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Burning Issues: Industrial hemp advocate to speak at BHSU
An advocate of industrial hemp production in South Dakota is bringing his message to the students of Black Hills State University on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
Business as Unusual by Body Shop founder Anita Roddick
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Canada urged to see peas’ potential, wheat’s wonders
Many industry leaders have suggested fractionation -- increased growing of specialty crops for special uses such as medicines -- is the wave of the future and the answer to farmers who struggle against commodity price fluctuations.
Cannabis (hemp) was once held in high esteem
Certainly, the nation owes much to Jefferson for his key role in getting us started. And a funny thing is, if today’s drug war tactics had applied back in his time, and if he had been busted with all those cannabis plants at Monticello, Jefferson may well have been a convicted criminal instead of an elected president.
Clearing The Air On Hemp History
Stephen O’Driscoll e-mailed that I made “two glaring mistakes concerning history” recently, when writing about the cannabis plant grown as hemp and its many uses.
Discoveries in Cave Speak Volumes About History
Dry, tranquil conditions inside Hill Rolls Cave preserved for thousands of years perishable hemp sandals, grass bedding, primitive brooms and fragments of baskets. Pieces of knotted string recovered from the cave still bend to the human touch and bounce back after more than three millennia in storage.
EU flax and hemp move welcomed
Farmers yesterday welcomed a European decision to still grant support to growers unable to harvest their flax and hemp by the scheme’s deadline because of the bad weather.
Efforts destroy thousands of the state’s largest cash crop
West Virginia and marijuana have been synonymous for decades. In the early 1900s, the Navy encouraged the cultivation of hemp on several hundred acres in the South Branch of the Potomac River Valley. The fiber strands were used to manufacture rope.
Feed Your Head
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Fibre plants for making paper
Plant fibers have been used for making paper and clothing for a long time and the need for use of natural fibres has increased greatly. Among natural fibres 90 per cent are of vegetable origin and among them 80 per cent is constituted by cotton and the remaining by other long vegetable fibres like flax, jute, hemp, sisal, ramie, coir, abaca and pineapple fibres. They are classified as minor fibres