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Industrial hemp measure goes before committee
Bob Stephens of the Montana Grain Growers Association summed up the arguments for legalizing industrial hemp with a simple statement Friday: “Hemp is not pot.”
Is this revolution for real?
“Cultural creatives” are either a new coalition of activists changing the world or a researcher’s statistical fantasy. But no one doubts there are more people who think globally and act locally.
Kentucky House backs hemp research
The protracted debate over the future of industrial hemp got its first official endorsement Wednesday in the Kentucky House. By a 66-32 vote, the House passed legislation that could lead to university research of the economic and agricultural future of hemp, which supporters say is a beneficial but harmless cousin to marijuana.
Laos wants to profit from culture, but fears impact
Paeng, a retired policeman, said he has to travel farther and farther in his quest for locally grown hemp fibers that are used to make hair and dresses for the masks, known locally as “Pou Nyer-Nya Nyer,” the legendary ancestors of Laos.
Legalization of industrial hemp takes a major step
Industrial hemp is just a few steps away from returning to Kentucky, the state that once led the nation in hemp production.
Letter from North Dakota Governor Hoeven in relation to President Bush memo
As you now may know, President Bush has placed a memorandum on the promulgation of proposed regulations that have not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients
In the final refrain of the national anthem of the United States describes our country as the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” But increasingly, the phrase rings hollow as one by one Americans are having their freedoms stripped away and bravery comes from only the few courageous soles willing to risk fines and jail to exercise freedom.
Montana introduces hemp legislation
A bill for an Act entitled: An Act authorizing the production of industrial hemp as an agricultural crop; requiring that a license be obtained prior to growing industrial hemp; requiring that the department of agriculture be notified when growing or selling industrial hemp; providing rulemaking authority to the Department of Agriculture; providing for the disposition of fees; providing an affirmative defense for the possession or cultivation of marijuana; providing an exemption to criminal possession of dangerous drugs and criminal production or manufacture of dangerous drugs for industrial hemp production as an agricultural crop; requiring the department of agriculture to request a change or waiver in federal law; and amending section 45-9-108, mca.
MotherHemp announces world’s first clinical trials on hemp seed oil as a fu
MotherHemp is delighted to announce that Dr Jace Callaway, Ph.D, scientific adviser to MotherHemp, has been awarded funding for clinical trials to investigate the properties of hemp seed oil as a functional food.
Move to legalize hemp grows in heartland
Steve Kohller looks out over the winter stubble on his 1,000-acre farm on the Illinois prairie. Several years of poverty prices for corn and soybeans have him dreaming of a new crop, one that would grow as tall as 14 feet and, he says, might someday rival soybeans in terms of cultivated acres throughout the Midwest.