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Food for the brain
The belief that our early ancestors swung out of the trees into the savannah has taken a bashing recently. A theory gaining favour suggests that our forebears evolved at the water’s edge. This could explain why research is finding that a diet featuring oily fish can offset a wide variety of health problems.
Get hemp to the jive
With the DEA threatening to ban nonintoxicating hemp products for various, spurious reasons, I think it’s wise to take a quick look at what we’ll be losing if we allow this unconstitutional powergrab to go forward.
Gov. George Ryan indicated Thursday that he may veto a bill calling for a study
“I think there’s going to be some opposition to it, and I want to hear both sides of the issue before I make up my mind,” Ryan said. “My initial thought is that I’m not for it, but my mind’s not closed on it.”
Governor Ryan is urged to sign Industrial Hemp Act
Hemp is the fiber crop that will grow best in the Corn Belt. This is the underlying reality. Our land-grant universities should, at very least, be allowed to study it. Illinois farmers need true alternatives to corn and soybeans. Hemp has great potential. This research will provide answers
Governor Ryan should weigh fact over stereotype
Gov. George Ryan currently holds a bill that could provide research opportunities for two state universities, ultimately jump-start Illinois’ farm economy, reduce world deforestation and pesticide use and provide products ranging from nutrient-rich foods to sweaters.
Hawaii Hemp Legislation
Makes permanent Act 305, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, which allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii.
Hemp Crop Study Comes Up For Vote In Illinois
Rep. I. Ronald Lawfer, R-Stockton, hopes his fellow representatives will agree that industrial hemp is not marijuana and should be researched as a possible alternative crop for farmers.
Hemp Hemp Hooray! The Growing Industrial Hemp Market
Hemp Hemp Hooray! is an upbeat educational documentary about the re-emergence of the worldís most versatile and useful plant, cannabis hemp, into the industrial marketplace. ìThe editors use a fast-paced technique in a montage of retailers, products, customers, researchers, and film clips to show how far the industry has come in the last ten years,î says Chris Conrad, well-known hemp author.
Hemp a good alternative crop
Farmers looking for a good alternative crop to add to their rotation, industrial hemp might be the answer. But you might have to wait for a while, an official said Friday at an ag expo in Minot.
Hemp bill clears one test
Supporters of plans to test an alternative crop for Illinois farmers leapt a major hurdle Tuesday, but others remain before industrial hemp takes root in the state. The Illinois House passed legislation 67-47 that would approve studies at two state universities aimed at determining whether the plant could have a productive future in farm fields.