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Committee OK’s bill to allow study of industrial hemp
An effort to study industrial hemp as a potential cash crop in Illinois was revived in the General Assembly this week. The House Higher Education Committee approved a measure that would allow the University of Illinois to study the plant, which can be used to make everything from clothing and building materials to lip balm.
Conservative lawmaker would legalize hemp
One of Arizona’s most conservative lawmakers is asking his colleagues in the state Senate to legalize industrial uses of the marijuana plant.
Controversial hemp bill passed by Kentucky legislators
Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton signed for passage of House Bill 100 Tuesday, taking another step toward turning industrial hemp into an alternative Kentucky cash crop to replace dwindling tobacco revenues.
DEA, interest groups stand between hemp and a cleaner future
Hemp, the favorite fiber of many a radical college student, remains a restricted crop in the United States for a simple, worrisome reason: Hemp threatens the budget of the Drug Enforcement Agency and powerful U.S. interest groups.
Environmental activists spread the word one step at a time
You can hardly walk across a college campus in the United States without encountering the phrase. It graces so many dorm-room posters, faded T-shirts and backpack buttons, it has become almost as much a cliche of the hippie lifestyle as Birkenstocks and patchouli. But when asked what he has learned from more than a decade of involvement in an American Indian resistance movement, Haru Yamaguchi says without a hint of insincerity: “The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.”
Farm-based pioneer of the hemp industry; HEMPOLA continues its quest for perfect
It’s the year 1993; Kelly Smith and Greg Herriott, co-founders of HEMPOLA begin research on the virtues and potential of industrial hemp, with focus mainly on what the treasureful hempseed contains.
First certified organic hemp food company
HempNut, Inc., located here, announced that it has received Third-Party Certified Organic status from Quality Assurance International, of San Diego, California. It is believed to be the first hempseed food company in North America to be third-party certified organic, as well as the first to be issued an Organic Handler Certificate by the State of California.
Forum on non-food
The setting up of a Government-industry forum on non-food uses of crops has been welcomed by the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales.
Geese to dine on hemp on Flinders Island
A new use for the hemp plant is being trialled on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. Growing hemp for it’s fibre is not new but the first licence to use the plant’s seed in poultry feed has been issued to a farmer on the island.
Get growing on hemp, as national resource
Farmers in New Mexico and more than half the other states are ready to grow when it comes to industrial hemp. But Rep. Pauline Gubbels’ bill to legalize its production has been rendered as impotent as hemp’s mythical psychoactive properties by the amendment grafted onto it by a House committee.