Hemp can be used as a fabric or rope, as an oil to run your engine on or cook your food in, and hemp seeds have more amino acids required by your body than soy beans.  Yet the Federal Government continues to enforce laws that do not allow farmers to grow this multi-use plant.

North Dakota, the only state that it’s not illegal to grow hemp in, lifted it’s requirement to have approval by the DEA before one can grow hemp.  Though anyone who does grow it still faces federal prosecution.

Fighting back two farmers, Wayne Monson and Wayne Hague, are suing the Federal government arguing that industrial hemp is not the same thing as marijuana and wouldn’t be used for recreational or medical purposes.  In 2007 their case was dismissed but this would be an attempt to appeal to a higher court in an attempt to get someone to listen.

The Federal Government bans a perfectly legit industry and again it is the people who suffer.  What harm is hemp doing by growing in our fields?  Absolutely none, yet the authortarian government puts a gun to our head saying if you grow it we’ll take everything you got.  Your kids, house, money and your livelyhood for doing nothing but farming your land as you wish.

The solution to help our already abismal economy and keep these people who want only to create jobs for themselves and others here in the United States is for the Judges to let these people farm peacefully and undisturbed like all the other farmers out there.  Why the state thinks this is hurting anyone is a mystery to me.  Of course I’m sure the several industries hemp would come into direct competition with would love to see them get dismissed yet again.

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