http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered Fresh culture daily. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:20:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/10/planting-hemp-seeds-on-dea-front-lawn-gets-farmers-arrested/ http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/10/planting-hemp-seeds-on-dea-front-lawn-gets-farmers-arrested/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:26:04 +0000 Jeff McIntire-Strasburg http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=26580 Industrial hemp may be one of the most versatile and environmentally benign crops out there, but because of its relationship to marijuana, the cultivation of this crop has been banned in the United States since the late thirties. Last week, a group of farmers, along with David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, staged a protest in front of the Drug Enforcement Agency in Washington, DC, and were promptly arrested for planting hemp seeds on the agency's front lawn.]]> http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/10/planting-hemp-seeds-on-dea-front-lawn-gets-farmers-arrested/feed/ 6