Hemp History Week 6 June- 12 June

 

Hemp History Week in Victoria, TX!

hemp history week

During Hemp History Week June 6th through the 12th of 2016,  hemp activists will come together to co-create events around the country to promote education, awareness and activism.
From Hawaii to North Dakota, Vermont, and Kentucky things are heating up for the legalization of hemp farming.  So far at least 26 states have successfully introduced hemp legislation and at least 6 are growing test plots.

June 9th at 7 PM in Victoria, TX where Minawear Luxury Hemp Loungewear is based, the Guerrilla Gourmet restaurant will be hosting a Hemp History Week event.  See the movie Bringing It Home about the modern hemp industry while sampling Chef James Canter's hemp menu items.  At 7:15 join the Skype conversation with the creator of the Cannabis Car, Bruce Dietzen.

Along with free product samples from Manitoba Harvest,  and Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, attendees will also be eligible for a chance to win a copy of Hemp for Victory, browse the hemp library, check out other hemp uses and products, and shop one of a kind tie dyes from Minawear Luxury Hemp Loungewear.

The best way to support the legalization of hemp farming in the United States is to purchase and use hemp products as often as you can, and tell every one you know about this plant and all of it's 25,000 applications.

We will discuss the current legislature while making available several petitions to sign.

Sign today!  Legalize Hemp Farming

Participate in Hemp History Week by creating your own event,  educating yourselves, and using hemp in one of it's 25,000 applications in your every day lives!


Guerrilla Gourmet
311 E. Constitution St. Victoria, TX
June 9th, 2016 7 PM to 10 PM

Admission by donation to pay for the Screening

Letter to Texas paper about hemp in Texas

This is a letter published in the Victoria Advocate on 7 February, 2014, from Mina Hegaard, owner of Minawear, who lives in Victoria:

Editor, the Advocate:
I am a clothing designer here in Victoria, and the main material used in my clothing, Minawear Luxury Hemp Loungewear, is hemp and organic cotton. The reason I only design with hemp and organic cotton is that I believe our environment is in grave danger of becoming severely imbalanced by the overuse of chemicals, which affects humans on many levels - whether it be a rise in illnesses from water contamination or air and soil pollutants.
Unlike conventional cotton that requires one-third of a pound of chemicals per T-shirt, hemp is grown without the use of harmful chemicals, and that is profitable to farmers as well as beneficial to the health of the planet.
Hemp has more than 25,000 applications, including fuel, textiles, building materials, food, paper, batteries and more.
Texas recently introduced a HB 84 (R) to legalize hemp farming on the state level, while H.R. 525, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015, was introduced by Representative Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, on Jan. 21 to allow American farmers to once again grow hemp to the extent that it is allowed under state laws.
Forty-two states have introduced pro-hemp legislation and twenty-eight have passed pro-hemp legislation as a resolution, hemp study bill or other.
In order to legalize growing industrial hemp, we need to first educate ourselves, and then take action. Please visit votehemp.com/write_congress.html and follow the links to find your legislators and send them email letters.
There are also many informative publications available including "Hemp For Victory," a book that my brother wrote about the uses, history, processes and financials of hemp. Woody Harrelson wrote the foreword, and I wrote the textile chapter. See link at minawear.com/shop/general/hemp-for-victory-by-kenyon-gibson.
Thank you for taking the time to educate yourself.
Mina Hegaard, Victoria

Kinky Friedman Texas hemp boys (and girls)

Above is a picture of Kinky Friedman, with Mina Hegaard - both Texas hemp advocates, both are well known and need little introduction in the hemp world.
Kinky is running for Texas Agricultural Commissioner, while Mina runs Minawear Hemp Clothing
based in Victoria, but soon to move to Austin, Texas.

The election will be in November. If Kinky gets in,  chads will be made of hemp paper and farmers will be making money in America and using less water and little or no pesticides.

Lots of news in the US about hemp lately, so much so that the federal government has made it legal for people to grow it if is legal at the state level - so once Texas gets a sensible law passed it will be able to stop the dependency on water hungry cotton and corn and grow hemp.  Hopefully there can be emergency expedition of such a law so that it can be passed as soon as the Texas legislature sits.

For this to be, there needs to be public support of such a move - the federal government passed the hemp legislation only after much outcry - some of it coming from Texas in the form of the Minawear petition, still up at www.minawear.com/about-us/

There will be a new petition soon to make hemp legal at the state level and also to expedite this legislation for 2014.

Minawear outlets

Below is a list of shops that carry Minawear around the world. Minawear is now in its 15th year, and going strong. Now based in Victoria, Texas, it started in Santa Monica, California. Below is an image of Woody Harrelson wearing Minawear:




TEXAS:Organic Emporium
2918 N. Laurent St.
Victoria, TX 77901
(361) 576-2100
www.organicemporiumllc.com
The Yoga Haven
2507 Market Street
Galveston, TX 77550
(409)-770-9995
www.theyogahaven.net
Coastal Closet
1726 State Highway 361, Ste D
Port Aransas, TX 78373
(361) 749-1881
www.coastalclosetpa.com
Yoga Heart Studio
30103 Fountainview Dr. Ste 151
Houston, TX 77057
(281) 687-0647
www.yogahearthouston.com
Clista's Studio
6514 Del Monte
Houston, TX 77057
(713) 826-8416
www.clistas-studio.com
One Green Street
3423 White Oak Drive
Houston, TX 77007
(281) 888-9518
http://www.onegreenstreet.com/
NEW MEXICO:Yoga Source
901 W. San Mateo
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Body Inc.
333 W Cordova Rd.
Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 986-0362
www.bodyofsantafe.com
Santa Fe Hemp Company
105 E. Water Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 984-2599
www.santafehemp.com
NEW YORK:Integral Yoga Institute
227 West 13th St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 929-0586
Jet's Dream
212 Main St.
Greenport, NY 11944
(631) 477-0039
www.jetsdream.com
NORTH CAROLINA:Asheville Yoga Center
211 S. Liberty St.
Asheville, NC, 28801
(828)-254-0380
www.youryoga.com
MARYLAND:Joshua Tree
1340 Smith Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21231
OHIO:Hemptations
2034 Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45208
(513)871-4367
www.hemptations.com
Hemptations Too
11353 Lebanon Road
Sharonville, OH 45241
(513)524-4367
www.hemptations.com
OREGON:Rogue Natural Living
146 S. Redwood Hwy.
Cave Junction, OR 97523
(541) 415-2337
www.roguenaturalliving.com
CALIFORNIA:Real Goods
13771 S. Highway 101
Hopland, CA 95449
Culture Shock
7 Bolinas Rd.
Fairfax, CA 94930
(415) 456-8138
Global Village
172 North Main Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 829-4765
Bamboo Home Store
108 Mill St.
Grass Valley, CA 95945
(530)-272-0303
www.bamboohomestore.com
Global Village Gallery
973 H Street
Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 826-2323
Being Green
408 Broad St.
Nevada City, CA 95959
(530)559-2116
www.beinggreenstore.com
Ocean Echo
23 Washington Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
(310) 823-5850
www.oceanechosurfshop.com
The Hemp Connection
412 Maple Ln
Garberville, CA 95542
(707) 923-4851
HAWAII:Hemp House
16 Baldwin Avenue
Paia, HI 96779
(808) 579-8880
WASHINGTON:Natural Clothing Company
1020 First St. #102
Snohomish, WA, 98291
(360) 243-3143
www.naturalclothingcompany.com
WISCONSIN:Hempen Goods
911 Williamson Street
Madison, WI 53703-3549
(608) 287-0410
Houdek Hemp House
201 College Ave.
Appleton, WI 54911
(920) 645-7267
COLORADO:Yogadurango
1485 Florida Rd. C-201
Durango, CO 81301
The Hemp Store
2 Ruxton Ave.
Manitou Springs, CO 80829
AUSTRALIA:Greenroom Gallery
321 Harbour Dr
Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450
(02) 6652 4207
www.greenroomgallery.com.au
JAPAN:Humminbird
3-42 Hieda
Kumamoto, Japan
860-0075
www.Purbebe.com

Hemp clothing sale!

FAT TUESDAY 20% OFF SALE! Now until Tuesday, February 19th Use this code at check out: FATTUES13 www.minawear.com Everything on minawear.com! Feel free to share with your friends! Minawear is a line of apparel created to inspire the health of the planet by using hemp, the world's most useful plant.

Minawear at Pecan Street Festival

Minawear will be at the Pecan Street Festival in Austin Texas this weekend, 29/30 September. It is the oldest street fair in the state, and possibly the biggest.
http://www.oldpecanstreetfestival.com/home/
Mina is by the way one of the most established hemp clothing manufacturers in the US. If you miss her in Austin, you can see her on line shop here: www.minawear.com

She happens to live in Victoria, which is in Dr Ron Paul's district, he is a sponsor of the Hemp Farming Bill which would give Americans the rights to grow the plant George Washington grew and which was used in the making of the first American flag. Some people hate America and oppose this. If you're an American, you ought to find out if your congressman is voting for this or against it. And vote him/her in if they do, and out of they don't.

In the future, we hope to see lots of hemp growing in Texas and all over America, replacing the more water hungry crops like cotton and corn which hurt farmers.