Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp At DEA

On October 13, 2009, North Dakota farmer Wayne Hauge, Vermont organic farmer and Organic Consumers Association advisory board member Will Allen, and fed up American entrepreneurs who have been developing and marketing healthy, environmentally-friendly hemp products, turned to civil disobedience with the planting of industrial hemp seed at DEA headquarters to protest the ban on hemp farming in the United States. Even though the U.S. is the largest market for hemp products in the world, and industrial hemp is farmed throughout Europe, Asia and Canada, not a single American farmer has the right to grow the versatile crop which is used for food, clothing, body care, paper, building materials, auto paneling and more.

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