News, Facts, and Information about the Hemp Plant
It looks like the Californian Senate has brought hemp farming that much closer to a reality in the Golden State. Senate Bill SB 676 still has a few hurdles to clear, but so far, things are looking up. As the lobby group Vote Hemp just announced in a newsletter: On May 18th the California Senate [...]
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The National Farmers Union (NFU) held its 108th annual convention this week in Rapid City, South Dakota, to discuss and enact policy. Among its several resolutions, one was a call on Congress to take action that would legalize the cultivation of hemp in the US. As Farm Forum reports: [...] significant policy proposals include a [...]
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The two North Dakota farmers who are suing the DEA so that they can actually use the hemp growing licenses that the state issued them have been granted a renewal on their licenses. As The Dickinson Press reports: Two North Dakota farmers who were granted the nation’s first state licenses to grow industrial hemp a [...]
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Despite that two North Dakota farmers are still in court with the DEA, fighting for the right to grow industrial hemp licenses without being federally prosecuted, the state is continuing to issue licenses to grow industrial hemp. As the Jamestown Sun reports: The North Dakota Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for 2009 industrial hemp [...]
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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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A few days ago, we posted about how two North Dakota farmers were finally getting their day in court. In June of 2007, the farmers filed a lawsuit against teh DEA’s band on commercial hemp farming in the US, and on November 12, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit will begin hearing [...]
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A small business owner in Langley, British Columbia, seems to be facing discrimination from the local city council. Randy Caine, owner of Hempyz, is being told that because of zoning laws, he has to either close up shop or stop selling hemp products. Although Hempyz doesn’t sell parafernalia and there are other stores in the [...]
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