Colorado Farmer Plants Country's First Legal Hemp Crop in Decades

Published May 15, 2013

Colorado farmer plants country's first legal hemp crop in decades

Filed under: Colorado Drug Use

But hemp was freed from its legal bonds in Colorado when voters passed Amendment 64 in November, the measure that legalized adult recreational use of pot. Farmer Ryan Loflin planted the first of what is expected to be several hemp crops grown …
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Food, Farms, Forests and Fracking: Connecting the Dots – Truthout

Filed under: Colorado Drug Use

Through ignorance and greed, through unsustainable land use and abuse, through reckless deforestation, through unsustainable food, farming and ranching practices, and through overconsumption of fossil fuels, we have overloaded the atmosphere with …
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Idaho spud giant bets on biotech potatoes

Filed under: Colorado Drug Use

Unlike transgenic varieties Monsanto commercialized in the 1990s using genes from synthetic bacteria to kill insect pests, Simplot's new "Innate"-brand potatoes use only potato genes. Haven Baker, Simplot's Yale- … As the USDA and Food and Drug …
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