Standing Silent Nation (industrial hemp)

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The argument against Hemp always dissolves into a drug argument.

The irony is that industrial hemp creates pollen that ruins (cross pollinates) high grade marijuana buds.
So the first thing you want to do, to mess up pot growers, is to put a bunch of hemp fields everywhere.

Check your local listings.

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Standing Silent Nation

by Suree Towfighnia & Courtney Hermann

What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed. They put their hopes for a sustainable economy in hemp's hardiness and a booming worldwide demand for its many products, from clothing to food. Although growing hemp, a relative of marijuana, was banned in the U.S., Alex believed that tribal sovereignty, along with hemp's non-psychoactive properties, would protect him. But when federal agents raided the White Plumes' fields, the Lakota Nation was swept into a Byzantine struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights and common sense. A co-presentation of Native American Public Telecommunications.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2007/standing/preview.html

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And here is a link to a very good DVD regarding industrial hemp, for those wanting to know more:
http://www.tinroofvideo.com/homepage.html

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1. Field of Dreams

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2. I believe that pic is from Canada