Monthly Archives: June 2000

Probe launched into “cannabis” label children’s drink

An investigation has been launched in Wales into a soft drink called Cannabis that has been given out free to a group of schoolchildren.

Get Your Hemp Voter Guide

One would be hard-pressed these days to find an American oblivious to the dangers of deforestation or opposed to a feasible solution. Oddly enough, there is a very practical solution right in our midst with myriad economic and environmental benefits. So why are we still cutting down trees?

Learn More About Benefits of Hemp

We’re all going to die. Well, maybe not just yet. There seems to be increasing alarm from the environmental crowd that earplugs are becoming a necessity. The part that confuses me the most is why they are not more readily supporting actor Woody Harrelson’s efforts to distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana? Recently, he was arrested for ceremoniously planting four industrial hemp seeds in Kentucky as an act of civil disobedience.

Hemp group takes case to top court

With rekindled hopes for winning its battle to legally cultivate hemp, the New Hampshire Hemp Council yesterday appealed to a higher power — the US Supreme Court. Since the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals in March rejected the claim that hemp is distinct from marijuana and therefore not prohibited under federal law, the group petitioned the high court to review the case during its October term.

The Founding Swindlers

To curry favor with the imperial government, colonial land speculators usually promised that their schemes would lead to the massive cultivation of hemp. Almost nothing came of these projects, because Russian hemp remained cheaper and better for rope; but the colonial speculators kept patriotically promising to save the Royal Navy from its dependence on a foreign supplier.

Green Party Set to Nominate Nader for President

If consumer advocate turned Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader has any respect for the Democratic or Republican parties, he’s hiding it very well.

Hemp Un-banned in Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape’s minister of agriculture, Max Mamase, recently remarked that he expects farmers in the province to be granted a special license by year’s end that would allow them to grow hemp commercially.

South Africa Plans to Grow Hemp to Help Farmers

South Africa plans to grow hemp commercially to help impoverished rural people even though the plant is illegal, a provincial agriculture minister said Wednesday.

Case “not a precedent”

Police say they do not believe a precedent has been set by a Motueka man who successfully argued in court that the cannabis plants he was growing were not a drug. Even if other people adopted the argument of hemp advocate Stephen Burnett, this did not meant they would automatically succeed, police said.

Canadian Outdoor Farm Show 2000

The Hemp Industries Association would like to extend an enthusiastic invitation to you, to join us in Canada for the Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock, Ontario, September 12, 13, 14, 2000.