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Standing Silent Nation Free film showing at UH Hilo
( events » community ) Global Hope presents -- Standing Silent Nation
Documentary with Discussion to Follow
In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed...
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event starts Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 7:00 PM
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Irrational fear sustains taboo on handy hemp
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On Nov. 16, a Star-Bulletin editorial declared, "Judge should halt DEA ban on hemp crops." The editors wisely noted that hemp is different from its distant cousin, marijuana, in that hemp contains only trace elements of the mind-altering chemical...
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Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists
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America was rudely awakened to a new kind of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left 2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial airliners that were used as weapons. Many feel it was the most tragi...
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Hemp Facts
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1) Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approxima...
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Fascism in America???
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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem...
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On Nov. 16, a Star-Bulletin editorial declared, "Judge should halt DEA ban on hemp crops." The editors wisely noted that hemp is different from its distant cousin, marijuana, in that hemp contains only trace elements of the mind-altering chemical tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.
The federal court case was brought by two North Dakota farmers, one a long-time state legislator, who sued the Drug Enforcement Agency for preventing them from growing industrial hemp. North Dakota law authorizes ind...
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America was rudely awakened to a new kind of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left 2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial airliners that were used as weapons. Many feel it was the most tragic day in U.S. history.
Four commercial jets crashed that day. But what if six jumbo jets crashed every day in the United States, claiming the lives of 783,936 people every year? That would certainly qualify as a massive tragedy, wouldn't it?
We...
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1) Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.
2) Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and US farmers grew abou...
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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all.
Tuesday April 24, 2007
The Guardian
Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Withi...
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HawaiiЃfs economy is based primarily on the tourist industry. But, there is another industry that can do even better, the hemp industry. Hemp is a tall, fast-growing plant, or scientifically, the Cannabis sativa L. Many people confuse hemp with the drug-type of this plant. They are both from the Cannabaceae family, but are very different from each other.
Many people believe that hemp may have been the first cultivated plant. For thousands of years, it has been used worldwide. The earlies...
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March 14, 2008
Blair smiled at me today and it made my day! How beautiful.
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