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Arizona Senate Bill 1519, authorizing industrial hemp research
Arizona Senate Bill 1519, Authorizing Industrial Hemp Research, with an eye to Deregulation of Industrial Hemp for Arizona, passed an important first hurdle, with unanimous approval by the Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment Committee. 7 ayes, 1 not voting, (Sen. Bowers).
Attack on hemp unfair: a return to “McCarthyism”
It appears that Jeanette McDougal of Drug Watch International mixed a few facts with a lot of misinformation in the anti-hemp commentary that appeared in Monday’s Herald-Leader. It’s the old legal tactic: If you don’t have the law or facts, attack the person. In newsprint it’s frequently referred to as character assassination by association or “McCarthyism.”
Bill to study hemp farming crops up again in legislature
Persistence and patience often pay off. Rep. Ron Lawfer, R-Stockton, hopes that’s the case with his latest proposal to study the feasibility of industrial hemp production in the Land of Lincoln.
BioHemp Technologies announces sale of asset
BioHemp Technologies of Regina Saskatchewan announces the sale of its food division to Hemp Management Group (HMG)Sales and Marketing Inc.
Builders insulate homes with cannabis variety
Builders are trying to insulate new houses with a variety of cannabis. The Suffolk houses are being fitted with industrial hemp which has good insulating qualities.
Business’ are fed up with Australia being “last in the world”
A new company Hemp Foods Australia (HFA) is asking why Australia is the last country in the world to allow free-trade industrial (non-drug) hemp food products.
California assemblymember Virginia Strom-Martin to give keynote address at 2001
Assemblymember Virginia Strom-Martin (D-Duncans Mills) will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo. Strom-Martin will speak on “Industrial Hemp Reintroduction” at 11:30 AM, Saturday, May 12, from the Main Stage of the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.
Cannabis growers should start planting now
New South Wales Agriculture today called for expressions of interest from growers interested in participating in an industrial hemp trial beginning in Spring. Under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985, industrial growers will be allowed to use varieties of cannabis plants containing less than 0.3 per cent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), spokesman Bob Trounce told AAP.
China combats illegal logging
A 10-year campaign to crack down on widespread illegal logging that has been blamed as a key factor in some of China’s worst floods recently and to save the country’s forests has been announced by the State Forestry Bureau (SFA).
China gives facelift to world highest Buddha statue
They examined the environment of the Buddha statue. In order to find the most suitable material to mend the cracks on the statue, experts put several hundred slates made of different materials beside the statue, and select one kind which had the least erosion. The selected material, in the same color of the statue, is a mixture of lime, carbon residue and hemp, according to experts.