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Green Party Set to Nominate Nader for President
If consumer advocate turned Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader has any respect for the Democratic or Republican parties, he’s hiding it very well.
HIA 7th Annual Convention & Canadian Outdoor Farm Show 2000
The seventh annual general meeting of hemp industry executives will take place at the Ecology Retreat Center near Toronto. Following will be an opportunity to display, vend products, and promote industrial hemp at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock.
Hemp Un-banned in Eastern-Cape
The Eastern Cape’s minister of agriculture, Max Mamase, recently remarked that he expects farmers in the province to be granted a special license by year’s end that would allow them to grow hemp commercially.
Hemp group takes case to top court
With rekindled hopes for winning its battle to legally cultivate hemp, the New Hampshire Hemp Council yesterday appealed to a higher power - the U.S. Supreme Court. Since the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March rejected the claim that hemp is distinct from marijuana and therefore not prohibited under federal law, the group petitioned the high court to review the case during its October term.
Joint Venture
As the heavy sweet smell in the corridor of any hall of residence will testify, many students are more than happy to invest considerable amounts of their own time and money in exhaustive private study of hemp and its properties.
Lear Corporation Introduces Two New Polymers for Interior Applications Offering
Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA), one of the world’s premier automotive interior suppliers, has launched two new polymer materials to be used in some of Lear’s future offerings of interior trim products: door panels, pillars and trunk trim.
Learn More About Benefits of Hemp
We’re all going to die. Well, maybe not just yet. There seems to be increasing alarm from the environmental crowd that earplugs are becoming a necessity. The part that confuses me the most is why they are not more readily supporting actor Woody Harrelson’s efforts to distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana? Recently, he was arrested for ceremoniously planting four industrial hemp seeds in Kentucky as an act of civil disobedience.
No, marijuana and hemp are not ‘the same stuff’
While Mr. Mueller’s letter is correct to state that cannabis has only one species, he is incorrect in his statement that marijuana and hemp are the same. While both hemp and marijuana are the same species (cannabis sativa), they are never grown interchangeably.
North American Demand for Natural Fibers in Plastic Composites Forecast to Grow
Natural fibers, used to fill and reinforce both thermoplastics and thermosets, represent one of the fastest-growing types of polymer additives. Based on a market study currently being conducted by Kline & Company, forecast North American demand for both wood and agricultural fiber used as plastic additives ranges from 15% to 20% per year in automotive applications, to 50% or more per year in selected building products.
ORINCON Demos “Pot-buster” Technology to Detect Appalachia’s
ORINCON Corp., the leading provider of innovative solutions and diversified intelligent systems technology for the information age, has announced that it will demonstrate, with the West Virginia State Police this summer, a new method for the automatic detection of marijuana crops using an aircraft-mounted sensor. This represents a tremendous advance over current visual inspection methods.