Hemp and the Rule of Law

“The best video treatment of this subject to date. Make the most of this video, show it everywhere”.
           Dave West, Ph.D. Plant Breeder. Director, Hawaii Industrial Hemp Project

“It's an incredible DVD!   Every member of Congress should see this video. If you watch it and don't think that hemp farming should be legalized then you weren't paying attention. It's so good that I would show it to my grandfather without any reservation.”.    Tom Murphy, Vote Hemp

“If you're wanting to learn more about the possibilities for industrial hemp in the United
States, you could hardly do better than this DVD”.
         John Roulac, Author of “Hemp Horizons” and owner of Nutiva hemp foods

The video is beautifully done. An excellent presentation of this important topic. This is a truly fine educational tool”.
     Gale Glenn, Vice Chair, North American Industrial Hemp Council

“A clear and concise synopsis of the history, benefits and future of industrial hemp”.
         Candi Penn, Executive Director, Hemp Industries Association

“Balling blends current events with history, creating a fine example of documentary filmmaking in a brisk 55 minute package”    Winston-Salem Journal

SYNOPSIS

Blending history with current events, "Hemp and the Rule of Law" traces the crop’s legendary past in U.S. agriculture and chronicles the politically-charged debate to return the crop to American farmers. Thirty-one countries including Canada, England and the European Union now grow hemp. Although it has no psychoactive potential, hemp shares the same plant family as marijuana (cannabis). The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration makes no distinction between hemp and marijuana, and the United States remains the only industrialized country where farmers are not permitted to grow it.
"Hemp and the Rule of Law" addresses renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, national security, the War in Iraq, and examines hemp’s role in achieving a “green” industrial future.

SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DOCUMENTARY INCLUDE:

· U.S. customs seizing a shipment of legal Canadian hemp birdseed at the U.S. border

· Woody Harrelson’s arrest for planting hemp seeds, and his subsequent legal battle to test

Kentucky’s hemp laws

· The DEA’s failed legal attempt to ban the possession and sale of hemp foods.

· The DEA eradicating hemp planted on the Pine Ridge Reservation

· Mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia

· Kentucky tobacco growers lawsuit against the U.S. government for the right to grow hemp

· The first hemp research plot on U.S. soil in more than forty years (Hawaii)

· Hemp harvesting and processing

· Rare archival footage that depicts the early American hemp industry and the dramatic events

of the 1930’s that began the demise of the crop on U.S. soil.