Envisioning A Hemp Based Future - 2021 and Beyond
In this new era of fear and divisiveness, CHEA members are staying focused on a positive and constructive course of action that everyone can agree upon and work together to achieve...building the industrial hemp industry. This low THC variety of Cannabis sativa may be the one thing with the power to actually unite us enough to make real, positive change in the world.
We like to say that hemp can't make you high, but it can make just about everything else. From food, clothing, medicines, to fuel, plastics and building materials, hemp is the world's most useful plant. It also sequesters carbon from the air and replenishes the soil and water. Hands down, The Most Sustainable Raw Material on the planet. So, let's get united (on this one important issue) and make it our mission to build a brighter future utilizing hemp!
We like to say that hemp can't make you high, but it can make just about everything else. From food, clothing, medicines, to fuel, plastics and building materials, hemp is the world's most useful plant. It also sequesters carbon from the air and replenishes the soil and water. Hands down, The Most Sustainable Raw Material on the planet. So, let's get united (on this one important issue) and make it our mission to build a brighter future utilizing hemp!
Whats Next in 2021 & Beyond
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Field Notes
In our seven years of working with the industrial hemp plant, we've learned a lot. Bees, for instance, love the pollen from male plants. Now an Oxford University study has officially confirmed what we've known for years. Birds also love the seeds. It can grow in poor to medium soil. Seeds require moist conditions to germinate, but once established water requirements are medium to low. Some varieties are thin and spindly while others are thick and bushy. Lot's of diversity in the Cannabis family. Also, unfortunately, are lots of diseases and pests that hemp is not yet immune to. Cannabis Disease Syndrome, CDS, is a mysterious multi-symptom vascular disease spreading around the globe. For any new farmer, our best advise is to start small. Get acquainted first. For Updates, contact us to receive our Newsletter. 
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Developing Hemp Processing, Manufacturing and Distribution Systems in the U.S.A.
While it seems we've taken a deep dive down the rabbit hole and our democracy hangs in the balance, please remember that we're also making great strides forward, even in the midst of this historic pandemic. Women's rights, gay rights, rights for people of color, and the right to grow and build a sustainable future with industrial hemp, are all movements that are making history and taking us to greater heights of justice and equality. While the political dramas play out, people everywhere are waking up and saying enough is enough. Time for something different. Time for an economy based on healthy raw materials like hemp that can give us over 25,000 different things people use every day. Time to reduce and eventually replace our fossil fuel and harmful chemical consumption. Time for a peaceful hemp revolution. We've been working to envision how that can happen. Here's one idea we hope to have POC on by the end of this year.
Going Mobile is a concept inspired by our passion to have fun while making both a living and great change. Our vans will be fully outfitted to be multi-purpose Mobile Work and Short Term Living Spaces that can transform any location into a unique party experience. Great for any and all events. We provide an array of unique hemp products including our delicious Choco Hemp Cake and Vanilla Hemp Ice Cream, CBD Coffees and Teas, CBD Energy Drinks, CBD Tinctures and Salves, even a masseuse. Add your music play list and our lighting displays for a truly special experience that is not just fun, but is actively helping to build a healthier future for everyone. "Sustainability never felt or tasted this good", is a motto we'd love to see spread far and wide. We'll also create additional revenue streams utilizing our rigs as part of an ever expanding country wide hemp distribution system. We hope to have our first, fully equipped van and pop-up trailer purchased and designed by 2022.
Start Your Own State CHEA Chapter
We've now developed the marketing materials, products and know how to help you start your own Chapter of CHEA in whatever state you're from. No matter what level of involvement - from volunteer to entrepreneur - we are here to help you succeed in building the industry in your area. Contact us for details.
Where do we go from here? Like most hemp organizations and companies in our new era, just staying afloat amidst such uncertainty has gone from tough to near impossible pretty quick. The CBD craze will continue but money is suddenly tight for millions of Americans so sales are slow to none for many small CBD businesses. What's urgently needed is more affordable CBD oil processing for farmers and capital investment for the equipment to utilize other parts of the plant. We must build the infrastructure and machines that can hull the seeds and turn the stalk of the plant into thousands of essential items. Clayton Turner, Founder of HPLC, LLC in New Mexico (www.hplcsolutions.com) is putting together an all-in-one integrated hemp processing facility near Albuquerque. We love his vision of putting the whole plant in at one end and coming out with multiple products at the other. We can't wait to tour this new facility!
Because of hemp's anti-fungal, antibacterial, and health promoting qualities hemp should be utilized to make our masks, hospital scrubs, linens, towels, clothing, etc. Enviro Textiles is leading the way in the hemp fabric arena. Visit their website at: www.envirotextile.com. In the Medicinal Sector, we will have to wait to hear if the ongoing University studies, (Tel Aviv Univ., Letheridge Univ. in Canada, Univ. of Nebraska, Dental College of Georgia), can confirm that cannabinoids and even terpenes are Cytokine inhibitors that will reduce inflammation and even help prevent the onset of Covid-19. Stay tuned for updates.
Simple Ways To Take Action For Change
Why not start your own informational media campaign to inform big business (like Bayer, Dow, Shell, etc,) to get with the times and begin to capitalize on this huge growth market? Urge them to think restoration instead of destruction. Sustainability, instead of reckless cannibalistic, unsustainable growth. We need all sectors of big business to see the light and become our future hero's...instead of continuing down this dark and evil path. There's tons of money to be made in the creation of this environmentally friendly, super sustainable, new green industry. It'll be incredible (and we'll all be so thankful) to have them on board, committed to investing...lets say... just 5% of their profits back into hemp R&D and into converting operations to begin utilizing hemp in their products. It can't be that hard of a transition...can it? The pro-hemp arguments are so easy to make that we must start making them to all parties involved in our corporate state. Time's a wasting people, lets get going!
And if big business won't do it on their own, petition your local, state, and our federal government to make them invest the 5%. Oil companies, the paper and building material industries, plastic composite companies, textile manufactures, auto makers, etc, should all be involved in a national campaign to use hemp as part of a comprehensive plan to become ecologically sustainable and carbon neutral, (Yes, Cannabis is a huge carbon sequestrator), in the next ten years. Think of the incredible publicity and good will that would generate. But we all must make it a point to do our small part to badger these dinosaur titans enough, with enough sustained pressure to push them into doing the right thing, (while they're also making money off this new industry). Remember, it's not enough to just have legality...We absolutely need a new, 21st Century, "Hemp for Victory Act", like the campaign our government created during WWII. Former U.S. Rep Tulsi Gabbard introduced just such an act in 2019. We desperately need government to fund research, ensure safety, and incentivize all kinds of hemp related businesses. Keep the pressure coming and before you know it, we will change the world...via hemp.
Start Your Own State CHEA Chapter
We've now developed the marketing materials, products and know how to help you start your own Chapter of CHEA in whatever state you're from. No matter what level of involvement - from volunteer to entrepreneur - we are here to help you succeed in building the industry in your area. Contact us for details.
Where do we go from here? Like most hemp organizations and companies in our new era, just staying afloat amidst such uncertainty has gone from tough to near impossible pretty quick. The CBD craze will continue but money is suddenly tight for millions of Americans so sales are slow to none for many small CBD businesses. What's urgently needed is more affordable CBD oil processing for farmers and capital investment for the equipment to utilize other parts of the plant. We must build the infrastructure and machines that can hull the seeds and turn the stalk of the plant into thousands of essential items. Clayton Turner, Founder of HPLC, LLC in New Mexico (www.hplcsolutions.com) is putting together an all-in-one integrated hemp processing facility near Albuquerque. We love his vision of putting the whole plant in at one end and coming out with multiple products at the other. We can't wait to tour this new facility!
Because of hemp's anti-fungal, antibacterial, and health promoting qualities hemp should be utilized to make our masks, hospital scrubs, linens, towels, clothing, etc. Enviro Textiles is leading the way in the hemp fabric arena. Visit their website at: www.envirotextile.com. In the Medicinal Sector, we will have to wait to hear if the ongoing University studies, (Tel Aviv Univ., Letheridge Univ. in Canada, Univ. of Nebraska, Dental College of Georgia), can confirm that cannabinoids and even terpenes are Cytokine inhibitors that will reduce inflammation and even help prevent the onset of Covid-19. Stay tuned for updates.
Simple Ways To Take Action For Change
Why not start your own informational media campaign to inform big business (like Bayer, Dow, Shell, etc,) to get with the times and begin to capitalize on this huge growth market? Urge them to think restoration instead of destruction. Sustainability, instead of reckless cannibalistic, unsustainable growth. We need all sectors of big business to see the light and become our future hero's...instead of continuing down this dark and evil path. There's tons of money to be made in the creation of this environmentally friendly, super sustainable, new green industry. It'll be incredible (and we'll all be so thankful) to have them on board, committed to investing...lets say... just 5% of their profits back into hemp R&D and into converting operations to begin utilizing hemp in their products. It can't be that hard of a transition...can it? The pro-hemp arguments are so easy to make that we must start making them to all parties involved in our corporate state. Time's a wasting people, lets get going!
And if big business won't do it on their own, petition your local, state, and our federal government to make them invest the 5%. Oil companies, the paper and building material industries, plastic composite companies, textile manufactures, auto makers, etc, should all be involved in a national campaign to use hemp as part of a comprehensive plan to become ecologically sustainable and carbon neutral, (Yes, Cannabis is a huge carbon sequestrator), in the next ten years. Think of the incredible publicity and good will that would generate. But we all must make it a point to do our small part to badger these dinosaur titans enough, with enough sustained pressure to push them into doing the right thing, (while they're also making money off this new industry). Remember, it's not enough to just have legality...We absolutely need a new, 21st Century, "Hemp for Victory Act", like the campaign our government created during WWII. Former U.S. Rep Tulsi Gabbard introduced just such an act in 2019. We desperately need government to fund research, ensure safety, and incentivize all kinds of hemp related businesses. Keep the pressure coming and before you know it, we will change the world...via hemp.
In addition to Vote Hemp, The National Hemp Association, NHA, with roots in Boulder, is another great resource for up-to-date hemp information.
