[The Coldwood]

(Originally posted at http://www.kyleofalberta.ca/blog/200...solution-3037/ )

Okay, now don?t expect me to do this often but I have to speak out against the idiocy in America?s government
Currently industrial hemp is grown in approximately 30 nations such as Canada and the UK. Unfortunately, while industrial hemp is grown freely throughout the world, it is a restricted crop in the United States. It is placed under the jurisdiction of the DEA who refuses to distinguish it from marijuana despite clear chemical and physical differences between the plants. Industrial hemp should be placed under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture. There is currently a bill in Congress, House Resolution 3037 (H.R. 3037) also known as the ?Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005″, that proposes to amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp - the non-drug fiber crop - from the definition of marijuana - a drug crop. You can follow the progress of the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005 at the Thomas website. The bill is currently in committee. Write your Representatives and tell them to support H.R. 3037 and American farmers. Interestingly, the Lakota Nation on Pine Ridge Reservation has asserted their tribal rights to grow hemp on tribal lands. It failed at the time with the feds plowing the field under.