Monday, March 21, 2011
Industrial Applications of Hemp
Below is a nice illustration of the three primary cash crops that can result from hemp farming.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The First Earth Day Celebration of Cannabis, Health, and Ecology
Saturday, April 23rd at Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California
Music and Special Guests, Speakers and Workshops, Vendors and Exhibits
Musical Guests Include The Coup, MC Yogi, Heavyweight Dub Champions & More!
RICHMOND, Calif., March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Deep Green, an entertaining day long celebration of the evolving convergence of cannabis, health and ecology will take place at the stunning Craneway Pavilion located at 1414 Harbour Way South in Richmond, CA on Saturday, April 23rd from noon to 2 a.m. Presented by the creators of the highly successful Earthdance, the event will integrate panels, exhibits, workshops and music with a holistic approach to the cannabis plant. In the context of Earth Day, Deep Green aims to raise public awareness of the remarkable ecological and economic benefits that cannabis and hemp offer society. Tickets are available online at www.deepgreenfest.com orwww.ticketfly.com/event/30681 and range in price from the $20 in advance and $30 day of show for general admission. There is also a $75 VIP Early Bird Special good till April 1st on tickets that will be $125 at the door. Phone for more information: 415.750.0971.
This information-intense, 14-hour event is the first of its kind to place focus on the personal, social and ongoing transition to a sustainable culture showing the holistic side of cannabis, and highlighting new applications and the future of hemp. It will feature lively panels and workshops with experts from all 3 arenas addressing the current issues cannabis and hemp legislation, low carbon footprint farming, new cultivation methods, eco-activism, natural cures and alternative healing.
Speakers will include: David Bronner of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, a national leader and advocate and the main coordinator of the Hemp Industries Association's successful multi-year litigation against the Drug Enforcement Administration to protect sales of Hemp foods and body care in the United States (2001-04); author and anti-globalization activist, Kevin Danaher; Ralph Metzner, psychotherapist and professor who participated in the famous psychedelic research studies at Harvard in the 1960s;David Madera, of Hemp Technologies whose hemp houses have gained notoriety in USA Today; and leaders of the cannabis industry including Steve DeAngelo, Dr. Ed Rosenthal, Chris Conrad, Mikki Norris, and Patrick Goggin, Esq.
The pavilion will also showcase educational and visionary art installations, and host over 50 exhibitors including a gourmet natural food zone. Music and comedy will be interspersed during the day, but at night the stage will come alive with a concert and dance party. There will be electrifying live performances from The Coup, Heavyweight Dub Champion featuring members of Goddess Alchemy Project, MC Yogi, Soul Majestic, Dov, Alex Theory and more - plus an outstanding line up of top Bay Area DJs.
A Vapor Lounge will be open all during the event for onsite medicating for patients with a valid doctor's recommendation. There are no onsite sales of cannabis.
VIP tickets are on sale for a limited time only at a 40% discount when purchased online. These passes entitle ticket holders to VIP parking & entrance, VIP gift bag, access to tented VIP area behind the main stage and to the back stage performer area, as well as a private VIP bar, lounge and viewing area on the main stage.
Announcements of new additions to the schedule will be posted at www.deepgreenfest.com.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
No Textile is Greener Than Hemp
... with the single exception of used textiles that are recycled into new clothes. The following article from NowToronto Online lays out the case for textiles made from eucalyptus but give credit to hemp as the greenest source.
Ecoholic
Q: Are soy and eucalyptus fabrics truly eco-friendly?
A: When mainstream fashionistas roll their eyes at the idea of green threads, I tell them they clearly haven’t seen the freshest cuts being rolled out by indie Canadian designers, all crafted with a slew of eco textiles.
Are all the fabrics without flaws? Well, no. No new products created on this earth are without an impact. The greenest textiles will always be those repurposed from salvaged clothes, followed by hemp, linen and organic cotton (which is water-intensive but thankfully pesticide-free).
The ones you’re asking about I call plant-based synthetics. Why? Well, you’d never see a traditional weaver spinning creamy-soft fabrics out of little soybeans. Ditto for eucalyptus fibres. They need some heavy-duty processing to get the silky drape we’ve learned to love in synthetic naturals. The whole class of textiles made from tree pulp, cornstarch, soy, bamboo, seaweed, crab shells – you name it – can be lumped together as “regenerated fibres.” Some are made of plant cellulose (tree pulps like eucalyptus and bamboo); others, like soy, are made from plant proteins.
Now, I’ve already written about bamboo’s fading star in the green scene, thanks to the chemical-intensive viscose processing it takes to refine bamboo stalks into super-soft fabrics. That’s why Canada’s Competition Bureau a couple of years back told all bamboo clothing vendors to change their terminology to “viscose from bamboo.’’ Rayon or viscose is made from a woody pulp (be it pine, spruce, bamboo or beech) dissolved in a caustic soda and then spun in a chemical solution of carbon disulfide (a reproductive toxin).
So how does, say, soy compare? While soy processing is very similar to making viscose/rayon from bamboo, some say it uses less polluting chemicals, but there’s not a lot of third-party material on all this. What I prefer about soy protein fabrics is that they’re a by-product of soy oil extraction, and most of the extruded protein’s supposedly used for cattle feed. That means, unlike bamboo or corn (for Ingeo fibres) or tree pulp for rayons, soy isn’t grown mainly for the clothing biz. It’s a waste product, and that gives soy rayons a leg up.
The outstanding issue is that soybeans are largely genetically modified. China, which makes most of the world soy fabrics, imports 70 per cent of its soybeans from GMO-happy countries like the U.S. (where 91 per cent of soy is GMO). Too bad organic soy clothing is hard to come by, though I expect this may change. (You can now find some certified organic bamboo clothing.)
So what’s eucalyptus fabric all about? Well, its proper name is lyocell, and, good news, it’s definitely a greener version of rayon, processed with gentler solvents in a 99.6 per cent closed-loop system. The Tencel brand of lyocell is the greenest of all, made with Euro Forest Stewardship Council-certified pulp, so the eucalyptus sourced has a pretty sound rep.
Some lyocell factories do use a formaldehyde treatment to avoid pilling, but it’s certainly not necessary, and the Tencel brand (used by Patagonia) says it’s formaldehyde-free. Lyocell can also be made out of bamboo (even BCBG carries a little), seaweed (aka seacell) and more. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Competition Bureau ordered companies claiming their clothes are made of straight eucalyptus, (you know who you are, Modrobes) were ordered to change their tags to say “lyocell from eucalyptus” for accuracy. Ditto for fabrics labelled as soy, which some forward-thinking designers are already labelling “rayon from soy.”
By the way, the Modal fabric found in lingerie stores is similar to lyocell but made of beech pulp viscose. One of its makers, Lenzing (which makes Tencel), tells me 90 per cent of the carbon disulfide involved in the process is recycled – at least at its factory. And its by-products go into the tooth-friendly sweetener xylitol. Can’t guarantee that other Modal is produced to the same standard.
Ecoholic
Eucalyptus fabric called lyocell is a greener version of rayon.
Are soy and eucalyptus fabrics truly eco-friendly? When you’re addicted to the planet
A: When mainstream fashionistas roll their eyes at the idea of green threads, I tell them they clearly haven’t seen the freshest cuts being rolled out by indie Canadian designers, all crafted with a slew of eco textiles.
Are all the fabrics without flaws? Well, no. No new products created on this earth are without an impact. The greenest textiles will always be those repurposed from salvaged clothes, followed by hemp, linen and organic cotton (which is water-intensive but thankfully pesticide-free).
The ones you’re asking about I call plant-based synthetics. Why? Well, you’d never see a traditional weaver spinning creamy-soft fabrics out of little soybeans. Ditto for eucalyptus fibres. They need some heavy-duty processing to get the silky drape we’ve learned to love in synthetic naturals. The whole class of textiles made from tree pulp, cornstarch, soy, bamboo, seaweed, crab shells – you name it – can be lumped together as “regenerated fibres.” Some are made of plant cellulose (tree pulps like eucalyptus and bamboo); others, like soy, are made from plant proteins.
Now, I’ve already written about bamboo’s fading star in the green scene, thanks to the chemical-intensive viscose processing it takes to refine bamboo stalks into super-soft fabrics. That’s why Canada’s Competition Bureau a couple of years back told all bamboo clothing vendors to change their terminology to “viscose from bamboo.’’ Rayon or viscose is made from a woody pulp (be it pine, spruce, bamboo or beech) dissolved in a caustic soda and then spun in a chemical solution of carbon disulfide (a reproductive toxin).
So how does, say, soy compare? While soy processing is very similar to making viscose/rayon from bamboo, some say it uses less polluting chemicals, but there’s not a lot of third-party material on all this. What I prefer about soy protein fabrics is that they’re a by-product of soy oil extraction, and most of the extruded protein’s supposedly used for cattle feed. That means, unlike bamboo or corn (for Ingeo fibres) or tree pulp for rayons, soy isn’t grown mainly for the clothing biz. It’s a waste product, and that gives soy rayons a leg up.
The outstanding issue is that soybeans are largely genetically modified. China, which makes most of the world soy fabrics, imports 70 per cent of its soybeans from GMO-happy countries like the U.S. (where 91 per cent of soy is GMO). Too bad organic soy clothing is hard to come by, though I expect this may change. (You can now find some certified organic bamboo clothing.)
So what’s eucalyptus fabric all about? Well, its proper name is lyocell, and, good news, it’s definitely a greener version of rayon, processed with gentler solvents in a 99.6 per cent closed-loop system. The Tencel brand of lyocell is the greenest of all, made with Euro Forest Stewardship Council-certified pulp, so the eucalyptus sourced has a pretty sound rep.
Some lyocell factories do use a formaldehyde treatment to avoid pilling, but it’s certainly not necessary, and the Tencel brand (used by Patagonia) says it’s formaldehyde-free. Lyocell can also be made out of bamboo (even BCBG carries a little), seaweed (aka seacell) and more. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Competition Bureau ordered companies claiming their clothes are made of straight eucalyptus, (you know who you are, Modrobes) were ordered to change their tags to say “lyocell from eucalyptus” for accuracy. Ditto for fabrics labelled as soy, which some forward-thinking designers are already labelling “rayon from soy.”
By the way, the Modal fabric found in lingerie stores is similar to lyocell but made of beech pulp viscose. One of its makers, Lenzing (which makes Tencel), tells me 90 per cent of the carbon disulfide involved in the process is recycled – at least at its factory. And its by-products go into the tooth-friendly sweetener xylitol. Can’t guarantee that other Modal is produced to the same standard.
Got a question?
Send your green queries to ecoholic@nowtoronto.comAustralia and New Zealand Move Towards Hemp Foods
Hemp farmer Andrew Kavasilas inspects his crop. Mr Kavasilas
is excited by news the Food Standards Authority of Australia
and New Zealand is considering an application to permit food
derived from hemp. Photo by Jerad Williams
INDUSTRIAL-hemp grower, researcher and author Andrew Kavasilas has welcomed a step by Australian authorities towards allowing the production of hemp for food.
The Food Standards Authority of Australia and New Zealand is currently considering an application to permit food derived from hemp, and has released a paper for public discussion calling on interested parties to comment before April 27. “We have fibre-only legislation in the participating states, but that’s like saying you can grow wheat for the chaff,” Mr Kavasilas said.
“There is no more nutritious whole grain than the hemp seed. I still can’t understand how every other country has allowed hemp foods for ages while successive Australian governments have dismissed the health benefits and agricultural opportunity offered.”
State, territory and federal ministers rejected a similar application in 2002, citing potential drug-law enforcement problems, and concerns such a move could “increase consumer acceptance of illicit cannabis use” despite the varieties having negligible quantities of psychoactive properties. The authority has since acknowledged the health benefits of hemp-seed oil and its widespread use in Europe, Canada and the United States. Hempseeds are rich in the essential fatty acids, omega-3 and omega-6, which are required for vital body functions, including the immune response, lipid hydrolysis, blood clotting, vascular dilation and cardiac function.
Mr Kavasilas is a licensed NSW hemp grower who has been pushing for hemp-seed consumption approval for more than 12 years and said it has come at the right time. “Health-conscious consumers have accessed hemp foods via the web for a while now,” he said. “It’s time for Australian farmers to get a foothold in hemp’s billion-dollar global industry.”
Mr Kavasilas has been trialling fast-growing hemp for fibre and food, growing it between rows of macadamias on two Northern Rivers’ farms, but said the plant also had the potential to be grown on a broad scale and harvested with modified farming machinery.
A field day and membership drive for the Northern Rivers Hemp Association will be held on Saturday at Eltham.
For start times and directions call Mr Kavasilas on 0427 897 968 or 6689 1998.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Could hemp help nuclear clean-up in Japan?
Article from Russ Belville (source is here) of the Examiner.com Portland
March 13th, 2011 6:20 pm PT
I've been glued to the television and internet reports about the unfolding disaster in Japan. First an 8.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near the island nation, then a tremendous tsunami washes ashore and leaves an estimated 10,000 dead and thousands more missing. Now the failure of power and back-up cooling units has led to potential meltdowns in the country's nuclear reactors
March 13th, 2011 6:20 pm PT
I've been glued to the television and internet reports about the unfolding disaster in Japan. First an 8.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near the island nation, then a tremendous tsunami washes ashore and leaves an estimated 10,000 dead and thousands more missing. Now the failure of power and back-up cooling units has led to potential meltdowns in the country's nuclear reactors
(CleanEnergy.org) As reported in the New York Times today: two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant 170 miles north of Tokyo appear to have suffered partial meltdowns and three reactors at the nearby Fukushima Daini plant are dealing with failures in the cooling system. Releases of volatile radioactive elements have occurred, though the exact amounts are not yet known. Reports have stated that radiation levels have exceeded permissible limits and over 200,000 people living around the two nuclear power plants have been evacuated. There are reports that several plant workers have experienced significant radiation exposure, a confirmation that at least one worker has died and more than 160 people outside of the plant are also contaminated with radioactivity. Radioactive cesium has been measured, a sure sign that the nuclear fuel has been damaged.
I've been teased by friends and family that no matter what the story is on the news, I can find a way that it ties to marijuana. This story is no different, though I preface my tie-in by expressing the sincerest condolences for the people of Japan (including Japanese cannabis activists Gomyô, Hannabis, the Hoodie Monks, and Taku) and the horror they're dealing with and will continue to deal with for months. The tie-in between marijuana and Japan can be found in the efforts to clean up the soil following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine.
(McGraw-Hill Higher Education) In 1989, three years after the explosion, the Soviet government asked the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to assess the radiological and health situation in the area surrounding the power plant. Among the most significant findings were radioactive emissions and toxic metals--including iodine, cesium-137, strontium, and plutonium--concentrated in the soil, plants, and animals. Such substances are potentially harmful to human health. For example, although iodine tends to disappear within a few weeks of exposure, it can be inhaled or ingested and then accumulated in the thyroid gland, where it delivers high doses of radiation as it decays. Since 1991, the Canadian Nuclear Association has noted a marked increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer in the area surrounding the nuclear accident. Cesium-137, radioactive cesium with a mass number of 137, can enter the food chain and deliver an internal dose of radiation before it is eliminated metabolically.
Getting those toxic and radioactive elements out of the soil is crucial to restoring the ecosystem after a nuclear disaster. A technique called "phytoremediation" uses certain plants to leech these elements from the soil... guess which one is one of the best at that task? Good old industrial hemp, cannabis' non-drug cousin that our government bans because our police are too uneducated to tell the difference.
(Hemp.net) In 1998, Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP), PHYTOTECH, and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops began what may be one of the most important projects in history - the planting of industrial hemp for the removal of contaminants in the soil near Chernobyl.Phytoremediation can be used to remove radioactive elements from soil and water at former weapons producing facilaties. It can also be used to clean up metals, pesticides, solvents, explosives, crude oil, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and toxins leaching from landfills.Plants break down or degrade organic pollutants and stabilize metal contaminants by acting as filters or traps. PHYTOTECH is conducting feild trials to improve the phytoextraction of lead, uranium, cesium-137, and strontium-90 from soils and also from water."Hemp is proving to be one of the best phyto-remediative plants we have been able to find," said Slavik Dushenkov, a research scienst with PHYTOTECH. Test results have been promising and CGP, PHYOTECH and the Bast Institute plan full scale trials in the Chernobyl region in the spring of 1999.
This technique of hemp phytoremediation has applications that extend beyond nuclear accident cleanups. If prohibition on hemp farming were lifted and the industry were allowed to flourish, there could be thousands of new jobs created:
(Damn Interesting) All in all, the field of phytoextraction seems to be one of the most promising in the efforts to clean up the hundreds of thousands of sites worldwide (30,000 in the US alone, according to the EPA), that require hazardous waste treatment. Even if only modestly successful, the use of plants as contaminant removers could reduce cleanup costs considerably. Even more promising, phytoextraction is only one aspect of the whole field of phytoremediation, in which plants are being used not only to remove toxins, but sometimes to break them down (phytotransformation), enhance microbial activity (phytostimulation), or prevent leaching of contaminants in the first place (phytostabalization).
In Belarus, site of the original Chernobyl disaster, they are not only using the hemp to clean up the soil, they're making money on the processing of that hemp into biofuel!
(CannaZine.co.uk) Belarus Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov said: "We consider ethanol to be one of the most promising and sustainable sources of cheap and nature-friendly energy, and we have several advantages for its production here."Belarus is probably the only country in Europe with vast territories which can be used for biomass production, the lands affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe 21 years ago.The Minister concluded: "The Government of Belarus has declared ethanol a priority topic for energy development, so we are very happy today to see the first steps being taken, in what we are sure will be a successful and large-scale development of ethanol production."Greenfield chairwoman Ann McClain said, "Greenfield's plan to produce bio-ethanol will use land which has been contaminated by radioactive isotopes to cultivate biomass crops for the ethanol distilleries and at the same time, we believe growing the biomass crops will work to clean up the affected areas".
Japan allows for the farming of industrial hemp, but acquisition of a license to do so is very limited, thanks to the US Government forcing the occupied Japanese to sign onto a Cannabis Control Law in 1948 which, like US law, confuses cultivators of non-drug hemp with those growing medicinal marijuana and consumer cannabis.
(JapanHemp.org) However, the cannabis control law was enacted under GHQ under the United States occupation after World War II in 1948. As a result, an annual license from the prefecture governor was needed to grow hemp . It felt that the farmer was the same as making of the cultivation of hemp the narcotic drug because of the licensing system degree. After that, hemp products of the plant origin disappeared one after another by the spread of the life use goods of the oil origin in postwar days. And the number of farmers who grow hemp has decreased gradually.
Japan allows for the farming of industrial hemp, but acquisition of a license to do so is very limited, thanks to the US Government forcing the occupied Japanese to sign onto a Cannabis Control Law in 1948 which, like US law, confuses cultivators of non-drug hemp with those growing medicinal marijuana and consumer cannabis.
(JapanHemp.org) However, the cannabis control law was enacted under GHQ under the United States occupation after World War II in 1948. As a result, an annual license from the prefecture governor was needed to grow hemp . It felt that the farmer was the same as making of the cultivation of hemp the narcotic drug because of the licensing system degree. After that, hemp products of the plant origin disappeared one after another by the spread of the life use goods of the oil origin in postwar days. And the number of farmers who grow hemp has decreased gradually.
The hemp agriculture of Japan was 4049.2 ha the total planted acreage of the fiber harvest and the seed harvest, and a scale of 25,118 people in 1950. However, the planted acreage in 1996 was only 12.4 ha according to Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry today. Of that 12.0 ha was grown in Tochigi Prefecture, some 50 km north of Tokyo.There are only 102 hemp farmers now. (From the Ministry of Health and Welfare Pharmaceutical and Medical Safety Bureau Narcotics Division as of January 1, 1999)At least Japan does have some hemp farmers and laws that will allow them to get started on hemp phytoremediation as soon as possible. If an American nuclear reactor melted down we'd have to go through all the politics and argument and legislation necessary to repeal a federal prohibition of industrial hemp as a Schedule I drug before we could plant the first non-drug hemp plants to begin saving the land. Here in Oregon as in a few other American states we have already legalized industrial hemp and could begin planting it the minute the federal prohibition is lifted.Russ Belville is the Outreach Coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Russ writes The NORML Stash Blog...Read more
Hemp Pressboard Chairs from Germany
The source and original copy is here: www.designboom.com
Traditionally, monobloc stackable chairs have been developed with reinforced plastics. The hemp chair by berlin-based designer and architect werner aisslinger is the first monochair designed with a new technology in which natural fibers like hemp are moulded under heat with a special ecological glue resulting in a sustainable composite material. A complete structure done in a thin layer of material is one of the most complicated ways to design and engineer a chair. Aisslinger's design which features soft curves, along with a horizontal and vertical ring structure, is a new approach to this complex seating typology. 
The difficulty in working with ecological materials is the relation of ingredients compared to the stability of the lifecycle and pricing of the components. The technology that has been utilized for the 'hemp chair' allows one to use 100 percent natural fibres in combination with a water-based glue that contains no phenols or formaldehyde. This process enables low cost mass production for 3D objects with a high stability and low specific weight.
A Lounger Made of Hemp
Introducing Wener Aisslinger’s Hemp Chair, a stacking chair made out of hemp.
The 'hemp chair' shows at milan design week 2011 at ventura lambrate in the exhibition 'poetry happens' curated by werner aisslinger, tim brauns and fabien dumas.
Werner Aisslinger working on the prototype for the hemp chair.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Lobbying for Hemp
The article below by David Piller is from the Hemp Industry Association website.
Like David, I have been struggling for a long time to understand why industrial hemp is still outlawed in the USA. If there are so many benefits, why is it still illegal? I think David's insight below goes to the heart of the problem. Our political 'leaders' will not do anything until there is a critical mass of support from citizens and business interests.
Like David, I have been struggling for a long time to understand why industrial hemp is still outlawed in the USA. If there are so many benefits, why is it still illegal? I think David's insight below goes to the heart of the problem. Our political 'leaders' will not do anything until there is a critical mass of support from citizens and business interests.
| Lobbying for Hemp |
| by David Piller |
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 Washington, DC. Photo credit: Anndrea Hermann. A question that I have often heard while educating people about hemp over the years is, "If it's such a good crop, why has Congress kept the barriers to its cultivation in place?" For many years my answers tended towards descriptions of the similarities between the robber barons of the 1920s and 1930s, our modern multinational conglomerates, and the corrupting influences both have exerted on our democratic process; and the collective ignorance and stigma surrounding hemp, a direct result of the deliberate campaign of misinformation perpetuated on the American people, our elected officials included, for over seventy years. While I knew greed and ignorance didn't cover all the reasons, it seemed to cover the bulk of them. It wasn't until after I had visited Capitol Hill after the HIA Convention in October 2009 and lobbied on behalf of the Industrial Hemp Farming Act that I came to better appreciate a "simple" truth that is often overlooked: we simply have yet to achieve the critical mass of engaged citizens required to get Congress to act. In the meetings that I had with Representatives and Senators' legislative assistants, the majority appeared genuinely receptive to learning more about hemp and asked good questions about the issue. What struck me the most, at the conclusion of meetings and in follow up emails, was the point many made that, while they may understand hemp's inherent value to the economy and the environment, the Representative would not feel comfortable taking a stand on the issue without more constituents, especially those in business, contacting them and urging their support. Put another way, they're essentially saying, "When the people lead, the leaders will follow." These experiences have definitely made me appreciate even more what a valuable organization Vote Hemp is as they have made it so convenient for citizens from every corner of this country to communicate their support. Within the past year and a half, it cannot be denied that the movement has made some incredible strides as evidenced by, among other things:
As I look ahead to the reintroduction of the Industrial Hemp Farming Act this April, the second Hemp History Week in May, and the months beyond, it seems to me that 2011 has incredible potential to be a landmark year in U.S. hemp history. The tipping point is coming, it's just a matter of time. Here's to collectively dreaming, working, and creating a sustainable future of which we can all be proud. In Solidarity for a Hempful Future- David Piller Note: Please click here to download a PDF copy of The Vote Hemp Guide to Hemp Activism, a concise guide to citizen lobbying on the hemp issue. This eleven page guide will give you the information and tools that you need to confidently and effectively ask your elected representatives to support legislation which will lift the current ban on hemp farming in the U.S. |
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