U.S. Hemp Embargo - A History:

• The DEA Plans to Sneak in Hemp Ban Over Holidays and Play Scrooge to Ontario's Hemp Farmers OHA Press Release, Dec. 20, 2000


• OHA Letter to Federal Party Policy Makers re: Canadian Embargo Nov. 2000


• Now a Canadian Hemp Embargo?? Sept.25, 2000 by Arthur Hanks


• US Border Clears Up Again: for the time being - May 28, 2000, HCFR
  
• "Latest ONDCP Position On Industrial Hemp," and the HCFR's informed response "The View From Up Here" - April 7, 2000, Hemp Commerce and Farming Report
  
• McCaffrey' Latest Directive: Any product labeled "hemp" subject to seizure and testing by U.S. Customs - March 5, 2000
  
• U.S. Reverses Policy Again: New Policy Instructs US Customs to Seize
  All Hemp Seed Products January 5, 2000
  
• U.S. Customs Announces New Policy Allowing for the Importation of Hemp Seed December 12, 1999
  
• DEA Releases Seized Hemp Seed! November 18, 1999
  
• Update on Seizure and DEA InterpretationOct. 14, 1999


• Canadian Embassy Demands Hempseed Release Oct. 8, 1999
  
• Senator Milne's Statements to Canadian Senate re: U.S. Hemp Embargo Oct. 13, 1999
  
• DEA Seizes Birdseed Sept. 24, 1999
  

• "U.S. freezes Canadian hemp shipments"January 13, 2000 CBC
  
• "Bird Food Is a Casualty of the U.S. War on Drugs"October 3rd, 1999 New York Times
  
• "KENEX SEED SEIZED AT U.S. BORDER"October 5th, 1999, The Ottawa Citizen
  
• "U.S. HALTS ONTARIO HEMP AT BORDER"October 5th, 1999 The London Free Press

How to Help:

• Natural Hemphasis' Open Letter re: US Hemp Embargo Please read ths letter, adapt it and send or fax it
to your MP, or any of the other federal government contacts listed here

• www.hempembargo.com the latest news, sample letters, activist tools and more

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