) Mediterranean Basin Greek language, derived from the Persian and earlier Northern Semitics (Quanuba, Kanabosm, Cana?, Kanah?) which scholars have now traced back to the new-found dawn of the 6,000-year-old, Indo-Semitic-European language family base of the Sumerians and Accadians. The early Sumerian/Babylonian word K(a)N(a)B(a), or Q(a)N(a)B(a) is one of humanity’s longest surviving root words.1 (KN means cane and B means
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In the early 1900s, Henry Ford and other futuristic, organic, engineering geniuses recognized (as their intellectual, scientific heirs still do today) an important point—that up to 90% of all fossil fuel used in the world today (coal, oil, natural gas, etc.)—should long ago have been replaced with biomass such as: cornstalks, cannabis, waste paper, and the like. Biomass can be converted to methane, methanol, or gasoline at a fraction of the current cost of oil, coal, or nuclear energy—especially when environmental costs are factored in—and its mandated use would end acid rain, end sulfur-based smog, and reverse the Greenhouse Effect on our planet—right now!*

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