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Camilo
9th August 2016, 14:45
http://www.healthyandnaturalhabits.com/virginia-house-unanimously-decides-industrial-hemp-will-legal-overriding-feds/#comment-578

The Virginia state House of Delegates has passed a bill that will make industrial hemp completely legal throughout the state, overriding any federal interference.

Passed 98-0, every delegate jumped on board to seize their right, as a state, to lead their own destiny. Hemp is one of the most valuable commodities on the planet, functioning as food, fiber and, of course, one of the most amazing recreational drugs known to man.

Introduced by Del. Brenda Pogge (R-Norge), House Bill 699 (HB699) would change state law and remove a provision forcing hemp farmers to get federal approval before licensing their farm. It also requires the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to “adopt regulations as necessary to license persons to grow and process industrial hemp for any purpose.”

If passed through the senate, Virginia would join a host of states that have already taken the reigns to grow industrial hemp. The states of Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Connecticut, Maine, North Dakota and Vermont have ignored federal prohibition and legalized the production and manufacturing of hemp.

“In short, this would cut the federal government completely out of the state’s hemp policy, as it should be,” said Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center.

Indeed, Maharrey is right. The United States is founded on the principle of individual state rights. Unified through a federal system, the states bring their own individuality to the table and the process has enabled us to continue a just society (though that can be argued since the pukish war on terror got started). The states’ rights are built to supersede federal law. The feds make sure the states keep that right, while holding the union together.

In accordance with internet and massive intellectual revolution, many states are waking up at the same time. People in power read the same articles on the value and benefit of hemp and the states that have already gone the distance, including Colorado, for instance, are making huge amounts of tax money off the legal transactions.

conk
9th August 2016, 17:48
It has been said that hemp and peanuts could replace fossil fuel oil as our energy supply.

Flash
9th August 2016, 19:22
It has been said that hemp and peanuts could replace fossil fuel oil as our energy supply.

hemp, great if we could. Peanut oil fume - many allergic to it would suffer greatly.

shaberon
9th August 2016, 20:56
We also have it here (NC), and I believe in Kentucky as well. One of my neighboring towns was called Hemp until around the 1950s when it went out of fashion. The process of stamping it out was definitely a tale of concentrated central power, so it's actually quite good to see this turning around. "New" employment and sales opportunities based on something that has so many benefits and hardly any drawbacks would be really helpful, especially in the hands of small local businesses.

As this domino falls, I hope a lot of the bad ideas of the 20th century will start to crash as well. Would prefer a nation of hemp farmers over a vast military empire.

Foxie Loxie
10th August 2016, 22:32
Apparently some of our Founding Fathers were hemp growers!! History Channel info!

TODD & NORA
10th August 2016, 23:34
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shaberon
11th August 2016, 00:35
Apparently some of our Founding Fathers were hemp growers!! History Channel info!

Indeed! U. S. Constitution written on hemp paper. "Cannabis" comes from the Dutch for "canvas", referring to hemp sails, which were better than any other kind. And at one time, you could pay taxes in hemp. Its virtues are many, and I have no objection to its medical/recreational cousin, even though the law doesn't allow this yet. Pharmaceutical lobby probably doesn't like it, while they crank out some of the most obnoxious pollution available (second only to the Tyson and Purdue chicken conglomerates).

My family grew so much hemp that, 50 years after being banned, it was still all over the place--can't get rid of it. But it was throwing money away. Might have helped us keep the farm instead of handing it over to some bank. It is cheap, though; you will need multiple acres and a tractor in order to do business in it.