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Hennessy Hemp Starts 365 Hemp Meal Days

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What happens if we were to eat hemp seed for every meal? Hemp seeds nutritional value offer high omega’s, protein, and essential nutrients that have fed generations for thousands of years. Today, hemp seed is a niche market which is growing rapidly, because people are rediscovering its benefits.
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There are body builders, athletes, and health conscious people who have experienced fantastic physical changes since they incorporated hemp seed into their meals. This is not a diet, it is a way of life. If you take a moment and search YouTube for “hemp seed shakes,” you will find numerous people from all walks of life sharing their excitement about hemp and what it has done for them.

Super size me, was about eating junk food, but what would it look like if we fed our subject hemp seed? Cravings for sugar decrease, weight and energy balance out and become predictable, and the immune system can become stronger with the proper food intake.

Hennessy Hemp is starting today, keep up with his progress at www.hennessyhemp.com

Agricultural Apocalypse

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Check out page 39 in the Fourth issue of The Hemp Connoisseur.

Check out Page 39

Imagine wearing a mask just to go through you day, just to breathe. Dirt grit perpetually in your teeth and covering your windows with sheets and blankets in a futile attempt to stop the dirt from sifting into your home and food becomes scarce on the shelves at the supermarket. Breathing, eating a meal, and walking the dog, are no longer simple, but moment to moment challenges.

This has happened, for eight years during the 1930’s, after decades of extensive farming without crop rotation and other mitigation techniques, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska were ground zero for the Dust Bowl. It came in a yellowish-brown cloud from the South and in a black blizzard from the North, causing major economic, ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian farmlands.

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Weedman proves his freedom

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The Weedman did it.Make no mistake about it: The   victory    Ed Forchion — the NJWEEDMAN — enjoyed on Thursday in the Burlington County Courthouse certainly sets the stage for other marijuana users to upend the unjust New Jersey (and national) marijuana laws.I’ll get to the “unjust” part later, but first, a rehash (pun intended) of the facts: Forchion was pulled over with a pound of pot in his car and $2,000 in cash. According to the state laws, he was facing a mandatory   minimum    of three years in jail and a $25,000 fine for distribution. Forchion, who has been fighting the marijuana laws in this state (and nation) for   over    15 years, claimed it was for his own purposes. Medicinal, to be clear. The county prosecutor pointed out during the trial that Forchion had enough grass to roll 6,000 joints, which would seem to poke a hole in the “personal use” defense. I mean, how many joints could Forchion smoke in a day? Two? Five? Ten? (Actually, I don’t want to know.)Forchion was seeking a hung jury, hoping to get a pothead-friendly juror to “nullify” the law. (Quick and dirty   “jury nullification”    definition: The jury decides the law is unjust, so they acquit.)But what Forchion got was something much more than one person fighting for him. He got 12. A unanimous jury verdict, 12-0.

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I Was Stroked

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by Steve Boorstein

Please take 4 minutes to listen to my latest song for stroke survivors and loved ones: Written a year after my stroke, and reworked many times over the past 4 years! Maybe it will get some attention from the National Stroke Assoc. and the American Stroke Assoc. Feel free to share it with everyone :)
MP3 LINK             or             Web LINK
Be sure to play it loud!!
I Was Stroked by Steve Boorstein

Performed by:

Ray Smith on vocals, guitar, organ, bass & drums

Cari Minor on vocals

Jeb Bows on Violin (Plays with Brandi Carlile)

If you can’t play the MP3, click http://www.reverbnation.com/steveboorstein to hear it there!
You can reach Steve at  steve@survivingstroke.com

Cannabis should be a medicinal ally, but we’ve put it on the wrong side of the drug war

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We have a drug problem. Its victims include the very young, the very old and everyone in between.

According to The Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of babies born addicted to opiates has nearly tripled in the last decade. Overdose death rates for the elderly increased twofold from 1999 to 2006. In 2009, drug-induced deaths exceeded deaths from motor vehicle accidents. The culprit: legal prescription painkillers.

In many people, it starts innocently: A fall, an accident or a surgery begets unbearable pain, treated with an opiate painkiller. As useful as these drugs are, they can also be deadly. Their tragedy ripples through a network of family and friends whose lives are also torn apart and forever altered. We can do better.

What if there was a medication that acted on its own endogenous bodily system to relieve pain, as documented in clinical studies, while never resulting in one overdose death? There is. It’s called cannabis.

The real drug problem in this country lies in the war we have waged on this medicinal plant, while ever increasing numbers of young and old suffer and die from legal prescription drugs. It shouldn’t be. It needn’t be. People should have a choice.

We can do better for our families.

Theresa Daniello Auburn Township

 

Happy Mothers Day and Muddy Hole Days, May 12-13th

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Hemp was, and can be, an integral crop to the survival and growth of the United States for medical, industrial and food uses.

In 1762, “Virginia awarded bounties for hempculture and manufacture, and imposed penalties upon those who did not produce it.”

Three years later, from George Washington’s Diary…

May 12-13 1765: “Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp.”
August 7, 1765: “–began to separate (sic) the Male from the Female Hemp at Do-rather too late.”

 

Handcuffed, alone and forgotten in a windowless, 5×10′ cell without food or water

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“I didn’t care if I died – I was completely insane.”

That’s what 23-year-old Daniel Chong told reporters after he was abandoned in his cell for 5 days after a 4/20 Drug Enforcement Agency raid at UC San Diego.1 Handcuffed, alone and forgotten in a windowless, 5×10′ room without food or water, (Read More and DO Something about this)

US Should Allow Hemp Farming

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To the Editor:
In a recent press release opposing legislation to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp, the White House drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, has shown a stunning ignorance about the plant, stating ”all parts of the plant, including hemp, can contain THC (a psychoactive ingredient in marijuana), a Schedule I controlled substance.” In the world of scientific reality, the amounts of THC found in industrial hemp – even in the flowers – are so minute as to be meaningless. But the amounts of THC found in hemp fiber are so low as to be undetectable, which is why hemp fiber products are legal in the United States.

A few examples of the usefulness of industrial hemp are in order. Because of its resistance to degrading, American hemp was the best product for ship’s ropes and rigging during our American Revolution and financed a large part of it. The oil from pressed hemp seeds is both nutritious (highest plant source of omega-3 fatty acids) and can be used as a diesel biofuel. The resultant seed cake rivals soy as a protein source and has essential amino acids. The long fibers from the plant make an excellent source for fabric and high-grade paper (the original drafts of our Constitution were made from hemp paper). The rest of the biomass can be used as a nutritious animal feedstock. It has a thick root system with a taproot over three feet long, markedly lessening desertification (soil loss/runoff). Finally, since the biochemistry of the plant kingdom differs, the hemp plant does better with increasing ultraviolet radiation (think ozone hole), the rice plant does not, making hemp seed cakes a much more valuable nutrition source as we advance into the 21st century.

However, Kerelikowske also said ”America’s farmers deserve our nation’s help and support to ensure rural America’s prosperity and vitality.”

Every other industrial nation allows hemp farming. In a time of economic recession, we should be promoting industrial hemp for its economic potential, especially since the American climate is very suitable for producing high quality hemp and the world market is growing.

The simplest and most effective way to start this economic progress is to completely remove hemp from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration drug Schedule I, which prohibits it. This change could be made immediately by a presidential order to the DEA drug czar.

I remember President Obama campaigning on effective change. The time to start is now.

Gene Tinelli
Jamesville

The Drug Czar’s False Statement About Marijuana and Hemp Should Be a Bigger Scandal

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Scott MorganAssociate Editor, StoptheDrugWar.org

In response to an online petition sponsored by the White House, which I signed seven months ago, I’ve finally received a response from Obama’s Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, explaining why we can’t let American farmers grow industrial hemp. It’s written in rather plain language, but nonetheless betrays either appalling ignorance or rank dishonesty on the part of our nation’s top drug policy official.

Unfortunately, while President Obama’s misleading claims about medical marijuana policy have generated considerable attention, the drug czar’s recent comments about hemp have gone almost entirely unnoticed and unreported. This is his entire response right here (which apparently took many months to prepare):

OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE TO Allow Industrial Hemp to be Grown in the U.S. Once AgainWhat We Have to Say About Marijuana and Hemp Production
By Gil Kerlikowske

America’s farmers deserve our Nation’s help and support to ensure rural America’s prosperity and vitality. Federal law prohibits human consumption, distribution, and possession of Schedule I controlled substances. Hemp and marijuana are part of the same species of cannabis plant. While most of the THC in cannabis plants is concentrated in the marijuana, all parts of the plant, including hemp, can contain THC, a Schedule I controlled substance. The Administration will continue looking for innovative ways to support farmers across the country while balancing the need to protect public health and safety. [WhiteHouse.gov]

The drug czar oddly begins by declaring that, “federal law prohibits human consumption, distribution, and possession of Schedule I controlled substances,” which is simply irrelevant in the context of hemp. Hemp isn’t a Schedule I controlled substance and it can legally be consumed, distributed and possessed in a variety of forms. The soap I use every day is made of it, and you can buy hemp foods at any grocery store without fear of arrest. The drug czar’s failure to even acknowledge this basic fact makes his statement terribly confusing in its entirety, but it actually gets worse.

The central issue here, and the whole point of the petition, is that the DEA won’t let American farmers grow hemp for the purpose of manufacturing the various legal products that are made from it. As a result, all hemp products in the U.S. are made from imported hemp, eliminating a lucrative economic opportunity for American farmers. Instead of explaining why that is, the drug czar persists in blurring the distinction between hemp and pot, even implying that hemp can get you high:

While most of the THC in cannabis plants is concentrated in the marijuana, all parts of the plant, including hemp, can contain THC, a Schedule I controlled substance.

Here, the drug czar implies that hemp and marijuana are separate parts of the same individual plant, as if to suggest that allowing hemp cultivation would require that psychoactive marijuana be produced as a byproduct. This is false. Though both are types of cannabis, the hemp plant is genetically different from marijuana plants that produce the drug. In other words, the plant that’s used to make soap won’t get you high, and the plant that gets you high isn’t used to make soap. This is basic stuff, but the drug czar’s statement mischaracterizes it to the point of complete incoherence.

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