Pro-pot TV show finds new audience in San Diego

 Cultivation, Hemp, Media, Medical marijuana, Pot-pourri
Jan 092010
 

Eleanor Yang Su offers this interesting Union-Tribune article about a Sunset Beach man who produces a 30-minute TV show devoted to medical marijuana. “Cannabis Planet” was set to debut Friday night on San Diego cable; 99-cent episodes are available online here. “We’re fighting for safe and legal access for the medical cannabis community,” said Brad Lane, the show’s creator and executive producer. “In San Diego, there’s been some draconian measures by law enforcement officials against the cannabis community. We feel San Diego is more of a hot spot.” Officials with the San Diego District Attorney’s [...]

Legalization advocate hits the ground at Merced College

 Government, Hemp, Initiatives, Opinion, Pot-pourri
Dec 292009
 
Legalization advocate hits the ground at Merced College

Merced College student Jon Benton offers his take on the legalization debate in his Merced Sun-Star column. His column begins: “Your God given right to vote, to toke.” While such sentiments are hardly foreign in university campuses and collegiate discourse, they were probably the last words I expected to see on this particular picket sign. And yet there they were, plastered in large, block letters and being toted around Merced College by an unlikely candidate. Fully clad in the traditional habit and donning a joyful grin, the bespectacled activist drew curious looks and laughs of [...]

Canadians dig their ‘biofibre’

 Hemp
Nov 012009
 

Workers near Alberta, Canada, recently harvesed three-metre-tall hemp plants grown for industrial fiber. “The Alberta Research Council (ARC) is working to help hemp find its way into everything from homes to cars to clothes,” reports Troy Media Corp., an independent Canadian content provider. “It’s part of a campaign to see our agriculture and forestry industries compete in the global push for sustainable products.” “ARC is evaluating hemp as a fibre crop for mature, large-scale industries looking for green products,” ARC crop and plant physiologist, Jan Slaski was quoted as saying in the article. “Alberta’s soil [...]

Mr. Hemp goes to China?

 Hemp
Nov 012009
 

Those who advocate the use of hemp for industrial fiber will take heart with this press release from China about a new industrial refining process. The Beijing company says the refined fiber “can be blended with cotton, wool, silk, cashmere and chemical fiber, etc.” and “greatly widen widen application fields of hemp fiber.” No word on whether the Chinese government would be open to hemp imports from California, much less whether the feds would play ball.

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