We'll be seeing US grown Hemp soon enough in North Dakota

[skunk]

Thank you Jack Herer for the news update. I wouldn't have known about this otherwise.

North Dakota passed legislation allowing industrial hemp to be grown. However, the DEA doesn't distinguish between industrial hemp and recreational/medical cannabis, and since cannabis is schedule 1 it cannot be grown without a DEA permit:


"Currently it is illegal to grow hemp in the United States without a special Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) permit being issued."

source (http://www.industrialhemp.net/)

NDSU gets half of needed funds for hemp research security facility (http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2009/05/25/ag_news/regional_news/news3.txt)

North Dakota State University needs to find another sponsor before it can build a security facility to proceed with its hemp seed research.

Half of the funding requested for the security system was approved May 14 at the North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission (APUC) quarterly meeting in Bismarck, N.D.

NDSU asked for $80,000 and received $40,000 from the commission.

Earlier, D.C. Coston, vice-president for Agriculture and University Extension at NDSU, estimated the cost of the facility at around $80,000 to $90,000 to meet the Drug Enforcement Administration requirements.

John Schneider, executive director of APUC, said the commission felt the other half should be raised as a matching grant.

This is the third time NDSU has requested funds to build a security facility to begin hemp research. It was fully approved in 2003, but NDSU continued to request extensions because it had not received a memorandum of understanding from DEA, Schneider said.

The only legal grow op in the country is at the University of Mississippi (http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may072009/tenn_mpp_050709.php). They grow medical "marijuana" for the few people who've been prescribed the herb for medical uses.

But...we may be seeing the very first industrial grow op in this country since world war two. Then we'll see more and more states follow suit, and the DEA will have to loosen their constraints. That is, if the congress doesn't change the law beforehand.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

It really is uber retarded that they have so many restrictions on hemp.

For what is possibly the most useful plant on the face of the earth they sure do get their knickers in a twist.

Fox

[skunk]

You'd think a country deep in a recession/depression would allow farmers to grow a crop that would not only increase their personal income, but also the country on a whole (taxes, real wealth, etc).

Nope, too many "moneyed" interests saying fuck nah.

[theeindiee]

"Up with Hope, down with Dope."

I think Obama said that.

But seriously.... we can sit here and wonder all we want, but the fact of the matter is....here is a surefooted sign of how your government works: mind destroying life obliterating alcohol is legal, dangerous pharmaceudical drugs are legal, all of these everyday household chemicals which are fatal are legal, sanctioned killing in the name of America is legal, a girl fucking a horse on tape is legal... yet pot which has never been implicated in the death of a single person, and which has many health benefits and many industrial uses which would replace the harmful stuff, is illegal enough to ruin a child's future forever. Dude, being arrested for pot destroyed my chance for an education, to be taken seriously by "the masses". Yeah sure I could go back and all that bullshit, but ummm I don't really think I have the motivation to be indoctrinated anymore. Either way, it's not very moral to tell people what they can and can't put into their bodies, and it's even LESS moral when everything else they ARE allowed to ingest is poison as all fuck.

Maybe if we put our bizarro world glasses back on, the government will look somewhat humane again. I dunno, though... All those slimy tentacles I can see sticking out above and below the goggle frames kind of tend to give the illusion away now.

[skunk]

Its funny the drug warriors never mention the unconstitutionality of banning ingestible substances. Maybe I should quote the bible (http://bible.cc/genesis/1-29.htm) more often:


And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

huh huh huh he said "meat"

huh huh huh

Fox

[Cogburn]

Fuck the Fed.

Cali got yer back.

[theeindiee]

I could understand if they made truly bad for you natural things illegal, like nightshade or cobra venom.... but I dunno, I think we've got more common sense than to go ingesting cobra venom willingly for shits and giggles.

So basically, the government is calling everyone a stupid fuck constantly. Unless you're a masochist, that should be enough to perturb your faith in gov't. Indeed, there exists millions of masochists here.

"America: Hating Ourselves.... and Proud of It!"

[Bitchkoma]

Question: if the Lakota Nation does it instead, can the feds do anything? Legally speaking.

[JiveTurkey]

Question: if the Lakota Nation does it instead, can the feds do anything? Legally speaking.


I wouldn't think so legally.......

Would they do something about it anyway? Yup.

[lala]

There doing trials here for hemp since 06 . . . http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/hot/Hemp/Hemp_licence1B_final4.pdf . . . this is the process you go throw to start farming it. . . . And another article about it . . . :)



(NaturalNews) New Zealand's Health Ministry recently announced that it will relax its rules on growing industrial hemp for use in foods. The change is a huge win for the hemp industry, which has waged a five-year, million-dollar battle against the old regulations there.
http://www.naturalnews.com/019725.html

[skunk]

Question: if the Lakota Nation does it instead, can the feds do anything? Legally speaking.

The DEA raided the Lakota's farm soon after they planted their first season of hemp crops.

DEA destroys Lakota hemp crop (check under media reports) (http://nativesunite.org/hemp/)

It doesn't really matter if the reservation law allows hemp/cannabis to be grown, the DEA doesn't give a fuck. I think it didn't help that there was a great deal of publicity with this particular grow.

This will be the first legal grow in the United States. When the world doesn't end after the hemp is harvested, we will figure out as a country that every state and every farm needs to grow this. The support will be overwhelming when we realize what one plant can be made into, and how ridiculous it is for a government agency to destroy it at a whim.

My personal belief is that the DEA is the most evil organization on this planet, only rivaling the CIA/NSA in their deeds for what they do.

[Cogburn]

My personal belief is that the DEA is the most evil organization on this planet, only rivaling the CIA/NSA in their deeds for what they do.
Which was a position formerly held by the BATF, which got it's nuts cut off when Homeland Security was rolled out.

See, that shit wasn't all bad.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

n]jokV8xlJTNEn]

Hemp for Victory (on speed)

[hp]

When Monsanto wants it, see how long it takes.

It's really sad how the rules are made in the US.

[boycotteverything]

fuck hemp. if you couldn't smoke the shit none of these doper poseurs here would give a shit.

[skunk]

Ok bud. Why don't you go back to creating hoaxes and leave the big boys to their discussion.

Considering I personally care a great deal about environmental/economic sustainability (that's why I'm in school dumb fuck) as well as independence, it would be an absolute disgrace if I only worried about smoking. Not to mention I hardly touch the stuff.

But I wouldn't put it past a 70 year old to understand younger generations.

http://www.torontohemp.com/hempuses.jpg


P.S. Are you still mad no one registered at your forum? How about you cry about it for a few days, come back, make a big stink, and then continue posting here like nothing happened as usual.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Something to consider:

[offsite:3a7y3grv]If we have a few industrial hemp fields scattered around Humboldt county what this will tend to do is keep marijuana cultivation out of our traditional agricultural areas because the hemp pollen will simply overwhelm the marijuana plants and make them unsaleable.

High Times | Will "The Terminator" Terminate Cannabis Hemp in California? (http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/3046)[/offsite:3a7y3grv]

smoke up, be!

[Ducky]

fuck hemp. if you couldn't smoke the shit none of these doper poseurs here would give a shit.

I would have expected a dialogue to ensue from this. But morons like BE see fit to spit out stupid and irrelevant retorts.

:wink:

[Cogburn]

P.S. Are you still mad no one registered at your forum? How about you cry about it for a few days, come back, make a big stink, and then continue posting here like nothing happened as usual.
BE came back and Chorlton stayed gone.

It is indeed an imperfect universe.

[skunk]

Amen.

[Bitchkoma]

P.S. Are you still mad no one registered at your forum? How about you cry about it for a few days, come back, make a big stink, and then continue posting here like nothing happened as usual.
BE came back and Chorlton stayed gone.

It is indeed an imperfect universe.

:lol:


BURN