Hemp: The Solution for America’s Greening Economy

It is heartening to see that so many people have done their homework. One of the great things about using the Internet is that people can do their own research about, say, Industrial Hemp and find out the Gov't being is withholding true information. I wonder if governments like their subjects, sorry, citizens thinking for themselves.

glad to see you here Jack, hope things are still going well for you after your recovery. do you recognize my pic? anyway, love your work and everything you stand for, but i cant afford $30 for shampoo and conditoner. what to do? i would like to see a story on current from you and Rick discussing the oil.

This is purely a non compete Act, enforced by the government , China style.

Prohibition was to remove stills that would have been used to make bio fuel for Henry Fords multi fuel Model T, instead of Rockefeller oil

The Hemp Act was to remove the threat to nylon, FRP,
Fiberglass, paper / trees, oil, ect.....
Dupont, Hurst, Corning

There is an Act being voted on in Florida concerning commercial fishermen. Where it will effect the rest of the fishermen and the consumer only less than 40 of the largest Fishermen are allowed to vote. This is Congress mandate, watchout.

We have Tariff laws keeping superior products out of this country. I like made in America, but the lack of strong competion keeps domestic company products weak in design and quality.

We have laws in place that make it hard or impossible to give these two presidential wantabees competition. Ban the blocking of other political parties.

This is indeed a corporate ran government. The Corporations gains profit, the consumer has had all of his choices banned from the market, pays for cleanup, gets cancer, mountain tops are removed, pays to enforce the Act by tracking down those using a greener products, pays for the prisons, expanded police force, expanded court system and the environmental suffers from the oil spills, and ect...

Ban negative energy, Free Alternative energy, ,
Ban bad products, Free Alternative products
Vote Alternative government

Drill - oil in 10 years
Plant Hemp, install still, fuel this winter,

Start coop groups for food and fuel, allowing independence now

Cancel the CCA treated wood, EPA exemption, stop using chemical treated wood in our waterways and stop the tankers of Arsenic coming from China.

Couldn't these tankers be used in an terrorists attack?
There is a spill you won't forget, Just say NO to Arsenic.

Free those prosecuted for possession, jail the perverts,
carry out death row,

Remove the profit of drug cartels.

Now, I ask after following the candidates who do not talk issues, would you support the candidate that stood on the above issues?

Hemp cultivation has the possibility to become the next biggest LEGAL cash crop & could really help bail the U.S. out of its economic woes. If only our brainless gov't would actually take the time to investigate these claims, which could benefit the country & consuming public at such a critical time, & stop pandering to special interests, like petro-chemical industry, we could catch up with the rest of the world who’ve been cultivating hemp for centuries. It’s a fucking weed!

With over 25,000 possible uses from paper, clothes & food to fuel, building materials & medicine, there is no better time than right now to push for a crop that's easy to cultivate & easy on the environment. Just looking at all of the synthetic clothing people buy-usually from another country-immediate economic benefits could be realized here at home. I’m very fortunate to have a hemp clothing store nearby & have high hopes that the crop of the future happens sooner rather than later. What are the politicians waiting for? The time is now to act responsibly & not hide behind outdated laws passed for purely discriminatory reasons in the 1930s.

I'm hearing alot of propoganda against marijuana here so let me rebut. While in high school I was sent to a shrink because of anger management issues. This was in the 80's. I was prescribed a host of pharma's that sent me into a fog. These anger issues worked in my favor when I joined the corps in 85. I had stopped takeing the "pills" within 2 months of being prescribed and turned to a joint whenever I felt the rage building. After the marines I came home and turned to pot to control my anger and it has been my only medication ever since. I won't take a freakin aspirin, much less anything else OTC or prescribed. I know people who can't function in public while "high". Yet I have no problem doing anything and my anger stays in check. My family avoids any products with high fructose cornsyrup and we eat organic foods. We have been steadily going more and more "green" with cars and clothes and currently looking for our best investment in renewable power supplies for our home. I don't smoke every day as there is no need for it . As for addiction , just another propogandized crock of shit. Show me one legitimate study showing marijuana has led to death. Then look at how thousands die every year from prescription and OTC drugs. Synthetics are harmfull to humans not nature. If some of you say you see how marijuana has caused family heartache fine but I ask this, Are they alcoholics too, is pot the only "drug" they are takeing, have they committed crimes to feed the need for weed? I bet not. I bet weed is the mildest of the host of other factors causing this strife within their families. And I believe this article is about Hemp not marijuana and so you are obviously as confused as the "good christian" conservatives about the difference in the two. Not everything can be reduced to a political slogan, try a wake and bake every once in a while and put on some hemp sandles, shirts and shorts . take a walk in the park or woods and get back to nature . Stress just melts away and you may return home with a renewed vigor for life. PEACE!!

After decades of gov't sponsored demonization of Marijuana attitudes are slowly changing. The medical benefits are numerous, and the hemp plant has lots of industrial uses, that should be exploited.
"Don't panic, it's organic!"

What the hemp movement needs is voices of reason. Individuals who are willing to have the discussion and state the facts out loud. Maybe some day. My fear is, as soon as the discussion gets going MSM will start running crazy drug stories. Spinning to distort the facts has been the policy of the past. Its time for change. Will the candidates have the courage to address the issue? Or, will they say, they don't have enough information? My money goes toward ignorance is bliss. At least in the US. Too much money at stake for corporate America. Great to see Jack Herer here posting facts.

It's no joke. Hemp can save the world.

we need to incorporate and diversify in all of these fields.
i have suggested creating a forum to have these conversations in, i don't know how to set up a forum or atract the people to start a conversation, i thought i might have that hear at current but current has it's limitations, i was thinking of building a online culture around the idea of a green tech university of sorts with students and visitors alike.build it from in hear on the internet out on to earth , make change happen.

If we are looking for a miracle hear it is.........

Of all insecticides used globally each year, the estimated amount used on traditional cotton: 25%.

Five of the top nine pesticides used on cotton in the U.S. (cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite, and trifluralin) are known cancer-causing chemicals. All nine are classified by the U.S. EPA as Category I and II— the most dangerous chemicals.

I wear shorts 365 days of the year. Have for decades, literally. I had two pair of hemp shorts about 6 years ago and their lifespan was about half that of the 100% cotton North Face shorts I've got right now.

- b_p

Hemp yes. Marijuana legalized no. It weakens the immune system so in most cases it isn't even good for people who are ill. In selected cases it might help but those are less not more.

Lets remember this article is about hemp, not is cousin marijuana....... One thing this article fails to point out is that hemp can also be used as a bio-fuel. The plant is very cheap to grow and sustain, and it will not encroach on food supply...... Keep it nitrate free and we have a more than plausable alternative fuel source.

If we could pass medical marijuana, we can surely get "industrial hemp" legalized to grow here. How can we import something that we ourselves cannot grow... completely irrational. State proposition time.

I am totally for hemp and not for the legalization of smoking marijuana. I agree that hemp is a good crop and used for multipurposes. I also know, first hand from working with addicted folks for 20+ years, that marijuana is addicting and creates untold heartache for families.

I agree hemp is a great plant, the government sickens
me with it's red tape and denial. But wait a minute we are the government lets change the laws.