Willie Nelson on America

Dalton Bennett / The Washington Post

At 84 years old, Willie Nelson still has a strong voice as one of America’s leading songwriters. He sat down in his tour bus with The Washington Post’s Libby Casey to talk politics, pot, and what Americans can do to come together. He even sang The Washington Post’s new motto.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/willie-nelson-on-america/2017/07/25/1cd58fd0-6e56-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_video.html?utm_term=.bee6ec905ec0

The Hemperor and his Hempress

Andrew Simmons – Fox & Nug Magazine – Summer 2017
A rare interview with Jeannie Herer, plus, taste the hottest concentrates of the season in this issue with special exposes on Ambrosia Extracts, Half Full Glass and a blind taste test of the market’s hottest infused beverages.
 

Modular tiny homes made of hemp could solve workforce housing

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Where Kondo really sets itself apart is its choice of building materials: a hemp biocomposite shell. According to the Stay Kondo website, hemp is a lightweight, strong material that can be sustainably grown in the United States without herbicides. It also grows to maturity in four months, compared with lumber which can take 20 years.
 
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https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/19/15998800/tiny-house-stay-kondo-hemp-modular

Hemp can’t get you high, but it can get high-tech

Don Basile

 

Marijuana is an ancient plant with borderline mystical properties — just ask the 266 million people who smoke it every year. Hemp, the industrial strain of Cannabis sativa, has been used for many purposes — food, fuel and textiles among them — for tens of thousands of years. Unlike its sister strain, hemp can’t get you high. But much like the drug, it has extraordinary qualities.

America is no stranger to hemp. In fact, Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag with hemp and George Washington farmed it at Mt. Vernon. Unfortunately, its full potential was never realized; drug restrictions that banned marijuana suppressed hemp, too. This spurious conflation quashed the industry for about 60 years, until a 2014 farm bill defined it as an agricultural crop, leaving the door ajar to American farmers.
 
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https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/27/hemp-cant-get-you-high-but-it-can-get-high-tech/
 
 

CFCC student uses sustainable ‘hempcrete’ for doghouse


 
For her capstone project in her Sustainability Technologies class, Cape Fear Community College student Leigh Humphries was inspired by nature. Humphries chose an environmentally responsible building material to construct a doghouse — hemp. The recent graduate sought hempcrete to “promote sustainable building techniques and materials through outreach and public awareness.”
Hempcrete is created by mixing the hemp core or “shiv” from the hemp plant with a lime-based binder. This substance not only creates a negative carbon footprint — removing more carbon CO2 from the atmosphere than it generates — but it is also easier and more versatile to work with than standard concrete. Noted as a very durable, lightweight, breathable material, hempcrete lets water in without rotting, and is fire-, pest- and mold-resistant.
 
Full Article: 
http://www.starnewsonline.com/entertainment/20170720/cfcc-student-uses-sustainable-hempcrete-for-doghouse