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THC Issue Threatens Hemp Industry Growth
Richard Rose, founder of the Hemp Food Association and owner of HempNut Inc., a hemp foods company, both based in Santa Rosa, California claims the industry is only hurting itself by attacking DEA rather than concentrating on improving production to eliminate THC content. “This is not a ban on hemp foods, but a ban on THC,” he says. “The hempseed product industry absolutely has the technology to provide ‘zero THC’ hempseed and products, and should move to comply with the new mandate. Improving processing standards to meet challenges in today’s market is the only way to ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of the hempseed products industry.”
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 (which governments valued to make rope for shipping, rather than dreaded as marijuana for smoking). 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. So characteristic of their age, the hemp projects combined pipe-dreams with remarkably detailed (albeit wildly unrealistic) calculations of all the (small) costs and (stupendous) benefits.
The hemp revolution (videotape review)
George Washington grew it. Thomas Jefferson urged others to grow it. So how did hemp earn its rep as Public Enemy Number One? Australian director Anthony Clarke traces the much-maligned plant’s history from its revered status in ancient Sumeria to its modern-day vilification.
The latest buzz on hemp: U.S. farmers want the ban on cultivating the plant lift
U.S. farmers want the ban on cultivating the plant lifted. Times sure are tough for North Dakota farmers like David Monson. First there were floods, then heavy snow, pelting rains, and disease that devastated the crops. Last summer, Monson grimly tended his wheat, barley, and canola fields in Osnabrock and watched neighboring farms go bust. In the fall, his profit was a paltry $25 an acre. Meanwhile, 20 miles away, across the border in Canada, Brian McElroy had cut back on wheat and planted his first crop of industrial hemp. He earned $225 an acre.
The poetics of grief and the price of hemp in southwest China
Done splicing her hemp She dances in the marketplace Shi Ching (Book of Songs)
The trouble with hemp
Farmers want to grow it, and manufacturers want to use it. But it’s got an obnoxious relative that states are afraid of. Agriculture has never been easy in the rocky soil of Vermont, and these days, it is harder and less profitable than ever. With the dairy industry mired in a 20-year decline, the state’s farmers can scarcely be blamed if they cast about for any creative means of staying in business.
The waving fields of hemp
While Republican presidential contenders have been wooing New Hampshire voters with proofs of their true-blue conservatism, some Republicans in next-door Vermont have been pushing an idea too radical even for liberal Democrats: legalising marijuana. But, like President Clinton in his youth, these particular hemp enthusiasts do not intend to inhale.
Tough as Soybeans
Back in 1940, when Henry Ford wanted to test the strength of a car trunk made from an experimental soybean-based material, he stunned onlookers by whacking it with an ax. Mr. Ford may have been an eccentric, but he also was way ahead of his time in trying new materials to improve cars.
Turning over an old leaf
One of the world’s largest agricultural crops until the late 1800s, hemp is not only the plant from which marijuana is derived, it is also thought to be the first cultivated plant. Indeed, hemp fiber, harvested from the Cannibis sativa plant, is famous for its versatility, and is found in everything from the first American flag, to paper, oil and rope.
Using forest plantations to spare natural forests
In 1990, forests and other wooded lands (a category that includes natural open woodlands, natural closed forests, and tree plantations) covered 40 percent, or 5.1 billion hectares, of the Earth’s surface. Forests alone accounted for 3.4 billion hectares. Such lands have always been important to people, providing food, building materials, and other resources for our use. They also play a key role in the Earth’s biosphere, affecting the atmosphere, the water cycle, the carbon cycle and other biogeochemical cycles, and erosion.