michaelkaer
New Member
The problem up here in SW Ontario is a bunch of farmers got ll gung-ho over Hemp and started to produce it. When it came time to honour a contract with a company out of California, the border guards on the american side stopped the shipment, held things up so long and generally was a big pain in the butt, that the farmers ended up losing a lot of money. They are now Hemp-shy. It is too bad that the US had to screw up a good thing up here. if w had an infrastructure to process the hemp here, there wouldnot have been any problem, but this area was just starting to put out test plots, so we had no way of using this fine product. Farmers out west have started up a big business and they know that if the border guards pull that same stunt, they would just turn around and sell it elsewhere in Canada. Canada is still not that far ahead. It was only a few years back that it was illegal to even wear hemp in Canada. I think things ould have changed much faster, but on the other hand I think we have come a long way. We are doing it on many fronts in the legal system, getting rulings that are favourable. Technically Marijuana is legal but that is still being held up in appeals courts and justice ministers not wanting to take on some of these cases. Then we have Marc Emery... nuff said