Very sad for the tillage sector & full solidarity with individual farmers but @GrowersGrain needs to explain its decision to participate in DAFM's ''stalk only'' consultation on hemp: Imagine validating a future approach to wheat where farmers could only earn money from the straw
"The failure of Irish Environmental NGO's to understand this issue and act in defence of the Irish environment is monumental"
@IrishEnvNet@Env_Pillar
https://t.co/boZxbeVc1r
I could not come anywhere near to even using the word ‘enjoy or enjoyment’ when it comes to describe the treatment we have received from the ‘offices of State’.
Pharmaceutical Cannabis and Tobacco interests lead the corporate cannabis lobby in 🇮🇪
They have enjoyed extraordinary levels of access to discuss the future of the Irish AGRICULTURAL hemp sector at the VERY highest offices of State administration🧵
@Env_Pillar@IrishEnvNet
Pharmaceutical Cannabis and Tobacco interests lead the corporate cannabis lobby in 🇮🇪
They have enjoyed extraordinary levels of access to discuss the future of the Irish AGRICULTURAL hemp sector at the VERY highest offices of State administration🧵
@Env_Pillar@IrishEnvNet
What we do know is:
Irish farmers face life imprisonment for making hemp goods they were previously rewarded by the State for making
@DonnellyStephen did not place the legislation before the Houses of the Irish Oireachtas.
Only the Oireachtas can create a criminal offence.
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"All parts of hemp plants can be exploited, the cultivation of hemp plants requires less inputs compared to any other crop and it can generate important environmental benefits"
Industrial hemp, or simply hemp, refers to ⤵️
"There's a huge potential to be tapped here for the farmers, so I think we need to finally get this debate rolled out in the Member States. This link that people have that hemp is a drug is something we just have to get rid of, we have to put a stop to this side of the debate" ⤵️
The absolute hoodwinking of 🇮🇪 farmers AGAIN
"The hemp sector offers enormous income potential for hemp farmers, growers and for hemp processors"
UN economist, Marco Fugazza, confirms global hemp markets, will grow four fold in the coming years for ALL utilisations of hemp"⤵️
Hemp for Humankind!
"interesting to hear the UN policy department say that regulations should be consistent with a whole plant approach.
My understanding is that the most valuable parts of the crop are not allowed in 🇮🇪 whereas in other states they are"
@lukeming 💐
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Congratulations Hemp Italy 🇮🇹
Yet another Court in Europe directs it's legislators to respect SCIENCE, EU law and the rights of 👩🌾
“without valid scientific evidence, it is not possible to impose limits on this agricultural sector"
https://t.co/1Eeb5XUYbj via @hemptodaynews
We ❤️ the defence of Hong Kong's CBD industry by international media & we ❤️that the press in Hong Kong tried to highlight the issue despite political pressures.
What is the role of the Irish media in relation to the real time activities of Ireland's Department of Health?
Stunning research yesterday from Nature: Half of Europe's wetland's lost
🇮🇪 leads the devastation with 90% of our peatland & wetland's drained & Irish farming groups are lobbying to prevent rewetting.
Utter madness!
@lukeming
https://t.co/YHWrMp6sUu
Its clearly time for Ireland's Minister for Agriculture to resume appropriate responsibility for the agricultural hemp sector and ensure the full environmental potentials of the Irish industry are protected in line with global climate policy objectives.
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EU Commission's 10 minute statement advising Member States that they should NOT be associating agricultural hemp with narcotics and drugs ⬇️
https://t.co/KX0yyXimMb