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Posted by norml on Monday, July 23 2007 (2080 reads)
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 Norml News Winter 2007
Innovative community hemp farmers were
busy over the summer growing industrial hemp
at Riverside Community, near Motueka. TARA
FORDE spoke to some of those involved.
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Posted by drstuey on Friday, March 10 2006 (3813 reads)
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The Nelson Mail has a really cool story about this year's legal (low THC) hemp harvest. They are growing for seeds, and the mature plants have seed heads with a strong, hops-like aroma.
"The range of smells in this crop's incredible, but it makes your fingers black with the sticky residue," commented Mr Mears.
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Read More (1825 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 5
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Posted by norml on Saturday, January 01 2005 (2623 reads)
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Renowned cannabis author, scientist and breeder Robert Connell Clarke visited New Zealand earlier this year to meet the cannabis community and get in some serious fishing. Breeder of famous strains such as Silver Pearl and Haze, author of classic cannabis books such as Hashish! and Marijuana Botany, and one of the founders of the Amsterdam Cannabis Cup, Rob discussed hemp with Chris Fowlie in Part 2 of this interview.
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Read More (7953 bytes) | | NORML News | Score: 4.33
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Posted by drstuey on Wednesday, June 16 2004 (4387 reads)
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Turning hemp into New Zealand's next big export industry could see Auckland-based Hemptech list on the NZX reports XtraMSN Business.
The company, which began exporting hemp-based fabric to Australia last year, is seeking advice on its capital-raising options.
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Read More (4137 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 4.8
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Posted by drstuey on Wednesday, August 27 2003 (4076 reads)
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Some details of the current NZ Hemp trials emerged today in the Otago Daily Times when some of the scientists and farmers involved in the trials spoke to the paper.
Some locations have proven unsuccessful due to lack of water or too much wind, but overall the trials have gone well and the main problem is the uncertainty created by the legal status - no-one knows what is going to happen when the trial period ends.
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Read More (2893 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 4.25
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Posted by norml on Friday, August 01 2003 (4153 reads)
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BY CHRIS FOWLIE, CO-OWNER, THE HEMPSTORE AOTEAROA
NORML News Winter 2003
The Hempstore Aotearoa is taking the Customs Service to court following a seizure of imported hemp products that we believe has thrown the legal status of all hemp products into doubt.
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Read More (2563 bytes) | | NORML News | Score: 5
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Posted by norml on Friday, August 01 2003 (4051 reads)
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NORML News Winter 2003
Hemp trial permits have been renewed for another year, with proper regulations to allow commercial cultivation still being developed.
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, July 29 2003 (3849 reads)
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The Hemp industry welcomed a government decision to extend its field trials by one year.
The original two-year trial period ended earlier this year and growers were pushing the government to provide approvals and a regulatory framework that would enable industrial hemp to be grown commercially.
The Hemp Industry Association’s chairman, Mac MacIntosh, says the extensiongives the primary production select committee more time to work on the legislation, and means the hemp research that is underway at Lincoln, Waikato and Massey can continue.
MacIntosh says the 19 licensed growers will start planting seed from September.
Copyright © 2003, NZoom.com. All rights reserved.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, July 02 2003 (7178 reads)
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2 July 2003: The Hempstore Aotearoa today filed papers in the Auckland District Court against the New Zealand Customs Service following their refusal to release a shipment of imported hemp products.
The Hempstore had received Customs clearance for previous shipments of identical products. The shipment included hemp tea and "Knaster" hemp smoking blend imported from Germany.
Simon Williamson from NZ Customs explained to the media that "all hemp is cannabis and cannabis is a controlled drug. The amount of THC that is present is irrelevant."
 03/07/03 Tanzcos' Hemp Import Seized
 02/07/03 Customs opinion on hemp ‘bizarre’
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Read More (2373 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 4.42
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, April 01 2003 (6231 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie
NORML News Autumn 2003
These plants may look like a good smoke, but they’re actually low-THC hemp grown right here in Aotearoa.
This harvest season brings with it the second crop of legal Kiwi cannabis. This year the government has issued about a dozen permits to grow industrial hemp, to organic and regular farmers, community groups and iwi.
Our intrepid Norml News team, somewhat dazed and confused from a weekend at the Womad festival in New Plymouth, made a stop at Atutahi - the “valley of the fish” - to check out some hempy goodness. We were pleasantly surprised by the “primo” condition of the Kompolti strain of hemp.
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Read More (3065 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 4.25
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Posted by drstuey on Thursday, September 19 2002 (3519 reads)
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A report on the first year of NZ Hemp trials was presented to the Primary Production select committee on Thursday, 19 September. The briefing was from officials of the Industrial Hemp Inter-Agency Working Group.
It found there had been good liaison between police and growers and that there were no security breaches.
The report identified some problems, including the lack of horticultural expertise among some growers, which resulted in an inappropriate application of fertiliser and inadequate pest control - many seed crops were lost to birds!
20/9/02 Hemp Trials 'Have Wider Agenda', Says Heatley
19/9/02 Nats can’t tell difference between jeans and a joint - Nandor
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Posted by drstuey on Sunday, September 15 2002 (3639 reads)
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Posted by drstuey on Monday, September 02 2002 (3622 reads)
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New Zealand Herald, Mon, 02 Sep 2002
A Matamata farmer trying out legal hemp has left his first crop to rot in the field, saying the secrecy is not worth the effort.
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Read More (1501 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 4
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Posted by admin on Monday, July 01 2002 (4299 reads)
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NORML News Winter 2002
By Warren Bryson
It’s mid-winter but Christmas will be
rolling along soon enough, so on behalf
of the Cannabis-Hemp plant I would like
to put forward a Christmas wish list to
help bring on and establish hemp food,
clothing, shelter, industry, and environmental
sustainability.
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Posted by drstuey on Monday, February 11 2002 (4084 reads)
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New Zealand Herald, Mon, 11 Feb 2002
Some of New Zealand's experimental commercial hemp crops are approaching 4m in height, says one of the researchers.
Hemp Industry Association research team leader Mac McIntosh, of Wellington, said that on most of the experimental sites the hemp was growing magnificently.
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Read More (1798 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 4
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Posted by drstuey on Wednesday, February 06 2002 (3703 reads)
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Otago Daily Times, Wed, 06 Feb 2002
By Glenn Conway
A one hectare hemp crop, for research and development purposes, is to be
planted in the Catlins later this year. Former Catlins residents and hemp
advocates Mac and Donna McIntosh are behind the project.
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Posted by drstuey on Thursday, January 10 2002 (4125 reads)
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The Daily News. An abridged version appeared in the New Zealand Herald
10 January 2002 (NZ Herald: 12 January, 2002)
By Avalon Willing
Elwyn Powell has the good oil on growing hemp. This week farming editor Avalon Willing takes a look.
When it comes to growing crops Elwyn Powell will give just about anything a go.
Over the last 20 years he has combined agricultural contracting in the Waverley area with growing the likes of wasabi, radishes
and squash for the Japanese seed market, as well as the usual grain crops.
So the opportunity to grow cannabis legally was just too good to miss.
Mr Powell is one of handful of people throughout the country who has granted a licence to grow hemp as part of a national trial.
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Read More (7771 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 3
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Posted by drstuey on Wednesday, January 09 2002 (4351 reads)
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NZPA (Wire), 09 January 2002
The grower of Manawatu's first hemp crop continues to get
phone calls from people associating the plant with
marijuana. But Bulls farmer Hew Dalrymple said the
"strange" phone calls would not put him off planting
another crop next year.
The first industrial hemp crop to be grown in Manawatu will be
harvested at the end of February, with the seed then pressed
for oil.
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Read More (2111 bytes) | | Hemp in NZ | Score: 3.5
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