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RE
Farms: LA Sludge Dispute

LETTER SUBMITTED TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
MAY 11, 2000.

What do we do with our wastes? While there are no easy answers, the telling sentence came from an EPA microbiologist who said, "The science behind this is poor." Pay the bill, do the science. If we can find the gene for a specific disease, we can certainly tell if heavy metals are taken up by a green crop. And while the science is being done, a little planning might help.

What if we make the farmers in Kern County our partners in maintaining one of the largest urban centers in the world. Farmers get 85% of the useable water in California, water in which all Californian's have an interest, by amendment to the State Constitution in 1928. Los Angeles needs clean air and a place to safely dispose of sludge wastes. Farmers need markets for non-edible crops grown with composted sludge wastes.

The crop that stands out as one solution to this dispute is hemp. Industrial hemp is by far the number one producer of biomass, 10 tons per acre in four months. Exactly the kind of biomass needed to compost sludge. Reduction of nitrogen levels by composting prevents nitrate contamination of groundwater and facilitates the destruction of harmful bacteria and objectionable odor. This same hemp biomass can be converted into alcohol fuels, including ethanol, which can be sold back to Los Angeles to fuel our transportation needs and help clean the air. The Air Resources Board should demand variable fuel technology on all cars starting next year. The CA Energy Commission has researched alcohol fuels and variable fuel technology since the 1980's. That science is not poor.

The United States Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v.Butler, 1936, that Congress was "prohibited" and "forbidden" from regulating farm production, because that right is reserved to the states and the people by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is time for our state government to act. Pass the bill to allow hemp farming in California. Where do we get the notion that all power is invested in the Federal Government? There is no interstate commerce in this plan. Read the Tenth Amendment, Governor Davis, so we can get on with real planning.

Richard M. Davis,
U. S. A. HEMP MUSEUM Curator

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