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Third Annual ‘Hemp History Week’ Campaign is Biggest Yet

June 18, 2012 -- June 4-10, 2012 marked the biggest and most celebrated Hemp History Week to date. The 3rd Annual Hemp History Week featured over 800 events in cities and towns throughout all fifty states, including 100 grassroots volunteer-led events;...

June 18, 2012  By Richard Sharp   Posted In  Cultivation  Culture  Events  Events  Hemp Facts  Industry News  Knowledge  Products 
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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...

October 24, 2010  By Richard Sharp   Posted In  Economics  Hemp Facts 
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Perfect Plant? 7 Great Uses For Industrial Hemp

April 24, 2010 -  a quick review of all the great uses for industrial hemp--you know, that non-psychoactive relative of marijuana that for myriad moronic reasons is more or less illegal* to cultivate in the United States but not work with and sell--seemed...

April 24, 2010  By Richard Sharp   Posted In  Environment  Hemp Facts  Products 
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Week Long Education Campaign to Bring Back Hemp Farming

'Hemp History Week' Events Planned in 50 States March 10, 2010 - WASHINGTON, -- The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and Vote Hemp are excited to announce the 1st Annual Hemp History Week to be held May 17-23, 2010. As a national grassroots education...

March 10, 2010  By Richard Sharp   Posted In  Hemp Facts 
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Updated: Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn

October 13, 2009 - A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested this morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration. David Bronner, the president...

October 13, 2009  By Richard Sharp   Posted In  Activism  Cultivation  Hemp Facts 
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Farmers, Hemp Industry Leaders Arrested for Planting Industrial Hemp at DEA Headquarters

October 13, 2009 - Washington D.C. - Farmers, Hemp Industry Leaders Arrested for Planting Industrial Hemp at DEA Headquarters in Act of Civil Disobedience to Protest 'Reefer Madness' At approximately 10 a.m. this morning, North Dakota farmer Wayne Hauge,...

October 13, 2009  By Richard Sharp   Posted In  Activism  Cultivation  Hemp Facts 
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Legalizing Hemp – Correcting History’s Mistake Benefits Oregon’s Agricultural Industry

July 30, 2009 - Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced last week his intent to take pen in hand and make Oregon the seventh state to legalize the growing of hemp. By signing into law Senate Bill 676, which allows farmers to grow hemp statewide and was passed...

July 30, 2009  By Richard Sharp   Posted In  Hemp Facts 
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