Hemp Bill Passes in VT
Posted June 21st, 2008 by fanofwalt
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Well, that's two states now that recognize the viability of this versatile crop:
Naturally, there is that teeny, tiny Federal caveat:
"The bill legalizes hemp in Vermont, but that doesn't mean residents will be able to grow it. Federal statute, which supersedes state law, classifies hemp as a Schedule I narcotic and prohibits its cultivation. Hemp, which is used to produce a wide variety of fibers for clothing and other purposes, is the same species as marijuana but is a variety that has virtually none of the ingredient that allows users to get high. Numerous farm advocates say growing hemp could provide a boost for Vermont's farm economy."
I wonder whether VT will notice what OK has been up to, and follow suit in telling the federal government that they are a sovereign state and can make these decisions without federal interference.
And for those of you who may have missed this before, here is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's own little film on why America should be growing hemp: Hemp for Victory.
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Industrial Hemp
Some time back I read an article stating that if 6% of American landbase was harvested in hemp it could provide Americas annual energy needs. One acre of annual hemp yields as much fibre as one acre of an 80 year old mature forest. Hemp can be grown without herbicides or insecticides. And heaps of other good stuff I can't recall.
Since it is a biomass that
Since it is a biomass that collects CO2 and returns O2 back to the environment. It could be an answer the toads that think global warming is caused by man made CO2 emissions and should be punished for it. Tell them to stick that in their pipe and smoke it.
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Industrial Hemp
USDA Bulletin No. 404, reported that one acre of hemp, in annual rotation over a 20-year period, would produce as much pulp for paper as 4.1 acres of trees being cut down over the same 20-year period. This process would use only 1/4 to 1/7 as much polluting sulfur-based acid chemicals to break down the glue-like lignin that binds the fibers of the pulp, or even none at all using soda ash. The problem of dioxin contamination of rivers is avoided in the hemp paper making process, which does not need to use chlorine bleach (as the wood pulp paper making process requires) but instead safely substitutes hydrogen peroxide in the bleaching process. … If the new (1916) hemp pulp paper process were legal today, it would soon replace about 70% of all wood pulp paper, including computer printout paper, corrugated boxes and paper bags.
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The more you learn
The more you are amazed by it
The more you learn
...the more you find out what else there is to learn about!
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how can federal law superseed the state law. its suppose to be the other way around. Doesnt the constitution give the feseral govt jurisdiction of 10 square miles period.
We need to push this issue on the Federal Level
We need Republicans to use the best environmental and economic policy and whole-heartedly support the cultivation of hemp.
It is more efficient a fuel than corn. Can be used as food, cooking oil, soap, detergent, lotions, clothes, etc. etc.. etc....
If the republicans don't take this issue then the dems can easily lead on it and destroy the offshore drilling idea.
It would help lower all prices and bring more industry back to the US.
I'm pretty sure I posted
I'm pretty sure I posted this on another thread, but it is a fact that back in WWII, after the phillipine islands ( the source of 90% of America's hemp) were taken by the Japanese, the Dow Chemical Co. began marketing it's synthetic rope product made from nylon, a petrochemical creation, to the U.S. Government. Considering how much rope was required by the navy alone gives you a good idea of how huge that market was. To keep it's monopoly going, Dow spent a lot of money villifying marijuana, and lobbying congress to criminalize it's cultivation. They even went so far as to try eradication programs to rid it from the country completely. That's what greed is all about.
Things are only impossible until they are not.
-- Jean Luc Picard
Thanks for sharing
I'd never heard that before; I'll have to look in to that. Any links or references?
The Elkhorn Manifesto
Previous investigations by hemp researchers have been limited to the suppression of free-market competition from the hemp industry, and focused on the activities of three prominent members of America's corporate, industrial and banking establishment during the mid- to late-1930s:
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, the newspaper and magazine tycoon.
The expected rebirth of cannabis hemp as a less expensive source of pulp for paper meant his millions of acres of prime timberland, and investment in wood pulp papermaking equipment, would soon be worth much less. In the 1920s, about the same time as the equipment was developed to economically mass-produce raw hemp into pulp and fiber for paper, he began the "Reefer Madness" hoax in his newspaper and magazine publications.
ANDREW MELLON, founder of the Gulf Oil Corporation.
He knew that cannabis hemp was an alternative industrial raw material for the production of thousands of products, including fuel and plastics, which, if allowed to compete in the free-market, would threaten the future profits of the oil companies. As Secretary of the Treasury he created the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and appointed his own future nephew-in-law, Harry Anslinger, as director. Anslinger would later use the sensational, and totally fabricated, articles published by Hearst, to push the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 through Congress, which successfully destroyed the rebirth of the cannabis hemp industry.
A prominent member of one Congressional subcommittee who voted in favor of this bill was Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania, an oil tycoon and former business partner of Andrew Mellon in the Spindletop oil fields in Texas.
THE DU PONT CHEMICAL CORPORATION,
which owned the patents on synthetic petrochemicals and industrial processes that promised billions of dollars in future profits from the sale of wood pulp paper, lead additives for gasoline, synthetic fibers and plastics, if hemp could be suppressed. At the time, du Pont family influence in both government and the private sector was unmatched, according to historians and journalists.
This publication, however, reveals documented historical evidence that the suppression of the hemp industry was only one key part of a much larger conspiracy in the 1930s, not only by the three corporate interests named above, but by many others, as well.
Congressional records, FBI reports and investigations by the Justice Department, during the 1930s and 1940s, have already documented evidence of this wider plot. A list of the corporations named include Du Pont, Standard Oil, and General Motors, all of which were proven to be conspiring with Nazi industrial cartels to eliminate competition world-wide and divide among themselves the Earth's industrial resources and commercial markets, for profitable exploitation.
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10th Amendment
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This part of the Bill of Rights has NOT been repealed, and therefore, NO federal legislation, supreme court decision, executive order can overrule this amendment to our Constitution.
The only problem is, they have the tanks and rely on an ignorant populace.
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Patrick
Polk County, Florida
Great comment!
I only wish we should somehow wake the ignorant people. I don't feel we need to fear the tanks due to the fact that it will be Americans in them, and I doubt that deep down the soldiers would willingly kill other Americans just because some a**hole tells them to do so...........though, I could be very wrong.
Anyway, great comment, and it rings very true!
"Live for nothing, or Die for something" ~ Rambo
Good post...
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Good news
...damn caveats!
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Forget what you've been told
Hemp is a miracle plant and is the answer to alot of our problems. This plant and its wonderous properties has been stolen from the people.
true so true and isnt it also true that
the constitution is printed on hemp paper?
~peace
You are right
The original draft was, is my understanding
supposedly
But we do know that the founding fathers used hemp as paper.
The first draft of the American Declaration of Independence
Hemp has been one of the most significant crops for mankind up until this last century.
Here follows a little bit of history to outline the place in society that hemp once held:
The first draft of the American Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta and the King James Bible were all written on hemp paper
American presidents Washington and Jefferson both encouraged the growing of hemp
The majority of all twine, rope, ship sails, rigging & nets up to the late 19th Century were made from hemp fiber
Hemp's demise came approximately in the 1930s at the time of the US banning of marijuana and Du Pont's patenting of their new "plastic fibre".
Until 1800 hemp oil was the most consumed lighting oil in the world.
In 1935, 116 million pounds of hemp seed were used in America just for paint & varnish.
The paintings of Rembrandt, Van Gogh & Gainsborough were primarily painted on hemp canvas with hemp-based paint.
Hemp has been found to be the cementing agent in a 6th Century bridge in France.
"Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere." George Washington
"Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp." George Washington Diary Entry, May 12 , 1765
"Began to separate the Male from the Female hemp at Muddy hole-rather too late." George Washington Diary Entry, August 7, 1765
“Certainly no good reason can be assigned why the Hemp of New Zealand should not thrive with us, as that country lyes [sic] in about the same Southern lati-tude that our middle States do in the Northern. The Hemp of the East Indies grows well here from my own experience and I have no doubt of the Tea plant suc-ceeding in So. Carolina and Georgia.” LETTER FROM PRESIDENT WASHINGTON TO JOHN SINCLAIR December 10, 1796
“Speaking generally, the Commission are of the opinion that the moderate use of hemp drugs appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind.” - Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-1894
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