Hemp, Lifeline to the Future - An Interview with Chris Conrad (excerpt)

Chris Conrad

Author, internationally recognized spokesperson, and court-qualified expert on Cannabis Hemp (Marijuana)
Internationally known expert on the history, medical, social, economic and ecological aspects of Cannabis hemp.

Chris is author of four groundbreaking books and author of the booklet Cannabis Yields and Dosage. He advocates full restoration of industrial hemp, medical marijuana with a doctor's supervision, and setting a legal age of consent for marijuana use by responsible adults in a regulated market.

Hemp, Lifeline to the Future, his first book, helped launch the modern hemp industry and cannabis reform movement. It reintroduces hemp as a sustainable natural resource. Hemp for Health discusses medical marijuana and the nutritional and environmental uses of the cannabis plant. Shattered Lives, Portraits From America's Drug War, co-authored with his wife, Mikki Norris, and their colleague, Virginia Resner, explores the human cost of America's prison-based drug policy. The trio also wrote their newest book, Human Rights and the US Drug War as an analys of drug war policy within the context of international human rights law.
Chris is founder and director of the Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp (BACH), director of the Family Council on Drug Awareness (FCDA), and a member of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA). He designed and curated the international Hash-Marihuana-Hemp Museum located in Amsterdam, Holland, where he researched cannabis culture and cultivation. He is art director for the Human Rights and the Drug War exhibit. He is also on the boards of Human Rights and the Drug War and the Drug Peace Campaign.
Chris's penetrating research uncovers the facts, faces and cost of hemp prohibition, analyzing the political dynamics working for and against legal reform. He knows his facts and won't duck your toughest questions (yes, he has inhaled). He heads up a number of prominent reform organizations. He was state community action coordinator for the petition drive that launched the 1996 California Medical Marijuana Initiative, Proposition 215, which passed with 56% of the vote. He provides expert testimony, both in court of law and for legislators and their staff.
Chris has been qualified as an expert witness on industrial hemp, hempseed, marijuana, marijuana cultivation, medical marijuana, and personal consumption of marijuana in the Superior Courts throughout the State of California. He has presented expert testimony in court and at government hearings and consults with legislators. He founded the American Hemp Council in 1989, was a chief proponent of the 1992 and 1994 California Hemp Initiatives, and portrayed "Johnny Marijuanaseed" in the PBS classic The Nineties "Hemp Show #1."

http://www.chrisconrad.com
http://www.westcoastleaf.com/
http://www.fcda.org/

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[silversobe]

"Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?" - Henry Ford

[ricardillosk8]

make it legal now!

[HinduxSkunk]

wow man thats depressing :/

[silverblue73]

mj has become a convenient moral gauge and a tool by which the authorities are granted a more expansive hold over the people. dealers and growers are doing the governments work. mj is a gateway... a free pass into your private life.

[EricIndiana]

PS, Youtube videos can actually be 10:59 seconds long.

They do not have to be exactly 10 minutes, just as long as it doesnt hit 11:00 you should be good.

[EricIndiana]

We have a maxim among us mariners, that with wood, hemp, and iron, a nation may do what it pleases."

Admiral Monsieur le Comte to President John Quincy Adams.

We have all 3 in spades, but it was decided to make one illegal so that William Randolph Hurst and the DuPont peeps could make more money.