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.
Okay, well, not exactly. Nevertheless, a US politician who’s known for championing the legalization of industrial hemp in the country has a new book out, and that’s bound to gain the hemp industry some added attention. As the Colorado Independent reports: Lloyd Casey, the oldest first-time elected state senator from Colorado when he entered office [...]
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A construction and architecture conference in London next June is slated to feature a house made of hemp. But it now looks like the hemp house isn’t going to be as architecturally distinct as originally planned. The architecture firm that was initially contracted to build it have been dropped in favor of a more off-the-shelf [...]
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Hemp’s potential as a biofuel is not exactly a secret, but it’s not common knowledge either. Well, the biomass industry is well aware of it’s potential, and the lawsuit being waged North Dakota farmers seems to have the industry watching hemp closer than usual. A recent article in Biomass Magazine titled US industrial hemp development [...]
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You’ve probably heard of ice hotels, but what about a hotel made of hemp. Well, we’re not quite there, but the Hemp Hotel in Amsterdam surely makes an affort. As MetroNews.ca reports: Hemp Hotel – As the name suggests, hemp is the theme of the décor. There are five rooms all decorated with THC-free goods. [...]
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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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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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