It’s a plant that can build your house, fuel your body, and clothe you. It’s also a plant that looks almost exactly like its notorious cousin, marijuana. This is the heart of a complex puzzle facing Papua New Guinea right now: what to do about industrial hemp? Or should we even be talking about it?…
Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive cannabinoid THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), historically, cannabis has been a cornerstone of human civilization, providing seed oil, textiles, and food for more than 10,000 years. Today, cannabis remains an understudied and underutilized resource, but United States legislation passed in…
Cannabidiol (CBD) in industrial hemp is a promising functional food ingredient with multifarious health benefits, including anticancer activity, antioxidant activity, anti-inflammatory properties, and anxiolytic effects. In recent years, the application of CBD in the food industry has been emerging and several CBD fortified products are available across the globe. Currently, the scientific information associated with…
Cannabis plant is a huge treasure of compounds possessing variety of medicinal, psychoactive and nutraceutical potential. Cannabinoids are a group of active chemicals possessing a range of pharmaceutical advantages in humans. Singh, Y., Thakur, N., Thykandy, T., Bilagi, G., Sakkuru, T., Tiwari, S., Srivastava, P. Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 57(5), 49661-49671 (2024)…
Cannabidiol (CBD) in industrial hemp is a promising functional food ingredient with multifarious health benefits, including anticancer activity, antioxidant activity, anti-inflammatory properties, and anxiolytic effects. In recent years, the application of CBD in the food industry has been emerging and several CBD fortified products are available across the globe. Currently, the scientific information associated with…
Cannabidiol (CBD) from industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a highly promising bioactive compounds with multifarious health benefits. However, its poor chemical stability during storage and digestion and low bioavailability impedes its potential food and pharmaceutical applications. Hence, this research investigated the potential of hemp protein isolate–gum Arabic (HPI–GA) complex coacervates in improving the storage…
Hemp has become increasingly popular for its versatile uses: CBD-rich varieties are in high demand for pharmaceutical products, while fiber-rich varieties are valued for industrial applications like textiles. Now, a new University of Houston study of hemp microbes, published in the journal Nature, may help scientists create special mixtures of helpful microbes to make hemp…
Hemp is making a comeback after decades in the wilderness. What does the Gutenberg Bible have in common with the American Declaration of Independence? Or a tapestry from the Viking age with Christopher Columbus’ ship? And what connects the nomadic Scythians described by Greek historian Herodotus with the anointing ritual of the prophet Moses? The…
INTERVIEW: A writer, director, and director of photography, Jordan Berger is the founder of Sunflower Films, a production company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He is currently completing production on ONE PLANT, a documentary about hemp’s potential to address a wide range of pressing global challenges. He also heads up Head River Farms, an organic hemp…
Dan Rawlins and his partner Chloe Meyer set themselves an ambitious target when they decided to build an off-grid house made from hempcrete and rendered with a horse manure mix, all without ever having built a house before. And while that might sound like a recipe for disaster, the couple had experience weathering difficulty —…