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Canadian Pot Activist Marc Emery Gets 5 years in U.S. Jail
September 10, 2010 – Canadian pot activist Marc Emerey has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison for selling marijuana seeds south of the border. The 52-year-old Vancouver resident learned his fate on Friday afternoon in a U.S. district court in Seattle. His sentence also includes four years of “supervised release” following his…
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Facebook Bans Use of Marijuana Leaf in Ad
Pot leaves are easy to find on Facebook pages. But the nation’s largest social-networking site has decided they cannot appear in advertisements, prohibiting them as “illegal content.” The policy was disclosed Tuesday after a national campaign promoting legalization accused Facebook of censoring political speech. The Just Say Now campaign said the popular website rejected its…
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Seattle Hempfest 2010 iReport
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Film, TV Actor and Pothead Woody Harrelson’s Resurrection Welcomed
HOLLYWOOD, CA — Thank God this white man can jump – from near obscurity to filming, “Friends with Benefits” starring Justin Timberlake, SNL’s Andy Samberg and “That ‘70s Show” hottie Mila Kunis to an upcoming “Zombieland” sequel. Harrelson is back with a perma-grin. “Do you want to get the first question in while I’m still…
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Toronto: Going to Pot to Ease the Pain
July 18, 2010 – The G20 leaders met here for some serious discussions last month and the Shriners partied and prepared for their parade in the same spot last week. After hitting a new low with the violent protests surrounding the G20 summit, Toronto may reach a new high with the Medical Marijuana and Hemp…
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Hemp: The New Soy
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Flying High: Hemp Seeds To Replace Airline Peanuts?
SAN FRANCISCO (Wireless Flash – FlashNews) – Passengers will truly be flying high if one man manages to replace airline peanuts with hemp seeds. Richard Davis of hemp-based snack company, Blue Sun Corporation, has just created Honey Roasted Hemp Nuts, little packs of hemp seeds that taste similar to seasoned beer nuts. With recent talks…
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Hemp Kingpin ditches Amsterdam for Denver
June 22, 201-AMSTERDAM — When American entrepreneur Adam Dunn moved to the Netherlands at age 19, his first business plan wasn’t anything to write home about. He’d crammed 300 Rolling Stones concert T-shirts into his luggage, hoping to sell them for some quick cash. That was in 1989. Today the 40-year-old native of Woodstock, N.Y.,…
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Hemp as an Alternative Fuel, Clothing Fiber and Superfood
May 31, 2010 – The events taking place in the Gulf of Mexico have sounded alarms for a rallying cry for new alternative fuels. The best of these may come from hemp. Hemp has been cultivated for its many uses for the past 12,000 years. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp on their…
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Hemp-from Hippie to Hip: Clothing made with Hemp Catching on with Major Designers
It’s not just for the stoner set. Stella McCartney, Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein are among the designers incorporating hemp textiles into their fashions. It’s a versatile material said to be easy on the environment. It’s durable. It’s versatile. And when it’s used in textiles, it’s easier on the environment than, say, cotton. Yet its…