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Standing Silent Nation: the DEA War Against Native Americans

When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin marijuana, White Plumes envisioned a new economy that would impact the 85% unemployment rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation. They never dreamed they would find themselves swept up in a struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights and common sense.

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Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn

A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested Tuesday morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Cultivating industrial hemp, the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana, is illegal under the “drug war.”

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Oregon legalizes hemp cultivation

Oregon has become the sixth state just this year to legalize the growing of hemp, marijuana’s less-potent cousin which is used in making materials from strong fiber. The marijuana decriminalization movement scores another victory.

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