hemp

Growing industrial hemp in North Dakota is not just a maybe - the NDSU Langdon Research Extension Center proved it could be done last summer. The center planted Canadian varieties CFX-1, CFX-2, CRS-1, Canda, and Alyssa, along with one variety from Finland and Australia, and five varieties from...

Turku University of Applied Sciences has received a grant of 70,417 euros to see if hemp could be used more in construction projects. The research will involve investigating the soundproofing and fireproof properties of the substance. Researchers will also look at how hemp decomposes and...

Turku University of Applied Sciences has received a grant of 70,417 euros to see if hemp could be used more in construction projects. The research will involve investigating the soundproofing and fireproof properties of the substance. Researchers will also look at how hemp decomposes and...

A government MP in Albania is preparing an amendment to the law code that will permit the cultivation of hemp, or so-called "industrial cannabis", in the country. Villages in the Malesia e Madhe in northern Albania grew hemp for years for use in the textile and oil industries but stopped...

On the eve of 4/20/2016 the emerald green wave of marijuana reform sweeping across the country seems to have finally reached Pennsylvania. The decades-long effort to break free from nearly a century of prohibition is seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. The Pa. House and Senate passed...

The federal Food and Drug Administration is tightening its oversight of the hemp oil industry and that prompted City Council to approve a four-month "timeout" in its agreement with CBD Biosciences, the new hemp oil venture that is occupying the old Boeing building at Pueblo Memorial Airport...

The Chinese used it to make some of the world's earliest paper. The English spun rope and sails out of it for the Royal Navy. Japan uses it to weave loincloths for sumo wrestlers. America's founding fathers made their fortune selling it by the bushels. And in World War II, Americans farmed it...

The House is giving the go ahead to a measure to allow the growing of industrial hemp in Missouri. It's a by-product of marijuana but contains very little of the psychoactive chemical, THC. Hemp can be used for clothing, rope and other things. The House on Monday voted 123-29 to pass the...

Kentucky's foray into industrial hemp has fueled a Louisville startup which is betting that natural fibers someday will become a key ingredient in hundreds of American-made products - furnace filters, kayaks, skis, even coffee mugs. Sunstrand was launched by Oldham County native Trey Riddle...

Alabama is one step closer to researching industrial hemp production. The Alabama House of Representatives and Senate on Tuesday both passed bills to allow the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries to research industrial hemp production and its possibilities as a cash crop. The...

In a state capitol in the throes of partisan strife and deadlock over a range of fiscal, economic and social issues, it may strike some as strange that legislation to allow cultivation of hemp in Pennsylvania is very close to passage. But such is the case. The House and Senate have now both...

A state Agriculture Department official is planning a trip north to get the seeds for North Dakota's first crop of industrial hemp. Three farming operations in three counties will be determining this year whether industrial hemp can be successfully grown in North Dakota, under a federally...

U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) has signed on to co-sponsor the bipartisan Therapeutic Hemp Medical Access Act of 2015, which would allow Virginians suffering with intractable epilepsy access to therapeutic cannabidiol (CBD) oil, a harmless, non-psychoactive hemp extract that is used to treat...

A statewide ballot issue seeking to legalize both medical marijuana and industrial hemp in Ohio this fall has cleared an initial hurdle with Attorney General Mike DeWine certifying the petition summary. Thursday's action sends the Grassroots Ohio measure to the Ohio Ballot Board, which...

Country icon Merle Haggard passed away on his 79th birthday Wednesday of complications from double pneumonia at his home in Northern California. A voice for the poor, the workingman, the outlaw, the lost and the heartbroken, Haggard's political stance shifted greatly over his six-decade musical...

Rachel Spilde will have the distinction of being the first person to bring legal hemp seed into North Dakota. Spilde, a plant protection specialist with the State Agriculture Department, is taking care of all the details and had to pass a federal and state background check to even put the...

THE Malawian government has taken a bold step in Africa and is testing the idea of industrial hemp production in the country. It's only the second country in Africa to ever do so. Growing hemp has created contentious debate in Africa where many governments will not even consider its...

Two years ago, Rick Trojan and his team at Colorado Cultivars found a wild hemp plant growing on the side of the road. It looked kind of like a Christmas tree, he said. They brought it into their greenhouse and began doing research, cultivating different strains of hemp so they could plant each...

A bill to allow the cultivation and distribution of industrial hemp for research was approved by the House Finance Committee on Friday. Senate Bill 2659 would create an industrial hemp pilot program that would allow licensed agents of the state Board of Agriculture to conduct agricultural and...

1937: Passage of the federal Marijuana Tax Act essentially criminalizes marijuana and casts a pall over all forms of the cannabis plant, including the variety known as industrial hemp, which does not produce a high when ingested and has been used for centuries to produce fabrics, paper and even...