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Canada: Group Urges Federal Government to Ease Restrictions on Growing Hemp
February 17, 2011 – Prompted by a Renfrew Cty. hemp producer, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture has taken notice of heightened interest in the controversial plant and wants the federal government to relax its vice-like grip on production. With that in mind, the OFA recently passed a resolution which it plans to bump upstairs to…
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Canada: Industrial Hemp Making a Comeback
February 9, 2010 – It’s baaaaack! Industrial hemp, that is, the ancient crop which many conventional farmers love to snicker at has returned to Eastern Ontario. It’s pretty easy to poke fun considering hemp’s close association with marijuana. It’s actually the same plant minus significant levels of the hallucinogen THC. Under Health Canada regulations, hemp…
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American Man Could Get Death for Importing Hemp Seed Oil into Egypt
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. for 40 years and was wrongly imprisoned by Egyptian authorities on December 30, 2010…
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Canada: Medical Marijuana Users To Lobby Canadian Parliament Monday
January 30, 2011 – A group of medical marijuana patients, producers, and advocates is planning to meet with Members of Parliament, media and other government officials on January 31 in an effort to draw attention to “the serious and unnecessary obstacles that the Harper Government has placed” in the path of medical marijuana users in…
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Canada’s Herbal Remedy to the Auto Crisis: the Kestrel Hemp EV
January 21, 2011 – (VICTORIA, B.C.) – Environmentalists speak often, and prophetically, about the need for more industry impetus for cars with low or—even better yet—zero emissions. What’s not centre-stage, and should be, is the fact that hemp fibre can be used effectively as a construction material for a vehicle’s shell. Move over Hybrid. The…
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Canada: Prohibition of Marijuana Is Responsible for Much of the Gang Violence
January 16, 2011 – Vancouver B.C. – All of Vancouver has been shocked by the city’s increasing gang violence. Sadly, the gunplay on Dec. 12, where 10 people were shot exiting a restaurant on Oak Street, is an occurrence that has become increasingly common in Canadian cities, and gang violence has long been a fact…
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Canada: Medical Marijuana Club Defends Against Revenue Canada’s Push for Supplier Information
December 21, 2010 – VANCOUVER, B.C. – To protect the identities of its suppliers, a medical marijuana provider challenged provisions in Canada’s Income Tax Act that allow the Canada Revenue Agency to require disclosure of documents from an organization that is not the target of an audit. The British Columbia Compassion Club Society serves more…
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Canadian Conservatives Attempt to Enact “Inhumane, Unjust” Anti-Pot Law
December 18, 2010 – Major players in the legal system are calling Canada’s Bill S-10 inhumane and unjust, and with good reason. The bill would amend Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act with mandatory minimum sentences for pot offenses and increase the maximum, in some cases, to life behind bars. Most media have focused on…
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Canadian Hemp Crop Sees Good Yields
October 23, 2010 — Canada’s hemp crop came off in reasonably good shape this year, despite some problems with excessive moisture earlier in the growing season. The crop is grown across Canada, but the majority of the acres are in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Anndrea Hermann, who works for Hemp Oil Canada, a Manitoba-based hempseed processor,…
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Medical Marijuana Advocate Michelle Rainey Dies from Cancer
October 21, 2010 – Prince of Pot Marc Emery’s ex-business partner and blonde bombshell medical marijuana advocate, Michelle Rainey has died from cancer. She had lived with Crohn’s Disease since a teenager and in the last years of her life struggled against melanoma and lymphatic cancer. Her husband Jef Tek and mother Emilie were at…