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The Green Party wants trials of hemp crop in New Zealand, following the trend in more then 30 countries.

Officially, the DEA stopped the shipment because some sterilized seed had 14 parts per million THC, the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana. Marijuana has from 4 percent to 30 percent THC. In Canada, farmers can grow hemp legally, and THC levels of up to 0.3 percent are tolerated. The seed impounded had 0.0014 percent. The DEA said it was stopping the seeds because it has a zero-tolerance for any THC.

Consolidated Growers & Processors Inc. (CGP) has announced a series of corporate developments strengthening its role as the world’s first multinational industrial hemp company. A public venture formed in 1997 to expand the global market for hemp, CGP is accelerating its activities worldwide: completing its capital formation and strategic development, appointing a new executive management team and forging affiliations with farmers, researchers, manufacturers and even the United Nations in its conviction that hemp will one day be traded as commonly as wheat or cotton.

The late 1920s and 1930s saw continuing consolidation of power into the hands of a few large steel, oil, and chemical (munitions) companies. The U.S. federal government placed much of the textile production for the domestic economy in the hands of their chief munitions maker, DuPont.