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Follow-up letter to Agri-Talk
I believe hemp presents us with the means-and therefore the duty- to forge a renewed sense of Freedom and Liberty in this country. I also believe it is precisely times like these that our Constitution is designed to get us through. I think you are more aware of the hemp issue now then before but I’d like, if you’ll permit me, the chance to take you to the next level in terms of what I think this issue is really about.
HIA Convention Report
Nestled in a Hockley Valley ecology retreat near Toronto, the Hemp Industries Association held their seventh annual convention among the maple and aspen trees. This year’s gathering saw 35-55 attendees which allowed for intimate meetings and planning sessions.
Hemp Hype: Minot man wants to be first to open hemp store in state
Rob Robinson of Minot has a plan, but he is disappointed. He wants to be the first person in North Dakota to open a retail store devoted exclusively to products made from industrial hemp. He is disappointed, however, because he believes too many people remain naive about the differences between hemp and marijuana. Despite that, he intends to continue pursuing his marquee idea.
Hemp Oil Canada Inc. launches new hemp food and hemp body care product lines
Hemp processing pioneer, Hemp Oil Canada Inc., is pleased to announce the launch of their new hemp food and hemp body care product lines.
Hemp Study OK by Congressional Candidates
The major-party candidates for the 6th Congressional District last night expressed cautious support for studying whether Kentucky farmers should be allowed to grow industrial hemp.
Hemp could help farmers, environment
Finally the crisis of a finite resource, oil, is coming to the forefront in the presidental campaign. However, why is it neither presidental candidate recognize what Henry ford did over 60 years ago?
High-tech N.Y. couple decides to bale out
It seems incongruous, some might say idiotic, to build a house of straw in one of the country’s coldest climates. But Juliet Cuming and David Shaw wanted a house that would be biodegradable, bioregional, and recyclable. And they wanted it in southern Vermont.
Kentucky Hemp Growers Co-op offering to replace Lakota Indian’s hemp destro
In a pre-dawn raid on August 24, 2000, thirty-three (33) heavily armed Drug Enforcement Agents (DEA) trespassed onto the sovereign Lakota Nation at Pine Ridge and destroyed two industrial hemp crops being grown as a commercial venture under tribal ordinance. As it turns out the loss of the plant material, which was going to be used for composite construction materials, will not slow down the Lakota Hemp Project.
Legislator Appeals for Common Sense
I was a co-sponsor of HB 1576-FN-A in 1998 and sponsor of HB 239-FN-A in 1999 both relative to the growing of industrial hemp. I sent a letter to all U. S. Senators dated September 27, 1999, only three, yes three out of one hundred Senators even gave me the courtesy of a reply. Their response was stereotypical Drug Enforcement Agency.
McCaffrey to Leave Drug Control Policy Office
White House drug control policy director Barry McCaffrey announced on Monday he will resign two weeks before the inauguration of President Clinton successor in January.