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Bill status for Arizona SB1431
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Canadian company cites NAFTA to sue US on hemp rules
U.S. officials are preparing for a showdown with representatives from a foreign agricultural firm on the importation into the United States of hemp products the Bush administration says contain an unacceptably high level of the active ingredient normally found in marijuana.
Canadian hemp firm fights drug label
The war on drugs is about to become a trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada. A Canadian agricultural company that grows and sells what it terms sterilized hemp seed that Americans use in bird feeders will try today to convince U.S. officials that hemp is not marijuana — and it will use the North American Free Trade Agreement to argue the charge is a misfire in the war on drugs.
DEA rule on hemp food stirs congressional critics
In a letter sent to the Drug Enforcement Administration today, 18 members of Congress told the agency that their new interpretive rule that bans edible hemp seed or oil items that contain “any THC” is “overly restrictive.” The letter also urged the DEA to, “establish realistic standards which take into account current testing technologies and better define trace levels of THC which are permissible for human use.”
Don’t tell cannabis farmers to go to pot, says Foster
Assembly member Sam Foster wants to know if farmers can get benefit from growing cannabis. But before anyone gets the wrong idea he wants them to do it legally. The UUP member is investigating whether farmers can diversify into growing Cannabis Sattiva in Northern Ireland.
Editors’ links seed case
Drop that pretzel. The Drug Enforcement Administration has given manufacturers of hemp foods until March 18 to “dispose” of their products--but not by eating them. Even during this “grace period,” the DEA warns, “no person may use any THC-containing ‘hemp’ product for human consumption.” The original deadline for the ban, announced last October, was February 6. The DEA extended it to give the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit time to consider a challenge by the Hemp Industries Association.
Farmers hope to build hemp processing plant
Last time Manitoba farmers put their trust in a hemp processing plant, the company folded. Growers were left holding two million dollars worth of unsold fibre. This time, farmers hope to build the processing facility themselves and throw in the two million dollars in hemp as downpayment. That’s the plan for 55 farmers who haven’t given up on hemp, despite a bad experience when Consolidate Growers and Processors Inc. went out of business in 1999.
Farmers learning to grow hemp better is paying off for consumers too
With only four harvests to their credit since industrial hemp was given the green light to grow in Canada, farmers working with this new crop have had their share of frustrations; but it’s starting to pay off. Hempola Valley Farms recently announced a promising collaboration with a company needing hemp fibre, hence more money for farmers by “dual cropping,” Hempola buys hempseed and the fibre is sold to a company making roof shingles. Today, Hempola announced a twenty percent drop in retail price of its flagship product, HEMPOLA Cold Pressed Hempseed Oil.
Felony foods: Bush’s DEA criminalizes hemp foods
If you buy illegal drugs, you may be supporting terrorism, the Bush administration tells us in a $10 million ad campaign. Now, if you buy granola, you may be buying illegal drugs, according to a barely reported federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) ruling made Oct. 9 that reclassifies your larder’s hemp granola, waffles, oil and other hemp food products as a Schedule 1 narcotic. Since then, the budding American hemp foods industry has been fighting for its life, waging an even-less-reported legal battle that took a dramatic turn last week.
Fire at Xinjiang cotton and hemp depot
A cotton and hemp depot in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region caught fire Tuesday morning, causing an estimated loss of 24 million yuan (2.89 million U.S. dollars).