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Phytoremediation of Urban… Phytoremediation of Urban Brownfields: a Case for Industrial Hemp Brownfield land , Phytoremediation , Environmental remediation By qwerty1337 Sep 6, 2012 2819 Words 26 Views Phytoremediation of Urban Brownfields: A Case for Industrial Hemp By: Jeff Lemon Thursday, June 21, 2012 Brownfields Brownfield Phytoremediation Page 2 Page 4 A Case for Industrial … Continue reading »

  The Washington Times reported on 6/26/15 that the Federal Government is “fast tracking” Pharma research for a Marijuana addiction drug. The research gets $3 million grant as Obama encourages legalization of Cannabis. This is just too much! We do not need a “drug” to detoxify us from Cannabis! We need more Hemp and Cannabis … Continue reading »

  The Washington Times reported on 6/26/15 that the Federal Government is “fast tracking” Pharma research for a Marijuana addiction drug. The research gets $3 million grant as Obama encourages legalization of Cannabis. This is just too much! We do not need a “drug” to detoxify us from Cannabis! We need more Hemp and Cannabis … Continue reading »

      CARSON CITY, NV–(Marketwired – Jun 22, 2015) –  Rapid Fire Marketing (OTC PINK: RFMK), a developer and reseller of herbal vaporizers, announced today that the Company has acquired assets, including equipment as well as a land lease, to begin Industrial Hemp farming in California. In addition to the Company’s vaporizers, including the … Continue reading »

FYI… The following was copied from a Google news search for “Marijuana” on 6.16.15 at 11:48pm CST.  The link to the story has been “deleted”.   Monsanto Develops First Genetically Modified Strain of Marijuana Wisconsin Ag Connection – ‎17 hours ago‎ Monsanto has announced it has patented the first genetically modified strain of marijuana. Global … Continue reading »

More, bigger plots coming, advocate says By Eli Pace, New Era editor       If last year’s industrial hemp planting was a trial run, this year Christian County hemp farmers are going all out with what’s expected to be 85 total acres of the crop spread across four local pilot projects. The first pilot … Continue reading »

Dave Kolpack, Associated Press Published 6:13 am, Saturday, June 13, 2015   Photo: CHET BROKAW, AP ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 14 — FILE – This June 26, 2007 file photo shows Alex White Plume sitting near some hemp plants growing at his house near Manderson, S.D. White Plume thought his decade-long wait to produce industrial … Continue reading »

By Sheldon Compton scompton@civitasmedia.com HIPPO – Hippo resident Todd Howard had never been employed in his adult life when he was laid off as an engineer for the coal industry in 2010. He had also never farmed a day in his life. All that was about to change. After Howard lost his job as an … Continue reading »

Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal 10:10 p.m. EDT June 5, 2015   “Today hemp is grown mostly in Canada. and the seeds and oil are imported for culinary purposes, but historically hemp was cultivated mainly for use in canvas and rope.” Locust Grove will have a hemp festival on Aug. 9. It will include a … Continue reading »

On May 5th 2015, James Comer, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA), held a press conference in a Lexington-based tobacco facility belonging to G.F. Vaughan, the last remaining tobacco processor in Kentucky. His message was historic, his location symbolic: the first year of state-sanctioned industrial hemp farming under the Farm Bill succeeded, and … Continue reading »