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Factory going-out-of-business sale
The owners of Paka Design. Michael Berman and Steve Indig, have decided to get out of the business and as of November 2000, are in the process of liquidating inventory, fabric and other assets.
Gov. Nunn says DEA engaged in “bureaucratic self-preservation”
People who think it should be legal to grow hemp for food and fiber showed off an array of hemp products, from cosmetics to car parts, at a conference yesterday. For Kentucky farmers, it was a peek at what might be.
Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee letter to the DEA
We understand that you are currently proposing to ban some hemp products. We are writing to urge you to reconsider this proposal.
Hemp Study Bill Narrowly Misses Approval
A plan to authorize a study of industrial hemp - a biological relative of marijuana - fell two votes short of approval Tuesday in the Illinois House. But its House sponsor, Republican Rep. Ron Lawfer of Stockton, plans to seek another vote in January. He believes the measure could pass then.
Hemp a possible solution to environmental concerns, low crop prices
With environmentalists urging citizens to use recyclable energy sources and family farmers struggling because of poor commodity prices, some people suggest introducing a controversial crop: hemp.
Hemp and the future
And the Midway conference was not a Gatewood Galbraith sort of affair with Willy Nelson strumming along. Former Republican Gov. Louie B. Nunn—hardly the hippie sort—attended. The featured speaker was a Republican legislator from Hawaii who sponsored successful legislation in that state to permit test crops of industrial hemp to be grown as a source of ethanol production.
Hemp bill up in smoke
A bill allowing the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale to research potential uses of industrial hemp for Illinois farmers was rejected Tuesday by the Illinois House of Representatives 69-34.
Hemp campaign goes mainstream
But the legal-hemp campaign has gone mainstream, and in one sense, Nunn’s involvement makes perfect sense. One tenet of the pro-hemp campaign is quintessentially Republican—the idea that states, not the federal government, should decide what crops their farmers can produce.
Hemp study fails in Illinois House
The Illinois House Tuesday narrowly defeated a bill that would have authorized a study of hemp as a potential agricultural staple in Illinois. The defeat closed a year of political acrimony over the issue. It has pitted a struggling farm industry looking for a new crop against law enforcement and citizens’ groups concerned that it could open the door to legalization of hemp’s biological cousin, marijuana.
Hemp supporters show crop’s versatility
People who think it should be legal to grow hemp for food and fiber showed off an array of hemp products, from cosmetics to car parts, at a conference at Midway College. For Kentucky farmers, it was a peek at what might be.