Bill Would Allow Hemp Farming

[Kadie]

Bill Would Allow Hemp Farming
By Steve Lawrence, The Associated Press

Published: April 6, 2005

SACRAMENTO—John Roulac wants to give California agriculture a boost and cut his transportation costs at the same time.

Roulac is the founder and chief executive officer of Nutiva, an up-and-coming organic food company that is based in California but processes and packages most of its products in Canada. The reason: Nutiva sells bars, protein powder, seeds and oil made with hemp, a cousin of marijuana.

Hemp has only a trace amount of tetrahydrocannabinols, or THC, the drug in marijuana, but hemp can’t be legally grown in the United States without a permit from the Drug Enforcement Administration. And the DEA has only allowed an experimental plot in Hawaii, according to Adam Eidinger, a spokesman for Vote Hemp, the lobbying arm of the hemp industry.

So Nutiva contracts with Canadian farmers for its hemp, processes it in Canada and imports the finished products.

“We pay Exxon and Chevron a lot of money for gasoline for truckers,” said Roulac. “We’d rather pay that money to California farmers to grow a sustainable crop.”

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http://sacunion.com/pages/state_capitol/articles/3788

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1. Bring on the hemp oil.....

[slor]

2. YAHOOO!!! This is what I want to hear!

Make small farms more profitable, and get started on renewable energy!

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3. Hemp oil is high in omega-3 fatty acids. . .essential for

regulating the cholesterol in your body.

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www.nutiva.com

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4. Let's insist that McDonalds use hemp oil for their french fries