Allow American Farmers to Grow Industrial Hemp

It does seem like illogical ideas reign supreme...

the point of the article, well, there wasn't really one?, but the overall effect seems to be that hemp awareness is on the rise and people who care about this issue aren't going anywhere and neither will this plant. just research the benefits and tell your friends to tell their friends. look for congressmen that support this issue, or contact your own legislatures and ask for their support on any bills that may come up. just knowing the facts and setting people straight about this wonderful industrious plant makes a difference in the minds of many.

Wow. I didn't even know John Trudell was still around. Thanks for the post.

the big deal is and has been the fact hemp can and would put any big (competing) business out of their offices - if they didn't adapt to the changing market. Big companies that deal in rival markets put hemp out of our farms and replaced them with huge logging ventures and cotton harvesting - two very labour intensive fields which ravage our lands. Hemp is a safe way to replace those products but similarly threaten the companies who deal in the opposition. In short - the big deal is big business is scared of hemp because any single farmer can produce more sellable material in three months than cotton pickers and loggers could ever hope to make in years of production.

the article was useless, but the overall point of the issue is that this plant is far more useful in industry than any other single product on the markets and this single plant can be widely tailored to fit the uses of most scheduled items. The securities and exchange commission classifies all products created or sold with a special code http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/siccodes.htm, subproducts of that item are subsequently labeled with hundredths and tenths, the first three thousand item codes on their list represent items manufactured all over the world made from a wide array of products and items - hemp can replace all of those items. I do not speak for this article, I speak as a hemp advocate. I have helped to educate many people (students and employees alike) at my local university here in the states and they will in turn educate others. Their article had no bearing on the subject other than providing an excellent analogy using dogs which I may very well use in future discussions and educational sessions. Please discover what you can about hemp and its infinite uses, understand its importance in an unstable and uncertain economic future - hemp widely grown and processed would bolster any economy, why not let the United American States have it back?!

Hypo, that's what we're doing now. Most of our hemp comes from China. Our farmers should have a shot at it. Hemp production isn't labor intensive. It's both planted and harvested by machine.

What's really unique about this, for our farmers, is they can tailor their crop for the industry they're serving. How close together you grow these plants determines the characteristics of the fibre you harvest. You need tough, wooden fibers you plant them far apart. Close together planting yields fibers that are more suitable for clothing.

A versitile plant; and one that doesn't destroy the soil. Our farmers will jump at the opportunity and it should be given to them. Prior to WWII, hemp was a large cash crop and widely grown. It could be again, if our Fed. govt would correct it's rectal cranial inversion.

not worth much? ANY farmer would prefer to grow this crop over, say corn! corn would ravage the soil, whereas hemp has a positive return. The trillion & one ways hemp can be used allows for extreme versatility in its consumption and this would send our economy sky rocketing!

Because hemp will feed the hungry should all farmers grow it.

Oil is from the Earth.

OMG an OIL SPILL.....the animals will get over it.