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Summary Call in the Cavalry!!! Industrial Hemp needs to be given to the people of the United States and we have just the army to do it! Well actually we have this guy. Please meet Ben Droz. Droz is the American hemp industry’s main man in Washington, D.C. As a registered lobbyist for Vote Hemp, an […]

Call in the Cavalry!!! Industrial Hemp needs to be given to the people of the United States and we have just the army to do it!

Well actually we have this guy.

Please meet Ben Droz. Droz is the American hemp industry’s main man in Washington, D.C. As a registered lobbyist for Vote Hemp, an advocacy group that works to loosen hemp laws. Droz, a 27-year-old from Pennsylvania, has made it his life mission to educate and spread the patriotic word of hemp to the leaders of America’s. For the past five years, Droz has loaded up a briefcase filled with hemp goodies — edibles like granolas bars, seeds, and non-edible things like rolling papers, and walked the halls of the Capitol Building spreading the glories of hemp to all that will listen.

Ben is the one-man band stand at the moment, but things are slowly looking up. In June 2013 an amendment to the Farm Bill passed. This amendment authorized hemp research in states where hemp farming is legal. This is a huge step. However, for Droz, this is where it ends. Droz is working to raise support for the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, which would amend the Controlled Substance Act by disjoining hemp from marijuana.

Currently this seems to be the biggest challenge when talking to people about hemp. People automatically think marijuana. Now while there isn’t anything wrong with marijuana, it still receives a negative connotation when brought up around most politicians. Ben has a remedy for that though, his hemp bolo tie.

It’s the ultimate conversation starter and allows him to get the conversation rolling away from marijuana and towards the industrial uses for hemp, which you may remember from my previous post.

Want to check out a little more of Ben Droz???? Try YoloBolo.com. Maybe you can get a nice conversation tie of your own and help spread the word by joining the charge!

Source: Yahoo! News

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