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diAne wAlsh MAis an independent investigativejournalist based in the PacificNorthwest dividing her time be-tween Vancouver Is. and Seattle.You can read more about Dianeat her site www.indydianewalsh.

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John dvorAkhas been working to end can-nabis hemp prohibition forover 20 years. His website,Hempology.Org, contains doz-

ens of articles and images docu-menting hemps history. Johnhas developed a Cannabis cur-

riculum which he has presented to student groupsthroughout the Northeast.

roger Bodleyis an English doctor with longlinks with Tasmania and the lo-cal farming community. Rogeris building a house in NW Tas-mania with hemp and lime asa proof of concept project to

demonstrate that this productis a viable and and sustainablecommercial concept from a product that can be pro-duced and built locally with widespread benefits.

dAniel kruseis the founder of Hempro Inter-national, based in Duesseldorf,Germany. Hempro Int. sells alarge range of hemp foods, tex-tiles and cosmetics.

dionne pAynis the founder and Editor ofHemp Lifestyle Magazine. Af-ter months of trying to findup to date and credible in-formation about hemp, she

decided to ask people in theindustry what they were up to.There were so many interesting

stories and she realised that other people might wantto hear these too. Dionne decided to start her ownmagazine which was launched on the 1st August 2011after just 2 weeks.

AnndreA hermAnnM.Sc., P.Ag, BGS is thePresident Elect of the HempIndustry Association, SpecialComittee Member of theCandian Hemp Trade Aliance,

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editoriAl

Hello and welcome to the latest issue ofHemp Lifestyle Magazine. Im excitedabout all the great articles we have instore for you this month - all thanks toour wonderful contributors.

Its time to grab yourself a cuppa andhave a well earned break with Hemp

Lifestyle Magazine!

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Im feeling pretty honoured to be speak-ing at the Ecoxpo in Sydney on the 12th- 13th May. Ill be talking about all thereasons why hemp is fashionable, livableand sustainable and showing some greatexamples that have graced the pages ofHemp Lifestyle Magazine over the pastfew months.

The founder of Ecoxpo, Aymeric Mau-dous, is a great supporter of hemp andhas been since he saw his grandparentsusing hemp potato sacks and hemp ani-mal bedding on their farm in France. Ap-parently the potato sacks are still in use- a testament to the strength and dura-bility of the hemp fibre.

Aymeric has always been a greenie (inhis own words) and saw a gap in themarket for a place where eco-producerscould come together under one roof.Ecoxpo started in 2009 with 40 exhibi-tors and about 1000 visitors and hasquickly grown to become a one stop eco

shop for food, vehicles, clothing, booksand much more. One of the highlightsof the weekend will be the preview ofToyotas latest hybrid vehicle!

Another Ecoxpo first, is the InternationalTrashion Fashion Show created by Amer-ican born artist Marina DeBris. Marinacreates dresses made entirely of plasticrecovered from the beach and is launch-ing her new collection at the expo.

If you happen to be in Sydney on the

12th - 13th May, come along and say hi.This months lucky competition winnerwill receive two free tickets to Ecoxpo,and if you dont manage to win a ticket,bring along the Ecoxpo coupon in thisissue and you will get in for half price.Ecoxpo are also kindly donating $1 ofthe ticket price to the Industrial HempAssociation of New South Wales.

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A hemp textile industry in British ColumBiA?DiAne WALsH

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5A Curved hemp house intAsmAniARogeR BoDLeyRoger Bodley always wanted to build with an

environmentally sustainable material. When he

heard about hempcrete, he jumped at the op-

portunity to use it in his project.

11hemp - A ConCretesolution to humAnityspollutionJoHn DvoRAkJohn Dvorak is on a mission to educate as many

people as possible about the history of hempand the benefits it offers to our society.



I migrated to Australia in the mid 70s and began work-ing as a GP in Wynnard, Tasmania. Ive always been agreenie, so the idea of using hemp just seems right to me.Its a great source of fibre for paper, clothing and buildingand it improves soil fertility during its growing cycle andwhen used in crop rotations and as a mulch material.

I had plans to build an environmentally friendly home, soI attended the Eco-Build Festival in London. I got talkingto the staff at the Lime Technology stand, and when they

explained how it was possible to grow your own homeusing hemp, I was hooked.

The hempcrete building process requires hemp hurds, alime based binder and water. While the hemp was avail-able within Australia, I decided to import the Tradicalbinder from the UK, as I wanted to use a material thatwas already proven to satisfy Australian building stan-dards.

I worked with an architect while I was in the UK to de-sign the house, and decided to build a curved house toshowcase the versatility of building with hemp. I did have

some challenges with the site; there is a 25 degree northfacing slope, and there was also gravel less than 2 metersbelow the soil surface. I employed a local builder, RodneyGregg, to work on this project, and it was Rodney thatsuggested placing the house on pillars to avoid problems

with standing water in the soil.

Rodney had never built with hempcrete before, but learnton the job how to do it. Actually he learnt mostly how notto do it, as we realized early on that hempcrete is only agreat material if it is used properly.

In the early stages of the build we used too much waterin the mix and it took a long time for the walls to dry outenough to allow us to render the house. The problem wascompounded by the run of wet weather we had; ideally

we would have started building in the summer or usedcladding to protect the walls from the driving rain.

It was a similar issue faced by Kevin McCloud who builtthe 42 hemp house development in the UK. Apparentlyhe got very angry that the hempcrete took such a longtime to dry. Its certainly not a quick build and then movein. However, we are now close to moving in, which isexciting.

Ive been thinking a lot about what I would do differentlynext time. I would certainly sit down with all of the pro-fessionals at the start of the project (architect, engineers,etc) and make sure they really understood the intricaciesof building with hemp. It is such a different way of build-ing compared to conventional building techniques ittakes a while for people to understand that.

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The hemp building industry in Australia could be de-scribed as a micro-cottage industry. To be able to getmainstream acceptance here we really need to find amethod that traditional builders can understand. Us-ing shotcrete (a method they use in Europe to spray thehempcrete onto the formwork), or using precast walls arefeasible alternatives.

But most importantly I think we need to create an indig-enous binder that is certified to Australian building stan-dards. It is an expensive process, it needs to be testedand proven to be fire retardant and meet standards forcompression testing.

What we have achieved is building a proof of concepthome from hemp, to show it is possible to convert ourcurrent practices to ones that are more sustainable forour environment, even while catering to a mass market.I really believe that this is how we are going to save theplanet.

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Rodney Gregg had never built with hempcrete before, butwhen approached by Roger he jumped at the challenge.The conventional way that we build things in Australiais not the way of the future, says Rodney. People arebecoming more aware of the environment and as builderswe are of the opinion that we need to change with the

times.

Rodney acknowledges that the hempcrete building proj-ect was quite challenging, especially as they didnt knowhow to mix and apply it properly at the start. As a resultthey used too much water in the mix, and with the longwet autumn and winter, it is just took a long time for thewalls to dry out completely.

The curved walls were also a technical challenge. Rogerlaughs when asked how he managed to achieve the ef-fect. It was very difficult - anything with curves is diffi-cult but it is just a matter of thinking about it and working

it out.

While there was a huge learning curve for Rodney andhis team, he is convinced that hemp building is the way ofthe future. Not only is it an environmentally sustainablehome, it is a healthy home too. You walk into it and it isjust such a beautiful atmosphere and it is amazing whatit feels like inside, says Rodney. It doesnt feel too hot,doesnt feel too cold. It doesnt feel like a hard encasedbox either; it has a nice acoustic message.
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swAllows fly higher on hempA recent study by leading wildlife research charity theGame & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), has identi-fied that hemp, commonly associated with marijuana, isnot only becoming a profitable crop for growers as it hasmany commercial applications such as the manufacture ofcar body panels and eco housing; it is also a highly prizedcrop for swallows and whitethroat.

The study, carried out by the Game & Wildlife Conserva-tion Trust was investigating the wildlife benefits of grow-ing hemp compared with oilseed rape and field beans;two other commonly grown field crops. The studyrevealed that all three crops were used by birdsas habitats for gathering food during the nestingseason, but hemp was also used as aroosting site by swallows before theirsouthward migration at the end of thesummer. Flocks of more than a thou-sand swallows were seen using thehemp fields on the GWCTs research

farm in Leicestershire. Another migratory birdthat was associated with hemp was whitethroat, awarbler that breeds on farmland throughout the UK.Some other bird species made more use of oilseed rapeand bean crops.

As methods have improved for processing hemp the cropis becoming more widely grown with the fibres being usedin the textile and paper industries, as well as finding otheruses such as car body panels and construction blocks forthe building industry. It has become one of the fastestgrowing biomass crops producing up to 7.5 tonnes perhectare per year.

An important consideration of growing this crop in this

country is to discover whether its cultivation has anynegative effects on farmland wildlife. Dr Chris Stoate,Head of Research at the GWCT research farm said,We know that hemp has low requirement for inputssuch as fertilisers and pesticides, but we needed to in-vestigate whether there are any effects on wildlife of acrop that is relatively new to modern farming systems.

Our research found that numbers of insects,including those used as food by birds,were broadly similar in the three differ-

ent crop types. Weed cover and weed spe-cies did not differ greatly between the crops,

which was surprising as hemp grows vigorously,shading out competing weeds so that herbicides are

not needed.

Growing hemp has other environmental advantagesas well. Dr Stoate explains, The wider environ-mental benefits for growing this crop are consid-erable. The findings confirm that hemp benefits

some wildlife species, as well as requiring minimumpesticide and fertiliser use during production. Anotherbonus of this crop is that it provides an environmentallyfriendly end product in terms of carbon sequestration andreduced greenhouse gas emissions.

The research was carried out at the Game & WildlifeConservation Trusts Allerton Project research farm atLoddington, Leicestershire, and was funded by HempTechnology, a leading processor of hemp for the construc-tion industry. The results were recently published at a con-ference in Edinburgh.

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ui environmentAl CoAlition promotes industriAlizedhemp

Local industrial-hemp advocates are pushing to loosengrowing regulations of the crop in Iowa because of itseconomic, environmental, and health benefits.

If we could grow it [in Iowa City], it gives a lot of oppor-tunity for small-business startups, said UI EnvironmentalCoalition Co-President Chelsea Krist.

The UI Environmental Coalition sponsored a hemp-advo-cacy event Monday evening to distribute hemp products

and show the movie Hempsters for National Earth Week.Hemp is used in clothing, lotions, fuel, and other products,and it can be grown without herbicides and pesticides.

The plant Cannabis varieties produces both industrialhemp and marijuana. The former is high in fiber and lowin tetrahydrocannabinal (THC) the ingredient found inhigh concentrations in marijuana, according to the Na-tional Hemp Industry Association.
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Industrial hemp was grown in the United States, includingIowa, during World War II for U.S. Army uniforms. TheControlled Substance Act of 1970 classified hemp as adrug, and it requires farmers to obtain a permit for grow-ing industrial hemp. No Iowans have permits.

Local hemp advocate Karen Kubby, the owner of Bead-ology, 220 E. Washington St., said legislators should al-

low industrial hemp to be grown in Iowa because of itsstrength, fiber, and nutritional value.

Its an incredibly durable product, said Kubby, who sellsfive different colors of whipped hemp. It looks great, andits fun to use with beads. Its a renewable resource and acrop that [could be] easily grown in Iowa.

Sen. David Johnson, R-Ocheyedan, said hes aware ofthe benefits of hemp clothing and would like to see a fairhearing to legalize the plant.

I have several hemp shirts, silk shirts, and cotton shirts,

said Johnson, the former head of the Senate AgriculturalCommittee. In Iowas hot and humid summer, there isnothing cooler or more comfortable than those hempshirts.

According to the Vote Hemp website, a bill attemptingto loosen hemp regulations in Iowa was presented to theSenate Agricultural Committee in 2003 but never made itout of committee.

Hemp is still considered the same as marijuana by federal

laws, said Jeffrey Scott, a spokesman for the Drug En-forcement Administration.

Regardless if the THC is low, that does not change thefact that all cannabis plants are illegal and are consideredmarijuana, he said. The reality is someone claiming togrow hemp has to deal with the claim to grow marijuana.

The Hemp Industries Association estimates the total retailvalue of U.S. hemp is about $419 million.

Eric Creach, the store manager at New Pioneer Co-op,1101 Second St., Coralville, said the store sells hempproducts for the health benefits. We carry lots of prod-ucts that have hemp-seed oil in them, hemp milk, andhemp-seed-oil pills mainly because of its omega 3s and6s, Creach said. Those [fats] are supposed to be reallybeneficial these days.

Creach said most of the hemp is imported from Canada,and growing it in the United States would be worthwhile.

Krist said hemp has not been a popular topic on campus,but she hopes to change the attitude of the discussion.

Hemp advocacy is seen as some sort of hippie move-ment, and thats not what its about, Krist said. Its nota conversation people are having on campus, but I thinkthere is going to be some changing. I think itll be growingand maybe well see an advocacy group formed.

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deCision on hemp urgedFORMER Hobart lord mayor Rob Valentine has urgedState Parliament to move quickly in deciding the future ofthe states hemp industry.

The benefits of growing industrial hemp promise to bevery significant, he said.

He urged the House of Assembly to be prompt and notfollow the pattern of past delays at federal level.

The independent candidate for the Seat of Hobart in the

Legislative Council said the industry had the potential to

create hundreds of jobs.

Public submissions to the House of Assemblys Environ-ment, Resources and Development Standing Committeeregarding the establishment of a Tasmanian industrialhemp industry close on April 27.

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Six of Switzerlands French-speaking cantons have a lawas of 27 March covering the agricultural product can-nabis, as distinguished from the popular drug marijuana,largely to give police a clearer framework for going afterillegal use of the plant.

Farmers can grow cannabis as long as there is a writtencontract to buy and develop the plants, if there are morethan five plants. Merchants can sell products as long asthey have legitimate sales licenses.

Hemp, for example, is made from a variety of cannabisthat has less than 1 percent THC, the psycho-active com-pound that gives a high to drug users. Marijuana for pop-ular drug use generally has 3-20 percent THC.

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hemp produCes viABle Biodiesel, study finds

Of all the various uses for Cannabis plants, add another,green one to the mix.

Researchers at UConn have found that the fiber cropCannabis sativa, known as industrial hemp, has properties

that make it viable and even attractive as a raw material,or feedstock, for producing biodiesel sustainable dieselfuel made from renewable plant sources.

The plants ability to grow in infertile soils also reduces theneed to grow it on primary croplands, which can then bereserved for growing food, says Richard Parnas, a profes-sor of chemical, materials, and biomolecular engineeringwho led the study.

For sustainable fuels, often it comes down to a questionof food versus fuel, says Parnas, noting thatmajor current biodiesel plants include

food crops such as soybeans, ol-ives, peanuts, and rapeseed. Itsequally important to makefuel from plants that are notfood, but also wont needthe high-quality land.

Industrial hemp isgrown across theworld, in manyparts of Europe andAsia. Fiber fromthe plants stalk isstrong, and untilthe development ofsynthetic fibers inthe 1950s, it was apremier product usedworldwide in makingrope and clothing.

Today, there are still partsof the world that rely onCannabis stalks as a primary fi-ber, mainly because of its ability to

grow like a weed, without requiringlots of water, fertilizers, or high-grade inputsto flourish. But the seeds, which house the plants naturaloils, are often discarded. Parnas points out that this ap-parent waste product could be put to good use by turningit into fuel.

If someone is already growing hemp, he says, theymight be able to produce enough fuel to power theirwhole farm with the oil from the seeds they produce.The fact that a hemp industry already exists, he continues,means that a hemp biodiesel industry would need little

additional investment.With his graduate student Si-Yu Li and colleagues JamesStuart of the Department of Chemistry and Yi Li of theDepartment of Plant Sciences, Parnas used virgin hempseed oil to create biodiesel using a standardized process

called transesterification. The group then tested the fuelfor a suite of characteristics in the Biofuels Testing Labo-ratory at UConns Center for Environmental Science andEngineering.

The hemp biodiesel showed a high efficiency of con-version 97 percent of the hemp oil was converted tobiodiesel and it passed all the laboratorys tests, evenshowing properties that suggest it could be used at lowertemperatures than any biodiesel currently on the market.

Although growing hemp is not legal in the U.S., Parnashopes that the teams results will help to spur hemp bio-diesel production in other parts of the world. UConnholds a patent on a biodiesel reactor system that could

be customized to make biodiesel from a range ofsustainable inputs, hemp included.

Our research data could makebuying a reactor system withour technology more attrac-

tive, says Parnas. If wehave data for the produc-

tion of many differentfeedstocks, we cantailor the system tomeet the companysneeds.

Parnas, Yi Li, andcolleagues StevenSuib of the Depart-ment of Chemistry,Fred Carstensen ofthe Department of

Economics, and Har-rison Yang of the De-

partment of NaturalResources and the Envi-

ronment are preparing tobuild a pilot biodiesel produc-

tion facility using a two-year, $1.8

million grant from the Department ofEnergy.

The reactor will be capable of producing up to 200,000gallons of biodiesel per year, and while this productionrate is small in comparison to commercial biodiesel reac-tors, the main use of the facility will be to test new waysto produce biodiesel, including catalysts and feedstocks.Ultimately, the team will perform economic analyses oncommercializing their methods.

As for other industries that utilize Cannabis plants, Parnasmakes a clear distinction between industrial hemp, which

contains less than 1 percent psychoactive chemicals in itsflowers, and some of its cousins, which contain up to 22percent. This stuff, he points out, wont get you high.

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I joined the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) back in1995 when I realized that industrial hemp has a lot ofgreat characteristics that are really good for the environ-ment. I live in Boston Massachusetts where there is a lotof American hemp history. Our forefathers used hemp forthe sailing ships, the cordage and the sails and I thoughtthat was really cool so I began documenting the hemphistory of my area on my website hempology.org.

I like to say that hemp is a concrete solution to humanityspollution because you can actually make concrete orhempcrete out of the hemp stalk. We can also make die-sel fuel from the hemp seed oil, ethanol out of the stalk,

the stalk can be compressed to make wood burning pel-lets, so there are many benefits that this plant can providewhile at the same time help the environment.

I find it very encouraging that hemp foods are on theincrease, even when you consider that we are in a world-wide recession, hemp foods and the industry in generalare increasing by 10-15% a year.

There is a lot of misinformation and confusion abouthemp. I often get asked if you can fail a drug test aftereating hemp foods. The truth is that when the seeds areharvested they are covered with lots of fine plant mate-rial and if they dont clean those seeds really well then itis possible for the THC concentration to be higher. How-ever, there are really strict Government regulations abouthow much THC is allowed in foods and all companieshave to adhere to this.

To make sure consumers can feel completely protected,the HIA sponsored a certification that hemp food produc-ers place on their goods.

There are many news articles and reports on TV aboutthe importance of eating essential fatty acids and Omega3 & 6, and they almost always say to eat more oily fish.While this is true, not many people know that hemp seedsand oil are a fantastic source of these essential fatty acidsand we should be ready to let the media know how goodhemp really is.

There are still many obstacles facing the industry. For ex-ample, the Canadians have been growing hemp for over10 years. This year they will be growing 30,000 acreswhich is a small amount compared to America where we

grow 200 million acres of corn, wheat, soy and cot-ton each year. What that means is that it isvery difficult for companies to producehemp products profitably becausethe economies of scale haventkicked in yet.

Hemp products are beingproduced in places includingCanada, Europe & Chinaand then we have to im-port them to America sothat makes them even

more expensive.

Another obstacle, what Ilike to call a catch 4-22,is that farmers will notgrow a crop unless thereis market for the productand there cant be a mar-ket for a product unlessthere are the raw materials.

Unfortunately this creates a vi-cious cycle because we are at thebeginning of this industry where wehavent picked up enough momentumyet to create products that inspire farm-ers and show them that they can makemoney by growing hemp.

To add to these issues our Governmentsare still in the reefer madness mindset.It was this mindset that caused them tomake marijuana illegal for over 70 yearsin America, which had the knock on ef-fect on hemp as well. So for over 70 years

there has almost been no research and de-velopment into the machinery that processesand harvests hemp, and that is another hugechallenge to the industry.

My mission is to use the Cannabis curriculumto get students to learn more about hempbecause when students do school papers andresearch projects they learn about it, theirclassmates learn about it and their professorslearn about it. So the goal is to educate all theold farts out there about hemp, how good it is,

how profitable it could be and why there is so muchneed for research.

A company in Massachusetts have just sequenced theCannabis genome so we need scientists, to study this

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The Test Pledge means that companies commit toimplementing quality control measures, which limit the

amount of trace THC in hemp seed and oil, and meansyou cannot fail a drugs test by eating hemp foods. Visitthe Test Pledge website for more information.
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genome to figure out how we can make healthier hempseed or create hemp stalks with more cellulose and morefibre for example.

We need architects and construction engineers to domore work with how to incorporate hemp into hempcreteand hemp particle board which is stronger and more flex-ible than particle board made of wood.

Hemp can really help to revitalize the devastation offarmlands in rural America. When you have a crop thatcan provide food, fuel and building materials it meansthat farmers can grow hemp, the products can be usedlocally, and money keeps getting spent over and overagain creating a multiplier effect within the community.

The Cannabis curriculum is about preaching to thepreachers. I want people out there to become Cannabisambassadors to let everybody know that Cannabis prohi-bition is wrong. Our farmers should be allowed to growhemp and we need to let people know all the great thingsthat can be made out of hemp.

My take home message is that despite our governments

best efforts to demonise Cannabis, prevent farmers fromgrowing it and brainwashing our society we are still inon the secret and we are learning about this great plant.There are more hemp products coming out all the timeand one of the best things that we all can do to end pro-hibition, help our farmers and help our environment is tobuy hemp products.

9th International Conference of theEuropean Industrial Hemp Association

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May 23th 24th 2012

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The congress will ocus on the latest developments concerning hemp and other natural fbres as well as hemp nuts, oil and proteins.

Spectrum of participants

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Industrial hemp has been with humvan civilization sincebefore 7000 B.C. Fast forward to the middle ages andstart of the Renaissance back to your high school les-sonyou may remember a hippie history teacher tellingyou about Christopher Columbus making use of good old

hemp for his ocean-going voyages.Often quoted may have been Columbus hemp-madesails and ship rigging or of course, there was the hemppaper recording highly contested and controversial expe-ditions. Now mind you that class lesson would have beenbefore modern-day anti racism activists demonized Co-lumbus for being a raging colonialist and disease-infector!

But heck that aside, suffice to say that early history hasspoken a positive tone when it comes to the benefits ofindustrial hemp.

Expansionism across the Atlantic led to European mer-chant mariners and the early settlers continuing to de-pend on hemp in a significant economic way. Moreover,American colonialists used hemp as a barter item as aform of money with which to trade.

As time went on however we know that tragically cottonplantations were introduced, to become the preferred,economic system to grow the land using slave labour.Its always been a bit of a mystery why America wentwith cotton instead of hempwhen agriculturally hempmatures extremely fast and yet cotton takes an entireseason. It would take a seasoned historian to unpack this

question (and that I am not) as we know the causes arewrapped up in the history of American slavery and thedespicable nature of it all. Sociologically its not entirelyclear why hemp production ceased. Fast forward to 2012.

HAPPiLy ToDAy, HeMPs Re-eMeRgenCe is WiTH us

Once again, the desire to plant large-scale hemp plan-tations is taking centre stage. Serious economic debateis circulating the hemp movement; amongst hemp en-thusiasts, focusing on this fundamental question Will ahemp textile economy ever be on the horizon in BritishColumbias future?

To get up-to-date on idea of planting industrial hemp fortextile use, the interview with Bill Finley of Hemp & Com-pany (1) provides a basic summary of the general points

informing the conversation (at least, in Victoria Canada).

The crux of the discussion has centered aroundwheth-erthe impetus to move on a development for hempplantations could popularize to such an extent that hemp-industry support becomes the economic reboot that Can-ada needs. Thus inspiring a rethinking of the potentialuses of our local resources.

More and more, hemp-fabric supporters in BC find alliesin wanting to grow industrial hemp commercially. Hempfabrics are a valuable and constructive resource in oursociety. They can be an attractive, ubiquitous and costeffective feature in daily life. The growing of hemp cropfor conversion to fabric is useful to all.

A central public message is required for things to moveforward in a bigger way. It sounds something like this:Hemp fabric is a legitimate and stand-alone product. So.Build the potential for industrial textile hemp plantationshere in BC. Build the potential for fabric manufacturingin British Columbia through a momentum carrying the-needed public message. Build the potential for hemp-fab-ric factories in BC by talking to people about the need forinnovation locally around industrial fabric hemp.

iDenTifying THe sTuMBLing BLoCks

Currently it is economically constraining for wholesalersto import hemp fabric to any large extent. A store may

only carry a few hemp fabric rolls whilst carrying dozensof cotton and polyester.

Equally for ordinary people there are economic hurdlesto purchasing wholesale hemp fabric, here in BC, for thepurpose of manufacture/local design work since it basi-cally remains a speciality item at this time.

For a retail customer and/or local seamstress to pur-chase hemp fabric, at present it costs upward of $16 a/yard. Wholesale-hemp fabric is also not readily available.

This is because the demand for hemp fabric is not well-documented. Many people like hemp-fabric made cloth-ing when they see it. For instance, Hemp block UV Rays-blocks more than 50% more UV rays than regular cottonfabrics. But many other people are not aware of its ben-efits. They need to be!

By DiAne WALsH

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Is it just a matter of societal and government impetusthats required?

TeARing DoWn THe BuReAuCRATiC WALL

You might think theres nothing stopping us. Well, actu-allythere is. And this is something we need to do some-

thing about.In Canada, you have to have control over ten acres of landand have enlightened farmers adept in managing indus-trial hemp for textile-use to make an agro-revolution trulyhappen.

Health Canada needs to be inundated with requests tostart plantations. Sounds simple? As you clearly see, itaint. Its time we #occupy Health Canada to pressurethem to change their 10 acre policy.

geTTing To THe RooT of THe PRoBLeMResearching the reasons why Canada has not moved togrow industrial hemp for fabric-use (in its own country)its difficult to pinpoint in any concrete and convincingway why this couldnt be done.

Other than a combination of laziness, out-sourcing-every-thing prevailing philosophy combined with Monsanto-esque poverty-of-thinking around the value of sustain-able local AGRO initiatives which by and large seem beregularly targeted by vested interest over-reliant on tradi-tional monoculture!

And(it doesnt stop there, folks) theres the charac-teristically Canadian anti-manufacturing climate and theentire obstructionist reasoning that goes along with whywe cant make anything here at home. Then theresNorth American interest at playthe US hegemonic viewof agriculture affecting Canadian cultural views...plus thedynamics surrounding the cotton industry, synthetic in-dustry; drug industry. It goes on an on.

The point being that theres a failure, in Canada to de-velop a self-sustaining market for hemp fabric.

Nobody has even asked the question why industrial hempplantations couldnt be subsidized in the same way as, say,the corn industry. Its a darn good question.

Health Canada needs some heat. Heres how to move for-ward. It is entirely possible and appropriate to enjoy thebenefits of hemp products, as has been shown by govern-ment-funded community studies conducted in BC

WHos Done iT RigHTALReADy...

The District of 100 Mile House, in BC, has moved on hempplantationsthat is, hemp for use in the construction in-

dustry (2). Their funded researchers investigated whetherto go with food, fabric or construction products and theydecided on the latter because of the needs in their specificregion i.e. addressing suffering forestry industry jobs and

the need for innovation in building materials to boost theirlocal economy and community.

Their initiative (which is now a full-scale developmentincluding plans for a manufacturing facility for construc-tion products) illustrates there is broad-based support forgrowing industrial hemp plantations and manufacturing inBC and it is already happening.

In terms of the debate on fabric manufacturingno onedisputes that even though little or no government moneyhas gone into evaluating the merit for hemp-productionplantation for textiles there ARE investors waiting in thewings willing to support fabric manufacturing in BC. Thisis where things stand now.

iTs in THe HAnDs of THe PuBLiC

British Columbia should not be deprived of the legitimateuses of industrial hemp for textile-use. Talk to your politi-

cians! It is entirely possible and appropriate to enjoy thebenefits of hemp products, as has been shown by the 100Mile House District.

There is so much scope for everybody to wear hempclothes and/or use hemp-textile related products. Thereseconomic and practical potential. Failure to utilize thehealthy and sustainable resources available on this planetof which hemp is decidedly a great resource is preciselythe reason why our earth and economy spin out of bal-ance in the 21st century.

Tell Health Canada you want to Canada to grow industrial

hemp large-scale and balance the planet. Seize investorinterest.

The community at 100 Mile House have set the bar withplantations designed for hemp construction products.Now we need to grow similar plantations for hemp tex-tile use. Join the movement.

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wheat flour (type 1050)canola oilsaltwateronionsolive oil

almondsshelled hempnutsof baking powderrosemary needlesthyme

reCipe

ligHt Herb-bread

1. Mix the flour, the canola oil, 1.5 tsp of salt and the water and whisk into a thick dough

2. Dice the onions and brown in a tbsp of olive oil until golden and add to the dough

3. Chop the almonds and add with the hempnuts to the dough, then mix in the baking powder

4. Put baking paper on a tray and roll the dough on the tray. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 20 minutes

5. Mix 3 tbsp of olive oil with a tsp of salt, the rosemary needles and the thyme and coat the bread with the mixture

6. Bake another 10 minutes and eat warm or cold.

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Ive had a few conversations recent-ly where it has been suggested weshould seriously think about renaming

hemp. According to one friend who Iconsider fairly hemp-enlightened, hestill cant hear the word hemp, with-out thinking of its drug related cousin- marijuana.

Many committed hempsters I knowthink this is a ridiculous idea - asIan Murray, Vice President of theQueensland Industrial Hemp Associa-tion commented, it would be like say-ing to someone Hey, I dont like yourname - why dont you change it tosomething a bit easier to pronounce.Which I have to admit is a fair point.

Surely anyone that cant see pastthe connection of hemp to the drugform of Cannabisshould just get overthemselves - right?

Actually, I dont think we can answerthat without acknowledging the factthat as a society, weve been conned.Governments and multinational com-

panies with a vested interest in de-stroying the reputation of hemp havemade it illegal or at least uneconomi-cal to grow.

By linking hemp to marijuana, and bypromoting the myth that marijuanawas used by drug craved psychopathswithout morals, the powers that bemade it so that even now 70 yearslater, the general population is reallyconfused.

It doesnt help when you watch tele-vision shows where the presenterasks whether hemp foods should beallowed in Australia, and the obvi-ously ill-informed and un-researched

members of the panel make stupidcomments like if we were to legalisehemp seeds, people would get fat be-

cause they would all get the munch-ies! (1)

I personally have no issue with thename hemp. I know that hemp ishemp and marijuana is marijuana.I also dont have an issue with thehemp leaf; in fact I think it is quitebeautiful, and Im sure that as you arereading this you probably agree. Butwe already know how great hemp is its the other 95% of the populationwe need to convince.

Its the politicians that are only look-ing to be re-elected, rather than in-vesting in our future and the well-being of the planet. Its the lawenforcement agencies that are onlyinterested in protecting their status-quo. Its the people that watch dumbshows like Sunrise and expect to geta balanced view of what is happeningin the world today.

HoW Do you CHAnge A BeLiefBAseD on feAR?

Around 2002 - 2003, there was ahuge public outcry against geneticallymodified foods in the UK and Europe,to the point where major food chainsrefused to use genetically modifiedingredients and Monsanto threat-ened to shut down their Europeanoperations.

A few years later after relocating toAustralia, I started a research projecton natural compounds in sugarcanethat had potential use in managingdiabetes. The main goal of the fund-ing body was to find ways to add

value to the sugarcane plant and theproduction process.

My research was seen as the poor

relation to a whole suite of projectslooking at genetic modification ofsugarcane for various attributes; forexample to increase the amount ofsucrose produced, to improve howwell nitrogen was taken up by theplant, to produce alternative sugars,etc.

I dont agree with genetic modifica-tion, but I found it fascinating beingin meetings where the discussion was

how to educate the public to the ben-efits of GM foods and get over thefears around the technology. Therewas an entire research project dedi-cated to developing a curriculum totake into schools to teach childrenthat GM foods were safe.

The idea was that children, who didnthave that history of fear, would thenconvert their parents which would al-low GM sugarcane to be more easily

accepted into the wider community.As a side-note, I am absolutely con-vinced that we need to adopt this ed-ucational approach for hemp along-side other environmental outreachprograms.

CHAnge THe nAMe, CHAnge THegAMe?

If you are one of those people thattirelessly write and talk to Govern-ment officials to repeal some of the

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wherever you go just know that youare doing a great job!

But truthfully, its time to accept thatwe are not winning the game and wecant, because the game was neverset up for us to win in the first place.So if we cant win the game - how

about changing it!WHAT Do PoLyesTeR AnD RAPe-seeD oiL HAve in CoMMon?

If you are a child of the 80s you mightthink that polyester disappeared oncethe shell suit went out of fashion. Notso, polyester is still around but wenow know it as microfibre.

According to the New York Times (2)the microfibre of today is nothing likethe polyester of yesteryear. While itis still made of petroleum, microfi-bre looks, drapes and feels more likesuede, and often has the price tag tomatch. The name microfibre comesfrom the fact that its filaments arehalf the thickness of silk and one-thirdthe thickness of cotton.

Polyester has found a real niche in thehiking, camping and outdoor sports

area, with products such as dri-fit,Coolmax and dri-release favouredbecause of their ability to wick mois-ture away from the body.

Rapeseed oil is another example of aproduct that has undergone a namechange. According to Wikipedia (3),

rapeseed oil contained a high con-centration of erucic acid, which hasbeen reported to cause heart and liv-er disease. The name canola camefrom Caadian il, low acid and wasgiven to varieties of rapeseed oil thatwere bred naturally in the late 70sand were considered safe for humanconsumption. Nowadays, most cano-la oil comes from genetically modifiedplants.

so, Do We CHAnge THe nAMe ofHeMP?

I think it is something that as an in-dustry we should consider very seri-ously. I know that some people willnever accept hemp, whatever name itis called. They stand to lose too muchif they acknowledge that hemp canreplace many of the unsustainableand finite resources that are used in

our everyday lives.

The general population have had thisfear foisted on them and many nowfind the mere mention of the namehemp confronting. Wouldnt it beworth removing that huge stumblingblock so that a conversation about

this miracle plant might be met withopen ears and an open heart?

What d th? shld wcha th am hmp? i what d th w hldcha t t? vt th bl r ac-b pa t har r thht.

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