NEWS FROM HEMPORIUM

From South Africa we received word on the latest in hemp. Tony Budden of Hemporium was at the Grahamstown Festival, the Natural and Organics Products Expo at the Capetown International Convention Centre and Rocking the Daisies Green Music Festival. This year the press has picked up on their work, giving them space in local papers and top magazines such as Men's Health and Cosmo. Television exposure included an insert on SABC 3's "Free Spirit."

Their product range continues to expand, with new items including a range of ozonated healing gels developed by Dr Julian Holmes and 100% hemp denim jeans. Not only has the Hemporium label grown, but its range of outsourced products has increased as well. Clothes, cosmetics, accessories and books can all be found in their high street shop and online.

Hemporium products can also be found in a number of other stockists, including the newly added Wellness Warehouse chain, initially launched on Kloof Street, Dr Julian Holmes, Cape Town, but now expanded to Heathway in Johannesburg and Cavendish Links in Claremont.

In activism, Hemporium has also been quite energetic, attending the EIHA conference in Cologne and setting up an online petition, click here to get involved in supporting hemp cultivation in South Africa.

HEMPORIUM

Tel: +27 (0)21 797 8233

Fax: +27 (0)21 761 9471

http://www.hemporium.com/

tony@hemporium.com

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114 Constantia Main Road

Wynberg 7800

Cape Town

South Africa

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Image left is William Rodriguez, the hero of 9/11 who has been speaking out about suppression of key evidence in the collapse of the buildings. With him is Sagar Shah, wearing a Hemporium hemp shirt, and holding the master key, which William used on 9/11 to save the lives of hundreds of people, at great risk to his own.

Hemp for Victory is dedicated to him as his story, like hemp, is something that powers that be (thanks to a dodgy supreme court) are not willing to have aired.

William will be back in London next month to tell his story, and again we await the press to listen to the truth. Some of the loudmouths in the 4th estate are especially derisive of William and anyone trying to get them to look at the facts, but we know damn well where they would have been on 9/11 had they been on the ground floor of the North Tower as William was...they would have hauled their sissy a**es out the door and only looked back to get a story and sell it to their editor. And these days, what with more Hearsts and Murdochs getting control of the press, we can expect very little truth on either 9/11 or hemp.