2 Mar 2015

Free Hemp Now

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Free Hemp Now

Why is industrial hemp still illegal to grow in Virginia in 2015?!? Delegate Joseph Yost (R-12th) and introduced into the 2015 General Assembly House Bill #1277 also known as the Virginia Industrial Hemp Farming Act will help end the costly and downright oppressive prohibition of this amazing natural renewable resource. Please spread the word by sharing this video with your friends and call, write or email your local Virginia Delegate and Virginia Senator and ask them to support HB #1277 during the 2015 Session. Thank you for your time! Please consider donating to our cause TODAY at http://igg.me/at/VAHemp/x/9476421 For more information visit www.vahemp.org
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1 Mar 2015

Bill to Effectively Nullify Federal Ban on Industrial Hemp Passes Washington

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Bill to Effectively Nullify Federal Ban on Industrial Hemp Passes Washington …
OLYMPIA, Wa., Feb. 10, 2015 – By a unanimous 7-0 vote today, a Washington state House committee approved a bill that would authorize the farming, production, and sale of industrial hemp in the state, effectively nullifying the federal prohibition on …
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Industrial hemp in Oregon: Department of Agriculture accepting applications to …
In this Oct. 5, 2013 photo, volunteers harvest hemp at a farm in Springfield, Colo. during the first known harvest of industrial hemp in the U.S. since the 1950s. America is one of hemp's fastest-growing markets, with imports largely coming from China …
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How Did Hemp Become D.C.s Bipartisan No-Brainer?
A bipartisan coalition from both the Senate and House of Representatives has rallied behind complementary bills S. 134 and H.R. 525, dubbed the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015, which would require the federal government to respect state laws on …
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VA General Assembly Approves Industrial Hemp Farming Act 2015
"We are poised to be able to allow our state universities and Department of Agriculture to approve the growing and cultivation and processing of industrial hemp in Virginia for the purposes of pilot programs," said Chase Milner, Shenandoah Valley …
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1 Mar 2015

Global Hemp Group Announces Consulting Agreement with Green Dot Consulting, Inc.

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Burbank, CA (PRWEB) February 07, 2015

GLOBAL HEMP GROUP INC. is pleased to announce it has entered into a mutual consulting agreement with Green Dot Consulting, Inc. (“GDC”), of Burbank, California, an experienced leader in cannabis industry education; data analytics; legislation; product & business development; extractions, genetics and more. The GDC team has a long and successful track record building brands like Cannabis Career InstituteTM, CannaTrendsTM, CannaJobsTM and many others.

The agreement calls for Green Dot to consult with GHG on the expansion of its business model into the medical cannabis industry and associated projects. Similarly, GHG will consult with Green Dot on its expansion into the hemp industry and associated projects.

Initially GHG will consult for Cannabis Career Institute (“CCI”) on expanding curriculum to include coursework on hemp economics, business opportunities; building materials, food & nutrition, cultivation, genetics, processing, bio-composites, etc. GHG staff will be hired to speak at CCI classes on the business of hemp and the entrepreneurial opportunities available in the hemp industry. In addition, Green Dot is gearing up for several cultivation facility construction projects that they intend to build with hemp materials. GHG will consult on the design, materials selection and sourcing, construction, automation, optimization and management of these facilities.

Global Hemp Group has been receiving an increasing number of inquiries regarding consulting on medical cannabis related projects as the industry continues to rapidly expand. With this agreement in place, the Company now has a strong partner in Green Dot Consulting that enables it to pursue a wide range of projects in the medical cannabis spectrum.

Robert Calkin, CEO of Green Dot, Inc. stated: “One the major concerns surrounding the cannabis industry is that indoor production of marijuana already has an enormous carbon footprint and we’re just getting started. We are proud to partner with a company whose main focus is to reduce the amount of energy used in the cultivation and extraction process. The cost per gram of cannabis nationwide will be directly impacted by the choices we make now in these crucial areas of savings. Whole markets will fall in the future if these concerns aren’t addressed.”

“To partner with a strong, experienced company like Green Dot, led by cannabis industry pioneer Bob Calkin, is a privilege and holds tremendous value for our Company,” said Charles Larsen, CEO of Global Hemp Group. We are looking forward to getting started on projects that both companies already have queued up that will provide a consistent stream of revenues for both parties as GHG expands its business model. The relationship with CCI will produce a steady flow of new business consulting projects from the entrepreneurs that attend CCI classes to educate themselves before launching their own canna-business.”

About Green Dot Consulting, Inc.

Green Dot is a multi-faceted company with a vast national network that includes cannabis scientists, medical specialists, new-product developers, cultivation and cannabis-industry experts, labor management consultants and more. Green Dot offers a complete solution, providing consistent access to hybridized cannabis strains, customized specific cannabinoid products to the cannabis business industry while maintaining highly experienced, trained industry experts, detailed cannabis data management, labor force management and highly sensitive formulations from high performance labs and grow facilities.

About Global Hemp Group Inc.

Global Hemp Group, Inc. is a publicly traded holding company founded in 2012. It is headquartered in British Columbia, Canada with base operations in Southern California and South Africa. The Company is acquiring and/or joint venturing with companies across all sectors of the hemp and cannabis industries in an effort to build a “soil-to-shelf” portfolio of complimentary companies that will enable GHG to capture cash flow, revenues and value from its acquisitions and establish a far greater collective valuation than GHG or the individual companies would have on their own. The Company performs comprehensive research and analysis on companies in these industries, both public and private, seeking acquisition and joint venture opportunities with experienced experts in the industry. GHG portfolio companies operate synergistically, enabling greater efficiencies, profitability and value through the economies of scale created from operating as a cohesive group. The Company also provides consulting services, from agronomics and technology to product development and distribution. In addition, GHG provides brokerage services to hemp and cannabis producers, processors, manufacturers and distributors.







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28 Feb 2015

Hemp Seed Nut – Hype Or Health

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Mankind has been searching for the perfect food since the beginning of time. We can recall scenes of the snake oil salesman hawking elixirs and potions of all kinds, even ones that supposedly included the oils from snakes, promising to cure everything that ailed a person.

If this is as good as it seems why haven’t we heard of it before now? Actually, it has been around for centuries. The Chinese were using it in medicine five thousand years ago and it was grown widely in the United States until it became illegal in 1937.

Clinical studies indicate that this tiny seed is unmatched in Nature for its balance of all required proteins and all essential fats as well as most vitamins and enzymes.

No other food will give you a perfect and natural blend of easily digested proteins, essential fats (Omega 3 – 6), amino acids, fiber, iron, vitamins, calcium and enzymes all in one package. It isn’t a vitamin or supplement.

There are no known allergies making it of special benefit to those who are unable to eat gluten, lactose, sugar, fish, nuts, meat and other common foods.

Just picture this:

If you suffer with arthritis imagine the feeling of relief from reduced swelling and inflammation.
Eat it at breakfast. Your body will then be satisfied and happily working with all the nutrients contained in the seeds, and won’t irritate you with hunger pains or cravings for sweet or salty snacks!
When eaten consistently for three months, many have noticed a reduction in cholesterol and blood pressure levels, decreasing the risk of stroke.
Stop feeling tired all the time. Give your body energy to burn! Bring back that youthful vitality and become more productive!
Another, less talked about benefit is the effect on one’s regularity. Yes, I’m talking bowels. It is also an excellent source of fiber.

So, what is this tiny little seed that almost sounds like “Jack and the Bean Stalk” fairytale promising to be magic? It is none other than Hemp Seed Nut. It is the fruit of the cannabis sativa plant or rather the inside of the dehulled hemp seed.

Hemp Seed Nut is gaining popularity as a natural nutritional substance within the health and wellness field as a viable source of well being. This natural food dramatically reduces many of the symptoms and diseases that are associated with the aging process. It can also improve circulation and boost the immune system.

You can expect to hear a lot more about the benefits of Hemp Seed Nut in the very near future. There seems to be no other natural food product quite like it.

Is Hemp Seed Nut the latest snake oil or is it truly “nature’s perfect food”?

Follow this link to learn more about Hemp Seed Nut and what it can do to improve your health.

28 Feb 2015

House panel backs bill seeking to boost industrial hemp crop

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House panel backs bill seeking to boost industrial hemp crop
The House agriculture committee unanimously passed the proposal that would specify the exemption of industrial hemp from its illegal cousin marijuana to include the “fiber, seeds, resin, and oil or any other compound,” from an industrial hemp plant.
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47 U.S. Representatives Co-Sponsor Bipartisan Industrial Hemp Farming Act
Vote Hemp, a major grassroots hemp advocacy group, on Thursday announced the introduction of complementary bills in the U.S. House and Senate, S. 134 and H.R. 525, titled the “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015,” with support on both sides of the …
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Industrial Hemp Bill Clears House Panel
He became an advocate for industrial hemp in Virginia as a way to help small farms stay in business and boost the state economy. He spoke to us by cell phone on his way back from Richmond after he spoke before the Agriculture Committee in support of …
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27 Feb 2015

Cannabis, Hemp and Legal Weed

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The cannabis plant was one of the very first plants to be domesticated some eight to ten thousand years ago, and remained one of the world’s most important crops right up until the end of the nineteenth century.

There are three types of cannabis plant that each belong to separate subspecies, two of which have been used by humans for millennia, and selectively bred for certain characteristics. Cannabis sativa is a tall woody annual plant that can grow as much as fifteen to twenty feet high in a single growing season. The plant produces strong and versatile fibres and highly nutritious seeds, but produces a very small amount of THC making it useless to those who use cannabis for recreational or ceremonial purposes.

Cannabis indica produces leafy flowers that secrete a resinous substance laden with the psychoactive compound THC. The perception-altering properties of this plant have been discovered and utilised by many Old-World civilizations, and indeed every one of the world’s five extant major religions has made use of cannabis indica for ceremonial (used as incense) or ritualistic/spiritual (smoked or ingested to alter perception) purposes. Cannabis indica was also a very important plant in herbal medicine, having a wide variety of uses.

Both hemp and cannabis were widely grown in European countries and North America right up until the end of the nineteenth century, when technological advances and discoveries of new materials led to a decline in the use of hemp fibre. Hemp was poised to make a comeback in the nineteen-thirties following the invention of a new technique that would massively increase the efficiency of hemp-pulp production to make paper. Unfortunately, a newspaper baron who owned huge tracts of logging forest and the mills that produced his paper began a vicious smear campaign against hemp and cannabis, eventually succeeding in getting hemp banned altogether in the US, a position that still stands even though hemp is such an incredibly useful crop.

Of course, as is usually the case, prohibiting a substance does not stop its use, and in many cases increases it. Historically the recreational use of cannabis was a very rare thing, and few people would have tried it. In these days of prohibition, cannabis is the most widely abused illegal drug of all, with an estimated twenty-four million people having tried it in the US alone.

Many people who would like to use cannabis but are worried about its illegality seek cannabis substitutes, or ‘legal weed’. These legal weeds are usually blended from mildly psychoactive plants that are legally available, or take the form of ‘legal buds’, which are a cannabis-like flower bud to which legal psychoactive chemicals have been added. There are many different legal weeds available, but the strongest usually contain the herbs Lions Tail and Mugwort.

Rasta Weed is a powerful legal weed made from a blend of Lion’s tail, Wormwood and Chinese Mugwort. Visit Legal Weed to find out more.

27 Feb 2015

ForeverGreen Worldwide Corporations November 2014 Sales Increase 190%

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Pleasant Grove, Utah (PRWEB) December 05, 2014

ForeverGreen Worldwide Corporation (OTCBB: FVRG), a leading direct marketing company and provider of health-centered products, announced today that November 2014 revenue exceeded November 2013 sales by more than 190%.

“Last year the company saw a decline in sales from October to November. We are pleased to report November 2014 revenues stayed consistent with last month, again exceeding $ 5.8 million. The company remains on track to report a new record in quarterly sales and expects to finish the year within the guidelines of the most recent guidance of $ 56-60 million. We have had a tremendous year of growth and expect to see that growth continue during 2015. We expect to issue 2015 guidance shortly, but preliminary projections are indicating revenue growth for next year to exceed 50%. Along with the growth in number of new members and new logistical delivery solutions, as well as new products, we believe ForeverGreen will continue to have a positive impact all over the world,” said Jack Eldridge, CFO.

ForeverGreen Worldwide Corporation develops, manufactures and distributes an expansive line of all natural whole foods and products to North America, Australia, Europe, Asia and South America, including their new global offerings, PowerStrips, SolarStrips and BeautyStrips. They also offer Azul and FrequenSea(TM), whole-food beverages with industry exclusive marine phytoplankton, the Versativa line of hemp-based whole-food products, immune support and weight management products, Pulse-8 powdered L-arginine formula, TRUessence(TM) Essential Oils and Apothecary, 24Karat Chocolate(R) and an entire catalog of meals, snacks, household cleaners and personal care products.

http://www.forevergreen.org

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27 Feb 2015

The Wonderful World of Hemp

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Hemp was one of the first crops to be domesticated by early farmers, some eight to ten thousand years ago, and remained one of our most useful and valuable crops right up until the industrial revolution.

Hemp was originally domesticated for its nutritious seeds and tough fibres. A hardy plant, it grows quickly and will tolerate a wide variety of soils and climates. It is probably the single most versatile crop of all – almost all parts of the plant can be used for an incredible array of purposes.

The fibres of hemp are easily worked and were used to make cloth and sacking. It is believed that hemp stems were being pulped to produce paper some two hundred years before the invention of paper made from wood pulp. Up until the 1870s, hemp paper accounted for around 70% of the world’s paper production. Hemp was also used to produce canvas to make sails, and indeed the word ‘canvas’ is derived from the same root as Cannabis – the scientific name for hemp and its sister species.

Hemp was also used to produce rope, and all the world’s navies used hempen rope for their ships right up until the 19th century. Hemp seeds are highly nutritious and oily, and were used to feed humans and animals, or ground to make a flour used for baking. Although our ancestors didn’t know it, we now know that hempseed contains all ten amino acids essential for human nutrition, the only plant product known to do so. Not only that, but it also contains a high concentration of the essential fatty acids Omega-3 and Omega-6, giving hempseed a real claim to that much-abused title of ‘superfood’.

Despite its many uses, hemp production began to decline during the 19th century, when new materials and new ways of working flax, cotton, wool and other materials became available. Advances in wood-pulping technology also led to a massive decline in hemp paper production, a situation that could well have been reversed in the 1930s were it not for a vicious smear campaign that led to hemp being banned completely in the United States.

Hempseed oil can be refined and used in much the same way as oils derived from petrochemicals, and today it is used to produce plastics, cosmetics, lubricants, paints, inks and more. Petrochemicals are of course non-renewable, whereas hemp can be grown every year.

Hemp has also recently found favour as a building material. The stems and fibres add strength and flexibility to composite building materials. Concretes made using hemp can weigh as little as 15% as much as concretes reinforced with steel.

Today hemp cultivation is still illegal in the USA, and subject to licenses and regulation in most other countries, and hemp remains a marginal crop.  Hemp is such a versatile plant, that offers us an environmentally friendly and renewable way to produce food, fabric, energy, paper, building materials, plastics, cosmetics and more, and we should all take more interest in the opportunities that hemp offers us.

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25 Feb 2015

Legalizing industrial hemp- Reasons why

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Promo Video featuring excerpts from “Hempsters- Plant the seed”- A documentary film about the struggle to legalize industrial hemp in the US- featuring Woody Harrelson, Ralph Nader, Julia Butterfly Hill, Gatewood Galbraith, Craig Lee. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Donna Cockrell and others. The DVD of Hempsters plant the seed will be available June 28th, 2011 at www.CinemaLibreStore.com
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