I hope that you'll support HR 1009, a bill to amend the Controlled Substances
Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana.  This
industrial form of hemp contains only trace amounts of psychoactive cannabinols
- much like poppy seeds used in foods contain trace amounts of opiates.  Hemp
seed has a well-balanced protein content and the highest amount of essential
fatty acids of any oil in nature, and hemp fibre is strong and easier to
produce than many other textiles.  Several midwestern states have passed or are
considering bills promoting the cultivation of industrial hemp.

Unlike the US, other western countries have adopted rational THC limits for
foods, similar to those voluntarily observed by North American hemp food
companies which protect consumers with a wide margin of safety from any
psychoactive effects or interference with workplace drug-testing (see hemp
industry standards regarding trace THC at  http://www.testpledge.com/).  \The
eighteen-year-old global hemp market is a thriving commercial success.
Unfortunately, because United States regulators have confused  non-psychoactive
industrial hemp varieties of cannabis with psychoactive `marijuana' varieties,
the United States is the only major industrialised nation with such cumbersome
restrictions on the growing and processing of industrial hemp.

Again, I urge you to support HR 1009.