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Status of State and Tribal Hemp Production Plans for USDA Approval
Updated October 28, 2020
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https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/hemp/state-and-tribal-plan-review
Arizona : under review
Colorado : will continue to operate under the 2014 pilot
New Mexico, Utah : approved plan
('Pending Resubmission' is gone - USDA has received a plan but returned the plan to the State or Tribal government for edits or amendments to ensure regulatory compliance and consistency)
Aqueous International Corporation is a One World Ventures Inc. company, that consists of its three subsidiaries: Aqueous Financial Services, Aqueous Cannabis Consulting, and Aqueous Sciences.
We provide consulting and financial services to businesses in various industries, including cannabis (from seed to sale). Services include all phases of private and public finance, business organization, formation, conception, design, planning, budgeting, project feasibility, development, deployment, operations, consultation, sales and marketing, expansion, mergers, acquisitions and public listings.
We also invest, or partner/joint venture with companies to cultivate, manufacture, distribute and sell cannabis products on Native American Reservations, in the United States and internationally. Each Tribal Partnership provides any cannabis business an opportunity to reap many financial benefits and rewards.
We form strategic partnerships with investors, financial institutions, state-of-the-art cultivators, extractors, manufacturers, distributors and research and development to further enhance product offerings. We are currently positioning ourselves as the Master Developer of what could be the largest cannabis campus in North America, located on the Navajo Nation, USA. This campus is being developed in partnership with the Native American Agricultural Company (NAAC) to host companies from all over the United States and the world to cultivate, manufacture, distribute and sell cannabis-based products in the USA..
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Report compares hemp production state by state (Oct 23, 2020)
https://www.farmprogress.com/hemp/report-compares-hemp-production-state-state?fbclid=IwAR1rQfyuJQ-85jot6WsHgxajKEEYz7KvTp-b1wlzXbBeXv-cdkotb3NYxYI
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Innovative State Approaches to Hemp Regulations Under the 2018 Farm Bill
(HEMP: A new report takes a close look at hemp production and the different approaches states are taking to regulate it under the 2018 Farm Bill.)
https://farmoffice.osu.edu/sites/aglaw/files/site-library/HempInnovativeStateApproachesAug2020.pdf
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In partnership with Aqueous International Corporation (AIC) & the Native American Agricultural Company (NAAC), we are developing the largest campus of cannabis companies on the Sovereign Navajo Nation, based in the USA. (Visit: https://www.nativeamericanagriculture.com/)
We also provide promotional & consultation services to domestic & global companies looking for a public vehicle within the USA and Canada.
We are currently interested in attracting all types of cannabis production companies to this campus in any of the following area's (but not limited to) to come grow with us! The campus is based in New Mexico, USA.
Cultivation * Manufacturing * Distribution * Processing * Extracting * Packaging * Retail
The Sovereign Navajo Nation is the largest Native American Reservation in the United States with an area of over 27,000 square miles. It is situated on the four corners of the southwestern Colorado Plateau, within the CO, NM, AZ, UT States.
There are many advantages to bringing your business to this campus including a rapid licensing & permit process (you can be up and running within 60 days), pay lower taxes and fees, unlimited water & power, and there are buildings readily available for lease. In addition, you would gain access to their sophisticated and coveted Tribe to Tribe transport system that allows you to ship product across the USA and international to legal cannabis jurisdictions with little or no duty taxes or legal restrictions.
The RFQ was just released and we encourage you to contact us for further information or visit the website for details. This is a great opportunity to be able to produce and manufacture cannabis in a less intrusive environment, where you can reap the rewards of a Tribal partnership and all the advantages it brings.
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Arizona Tribes and Cannabis
Medical Marijuana is Legal in Arizona
https://www.500nations.com/Arizona-Cannabis.asp (scroll!!)
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Arizona's Federally-Recognized Tribes
The DOJ marijuana policy on tribal reservations applies to these Arizona tribes. Each is federally recognized as sovereign by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the U.S. Interior Department.
Ak-Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona
Cocopah Tribe of Arizona
Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado Indian Reservation, Arizona and California
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona
Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona
Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation, Arizona
Hopi Tribe of Arizona
Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona
Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian Reservation, Arizona
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona
Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California & Arizona
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona
San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona
San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona
Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona
Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona
White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona
Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona
Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
Most tribes are considering the potential opportunites of the marijuana industry. The Navajo Nation is moving towards production of medical marijuana and hemp. Hemp is the fiber of the cannabis plant used in making rope and course fabrics.
see https://www.500nations.com/Arizona-Cannabis.asp
article Oct 15, 2020 : Hemp operation ongoing; Nation files motion to enforce court order
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/hemp-operation-ongoing-nation-files-motion-to-enforce-court-order/
Dineh Benally is continuing his hemp operation and the Navajo Nation is fed up.
Even after the Shiprock District Court granted a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Benally, his workers and others from illegally growing, producing, transporting, licensing and selling industrial hemp within the Navajo Nation, his operations have noticeably continued.
The Navajo Nation has filed an amended motion to enforce the court’s Sept. 18 TRO and preliminary injunction. Navajo Nation Police Officer Kyle Simms, who is assigned to Shiprock area, stated in an affidavit obtained by the Navajo Times that, following the TRO and preliminary injunction, he and other officers contacted each hemp/cannabis farmer and notified them of the orders and that they would have to stop operation.
“In providing these notices, we encountered many locked gates,” stated Simms, “which obstructed our ability to observe if hemp/cannabis operations were continuing.”
Simms stated they have been denied access from Benally’s security who have told Simms they need directions from “their boss” before they can give access to the hemp farms. From previous encounters with security, Simms stated he understands the boss to be Benally.
Two days after the orders of the TRO and preliminary injunction were given, Simms said he was involved in a DUI checkpoint near Hogback, New Mexico. He came into contact with a non-Navajo hemp farm worker, who told Simms he was headed to work on a hemp farm. “His supervisor at the farm was Dineh Benally and that Mr. Benally had told him to continue working after the issuance of the court’s temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction,” stated Simms.
“Mr. Benally had sent a text message to many farmers on a group text message on September 19… telling them to ‘keep moving forward.’”
Simms’ report of activity on the farms was just one of many other officers who have seen uninterrupted and ongoing hemp/cannabis farming in violation of the court’s orders.
Chief Phillip Francisco provided a list of officers and what these officers have witnessed with the ongoing operations after the court orders. At the William Badonie farm, an officer has seen lights, generators and workers inside the “the green houses.”
Another officer stated he had seen two commercial vehicles trying to get into the Time Franklins’ farm, but the officer informed the driver about the court order after which the trucks left the area.
Many other reports detailed farmers continuing to work and refusing to stop, generator activity, and U-Hauls transporting cannabis/hemp from farms behind the Shiprock Animal Shelter.
“After learning of the Defendants’ noncompliance with the Court’s order, counsel for Plaintiff contact counsel for Defendant by email…to inform counsel for Defendants that Plaintiff was receiving ongoing reports of hemp farm activity in violation of the Court’s order and requesting the Defendants complaints,” stated the Navajo Nation’s amended motion. “Counsel for Defendants claimed that he was with Defendant Benally and that Defendant was not farming and that he did not represent ‘the other farmers,’” the amended motion said.
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The company has executed a management services agreement with the Native American Agricultural Company to cultivate hemp in the Navajo nation; and it has obtained licenses from the Navajo Nation to engage in lab testing, cultivation, processing, wholesale distribution, and retail sales of hemp. The Company is wholly owned by a subsidiary of SPI Energy Co., Ltd. ("SPI Energy"), a publicly listed company ( NASDAQ:SPI). SPI Energy is an established green energy player with operations in key markets in Australia, Europe, Japan and the United States, and it is leveraging its sizable solar platform and industry expertise to make strategic investment opportunities in green industries with significant growth and earnings potential.
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articles by Arlyssa Becenti
(tips:abecenti@navajotimes.com)
https://muckrack.com/arlyssa-becenti/articles
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https://navajotimes.com/reznews/marijuana-definition-changed-making-benallys-product-illegal/
Aqueous International Corporation is a One World Ventures Inc. company, that consists of its three subsidiaries: Aqueous Financial Services, Aqueous Cannabis Consulting, and Aqueous Sciences.
We provide consulting and financial services to businesses in various industries, including cannabis (from seed to sale). Services include all phases of private and public finance, business organization, formation, conception, design, planning, budgeting, project feasibility, development, deployment, operations, consultation, sales and marketing, expansion, mergers, acquisitions and public listings.
We also invest, or partner/joint venture with companies to cultivate, manufacture, distribute and sell cannabis products on Native American Reservations, in the United States and internationally. Each Tribal Partnership provides any cannabis business an opportunity to reap many financial benefits and rewards.
We form strategic partnerships with investors, financial institutions, state-of-the-art cultivators, extractors, manufacturers, distributors and research and development to further enhance product offerings. We are currently positioning ourselves as the Master Developer of what could be the largest cannabis campus in North America, located on the Navajo Nation, USA. This campus is being developed in partnership with the Native American Agricultural Company (NAAC) to host companies from all over the United States and the world to cultivate, manufacture, distribute and sell cannabis-based products in the USA..
Website
http://www.aqueousic.com
article Sep 26, 2020 : Hemp operation raising tension on Navajo Nation
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/hemp-operation-raising-tension-on-navajo-nation/article_749ba6b8-fe00-11ea-b8d9-5b3193396b81.html
"In the fertile northeast corner of the Navajo Nation, fields that only months ago were traditional open-air corn farms are now stuffed with hundreds of industrial-sized greenhouses, each glowing with artificial lights and brimming with emerald cannabis plants."
article Sep 26, 2020 : Navajo officials set on shutting down New Mexico hemp farms
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/26/navajo-officials-set-on-shutting-down-new-mexico-h/
article Sep 26, 2020 : Navajo officials set on shutting down New Mexico hemp farms
https://hosted.ap.org/republicanherald/article/0a178f0eb9f9c962bb31f543a2eb8afe/navajo-officials-set-shutting-down-new-mexico-hemp-farms
article Sep 24, 2020 : A massive hemp empire is accused of growing illegal marijuana and sowing violence on the Navajo reservation
https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2020/09/24/a-massive-hemp-empire-is-accused-of-growing-illegal-marijuana-and-sowing-violence-on-the-navajo-reservation/
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article Sep 23, 2020 : What Are Scores Of L.A.-Based Chinese Immigrants Doing On An Illegal Navajo Nation Cannabis Farm?
https://laist.com/latest/post/20200923/chinese-immigrants-navajo-nation-cannabis-farm
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In the fertile northeast corner of the Navajo Nation, near the town of Shiprock, New Mexico, fields that only months ago were traditional open-air corn farms are now stuffed with hundreds of industrial-sized greenhouses, each glowing with artificial lights and brimming with emerald cannabis plants. Security cameras ring the perimeters and guards in flak jackets patrol the public roads alongside the farms.
Every weekday throughout the summer, a group of local kids woke at sunrise and arrived at the farm by 7:30, ready for a 10-hour shift of hard labor under the high desert sun. Many were teenagers, 13- and 14-year-olds lured by offers of quick cash. A few were as young as 10.
Joining them were scores of foreign workers — more than 1,000 people, many of them Chinese immigrants brought to New Mexico from Los Angeles, according to Navajo Police Chief Phillip Francisco.
The crops, according to the man responsible for the operation, are merely hemp plants — a type of cannabis that is grown for its fiber and over-the-counter health products. Hemp, a common agricultural crop, looks and smells identical to regular marijuana, but contains only trace amounts of psychoactive THC. But according to the seven employees interviewed by the nonprofit newsroom Searchlight New Mexico, the farms are not only growing hemp — they’re also producing high-powered, black-market marijuana.
article Sep 24, 2020 : Navajo Nation moves to shut down hemp farms amid claims of marijuana growing
https://eu.daily-times.com/story/news/2020/09/24/navajo-nation-says-hemp-farms-front-grow-illegal-marijuana/3515677001/
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After Benally and Lin struck a deal, they obtained financing from SPI Energy Co., a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ.
SPI launched a hemp business last year and agreed to invest $1.1 million into the Shiprock farms.
But investments from SPI dried up last year after Benally's company failed "to deliver any of the hemp plants" and refused to return an initial installment of $324,125, SPI financial records show.
SPI officials visited the Shiprock farms after making their first payment by the July 31, 2019, deadline and found "the plants and growing operations appeared to be deficient and not up to industry standards," according to a company filing. Further, SPI alleges Benally didn't deliver updates or financial reports as required.
"Finally, NAAC failed to deliver any of the hemp plants by Nov. 30, 2019 … and refused to return the company's down payment and to make whole the damages the company has suffered," a filing says.
SPI said Benally's company also did not respond to two demand letters late last year.
article Sep 23, 2020 : SPI Energy on crazy ride to $46 from $1 after launching EV business
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3616651-spi-energy-on-crazy-ride-to-46-from-1-after-launching-ev-business?mod=mw_quote_news
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OLD article Jan 29, 2020
https://edition.cnn.com/business/newsfeeds/globenewswire/7806986.html
SPI Energy Provides Update on its CBD Operations
HONG KONG and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SPI Energy Co., Ltd. ("SPI Energy" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SPI), a global provider of green energy solutions with strategic investments in green-energy-enabled products and services, recently completed the installation of its cannabidiol (CBD) extraction equipment at a facility in Fresno, California.
The newly installed CBD extraction equipment is designed to enable the production of CBD crude oil, distillate and isolate. Currently, the Company is conducting pre-production test runs of its CBD crude oil extraction process; completing quality control review, and self-testing the CBD crude oil that is being produced.
“We have made significant progress building the foundation of our CBD operations in California in recent months,” stated Xiaofeng Peng, Chairman and CEO of SPI Energy. “The Company has executed toll manufacturing agreements with three local hemp farms, and we expect to expand our CBD extraction services and scale our production capacity to match growing demand.”
The Company recently sent demand letters to the Native American Agricultural Company (NAAC) after it failed to deliver the hemp crop under the terms of the agreement the Company entered into with them on July 24, 2019. The Company is now planning to take legal action against the NAAC to recover the economic loss.
article Sep 23, 2020 : Chaos and Cannabis
https://searchlightnm.org/chaos-and-cannabis/?fbclid=IwAR369aAfgYGxkH-X_AdN2QUXPHDghybJE5awvwjFe6CQP2EbEYn2-_zK8AY
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Ever since the large greenhouse operations began appearing on the reservation in 2019, Benally has described the farms as legal hemp enterprises. As farm board president, he also claims he has the authority to license hemp farms.
Hemp cultivation is against the law without approval from the federal government, and Benally does not have that approval, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
He also lacks the authority to grant hemp licenses or to independently lease farmland on the reservation, according to a lawsuit filed against him in June by Navajo Nation Attorney General Doreen McPaul. The suit charged Benally and his businesses, Native American Agriculture Company and Navajo Gold Company, with illegally growing industrial hemp and unlawfully issuing land use permits for his industrial hemp project, putting “the People of the Navajo Nation at risk.”
On Sept. 18, a Navajo court issued a temporary restraining order requiring Benally to halt all operations on his farms.
“We’ve lost minimum $20 million” because of the restraining order, Irving Lin said, explaining that he and his partners had built almost 1,000 greenhouses at $10,000 a piece, and invested $10 million in farm infrastructure.
“We have spent so much money for our community,” he said. He couldn’t understand why the people on the reservation didn’t appreciate it, he added.
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In 2019, Benally partnered with a Las Vegas-based financier named DaMu Lin, CEO of One World Ventures Inc., a publicly traded company that says it invests in cannabis projects on Native American land. DaMu Lin (no relation to Irving), who describes himself on Facebook as an “International Man of Business,” appointed Benally to the One World Ventures board of directors in March 2019, according to a company press release. The Shiprock operation also obtained funding from SPI Energy Co., a publicly traded company based in China.
article Sep 19, 2020 : Injunction issued against hemp farm
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/injunction-issued-against-hemp-farm/?fbclid=IwAR375SvD2il6YgKe-6Sf_h8DbeyuXNcXZSC5Lu8eLVzlkVqIwfW2PywYMYk
Shiprock District Court has granted a preliminary injunction and temporary protection order against Dineh Benally, Native American Agricultural Company and Navajo Gold Company, leading to the Navajo Nation Police to begin shutting down hemp farm operations and telling hemp farm workers to leave
A few days after the Navajo Nation Police released a press release of the growing concerns and reports from Shiprock community members over hemp cultivation in June, the Navajo Nation filed a lawsuit against Benally, who is president of the San Juan River Farm Board, in his personal and official capacity, along with his Native American Agricultural Company and Navajo Gold Company, seeking to stop “the illegal and unregulated growth, production, transporting, licensing, and selling industrial hemp within the exterior boundaries of the Navajo Nation.”
It was summer of not only a pandemic but of community upheaval in Northern Agency as Benally’s neighbors protested against hemp production, the non-Navajo work force Benally brought in and everything that came along with it.
During the first day of the hearing on the restraining order, the Navajo Nation’s special counsel Charlie Galbraith of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, had his witnesses, who consisted of Oliver Whaley, director of Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Navajo Chief of Police Phillip Francisco, and community members, give their testimony. They were cross examined by Gallup attorney David Jordan, representing Benally.
Near the end of the day Jordan called two witnesses, one of Benally’s security guards and a farmer who was paid by the San Juan River Farm Board President to use his farm to cultivate hemp. On Friday they were supposed to start up again with witnesses testifying and being cross-examined, including Benally himself. But Jordan and Benally decided to rest and not call witnesses, and with that both counsels gave their closing statements.
“We had several witnesses yesterday and we went down some rabbit holes of he-said she-said play-by-play of what happened,” said Galbraith in his closing statement. “It was just a very small sampling of the daily confrontation happening because of this hemp. Conflicts are happening…daily. They’re tearing families apart. They are a public health crisis…you heard Chief of Police Phillip Francisco call it a crisis situation.”
Galbraith continued to talk of the testimony given such as Whaley’s who explained the environmental harm these unregulated hemp farms and hoop houses are doing to the land. While stating the requirements needed to be met in order to grant a preliminary injunction, Shiprock District Judge Genevieve Woody referred to Whaley’s testimony as fitting the requirement of irreparable injury, loss, or damage to Plaintiff’s rights and interests that would continue to occur unless a preliminary injunction is issued.
Whaley said he had observed violations of the Navajo Nation Pesticide Act because NEPA did not issue licenses for some of the pesticides used on the farm. He also spoke of the septic tanks installed on the hemp farm with no construction or operating permits. They were not being maintained and were leaking sewage, which posed a threat of contamination to the land, he said. He added sand bags had been installed to divert water from the San Juan River, this being investigated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He stated trash was being illegally dumped on the farm lands, and on site-generators are attached to large water hauling tanks that he suspected contain gasoline to power the generators.
In Jordan’s closing statement he said should a preliminary injunction be ordered then Benally’s 2020 crop for nine farms would be “entirely lost.” There are 36 hemp farms that are so far identified.
“The plaintiff has completely forgotten their complaints,” said Jordan. “Their complaint had nothing to do with protesters, environment. It was CBD and hemp is illegal. It’s risky. It’s this and that. Things we didn’t hear anything about in their case. They didn’t even put on evidence of what my client is growing.”
Jordan had a problem with the “environmental guy” Whaley, noting he had explained NEPA has a procedure to address issues and then gives the offender a chance to fix the problem, after which they do a follow up.
“This case isn’t being brought by the Navajo Nation EPA,” said Jordan. “The Navajo Nation EPA isn’t asking for a preliminary injunction. Why? Because they have an entire remedy of law they are following. A procedure they are doing which gives my client a chance to address environmental concerns if they ask them.”
After the end of the hearing, local radio stations KGAK and KNDN broadcast interviews with farmers who gave up their farms for Benally to cultivate hemp on, and the farm workers themselves, discussing how Benally is a “good man” and that racial bias should not be an issue. During the hearing Jordan accused the protesters of using racist epithets toward Benally’s mostly non-Navajo workforce.
“The negative things being said about him (Benally) is just racial comments,” said one woman who works for Benally. “How can we go against our own Navajo kind? Coming at the Asians, you guys need to think where does your clothes come from? Where does your vehicle come from? Who are the ones bringing in the medicine? Who are helping the elderly? It’s the Asians who are here giving their time. We need to work together.”
article Sep 18, 2020 - Navajo Police Department
SHIPROCK, New Mexico - In response to the Navajo Nation Shiprock Court's approval of the temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop hemp operations, the Navajo Police Department will begin planning and mobilizing resources to enforce the Court's decision.
“We appreciate the court’s decision regarding the hemp farm operations within the Shiprock community. Following the ruling of the Court, the Navajo Police Department will begin coordinating efforts to safely stop the hemp operations.” Chief Francisco said.
The department has increased police presence in the Shiprock community this week to supplement the district's need to address the increase in complaints and reports of hemp farm activities.
“Our department has been at the forefront of working directly with the community on a daily basis in regards to complaints surrounding the hemp operations. We have heard the concerns and have dedicated time and resources in addressing the public safety complaints expressed by the Shiprock community.” Chief Francisco said.?
The Navajo Police Department incident command team is currently in the Shiprock community and will continue coordinating operations to ensure the temporary restraining order and injunction is imposed.
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article Sep 17, 2020 : Hemp opponents launch another protest
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/hemp-opponents-launch-another-protest/
article Sep 17, 2020 : Hemp opponents launch another protest
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/hemp-opponents-launch-another-protest/
article Sep 17, 2020 : Hemp hoop house nearly destroyed by fire
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/hemp-hoop-house-nearly-destroyed-by-fire/
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A Monday morning protest against San Juan River Farm Board President Dineh Benally’s hemp farm ended with a fire set to one of his hoop houses. As of Wednesday, police had no suspects in the case.
Tensions have been mounting the entire summer between Benally and a number of residents and farmers who don’t like the extensive hemp fields in their community (see accompanying story).
Police Chief Phillip Francisco was on his way back to Window Rock from the protest when he learned of the fire.
He said Wednesday no suspects have been identified and no new information was available. At least two dozen residents and farmers protested Monday against not only Benally but Navajo and Shiprock leadership, the Navajo Nation Police and the Shiprock District Court, which they feel should have put a stop to Benally’s operation.
Delegates of the Navajo Nation Council have held three radio forums on the topic, and President Jonathan Nez and Department of Justice officials met with a few farmers a couple of weeks ago. But Benally continues to grow hemp on 400 acres in Shiprock, Gadiiahi and Hogback in spite of being warned hemp production is illegal on the Navajo Nation.
Last week Navajo Environmental Protection Agency officials and Attorney General Doreen McPaul went to inspect Benally’s farms but were chased off by Benally’s workers. Also present at the inspection was attorney David Jordan, who represents Benally.
The Navajo Nation has filed for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop the farming. The court last week denied Benally’s motion to dismiss and a hearing is set for today (Thursday) at 10:30 a.m. Shiprock Chapter President Duane “Chili” Yazzie did not respond to a request for comment by press time. Emails sent to Benally and Jordan also have received no response.
Information: Court documents filed in preparation for today’s hearing are available on the Navajo Nation Department of Justice’s website at http://nndoj.org/press-release.aspx.
article Sep 10, 2020 : Benally chases off officials
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/benally-chases-off-officials/?fbclid=IwAR1AwVF1_xhnH42Tg3jqJjRaQM_mnA-vsKuh1J4d7CkOJafzda6chXHO4eI
article Aug. 27, 2020 : NEPA may be able to cite hemp production
When NEPA received reports from residents that Benally’s hemp workers were discharging sewage into the San Juan River, NEPA began looking into it. Although NEPA’s Water Quality department did not find sewage in the river, they found a list of other concerning issues regarding the mobile homes workers have moved onto farms and other parts of the land, which goes against the home-site lease process. NEPA also found violations regarding the hemp greenhouses.
“We found they installed septic tanks without any regard to our domestic wastewater regulations,” said Whaley, a clear violation of the Clean Water Act. “They didn’t get any permits or anything like that. It didn’t appear they were using them to hold sewage but for shower, hand-washing water. But it still has to be put in place properly and still has to be pumped out and disposed of properly.”
Then there are the generators running fans in the greenhouses, which can be found in Shiprock, Gadiahi, Hogback, and other communities throughout the Navajo Nation.
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Status of State and Tribal Hemp Production Plans for USDA Approval
Updated August 13, 2020
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Arizona, Colorado and Utah : Pending Resubmission
New Mexico : Will continue to operate under the 2014 pilot
(Pending Resubmission : USDA has received a plan but returned the plan to the State or Tribal government for edits or amendments to ensure regulatory compliance and consistency)
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article (August 13, 2020) : "Judge delays ruling on Benally’s motion to dismiss"
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San Juan River Farm Board President Dineh Benally and his attorney, David Jordan, argued that the district court is not the proper entity to resolve agricultural disputes and the case brought against him by the Navajo Nation should be dismissed.
On June 11, the Navajo Nation’s special counsel, Charles W. Galbraith, of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, submitted a complaint with the Shiprock District Court to enjoin Benally from illegally cultivating, growing, possessing, transferring, selling, developing or propagating industrial hemp within the exterior border of the Navajo Nation, among other things.
On July 6, Jordan filed for dismissal and on the same day Galbraith filed a motion opposing this.
During Monday’s dismissal hearing, presided over by Judge Genevieve Woody, Jordan listed two reasons why Benally’s case should be dismissed: the two corporate entities, Navajo Gold and Native American Agricultural Company, named in the complaint do not exist; and disputes regarding agriculture should be handled by the farm board itself and appealed to the Office of Hearings and Appeals, according to the Navajo code.
“My client is caught in the middle of a political dispute between the San Juan Regional Farm Board and the Navajo Nation,” argued Jordan. “San Juan Regional Farm Board specifically approved his farm and Navajo Nation … has not.”
Jordan continued, saying that 3 NNC, section 60(A) 5, gives the farm board the power to be mediators and resolve issues regarding land-use rights; fences; rights-of-way; land boundaries; weed and pest control; and other agriculture disputes within the Navajo Nation and unresolved matters should be taken up by the Office of Hearings and Appeals.
“When it comes to agriculture disputes, there are two groups,” said Jordan. “Divorce, separation and probate have to be resolved by the courts. Other agriculture disputes, including what may be grown on the land, must be resolved by the farm board itself with an appeal with the Office of Hearings and Appeals.”
‘Singling out’ Benally
Making another argument that since the farm board took the position that it approves the cultivation of hemp, and it approved it for their president, Benally, and other farmers then the farm board is “a necessary party” for this case as well.
“By singling out Dineh Benally and not adding the farm board,” said Jordan, “the Navajo Nation is attempting to create a hodge podge jurisdictional map.
“The farm board isn’t a party and the other farmers aren’t a party so you get this weird situation where the farm board approved for every other farmer except for Dineh Benally,” he said.
Jordan’s argument is nothing but a distraction from the real issue, said Galbraith.
He said Benally’s hemp farming has caused disharmony to the community of Shiprock, the Navajo Nation, and it is “clearly illegal under Navajo law.”
“The fact it is now a violation of civil regulatory law as opposed to the criminal drug violation, like it used to be, is the only reason this is a civil matter and not a criminal matter,” argued Galbraith. “This is not a political dispute. This is about the authority of the Navajo Nation Council to enact laws and govern the entire Nation.”
When it comes to Jordan denying the existence of Native American Agricultural Company is interesting, since this is the company that is listed on the farm board’s website that screens all potential farms and farmer applications wanting to learn how to grow hemp.
Company website
As for Navajo Gold, this company has its own website where currently it is asking for donations for COVID-19 relief. But it states that it is a premium cannabis company developed by Aqueous Sciences in association with the Native American Agricultural Company “based on the sovereign Navajo Nation.”
Whether or not these two companies exist or not in the eyes of the Navajo Nation doesn’t matter, because Native American Agricultural Company does exist to One World Ventures Inc., a legal hemp and cannabis industry, based out of Las Vegas.
Benally is also listed as the president of the NAAC, according to One World Ventures Inc., which appointed Benally onto its board of directors.
In a March 18, 2019, press release One World Ventures stated that Benally played a key role in the legalizing and promotion, propagation and implementation of hemp and cannabis on “Navajo Nation” land.
It also stated that Benally is also the formulator behind the American Indian Agriculture Regulatory Agency, which regulates and monitors the hemp and cannabis regulations for the Navajo Nation.
“To the knowledge of Dineh Benally, neither of those companies exist as corporate entities,” said Jordan. “I think it was sloppy work on part of the plaintiff to not actually check to see if that company existed before naming it as a party.”
Although it states in the World Ventures press release that Benally is part of a regulatory agency for hemp and cannabis on Navajo, the only people that can regulate this is Navajo Nation Council, and this is what Galbraith argued.
Illegal to grow hemp
“The farm board cannot override the Navajo Nation,” said Galbraith. “The Navajo Nation Council has clearly created a system for hemp growth within the Nation and Mr. Benally has acted outside of that system. It is illegal on the Navajo Nation to grow unregulated hemp.”
New Mexico State University is the only entity the Council had given permission to grow a 200 square-feet harvest of hemp, which recently grew to five acres, at the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry site.
Benally has planted up to 2.5 million hemp plants on 300 acres, according to Galbraith.
Resolution CO-75-18 states its enactment does not authorize the cultivation, growth, possession, propagation, or development of industrial hemp until the Navajo Nation creates a regulatory system for industrial hemp.
“Primary reason that such regulations are important because they are important to ensure the hemp that is grown is not actually marijuana,” said Gailbraith. “Please do not allow his political skills … to distract this court from the basic underlining fact issue.
“Unregulated industrial hemp is illegal on the Navajo Nation,” he said. “The Navajo hemp laws are clear. This is not a political dispute. This is a distraction.”
In the end, Judge Woody said before the court can decide whether or not to dismiss the case, there is a concern that needs to be addressed within 10 days. This gives 10 extra days for Benally to continue to go about his business before the court decides to either dismiss the case, or to schedule a hearing.
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