 Hemp Wanted #7329832 - 08/24/07 01:30 PM | |
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In 2000, Alex White Plume, a Lakota Sioux living on the reservation decided to grow industrial hemp as a means of making money for his family and creating housing on the reservation (by making “hempcrete”, a concrete product that is lighter and stronger than normal concrete and several other materials). Keep in mind, this is industrial hemp, and not marijuana. You cannot get high from it because it has no THC and it’s legal to possess the dried and processed form. Growing hemp, however, is still illegal, and the Federal Government had other plans in store for Alex White Plume.
Right before the first harvest, on a fiery July morning in 2000, Alex and close to 20 of his family members awoke early not to harvest the new hemp crop, but to see the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency roll up in black SUVs with machine guns and flak jackets – to “weed whack” down and remove all of his Hemp crops. What’s interesting in all of this was that no charges were filed. In 2001, Alex White Plume attempted one more time to grow industrial hemp, and once again, his fields were cut down and he was served with an injunction. Although he has taken the issue to court, with the full support of the Hemp Industry Association, the 9th Circuit Court of appeals recently ruled against him.
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