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North Dakota Farmers Get Hemp License Renewed

by Kristoffer James on December 11, 2008

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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North Dakota Update

by Kristoffer James on November 6, 2008

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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North Dakota Hemp Farmers in Court

by Kristoffer James on November 3, 2008

Two farmers from North Dakota who filed a lawsuit against the DEA over a year ago will be arguing their case in less than two weeks. What the farmers are taking issue with is a US District Court ruling that hemp and marijuana are the same plant. As the press release explains: ST. PAUL, Minn., [...]

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