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House Votes To Allow Farmers To Grow Hemp
Posted by CN Staff on March 23, 2005 at 15:39:04 PT
By Norma Love, Associated Press Writer
Source: Associated Press
Concord, N.H. -- The House voted Wednesday to allow farmers to grow hemp — a close relative of marijuana — despite federal hurdles to planting the controversial crop.Supporters argued that hemp, which has a very low content of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, has unfairly been characterized as the same as marijuana.
“This is not marijuana. This is hemp,” insisted Hopkinton Democrat Derek Owen, who added that hemp has been grown for thousands of years.Hemp, known for its strong fiber, is used in a wide range of products, including clothing, canvas, rope, fiberglass, insulation, automobile clutch- and brake-liners, cement and paper. It can be grown legally in other countries, including Canada and China.“Hemp is one of the oldest, most useful plants known to man,” said Owen.Owen argued it would provide a niche crop for the state’s farmers.But opponents said hemp should be considered as dangerous to children as marijuana and remain outlawed. When young, hemp leaves can cause a similar hallucinogenic effect to marijuana, argued Merrimack Republican Peter Batula.“We don’t need fields of this marijuana plant out there for picking at harvest time,” said Batula.Milford Republican Ryan Hansen argued New Hampshire should wait until federal rules are changed to permit the crop.“The problem with this bill is it isn’t going to allow farmers to grow hemp,” said Hansen.Hemp can be grown only with permission from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Last fall, a hemp research project in Hawaii was shut down after it ran out of money and turned in its permit to the DEA.The bill would let farmers grow hemp after obtaining a permit. The state would issue licenses to grow hemp and be the sole supplier of the seed. The state also would regulate the industry. People with criminal records involving drug offenses within 10 years would not qualify for a permit.The 199-168 vote sent the bill to the Senate.Facts About Hemp: * Hemp is a close relative of marijuana; both are classified scientifically as cannabis sativa.* Hemp generally is defined as cannabis sativa containing less than 1 percent THC, the mind-altering chemical in marijuana. The National Institute for Drug Abuse defines marijuana as cannabis sativa containing more than 3 percent THC.* There are more than 400 varieties of cannabis.* Hemp, known for its strong fiber, is used in a wide range of products, including clothing, canvas, rope, fiberglass, insulation, automobile clutch- and brake-liners, cement and paper.* Hemp seeds are considered a health food rich in essential amino acids.* Hemp seeds can be pressed for oil, which is used in skin lotions, shampoos, soap and cosmetics.* In Russia, hemp butter is considered superior to peanut butter.* Hemp is a stalky plant that typically reaches heights of 8 feet to 12 feet.* Hemp was brought to South America from Spain in 1545. The first use of hemp in North America is attributed to the Puritans in New England, who used it with flax to produce cloth.* Hemp can be grown legally in other countries, including Canada and China.On The Net:Hemp Industries Association: http://www.thehia.org/North American Industrial Hemp Council: http://www.naihc.org/Source: Associated Press (Wire)Author: Norma Love, Associated Press WriterPublished: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Copyright: 2005 The Associated Press CannabisNews Hemp Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/hemp.shtml
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Comment #23 posted by ekim on March 24, 2005 at 18:53:48 PT
Being one of the earliest fabrics used in China
  
 Chinese Hemp Industry has Boundless Potential 
Posted by FoM on November 05, 2001 at 09:01:46 PT
Business News 
Source: People's Daily 
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11260.shtml
 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). According to Xia, the ongoing upgrading of China's agricultural industry has given Chinese hemp a great opportunity. Environmentally friendly, high value-added and versatile, Chinese hemp products could be a major money-maker in market both here and abroad, said Xia. For example, ramie, once used as forage, could provide a new type of vegetable protein for livestock and boost stockbreeding of southern China. Red hemp used in paper making could prevent the felling of forests while clothing made from hemp is particularly comfortable to wear and poses no health hazard. Being one of the earliest fabrics used in China, hemp's heyday can date back 4,000 years when only nobles and royal families could afford to wear finely spun linen while coarse linen were favored by commoners. The production technology of linen has undergone constant improvement. In 1984, the country made a breakthrough in the degumming technology, bringing worldwide attention to linen products. Analysts say that to establish a modern linen manufacturing and processing system with Chinese characteristics, China should double its efforts in scientific research and international cooperation, because each breakthrough in relevant technology will greatly boost the sector's upgrading.Source: People's Daily (China)
Published: Sunday, November 04, 2001
Copyright: People's Daily Online
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on March 24, 2005 at 17:47:34 PT
Related Article from The Eagle-Tribune
House Backs Measure To Let Farmers Grow Hemp Staff and Wire Reports Thursday, March 24, 2005 CONCORD, N.H. -- The House voted yesterday to allow farmers to grow hemp -- a close relative of marijuana -- despite federal hurdles to planting the controversial crop.Several local lawmakers said they voted against the bill because of opposition from law enforcement agencies. State Rep. Paul Hopfgarten, R-Derry, was among those who opposed the measure, saying he "didn't see the necessity of doing this until we are clearer on the issues about how (marijuana and hemp) are different."Supporters argue that hemp, which has a very low content of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, has unfairly been characterized as the same as marijuana."This is not marijuana. This is hemp," insisted Hopkinton Democrat Derek Owen, who added that hemp has been grown for thousands of years.Hemp, known for its strong fiber, is used in a wide range of products, including clothing, canvas, rope, fiberglass, insulation, automobile clutch- and brake-liners, concrete and paper. It can be grown legally in other countries, including Canada and China."Hemp is one of the oldest, most useful plants known to man," Owen said.He argued it would provide a niche crop for the state's farmers.Hemp can be grown only with permission from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Last fall, a hemp research project in Hawaii was shut down after it ran out of money and turned in its permit to the DEA.The bill would let farmers grow hemp after obtaining a permit. The state would issue licenses to grow hemp and be the sole supplier of the seed. The state also would regulate the industry. People with criminal records involving drug offenses within 10 years would not qualify for a permit.The 199-168 vote sent the bill to the Senate.Opponents said hemp should be considered as dangerous to children as marijuana and remain outlawed. When young, hemp leaves can cause a similar hallucinogenic effect to marijuana, argued Merrimack Republican Peter Batula."We don't need fields of this marijuana plant out there for picking at harvest time," said Batula.Several legislators refused to back the bill because it lacked the support of the law enforcement community. Atkinson police Chief Philip Consentino said he would "definitely be against growing any form of marijuana for any purpose at all. It's strictly taboo."State Rep. Charlie McMahon, R-Windham, voted against the bill, saying he felt the opposition from law enforcement had merit.Mary Griffin, another Windham Republican, agreed. "Law enforcement doesn't support it, and current federal law will curtail the permits. I think this bill was premature. I don't think any licenses will be issued even if it's passed," she said.Richard Cooney, R-Salem, who also opposed the legislation, said similar bills have been introduced in the past, with arguments being made on both sides. Meanwhile, Milford Republican Ryan Hansen insisted New Hampshire should wait until federal rules are changed to permit the crop."The problem with this bill is it isn't going to allow farmers to grow hemp," Hansen said.Copyright: 2005 Eagle Tribune Publishing Company 
http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/05/etstory.pl?-sec-NHNews+fn-NH_001.htm-20050324
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on March 24, 2005 at 17:12:10 PT
News Article from New Hampshire
Q & A — Phil Greazzo, Fighting For Mary Jane Story by Will StewartMarch 24, 2005When he moved to New Hampshire seven years ago and found there was no organization fighting to reform marijuana laws, Phil Greazzo chartered the New Hampshire chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, a national organization dedicated to the end of marijuana prohibition.As president and state director for NHORML, and the group’s only member — “I have lots of supporters, but nobody wants to put their name down on paper” — Greazzo spends his time supporting and soliciting sponsors for medical marijuana legislation in Concord, testifies in front of state committees and does what he can to otherwise help medical marijuana patients.Q: Tell me about NHORML. What are your goals?We want to see people not arrested who are sick, that’s the first goal. Whether you agree on regulating it (marijuana) or keeping illegal to not use it recreationally and not be able to farm it, make clothes out of it and such, you should at least have the human compassion we’re all supposed to have, your morals and all that good righteousness stuff that most politicians and people in that echelon preach. If their doctor says its good for them and will stop the pain, that should be enough. They’re the experts. Let’s be humane about this. Q: What are NORML’s current efforts? Well, we just had the medical marijuana bill that the state legislature decided to vote “inexpedient to legislate,” which is a blatant falsehood because they had a medical marijuana exemption up until ’99, so obviously it was legislatible or they never would have had it in the first place. They just too to chicken to sit up there and say “yeah, ok, we made a mistake ending this and there’s no reason people should go to jail.”But the decriminalization bill is up. It comes out of committee (Criminal Justice and Safety) March 24. Their decision will be “no.” Nobody expects that it wouldn’t be, but the House still has the opportunity to say “we still want to see this bill, let’s get it back it into some committee and rework it because we think we can save $40 million by not bothering these people and wasting our police and court resources.” People can still call their representatives to come out in favor of House Bill 197.Q: I've heard that George Washington actually used to grow marijuana.What do you think the Declaration of Independence was printed on, my friend? It was printed on hemp paper. And all of the sails used on the Mayflower and other ships people used to get here were made of canvas, which is Latin for cannabis. Hemp was used for everything back then: toilet paper, wash cloths, whatever.Q: If that’s the case, why are people so scared of hemp and marijuana?People aren’t scared of it. The government’s scared of it. Well, they’re not necessarily scared of it, they want to be in control of it. They don’t want to regulate it, though. They want to keep it the way it is because they make more money off of it this way. Look at the tax money they take to fight it. In New Hampshire we’d save $36 million if we would just stop putting these people [marijuana smokers] in the system. A lot of them don’t even end up sitting in a jail cell, but you’re clogging up the system. When instead if you]d just give them a ticket it would end right there. Make it a civil offense. It would stay off your record and the state would their save $36 million in enforcement. Now they’d start making money because now they’re making money on fines, saving money on court costs, police costs, incarceration costs.There’s a lot of people who won’t admit that they smoke, and that’s a problem. They won’s say that “this is me, don’t arrest me, I’m not hurting anybody. You see me: I’m one of your neighbors, I’m one of your coworkers.” There’s more people that smoke than everyone will admit to, that’s why you can never get a really good statistic. Who’s gonna come out and say “I’m committing a crime, come to my house.” That’s an open invitation to get your door rammed in and who wants to do that? And I agree with them. Q: But if there are there are so many smokers out there, why don't' they all stand up?It’s such a stigma they put on these guys, with the penalties that they’ve enforced, that people are afraid to stand up and say “You know what? I smoke pot. Big deal. Leave me alone.” They fear they’ll be the only ones standing up and the cops will go “A-ha, grab that guy.” But if everyone stood and formed a long line outside the Manchester Police Department and slapped down their bag or their pipe, the cops wouldn’t be able to deal with it. What are they gonna do, arrest the whole damn city? You know, there are so many people in this city that smoke pot, it’s unbelievable, but none of them has come forward to help (change the law). I don’t fault anybody for that. I’d like not to have to risk arrest myself, but I do because I think that’s the American way: if you don't agree with something, you stand up and you try to change it.Q: Have you ever been targeted by the authorities for your activities?When Al Gore came I went to ask him a question about decriminalization and the Secret Service kind of swarmed me. But no, there’s really no reason for them to, and if they did, I’d sue them. Just because I say the law should be changed doesn’t give them the right to come knock down my door. This isn’t Nazi Germany. I’m not worried about it. I think it’s my civil duty, my obligation to stand up and say “this is a stupid law, and you’re wasting everybody’s time and money.”So being in the situation I am, being outspoken and basically the public face for changing the marijuana law in the state of New Hampshire, I’m the one who never has [pot], never can be near it because there’s always that potential that they could come for me. They wouldn’t get anything if they did, and it would make them look foolish. It would actually make my case that these people are wasting their time and our tax resources, and they could be out getting real criminals.Q: So do you ever smoke?I don’t get up and say it publicly, but I’m not going to deny that I don’t partake when the opportunity may present itself. Q: Have you ever been arrested?No, not really, not on marijuana charges or anything like that. I generally stay pretty free of the law. I don’t think it’s something to worry about. Murder, rape and robbery are going on in the world. If I partake at a party, how am I a bad guy? What have I done that’s given you this zeal and fervor to come and hunt me down like a wild beast?Q: How would you deal with marijuana?You package it like cigarettes and put an age restriction on it like alcohol. Tax it. The same laws would apply. You can’t be driving around smoking it. There’s got to be certain restrictions — this is a society. If they’re doing something wrong because of the drugs, then, yeah, obviously arrest them. Who is going to argue against that?There’s really no new system you would need to put in effect. Now you’re taxing it, you’re regulating it, you’re keeping it out of the hands of kids because it’s regulated like alcohol. The law they have in place now makes it possible for kids to get it. But if it’s in a store and you got to show ID to get it, how many kids are going to get it? It’s gonna reduce.That would be the best model. Now you’ve taken it away from the kids, you’ve taken it away from the criminals, you’re the one making the billions of dollars off of it, you’re the one controlling potency and consistency; there’s no additives, there’s no heroin, no PCP. Q: How goes the battle?This is a battle that’s been raging for at least 60 years and it’s not getting better, it’s getting worse, all it’s doing is making it worse for society and all the evidence bears that out. But they (the federal government) refuse to see it because they've already taken their position and they can’t waiver on that or they’ll look weak, and they’ll never let themselves look weak, on anything. Look how long it took them to admit slavery was wrong. And they never did apologize the Indians. Lord help the medical marijuana patients, who only want a harmless little plant.— Will StewartCopyright: 2005 HippoPress LLC - Manchester, NH http://www.hippopress.com/050324/greazzo05324.html
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Comment #20 posted by FoM on March 24, 2005 at 11:38:34 PT
Shishaldin 
Excellent! Try to get a good tripod to use. My sister is a video specialist so I know that's what she would say. 
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Comment #19 posted by Shishaldin on March 24, 2005 at 11:35:01 PT
DVD's for FoM, part 2
Just got clearance for non-commercial taping of the event. Cool! Now, on to getting that video camera...
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on March 24, 2005 at 10:15:42 PT
Shishaldin
Thank you! It would be nice to have and the money generated would help someone in some way I'm sure. Let us know if you find out more. If it isn't ok that's ok too. This is just an idea.
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Comment #17 posted by Shishaldin on March 24, 2005 at 10:05:15 PT
DVD's for FoM
FoM-Yeah, a DVD of the event would be great! I don't have a video camera myself, but I might have access to one. I've got to find out if taping the event is permissible, too. I'll let ya know!Peace and Strength,
Shishaldin
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Comment #16 posted by painwithnoinsurance on March 24, 2005 at 09:44:23 PT
making laws for millions of people 
 I wish a news organization would ask republican Peter Bantula where he got his information about kids getting high off of young hemp leaves. He is either lieing to millions of people or misinformed. Either way, this shows he is not qualified to represent millions of people or make laws for them.
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Comment #15 posted by potpal on March 24, 2005 at 08:22:29 PT
Hemp Hill, NH
Get to work...
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Comment #14 posted by mayan on March 24, 2005 at 06:18:48 PT
GREAT!!!
Unrelated, but GREAT!!! The San Francisco Bay Guardian has finally covered the 9/11 Truth movement!We're all paranoid:
http://www.sfbg.com/39/25/cover_conspiracy.htmlHere's the article on 9/11 Truth...We're all paranoid:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=2005032321332746Check out SFBG's homepage!San Francisco Bay Guardian:
http://www.sfbg.com/ Maybe it is related, after all. The forces that prohibit the cannabis plant are the same forces that perpetrated 9/11. Exposing it is the only way out of this mess!
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Comment #13 posted by siege on March 24, 2005 at 06:11:44 PT
ekim
 renewable energy we had a good program going back in the 1980's had set up three large solar power setup just off of inter state 40 Barstow Ca. they are still there and they could be up and runing in about 30 days. 
 and the bigest wind powered generator just out side of palm spring cal. the wind powered run 4 hours on a thursday on fri. it run 8 hours stoped it for the week end and they where to put it severs on monday before they started it, president (( Ronald Reagan )) and every one knows who the V P was Bush. R R had passed a bill that stoped it, No more then 10 KW's power out put in the U S A the bill said that it would put the gas, oil and coal Co. out of business and that when the s--- hit the fan and all of it died. they took the wind gen. apart and send it over seas and it still runs today. and that counrty order 6 more in that time.
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Comment #12 posted by The GCW on March 24, 2005 at 05:19:40 PT
Everywhere I read; no matter when, it relates!!!
(I Am here to destroy the works of the devil; who supports hemp prohibition? The entire Bible is opposed to evil people prohibiting cannabis / hemp / kaneh bosm / food, etc. etc. Here is another of many areas that seems to reinforce the fact that men should not be caging humans for growing hemp and in fact those who support the cagings are evil and to be controlled for the sake of spiritual realities even more than the physical realities. We reap what We sow and We sow what We reap; don't let the devil keep making Our bed.)THCUIf You do not love Jesus Christ, one thing You can do to humiliate Him, is, tell the world that hemp / cannabis is bad.3:24:51 Corinthians 3:2, “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,” (that does not come until You overcome… -see Rev. 2:7.1 Corinthians 3:6-9, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. 
  7So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. 
  8Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 
  9For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field (& everything in IT is good, according to Him on the 1st page of the Bible) God's building. (Remember the corner stone?)
1 Corinthians 3:3, “…walking like mere men” (Instead, walk like Christ God Our Father.) Don’t aspire to walk like Paul… aspire to not even walk like Jesus Christ in the flesh; aspire as far as possible and walk like Christ God Our Father; Jesus Christ’s spirit and physical mind. Gain the mind of Jesus Christ and You are Him and will walk like Him.Did You catch that? We get Christ God Our Father’s physical mind. Comprehend that fact. -see 1 Cor. 2:16; heck, see John 14-16 & 1 John,,,Pray. Prayer initiates this process anew; afresh every day, every time.1 Corinthians 3:10, “… like a master builder I laid a foundation (that all the plants are good according to the 1st page of all Bibles), and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.” 1 Corinthians 3:11, “For no man can lay a foundation…” (That is done; on the 1st page of the Bible, the foundation is layed and it includes that all the plants are good. Stray from that foundation and trouble happens! Man's foundation that hemp is bad is not the truth.)The truth should kill the lies.* 1 Corinthians 3:12-13 etc.” Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.”We’ve read, cannabis prohibition was predicted by Paul, in 1 Tim. 4:1-5 and now We are in it’s midsts. But the foundation; when man obeys Christ God Our Father is that all the plants are good; AND EVERYTHING IS BASED ON THAT FACT AND FOUNDATION !!! Now, that 1 Cor. 3:12-13 (like so so many other areas reinforces the fact that there is one way!) indicates what You do with regard to that foundation, MATTERS.http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=53&chapter=3&version=49 We shall all work to destroy the works of the devil.The laws keeping American farmers from growing hemp are the works of the devil.So,Amarican farmers, prepare to grow hemp; Christ God Our Father is clearing the way.
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Comment #11 posted by mayan on March 24, 2005 at 05:10:56 PT
Action Alert!
Take Action! Defend Your Right To Dance 
http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=25203&MS=flintrave-hp
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Comment #10 posted by global_warming on March 24, 2005 at 03:44:57 PT
ot:something to think about
Intervention MagazineWho Owns the Earth?Commentary 
Date: Mar 23, 2005 - 08:23 AM
Once there was slavery and human beings were private property; today corporations claim land as private property and exploit it like their slaves.
By William MarvelYears ago I used to speak to elementary and high school students about the Civil War. On those occasions I tried to point out that those who defended the institution of slavery in the antebellum era did so with many of the same arguments that are used to justify the development of land today. They focused on the statutory legality of slavery, on the sanctity of the investment that owners had made in slave property, and on the importance of private ownership in humans to the regional and national economy.Today almost no one would consider any of those arguments valid. Slavery is still practiced in certain isolated African cultures (African participation was, after all, crucial to the slave trade), but the notion that one person can own another is repugnant in most of the world. It was less than two centuries ago, however, that most citizens in a nation "conceived in liberty" seemed content to accept the enslavement of an alien race, or sympathized with the treasure that slaveowners had invested in their human chattels.What, then, are future generations to think of the concept that individual members of a densely overpopulated species can claim unchallenged ownership of large sections of the earth, to nurture or destroy as they see fit? Considering the conflict between a finite planet and the infinite expansion of Homo Sapiens, does it make any more sense for people to be able to own pieces of the world than it does for people to own other people? If the concept of private ownership were followed to its logical extreme, it would be possible for one fabulously wealthy person, or corporation, to buy every acre of land on the surface of the earth, and to hold the rest of humanity hostage by withholding earthly resources.As ridiculous as that scenario might seem, today’s economic trends make it increasingly possible for the wealthy (largely in the form of corporations) to claim massive portions of the earth’s surface. Prevailing attitudes toward private property in land also make it increasingly practical for those corporations to claim all the natural resources they can monopolize from their holdings, and to extort more wealth from the rest of society with the resources that they hoard.That extortion has already begun. Across the United States, water companies buy small parcels of land over expansive aquifers and drill wells that enrich their stockholders with something the company should never have a right to own, for that water is taken from a far wider area than the company-owned land. The company that has sunk wells in Fryeburg, Maine, is drawing water from an aquifer that reaches across at least two counties and two states: a lot of it comes from right beneath my house, here in New Hampshire. There are so many new wells in this vicinity that my 225-year-old spring now goes dry occasionally: when I have to buy drinking water I try to avoid so-called Poland Spring water, lest I end up buying back what should have been mine in the first place.Such abuses of the concept of private property might disappear if the popular view of private ownership seemed less sacred. None of us really owns land, after all. Property taxes imply that the community holds ultimate control, and in many urban environments the owners of property pay an insidious additional tax known as "ground rent," which takes that community lien to a higher level. At least on the island of Oahu, if not in all of Hawaii, the native view that individuals cannot own the earth survives in the 99-year leases that homeowners must negotiate for the land on which their houses sit.The callous exploitation of land ownership reaches its most obvious ugliness in tourist traps like my home town, where absentee owners churn a glorious landscape into retail strips and vacation hovels for fleeting riches. Legal chicanery aside, did local mandarins have any legitimate right to the common lands of so many New England towns? How secure are the titles in developments where houses are built on land for which the original owner remains unpaid? Who owns a tract of land that was bought with stolen funds, or the proceeds of criminal activity?Like the antebellum slaveowners who did not want to lose the "property" in which they had invested so much, we who have been fortunate enough to acquire houses and land would not care to see our tenancy threatened any more than it is by ballooning taxation. The question, though, is whether we as a nation, or even as a species, can survive much more privatization in a world that accommodates such obscene concentration of wealth.
William Marvel is a free-lance writer and U.S. Army veteran living in northern New Hampshire. His books include Andersonville: The Last Depot and Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox.You can send your comments to bill interventionmag.com
Who Owns the Earth?
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Comment #9 posted by mayan on March 24, 2005 at 03:42:45 PT
Alaska Hearing
Senate hearing on outlawing marijuana stirs strong feelings - BILL 74: Debate may rest on which experts lawmakers trust
http://www.adn.com/news/government/legislature/story/6305480p-6181642c.html
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Comment #8 posted by ekim on March 23, 2005 at 20:38:09 PT
Where is Cellulose Ethanol what are the lawmendoen
dam third largest refinery down ---what the heck are these lawmakers doen in Wash while the GAO was on C-span today saying that they were ordered to do a analysis of M.King Hubberts oil predictings back in 1956 and was scorned. Every State can have it own refinery --- Biofuels.Last week it was told that the 2nd Ethanol plant is being built in Lenawee
MI.
doing 50 million gals a year with carbon dioxide and dried distillers grain
as value added products coming out the back end.gm and ge make the biggest hybreds in the world and -----no the people get
zip to drive while the locomotives roar by:)China passed the law just recently:
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=23531
http://english.people.com.cn/200503/01/eng20050301_175162.html
http://www.hashbash.org
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Comment #7 posted by Hope on March 23, 2005 at 20:05:30 PT
Mayan
You asked, "Peter Batula's ignorance is appalling. Or is he knowingly lying?"He could be grasping for hysteria inducing lies,...but it sounds more like appalling ignorance. It's very appalling that a man that ignorant should have a hand in making laws on a matter he is so ignorant of.
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Comment #6 posted by mayan on March 23, 2005 at 18:23:44 PT
Ignorance Abound
When young, hemp leaves can cause a similar hallucinogenic effect to marijuana, argued Merrimack Republican Peter Batula.“We don’t need fields of this marijuana plant out there for picking at harvest time,” said Batula.Peter Batula's ignorance is appalling. Or is he knowingly lying?Milford Republican Ryan Hansen argued New Hampshire should wait until federal rules are changed to permit the crop.The feds will never change the rules unless they are dragged kicking and screaming! Perhaps Hansen could be a leader instead of a follower. It's good news that this bill is on it's way to the Senate, nonetheless!Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed:
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.htmlTHE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...Supreme Court declines Moussaoui appeal:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050322215936613RELIGION AND 9/11: 
http://www.tvnewslies.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=10769/11 Letter to Editor -- Staten Island Advance:
http://911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=505&mode=thread&order=0&thold=09/11 Was an Inside Job - A Call to All True Patriots:
http://www.911sharethetruth.com/
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on March 23, 2005 at 17:24:28 PT
Shishaldin
I have a question that maybe you or someone can answer. When a special event happens far from where we live it would be so nice to be able to buy a DVD of the event. I collect DVDs of music concerts and a few good movies and I would love to have a library of some of these special events. It's just an idea. 
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on March 23, 2005 at 17:08:35 PT
Shishaldin 
I'm with you go New HEMPshire!I really admire Jack Herer. There are only a few people that I look up too in the reform movement and Jack Herer is one of them. Have a wonderful time!
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Comment #3 posted by Shishaldin on March 23, 2005 at 17:03:43 PT
Jack Herer's coming to town...
While we're on the subject of Hemp (GO New HEMPshire!)...
Come see Jack Herer down the way from me in Monterey, CA. Hope to see some CNEWS'ers down there! See: http://www.jackherer.com/events.htmlSpeech by Jack HererFRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2005“The Real History of Hemp”Social hour (dinner) 6:30 PM/ Speech 7:30 PMAnthony’s Steak House/TRAVELODGE(2030 Fremont Street in city of Monterey)$20 each ($10 speech only)Introduction by Valerie Corral, founder of WAMMMC Rose BrunoAuthor of the 1985 underground bestseller The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer is considered the father of the modern hemp movement. He is revered as the tenacious crusader who brought back hemp from the brink of extinction.In a Hollywood gala event in 2000, Herer was honored with a benefit by Tommy Chong, comedian and four-time Grammy winner. In 1999 a 59-minute documentary film “The Emperor of Hemp” was released about Herer’s life and his struggle to write his famous book. The film was narrated by Academy Award-winner Peter Coyote.A former Goldwater Republican, Herer has dedicated his life to educating people about the history and many uses of hemp, and to ending marijuana prohibition.Sponsored by FED-UPFoundation to End Drug Unfairness Policies484 Washington Street, Suite B346, Monterey, CA 93940Info. lawsamz hotmail.com 831-626-8417Co-sponsored by Rampart Institute, WAMM, Freedom Watch, Libertarian Party of Monterey County, Sam Adams Forum, Monterey County Libertarians for Peace
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on March 23, 2005 at 16:10:28 PT
Here It Is The GCW!
Maybe someday and maybe someday soon I hope!
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Comment #1 posted by The GCW on March 23, 2005 at 16:03:39 PT
Please,
pass the hemp butter.
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