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4 unusual facts about hemp


Jim Fannon

Fannon is a veteran real estate sales representative with RE/MAX in the St. Catharines area and is the founder of Nature’s Hemp, a local business selling hemp-related food products.

Louis Aubert-Roche

In 1839, William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1809-1889) of the British East India Company published a treatise called On the Preparation of the Indian Hemp or Gunja, Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal.

Water-hemp

Amaranthus cannabinus - salt-marsh water-hemp, tidal-marsh water-hemp or water-hemp pigweed

Žalvarinis

The song Aš kanapį sėjau (I Sowed a Hemp), taken from the 2005 album Žalio vario was featured on Transformations in Lithuanian Song – a 2006 compilation CD that covered the development of Lithuanian folk music over many years, published by the Lithuanian-American journal Lituanus.


Aire, Ardennes

Through the concerns mentioned in this list of grievances some activities were highlighted, including the vineyards, and the cultivation of hemp that villagers wanted to rett in the river unmolested.

Alex White Plume

Although the Oglala Sioux have sovereignty on their land and hemp does not have psychoactive properties, the agents operated under a 1968 federal anti-drug law prohibiting the cultivation of Cannabis-related crops.

Amlikon

Until the 19th Century the main economic activities were grain cultivation in a three-field system and hemp production.

Ardeşen

The income from tea growing has brought better amenities to Ardeşen but the traditional rural lifestyle persists; many of the people in the countryside are ethnic Laz and the older generations in particular continue to speak the Laz language although their traditional clothing has disappeared with the ban on growing hemp.

Arhuaca mochila

In the town of Atanquez, the bags are most frequently made with hemp from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain-range.

Cannabis in Oregon

In 2012, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, an initiative to allow personal marijuana and hemp cultivation and use without a license was defeated in a state ballot.

Cannabis in the United Kingdom

Place names of important centres of the former hemp industry still contain the name of hemp such as Hempriggs in Caithness and Hempland in Dumfriesshire.

Chexbres

It could be derived from the Roman personal names Cabrius, from the Gallic words Caebre (meaning city on a hill) or from Cabus (hemp).

Cochylidia rupicola

The larvae feed on the flowers and seeds of Hemp Agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum), Gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus), and of Chrysocoma linosyris during August to October.

Coffeeweed

Sesbania herbacea (Family Fabaceae), also known as "Colorado River hemp" or "bigpod sesbania", a plant species native to the United States

Dardanelles and Freel Roadless Areas

Also growing is the toxic dogbane, or Indian hemp, used by Native Americans in basket-weaving and for bowstrings.

French Meadow Bakery

French Meadow Bakery and Cafe also features airport concession stands at Salt Lake City International Airport, JFK International, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, airport in Atlanta, Logan International and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airports which offers such products as peanut butter cookies, carrot cake, hemp bagels and a variety of freshly baked breads.

Grandview–Woodland

Known locally as "The Drive", visitors find everything from trendy coffee shops to hangouts for many ethnicities (celebrations during the FIFA World Cup can bring out soccer fans of many nationalities, for example) to sex toys to hemp shops.

Great Horkesley

Horkesley is a modern name for the original Saxon name of "Horkaslay" which means "farm land for herds" (mainly sheep) though now it has many fields growing a variety of crops from corn to hemp.

Green Party of Canada

The second-place finisher David Chernushenko, an environmental consultant, owner of Green & Gold Inc. and two time candidate, collected 1,096 votes or 33.3 per cent of the total, while Jim Fannon, real estate agent at RE/MAX Garden City Realty, four time candidate and founder of Nature's Hemp finished a distant third, collecting just 29 votes or 0.88 per cent of the vote.

Gynatrix

Gynatrix pulchella (Hemp Bush, Aboriginal Hemp), a shrub to 3 metres in height with white or cream flowers that occurs in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania.

Hlukhiv

Due to the traditional cultivation of industrial hemp in the area, Hlukhiv has become home to the Institute of Bast Crops of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, working on breeding improved hemp and flax cultivars.

Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2011

Gatewood Galbraith, attorney and Industrial Hemp advocate from Lexington and four-time gubernatorial candidate (candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1991, 1995, and 2007 and Reform nominee in 1999)

Leaflet

For example, a hemp plant has palmate compound leaves, whereas some species of Acacia have pinnate leaves.

London and Blackwall Railway

Each track had a double length of hemp rope, as an engine was winding in from one end an equivalent length of rope was being paid out at the other.

Mathias Bröckers

In 1993 he co-authored wrote the influential Die Wiederentdeckung der Nutzpflanze Hanf (The Rediscovery of the Agricultural Crop Hemp) with Jack Herer.

Pablopavo

He has recorded with artists such as Fu (Olsen/Fu, Zipera, ZIP Skład), Hemp Gru, O.S.T.R., Sidney Polak, Sedativa, Dreadsquad, Magiera, James Ashen, Habakuk, Junior Stress, Maleo Reggae Rockers, and Molesta Ewenement.

Peter Ricq

His work has been exhibited in Montreal, Vancouver, San Diego and Portland and has been featured in several international magazines (Hemp, Under Pressure, CRUX), in Wallfarmers, a website dedicated on exposing new and established contemporary artists.

Planet Hemp

Planet Hemp was a Brazilian rap rock musical group, known for starting the career of rapper Marcelo D2 and for its lyrics supporting the legality of cannabis.

Rheumatism root

Apocynum cannabinum, also known as Dogbane, Amy Root, Hemp Dogbane, Indian Hemp, or Wild Cotton

San Giovanni in Persiceto

In the Persiceto we can pinpoint samples of early rural industry: for centuries the inhabitants of the Persiceto cultivated hemp, but then not only the local production (together with cloth machining) flowed to the weekly market, but also the hemp coming from other places (such as for instance Cento and Crevalcore), so that its trade was included in the announcements.

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Biodegradable plastic: Another team used its EVP to develop a synthetic wood substitute made from hemp fibers and a biodegradable plastic resin called polyhydroxybutyrate.

Super Roots 8

#"Jungle Taitei (Laughter Robot's Hemp Mix)" (remixed by Yann Tomita) – 7:49

Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia

It has long, narrow leaves, these being reminiscent of the unrelated Hemp Nettles, Galeopsis.

Waraji

Traditionally the rope material was made of rice straw, however waraji can be made out of various other materials such as hemp, stalks of myōga, palm fibers, and cotton thread.

Yurigaoka

Around the 8th century, hemp grown in the district was offered as tribute to the Japanese Imperial Court.


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