Monday February 6th 2012

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Hemp News

Hemp company harvests new cash

Canada: Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils has landed another round of venture-capital funding to help finance growth and strengthen its supply chain. This new funding will help spur growth for Manitoba Harvest! No totals were disclosed in the latest [Read More]

A Misleading Affidavit from the DC Police

By Josh Davis Recently I read the affidavit that was submitted to the District of Columbia Superior Court by Officer Brett Cuevas, requesting a search warrant for Capitol Hemp, which is co-owned by Adam Eidinger. Eidinger, who had a warrant out for his [Read More]

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Hemp Products: Organic Nutiva Hemp Protein Powder – 50% Protein!

Organic Nutiva Hemp Protein Powder – 50% Protein Nutiva now has two healthy, cold-milled, organic Hemp Protein offerings. Their original award-winning Hemp Protein + Fiber contains [Read More]

Hemp products: Hemp coffin-Heading for high heaven

HEMP heaven can be yours for as little as $600 thanks to another Nimbin world first. The hemp coffin prototype – made from the finest German hemp particle board – has rolled off the [Read More]

Growing

Kentucky: Momentum builds behind bill to legalize hemp farming

WHAS11 – Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer says momentum is [Read More]

Kentucky: Lawmakers say Hemp would be a boon to agriculture

Kentucky.com – Kentucky farmers could be on the forefront of [Read More]

Vermont: Rep. Peter Welch joins the effort to legalize industrial hemp

Vermont supporters of hemp received a boost Tuesday when U.S. Rep. Peter [Read More]

Featured

Kentucky: Momentum builds behind bill to legalize hemp farming

WHAS11 – Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer says momentum is building behind a bill that would show the federal government that the state is ready to legalize hemp farming. [Read More]

CLUELESS: Mitt Romney does not know what hemp is

Mitt Romney has no idea what Industrial Hemp is – Nor does he care. Romney ignores that Hemp or Medicinal Cannabis exist. Not the man for America. Ron Paul or Obama leaves a door [Read More]

InDepth

Interview with American Hemp Inc.

Xavier Alexandre Veille and his brother Patrique Matthieu Veille from American Hemp Inc. [Read More]

Ordered to grow hemp, yep ordered

Letter to the Editor: America’s first marijuana law was enacted in 1619 and it ordered [Read More]

Designer Profile: Thitiporn Chanawangsa and her Eco-Designs

The beauty of this whole thing is that people from all over the world are utilizing hemp [Read More]

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Hemp to Potentially Replace Reliance on Fossil Fuels

Hemp to Potentially Replace Reliance on Fossil Fuels

For most of human history, the hemp plant has been used as an integral crop of commerce and navigation. Cultures across the globe have utilized hemp as a source of food, rigging and building materials and paper pulp. It is, without a doubt, the most resilient and efficient [Read More]

Hemp Hemp Hemp

Hemp Hemp Hemp

We are always on the lookout for some good articles about our favorite fibrous plant, hemp… here’s a good one from 303 Magazine. This is a wonderful article that gives you some good over all information on the hemp plant.  It has a comedic flare to it that [Read More]

New attitudes to Hemp enable an agricultural comeback

New attitudes to Hemp enable an agricultural comeback

Paul Benhaim-  With an ever-changing need worldwide for different products over the centuries, agriculture moves on with demand. Reduced demand for some crops, and other circumstances led to agriculture reducing production; one such victim of reduced demand was the Hemp [Read More]

Hemp House-Asheville, NC revisited-Video explaining hempcrete’s use

Hemp House-Asheville, NC revisited-Video explaining hempcrete’s use

This video from 2009 is an interesting reminder of the simplicity and yet the brilliance of the hempcrete technology.  It is also great for learning about the construction techniques that were used when building the hemp house.  Remember the video is about building a [Read More]

Hemp – The Environmentally Sustainable Alternative – Video

Hemp – The Environmentally Sustainable Alternative – Video

A great intro into the amazing properties of the Hemp plant. [Read More]

Hemp For Victory – Video

Hemp For Victory – Video

Hemp for victory – a hemp.com favorite! A film produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to promote hemp production for the war effort. circa 1942 This always makes me think about the mistakes that have brought us here… “Thus plans are afoot for [Read More]

Legalizing Industrial Hemp

Legalizing Industrial Hemp

Here is an excellent article written by Dean Curran. He is a Student at Umass and a columnist for the Daily Collegian. Dean puts together a well thought out and easy to understand article on the benefits of hemp and the reasons it should become a legal crop in the United [Read More]

New book examines the role of Hemp and Cannabis in modern culture

New book examines the role of Hemp and Cannabis in modern culture

We try and stay away from Marijuana here at Hemp.com.  We find it confuses the issue for many people when discussing Industrial Hemp and Cannabis side by side. But last Friday’s “Science Friday” radio show on NPR featured an interesting interview with the [Read More]

Hemp Growers Tout Biodiesel Benefits

Hemp Growers Tout Biodiesel Benefits

Researchers at Universtiy of Connecticut have found that the fiber crop Cannabis sativa, known as industrial hemp, has properties that make it viable and even attractive as a raw material, or feedstock, for producing biodiesel – sustainable diesel fuel made from [Read More]