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Wed Mar 11, 2009 at 12:23:20 PM PDT Please Write to Your Congressional Representatives Ask Them to Sponsor the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009 Vote Hemp is pleased to announce that the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009 will be introduced soon. Yesterday, the offices of Rep. Ron Paul and Rep. Barney Frank sent out a Dear Colleague letter (PDF file 116K) to members of Congress inviting them to be original co-sponsors of the Act, which does not yet have a bill number. Please click here to write your Congressional representatives and ask them to consider becoming an original...

Biodiesel can be made from domestically produced, renewable oilseed crops such as hemp. With over 30 million successful U.S. road miles hemp boidiesel could be the answer to our cry for cheaper fuel. We have spent the last century polluting our beautiful country with our petroleum based fuels that could have easily been replaced with fuels derived from hemp. It would only take 6% of our U.S. land to produce enough hemp, for hemp fuel, to make us energy independent from the rest of the world. Help us teach America the truth. Make yourself a human billboard that speaks only...

Oliverio: Estranged wife caused hoax His estranged wife misled the media into thinking he had pulled out of the race for governor, apparently to gain a measure of revenge in an impending divorce suit, Republican aspirant Joe Oliverio said Thursday. "War is hell, but it ain't nothing like a woman scorned, and you learn that when you get in a divorce suit," the Morgantown painting contractor said. A flashy campaigner - known lately for riding the state in a Hummer with a Canadian timber wolf at his side - Oliverio has sparked controversy every mile of the way. In one...