A joint project to produce tree-free letterpress paper suitable for commercial printing has delivered one of the first commercially viable hemp papers on the planet. The project was conceived by Maren ...

DENVER, Aug. 5 (UPI) --The U.S. Constitution was written on hemp paper, and Betsy Ross' first American flag was made of hemp fabric, but the road back to hemp fiber textiles grown in the United States ...

For a noble weed, hemp has taken some lumps. From a staple of colonial economy and a crop of World War II's home-front patriots, hemp became a casualty of the war on drugs, relegated to a minor role ...

Logan Yonavjak (@Loganyon) makes a case for allowing farmers in the United States to grow hemp. Industrial hemp was once a dominant crop on the American landscape. This hardy and renewable resource ...

Lincoln University in Missouri is heading a USDA-funded project researching the commodity, but its prohibition created high hurdles for getting the crop off the ground. On a bright chilly day in ...