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Report: $620 Million in Hemp Products Sold in the U.S. in 2014
Hemp Foods and Body Care Retail Market in U.S. Achieves 21.2% Growth in 2014 WASHINGTON, DC — The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), a non-profit trade association consisting of hundreds of hemp businesses, has released final estimates of the size of the 2014 U.S. retail market for hemp products. Data from market research supports an estimate … Continue reading
Farmers, Industry Leaders Excited About Future of Industrial Hemp in Kentucky
KENTUCKY — Kentucky Hemp is coming back. Fiber, seed, fuel, oil, and artisan products are simmering in the recently revived hemp industry. SEE GRAPHIC HERE Research and debate about bringing hemp back has circulated since the 1990s, when other countries like Canada and Australia re-legalized hemp production. Finally, last year, the 2014 Farm … Continue reading
As Marijuana Legalization Continues, Industrial Hemp Legalization May Be Next
By Kathleen Caulderwood @kcaulderwood k.caulderwood@ibtimes.com on February 21 2015 10:00 AM Kentucky farmer Andy Graves recently brought his father to see the latest crop on the family farm. Moments before the 89-year-old saw the plants, he could smell them. “When my dad walked back to see the first fields, his eyes just … Continue reading
THAI CANNABIS CORP.
THAI CANNABIS CORP. Welcome to Thai Cannabis Corporation TCC is a co-operative, agricultural-based, medicinally and spiritually inspired, research, and development effort. Objectives: *To set the International standard for medicinal Cannabis. *To encourage it’s propagation, distribution, and it’s use as a tool for healing the human condition. *To inspire and define the future of humanity. *To create an … Continue reading
JIM HIGHTOWER: Cannabis Americas common sense
Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:00 am In 1914, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow-journalism crusade to demonize the entire genus of cannabis plants. Why? To sell newspapers, of course, but also because he was heavily invested in wood-pulp newsprint, and he wanted to shut down competition from paper made from hemp … Continue reading
A Beginner’s Guide to Hemp Oil, the Cannabis Product That’s Legal Right Now
By Hannah Sentenac Thu., May 29 2014 at 7:00 AM With medical marijuana on everyone’s lips (in more ways than one), people are buzzing about weed, hemp, cannabis, THC, CBD, and all kinds of other related terms that you might or might not understand. It’s OK — this is confusing stuff. Leave it … Continue reading
Mining’s New Joint Venture
Posted by Gabe Friedman This isn’t a great time for small Canadian mining businesses. For the past couple of years, people have worried that China’s economic problems will keep it from buying metals and minerals in big quantities, as it once did, which has lowered prices for some of those commodities. Plus, mine workers are … Continue reading
UK hemp crop growing well without fertilizer, pesticide
By Janet Patton jpatton1@herald-leader.comJuly 30, 2014 Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print UK agronomist Dave Williams stood next to a plot of 7-foot hemp plants at the University of Kentucky Spindletop Research Farm in Lexington last Thursday. This hemp was planted in late May after the seeds were released by the Drug Enforcement Administration. … Continue reading
Hemp Crops Are Flourishing in Kentucky
Posted by: admin Posted date: August 04, 2014 In: News After a nonsensical battle simply to get the seeds into the arms of farmers in the Bluegrass State, hemp crops are lastly on the develop. Kentucky’s first crop of hemp in many years is claimed to be flourishing simply two months after … Continue reading
Hemp homecoming: Rebirth sprouts in Kentucky
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — Call it a homecoming for hemp: Marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin is undergoing a rebirth in a state at the forefront of efforts to reclaim it as a mainstream crop. Researchers and farmers are producing the first legal hemp crop in generations in Kentucky, where hemp has turned into a political cause … Continue reading
