News, Facts, and Information about the Hemp Plant
From new products to new advances in technologies, hemp is changing the way we live our lives. Get the latest news on hemp products and hemp-based technologies, as well as new legal developments from different countries around the world.
We’ve previously covered how hemp can be used to treat sewage, and how an Australian researcher, Dr. Keith Bolton, was testing it’s full potential as a mop-up crop. Well, it appears that the good Dr. Bolton is at it again. As the Northern Rivers Echo reports, Dr. Bolton has recently used his research to help [...]
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The major t-shirt company, Hanesbrands Inc is pursuing additional testing of hemp-based fiber for mass production, reports reports GeenBiz.com. The company first partnered with Naturally Advanced Technologies (NAT) in November 2008 to conduct preliminary tests of hemp-based fiber in their t-shirt production. Preliminary tests involved determining whether NAT’s hemp-based fiber could be spun on conventional [...]
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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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Almost a year and a half after Australian farmers were encouraged to grow hemp in the province of New South Wales, it looks like their counterparts in Queensland are sufficiently interested in the crop that they’re considering building a hemp mill to process the fibres of their future cash-crop. As ABC.net.au reports: A hemp fibre [...]
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Although it is perfectly legal to import, buy, sell, and consume hemp food products in the US, hemp farming remains illegal. The reason is that US law still does not distinguish between hemp and marijuana, its psycho-active counterpart. In fact, US law is still such at odds with hemp for food and industrial purposes, that [...]
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It seems that there’s yet another hemp-food merchant in the marketplace. Health food manufacturer, Bob’s Red Mill, has announced a new line of hemp-based products. They will be selling hulled hemp seed and hemp protein powder. The website PortlandFoodandDrink.com has the press release: Portland, Ore. – December 9, 2008 – Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods [...]
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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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