Celebrate the 4th annual Hemp History Week!

Celebrate the 4th annual Hemp History Week!

We hope you'll get involved with the 4th Annual Hemp History Week which will be held the week of June 3-9, 2013. Join our mailing list, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with campaign developments.
What is a Hemp History Week event?

• Booth at a farmers' market
• Table on a college campus
• A hemp clothing fashion show
• Benefit concert
• Retail store celebrations
• Hemp foods sampling and cooking demonstration
• Grange gatherings
• Café specials
• Film screenings
• Representation/tabling at a street fair
• Talk at your local library
• and so much more…

Create Hemp History!

Hemp History Week events are created by volunteers like you! Submit your event application today! All Hemp History Week events are included in the state-by-state event listing and are supported with Hemp History Week buttons, stickers, and a wealth of materials for download in the online Event Toolkit. Top events receive bountiful hemp product samples from our sponsors and publicity support.
Bring the message to your community: Hemp for a Healthy Future. Submit your event today!

What is Hemp?

Hemp for a Healthy Future Nutritious, sustainable and versatile, hemp is for a healthy future. Hemp is the distinct oilseed and fiber varieties of the plant species Cannabis sativa L. It is a tall, slender, fibrous plant that has been cultivated worldwide for over 10,000 years. A nutrition powerhouse, hemp is also an environmentally sustainable solution for potentially thousands of products ranging from body care to plastics, paper, textiles, building materials and even ethanol. With a rapidly expanding market for hemp products, cultivating hemp is an untapped opportunity for American farmers. Good for Our Bodies Hemp seeds are a nearly perfect food source. High in digestible protein, healthy Omega essential fatty acids (EFAs) and naturally occurring minerals, hemp seeds are also free of gluten and have no known allergens. Foods made from hemp seeds have become staples in co-ops and grocery stores across the country. The light, nutty flavor of hemp seeds make them a perfect raw ingredient for delicious breads, cereals, waffles, nut butters, protein powders, nutritional oils, non-dairy milk and even ice cream. Hemp seeds have a perfectly balanced 1:3 ratio of naturally occurring Omega-3 and Omega-6 EFAs for our body. And unlike other seeds and nutritional oils, such as flax and fish oil, hemp seeds also contain Super Omega-3 Stearidonic Acid (SDA) and Super Omega-6 Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA). Hemp's oil's Omega-3 EFAs and vitamin E content make it an ideal ingredient for body care products. The EFAs soothe and restore skin in salves and creams and give excellent emolliency and a smooth after-feel to lotions, lip balms, conditioners, shampoos and soaps. Good for the Earth Hemp is an environmentally sustainable solution for potentially thousands of products ranging from plastics, paper, textiles, building materials and even ethanol. A low-impact agricultural product, hemp is renewable resource that can be grown without pesticides or agricultural chemicals. Hemp is gaining popularity among leading clothing designers for its look, feel and breathability. Hemp can replace cotton, a crop that accounts for nearly 25% of all pesticide use in the U.S. The strength of hemp fiber makes it a favorite for specialty paper. And paper pulp made from hemp hurds (the woody core fiber) is an ideal additive to strengthen recycled post-consumer waste (PCW) pulp, thus expanding PCW's use. Today, millions of cars built by Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Lotus, Mercedes Benz and BMW contain hemp composites for door panels. Energy-efficient homes are built with hemp concrete, and retail stores are using hemp fiberboard displays. Imagine a future where hemp is just another useful material for all kinds of earth-friendly products.

Good for our Farmers

Hemp is a part of America's agricultural heritage. First gown in 1600's at Jamestown, hemp is best suited to regions that also produce wheat and corn. Hemp can be grown organically and aids in weed suppression and soil building, making it a favored rotation crop.
The market for hemp products is an estimated $450 million dollars annually and growing. Even with Canada' entry into hemp production in the late 1990's, demand for hemp seeds and fiber is exceeding supply. U.S. farmers want an opportunity to grow this crop once again, and share in the rewards of hemp's soaring popularity.

What Hemp Isn't

It is important to note that hemp has no drug value. Hemp seed contains little to no measurable amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive ingredient in drug varieties of Cannabis. Using hemp products will not cause a false positive drug test. Learn more about the issue at www.TestPledge.com.

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Industrial hemp is non-psychoactive varieties of the Cannabis plant grown for fiber and seed. Hemp has a remarkable number of beneficial uses, and we support its use in agriculture, manufacturing and trade. Dr. Bronner’s uses hemp oil as a superfatting ingredient in all our soaps because of its unsurpassed essential fatty acid (EFA) content. Hemp oil makes our lather smoother and less drying, and in our lotions and balms is an excellent moisturizer. The Bronner family is committed to helping transition our major industries away from polluting, unsustainable materials and methods to cleaner, sustainable ones. Hemp’s excellent fiber can replace virgin timber pulp in paper, glass fibers in construction and automotive composites, and pesticide-intensive cotton in textiles. Because of its huge market potential and high biomass/cellulose content, hemp is an ideal future crop for producing bio-ethanol and bio-plastics. However, the U.S. government, alone among the major industrialized nations, effectively prohibits domestic hemp cultivation — due primarily to the “reefer madness” and confusion regarding hemp’s psychoactive cousin, “marijuana.” In 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), under the Bush administration, attempted to destroy the U.S. hemp industry, issuing regulations purporting to interpret existing law to declare hemp illegal and seizing shipments of hemp seed and oil at the Canadian border. Dr. Bronner’s funded and coordinated the hemp industry’s protracted and ultimately successful litigation with the DEA, culminating in a clear victory on February 6, 2004 in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. David Bronner serves on the Vote Hemp board and was formerly President of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA). The Bronner family is supporting Vote Hemp and the HIA’s legal, media, grassroots and lobbying efforts to recommercialize industrial hemp in the U.S. Dr. Bronner's is also the founding sponsor for Hemp History Week, which completed its third year in June 2012. Hemp History Week is the largest national grassroots marketing and public education effort to renew strong support for hemp farming in the U.S. and raise awareness about the benefits of hemp products. Dr. Bronner's vice president Mike Bronner is shown below attending a Los Angeles Hemp History Week event at Akasha restaurant along with Ziggy Marley, Ashley Koff and other hemp industry members. More on Hemp History Week at: www.HempHistoryWeek.com

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