Cultivation

Marijuana Cultivation in Mexico Rises 35%

jeremiah — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:24:35 -0800

Marijuana cultivation in Mexico increased 35 percent in 2008 and continues to grow, even as authorities there push forward with a large offensive against drug cartels that smuggle the product into the United States, according to a State Department report released this week.

Marijuana Could be NJ Farmers' New Crop

jeremiah — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:27:23 -0800

New Jersey farmers, including some in this area, see a chance to add an important new crop now that the state has legalized medical marijuana.

"We would all like to grow it because we think it would be a good cash crop -- literally," Fairfield nurseryman Roger Ruske said.

The New Jersey Farm Bureau, a trade group for agriculture, has looked into the issue in depth and found good news and problems with the idea.

New Jersey last month adopted a law allowing medical use of marijuana.

CA Supreme Court Throws Out Medical Marijuana Limits

jeremiah — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:55:03 -0800

CANNABIS CULTURE - In a unanimous ruling, the California Supreme Court has affirmed an appeals court ruling throwing out statewide limits on the possession and cultivation of medical marijuana.

Overruling the appeals court decision, the Court left in place a voluntary ID card program that protects patients from arrest, citing a similar ruling in San Diego NORML, supra 165 Cal.App.4th.

How hemp could save Afghanistan and the world

karlis — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700

With the world facing unavoidable shortages of water, oil and other natural resources, hemp can save us from widespread poverty, famine and death. Hemp industries proponent Marc Deeley explains how a project he is involved with ? Spirit Aid ? might tip the scales in favour of humankind.

Fires and Plant Food

karlis — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700

As the province of British Columbia turns into a desert due to global warming, outdoor and indoor cannabis growers in the Kelowna area five hours from Vancouver are counting their losses from weeks of devastating fires that are still burning and which have severely disrupted this year's marijuana growing seasons.

DEA fails to ban hemp food

karlis — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Much of Canada`s hemp is bound for the US, where growing is illegal.A court decision has stalled the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in their effort to completely ban all hemp foods from the US market.

Lawsuit vs US gov't

karlis — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:00:00 -0800

Canadian hemp cultivation company Kenex has launched a lawsuit against the US government, charging restraint of trade in violation of Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Kenex had a large shipment of hemp seeds seized at the US border and held for four months between August to December 1999. Since then their products have repeatedly been seized or detained by US customs.

Hemp for housing

karlis — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:00:00 -0800

A South African activist is pushing the idea of hemp-based homes to help solve the country's housing shortage. Andre du Plessis, an IT specialist based in Cape Town, said he has researched the topic for three years, and that the houses would be built of a form of concrete made by mixing hemp hurds with lime and sand.

Swiss pot trade-show

karlis — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Kautz Felix: this guy grows the best buds in all of Switzerland!Switzerland celebrated the many wonderful facets of the cannabis plant this March, with the second annual CannaTrade fair and trade show.

Growers' tomes

karlis — Thu, 02 May 2002 00:00:00 -0700

The book gods have given us a sweet crop of reading material in the last few months, and Cananbis Culture readers will derive pleasure from many of the texts and periodicals reviewed in this issue's literature review section.

New rules in Canada

karlis — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800

This summer, Health Canada called for proposals to review and modify the existing framework for industrial hemp regulations. The initial commentary period closed in September, but additional opportunity for comments will open in 2002.

Hemp cultivation drops in Canada

karlis — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0800

Industrial hemp has been grown commercially in Canada for the past four years. However, very few farmers chose to grow in 2001.

Hemp prisoner sues captors

karlis — Sat, 03 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0800

Canadian hempster Paul Wylie, who spent most of 1999 in a squalid Nicaraguan prison after his government-approved Nicaraguan hemp crop was declared illegal, is back in Central America for the first time since he escaped his dungeon prison cell.
Wylie was working for the Canadian company Hemp-Agro in 1998, when armed government agents kidnapped him and threw him in prison, claiming that his low-THC outdoor hemp plantation was actually a marijuana grow operation.

Blocking pot's effects

karlis — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 00:00:00 -0700

The US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is developing a way to chemically block the effects of cannabis. A "cannabinoid receptor antagonist" with the poetic name of SR141716 has been shown to produce a dose-dependent block against toking up.
A study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry detailed how 63 men received a dose of SR141716 or a placebo, and then smoked pot two hours later. The more SR141716 they received, the less the pot affected them.

Hemp horizons

karlis — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0700

New Zealand looks set to have its first legal hemp crop in the ground later this year. After persistent lobbying by a dedicated band of hemp enthusiasts, the NZ government has granted approval for trial crops to be planted and invited prospective growers to submit proposals.

The seed you need

karlis — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Whatever happened to the North American hemp industry?
I was a founding writer for Hemp Times magazine, which was an excellent vehicle for hemp information, education, and product promotion. It went bankrupt in 1999.

Chat live with Woody Harrelson

karlis — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0700

On Sunday July 15, 2001 at 6:30 PM PST, actor and long time environmental activist Woody Harrelson will be hosting a "live chat" on his new web site www.voiceyourself.com. If you're interested in conserving our earth's resources, alternative energy use, sustainable living, improving your diet & health, or just want to let Woody know what's on your mind - log on and sound off.

Australian update

karlis — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0800

Hemp research continues in Australia, with a variety of experimental and small-scale trials planned for this season. Hemp researcher Dr Andrew Katelaris told Cannabis Culture about "the difficulty of adapting existing fibre cultivars to relatively more equatorial latitudes, and the unfortunate influence that United States drug policy has in this country."

DEA burns Sioux hemp

karlis — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 00:00:00 -0800

On August 24, armed DEA and FBI agents destroyed an acre and a half of hemp in the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, two days before it was to be harvested.
The hemp was planted by Alex White Plume on his farm in May 2000. The Oglala Sioux Nation tribal council had passed an ordinance in July 1998 that authorized the growing of hemp with a THC level under 1% by weight.?White Plume said officers told him tests had confirmed that his plants held less than 1% THC.

Med-pot monopoly

karlis — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Last May, Canada's Minister of Health, Alan Rock, announced that he was looking for a single grower of high quality pot, to be used in upcoming medical studies. Headlines like "Hey, pot growers, Rock wants supply," splashed across papers around the country. Enthusiasm spread rapidly among Canadian growers, who thought they might make loads of cash doing what they loved best? and doing it legally.

Nicaraguan hemp nightmare

karlis — Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:00:00 -0700

In December 1998, Canadian botanist Paul Wylie was jailed for growing hemp in Nicaragua. Wylie was the agricultural advisor for a Canadian company called Hemp-Agro, which was growing a 1400 acre tropical hemp test crop near Managua (see CC#17, Hemp Bust in Nicaragua).
During the raid, Hemp Agro's hemp field was burned by black-hooded government agents. Wylie was kidnapped in broad daylight and taken to prison.

Cleaning Chernobyl

karlis — Mon, 25 Sep 2000 00:00:00 -0700

The April New Scientist reported that the US company Phytotech and the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences continue to grow hemp in radioactive soil around Chernobyl.
After processing the plants, they obtained clean hemp fibre and plant remains rich in radioactive caesium. The contaminated remains are burned in a sealed incinerator that catches all the radioactive ash.

The secret life of hemp

karlis — Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Hemp researcher Alan Middlemiss is studying human-hemp communication.

Japan's hemp revival

karlis — Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Japanese symbol for Hemp"Probably the finest hemp in the world" is how the US Department of Agriculture described Japanese hemp some 130 years ago. In 1948 the post-war US military government imposed a harsh cannabis law and the Japanese hemp industry fell into decline. Now things are looking up again.

African hempsters

karlis — Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Malawi's Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Joe Manduwa, has been promoting hemp as an alternative to his nation's failing tobacco market.
Manduwa is a member of the ruling United Democratic Front, and has been backed by opposition MP Heatherwick Ntaba. However, police have been opposing the idea, claiming it would be too difficult to control.