What if plastic could be made without using fossil fuels and toxic chemicals? An Australian company has done just that, with a new type of plastic that can turn hemp fiber into pretty much anything. Zeoform is a promising eco-friendly solution to traditional plastics. It’s made from a simple mixture …
hemp, plant of the genus Cannabis (family Cannabaceae) that is cultivated for its fibre (bast fibre) or its seeds, which contain about 30 percent oil and may be eaten. Hemp is sometimes confused with the cannabis plants that serve as sources of the drug marijuana and the drug preparation hashish. All three products (hemp, marijuana, and hashish) contain tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a compound that produces psychoactive …
National Industrial Hemp Strategy of Canada This PDF document contains over 300 pages defining the national hemp strategy of Canada. (http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/National_Industrial_Hemp_Strategy_Final_Complete2.pdf )
Agricultural hemp is as harmless as it is versatile. And today’s farm equipment can be rather easily modified for planting and harvesting hemp. Did you know: The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world that prohibits hemp cultivation, due to the DEA’s refusal to distinguish between low-THC hemp and high-THC marijuana. Hemp is low …
By Melanie Asmar Tue., Oct. 1 2013 at 4:20 PM By Melanie Asmar Tue., Oct. 1 2013 at 4:20 PM Ryan Loflin. America’s first (known) hemp harvest in more than fifty years began this month in southeastern Colorado. This past spring, following last year’s passage of Amendment 64, which legalized small amounts …
Scientists are using industrial hemp for futuristic ‘supercapacitor’ batteries. August 13, 2014 | On top of its vast medicinal benefits and a “high” that’s safer and mellower than alcohol, what if cannabis could also power a cheap, sustainable super battery and forever change the energy game? It sounds like a far-fetched …
Uploaded on Aug 1, 2010 A short film about the miracle plant called hemp. Get to know potentially the greatest land plant that could tremendously benefit humanity and the planet and find out why the criminal federal government doesn’t want you to grow it in the US.
Uploaded on May 15, 2010 November, 2009 – HT’s David Madera welcomes us to the first permitted home construction in America utilizing hemp as a primary building material. Hemp shiv and a lime-based binder are mixed with water to make “hempcrete”, which is then poured between forms and tamped.
