U.S. Congress On The Verge Of Giving Key Approval To Legal Hemp

For anyone who has been around Nova Earth Serenity knows, we are big advocates of legalizing, and reinstating, the growing of hemp in the United States.  Well, it looks like that day is soon to manifest.  This is a highly significant marker on the road to alternative fuel sources.  Any internet search regarding the multiple uses for hemp will result in thousands of favorable responses. The other extremely important aspect of growing hemp is its use in providing sustainable everyday products like paper, food packaging, fuel, edible (and highly nutritious) parts of the plant, fabric, etc and so forth.  Not to mention, of course, that a great many people, farmers, distributors, retail outlets will employ tons and tons of people in this country.  It will give the economy an incredible boost.   And that's not all.  How hemp restores the soil from the depleting quality of such crops as GMOs to nutrient-rich land will support so many other crops in the future. 

This bill is still going to make hemp a controlled plant because they are allowing to grow it for "research".  But the next logical step would naturally be to make it a full-blown legal commodity.  It is all a matter of time.  And personally, I feel one of my prayers has been answered.  -S.C.-

U.S. Congress On The Verge Of Giving Key Approval To Legal Hemp
by Shadee Ashtari for Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/industrial-hemp-farm-bill_n_4681857.html

A provision in the new $1.1 trillion farm bill, finalized by Congress Monday, legalizes the production of industrial hemp for research purposes and is set to move forward, pending a House and Senate vote expected Wednesday.

The bill, which would allow universities and state agriculture departments to legally grow industrial hemp in states that permit it, challenges a long-standing ban on production under federal controlled-substances laws. Currently, Colorado, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia hold such laws.

The amendment, which does not apply to individual farmers, was authored by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) -- all lawmakers from states that allow industrial hemp production.

California Senate Unanimously Approves Hemp Legalization

How cute is this!

As goes California, so goes the rest of the country, or something like that.  This is extremely good news.  Let's grow some hemp, y'all.  The few hemp products I use (shelled hemp seeds, which are highly nutritious) are too expensive because they have to be imported and/or manufactured from Canada.  I love hemp  fabric, but I don't want to spend $65.00 on a skirt made from a weed.  Not to mention everything else hemp is good for, including the environment.   P.S.  Have you noticed lately that Dr. Bronner's liquid soaps all have hemp in them now.  A coincidence?  I think not.  Back in the day it was the law that farmers had to dedicate X number of acres for growing hemp, which was used for everything - rope, paper, clothing, medicine, fuel, etc.  Not to mention that natural fibers have a purer frequency that synthetic fibers, which is better for your aura.  We all need to get back to the land -- so that we can save it, and our astral body!   -S.C-

Re-blogged from
http://www.theweedblog.com/
June 7, 2013

In a bipartisan, unanimous decision, California’s Senate has approved Senate Bill 566, a measure to legalize hemp. The proposal now heads to the state’s House, where its passage would put it to the governor for final consideration.