July 23, 2009

Washington, DC — The new 111th Congress is now in session we need Congressmen Martin Heinrich, who represents the 1st District of New Mexico, Harry Teague, who represents the 2nd District, and Ben Lujan, who represents the 3rd District, to become co-sponsors for HR 1866, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009, which will allow farmers in New Mexico and the rest of U.S. to once again have the opportunity to grow this valuable agricultural crop.

In this session a pair of memorials stating that Congress be requested to acknowledge the difference between marijuana and industrial hemp and to clearly legalize the commercial production of industrial hemp, HM 47 and SM 30, were adopted by the New Mexico House and Senate.

The memorials also requested the New Mexico Department of Agriculture to investigate the feasibility of state incentives for commercialization.

If you have a couple of minutes please write to your representative using our custom letter. Please write now:

http://capwiz.com/votehemp/issues/alert/?alertid=13426461

If you have a few more minutes please call his office as this is very effective. We have a great call script that is very short and has a very helpful feedback form so we know how your call went. Please call now:

http://capwiz.com/votehemp/callalert/index.tt?alertid=13426391

If you receive a reply from your representative please email a copy of it to Tom Murphy, Vote Hemp's National Outreach Coordinator, at tom@votehemp.com. We have an intern in DC this summer and it will help him a lot with our lobbying efforts to know the contents of these letters. We will not publish your name or address and hold them in confidence. Please see our Representative Reply Letter page for examples of letters that we have received so far.

We need your help and that of your family, friends and colleagues in New Mexico, so please forward this email to them. We encourage you to write and call today!

Vote Hemp is a national, single-issue, non-profit organization dedicated to the acceptance of and a free market for low-THC industrial hemp, oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, and to changes in current law to allow U.S. farmers to once again grow the crop.

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