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2000 Expo Panel Series Topics Announced
The third annual Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo, Saturday and Sunday, May 13 and 14 at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Cruz, is announcing its panel series topics for the 2000 show.
America’s Hemp-Horror Hurts Economic Health
If brains were gunpowder, one is sometimes tempted to think, then the U.S. couldn’t blow its own nose. Even as it sues Big Tobacco, America spends millions each year to subsidize the weed - a plant that ranks, on the Healthful Substances Chart, only slightly above strychnine. Yet it forbids the raising of another crop that presents no threat to health and offers a multitude of uses: industrial hemp.
America’s Hemp-Horror Hurts Economic Health
Avenue Cable is scheduled to air “Emperor of Hemp,” the story of one man’s 30-year struggle for truth, justice and a plant, at 8 p.m. today. Available only on video, “Emperor of Hemp” is available at Tower Records. Avenue Cable is expected to air it again on Thursday.
Bangladesh, India in Race for Investment in Jute Sector
Bangladesh and India are in the race to attract a one billion U.S. dollars foreign direct investment (FDI) in the jute sector, local English newspaper Financial Express reported Wednesday.
Civil scars
Perhaps 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.
Crime prevention concerns smoke hemp bill in House
The Crime Prevention Committee in the state House of Representatives killed a bill that might have allowed the University to grow industrial hemp. The committee voted down the bill 10-7 on Tuesday amid concerns voiced by Tim McCormick, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Minneapolis. McCormick said his organization does not discern between marijuana and industrial hemp, and that legalizing hemp could send the wrong message to youth.
Earth Day set for spectacular blooming online
Four new environmental sites selling everything from recycled plastic furniture to eco-friendly Post-it notes are ready for launch around Earth Day, April 22. Although their business strategies and target audiences differ, Green Home, ShopEco.com, Verde and WholePeople.com all plan to capitalize on America’s growing ecological awareness. The four players are stepping into a sparsely populated arena.
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).
Growing International Demand for Natural Fibers
Ecuador’s indigenous and farming communities have used natural fibers for centuries in making crafts and items for daily use, and they are now becoming an important source of income, benefiting sectors that have been hard hit by the nation’s economic crisis.
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.