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Hemp holds promise for farmers, jobs
State Sen. Karen Facemyer has something there in a bill to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp and help grow West Virginia’s economy, like other states that are turning to hemp production. Facemyer, R-Jackson, has seen such a turn in Hawaii, where farmers switched to industrial hemp to replace the loss of pineapple sales to Asian competitors. The change impressed her.
Hemp paper breaks New South Wales ground in recycling
Australia’s first hemp paper made from recycled waste water is on the market in Tasmania. Ten hectares of hemp grown from purified, high nutrient effluent has been produced by the Hemp Co-operative, for Tasmanian Hemp Enterprises. Brandt Teale from Hemp Enterprises says the product is about turning an environmental problem into a solution.
Hemp users prepare to fight DEA rule
The energetic 60-year-old woman with cropped white hair and sea-green eyes doesn’t fit the usual profile of a drug pusher. But inside Gertrude Spindler’s cozy condominium, there’s trouble cooking. The Drug Enforcement Administration is steeling itself to put Spindler out of business and make sure she keeps her wares away from would-be buyers. There’s no meth lab in Spindler’s bath tub, nor an Ecstasy ring in the garage. She’s using a family recipe to create her Alpsnack snack bars that include hempnuts. And under a recent DEA ruling, she may as well be selling heroin.
Making a hash of hemp regulation
Over the last few years, Canadian hemp producers have steadily grown their sector, working to convince consumers of the health benefits of hemp foods. A new ruling by the Drug Enforcement Administration threatens to nip a burgeoning industry in the bud — as just-food.com’s Clare Harman reports.
Manufacturers of hemp foods gear up for fight
A bitter food fight has broken out between the U.S. government and manufacturers of certain beers, bread, pretzels, cereals, granola bars and butter-like spreads—all containing the controversial ingredient hemp.
New from Nutiva: Organic flax chocolate and hemp date food bars
Health-conscious consumers are increasingly choosing omega-3-rich hemp and flax foods as part of a healthful, balanced diet. Nutiva is proud to add two new organic bars: our Flax and Chocolate, made with real chocolate, rice crisps, honey, and the nutritious seeds of flax, sesame, and sunflower; and our Hemp and Date, which includes seeds of hemp, sesame, and flax plus date pieces and honey.
Senator wants more information on hemp
Senator Karen Facemyer will have to wait at least until next week to get her bill to permit the growing of industrial hemp moving in the Senate. Senate Agriculture Chairman Leonard Anderson wants to hear more about the legal and agricultural consequences of growing hemp, which is related to marijuana, before allowing his committee to take action.
Sssh — is that “cannabis” in John’s barn?
“You’d need to smoke an acre of that to give you a headache.” We’re standing in John McGrady’s barn, admiring the hairy bales of his latest crop — cannabis hemp. A Mourne farmer, Mr McGrady is the only person in Northern Ireland to have cultivated commercial hemp, since the ban was lifted a few years ago. Now he’s hoping local agriculture, decimated by BSE and foot-and-mouth, can rebound with the “viable crop.”
The munchies crackdown
Manufacturers say they’ve cleaned up their act—and their seeds. Improved processing and new hemp strains have cut THC content to less than 5 parts per million, compared with 50,000 to 200,000 parts per million in marijuana. Major health food chains like Wild Oats and Whole Foods say they plan to keep hemp foods on their shelves, provided the manufacturers’ independent lab tests don’t turn up THC. Meanwhile, the agency considers any THC in food “subject to potential enforcement.” Says DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson: “We’re not against the hemp industry. We’re against the THC.”
This bud’s not for you
If hemp cultivation were legalized, could it really save U.S. farms? That¼s unclear, but legislators in more than 20 states have asked for research. They know that a year after Canada allowed hemp cultivation in 1998, its farms were already growing 35,000 acres. The U.S. has taken a different, more tangled approach to the plant, one that reflects the quick assumptions of the war on drugs.