Farmers, Hemp Industry Leaders Arrested for Planting Industrial Hemp at DEA Headquarters

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Farmers, Hemp Industry Leaders Arrested for Planting Industrial Hemp at DEA Headquarters in Act of Civil Disobedience to Protest 'Reefer Madness'

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At approximately 10 a.m. this
morning, North Dakota farmer Wayne Hauge, Vermont farmer Will Allen, and fed
up American entrepreneurs, who have dedicated their livelihoods to developing
and marketing healthy, environmentally-friendly hemp products, for the first
time turned to public civil disobedience with the planting of industrial hemp
seed at DEA headquarters (700 Army Navy Dr Arlington, VA 22202) to protest the
ban on hemp farming in the United States. Even though the U.S. is the largest
market for hemp products in the world, and industrial hemp is farmed
throughout Europe, Asia and Canada, not a single American farmer has the right
to grow the versatile crop which is used for food, clothing, body care, paper,
building materials, auto paneling and more.


Hoping to focus the attention of the Obama Administration on halting DEA
interference, North Dakota Farmer Wayne Hauge; Founder of Cedar Circle Organic
Farm in Vermont Will Allen; Hemp Industries Association (HIA) President Steve
Levine; Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps President David Bronner; Vote Hemp
Communications Director Adam Eidinger and Founder of Livity Outernational Hemp
Clothing, Issac Nichelson were arrested while digging up the DEA's lawn to
plant industrial hemp seed imported from Canada. At this time, they are
currently being held in Arlington County jail and are awaiting charges. They
are expected to be released later this afternoon and will be available for
interviews upon release. The six protesters planted hemp seeds with ceremonial
chrome shovels engraved with:

Hemp Planting Oct. 2009 ~ DEA Headquarters ~ American Farmers Shall Grow Hemp
Again


Reefer Madness Will Be Buried

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS161241+13-Oct-2009+PRN20091013

Good for them! There's no reason for industrialized hemp to be illegal.

[TlalocW]

1. Yes, there is

The logging industry doesn't want to have to compete.

Not a good reason, but it's there.

TlalocW

[intheflow]

6. I heard it was the plastic industry

that led the effort to ban hemp after WWII, starting with Naval contracts for plastic ropes to replace hemp ropes on ships. I've also heard the cotton industry also has a hand in keeping hemp illegal, so you're logging industry is probably just another lobbyist player.

[TheWraith]

7. They use steel cables on Navy ships, not rope.

And in any event, there are two other issues--one is that they'd been using Manila-based ropes for awhile before they switched to steel. The second is that synthetic ropes are substantially stronger and less prone to rot than are natural fiber ropes.

[sui generis]

2. Well the DEA is gonna have a tough time making anything stick

Industrial hemp doesn't have THC, or you'd have to smoke a warehouse full of "rope", literally, to get the teensiest buzz on the way to the emergency room for your lung transplant.

There is no law against planting plants, it's not a building so it's not defacing property, so they'll be out on 23 hour hold with a ticket for trespassing or something equally stupid.

Durrr - your mighty tax dollar at work.

[madrchsod]

5. ditch weed...!

around here thousands of acres were planted during ww2 and the rope factory was just up the road. a lot of dumb asses tried to smoke the shit and dam near killed them. people would come out from Chicago to pick the stuff...

so the pot police decided to spray really bad chemicals to kill the plant and any other living thing. .we called the bugs and small animals "crispy critters".


but every once in a while you`ll see a big leafy survivor proudly growing along side the gravel road.

[Flaneur]

8. They got out in five hours. Yes, trespassing.

[winyanstaz]

3. K & R!!!!!

The time is now to legalize. Get those jobs started! Get those factories opened!

[Gman2]

4. Keep that shit away from my women's. Mashers.