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Hemp News No. 22

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paper. Tree Free EcoPaper is the world's first and largest supplier of
wholesale quantities of hemp paper. We offer an electronic catalog which you
can recieve by dropping us an e-mail request. We'll send you our free samples
and hemp paper catalog if you give us a postal address. You can call us
toll-free at 1-800-775-0225 from the U.S. and Canada. Our phone number
for calls outside the U.S. is 503-295-6705. Our headquarters is in
Portland, Oregon and our paper is produced in Asia. We plan to begin selling
100% hemp paper, card stock, cover stock and pulp in the next few months.
We also offer whole hempstalks and 100% hemp bast fiber by the truckload.
We can have hemp garmets and shoes manufactured in China to meet your
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RTw  05/20/94     COUNTERCULTURE ``BEATS'' CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY

    By Ransdell Pierson
     NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuter) - Legendary figures of the "Beat Generation," who
fused counterculture, sexual experimentation and drugs into an art form,
converged on Greenwich Village for a 50th anniversary conference -- looking
grayer, sedate and even professorial.
     Rather than dress and behave like rebels, they resembled literary statesmen
Friday, dignified and quite proper.

Hemp News No. 21

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The following wire stories are provided as a public service by
Tree Free EcoPaper, makers of 50% hemp (cannabis) and 50% cereal straw
paper. Tree Free EcoPaper is the world's first and largest supplier of
wholesale quantities of hemp paper. We offer an electronic catalog which you
can recieve by dropping us an e-mail request. We'll send you our free samples
and hemp paper catalog if you give us a postal address. You can call us
toll-free at 1-800-775-0225 from the U.S. and Canada. Our phone number
for calls outside the U.S. is 503-295-6705. Our headquarters is in
Portland, Oregon and our paper is produced in Asia. We plan to begin selling
100% hemp paper, card stock, cover stock and pulp in the next few months.
We also offer whole hempstalks and 100% hemp bast fiber by the truckload.
Without further ado, please enjoy the news:


RTw  05/10/94      SINGER WILLIE NELSON ARRESTED ON MARIJUANA CHARGE

    WACO, Texas, May 10 (Reuter) - Country singer Willie Nelson was arrested in
central Texas on a marijuana possession charge Tuesday after he was found
napping in a car, police said.
     Nelson was found asleep in the back seat of a car parked along a service
road off Interstate 35 in Hewitt, a suburb of Waco, police said. When police
tapped on the window and asked for identification, he produced a driver's
license, said Sergeant Mike Cooper of the Hewitt police department.

Hemp News No. 20

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The following wire stories are provided as a public service by
Tree Free EcoPaper, makers of 50% hemp (cannabis) and 50% cereal straw
paper. Tree Free EcoPaper is the world's only supplier of wholesale
quantities of hemp paper. We offer an electronic catalog which you can
recieve by dropping us an e-mail request. We'll send you our free samples
and hemp paper catalog if you give us a postal address. You can call us
toll-free at 1-800-775-0225 from the U.S. and Canada. Our phone number
for calls outside the U.S. is 503-295-6705. Our headquarters is in
Portland, Oregon and our paper is produced in Asia. Without further
ado, please enjoy the news:


circa 04/16/94   [untitled - College Students in Survey Favor Legalization]

LEGALIZE IT?: The results of a new survey showing that American college
students overwhelmingly favor the legalization of marijuana comes as a surprise
to anti-drug and pro-legalization advocates alike. Allen St. Pierre, spokesman
for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said the U.
Magazine survey of 1,700 students at 230 schools shows the media has failed to
recognize the growing support among students, environmentalists and doctors for
legalization. But anti-drug advocates questioned the accuracy of the survey. Sue
Rusche, executive director of National Families In Action, said drug-use trends

Hemp News No. 19

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The following wire stories are provided as a public service by
Tree Free EcoPaper, makers of 50% hemp (cannabis) and 50% cereal straw
paper. Tree Free EcoPaper is the world's only supplier of wholesale
quantities of hemp paper. We offer an electronic catalog which you can
recieve by dropping us an e-mail request. We'll send you our free samples
and hemp paper catalog if you give us a postal address. You can call us
toll-free at 1-800-775-0225 from the U.S. and Canada. Our phone number
for calls outside the U.S. is 503-295-6705. Our headquarters is in
Portland, Oregon and our paper is produced in Asia. Without further
ado, please enjoy the news:



UPce 02/16/94     Bloomington sees record pot bust, makes marijuana a ticketable offense

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (UPI) -- Bloomington city officials recently lessened the
criminal penalties for possession of marijuana, but that will not do two Texas
men any good.
   A new city ordinance approved Monday says people caught by police with less
than 2.5 grams of marijuana will only receive a ticket and $250 fine.
   The two men, Billy Wayne Sessions and Lonnie Session, both of Childress,
Texas, were caught Tuesday just north of Bloomington driving a truck containing
2,740 pounds of pot valued at $5.48 million, buried underneath 33,000 pounds of
cabbage.
    Illinois State Police, who made the arrest, say the more than a ton of

Hemp News No. 18

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The following wire stories are provided as a public service by
Tree Free EcoPaper, makers of 50% hemp (cannabis) and 50% cereal straw
paper. Tree Free EcoPaper is the world's only supplier of wholesale
quantities of hemp paper. We offer an electronic catalog which you can
recieve by dropping us an e-mail request. We'll send you our free samples
and hemp paper catalog if you give us a postal address. You can call us
toll-free at 1-800-775-0225 from the U.S. and Canada. Our phone number
for calls outside the U.S. is 503-295-6705. Our headquarters is in
Portland, Oregon and our paper is produced in Asia. Without further
ado, please enjoy the news:


RTw  10/26/93     POLICE PONDER CASE AGAINST ALLEGED "ROBIN HOOD" DRUG DEALER

By Stan Darden
     ATLANTA, Oct 26 (Reuter) - Authorities seem puzzled about how to deal with
an alleged drug trafficker known as "Robin Hood" who curries favour with
inner-city residents by sharing his prosperity with the poor and aged.
     James "Haircut" Watkins, 47, lives in the predominantely black Cascade
Heights section of Atlanta, which is known as the "Black Mecca" because of its
affluence, but runs a grocery store and laundromat in a poor downtown area.
     Aside from a federal conspiracy indictment last January that connected him
with the sale of cocaine and marijuana, Watkins is best known for his habit of

Hemp News No. 17

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The following wire stories are provided as a public service by
Tree Free EcoPaper, makers of 50% hemp (cannabis) and 50% cereal straw
paper. Tree Free EcoPaper is the world's only supplier of wholesale
quantities of hemp paper. We offer an electronic catalog which you can
recieve by dropping us an e-mail request. We'll send you our free samples
and hemp paper catalog if you give us a postal address. You can call us
toll-free at 1-800-775-0225 from the U.S. and Canada. Our phone number
for calls outside the U.S. is 503-295-6705. Our headquarters is in
Portland, Oregon and our paper is produced in Asia. Without further
ado, please enjoy the news:


UPn  10/09/93    Couple draws life sentence for possession of gift-wrapped drugs

WEATHERFORD, Texas (UPI) -- A Parker County jury needed only 45 minutes to
sentence a Houston couple to life in prison for possession of marijuana, much of
it gift-wrapped.
   Prosecutors charged that William Darrell Baldwin, 44, and Denise Hanrahan
Swartz, 38, both of Houston, rented a plane at the McAllen, Texas, airport on
May 23, loaded it with marijuana, and flew to an airfield in southern Parker
County.
   Parker County District Attorney Amy Adams said an informant tipped state and
federal authorities that the couple was carrying more than 100 pounds of
 marijuana aboard the plane.
   After a drug-sniffing dog confirmed that marijuana had been in the trunk of

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MEDICAL MARIJUANA--NPR Federal Officials today launched an all-out attack on state initiatives legalizing the medical use of marijuana and other recreational drugs. Attorney General Janet Reno said she'd enforce federal laws against doctors who prescribe pot for patients. But as Joe Palca reports, the debate over the medical value of marijuana is far from settled. 4:15 min. December 30,1996. (All Things Considered)

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Vickie Que reports on a national conference on how to curb marijuana use.--NPR The conference of policy and health experts is concerned about the increase in marijuana use by teenagers and new, more potent forms of the drug. 3.5 min. July 20, 1995 (Morning Edition)

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