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Industrial Hemp Legislation to Cultivate, Study and Support.

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Industrial Hemp Legislation
to Cultivate, Study and Support
Industrial Hemp is currently
legal to grow in more than 30 countries including
Canada, Germany, England, France, Spain, Australia,
New Zealand, the Russian Federation, China, Hungary
and Romania. For more information on where hemp
is being grown today, click
here.
Many U.S. states have passed
legislation to grow, study or request changes
in U.S. government policy on industrial hemp.
To date, twenty-six states have introduced hemp
legislation and fourteen have passed legislation;
six (Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, North Dakota
and West Virginia) have removed barriers to its
production or research.
Hawaii has not only passed hemp
legislation allowing for hemp trials but has actually
planted the first legal hemp crop since the 1950s!
The Hawaii Industrial Hemp Research Project was
authorized for research under the direction of
Dr. Dave West. It has since been closed due to
DEA shenanigans and problems renewing the DEA
permit.
For the first time since the
federal government outlawed hemp farming in the
United States, a federal bill has been introduced
that would remove restrictions on the cultivation
of non-psychoactive industrial hemp. H.R. 3037,
the "Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005,"
was written with the help
of Vote Hemp by chief sponsor Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX),
and several original co-sponsors have already
signed on. The bill defines industrial hemp and
assigns authority over it to the states, allowing
laws in those states regulating the growing and
processing of industrial hemp to take effect.
For more information and a complete
summary of state and federal hemp legislation,
click
here to visit the Vote Hemp Web site.