Waldman M, Hochhauser E, Fishbein M, Aravot D, Shainberg A, Sarne Y.
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Waldman M, Hochhauser E, Fishbein M, Aravot D, Shainberg A, Sarne Y.
By Trey Mewes
Deanna Jean discusses medical marijuana at the Austin Daily Herald office in June.
A local marijuana and hemp advocate is ramping up her push for legalization.
Deanna Jean and area organizers plan to put on a festival promoting the legalization of the hemp industry in mid-September. The Austin Minnesota Hemp Fest is billed as a drug-free, family-friendly event featuring at least five musical acts by local and regional artists, according to Jean.
“Prohibition is ending, and it’s time we embrace this change instead of fight it,” Jean said.
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http://www.austindailyherald.com/2013/07/31/group-plans-first-hemp-fest/
By Siraj Datoo
Hemp fibers are probably something you associate more with ropes, sacks and baggy ethnic clothing than with luxury cars. But in a report on BMW’s new electric car, the i3, Bloomberg notes in passing that the car maker will line the door panels with hemp, as part of an interior design apparently aimed at making the i3′s drivers feel closer to nature and less likely to drain the battery in a speed-freak fit.
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http://qz.com/109268/hemp-is-used-in-over-25000-products-now-including-bmws/
by Nolan Clay
An Oklahoma district attorney has dropped efforts to keep funds found in three more cases where money was taken from travelers during drug stops.
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http://newsok.com/article/3866713
By Sam Levin
Missouri is one step closer to legalizing marijuana.
State Rep. Rory Ellinger, a Democrat from University City, plans to introduce legislation next session to legalize pot in the state, modeled after the successful reform effort in Colorado. It will definitely be a long shot here, but this will be the first time a lawmaker in Missouri has introduced a proposal of this nature.
“I expect there will be a lot of good people that feel marijuana is wrong, that it leads down a path of worse drugs and trouble and so on,” he tells Daily RFT. “I respect their opinion, but I think that it can all be disputed.”
He continues, “I don’t know anyone who has ever died of a marijuana overdose.”
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http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2013/07/marijuana_legalization_missouri_rory_ellinger.php
by lasvegasnvblog
What: Southwest CannaBusiness Symposium |
Where: Renaissance Las Vegas, 3400 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV |
When: Saturday, July 27, 10 a.m. — 5 p.m. |
Who: Senator Tick Segerblom, NV State Legislature |
Sebastopol Vice Mayor Robert Jacob, Peace in Medicine & SPARC |
Steve DeAngelo, Harborside Health Center |
Aaron Smith, National Cannabis Industry Association |
Betty Aldworth, National Cannabis Industry Association |
Fifteen medical marijuana experts & entrepreneurs from NV & across the nation providing presentations |
More than 125 prospective investors & entrepreneurs attending |
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http://www.lasvegasnvblog.com/2013/07/medical-marijuana-experts-host-las-vegas-educational-event-with-senator-tick-segerblom/
By Sherry Martell
Dominic Watson Wall, project manager at Dorje Denma Ling in The Falls, holds hempcrete, the main building material being used to construct a staff residence at Dorje Denma ling, near Tatamagouche.
A popular European construction technique is taking root here with the first hempcrete building currently underway in the Atlantic region.
Dorje Denma Ling, a Shambhala program and group retreat centre in The Falls, is spearheading the project with a long-term goal to work with local farmers to grow the hemp industry.
“We are very excited about it, so we can put that first dot on the land,” said Lennart Krogoll, centre executive director. “It’s something tangible that people can come and touch it and see it.”
Hemp-lime masonry, or hempcrete, is a cutting-edge natural building material. It is a mixture of chipped industrial hemp stalks, that look and feel like coarse wood sawdust, mixed with lime and water.
There are about 40 hemp-constructed buildings in Canada but it has been a widely used construction material in Europe for many years.
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http://www.trurodaily.com/News/Local/2013-07-26/article-3329311/First-hemp-house-in-Atlantic-Canada-under-construction-in-The-Falls/1
By One Green Planet
Humans have been using hemp for thousands of years, and for good reason too–it’s extremely versatile. Used for clothes, beauty products, paper, food, milk, pet products and more, hemp lives up to the definition of a superseed.
Although hemp is breaking away from it’s negative reputation for being associated with the Cannabis plant, it’s important to know that it’s not relatively close to being like marijuana–it is bred with much lower levels of the psychedelic chemical THC than the drug is. Our favorite way to use hemp is, of course, in its edible form: as an oil, a fiber and a seed. Hemp seeds especially carry tons of nutritional benefits and can be used in numerous amounts of recipes.
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http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/hemp-seeds-why-eating-superfood-171600844.html
By Ben Cooper
photo by Meg Runion
Mary Lynn Mathre is a former nurse who wants patients to have access to a controversial medicine: pot.
From an early age, the Minnesota native was interested in practicing medicine. She enrolled in the Navy to finish her undergraduate degree in nursing and after being discharged, she pursued a graduate degree.
In the 1980s, as a medical experiment, the federal government began supplying a small number of people with medical cannabis for various problems, says Mathre. She witnessed the benefits to these patients and has been outraged ever since by Uncle Sam’s refusal to acknowledge marijuana as a legitimate form of medicine.
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http://www.readthehook.com/109812/medicinal-cannabis-aims-educate-healthcare-professionals
by Bruce Horovitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7H8Cz9woC2A
Fans attending a major NASCAR race this weekend will see a most unlikely video posted on a giant video screen shortly before entering the track: a pro-marijuana legalization ad.
Outside the NASCAR Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis, the same track that hosts the famed Indianapolis 500, Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s largest pro-marijuana legalization advocacy group, has purchased space to air – dozens of times over the weekend – a video that pushes the theme that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol.
Full Article:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/25/nascar-brickyard-400-pro-marijuana-legalization-ad–marijuana-policy-project/2587511/