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www.theHIA.org Summer & Fall - 2003 Low Omega-3 Levels The DEA Closed Down the Federal Court Invalidates Linked to 'Lows' Hawaii Industrial Hemp DEA Interpretive Rule NutraIngredients.com - June 30, 2003 Research Project. on Hemp Foods Fatty acids may have a significant October 2003 impact on mood in the elderly, say June 30, 2003 Dr. David West began to grow hemp CONCLUSION researchers in the Netherlands, showing varieties in Hawaii in 1999. The project that it is not just new mothers who could Because the DEA's rule is inconsistent obtained $200,000 funding for the first benefit from an omega-3 rich diet. with the THC regulation in effect two years from Alterna Applied at the time of its promulgation, Researchers from the Erasmus Medical Research Labs, a California company Centre in Rotterdam compared 264 it is a procedurally invalid legislative rule, that uses hemp oil in its hair-care adults over 60 years old with depressive not an interpretive rule. products. We therefore have jurisdiction under symptoms to 461 randomly selected West, an applied geneticist, is in the reference subjects. In the American 21 U.S.C. § 877. process of developing a root stock that The petition requesting that we Journal of Clinical Nutrition it states that can be used to grow hemp in Hawaii low levels of dietary omega-3 are and other semi tropical regions.. The declare the rule to be invalid and associated with low levels of a brain ideal prototype will be able to grow five unenforceable is GRANTED. chemical called serotonin, which cycles a year with high productivity. contributes to depression. The team The last license expired in May 2003, March 28, 2003 concludes: “ In community-dwelling and they received no word on whether HIA and the Organic Consumers Assoc. persons, fatty acid composition is related they had been granted a new one. The petitioned the Ninth Circuit to once again to depression. Because this relation was same thing happened a year ago, when prevent the DEA from ending the legal not secondary to inflammation, athero- they went 11 months without a valid sale of hemp seed and oil products in the sclerosis, or possible confounders, it license before being approved. suggests a direct effect of fatty acid U.S. through their "Final Rule" and on “When the DEA put the project on a April 16, 2003 composition on mood." temporary permit status finding funds and support became difficult, Rep. the Ninth Circuit Court Table of Contents Cynthia Thielen said. "The disappoint- again issued a STAY. HI Hemp Project Closed...... 1 ing thing is we had hoped that industrial HIA vs DEA...... 1 hemp would help Hawai'i's agricultural September 17, 2003 Queen Mother of Hemp...... 2 and small-business companies like it is Federal Court Hearing in other nations where farmers are News: June...... 2-3 A decision is expected within six months. allowed to grow the crop." Events 2004...... 3 “Retailers and manufacturers of hemp News: July...... 4-5 foods should be confident that we will HIA Convention - Pine Ridge...... 5 ***** win this case,” says David Bronner, a News: August...... 6 Meanwhile, the state of North board member of both the HIA and Vote Sax Art...... 7 Dakota passed legislation for a $55,000 Hemp, and Chair of the HIA Food and Oil News: September ...... 7 industrial hemp study, but has not yet Committee. “The three judge panel seemed Lifetime Achievement Award...... 7 received a permit from the DEA. in agreement over our main argument that News: October...... 8-9 the DEA’s ‘Final Rule’ ignores Congress’ News: November...... 9-10 specific exemption in the Controlled Pollock Tshirts...... 10 Substances Act (CSA) under the definition President’s Message...... 10 Dr. Bronner’s & Gertrude Launch of marijuana that excludes hemp seed and Hemp Industries Association ALPSNACK made with hempnuts, stalk from control. Based on the questions PO Box 1080, Occidental, CA 95465 with all profits going toward posed to the DEA, it appears the court Tel: 707 874 3648 Fax: 707 874 1104 hemp advocacy! reasonably views trace insignificant Email: [email protected] HUGE THANKS for your amounts of THC in hemp seed in the same http://www.HempIndustries.org unwavering values and dedication, way as it sees trace amounts of opiates in http://www.HempStores.com from all of us in the HIA. poppy seeds,” says Bronner. http://www.TestPledge.com http://www.alpsnack.com See Transcript at: www.VoteHemp.com 2 HEMP NEWS - June 2003 Queen Mother of Hemp DTN Readers Support Hemp Call for Federal Hemp Industry This is a photo of Peggy Cooney at By Keesia Wirt, Commodities Editor Funds in Australia the age of 23 in 1929 - on the right with http://www.dtnnewswire.com ABC Online - June 11, 2003 her aunt. They are both wearing some Readers are overwhelmingly in favor http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/qld/ stylin’ hemp! Peggy became a model at of legalizing hemp and many said they An opportunity to dominate the world sixteen and worked as a buyer in 1933. would like to grow it. Their views: non-woven textile market could pass She flew to Paris in wicker seats where “Here I am — an educated, conserva- Australia by, according to one of the she bought hemp fabrics for outerwear, tive Republican beef producer about industry's top companies. Eco-Fibre hats and bags. This is one of her favorite to come across as a complete liberal,” Industries is currently planning hemp hats. She helps her grandson, wrote one reader. “Hemp should not Queensland's second planting of commer- Chris with design ideas today. He just be banned as an agricultural/industrial cial industrial hemp at southern Queens- opened a store in Yellow Springs, Ohio crop in this country.” land sites. Managing director Philip Garden of the Goddess: 937-767-9001 Eric Lineback of VoteHemp said, Warner says the one-year-old Australian “The most important thing your readers industry is already producing quality fibre can do is educate themselves, educate cheaper than anywhere else in the world. others and lobby their legislators at the Mr. Warner fears other countries may end local, state and federal levels. up dominating the world market because At VoteHemp.com you can sign up for a the Australian industry is not eligible for free newsletter, read about current hemp Federal Government funding. legislation, send a pre-written fax or letter to members of Congress and even Will Ford last another century? buy hemp products. Hemp is one of the By John Porretto, Associated Press few issues of national interest that Austin American Statesman enjoys tremendous bipartisan and cross- http://www.statesman.com/business/ cultural support.” During the 2003 June 17, 2003 - DEARBORN, Mich. -- legislative session, four states tackled On Monday, the company Ford founded the industrial hemp issue — Iowa, marked its 100th anniversary, and with a Maine, New Hampshire and Oregon. Ford family member still at the wheel. Hemp Swimwear Chairman and chief executive Bill Ford Jr. Delia Montgomery, Chíc Eco said quality is up, recalls are down 40% Designer Peggy Scarborough is the and the company will increase its U.S. first to utilize hemp with a stretch for market share this year. The company is swimwear — a super alternative to back in the black after two years of deep conventional outdoor synthetics. losses. Henry Ford was brilliant and She is the third generation from a innovative, but also an irascible, openly Clean, Green Organic Fibres family of experienced swimwear anti-Semitic man who spied on his By Michelle Hancock makers represented in her California workers. Bill Ford, 46, is low-key and Healthy Living, Canada business, Happy Campers Clothing. self-effacing, and has held town hall-style “Interest in organic fibres such as http://www.happycampers.biz meetings to hear directly from employees. cotton and hemp is budding on the Rare in the auto industry, he has reached international scene. According to a Hemp Jewelry in “Hair" out to environmental groups with prom- ises to cut emissions and raise gas survey by the Organic Trade Assoc., Tom & Sandie’s friend Leo Lunser in mileage. His office is decorated with No. American sales of organic linens, Acton, Maine is the producer of this biodegradable upholstery and hemp household furnishings and female show. The whole tribe was wearing For wallcoverings. hygiene products jumped between 40 Mother Earth hemp jewelry! Check out and 50 % between 1996 and 2000. their store in Arkansas: 870-297-4201 Organic clothing sales are expected to ******* grow an estimated 58% by 2005. Pierre Cardin Hemp Bedding Retailers such as L.L. Bean, Neiman His European stores are featuring Two million cars on the road Marcus, Wal-Mart, Bath & Body Works some beautiful hemp bedroom linens in today have hemp parts - hemp and Mountain Equipment Co-op are a natural, gray and green woven design. providing hemp and organic fabrics in Richard Dash of Dash Hemp had a piece fiber matting replaces fiberglass in response to the growing number of of the fabric at the Yoga Expo in LA, composites for door panels and consumers interested in supporting since he had just returned from a trip to luggage racks! environmentally friendly initiatives.” the mill in China. Wow! 3 EVENTS - 2004 Hemp Company at Royal Show Nutiva Introduces Certified Yorkshire Post - June 21, 2003 Organic Hemp Protein Powder Fields of Fibre Symposium http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk Nutiva, a Northern California manufac- The 90th annual meeting - Montreal Among the key exhibitors in the non food turer of hemp food products, announced January 26 - 29, 2004 crops section of the Royal Show, held in the availability of its latest innovation, PAPTAC - Non-Wood Fibre Committee Warwickshire, England, was the Organic Hemp Protein Powder, containing Alberta Research Council, Canada Springdale company, which is working on 37% protein, 43% fiber, 0% net carbs, 9% http://www.arc.ab.ca the development of dual use hemp for beneficial fats (omega-3,-6, and -9 plus http://www.paptac.ca growers. "We have over 300 acres of the GLA), chlorophyll, vitamin E and iron. crop in the ground this year, sown between The new entry in protein powders can be World Ag Expo - Tulare, CA mid-April and the end of May," said Mr enjoyed with juice or fruit for power- February 10-12, 2004 Meakin. "It reaches maturity in about 130 packed smoothies or used as a low-carb The biggest farm show on earth. days, so it is ready to harvest anytime flour substitute in baking. HIA / VoteHemp will be there between the end of August and mid-Sept. for the third year. "It requires a comparatively low level of Four More Companies Enter US Farmers want to grow hemp! inputs, which should mean it is perfectly Hemp Protein Powder Market “Absurd” is the word they all use. suitable for growing on appropriate soils Hemp Oil Canada, Hempola, http://www.farmshow.org within Nitrate Vulnerable Zones. Living Harvest, and Mum’s Please send products for sampling Like many of the crops Springdale have This new hemp sector certainly tests to the HIA office by February 4th. brought to market, oil hemp is dual the effectiveness of co-opetition: purpose, with the seeds producing valuable cooperating to open a new product line Natural Products Expo oils such as those being used for their while competing for market share. Anaheim, CA nutraceutical properties and the stems We wish you all the best! March 4 - 7, 2004 containing valuable fibre. www.expowest.com "The biggest current market for the fibre is for making environmentally friendly Create a Conscious Workspace insulation, padding materials, the liners Edited from an article by Lyn Falk and ropes used in decorative hanging HIA 11th Annual Lohas Journal Vol. 3 #2 baskets, and for bio-degradable mats used Convention 1) Improve the quality of light – to stabilise ground when first establishing San Francisco, CA Energy efficient and full-spectrum bulbs. sloping landscaped areas." November 3 - 5, 2004 Natural light. 2) Improve air quality – Green Festival Organics continue to grow! Fresh air. Change filters frequently. Food Navigator - June 20, 2003 San Francisco, CA Keep live plants. Add aromas. November 6 - 7, 2004 UK-based Yorkshire Hemp promoted 3) Arrange objects for energy flow – its range of organic products at the Plants, mirror, crystals in corners. Avoid Natural & Organics Products trade show overcrowding. Seat facing entrance. in London: Hemp Nibbles Sweet Vanilla 4) Use natural materials – sustainable & Cinnamon biscuits, Hemp Muesli Fruit fibers, wood, brick, stone, fabrics. New Book: A Modern and three pastas: OrganicHemp Pasta, 5) Nurture emotions – Photos of family Introduction To Hemp Organic Hemp Spaghetti, and Hemp and friends. Vacation memorabilia. By Paul Benhaim Rasta Pasta. Artwork. Music/earphones. A reference guide to everything hemp: 6) Support spirit – What is hemp? Nirvana Ranch, Los Angeles’ Inspirational saying or symbol. Edible Hemp Only Hemp Eco Boutique, 7) Colors – Warm colors are motivating Nutrition Celebrates Grand Opening and exciting. Cool colors are calming. Hemp as a Healer “Nirvana Ranch” already exudes Change with the seasons. Non-edible Hemp mysterious vibes from the street, with 8) Cleanliness – Glossary + Resource Section its hand cut metal sign crowned by an Keep clutter to minimum. www.hemp.co.uk unidentifiable animal skull, possibly a Use nontoxic cleaning products.. sasquatch. The concept was hatched 9) Change the space – Clean and move by Minawear Hemp and Natural Fiber things around seasonally or twice a year. Hemp News Lists Apparel designer, Mina Hegaard, when 10) Stay positive - Be a role model. To subscribe send an email to: the growing demand for a local eco Be grateful for your work. Act with pure [email protected] boutique began to clog the phone lines intentions. Remember love, peace and The Global Hemp News Digest is of the Venice beach office, known to joy vibrate at higher frequencies and available from: [email protected] locals as “The Hemp Ranch.” transform negativity. 4 HIA T-SHIRTS HEMP SHOWCASE

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HEMP NEWS - July 2003 European Grant for Renewable Insulation Environmental Data Interactive World’s First Hemp Plastic Hemp Project May Give The European Commission has agreed CD Project! Farms a New Crop to subsidise a German scheme to promote Paul Benhaim - www.hempmusic.com Daily Post, UK the use of insulation made from renewable Relaxing sounds from the harp, flute, The Hemp and Flax Project - run by materials. Insulation made from sources guitar and angelic voices complement the the University of Wales, Bangor - hopes such as flax and hemp could now be sold ancient drone of the didgeridoo made of to encourage farmers to grow and market at a reduced price, aiming to encourage Hempstone. And the CD tray is made of the crop successfully. the consumer to purchase these materials hemp plastic! Hemptown Sales Smoking Hot, above cheaper insulation materials from Fabric of the Future traditional fossil sources. and It’s Not About Pot Event Aims to Plant Grows Wild in Nepal Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun IANS - July 14, 2003 Monday, July 7, 2003 New Notion of Hemp Fifty-year-old American Mark Rose is In 2001 their sales from hemp clothing Rebecca Nolan, The Register-Guard trying to show Nepal how money grows was $195,000, but that jumped to It was a peaceful Saturday afternoon at on its trees. At Wild Fibers, his studio in $782,000 last year, Jason Finnis said, the Emerald Empire Hempfest. All kinds Thamel, tourist hub in Kathmandu, Rose adding, “This year we expect to do of people stopped by the free event to is making fabrics from things growing in about $2.9 million. Sales are just shop for hemp products, to listen to music the wild. rocketing upwards.” Hemptown is about the political plight of cannabis, to looking to raise $25 million so it can sign medical marijuana petitions and to Rolling Rock Town Fair IV build mills in Canada and a market dine on hemp-based food. There were old Mark Houser, The Valley Independent for fabric-grade hemp. people, young people, big people, little Mike Weaver, owner of Hempfield Eastown Stores Sell Reusable people, people wearing lots of clothes and people wearing almost nothing at all. Candy near Lancaster, PA, said he uses a Hemp Shopping Bags 100-year-old Amish candy recipe, then Morgan Jarema, The Grand Rapids Press The 5th Annual adds non-intoxicating oil from hemp Eastown merchants are not just hoping Santa Barbara Hemp Festival plants to give his lollipops the taste of a new promotion will bring shoppers to the was produced by the Hemp Industries cannabis. But it’s not about pot smoking, Southeast Side neighborhood. They want Association, Hempwise, and the Weaver insists. The goal of his company, people to think about how they spend their Santa Barbara Hemp Company. which also sells hemp pretzels, hemp money. The Eastown Business Association Along with hemp vendors and live music soda and hemp granola, is to get the and several merchants are selling reusable there was a Hemp Fashion Show public to support letting American hemp shopping bags printed with the and speakers included farmers grow for industrial purposes. neighborhood’s new logo. Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum. 5 The 10th HIA CONVENTION Hemp Apparel a Big Hit 'Enviroshake' Arrives was held August 20-23, 2003 on the at the Yoga Expo and By David Burke Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Green Festivals in TX & CA Whistler Question - July 31, 2003 What a Blast! We camped out in tipis on HIA members Awear, Dash Hemp, Officials with a B.C.-based company Wounded Knee Creek, witnessed the Ecolution, Island Hempwear, Minawear, are hoping a new roofing material made Lakota Sioux Hemp Projects, rode Natural High, Smith Center, Splaff of 95 per cent recycled material will help horses, honored the buffalo, and Flopps, Swirlspace, The Emperor’s them catch a ride on B.C.'s "sustain- presented a Hemp Education Seminar, Clothes, Two Jupiters and Pickering ability" wave. On a recent visit to with Joe American Horse and the tribal International had beautiful booths with Whistler, Richard Curtis and Gary president John Yellowbird Steele. crowds visting all day long! Anderson of Envirosafe Building The Hemp Auction raised funds for the Other hemp companies exhibiting were Products Ltd. said the product - called Alex White Plume Defense Fund, Dragonfly, Ecorganic, Evergreen, Enviroshake - is environmentally and we were blessed by the native spirit Sweetgrass, and Vulcana Bags. sensitive, attractive and built to withstand and Lakota cultural wisdom. We hope they will join the HIA soon! whatever elements B.C.'s climate can For a full report, contact the HIA office. throw at them, for the long haul. Pretzels With a Twist "Not only is it beautiful, long-lasting Intelligencer Journal - Lancaster, PA and competitive, but it will withstand By Mark Hoffman - July 28, 2003 Dade City, Florida's 110 mph horizontal The many varieties of Hempzels -- hurricane-force wind and rain," said original, sesame, jalapeno and garlic, as Curtis, the company president. well as soft hempzels -- are the flagship The Enviroshake, developed in the products for the tiny upstart one-man early 1990s by a Canadian living in company that makes and distributes northern Ontario, was introduced back hemp-based foods. Owner, Shawn House east in 1997 and recently in B.C. The explained that the nutritious meat of the shakes are made with a blend of recycled shelled hemp seed is blended with a tires, post-industrial plastic, hemp, flax Kiza Park traditional Pennsylvania pretzel mix to and zinc, Curtis said. From afar, they create the hemp pretzel. The result is a look like slightly weathered cedar - but smooth, crunchy pretzel that tastes great. are far more durable."They come with a In fact, the sesame Hempzels underwent 50-year non-prorated warranty which is a blind taste test sponsored by Food transferable to a new owner," Curtis said. Distribution magazine. The hempzels did "The accelerated weather tests have not come out on top in the annual taste shown that it actually lasts twice as long test, but they were awarded second place as the warranty before it starts to show in the best-tasting pretzel category. signs of degradation." The shakes, which Hempzels were beat out by a chocolate- cost 10 to 20 per cent more than an Afraid of Bear Family Hemp House covered pretzel rod. According to installed cedar roof, also contain no dyes nutritionists, hemp seed is high in or colouration other than what's in the protein, fiber, potassium, vitamin E, tires and hemp material. vitamin C, many vitamin Bs, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc and copper. It also Swirlspace Eco-Shop Rockin’ is high in the "good" fat - Omega 3 - an SF Green Business Alliance essential fatty acid, which has been Fresh inventory, a comfy hangout linked to a reduction in a wide variety of space, and garden all make this retailer health-related disorders. Wild Hemp hot. They are currently forming a net- Teacher Fired For Promotion work of Green and Responsible Busi- Of Hemp Gets $70,000 nesses within SF to create a larger WAVE TV 3 - July 31, 2003 presence within the local community. Frankfort, KY - Donna Cockrel, a former There's many innovative shops, restau- teacher will receive $70,000 from the rants, and services that offer alternative Shelby County School District to settle a solutions to business-as-usual. We are lawsuit she filed in 1997 claiming she gathering these resources to pump up the was wrongfully fired for promoting the hype. The Green Movement is not a fad, legalization of hemp. She had invited it is a Reality of the future and we are actor Woody Harrelson, an industrial fortunate to have many local sprouts hemp advocate, to talk to her fifth grade spearheading various efforts in this New Debra White Plume students. She is now teaching in Detroit. Economy. http://www.swirlspace.com 6 HEMP NEWS Soap and Enlightenment: Waterford Heritage Days Clean Body, Home, Mind Capital News 9 - August 10, 2003 August 2003 By Deanna Larson Residents gathered at the town’s Civic Nashville City Paper - July 22, 2003 and Visitor Center to learn about the role Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap, legendary rope played in the Civil War. One local Shouldn't Your Supplements among campers and simplicity fans, also ropemaker said hemp was the only material used to make commercial rope. TASTE Good?!? dispenses philosophy and spirituality along with the suds. The pure castile Mike Speranza said, "One of the reasons Hemp oil is the richest source of liquid and bar soaps only contain that this country was developed was Essential Fatty Acids, Omega 6 and potassium solution, coconut, hemp, and because of the national hemp growing Omega 3, and contains rare fatty acids olive oils, and 100 percent pure high- here. Hemp powered the ships and as well such as gammalinolenic acid quality essential oils, including rose, everything revolved around it." and stereadonic acid. This means energy, almond, lavender and peppermint. They Farming Innovator’s Estate Sold mental alertness, reduced cholesterol, clean everything from skin, hair, pets and By Steve Meyer and enhanced well-being.The good news teeth, to dishes, sinks, floors, clothes, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier is that more and more people know how furniture, decks and siding. During World War II, Japan stopped the beneficial hemp oil is, and make it part Dr. Bronner saw his soap as a vehicle supply of hemp, which was used to make of their daily diets. for the label, crammed with messages rope. The United States government put You need about 1 tablespoon of hemp supporting his vision of global unity and out a call for inventors to make a machine oil in your daily diet. To get your daily peace. His aim was to "unite Spaceship that could turn the hemp after it was cut. supplement of hemp oil, you'd have to Earth in a deep spiritual love and respect Joe Kucera’s design was the only one take a whopping 12 capsules daily. for God, Earth and each other." The chosen and manufactured. (Iowa) And why bother? Hemp oil is deli- almond soap features Dr. Bronner's cious. Make salad dressing with it, put it Crop Residue Yields Composites ecstatic love poetry. in your smoothie, pour over rice or pasta. Dan Eshelman, Daily Nonpareil For these ideas, Bronner was branded Enjoy the rich, nutty taste of hemp oil. An Iowa company is currently devel- an eccentric and worse, and was even But please don't fry with it - high heat oping and implementing technology to committed to an insane asylum. He will destroy the beneficial fatty acids. convert leftover portions of plants into the managed to escape to California, where http://www.RuthsHempFoods.com components of what are called natural he began making Magic Soap as a third- fiber reinforced plastics - which, in turn, generation master-soapmaker (His soap- are now seen as a viable alternative to Where’s the beef? making roots originated in mid-19th Amy Cameron, Maclean's steel and fiberglass in many applications. century Germany, where the family soap The company currently utilizes three First came soy. Then came flax. Now factory was located). the latest “out there” health food crazes “thermoformers” to make fiber-reinforced Three workers still fill and label plastic products in sheet sizes from 2-by-3 are cooking with hemp seed and eating one-and-a-half million bottles of Dr. only raw food."When I learned how feet to 6-by-10 feet. Depending on how Bronner's Magic Soap by hand each year the items are shaped and molded, they healthy hemp seed was," says Ruth in a one-story, converted candy factory in Shamai, "I thought, 'I've found my could end up as chairs or desks in offices, Escondido, Calif. following Dr. as poles holding power lines, trash cans, calling.' " A long-time, leading proponent Bronner's original environmentalist of legalizing hemp production in Canada as control panels in mechanical or elec- ideas. trical equipment, or as display panels in (which was realized in 1998), Shamai "Everything was rather precious to decided that the best bits -- seeds chock autos and large machinery. him. He loved the Earth and hated to The material has high tensile strength, full of essential fatty acids and high waste anything." quality protein -- should be incorporated meaning it is less likely to dent or bow. into yummy, nutritious meals. Shamai It also has high impact strength, reducing now owns Ruth's Hemp Foods, a Toronto- the likelihood that it will shatter. Fiber- based company that markets raw shelled Dr. Bronner can really be proud of glass, by contrast, shatters and leaves hemp seeds as well as hemp bars, chips, his grandsons, David and Michael. sharp edges. Since the matte material oil, salsa, milk, salad dressing and They have added a line of organic does not rust or corrode, it has excellent burgers. Shamai will be at the Toronto soaps and have partnered with durability, and its acoustical properties International Film Festival premiere -- Gertrude to make the Alpsnack effectively dampen sound. cooking up hemp omegaburgers for which will fund hemp advocacy. From an environmental standpoint, viewers of the new Ron Mann documen- Co-op America awarded them the first the material has benefits. Because it is not tary, Go Further, featuring Woody Green Business Leadership Award heavy, it reduces the weight of vehicles, Harrelson and friends as they bike the in November in San Francisco. farm implements and construction length of the Pacific coast and talk at Congratulations to a wonderful family equipment in which it is used, thereby colleges about environmental issues. who provides an example of a just and increasing fuel efficiency. sustainable business paradigm. http://www.creativecomposites.net 7

Jeff Sax is a renowned artist who has developed some great hempy characters with unique personalities, favorite hemp products and passions for the planet. Contact Jeff if you are interested in seeing his art, buying some incredible pieces, or adopting a character for a product mascot. Jeff also designed and produced a silver coin that he hopes will be used in this new era of monetary accountablity. Jeff can be reached at his studio in Monterrey, California. 800 Dagga 4U or go to: http://www.saxgallery.com or http://www.dagga.org

HEMP NEWS - September 2003 HIA Announces Honorary Lifetime Nutiva Wins Best New Product Hemp Could Be Award at Top Natural Product Crop of the Future Achievement Award Industry Trade Show September 18, 2003 The Hemp Industries Association is Sebastopol, CA – September 7, 2003 David Melmer, Indian Country Today pleased to give an Honorary Lifetime New Hope Media announced that The legal battle to allow families on the Achievement Award to Larry Duprey, Nutiva Organic Hemp Protein Powder is Pine Ridge Reservation to grow industrial The Hemp Club. He is a founding father the winner of the New Product Showcase hemp as a cash crop and help relieve of the modern hemp movement and we Award in the supplements category. The poverty has shifted focus to include the want to thank him for his dedication and industry’s largest trade event with more issues of jurisdiction, sovereignty and devotion to making hemp a household than 4,000 booths, Natural Product Expo freedom. word. We love you Larry! THANKS!!! East was hosted by New Hope Media in Washington DC on September 5-7, 2003. Convert to Hemp Nutiva’s New Product Showcase Award Chase Nielson, The Salt Lake Tribune HEMPhasis is based on voting by the many natural I have been researching different ways product retailers attending the show and America could reduce pollution and save Magazine Debut outperformed more than 300 other the environment. I found a Web site Bob Newland and Jeremy Briggs products vying for the prize. claiming that a single plant could replace (SD) plan to print up-to-date news on Hip Hemp Flows South polluting fossil fuels, stop deforestation state legislation, what's hempening in Business In Vancouver - September 25 and improve the environment. I was other countries, and connect consumers Texas companies looking to up the hip surprised to find out that this plant was to a showcase of hemp products and quotient in their corporate wear can turn hemp. It is ridiculous that this plant is information on hemp events - including to Vancouver-based Hemptown, currently outlawed, and it is time we convert to "Hemp Aid", a benefit for Alex White invading the Texas market with its line of hemp. Plume with Willie Nelson. Organizing hemp-based clothing. Lest the authorities content into a Problem / Solution format, confuse Hemptown's hemp with its Toowoomba to Play Role they will introduce a modern challenge, "colorful cousin marijuana," as Hemptown in Hemp Industry then show how industrial hemp farming notes, remember that George Washington Australian Broadcasting Corporation has application in alleviating it. Ads will grew hemp. By the same toke, current The emerging crop of hemp in Queensland be grouped by location. Look for the users of Hemptown's clothing include the is growing in popularity and Toowoomba Hemphasis College Tour, January to Canadian Football League's BC Lions, is identified as one of the key locations for April, 2004, where the publication will Hyundai, Toyota and the Vermont jam future growers. be distributed: 605-255-4032 band Phish. http://www.hemphasis.net 8 HEMP NEWS - October 2003

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By donating to HempCycle, of music, news, and information from The middle notes include hemp and New businesses help educate the public about some of the most progressive artists, Mexican black sage, and the base features the ecological, industrial and geopolitical teachers, and business people in our suede, vanilla and ebony wood. advantages to biomass fuel as an alterna- community.”www.naturalhighlifestyle.com tive to fossil fuels. www.hempcycle.org Gustavo Alcantar of Swirlspace www.FundingFactory.com 888-883-8237 Conscious Hempwear offers a great email Hot, Hot Hemp newsletter highlighting events in San By Michael Kissinger Hemp Ad Banned Francisco, CA. www.swirlspace.com Vancouver Courier - October 2, 2003 The high school principal of Marta Featured in the September newsletter Swain’s alma mater told her that due to from OrganicConsumers.org is this byte It's customer appreciation day at Hemptown Clothing and a half dozen the fact that students say they think of on the battle in the organic body care people are perusing the latest in hemp marijuana when they hear the word hemp, industry: HOLD THE WATER that their ad, which was put together with The OCA spearheaded a major press event products, from golf shirts and energy bars to something called "personal lube" by the help of students, would not be allowed in Washington DC last week as members Canolio Cosmetiques. Recently, Hempola to be in the yearbook. The ad read: of the natural products industry gathered Know What You're Wearing at a national trade show called Expo East. hemp soap and lip balm found their way into celebrity gift bags given to presenters Be Part of the Solution OCA's press conference focused on the at the American Music Awards, as well as Avoid use of chemicals, pesticides, fraudulent practice of a number of leading at a fundraiser co-hosted by Elton John formaldehyde, heavy metal dyes, body care corporations who are advertis- and unfair working conditions. ing their products as "organic" by includ- and the Osbourne family. Even Italian designer Giorgio Armani is reported to www.HempGoodsEtc.com ing water as an organic ingredient. have invested in a hemp-growing opera- Covered by a variety of media, including Barrie Hemp Company the Washington Post, Indy Media, and tion in Italy. From the yoga dens of Hollywood to Mothering Magazine, the press event Taking Root the boardrooms of corporate America, for preceded a meeting of the Personal Care Sales Projected at $1 Million Task Force (PCTF), a committee of the first time in over 60 years, hemp is hot By Roberta Avery again. Hemptown's promotional T-shirt industry leaders that are slowly hammer- Toronto Star - October 14, 2003 focus has paid off. Two years ago, ing out organic body care standards for Hemp grower Greg Herriott and wife recommendation to the USDA. OCA was Hemptown's annual revenues stood at Kelly Smith started Hempola Valley $180,000. Last year, they were at also in attendance at the PCTF meeting, Farms in 1995 and it is growing at a $800,000. This year it's expecting $3 announcing that it is currently working rate of 50% annually. One popular new with Rutgers University on a scientific million in revenue, producing up to product is "West a Nile-ate," a deet-free 70,000 garments a month. analysis of diluted hydrosols. The results natural insect repellant. Their Healthy Nature's Path, another BC based hemp of the study will finally reveal specifically Brownies received the "Best Baked how much added water is being included company produces two products that Good-People's Pick" award at Toronto's contain hulled hemp seed-Hemp Plus as a so-called "organic" ingredient in these Good Food Festival. Another of their 30 Granola and Hemp Plus Frozen Toaster products. Stay tuned. product lines is a hemp oil wood finish. 8th Intl. CannaBusiness Waffles. V.P. David Neuman attributes Arthur Hanks, the Executive Director hemp's current hip status to a number of This German event featured 142 exhibi- of the recently formed Canadian Hemp factors. "It's a catchy product. It's still kind Trade Alliance, estimates that sales of tors from 17 nations and trade visitors of trendy. But it's also very nutritious.” from more than 30 nations. TV and news Canadian-produced hemp products will Neuman states, "We're not getting out of media reported on the event and heralded top $33 million this year. the hemp business unless we're forced out Recently retired National Hockey the new Cannabusiness Magazine launch. of it. And even then we'll go down The winners of the Hemp Product Award League star Bernie Nicholls has become a fighting." (Nature’s Path is a plaintiff in spokesperson for Hempola, and attended were Pure Hemp Essential Oil (Chanvree - the HIA vs DEA case.) Diffusion) and Hemp Jeans (Hempro the CHFA show in Toronto to sign International). www.cannabusiness.com autographs and create some excitement.. 9 Green Light for Hemp Farming Simon Collins - New Zealand Herald HEMP NEWS - November 2003 October 22, 2003 Officials have found that regulations Environmental Summit HIA Radio Show Moving permitting temporary trials of industrial Promotes Forest Protection "HEMP: Lifeline to the Future" a hemp in the past two years have worked By Angela Ricci one-hour radio talk show about Hemp, well and could become permanent from Daily Princetonian - November 6, 2003 produced by the Hemp Industries Associa- July next year. Hemp expert Dr Mike Members of the Princeton Environmental tion, broadcast it's last show on KMUD, Nichols, a retired horticulture lecturer at Network joined about 60 students from 12 the Pacifica Network Affiliate, Massey University, said the move would other northeast colleges and universities in Southern Humboldt County. Host allow farmers and councils to plant hemp for the Northeast Environmental Confer- Steve Levine, from the Santa Barbara to extract excess nitrogen and other ence at Brown University during Fall Hemp Company will be moving the show organic "nasties" from the soil in sensitive Break. Workshop topics included wind to a radio station in the Los Angeles or areas such as around Lake Taupo. energy, national parks, forest protection, San Francisco area soon, probably next "There are problems throughout New food distribution, hemp uses, the World spring. After 3 years on the air, the last Zealand in terms of eutrophication of the Bank and campus organizing. year and a half at KMUD, Steve and the lakes due to dairy runoff," he said."I think HIA have decided to try and reach a larger there is potential for using cannabis down Southern Humboldt Hempfest market while continuing to spread the news about our favorite plant. the sides of streams to soak up the By Daniel Mendez nutrients and not to waste the nutrients, Humboldt State Lumberjack but to feed them back to the cows." November 5, 2003 New Store Hopes to Raise A study by AgResearch scientist This Saturday, "hempsters" from all Environmental, Social Awareness Dr. Han Eerens in the latest issue of over Northern California will come By Dwana Simone Bain the NZ Journal of Crop and Horticultural together at the Mateel Community Center San Francisco Examiner - November 19 Science has found that industrial hemp in Redway. Lenda Hand belongs to the Fabrice and Debra Hubert think appears to be more profitable than the Hemp Awareness Group, a coalition of Burlingame is the perfect place for a existing hay-silage operation. pro-hemp activists who have put on the store like Ecolibrium. It offers a selection New Wool Products owner Lindsay event for 13 years."Its the most nutritional of hemp goods, from shirts to shoes. Newton said hemp and wool insulation seed on the planet," said Hand. "It has a "Hemp is huge," Debra said. could be made with far less energy than perfect ratio of omega threes and sixes... fibreglass batts, absorbed sound better and I do organic blue corn hemp chips and Travel Story - United Kingdom: absorbed water from the air in humid hempseed coffee with whole roasted Coastal Cornwall periods, releasing it again when the hempseed from Canada in it." By Max Pudney - The Press humidity dropped without forming Elvy Musika, one of the few federal The world's biggest conservatories, the condensation. "Hemp comes out totally recipients of medical marijuana,will be Eden Project biomes, are home to fireproof. Its acoustic properties are one of the speakers. There will also be thousands of plants from around the higher than wool and their thermal some venders present such as the Merry world. Tea is being grown, beer is being properties are about equal," he said. Hempsters from Oregon with their brewed and hemp grown for rope, for line of hemp-based body care products. tough clothing and even for bank notes. New Book: Hemp Conspiracy The average attendance is 1.8 million a Details the creation of a legal industrial year. www.edenproject.com hemp venture in Nicaragua in 1997/98. From Cannabis to Carburetor A successful 80 ha research crop survived Food Industry Unprepared Hurricane Mitch to be destroyed by the U of T Prof Makes for New FDA Rules DEA. Canadian national and Hemp-Agro Autoparts from Hemp FoodNavigator.com - November 4, 2003 SA technical director, Paul Wylie was By Zoe Cormier The new rules require all food producers, arrested and sentenced for an indefinite The Varsity (University of Toronto) processors, packers and shippers to period in "La Modela" prison - without Amid the clutter of textbooks, journals, register with the FDA, and require non-US any legal defense. Literally kept alive by papers and reams of notes in the office of companies to designate a registered agent his girlfriend's selflessness and courage, Dr. Mohini Sain sit a car door, a bus seat, in the US. In addition, a further, and rather his own faith and mental strength tested an instrument panel, a deck plank, and a controversial, provision requires prior to the limit, Wylie rides an emotional car bumper-all of them made from hemp. notice of all food shipments entering the roller coaster of false hopes and broken And hopefully, in the very near future, we US. Non-compliance could mean thou- promises. The appeal court orders his will be able to make biomedical supplies, sands of food shipments being held at the release after 12 months incarceration, but like bloodbags, and even airplane parts US border, a potentially disastrous he has to flee the country - leaving behind from hemp."Our direction is to move situation, especially for importers of his love and the woman that saved him. away from fossil fuel based synthetics to perishables. www.hempconspiracy.com more natural alternatives," said Dr. Sain. www.fda.gov/oc/bioterrorism/ 10

Jim Pollock’s News Video Press Release President’s Message “Grow A Field of Paper” Proposal As I begin my fifth year on the HIA print is available on a Mintwood Media is coordinating a Board and eighth in the Hemp Industry, I have never been more confident and Hemp-rich T-shirt. video news release to put out via satellite when the final court ruling comes down optimistic about our future. From my $30 - Includes Shipping for HIA vs DEA. French Meadow, Dr. viewpoint, 2003 was the best year yet. Order from the HIA Bronner's, Hemp Oil Canada and Nutiva From the legal victories against the www.hempindustries.org have signed on so far. We need to raise DEA as we continue to fight for our very survival, to the last HIA Conven- 707 874 3648 about $12K and the minimum to get in is $1,000. For more info and a copy of the tion in Pine Ridge where we were proposal, contact Adam Eidinger at: emotionally and spiritually rejuvenated, [email protected] this organization and this industry as a whole is grow-ing up fast and has re- CannaTrade 2004 gained it's momentum. From the Farm International Hemp Fair Show in Tulare, CA in February to the March 19-21 Green Festival in San Francisco in November it was quite apparent. The Bern, Switzerland public, including farmers and politi- HIA and VoteHemp will once again cians who understand our issue, have have a presence at this 4th annual never been more supportive. And most event. Last year there were over 150 exciting of all are some of the in- vendors and 10,000 people in attendance. credible new products that have been This year HIA will also be showcasing a in-troduced to the marketplace, few North American Hemp Companies especially in the Food & Oil sector. as well as providing information from Thanks to all of you for your contribu- our two industrial hemp organizations. tions. So I wish you a wonderful To send products, email: Steve Levine Holiday Season. May you find health, [email protected] prosperity and joy this special time of Event Info: www.cannatrade.ch year as well as in the New Year to Health Advice from Manitoba come. 2004 promises to be a break- Harvest Hemp Foods and Oils through year for us! PEACE, Steve Is it possible to get rid of trans fats in the body that you have eaten? Researchers in Denmark suggest that if you were to Living Tree Paper Company stop eating all trans fat, it would take Launches New Venture several months to a year for it to leave HipHempPosters.com offers limited your blood and body fat. edition concert/event posters and political Snuffed Out! Eating oils rich in Omega-6 and and social conscience works of art. After three years of successful business, Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids(EFAs) The three very special pieces are the The Wyoming Snuff Company has been like cold pressed Hemp Seed Oil help to first in an enviro-poster series by the forced to temporarily close it's doors. displace trans fats in the blood. The EFAs most provocative concert poster artists on "Kenex, the supplier of the hemp hurd also have the opposite effect of trans fats today's poster scene: Emek, Jeff Wood in our Hempdip, decided to get out of the as EFAs help to raise the HDL (good) and Gary Houston. hemp business and go back to fruits and cholesterol and lower the LDL (bad) “The initial idea was to bring together vegetables" said Mark Daly, President of cholesterol. three very distinct artists, throw a concept the Wyoming Snuff Company. "We have The U.S. Food and Drug Administra- out there - “Earth, Air, Water, Mind... and been looking for an alternative supplier tion (“FDA”) and Health Canada have see what happens. What came back to us, for over three months, but it appears that recently made changes to the labeling to our delight, were these three images so the DEA has convinced the Canadian laws so that Trans Fats have to be listed individual in nature, bound together by a Hemp Industry that hemp being "in- on all food product labels. These changes loose thread. We hope you enjoy them.” gested" is a bad thing. They just won't sell will not take affect until Dec, 2005. Bob Frankel, Living Tree Paper Co. it to us anymore.” Hempdip helped many Dr. Walter Willett, Chairman of the The prints are a limited edition set people quit tobacco. So, The Wyoming Department of Nutrition at the Harvard of 500 silk-screened posters printed on Snuff Company will continue to look for School of Public Health calls partial Vanguard Eco Blend, comprised of 25% another supplier and fight for the right to hydrogenation of oils the “biggest food- hemp and 75% post-consumer waste. grow hemp in the United States. You can processing disaster in world history.” Each is signed and numbered by the still visit the website: www.hempdip.com www.manitobaharvest.com artist. [email protected]