Do you know how “industrial hemp”** is being used to promote the legalization of marijuana? Jeanette McDougal, Drugwatch International
If you don’t know the facts you may be deceived into promoting a dangerous psychoactive and addictive drug! Nobody likes to be tricked . . Nobody likes to be used…………..
Matthew Cheng and Alex Shum, importers of hemp fabric, “feel that the way to legalize marijuana is to sell marijuana legally. When you can buy marijuana in your neighborhood shopping mall, IT’S LEGAL! So, they are going to produce every conceivable thing out of hemp . . .” as reported High Times, “Hemp Clothing Is Here!”, March 1990
“Legal Hemp is Here! Hemp clothing is now available! The Hemp Tour. Stoned Wear. HEMP FOR VICTORY!”
Cover of High Times, March 1990
“The issue of legalizing marijuana needs to be publicized and not just worn on clothes to look cool. NORML is trying to educate people on the usefulness of hemp, the plant that produces marijuana.
as reported in Minnesota Daily — University of Minnesota — 12-4-93
” ‘It’s the leaky bucket strategy,’ says Eric E. Sterling.’Legalize it in one area, and sooner or later it will trickle down into the others.’ ”
as reported in Mademoiselle Magazine, 1993
“The issue of legalizing marijuana needs to be publicized and not just worn on clothes to look cool. NORML is trying to educate people on the usefulness of hemp, the plant that produces marijuana.
as reported in Minnesota Daily — University of Minnesota — 12-4-93
“After the Freedom Fighter Convention in April 1994, “Thus began the first national letter-writing campaign in the movement. Members wrote letters about hemp to elected officials and requested a reply.” as reported in High Times, p. 46 May 1994
“Over 1500 protesters attended the [Hash] Bash, 10 times the number of the previous year. The HIGH TIMES hemp movement had officially begun.”
as reported in High Times, p. 45, May 1994
“In 1989 . . . We put Jerry Garcia on the cover of the issue, employing Masel’s strategy of promoting hemp through the Deadhead underground.”
as reported in High Times, p. 45, May 1994
“Unexpectedly, an ad for Stoned Wear, the first hemp clothing line, suddenly appeared in HIGH TIMES. . . The hemp industry in America had officially begun.”
as reported in High Times, p.46, May 1994)
“HIGH TIMES had been instrumental in getting the hemp movement off the ground. Now it was time for us to step back and let the movement run itself.”
as reported in High Times, p. 47, May 1994
“[Colorado] Sen. Lloyd Casey had planned on introducing legislation to legalize marijuana this session, but he’s been persuaded to wait until 1995.” “He said the government should treat marijuana like tobacco and alcohol.” “For the last few months, pro-hemp activists have staged smoke-ins on the steps of the [Colorado] Capitol to call attention to the importance of legalizing marijuana.”
as reported in The Capitol Reporter, Colorado, January 19, 1994
One problem for farmers has been keeping pot smokers away. Cannabis fields have been raided by people used to growing individual cannabis plants on high-rise balconies or deserted rail sidings.”
as reported in “British farmers experiment with hemp,” Sarnia Observer,
Sarnia, Ontario,Canada, Oct. 4/94
“All activist groups, including the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), were severely hampered by lack of support and funding. Could
hemp be the issue capable of drawing the smokers [marijuana users] out of their closets?”
as reported in High Times, p. 45, May 1994
“Don’t forget that the joints you smoke and the fiber you make into clothes are the same plant.”
as reported in High Times, “Desert Showdown”, p. 52, April 1995
A trio of “twenty something” Americans — Dunn, Mignola and Markgraff — own a hemp and marijuana seed emporium in Amsterdam. “He [Markgraff] and his partners fervently believe that once the rest of the world accepts the practical uses of the cannabis plant, it’s only a matter of time before they warm to the beneficent uses of smoking it as well.”
as reported in Details Magazine, “Weed the World”, p. 70, May 4/95
“The prosecutor in the Swiss canton of Thurgau seized hemp plants in October after forensic tests showed that the THC contents of the hemp was 4 – 5.5%, instead of 0.5%.)
Hassela Nordic Network press release, 12/6/95