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81-year old U.S. Hemp Prohibition Ends Today
December 20th, 2018 – Finally, 81 years after the United States Government began a prohibition on the lowly hemp plant, the 2018 Farm Bill, signed today by Donald Trump, removes hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. Woody Harrelson should be proud. While the main intent of the $867 billion Farm Bill’s is to fund crop…
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Kentucky University Researches Hemp BioFuel Potential
May 17th, 2017 – The University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy is planting more hemp this year at the school’s Belknap Campus. This is officially the center’s second hemp crop — the first was planted last August and yielded a few dozen pounds of plants. This year, there will be two different varieties of…
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Ralph Nader: “Marijuana Legalization is a Potential Massive Gift to Society”
November 19th, 2015 – Consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes marijuana legalization holds the potential to be a “massive gift to society”, so long as the industry gets the regulations right. And believe it or not, the fate of the planet may well rest on how well we do it. Speaking to cannabis industry members during his…
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Canada’s Narrowing Hemp Industry Advantage
July 23rd, 2015 – Canada’s North American market leadership in hemp production is at risk. While commercial hemp production in Canada began in 1998 and Canada currently grows approximately 100,000 acres annually, competition from the U.S. is quickly emerging a hemp researcher warns. “This year is a year of change,” says Jan Slaski, a senior…
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Hemp Plastic and How it Will Change the World
April 16th, 2015 – If I told you there was a way we could manufacture most of what we use in a way that is renewable, biodegradable, has a reduced carbon footprint and has augmented mechanical properties, and still competitively priced relative to our current methods wouldn’t you be wondering why it isn’t already in…
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Is Hemp Biomass a Viable Bio-Coal?
April 15th, 2015 – A Georgia-based company is testing hemp as an alternative feedstock to timber-based wood chips for conversion into bio-coal. Vega Biofuels Inc. specializes in converting organic materials such as woodchips into bio-fuels for energy production and biochar for the hemp and medical marijuana growing industries. To date, most coal-fired plants converted to…
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Is Hemp Concrete the Future of Construction?
April 1st, 2015 – With the advent of the hemp airplane and hemp plastics, the amount of diverse applications for hemp whether industrial or medicinal, is constantly expanding. One of the next up-and-coming hemp revolutions has been spotted out of Florida. Retired engineer, Bob Clayton has made the first house in Florida to be built…
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Hemp is having its moment. Meet the miracle plant’s biggest champion
May 6th, 2014 – We’ve heard about the promise of hemp before: Its fibers can be stronger than steel. Its seeds make for antioxidant-loaded superfood for you and your chickens. It can compete with fossil fuel as a viable alternative energy source. But ever since the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, the U.S. has skunked…
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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…