Farmers Begin Planting Hemp Under New Colorado Hemp Legalization
_Featured_, Marijuana Monday, January 28th, 2013Anthony Gucciardi | Natural Society
Many farmers in Colorado will be expanding their list of planted crops this Spring after groundbreaking legislation was passed last November that allowed not only for the legalization of marijuana, but hemp as well. Now in case you’re not familiar, hemp is actually a multi-purpose substance that does not produce the high effects of marijuana. In fact, it’s mainly used as a super cheap and highly efficient building material — at least in other nations where ridiculous bans are not enforced on the ‘high-free’ material.
Colorado farmers like Michael Bowman will be planting 100 acres of hemp to be harvested and sold off as not only building material, but a highly nutritious superfood. While marijuana is considerably high in the substance known as THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol), which of course is the compound that produces the ‘high’ effects, it’s also significantly low in what’s known as CDB (cannabidiol). That’s where hemp comes in. Both THC and CDB are known as cannabinoids, but hemp is particularly high in CDB while lacking in THC.
Hemp as a Superfood, Industry Transformer
These cannabinoids have actually been promoted by many first hand sources as not only a health optimizing substance, but a serious solution to cancer. One popular documentary titled ‘Run from the Cure’ by Rick Simpson, which is available for free on Youtube, focuses on the use of hemp oil to conquer cancer.
Rich in essential oils, fiber, and a close to complete amino acid profile, hemp contains beneficial ingredients such as:
- Linoleic acid (44% of the weight of hempseed is actually full of edible oils)
- Omega 3 fatty acids (shown time and time again to fight against anxiety, depression, and even inflammation)
- Omega-6
- A ‘complete’ amino profile that surpasses the profile of eggs, milk, soy, and many meats. This includes the 9 essential aminos that the human body cannot produce on its own.
It is for these reasons that hemp is utilized today in many high quality products like protein shakes, energy bars, and many more food products. Two tablespoons of shelled hemp seeds contain about 11 grams of protein and 2 grams of unsaturated omega-3 fatty acids.
Its versatility allows it to be a prime ingredient even in clothing and fabric-based industries. It could transform the entire industry, replacing unsustainable materials with environmentally friendly hemp.
Feds: ‘We Will Come for Your Hemp’
That is if the federal government doesn’t seize it across the nation. The DEA has its sights set on confiscating all hemp planted and grown in the United States through citing the Controlled Substances Act, which doesn’t differentiate between marijuana and hemp. The agents, which will ignore state law and enforce federal law throughout any state, say that they will be going after farmers who plant non-THC hemp as if they were planting marijuana. After all, they say it doesn’t matter what it actually is.
“It really doesn’t matter whether it looks different or it looks the same,” DEA agent Paul Roach told NPR. “If it’s the cannabis plant, it’s in the Controlled Substances Act and, therefore, enforceable under federal drug law.”
In the event that Colorado manages to generate acres of hemp without the federal government raiding the super efficient substance that is classified as a dangerous drug, it will provide a serious industry change that may spread to other states and potentially even federal law. In the more likely scenario of federal agents jailing hemp farmers and raiding their ‘drug’ operations, an intellectual and legal resistance will be in order to attempt to alter the ridiculous laws surrounding the cultivation of hemp.
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if you want to know how Hemp became Illegal…
http://markusgarvey-mybeeswax.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-industrial-hemp-and-pot-became.html
Cannabidiol is CBD, not CDB. That is all.
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Wow great article! Thank you! very informational!
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Thank you for this artical. However farmers may be able to plant hemp and that would be wonderful but according to Amendment 64 the legislature has to enact the rules and laws governing hemp and they are not forced to legalize it.
(5) Regulation of marijuana.(j) NOT LATER THAN JULY 1, 2014, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL ENACT LEGISLATION GOVERNING THE CULTIVATION, PROCESSING AND SALE OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP.
http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/s/regulate-marijuana-alcohol-act-2012
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today i got £415 fine for two small plants, so yeh, they have their greed little mitts on my assets, which are now stolen assets, my seeds, and my plants, and to top it off, they want a victims surcharge im wondering then, do i get a refund?
Two things that pissed me off today, one he shouted my name as though he had thee authority too, this made me quite vexed, and i cursed him, and two, he said, “i think you are a criminal” since when did judge opinion even count?
stated, if im found not guilty, judge would find me guilty, and tell jury to say guilty, how is this not tyranny?
I cursed he kin now too.
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North Dakota has allowed hemp farming since January first 2007, but the DEA won’t let the farmers grow. Why is it that no one seems to recall that ND made this move?
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Hemp also has the ability to remove toxins from overworked soil and chemical contaminated soil…it’s called ‘Phyto-remediation’…it’s been planted at Chernobyl to remove the radioactivity and toxins in the soil, and its working…
they better plant it on State owned properity, that way the fight will be between the State and Federals, and not between the Federals and a private property owner.
The criminalization of cannabis is a scam, it is a very beneficial plant on many levels. It kept illegal because some very nasty people in positions of power and wealth want to keep it all to themselves, honest people are meant to be kept fearful and ignorant and dependent on the evil system that is in place by these horrible families that run things.
The legalization of cannabis is a major blow to their power base and the beginning of the end of their reign of lies and fear.
Decent people need to stick together! The few must not rule the many! It is OUR problem!
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