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	<title>HempNews &#187; Economy</title>
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		<title>Strong Growth in Hemp Food and Body Care Sales Contrast DEA&#8217;s Hostility to Farmers Who Want to Grow the Crop</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/05/13/strong-growth-in-hemp-food-and-body-care-sales-contrast-deas-hostility-to-farmers-who-want-to-grow-the-crop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 20:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 13, 2010 &#8211;  WASHINGTON, &#8212; The Hemp  Industries Association (HIA), a trade association consisting of hundreds  of hemp businesses, released final estimates of the size of the U.S.  retail market for hemp food and body care products in 2009. Data  supporting the estimates show that retail sales of hemp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Farmers Union Adopts New Policy on Industrial Hemp</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/05/11/national-farmers-union-adopts-new-policy-on-industrial-hemp-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 22:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The national, single-issue, non-profit advocacy group Vote Hemp applauds the new policy supporting industrial hemp adopted by delegates of the National Farmers Union (NFU) at its 108th annual convention in Rapid City, South Dakota last week. The policy urges the Obama administration and Congress to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban on Industrial Hemp Results in High Prices and Lost Jobs</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/05/07/ban-on-industrial-hemp-results-in-high-prices-and-lost-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/05/07/ban-on-industrial-hemp-results-in-high-prices-and-lost-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Statement on Hemp History Week by Congressman Ron Paul United States House of Representatives
May 6, 2010 &#8211; Madam Speaker, I rise to speak about Hemp History Week. To celebrate  the American heritage of growing industrial hemp, the Hemp Industries  Association, Vote Hemp, several American manufacturers, and allied  companies and organizations have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemp Legalization Would Help U.S. Economy</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/04/16/hemp-legalization-would-help-u-s-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/04/16/hemp-legalization-would-help-u-s-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[BioFuel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 16, 2010 &#8211; It’s hard to be a consistent political conservative in 2010. New  information and biting criticism from the left are exacerbating a great  clash between the principles of free-market capitalism and the social  conservatism that wins votes from the “moral majority,” played out on the battlefields of countless proxy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Many Benefits of Hemp</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/04/13/the-many-benefits-of-hemp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hempnews.tv/?p=3955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[April 13, 2010 &#8211; If there is one magic plant that can provide us with lots of our needs, that is hemp. Just imagine, from hemp we can get food, clothes, fuel, books, cleaning products, building supplies to baby diapers,  even once, a car in Henry Ford’s time!  Roughly, there are 25,000 products [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet American Hemp Farmer Alex White Plume</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/04/09/meet-american-hemp-farmer-alex-white-plume/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/04/09/meet-american-hemp-farmer-alex-white-plume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 9, 2010 &#8211; Alex is the former Tribal President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South  Dakota. He lives on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota.
Alex bears the remarkable distinction of being the only person in the  United States to successfully farm and complete a legal hemp crop within  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Smoke Clears-Hemp Biodiesel</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/04/05/when-the-smoke-clears-hemp-biodiesel/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/04/05/when-the-smoke-clears-hemp-biodiesel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 5, 2010 &#8211; Hemp literally produces a “green” product when  it’s used to make  biodiesel. Despite the allure of the green-hued fuel, a  close  examination of the controversial crop reveals several barriers  for its  use as a biodiesel feedstock in the near future. However, as  movers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Bogart that Hemp, My Friend-It’s Good for the Planet</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/03/30/don%e2%80%99t-bogart-that-hemp-my-friend-it%e2%80%99s-good-for-the-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/03/30/don%e2%80%99t-bogart-that-hemp-my-friend-it%e2%80%99s-good-for-the-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 30, 2010 &#8211; I hate seeing a wasted resource. I  hate seeing a resource wasted. But  the reason we don’t see more hemp in our  lives, in our clothes, food,  material palettes for product  manufacturing and so on, is that certain  people are afraid that WE will  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rope and Dope &#8211; How the DEA keeps U.S. Farmers out of a Lucrative Global Market</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/03/20/rope-and-dope-how-the-dea-keeps-u-s-farmers-out-of-a-lucrative-global-market/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/03/20/rope-and-dope-how-the-dea-keeps-u-s-farmers-out-of-a-lucrative-global-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

 
March 19, 2010 &#8211; On a recent day, the grandson of &#8220;America&#8217;s Hemp King&#8221; relaxed poolside while reminiscing about his family&#8217;s &#8220;sordid&#8221; history in Wisconsin&#8217;s once-booming hemp industry.






&#8220;I get chuckles and sly smiles until I clarify what I&#8217;m talking about,&#8221; says Dennis Rens, 70, in a phone conversation from his winter home in Fort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin: Republicans Fear Legalizing Hemp Farming Could Hurt State’s Image</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/02/23/wisconsin-republicans-fear-legalizing-hemp-farming-could-hurt-state%e2%80%99s-image/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/02/23/wisconsin-republicans-fear-legalizing-hemp-farming-could-hurt-state%e2%80%99s-image/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 23, 2010 &#8211; Steps to legalize industrial hemp in Wisconsin are facing Republican opposition.
All Republicans on the Assembly Agriculture Committee recently voted against a measure passed by the Democratic majority, which would allow Wisconsin farmers to apply for permits to grow hemp.
State Representative Al Ott (R-Forest Junction) says there are worries about the drug [...]]]></description>
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