July 30, 2009

Washington, DC — The new 111th Congress is now in session we need Congressmen David Wu, who represents the 1st District of Oregon, Greg Walden, who represents the 2nd District, Earl Blumenauer, who represents the 3rd District, Peter DeFazio, who represents the 4th District and Kurt Schrader, who represents the 5th District, to become co-sponsors for HR 1866, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009, which will allow farmers in Oregon and the rest of U.S. to once again have the opportunity to grow this valuable agricultural crop.

In this session SB 676, a hemp farming bill, was passed by the House and Senate and is expected to be signed by Governor Kulongoski.

In May of 1998 Oregon State University published a study titled "Feasibility of Industrial Hemp Production in the United States Pacific Northwest," which is an excellent reference on the subject.

If you have a couple of minutes please write to your representative using our custom letter. Please write now:

http://capwiz.com/votehemp/issues/alert/?alertid=13697141

If you have a few more minutes please call them as this is very effective. We have a great call script that is very short and has a very helpful feedback form so we know how your call went. Please call now:

http://capwiz.com/votehemp/callalert/index.tt?alertid=13697076

If you receive a reply from one of your elected representatives please email a copy of it to Tom Murphy, Vote Hemp's National Outreach Coordinator, at tom@votehemp.com. We have an intern in DC this summer and it will help him a lot with our lobbying efforts to know the contents of these letters. We will not publish your name or address and hold them in confidence. Please see our Representative Reply Letter page for examples of letters that we have received so far.

We need your help and that of your family, friends and colleagues in Oregon, so please forward this email to them. We encourage you to write and call today!

Vote Hemp is a national, single-issue, non-profit organization dedicated to the acceptance of and a free market for low-THC industrial hemp, oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, and to changes in current law to allow U.S. farmers to once again grow the crop.

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