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Bush panned on tax cuts, environment
Protesters outside the Colorado Convention Center urged President Bush to protect wild lands, legalize “industrial hemp” and dump “Enronomics.”
Case for taking a leaf out of Germany’s book on hemp crops
Gage and Hemcore would like to see an end to the licensing system. “We’re a nation of policemen, not shopkeepers,” says Gage. “The licensing system is just another thing the farmer has to worry about. But the re-emergence of hemp cultivation will benefit UK farmers enormously. If a farmer can make a good margin harvesting for fibre, he will make an even better margin harvesting the seeds as well.”
Committee backs hemp bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill the Agriculture Committee didn’t want to touch that calls for the cultivation of industrial hemp in West Virginia. The committee also approved a bill to use some tobacco trust fund money for programs to discourage the use of tobacco. The hemp bill’s lead sponsor, Sen. Karen Facemyer, had predicted it would fare better in the Judiciary Committee than in the Agriculture Committee, which passed it on without a recommendation last week.
DEA administrator admits hemp food rule is not necessarily final
Asa Hutchinson, head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) body, has admitted for the first time that the DEA’s new “interpretive rule” banning hemp foods with “any THC” is not necessarily final. Speaking on the National Public Radio (NPR) program Public Interest this week, Hutchinson defended the controversial rule, which was issued on 9 October last year. He did admit however that it could be changed following a complete review of the public comments.
DEA received 115,000 comments against new hemp food rule
The Drug Enforcement Administration received over 115,000 public comments from hemp food and body care consumers and manufacturers opposing DEA’s attempt to ban hemp seed and oil products which contain infinitesimal trace residual THC (much like poppy seeds on bagels contain trace opiates).
DEA rule faces congressional backlash
On Oct. 9, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued an “interpretive rule” to immediately ban any edible item containing hemp seed or oil that contains “any THC” and gave consumers until Feb. 6 to “dispose” of such products. On Feb. 6, hemp industry representatives will conduct a Congressional Hemp Taste Test by delivering hemp foods to members of Congress to demonstrate that these foods are safe, nutritious and should remain legal.
Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration 21 CFR part 1308 exemption
On October 9, 2001, DEA published in the Federal Register (66 FR 51539) an interim rule which exempted from control certain THC-containing industrial products, processed plant materials used to make such products, and animal feed mixtures. With respect to those products that were not exempted from control under the interim rule, DEA provided in the interim rule a 120-day grace period to allow persons with existing inventories to dispose of such inventories. The 120-day grace period ended on February 6, 2002. However, DEA will now extend the grace period until March 18, 2002, under the same terms as previously set forth in the interim rule.
Don’t hemp me in
Frozen waffles are the latest targets of the War on Drugs. This news may come as a surprise to consumers, unless of course they’ve read pages 51,539 through 51,544 in the Federal Register. The Drug Enforcement Agency now views a variety of hemp food products containing trace amounts of tetrahydrocannabinols—or THC—as Schedule I narcotics: in other words the same as heroin, under the Controlled Substances Act.
Eat hemp for a healthy heart
Most people know the importance of eating a healthy, balanced diet of fruits and vegetables, grains, meat and dairy products, but nowhere in the four food groups is hemp mentioned. This is probably because hemp contains cannabis, the illicit drug marijuana.
Farmer seeks to rehabilitate taboo crop
Yoshinori Omori, a young farmer in Tochigi Prefecture, thinks it’s not such a dopey idea. He is trying to bring the plant linked to marijuana back into public acceptance-with a version of rice paper made of hemp fiber.