September 8th, 2014 - CARBONDALE, CO. — A recent tour at a small experimental hemp plot by a group of advocates who want to develop a local hemp growers cooperative revealed some of the challenges the fledgling industry faces before it can become established...
September 5th, 2014 - By all indications, the state’s first industrial hemp crop in decades appears to have been successful. That’s despite the fact that, this past spring, it looked as though a crop might not be planted at all. The Farm Bill...
August 20th, 2014 - Jim Rogers admits it: He’s not sure how this experiment of his will work out. Mr. Rogers is a lifelong farmer – a wheat-and-canola kind of guy. But he is dabbling in something new. He sowed hemp in some fields this year, hoping...
August 18th, 2014 - LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - After 80 days of waiting, the University of Kentucky industrial hemp pilot program is almost finished. Last Friday, Kentucky agriculture officials and the federal government finalized an agreement on how industrial...
August 16th, 2014 - Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the federal government today finalized an agreement on a formal process for importing industrial hemp seeds into the Commonwealth. As a result, the department filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit...
August 12th, 2014 - You don’t have to inhale. You don’t even have to put it in your mouth. We don’t need it for recreational use, we need it for work, jobs, and a more productive Mississippi. Our great agricultural state needs to take the lead...
August 5th, 2014 - Growing hemp is legal in Vermont under legislation that Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law last year, though federal law does still define hemp as a controlled substance. A dozen Vermonters have registered with the Agency of Agriculture...
August 4th, 2014 - In 1990, Chris Boucher walked into a store selling his line of tie-dyed backpacks and wallets to chat with the owners about business matters. He left eight hours later with a new idea: make his products from hemp. “The owners...
July 23rd, 2014 - Since the passage of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, commercial grade hemp has been considered a controlled substance by the U.S. government alongside its cousin, marijuana. However, hemp contains only the smallest amount of THC,...
June 3rd, 2014 - In the annals of strange bedfellow politics, the story of how, in 2014, industrial hemp emerged from Drug War purgatory is an epic one. But even for long-time hemp advocates, the sight of Rep. Thomas Massie, a conservative Republican...
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