Monthly Archives: November 2000

Santa Cruz Expo 2001

The fourth annual Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo, Saturday and Sunday, May 12 and 13 at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Cruz, California will hold its panel and speaker series in the Santa Cruz City Council Chambers for the first time in 2001.

Hemp museum releases collection of over 3,400 photos of wild hemp

This year, Brooks Kelly, Ph.D. of Hemp Museum took more than 3,400 digital photos of wild industrial hemp. The company is offering a CD-ROM packed with over 400 choice images of all-natural, pure Nebraskian hemp.

Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee letter to the DEA

We understand that you are currently proposing to ban some hemp products. We are writing to urge you to reconsider this proposal.

Hempseed company scouts future markets

In a province plagued by brain drain, it’s refreshing to receive a little injection of grey matter. Saskatchewan’s brain gain is courtesy of Jason Freeman, a young entrepreneur from Vancouver who recently moved his hemp business to Regina. The Saskatchewan Hemp Association, the provincial Agri-Food Equity Fund and a hempseed supplier called Gen-X Research Inc. influenced Freeman’s decision to relocate.

Midway College to Host Hemp Conference

Tobacco farmers, legislators, agricultural economists, business and economics researchers, environmentalists, business owners, and several former governors, are expected to be in attendance at a one-day conference on the Midway College campus.

Hemp: An offbeat food product

Many people don’t realize that hempseed is edible, that hemp foods are very nutritious and that they are really delicious. In many ways, hemp is where soy was 15 years ago, an offbeat product with a funky reputation and overlooked nutritional value.

Maintaining her rage

If activism is the rent we pay for being on the planet, as the slogan goes, then Anita Roddick pays a lot of rent. The 57-year-old beggars description — environmentalist, human rights activist, leftie, international celebrity, anthropologist, educator and entrepreneur. All fit. Even with all her hats on, she still has more dynamism, energy and passion to bring to her work and life.

Hemp a possible solution to environmental concerns, low crop prices

With environmentalists urging citizens to use recyclable energy sources and family farmers struggling because of poor commodity prices, some people suggest introducing a controversial crop: hemp.

Backers push hemp as a wonder plant

Growing hemp for industry could supplement incomes for tobacco farmers, but government controls on marijuana still limit its production, hemp supporters say.