A Few Legal Facts About Hemp

The United States DEA classifies ALL C. sativa varieties as marijuana even those varieties are not! Theoretically it is possible to get permission from the government to grow hemp, the DEA would require it to be secured by a fence of razor wire, dogs, guards, and lights, making it cost prohibitive.

The State Department of the U.S. must certify, each year, that foreign nations are cooperating with the war on drugs. The EU subsidizes its farmers to grow industrial hemp. Such nations are not on the list because the State Department can tell the difference between hemp and marijuana.

Hemp was grown commercially in the United States (with increasing interference by the government until the 1950's. It was doomed by the Marijuana Tax of 1937, which placed high, very high, taxes on marijuana and made it economically impossible to grow industrial hemp. Congress expected the continued growing of industrial hemp, but who could afford it! The Federal Bureau of Narcotics lumped industrial hemp with marijuana as does its successor, the DEA.

OVER 30 industrialized nations can and do distinguish hemp from marijuana. Why won't the U.S.? Canada now allows the growing of hemp.

Hemp is an awesome product and we can't grow it. Ron Paul has introduced legislation to once again allow the growing of this wonderful plant. I will keep you posted.

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