From: phoenix420 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:00:43 -0400
Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] US Attorney-SD going after Lakota hemp crop
Posted by Bob Newland
Candidate for Attorney General of South Dakota
http://www.SoDakHEMP.org/
http://www.CommonSenseJustice.Us
In 2000 and 2001, Alex White Plume planted industrial hemp legally on
his land within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In
August of each of those years, armed paramilitary groups financed by the
United States invaded the Pine Ridge Reservation, destroyed White
Plume's hemp crops, then fled back across the border to U.S. strongholds.
In 2002, White Plume planted hemp again. Two weeks ago, the White Plume
tiospaye (extended family) harvested the hemp, which had been contracted
to the Madison Hemp & Flax Co. of Lexington KY. Thus, White Plume became
the first farmer within the borders of the U.S. to complete the cycle of
planting, cultivation, harvest, sale,a nd delivery of industrial hemp
since 1958.
Saturday, August 10, 2002 federal agents served a Summons & Complaint on
White Plume at his home near Manderson SD. Strangely, the feds decided
to use a civil route this year, rather than the brutal and frightening
tactics they usually seem to prefer.
There are a number of ramifications to the civil court approach, many of
which are probably not apparent yet.
The Summons and Complaint are posted at
http://www.sodakhemp.org/summons.htm
You need to read these documents. Not only do they contain a unique
perspective and documentation of events since the Oglala Sioux Tribe
re-legalized hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation (a sovereign nation) in
1998, but they provide a glimpse into the minds of U.S. Attorneys
(perhaps a little tired of being required by politics to terrorize
peaceful honest people?).
Read and see. Tell us what you think.
We think already that this is one of the most remarkable documents ever
published by a US Attorney, in the middle of one of the most dramatic
developments in our "war on the war on hemp".
Alex White Plume has invited you all to come to Kiza Park, three miles
north of Manderson SD on Wednesday, August 14, for a ceremonial final
harvest of the Lakota Hemp Project Industrial Hemp Fields. Music, Lakota
ceremonies, friendship and fun are promised for all, even DEA agents.
With a hempy heart,
I am
Bob Newland
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Pubdate: Fri, 02 Aug 2002
Source: Rapid City Journal (SD)
Author: Heidi Bell Gease
MANDERSON AREA FAMILY HARVESTS HEMP CROP
MANDERSON -- The third time was a charm for Alex White Plume and his
family as they quietly harvested their first crop of industrial hemp
this week.
"It really felt good," White Plume said Friday. "Just like a sense of
relief."
This was the third straight year the White Plume family planted hemp
on their land near Manderson. Two years in a row, federal agents
confiscated the plants before they could be harvested, although the
U.S. government did not file any charges against any of the White
Plumes, who planned to produce and sell hemp oil and other products
from the plants.
This time, family members beat government agents to the punch. They
harvested most of the 3.5-acre crop Monday night.
"They weren't that tall, but they were done pollinating," White Plume
said. "So we took some out, we cut it and it's dried."
The dried hemp already has been sold to Madison Hemp & Flax Co. of
Lexington, Ky., which joined with the Kentucky Hemp Growers
Cooperative Association to ship a trailer full of Canadian hemp to the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after the White Plumes' first crop was
confiscated in 2000. That hemp was to be used for bricks in a hemp
house.
Industrial hemp is a form of the cannabis sativa plant, also known as
marijuana. Unlike marijuana, hemp cannot be smoked to get high. But it
can be used to make everything from rope to paper to cloth to soap to
animal feed, and itrequires little water. White Plume said the seeds
they planted contained little or no tetrahydrocannabinol, the
ingredient in marijuana that produces a "high."
Federal laws do not distinguish between hemp and marijuana, making it
illegal to grow either one (although hemp can be legally imported).
But in 1998, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council voted to legalize hemp.
Tribal members say that because the Oglala Sioux Tribe is a sovereign
nation, its laws should apply on the reservation.
The Kentucky buyers will visit the White Plumes on Wednesday, Aug. 14,
to pick up the hemp. That same day, the public is invited to attend a
harvest celebration and symbolic harvest of one small hemp plot.
All are welcome, White Plume said, and thanksgiving ceremonies will
begin about 10 a.m. He has already heard from people all over the
country who are interested in attending. "I can't figure out how they
hear about it," he said. "Somebody's spreading the word."
This year's hemp crop was not as impressive as in years past, when
plants grew to 12 or 13 feet tall. The drought kept this year's plants
to half that size.
But White Plume pointed out that tall prairie grasses grew only about
a foot this year, so the hemp plants "still outgrew everything around."
"I think they were meant to be here," he said.
White Plume would not say how much hemp was harvested, but he said it
was basically a symbolic amount.
"This was a contract between our family and that company from
Kentucky," he said. "We just wanted to keep our word that we could
deliver. It took a long time, but we kept our word."
There was at least one benefit to the raids of 2000 and 2001. When it
came time to harvest this year's crop, the White Plumes knew what to
do. "I used a Weed Eater," White Plume said. "I learned that from the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and the FBI."
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