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Hemp for the masses: Museum celebrates 100,000th visitor
Any day now, the 100,000 visitor could walk through the door of the Hemp Museum at Mühlendamm 5 in Berlin’s Mitte district. He or she will be rewarded with a hemp T-shirt and a gift basket featuring “all kinds of hemp-related articles to be tested,” a museum spokesman said on Tuesday.
Hemp industry confident, awaits court decision
Lawyers representing the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) argued before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week 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. The case will now be reviewed by the three-judge panel, and a final decision is expected anytime within the next three to nine months.
Hemp mills already focus in Cowichan Valley
Hemp co-ops, mills and product-marketing strategies have also been the focus of projects by the Victoria-based Transglobal Hemp Products Corporation. Corporate founder and president Brian Johnson is presently putting finances together for a nine-phase project, the first of which is a $2 million seed press mill on a five-acre parcel in Lake Cowichan.
Hemp planters hope 3rd time’s a charm
Alex White Plume knew the time had come to plant a third crop of industrial hemp on Friday. “Last week, we woke up and heard the meadowlarks,” he explained, so he knew the seeds would survive, even if cold weather returned. “Actually, I think that makes it stronger.”
Hemp straw house schedules momentous “bale raising” for May 18th.
At the north end of Barrie in the village of Dalston, Hempola Valley Farms has been working for the past year at one of its most interesting hemp projects...the construction of an octagon ‘round house’ using hemp straw bales. Unique in its design and numerous details focused on environmental responsibility, the structure is deemed the first hemp straw building in North America, maybe the world.
Hemp-Flax paper in more than 1,000 Staples stores by Earth Day
Consumers can celebrate Earth Day 2002 at more than 1,000 Staples™ Superstores across the country by purchasing reams of newly-stocked Vanguard Recycled Plus™, a 90 percent post-consumer waste, 10 percent non-wood paper manufactured by Living Tree Paper Company of Eugene, Ore.
Indian’s “field of dreams” runs afoul of drug laws
Twice, Alex White Plume planted his crop. Twice, despite the unforgiving conditions here on the edge of the Badlands, it grew green and lush and tall. And twice, before he could harvest it, federal agents swooped in with guns and weed whackers, confiscating his plants and toting them away in U-Hauls.
Industrial hemp concerns lingering
Lizards and snakes belong to the same family, but they are not the same. The same can be said of the differences between industrial hemp and marijuana, said Sen. Karen Facemyer, R-Jackson, when she introduced Senate Bill 447. Her approach worked. West Virginia soon will be ready to begin production of industrial hemp for commercial use, despite hesitant law enforcement officials.
Industrial hemp looked into more seriously
When the concept of industrial hemp is brought up, it is usually dismissed as some kind of hippie rhetoric. But as environmental factors worsen and the need for a serious energy alternative arises, professor of biological sciences Angelo Capparella said he hopes people can shed some of the misconceptions they have about hemp.
Nanaimo man probing hemp interest
A Nanaimo horticulturist is probing the local farming community for interest into a hemp-growing venture. Richard Copland attended a Nanaimo Cedar Farmers’ Institute meeting earlier this month to ask local farmers if they are interested in growing hemp and establishing a processing co-op.