06.12.12
David Bronner, CEO of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, was arrested in Washington DC yesterday as he protested against the US ban on industrial hemp growing by American farmers.
Bronner had locked himself in steel cage near the White House. Inside the cage wereindustrial hemp plants that he was pressing to make fresh hempseed oil. According to Bronner, the plants contained less than 0.3% THC and had no potential use as a drug.
Firemen were called in to remove the executive; they used a power saw to cut through the cage.
The protest followed the introduction last week of an amendment to a bill that would allow farmers to grow industrial hemp. A sister bill had been introduced in the House earlier this year.
Dr. Bronner's imports more than 20 tons of hemp oil per year from Canadian farmers.