Hemp Plastic: You can have any color you like as long as its green - PR CannaZine (press release)

Hemp Plastic: You can have any color you like as long as its green
PR CannaZine (press release), UK
For an ever-growing band of people the answer is industrial hemp. Unless you've spent the last couple of decades living under a rock, you will already know the world is heading for a disaster of apocolyptic proportions as the North and South poles

Legalizing Industrial Hemp Harvests - KFYR-TV

Legalizing Industrial Hemp Harvests
KFYR-TV, ND
When he saw his Canadian neighbors raking in a $300 profit per acre on hemp, he thought it would be a good alternative to a failing crop. "They compared the amount of ethanol you can get per acre from industrial hemp compared to corn and it`s like

Agriculture proving its worth in today's economy - Guelph Mercury

Agriculture proving its worth in today's economy
Guelph Mercury, Canada
Stonehedge Bio-Resources is an Ontario company trying to establish markets for industrial hemp but developing a new industry isn't easy. Without a processing plant, few farmers will grow a crop and without a crop, few investors will put money into

Hemp Homes, Fish Food, Holographic Solar and Other Ideas - Greentech Media

Hemp Homes, Fish Food, Holographic Solar and Other Ideas
Greentech Media, MA
Nexterra specializes in small gasification plants that can be put inside industrial sites to provide heat and power. For the past five years, it has mostly worked with woody biomass, but is now looking at ways to burn other biological materials from

Gross margins of £550/ha to boost UK hemp production - Farmers Guardian

Gross margins of £550/ha to boost UK hemp production
Farmers Guardian, UK
The plants used in ‘industrialhemp are varieties of Cannabis sativa with a THC level (tetra hydro cannabinnol) of 0.2 per cent or less. THC in a marijuana plant would be nearer 10-15 per cent.

Industrial uses targeted for hemp - The Japan Times


The Japan Times
Industrial uses targeted for hemp
The Japan Times, Japan
He has been working on the cultivation of hemp since 2006 after visiting Germany, a nation considered to be advanced in processing hemp for industrial use, in 2003. He learned that Germans widely used the plant as an eco-friendly material and interior

Medical marijuana struck down in Hailey - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide

Medical marijuana struck down in Hailey
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide, ID
The initiatives allowed the use of marijuana for medical purposes, legalized industrial hemp and called for placing enforcement of marijuana laws as the lowest priority for Hailey police. Mayor Rick Davis, Councilman Don Kiern and Police Chief Jeff
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Feb. 11, 2009 Legislative tidbits - Portales News-Tribune

Feb. 11, 2009 Legislative tidbits
Portales News-Tribune, NM
Ray Begaye, D-Shiprock, would set up guidelines for the “growing, licensing, selling and processing of industrial hemp in the State of New Mexico.” House Bill 403 would spend $150000. Of that, $100000 would go to New Mexico State University to set up a

Cannabis Hemp: Crops for yesterday and tomorrow, when we need them … - PR CannaZine (press release)

Cannabis Hemp: Crops for yesterday and tomorrow, when we need them
PR CannaZine (press release), UK
Industrial hemp can be grown without the use of pesticides and with little or no fertiliser. And according to the Cannabis Lobby we should be seeing it appearing as a crop on every arable farm in the country, as it also sequesters thousands of tonnes

OPINION: The Solution for a Cleaner Environment is Hemp - Opposing Views

OPINION: The Solution for a Cleaner Environment is Hemp
Opposing Views, CA
The word 'hemp' for many people still conjures up images primarily related to the mood altering drug, Marijuana. While Cannabis Sativa is certainly used extensively for medicinal, illicit and 'recreational'purposes as marijuana, Industrial hemp is a