Why Colorado Is Leading the Country as a Future Hemp Producer

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/why-colorado-leading-country-future-hemp-producer



I met the gray-haired, dignified Parker (and these qualities are important, as we’ll see), at the Aug. 1, 2013 official hemp flag-hoisting above the Colorado statehouse in Denver. The matriarch of hemp in the Rocky Mountain State was beaming here in the city where she lives and has worked for decades as a Yellow Pages directory sales rep.

“Farmers are planting, I consider this achieving the goal,” she told me.

What I discovered from the love Parker was being shown by the comparatively latter-day hemp activists that day at the statehouse was that Colorado’s farmers and entrepreneurs are leading the U.S. into the billion-dollar world industrial cannabis industry because of this single human being. It all happened because when Parker retired in 2005, she took a year off to decide what she wanted to do with her life. She knew only that “environmental values” comprised her criteria.

“I remember where I was when it came to me clear as day,” Parker told me as state police hoisted the flag made from the same material Betsy Ross used for the first American flag. “It was hemp in neon letters. Hemp was the biggest difference I could make for the planet as an individual.”

[orpupilofnature57]

1. " Rocky moutain H------igh Colorado "

[RKP5637]

2. K&R!!!!!! n/t

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Ms. Parker is quite a lady. Bless her heart, she actually enjoyed

going through this process and educating the legislators. I think she's right; she was the perfect person for the job and probably no one else would have had the level of success she had at getting this done. The people of Colorado owe her a great debt and, in the end, her work there is going to be very influential at making cannabis legal nationwide.

[mountain grammy]

4. Hooray! Let's kick out the water guzzling, land destroying, planet killing frackers

and grow hemp. I love this woman and have supported her efforts for the last couple of years.

[felix_numinous]

5. K&R! Hemp for Peace!

Hemp industry and R&D of hemp products could revive this economy, provide jobs AND offer an alternative to warring for oil, and hemp plants revive soil.

Question: is that photo actually an industrial hemp plant or the high THC variety? Many people make this mistake so it would further the cause to use an accurate photo. If I am wrong I apologize.

Peace~ Felix

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, xchrom.