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New South Wales: Agriculture Dept seeking people for industrial hemp trials
If you are an avid hemp enthusiast with a green thumb, then New South Wales Agriculture may have the perfect job for you. New South Wales Agriculture is looking for people who want to partake in a legal trial growing quality hemp next spring. The catch? The crop will be industrial fibre hemp, rather than the type usually sought by smokers wanting to get high.
Not The Mall, Case Study: Should small St. Paul shot start a web site?
The Soulflower shop on Grand Avenue in St. Paul sells hemp clothing, tie-dyed shirts and incense. It’s not a head shop, but it is unabashedly a hippie shop. The smell of incense permeates the Soulflower. The small Grand Avenue shop sells funky candles, tie-dye T-shirts, unusual jewelry and hemp products, and even trades bootlegged music with customers. But, no, Soulflower is not a head shop, according to co-owner Mike Shoafstall.
Of Hemp and History and Hysterics
Ottoman’s, a Newmarket catalogue clothing and accessories firm, employs 50 people and has sales of $5 million. When the hemp fashion craze was at its height a few years ago, hemp products accounted for nearly a quarter of its sales.
Organic Trade Association publishes “Organic Fiber Directory”
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is publishing the Organic Fiber Directory as a comprehensive resource for locating sources of, and products containing, organic fiber.
Other states addressing legalization of industrial hemp
As the Battle to legalize hemp flounders in the commonwealth, other states also are considering and passing legislation that will legalize the crop in one form or another.
Seeing good in potential of “evil weed”
Scientists say hemp would make a versatile, profitable crop for state farmers. But opponents who associate hemp with a popular recreational drug, better known as marijuana, want to scuttle state plans to study the fibrous crop’s potential.
Shampoo High
Customs and the Drug Enforcement Administration bigs are wondering how to respond to the latest missive from White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey. In a March 5 letter to both agencies, McCaffrey demanded that agents seize all imports of products made with industrial hemp, which holds tiny amounts of marijuana’s active ingredient, THC.
THC Hemp Foods Study to be Released
Results from the first systematic scientific study of the effects of hemp foods on the outcome of workplace drug tests will be released in May 2000. The study is sponsored by the North American Industrial Hemp Council (NAIHC), a Canadian governmental agricultural research program, and several North American producers and distributors of hemp products.
Two seeking GOP nod for DeWitt state’s attorney
DeWitt County’s state’s attorney faces a challenge from the county’s public defender in the Republican primary on March 21.
U.S. hemp processor in Canada deals bankrupt
A U.S. firm involved in hemp growing deals with hundreds of Canadian farmers has declared bankruptcy, saying Canadian legislative changes and “bureaucratic bottlenecks” had made it impossible to do business.