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New State Law Will Allow Farmers To Grow Hemp
Posted by CN Staff on July 19, 2009 at 19:16:33 PT
By David Steves, The Register-Guard
Source: Register-Guard
Salem -- Oregon is about to become the first Western state to permit its farmers to grow industrial hemp. But there are a couple problems to be confronted before Oregon becomes a Hemptopia by the Pacific:It’s still an illegal crop, according to the federal government. Oregon wasn’t an ideal place to grow hemp the first time it was legal. And it won’t be the next time, either.
That’s not bringing Dena Purich down, though. The owner of a business that makes hemp-based clothing, Purich is excited about the possibility that the supply chain is one step closer to running from Oregon farmers to her Eugene-based Earthbound Creations. Right now, she and her two employees design and assemble men’s sports shirts, women’s skirts and other garments from hemp that’s grown in China, woven or knitted there into 100-yard bolts, and shipped across the Pacific Ocean.“It would be awesome to keep everything in Oregon,” she said. “That would be great not only for our local economy, but for businesses like mine.”Local enthusiasm for hemp’s possibilities was also evident at a three-day Emerald Empire Hempfest, featuring music, speakers and other entertainment, that wrapped up Sunday at Eugene’s Washington-Jefferson Park.A spokesman for Gov. Ted Kulongoski said he plans to sign Oregon’s new hemp legislation, Senate Bill 676, into law. When that happens, Oregon will become the seventh state to allow farmers to grow hemp. And it will be the only one in the continental United States west of the Rockies. Hawaii’s governor signed a similar law this month, and Maine’s governor did the same in June.Read more in Monday’s Register-Guard.Source: Register-Guard, The (OR)Author: David Steves, The Register-GuardPublished: July 19, 2009Copyright: 2009 The Register-GuardContact: rgletters guardnet.comWebsite: http://www.registerguard.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/L8qc94HLCannabisNews Hemp Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/hemp.shtml
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Comment #15 posted by ekim on July 21, 2009 at 18:53:23 PT
Oregon will become the seventh state
do you think that the up comming Seattle Hemp fest will have such a film of the board being made, wonder how hard it is to make good venior to go over the top. do you see a return to the sea with sails, oil going up
i do hope the knowledge of how to make sails is well understood. does med grade of cannabis make different tex of fiber or color or softness compared to hemp as such. would be nice if more content of hemp be included in such major hemp events -- just image all the shirt sales and paper being generated.just saw on tv cnbc was showing a clip of lawmakers and the gops were yelling where are the jobs -----well come on lawmakers find out how much the cannabis prohibition is costing the workers in all those gops and dems states back home.
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Comment #14 posted by ekim on July 21, 2009 at 17:16:06 PT
thanks you guys
you have been wonderful leaders for many comming of age today
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Comment #13 posted by museman on July 21, 2009 at 10:08:23 PT
ekim
There was one board that I took a picture of, and I think it is something along those lines.Without desparaging the major efforts of folks that went into making the Hempfest a nice happening, there was a conspicuous lack of information. Lots of hemp products amd hemp-related products, but it was almost as if there was this expectation that everybody already knew everything.Or it was there when I wasn't.As far as hemp products that could be made near me, I'll take a stab at it.The number one major product that could probably be made here with some retooling, would be 'hempboard' -pressed particle board. There are numerous lumber mills in Oregon, most have gone under, but the few surviving ones could be converted to dealing with hemp instead of fir. I don't know how many plywood mills we have anymlore, because they were all outsourced starting in the 70's to Japan, but they are already close to what is needed to seet up a hempboard operation.There are more cottage industries in Oregon -I am willing to wager- than any other state in the Union, and those small businesses would be in a better position to find local uses for hemp, than a lot of the big companies.It would be easy to sell hemp seed anywhere. The fibers could be shipped to canada until the industry gets its own.And I have to point out that because 'cannabis is cannabis' the hemp parts of the medicinal plant can also be used for the same things as industrial hemp, although some prohib idiots would claim that you could 'get high' from smoking the stalk, root, and fibers and curds.Anybody ever try to get high from smoking rope? Rope, (before nylon) was made with Indian Hemp, which is the root genus of some of our favforite bud. I guarantee there is no 'high' from those parts of the plant, unless a chemical process is used to extract and concentrate the trace amounts of THC in them.The 'curd mill' that was patented in the early 30s (what scared W.R. Hearst) should be easily adaptable to a small farmer, as well as major corporate providence thieves, if it is brought out of mothballs and re-invented with 21st century technology. There's a lot of Oregonians that can relate to hemp paper.Why couldn't we take make an effort to build some of the infrastructure needed to accomodate the many uses of hemp? That in itself would be an impetus and stimulous to our economy.Everything that can be produced by hemp, can be done ultimately cheaper, more efficiently, and without outsourcing to the various slave corporations that supply Walmart and other 2nd rate dept stores with an overstock of inferior goods.All it takes is a little committment on the part of people who want to do it, and the death of the DEA.There are a few textile related factories in Oregon, or at least there used to be, and all that is needed is a hemp-oriented loom for spinning thread.I think that hemp as a replacement for the failing lumber industry (thank everything that is Holy) is the best opportunity to save not only our economy, but be the one state largely responsible for re-oxygenating the atmosphere (if hemp were planted where our beautiful forest used to be) and contrary to some belief, hemp/cannabis grows just about anywhere, with very little maintenance or intensity. Of course the yeild is smaller than if one cultivates, but hemp will reseed itself and grow forever in the same spot if allowed. Our stump-filled clear cut forests could be seeded with hemp, and then practically left alone until someone decided to harvest the hemp. If left til it seeded, it would come back the next year.There are strains of cannabis that grow in high altitudes, and lattitudes. I was once working on a strain that came from Siberia called 'Ruderalis.' Cannabis can literally be grown almost anywhere under almost any conditions. Again, yield is dependent on two factors; acreage and cultivation. Without cultivating (watering/irrigation, nitrogen feeding) yeild is much lower/ But on the hundreds of thousands of acres of raped forest that we have here in Oregon, the yield would still be staggering.I think that the moment the feds become people again, Oregonians will find applications for hemp faster than G. Bush junior could finish a sentence.The last pics I took are on my daughters camera, and I may have to remind her to send them to me, but I'll get them up when I do.FREE CANNABIS FOR ALL
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Comment #12 posted by runruff on July 21, 2009 at 06:22:20 PT
ekim
See the section in my video about particle board made from hemp fiber!
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Comment #11 posted by ekim on July 20, 2009 at 20:21:34 PT
please news people, make Uncle Walter proud
tell us where and what the new jobs are.hemp that’s grown in China, woven or knitted there into 100-yard bolts, and shipped across the Pacific Ocean.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/11/thread11260.shtml
The production technology of linen has undergone constant improvement. In 1984, the country made a breakthrough in the degumming technology, bringing worldwide attention to linen products. [snipped.Where in China == how big a business is ithow much acreage , What about Canada= what are they doingWhat are the new products Museman the hemp industrys use to have a traveling hemp board = had hundreds of products posted on it.
something like www.hia.org Was the board at your event.
if so how many of the items could be made near you.the need for both the hempsters and the reformers has never been greater.as Kapt has said its about the lack of jobs.please say a prayer that Sen Russ of WI will
ask how many jobs are being stoped by Govt prohibition of Cannabis as he wants Congress to be fully informed by the CIA =
as the EX CIA Dir James Woolsey has said time and time again we must as a Nation allow the growth of Cannabis for jobs and National Security.
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Comment #10 posted by duzt on July 20, 2009 at 11:49:28 PT
hops
Some of the best hops in the world come out of Oregon and Washington, and hemp is related and grows well in similar conditions. I went to high school for a year in Klamath Falls and for a year in Chiloquin, Or. and they had some of they best cannabis (ok, it wasn't hemp) I have experienced (oh my god, the 85-90 Oregon blueberry) They have a shorter season but they have excellent growing conditions as well. If they are allowed to grow, they will produce excellent hemp.
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Comment #9 posted by museman on July 20, 2009 at 11:21:13 PT
HempWorld
I wasn't speaking of 'techniques of growing'- in that sense you are absolutely correct, I was merely pointing that
'cannabis is cannabis' and even though some genetic manipulation has been made to the genus, in the form of longer fibers and less THC, it is still essentially the same, with the same basic requirements of Nitrogen and light.One would not grow their herb in the same way as one would a hemp field. In that you are also correct.In a slighlty humorous side note, i'd like to say that I grew up playing in the many 'Hemp for Victory' gardens left over from WW2 in the midwest, and I have a scar under my right eye from nearly having my eye put out by a hemp stalk used as an arrow. I am quite familiar with the way a hemp field grows.And having grown many varieties of cannabis -all outside- I am also very familiar with the basic needs of cannabis.So though there is a slight distinction -in growing techniques, and in fiber and THC content, I submit that the initial conditions that allow for THC cannabis cultiivation, also allow for cultivation of hemp. While it is true that there are climates more suitable for hemp than some places in Oregon, the changes in our rainfall has produced the growing season that now enables us to grow herb comparable to the Humboldt varieties, and considering the fact that industrioal hemp does not require the same full season as bud to accomplish the product 'hemp' I can see no reason why hemp would be any harder to grow here in Oregon than anywhere else.I respect you too :-)>FREE CANNABIS FOREVER
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Comment #8 posted by HempWorld on July 20, 2009 at 10:39:36 PT
"It’s still an illegal crop, according to the fed
eral government."So. much for 'democracy!'It's like bait and switch, very cruel!The US Fed Gov't is run by lobbyists and they will never allow industrial hemp to be cultivated nationally (see DuPont et. al 80 years ago). I'm sorry but I've been on this train for 15+ years, don't get your hopes up. The corruption has decided that you cannot have hemp in the US, probably never, not even with an African American president! Go figure!Unless the power in Washington, somehow (magically) reverts back to 'the people' industrial hemp will remain a myth. Hey museman (musemon) I respect you a lot but I do not agree with you here: "And if you can grow the best kind of cannabis (IMO) with success, hemp is no different." Medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp are grown in a very different fashion, IMHO and see my websites and movies on these subjects. Hemp grown for fiber is planted very close together 1-2 inch and needs to be harvested by machine. The real problem is that there is no infrastructure to support this 'new' industry at current technological standards, see Canada!
Grow Hemp!
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Comment #7 posted by museman on July 20, 2009 at 09:48:06 PT
on the side....
"Oregon wasn’t an ideal place to grow hemp the first time it was legal. And it won’t be the next time, either."I'd just like to point out that 'the first time it was legal' was actually the time before the 'first time' it was illegal. (not counting the brief lifting of prohibition for hemp during WW2)I'd also like to point out that this fact; "For all the precipitation that befalls Oregon, not enough of it rains down during hemp’s summer growing season," is directly related to the wholesale destruction of our Northwest Rainforest -that was started in earnest by the number one financial backer of 'marijuana' prohibition (who hired Anslinger)- William Randolph Hearst, who acted decisively, quickly and with much money to prevent the fledgling hemp industry of the 30's (that had just gotten a new patented machine to easily seperate the hemp curds for making cheap, long lasting paper) from getting started.And once he had a monopoly on the paper and lumber industry, the technique known as 'clear cutting' went to work felling the ancient forest that was responsible for the 'precipitation that befalls Oregon.'And in supreme irony, the only thing that could possibly reverse the damage, is the planting of cannabis hemp or otherwise, in the vast barren hillsides left over from the century of rape that was nearly completed in the last decade, helped along by Mr. Monkey Bush's policies of backing the rich, and damn all else. (Thanks to Obama, it is finally going to stop.)Oregon, as little as 30 years ago, rained TOO MUCH to grow cannabis.But as has been recently demonstrated in the past few decades, cannabis can be grown quite well, with comparable yeild to Humboldt -for example- in Oregon now. And if you can grow the best kind of cannabis (IMO) with success, hemp is no different.GROW OREGON GROW
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Comment #6 posted by Hope on July 20, 2009 at 08:34:22 PT
Comment 3 Runruff
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Comment #5 posted by Hope on July 20, 2009 at 08:33:21 PT
This hemp business law in Oregon
is one of the examples of what I meant when I was thinking a few weeks back that states could 'Pre-Legalize" cannabis. They can be ready to go as soon as things get right on the Federal level.
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Comment #4 posted by anunlikelyally on July 20, 2009 at 06:55:02 PT:
SWEET!
AWESOME!
I hope it trickles down to California or works its way up to Washington.
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Comment #3 posted by runruff on July 20, 2009 at 05:54:11 PT
Good-bye Old Navy!
I'll be growing my pants from now on!
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on July 20, 2009 at 05:42:44 PT
Hemp Hubbub: Expanded Register Guard Hemp Article
Oregon’s Potential as a Crop-Growing Hub Excites SomeBy David Steves, The Register-Guard Monday, July 20, 2009Salem -- Oregon is about to become the first Western state to permit its farmers to grow industrial hemp.But there are a couple of problems to be confronted before Oregon becomes a Hemptopia by the Pacific:It’s still an illegal crop, according to the federal government.Oregon wasn’t an ideal place to grow hemp the first time it was legal. And it won’t be the next time, either.That’s not bringing Dena Purich down, though. The owner of a business that makes hemp-based clothing, Purich is excited about the possibility that the supply chain is one step closer to running from Oregon farmers to her Eugene-based Earthbound Creations. Right now, she and her two employees design and assemble men’s sports shirts, women’s skirts and other garments from hemp that’s grown in China, woven or knitted there into 100-yard bolts, and shipped across the Pacific Ocean.“It would be awesome to keep everything in Oregon,” she said. “That would be great not only for our local economy, but for businesses like mine.”Local enthusiasm for hemp’s possibilities also was evident at a three-day Emerald Empire Hempfest, featuring music, speakers and other entertainment, that wrapped up Sunday at Eugene’s Washington-Jefferson Park.A spokesman for Gov. Ted Kulongoski said he plans to sign Oregon’s new hemp legislation, Senate Bill 676, into law. When that happens, Oregon will become the seventh state to allow farmers to grow hemp. And it will be the only one in the continental United States west of the Rockies. Hawaii’s governor signed a similar law this month, and Maine’s governor did the same in June.State Sen. Floyd Prozanski, a Eugene Democrat who championed Oregon’s hemp bill, did the same thing every session going back to 1997. Just as the issue moved from the fringes to the mainstream in Salem, Prozanski said he thinks recent action in statehouses, along with growing public acceptance of hemp as an industrial resource, will help compel Congress and the Obama administration to follow suit at the federal level.“All that will have a very positive impact on getting things shifted and changed at the federal level,” Prozanski said. “I expect to see things change there within the next two years.”A bill introduced this year in Congress with bipartisan sponsorship would make it legal for American farmers to resume growing hemp. An act of Congress would be unnecessary if the Obama administration decided to rule that industrial hemp no longer should be considered a Schedule 1 controlled substance, as it has been since 1970. Advocates of such a move, including Prozanski, say that’s the most sensible approach.Hemp is related to marijuana — both are varieties of the cannabis sativa plant. But industrial hemp contains only trace levels of the psychoactive THC that makes marijuana an effective recreational and medicinal drug.So how well would hemp grow in Oregon? According to a 1998 research paper by an Oregon State University crop and soil scientist, hemp is unlikely to become a major commodity in the Pacific Northwest.For all the precipitation that befalls Oregon, not enough of it rains down during hemp’s summer growing season, wrote OSU’s Daryl Ehrensing.Before federal drug laws and the advent of synthetic materials like nylon and petroleum-based plastics doomed hemp, it flourished in such Midwestern states as Kentucky and Wisconsin.The same pattern has been playing out in Canada, where farmers have been legally growing hemp since 1998. Canada’s breadbasket provinces, Manitoba and Saskatchawan, have produced 81 percent of that country’s hemp crop. Westernmost British Columbia, with growing conditions more similar to Oregon, has produced 2 percent of Canadian hemp.“The old rule of thumb is that you can grow good hemp where you can grow good corn,” Ehrensing said. “Look around the Northwest. How much corn do you see growing? Not much. There’s a reason for that, and the same would be true for hemp.”But Ehrensing allowed that as long as growers in Oregon are willing to test the marketplace, hemp could prove a successful niche crop — especially for those with land with access to irrigation water in the Willamette Valley and in the Columbia River Basin.Eugene’s David Seber, a veteran of Oregon’s industrial hemp movement, said much has changed since he first started working on particleboard, Fiberglas-like composite and other prototypes of hemp-based products in the early 1990s. Seber started out to find an alternative to wood-based products and reduce the need to log Northwest forests.Now, worries about climate change have given hemp even more cache, he said, noting its potential as an alternative to petroleum-based fuel and plastic, as well as the plant’s superior ability to capture carbon emissions, which contribute to global warming.Tom Murphy, spokesman for the Hemp Industries Association, said Oregon may prove an attractive place to grow hemp because, like the rest of the region, it has several hubs of hemp product manufacturing and consumption. Besides Eugene’s Merry Hempsters and Earthbound Creations, similar businesses in Portland and Ashland are contributing to the estimated $113 million in North American annual retail sales by companies affiliated with his hemp trade association.“The West Coast, Oregon, Washington, California, is a huge marketplace for hemp production,” Murphy said. “And having it grown near the marketplace would be a huge advantage over growing it in North Dakota, say.”HEMP FACTSGeorge Washington and other founding Americans cultivated hemp.Hemp seed was used throughout history to make paint and varnish. Hemp fiber was used for rope and canvas.Today, it is a source of seed oil for lip balm, biofuel and a nutritious, nonallergenic ingredient in food products, including breakfast cereal and alternatives to milk and ice cream.The long, tough fibers from hemp stalk can be used to make such products as paper, automotive door panels, homebuilding materials and clothing.Hemp is a nonhallucinogenic variety of cannabis sativa. Congress curtailed hemp production, starting in 1937 through the Marihuana Tax Act.Oregon is the seventh state since 1999 to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp, although it is still not allowed by the federal government.Canada resumed the legal production of hemp in 1998. Its hemp exports increased in value from $74,949 to $3.45 million (Canadian dollars) in 2007, according to government figures.The U.S.-based Hemp Industries Association estimates 2008 annual retail sales of all hemp products in North America to be about $360 million. The U.S. imports most of its hemp from Canada, China and Western Europe.Copyright: 2009 The Register-GuardURL: http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/17278869-57/story.csp
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Comment #1 posted by Mark702 on July 19, 2009 at 20:17:04 PT
Go Oregon!
This is excellent news for the hemp industries and for Oregon. To learn more about hemp, check out some of these videos:http://forum.grasscity.com/movies/220403-good-marijuana-documentaries-5.html#post4831252
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