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No buzz in the stems
Ryan’s main concern, the plant’s THC content, is unfounded. Industrial hemp does contain trace amounts of THC, but not enough to get a person high. Smoking it will cause a headache.
Pass the seeds, man: Is hemp the food of the future?
Offered a sprinkle of toasted hemp seeds as a garnish on her Caesar salad, my mother pauses: “Is that legal, dear?” There can be little doubt that cannabis has given the seed a bad name in respectable circles but it appears the time is ripe for a veritable hemp renaissance.
R60 million for Coega
Among the goals planned to be achieved by the department was the preparation of a detailed assessment of the status of value-adding process and manufacturing activities arising from the new and existing primary production initiatives like industrial hemp, sugar beet, chicory, marine resources, freshwater fish farming and vegetable farming.
Red tape binds hemp
Ongoing and out-dated legislative hurdles are preventing the establishment of a major environmentally sustainable new food producing industry in Australia.
Resource Conservation Alliance asks Bush administration to reconsider ban on cul
The Resource Conservation Alliance (RCA) has asked the Bush administration to reconsider a decision, made in the final weeks of the Clinton presidency, that maintains the federal government’s ban on the cultivation of the crop industrial hemp. The decision was in response to a petition filed by a coalition of farm, manufacturing, and environmental groups.
Senate votes to OK study of industrial hemp
The Senate voted 26-11 yesterday for House Bill 100, which would permit Kentucky’s college agricultural programs to grow industrial hemp and study its potential value as a crop. Depending on the results of those studies, hemp could return to private farms and offer an alternative for beleaguered tobacco farmers, supporters said.
Spring planting for hemp trials
Trial plots of industrial hemp look almost certain to receive Government approval in time for the next planting season. Health Minister Annette King is still waiting for recommendations from a working group about licensing the plots, but indicated yesterday that planting could begin this spring.
Support urged for hemp industry
Hemp farming could boost the South Canterbury and New Zealand economy if trials, expected to get the go-ahead next month, are successful, Woodbury organic farmer David Musgrave said yesterday.
The education of paper
The makers and marketers of paper — that relic of file cabinets and mailboxes, of encyclopedias and airline tickets — feel a little like Cassandra, the figure in Greek mythology blessed with the power to foresee the future, but condemned to be believed by no one.
VoteHemp urges activism
Please visit VoteHemp and check out the Action Alert page to read the 29 page letter to the DEA (“Hemp Industry Letter to DEA”) regarding DEA’s planned rules to schedule naturally occurring trace amounts of THC under the Controlled Substances Act. These proposed new rules will effectively ban hemp seed and oil products and will devastate the nascent North American hemp industry.