Global Hemp

You are here:

Results 1 - 10 of 49

A Renewal of Common Sense
The controversial subject of why or whether to grow industrial hemp in the United States of America is often debated yet much misunderstood. This document definitively presents the hemp industry’s case.
An offbeat food product: Hemp
Many people don’t realize that hempseed is edible, that hemp foods are very nutritious and that they are really delicious. In many ways, hemp is where soy was 15 years ago, an offbeat product with a funky reputation and overlooked nutritional value.
Anti-drug activists blast hemp-study bill
Anti-drug activists are hoping to put the brakes on legislation that would authorize two Illinois universities to conduct research on the production of industrial hemp, a biological relative of marijuana.
BIORESOURCE HEMP 2000 Proceedings
The proceedings of the BIORESOURCE HEMP 2000 with approx. 1,000 pages are from now on available in the internet at www.bioresource-hemp.de. They cover 80 international presentations and postersessions on the subject of hemp and other fibre crops which were lectured at the scientific-technical symposium.
Backers push hemp as a wonder plant
Growing hemp for industry could supplement incomes for tobacco farmers, but government controls on marijuana still limit its production, hemp supporters say.
Bowles Defends Stance on Hemp Study
Anti-drug forces in Illinois say they’ll continue their fight against a proposed $1 million study of hemp—a cousin of marijuana—with a new president who state Sen. Evelyn Bowles can’t call one of the “ladies from Naperville.”
Briefs from Midway, Lexington, Greenup and Louisville
Midway College will host a one-day conference on the economic potential of industrial hemp, the college said. Former Kentucky Gov. Louie Nunn and Hawaii state Rep. Cynthia Thielen are among the featured speakers. Thielen was instrumental in 1999 legislation authorizing industrial hemp research trials in Hawaii.
EC Agriculture Department to promote chicory production in Peddie
Ngwane said the department had initiated the cultivation of high value crops such as olives, hemp, sugar-beet and chicory by previously disadvantaged communal farmers to unlock the province’s agricultural potential.
Europeans interested in hemp products
The men from Hemp Oil Canada just had to say “cannabis” and they found they were speaking an international language at the SIAL food show in Paris.
Extra £34m for farmers hit by weakness of euro
Farmers have won an extra £34.5 million in aid from the Government to compensate them for a slump in prices and a drop in the value of their European Union subsidies through the weakness of the euro.