{"id":395061,"date":"2019-02-03T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-vast-impact-of-legalizing-hemp\/"},"modified":"2019-02-03T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T18:00:11","slug":"the-vast-impact-of-legalizing-hemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-vast-impact-of-legalizing-hemp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vast Impact of Legalizing Hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Empire doesn\u2019t understand yet what has happened. Legalizing hemp farming and hemp industries will have a profound impact on our local communities, our soil,\u00a0our ecosystems and our culture at large. They don\u2019t understand that legalizing hemp,\u00a0part\u00a0of the new Farm Bill\u00a0enacted in December, is\u00a0a tremendous catalyst\u00a0for change. But we do.<\/p>\n<p>Hemp was the first plant under human cultivation, some 10,000 years ago. Hemp farming and production was a staple of Europe and much of the world 1,000 years ago. Without hemp Europeans could not have colonized so much of the world, as hemp sails are durable and don\u2019t rot. So we have some history with the plant.<\/p>\n<p>William Hurst, the yellow news publisher from 100 years ago was quite the racist. He hated people of color, and while it was quite clear that hemp was a staple for poor folk, he intentionally confused hemp and marijuana, a favorite high of these minorities. He demonized both incessently in his papers until congress took the step of making production of hemp and manufacture of hemp products illegal, along with its cousin, \u2018the heathen devil weed\u2019. But why go after hemp?<\/p>\n<p>Hearst happened to own millions of acres of forest that he wanted to leverage as\u00a0paper for his \u2018news\u2019 empire. That would never happen as long as hemp was readily available and clearly a much wiser option. He removed that as a legal option, and caused unspeakable damage to our culture and country for nearly a century.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s how we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/the-vast-impact-of-legalizing-hemp\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire doesn\u2019t understand yet what has happened. Legalizing hemp farming and hemp industries will have a profound impact on our local communities, our soil,\u00a0our ecosystems and our culture at large. They don\u2019t understand that legalizing hemp,\u00a0part\u00a0of the new Farm Bill\u00a0enacted in December, is\u00a0a tremendous catalyst\u00a0for change. But we do. Hemp was the first plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}