Saturday March 29, 2008, 10:07 am
Please sign and forward so American farmers can begin to farm this eco-friendly plant!
Thanx! :D

Saturday March 29, 2008, 10:08 am
It is so obvious that it shouldn't need an act to 'allow' it.

Saturday March 29, 2008, 10:13 am
lol, well yeah Sara, but the US govt. is beyond the obvious, isn't it? ;)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 10:43 pm
My Representative, Congressman Jim McDermott, from the 'Fighting 43rd District'[State of Washington], is a co-sponsor of this Bill, I am happy to say.
The form letter can be ALTERED to express the fact that your Congressional Representative is a co-sponsor, if you should be so lucky!

Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:17 pm
We were once on the right track until William Randolf Hearst and another corporate mogul squashed the manufacture of hemp to further tree harvesting for newspaper production.

Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:57 pm
Signed and noted. Thanks Kim!

Monday March 31, 2008, 4:30 am
It time for news papers to fold up and go away.

Tuesday April 1, 2008, 8:44 am
What a crime it is that we cut down our old growth forests to use as bathroom tissue or junk mail advertising that nobody reads.

Tuesday April 1, 2008, 10:18 am
Welcome to C2NN Jeff; your profile makes me think you're gonna fit in well here! :p

My thanx to all who have noted, signed and posted. You guys are great!
*greenstars* to everyone! :D

Monday April 7, 2008, 10:49 pm
Right on Sara S.! BMutiny, I was shocked when I visited Washington State in the rainforest, to see the huge trees being driven out on LOTS of huge trucks 24/7. Noted, thanks Kim, and agree welcome Jeff.

Monday April 7, 2008, 10:55 pm
We need to be bringing back HEMP to the USA. It's a weed! No pesticides, doesn't need much water, etc. Makes paper, rope, jute, fabric, more. We'd save billions of trees they cut down now for profit, that's the only reason hemp is banned. It's time to move forward with Hemp. We are cutting down all the old trees for toilet paper, don't believe that it's all tree farms being used for the billions of items us humans use. The logging trucks run day and night in Washington State, and I'm sure in many other locales. Think of the future when there are 300 million more Chinese and India(n) people demanding energy. We will be hurting, perhaps doing without if our country can't outbid China, and since they own a huge portion of our debts, we could be cold and worse, like other worldwide peoples. We need to utilize our OWN SAFE RESOURCES, and this one is so easily renewable and natural. It's a gift from Creation used for thousands of years! It was a major crop demanded to be grown if you lived in the Colonies here. Only banned for tree barons to get rich.

It will take you way less time to sign the petition than it did to read this e-mail. Sign if you can, thanks.

http://capwiz.com/votehemp/issues/alert/?alertid=9370876

Also, here's the man with the plan. http://www.jackherer.com/ Sorry, this won't come up linked, I've not much tech skills. Worth checking out!

Tuesday April 8, 2008, 12:19 am
Wow... Thanx for the links Sandra, particularly the last one!
In regards to what you've posted concerning trees and logging, the info below from the site is interesting and frigthening!

We only have 4% of the trees left, by volume and weight, on Earth as we did 125 years ago

Those Care2-ers in California who believe in Hemp's value need to get active to help make Hemp legal there. If Californians can vote to legalize Hemp it will send a strong message to the rest of the country and hopefully we'll see a change in the laws which have been in practice since the 1930s which banned Hemp for the sake of big business!

Many thanx again Sandra, buckets o' *greenstars*!

Tuesday April 8, 2008, 12:35 am
Kim, lol, the first link is yours! I actually wrote that "comment" and sent it with your link to all my Non~Care2 peeps, and then decided I might as well put it on here too! I've got lots of hot air to go around lol...........