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Industrial hemp appears to have great economic potential for the region, but it sounds like it will not simply happen overnight. Approximately 80 interested local residents, including several from the Yuma area, attended an informational meeting Monday night at the Otis school. It was organized...

Farmers in South Dakota could soon be legally allowed to grow industrial hemp. South Dakota's House of Representatives voted 57-11 in favor of a bill that would allow industrial hemp to be cultivated. The bill will now head to the Senate for deliberation. The bill's main House sponsor, Mike...

As South Dakota lawmakers debate whether to allow farmers in the state to grow industrial hemp, the first North Dakota producers are preparing for their first growing season under a state-run pilot program. Adrian, N.D., producer Jamie Edwards and his dad, Lyle Edwards, account for two of five...

Did America's founding fathers use cannabis? It's safe to say most of America's political leaders today do not embrace cannabis as an everyday crop. But back in the day, cannabis was all over the place. The United States' founding fathers had a very different relationship to cannabis than...

The recent occasion of Presidents Day allows us to take some time to look back on Presidents of yore and discuss the things they championed. When you talk about the Father of our Country, George Washington, you really can't have a discussion of his life without talking about hemp. Washington...

Greater Sudbury native Derek Kesek hopes to give a whole new meaning to the saying, "flying high." The ambitious entrepreneur plans to launch the world's first aircraft made mostly of hemp by the end of the year. Hemp is the industrial variety of the cannabis plant – it's the strain for...

In surveying the lower-tiered economic development, many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Due to being land locked, a lack of water sources for both drinking and travelling, many improper farming techniques have been used that has stripped the top soil of vital nutrients, making it...

"The time to enact legislation that will allow our farmers to cultivate industrial hemp is right now." That was the last line in my op-ed for the former Sunday News (an LNP predecessor) way back in 2000; it was headlined "Putting the hemp back in Hempfield." One might ask, "Are we any closer...

Olympia — The Washington Senate has passed a bill that would allow people to grow industrial hemp as an agricultural product, but only as part of a research program. Senate Bill 6206 passed the full Senate on a 48-1 vote Thursday. The measure would allow Washington State University to study...

Oregon lawmakers are considering relaxing rules about hemp cultivation. The Capital Press reports that the House is set to vote on a bill that would allow hemp growers to grow the crop from cuttings and in greenhouses. Under current law, hemp can only be grown from seeds outdoors in fields at...

Oregon hemp growers would be free to propagate the crop from cuttings and propagate it from cuttings under a bill that's headed for a vote in 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...

Montana is one of 13 states to legalize a commercial industrial hemp program. A provision in the U.S. Farm Bill allows universities and state agriculture departments to begin cultivating hemp for research. Production is limited to pilot projects. The federal government classifies hemp as an...

Finally someone noticed us. Things are quiet in or Corner of the world. SC Rep Fry just sent us the text of the new SC hemp bill. Not enough to suit us, but a beginning.

Hello everyone, i live in south africa, soweto, I'm prepared to teach my fellow Africans about the usefulness of Hemp and turn more people to be cannabis activists. After I have learn that I started in 1937 in USA to poison the world that Hemp is not good yet they themselves have benefited and...

20 SYRIZA lawmakers called for the full legalisation of hemp and cannabis for industrial and medical reasons respectively, saying it would help the economy, in a question submitted to several ministers on Monday. "Since 2013, we've been waiting for a signature by the relevant ministries for...

The hemp beverage world is pretty active right now - or at least it would appear that way from the outside. Though the marijuana space is quickly deregulating and legitimizing, and the health qualities of hemp are not in dispute, a lot of new companies have simply added hemp to existing sugary...

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...

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Naturally Splendid Enterprises Ltd. ("Naturally Splendid") (FRANKFURT:50N) (TSX VENTURE:NSP) (OTC:NSPDF) is pleased to announce that it has received an initial purchase order for $924,000 CDN from the Korea Beauty & Health Care Co., Ltd. based in South Korea. The first shipment of 20 metric...

And I think I know who's going to benefit. For years, those in the hemp world have been saying 'any day now' and pointing to big stockpiles of industrial hemp that they swore was going to be plastics, paper, clothing, homes, bridges, space shuttles... Of course, that promise has, to this...