- Signatures: 708
- Goal: 10,000
- Deadline: 11-30--0001
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Industrial hemp CAN’T get you "high." Hemp is used for food, fuel, paper, fabric, cosmetics & rope, & is better for the environment than leading sources of these products. Hemp is a MAJOR CASH CROP and can SAVE OUR PLANET! Please support Bill H.R. 3037 IH and let the government know that the American people support industrial hemp.
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | City | State | Zip/Postal Code | Please tell the government what you think about Industrial Hemp. |
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| 709 | 1:46 pm PDT, Sep 29 | Mr. | tommy sandman | Mckinney | Texas | 75070 | |
| 708 | 8:20 am PDT, Sep 16 | Anonymous | Swampscott | Massachusetts | 01907 | ||
| 707 | 12:28 am PDT, Sep 9 | Sean Crystal | Shelley | Idaho | 83274 | With our country at it's worst state in years, our nations GDP on the rise, the fiscal debt becoming larger, and the job markets crash, isn't it time for change. Our government would save nearly $13 billion a year on decriminalization of marijuana alone, add the $40 billion in lost tax revenue, the created jobs, and other revenues from legalization and taxation, and you're looking at over $100 billion dollars a year in lost revenue. In just 10 years we could eliminate 1/8 of our nations over $8 trillion debt. When the people who are growing and selling marijuana illegally, are the ones who don't want the laws to change, then there's obviously an issue. Boost the job market, fix the economy, and save the environment, all with the legalization of a single plant: MARIJUANA | |
| 706 | 3:27 am PDT, Aug 29 | kathleen seret | albufeira | 8200 | |||
| 705 | 1:26 pm PDT, Aug 24 | marissa abramovic | Irwin | Pennsylvania | 15642 | ||
| 704 | 12:25 am PDT, Jul 14 | Ms. | Jennifer Hall | Greeneville | Tennessee | 37745 | |
| 703 | 5:47 pm PDT, Jul 12 | BiLL Fowlie | Harmony | Maine | 04942 | ||
| 702 | 5:22 pm PDT, Jul 8 | Mr. | Ryan Poling | Covington | Georgia | 30014 | |
| 701 | 5:11 am PDT, May 16 | Mr. | scott horner | Franklin Furnace | Ohio | 45629 | |
| 700 | 1:01 pm PDT, Apr 11 | branden theodore | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | 70826 | it is good that waste is being used as energy, as it should be, but what else is in that bill? | |
| 699 | 5:06 pm PDT, Apr 8 | Mr. | Walter L Bradley III | Pittsfield | Massachusetts | 01201 | |
| 698 | 3:43 pm PDT, Apr 6 | Ani L. Schwartz | Arroyo Seco | New Mexico | 87514 | ||
| 697 | 12:50 pm PDT, Apr 6 | Anonymous | Yachats | Oregon | 97498 | How can anyone NOT support a cash crop like this, in this economy and when small farms have been dying for years? It is not the kind of hemp that gets you high, but it is incredibly versatile for other purposes--paper, clothing, and other materials that now use up more of our natural resources. | |
| 696 | 11:39 am PDT, Apr 6 | Mr. | Kyle Chidester | San Francisco | California | 94112 | |
| 695 | 5:31 pm PDT, Apr 5 | Mr. | Craig Bradley | Pittsfield | Massachusetts | 01201 | |
| 694 | 7:09 am PDT, Apr 5 | Ms. | Elizabeth Tomlinson | Pittsfield | Massachusetts | 01201 | |
| 693 | 7:37 pm PDT, Apr 4 | Ms. | Malisa Bradley | Pittsfield | Massachusetts | 01201 | |
| 692 | 11:40 am PDT, Apr 4 | Ms. | Thais Bradley | Pittsfield | Massachusetts | 01201 | |
| 691 | 7:14 am PDT, Apr 4 | anita kofta | Holmen | Wisconsin | 54636 | ||
| 689 | 12:07 pm PDT, Apr 1 | Ms. | Dalia Hettfield | South Gate | California | 90280 | |
| 688 | 11:48 am PDT, Apr 1 | Mrs. | Joan Fleming | Shelbyville | Tennessee | 37160 | |
| 687 | 8:35 pm PDT, Mar 17 | Mrs. | Susan Marden | North Vassalboro | Maine | 04962 | |
| 686 | 2:47 pm PST, Mar 4 | Mr. | Nick Hardy | Clearwater | Florida | 33756 | |
| 685 | 12:28 am PST, Feb 26 | Mr. | Nick Hawley | Novato | California | 94949 | |
| 684 | 9:30 pm PST, Feb 8 | Mr. | Anonymous | San Diego | California | 92122 | It is time to take advantage of this plant. We all know it can be produced with only trace amounts of THC as our friends in Canada have proved, now it is time to harness this plant. It has proved to be Canada's largest cash crops, why not ours. Our economy could really use a boost. |
| 683 | 5:48 pm PST, Feb 8 | Mitzi Lee | beaverdam | Virginia | 23015 | grow baby grow - it's a renewable resource. | |
| 682 | 1:40 pm PST, Feb 1 | Anonymous | Morgan Hill | California | 95037 | Hemp is so much more ecological then cotton-the cloth is WONDERFUL- why is it lumped together with Marijuana??? Hemp is not a drug. Hemp makes paper, cloth, food products, livestock food, pet food, essential oil, beauty products, BIOFUEL, and even plastics. | |
| 681 | 11:39 pm PST, Dec 12 | Maria Sebelist | Metter | Georgia | 30439 | ||
| 680 | 7:16 pm PST, Dec 12 | Mr. | Abishai Gangulee | Voorhees | New Jersey | 08043 | Hemp paper is the ideal, recyclable material to print the millions of movie posters Hollywood prints each year. |
| 679 | 1:27 pm PST, Dec 9 | robby short | lexington | Oklahoma | 73051 | ||
| 678 | 5:51 am PST, Nov 27 | Ms. | Donna Gisewhite | Clearfield | Pennsylvania | 16830 | people need to educate themselves on the value that hemp has to offer us, the mass media, all the shock PSA's are propaganda. Research, Educate |
| 677 | 10:50 am PST, Nov 23 | Mr. | Larry Martin | Clayton | North Carolina | 27520 | Can anyone believe we still have to fight for this? When will those narrow-minded dinosaurs die out? |
| 676 | 12:35 pm PST, Nov 11 | Mrs. | Sheila Blondell | Stilwell | Oklahoma | 74960 | |
| 675 | 10:39 am PST, Nov 6 | Laura Erkelenz | duluth | Minnesota | 55806 | ||
| 674 | 2:36 pm PDT, Oct 23 | Mr. | Greg Jellin | San Francisco | California | 94109 | |
| 673 | 6:47 pm PDT, Oct 2 | Ms. | FreeSpirit Running | Spring Hill | Florida | 34608 | |
| 672 | 9:37 pm PDT, Sep 16 | Mr. | Anonymous | san juan capistrano | California | 92675 | it's very useful. "we" are easily educated that it's not marijuana and it's ok to grow it commrcially as well as privately within specific guidlines. |
| 671 | 4:52 am PDT, Sep 3 | krucial nature | nairobi | Arizona | 254-44277- | as america embraces the inevitable day without arab oil .... an industrailhemp economy will bring us back to where it all began ... on our farmland . | |
| 670 | 10:22 am PDT, Sep 1 | Mrs. | Cher Nelson | Saint Paul | Minnesota | 55104 | |
| 669 | 2:52 pm PDT, Aug 28 | Ken Nelson | Oak Grove | Minnesota | 55011 | ||
| 668 | 7:32 am PDT, Aug 25 | Dr. | CHIEF DUBIE | Salem | Missouri | 65560 | America, is the constitution, and the constitution is HEMP!!! The war against drugs, is a war against the constitution, and the American people, by foreign and domestic enemies/ TREASON!!! |
| 667 | 2:02 pm PDT, Aug 13 | Mrs. | Patricia Nigro | Deltona | Florida | 32725 | |
| 666 | 9:44 am PDT, Aug 9 | Brave New Bus | Los Angeles | California | 90014 | Let farmers farm, and legalize industrial hemp for the production of biofuel and biodiesel. | |
| 665 | 12:17 pm PDT, Aug 6 | Mrs. | Jacinthe Vigneault | St-hubert | J4T 2N8 | ||
| 664 | 12:07 pm PDT, Aug 6 | Jim Phillips | Sonoma | California | 95476 | ||
| 663 | 9:54 am PDT, Aug 6 | Ms. | Laurel Watson | Maricopa | Arizona | 85239 | |
| 662 | 8:41 am PDT, Aug 6 | Ms. | Jacqueline Tremlin | Coeur D Alene | Idaho | 83815 | |
| 661 | 8:26 am PDT, Aug 6 | Anonymous | United States | ||||
| 660 | 5:46 am PDT, Aug 6 | Ms. | Angela Rhodes | Petra | 81109 | ||
| 659 | 12:51 pm PDT, Jul 24 | Ms. | Angela Yearian | Murphysboro | Illinois | 62966 | |
| 658 | 3:53 am PDT, Jul 2 | nancy voorspoels | Antwerpen | ||||
| 657 | 11:05 pm PDT, Jun 7 | Mr. | John Weatherman | Los Angeles | California | 90012 | |
| 656 | 9:52 am PDT, May 8 | Ms. | Jennifer Yuson | Greensboro | North Carolina | 27401 | |
| 655 | 12:02 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Doug Faust | Montara | California | 94037 | It's business interests that are at stake here, plain and simple. What ever happened to the concept of "creative destruction" through competition in capitalism? If there's a better way, even if it disrupts existing industries, it MUST be made available and not restricted by gov't and those threatened businesses. | |
| 654 | 9:14 am PDT, Apr 21 | Shiu M. Hung | Menlo Park | California | 94025 | The THC levels of industrial hemp are less than 0.05, according to votehemp.org. Lawmakers are aware of this, but their concern is that THC heavy strands would be hidden among the industrial hemp plants. Marijuana must be grown away from industrial hemp because the high levels of CDC in hemp plants would taint the THC levels in marijuana plants, leading to a much lower quality product that would have little or no street market value, according to Hemp and Marijuana: Myths and Realities by Dr. David West of the University of Minnesota. Hemp stalks are vauable sources of fiber used in a variety of products worldwide. Fiber produces greater resiliency than cotton which accounts for 25% of pesticides sprayed on the world's crops, according to industrialhemp.net. In fact, Mercedes-Benz uses a bio-composite of hemp to produce stronger, and less costly door panels. As oil prices continue to rise,hemp seeds produce oil that can be used as a biodiesel alternative. Hemp can be used as an alternative to timber for paper production. As Hemp Industries Association points out, hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, whcih can produce every quality of paper. With the US economy in a recession, and the sorry state of agriculture in this country, it is way past due to lift the ban on industrial hemp. | |
| 653 | 9:34 pm PDT, Apr 20 | Maureen Primerano | Menlo Park | California | 94025 | The US Constitution was written on hemp paper. There would be no oil crisis if we were utilizing this versatile plant. With the US economy in recession, increasing unemployment/underemployment, and high gas and food prices- it is time to institute healthy and practical solutions. One of those would be legalizing hemp. | |
| 652 | 7:15 pm PDT, Apr 20 | Mr. | Ronald J Coppernoll | Dane | Wisconsin | 53529 | |
| 651 | 2:46 pm PDT, Apr 20 | Ronald E Coppernoll | Dane | Wisconsin | 53529 | Think outside your wallet.Think about the future and health of the planet and the things that depend on a healthy planet.This would include you! |
Support H.R. 3037 IH, "The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005"
We the undersigned support H.R. 3037 IH, "The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005." Industrial hemp is NOT marijuana. Industrial hemp can NOT get you "high." Therefore, there is no reason for it to be illegal to grow! One acre of hemp makes the equivalent of four acres of tree's for paper products and construction materials and can grow twice in a season, while trees take 100's of years to grow tall again! Hemp is three times stronger than cotton and less detrimental to the environment. It uses no pesticides or herbicides and grows 1 to 2 inches a day on average. Hemp foods contain important essential fatty acids and are high in protein. Hemp has successfully been made into and used for fuel. The list of wonders goes on and on. At one time, hemp was our country’s #1 resource and it was illegal NOT to grow it as a farmer. Hemp is a MAJOR CASH CROP and can help SAVE OUR PLANET! Our farmers and our country should not be left behind any longer. If you care about our environment and our countries economy, than you will pass this bill!
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