Well, it’s Hemp History Week. That means it’s the time of year to list some facts that bear repeating, without sounding like a freshman who just discovered weed isn’t everything they told us in health class. Here are the basics: -The earliest known woven fabric was made from hemp, which began to be cultivated around […]
UPDATED: Know your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Tulsi Gabbard
And in what will likely be the last of these Know Your Candidate posts we put up before the Aug. 13 Hawaii Primary Election, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, just squeaks in under the deadline with her completed questionnaire. First elected to the U.S. Congress in 2012, Gabbard–who is also a major in the Hawaii […]
Read the new industrial hemp bill from Hawaii Reps Cynthia Thielen and Kaniela Ing
So today state Representatives Cynthia Thielen, R-Kailua, and Kaniela Ing, D-South Maui, unveiled their big industrial hemp bill. “There is a huge groundswell of support from the general public and members of the agriculture sector to legalize industrial hemp,” said Ing in a House news release today. “While hemp is not a magic bullet for […]
A little good news for those who want hemp to replace sugar on Maui
For those of you who look over Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar’s 36,000 or so acres of Central Maui that won’t be growing sugar anymore this time next year and think that maybe we might start growing hemp on at least a portion of that land, there’s good reason to be optimistic. Really optimistic, if state […]
Maui County Council taking up industrial hemp, bus stop smoking at Sept. 4 meeting
Do you think Maui County ought to encourage industrial hemp farming? Do you have an opinion on people smoking at bus stops? Then you might want to check out tomorrow’s Maui County Council meeting. There’s a lot on the meeting agenda (click here to read it), but two items caught my eye. First is a […]
Quizunderstood: How well do you know industrial hemp bills?
1. In an Apr. 10 Pacific Business News blog post, Pagoda Hotel owner Peter Savio said that he was planning to build a new 150-room hotel next to the Maui Beach Hotel at Kahului Harbor. What was the name of the hotel that used to sit in the spot where Savio wants to build a […]