Hemp Legalization

The Obama Administration Is Wrong to Deny American Farmers a Profitable Crop

Eric Steenstra | Posted 05.03.2012

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Eric Steenstra

Despite growing consumer demand for these eco-friendly and healthy products, the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation in the world that allows the importation and sale of hemp raw materials and finished goods, but bans its farmers from growing the crop.

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It's High Time to Legalize Hemp

Jonathan_Miller | Posted 05.20.2012

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Jonathan_Miller

The subject of hemp has been mostly seen as a cause célèbre of the political margins, either the "hippie" Far Left or the libertarian Far Right. But public support for industrial hemp legalization -- particularly within the agricultural community -- is reaching a tipping point.

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Ron Paul Praises Hemp

AP | By DALE WETZEL | Posted 04.22.2012

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BISMARCK, N.D. -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul praised hemp as an alternative crop and said a free-market approach would protect the nat...

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Hemp, and Lots of It, Could Be One Climate Solution

Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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Graham Hill

Longtime hemp activist Jack Herer is offering $100,00 to anyone who can disprove his hypothesis that hemp is a silver bullet for climate change.

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The Top 5 Reasons Why We Should Grow Hemp

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 05.25.2011

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While there are several reasons for legalizing Cannabis, hemp, which comes from the same plant genus as marijuana, definitely has the most tangible be...

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Hemp Wars Heating Up: Should Hemp Farming Be Legal? (POLL) (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's a battle brewing in Congress over hemp production. America is the only country in the world that bans domestic growing of hemp because it cont...

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Was George Washington a Gay Pot Smoker?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harvey Wasserman

The medicinal uses of cannabis were known to the ancient Chinese. Thousands of years later, it's inconceivable American growers would not indulge in its recreational powers.

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