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North Dakota legalizes industrial hemp production
12.05.06|West Fargo Pioneer|Natalia Zea

On Jan. 1, North Dakota becomes the first state to legalize production of industrial hemp.


“The administrative rules committee of the Legislative Council has reviewed the rules and has not recommended any changes,” Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson said Monday. “After Jan. 1, 2007, North Dakotans will be able to apply for licenses to grow industrial hemp.”


Johnson said the rules implement several bills approved by the North Dakota Legislature over the past decade, but he cautioned interested producers that they cannot actually begin growing industrial hemp until they receive a license from the state and are approved by the federal government.


“Our rules clearly state that persons who hold licenses to grow industrial hemp must also obtain permission from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). It will be up to the DEA to allow producers to compete with other countries for the profits from this potentially valuable crop.”


Other provisions of the rules include:


Producers must consent to a criminal background check, including fingerprints.


Buyers and the amount of harvested hemp sold must be documented.

The location of hemp fields must be provided using geopositioning instrumentation.


Planted hemp seed must contain less than three-tenths of one percent tetrahydrocannabinol.


Johnson said the North Dakota Department of Agriculture will be working during the next few weeks to ensure that license application procedures and forms are ready after Jan. 1.


The North Dakota Legislature has passed several significant bills related to hemp cultivation since 1999. The proposed rules would implement the legislation.


Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) is widely grown around the world and is used in the manufacture of textiles, paper and rope. The seed is also used for food and feed. Oil derived from the plant is used in cosmetics, paints and medicinal compounds. The industrial form of hemp contains only trace amounts of the psychoactive drug delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) found in marijuana.

 

Plainsman1963

Sure...Talk to Hawai'i about how good the DEA is at granting licenses.

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reggie_the_dog

Well if the folks in North Dakota get sick of Washington D.C. telling them what they can grow they can inquire about joining Canada. Ottawa has no problem letting folks grow industrial hemp.

TKDJoe

Do y'all realize what this means?!?!

Tkdjoe is doing cartwheels!!!!!

Under the rules of NAFTA and all the other B.S. trade agreements we signed on to it will make maraijuana legal within 20 years!

The major sticking point... the DEA won't sign off on it. But in this instance it dosen't matter.

“Our rules clearly state that persons who hold licenses to grow industrial hemp must also obtain permission from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). It will be up to the DEA to allow producers to compete with other countries for the profits from this potentially valuable crop.”

By opening it up to other countries it invokes our trade agreements. Our trade agreements prohibit most "non-economic barriors to entry."

For eample.... the one my professor used was this... Venazuala (or however u spell it) suied the state of Calf. because their state clean air act would prohibit the sale of their oil product in the state. The V gov't took it to the World Trade Org and they ruled in favor ot the V's! In effect saying that Calf's clean air wasn't as important as trade. If the WTO follows their own pressident the DEA would have to open up the market to hemp! That's pandora's box!

The only reason C. Hemp is stil illegal is all of the industrial uses it has and those industries donating big bucks to limit competition to benifit their bottem line.

C. hemp is our energy savior! Seed pressed and refined into metholine gas for cars. No more need for oil. The plant put through a pirolysis cracking technique and turned into charcole briquettes to burn into energy producing plants at a fraction of the cost and polution as coal! I could go on but I sure y'all have read the emporor wears no cloths so I won't.

This is GREAT!!!!!!
Joe