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Daydream believers
Rosemary shampoo, organic babyfood, hemp combats... a walk down the aisle of your local supermarket reveals how yesterday’s long-haired idealists have made hippies of us all. Tim Adams meets the alternative millionaires who’ve changed their bank balances by trying to change the world
Drug laws hit hemp
It was a good news-bad news year for the fledgling hemp industry. On the plus side, acreage is down to a more reasonable level. On the negative side, one of the primary markets for hemp oil has dried up. Arthur Hanks, editor of an on-line magazine called Hemp Report, told 60 producers who attended the hemp session during Crop Production Week, held Jan. 8–11 in Saskatoon, that Canadian farmers seeded 3,200 acres of the oilseed in 2001. This was the fourth year the crop has been legally cultivated in Canada. Acreage has plummeted since 1999 when growers seeded 34,000 acres of hemp and flooded the North American market with far more seed and fibre than could be sold.
Editorial: DEA’s hemp hunt is a waste of time
Is it our imagination or has the federal war on drugs taken a strange twist? First there was U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s crusade against Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law. That effort requires the Drug Enforcement Administration to scrutinize prescription decisions to determine if a doctor is using them to help a patient die. Now DEA agents are going after food products that contain hemp seed and oil, including energy bars, bread, granola, ice cream and salad dressing. Citing the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, the DEA has proclaimed hemp illegal, and has ordered any food containing the substance off store shelves by next month. Support for this campaign comes from the Family Research Council, a nonprofit conservative group that lobbies against medical marijuana and same-sex unions, and questions the validity of safe-sex and needle exchange programs.
Farmer gets dopey calls over hemp crop
The grower of Manawatu’s first hemp crop continues to get phone calls from people associating the plant with marijuana. But Bulls farmer Hew Dalrymple said the “strange” phone calls would not put him off planting another crop next year. The first industrial hemp crop to be grown in Manawatu will be harvested at the end of February, with the seed then pressed for oil. When it became public knowledge in July last year that Mr Dalrymple would plant the 4ha hemp crop — under tight security and at a secret location — he got a few funny comments and unusual phone calls.
Get your logo on a racing bike at Daytona!
HempDove Racing (HDR) is a comprehensive advertising and marketing program designed around NASCAR Motorsports marketing. We are gearing up for the 2002 AMA Superbike tour, crisscrossing the USA for nine months. We will debut HDR at Daytona International Speedway, participating in the most famous motorcycle race in the world, the “Daytona 200.”
Great hope in hemp industry
The first official trial of hemp, a close cousin of cannabis, is giving growers great hope. It is illegal to grow hemp in New Zealand because it comes from the same family as cannabis, but last October Steve Burnett and eight other growers were issued the first licences to trial the crop for industrial use.
Hemp controversy moves from smouldering to outright blaze
The fight to prevent a federal ban on foods containing hemp is expect to fire up this week with anticipated court decisions and lawsuits. Despite the fact that manufacturers of foods such as Healthy Hemp Sprouted Bread, Hemp Plus Granola and Hempseed Energy Bars say their products contain only a miniscule amount of the hallucinogen found in marijuana, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) ordered a ban on such foods starting Feb. 6, reports the Washington Post.
Hemp harvest holds high hopes
The hemp industry is focusing its attention on harvesting and processing the raw product now that some crops are approaching harvest. Hemp Industries Association chairman Mac McIntosh says the first of a crop near Motueka has been harvested to trial the processing methods. McIntosh says the next step is to find out whether it can be done economically and how easily the fibre and oil can be extracted.
Hemp imports run afoul of DEA rule
The hemp industry is taking on the establishment, seeking to prevent the U.S. government from crushing the small, but rapidly growing, hemp food and beverages industry. Canadian hemp supplier Kenex Ltd. on Monday signaled its intent to sue the U.S. government for $20million under provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Kenex claims that a ban on foods that contain hemp, instituted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in October, violated its rights under NAFTA.
Hemp industry vs. DEA in U.S. Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — The Hemp Industry Association (HIA) and several major hemp food companies in the U.S. and Canada filed their opening brief today urging the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) “interpretive” rule, which attempts to ban the sale of nutritious hemp foods containing harmless trace amounts of naturally-occurring THC.