Industrial Hemp

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Industrial Hemp

• Woodstock 2006
• Project Wizard Ltd.

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The Beginning

• Ottawa, Thursday, April 18, 1996
•      The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and
  Constitutional Affairs, met this day at 830 a.m.
  to give consideration to Bill C-8.

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Who Testified?

• Mr. Geoff Kime, Director of Operations, Hempline
  Inc.
• Mr. Roddy Heading, Director, Hemp Futures Study
  Group, Member of the International Hemp
  Association, Canadian Industrial Hemp Lobby

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Hemp Nostalgia

• Regulations Drafted Nov. 97 Feb. 98
• Regulations Registered Mar. 12 1998
• First licenses issued during the following weeks

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Cultivation Licenses for Research 1995-1997
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Hectares Licensed for Cultivation 1995-1997
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Anticipated New Crop Development Curve
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Hemp Stats 1998-2005
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Hemp Nostalgia

• 1999 A Canadian Company, Hemp Agro (Grant Sanders
  and Paul Wylie) hires Oscar Danilo Blandón
  allegedly to help them establish Industrial Hemp
  (1.6 THC) in Nicaragua

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What Happened?

• CC How has this affected you?I am still trying
  to make sense of it all. I am writing a book. I
  am suing the Nicaraguan government. They stole
  our machinery, our crop, our payroll. They stole
  a year of my life from me. They owe us millions
  of dollars. My son might be alive if they hadn't
  done this to me. I can't sleep at night. I feel
  like I may never be healthy again.
• The thing that gets me, you know, is that it was
  all because of a plant.

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BODY SHOPS HEMP PRODUCTS BLOW UP A STORM IN
FRANCE
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• The Body Shop may be prosecuted for promoting
  drug use after French police raided a branch of
  the ecologically friendly retail group in
  Aix-en-Provence. They seized stocks of hand
  lotion, lip conditioner and body oil from the
  companys new hemp product range, claiming that
  they encouraged the use of cannabis.
• Youd have to smoke a hemp joint the size of a
  telephone pole to get the least buzz and youd
  die from carbon monoxide first," Anita Roddick,
  the founder of The Body Shop, said yesterday.
  She expressed "amazement" at the action of the
  gendarmes, who also seized all promotional
  material on the products during the raid on
  Wednesday.
• The seized items were returned, but a report was
  submitted to the public prosecutor in
  Aix-en-Provence.

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Hemp Nostalgia

• The Hemp Car
• The Kenex Fire
• Kenex vs. the DEA

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Hemp Nostalgia

• Woody Harrelson wore it to the Oscars
• The DEA banned it
• 100,000 people /-protested the ban
• The Courts overrode the DEAs rule

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The Present

• Solid, Dedicated, Die-Hard, Core Group
• 500 Acres of Production
• Demand for Some Products Growing
• Hemp Fatigue
• No Image/No Press/No Publicity?

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The Present

• USA Industrial Hemp Farming Act Introduced into
  Congress 2005
• Energy Prices Rising
• USA Market increased by 47 (Manitoba)
• Confusion with Marihuana Declining

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Current Challenges

• Changing, Unstable Government
• Frozen Resources
• Changing Programs
• Market Competition (Man./USA)

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Current Opportunities

• SMART Regulations
• Forming an Industry SWAT Team
• ACAAF Program
• Coordinated Effort
• Bio Products
• http//www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/smartreg-regint/en/08/s
  um.html

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Choices

• Give it up as a Learning Experience
• Do Nothing and See What Happens
• GET BUSY AND APPLY THE LESSONS LEARNED

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Principles of Economics
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Projected Ontario Commercial Hemp Acreage from
2006 to 2014
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Thank You

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