Posted on 03/11/2009 12:50:30 PM PDT by AmericanHunter
Wed Mar 11, 2009 at 12:23:20 PM PDT Please Write to Your Congressional Representatives Ask Them to Sponsor the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009
Vote Hemp is pleased to announce that the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009 will be introduced soon. Yesterday, the offices of Rep. Ron Paul and Rep. Barney Frank sent out a Dear Colleague letter (PDF file 116K) to members of Congress inviting them to be original co-sponsors of the Act, which does not yet have a bill number.
Please click here to write your Congressional representatives and ask them to consider becoming an original co-sponsor of the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009.
The legislation, which has been introduced twice in past years, would allow American farmers to once again grow hemp to the extent allowed under state laws, repealing a provision in federal law that makes the U.S. the only industrialized nation where farmers are prohibited from competing in the booming industrial hemp market. The legislation is identical to HR 1009 introduced in the 110th Congress.
The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009 would finally allow North Dakota, and the other states that have passed pro-hemp legislation or resolutions (Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia), considered pro-hemp legislation or resolutions (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin), or where farm groups have advocated for a return to industrial hemp farming (Ohio and Pennsylvania), to choose whether or not to let farmers grow industrial hemp.
Please click here to write your Congressional representatives today!
Vote Hemp is a national, single-issue, nonprofit organization dedicated to the acceptance of and free market for low-THC industrial hemp and to changes in current law to allow U.S. farmers to once again grow this agricultural crop. More information about hemp legislation and the crop's many uses may be found at www.VoteHemp.com.
“Banning industrial hemp seems pretty silly.”
Very silly. Has nothing to do with getting high.
Agreed. It is nonsense. As is the “war on drugs”.
Must be the Libertarian thread.
Ron Paul and Barney Frank?
I don’t want to die laughing.
As I read it it was mainly Weyerhauser and Dupont which were responsible for outlawing marijuana and the motive was precisely to protect their paper and tree farming ops from the competition of hemp. Hemp is the most naturally efficient thing there is for making paper and any other sort of cellulose products.
My grandparents grew hemp.
I don’t have a problem with it as long as it is not the kind from which one gets high and that it looks different enough to assure people aren’t growing the bad one.
If the states already approved individually that hemp farming is legal, why do they need federal approval?
Actually, bringing back hemp agriculture would have a definite effect on the marijuana trade. Male hemp plants would fertilize female plants grown outdoors for marijuana. This makes the plant significantly less potent. With Mexican cartels growing in our federal forests, this could significantly hurt their profits as well as provide a sustainable industry for our country.
Gadzooks! Can the Gay Tinfoil Wearing Act of 2009... 
be very far behind?
Thus creating a black market for sensemilla grown with filtered air. The tighter you clench your fist, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
If it’s a libertarian thread, then where is the more important act to legalize Ferrets in all 57 states?
I don’t want to even go there.
People getting high bothers you?
How about if they are in a bar drinking alcohol?
It's OK then? Or does that hurt you too?
What if they are drinking at home watching a football game?
Is that different from smoking weed at home while watching videos?
I have a better idea. Why don’t these states grow the necessary pair, tell the Fed. Govt to go directly to hello and grow the damned hemp!! What will Washington do...arrest the governors, the farmers, the citizens?? Demand the Feds point out the “Hemp” mention in the Constitution and then introduce them to the 10 amendment!!
Ron Paul Ping
Well, I have no problems with people getting high or getting drunk.
My problem is with the fact that any crimes committed “under the influence” are not considered “premeditated” in nature.
I believe everyone who commits a crime under the influence of a drug should be tried as though they planned its commission. None of this “involuntary manslaughter” or “insanity” defense passes muster with me. If you chose to give up your sanity, you chose to do everything you commit after that.
If I blindfolded myself and entered a populated mall with a machine gun and started firing away, would I be able to say I didn’t plan that crime?
By the way, I’m also for a torture penalty. Eat that.
Ron Paul ping?
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