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Hemp cultivation areas in Europe will expand from 8,000 ha in 2011 to almost 25,000 ha in 2016, which shows a triple increase in 5 years. The reason is the growing demand for different raw materials obtained from this outstanding multi-purpose crop. Hemp fibres are used in the automotive...

Oregon and Washington state lawmakers are making another try at introducing a new crop to the Northwest: Industrial hemp, the non-drug cousin of marijuana. For the fourth year in a row, the Washington Legislature is considering whether to legalize hemp farming. The initial, lopsided votes in...

After passing the House by a 57-11 margin on Feb. 4, five Republican senators killed a bill that would have legalized industrial hemp for commercial production and distribution in South Dakota. Rep. Mike Verchio (R-Hill City) along with a bipartisan coalition of 39 cosponsors introduced House...

One state that almost definitely will not be legalizing recreational weed, but has legalized industrial hemp farming, is the state of North Dakota. In fact, AlterNet named North Dakota one of "The 9 States Where Marijuana Will Be Legalized Last." There are a few people in North Dakota...

Alyssa Faith Erickson is cofounder of both Kentucky Hempsters and United Hemp Industries. She talked with Tom Martin about the move to bring hemp farming and production back to Kentucky. Podcast of Tom Martin's interview with Alyssa Faith Ericson Q: Tell us about these organizations. Since...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reversed course on its organic certification of industrial hemp operations throughout the country. A handful of hemp farms, including Colorado-based CBDRx, had secured, or were in the process of securing, certifications from third-party auditors...

Researchers at the University of Alberta's National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) have discovered that hemp based electrodes for supercapacitors outperform standard supercapacitors by nearly 200%. At present, the preferred material for making electrodes is graphene. Electrodes are what...

Hemp has been branded an outlaw for decades because it looks like its mind-altering botanical cousin, marijuana. But before steamships, free trade, synthetic fibers and reefer madness, this useful plant was Kentucky's biggest cash crop. Kentucky grew most of America's hemp throughout the...

You can trade gold and pork belly futures, why not hemp? Raising venture capital is difficult for any first-time founders with a company that hasn't yet launched. Multiply that by 100 when your startup has any tangential relationship to cannabis. It is no surprise, then, that it took...

Hemp for use in construction forms a relatively small, but growing, proportion of the output from hemp farming in the UK. The main ways in which hemp is used in construction are to make hempcrete and to provide fibres for quilt insulation. 'Hempcrete' is the popular term for a hemp—lime...

Oregon has been on the cutting edge of the debate on legalizing weed and industrial hemp farming. Oregon was one of the first states to pass legislation that allowed the production of industrial hemp. Here are a few facts about Oregon's legalization effort. 1. The Oregon Legislature made...

Cultivating cannabis has become somewhat mainstream and one startup is hoping to harness the excitement of the growing trend to create a commodities trading platform for hemp, which can only be operational in 27 states, including Hawaii. Chicago company Seed CX has applied to the U.S...

Senators who make up the Committee on Rules and Judiciary on Wednesday afternoon voted to "indefinitely table" a bill that sought to amend title 7 of Virgin Islands Code, chapter 1, for the cultivation of hemp and other related purposes in the territory. By indefinitely tabling the measure...

In April of 2015, the federal government informed the Tennessee Department of Agriculture that the latter's application to import hemp seed had been approved. It was a big step forward in the state's move toward a revival of industrial hemp production. The seed will be used for a pilot...

Oregon hemp growers would be free to propagate the crop from cuttings and grow it in greenhouses under a bill that's won the approval of the House. Under current law, hemp can only be seeded directly outdoors in fields at least 2.5 acres in size, which was intended to facilitate industrial...

A Queensland company is calling on the State Government to change the law preventing industrial hemp from being produced for human consumption. Under Queensland's Drugs Misuse Act, it is illegal to produce cannabis seeds for the manufacture of products that can be consumed, smoked or applied...

Online peddlers of hemp-based cure-alls got another round of warning letters from the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month, the latest in federal efforts to push back on post-modern snake oil salesmen. In letters dated February 4, the FDA warned eight online hemp oil sellers – ABC...

A bill designed to make it easier to purchase hemp seeds for industrial production and research has been approved by the Indiana House. Senate Bill 291 also received Senate approval earlier this month. Jean Leising (R-49) authored the bill and says it will support potential commercialization...

Chris Valentine opened Valentine Eclectics downtown last year to sell repurposed antiques and wood products, but he's changing the focus of his business thanks to a discovery he made through his fiancee, Linda Cramer. Cramer had chronic pain that she treated through cannabinoid products...