News, Facts, and Information about the Hemp Plant
About one month ago, we reported on Randy Caine, the owner a store called Hempyz in Langley, British Columbia, who was forced to dump his hemp stock because of local zoning laws that restricted the sale of hemp products to a particular shopping mall. Caine’s shop was in the town’s core, not at the mall. [...]
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Now that Australian the province of New South Whales has legalized hemp farming, the CEO of Australian hemp lobby and research company Hemp Resources, Kim Hough, is wasting no time in pushing the envelope. You see, even though it’s now legal to grow hemp for fiber, it is still illegal for Australians to consume hemp-food [...]
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We often touch upon how much potential hemp has to help with the environment: it’s preferable to cotton because it’s much easier on the soil and requires much less water; it has a great potential as biofuel; it can actually remove heavy metals form the soil; it can be used to treat sewage; and the [...]
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Last week, we reported how Naturally Advanced Technologies (with Hanes) conclude the bulk commercial hemp trials they had jointly undertaken earlier in the year. The result was that NAT’s Crailar hemp fiber was successfully used on cotton machinery, making it a viable substitute to cotton (one of the most destructive crops there is). Well it [...]
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A farmer in South Africa is suing the police after his farm was raided despite him having a research permit to cultivate industrial strains. Although charges against him were all eventually dropped, his legal fees forced him to liquidate everything, and he his hoping to recoup those expenses. As IOL.co.za reports: A cannabis farmer who [...]
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New legislation in Australia recently legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp in the province of New South Wales. Farmers in NSW are now being encouraged to take up the crop. Although it still remain illegal for humans to consume hemp product in Australia, it seems that dogs are exempt. That’s right, farmers are being to [...]
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We all know her as a silver screen heart throb of Baywatch fame. But in addition to her support of PETA, Pam Anderson has other social policy issues on the mind. Specifically, she would also like to see hemp farming legalized in the US. She feels so strongly about it, in fact, that she wrote [...]
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A mop-up crop, simply put, is a crop that pulls contaminants out of the soil. Well, hemp has been shown to pull heavy metals out of the soil, but apparently it can also help used in sewage treatment. You see, raw sewage is a problem for water because it causes eutrophication, which is when so [...]
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