It has become very clear by now that the construction industry is among the most polluting sectors of the economy, yet society cannot do without it. It is also just as clear that trees are the most effective measure against CO2 pollution. Now, British researchers have decided to take the best of both worlds and develop bio-materials out of hemp plants that can sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
Full Article:
http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2014/10/07/bio-material-made-hemp-absorbs-pollutants-improves-insulation/#.VDrxaONdXHQ
Month: October 2014
14 BEAUTY PRODUCTS MADE WITH HEMP
BY MEGAN CAHN
We’ve all heard of the powers of pot when smoked or baked into a tasty treat, but cannabis can also have a great effect in a non-mind-altering way. Hemp oil, made from pressing the seeds of the plant, is fast becoming a player in the beauty world.
Full Article:
http://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/hemp-beauty-products#slide-1
To grow cheap marijuana, Italy calls in the army
STEVE SCHERER, REUTERS
Marijuana plants are pictured in Los Angeles, Calif., in this July 11, 2014 file photo. (REUTERS/David McNew/Files)
ROVIGO, Italy – Italy legalized marijuana for medical use last year, but the high cost of buying legal pot in a pharmacy meant few people signed up. Now, the government has found a solution: get the army to grow it.
Starting next year, a high-security lab in a military compound in Florence will grow cannabis for Italy’s health care system in an experiment the government says could bring safe, legal and affordable marijuana to suffering patients.
Full Article:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2014/10/12/22002526.html
The Value Of Hemp
Keisha Hill, Gleaner Writer
Hemp is a commonly used term for high-growing varieties of the cannabis plant and its products, which include fibre, oil, and seed. Hemp and marijuana are both varieties or subspecies of theCannabis sativa plant. Marijuana is simply considered to have a higher tetrahydrocannabinol or THC and cannibinoid content. Cannabinoids are a class of chemicals that activate cell membrane receptors, that is the psychoactive element present in the cannabis plant. The most known of these cannabinoids is THC.
All plants in the cannabis genus can produce the oil, but usually only industrial hemp is used to make hemp oil. Industrial hemp is a hemp variant, which has been cultivated specifically for industrial production, and it has a minimum of the psychoactive substances associated with THC. Hemp oil is typically almost free of THC, and it has no psychoactive properties.
Full Article:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20141012/arts/arts1.html#.VDq9U_boUcw.facebook
How to Give Yourself a Cannabis Facial
VICTORIA HOFF
If you, like us, appreciate a good mind-blowing fact, then here’s a humdinger: Did you know that THC—the main psychoactive ingredient found in marijuana—is actually an antioxidant? It’s also an anti-inflammatory (though, given weed’s reputation to dull pain, that might seem more obvious). What this also means is that the cannabis plant has major topical benefits as well.
In other words, get ready, because it’s time to give your skin a contact high.
Full Article:
http://www.elle.com/news/beauty-makeup/hemp-facial-diy
What’s happening with weed on Native American reservations? (Video)
and RYAN NERZ @thisisfusion
While covering marijuana culture in Washington state, Fusion’s cannabis correspondent Ryan Nerz decided to investigate a topic he’d been curious about for a while: What’s happening with weed on Native American Reservations? There’s not much info about it on the interwebs. And yet, many Americans assume the trademark Native American “peace pipe” has always been filled with…that peaceful herb.
Full Article & Video:
http://fusion.net/video/20926/cannabusiness-report-whats-happening-with-weed-on-indian-reservations/
Henry Rollins Shares 10 Things You Don’t Know About Marijuana (unless you’ve read The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer)
in Lifestyle, television
Punk rock icon Henry Rollins sheds light on little-known historical facts in his History Channel show, 10 Things You Don’t Know About. This week’s episode tackles the facts behind marijuana.
Rollins explores gems such as the origins of the word “marijuana” and the industrial roots of hemp production, while also visiting grow labs and even the Cannabis Cup.
Full Article:
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/10/09/tv-party-henry-rollins-shares-10-things-you-dont-know-about-marijuana/
Marijuana Use Is Associated With Increased Survival In Brain Injury Patients
By Paul Armentano
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients with a history of cannabis use possess increased survival rates compared to non-users, according data published this month in the scientific journal The American Surgeon.
UCLA Medical Center investigators conducted a three-year retrospective review of brain trauma patients. Data from 446 separate cases of similarly injured patients was assessed. Of those patients who tested positive for the presence of marijuana, 97.6 percent survived surgery. By contrast, patients who tested negative for the presence of pot prior to surgery possessed only an 88.5 percent survival rate.
Full Article:
http://cannabis.hawaiinewsdaily.com/2014/10/07/marijuana-use-is-associated-with-increased-survival-in-brain-injury-patients/
GW’s shares slump after NHS rejects cannabis drug over cost
A PIONEERING cannabis drug developed by British firm GW Pharmaceuticals for treating spasticity in multiple sclerosis has been rejected as not cost-effective.
Full Article:
http://www.cityam.com/1412816336/gw-s-shares-slump-after-nhs-rejects-cannabis-drug-over-cost
Interstellar, Man: Carl Sagan’s Newly Released Pot Papers Reveal A Cosmos
David Downs
Iconic astronomer/author Carl Sagan —
muzzled by the Feds in life, preaches legalization
from beyond this pale blue dot. (image via Marijuana.com)
Carl Sagan would have loved 2014: commercial space vehicles, an exploding list of exoplanets, and legal weed — gloriously legal weed.
MarijuanaMajority.com founder Tom Angell spent a few days this summer in the Library of Congress researching the iconic American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and author and has come away with a bounty.
Angell says he found some never-before-released writings on marijuana policy from the author of classics such as ‘Contact’ and the TV show ‘Cosmos’, which is the most widely watched series in the history of American public television.
Many know now the NASA scientist used cannabis to spark creativity, and — as another noted weed-head Steve Jobs said — think differently.
“I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, unavailable to us without such drugs,” Sagan wrote in 1971, under the name Mr. X.
Full Article:
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/10/08/interstellar-man-carl-sagans-newly-released-pot-papers-reveal-a-cosmos/
MarijuanaMajority.com founder Tom Angell spent a few days this summer in the Library of Congress researching the iconic American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and author and has come away with a bounty.
Angell says he found some never-before-released writings on marijuana policy from the author of classics such as ‘Contact’ and the TV show ‘Cosmos’, which is the most widely watched series in the history of American public television.
Many know now the NASA scientist used cannabis to spark creativity, and — as another noted weed-head Steve Jobs said — think differently.
“I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, unavailable to us without such drugs,” Sagan wrote in 1971, under the name Mr. X.
Full Article:
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/10/08/interstellar-man-carl-sagans-newly-released-pot-papers-reveal-a-cosmos/