Hemp for Vermont Bill Becomes Law

[Gold Metal Flake]

Hemp for Vermont Bill Becomes Law
State Wants Federal Permission for Farmers to Grow Hemp

MONTPELIER, Vermont (May 30, 2008) — Vote Hemp, a grassroots advocacy organization working to give farmers the right to grow non-drug industrial hemp, is extremely pleased that Vermont Governor Jim Douglas allowed H.267, the Hemp for Vermont Bill, to become law without his signature yesterday afternoon. The bill overwhelmingly passed both the House (126 to 9) and the Senate (25 to 1). The new law sets up a state-regulated program for farmers to grow non-drug industrial hemp, which is used in a wide variety of products, including nutritious foods, cosmetics, body care, clothing, tree-free paper, auto parts, building materials and much more. Learn more about industrial hemp at the
Vote Hemp Web site.


Industrial hemp is the non-psychoactive, low-THC varieties of the Cannabis sativa plant. Hemp has absolutely no use as a recreational drug. Please click here to learn more about the farmers' case in North Dakota.

This is very good news for all humans.

"Industrial hemp is the non-psychoactive, low-THC varieties of the Cannabis sativa plant. Hemp has absolutely no use as a recreational drug. " Anyone posting pot jokes in this thread will be doing so in an attempt to disrupt.

[gateley]

1. Excellent!

There is SO MUCH we can use hemp for!

Hopefully the farmers in Vermont will be the first of many who utilize this crop and people will begin to see the benefits and wisdom of growing hemp.

[pleah]

2. K&R

[LibertyLover]

3. Hemp oil is supposed to be very nutritious

and hemp clothing is comfortable and long-wearing. This is good news for the farmers in Vermont. I hope that similar bills are introduced and enacted in the other 49 states and various territories.

[DCKit]

13. It also needs no processing to substitute for diesel fuel....

It was used in the Pacific in WWII when our troops couldn't get shipments.

[ensho]

4. wonderful! thank you sensible Vermont

nt

[eShirl]

5. hope they (VT farmers) don't get treated by the Feds like the White Plume family were

when they tried legally growing hemp on the rez...

"I said, 'What do you think you're doing?' and an FBI guy raised a machine gun and pointed it directly at me," Alex White Plume said."
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - August 24, 2000

http://www.twofrog.com/hemp.html

Hemp, Sovereignty and the DEA - "Twenty-five federal agents in 11 sport utility vehicles descended at dawn on a 1 1/2-acre field of industrial hemp just four miles north of Manderson (SD)." The information on this page has been continuously updated in order to keep it as current as possible.

[Gold Metal Flake]

10. Indeed.

The more states that pass laws like these, the more acceptable hemp farming will become all over the country. Next job: get the bastard Governor of California to allow the bill to become law, the bill that he has vetoed twice.

[Indenturedebtor]

6. Good news! K + R n/t

[grannylib]

7. It's about time. Industrial hemp has been grown in Canada for

years, very successfully; it has SO many uses and needs very little, if anything, in the way of pesticides/herbicides. The prohibition against it is just ludicrous. During WWII, it was considered a matter of patriotism and national pride to grow it for the war effort. WTF happened to common sense??

[DCKit]

16. "WTF happened to common sense??"

Hijacked by Republicons and Corporatists.

Of all the plants in the world, hemp has the most value - in all it's various forms.

I suspect that, while the timber industry has backed off a bit, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Cotton and Big Chemical (which supplies the fertilizer and pesticides required by Big Cotton) would very much like to see the ban continue.

[grannylib]

17. No doubt they would. Stupid greedy irresponsible fuckers.

[DCKit]

19. Language Granny.

Just kidding.

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. Their motto: Profits! The rest be damned!

GREEDY SELFISH A$$HOLES!

[Ghost Dog]

21. Very many uses. Without hemp there would have been little rope,

for just one common example, for sailing ships back in the old days... Remember (London's River Thames) RN Chatham's ropewalk.

[tanyev]

8. WTG, Vermont!

:applause:

[sam sarrha]

9. it is only illegal because of Pharmaceutical industry, Cotton industry, paper industry, OIL industry

[lazyriver]

22. Wasn't DuPont heavily involved in outlawing it?

[krispos42]

11. Hemp for Victory!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne9UF-pFhJY


Strong natural fibers for clothing and rope, and plenty of cellulose for ethanol.

[Ghost in the Machine]

12. "America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619"

America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hempseed. There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767), and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender (you could even pay your taxes with hemp -- try that today!) Hemp was such a critical crop for a number of purposes (including essential war requirements - rope, etc.) that the government went out of its way to encourage growth.

The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp "plantations" (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton.


http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

[windoe]

14. This is sane, hemp can save our economy n/t

[Uncle Joe]

15. Good for Vermont, now if the rest of the nation would catch up.

Thanks for the thread, Opposite Reaction.:thumbsup:

[The Doctor.]

18. What an economic boon for VT!

That reminds me... I haven't been to Killington in a while.

[Coexist]

20. .

[Turn CO Blue]

23. Don't underestimate the cotton lobby in getting this stopped.

Too bad, because hemp is a superior fiber, takes less water to grow and would also make much better bio-fuel than corn.

[Fly by night]

24. Homegrown sensimilla will become impossible to grow there.

With all the hemp pollen soon to be in the Vermont air, it will be nigh impossible to produce sensimilla there. I'm surprised more drug warriors (sic) don't promote widespread hemp production as a means to prevent/disrupt sensimilla production.

I favor industrial hemp but believe folks should understand the implications.

[glowing]

26. Ahh, don't worry.. they were growing both back in the day.. I'm assuming

we have various forms of the weed because it can take care of itself.. No, you don't want them next to one another, but it'll be ok.

[Fly by night]

28. Sensimilla means "seedless". That's not possible with clouds of hemp pollen

When a pot plant gets fertilized, the buds stop growing and producing THC. That is why growers began eliminating the males (in my experience, that started about 40 years ago). Besides, the resultant seeds from a hemp/pot cross would be worthless.

[glowing]

31. I'm sure it will be ok...

[Fly by night]

32. ... based on what?

[Gold Metal Flake]

25. Evening kick for sanity.

:kick:

[iamthebandfanman]

27. yay, now if only my state would do it

the farmers would be rich! the stuff grows like wild fire with really no assistance in good ole kentucky soil.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. K&R!

:woohoo: