Hemp Fabric Care
Jun 29, 2009 Online Issue
Most of our customers use and recommend washing rather than dry cleaning for hemp garments, bed and table linens. (However; dry cleaning is recommended for cleaning slip-covers, draperies and other home furnishing item, due to potential for shrinkage in long pieces). Be gentle when laundering hemp: use a gentle wash cycle or hand wash and use just a little gentle soap. We like Ivory Snow (powder), but some people swear by Woolite, some people like Orvus Quilt Soap, and some even use their favorite shampoo! Whatever you use, follow the package directions. Place delicate hemp articles in a lingerie bag before putting them into a washing machine. Use cold to warm, not hot, water. Wash colored hemp in cold water. One cup of white vinegar in the rinse water removes all traces of soap and leaves fabrics smelling fresh. Launder stains when fresh. If allowed to set, stains may be permanent. We recommend that you don’t use bleach, but if you do, use oxygen bleaches (hydrogen peroxide).
Time To Substitute Hemp for Oil
Jun 29, 2009 Online Issue
USA — As the recession renews interest in the growing hemp marketplace as a potential boon for the green economy — even Fox Business News has touted it — hemp is becoming impossible to ignore. But the plant’s potential extends far beyond consumer-generated greenbacks. A low-input, low-impact crop, industrial hemp can play a significant role in our desperate shuffle to avoid catastrophic climate change.
“In terms of sustainability, there are numerous reasons to grow hemp,” says Patrick Goggin, a board member on the California Council for Vote Hemp, the nation’s leading industrial-hemp advocacy group.
Goggin launches into its environmental benefits: Hemp requires no pesticides; it has deep digging roots that detoxify the soil, making it an ideal rotation crop — in fact, hemp is so good at bioremediation, or extracting heavy metals from contaminated soil, it’s being grown near Chernobyl.
Oregon Hemp bill clears Legislature with little opposition
Jun 29, 2009 Online Issue
SALEM – After some jocular testimony, the Oregon House on Monday, June 29, gave its stamp of approval to a bill allowing possession and production of industrial hemp.
The bill, which previously passed the Senate, now goes to the desk of Gov. Ted Kulongoski. His spokeswoman, Anna Richter Taylor, said the governor didn’t know whether he would sign it.
Even with the governor’s signature, hemp production will remain illegal in Oregon under federal law.
Sen. Floyd Prozanski, who sponsored the bill, said he believes hemp can be a viable rotation crop for Oregon farmers.
Portland Democratic Rep. Jules Bailey in his floor speech in support of the bill said hemp is currently used in milk, granola, tortilla chips and other products. The U.S. market for hemp-based products has a value exceeding $300 million, he said.
“Why shouldn’t our farmers be in position to supply this?” Prozanski said.
U.S. manufacturers get their hemp today from Canadian producers, where it is legal to grow.
Bailey also during his speech held up a T-shirt with “Rope, Not Dope” printed on it.
Rep. Mike Schaufler, D-Happy Valley, then asked Rep. Paul Holvey, D-Eugene, if growers would be allowed to burn hemp fields.
Holvey sponsored a bill that passed the House earlier that day that essentially banned field burning in the Willamette Valley.
In the end, the House passed the bill 46-11.
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The Real Million Marijuana March to Washington D.C.
Jun 28, 2009 Online Issue
theWeeklyWeed.com is proud to be an official representative of the Real Million Marijuana March for the state of Missouri. Plenty of help is still needed across the country, contact Tom if you can contribute time, money, or just to see what is needed. If you have pertinent info that we don’t have posted, please send it in. peace!
I am proud to let you all know, that American Cannabis will be the west coast contact and representative for the Real Million Marijuana March. The march will end on July 4th 2009 at Washington D.C. There will be Music, Speakers, Booths. Our Leaded Tom Dobson will start walking from Utah this coming Feb. We need contacts and help getting the message out to as many as possible. We are asking everyone to contact there friends, groups for help in anyway they can. Sponsors, donations, or anything that will help this march.
We need contacts in states, possible buses, people walking with people and maybe carpooling. This is our chance to really make our voices heard. More information will be coming soon. If you have questions please feel free to contact me or call
541-342-3920, or go to my web sites which will be updated soon.
www.americancannabis.org
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Medicinal Use of Cannabis Bill Defeat
Jun 4, 2009 Online Issue
New Zealand- The Green Party’s three-year campaign to allow cannabis to be used for medicinal purposes came to grief in Parliament on Wednesday night.
Their bill failed on its first reading, voted down 86-34 on a conscience vote.
Its promoter, Metiria Turei, pleaded with MPs to let it through so it could go to the health select committee which could hear evidence of how cannabis eased the suffering of seriously ill people. “Many people already use it and they live in real fear of the law,” she said.
“Sick and vulnerable New Zealanders are being jailed … let MPs hear their stories, let these people have their say.”
Under the bill, seriously ill people would be able to apply for a cannabis card, issued on a doctor’s authority and registered with the police, which would allow them to grow small amounts of it.
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Medical Pot Users, Growers Can Sue Over Raids
Jun 4, 2009 Online Issue
Medical marijuana patients and growers can sue police for illegally raiding their property and destroying their plants, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The 2-1 decision by the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento was the first in the state to allow a patient or grower to sue claiming that their rights to cultivate and use medical marijuana have been violated. Those rights are protected by state law but banned by federal law.
Officials in Butte County, where the case arose, argued that patients and suppliers can invoke the medical marijuana law only as a defense to criminal charges, not to sue for damages. The court’s dissenting justice said no one is entitled to compensation for the destruction of a drug banned under federal law.
But the court’s majority said a marijuana patient or member of a collective has the same right as anyone else to sue officers who violate the constitutional ban on illegal searches and seizures.
The plaintiff, David Williams, is relying on “the same constitutional guarantee of due process available to all individuals,” Justice Vance Raye said. He said Williams is not required to go through “the expense and stress of criminal proceedings” to assert his rights.
Williams belonged to a seven-member collective near the town of Paradise. When a sheriff’s deputy came to his door without a warrant in September 2005,
Williams showed doctors’ recommendations for all seven patients that allowed them to grow and use marijuana, he said. He said the officer had questioned the legality of the collective and ordered him to destroy 29 of the 41 plants on his property or face arrest. He complied, then sued the officer and the county for damages. Wednesday’s ruling upheld a Superior Court judge’s refusal to dismiss the suit.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Fred Morrison said Congress should ease the federal ban on marijuana to accommodate California and 12 other states that allow medical use. But as long as the ban exists, he said, no one has the right to use the drug, and police are entitled to confiscate it.
Brad Stephens, a deputy county counsel, said the county would probably appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Prison Job Safe Despite Pot Use
Jun 2, 2009 Online Issue
LINCOLN — A secretary to a state prison warden can keep his job despite testing positive for use of marijuana, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The ruling in the case of John Ahmann upholds an earlier ruling by Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson and touches on whether an employee’s attitude toward marijuana use should be a factor in firing them.
The court affirmed the judge’s ruling that Ahmann’s “spotless” employment record, his expressed willingness to stop using marijuana, and that the pot use came during off-duty hours requires the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services to consider other disciplinary action, short of dismissal. ln June of 2006, Ahmann, a secretary to a deputy warden in Lincoln, was suspended by the department after testing positive for marijuana during a random state drug test. Ahmann admitted that he had used the drug, but never during or prior to work hours. He said his “quite minimal” use of marijuana did not deter his work or had jeopardized the performance of the agency.
While he told his employers that he didn’t feel what he did was “wrong” and that alcohol use was more dangerous than using marijuana, Ahmann said he planned to quit the drug because it was in his best interests.
He requested punishment for his act to be similar to that of possession of marijuana, which is a criminal infraction, like a traffic ticket, rather than a more serious misdemeanor or felony crime.
