I met doug fine last year on colorado day on his first when we found each other in front of the cab little with the hoisting of the hemp flight that went up above the capital. You may not be aware but we made sure there was a have the flag produced. It was a very exciting moment. I knew about doug fine because i was aware of his previous book. And i will say senator williams and mike and i have worked since 2006 to see that flag above our capital and to have anything like this tonight. Let me thank you for writing such an excellent book. [applause] outstanding. It doublea2 but might take over to tell you more about this story. [applause] double just try to squeeze into one minute that would take an hour. Many thanks to the people who are part of the Great Movement that culminated with colorado to be the first day to End Prohibition once and for all. [applause] i got to know doug first i did a story on npr that interesting enough baja with but he was just at the doughnut shop now voted the best. [laughter] but he wrote back after an email soon discovered that we would be in arizona so we had lunch not the long after that and had a fondness for each other but since then our journeys have been interesting we have ben in now way to cope present and past a the him amendment and hoisted the flag above u. S. Capitol on july 4th and we moved to the needle where we take this. And it does claim the ground that puts this in motion. There is the straw that breaks the camels back and its principal indian the prohibition acheson nationally and it is with a great honor and pleasure i introduce our great friend doug fine a man who has made us a dent that spends time did the ranch where he is not on the road to educate the public with these opportunities before us. To play a role nationally and with that come to the podium and please will come good friend and author doug fine. [applause] fate you. Those of have not done so much not only but also for humanity. Everyone for having me back and by starting to speaking about hemp and more than half a dozen people that make this happen are here in the audience tonight. It is like boxing not only would it hemp bound not have been written but not experiencing the rebirth of this economy putting america back to work. So she brought her have seeds that will go into her hand coffee generation three and it is almost planting season. This is nondenominational. And blessings to colorado. They queue for coming now lets talk about hemp. By the way someone who is here today of a dutch book printed on have the paper is in Good Condition thank you for allowing us to have this up here as well. Thank you for the held plants i can feel the Carbon Dioxide being sucked from the atmosphere. [laughter] the hardest part about talking about hemp is sounding like your other roommate with the law of the lamp. [laughter] because of because he was right. But in the last 10,000 skipping colorado the federal farm bill thank you to the colorado congressman it is a great first up for people who are active for the first time that only university approved research are proudhon the federal level. Similar thinking for coming. So we dont necessarily do that but come on board it is good for america and stop saying the silly things. The farm bill as a protest he legalized hemp. Research is okay for a couple of years the canadians did it now theyre growing 24 per year. And its end conservative colorado it is not boulder. [laughter] literally replacing gm of corn with hemp. Linda, jason and eric cantor as well that were involved in the legislative side colorado is ahead of federal law. The there were excepting permits that was further ahead than the lobby. Colorado said lets do it. Lets go. [applause] generate the revenue 300 per acre theyre making on their hemp plans that is 10 times they and gmo corn. Hit just as a show of hands hands, many people though . Last year he said i will publicly plant 50 acres of industrial cannabis with a very conservative county that gets federal subsidies and with the big farm business. Know we will show these people we can go back to the of the end. So that means some of the neighbors is drying up could backdrop and get back to the of land. I had no idea when i started to Research Hemp with the iconoclast this was a two years ago. From hemp activists saying. This happens all right from world wide research. I dont know with my taxes i have to think congress for being part of the marketing but but to make it true. To begin cultivating 10 acres per plan so they dont have to import from china the materials of media interviews to discuss a fairly massive economic value in a cynical age. I would really like to buy colorado growing hemp for my wonderful girl friend to make into these clothes. Corduroy, a shirt,. [applause] it is fantastic. Congress did a good thing. And if everybody leaves with one thought. You know, north dakota they know the prices. That means you use more then one crop for more than one purpose. Right and get to ride in a limo that was powered by had hemp it is very comfortable. [laughter] so think you for that. I want to see try cropping. Not just to use is but three. Every colorado processor dealing with community owned. Farmers will bring their seed it is not a complicated thing to press the wheel. To bars pressing seed together thus a coupe that comes from the university of manitoba from normal corn feed from the eggs that we eat are markedly higher. You can tell by looking at them. But the nutritional analysis is way higher with a omega profile and content. So sea oil . The super food comes out from the locally grown cooperative crop. What is left in the press people to fit the feed their p. I. G. S. On nothing but bad or compost but talking about the p. I. G. S. That are hemp fed growing bigger and fatter and healthier in a study going on there that jives with the woman that i met that said she remembers her daddy planting hemp the irrigation in ditches as erosion control. With not just in the heartland but subsaharan africa. And then in the fall they sent out the cattle and they loved it. That jives with the steady the we have seen. I visited the biggest hemp google undergoing the fourth expansion in in 10 years. He has been in since day number one. It was not that big of a factory. The doesnt take much to process the oil. Second section obviously strong beer than steel fiber to dave hemp fibers are in a mercedesbenz and bmw is. And another university steady i visited to mix it with lime that outperforms Petroleum Based or chemical based not just to revamp the economy but home depot and lowes. But its the third element is energy. The end it is not in the hypothetical stage but in europe today but to become Energy Independent a relatively earth friendly anaerobic combusted process. The units are small, not that expensive. Dated weakness from the grits to make it safer for the district that distribution grand. There is a firmer showing this. But with the Energy Independent fossil fuel free to be coming in control of their own energy. I would support the communities to do that. So fiber and seed oil and energy to map this out first of all, the Energy Application has to happen how many have read the book collapse . It is a scary tone where great civilizations documents talk about modernday a cambodia but they share that culture. And to they were trading from seattle to coasta rica. With cities and trade routes collapse. It is like deforestation poisoning the water no joke right wing leaders at the end of last years lead the monuments get bigger and more dramatic at the end. And as a father i am more confident. I feel as those of carbon mitigation is now in place make sure you include energy what is the upside of prohibition. We can take what the canadians are doing all dialed in. But america Kentucky Hemp was the beacon of the world the first millionaire was a hemp mobile wisconsin wisconsin, missouri, ohio not so much colorado. And david west had a federal commission to do a home study. It was the indian mentons kindest series ended had some baggies erupted meet but we have to start from scratch and people in this room are starting that research no. But we can take the seat seat, the fiber knowledge of europe that goes into bmws and mercedes in to make them all in play. Mercedes does not put it hemp fiber because they throw peace signs because it is easily accessible inexpensive source of strong , light material for the vehicles. This is the actual fiber and the company has been added 20 years. In even they have to jerry rigged up harvesters so i say this because i back up from the roommates with the lawfully because interest there is a lot of learning curve but this generation family they know how to do it. They know how to interact. It is not rocket science. That is her you should be starting. The big one in canada with the canadiens to the research for the farmers with importation major federal agencies honor federal law to allow colorado farmers to import seed. [applause] another issue is this has been approved you try to bring these farmers back to work Colorado State university you should be on the ball with the farmers to be siding on to get the industry back up. The canadians cannot wait until you plant the seeds they want to the oil. I love you canada. You are fantastic you also put a ban on the gmo industry which we should as well but that we could find that the food coop. But chinas president visits the hemp factories is headed using taxpayer money to eradicate. Why . The reason is caught in provides 30 percent of the worlds pesticides. They poison the soil and news productivity they know what is going on and there is a market for hemp. Textiles has become a pet application. Within the textile world the softness of a shirt they call that he and. It is very soft. A softie and. He reminds me of a seinfeld episode of for once he had the upper hand in their relationship he said i had i had handed she says you will need it. [laughter] china is going into a hemp fiber because they have to. So that Seed Oil Industry hopefully that is the oil industry. It is not rocket science. I have a list in tucci it chad after words so the seigniorial is omega super food Canadian Farmers are planting hemp because of it. We buy 90 of the canadian crop bill we worth more than 1 billion last year but i of a fulltime richer when i was interviewing shaw and from the canadian local hemp. I have 40 acres when it is legal in new mexico i will plant 20 or 30 seed oil. He said if you are under 1,000 acres you are hobby farming. Spoken like the manitoba raised man. That is how they do it in nebraska in north dakota and eastern colorado in that is fantastic. I am doing the math. Nothing more than 80 people are cleaning at a 300 profit per acre field free to jesus but that is more than a cumulatively made in book sales for my career. But a great ohio grower doing everything he stood to get the oil to people. People said dont let people say it has got to be a billion dollar industry. A Community Growing and you can have a serious industry. But we all Work Together but i remind the middle ground. I find with people to have an option i will choose the of local or regional is a the checkerboard fashion. I cannot wait by the way. It is true i start every day meditating. It is one of the reasons i was thinking political editors. They got that to dash industry going but they have all kinds of energy your backroom deals did then this thing to the croats or mating calls. To the people in the trenches. But the things that i like wyche said hemp textiles, my publisher they are going for it to. They tried to make it have been. Is simply is not there. With the specialty addition sponsoring the of colorado farmer to grow the of fiber. But in the composite innovation in the center of winnipeg canada, a private industry joint partnership they are burning the fiber in the field. They need to know what to do with the. You could see it is strong. In it is light their scientist to figure out what applications work. And my online hittle organic cowboy i offer as the small franchise fee. It is built from the hemp you will harvest. That is the plant in manitoba. But a lot of people tell me the first fiber you get it . Planned for the seed oil. If you dont have the skill the of body armor in everything it is good for. How many new that the george bush sr. She was made out of hemp . Construction. That is the ecs lome nins with the tests that are going on in universities and canada especially our of mixture of chopped up fiber with lime also with durable holmes with insulation to be developed in load bearing applications. So i call the people up all over england in they have a subsidiary but it is a Good Opportunity to chop up the fiber. And with the construction industry. What they have done right if they creates of light easy to pack nontoxic to be heated to thousands of degrees. So i ask is it as a nobrainer . With the entire subdivision in . He said it is for anybody that is maintaining the structure or the development. If you are just looking afflicting stuff with whatever is cheapest like the particleboard or drywall but today interrupted issa tossup just on cost with the durability and the lower maintenance so it is a nobrainer. But i went on site to a funded house low income for those in the north and guess what they found in hawaii . It is termite and hurricane resistive. Hemp works. I sound like the roommates again. I am sorry. But it is true. Aias the guys with the construction had to what it was like to build with hand and they said wednesdays figure that it was the best job we ever did it is . , a beautiful you can paint over it Energy Efficiency is clear already we can tell as though will somehow go up but it was a couple of days of experimenting to find the consistency that we wanted a couple of days to set so that is light and fluffy and not sticky. A couple of days to find their ideal mixture. That is the most cynical thing i can tell you but as an activist told me they believe construction will be the first fiber killer app. It is embarrassing we have 30 percent of american and as is farmers in 37 now 1 of america. We can speculate all we want about the causes once we idealize farming they make a living like everybody else. What they do is great for the earth. That is great and a great bonus and i believe that rebuilding americas seats if he has six this is real agribusiness. He showed me technology and could not believe. If it will be massive of love to see it. So far every event i have done i have been asked . License says she will do well wall street will do. But if we get the ban in the u. S. , i just wanted to see that was going to explode. [laughter] bless you for covering this event. That is great for cspan2. I dont mind if when you drive through minnesota through the endless fields of earths killing of gmo korn i am totally into that. This is a terrific situation the canadian farmer wonderful people super religious hartley and canadians there was a dream to make the energy bar issues that they just were not up to snuff. She is a triathlete to put this concoction in together in somebody got 20,000 to leaps to the bureaucratic trails and now has this Incredible Energy bar a company that the family grows on their farm this is what i think of as the hemp and brand. Of the hemp print the company is growing very, very fast. He collects five times the salary of the lowest paid employees it is cultivated jointly by israelis and palestinians. And last year he locked himself in the cage in front of the white house with a hemp plant. [laughter] this is the point where i want to apologize to my mother. [laughter] what are you going to say at the bridge club meeting . I saw your son holding the cannabis plants. [laughter] my kids had a great time visiting said tea tin fields and his kids are having a blast this year. But it happens. Six months later it happens that it is really happening now. But as far as the brand echoes that kind of righteousness is marketable just like carmen highberger baking soda what does that tell you . That is the bottom line reason for instance because off brand hemp and the fact this is the movement for 77 years matters. We should stick to that. I should mention hemp prohibition was an accident it was us typo wendys Marijuana Tax act was instituted but within a few years it was already shipping American Business offshore because world war ii broke out and our sources was the philippines because suddenly they cannot grow hemp any more. So all of a sudden hemp four victory. Is sells like your roommate with the lava lamp. [laughter] i swear. It says is more passionate tones of the truth about hemp. This is fairly unsavory stuff happened. Said of researching the medical cannabis community. And the place i think of that is so progressive is optional in the supermarket and. [laughter] the first jody to be an not only a the gmo labelling but organisms. He said he believed there was a raid carried out gmo in the county. [laughter] [applause] so you are allowed to speak out. I love democracy and obviously the can of this industry not to carry it too far they call that the healing of a nation. This is not an occupier but but what caused them to have one of them but they suggested but whatever it takes. The reason why i include from colorado or from new mexico i always thought it was a little on friendly. But it helps with unexpected new duty. [laughter] and nudity. I have sympathy. I am one of you and i am here to help as colorado its going after the inaugural hemp expo last week a terrific event a bunch of people were at approached by the engineering dry that i want to provide for the of farmers so we can network in by the way no one has ever called up to say i saw your selling just thought i would call first. I am not dedicated but if you live on 41 acres in the middle of nowhere you would think you could go get your box is also on treelined without no one noticing. But this is with the ups lady is coming down on a driveway i see she has of binoculars. [laughter] but last year where mike did her planting on july 4th july 4th, these are conservative people in did not hear a negative gordon they are ready because of that dust bowl. This is not from the grapes of wrath but 2012 will mark colorado. , idle the she knew the difference between hemp or others now she is considering printing hemp that is supposed to be hurt lee to feel those sectors Sahara Desert ask of richer if Climate Change whose real. It is serious. Anytime way data off petroleum with 3d printers with building composites we get mad at us hemp construction construction, said of the petro based Building Materials. Anytime you get Petroleum Use it is good. After the battles going on. Now i have not somebody to care criticize the Petroleum Industry and believe it helped to make America Great i could not tap out my books with the Petroleum Plastic this did so much good. And upon the of all have of a gusher up there and you pull without. Think you petroleum for all you have done but that was last century and the big issue for American Farmers is how do your it have you get your seeds . One would like to think the employees that work for us and paid with our tax dollars follows of law of the land that says University Research is school. And there are further legislation in congress now to support if you want me to get more specific. Anybody else know the name of the current hemp bill in congress . 359 in the senate. Last them to bet to allow the rest of the country to start planting as well. But the is eric davis taxpayer dollars have read the farm bill that means there is no more roadblocks from other countries so we can plant here but there are other ways but within the state people are developing including those that are here to night. You can find them within the states. But there is but the stuff that was so good for your Version Control is still there. And do this a good soils stabilizer not just for pollutioncontrol but the. You have the microbe ecosystem apsaras worms and other things. That is one of the reasons it is for vital had kusaie consent and as for the Energy Companies that tried to mediate quayle and tobacco process but to bets in my view this a good idea especially if your plan is Building Materials and it does not have to be uniform. But they micromanage their farmers that which goes into the components . They have to be uniform and perfect. Also a few play with the big boys in one to beat in target . They will have of cereal called the holy clap at the space station. Is what the astronauts brought up to the space station. If you want to do something that is Big Marketing it cannot just be whatever is laying around. Even though that is all they did initially. But what the canadians tell you is you have to know what is registered csa monitor your neighbor is using otherwise youre not a professional. Really besides those that look for a place with similar elevation or rainfall but a colts from it works best for their study they did in hawaii. Look at these characteristics. Of monday here on National Television to break federal law. Lets leave it at this. I know you are well lawabiding citizens know what to make you see like it is a al law but lets just shes a federal law but universities please get on board to do the research to get the tea than cede back. You will see i got to the question and hemp bound. A friend sent me stuff from all over some of it got through some of it got seized but thank god he did not get rated. By should say that Climate Change but i have 43 days but it gets me from my a grant one dash my ranch to civilization in. Mind neighbors tried it was an ugly situation. It matters as the father. Because hemp not cotton is kids eric cloth diapers you know, it is pupu wash line drive repeats than break for lunch. [laughter] budget it held up then the real world. And ended up being the nontoxic option with all the ellet said it is rigo need to bring the Hemp Seed Oil it will take a present myself but that was my girlfriends but when veto the mine would be feeding them soon. They cannot wait to be fed. [laughter] bandits in sync with my a call or powers. Believe me that does give you some of munchies. I enjoy the checks and an end to it feels like home. And this is our commercial. It is not cutesy the first levis but this is the plant to the empire this is my view is where. Des ready for showtime. And i was invited to do testify for changing International Trust also and to hurt organized crimes but its the leading of recent history to be clad entirely from head to toe. I told you before i am a little embarrassed in the marketplace where do i find my hemp to wine . At walmart. Thank you for carrying it. I did not tell you the tail end of the story and i was researching sustainable cannabis. I saw that plant that caused me to write hemp bound because the hemp energy app. The reason i believe industrial cannabis ill will be bigger it is big bets on mobile is bigger. If farmers really start to go with zaph i think. But also with our Industrial Group as well. The post the process that is the bit the diva role if you see sketches from france and i was told rhetorically if you tell somebody something three times they believe said. That it is a the primer nothing to do with them . But did is not a nobrainer to grope have you have to do it at the right time but you just have to store it in a way to retain the moist correction lovers. But if you want to use something with the of favor on dash it is two weeks of rotating says this. I write about it estimate they were in his matt fielding and it is expensive that allows you to strip the bark off from the harvest may go up to 21st centuries soon but anytime i can not sound like the roommates with no lawful lamp but step back with a reality check. I unable either. It is not rocket science. Canadian farmers are propping of 300 a day. That is symbolic and a patriotic issue. Discussing me but dont normally talk about it is but not only the August August 1st hero but also celebrating the july 4th is one of the moments where you cannot turn back when the communists were the big enemy you could not say i need of photo hoisted over the capital. I may constituent but mike could get him to do that because hemp is the opposite of the enemy. Event one of the most but then to get that strategy the early 20th century is what should be happening. I want to continue this discussion because the event from but it is like all my gosh we will do this. Because your roommate to with the law of the lamp was rights. Think you for coming. [laughter] [applause] i dont know how were doing for time but can i take some questions . Your cory county. So basically cynics of missouri, ohio and senate dash to ask but with drug policy they are a border state and theyd know what prohibition does through organized crime. Right now from the ambassador to his namesake to all the of researchers are on board. I should say that they are ready. I think but i think texas will be the reverberations and. But with the standard oil area and would carry indiana we are in a cycle having the land since 1875. But the bank will lend it and we pay a lot for the input. We of inherited it. But but then with the highest land location eight tamayos from indiana the whole history of the typical new battle in that vicinity. People are misinformed. But it is the petrochemicals now if we harvest across just one. I would love to see that happen. We Aaron Morrill centrum. This spring with all the nearby farms in the state of illinois. Wow. Tough energy for that. I just want to encourage anyone whos interested in knowing more about this as it unfolds in colorado to check out the Rocky Mountain hemp association. Org web site. Theres also a button there where you can become a member. We welcome everyone. We wanted to be the networking web site for farmers and industry and anyone whos interested in any aspect of this unfolding of hemp and United States are at least in colorado. Rocky mountain hemp association. Org. Thank you. I my member and i forgot to mention suzanne mrs. A colorado senator who put forth the very early first efforts. Linda and mike can speak to the specifics better than i can but this was i dont know a day to see colorado farmers cultivate commercial hemp it must feel pretty good and thank you. An early season going literally. Other questions . Do we have time . One more question. 300dollar make a profit how much of that though is driven by the prohibition . As agriculture were to expand across america wouldnt that price have to come down significantly . Thats a terrific question and im glad you mentioned it. Im eyes looking for examples where i can insert a tab that of like david would say curbing of the enthusiasm. Its difficult because even as im talking its going to be huge. Its a very unique situation. On the one hand of course current prices are no guarantee and every Investment Advisor says no guarantee that are there going to be monuments of profits for hemp forever . You cant make any kind of a substantive but the curve of demand is not only so strongly upward it has even reached the mouth easy and where it really takes off yet. The canadians are desperate. The processes in canada are desperate for American Farmers to get the seed planted because how much the demand is growing so at least in the foreseeable future i believe farmers will see profits for seed oil and if that winds up stabilizing somewhat 100dollaracre profit is still 100 per acre on what the farmers making for corn or soy profit. Even if that stabilizes all of hemps profits i think hemp is here to stay and its true that this is a new industry for the u. S. One of the humanities longest utilized plants is a new industry. Most new businesses fail. We cant just guarantee this is going to be an automatic success but hemp is not new. The benefits of hemp, the persians call it the king of seeds. I dont want to lay my own spiritualism on anyone else but if you are a religious person genesis chapter 1, the first chapter of the bible verse 29 says you shall have all the plans and seeds to use not unless some neighbor nixon comes along and says theres a seed we dont like creative thank you all. [applause] doug will be happy to sign copies of his book. I will be right here. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]