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Oglalas plant hemp on rez for third time
The White Plume clan planted its third crop of industrial hemp April 5, this time with television cameras joining print media. For the third year in a row, the family posed a challenge to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, which destroyed its previous two plantings.
Ottawa fears new trade wars
Simmering trade issues from wheat to electricity are threatening to boil over this year and join softwood lumber as full-blown disputes between Canada and the United States, the federal government warned yesterday.
Ready for new cash crop
Agriculture Commissioner Gus Douglass used to oversee the state workers who slashed and burned wild marijuana in an effort to eradicate it from the hills of the Potomac Valley. But that was more than two decades ago. Now Douglass is the man in charge of growing hemp in West Virginia.
Ross to light up stocks
For a guy whose main job is being Ross Rebagliati, the 1998 snowboarding Olympic gold medallist always is looking for sidelines. This spring and summer it will be stock car racing — in a vehicle sponsored by Hemptown Clothing.
South Dakota hemp petition
We now have 11 days left to get the signatures we need to place industrial hemp on the ballot in South Dakota next November. We have a few signatures over 11,000 in hand. That means we have to receive at least 5,000 more during the next few days in order to have a sufficient margin (for non-qualified signatures) over the 13,000 necessary to place the issue on the ballot.
The countdown to the freshest, tastiest food is on
Here’s good news for people passionate about great tasting food: the Canadian arrival of Whole Foods Market is just three weeks away, with the world’s leading natural and organic foods retailer set to open its first Toronto store on Wednesday, May 1, 2002. The 40,000 square foot store, centrally located at 87 Avenue Road in Hazelton Lanes, will feature Canada’s largest selection of mouthwatering foods all FREE of artificial additives, sweeteners, colourings and preservatives.
The war against hemp
If you think hemp equals marijuana, you’re not alone. But in fact, the two plants are actually different varieties of the same species. One is grown to maximize fiber content, the other to maximize psychochemical effect. One is legal in brownies, the other isn’t. One was grown as a cash crop by our forebears, the other was not inhaled by a recent president.
Therapia launches a remarkable new product, Hemp Essential Oil at The Festival o
Therapia hemp essential oil (HEO) is new to the UK market and will be of great interest to aromatherapists and other practitioners working in the field of complementary and alternative medicine due to the exciting possibilities of its main active constituents.
West Virginia governor signs hemp bill
Agriculture Commissioner Gus Douglass used to oversee the state workers who slashed and burned wild marijuana in an effort to eradicate it from the hills of the Potomac Valley. But that was more than two decades ago. Now Douglass is the man in charge of growing hemp in West Virginia. “I sit here and whatever the laws demand, we in the Department of Agriculture will attempt to move in that direction,” Douglass said this week.