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Posted by CN Staff on June 26, 2003 at 11:36:56 PT By Myron Peto, Daily Correspondent Source: Iowa State Daily 
From Atanasoff Hall to the Armory, students touring the ISU campus might find another weed growing besides dandelions and crabgrass. Plants of Cannabis sativa, otherwise known as marijuana, can be found sprouting up in areas around Atanasoff Hall, the Armory and other places on campus.This does not surprise Dennis Erickson, manager of facilities maintenance. "We do see them from time to time when we're out doing our bedding," he said. "We can't have somebody searching all the time." ISU Police Capt. Gene Deisinger said he was not surprised by the prospect of marijuana plants growing on campus grounds. "I don't have any direct information, but it's entirely possible there may be some out there," he said. Hemp, a tough fiber made from the leaves and flowers of the marijuana plant, can be found all over the state of Iowa growing wild, and is a remnant from when it was cultivated in Iowa earlier in the previous century, said Deborah Lewis, a curator in the botany department. There is even an abandoned hemp processing facility in Grundy Center, a town near Dubuque, she said. "The original building is still there," said Jean Evans, secretary of the Grundy County Historical Society. "They were raising hemp to make ropes for the navy," she said. "Many of my friends worked there. They did turn many corn fields into hemp fields." According to the Global Hemp Web site -- http://www.globalhemp.com -- Iowans were asked in 1943 to grow 60,000 acres of hemp as part of 300,000 acres to be cultivated nationwide. The hemp was to be used for ropes and other types of cordage. Because of the war, normal sources of raw material for ropes were cut off, and hemp offered an alternative. "It wasn't cultivated for THC content, but for hemp," Lewis said. She said industrial hemp, which is very likely the variety found on campus, has less than 1 percent THC content (the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana) and would be of little use to those seeking a recreational drug. Although many states have passed bills calling for industrial hemp cultivation, to date it remains illegal without federal authorization, according to the Global Hemp Web site. Source: Iowa State Daily (IA Edu) Related Articles & Web Site: Iowa NORML Iowa Touts Illegal Drug Stamp Tax Illegal-Drug Tax Buds Into Profit CannabisNews -- Cannabis Archives Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #3 posted by FoM on June 26, 2003 at 19:50:30 PT |
| Thank you too. I have always believed that chemical sprays are very hazardous. It's only logical to think that way. After watching Coca Mama on World Link TV I had no doubt about the damage that is done by the US's spraying in Colombia. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by ekim on June 26, 2003 at 19:44:31 PT |
| I just heard on BBS on NPR raido that some court has ruled that the spraying in the Columbia, that is suppose to kill a certain plant and not harm the others has failed. The order says that no more spraying untill a review is undertaken. Something about it being toxic, oh ya like a whole armada of flying aircraft flying night and day for years spraying plant killer would hurt the enviroment. The same BBC program said that the Brazil rainforest has been slashed for soy bean ---by 40 percent---- since 2001 ---wake up people. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by FoM on June 26, 2003 at 16:45:32 PT |
| Two-Year Court Fight Over Hemp Foods in Final Stages; Hemp Industry Association Files Brief to Keep Hemp Foods Legal June 26, 2003 Contact: Adam Eidinger of VoteHemp.com, 202-986-6186 or 202-744-2671 (cell) SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - On Tuesday, June 24, the Hemp Industries Association (HIA), which represents the interests of the Hemp Industry and encourages the research and development of new hemp products, filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit asking for a review of the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) "Final Rule" regarding hemp foods. If this new "Final Rule" were to take effect, it would ban hemp seed and oil and consequently destroy the multimillion dollar hemp food industry. Due to a Court ordered Stay, hemp foods remain perfectly legal to import, sell and consume while the Court hears arguments from the HIA and DEA and renders a decision. The HIA brief charges that the DEA's "Final Rule" should be invalidated because the agency is exercising arbitrary and capricious authority by attempting to outlaw hemp seed and oil without holding formal hearings on the issue or finding any potential for abuse. Because trace infinitesimal THC in hemp seed is non-psychoactive and insignificant, Congress exempted non-viable hemp seed and oil from control under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), just as Congress exempted poppy seeds from the CSA, although they contain trace opiates otherwise subject to control. The brief also charges that the DEA acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in exempting hemp seed mixed with animal feed, although Congress made no such distinction in the CSA. Additionally, the brief elucidates other major failures by the DEA-namely, the lack of hearings on this issue and the failure to comply with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which requires assessing effects of the proposed change on small businesses. The brief and other court documents are available at: http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/HIAvDEA_finalrules_petition.pdf Final Legal Schedule in Hemp Food Fight -- July 24, 2003: Deadline for DEA's response to HIA brief. -- August 8, 2003: Deadline for HIA's reply to DEA's response. -- September 17, 2003: Oral Arguments begin in San Francisco, Calif. The "Final Rule," issued on March 21, 2003, is virtually identical to an "Interpretive Rule" issued on October 9, 2001 that never went into effect because of a Ninth Circuit Stay issued on March 7, 2002. On March 28, 2003 the HIA, several hemp food and cosmetic manufacturers and the Organic Consumers Association petitioned the Ninth Circuit to once again prevent the DEA from ending the legal sale of hemp seed and oil products in the U.S. and on April 16, 2003, the Ninth Circuit again issued a Stay. North American hemp food companies voluntarily observe reasonable THC limits similar to those adopted by European nations as well as Canada and Australia. These limits protect consumers with a wide margin of safety from any psychoactive effects or workplace drug-testing interference (see hemp industry standards regarding trace THC at: http://www.testpledge.com The DEA has hypocritically not targeted food manufacturers for using poppy seeds (in bagels and muffins, for example) even though they contain far higher levels of trace opiates. The recently revived global hemp market is a thriving commercial success. Unfortunately, because the DEA's Drug War paranoia has confused non-psychoactive industrial hemp varieties of cannabis with psychoactive "marihuana" varieties, the U.S. is the only major industrialized nation to prohibit the growing of industrial hemp. Please visit -- http://www.VoteHemp.com -- to read scientific studies of hemp foods and see court documents. For more information or to arrange interviews with representatives of the hemp industry, please call Adam Eidinger at 202-986-6186 or 202-744-2671 (cell). Copyright: 2003 U.S. Newswire http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=127-06262003 [ Post Comment ] |
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