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Apparel Industry Magazine: Coming to America: It’s high time for hemp’
An American cash crop until 1937, industrial hemp is now illegal to grow in the United States. Raw and processed fibers are imported from Eastern Europe and China. Currently under censure from the U.S. textile and apparel industry for violations of trade and human rights agreements, China continues to reap the benefits of this fiber-—while the United States remains the only industrialized nation that is not growing hemp.
Archaeological Institute of America: Buttons and Breeches
Archaeology at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, coupled with the third president’s fastidious record keeping, are opening the closet door on the clothing of enslaved Africans.
Back to Chernobyl
Crops may one day be grown again in the contaminated soil surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear plant, if the ideas of Spanish, Ukrainian and American researchers pay off. The teams say that, over many years, simply mulching crops could drastically reduce radioactive contamination.
Business: Hemp’s good habits
What do bibles, Adidas sneakers and the first draft of America’s Declaration of Independence have in common? The fact that they’ve all been made from hemp, the hippest and most controversial plant material around. Strong, fast-growing and resistant to weevils, hemp’s versatility is lauded by its fans.
Canadian Banker: Industrial hemp described as big emerging agricultural product
The cultivation and production of industrial hemp is an emerging billion-dollar business that’s poised to become a significant part ofthe agricultural industry, according to organizers of The Commercial & Industrial Hemp Symposium II, to be held Feb. 18 and I9 at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre.
Chemical Market Reporter: Hemp seed oil is poised to grow in flavor and fragranc
In 1998, Canada harvested its first commercial hemp crop in 60 years, and the viability of the plant as a raw material for flavors and fragrances is being explored. Though the fiber, nutraceutical and personal-care industries are set to profit most from this newly cultivated crop, its benefits to the flavor and fragrance community are the least developed and may offer the greatest potential.
Conde & Seber: Building Toward The Future With Hemp Building Toward The Futu
All over the Pacific Northwest one can see the effects of the massive deforestation that’s been taking place out there during the past 20 years. Whole valleys and mountainsides have been clear-cut - stripped of all plant life - to meet our insatiable demand for fiber, paper and wood. So when High Times learned that Bill Conde, a longtime hemp activist who once ran for governor of Oregon, was researching making an alternative to plywood utilizing hemp, we decided to look into it.
Crusader Woody: Gadfly Woody Harrelson takes on an archbishop and those who woul
Gadfly Woody Harrelson takes on an archbishop and those who would deny the world hemp. Once America’s most lovable dimwit on Cheers, Woody Harrelson has of late become a rebel without a pause. The actor, who stars as Hustler magazine’s sultan of sleaze in the forthcoming movie The People vs. Larry Flynt, withheld $10,000 of his taxes this year to protest the government’s logging policy.
DEA recently approved the Seed Importation Permit, so the Project can continue
The good news is: Industrial hemp grows quickly and can be cultivated year-round in Hawaii. The bad news is: Hawaii’s fledgling industrial hemp research may soon be stymied by a lack of seed sources, since importation of hemp seeds is illegal under federal law.
DEA’s THC Clarification Causes Confusion
The move has generated a firestorm of controversy among natural foods producers and consumers. The mainstream media has added to the controversy by misreporting the DEA action as a ban on all hemp foods. This, in turn, has caused lost business for manufacturers because many retailers and distributors think all hemp foods must be removed from store shelves. The DEA move has also given rise to several legal challenges by industry groups and members.