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Mar 27, 2009, 1:56:59 AM3/27/09

Environment 'n Hemp,hemp Hooray!

Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We
Need

By Dara Colwell, AlterNet. Posted March 26, 2009.

We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it.
Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it
still illegal?
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While Uncle Sam's scramble for new revenue sources has recently kicked
up the marijuana debate -- to legalize and tax, or not? -- hemp's
feasibility as a stimulus plan has received less airtime.

But with a North American market that exceeds $300 million in annual
retail sales and continued rising demand, industrial hemp could generate
thousands of sustainable new jobs, helping America to get back on track.

"We're in the midst of a dark economic transition, but I believe hemp is
an important facet and has tremendous economic potential," says Patrick
Goggin, a board member on the California Council for Vote Hemp, the
nation's leading industrial hemp-farming advocacy group. "Economically
and environmentally, industrial hemp is an important part of the
sustainability pie."

for the rest of the story;

http://www.alternet.org/environment/133055/hemp_is_not_pot%3A_it%27s_the_
economic_stimulus_and_green_jobs_solution_we_need/

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Can't fool all of the people, All of the time.

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