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Industrial hemp is an agricultural product grown around the world for centuries, and is still grown today in many countries. Well known products in history made from industrial hemp include fuel, food, and fiber. Hemp products were used for the first drafts of the US Declaration of Independence, Gutenberg and King James Bibles, the first American flags and Levi's Jeans, canvas for sails on ships, and medicines. More recent applications include health foods, birdseed, low pollution bio-diesels and methanol, environmentally friendly inks, paints, paper, clothes, jewelry, plastics, and building materials.

When marijuana was banned in the US, industrial hemp (which cannot get you high at all) was included in the ban, at the behest of oil, chemical, cotton, and lumber companies who simply see hemp as a competitor. The last state in the United States to have legal hemp growing was Wisconsin in 1957.

This category is for sites discussing the status of industrial hemp, its uses and potential, and its future.

Resources in This Category

• Acts of the 1999-2000 Vermont Legislature - Vermont J.R.S. 98

  http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2000/acts/ACTR333.HTM
  Text of the Vermont joint resolution urging the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Congress to reconsider federal policies that restrict the cultivation and marketing of Industrial Hemp and related products.

• ATF Policy for beverage alcohol products made with hemp or hemp components

  http://www.ttb.gov/public_info/jan_2002/jan2002.doc
  ATF News, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1856 Edition - Hemp

  http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/h/hemp22a.html
  An objective 19th century description of hemp, its origins, and imports to the UK from a time before it was made illegal in the United States.

• Funded Research - USDA Record

  http://fundedresearch.cos.com/cgi-bin/USDA/getRec?9172318
  An economic analysis of the market for Industrial Hemp. University of Vermont.

• Funded Research - USDA Record

  http://fundedresearch.cos.com/cgi-bin/USDA/getRec?9177610
  Alternative crops in North Dakota. Among the study topics is : Assess the market potential for hemp production.

• Hemp ban lifted

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/1998/02/26/hemp980226.html
  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News.

• Hemp: A New Crop with New Uses for North America

  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ncnu02/v5-284.html
  The single most useful page on hemp on the Internet. By Ernest Small and David Marcus. Reprinted from: Trends in new crops and new uses. 2002. p. 284–326. J. Janick and A. Whipkey (eds.). ASHS Press, Alexandria, VA. Paper also available as a PDF download.

• Hempsters Go to Washington

  http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/10.24.02/hemp-0243.html
  By Mari Kane, North Bay Bohemian.

• Industrial Hemp Movement Growing

  http://www.ndsn.org/FEB97/HEMP.html
  An article by the National Drug Strategy Network, an anti-drug organization, showing industrial hemp in a positive light, implicitly supporting it

• International Hemp Association

  http://www.internationalhempassociation.org/
  Non-profit organization based in the Netherlands that is dedicated to the advancement of Cannabis through the dissemination of information.

• Ky. House backs hemp research - Bill OK'd to explore future of crop

  http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/02/15/loc_ky_house_backs_hemp.html
  Associated Press story, The Cincinnati Enquirer.

• NAIHC Position Paper - Separating the Marijuana and Industrial Hemp Issues

  http://naihc.org/hemp_information/naihc_position_paper.html
  A clear, well written paper on legalizing Industrial Hemp.

• North American Industrial Hemp Council

  http://naihc.org/
  The comprehensive information source for the North American hemp industry. Learn all about industrial hemp and its many uses. Banning the growing of this product is like banning both corn and cotton.

• Sioux fight Feds, this time over hemp

  http://www.today.com/id/3073419/ns/today-today_news/t/sioux-fight-feds-time-over-hemp/
  By Jon Bonné, Today News.

• Some see profit in Hawaii hemp

  http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/1999/07/12/story3.html
  By Malia Zimmerman, PBN Staff Reporter. Pacific Business News (Honolulu).

• TestPledge

  http://www.testpledge.com/
  Trace THC standards for shelled hempseed and hemp oil.

• The Boston Hemp Co-op's Digital Library And Museum

  http://hempology.org/
  Features historical documents, photos and information.

• The Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance / Alliance Commerciale Canadienne du Chanvre

  http://www.hemptrade.ca/
  A non-profit national group of hemp processors, marketers, farmers, and information specialists.

• The Colorado Hemp Production Act of 1995

  http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/hemp/iha/iha02215.html
  by Thomas J. Ballanco. Published in: University of Colorado Law Review, Volume 66, Issue 4 (1995).

• The Drug War Comes to the Rez

  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2001/02/drug-war-comes-rez
  When Alex White Plume planted a field full of industrial-grade hemp, he hoped that his crop might lift his family and community out of poverty. Then the DEA came to Pine Ridge. By Leora Broydo, Mother Jones.

• The University of Vermont Legislative Research Shop

  http://www.uvm.edu/~vlrs/doc/hemp.htm
  Viability of Industrial Hemp.

• Tom Hemp

  http://www.tomhemp.com/
  Running commentary on hemp news around the world and all things related to hemp.

• Vermont State Auditor - Cannabis Eradication Report

  http://www.state.vt.us/sao/reviews/reviews1998_cannabiseradication.htm
  Final report written by Edward S. Flanagan, State Auditor. Report finds that a large percentage of cannabis eradicated is feral hemp.

• Vote Hemp

  http://www.votehemp.com/
  Registers voters online, educates about Industrial Hemp, provides online voter guide, and sends email Action Alerts.

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