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Regional Hemp Steering Committee executives undertook a trade mission from June 5 to 12 to the Netherlands to make contacts and raise awareness of the potential for Alberta-grown hemp. Drayton Valley-Devon MLA Mark Smith, who also took part in the trade mission, said the Regional Hemp...

A 16-year effort to have hemp approved for human consumption is reaching its final hurdle, with the food and fibre crop to come under the focus of regulators in April. Legislation changes are due to go before the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation this year, when...

If you smoke hemp to get high you will be disappointed. Yet if you plant hectares of the species and turn it into one of 25 000 possible consumer products, your disappointment will recede in the wake of a potentially thriving business. The government does not see it this way. Hemp - along...

Member for Burnett Stephen Bennett is calling for a Parliamentary Inquiry to investigate Queensland's regulatory frameworks surrounding the establishment and export of medicinal hemp. Mr Bennett's call follows a tour he recently undertook of an Agri Fibre Industries property in Bundaberg...