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S.D. Family Seeks The Right To Grow Hemp By Betsy Taylor
Source: Associated Press December 12, 2005 St. Louis
Members of a family say they were growing hemp, not marijuana, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and asked federal appeals judges Monday to return the matter to a lower court to consider the legality of their crop. The White Plume family tried three times to grow an industrial hemp crop on Oglala Sioux reservation land from 2000 to 2002, only to have the plants seized and destroyed by the federal government. The family was later ordered by a judge to halt the plantings permanently.
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White Plumes Relinquish Hemp Crop

Hemp Grower Defiant After Crop Taken

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Sovereignty Against Tyranny from D.E.A.th!
The sovereignty enjoyed by Indian nations in the United States is inherent to the Indian tribes. This means that the Creator granted sovereignty to the tribes, not the federal government or the Congress. The federal government has acknowledged the inherent nature of tribal sovereignty in the U. S. Constitution.



The Drug War Comes To The Rez By Leora Broydo
Source: MoJo Wire February 12, 2001

When Alex White Plume planted a field full of industrial-grade hemp, he hoped that his crop might lift his family and community out of poverty. Then the DEA came to Pine Ridge.

Alex White Plume called it his "field of dreams": an acre and a half of plants so tall and strong they seemed to touch the sky; a crop representing hope for a new and self-sufficient life for his family, residents of the desperately impoverished Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

But on Aug. 24, 2000 at sunrise, just four days before White Plume and his neighbors planned to harvest their bounty, White Plume awoke to the sounds of helicopters. He looked out the window and saw a convoy of vehicles heading for his field.

He raced down to investigate, and was met by a slew of black-clad
and heavily armed figures -- 36 agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the US Marshal's office.

When White Plume rolled down the window of his pick-up to ask what was going on, he says, one US marshal pointed a gun in his face. Meanwhile, the other agents chopped down each plant near the roots and hauled them away.

Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative
Tribe Gets Hemp gift
Give Us Back Our Hemp
Marijuana Crops Raided

MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THY PEOPLE YOU'RE DYING
The past it just crumbled, the future just threatens;
Our life blood shut up in your chemical tanks.
And now here you come, bill of sale in your hands
And surprise in your eyes that we're lacking in thanks
For the blessings of civilization you've brought us,
The lessons you've taught us, the ruin you've wrought us --
Oh see what our trust in America's brought us...
Buffy Sainte-Marie



"The oppressed should rebel,
and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance
until their civil rights are fully restored to them
and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed."
Thomas Jefferson, 1776

Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed

Switching cotton fields to hemp fields would improve: the quality of our soil, the durability of our clothes, the safety of our ground source water, the quality of our air, and the preservation of forests cut for paper.

(not to mention saving hundreds of thousands of lives
prematurely ended by disease caused by pollution)

In 1993, two hundred and fifty thousand tons of pesticides
were used to grow cotton world-wide.

These pesticides wash into streams and rivers,
destroying eco-systems and poisoning human water supplies.

Today the water supplies of many large cities are contaminated. Many of the vegetables we eat and clothes we wear contain pesticide residues.

We must develop and utilize sustainable technologies
if we want to survive and prosper in the next millenium.

Hemp is a perfect sustainable raw material for thousands of products. Textiles, cosmetics, building materials, fuel and food can all be made from hemp.

The Elkhorn Manifesto



Lakota Hemp Days By Ruth Fahrbach
September 15, 2004

The Sioux Turn Hemp Into Homes
The Oglala Sioux Tribe, from South Dakota, have been making use of a revolutionary, new building material made from hemp. Hempcrete is much lighter, tougher and more weatherproof than traditional concrete and it offers those who live on the Reservation the long-awaited return to a self-sustainable and
independent life.
hempology.org



Suppression of Indigenous Sovereignty in 20th Century United States
By Ward Churchill
The stated federal agenda devolved upon bringing about a comprehensive forced culture dissolution and eventual physical dispersal of every surviving American Indian society. It was the stated objective of this formally articulated "Assimilation Policy" that no Indians, culturally identifiable as such, remain within the U.S. by 1935.

Wages of COINTELPRO Still Evident in Omaha Black Panther Case
by Ward Churchill March 10, 1999
In 1980, former FBI Director L. Patrick Grey and Edward S. Miller,
one-time head of Squad 47, the domestic counterintelligence unit in the FBI's New York Field Office, were convicted of having "conspired to injure and oppress the citizens of the United States." The context of their crimes was COINTELPRO, a secret, nationwide campaign conducted by the Bureau from 1956-1971 for
purposes of destroying "politically objectionable" organizations and individuals through any and every means available to it.

New Strategies of Repression:
The Drug War & the Legacy of COINTELPRO

"On The Justice of Roosting Chickens"
The essay on this page was expanded into a full-length book

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US Biological Terrorism in Colombia
How Dr. Mengele Might Wage the Drug War by Jeffrey St. Clair
Hostile intentions toward the people of another country.
Deployment of chemical weapons and biological agents.
Pursuit of a scorched earth policy. Sound like Saddam’s Iraq? Think again. This neatly capsulizes the Bush administration’s ongoing depredations in Colombia, all under the shady banner of the war on drugs.

"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
- William F. Buckley

Prisons, Corporate Profits and the Drug War By Debra McCorkle
"Before the Drug War was declared in the 1980s, our prison population was actually declining. Since then, we have been building new jails and even turned over the business to profit-making corporations. In America, throwing nonviolent offenders into jail is good business."



The creation of a prison-industrial complex is one the most disturbing things going on. Note there is no contradiction between the facts that prisons are both hugely expensive and very profitable. Just like with military spending, the cost is public cost and the profits are private profits: it's yet another way of funneling public money into the pockets of the rich few. HERE are a collection of interesting articles on prison privatization and prison labor.

Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately
Evert Hoogers - CUPW National Union Representative
... as "the artifacts of an ongoing struggle for one man's freedom and for the self respect of us all".

While this "living memoir" focuses on the quest for Peltier's freedom, Arden sees this as "a key to freedom for tens of thousands of others in our runaway American 'prison industrial complex'". He links his involvement with indigenous issues to his Jewish roots -- the Jewish Holocaust and the 500 year Holocaust
"against American Indian Peoples" involved in both cases the struggle "to survive as a people". "[M]y liberation", he explains,
"is bound up with theirs, and with Leonard's".

Why do you think they call it DOPE?

THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE

The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber

Shadow of the Swastika

Anachronistic Law Could Hamper Hemp in South Africa



Industrial Hemp Information

Mon$anto'$ WoD "War on Ditchweed"

Federal Marijuana Eradication Program
Seizes Nothing But Ditchweed, State Auditor's Report Says
May 7, 1998, Washington, D.C
Over 99 percent of the marijuana eradicated by the Drug Enforcement Administration's federally funded "Cannabis Suppression Program" is nonpsychoactive hemp, reveals a 1998 Vermont State Auditor's report. "The national total of ditchweed eradicated compared to the total number of plants seized is 99.28 percent resulting in less than one percent cultivated indoor and outdoor plant eradication percentage at the national level," the report concludes.

North Dakota Leagalizes Industrial Hemp
Bismarck, April 17, 1999--North Dakota Governor Schafer signed HB 1428 legalizing industrial hemp by decreeing, "any person in this state may plant, grow, harvest, possess, process, sell, and buy industrial hemp."

To full text of the new law is located at: North Dakota website
For further information contact: Gov. Ed Schafer (701) 328-2200

Hemp Food Sales Grow 50 Percent Over Last Year

The Bodyshop.com



Pray For Peace Foundation Hemporium

"Fathers, that Indu which our hearts have drunk,
Immortal in himself, has entered mortals.
So let us serve this Soma with oblation,
and rest securely in his grace and favor.

Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic & Religion by Chris Bennet.
"A very valueable resource for anyone interested in the scholarly side of psychedelic history and the anthropological effects."

A Prayer to Soma

Religious Freedom
High Times Interview with Deepak Chopra



Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again
Feds Spend $13 Million on Summer Jobs Program
for Midwest Students, Bored Cops

Ditchweed Update: DEA Numbers

State Patrol on prowl for ditchweed harvesters



Poison Pot

NEW BILLION-DOLLAR CROP-Popular Mechanics-February, 1938

FIBRE PLANTS -- HEMP,from The Children's Encyclopedia

Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA



Legalize It!
Text by Ted Williams Audubon Magazine
If the war on drugs were really about reducing supply,
drug controllers would be promoting hemp. But the war has taken on a life of its own, become an industry unto itself.

For example, Congress gives the DEA half a billion dollars a year to eradicate marijuana. But according to the DEA's own figures, 98 percent of the "marijuana" eradicated by its agents or the police departments and National Guard units it hires is hemp-the harmless, feral stuff that escaped during Hemp for Victory days.

"Ditchweed," it's called. That's the "marijuana" you see getting burned in all the photos. If you're caught with ditchweed, you're in big trouble, as Vernon McElroy, 50, discovered in 1991 when he got convicted for possessing 10.9 pounds that he says a friend had picked and given him as a joke. Now he's doing life without parole at the overcrowded maximum-security penitentiary in Springville, Alabama.

In Oklahoma, ditchweed is even sprayed with herbicides from helicopters.
And last year Congress authorized $23 million for research into a soil-borne fungus that attacks and kills marijuana, poppy, and coca plants.

Mike DeWine (R-OH) calls it a "silver bullet" in the war on drugs,
but David Struhs, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, calls it a threat to the "natural environment.".

Agent Green
Risks of Using Biological Agents to Eradicate Drug Plants

Genetic fungus

Spraying Misery

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Chemical Cotton vs Organic Hemp

Hemp for Victory

Spraying Ditchweed Devastate Midwest Game Birds by Joel M. Vance
Outdoor Life, June 1971 p.53
Midwest game has gone to "pot" —for both cover and food.
Problem: spraying could devastate game populations
UPLAND GAME IS GOING TO POT in the Midwest. And if hunters and conservationists are not careful, upland -game hunting could do the same. The pot that the game is going to is marijuana or wild hemp, often called "pot" by its high-flying advocates. It grows as a weed in many Midwestern States.

Marijuana is classified as a dangerous plant by the federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, a subagency of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Nine out of 10 hunters probably couldn’t care less whether marijuana lives or dies. However, marijuana is one of the Midwest’s most valuable cover plants for upland game, and some of the proposals for eradicating it could have terribly damaging effect on all other upland-game cover. And cover is the name of the hunting game. No cover means no game and no hunting.

Monsanto



Lakota Hemp Days By Ruth Fahrbach
September 15, 2004

The Sioux Turn Hemp Into Homes
The Oglala Sioux Tribe, from South Dakota, have been making use of a revolutionary, new building material made from hemp. Hempcrete is much lighter, tougher and more weatherproof than traditional concrete and it offers those who live on the Reservation the long-awaited return to a self-sustainable and independent life.
hempology.org



How Tribes Get Their Sovereignty

Suppression of Indigenous Sovereignty in 20th Century United States
By Ward Churchill
The stated federal agenda devolved upon bringing about a comprehensive forced culture dissolution and eventual physical dispersal of every surviving American Indian society. It was the stated objective of this formally articulated "Assimilation Policy" that no Indians, culturally identifiable as such,
remain within the U.S. by 1935.

Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately
Evert Hoogers - CUPW National Union Representative
... as "the artifacts of an ongoing struggle for one man's freedom and for the self respect of us all".

While this "living memoir" focuses on the quest for Peltier's freedom, Arden sees this as "a key to freedom for tens of thousands of others in our runaway American 'prison industrial complex'". He links his involvement with indigenous issues to his Jewish roots -- the Jewish Holocaust and the 500 year Holocaust
"against American Indian Peoples" involved in both cases the struggle "to survive as a people". "[M]y liberation", he explains,
"is bound up with theirs, and with Leonard's".



The Business of Genocide: by Michael Thad Allen
The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps



Genocide: The Case of Native America

Kill the Indian, Save the Man: by Ward Churchill
The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools



The Good Germans by John S. Hatch
It is a commonplace that at the end of WWII scarcely a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer could be found, or even anyone with an inkling that a Holocaust had been taking place. Even as rocks flew through Jewish shop windows and homes were burned, the Good Germans didn't know. Even when Jews began disappearing in huge
numbers from right under their noses, the Good Germans weren't aware

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism

"Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."
--Baron M.A. Rothschild 1744 - 1812



The Green Triangle and the Drug War

Nazi-like brutality of U.S. criminal justice system and prisons.

"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
- William F. Buckley

"Put bluntly, lawmakers are stealing from the public...
Theft may seem like a strong word for what now routinely comes out of the legislative process. But that's only because we have abandoned any rigorous conception of individual rights and government responsibilities... [m]ost government transfers today are made to enrich one or another narrow interests. Uncle Sam has become an enforcer for greedy private groups that can't legally take other people's money directly."
Doug Bandow -- "What Happened to the Concept of Theft?" 1988.

Conservative Addiction Good! Liberal Addiction Bad!

Poverty? Dubya Says Blame the Hippies!

The Ganjawar and the The Rez

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
--Mussolini

Corporatism also exploits the Drug War

The Drug War - Nazi Comparison
Political prisoner and gulag are terms that enter conversation. Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle and The Gulag Archipelago are works sometimes referred to. America's vast network of prisons, boot camps, and jails invites comparison with the detention machinery of former totalitarian regimes.

Occupied America: by Neal Smith, 2000-03-12
A Chronology of Nazi Infiltration and the War On Some Drugs

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Demonising Druggies Wins Votes June 15, 2001
Until the early 70s, Britain was a haven of enlightenment: every doctor in the country had the right to prescribe heroin for the welfare of patients. This reflected the idea, powerfully proposed by the Rolleston committee in 1926, that drug use should be seen as a problem which needed help, not as a sin which needed punishment.

There were fewer than 500 addicts in the country, most of them musicians or Chinese. With a clean, legal supply of their drug, they remained healthy and were able to live normal lives.

Then three London doctors were caught selling inflated prescriptions; there was a moral panic; and Britain's resistance to prohibition started to crumble under political pressure, some of it from the United States which was already committed to imposing a global policy of prohibition.

Hepatitis C Information Board
The Heroin Challenge
Make Heroin Legal - Part I

American Indian filmmaker addresses addiction issues
Drug addiction touches many of the characters in Chris Eyre's films, which depict the lives of contemporary Native Americans.

Tobacco addiction as 'Indian Killer' topic of lecture

Red, White, and Black:The Origins of Racism in Colonial America Gary B. Nash,
Savage Indians

[Andrew] Jackson was so effective at rooting women and "whelps" from their "dens," he adopted the habit of cutting off his victims' noses as trophies to commemorate his exploits. He earned the name "Sharp Knife" from Creek Indians for his penchant for skinning victims and using the cured and braided tissue as reins for his ponies (Takaki, 1994)

Witch hunts and the war on weed20 Jun, 2002
The persecution of "witches" was really a war on sacred plants that continues today.

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.

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer

Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist
regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help
Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937

Native Peoples
Alcohol and other drug use and diverse native peoples.

Drunken Indians (6/3/01)



"DEATH TO THE DRUGGIES" February10, 1998
A Look at Prohibitionist Rhetoric and Its Consequences by Julian Heicklen
Senator Orin Hatch, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 28 Senate co-sponsors have introduced Bill S. 3 that mandates that a person convicted of bringing into the United States "100 usual dosage amounts" of several illicit substances including two ounces of marijuana be sentenced to life without parole for a first offense and death for a second offense.



The creation of a prison-industrial complex is one the most disturbing things going on. Note there is no contradiction between the facts that prisons are both hugely expensive and very profitable. Just like with military spending, the cost is public cost and the profits are private profits: it's yet another way of funneling public money into the pockets of the rich few. HERE are a collection of interesting articles on prison privatization and prison labor.

William Bennett, the first U. S. "Drug Czar" has said: "The non-addicted or casual irregular user is likely to have a still-intact family, social and work life. These are the users who should have their names published in local papers. They should be subject to drivers' license suspension, employer notification, overnight or weekend detention, eviction from public housing, or forfeiture of the cars they drive while purchasing drugs."

Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and 37 House co-sponsors have introduced Bill H. R. 41 with the identical provision. On May 8, 1997, Speaker Gingrich said: "If you sell it, we're going to kill you."



Prisons, Corporate Profits and the Drug War By Debra McCorkle
"Before the Drug War was declared in the 1980s, our prison population was actually declining. Since then, we have been building new jails and even turned over the business to profit-making corporations. In America, throwing nonviolent offenders into jail is good business."

On "Larry King Live," June 15, 1989, a caller to the national cable television show suggested to Drug "Czar" William Bennett: "Behead the damn drug dealers." Mr. Bennett's response was: "I mean what the caller suggests is morally plausible. Legally, it's difficult But somebody selling drugs to a kid? Morally, I don't have any problem with that at all." Mr. Bennett reiterated his position the next day in a written statement that told drug dealers: "You deserve to die."



New Strategies of Repression:
The Drug War & the Legacy of COINTELPRO

Thomas J. Gleaton, Director of PRIDE has said: "We, as parents of all nations, must say to our local law enforcement officer, 'If my child, my loved one, or my friend breaks the law by using illicit drugs, please arrest him or her.'"

Wages of COINTELPRO Still Evident in Omaha Black Panther Case
by Ward Churchill March 10, 1999
In 1980, former FBI Director L. Patrick Grey and Edward S. Miller,
one-time head of Squad 47, the domestic counterintelligence unit in the FBI's New York Field Office, were convicted of having "conspired to injure and oppress the citizens of the United States." The context of their crimes was COINTELPRO, a secret, nationwide campaign conducted by the Bureau from 1956-1971 for
purposes of destroying "politically objectionable" organizations and individuals through any and every means available to it.

"On The Justice of Roosting Chickens"
The essay on this page was expanded into a full-length book

Folks, this is your America. Because of the hysteria of our national leaders, not only has reason left the land, but so has the law. Recently in Centre County, Alan Gordon was on trial for possession of marijuana. His experience with the criminal justice system is an example of how the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Pennsylvania Constitution are trashed.


DR. Julian HEICKLEN

Julian Heicklen is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Penn State University.
This and other articles are available on his web site

The Smokin' Professor Still Can't Get Arrested
So He Is Making His Points --Escalating His Challenge

The Penn State Professor Who Can't Get Arrested
Gets An Articulate Ally: A Local Editor!

"I am an advocate of freedom." by Julian Heicklen

Police Refuse to Arrest 65-year-old Heicklen June 15, 2001
Penn State Chemistry Professor Taking Part In Smokeout

Criminal Misconduct
Before Anslinger started the pacifist zombie-marijuana scare in 1948,
he publicly used jazz music, violence, and the “gore files” for five to seven more years (1943-50) in the press, at conventions, lectures, and Congressional hearings. Whether this was economically or racially inspired, or even because of up-beat music or some kind of synergistic (combined) hysteria; it is impossible to know for sure. But we do know the U.S. government (e.g., DEA) information disseminated on cannabis was then, and continues to be, a deliberate deception.

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Legislative Movement To Legalize Hemp Begins Anew By Tom Ragan*
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel* January 10, 2006 Watsonville, CA
A San Francisco assemblyman is expected to take up the controversial issue of legalizing hemp for commercial growing when he presents the bill before the Assembly's Public Safety Committee today in Sacramento. Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, is scheduled to bring the bill forward this afternoon, arguing that California farmers are losing out to 30 other countries, including Canada, where hemp can be grown.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21468.shtml

Sovereignty: The Right To Grow Hemp

Hemp Food Sales Grow 50 Percent Over Last Year

Ganja/hemp lnfolinx

The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber
Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA
(The Elkhorn Manifesto)
The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate
Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization

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Committee OKs Bill Letting Farmers Grow Hemp
Source: Associated Press January 11, 2006 Sacramento, CA *
Legislation that would allow California farmers to grow industrial hemp, a distant cousin of marijuana that can be used in making myriad products, has been approved by a state Assembly committee. The measure by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, cleared the Public Safety Committee on Tuesday night, 4-2, and was sent to the Appropriations Committee, the last stop before the full Assembly.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21474.shtml

Legislative Movement To Legalize Hemp Begins Anew



Cannabis News Hemp Links
Bill Would Allow Hemp Farming in California
Assembly Mulls Industrial Hemp Bill



Sovereignty: The Right To Grow Hemp

Legitimizing Ganja
SC Legalizes Cannabis if its Organic!



Santa Cruz City Council Targets Bush
SC Industrial Hemp Expo
Pacific Hemp now Safari Seeds
Well Fed With Hemp in Santa Cruz


Hemp foods are the highest source of essential fatty acids
in the entire plant kingdom. Hemp clothing products are comfortable,
beautiful, and easy on the planet.

Welcome to Ecolution!
Hemp is a plant with the potential to provide valuable ecological solutions
to help our civilization transform its economy to a more natural one ...


Hemp Clothing, Hemp Products, Organic Cotton Linens



'Industrial' Takes Root By Donna Leinwand
Source: USA Today*November 21, 2005
David Monson is a conservative Republican in North Dakota's legislature. He's also a farmer who believes that a new cash crop could revitalize his state's agricultural industry, which has been suffering from poor harvests and depressed soy and corn prices. That policy has led to an explosion in goods containing high-fiber, high-protein hemp that has been fueled by Americans' thirst for organic products — and perhaps by the tie some consumers see between hemp and marijuana, a counterculture symbol for decades.
Read More... usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-22-hemp-crop


"CANADIAN HEMP ROOT" HERB BOX
Cardboard with Paper Label 2-3/8" x 2-1/4" x 1"

Chinese Hemp Industry has Boundless Potential
Business News Source: People's Daily November 05, 2001
As world fashion increasingly moves toward simplicity, comfort and health protection, experts point out that hemp, a major economic crop in China, could have great market prospects after the nation's entry into the World Trade Organization. Xia Jingyuan, a senior official with the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture in charge of the extension of agricultural technology, said that the annual output of Chinese linen is worth over 10 billion yuan (about 1.2 billion US dollars).


B.C. 2700. Chinese characters conceived; Ts'ang Chieh credited with the invention. [The ancient Chinese symbol for hemp (left) is 4,700 years old, and shows the male and female forms in a drying shed for fiber use. (Conrad, ibid.).]

Fragrant Cane Ministry

History of the Hanfparade



HEMP HISTORY ROOM

EnviroTextile.com
Manufacturer and Importer of Quality Hemp Products
Chinese Hemp Fabric
European Hemp Fabric

The cultivation and use of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in ancient China
Xiaozhai Lu1 and Robert C. Clarke



Nature's Forgotten Fiber by David Mahood
As the demand for more natural and benign fabric options increases, the compelling advantages of hemp may finally get the attention they deserve.

Hemp Fabrics Manufacturers & Exporters

IHA Cannabis Educational Pack



Textiles from hemp fibers - New ways for German hemp

Hemp Around the World
* Canamo – Spain and Chile
* Hanf – Austria and Germany
* Hanp - Denmark
* Hanpu – Finland
* Hennep – Netherlands
* Kender – Hungary
* Konopli – Russia
* Konoplja – Yugoslavia
* Ma – China
* Penek – Poland
* Taima(asa) – Japan



Welcome to Hemptrade.ca
The home of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance/
Alliance Commerciale Canadienne du Chanvre

Looking Good in the Mirror & the Marketplace

Hemp Food Sales Grow 50 Percent Over Last Year

Ganja/hemp lnfolinx

WHERE'S THE HEMP? By John E. Dvorak, Hempologist

(Excerpted) The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) is one of this country's national treasures. Over 60 tons of HEMP on was used on the Constitution. Everything from Sails, rigging, uniforms, ropes, oakum, etc

On her 200th birthday. On July 21, 1997, Constitution sailed off of Marblehead, MA under her own power for the first time in 116 years. The fact that little, or possibly no, "true" cannabis hemp was used during Constitution's restoration mars the celebration of this historic event.

"that's not restoring it, that's defacing it"
Chris Conrad (author, Hemp For Health)

Was this oversight a conspiracy by an evil industrial/political cabal, who, for over 60 years, have plotted and schemed to prevent cannabis hemp from being used to provide innumerable eco-friendly products?

Evidence of this exists in the March, 1997 issue of Buzz Magazine, where DEA special agent, Abel Reynoso, was quoted as saying "Nobody cares about the environmental uses of hemp. That's taking us back to the Stone Age. . . Whatever product you can make from hemp, DuPont will come out with a synthetic fiber to replace it."

The U.S.S. Constitution “Old Ironsides”
Jack Herer’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes”
There were at least 60 tons of Hemp on the U.S.S. Constitution alone. Partial list of rigging (rope) required for the 1927 restoration of the U.S.S. Constitution from “The Frigate Constitution” by F. Alexander Magoun, Pgs. 96, 97. Each mast (fore, mizen, main, etc.) required lifts, braces, reefs, jiggers, tackles, etc. The Constitution carried well more than four miles of hemp rope.

Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed

Switching cotton fields to hemp fields would improve: the quality of our soil, the durability of our clothes, the safety of our ground source water, the quality of our air, and the preservation of forests cut for paper (not to mention saving hundreds of thousands of lives prematurely ended by disease caused by pollution)

In 1993, two hundred and fifty thousand tons of pesticides were used to grow cotton world-wide. These pesticides wash into streams and rivers, destroying eco-systems and poisoning human water supplies. Today the water supplies of many large cities are contaminated.

Many of the vegetables we eat and clothes we wear contain pesticide residues. We must develop and utilize sustainable technologies if we want to survive and prosper in the next millenium. Hemp is a perfect sustainable raw material for thousands of products. Textiles, cosmetics, building materials, fuel and food can all be made from hemp.

Hemp Products not grown by US farmers.