Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA

DdC · 12-01-2003, 12:03 AM

Durham -- Durham's Gale Glenn could rightly be called the hemp lady. No, not that kind of hemp, she says; it's the kind that can be harvested to make clothes, paper and other textile products, the kind that produces the longest and strongest natural fibers in the world. But because it's in the cannabis family, along with marijuana, it's illegal.

As a former Kentucky tobacco farmer, Glenn sees industrial hemp as the perfect money-making alternative crop. From her Durham home, she has been lobbying Congress, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the White House for years.

"It's an illegal crop, even though it's grown in 35 Western countries ... because the DEA is convinced it is a stalking horse for illegal marijuana. We've been working in a concerted effort for about eight years to legalize it as an alternative crop," said Glenn, who is vice chairwoman of the North American Industrial Hemp Council.

"I feel like I'm watching a goose dancing around on hot coals looking for a place to lay the golden egg," she said. "I really think there's going to be some hemp millionaires in the future."

The issue has acquired renewed vigor because several state legislatures have passed resolutions to push for the crop's legalization. Recently, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers from Hawaii sent President George W. Bush a letter urging that a legal distinction be made between a crop grown as an illegal drug and an industrial crop grown for textile manufacturing.

'A kind crop for farmers'

With the decline in tobacco production, empty warehouses and the continuous search for alternative crops, hemp makes sense, Glenn and others say.

She points out that the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science at N.C. State University sponsored the International Hemp Forum in November 2001, and several NCSU professors recently sent a grant proposal to the Golden LEAF Foundation, which spends tobacco settlement economic development money.

The proposal was rejected.

Hemp is "biodegradable; it's a very kind crop for farmers. As a matter of fact, it's a farmer's dream crop -- you just drill in the seed and some fertilizer. It can grow any place you can grow corn, so it's a universal type of crop," she said. "It's an ideal rotation crop. You just need a little bit of fertilizer, no chemicals, and very low labor. Four months later, you can go back into the field and cut it and bale it. It's very useful for manufacturing.

"It seems to me that because it's so useful in so many industries to make so many products ... it'd be ideal for North Carolina, because we have all of these empty warehouses," she said.

Hemp as an industrial product has its high-profile supporters, including longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who said the crop had seen a resurgence around the world.

"In recent years, industrial hemp has experienced a renaissance. Farmers throughout the world are growing hemp in countries, such as France, that have never banned its cultivation, and in countries, such as Canada, that strictly regulate hemp production to guard against even the most remote possibility of illicit marijuana production," Nader wrote. "The United States, on the other hand, lags far behind. Due to bureaucratic red tape and overzealousness on the part of the Drug Enforcement Agency, industrial hemp cannot be commercially grown in the United States."

The DEA also is waging a battle against any form of imported hemp in the marketplace, including seeds, oil and other food products.

In 2001, the agency ordered a ban on hemp-derived foods, saying they ran afoul of the federal Controlled Substances Act. A lower-level federal court stayed the directive, and the battle continues in higher-level courts. Supporters, such as Glenn, say food products and other uses should be exempt from federal substance control laws, just as poppy seeds found on bagels are exempt.

Poppy plants are the basis for heroin production.

DEA spokesman Ed Childress said that because the fight over hemp's food uses is still in the courts, he could not comment. But he said the DEA's position is that because hemp is illegal, it cannot be grown in the United States.

"There's really no differentiation between hemp and marijuana. It is a controlled substance at this time, and until such time as the law changes, it will be enforced," he said. "The FDA, Health and Human Services and the DEA do studies and they get back together and they decide on a policy. It's all based on science. It's not based on opinions or politics, unless you're talking about the other side.

"The DEA is so demonized, and all we're doing is enforcing the law," he said.

Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA By Christopher Kirkpatrick
Source: Herald-Sun November 29, 2003
Contact: letters@herald-sun.com * Website

CannabisNews Hemp Archives
Cannabis News Hemp Links

"All we are doing is enforcing the law." ????????

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
The history of how the Marihuana Tax Act came to be the law of the land.
For more background on the history of, and reasons for the Marihuana Tax Act, see also these related documents:

The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States - a speech by Professor Charles Whitebread to the California Judge's Conference - This contains a short history of the marijuana laws.

The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge, by Professors Richard Bonnie and Charles Whitebread - This is a more extended history of the origins of the marijuana laws.

Unraveling an American Dilemma: The Demonization of Marihuana - by John C. Lupien -- This is the best exploration I have seen of the background of the supposed Anslinger-Hearst-DuPont conspiracy to outlaw marijuana in order to remove hemp as a possible competitor to their products.

Correspondence about the legal status of hemp 1930-1938
Marihuana Tax Act - The full text of the Marihuana Tax Act, as passed in 1937
Conference on Cannabis Sativa L. January 14, 1937 -- Room 81 Treasury Building

The Drug War Gravy Train By Daniel Forbes

"Arbitrary and capricious" is legal language that was used by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young in 1988 to conclude that DEA was obligated under the Controlled Substances Act to reschedule marijuana as a prescription medicine. DEA Chief Administrator Robert Bonner proceeded to arbitrarily and capriciously disregard Judge Young's well researched and reasoned decision, which the Act allowed him to do. cognitivelibery

Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed By R. William Davis

(The Elkhorn Manifesto)
SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA: By R. William Davis
The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate
Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization
An Open Letter to All Americans

DdC · 12-01-2003, 12:06 AM

Urgent Warning about Industrial Hemp...
Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products
Pine Ridge 8

U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws. According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML)

"But I also know, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths are disclosed and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times..."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again
FEDERAL MARIJUANA ERADICATION PROGRAM SEIZES NOTHING BUT DITCHWEED,
STATE AUDITOR'S REPORT SAYS
99.28% ditchweed
Ditchweed Update: DEA Numbers
State patrol/DEAth/FBI all on the persuit of the dangerous schedule#1 narcotic heathern devil weed....NON-PSYCHOACTIVE ROPE?
Spraying Ditchweed Devastate Midwest Game Birds
State Patrol on prowl for ditchweed harvesters

Genetic fungus * Spraying Misery * WoD on the Environment

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Fear in the fields: How hazardous wastes become fertilizer

CannabisNews Articles - Forfeiture

'Coerced' Contribution Returned
ALABAMA BENEFITS FROM MILLIONS IN DRUG FORFEITURES
Seizures By Police Help Fund Drug War
Government Property Seizures out of Control
Seizure Out of Control

Erowid: Forfeiture
Examples of Unjust Forfeiture
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
An analysis of U.S. asset forfeiture laws, with extensive legal citations, can be found in the book "Your House Is Under Arrest," by Brenda Grantland, one of America's leading asset defense attorneys. Copies are available from ISIL, 707/726-8796

Prison Growth Report, Twisted Badge Racial Profiling Series, Chicago Tribune on Prohibition and the Drug War

The Official Story Debunking “Gutter Science”

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74

FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research Blocked

"The illegal we can do right now; the unconstitutional will take a little longer."
Henry Kissinger

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The Drugczar--in effect if not by design has encouraged HHS not to process the rescheduling petition in a timely manner as required by law.

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CONGRESS IS MISLED AND LIED TO BY GOVERNMENTAL ADDICTION EXPERTS

White House Budget Office Flunks the DEA * Story

"The corporation is not a person and it does not live. It is a lifeless bundle of legally protected financial rights and relationships brilliantly designed to serve money and its imperatives. It is money that flows in its veins, not blood. The corporation has neither soul nor conscience."
David Korten, The Post-Corporate World

Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
UNICORE

America's Private Gulags

What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis

Ganja/hemp lnfolinx

Hemp Products NOT grown in the US

Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp
Practical, inexpensive fire-resistant construction material, with excellent thermal and sound-insulating qualities, is made by heating and compressing plant fibers to creat strong construction paneling, replacing dry wall and plywood. William B. Conde of Conde's Redwood Lumber, Inc. near Eugene, Oregon, in conjunction with Washington State University (1991-1993), has demonstrated the superior strength, flexibility, and economy of hemp composite building materials compared to wood fiber, even as beams.

Isochanvre, a rediscovered French building material made from hemp hurds mixed with lime, actually petrifies into a mineral state and lasts for many centuries. Archeologists have found a bridge in the south of France, from the Merovingian period (500-751 A.D.), built with this process. (See Chenevotte habitat of Rene, France in Appendix I.)

Hemp has been used throughout history for carpet backing. Hemp fiber has potential in the manufacture of strong, rot resistant carpeting - eliminating the poisonous fumes of burning synthetic materials in a house or commercial fire, along with allergic reactions associated with new synthetic carpeting.

Plastic plumbing pipe (PVC pipes) can be manufactured using renewable hemp cellulose as the chemical feedstocks, replacing non-renewable coal or petroleum-based chemical feedstocks.

DdC · 12-01-2003, 12:09 AM

Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp

Many Essential Nutrients Found in Hemp Seed July 27, 2000
By Nancy Ross Ryan - Chicago Tribune
Source: Spokane.net cannabisnews
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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Part One by Lynn Osburn
Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
Energy Farming in America

Osburn Defense Fund

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
Hemp Food Association * VOTE HEMP

HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
Energy Farming in America
HEMP PLYWOOD Becomes a Reality by Lynn and Judy Osburn

HIA: Basic Uses of Hemp * Hemp Facts * FoM's Hemp Links
Economics: Energy, Environment and Commerce

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. (Prov. 29:12)

Revolution, Hemp Style Now

Hemp Clothing
Hemp links * Head Space * Mendo Hemp
Ecolution * Ohio Hempery

"Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people."
Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Hemp paper * Hemptech Links * Hemp Food Association

Hemp Tech paper
Hemp Paper reaches mainstream USA
Rape ahead of the field
Hemp Industries Association 2002 Convention Report, Washington

Hemptech Links
Hemp Industries Association

Genuine Hemp US Flag

Fuel/plastic\crude oil alternative

Hemp Car Article * hempcar.org * Hemp Car Sponsors ...

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Hemp Plastic

D.E.A.th Deceptions

Mercury · 01-26-2007, 03:06 PM

Bump.... now this was a good post for the cause.

SmokeSomeDoja · 01-26-2007, 03:38 PM

this pisses me off so much...hemp is such a valuable and versatile plant, its insane we dont utilize it.

12-01-2003, 12:03 AM	#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	Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA Durham -- Durham's Gale Glenn could rightly be called the hemp lady. No, not that kind of hemp, she says; it's the kind that can be harvested to make clothes, paper and other textile products, the kind that produces the longest and strongest natural fibers in the world. But because it's in the cannabis family, along with marijuana, it's illegal. As a former Kentucky tobacco farmer, Glenn sees industrial hemp as the perfect money-making alternative crop. From her Durham home, she has been lobbying Congress, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the White House for years. "It's an illegal crop, even though it's grown in 35 Western countries ... because the DEA is convinced it is a stalking horse for illegal marijuana. We've been working in a concerted effort for about eight years to legalize it as an alternative crop," said Glenn, who is vice chairwoman of the North American Industrial Hemp Council. "I feel like I'm watching a goose dancing around on hot coals looking for a place to lay the golden egg," she said. "I really think there's going to be some hemp millionaires in the future." The issue has acquired renewed vigor because several state legislatures have passed resolutions to push for the crop's legalization. Recently, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers from Hawaii sent President George W. Bush a letter urging that a legal distinction be made between a crop grown as an illegal drug and an industrial crop grown for textile manufacturing. 'A kind crop for farmers' With the decline in tobacco production, empty warehouses and the continuous search for alternative crops, hemp makes sense, Glenn and others say. She points out that the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science at N.C. State University sponsored the International Hemp Forum in November 2001, and several NCSU professors recently sent a grant proposal to the Golden LEAF Foundation, which spends tobacco settlement economic development money. The proposal was rejected. Hemp is "biodegradable; it's a very kind crop for farmers. As a matter of fact, it's a farmer's dream crop -- you just drill in the seed and some fertilizer. It can grow any place you can grow corn, so it's a universal type of crop," she said. "It's an ideal rotation crop. You just need a little bit of fertilizer, no chemicals, and very low labor. Four months later, you can go back into the field and cut it and bale it. It's very useful for manufacturing. "It seems to me that because it's so useful in so many industries to make so many products ... it'd be ideal for North Carolina, because we have all of these empty warehouses," she said. Hemp as an industrial product has its high-profile supporters, including longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who said the crop had seen a resurgence around the world. "In recent years, industrial hemp has experienced a renaissance. Farmers throughout the world are growing hemp in countries, such as France, that have never banned its cultivation, and in countries, such as Canada, that strictly regulate hemp production to guard against even the most remote possibility of illicit marijuana production," Nader wrote. "The United States, on the other hand, lags far behind. Due to bureaucratic red tape and overzealousness on the part of the Drug Enforcement Agency, industrial hemp cannot be commercially grown in the United States." The DEA also is waging a battle against any form of imported hemp in the marketplace, including seeds, oil and other food products. In 2001, the agency ordered a ban on hemp-derived foods, saying they ran afoul of the federal Controlled Substances Act. A lower-level federal court stayed the directive, and the battle continues in higher-level courts. Supporters, such as Glenn, say food products and other uses should be exempt from federal substance control laws, just as poppy seeds found on bagels are exempt. Poppy plants are the basis for heroin production. DEA spokesman Ed Childress said that because the fight over hemp's food uses is still in the courts, he could not comment. But he said the DEA's position is that because hemp is illegal, it cannot be grown in the United States. "There's really no differentiation between hemp and marijuana. It is a controlled substance at this time, and until such time as the law changes, it will be enforced," he said. "The FDA, Health and Human Services and the DEA do studies and they get back together and they decide on a policy. It's all based on science. It's not based on opinions or politics, unless you're talking about the other side. "The DEA is so demonized, and all we're doing is enforcing the law," he said. Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA By Christopher Kirkpatrick Source: Herald-Sun November 29, 2003 Contact: letters@herald-sun.com * Website CannabisNews Hemp Archives Cannabis News Hemp Links "All we are doing is enforcing the law." ???????? The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 The history of how the Marihuana Tax Act came to be the law of the land. For more background on the history of, and reasons for the Marihuana Tax Act, see also these related documents: The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States - a speech by Professor Charles Whitebread to the California Judge's Conference - This contains a short history of the marijuana laws. The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge, by Professors Richard Bonnie and Charles Whitebread - This is a more extended history of the origins of the marijuana laws. Unraveling an American Dilemma: The Demonization of Marihuana - by John C. Lupien -- This is the best exploration I have seen of the background of the supposed Anslinger-Hearst-DuPont conspiracy to outlaw marijuana in order to remove hemp as a possible competitor to their products. Correspondence about the legal status of hemp 1930-1938 Marihuana Tax Act - The full text of the Marihuana Tax Act, as passed in 1937 Conference on Cannabis Sativa L. January 14, 1937 -- Room 81 Treasury Building The Drug War Gravy Train By Daniel Forbes "Arbitrary and capricious" is legal language that was used by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young in 1988 to conclude that DEA was obligated under the Controlled Substances Act to reschedule marijuana as a prescription medicine. DEA Chief Administrator Robert Bonner proceeded to arbitrarily and capriciously disregard Judge Young's well researched and reasoned decision, which the Act allowed him to do. cognitivelibery Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed By R. William Davis (The Elkhorn Manifesto) SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA: By R. William Davis The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization An Open Letter to All Americans

12-01-2003, 12:09 AM	#3 (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	Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp Many Essential Nutrients Found in Hemp Seed July 27, 2000 By Nancy Ross Ryan - Chicago Tribune Source: Spokane.net cannabisnews 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. 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 Osburn Defense Fund 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 Hemp Food Association * VOTE HEMP HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE Energy Farming in America HEMP PLYWOOD Becomes a Reality by Lynn and Judy Osburn HIA: Basic Uses of Hemp * Hemp Facts * FoM's Hemp Links Economics: Energy, Environment and Commerce If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. (Prov. 29:12) Revolution, Hemp Style Now Hemp Clothing Hemp links * Head Space * Mendo Hemp Ecolution * Ohio Hempery "Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people." Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Hemp paper * Hemptech Links * Hemp Food Association Hemp Tech paper Hemp Paper reaches mainstream USA Rape ahead of the field Hemp Industries Association 2002 Convention Report, Washington Hemptech Links Hemp Industries Association Genuine Hemp US Flag Fuel/plastic\crude oil alternative Hemp Car Article * hempcar.org * Hemp Car Sponsors ... Hemptech New Electric Car Battery capacity triples - at last! Biodiesel fuel- beware as police ensure heavy fines for tax evasion Keep Your Foot on the Grass: Hemp Car Touts Fuel Hemp Plastics- now independantly valued at US$900m industry Natural Fibres for Car Componenets with DaimlerChrysler Hemp Plastic D.E.A.th Deceptions __________________ 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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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	Urgent Warning about Industrial Hemp... Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products Pine Ridge 8 U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws. According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001. Keith Stroup, (NORML) "But I also know, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths are disclosed and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times..." -- Thomas Jefferson Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again FEDERAL MARIJUANA ERADICATION PROGRAM SEIZES NOTHING BUT DITCHWEED, STATE AUDITOR'S REPORT SAYS 99.28% ditchweed Ditchweed Update: DEA Numbers State patrol/DEAth/FBI all on the persuit of the dangerous schedule#1 narcotic heathern devil weed....NON-PSYCHOACTIVE ROPE? Spraying Ditchweed Devastate Midwest Game Birds State Patrol on prowl for ditchweed harvesters Genetic fungus * Spraying Misery * WoD on the Environment Hemp vs Dioxins * Hemp vs Chemical Cotton * Poison Pot Fear in the fields: How hazardous wastes become fertilizer CannabisNews Articles - Forfeiture 'Coerced' Contribution Returned ALABAMA BENEFITS FROM MILLIONS IN DRUG FORFEITURES Seizures By Police Help Fund Drug War Government Property Seizures out of Control Seizure Out of Control Erowid: Forfeiture Examples of Unjust Forfeiture Forfeiture Endangers American Rights An analysis of U.S. asset forfeiture laws, with extensive legal citations, can be found in the book "Your House Is Under Arrest," by Brenda Grantland, one of America's leading asset defense attorneys. Copies are available from ISIL, 707/726-8796 Prison Growth Report, Twisted Badge Racial Profiling Series, Chicago Tribune on Prohibition and the Drug War The Official Story Debunking “Gutter Science” Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74 FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research Blocked "The illegal we can do right now; the unconstitutional will take a little longer." Henry Kissinger D.E.A. Confirms Grounds To Remove Cannabis from Sch#1 The Drugczar--in effect if not by design has encouraged HHS not to process the rescheduling petition in a timely manner as required by law. Drug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress CONGRESS IS MISLED AND LIED TO BY GOVERNMENTAL ADDICTION EXPERTS White House Budget Office Flunks the DEA * Story "The corporation is not a person and it does not live. It is a lifeless bundle of legally protected financial rights and relationships brilliantly designed to serve money and its imperatives. It is money that flows in its veins, not blood. The corporation has neither soul nor conscience." David Korten, The Post-Corporate World Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations UNICORE America's Private Gulags What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis Ganja/hemp lnfolinx Hemp Products NOT grown in the US Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp Practical, inexpensive fire-resistant construction material, with excellent thermal and sound-insulating qualities, is made by heating and compressing plant fibers to creat strong construction paneling, replacing dry wall and plywood. William B. Conde of Conde's Redwood Lumber, Inc. near Eugene, Oregon, in conjunction with Washington State University (1991-1993), has demonstrated the superior strength, flexibility, and economy of hemp composite building materials compared to wood fiber, even as beams. Isochanvre, a rediscovered French building material made from hemp hurds mixed with lime, actually petrifies into a mineral state and lasts for many centuries. Archeologists have found a bridge in the south of France, from the Merovingian period (500-751 A.D.), built with this process. (See Chenevotte habitat of Rene, France in Appendix I.) Hemp has been used throughout history for carpet backing. Hemp fiber has potential in the manufacture of strong, rot resistant carpeting - eliminating the poisonous fumes of burning synthetic materials in a house or commercial fire, along with allergic reactions associated with new synthetic carpeting. Plastic plumbing pipe (PVC pipes) can be manufactured using renewable hemp cellulose as the chemical feedstocks, replacing non-renewable coal or petroleum-based chemical feedstocks.

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