YO! Wanna cut to the chase? Scroll on down to GET THE FACTS about HEMP and view Hemp for Victory, a 15 minute b/w film made by the Federal gov when hemp was legal and farmers were urged by Uncle Sam to grow it ... that was during World War II

March 4, 2010: Meanwhile, back in northern California, Hemp Diva, imp that she be, thinks it may be just the right time to break out the LTBH car magnets and get a new batch of t-shirts made!

March 14, 2009: Two months into the Obama White House, I'm feeling the greater collective HOPE for our country to re-build, re-boot, re-unite ... the 're's are endless, aren't they? The economy of California would benefit GREATLY from growing hemp ... and local farmers in Vermont aand other states are forming an intention to organized action!

It is Hemp Diva's humble and informed opinion...

...that NOW is the time that industrial hemp may actually be RE-LEGALIZEd ... perhaps within the first 18 months of Obama's presidency, we'll rejoice when farmers plant seeds to grow industrial hemp! Wahoo! If you wonder about what I mean by RE-legalize, scroll to the bottom of this page.

This website is a resource for you to get the FACTS about hemp, which has become a murky issue thanks to disinformation campaigns over the years, much generated by the FDA. So, be the free thinker you think you are by boning up on the facts about hemp and decide for yourself.

How do you make your pro-hemp voice more effective? Vote Hemp is a good org to hook up with and get informed and involved ... go to their website and sign up for their eNews and Alerts. Vote Hemp is currently reminding us to participate in the Change.gov effort to Educate the Office of the President-Elect on matters that concern us all. Here is a current VOTING opportunity for you ... I am posting a tinyurl below that should get you there ... but I also know that these voting opportunities come and go, as the Change.gov website is dynamic and as real time as can be: http://tinyurl.com/preview.php?num=9bo3xp

Remember, our economy would benefit quickly and permanantly by planting industrial hemp! Agriculture in the US would be revived as a good way to earn a living! There are over 25,000 legal good products that are derived from the humble hemp plant

Get the FACTS and you'll want to get active! LET THERE BE HEMP!

Love,
Hemp Diva

Hemp Diva Archives ... and The Early Days

August 7, 2008: The nature of Let there be Hemp as social experiment demonstrates how little mainstreamers know about the difference between industrial hemp and marijuana, which is raised for sale as a high THC smokable drug. We were at a party just last weekend and a couple we know, new in VT from Long Island, and know about our website, are still in the dark!

So, what do I need to do... take off my clothes and set my hair on fire? Now there's a picture for you! Hemp Diva in the buff! It would get the word out there! Nudity sells... It's something to think about! "Hemp Diva, Naked Activist..."

August 11, 2008: "Practical agriculture" is what a North Dakota farmer, high school principal and Republican state legislator says about farming industrial hemp! North Dakota is so close to getting hemp in the soil! If they do, North Dakota could become a highly prosperous state, given the current deep petroleum deposits that are making millionaires overnight! But, it isn't just about the money... it's about having a vision and getting US agriculture back into a crop that really makes sense!

August 20, 2008: Becoming an advocate for hemp farming in the US just got more interesting, as our NEW ad in UTNE Reader is now in circulation! Traffic volume to this website is climbing and although we hope the visitors will step bravely into their world wearing a Let there be Hemp t-shirt, getting the FACTS here on this website may empower individuals to be courageous. Come on, folks ... more of us need to walk and talk it: Let There Be Hemp!

September 2, 2008: I have recently discovered that from Hemp you can make wood-like products, from the compressed woody core of the hemp plant. These can be pressed into fiberboard and other wood building materials. I discoverd a few great websites by googling hemp building materials. Featured on our home page is one in the UK and WOW! What these guys are doing ... look at what opportunities are NOT available to us here in the land of the free... kind of gets ya worked up, doesn't it??

September 12, 2008: This presidential election promises two extreme possibilities: that We the People take back our country, or that We the People continue to be greeted with derision by the religious right. How did this develop? Seems we are on a pth of self-destruction ... yet, if you are familiar with astrology, Jupiter (the fairy GodMother of the Universe) and Pluto (the transformer) are both direct once again, after months in retrograde... the effects of these and other celectial influences are "invisible" forces in play ... yes, this sounds airy ... and no, the Diva has not been toking ... but she does pray and anticipate the highest and best outcome from the election and for HEMP! I

Hemp Diva Journal - The Early Days ...

April 10, 2008: It comes in the night, now: “Let there be hemp”. Compelling. I wonder: Why? ... Why not? Don't try to make it logical, just let IT be ... Next arises a sense of responsibility to create, a tension. Then an image arrives: "Let There Be Hemp!" is part of an image on a hemp t-shirt... really? Hmmm...sure...

April 16, 2008: Today I asked my son, Michael, age 21, what he thinks about a Let There Be Hemp! t-shirt: “Definitely! Go for it, Mom! More people should know what it would mean for all of us if hemp could be grown legally! You've GOT to do this!"

April 20, 2008: Creative momentum: the LTBH t-shirt project begins to manifest: Vermont Artist and artwork. Hemp blend shirts. Eco-friendly printer. We're responsible, along with our vendors to infuse the LTBH shirt with solid green values. We hope others will agree and buy our shirt . We 'll build a website to give the facts and sell the shirt. We realize there is more to this than just the t-shirt. Anticipation ...

May 23, 2008: Our first batch of 100 shirts arrived by UPS this afternoon! Our product must offer funding to groups that are actively working to bringing a lively commercial hemp industry to the USA! Find them ... 'If you build it, they will come...?!" Fields of hemp!

May 24, 2008: We were selling our shirts in Waitsfield today and a 9 year old child asked: "How come we can buy hemp milk at the store, but hemp is illegal to grow?"

May 30, 2008: Our website home page looks good, so I am issuing e-mail invitations to visit it and discover our shirts. Vote Hemp calls us... they like the shirt! We begin a dialogue. I have a goal: we're going to get a million people to buy and wear the shirt and share profits with Vote Hemp. We've got to get industrial hemp legalized and in the earth! The potential abundance from planting hemp seeds is mind boggling! Further...

June 17, 2008: A week has passed since we received the email of the Vote Hemp Report that included our article about Let there be Hemp!, the t- shirts and the website. A few shirts have sold and I expect there will be more as people get around to reading their emails. For now, we can manage the pace of the sales and we have made our first donation to VOTE HEMP, as promised! We're launching t-shirts into the Fourth of July parade crowd in Warren, Vermont and sell them at a booth during the post parade block party! What is so interesting is the response that people are having to the shirts when we wear them. I thought people would be drawn to ask questions or want to know: "Where did ya get that great shirt?!" Instead, there seems to be intentional avoidance of the issue! GOOD REASON TO KEEP GOING! When people have the facts, There Will Be Hemp! The people who have bought the shirts are visionary, courageous, and bold!

June 23, 2008: Plans for the Warren Fourth of July parade are underway and we'll be driving in FEATHER, showcasing Let there be Hemp! We were going to do a booth, but decided against it. We'll have plenty of t-shirts on hand if folks track us down post parade and want to buy one. James and Michael will probably toss a few shirts into the crowd, too ... other ideas are percolating!

July 1, 2008: Today, Hemp Diva received an email from a fellow who is in the US Air Force. He saw a LTBH post on CraigsList and he wrote: "You, sound like a real winner… try putting down the weed and getting a job. YOU ARE A BURDEN ON SOCIETY!" Is that so? A moment of compassion, seeing the reality that this man is reacting with anger to something he fears. Then, the cosmic sillyness of the words deliverd a laugh - if only this fellow could see who was reading his email... Hemp Diva runs a small corporation and actively participates in her community, not to mention her wise old age (a numerological 10). More important, he eschewed the opportunity to explore and visit this website to learn the FACTS. Let there be Hemp! is a SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, not only a business selling shirts, a fund-raiser and a website that challenges disinformation! Industrial hemp is NOT something you want to put in your pipe and smoke! We hear you get a headache and a bad cough. Change happens one mind at a time ... NEXT!

July 2, 2008: Received an email ALERT from Vote Hemp this morning! Progress makes progress! Just in time for 4th of July festivities!

August 3, 2008: SO, you might be thinking: "Now, why don't she write?" After the exhilaration of the Fourth of July Warren Parade, a respite to re-think and regroup was imperative. We tossed about 50 t-shirts into the crowd (twice the number we had "planned" to) and the kids loved the VOTE HEMP bars we gave them. Afterward, what a thrill to go to our Farmer's Market and parties around the Valley and see people wearing the Let There Be Hemp t-shirt! Now, we have about 90 shirts out there from New England to California.

I sense this is a lull time, though. There are important political issues up and this is an election year. I believe that progress in legalizing industrial hemp will remain incremental through the election and into 2009 and even 2010. If you happen to be acquainted with the art and science of astrology, you already KNOW that the old ways of thinking and the institutions we have known as 'the powers that be' are ineffective and breaking down. But, as always, there are visionaries, then there are the masses, or those who are the last to get the effects of "change". As always, we are witnessing the results of more forces in play than are visible to the untrained eye. The old chestnut: "Things aren't what they seem to be." is true!