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Hemp not a drug — Tanczos
A Green Party bill would remove industrial hemp from the Misuse of Drugs Act. Green MP Nandor Tanczos said legislation he had drafted would make it clear industrial hemp was not a drug but a useful cash crop which could be used to make a range of products — such as rope, fabric, paper and fibre board. The seeds can be pressed for cosmetics, soap and health foods.
Hemp oil shows huge gains in food and personal care
Although still a small and developing market, demand for hemp oil in North America has been steadily increasing, particularly in the areas of food and personal care. Industry sources place annual growth at 20 percent, although higher prices are, so far, preventing hemp oil from entering the industrial oil mainstream.
Hemp research in Kentuckyy draws near
Kentucky will try to undertake research into the agricultural and economic viability of industrial hemp, despite another round of legislative warnings that it will lead to legalized marijuana.
Hemp research legislation advances
Kentucky will try to undertake research into the agricultural and economic viability of industrial hemp, despite another round of legislative warnings that it will lead to legalized marijuana.
Hemp shows off all its upright qualities
An architect practising from Hartest, a Suffolk village south of Bury St Edmunds, for the past 15 years, he has been pioneering the use of hemp as a building material: the core of the stem a replacement for brick and concrete, the fibres as insulation. He has put it into the fabric of a listed medieval building and built an extension to his own house with it.
Hemp trials about to start
The Government seems set to finally clear the way for controversial hemp-growing trials. More than a year after former customs minister Phillida Bunkle approved a working party to investigate hemp licensing, the group has issued a timeline to the Hemp Industries Association.
Hemp trials reports awaited
Health Minister Annette King says she has not yet received recommendations about licensing hemp-growing trials, but planting could still begin in spring.
High time for hemp to have its chance
Promoters of a hemp industry are holding their breath for Government permission to sow their first crops next spring. Not that deep inhalations will produce any illegal “highs,” they are keen to assure the public. Although hemp is of the same species as cannabis sativa or marijuana, illicit pot smokers would scoff at cannabis with a strength of anything less than about 5 per cent THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), compared with a limit of about 0.35 per cent likely to be set for industrial hemp.
House turns thumbs down on hemp
The New Hampshire House has shot down another effort by some lawmakers to legalize the growing of industrial hemp in the state. By nearly a 100-vote margin Thursday, lawmakers turned down a bill that had passed the House last year the first time around by 14 votes. Last year’s bill went down to defeat when it returned to the floor.
Kentucky hemp bill signed into law
The Kentucky state legislature passed a bill establishing an Industrial Hemp Commission (IHC) and today the bill was signed into law by Gov. Patton. The IHC will consist of 17 members including representatives of the governor, the state legislature, state universities, law enforcement and the Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association. The bill also authorizes an industrial hemp research program to be conducted at one or more selected Kentucky state universities.