News, Facts, and Information about the Hemp Plant
The fact is that hemp is one of the most valuable natural resources available to the human race. Learn the facts about its health benefits, its potential as a medicine and food source, and how it can be used as a bio-fuel and to fight climate change.
There is more to the benefits of hemp seeds than just your health. They are also great for those who have trouble digesting soy. As the VegEater points out: For the soy-sensitive vegan (it aggravates my eczema), Hemp is the holy grail. I don’t know what I would do without it. Drink yucky rice-milk? — [...]
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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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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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Today has been a slow day in terms of hemp related news, so I thought I’d post this video on one man’s effort to replace cotton farms in Whales with industrial hemp farms. Hemp has a number of advantages over cotton: it can produce 250% the amount of fibre it requires little to no pesticides [...]
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An opinion piece on OpEd News points to an interesting paper by Lynn Osburn. Appearing to have been written in 1990, Toward a Green Economy outlines some of major environmental dilemmas caused by our economy, and then explores how industrial hemp might be able to solve them. Here’s an excerpt on how using industrial hemp [...]
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Last night’s presidential debate was the third and final didn’t attract as much attention as the previous did. As MarketWatch notes, ratings were down 8% from the last one. One aspect of the debate that went completely unnoticed, however, was the history of its locations. Last night’s presidential debate was held at Hofstra University, which [...]
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Of all of Hemp’s uses, it stands out quite a bit as a Health Foods. It’s not only loaded with nutrients, but is rather versatile in terms of what it can be used for. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Check out this article from Suite101: Hemp is extremely versatile. For [...]
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The Global Healing Center has a great piece by Dr. Edward Group on the The Benefits of Organic Hemp Milk. The article starts out dispelling some of the myths behind hemp food products, covers how growing hemp in the US is still illegal, offers an overview of the specific nutritional benefits of hemp milk, and [...]
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