Man Aims to Become 1st U.S. Hemp Farmer

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North Dakota is one of seven states that have authorized industrial hemp farming. The others are Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana and West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures

Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. , according to Vote Hemp, an industrial hemp advocacy organization based in Bedford, Mass.

California lawmakers approved legislation last year that set out rules for industrial hemp production, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it. The law asserted that the federal government lacked authority to regulate industrial hemp as a drug.

In 2005, U.S. Representative Ron Paul of Texas introduced legislation to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana in federal drug laws. It never came to a vote.

Monson farms near Osnabrock in North Dakota's northeastern corner. Industrial hemp thrives in southern Manitoba, just north of Monson's 710-acre farm, where he normally raises wheat, barley and canola.

He is the assistant Republican majority leader in the North Dakota House and is the school superintendent in Edinburg, which has about 140 students in grades kindergarten through 12.

In 1997, during his second session in the Legislature, Monson successfully pushed a bill to require North Dakota State University North Dakota State University, at Fargo; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1890 as North Dakota Agricultural College, achieved university status in 1960.
..... Click the link for more information. to study industrial hemp as an alternative crop for the state's farmers.

Canada made it legal for farmers there to grow the crop in March 1998.

of our problems in this country. Grow it, use it for fuel, U.S. based industry (putting our own workers back into production), less need to use wood/trees, the list is almost endless.

^5 Mr. Monson! I wish you well on this journey!!!

you will have to have a criminal back ground check, DNA, and figerprints to grow wheat and corn.

good post

deserve bumps.

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there are alot if uses for hemp
-->the seeds are very nutritious
-->you can make clothing
-->healing factors
-->hemp flour
-->making toiletries

hemp crop is now legal in ND
this is like the ultimate crop and natural

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"a cousin of marijuana that does not have the drug's hallucinogenic properties. "

Hallucinogenic?? Really? Damn, that's some good shit! Never heard of anybody hallucinating on pot.

Don't mean to belittle the post, though. That'd be awesome to get the hemp ball rolling. Thanks for posting that.

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'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
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We can't pay the cost
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could be almost limitless. With our current technology, many more applications could be developed. The best one though, might be that hemp can be used to make paper, instead of trees. Talk about renewable resources. Also, I think you can make fuel for cars out of hemp.

PUT THE GLASSES ON!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

"The value of whole, unrefined foods .was dramatically demonstrated on a grand scale during the First World War. Denmark was plagued by a serious food shortage. The government assigned Dr. M. Hindhede, the director of the Danish Institute of Nutrition Research, to design a program for protecting the nation from the hunger threat.

The first action of Hindhede was to increase whole- grain production by limiting livestock production and curtailing the sale of meat, thus saving grain for human consumption. Production of alcoholic beverages was banned for the same reason. Also, grain processing was stopped and only whole-grain bread and cereals were allowed to be sold. Farmers were directed and encouraged to produce more grain, green vegetables, fruits, milk and butter, instead of meat."

"These simple, but from a nutritional standpoint revolutionary , changes in eating habits resulted in spectacular and rapid changes in the health condition of the whole nation. The death rate dropped over 40% in one year. Diseases that affected other European countries, including the dreaded influenza epidemic, bypassed Denmark. In only a few years, Denmark became the healthiest nation in all of Europe! " (p. 46)

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Australia: Hemp Production Now Legal in New South Wales
The Australian state of New South Wales has joined Canada, China, and various European countries in allowing the cultivation of industrial hemp. Tough luck, American farmers.

Where do I send in the order for a "telephone pole size of hemp" to get high on as Dr. Paul said it would take one that large?

http://uk.youtube.com/wat...

Update:

Isn't this what was used to make "rope" out of during WWII? Hence the joke: go 'n smoke some rope. I guess so.

This is also why it has been 'found growing wild' for years upon years in many parts of the Country, but isn't that stuff that grows wild the same smokin' stuff to get high on. I'm bewildered a bit, yes of course, I'll get over it.

Carry On...

Starts at 1:11 minutes:

"Time Machine"

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An interesting not is David Monson is also a member of the 1st Baptist Church.

Here's another link form an '07 article:

http://www.treehugger.com...

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I thought our Federal government wanted EVERYONE to grow hemp:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...

I mean, they made a move asking (trying to convince) farmers to grow it.

What changed their mind about growing hemp? Uh it wouldn't be a 80% loss of business to DuPont would it? It wouldn't be because *processing* hemp is more ENERGY efficient than *processing* oil would it?

Nah, couldn't be that:

http://video.google.com/v...

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What a kick in the face!

is actually the lobbyists for pesticide and cotton industries.

The cotton industry should jump on this considering the environmental and water conservancy benefits. Besides, industrial hemp can yield more harvest per acre.

However, with industrial hemp requiring minimal chemical treatment (pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, etc..), this would reduce profits for our buddies at

monsanto

The only reason they would be interested in industrial hemp for the U.S. is if they thought they could patent the seed.

A link to a 10 yr old, but well researched paper on the world industrial hemp market and potential U.S. market.
http://www.votehemp.com/P...

Spread the seeds

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warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit
of resistance?" --Thomas Jefferson

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Jesse Ventura rocks..

"I don't want to be in a battle . . . but
waiting on the edge of one I can't escape
is even worse"

Hemp is Marijuana.

Is a Gala Apple Any Less an Apple than a Washington Apple?

NO..;

Name of Hemp Plant.. Cannabis Sativa
Name of Marijuana Plant .. Cannabis Sativa

Same Plant...

This is DIS INFORMATION.. Hemp is Cannabis, just low THC Marijuana.
I guess one could be an Alchemist and turn cannabis into hemp by giving it poor nutrition and mating the female plant with a male to lesson the bud production and make seeds.

But it is still a Marijuana Plant.

Good for him!

Too bad he has to be treated like a convicted pedophile to do it. It's all about protecting their energy monopoly there is no valid reason to regulate or suppress industrial hemp since there is virtually no THC content. (not that THC is valid reason either)

And the myth that someone might hide a marijuana field inside a hemp field is also ridiculous as they would cross pollinate rendering the marijuana worthless.

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Get Prepared!

oh yeah!

I'm going to look it up later, but if anyone has a link to the actual "rules" that they came up with, I'd sure like to see them. I have some acreage that would sure look good growing hemp....and perhaps a few...wink wink...weeds in the middle...LOL ... For all the narcs...I was kidding... wink wink

For harvest season?? Hahahaha!

Think how difficult it will be to maintain the farm...to harvest the crop.

Drive the tractor...climb down.... move the ATF agent.... climb back up... drive the tractor.... climb down.... move the ATF agent...

I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...

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And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

I don't smoke it.. But man if you can grow a couple acres you can get upwards fo 2000 gallons of Methanol. Energy Independence is freedom..

wasn't the Constitution written on Hemp?

bump.... people need to know this is starting to happen in the US