Westword: Can hemp escape the role of marijuanas sober stepsister?
This guy has been shouting a lot of information over the years and many thought he was making it up and when we at Hemp.com looked deeper, another picture starts to become clear, a different truth. We found this information on Archive.org and it shows that Mr. Lauve was a critical part of starting this project and that he was never compensated for his work. This is copied from the Advisory Board page of Colorado Hemp Project, dated September 19, 2014 as Archive.org has saved it.
Jason LauveAdvisory, Marketing Communications, Hemp Industry Regulatory Advisor.Jason Lauve was instrumental in the creation of Colorados SB13-241 Industrial Hemp Regulations and is the author of Colorados HB12-1099 Hemp Remediation Pilot Program. Jasons domestic and international connections in the realm of hemp cultivation and processing are a critical asset to the Colorado Hemp Project.
Beware of what you see on the surface and look deeper.
Jason is the co-founder and CEO of Hemp Construction Systems, LLC, the Executive Director of Hemp Cleans, a hemp bioremediation company, and the former publisher of Cannabis Health News Magazine. He is well entrenched in the burgeoning global hemp industry and is one of industrial hemps most accomplished activists.
Click through the links and Mr. Lauves name is on other pages too. This raises a lot of curiosity and questions about additional claims made by Mr. Lauve, is he being blacklisted by those he helped build businesses for? It appears that there are other business that have done this to him. Why are people ignoring his work, including HB12-1099 the first legislation to bring hemp back to the United States of America? Are the questions he is raising about the hemp associations out there of real concern? Is the trickery and manipulation that he speaks of on his social media true? Was this the start of the bigger associations intentionally leaving the farmersbehind in Colorado by becoming National?
The other glaring piece of finding this Archive.org page is that the page gives credit to Designed by Abraham Paiss & Associates for building it. This leads to more questions, because there is history of Mr. Paiss attempting to take Mr. Lauves work with American Hemp Association, as seen in this email from the former Treasurer of RMHA/NHA, Chad Pfitzer addressed to Colorado attorney Robert Hoban:
Mr.Hoban,
9/26/16
Jason Lauve texted me this weekend and requested that I send you information regarding conversations within the Rocky Mountain Hemp Association(RMHA) board members regarding Zev Paisss action as Director of that organization toward reorganization and subsequent name change.
Just to be clear up front, I was RMHA Secretary for their inaugural year. I declined to extend because the organization wanted to go national and I was only interested in working with Colorado farmers on education and organizational membership. In my way of thinking, a national organization would be inherently diffuse to not explicitly serve Colorado farmers or citizens.
Zev was good to work with through the majority of my involvement with the RMHA. It wasnt until we started discussing the geographic focus area, and subsequently changing the organization name to reflect that area, that I felt like his demeanor changed.
Zev approached the board sometime in the second half of that first year and proposed that we go national. Evidently, he was already making connections outside the Rocky Mountain region, so it made sense. I never felt like this was a good idea. I thought we had a ton of potential to educate and gain membership here in Colorado, but everyone else on the board seemed to feel like Zev needed the freedom to work across the country. That was their prerogative.
In the following month or weeks, the name issue came up. If the organization was going to be a national player, the board felt we needed to change our name from RMHA to something reflecting a national presence.
The names United States Hemp Association (USHA), National Hemp Association (NHA) and American Hemp Association (AHA) were all floated as options. Zev was really pushing for AHA. I was the only board member advocating to stay the RMHA. Everyone else seemed to be going along with Zev on the use of AHA.
I heard that Jason had already garnered the name AHA. I wrote Zev and Lynda Parker shortly thereafter voicing my concern over the likeness of the name they were proposing to use. My concern was mainly over confusion around search engine results. So, if someone Googled American Hemp Association, would they land on the organizations site, or Jasons organizations site? Despite my expressed concern, Zev continued to push on principle, that it was a good name and that one person (Jason) shouldnt be able to stifle the organizations progress. I agreed, but reiterated that my ongoing concern was around the practicality of organizational differentiation, as well as not instigating others in the industry. Zev then came back and said that the difference was in the organizational structure: that we were going to become AHA, INC. and that Jasons organization was AHA, LLC. I believe it was Lynda Parker who then piped in and agreed with me that the names were too close and that she proposed we look strongly at NHA, to circumvent this issue. I agreed to this idea. Zev did not ...
