Hemp legalization closer to reality?

California is ready to grow green

When most people think about hemp, they don't realize that hemp and marijuana are not the exact same plant, but very different variations of a related plant.

Nonetheless, marijuana might might just be hemp's best friend.

With a growing movement in California to legalize marijuana, it seems hemp legalization cannot be that far behind if California voters make marijuana legal via proposition in 2010.

Hemp Legalization: Let's grow up America

The dangers of hemp?

These are some of my hemp shoes. Speaking of hemp shoes, I just saw a really cool pair yesterday at the Van's Store in Old Town Pasadena.

Anyway. So, let's roll some hemp and smoke it.

Feel better?

No. In fact you probably have a headache because hemp is not a drug. Hemp has very little THC, the ingredient in marijuana that makes it a drug worthy of regulation.

Hemp, on the other hand, is used for clothes, food, car parts, etc. and on and on. Hemp is an industrial product. Yet, it is still illegal just because it looks like marijuana. So, only looks matter? Not reality?

Certainly there have been relatively recent studies, such as the infamous University of Wisconsin hemp-hammering study that essentially claims hemp might not be very useful today compared to other crops.

Perhaps. Minimally, nonetheless, hemp is a great organic product that is conducive to other organic crops, minimally. Even the UW study acknowledges that fact.

The point is, legalize it and let's see what happens. It's already a billion+ industry. Yet, American companies have to import hemp because it looks like marijuana?

Let's grow up America, or are we still just skin deep?

Ron Paul seeks to legalize hemp

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Just watched CNBC's PowerLunch coverage of Ron Paul's attempt to legalize hemp farming in the US. Let's do it people. I'll be posting a link later to the CNBC video segment.

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Let's start a hemp farm

Hemp farming

Now that California can essentially legalize the growth of marijuana, why not legalize the growth of hemp? The industrial applications of hemp could make hemp a green cash crop.

Anybody know of any plans out there to legalize hemp farming in California? What about other states? I know North Dakota had a serious hemp legalization movement at one time?

Also, join our campaign to legalize hemp farming.

Another small step for hemp legalization

A pair of hemp shoes

So, the US government is going to let States decide how they want to manage the laws covering marijuana, particularly medicinal marijuana. And, the move could help develop hemp farming.

While hemp does not contain THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, it is just as illegal to grow as marijuana.

But none of that might matter any more. If states can license marijuana growers, then it seems there is no reason states couldn't license hemp farming.

With all the environmental problems in the world today, as well as the focus on biomass, it seems that industrial hemp should be given a chance.

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Hemp on the verge of legalization in California?

Why is it always about pot?

There is a move in California to legalize marijuana so that it can be taxed by the government, something that would provide a $1 billion in tax revenue for the state according to some projections.

It the legislation were to be successful, it would open the door for hemp farming, a move that could be more conducive than fruit farms and their high water requirements.

Likewise, if the potential of hemp is as great as many speculate, hemp might even generate more revenue than its THC-containing cousin, marijuana. Considering that hemp is highly nutritious, can be made into plastic, cement, composites, clothing - even fuel - isn't it time for change?

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The Founding Founders were hemp farmers

That's right. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew weed. They didn't just grow weed, they wrote about the virtues and importance of hemp to the American economy.

Hemp has played an extremely important role in history. And, despite the fact that you can't even get high if you smoked it, hemp farming is still illegal because it looks like marijuana.

I didn't know looks could kill.

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YT finds hemp love in Pasadena

HLP knows what hemp is

As I was getting of the Metro in Highland Park yesterday, some guy asked me if my IWEARWEED.COM shirt was made of hemp. I explained that it was 55 percent hemp and 45 percent organic cotton.

Then he wanted to touch it, so I let him. He was quite impressed.

After than he stared telling me all the things he had heard about hemp, all the possible benefits. He was actually very knowledgeable about the subject and the clear differences between hemp and marijuana.

As we were talking, another dude asked if we were talking about hemp.

Turns out the kid in front was working on a paper about hemp, so the three of us talked about hemp as we walked a few blocks down 57 before heading our separate ways.

Pretty cool.

Unfortunately, we finished the conversation agreeing that the chances of legalization were pretty slim.

So, help us legalize hemp.

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The Iwearweed.com website is almost live. We are still putting a final touches on everything, as well as getting our merchant account to accept credit cards and our seller's permit from the State of California. In the interim, we will be publishing a lot of content about hemp and other green products. So, stay tuned. More important, join our campaign to legalize hemp farming in the US.