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Hemp Insulation and Building Materials
January 25, 2010 – Hemp was among the first crops to be cultivated, and historically it ranks among the most widely cultivated annual crops. Today industrial hemp is enjoying a renaissance in many countries. It is increasingly recognized as a valuable, environment-friendly, bio-resource. Selectively bred to minimize the THC (narcotic) content, industrial hemp is licensed…
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Hemp Rules Over Marijuana
November 15, 2010 – California may voted Cannabis out in one form while Wisconsin elected to allow it for medical use but no matter how well it survives the electorate on any given year, its here to stay. Cannabis is both marijuana and hemp. They made a huge headway onto our grocery shelves. Hemp is…
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Peak Oil, Hemp & Traditional Media
The media companies don’t exist to inform you, they exist to enrich somebody else. I can’t attest to peak oil, but I have discovered that real solutions and alternatives to oil products are discarded as we are kept slaves to oil. Hemp is not a “druggie” plant, it is an industrial crop that can solve…
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Hemp: The ‘Miracle Plant’ that can Save the Planet
October 24, 2010 – What would the world be like if birds didn’t sing? It’s a frightening thought — an unearthly scenario — but one that the US Congress had to contemplate during hearings for the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, the law that made marijuana illegal in the United States and in the process…
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Hemp Produces Viable Biodiesel, Study Finds
October 7, 2010 – Of all the various uses for Cannabis plants, add another, “green” one to the mix. Researchers at University of Connecticut (UConn) have found that the fiber crop Cannabis sativa, known as industrial hemp, has properties that make it viable and even attractive as a raw material, or feedstock, for producing biodiesel…
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Why Hemp Could Save the World
August 12, 2010 – The title probably should say, “Why hemp could have saved the world all along,” because the plant should never have been banned in the first place, and its prohibition has led to untold suffering around the globe. If we—the global human population—had been able to grow the miracle plant hemp (Cannabis…
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Will Oakland Become “the Silicon Valley of Pot?”
July 21, 2010 – When your state is completely broke, you have to get creative to pay the bills. That’s why the city council of Oakland approved an ordinance that could authorize four massive marijuana factories, making it the first city in California to approve industrial production of pot. The decision didn’t come easy, though.…
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Big Toke in the Big Smoke: Hemp Expo Blows into Toronto
TORONTO — A three-day expo, which kicks off Friday in Toronto, is being billed as the first convention ever held in Canada to promote the use of medical marijuana, with organizers expecting as many as 30,000 people from around the world to attend. The Medical Marijuana and Hemp Show will be held at the Metro…
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Canada’s First Expo Promoting Respectable & Responsible Use of Marijuana as Medicine-Toronto July 16-18
July 10, 2010 – Next weekend (July 16-18) the Medical Marijuana & Hemp Expo comes to Toronto (Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building Hall A.) Billed as Canada’s first expo promoting the respectable and responsible use of marijuana as medicine, the event stands as a watershed moment in Canada’s journey towards a civilized approach to…
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Hemp – Quite Possibly the Best Natural Resource on Earth
July 9, 2010 – Few people today know of the power of hemp. Hemp is quite possibly the most valuable natural resource on earth today, yet it remains unused because of the hypocrisy of the majority of governments in the world. Hemp comes from the Cannabis plant. This material is known to have more separate…