News, Facts, and Information about the Hemp Plant
The company Naturally Advanced Technology has been on quite a roll lately. They successfully conducted some bulk commercial hemp trials that have already lead to a partnership with Hanes, and the scientists who made those trials a success then won an award for figuring out how to alter hemp fibers so that they could be [...]
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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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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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This is a clip of Bob Burnquist, a professional skateboarder who started skateboarding at the age of 11. In this clip, he is at the Manitoba Harvest booth, talking about which hemp food products he likes, and why he prefers them to the unnatural supplements.
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