hemp

Living in Colorado in 2017 means hearing about marijuana daily: the medicinal benefits, new grow operations, and (let's face it) the recreational puff-puff pass, are all the rage right now. What we don't hear much about, however, is the actual hemp plant – a specific variety of Cannabis with...

Seeds are in the ground at the site of an industrial hemp research plot in Perry County. On Tuesday afternoon, farmer Jeremiah Elsesser worked the tractor pulling the seed drill filled with the first hemp seeds to be legally planted in the local area for decades. "Our hopes are that it...

On the heels of the state Legislature approving funding for continued development of an industrial hemp program, Hawaii Island hosts the first Hawaii Hemp Conference next weekend. The event begins Friday with a welcome dinner and concert, with a mini-expo and marketplace taking place Saturday...

Now that it's legal in Washington state, a handful of farmers and the Colville tribe have submitted applications to grow industrial hemp. On Tuesday, Moses Lake will be the scene of a "first planting" demonstration of the non-drug cousin of marijuana. In the inaugural growing season, seven...

For the first time in decades, industrial hemp is growing legally in Pennsylvania in research plots around the state. "It's just a field littered with dried cornstalks now, but in just a few weeks, a 3-acre plot in Upper Saucon Township should be covered with a thick layer of green not seen...

Around here tobacco and cotton are king, but the potential for hemp to take that spot has never been better. The state legislature passed a law last month that created a "pilot program" for industrial hemp production in hopes of bolstering research and pinpointing which growing methods work...

We commend South Carolina lawmakers Mike Pitts and Russell Ott for their bipartisan sponsorship of a recently approved industrial hemp bill. We also commend Janel Ralph, an industrial hemp advocate who fought hard for the passage of this legislation. All of them deserve credit ... The new...

Storm clouds cast shadows on the land as Wade Fischer hunched beside a seed tank full of industrial hemp, digging down into the earth to see if the seeds he had just planted had been drilled at exactly the right depth. "Hemp is tricky," he said. "If it's too deep, it won't grow, and if it's...

The Washington State Department of Agriculture was moving closer Wednesday to issuing the state's first licenses to grow hemp, embarking on an experiment to bring back a crop that's still classified as a controlled substance by the federal government. WSDA's hemp coordinator Emily Febles said...

A bill that would allow Illinois farmers to grow industrial hemp is heading to the House. It passed out of the Senate last month. Current state law lets universities with four-year agricultural science programs grow hemp. The new measure would expand that to include all farmers...

I dream of living in a tiny home with hemp insulation and solar panels on top. Suddenly finding myself 71, I've realized I need a safe, secure, warm home, a tiny home on wheels. Many seniors on social security find themselves forced to live on less than $800 a month – you have to be creative to...

The Hemp Farmacy is the first to import legal certified hemp seed into North Carolina for the first time in eighty years. Hempleton Investment Group says it has been working for two years to establish interest in North Carolina hemp production and to meet all requirements in order to obtain an...

With hemp seeds approved for human consumption, and medicinal cannabis trials taking place around Australia and the world, there is a lot of talk about the potential for a major new industry in Australia. West Australian grower Colin Steddy, director of the Hemp Corporation, has just returned...

Ever since the 2014 Farm Bill authorized industrial hemp research, there has been more interest in growing hemp as an agricultural product for either seed production or fibers such as textiles, paper, and cordage. In Canada, industrial hemp was legalized in 1998, and 80,000 acres are currently...

Farmers in Illinois are one step closer to being allowed to grow industrial hemp. A bill sponsored by Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Olympia Fields, passed unanimously in the Senate this month and now goes to the House. While the state currently allows universities offering four-year agricultural...

Thanks to a gubernatorial veto, Arizona is now a place where it's OK to grow medical marijuana but illegal to grow hemp, a non-toxic version of marijuana plants. Gov. Doug Ducey's veto of state Sen. Sonny Borrelli's hemp bill is unfortunate because it deprives the desert state a business...

History was made at the North Carolina-Tennessee border Friday night as the first permitted industrial hemp plants were trucked into the mountains. The plants are part of a state-sanctioned pilot program to bring back a long abandoned industry. The approval process to grow hemp started in...

The Weekly Alibi’s first annual New Mexico Hempfest is set to happen in August at the City of Albuquerque owned Balloon Fiesta Park. Although the event is scheduled for August, the city still hasn’t signed the official agreement to make it happen. The city released a statement to KRQE News 13...

Very quietly, South Carolina has just legalized the growth of industrial hemp. House Bill 3559, mixed in among a pile of legislation before the General Assembly, was signed into law in mid-May. Lawmakers approved the pilot program to determine what kind of value farmers will get from their...

One Kentucky family thought they had reached a dead end. Doctors said there was no medicine that could treat their young son, Eli Wooton, of his severe epilepsy until they learned of the healing powers of one controversial plant. "I would just go over to the bed side and all I could do is...