ANAHEIM – An activist group working to legalize pot in California will host the county’s first large medical-marijuana expo Saturday, featuring hemp products, speeches from attorneys and a former judge and live reggae music. Organizers of the Know Your Rights Expo expect up to 20,000 people from across Southern California to attend the conference – across the street from Disneyland Resort – at the city-owned Anaheim Convention Center. Legal experts are scheduled to talk about the status of the state’s medical-marijuana laws and Prop. 19, a November ballot measure that would regulate and tax the [...]
May 242010
RED BLUFF — Permit or not, Donna Will said the stage for a Memorial Day weekend marijuana festival will go up today. “Everything is going forward,” said Will, organizer of the World Hemp Expo Extravaganja. After an update last month of a 40-year-old law designed to regulate outdoor rock festivals akin to Woodstock, leaders from several Tehama County departments turned in comments to the Tehama County Planning Department on Friday. “The agencies are getting together on Monday,” said Bob Haplin, senior planner for the Planning Department. He declined to say whether that meant they would [...]
Apr 292010
RED BLUFF — With barely a whiff in the air of a planned marijuana celebration, Tehama County supervisors Tuesday approved an update of a 40-year-old law originally designed to regulate free outdoor rock festivals. The board adopted the amended law as an “urgency” ordinance, the Record-Searchlight’s Janet O’Neill reports, meaning Tuesday’s unanimous vote makes it effective immediately. County Counsel Arthur Wylene has said marijuana patient and grower Donna Will’s application to hold a marijuana-themed event on her 46 acres south of Red Bluff on Memorial Day weekend affected the timing of the update, but not [...]
Apr 162010
The sad news has been confirmed. Jack Herer, author of “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” and renowned around the world for hemp activism, died Thursday in Eugene, Ore. Jack Herer suffered a heart attack last September just after speaking on stage at the Portland HempStalk festival, Salem-News.com reports. The last seven months have proven to be a huge challenge to the man, with several health issues making his recovery complicated. Portland Oregonian coverage Los Angeles Times coverage Jack Herer’s health has been poor lately, this last week there have been reports of the severity, and [...]
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 Los Angeles medical marijuana trade show teeming with entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on California’s legal pot market, the two chums were reunited as business consultants marketing “solutions for an emerging industry.” Los Angeles Daily News coverage Their Medical [...]
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. ============= Recently, President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union Address. In his speech, he emphasized clean energy and economic growth as our nation’s primary goals for this year. In light of his Obama’s speech, it seems high time to renew the debate about allowing the cultivation [...]
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 [...]
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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