http://capwiz.com/votehemp/issues/alert/?alertid=9480636
USE THE LINK ABOVE TO TELL schwarzenegger THAT YOU ARE APPALLED AT HIS DECISION TO VETO THE CALIFORNIA HEMP BILL!!!!!!!
people care about hemp! you care! tell your friends to add me. then tell your friends to tell their friends.
please. lets get the numbers on this!
lets show the world how much americans care about the environment, farmers, people, and all the good stuff that hemp can help make better!
please tell your candidates that you care.
go to:
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and tell them that you want them to talk about hemp in this election.
lets bring it out into the public.
please tell people to tell people.
please tell people to stop lying about me!
spread this information.
spread awareness.
spread love!
Hello. I am the plant commonly known as Hemp. My ancestors date back more than 1,000 years before the time of Christ and until 1883 AD, cannabis was our planet's largest agricultural crop and most important industry, involving thousands of products and enterprises; producing the overall majority of Earth's fiber, fabric, lighting oil, paper, incense and medicines. In addition, it was a primary source of essential food oil and protein for humans and animals. I don’t like to brag, but I am, overall, the strongest, most-durable, longest-lasting natural fiber on the planet. My leaves and flower tops were among the most important and most used medicines for two-thirds of the world's people for at least 3,000 years, until the turn of the century.My species is a member of the most advanced plant family on Earth. We are dioecious, meaning that we have male, female and sometimes hermaphroditic brothers and sisters. Our woody, herbaceous bodies use the sun more efficiently than virtually any other plant on our planet, reaching a robust 12 to 20 feet or more in one short growing season. Also, we can be grown in virtually any climate or soil condition on Earth, even marginal ones. Hemp is, by far, Earth’s greatest renewable natural resource.My plant species has played a major role in the history of America, however more recently I have been lumped together with my cousin, Marijuana, specifically in America with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. We both come from the Cannabis Sativa plant but are completely different with respect to stalk size, growing practices and most importantly, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content. THC is the active ingredient in my cousin that people use for medicinal and mood altering uses. I am harvested solely for the use of my seed and stalk, not my low yielding THC flowers. THC values in marijuana run about 15-20%, while THC values in industrial hemp are usually closer to 0.3%. So don’t try to smoke me!Prior to this lumping together with my cousin, though, my kind was not only widely accepted, but embraced by many. 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. Some of your founding fathers, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, are included in these numbers of those cultivating hemp on their plantations. Oh, and by the way, this figure does not include the tens of thousands of smaller farms growing cannabis, nor the hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of family hemp patches in America during those days.Back in 1619, America's first marijuana law “ordered†all farmers to grow me, Hemp. More mandatory hemp cultivation laws were constructed in various early American colonies into the mid-1700s. Hemp used to act as legal tender, or money, in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800s. Why? To encourage American farmers to grow more Hemp. You could pay your taxes with cannabis hemp throughout America for over 200 years. You could even be jailed in America for not growing cannabis during several periods of shortage. I think this happened in Virginia between 1763 and 1767.NOW I CAN BARELY BE GROWN BY JUST ANY OLD FARMER JOE IN AMERICA. “Why?†you ask. Think about it. Do you think they want you making your own fuel, or paper, or fabric, or nutrition…all from the same easily grown plant? NO. They’re smarter than that. They know how wonderful my plant family is. They’ve always known. In fact, the primary reason for the War of 1812 (which in case you forgot, was fought by America against Great Britain) was access to Russian cannabis hemp. Russian hemp was also the principal reason that Napoleon (America’s 1812 ally) and his "Continental Systems" allies invaded Russia in 1812. Hmmm.Please read my blog to learn more about me and my contributions to this planet.
Oh, and by the way, I'm not too good with words, so I have to thank The Hemp Industrial Association and Jack Herer 's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes for helping me tell you pretty much all of this info!
