Sentence examples for hemp from inspiring English sources

Adnams has operated its own energy-efficient brewing facilities and an eco-efficient distribution centre since 2007 (using lime hemp walls and a sedum roof for natural cooling), so its pledge to reduce emissions by a further 10% in 2010 required new green thinking.

Newspaper pulp manufactured from hemp required no toxic sulphites and offered more pulp per acre than trees.

The best evidence is a report to Anslinger by a field agent on the 1934-35 hemp crop in Minnesota.

Hearst geared up his newspaper empire to criminalise hemp while DuPont's lobbying in Washington helped establish the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930.

Spreading scare stories about cannabis was a way to give hemp a bad name.

Mellon, the Treasury Secretary, was banker to DuPont, and sales of hemp threatened that firm's efforts to build a market for synthetic fibres.

It was also a cheap base for commercial plastics.The two industrial giants conspired and eventually wiped out America's commercial hemp.

The sum of the report is that several farmers tried to grow hemp and were generally unsuccessful.There is no apparent evidence of a conspiracy in the congressional hearings on the subject.

In fact, representatives of the hemp industry testified that if it was necessary to protect the country they were willing to stop its cultivation.

Its organisers are a small group, based in a Zurich hemp shop, with little cash for lavish displays, and the government likewise has made little fuss of its opposition to the initiative.Few of the Swiss believe it will carry more than half the vote in more than half of the country's 26 cantons and half-cantons, as it must do to win the day and change policy.

The foreign hospitals you mentioned offer outstanding care, a room with a view and a farewell cocktail, and will give the bloated American health-care colossus a run for its collective trillions.Dr Frank OverdykJohns Island, South CarolinaFuel efficiencySIR – Regarding the search for trees that can produce ethanol, perhaps the time has come to re-evaluate hemp ("Woodstock revisited", March 10th).