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Welcome to Hampanätet – Swedish Hemp Network
The Swedish Hemp Network is an organisation operating to reintroduce the cultivation and use of industrial hemp (industrihampa) in Sweden.
 our member Ulf Hammarsten, caressing the result of his green fingers – in the first field with industrial hemp planted in Sweden since the 1960:s! Click here for more pictures  |
At present, the EU-legislation permitting the cultivation of industrial hemp stands in severe conflict with the national legislation regarding hemp and the use of narcotics.
In 2001, a few Swedish farmers dared the national laws and under the risk of being arrested as serious drug criminals, planted industrial hemp! Among them Ulf Hammarsten in the province of Halland, southern Sweden. Under massive media observation the police confiscated his crops.
While some local courts ruled in favour of EU-regulations and Hammarsten’s actions, various government institutions and other courts delivered contradicting statements thus adding to the general confusion in the whole situation.
The Swedish government has not yet shown any greater interest in solving this issue once and for all, so that Hammarsten and other Swedish farmers can compete on equal terms with other EU farmers on the common market.
This is the status quo situation for the moment and it is now up to the EU-parliament in Brussels to tell the Swedish authorities under which laws we are to abide. One of Sweden's best known lawyers, Leif Silbersky, is running this case.
January 2003. At last! As expected, the EU-court declared that the Swedish government has no authority to prevent Swedish farmers from cultivating hemp.
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on this link to read the judgment of the court
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