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Hemp for America
I just paid $15.00 for a pound of hemp seed hearts. I bought 5 lbs. Plus shipping costs. Thats a lot of money for what used to be the “poor mans food”.

We sell hemp food, including shelled hempseed (aka hemp hearts, hemp nut, dehulled hempseed). When hemp is grown organically, it has half the yield on non-organic. In order to produce 5 pounds of shelled hempseed, it requires 15 or more pounds of hempseed, since a large portion of the seed weight is the shell, which has no market value. This is why shelled hempseed is expensive.

If hemp is grown in the US, it will have an industry behind it which will increase the yield, and thereby bring down the price per pound. A study was performed in 1975 or so by a professor at the University of Illinois on wild hemp (feral hemp) that grows all over Illinois. The professor found that on the high-end, this feral hemp had a seed yield higher than soy. Now keep in mind that the feral hemp was not a uniform crop, it was not grown in rows, etc. So, there were lots of seeds that were not mature, etc to have this yield.

Yes, hemp grows perfectly well in hot and humid Illinois climate. So, once we are able to grow hemp in Illinois, it will be an excellent rotation crop. It has already been shown that when soy is planted after hemp, there are fewer nematodes. Therefore, fewer chemical inputs (if any) are required for the following soy crop. The current crop rotation in most all Illinois are corn and soybeans (nothing else).

If you want less expensive shelled hempseed, you can check out the Global Hemp Store today, and hope for Midwestern grown hemp tomorrow!

Listen to all you pot heads! These are the facts about marijuana. I am a scientist and I know everything about THE DEVIL's WEED. I'm here to separate FACTs from FICTION. This will be an enjoyable learning experience for EVERYONE! Here they are the TRUE facts (remember I'm a scientist):

1) Marijuana is EXTREMELY addictive. Anyone using the DEVIL's WEED once will surely become addicted, 99.8% of first time users say they “need to have another ****ing hit of their drug or they will start killing people”. In order to sustain their marijuana binges the drug fiends will rape, murder, and pillage cities in order to obtain their destructive DEVIL's WEED.

2) Marijuana, AKA the DEVIL's WEED, always leads to harder drug use. 97.9% of first time users end up doing crack, heroin, meth, pcp, lsd, MDMA, etc… As you can see the list goes on. When the drug fiends who use marijuana (remember the DEVIL's WEED) walk around like zombies they are searching and scraching their skin in hopes of finding more of any drug. Marijuana users are going to gasoline stations and drinking gasoline so they could get “high”. From 1970-2007 Americans consumer 894% more gasoline, we can assume that this increase is due to the fact that marijuana users were drinking gasoline.

3) Marijuana, DEVIL's WEED, kills users. It's a myth that marijuana never kills anyone. 25.86% of first time users die on the spot, after their first inhale. 97.9% of marijuana users die within ONE month of using the DEVIL's WEED. Marijuana kills more people than alcohol, tobacco, and war, COMBINED. Marijuana kills the user through the use of highly complex natural reactions in the brain. It causes the brain to heat up, as the marijuana user laughs and murders people, so much that the persons hair catches on fire and their eyes pop and splatter goo all over the town. The next day, hard working Americans are forced to clean up the dismembered bodies and the drug lords supplying the DEVIL's WEED force them to eat the carcasses. PEOPLE SAY “OOOOOOOO, BUT MR. GOD (The Government) MARIJUANA IS ALL NATURAL AND SAFE!!!” Well you stoners, VOLCANOES ARE NATURAL, BUT ARE THEY SAFE? You be the judge…

4)For the less than 1% of marijuana users that ACTUALLY SURVIVE, 100% of them end up committing acts of genocide. If we look back into history we must note Hitler and Stalin who used MARIJUANA. They survived, but ended up killing innocent people, just like all you other DEVIL's WEED users.

Coming from a scientist, I say we should promote alcohol and tobacco because those are legal.

This bill is long overdue. It's absolutely insane that hemp is legal in the US if it's grown elsewhere, but illegal to grow it here—presumably because the US just can't handle things this complicated, having an industrial crop that's related to some other plant the DEA doesn't like.

We should be able to grow hemp in the U.S. This is a free country. Oh wait -it isn't, and this is just another example of how Americans are told we are free, but not given the freedoms they deserve.

FYI – Hemp was grown for the WWII effort all across the midwest. In Iowa still hemp grows wild, towering tall along fence rows. It is completely ignored by most except a few teens who might try to smoke it, thinking they will get high – they won't. It is harmless and should be allowed to be grown as a crop.

wow i hope this is satire

Where did you get this from, the Onion?

[...] industrial hemp (a different plant) is also illegal. That’s truly "reefer madness." The story from Mike Lillis of the Washington Independent: Got [...]

You a funny man!

It is about time some one has awakened to sanity there in Foggy Bottom! Let us see how many co-signers on to their proposed Bill. I pray that they will support the efforts. I do not see Barney Frank's name as a co-signer on HR1207.

It's not a war on (some) drugs, it's a war on minorities. AFTER the Civil war the north outlawed slavery (1865) and AFTER 'grandfather clauses' (google the term if you are unfamiliar, but *I* studied it in grade school) were struck down as unconstitutional (1866-1900) Uncle Sam outlawed the *naturally occurring substances (I hesitate to call them drugs because 'drugs' to me mean synthetic pharmaceuticals created by combining chemicals) that minorities were using so he could stuff his prisons to … REPLACE SLAVE LABOR WITH PRISON LABOR! *cheers, hoots, hollars* thank you, thank you. I came up with that myself but I'm certain I'm not the first person to figure it out. The kicker is that ALCOHOL IS BY FAR the most dangerous drug, which must be why it's legal, so they can still arrest us even when using the legal drug.

Read tinyurl.com/1mn and the rest of the links from that page

See 1942 'Hemp for Victory' on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&sea… produced by the USDA to outfit our warships during WW2 with the necessary: rope, uniforms, parachutes. of course, our own government denied ever producing it, until copies were found showing quite clearly in the opening credits that it was produced by the US gov.

If our founding fathers touted the benefits of hemp,I don't see why we can't.Over 25,000 products can be manufactured from hemp.It is and will always be, the most versitile plant on this planet.

These are the facts that should be highlighted when discussing the legal hemp “issue”. It's hard to argue against “what is”. Thanks

[...] farming of industrial hemp may be returning to the United States, thanks to the effort of two Washington lawmakers, Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Ron Paul [...]

Praise Jah. Finally, someone tells the truth.

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The logical,intelligent,ethical and compassionate uses for cannabis are numerous and undeniable….Maybe there is already a product on the market i havent seen yet,but,hopefully a hemp based product can replace the use of plastics,especially in one time use consumer packaging….

The logical,intelligent,ethical and compassionate uses for cannabis are numerous and undeniable….Maybe there is already a product on the market i havent seen yet,but,hopefully a hemp based product can replace the use of plastics,especially in one time use consumer packaging….

The Obama administration has already shown some signs that it plans to move the country’s drug policy away from the “war on drugs” mentality that’s marked the last few decades. Support for the Frank/Paul bill would be another signal that it’s serious.

good review i like your posts

It is absurd that hemp was banned in the first place. Here's hoping we can re-legalize it soon. It can only help our economy!

good review i like your posts

It is absurd that hemp was banned in the first place. but it is good for people’s health.

It is absurd that hemp was banned in the first place. but it is good for people’s health.