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US to Ban HEMP FOODS !
The Drug Enforcement Agency has decided to outlaw hemp FOODS, even birdseed (!) as of Feb 6, 2002. This despite such foods having ZERO drug value.
Public Comments NEEDED now! Here's easy way to do it. Spread the word on-line AND beyond. Urgent.
Public Comments NEEDED now! Here's easy way to do it. Spread the word on-line AND beyond. Urgent.
*!*!*!*!* War on Hemp FOOD !! *!*!*!*!*
(At a time of hightened security, the DEA finds time and money to prohibit Hemp Foods? Hemp could replace many needs for oil...now the cause of so much global terror and violence...yet the prohibition is being intensified? The "war on [non-corporate] drugs" is widely opposed for being a human rights/civil rights and economic disaster.... yet the DEA extends this to a "war" on hemp pretzels, seeds and ales, etc??
See http://www.norml.org & http://www.drcnet.org for more. V. )
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From: list-manager [at] votehemp.com
As we have previously communicated, DEA recently issued new rules that attempt to ban hemp seed and oil based foods containing any amount of THC. Although "any THC" is not currently detected by the official Health Canada protocol in most hemp foods (which are thus still being sold to consumers at natural foods retailers like Whole Foods and Wild Oats), the DEA's rules do not specify a detection
protocol and thus put hemp foods' future in an unacceptably ambiguous position. These rules are blatant violations of the original Congressional intent that exempted hemp seed and oil from DEA's control: the miniscule trace non-significant THC in hemp seed and oil presents absolutely no potential for abuse. Poppy seed bagels are legal even though they contain trace amounts of opiates, yet DEA has
not tried to remove them from your local bakery.
Thousands of letters were sent to Congress in response to our previous request that individuals send their federal elected officials a pre-written fax from the Vote Hemp website. If you were one of the many who sent letters to Congress, thanks for taking action to support hemp foods.
Now we need to send comments directly to DEA during the public comment period which ends December 10. DEA had previously tried to avoid hearing from concerned citizens by refusing to accept comments by e-mail and fax. However, as a result of pressure from Vote Hemp, DEA will now accept comments by fax which you can do for free from the Vote Hemp site. Please go to the Vote Hemp Action Alert page
(http://www.votehemp.com/action.html) and click on the "Send a Pre-written Fax" feature which is now revamped with a different pre-written letter special for the DEA. Then, please edit and customize the pre-written letter as you like to make it your own, and click to send it to DEA. Thanks for your continued support!
list-manager [at] votehemp.com
(At a time of hightened security, the DEA finds time and money to prohibit Hemp Foods? Hemp could replace many needs for oil...now the cause of so much global terror and violence...yet the prohibition is being intensified? The "war on [non-corporate] drugs" is widely opposed for being a human rights/civil rights and economic disaster.... yet the DEA extends this to a "war" on hemp pretzels, seeds and ales, etc??
See http://www.norml.org & http://www.drcnet.org for more. V. )
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From: list-manager [at] votehemp.com
As we have previously communicated, DEA recently issued new rules that attempt to ban hemp seed and oil based foods containing any amount of THC. Although "any THC" is not currently detected by the official Health Canada protocol in most hemp foods (which are thus still being sold to consumers at natural foods retailers like Whole Foods and Wild Oats), the DEA's rules do not specify a detection
protocol and thus put hemp foods' future in an unacceptably ambiguous position. These rules are blatant violations of the original Congressional intent that exempted hemp seed and oil from DEA's control: the miniscule trace non-significant THC in hemp seed and oil presents absolutely no potential for abuse. Poppy seed bagels are legal even though they contain trace amounts of opiates, yet DEA has
not tried to remove them from your local bakery.
Thousands of letters were sent to Congress in response to our previous request that individuals send their federal elected officials a pre-written fax from the Vote Hemp website. If you were one of the many who sent letters to Congress, thanks for taking action to support hemp foods.
Now we need to send comments directly to DEA during the public comment period which ends December 10. DEA had previously tried to avoid hearing from concerned citizens by refusing to accept comments by e-mail and fax. However, as a result of pressure from Vote Hemp, DEA will now accept comments by fax which you can do for free from the Vote Hemp site. Please go to the Vote Hemp Action Alert page
(http://www.votehemp.com/action.html) and click on the "Send a Pre-written Fax" feature which is now revamped with a different pre-written letter special for the DEA. Then, please edit and customize the pre-written letter as you like to make it your own, and click to send it to DEA. Thanks for your continued support!
list-manager [at] votehemp.com
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