March 3, 2011 - A bipartisan slate of 30 legislators — from liberal Minneapolis Rep. Phyllis Kahn to conservative Rep. Mark Buesgens of Jordan — are proposing legislation to allow Minnesota farmers to grow industrial hemp. The Industrial Hemp Development...
February 04, 2011 - WASHINGTON, DC – The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), the nation’s leading trade organization working to promote non-drug industrial hemp, learned last week of the plight of Mostafa Soliman, an America citizen who has lived in the U.S....
On April 20th, 2011 the “Overgrow the Government” movement is staging a rally in Washington D.C. to demand an end to cannabis prohibition. As of this writing the Facebook page for the rally has over 1,100 people signed up to attend and another 1,000...
January 5, 2010 - Industrial hemp may see federal legalization soon. States including North Dakota and Montana have been testing its use since the mid-’90s and North Dakota is suing the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for the right to grow...
November 15, 2009 - Here’s an update on some of the more significant legislation moving (or not) on the Hill. Medical Marijuana Late last month, Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA) reintroduced H.R. 3939, the Truth in Trials Act, which would allow defendants in federal...
Sign the Petition: To: The President of the United States, The U.S. Senate and The U.S. House H.R. 1866 is perhaps the most straight-forward Act currently in Congress and deserves the support of all Americans. It would reflect science, by making a clear...
October 21, 2009 - In New Zealand, the tiny political party Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP) promotes a platform that it says can "reverse" damaging climate change by planting hundreds of thousands of hectares of cannabis hemp, ALCP says, at a density...
July 31 2009 - Seattle - Could the world's biggest celebration of ganja be gone-ja? (Now the article has its obligatory pot pun.) With a new administration that might be a little less drug war-crazy and hard times leading state governments to study...
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