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1. Apparel Industry Magazine: Coming to America: It’s high time for hemp’
   An American cash crop until 1937, industrial hemp is now illegal to grow in the United States. Raw and processed fibers are imported from Eastern Europe and China. Currently under censure from the U.S. textile and apparel industry for violations of trade and human rights agreements, China continues to reap the benefits of this fiber-—while the United States remains the only industrialized nation that is not growing hemp.
   
   
2. Archaeological Institute of America: Buttons and Breeches
   Archaeology at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, coupled with the third president’s fastidious record keeping, are opening the closet door on the clothing of enslaved Africans.
   
   
3. Back to Chernobyl
   Crops may one day be grown again in the contaminated soil surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear plant, if the ideas of Spanish, Ukrainian and American researchers pay off. The teams say that, over many years, simply mulching crops could drastically reduce radioactive contamination.
   
   
4. Business: Hemp’s good habits
   What do bibles, Adidas sneakers and the first draft of America’s Declaration of Independence have in common? The fact that they’ve all been made from hemp, the hippest and most controversial plant material around. Strong, fast-growing and resistant to weevils, hemp’s versatility is lauded by its fans.
   
   
5. COGECA Concerned About Future of Farm Co-Operatives’ Statute
   During the COGECA Praesidium meeting, decisions were taken on various issues concerning the Common Agricultural Policy, namely, the 2000/2001 farm price package, the reform of the common market organisations for flax and hemp and the adjustment of the aid system for cotton.
   
   
6. Canadian Banker: Industrial hemp described as big emerging agricultural product
   The cultivation and production of industrial hemp is an emerging billion-dollar business that’s poised to become a significant part ofthe agricultural industry, according to organizers of The Commercial & Industrial Hemp Symposium II, to be held Feb. 18 and I9 at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre.
   
   
7. Chemical Market Reporter: Hemp seed oil is poised to grow in flavor and fragranc
   In 1998, Canada harvested its first commercial hemp crop in 60 years, and the viability of the plant as a raw material for flavors and fragrances is being explored. Though the fiber, nutraceutical and personal-care industries are set to profit most from this newly cultivated crop, its benefits to the flavor and fragrance community are the least developed and may offer the greatest potential.
   
   
8. Conde & Seber: Building Toward The Future With Hemp Building Toward The Futu
   All over the Pacific Northwest one can see the effects of the massive deforestation that’s been taking place out there during the past 20 years. Whole valleys and mountainsides have been clear-cut - stripped of all plant life - to meet our insatiable demand for fiber, paper and wood. So when High Times learned that Bill Conde, a longtime hemp activist who once ran for governor of Oregon, was researching making an alternative to plywood utilizing hemp, we decided to look into it.
   
   
9. Council Postpones Until June Farm Price Package and Reform of Flax and Hemp Regi
   The European Parliament was not able to adopt its own Opinion on the reform of the common organisation of the market in flax and hemp, which in turn prevented Member States from taking any formal decisions, even in the framework of mere consultation.
   
   
10. Crusader Woody: Gadfly Woody Harrelson takes on an archbishop and those who woul
    Gadfly Woody Harrelson takes on an archbishop and those who would deny the world hemp. Once America’s most lovable dimwit on Cheers, Woody Harrelson has of late become a rebel without a pause. The actor, who stars as Hustler magazine’s sultan of sleaze in the forthcoming movie The People vs. Larry Flynt, withheld $10,000 of his taxes this year to protest the government’s logging policy.
    
    

  
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