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What the difference between industrial hemp and marijuana?
"Two North Dakota farmers are taking that argument to federal court, where a November 14 hearing is scheduled in a lawsuit to determine if the Drug Enforcement Administration is stifling the farmers' efforts to grow industrial hemp. The DEA says it's merely enforcing the law."
"With his state's blessing, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson is backing the farmers and has proposed modeling North Dakota's hemp laws after Canada's strict regulations."
"Johnson said the farmers' Vote Hemp-funded lawsuit has no hidden agenda. It's aimed solely at allowing farmers to grow hemp -- without going to jail because federal law says hemp and marijuana are the same.
"I've got a state Legislature saying they aren't and the entire world saying they aren't. This is about a crop that is a legitimate crop every place else in the world," Johnson said. "It's not a crusade thing. It's a crop. Let farmers grow it. We don't want anyone to be growing drugs."
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"Two North Dakota farmers are taking that argument to federal court, where a November 14 hearing is scheduled in a lawsuit to determine if the Drug Enforcement Administration is stifling the farmers' efforts to grow industrial hemp. The DEA says it's merely enforcing the law."
"With his state's blessing, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson is backing the farmers and has proposed modeling North Dakota's hemp laws after Canada's strict regulations."
"Johnson said the farmers' Vote Hemp-funded lawsuit has no hidden agenda. It's aimed solely at allowing farmers to grow hemp -- without going to jail because federal law says hemp and marijuana are the same.
"I've got a state Legislature saying they aren't and the entire world saying they aren't. This is about a crop that is a legitimate crop every place else in the world," Johnson said. "It's not a crusade thing. It's a crop. Let farmers grow it. We don't want anyone to be growing drugs."
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Re: Farmers sue DEA for right to grow industrial hemp
Tue, October 23, 2007 - 7:33 AMOriginal article found on FARK.... I LOVE peoples educated and uneducated responses:
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Judge: Congress should decide on hemp
Sat, December 8, 2007 - 9:06 AMBy MARVIN BAKER, Staff Writer mbaker@minotdailynews.com
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BISMARCK – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit two North Dakota farmers filed against the federal government in an effort to grow and harvest industrial hemp without reprisal.
Judge Daniel Hovland stated in his 22-page judgment Wednesday that Wayne Hauge of Ray and David Monson of Osnabrock should allow Congress to settle the issue of whether industrial hemp is a legal agricultural commodity or a controlled substance.
Hovland said the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007, introduced in the House of Representatives in February by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, was designed to address the current issue. Hovland referred to the act numerous times during a Nov. 14 hearing. It is yet to be debated.
North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson said the dismissal leaves the farmers with little recourse except to appeal to a higher court.
"The judge said this is a matter best left to Congress," Johnson said. "It is disappointing because realistically, I don't think Congress will deal with it."
Johnson issued state industrial hemp licenses to Monson and Hauge earlier this year under regulations developed under state law by the North Dakota Department of Agriculture. However, the licenses required Drug Enforcement Administration approval to take effect.
Even though the DEA considers marijuana and hemp one and the same because both are Cannabis sativa plant species and because both have at least trace amounts of the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydracannabinol, there are botanical differences, as well as separate harvesting methods, according to Murphy.
"These guys want to grow a seedless crop for better-quality fiber," Murphy said. "The government is more than aware of seedless varieties."
Rob Robinson, Minot, a longtime advocate of legalizing industrial hemp, is disappointed with the ruling because he believes that if this issue does go to Congress, it will take a long time to settle.
Re-posted from Modern Hemp's blog for the whole story: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm who is a great resource on current Industrial Hemp issues.
*Our government can't separate the issues of industrial hemp and marijuana (which for so many reason can't be efficiently or practically grown together)... the H.R. 1009: Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 is being reviewed... but "why has this been referred to the House Judiciary Committee and, House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security and not to The House Committee on Agriculture , and The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry?*
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Re: Judge: Congress should decide on hemp
Tue, December 11, 2007 - 9:39 PMTwo farmers - Rep. David Monson, Osnabrock, and Wayne Hauge, Ray - obtained grower licenses in 2007 and applied for DEA registration to be bulk manufacturers of industrial hemp. DEA did not act on the registration applications. Monson's and Hauge's state industrial hemp licenses expire Dec. 31.
Calling all farmers (or) "persons interested in growing and processing industrial hemp should contact Ken Junkert at the North Dakota Department of Agriculture (NDDA) at (701) 328-2231 or kjunkert@nd.gov. More information is also available on the NDDA website, www.agdepartment.com."
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