{"id":19204,"date":"2014-02-10T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=19204"},"modified":"2014-02-07T14:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T12:01:56","slug":"industrial-hemp-research-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/industrial-hemp-research-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Hemp Research to be a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Farm Bill approved initially by the U.S. House of Representatives. After three years of discussion, the U.S. Congress voted to send the H.R. 2642 Farm Bill to be enacted into law by President Barack Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The massive 949 pages bill calls for spending of $ 956.4 billion over ten years and has an important provision for legalizing industrial hemp for research purposes in some states of the United States. Tucked in this massive bill the two page provision on the legalization of industrial hemp research is expected to open-up new markets for hemp in industrial and textile sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The provision states that growing industrial hemp for research purposes will be allowed in the states that permit the growth under its laws and only institutes of higher education and State Departments of Agriculture in those states will be allowed to do research on industrial hemp. It should be emphasized that, according to the provision, the industrial hemp should not have delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of more than 0.3 percent of its dry weight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The legitimacy will enable researchers in those states which will allow growing of industrial hemp for research purposes to develop new products that can cater into new markets such as automotive textiles, industrial wipes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bill is expected to receive President Obama\u2019s nod soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Farm Bill approved initially by the U.S. House of Representatives. After three years of discussion, the U.S. Congress voted to send the H.R. 2642 Farm Bill to be enacted into law by President Barack Obama. The massive 949 pages bill calls for spending of $ 956.4 billion over ten [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[8400,1631,2773],"class_list":["post-19204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-usda","supplier-us-house-of-representatives","supplier-us-senate-committee-on-agriculture-nutrition-forestry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19204"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=19204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}