The DEA has proposed rules that would make many hemp-based products, including hemp foods and hemp personal-care products, illegal.
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The DEA has proposed rules that would make many hemp-based products, including hemp foods and hemp personal-care products, illegal. But you can help protect the future of hemp as a renewable resource. This site makes it easy to send a letter, fax or email to your local representatives protecting industrial hemp.
Actually, it's a Clinton appointee, Barry McCaffrey, who's trying to push these regs through.
Not to say that a Bush drug czar would be any better. I'm afraid that both Bush & Gore are both horrible on hemp issues.
posted by snakey at 2:00 PM on December 21, 2000
Not to say that a Bush drug czar would be any better. I'm afraid that both Bush & Gore are both horrible on hemp issues.
posted by snakey at 2:00 PM on December 21, 2000
What a joke, nobody will smoke industrial hemp and i have a pair of pants made from hemp and their great. Why ruin a great material from which so much can be made.
posted by Zool at 3:48 PM on December 21, 2000
posted by Zool at 3:48 PM on December 21, 2000
Are there any good stores on the net that specialize in hemp related products but don't charge an arm and a leg and have decent stuff???
Looked many times, found little.
posted by Witold at 6:41 PM on December 21, 2000
Why ruin a great material from which so much can be made.
Because it threatens the corporations that support our politicians, of course:
"...it was now possible to produce paper of much higher quality and much more cheaply than paper made from wood pulp. If our nation's inexhaustible appetite for paper was satisfied by a hemp-based industry, the wholesale logging of America's (and for that matter, the world's) forests could end."
posted by frykitty at 2:11 AM on December 22, 2000
Because it threatens the corporations that support our politicians, of course:
"...it was now possible to produce paper of much higher quality and much more cheaply than paper made from wood pulp. If our nation's inexhaustible appetite for paper was satisfied by a hemp-based industry, the wholesale logging of America's (and for that matter, the world's) forests could end."
posted by frykitty at 2:11 AM on December 22, 2000
Hemp is really easy to grow, it doesn't require any pesticides, and is the strongest natural fiber there is -- much stronger than cotton. If we didn't have to import it, it wouldn't be so expensive. Canada is making a killing exporting hemp to the US, and US farmers are starting to realize the lucrative potential of a domestic hemp industry.
The hemp industry offers an alternative to supporting the powerful logging (Weyerhaeuser) and synthetic fiber (DuPont) interests, which is probably the corporate muscle behind these proposed regs. I know of at least Santa Fe Hemp, but you can find a local hemp retailer here
posted by snakey at 8:25 AM on December 22, 2000
The hemp industry offers an alternative to supporting the powerful logging (Weyerhaeuser) and synthetic fiber (DuPont) interests, which is probably the corporate muscle behind these proposed regs. I know of at least Santa Fe Hemp, but you can find a local hemp retailer here
posted by snakey at 8:25 AM on December 22, 2000
And if you want to shop online, here's a directory of hemp retailers
posted by snakey at 8:29 AM on December 22, 2000
posted by snakey at 8:29 AM on December 22, 2000
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