The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation (THCF)
Are you interested in returning the United States to its prior hemp cultivating glory? Or perhaps you're a new medi-weed patient, looking for doctors or medical advice? Even if you're solely focused upon ending pot prohibition in America, the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation is the perfect organization for you.
Are you interested in returning the United States to its prior hemp cultivating glory? Or perhaps you're a new medi-weed patient, looking for doctors or medical advice? Even if you're solely focused upon ending pot prohibition in America, the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation is the perfect organization for you.
Are you interested in returning the United States to its prior hemp cultivating glory? Or perhaps you're a new medi-weed patient, looking for doctors or medical advice? Even if you're solely focused upon ending pot prohibition in America, the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation is the perfect organization for you.
THCF was established in August, 1999 by Douglas Paul Stanford, with the goal of “educat[ing] people about the medicinal, social and industrial uses for Cannabis in order to restore hemp cultivation and end adult Cannabis prohibition.” Their affiliated political committee, the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH), was founded in 1990 and promotes the self-developed legislative model called the Cannabis Tax Act. This act would curtail the legal quagmire currently threatening medi-weed access in states such as California by regulating sales, taxes and production of the drug.
As hemp plants by definition contain 0.3 percent THC or less, the DEA should logically have no jurisdiction over hemp cultivation – if anything, it should be regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Generations of American farmers have been repressed from cultivating the same crop that helped us to gain our independence, and citizens of this country have no choice but to pay import prices for products ranging from hemp seed oil capsules to animal bedding, as although it may have been processed here, it was not grown in the States.The ideals behind the protection and education of
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medical growers, patients and dispensary staff are common sense; however, the push towards re-legalization of industrial hemp slogs through murkier waters. The largest issue, which needs to be addressed as quickly as possible, is the re-scheduling (or declassification) of Cannabis from its current position on the Schedule I list of highly-controlled or banned substances. Weed plants are nowhere near as dangerous as they need to be for that scheduling, and hemp cannot get anyone high.
The media efforts of THCF are myriad and extend far beyond their Cannabis forums. The group created Hemp News in 1991, which is the oldest online magazine, publishing within newsgroups on Usenet (the predecessor to today's Internet). If television is more appealing to you, check out the organization's weekly TV show, Cannabis Common Sense, which is accessible on their website and actually broadcasts in California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Michigan.
An impressive set of medical clinics also take place throughout the year and across the United States. THCF is now scheduling individual clinic appointments in forty American cities. Here, visitors can learn about safe and clean cultivation, which strains to choose to treat specific ailments, and even how to consume via smoking alternatives such as vaporizing, medibles, tinctures and topicals. You can even learn exact processes for making extracts with alcohol, or how to cook with canna-butter or oil. THCF's website offers their annual schedule; you can find a clinic in your state and learn as much as possible before ever self-medicating.The THCF Medical Gardens follow state guidelines and help patients obtain permits, seeds and clones with which to begin their own medicinal gardens. To date, over 150,000 patients in nine states have been aided, so if you live in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Hawaii, Michigan or Washington, D.C., you could benefit as well. If you live elsewhere, don't hesitate to learn more on their site or contact the group – especially if you are suffering from AIDS or HIV, cancer, severe chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, glaucoma, arthritis, cachexia, Parkinson's, or any of the dozens of other ailments that can be soothed by Cannabis.
After decades of lies and dis-information about the ever-so-helpful Cannabis plant, the country needs more groups like THCF. The important thing, now, is to replace all the propaganda with truth and facts, and return the United States to it prior, Cannabis-friendly state. Check out thc-foundation.org to learn how you can become a medi-weed patient, donate or volunteer, or just keep yourself up-to-date on Cannabis and hemp knowledge.
Online: www.thc-foundation.org
Telephone: 1-800-723-0188
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