Tiny hemp house built in Bellingham, Washington

Alison Morrow
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(Photo: KING)
 
Permits to build a house out of hemp don’t exist, but that isn’t stopping a Bellingham woman from building two hemp houses.
“This is what we call hemp herd,” Pam Bosch said. “It’s like straw only it’s stronger.”
Bosch hasn’t ever built a home before. She’s using lime mixed with hemp to create plaster.
“Anybody can do this,” she laughed. “Grandma can do it. Grandma’s doing it.”
 
Full Article:
http://www.king5.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/09/18/tiny-hemp-house-bellingham/72431564/

Toledo, Ohio Votes Yes To Decriminalize Marijuana by 70% Margin

by Rick Thompson
Kevin Spitler of the Toledo Hemp Center
photo caption: Kevin Spitler of the Toledo Hemp Center: photo by Rick Thompson/The Compassion Chronicles
 
During a city-wide vote on Tuesday September 15, 70% of Toledoans said YES to removing all criminal penalties for possession of under 200 grams of marijuana and reducing penalties for larger possession offenses.
The ordinance “eliminate fines and jail time for marijuana violations and lowers all marijuana crimes in the Toledo Municipal Code to lowest level allowed under state law… The measure would also prohibit asset forfeitures and driver’s license suspensions for marijuana violations and forbid reporting of convictions to professional licensing agencies when the the offense is prosecuted under the Toledo Municipal Code and not the Ohio Revised Code,” per a report in the Toledo Blade newspaper.
 
Full Article:
http://thecompassionchronicles.com/2015/09/16/toledo-votes-yes-to-decriminalize-marijuana-by-70-margin/
 

Indiana – Purdue hosts first hemp field day

Erica Quinlan, Field Editor

A field day participant examines a hemp plant during a field day in West Lafayette, Ind.
A field day participant examines a hemp plant during a field day in West Lafayette, Ind.
After decades of not being able to legally grow industrial hemp, Purdue University researchers unveiled trial plots of the crop during a field day.Like most crops in Indiana the hemp fields experienced heavy rains early in the summer. In spite of inclement weather, most of the plants survived.

 
Full Article:
http://agrinews-pubs.com/Content/News/MoneyNews/Article/Purdue-hosts-first-hemp-field-day-/8/27/13243

Jeans—Buttons and All—Turn to Compost Once Overworn

LEO LUTERO

 
Freitag has developed an alternative denim fabric that causes less harm to the environment and can be decomposed after use. Freitag’s F-ABRIC is a radical change from the resource-hungry way denim is produced today.
Color and texture-wise, the F-ABRIC Denim doesn’t look far from the regular cotton ones. The blue is still rich, the ridges are still there and the sturdiness is present. However, instead of using cotton fibers, Freitag uses a line (81%) and hemp (19%) blend.
 
Full Article:
http://www.psfk.com/2015/09/compostable-jeans-freitag-f-abric-denim.html

Henry Ford Designed a Car made of Hemp: More Fuel Efficient, More Durable: It Disappeared

Joshua De Leon
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Henry Ford was an innovator ahead of his time. By 1941, Ford had been working on ways to invent more fuel efficient and durable vehicles that could operate with alternative fuel sources. He came up with a hemp-bodied prototype automobile, which he foresaw running on alcohol generated from agricultural products such as Hemp.
 
Full Article:
http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/08/henry-ford-had-a-car-that-ran-on-hemp-it-disappeared/