CheckoutPerhaps more than any other state, Missouri was scarred by the War Between the States—that is, the Civil War. Skirmishes along its western border began six years before, as Kansas abolitionists led by John Brown clashed with slave-owning tobacco and hemp growers who had come from the South.
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Monthly Archives: April 2000
Local farmer promotes hemp as alternative crop
Revitalizing an Old World crop could mean new income for today’s farmers. Industrial hemp, last produced in the United States in the 1950s, promises great potential for a variety of uses, ranging from textiles and paper to building materials, foods and automotive brake/clutch linings.
Hemp Alert
I’ve just learned about Barry McCaffrey’s latest attempt to strangle the hemp industry in the USA and overseas. Barry McCaffrey is proposing amendments to the Controlled Substances Act and is circulating them internally for comment.
Oiling The East Cape Economy
When he’s not an international peace mediator, former South African president Nelson Mandela is extending the olive branch back home in a revolutionary farming project designed to boost rural income opportunities and create jobs.
Oglala Sioux Tribe to Plant Industrial Hemp Crops
On Saturday April 29, 2000, the 132nd anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of 1868, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe will plant industrial hemp at various locations on the Reservation.
The poisoned legacy of the cotton T-shirt
If you buy 100% cotton sheets and shirts and think you are doing the environment a favour, think again. You could hardly be more wrong. Cotton crops are responsible for a quarter of all the insecticides dumped on the earth every year. Only tobacco soaks up more.
Joe American Horse speaks
On Friday, April 14, Joe American Horse announced on KILI Radio that to be sovereign the tribe must act sovereign, so accordingly, he will plant industrial hemp seeds on April 29, 2000 to advance the authority of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in the matter of jurisdiction over tribal lands.
Legal hemp for Malawi?
The good times have ceased to roll for tobacco, Malawi’s chief foreign exchange earner. Faced by a growing anti-smoking lobby, growers are finding it increasingly difficult to make profits because of rocketing costs and dwindling auction floor prices.
For Hemp Lovers, Health is the Ultimate High
Retailers shouldn’t worry that selling hemp-filled muffins will give customers a psychedelic high, says Kelly Smith, of Hempola, a Port Severn, Ont.-based hemp processor and maker of a line of hemp-based salad dressings. Hemp, or its Latin term, cannabis sativa (meaning ‘useful hemp’), contains only minuscule amounts of the thc (tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive substance found in much larger amounts in its distant cousin, marijuana. both substances are members of the mulberry family (among 500 other plant varieties).
Hemp struggles to gain viability as good
Many know the benefits of hemp from reading the inside of Cypress Hill’s “Hits from the bong.” For those who weren’t ever into that or never did a report on hemp in high school, hemp is a weed that grows anywhere, yields fibers stronger than cotton and is illegal to grow in the United States.