LOS ANGELES – Three decades ago, Bruce Perlowin was smuggling hundreds of thousands of pounds of Colombian marijuana to California in fishing boats passing beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. His childhood friend, David Tobias, was trafficking dope across turquoise Caribbean waters to Florida and Georgia, the Sacramento Bee’s Peter Hecht writes here.
On Saturday, at a [...]

I just stumbled across this post from the Ganja Guru, who also posts helpful “Links ‘N Shit.” While it’s a stretch to suggest hemp as an antidote to terrorism, the writing is good and the blog gets an instant bookmark in my book. Check it out.
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Recently, President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]