News, Facts, and Information about the Hemp Plant
Hemp seeds offer a number of health benefits, and healthy people often make for better looking people. It’s no surprise, then, that hemp seeds are also used in skin lotions. As the Lotion Source Blog recently explained, the hemp seed’s unique balance of essential fatty acids makes it an excellent thing to use both within [...]
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Just last week, we posted about an article in the University of Maryland’s student newspaper, The Retriever Weekly about hemp in American history. Well, it seems that the editor at that student paper have are sympathetic toward the cannabis plant, and have just run another piece. This one looks at the environmental potential of hemp [...]
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It’s been a pretty slow day in the world of hemp news, but I never thoughts it’d be a dog’s day. In my surfing around the world wide interwebs, the only <i>hemps-up</i> I’ve been able to find was one mention of a hemp-based dog bed, and another of hemp-based dog toys. First, one North Shore [...]
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An Oregon design studio has just launched a new line of bedding, and it’s made from hemp. This new line of bedding was inspired by an increasing demand for sustainable interior design products. As the press release states: PORTLAND, OREGON — Sue Augustyn Interior Design (SAID), a full-service design studio and retail showroom, today announced [...]
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A British company named BRE is organizing a building a construction conference for June, 2009, and it looks like the event is going to feature a house made of hemp. As Building.co.uk reports: A house made from hemp and a dwelling by the Prince’s Foundation will be among the star attractions at the BRE’s Insite [...]
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Not surprisingly, it seems that the hemp industry will suffer from the recession. Coming out of the Hemp Industries Association annual conference, economists have predicted a slight drop for the month of September. As the Boston Herald reports: The Hemp Industries Association continues its 15th annual convention at Boston’s Best Western Roundhouse Suites. The group [...]
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University of Maryland’s student newspaper, The Retriever Weekly has just run a story called A Brief History of Marijuana Laws Across America. The piece provides an overview of how both industrial hemp and its narcotic counterpart (not the same plant) were used throughout American history, and in doing so, shows how a struggle to outlaw [...]
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