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The Americans For Hemp Campaign has gone national with 87 branches in 36 states across the United States to promote a bill in the House of Representatives that could alleviate much of the current stress upon America, HR3037, the Industrial Hemp Farmers Act of 2005. The goal of the Campaign is to unite hemp advocates and start a branch in every district of the United States to show the overwhelming support for bringing hemp back to American industry. New branches are forming daily.
“We are currently in the worst financial deficit in our history. Gas prices are rising. Pollution is a very real and growing problem, as is Global Warming. Our oil is imported overseas from dwindling supplies of fossil fuels. America’s supply of lumber is becoming an issue, and these resources are not easily replenished,” said the director of the Campaign, Melanie Dodson. “The one thing that can help change all of this is Industrial Hemp.”
Industrial hemp is a crop that can produce thousands of products such as paper, plastic, fuel, concrete, insulation, clothing and more. Not only can it make all of these products, but it can be done with little to NO pollution! This would alleviate much of the current stress upon many American industries, as well as the toll they are taking on the environment.
Hemp produces three times as much fiber per acre as cotton. Whereas cotton uses almost half of the world’s pesticides, hemp requires little or no pesticides, herbicides or insecticides to thrive. Hemp could remove our dependence on overseas oil and the negative environmental impacts from it as that hemp is a clean burning energy source. One acre of hemp in annual rotation will produce as much pulp for paper as 4.1 acres of trees in the same twenty year period. Hemp does not require the bleach used on paper from trees. Eco-friendly hemp can replace almost all toxic petro-chemical products.
Most crops are referred to as “rotational” because they deplete the nutrients in the soil and therefore must be rotated to an area of fresh or replenished soil. Hemp is a rotational crop because it improves the conditions of the soil in which is grows, leaving deposits of Nitrogen and other essential nutrients. It therefore can be entered into the rotational cycle of our crops and grown on the currently unused, depleted soil and move in rotation with the other crops. The Act was originally started by American farmers who realized the unlimited benefits for hemp as an industrial crop.
There are a number of established organizations that promote hemp, such as the Hemp Industries Association and Vote Hemp. The Hemp Industries Association is a collaboration of hemp advocates across the United States who are dedicated to education, industry development, and the accelerated expansion of hemp world market supply and demand.Both the H.I.A. and Vote Hemp have formally announced their sponsorship of the Campaign.
The most important thing that anyone can do right now is to contact their Representative, which can be done online at Write Your Representative - Contact your Congressperson in the U.S. House of Representatives., and urge them to cosponsor the Industrial Hemp Farmers Act of 2005.
“We must strike when the iron is hot, and that time is now,” said Alex Ewseychik, assistant director of the Campaign, “If the race to legalize industrial hemp was a mile long, then we are only inches from the finish line.”
If you would like to get more involved with the Campaign or start a branch in your area, contact HempAct2005@yahoo.com.
Contact: Melanie Dodson, Director of Americans For Hemp Campaign
Phone: (850) 559-4458 Fax: (850) 644-9168 Email:HempAct2005@yahoo.com
“We are currently in the worst financial deficit in our history. Gas prices are rising. Pollution is a very real and growing problem, as is Global Warming. Our oil is imported overseas from dwindling supplies of fossil fuels. America’s supply of lumber is becoming an issue, and these resources are not easily replenished,” said the director of the Campaign, Melanie Dodson. “The one thing that can help change all of this is Industrial Hemp.”
Industrial hemp is a crop that can produce thousands of products such as paper, plastic, fuel, concrete, insulation, clothing and more. Not only can it make all of these products, but it can be done with little to NO pollution! This would alleviate much of the current stress upon many American industries, as well as the toll they are taking on the environment.
Hemp produces three times as much fiber per acre as cotton. Whereas cotton uses almost half of the world’s pesticides, hemp requires little or no pesticides, herbicides or insecticides to thrive. Hemp could remove our dependence on overseas oil and the negative environmental impacts from it as that hemp is a clean burning energy source. One acre of hemp in annual rotation will produce as much pulp for paper as 4.1 acres of trees in the same twenty year period. Hemp does not require the bleach used on paper from trees. Eco-friendly hemp can replace almost all toxic petro-chemical products.
Most crops are referred to as “rotational” because they deplete the nutrients in the soil and therefore must be rotated to an area of fresh or replenished soil. Hemp is a rotational crop because it improves the conditions of the soil in which is grows, leaving deposits of Nitrogen and other essential nutrients. It therefore can be entered into the rotational cycle of our crops and grown on the currently unused, depleted soil and move in rotation with the other crops. The Act was originally started by American farmers who realized the unlimited benefits for hemp as an industrial crop.
There are a number of established organizations that promote hemp, such as the Hemp Industries Association and Vote Hemp. The Hemp Industries Association is a collaboration of hemp advocates across the United States who are dedicated to education, industry development, and the accelerated expansion of hemp world market supply and demand.Both the H.I.A. and Vote Hemp have formally announced their sponsorship of the Campaign.
The most important thing that anyone can do right now is to contact their Representative, which can be done online at Write Your Representative - Contact your Congressperson in the U.S. House of Representatives., and urge them to cosponsor the Industrial Hemp Farmers Act of 2005.
“We must strike when the iron is hot, and that time is now,” said Alex Ewseychik, assistant director of the Campaign, “If the race to legalize industrial hemp was a mile long, then we are only inches from the finish line.”
If you would like to get more involved with the Campaign or start a branch in your area, contact HempAct2005@yahoo.com.
Contact: Melanie Dodson, Director of Americans For Hemp Campaign
Phone: (850) 559-4458 Fax: (850) 644-9168 Email:HempAct2005@yahoo.com
