Bellingham resident and hemp advocate, Pam Bosch, recognizes the many benefits and Uses of Hemp and would like to see more industrial hemp in the future of the United States. Bosch is well aware of the bad name hemp gets due to it’s close cousin, marijuana, but...
Last Saturday, March 5th, marked the second annual Hemp Fest in Boulder, Colorado. Several people attended to learn about the many Uses of Hemp, among other things. The festival is both a conference and educational event. The event is a place where sellers and buyers...
Hemp has been cultivated around the world for over 12,000 years. There are thousands of Uses of Hemp, from food and cosmetics to fuel and plastics. As food, hemp seed hearts are high in protein, calcium, iron and omega-3. There are several hemp food products such as...
German hemp advocate, Lukas Hinkelmann, believes hemp production in Nepal has the potential to create an economic and developmental boom for the country. With the many Uses of Hemp including health foods, medicines, paper, rope, and even biofuels, the potential is...
Batteries and super capacitors may soon be added to the long list of Uses of Hemp. In Potsdam, New York, a new company received a state grant to open a manufacturing plant that will use hemp to create these products. The company’s goal is to develop carbon...
The legalization of marijuana is a growing interest for advocates, but they’re also interested in the benefits of industrial hemp. There are an estimated 25,000 Uses of Hemp. Among them are fuel, food, fabric and plastics. Hemp cultivation was once a thriving...
New York is starting to recognize the value and Uses of Hemp. There is still a ways to go, though, due to concern over its relationship to marijuana. Industrial hemp contains only trace amounts of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that gives the high. But...
One of the many Uses of Hemp is for clothing, and it’s a much more sustainable crop than cotton. Although cotton harvests more profit than any other non-food crop in the world, it is not efficient when it comes to resource efficiency. Cotton plants needs...
There is yet another benefit to add to the long list of Uses of Hemp – cleaning soil that has been polluted with radiation or other toxic matter. The scientific method of using plants to clean soil is called ‘phytoremediation.’ Although mustard...
In early 2014, the Farm Bill was passed in U.S. congress, allowing state agriculture departments and universities to grow hemp for research purposes. The Farm Bill ended the ban on hemp cultivation that existed since the Marijuana Tax Act came into being in 1937....
