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1/15/2007
10:20:06 am EST
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Man Aims To Become Nation's First Licensed Industrial Hemp Farmer
Author: Dale Wetzel, AP Source: ABC News (US)
Title: MAN AIMS TO BECOME LICENSED HEMP FARMER
David Monson began pushing the idea of growing industrial hemp in the United States a decade ago. Now his goal may be within reach but first he needs to be fingerprinted.
Monson plans this week to apply to become the nation's first licensed industrial hemp farmer. He will have to provide two sets of fingerprints and proof that he's not a criminal.
The farmer, school superintendent and state legislator would like to start by growing 10 acres of the crop, and he spent part of his weekend staking out the field he wants to use.
"I'm starting to see that we maybe have a chance," Monson said. "For a while, it was getting really depressing."
Last month, the state Agriculture Department finished its work on rules farmers may use to grow industrial hemp, a cousin of marijuana that does not have the drug's hallucinogenic properties. The sturdy, fibrous plant is used to make an assortment of products, ranging from paper, rope and lotions to car panels, carpet backing and animal bedding.
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| Rolling The Bones | Jan 17th. at 12:41:15 pm EST
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me
The Founding Fathers, who signed their names to hemp paper in some of the foundational documents for our country, would be rolling over in their graves to think that corrupt government thugs would engage in such extreme civil rights violations over a basic crop like hemp, regardless of THC levels in any particular subspecies of it.
Historically, hemp bans played on post-Civil War racial prejudices in order to justify laws crafted to favor timber industry clogging upstream rivers, paper industry poisoning downstream, and cotton which requires awkward ginning.
Modern hemp laws cater to political power derived from perpetual promises to end crime generated by laws creating black markets in the first place, and economic convenience to employers who care little about religious or cultural rights to use our own bodies and minds in ways which aren't compatible with simultaneous performance of all occupations, but which rights deserve full and effective Constitutional protections, even if that means honestly dealing with issues of addiction as medical problems, rather than use of criminal law to write off some workers who would never dream of mixing alcohol or nicotine addiction with incompatible work requirements (or so law pretends) .
Or, are drug laws about health and safety? Using as a yardstick the LD50 for Tylenol of 15 grams a day, versus too high to be measured for pot which has health benefits so long as it's not smoked, there's reason for regulation of antibiotics but not most narcotics, nor hemp which is not a narcotic other than under some psychotic legal fraud definitions.
Constitutionally valid laws and effective enforcement would get far tougher on drug related crimes than do present policies. DEA agents, the transformed paper pushers of the old BNDD (Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) , would all be incarcerated or exterminated as serial felon racketeers for the violations of civil rights in which they unavoidably engage as a condition of that employment at present, along with most local cops, and many military, police, and other agencies co-conspiring. Somehow the Roberts court upheld the law over Hoasca tea religious rituals, but that doesn't undo the strange mess of narcotics addict Rehnquist abuses where peyote rituals are narrowly protected under conditions which deny those rights to most affected while requiring proof of race and church membership to qualify, resulting in massive illegal discrimination, before considering warped issues related to unemployment compensation and wrongful firings from the Rehnquist court. Full and honest enforcement of civil rights would go beyond the Hoasca tea case issues, and broadly protect freedom from Calvinist bigotry as government policy under Establishment neutrality, in addition to Free Exercise rights to spiritual and self medicinal traditions for as broad a range of people as enjoy protected rights to choose vegan diets.
Only under misapplication of law to violate its own core standards do requirements to ask violent thugs permission to do what doesn't justify regulation in the first place exist. Present law caters to select economic and religious interests, such that current drug policies and related enforcement rackets demand being eliminated, not just reigned in slightly after decades of tedious wrangling on narrow details.
Would DEA agents shredded in a manure spreader work to fertilize hemp crops, or would they cause a HazMat condition? That would certainly be a less violent use for them (and their cohorts of other alphabet soup brands) than to tolerate the organized crime via government they now perpetrate.
At best this hemp farming operation, if approved, could help a few more people realize why a crop which grows in 120 days, and if used for paper doesn't result in nearly the environmental impact of wood pulp or cotton, is a normal and desirable part of the agricultural mix, while most US legal representations of it are frauds.
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| I'll Be Surprised If It Happens. | Jan 15th. at 7:33:55 pm EST
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Artair (Asheville, Ohio) - Email Me
A Native American tribe has been attempting to grow hemp on tribal land for a number of years now. Every time they do, the DEA and others come in and brun the crop to the ground, in spite of the facts and that the land will not support any other crops.
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| Typical | Jan 15th. at 1:23:31 pm EST
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WitchPoet (Claremont, California) - Email Me - Web
Neither the reporter nor the DEA knows what they are talking about, as usual.
Industrial hemp is not a "cousin" to pot. it is the same plant bred to maximize fiber and seed prodction. Thus it is not culled to produce strains that are high in THC. The main reason why industrialy grown hemp is useless as a drug is the way they GROW it. Wild ditch-weed would give you a better high. The DEA also is speaking out their posterior, in a field of industrial growth THC producing plants would be polinated and dramatically lower in quality. N fact growng it anywhere NEAR or even miles away downwind from an industrial farm would mess us any possibility of a cash crop. Pot production requires only one plant per sq yard at most. Industrial fields are sown as thickly as they will grow. You could see the difference clearely from the air. More straw men. Anybody have some matches?
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