Tag: farms
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drugwars: industrial hemp & letting drugs in
reps paul & frank introduce bill to legalize industrial hemp (again)from raw story: One of the earliest plants domesticated by man may be on the verge of a resurgence in popular production across the United States. Industrial hemp, a non-drug variety of the cannabis plan, used for centuries for its versatile fibers, is the subject…
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obamessiah: inaugural emergencies & the end of the beginning
‘state of emergency’ declared for inaugurationfrom nytimes: It is true, President Bush sounded alarms about Barack Obama during the campaign season. On Tuesday, Mr. Bush went one step further: He declared Mr. Obama’s inauguration an actual emergency. The declaration, though, was not a political statement about Republicans being run out of town. Rather, it was…
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40,000 swarm farm to gather free food
and the panic grows, this time in platteville, colorado…from washington post: A farm couple got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick up free vegetables left over after the harvest – 40,000 people showed up. Joe and Chris Miller’s fields were picked so clean Saturday that a second…