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POPSFarmers Arrested Planting Hemp on DEA Headquarters Lawn Hemp is not a drug and has no capacity to get someone stoned. Currently eight states -- Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia -- allow industrial hemp production or research, but federal law, which requires nearly-impossible-to-obtain-permits to grow hemp, trumps those state laws. A bill introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) would allow states to craft their own policies. Some facts from North American Industrial Hemp Council: Hemp has been grown for at least the last 12,000 years for fiber (textiles and paper) and food. Hemp oil once greased machines. Most paints, resins, shellacs, and varnishes used to be made out of linseed (from flax) and hemp oils. Rudolph Diesel designed his engine to run on hemp oil The products that can be made from hemp number over 25,000.
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POPSenough rope it {hemp} might not save us but would go a long way in greening up this planet ,and as the japs say " beautiful plant " ....
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POPSTrend-E: Why Today it's Easy Being Green The Times' Sunday Styles never fails to serve up fresh a cultural perspective on business trends. As a consumer, I have read about green couture in Vogue and seen every manufacturer from Patagonia to Proctor and Gamble tout environmentally friendly lines.Once an "Inconvenient Truth," consumers are spammed with green messaging that may or may not be grounded in reality. My favorite quote from writer Alex Williams is, "It’s not enough to build a vacation home of recycled lumber; the real way to reduce one’s carbon footprint is to only own one home." Is all of this green marketing waisting more energy than it saves? Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/fashion/01green.html?ref=fashion
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