Hemp Industries Association
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The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) is a non-profit trade group representing hemp
companies, researchers and supporters in the USA and Canada. The group petitions for fair and equal treatment of industrial hemp. Since 1992, the HIA has been dedicated to education, industry development, and the accelerated expansion of hemp world market supply and demand
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In 2010 the organization bought the diaries of Lyster Dewey and plan to display them to the public for the first time in many years.
Hemp
Hemp is mostly used as a name for low tetrahydrocannabinol strains of the plant Cannabis sativa, of fiber and/or oilseed varieties. In modern times, hemp has been used for industrial purposes including paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, construction, health food and fuel with modest...
companies, researchers and supporters in the USA and Canada. The group petitions for fair and equal treatment of industrial hemp. Since 1992, the HIA has been dedicated to education, industry development, and the accelerated expansion of hemp world market supply and demand
Supply and demand
Supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It concludes that in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded by consumers will equal the quantity supplied by producers , resulting in an...
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In 2010 the organization bought the diaries of Lyster Dewey and plan to display them to the public for the first time in many years.