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2022 VIRGINIA CANNABIS BILL OF RIGHTS
Virginians have an inherent right to provide the proper self-care and health-supporting diet and dietary supplements for themselves and their family and that may include consuming, growing, processing and/or manufacturing cannabis in its various forms as they see fit in any preparation needed
Empowering Virginia’s Farmers,
Businesses, & Consumers.
Founded in 2012, the Virginia Hemp Coalition (formerly Virginia Industrial Hemp Coalition) has been at the forefront of hemp policy in Virginia and the Nation. The VHC was one of the main drafters and editors of the first hemp legalization bill that was passed in 2015 in Virginia. Since then the VHC has been a part of every bill regarding hemp that has been passed into law in the Virginia General Assembly. In addition, at the National legislative level, we have been collaborators for the 2014 Farm Bill, 2015 Industrial Hemp Farming Act, 2017 Industrial Hemp Farming Act, and the 2018 Farm Bill. The VHC continues to work diligently on righting the wrongs of hemp prohibition year after year.
“Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!”
— George Washington
American Founding Father
First President of the United States
“This is a miracle plant that has served the planet earth well for, literally, millennia…It's renewable every 90 days, grows without herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, and needs less water than corn. It is the definition of sustainability.”
— Senator Mark Leno
State Senator, California
“I’m a huge fan of hemp. I think we should quit calling it hemp and just call it the best plant ever.”
— Joel Salatin
Polyface Farm, Swoope, Virginia
“We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.”
— John Adams
Second United States President
“Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.”
— Jack Herer
American Activist
“Why use up the forests, which were centuries in the making, and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”
— Henry Ford
American Industrialist
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”
— Albert Einstein
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist
Hemp Farming Historically
HEMP FACT: At an early point in US history, cultivation of hemp was not only encouraged, but required if you had seeds. A Law passed in 1619 states:
“For hemp also, both English and Indian, and for English flax and aniseeds, we do require and enjoin all householders of this colony, that have any of those seeds, to make trial thereof the next season.”
