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	Cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hemp is about cultivation for non-drug uses, and the non-drug uses themselves.
		This study assigned hemp (fiber/seed) landraces and feral populations from Europe, central Asia, and Asia Minor to C.
		Hemp discusses its uses as a source of housing, oil, food, fibers, and industrial materials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commercial_hemp (1387 words)

	Hemp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hemp is used to make cordage of greatly varying tensility, clothing, food, and the oils from the seeds can be made into paint or used for cooking.
		Hemp rope used in the age of sail was protected by tarring, a labor-intensive process and the reason for the Jack Tar nickname for sailors.
		This was traditionally followed by retting, either water retting (the bundled hemp floats in water) or dew retting (the hemp remains on the ground and is affected by the moisture in dew moisture, and by molds and bacterial action).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hemp (3836 words)

	- Hemporium - innovate - educate - cultivate -
		Hemp was grown as a fibre crop in Northern India since at least the eighth century, and according to Mayhayana Buddhist legends, Buddha lived on a single hemp seed a day during his path to enlightenment.
		Hemp soon spread from Europe to North and South America in the 1500’s and at a later stage Australia where many people survived a famine in the 1800’s by eating hemp seed as protein and hemp leaves as roughage.
		Hemp continued to flourish and meet many of the needs of the colonialists until the middle of the 19th century when new tropical fibres were introduced, the petrochemical age began, steamships replaced sails and the toxic sulphur and chlorine processes to make paper from wood pulp was developed.
	www.hemporium.com /history.html (1237 words)

	Commercial hemp cultivation in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries
		The rise of commercial hemp cultivation was associated with an increasing demand for vegetable oils and for fibrous materials.
		Commercial hemp cultivation was a specialty in the western part of the central Netherlands, and required a number of special facilities in the areas of agricultural engineering, hydraulic engineering and commercial management.
		Hemp cultivation was a labour-intensive activity, and the process of "retting", in which the crop was soaked in water in ditches to separate the fibres, led to a high level of environmental pollution.
	www.hempfood.com /IHA/iha01106.html (492 words)

	Canada Report 1998
		As the hemp agenda was, of necessity, somewhat rushed into place for Spring planting, Federal hemp regulatory priorities were arranged to ensure that first-time commercial applications were processed immediately.
		Hemp was grown under license in eight provinces across Canada in 1998, primarily in SW Ontario and Manitoba.
		Quebec embraced hemp in a big way in 1998, as first-time commercial hemp farmers and the Quebec government held a hemp field day celebration to welcome the return of this traditional Quebecois crop in modern times.
	mojo.calyx.net /~olsen/HEMP/IHA/jiha5214.html (1809 words)

	Commercial Hemp Cultivation in Canada by David Marcus -Revised 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hemp processing, in particular fibre separation and seed pressing, is then explored in order to determine the value of hemp's end products, and thus the realistic cost of hemp to the end user.
		Hemp is an annual herbaceous plant of the species Cannabis sativa, meaning "useful hemp." It is a high yield commercial fibre crop which flourishes in areas with temperate climates, such as Canada.
		After harvesting, the hemp stalks are soaked with water to initiate a process of retting (the decompositional separation of the bark-like bast fibres from the inner woody core).
	www.hemphasis.com /indisty1.htm (1278 words)

	Dennis Kucinich on Industrial Hemp
		Hemp leaves the soil in excellent condition (even removing heavy metals) for any succeeding crop, especially when weeds may otherwise be a problem.
		Hemp was used to sew millions of pairs of boots for American soldiers, hemp twine was used for tying and upholstery, and thousands of feet of hemp rope were supplied to each battleship.
		It is time this country put an end to the demonization of hemp, paving the way for renewed commercial hemp cultivation in the United States and breaking down the unnecessary barriers that keep American farmers from enjoying the benefits of this thriving, sustainable industry.
	www.kucinich.us /issues/hemp.php (1275 words)

	HEMP AND MARIJUANA: Myths and Realities
		Commercial producers of planting seed of either variety are very careful to preserve the genetic integrity of their lines from contamination by other varieties.
		Hemp is legally grown by 29 countries around the world at present, with almost half of these having made hemp cultivation legal only in the last few years.
		Hemp commercialization has begun in Canada, where as many as 10,000 acres could be planted in 1998, even though our northern neighbors receive no government incentives to grow the crop.
	www.naihc.org /hemp_information/content/hemp.mj.html (8861 words)

	Hawaiian Industrial Hemp Report
		Hemp is a good rotational crop which stabilizes and enriches the soil, while keeping the field weed-free for the next planting without the costs of herbicides.
		Additional evidence that the current movement pushing for legal hemp cultivation is not tied to marijuana advocates lies in the fact the fact that those countries which have legalized industrial hemp have not changed their drug and marijuana laws.
		Another factor is that male hemp plants die earlier than their female counterparts, which means that hemp, unless grown for seed.,is harvested before the female plant flowers and produces seeds.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/hemp/indust/hawaii1.htm (4686 words)

	Canada Ends 60-Year Ban on Commercial Hemp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hemp advocates hope lifting the ban will enable Canada's hemp industry to become an international supplier.
		Canadian farmers with special research licenses have been producing small quantities of hemp but not for commercial purposes.
		Hempline farms 10 acres of hemp, compared to the estimated 100,000 acres cultivated in the European Union.
	www.ndsn.org /marapr98/hemp1.html (266 words)

	The Colorado Hemp Production Act of 1995
		Hemp is an ancient fiber and seed crop that is often described as "marijuana’s misunderstood cousin."
		Lester Dewey, "Hemp" in Yearbook of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (1913).
		The only case involving commercial hemp was a suit in tort by the United States to recover damages to some of its hemp in storage in a warehouse in 1946.
	www.hempfood.com /IHA/iha02215.html (2777 words)

	Ontario Hemp Alliance Commercial Hemp Symposium 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Ontario Hemp Alliance (OHA), in recognition of the 5th year of commercial hemp production regulations, announces the "Commercial Hemp Symposium 2003" to be held in the new Wolf Performance Centre in downtown London, Ontario, on April 12 from 1 to 5 pm.
		"Hemp fiber has found its way into more vehicles in the past year, and, chances are good that many people have a natural no woven fiber product in their car and don't even know it," said Geof Kime, president of Delaware based Hempline and symposium speaker.
		This ultra nutritious version of hemp boasts a profile to open the eyes of the health industry - gluten free - high protein - excellent source of your essential fatty acids - hemp food is a growing industry.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/2822.html (871 words)

	Commercial Hemp Cultivation in Canada by David Marcus
		Hemp has additional environmental advantages, since compared to wood fewer chemicals are required to convert the low-lignin fibres to pulp (thus reducing waste water contamination), and hemp requires less, if any, bleaching.
		Although hemp has not had the benefit of continued cultivation and processing in the West, technology has been developed for similar crops, in particular kenaf and flax, which can be adapted to hemp.
		Hemp, however, has the advantage of being flavorful, while flax oil is generally considered unpalatable, and is almost always sold for consumption in capsule form.
	www.naihc.org /hemp_information/content/dmarcustx.html (8880 words)

	The Spectrum - News - May 5, 2006
		The sale of hemp and location of the hemp fields must be documented.
		Hemp contains trace amounts of tetrahydrocannobinol, or THC, a banned substance, and it falls under federal anti-drug rules, said Steve Robertson, a DEA special agent in Washington.
		Industrial hemp would be an alternative cash crop for North Dakota farmers because it’s used to make food, clothing, cosmetics, paper, rope and other products, they say.
	www.ndsuspectrum.com /news/06spring/5_5_06_news_hemp.html (419 words)

	Ontario Hemp Alliance, Links
		Hemp food, oil, with an extensive line of GMO-Free food including chips, award winning dressings, bars and certified organic grain derivatives.
		Organic hemp seed oil and vinaigrettes and featuring the world's only (as far as we know) cold-pressed "golden" hempseed oil.
		The SHA is a membership driven, provincially-registered nonprofit association, dedicated to the development of the industrial hemp sector in Saskatchewan and Western Canada.
	www.ontariohempalliance.org /links/links.html (260 words)

	HempNation
		With a relatively short growth cycle of 120 days, hemp is an efficient and economical crop for farmers to grow.
		Hemp is among one of the most productive and useful plants known; also very safe.
		Where hemp is grown, it has become a valuable and environmentally friendly crop.
	www.hempnation.com (274 words)

	The Commercial and Industrial Hemp Symposium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		All of these people have been doing fascinating research in industrial hemp cultivation and application, but their speeches were probably only thrilling to the true hemp devotee, and likely a bit boring to anyone who wasn't fully entranced by hemp and agriculture in general.
		It had been rumoured that she would announce that commercial hemp cultivation would be legalized in Canada by 1998, but unfortunately, this was not the case.
		It is marijuana smokers that have nursed hemp to the point of public acceptance and political approval which it now enjoys, yet we are now faced with the prospect of our sacred plant being sponsored by the Bank of Montreal and the Ministry of Agriculture.
	www.cannabisculture.com /backissues/cc08/hemp/symposium.html (1450 words)

	Commercial Hemp Cultivation Introduced In US-Congress - Hemp and industry - Hemp Info - Welcome to www.hemp-info.ch! ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HR 3037, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005, would remove non-psychoactive industrial hemp from the federal Controlled Substances Act and grant state legislatures "exclusive authority" to regulate the growing and processing of the crop.
		Farmers in Canada, the European Union, and in numerous countries throughout the world grow hemp commercially for fiber, seed, and oil for use in a variety of industrial and consumer products, including food.
		Hemp fiber and hemp-based products are legally imported to the United States in compliance with several economic treaties, including NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade).
	www.chanvre-info.ch /info/en/Commercial-Hemp-Cultivation.html (423 words)

	Canada Lifts Ban On Commercial Hemp Cultivation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Source: Reuters Pubdate: March 13, 1998 CANADA LIFTS BAN ON COMMERCIAL HEMP CULTIVATION TORONTO, March 13 (Reuters) - A 60-year-old ban on commercial hemp cultivation in Canada was lifted on Friday, paving the way for the tiny domestic research industry to transform itself into an international supplier of the raw material.
		Although T-shirts, wallets and other goods made from hemp fiber are easily available in Canada, most are imported from Europe and from China, the world's largest hemp producer.
		But Chris Clay, a hemp activist whose court case to also legalize marijuana is under review, said he believes Canadian production of hemp will increase quickly.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v98.n184.a03.html/canada (355 words)

	Western Australia Gets the green light for commercial hemp production
		Whilst it had been drafted last year as the Industrial Hemp Bill of 2003, the inability to table the legislation in the final sittings of parliament in December as had been undertaken and with a guarantee of a clear passage through by all political parties, was yet another setback for this exciting industry.
		The bill was then proclaimed as an act of Parliament on the 19th May 2004 and since that time the new Registrar for the industry has been appointed removing the obstacle of having to deal with the Ministers for Agriculture, Police and Health.
		Given the shortage of hemp fibre internationally, it seems sensible to utilize Western Australia’s vast areas of land and our extensive broad acre ability to fill the void in the international marketplace.
	www.globalhemp.com /News/2004/June/western-australia.php (768 words)

	Press Releases 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This ultra nutritious version of hemp boasts a profile to open the eyes of the health industry gluten free high protein excellent source of your essential fatty acids hemp food is a growing industry.
		Hemp food is the main focus of the display, and Hempola uniquely featured its High Protein Pancakes in combination with Beland Organic Maple Syrup from Quebec.
		With only four harvests to their credit since industrial hemp was given the green light to grow in Canada, farmers working with this new crop have had their share of frustrations; but it's starting to pay off.
	www.hempola.com /media/press_releases_2002.htm (7289 words)

	canadian content- commercial hemp in canda
		"hemp Canada is an information resource service for the growing commercial hemp industry.
		Our goals are to assist people intereted in industrial hemp find who or what they're looking for, and to help the industry grow commercially by exposing its componant wonders to the world."
		Information about the hemp industry around the world and links to various places that are HIA members.
	www.canadiancontent.ca /canlinks/linkshemp.html (323 words)

	Industrial Hemp
		The markets for hemp products are new and developing.
		The business potential of commercial hemp production remains uncertain while markets for hemp products evolve.
		Potential growers of industrial hemp in Alberta need to research the markets for hemp products and the markets for raw hemp.
	www.mda.state.mn.us /mgo/crops/industrial_hemp.htm (144 words)

	Ralph Nader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nader campaigned against the pervasiveness of corporate power, and spoke on the need for campaign finance reform, environmental justice, universal healthcare, affordable housing, free education through college, workers' rights, legalization of commercial hemp, and a shift in tax es to place the burden more heavily on corporation s than on the middle and lower classes.
		He opposed pollution credit s that make it more profitable to pollute than conserve, and giveaways of publicly-owned assets.
		They both seek to reduce the effect of Nader upon Democratic voters that might be persuaded to vote for him.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Ralph_Nader.html (1778 words)

	Ralph_Nader
		On May 19, 2004, Nader met with John Kerry in Washington D.C. for a private session, concerning Nader's factor in the 2004 election.
		Nader refused to withdraw from the race, citing specifically the importance to him of the removal of troops from Iraq campaign announced they would air TV commercials in key battleground states.
		On June 21, 2004, Nader announced that Peter Camejo, a former two-time gubernatorial candidate of the California Green Party, would be his vice presidential running mate.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/ralph_nader.html (3945 words)

	reefer madness / anti- medical marijuana
		But if there's one thing the Reefer Madness campaign can show us; it's that this has not always been the case.
		To emphasize this point it is interesting to note that the same " New American Encyclopedia" that carried the above definition for Marihuana, also carried the following definition under the word "Hemp".
		This plant is characterized by a straight undivided stalk, usually from five to eight ft. high, but sometimes attaining a height of 18 ft. The best hemp comes from Italy; it is also cultivated in Russ., the Philippines and elsewhere.
	reefermadnessmuseum.org /dictonary/AStartPage.htm (578 words)

	Hempen Road film project: A travel documentary, multi-media film about commercial hemp.
		Hempen Road film project: A travel documentary, multi-media film about commercial hemp.
		"This is as much a travelogue of the Pacific northwest as it is a hemp video.
		May not be reproduced without permission except in the case of educational and/or review use.
	www.hempenroad.com /about (158 words)

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