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California: Kings County calls for Change to Legalize Growing industrial Hemp
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Hemp – The Biofuel to Replace Petroleum
July 22, 2011 – The hemp plant is the key to the revolution in reducing our energy economic costs to individuals and our environment. The bottom line in this change is all based on the financial numbers plugged into a mathematical equation that results in the lowest number. Money, the amount we all pay for…
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A Hemp Revival on the Horizon as B.C. Community Builds Local Economy
July 18, 2011 – In British Columbia — the word is now out, thanks to Bill Finley of Hemp & Company, in Victoria, where I got this magnificent bead on the story. Sanctioned by all three levels of government, the successful results from BC’s Caribou Region ‘pilot’ plantation sites has allowed for 3 impressive scientific…
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Hemp Twine: An Eco Alternative to Baker’s Twine
July 14, 2011 – Baker’s twine is all the rage, but conventional cotton leaves a lot to be desired, from an eco perspective. Hemp twine to the rescue! Oh, baker’s twine! You are so beautiful. Unfortunately, since baker’s twine is made from conventional cotton, that means it’s also most likely genetically modified and it’s definitely…
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Australia Edges Closer to Hemp Approval for Food Uses
July 13, 2011 – A proposal to overturn a ban on the use of hemp seeds in food products in Australia could see the use of the staple in food products available in the country. Lorraine Belanger, communication manager for Food Standards Australia and New Zealand said that the regulator had received an application for…
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Happy Dutch Cows Eat Hemp
July 11, 2011 – The number of Dutch dairy farmers that feed their cows hemp fiber is on the rise this year after mostly positive experiences of farmers in the Netherlands. Animal feed producers and seed suppliers Agrifirm estimates the number of interested parties to about thirty this year. In the north of the Netherlands…
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Hemp House Becomes South Africa’s Most Sustainable Building
June 29, 2011 – South Africa has tapped into the eco-mine of sustainable building material: hemp. Tony Budden, an avid hemp advocate in South Africa, has been on the hemp soapbox for years—the versatile superplant can be converted into countless materials, including paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, and fuel. Budden paired up with Dutch architect Erwin…
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Would Legalizing Pot be Good for the Environment?
May 16, 2011 – It is well known that legalizing pot could have great economic benefits in California and elsewhere by allowing the government to tax it (like it now does on liquor and cigarettes), by ending expensive and ongoing operations to eradicate it, and by keeping millions of otherwise innocent and non-violent marijuana offenders…
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Kentucky and Beyond: A Culture Tough on Marijuana makes a Hard Fight for Hemp
Lexington, KY – In the previous installment of this series on the potential of industrial hemp cultivation in Kentucky, I took issue with gubernatorial candidate Phil Moffett’s indirect association with a local head shop, Botany Bay. Some consider the concept of guilt by association to be unfair in this case, but to me, such questions…
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Rep. Ron Paul Introduces H.R. 1831, The Industrial Hemp Farming Act
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2011 — For the fourth time since the federal government outlawed hemp farming in the United States over 50 years ago, a federal bill was introduced on May 11, which if passed, will remove restrictions on the cultivation of industrial hemp, the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis. The chief sponsor,…