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Seed Case
First the Drug Enforcement Administration tried to ban hemp foods by claiming they’ve been illegal for three decades; it’s just that no one (including the DEA) noticed until recently. In June the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected that gambit, forcing the DEA to issue new regulations, complete with a public comment period, instead of trying to sneak by with a mere “interpretive rule.”
Shooting Blindly in the War on Drugs
Hemp farmers and drug addicts are suffering equally as a result of poor law enforcement, insufficient funding, and erratic strategizing when it comes to the Romanian government’s battle against illegal drugs. Indeed, faced with the prospect of 15-year prison terms and the glare of the media over government raids on fields where hemp was being grown for legal industrial purposes — but was wrongly identified as cannabis — many farmers have simply given up. In 2003 only 2,000 hectares of hemp were registered, down from 50,000 hectares in 1990, according to Agriculture Ministry official Elena Tatomir.
The Demonized Seed
On an otherwise unremarkable day nearly 30 years ago, in a San Fernando Valley head shop, an ordinary man on LSD had an epiphany. The one thing that could save the world, it came to him, was hemp. Thunderbolts come cheap on LSD, but this one looked good to Jack Herer even after his head cleared. The world needed relief from its addiction to oil and petrochemicals. From deforestation and malnutrition. From dirty fuels, sooty air, exhausted soils and pesticides. The extraordinary hemp plant could solve all those problems. Herer was sure of it. Thus began his journey as a heralding prophet.
Top Drug War Moments of 2003
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s attempt to ban all food products containing hemp seed or hemp oil suffered a major setback. The DEA attempted to ban such foods because they contain trace amounts of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and theoretically should be illegal under the Controlled Substances Act. It doesn’t appear that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will buy that argument — especially since the DEA has not sought similar enforcement of items containing poppy seeds, which have a much higher opiate concentration.
US drug agency’s efforts to outlaw hemp could go up in smoke
Open the plastic bag and a musty smell wafts up from some brownish green matter; this is the stuff the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) does not want you to have. You can get it, anyway, if you know where to look. And if things go as they should, it will soon become a lot easier to find. It is hemp protein powder, the latest food product made from the hemp plant.
West Africa’s Cash Crop
What if a poor African country could grow a plant that would fetch healthy prices in the U.S? What if the plant could be grown on small farms, encouraging democracy in this poor African country by putting cash into the hands of its poorest and most powerless people? What if such a plant could reduce the poor African country’s dependence on the U.S. for aid?
Western Australia approves commercial hemp trials
Commercial trials of industrial Hemp in Western Australia (WA) are expected to go ahead later this year.
When the High Road Isn’t Enough
For many of Hickory’s residents, the hosiery industry has provided good hourly wages — today, $12 or more — as well as health insurance, paid vacations and retirement benefits for three generations of workers. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Catawba Valley is responsible for roughly a third of the hosiery produced in the United States. But its share is shrinking fast.
Woodless paper interest grows
Alberta’s pulping sector is kick-starting a new trend that could see local farmers plant crops for paper production instead of food. Interest in using crops such as flax and hemp as alternatives to wood in papermaking is high as rising global demand for paper clashes with limited forestry resources, said Wade Chute, manager of the pulp and paper division of the Alberta Research Council Inc.
Woody Harrelson at festival for documentary on eco-journey
Woody Harrelson finally got to be himself. The 42-year-old actor has run the gamut of roles since his teens, from serial killer to pornography mogul to drag queen.