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Silicon, or just a silly con from a silly Carr?
“No way,” said Premier Bob Carr on March 15, 2000. The ironbark eucalypts in the Pillago and Goonoo forests in the Blue Mountains were not to be used to produce charcoal for converting silica (sand) to silicon (for photocells, etc). Instead, innovative, fluidised-bed technology devised by CSIRO would use fast-growing plants such as kenaf and industrial hemp, along with crop and timber wastes, to produce charcoal for the proposed smelter at Lithgow. So I reported in my column [CT, April 27, 2000]
Silk and Hemp Quotas Abolished
While Europe and the US have abolished the silk and hemp finished clothes quotas on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong businessmen surely have sharper competitiveness than their Southeast Asia’s counterparts. Especially the silk hemp T-shirts, skirts as well as jackets boast tremendous business opportunities.
South Dakota Farmers Union endorses industrial hemp drive
Saturday, delegates to the South Dakota Farmers Union (SDFU) Annual Convention in Sioux Falls (SD) endorsed the petition drive to place the issue of industrial hemp on next November’s general election ballot in the state.
Supporters of industrial hemp continue quest for acceptance
When a bill to study industrial hemp was rejected recently in the Illinois Legislature, its supporters were left with a conundrum: How do you study a potential crop if you can’t legally grow it? A meeting of the minds has brought out some possibilities, said state Rep. Patrick Lawfer, R-Freeport, the sponsor of the bill. He had watched legislators who originally supported the idea melt under the heat of Gov. George Ryan’s veto.
Surf ’N Hemp: Feel the Power
Thielen has worked hard to establish herself in her district as a champion of alternative energy, and that applies also to her advocacy of industrial-hemp cultivation. The local papers dutifully captured her planting hemp seeds last December in a program made possible by another House bill she sponsored. “That was the first time hemp seed had been legally planted,” she said. Some might write off talk of hemp’s virtues as a little too Woody Harrelson for their tastes. But when a House Republican stakes so much of her credibility on the issue, it’s bound to get the attention even of skeptics.
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The power of hempseed oil
An article in the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday 5th December 2001 reported that hempseed oil has ‘therapeutic power’ to treat conditions such as eczema and pre-menstrual tension (‘PMT’). These claims do not follow from the research which is a small RCT in 14 healthy volunteers, none of whom showed any clinical improvements, but who all showed increased blood gammalinoleic acid (GLA) levels.
White House Watch: A new age of reefer madness
Unless you are an avid reader of the Federal Register and perused the tiny print of almost undecipherable bureaucratese on pages 51,539 through 51,544, you might have missed it — but the government has returned to normal. The Drug Enforcement Administration, under the direction of Asa Hutchinson, the former GOP congressman from Arkansas, has announced rules to ban certain brands of a wide variety of foods — “beer, cheese, coffee, corn chips, energy drink, flour, ice cream, snack bars, salad oil, soda and veggie burgers” — if they contain trace amounts of THC.