The Green Rush

A compelling look at the lives of some not-so-ordinary farmers, The Green Rush is a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of a unique group of marijuana farmers in Northern California. A must see film.

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How To Use Hemp To Clean Water

With around 70% of the earth covered in water, it's time to rethink the claims of fear regarding this water shortage.  Those who speak of it are generally accurate, as in if we keep going the way we are, the crisis is already in process.  However hopeless the times seem, this is the promised age of great, positive change. Fired up, ready to go!

Water purification systems that transform ocean water into drinking water, built and powered with hemp, financed by a recreational grade hemp tax, are how to solve this problem. Instead we're told to be in fear as this simple solution remains illegal in the US. Los Angeles, Phoenix, New Orleans, Miami, Washington, New York, Boston and other cities can process ocean water into clean water efficiently, economically and abundantly from this quickly grown, easily renewable, wind pollinated weed.    A secondary benefit is to take the strain off of our river system so they can heal.  For example, the Colorado River seems to be dying feeding Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los Angeles' clean water needs. 

Are you tired of the tail wagging the dog yet?  It's as if the old 'city vs. country dweller', 'them vs. us', 'divide and conquer' battle lines are being drawn.

From an excellent article in AZCentral

Farms looked at as water resources vanish

"But if farmers go out of business, the crops they sold in Arizona would be imported from another state or country. As their water is claimed by new development, cities would lose the backup water source, which would become more important if droughts worsen as climate scientists predict.

In 2007 and 2008, a group of water managers, farm-industry representatives and university researchers traveled Arizona asking farmers about the future of agriculture. The farmers were clearly worried.
"They were concerned about having enough water for the future," said Chris Udall, executive director of the Agribusiness Council of Arizona, a group that works to protect farmers' water rights. "There are a lot of farmers who want to stay in business.""

Don't fall for the lie.  We are in this together and together we can fix this.  We are limited only by our imaginations, which are vast.

There is plenty of water on the planet. We just need to show it some hemped love to transform it into safe drinking water.  Though there will be extensive discussion on this subject in future blog entries, here's the short strokes on how hemp can help the world avert a water shortage.

• Distill / desalinate or otherwise purify ocean water into clean water on ocean site or in the town/city.
• Use Hempcrete (hemp cement - info@hempcrete.ca ) to build aqueducts from the ocean to the water purification plants.
  
• Use locally grown (on government land when possible for further savings) hemp building materials to construct and stock the water plant and system, i.e hemp paper, fabrics, furnishings, etc.
• Run the water plant on hemp energy including biofuel and biomass. 
  
• Repair or rebuild sewage infrastructure with hemp materials including hemp plastic pipes. Seal all sewer tanks.  Take advantage of the upgrade further by replacing home pipes that are rusting with new hemp plastic pipes and fixtures.
• Make air and water filters from hemp, both at the plant and at the end user/citizen point.
  
• In addition to hemp medicine, a hemp empowered abundant water supply will also assist folks with health care by using what's called THE WATER CURE hydrotherapy.  
• Finance the operation from the abundant funds from a 20% recreational grade (based on THC content) hemp tax.  

For more on how to use hemp to help us solve these and other problems, please visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org a private museum with a virtual wing.  There you will find the books in the HEMP FOR VICTORY series by the museum's founder and curator, Richard M. Davis.

Hemp Farmers Plant Hemp At DEA Headquarters As Protest & Get Arrested

Artist Statement:  A group of Hemp farmers, business owners & Vote Hemp representatives recently marched to the DEA headquarters in Washington D.C. and planted industrial hemp seeds on the front lawn as an act of protest, calling for the DEA to make a distinction between marijuana and hemp and to decriminalize hemp, allowing farmers to grow hemp. They were arrested, of course.

Among those arrested were David Bronner from Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps (www.DrBronner.com), Adam Eidinger, communications director for Vote Hemp (www.VoteHemp.com), Wayne Hauge and Will Allen, both farmers.

Hemp is the answer for a profitable, renewable, environmentally friendly crop which will boost the economy and help farmers. Hemp needs no pesticides and is a renewable crop that grows well even in poor soils).

Presently, the government considers the growing of industrial hemp to be a felony crime. But with farmers desperately needing profitable crops, and with hemp products being imported from Canada, China and other countries, it makes sense to de-criminalize industrial hemp in the USA and let farmers grow it locally.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) makes no differentiation between industrial hemp and marijuana and anyone caught planting hemp will be arrested and prosecuted using the same laws that were really only intended to halt hard-core street drug pushers. The failed War on Drugs has only filled the nation's prisons with small-time "offenders" who got caught with an ounce or two of weed in their pockets. America's drug policy, it seems, is a boon for the prison industry, but a curse upon the nation's farmers.

Take action:
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Help support de-criminalization of industrial hemp farming:
http://capwiz.com/votehemp/home/

Other sites:
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David Bronner, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
http://www.DrBronner.com

Adam Eidinger, Vote Hemp
http://www.VoteHemp.com

Ruth's Hemp Foods
http://www.RuthsHempFoods.com

Nutiva
http://www.Nutiva.com

Presidential Candidate Ron Paul On Hemp

This is the second of a series of posts on presidential candidates and their positions on hemp found on webeo (web video).

Here's a few pieces we found on Congressman Dr. Ron Paul concerning hemp. Dr. Paul was the sponsor of the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007.

Dr. Paul should visit the USA Hemp Museum, and learn from the Museum's curator Richard M. Davis how hemp is the real change required to save our nation and the world. They can talk about how hemp is listed in the PDR Herbal edition as a herb that shrinks tumors and stops asthma attacks. This information should be in the speaking of all pro hemp candidates on a daily basis.

Richard's written one of those "Read this like your life depends on it, it does!" books called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which explains how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.

Here's a few of the webeos concerning Ron Paul and hemp.

Ron Paul interviewed on NORML (part 1 of 2)



Ron Paul interviewed on NORML (part 2 of 2)



Ron Paul on Medical Marijuana and Drug War



Ron Paul Blasts the War on Drugs



Ron Paul & Hemp for American Farmers



Ron Paul Talks About Hemp At Independence Mall In Philly



Hemp, the most powerful solution to our enviornmental, economic, medical and social problems we have. It's insane that hemp's illegal.