By Steve Trevelise

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Go vote in the poll!

 
Full Article and Poll:
http://nj1015.com/should-convicted-marijuana-users-be-pardoned-if-the-drug-becomes-legal-poll/
 
 
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eIiG-QHjMw#action=share
 
Outspoken marijuana supporter Wiz Khalifavisited the Arsenio Hall Show last night to make s’mores infused with weed.
Hall seems a bit spaced out with glazed-over eyes before introducing Wiz, and suggests that his glaucoma medicine “makes him awful hungry.”
 
Full Article:
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/04/01/watch-wiz-khalifa-and-arsenio-hall-make-weed-munchies/

BY Debra Borchardt
 
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The marijuana industry may have already added over 175,000 jobs and that’s just the beginning. First, there are very few statistics on marijuana industry jobs. Hardly any states are tracking it and even the web sites that advertise for marijuana jobs don’t have any information and didn’t return calls.
So here’s how I came up with this number. I went to each state to see if they published numbers on the amount of people licensed to be in the business. Then I counted up the states that allow dispensaries. I reviewed studies that tried to predict the number of jobs for their states budgets and reached out to several people in the industry. I round up for the numbers I have calculated to make the math easier.
 
Full Article:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/12659355/1/marijuana-jobs-higher-than-estimated.html

TULSA, OKLA. — On April 11, 2014, Oklahomans for Health will submit an application for petition with Oklahoma Secretary of State Glenn Coffee, which would let voters decide whether medical marijuana should be legalized in the Sooner State.

By Yesenia Robles The Denver Post

Bo Shaffer of Delta Tech talks about hemp plants with an attendee at the NoCo Hemp Expo in Windsor on Saturday. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)
 
Farmers in Colorado and at least 10 other states are preparing to plant, cultivate and harvest hemp legally for the first time since the crop was outlawed more than 50 years ago.
As they learn about the crop’s preferences and the best methods to harvest the seeds for oil or the long stalks for fiber, they are sidestepping the first part of the process that remains unclear: getting the seed.
“It’s kind of a catch there right now,” said Ron Carleton, the state’s deputy commissioner of agriculture.
 
Full Article:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25534762/small-seed-remains-large-hurdle-legal-hemp-farming
 

Katie Kelly Bell Contributor

One of the cellar’s hemp bricks.
 
Chateau Maris’ 9,000 square foot wine cellar in southern France maintains a stable temperature year-round without the use of air conditioning or heating; it’s sustainable, organic, all-natural, odorless, and acts as a carbon sink–able to absorb carbon dioxide for up to 25 years (according to a French study). The cellar isn’t made of brick, or stone, or some magical new ingredient, but rather it’s a simple combination of hemp, lime and wood. Three things, that’s it.
 
Full Article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/katiebell/2014/04/09/another-reason-to-legalize-hemp-make-a-wine-cellar-with-it/

Written by: Ken Sharp

 
“George called me up and said he had to do this. Ravi Shankar had asked him to get involved because they were having trouble in Bangladesh. Years later Willie Nelson told me it was because the U.S. government made them cut down all their hemp plant. Hemp was their major crop; they used it for ropes and baskets and tents and everything else. When they cut that down their top soil blew away and they had this huge famine.”
 
Full Article:
http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2014/04/04/leon-russell-interview-a-life-journey/
 
Note:  In the 1970s, Independent Bangladesh signed an “anti-drug” agreement with the U.S., promising not to grow hemp. Since that time, they have suffered disease, starvation and decimation due to unrestrained flooding.

 
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Prisoners in the jails of Uruguay will be able to use marijuana if a doctor says it will benefit their health. Uruguay’s drug czar Julio Calzada told The Associated Press on Tuesday that any inmates with doctors’ orders will be prescribed marijuana to their improve physical or mental health.
Full Article:
http://www.cbs2iowa.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/medical-marijuana-okd-prisoners-25914.shtml

Hamish Broome

 
ECONOMIC BOOSTER: Tiffani Brennan, business development manager and Paul Benhaim CEO of Hemp Foods Australia.Doug Eaton
 
The Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation cited concerns that “ ’branding’ of this application as ‘low THC hemp’… could result in public perception that the drug, cannabis, is acceptable and safe to consume”.
This is nonsense, Mr Benhaim said.
“There’s already regulations in place to govern the growth of industrial hemp in Australia – all they have to do is allow us to use those seeds as food,” he said.
 
Full Article:
http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/federal-government-careful-not-to-trip-in-hemp-ind/2219553/