1996 Highlights
December 1996 COHIP Update
June 1996 COHIP Update
April 96 Update on the Industrial Hemp Bill Defeat
1/18/96 - Kentucky Farmers Support Hemp
Andrew Graves, a spokesman for the Lexington-based Kentucky Hemp Growers
Cooperative Association and a Fayette County Farm Bureau officer is quoted in this article...
Colorado will consider a bill next week similar to one that lost by only one
vote a year ago, he said. "The support of the American Farm Bureau could put
it through."
1/11/96 - National Farm Bureau Supports Hemp!
This press release reports how the NFB, representing 4.5 million farmers officially supports Industrial Hemp Test Plot Farm Research!
"We recommend that American Farm Bureau Federation encourage research into the viability and economic potential of industrial hemp production in the United States. We further recommend that such research includes planting test plots in the United States using modern agricultural techniques".
(like those proposed by the 1996 Colorado bill to reclassify industrial hemp)
1/11/96 - Agri-View, Wisconsin's largest farm magazine articles.
Hemp Seen as Answer to Fiber Needs
Hemp Industry Finding Fertile Ground in Foreign Countries
Hemp: Income, Market Questions Remain
1/11/96 - Hemp OK in the UK
The United Kingdom is busily pursuing Hemp Agriculture!
1/11/96 - Germany Lifts Hemp Ban
Germany allows hemp farming again!
1/11/96 - Harnessing Hemp article
Environmental, economic vision drives move to legalize industrial hemp
1/3/96 - 1995 USDA Report on Hemp
This is the latest official report from the U. S. Government on
Industrial Hemp Cultivation in the U. S.
12/5/95 - CO Farm Bureau Endorses Hemp!
Results of meetings with COHIP and increased interest in Industrial
Hemp.
11/29/95
- The Rough Draft of the 1996 Industrial
Hemp Production Act
As Tom Ballanco calls it, Act II, scene one.
11/29/95 - Rocky Mountain News
article on the new Legislative Action!
Brought to you online by the Colorado Hemp Initiative Project
Email CO-HIP