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Hemp-legalization proponents display products at conference
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.
Hempmuseum.com releases collection of 3400+ photos of wild hemp
This year, Brooks Kelly, Ph.D. of Hempmuseum.com took more than 3400 digital photos of wild industrial hemp. The company is offering a CD-ROM packed with over 400 choice images of all-natural, pure Nebraskian hemp.
Hempseed company scouts future markets
In a province plagued by brain drain, it’s refreshing to receive a little injection of grey matter. Saskatchewan’s brain gain is courtesy of Jason Freeman, a young entrepreneur from Vancouver who recently moved his hemp business to Regina. The Saskatchewan Hemp Association, the provincial Agri-Food Equity Fund and a hempseed supplier called Gen-X Research Inc. influenced Freeman’s decision to relocate.
Herriott’s happy with his hemp
Greg Herriott thinks hemp has had a bad rap. Because some hemp varieties produce marijuana, people tend to believe all hemp is bad and illegal. Actually, 12 non-marijuana varieties have been approved by the federal government for growing in Canada to produce oils, baking flour and fibres. Herriott, a young and energetic graphic designer, bought a 50-acre farm just north of Barrie to prove that this ancient Asian plant is useful and valuable for a wide variety of health food, body- care and textile uses.
High on hemp
To the great disappointment of crop-raiding pot heads, you can’t get high from Vaclav Tusek’s fragrant fields of green. Tusek, 28, better known as “Diamond,” is one of the Czech Republic’s only growers of industrial cannabis, or hemp. His business represents a global revival of the marijuana look-alike, best known for its textile applications.
Illinois chose old stereotypes over economic potential
It is time for us all to replace our association of hemp to drug users with an association to our state’s struggling farmers. The Illinois Senate saw the vast benefits of asking two major universities to study the uses of industrial hemp last April. But Tuesday, the House was two votes shy of what would have been a step forward for Illinois agriculture.
International Conference “Bast Fibrous Plants on the Turn of Second and Thi
Experts working in scope of bast fibrous plants (especially hemp in the field of bast fibres) agrotechnology, extraction and processing, textile and non-textile applications, marketing and trade are cordially invited to attend the event and submit proposals for oral or poster presentations.
Lakota Indians Defying DEA; Accepts KY Co-op’s Offer to Replace Destroyed H
Last August 24, in the centuries-old tradition of trampling on Native American rights, armed DEA agents invaded sovereign Lakota land and confiscated two hemp crops growing on the poverty-stricken Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The hemp was to be a vital source for construction materials to be used by the Slim Butte Land Association housing project, a community-based economic development initiative. Despite the DEA’s destruction of this crop, the Lakota Housing Project will soon be back on schedule.
Lakota Indians receive Kentcky hemp
They can’t grow it, but they can truck it in. A trailer full of Canadian hemp is on its way to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, courtesy of the Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association and the Madison Hemp & Flax Company. The hemp will replace thousands of plants seized by federal authorities in August from two test plots on the reservation. The crop was to be used for hemp bricks and other building materials.
Legislature should resurrect hemp research bill
Kentucky lawmakers looking for constructive ways to occupy their time during the first “annual” General Assembly next year might want to do something for the state’s farmers—something like reviving House Bill 855.