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For Immediate Release
February 3, 2016
CONTACT: Lauren Stansbury, 402-540-1208
lauren@votehemp.com
Vote Hemp to Present at "Hemp NY City" Event
Hemp Symposium to Include Presentations &
Panel Discussion From Industry Leaders
New York, NY –Vote Hemp, the nation's leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization working to change state and federal laws to allow commercial hemp farming, will participate in presentations and a panel discussion at the upcoming "Hemp NY City" event, Saturday, February 27 in New York City. Vote Hemp President, Eric Steenstra, will present a talk on the history of industrial hemp in the United States, successes and challenges facing the current hemp farming legalization movement, and share how citizens in both rural and urban areas can become involved in advocating for industrial hemp farming legislation.
- WHO: Leaders from Vote Hemp & Hemp Industries Association
- WHAT: Panel Discussion at Hemp NY City
- WHERE: The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 E 7th St., New York, NY 10003
- WHEN: Saturday, February 27, 2016 – 10am to 2pm
- For more information visit: www.hempnycity.com
Other speakers include leaders from the hemp industry such as Mike Lewis, Kentucky hemp farmer and founder of Growing Warriors; hempcrete home builder and owner of Alembic Studio, Tim Callahan; founder of the Indiana chapter of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA), Jamie Campbell Petty; and Joel Bedard, founder of the Vermont HIA chapter and principal of the Vermont Hemp Company. The event is being organized by Associate Producer and NY HIA state chapter President Susie Cody; and Creative Director and Producer, and HIA member Mia Feroleto.
Sales of popular hemp items like non-dairy milk, shelled seed, soaps and lotions have continued to skyrocket against the backdrop of the new hemp research provision in the Farm Bill, and increasing grassroots pressure to allow hemp to be grown domestically on a commercial scale once again for U.S. processors and manufacturers. Prized for its diverse industrial applications, hemp is grown worldwide for use in textiles, paper and packaging products, bio-fuels, building materials, food, cosmetics, automobile components, plastics and many other products.
Despite its versatility and sustainability benefits, industrial hemp cultivation is prohibited at the federal level. To date, twenty-seven states have defined industrial hemp as distinct and removed barriers to its production. These states are able to take immediate advantage of the industrial hemp research and pilot program provision, Section 7606 of the Farm Bill: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.
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Vote Hemp is a national, single-issue, non-profit organization dedicated to the acceptance of and a free market for low-THC industrial hemp and to changes in current law to allow U.S. farmers to once again grow the agricultural crop. More information about hemp legislation and the crop's many uses may be found at www.VoteHemp.com or www.TheHIA.org. Video footage of hemp farming in other countries is available upon request by contacting Lauren Stansbury at 402-540-1208 or lauren@votehemp.com. |
