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Hemp Making a Comeback Despite Idiotic Pot Laws
November 6, 2009 – The symptoms and side effects of reefer madness are now clearer than ever. Politicians, even those who never inhaled, suffer paranoid delusions. Over the past century, Canada’s ludicrous and draconian marijuana policies wasted billions in criminal-justice resources. Crime gangs got rich and recreational marijuana users–about as dangerous as contented cats–were fined…
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Using Hemp to Halt Climate Change
October 25th, 2009 – The hemp plant can be used in thousands of different products, including large-scale things such as houses and cars. Hemp is also able to be made into smaller goods aswell, from health products to paints. An extremely important goal that hemp must be applied to immediately is the reversal of global…
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Hemp Advocate Woody Harrelson to Receive Honorary Doctorate
October 11, 2009 – York University in Toronto is conferring an honorary doctorate on actor Woody Harrelson for his work on environmental issues. Harrelson, now appearing in the movie Zombieland and coming up in the Canadian film Defendor, will get the accolade during convocation ceremonies Oct. 17, the university said in a news release. The…
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Hemp Entrepreneur Weaves Success Story in Canada
October 2, 2009 – Michael Krahn’s life changed when he discovered the hemp plant in an Amsterdam, Holland shop in 1997. Krahn learned that hemp, one of the world’s first cultivated fibre plants, can be used to meet just about every requirement of society. Armed with the knowledge about its versatility as a health food,…
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The Science behind Carbon Dioxide Reduction with Hemp
September 28, 2009 – A realistic, globally scalable plan to transfer CO2 from the atmosphere into soil and raw materials is already available – it’s called industrial hemp… Our basic premise is that hemp is far more productive than typical agro-forestry projects, producing annual, versatile biomass alongside more rapid CO2 uptake. It can produce a…
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Hemp Paper – World-Changing Innovation Held Back By Corporations
September 27, 2009 – Society may be moving away from paper dependency, but we’re not there yet. Forty-two per cent of the world’s industrial wood harvest goes to the production of paper, and 87 per cent of that paper is used by industrialized western nations like the United States and Canada. And despite its pristine…
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Jobs Watch: Hemp for the Masses
September 23, 2009 – Anyone who believes that the hemp industry is best left to the half-baked stoners of the world should spend a few hours talking textiles with Ken Barker. Five minutes into the conversation it becomes clear that this guy is onto something big, and he knows exactly what he is doing. Barker…
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Hemp Prohibition – A Crime Against Humanity
September 22, 2009 – There is no question that hemp’s illegality is a crime against humanity. The damage caused by this inane policy is unimaginable. When hemp finally becomes legal and is utilized the way it should be, people will cry about what has been lost and curse the world governments for what they have…
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The Many Uses of Hemp Oil
September 21, 2009 – Hemp oil is processed from the seeds of the regular cannabis plant, and before anyone giggles about any type of correlation between oil and the actual plant themselves, the processed oil contains virtually zero in the way of psychoactive cannabis chemicals. What it does contain is up to 80 percent of…
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Hemp as Alternative to Softwood Pellets for Green Energy
September 19, 2009 – As a cheap renewable green energy, the popularity of premium wood pellets is growing all over the world. Very little ash is produced from burning the pellets. Premium wood pellets also have very low moisture content. The combination of a low ash and moisture content means premium wood pellets produce more…