Testimony on Oregon Senate Bill 348 to re-legalize industrial hemp in Oregon .
NAIHC member Andy Kerr's testimony in Oregon Senate hearing, to explain how industrial hemp is not marijuana, how marijuana growers won't want industrial hemp growing anywhere near their drug crop, and how most of the rest of the world distinguishes industrial hemp from marijuana.California Poll and Vote Support Industrial Hemp Farming
A California poll sponsored by Vote Hemp shows 71 percent support for changing state law to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp, including 46 percent who strongly support and another 25 percent who somewhat support changing state law. This follows a 5-to-2 California State Assembly Public Safety Committee vote supporting state legislation to allow California farmers to grow industrial hemp without state or federal licenses.
DEA Blocks Spring Planting of Industrial Hemp in North Dakota
North Dakota 's clearly frustrated Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson calls the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) failure to act on two farmers' applications to grow industrial hemp not unexpected but still disappointing. He said DEA's latest response is a de facto denial of permission. If the applicants cannot have a decision in time to plant the crop, then the applications are meaningless. . . DEA has far more important concerns stopping methamphetamine, for example than continuing to prevent farmers from growing a legitimate crop. Industrial hemp should not be considered a drug because it cannot produce any psychoactive effect. Every other industrialized country in the world allows production of industrialized hemp. It's really time DEA let the United States catch up.Surf's Up for Industrial Hemp!
A British team has made the necessary connections to produce a hemp-based, all-plant-derived surfboard. For the link, go to Q111 on our Q&A page .Industrial Hemp Offers Great Promise
For a comprehensive perspective on industrial hemp past, present and future, read the 43-page chapter Hemp: A New Crop with New Uses for North America in Purdue University's 2002 book Trends in New Crops and New Use s, edited by Jules Janick and Anna Whipkey.2006 NAIHC Annual Meeting Report
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