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Consumers high on hemp despite DEA rule
Hemp may look like marijuana. It may even smell like marijuana. But smoking marijuana’s close cousin to get high would be as effective as smoking lawn grass, according to hemp supporters, including two Arizona politicians.
Cotton carpet chars, but doesn’t burn
American cotton growers would see a lot more of their crop turned into carpeting if only cotton could pass the US flammability test. Now, using polycarboxylic acids, researchers at the US Department of Agriculture’s research center in New Orleans have developed ways of economically treating cotton so that it only chars at the point of ignition without flame spread.
Court hears hemp, marijuana cases
The government fought a two-pronged battle in the drug war Monday, arguing before a federal appeals court that it can ban foods made with hemp and strip doctors of their licenses for recommending marijuana.
Earth Day celebration benefit for hemp foods
Environmental activist and actor Woody Harrelson will have his biodiesel and solar powered tourbus, The Mothership, at San Francisco’s Precita Park, Earth Day Celebration, Sunday April 21, 2002, Noon to 5pm. The event is free to the public. Other environmental vehicles will include electrics and hybrids from Honda and Toyota as well as biodiesel vehicles converted to run on waste fryer oil.
Energy could come from unlikely source
Increased energy consumption demands higher energy production, which can have detrimental environmental factors according to Angelo Capparella, associate professor of biological sciences at ISU. This could all change however, if alternative energy sources like industrial hemp catch on.
For hemp foods, a decisive moment
Some of the latest substances the Drug Enforcement Administration wants to make illegal: cereal, soda, corn chips, muffins. Not all such products, of course, just those made with the seeds and oil of hemp, which in some forms can grow as marijuana. The DEA is concerned about traces of pot’s active chemical; fans of these products laud them as a nutritional godsend. A federal court in California must now decide which argument holds.
Green plastics
‘Chemicals’, and plastics in particular, have image problems, and this accessible book confronts them straightforwardly, describes what can be done, and even offers recipes for making ‘green’ plastics in your lab or kitchen. It promotes the creation and use of both bioplastics and plastics of all kinds which are biodegradable, but does so in a clear, non-polemical way.
Hemp Industries Association to argue before 9th Circuit Court April 8
Lawyers representing the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) will argue before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) attempt to ban nutritious hemp foods misinterprets the Controlled Substances Act and violates the Administrative Procedures Act.
Hemp could be state’s next tobacco crop, former governor says
If legislation was passed in Kentucky to legalize hemp production, it could be the next viable industry for the state’s struggling tobacco farmers, former governor Louie Nunn said Friday in Bloomfield.
Hemp food production in danger
The Hemp Industry Association and the Drug Enforcement Administration are in a legal battle over the future of hemp food products that could take months to resolve and could result in a ban on all foods that contain any amount of hemp.