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Hemp, hemp, hooray!
The Hemp Revolution features interviews with scientists, doctors, environmentalists, forestry officials, and business people in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Nepal, all promoting the legalization of hemp. They explain the plant’s history and its thousands of uses world-wide as a food, fiber, fabric, fuel, paper, and medicine, in addition to a psychoactive drug.
Hemp-osium
The Commercial & Industrial Hemp Symposium to be held at the Vancouver Trade & Convention Center Feb. 1819, will host a delegation of bankers, buyers, environmentalists, farmers and government officials seeking to learn more about the uses of industrial hemp as a result of recent changes to legislation in Canada.
Hemp: Controversial energy drink gets go-ahead for launch in the UK
Hemp: Controversial energy drink gets go-ahead for launch in the UK. Hemp, the energy drink containing extract from the male cannabis plant, has finally gained approval from the Home Office.
Hemp: Historic fiber remains controversial
Use of hemp in yarns and fabrics grows as debate ensues over legalizing U.S. cultivation of the versatile plant. Hemp is a great deal more than just an alternative textile fiber. It is one of the few plants whose byproducts can either be eaten, sat on, written on, worn, slathered on your body, painted on a wall or squirted into a machine. It is also the subject of a worldwide controversy that involves such disparate factions as farmers, government enforcement agencies, environmentalists, supporters of legalized drugs and manufacturers of textile, food and paper products.
Hemp: Nature’s Forgotten Nutraceutical
That the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) is used as food initially surprises and confuses most people. The public information system has largely restricted knowledge of hemp to its use for obtaining marijuana (Cannabis sativa), with its leaf content of the psychoactive substance delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), rope and cloth from the fiber of the plant, and paper from the plant stalk. Yet both the oldest Chinese agricultural treatise, the Xia Xiao Zheng, written in the 16th century BC, and other Chinese records discuss hemp as one of the major grain crops grown in ancient China.
Hempen history
By early October, several weeks later than usual—it had been a funny year for weather—the killing frosts finally arrived on the prairies and knocked off the lower leaves of the hemp. Sunshine followed the frost, drying the seed heads, which were then ready for harvesting.
High hopes for hemp
It was one of the more unusual displays at last summer’s Society of Automotive Engineers International Congress and Exposition in Detroit. There, among concept cars featuring the latest technology, were the Kenex Ltd. folks, showcasing side panels, armrests, dashboards and insulated RV and trailer walls made with hemp, a plant that had been banned in Canada for 60 years.
High noon: The mayor of Grand Forks aimed to make his town hemp central. Then ca
The mayor of Grand Forks aimed to make his town hemp central. Then came the showdown. One evening two Junes ago I sat on the porch of the double-wide trailer that’s home to Brian Taylor, mayor of Grand Forks, British Columbia, population 4,300. We shared a drink, admired his hillside view east across the Sunshine Valley, and together tried to make some sense of his complicated life.
High on Hemp: Ditchweed Digs In
Miracle crop? Dangerous drug? Political football? Exploring America’s on-again, off-again love affair with hemp.
If You Think Hemp is a Drug, Smoke This Book
We published booklets, Devil of a Poison, and Second Hand Smoke: Butt it Out as well as the complementary booklet, If You Think Hemp is a Drug, Smoke This Book so that it is clear that there is a financially viable alternative to tobacco growing and cigarette production in Canada. We distributed a total of approximately 100,000 copies of the three booklets to CAW members across Canada.