It’s Hemp History Week: Activists, politicians and scientists are helping to rehabilitate hemp–s reputation, while touting its potential economic and environmental benefits
The Drug Enforcement Administration stands firm on its drug code for “marihuana extracts” in a brief filed Friday to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and seeks to have a federal lawsuit by the hemp industry dismissed.
To celebrate 2016’s Hemp History Week, we are going to dive into the world of industrial hemp. In the year 2000, the U.S. imported $1.4 million of legal hemp products, in 2011 that number jumped up to $11.5 million. This spike is a result of consumer demand for the nutritious hemp seed as well as […] Thanks to marijuana.com
Long squandered as one of the Earth’s more valuable and renewable resources, hemp is making a full-throated comeback in the 21st century. Historically maligned by the likes Harry J. Anslinger and his group of industrial malcontents, this not-too-distant cousin of medical marijuana is in everything from healthy salads to environmentally friendly building materials. As a […]
Oregon legalized industrial hemp production in 2009, but you may not have heard because there were high barriers of entry, and only 13 producers ended up getting licensed. The law was intended for oilseed and fiber production on large-production farms. Oregon’s new industrial hemp bill 4060, freshly signed into law, has lowered the barriers for […]
October 31 has finally come and the Fat Lady has begun to sing – belching out a loud and proud ditty for a lot of soon-to-be hemp farmers in North Carolina. Thanks to Gov. Pat McCrory’s long ignored veto stamp, the hemp bill left behind on his desk when the N.C. General Assembly headed off for vacation last month … just became law.
While some politicians will hear the Fat Lady’s song and call hemp’s freedom in North Carolina a hateful noise, even though they love the idea of a new cash crop. The fact of the matter remains; the campaign to legalize hemp in North Carolina is effectively over … and HEMP WON!
Thanks to either the Gov.’s apathy or an epiphany, the passage of North Carolina’s industrial hemp legislation will put them in a rather exclusive club. Joining the other 13 states that have already established a commercial industrial hemp program, and seven that have passed laws establishing hemp programs limited to academic and agricultural research.