Press Releases

Hemp Food Markets Continue Growth in United States

OCCIDENTAL, CA — The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) is pleased with the latest statistics on hemp markets and acreage from Canada. The statistics, released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Health Canada and Statistics Canada late last month, show that the decade-old Canadian hemp industry is continuing its...


North Dakota Farmers Await August 24 Deadline for DEA to Respond to Lawsuit to Grow Industrial Hemp

BISMARCK, ND — Two North Dakota farmers, who filed a lawsuit June 18 in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota in an effort to end the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) obstruction of commercial hemp farming in the United...


Television Coverage of Industrial Hemp Confused by Puns and Drug References

WASHINGTON, DC — Vote Hemp, the nation’s leading industrial hemp advocacy organization, recognizes that the American news media strives to provide accurate information to their readers and viewers. In recent years there have been an increasing number of news reports...


North Dakota Farmers File Lawsuit Against DEA to Grow Industrial Hemp

BISMARCK, ND — Two North Dakota farmers filed a lawsuit today in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota in an effort to end the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) obstruction of commercial hemp farming in the United...


California Assembly Passes Hemp Farming Legislation

SACRAMENTO, CA — California’s Assembly today voted 41 to 29, with 9 not voting, to approve AB 684, the California Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007. The legislation gives farmers the right to grow non-psychoactive Industrial Hemp which is commonly made into...


North Dakota to DEA: Out of Our Hemp Fields

BISMARCK, ND — North Dakota’s legislature wrapped up last week by telling the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that it would no longer require state-licensed industrial hemp farmers to seek DEA licenses. The law change removes the DEA license as a requirement of...


Eleven Farming States Introduce Hemp Legislation in 2007

WASHINGTON, DC — Vote Hemp, the nation’s leading grassroots organization working to give farmers the right to grow non-psychoactive industrial hemp to be made into everything from food, clothing, paper, body care, bio-fuel and even auto parts, is pleased by...


Poll Shows Strong Voter Support for Industrial Hemp Farming in California

SACRAMENTO, CA — Vote Hemp, the nation’s leading grassroots organization working to give farmers the right to grow non-psychoactive industrial hemp to be made into everything from food to clothing, paper, body care, bio-fuel and even auto parts, has released...


Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 Introduced in Congress

WASHINGTON, DC — For the second time since the federal government outlawed hemp farming in the United States, a federal bill has been introduced that would remove restrictions on the cultivation of non-psychoactive industrial hemp. The chief sponsor of H.R....


Vote Hemp Exposes ONDCP and DEA Lies about Hemp Farming

WASHINGTON, DC — On January 28, 2007 in the Minneapolis Star Tribune story “Industrial hemp producer? Plan raises feds’ suspicions,” Tom Riley of the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) was quoted as saying: “You have legitimate farmers who...