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Bunkle gets hemp message
Industrial hemp advocates want to be growing trial crops in the Nelson region by October, and see no reason why it is not possible. This was the clear message given to Minister of Customs and Associate Minister of Economic Development Phillida Bunkle at a meeting in Motueka last night.
Death Knell Likely for Hemp
Industrial hemp will be grown and studied in several states during the next two years, but probably not in Kentucky.
Ex-governors back hemp as crop
It was an unlikely setting for an unlikely event: Four former governors gathered in the bar at The Coach House restaurant in Lexington yesterday to say they support a bill that would allow Kentucky farmers to grow hemp.
Feeling the past through your skin
How can we be intimate with the past? Human beings have always yearned to know the ways and feelings of those who came before. History books, old folk music, paintings and petroglyphs: All of these tell us about how our ancestors thought and felt. For textile craftswoman Eiko Noda, the way to feel what our great-grandparents felt is to wear their clothes.
Harrelson must stand trial in hemp case-US court
The Kentucky Supreme Court Thursday derailed Woody Harrelson’s crusade to legalize hemp cultivation, ordering the actor to stand trial for planting four seeds of the marijuana relative in 1996.
Hemp
Sir—It is obvious from the success of marijuana growing that hemp crops will also grow very well. European countries allow hemp farming and companies make profits yet their climatic conditions are often not suitable for hemp farming. Our climate is great, so yields would be significantly higher, therefore harvesting/processing costs would be cheaper.
Hemp Stocks Weigh On Market
It could take years before industrial hemp buyers work through the glut of seed left in the wake of Consolidated Growers and Processors Inc. Buyers and farmers at the Hemp 2000 conference held here last week said it’s hard to put a number to the size of the small but growing market.
Hemp Supporters Hang Hopes on Bill
Frankfort Industrial hemp, a cousin to marijuana but without that plant’s psychedelic kick, might return to Kentucky farms after an absence of about 60 years. House Bill 855, filed last week, would legalize industrial hemp farming and establish a continuing study of the crop’s agricultural potential.
Hemp bill heads to full House
A bill that would allow Kentucky farmers to grow hemp squeaked out of the House Agriculture and Small Business Committee yesterday, but appears unlikely to become law.
Hemp bill receives preliminary approval
Industrial-hemp research won qualified approval from a Senate committee yesterday, but could still go up in smoke. The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee approved House Bill 855 by a vote of 6-2, but only after removing a recommendation that the full Senate should pass the bill.