The USA Hemp Museum got this message from the great hemp activist, Dr. Jeri Rose.
"Richard, WE need to get EVERYONE who cares about planet earth to write to their Representative to support HR 1866. It simply allows those states that want to allow their farmers to grow industrial hemp to go ahead and let them.
Please write your Rep and email everyone you know and ask them to email everyone they know. This must become a nationwide avalanche to the House of Representatives."
House.gov has the link where you can share your support for ending hemp prohibition now and restoring sanity to government. Tell them it is not nice to make mother nature illegal.
From The Library Of Congress's Thomas.gov
H.R.1866
"OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED: To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes."
Our most profound thanks and gratitude to the hemp heroes in congress who refuse to give up the fight to end hemp prohibition.
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2]
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1]
Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4]
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7]
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22]
Rep McClintock, Tom [CA-4]
Rep Miller, George [CA-7]
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46]
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13]
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6]
Please contact your congressional representative and tell them to unconditionally support H.R. 1866, which is in support of industrial hemp.
One quick note. It's time to redefine "industrial" hemp. The term is from the last century when the government was demonizing the hemp plant, a divide and conquer technique. Have the industrial, recreational, medical and religious activists working against each other for attention, rather than working together to achieve a goal. Those days are numbered.
Consider that medicine, recreation and even some religions are also industries, and should be able to qualify for industrial hemp protection when the legislation passes.
From Thomas.gov .
Title: To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 4/2/2009)
Cosponsors (10) Latest Major Action: 4/2/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jump to: Summary, Major Actions, All Actions, Titles, Cosponsors, Committees, Related Bill Details, Amendments
SUMMARY:
***NONE***
MAJOR ACTIONS:
***NONE***
ALL ACTIONS:
4/2/2009:
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E860-861)
4/2/2009:
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
4/2/2009:
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
4/2/2009:
Referred to House Judiciary
TITLE(S):
OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED: To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes.
COSPONSORS(10), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 4/2/2009
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 4/2/2009
Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] - 4/2/2009
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 4/2/2009
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 4/2/2009
Rep McClintock, Tom [CA-4] - 4/2/2009
Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 4/2/2009
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 4/2/2009
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 4/2/2009
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 4/2/2009
COMMITTEE(S):
Committee/Subcommittee:
Activity:
House Energy and Commerce
Referral, In Committee
House Judiciary
Referral, In Committee
RELATED BILL DETAILS:
***NONE***
AMENDMENT(S):
***NONE***
END TEXT FROM THOMAS.GOV
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act (Introduced in House)
THANK YOU!!!!!
"H.R.5842 Title: To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States. Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 4/17/2008) Cosponsors (4) Latest Major Action: 4/17/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce."
What does a medical decision has to do with Energy and Commerce, though Health is part of that structure? What about looking at health from the perspective of effective healing in addition to money? Medical hemp is a medical issue and should be referred to the Subcommitte On Health working from just the facts.
The USA Hemp Museum has volumes of information on how hemp heals, some of it posted in earlier articles on this blog and on the site.
We're grateful for whatever legislation gets through so the American people can once again be free to safely interact with nature.
Here's the link and the text of the Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act (Introduced in House)
HR 5842 IH
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5842
To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 17, 2008
Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts (for himself, Mr. PAUL, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. FARR, and Mr. HINCHEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act'.
SEC. 2. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.
(a) Schedule- Marijuana is moved from schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to schedule II of such Act.
(b) Prescription or Recommendation-
(1) IN GENERAL- No provision of the Controlled Substances Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict in a State in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use under applicable State law--
(A) the prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use;
(B) an individual from obtaining, possessing, or transporting within their State, manufacturing or using marijuana in accordance with a prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use by such individual hereinafter in this section referred to as `an authorized patient';
(C) an individual authorized under State law to obtain, possess, transport within their State, or manufacture marijuana from obtaining, possessing, transporting within their State, or manufacturing marijuana on an authorized patient's behalf; or
(D) a pharmacy or other entity authorized under local or State law to distribute medical marijuana to authorized patients from obtaining, possessing or distributing marijuana to such authorized patients.
(2) PRODUCTION- No provision of the Controlled Substances Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict an entity authorized by a State or local government, in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use, for the purpose of producing marijuana for prescription or recommendation by a physician for medical use from producing, processing, or distributing marijuana for such purpose.
SEC. 3. FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT.
(a) In General- No provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict in a State in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use under applicable State law--
(1) the prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use;
(2) an individual from obtaining, possessing, or transporting within their State, manufacturing, or using marijuana in accordance with a prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use by such individual, hereinafter in this section referred to as `an authorized patient';
(3) an individual authorized under State law to obtain, possess, transport within their State, or manufacture marijuana from obtaining, possessing, transporting within their State, or manufacturing marijuana on an authorized patient's behalf; or
(4) a pharmacy or other entity authorized under local or State law to distribute medical marijuana to authorized patients from obtaining, possessing or distributing marijuana to such authorized patients.
(b) Production- No provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict an entity authorized by a State or local government, in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use, for the purpose of producing marijuana for prescription or recommendation by a physician for medical use from producing, processing, or distributing marijuana for such purpose.
SEC. 4. RELATION OF ACT TO CERTAIN PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO SMOKING.
This Act does not affect any Federal, State, or local law regulating or prohibiting smoking in public.
"H.R.5842 Title: To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States. Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 4/17/2008) Cosponsors (4) Latest Major Action: 4/17/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce."
What does a medical decision has to do with Energy and Commerce, though Health is part of that structure? What about looking at health from the perspective of effective healing in addition to money? Medical hemp is a medical issue and should be referred to the Subcommitte On Health working from just the facts.
The USA Hemp Museum has volumes of information on how hemp heals, some of it posted in earlier articles on this blog and on the site.
We're grateful for whatever legislation gets through so the American people can once again be free to safely interact with nature.
Here's the link and the text of the Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act (Introduced in House)
HR 5842 IH
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5842
To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 17, 2008
Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts (for himself, Mr. PAUL, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. FARR, and Mr. HINCHEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act'.
SEC. 2. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.
(a) Schedule- Marijuana is moved from schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to schedule II of such Act.
(b) Prescription or Recommendation-
(1) IN GENERAL- No provision of the Controlled Substances Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict in a State in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use under applicable State law--
(A) the prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use;
(B) an individual from obtaining, possessing, or transporting within their State, manufacturing or using marijuana in accordance with a prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use by such individual hereinafter in this section referred to as `an authorized patient';
(C) an individual authorized under State law to obtain, possess, transport within their State, or manufacture marijuana from obtaining, possessing, transporting within their State, or manufacturing marijuana on an authorized patient's behalf; or
(D) a pharmacy or other entity authorized under local or State law to distribute medical marijuana to authorized patients from obtaining, possessing or distributing marijuana to such authorized patients.
(2) PRODUCTION- No provision of the Controlled Substances Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict an entity authorized by a State or local government, in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use, for the purpose of producing marijuana for prescription or recommendation by a physician for medical use from producing, processing, or distributing marijuana for such purpose.
SEC. 3. FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT.
(a) In General- No provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict in a State in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use under applicable State law--
(1) the prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use;
(2) an individual from obtaining, possessing, or transporting within their State, manufacturing, or using marijuana in accordance with a prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use by such individual, hereinafter in this section referred to as `an authorized patient';
(3) an individual authorized under State law to obtain, possess, transport within their State, or manufacture marijuana from obtaining, possessing, transporting within their State, or manufacturing marijuana on an authorized patient's behalf; or
(4) a pharmacy or other entity authorized under local or State law to distribute medical marijuana to authorized patients from obtaining, possessing or distributing marijuana to such authorized patients.
(b) Production- No provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict an entity authorized by a State or local government, in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use, for the purpose of producing marijuana for prescription or recommendation by a physician for medical use from producing, processing, or distributing marijuana for such purpose.
SEC. 4. RELATION OF ACT TO CERTAIN PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO SMOKING.
This Act does not affect any Federal, State, or local law regulating or prohibiting smoking in public.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
One Hemp Bill In The Great 8
If you know Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama, Maurice Hinchey and any other pro hemp person in congress, consider asking them to please present one Hemp Act in 2008. This would have a better chance of passing than our past strategy of industrial, medical, etc.
Why? Because in 2007 we had the Industrial Hemp Farming Act and the Hinchey Medical Marijuana Amendment. One was lost in committee since 4/20/07 and the other was voted down. Another year wasted when we could be growing crops to support humanity and the environment.
It is time to stop acting like fools and legalize hemp now. Living by the rules of dead people are producing like results. The time to stop killing ourselves is now.
An illusion hemp advocates have been working under is that industrial hemp, medical hemp and hemp as a recreational drug are different things.
In truth, they are different grades of the same plant, hemp.
So is leisure an industry, as demonstrated by the town of Las Vegas.
This "separate the hemp plant" strategy creates 3 times as much scattered work to get the courts out of the fields. Divide and conquer.
The solution is to unify and propose one hemp bill in the Great 8. One hemp bill, or a nature re-legalization bill, would remove all unreasonable restrictions of human interaction with plants. It would also eliminate the expensive, duplicate work that has to be done to get a bill passed.
In unity is strength.
What do you think?
Why? Because in 2007 we had the Industrial Hemp Farming Act and the Hinchey Medical Marijuana Amendment. One was lost in committee since 4/20/07 and the other was voted down. Another year wasted when we could be growing crops to support humanity and the environment.
It is time to stop acting like fools and legalize hemp now. Living by the rules of dead people are producing like results. The time to stop killing ourselves is now.
An illusion hemp advocates have been working under is that industrial hemp, medical hemp and hemp as a recreational drug are different things.
In truth, they are different grades of the same plant, hemp.
- We've made part of nature, hemp, illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment.
- We've made the hemp peace pipe illegal and wonder why we have a problem violence and war.
- We've made an easily renewable plant resource material illegal to grow and wonder why we have a problem with our economy.
- We've made inexpensive, effective hemp medicine illegal and wonder why we have a health care crisis.
So is leisure an industry, as demonstrated by the town of Las Vegas.
This "separate the hemp plant" strategy creates 3 times as much scattered work to get the courts out of the fields. Divide and conquer.
The solution is to unify and propose one hemp bill in the Great 8. One hemp bill, or a nature re-legalization bill, would remove all unreasonable restrictions of human interaction with plants. It would also eliminate the expensive, duplicate work that has to be done to get a bill passed.
In unity is strength.
What do you think?
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
The Illusion Of Industrial Hemp
Thank you for the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007.
RON PAUL, SPONSOR, COSPONSORS(11), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date) Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 2/13/2007Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] - 2/13/2007Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 2/13/2007Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 2/13/2007Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] - 2/13/2007Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 2/13/2007Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 2/13/2007Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 3/15/2007Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 5/8/2007Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 2/13/2007Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 2/13/2007
While it gives me hope for the future, I think we need a more effective strategy so we can use the hemp plant to solve our problems now.
Hemp is one plant, male and female in different grades. If it's used for medicine or fabric is not the point. Freedom is the point.
We the people have been outlawed to death. It is legal to have a gun but illegal to smoke a joint. Sometimes I feel like it's illegal for me to be alive with a reported 130,000 people killed by guns in America since the start of the Iraq war, including my x brother in law, Chauncey Bailey, the Oakland journalist murdered while walking to work one morning last August. We've outlawed the peace pipe, and wonder why we have a problem with violent crime. Rather than discuss problems over a joint or a hemp cup of tea with brownies, guns are promoted as a way to solve things in government, on television, in movies and OMG, in interactive video games for the children where the point is how many you shoot.
We've outlawed nature and wonder why we have a problem with the environment.
To fix the environment, I recommend reading Richard M. Davis' new book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which is about using the old WWII program to clean the air of excess CO2 as it grows and replace toxic energy with 100% clean burning hemp biofuel four times more efficiently than corn.
We've outlawed a natural medicine, hemp, and wonder why we have a problem with health care.
Despite the heroic presentation of Dr. Lester Grinspoon before the Crime Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee, US House of Representatives on 10/1/97 where he said "cannabis has never caused an overdose death", and the government ordered death of Peter McWilliams for using hemp, people are still being forced to take toxic medicine when a safer and/or more effective alternative is available.
To begin the process of rehemping the world, I'll play the word game since I must to co-create constructive change here.
Does anybody know what's up with the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007?
It seems to be lost in committee since 4/20/07 (yes, 4/20). What's really ironic is that it's the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, like they know about planting crops. Do they think the plant is going to explode and hurt somebody all of a sudden as there are no reported deaths from hemp comsumption.
Returning to the illusion of Industrial Hemp, here's the 411 on this year's edition, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 as documented at Thomas.gov, the key source of what's happening with bills in the US congress.
Please review and contact your elected officials, and anyone else you can think of, regarding restoring the hemp plant to it's rightful role in human development for its 50,000 plus constructive uses.
Thomas.gov notes on the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007.
SUMMARY AS OF: 2/13/2007--Introduced. Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana." Defines "industrial hemp" to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed .3 percent on a dry weight basis. Grants a state regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp exclusive authority, in any criminal or civil action or administrative proceeding, to determine whether any such plant meets that concentration limit.
INTRODUCTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL HEMP FARMING ACT -- (Extensions of Remarks - February 13, 2007) [Page: E339] GPO's PDF ---
SPEECH OF HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2007 Mr. PAUL.
Madam Speaker, I rise to introduce the Industrial Hemp Farming Act. The Industrial Hemp Farming Act requires the Federal Government to respect State laws allowing the growing of industrial hemp. Seven States--Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia--allow industrial hemp production or research in accord with State laws. However, Federal law is standing in the way of farmers in these States growing what may be a very profitable crop. Because of current federal law, all hemp included in products sold in the United States must be imported instead of being grown by American farmers. Since 1970, the Federal Controlled Substances Act's inclusion of industrial hemp in the schedule one definition of marijuana has prohibited American farmers from growing industrial hemp despite the fact that industrial hemp has such a low content of THC (the psychoactive chemical in the related marijuana plant) that nobody can be psychologically affected by consuming hemp. Federal law concedes the safety of industrial hemp by allowing it to be legally imported for use as food. The United States is the only industrialized nation that prohibits industrial hemp cultivation. The Congressional Research Service has noted that hemp is grown as an established agricultural commodity in over 30 nations in Europe, Asia, and North America. My Industrial Hemp Farming Act will relieve this unique restriction on American farmers and allow them to grow industrial hemp in accord with State law. Industrial hemp is a crop that was grown legally throughout the United States for most of our Nation's history. In fact, during World War II, the Federal Government actively encouraged American farmers to grow industrial hemp to help the war effort.
The Department of Agriculture even produced a film ``Hemp for Victory'' encouraging the plant's cultivation.
In recent years, the hemp plant has been put to many popular uses in foods and in industry. Grocery stores sell hemp seeds and oil as well as food products containing oil and seeds from the hemp plant. Industrial hemp is also included in consumer products such as paper, cloths, cosmetics, and carpet. One of the more innovative recent uses of industrial hemp is in the door frames of about 1.5 million cars. Hemp has even been used in alternative automobile fuel. It is unfortunate that the Federal Government has stood in the way of American farmers, including many who are struggling to make ends meet, competing in the global industrial hemp market. Indeed, the founders of our Nation, some of whom grew hemp, would surely find that Federal restrictions on farmers growing a safe and profitable crop on their own land are inconsistent with the constitutional guarantee of a limited, restrained Federal Government.
Therefore, I urge my colleagues to stand up for American farmers and cosponsor the Industrial Hemp Farming Act.
END SPEECH BILL TEXT
Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 (Introduced in House)
HR 1009 IH 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1009
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 13, 2007
Mr. PAUL (for himself, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. STARK, and Ms. WOOLSEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007'.
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP FROM DEFINITION OF MARIHUANA. Paragraph (16) of section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(16)) is amended-- (1) by striking `(16)' at the beginning and inserting `(16)(A)'; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: `(B) The term `marihuana' does not include industrial hemp. As used in the preceding sentence, the term `industrial hemp' means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.'.
SEC. 3. INDUSTRIAL HEMP DETERMINATION TO BE MADE BY STATES. Section 201 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: `(i) Industrial Hemp Determination To Be Made by States- In any criminal action, civil action, or administrative proceeding, a State regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp under State law shall have exclusive authority to determine whether any such plant meets the concentration limitation set forth in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (16) of section 102 and such determination shall be conclusive and binding.'.
SUMMARY AS OF: 2/13/2007--Introduced. Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana." Defines "industrial hemp" to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed .3 percent on a dry weight basis. Grants a state regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp exclusive authority, in any criminal or civil action or administrative proceeding, to determine whether any such plant meets that concentration limit. MAJOR ACTIONS: ***NONE***
ALL ACTIONS: 2/13/2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E339) 2/13/2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. 2/13/2007: Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 2/13/2007 Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] - 2/13/2007 Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 2/13/2007 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 2/13/2007 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] - 2/13/2007 Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 2/13/2007 Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 2/13/2007 Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 3/15/2007 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 5/8/2007 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 2/13/2007 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 2/13/2007 COMMITTEE(S): Committee/Subcommittee: Activity: House Energy and Commerce Referral, In Committee Subcommittee on Health Referral House Judiciary Referral, In Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Referral RELATED BILL DETAILS: ***NONE*** AMENDMENT(S): ***NONE***
END OF THOMAS.GOV POST
PLEASE ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT ALL AN UNCONDITIONAL REMOVAL OF ALL RESTRICTIONS ON HEMP. FOR OUR SURVIVAL, DO IT NOW PLEASE.
Richard Davis can be contacted at the USA Hemp Museum.
Click Here to see a review ebook copy of Davis' book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION. Hard copies are available at Lulu.com in both black and white and color editions, as well as the ebook.
Happy Hemp
RON PAUL, SPONSOR, COSPONSORS(11), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date) Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 2/13/2007Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] - 2/13/2007Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 2/13/2007Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 2/13/2007Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] - 2/13/2007Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 2/13/2007Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 2/13/2007Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 3/15/2007Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 5/8/2007Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 2/13/2007Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 2/13/2007
While it gives me hope for the future, I think we need a more effective strategy so we can use the hemp plant to solve our problems now.
Hemp is one plant, male and female in different grades. If it's used for medicine or fabric is not the point. Freedom is the point.
We the people have been outlawed to death. It is legal to have a gun but illegal to smoke a joint. Sometimes I feel like it's illegal for me to be alive with a reported 130,000 people killed by guns in America since the start of the Iraq war, including my x brother in law, Chauncey Bailey, the Oakland journalist murdered while walking to work one morning last August. We've outlawed the peace pipe, and wonder why we have a problem with violent crime. Rather than discuss problems over a joint or a hemp cup of tea with brownies, guns are promoted as a way to solve things in government, on television, in movies and OMG, in interactive video games for the children where the point is how many you shoot.
We've outlawed nature and wonder why we have a problem with the environment.
To fix the environment, I recommend reading Richard M. Davis' new book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which is about using the old WWII program to clean the air of excess CO2 as it grows and replace toxic energy with 100% clean burning hemp biofuel four times more efficiently than corn.
We've outlawed a natural medicine, hemp, and wonder why we have a problem with health care.
Despite the heroic presentation of Dr. Lester Grinspoon before the Crime Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee, US House of Representatives on 10/1/97 where he said "cannabis has never caused an overdose death", and the government ordered death of Peter McWilliams for using hemp, people are still being forced to take toxic medicine when a safer and/or more effective alternative is available.
To begin the process of rehemping the world, I'll play the word game since I must to co-create constructive change here.
Does anybody know what's up with the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007?
It seems to be lost in committee since 4/20/07 (yes, 4/20). What's really ironic is that it's the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, like they know about planting crops. Do they think the plant is going to explode and hurt somebody all of a sudden as there are no reported deaths from hemp comsumption.
Returning to the illusion of Industrial Hemp, here's the 411 on this year's edition, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 as documented at Thomas.gov, the key source of what's happening with bills in the US congress.
Please review and contact your elected officials, and anyone else you can think of, regarding restoring the hemp plant to it's rightful role in human development for its 50,000 plus constructive uses.
Thomas.gov notes on the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007.
SUMMARY AS OF: 2/13/2007--Introduced. Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana." Defines "industrial hemp" to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed .3 percent on a dry weight basis. Grants a state regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp exclusive authority, in any criminal or civil action or administrative proceeding, to determine whether any such plant meets that concentration limit.
INTRODUCTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL HEMP FARMING ACT -- (Extensions of Remarks - February 13, 2007) [Page: E339] GPO's PDF ---
SPEECH OF HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2007 Mr. PAUL.
Madam Speaker, I rise to introduce the Industrial Hemp Farming Act. The Industrial Hemp Farming Act requires the Federal Government to respect State laws allowing the growing of industrial hemp. Seven States--Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia--allow industrial hemp production or research in accord with State laws. However, Federal law is standing in the way of farmers in these States growing what may be a very profitable crop. Because of current federal law, all hemp included in products sold in the United States must be imported instead of being grown by American farmers. Since 1970, the Federal Controlled Substances Act's inclusion of industrial hemp in the schedule one definition of marijuana has prohibited American farmers from growing industrial hemp despite the fact that industrial hemp has such a low content of THC (the psychoactive chemical in the related marijuana plant) that nobody can be psychologically affected by consuming hemp. Federal law concedes the safety of industrial hemp by allowing it to be legally imported for use as food. The United States is the only industrialized nation that prohibits industrial hemp cultivation. The Congressional Research Service has noted that hemp is grown as an established agricultural commodity in over 30 nations in Europe, Asia, and North America. My Industrial Hemp Farming Act will relieve this unique restriction on American farmers and allow them to grow industrial hemp in accord with State law. Industrial hemp is a crop that was grown legally throughout the United States for most of our Nation's history. In fact, during World War II, the Federal Government actively encouraged American farmers to grow industrial hemp to help the war effort.
The Department of Agriculture even produced a film ``Hemp for Victory'' encouraging the plant's cultivation.
In recent years, the hemp plant has been put to many popular uses in foods and in industry. Grocery stores sell hemp seeds and oil as well as food products containing oil and seeds from the hemp plant. Industrial hemp is also included in consumer products such as paper, cloths, cosmetics, and carpet. One of the more innovative recent uses of industrial hemp is in the door frames of about 1.5 million cars. Hemp has even been used in alternative automobile fuel. It is unfortunate that the Federal Government has stood in the way of American farmers, including many who are struggling to make ends meet, competing in the global industrial hemp market. Indeed, the founders of our Nation, some of whom grew hemp, would surely find that Federal restrictions on farmers growing a safe and profitable crop on their own land are inconsistent with the constitutional guarantee of a limited, restrained Federal Government.
Therefore, I urge my colleagues to stand up for American farmers and cosponsor the Industrial Hemp Farming Act.
END SPEECH BILL TEXT
Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 (Introduced in House)
HR 1009 IH 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1009
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 13, 2007
Mr. PAUL (for himself, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. STARK, and Ms. WOOLSEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007'.
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP FROM DEFINITION OF MARIHUANA. Paragraph (16) of section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(16)) is amended-- (1) by striking `(16)' at the beginning and inserting `(16)(A)'; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: `(B) The term `marihuana' does not include industrial hemp. As used in the preceding sentence, the term `industrial hemp' means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.'.
SEC. 3. INDUSTRIAL HEMP DETERMINATION TO BE MADE BY STATES. Section 201 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: `(i) Industrial Hemp Determination To Be Made by States- In any criminal action, civil action, or administrative proceeding, a State regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp under State law shall have exclusive authority to determine whether any such plant meets the concentration limitation set forth in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (16) of section 102 and such determination shall be conclusive and binding.'.
SUMMARY AS OF: 2/13/2007--Introduced. Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana." Defines "industrial hemp" to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed .3 percent on a dry weight basis. Grants a state regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp exclusive authority, in any criminal or civil action or administrative proceeding, to determine whether any such plant meets that concentration limit. MAJOR ACTIONS: ***NONE***
ALL ACTIONS: 2/13/2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E339) 2/13/2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. 2/13/2007: Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 2/13/2007 Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] - 2/13/2007 Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 2/13/2007 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 2/13/2007 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] - 2/13/2007 Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 2/13/2007 Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 2/13/2007 Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 3/15/2007 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 5/8/2007 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 2/13/2007 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 2/13/2007 COMMITTEE(S): Committee/Subcommittee: Activity: House Energy and Commerce Referral, In Committee Subcommittee on Health Referral House Judiciary Referral, In Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Referral RELATED BILL DETAILS: ***NONE*** AMENDMENT(S): ***NONE***
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