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• n  a plant fiber
• n  any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs
• n  a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging

• Hemp Universe here in Lexington stopped selling food weeks ago, and Whole Foods Market of Austin, Texas, recommended last week that its 129 stores remove hemp products.
• The plan was simple, if naive: Andrew Graves would grow the hemp, then local companies would sell products made from it.
• Try Poinsettia hemp wrap from Paporganics.

• cannabis
• hangman's rope
• hangman's halter
• halter
• hempen necktie

News & Articles

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• Lab Testing Reveals EnviroTextile's Hemp Fabric Stops the Spread of Staph Bacteria
  Hemp Marches Towards Military and Health Care Applications (PRWeb June 20, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10851098.htm
  June 20, 2013 - PRWeb
• DEA Wages Hemp War Behind The Scenes In House
  The Drug Enforcement Administration has kicked its lobbying against legalizing industrial hemp into high gear, hoping to block an amendment in the House that would decriminalize the crop for research purposes.
  June 20, 2013 - The Huffington Post
• Industrial hemp's future as a crop in Colorado awaits federal action
  The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union is lobbying actively for decriminalization of industrial hemp at the federal level, and bills were introduced in the House of Representatives and Senate late this winter.
  June 18, 2013 - The Steamboat Pilot & Today

Quotes

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• Anita Roddick in MarketWatch
  As Dame Anita Roddick said: "Activism isn't listed on The Body Shop labels as an ingredient, but it is there as surely as the bergamot and hemp oil".
• Alex White Plume in Yankton Daily Press (registration)
  We had all these plans of grandeur and independence, to lead the way with industrial hemp,White Plume said. "None of it worked out."
• Wayne Swan in The Age
  This is a guy who has made a career criss-crossing the country in his hemp underpants pretending to be the green conscience of the Liberal Party,Mr Swan said.