Court Rejects American Indian Argument for Hemp Farming

**Torkel** · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:24 am Post subject:

That's capitalism for ya' - all decisions are made ONLY to benefit 1% of the population.

Screw the rest of the population...oh wait, "we'll need those dumb-bastards to fight our wars of conquest/imperialism won't we?"

Legal fuc$ing, false flag operations, forced to use their health products, permanent poverty, dumbing down of america -FASCISM.

Bush Adolph Cheney

Peace,
Torkel
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revjohn · Full member Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 84

To: National Desk, Environment Reporter

Contact: Adam Eidinger, 202-744-2671 or adam@votehemp.com

BISMARCK, N.D., May 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a trail blazing move, North Dakota's Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson formally proposed rules yesterday to license farmers in his state to grow industrial hemp under existing state law. With the backdrop of farmers across Canada planting over 50,000 acres of industrial hemp in 2006 to meet expanding demand for the nutritious and versatile plant in the United Sates, the rule- making process announced yesterday is an important step towards bringing back U.S. commercial hemp farming that was stopped nearly 50 years ago.

Commissioner Johnson will hold a public hearing on June 15 in Bismarck on the proposed rules prior to publishing final rules later this year. "These rules will implement state legislation, covering the cultivation of industrial hemp in North Dakota," Johnson said. "It is an important step in the process of enabling farmers to grow and sell this valuable crop." The proposed hemp farming rules may be viewed online at http://www.agdepartment.com/PDFFiles/ProposedIndustrialHempRules5-2006.pdf

In February, Commissioner Johnson, along with Agriculture commissioners from three other states, met with Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials in Washington, DC to explore acceptable rules on industrial hemp farming. The official meeting marked a turning point in the federal government's relations with hemp-friendly policymakers who have been routinely ignored by DEA officials. This is seemingly an about face for an agency that has threatened to prosecute anyone who tries to grow non-psychoactive hemp in America.

While North Dakota's rules would require farmers to secure a permit from DEA before their licenses would become effective, there is precedent for this as the DEA permitted a test plot of industrial hemp in Hawaii from 1999 to 2003. North Dakota's proposed rules cover commercial hemp farming and include a number of restrictions to alleviate law enforcement concerns.

Some highlights of the proposed hemp farming rules include:

-- Farmers must consent to a criminal background check including fingerprints

-- Who the farmer sells to and how much is sold must be documented within 30 days of sale

-- The location of the hemp field must be provided using geopositioning (GPS) coordinates

Planted hemp must contain less than three-tenths of one percent tetrahydrocannabinol

"We are pleased that North Dakota is pursuing a common sense hemp policy by issuing hemp farming regulations," says Vote Hemp President Eric Steenstra. "U.S. farmers want to grow hemp legally like their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Asia. Many of hemp's uses such as in foods, animal bedding, biofuel and composites will become more viable if hemp is treated like other crops. How can a raw material that's legal to import, to sell, to eat and to use in all kinds of everyday products not be legal for farmers in America to grow? No other agricultural commodity is restricted to just importation," says Steenstra.

Currently seven states (Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia) have passed pro-hemp farming laws. Sales of hemp foods in 2004/2005 grew by 50 percent over the previous 12-month period. U.S. retail sales of hemp products are estimated to now be $250 to $300 million per year. There are more than 2.5 million cars on U.S. roads that contain hemp composites. Hemp cultivation in Canada is expected to exceed 50,000 acres in 2006, while European farmers now grow more than 40,000 acres. More information about hemp legislation and the crop's many uses can be found at http://www.VoteHemp.com

http://www.usnewswire.com/

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=65047

Mortloch · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:05 am Post subject: woot! go us!

Score one for the good guys! If I could I would love to plant a huge space of hemp/HIGH THC cannabis just to make the government fight me on it and our church. Just don't have the money for the legal side Razz

some day.......... then they will finally lose and we will all see many more members and fields of sticky green and all the hopes of Jack Herer and his book will become true........after all Jesus used it
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**Brother Adam** · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject:

Boy I hope it works in North Dakota. Somehow, I don't think it will. To top it off you have to submit to a background check and fingerprinting to grow hemp? What a bunch of bullshit!

I don't know about most of you guys, but I am quite frankly tired of sitting on my ass waiting for them to kick my door in next. I'm sick of watching them trample inallienable human rights over and over. I'm beyond tired of someone else thinking they have anything to do with what goes on inside my body and mind. I can't wait for the rest of the world, or this country to wake the fuck up. I'm about to just completely give up my citizenship to this country and declare myself a free citizen of the world with no flag, with no country, and no laws except respect for life other than my own. I never asked to be part of a country. I never asked to be born here. I never asked to have someone administer my life, worry about me or my beliefs, or what I choose to do with myself.

It's time for a whole new declaration of independence because it's obvious the USA has gone a foul, and there are a number of us who no longer wish to be a part of it.
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