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*** ACTION ALERT! ***

Please encourage everyone you know to go to the Vote Hemp Web site to send a letter to their U.S. Representative urging them to co-sponsor the federal hemp farming bill, the "Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007" (H.R. 1009).

Click here and follow the instructions to contact your Representative and encourage them to support domestic hemp farming.

Please click here to see all current Vote Hemp Action Alerts.

Vote Hemp is a national, single-issue, nonprofit organization dedicated to the acceptance of and free market for low-THC industrial hemp and to changes in current law to allow U.S. farmers to once again grow this agricultural crop. We educate people on the issues surrounding hemp, register voters, and build coalitions to fulfill our mission.

Vote Hemp is working to shift federal regulation of industrial hemp farming out of the hands of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and back to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) or get hemp farming regulated on the state level.

Vote Hemp also works to defend against any new laws, regulations or policies that would prohibit or restrict hemp commerce or imports.

Lobbying state and national representatives about this important agricultural and economic development issue is one of the most important things that we do here at Vote Hemp. You can do it, too. Please educate them about the benefits of industrial hemp and ask them to support allowing American farmers to grow it. Now that H.R. 1009 has been introduced Vote Hemp needs support on the state level for this important piece of legislation. There are plenty of educational materials in our Download Center that you can learn from. There is also a draft resolution our Hemp Resolution page.

The resolution urges Congress to recognize industrial hemp as a valuable agricultural commodity and to pass legislation that removes barriers to state regulation of the commercial production of industrial hemp. This is also a great way to to educate legislators and get a hemp bill passed in your state in the future as well.

You can write to your national representatives today at the Vote Hemp Action Center. If you need help finding contact information for your state representatives, please email Tom Murphy, Vote Hemp's National Outreach Coordinator, at tom@votehemp.com and he will help you.

You can find sample letters and easy ways to contact elected officials; see the Vote Hemp Action Center. Please tell your friends to go to the Vote Hemp Web site and use our service to write their legislators about the hemp issue.

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. It will help with our lobbying efforts to know the contents of these letters. We will not publish your address and, if you wish, we will hold your name in confidence as well.

Please click here to read the reply letter from Rep. Tom Allen. It is an understanding, yet non-committal letter. Most of the letters we have copies of are less so. You can help change that by educating yourself and then educating others.

Please sign up for our Vote Hemp Action Alert email list so you can keep up to date on the hemp issue. You can also sign up for our Hemp News Update list as well as state specific Action Alert Lists.

You can also keep current on hemp news by regularly checking our News Coverage page and please remember to check our State and Federal legislation pages for updates, especially during the legislative season!