By: Joe Fiorito

Jane Denny

 
A hemp-based fibre material which its developers claim weighs up to 25% lighter than standard injection-molded parts is being used in cars three-quarters of a century after Henry Ford unveiled his lightweight hemp car.
Faurecia’s natural fibres for injection process (NAFI) uses in-line compounding to add fibres such as hemp or kenaf to polypropylene to reinforce parts in place of heavier glass.
 
Full Article:
http://www.urethanes-technology-international.com/index.php/content/view/full/23716

Marijuana users in Colorado and Washington are counting down the hours before the western US states become the first to legalize recreational pot shops on January 1.

A visitor from Hawaii smokes a joint as thousands gather to celebrate the state’s medicinal marijuana laws, at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado, on April 20, 2012
 

Blazing a trail they hope will be followed in other parts of the United States, cannabis growers and others are also rubbing their hands, while tax collectors are eyeing the revenue the newly-legalized trade will generate.
Enterprising companies are even offering marijuana tours to cash in on tourists expected to be attracted to a Netherlands-style pot culture — including in Colorado’s famous ski resorts.
“Just the novelty alone is bringing people from everywhere,” said Adam Raleigh of cannabis supplier Telluride Bud Co.
“I have people driving in from Texas, Arizona, Utah… to be a part of history.
“Over the last month I have received somewhere between four to six emails a day and five to 10 phone calls a day asking all about the law and when should people plan their ski trip to go along with cannabis,” he added.
 
Full Article:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/387155/blazing-cannabis-trail-us-states-eye-tourism-surge

By Jason Blevins, The Denver Post

By Michael Martinez, CNN

 
Colorado will begin allowing recreational marijuana sales on January 1 to anyone age 21 or over.
Residents will be able to buy marijuana like alcohol — except the cannabis purchase is limited to an ounce, which is substantial enough to cost about $200 or more.
 
Full Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/28/us/10-things-colorado-recreational-marijuana/

by Johnny Green

Senator Bruce Burns
 
Wyoming is a harsh place when it comes to marijuana. Reefer madness has been alive and well in Wyoming for a long, long time. However, there appears to be some light growing at the end of the tunnel. At least one politician from Wyoming is willing to stand up for what’s right and expressed his support for medical marijuana in Wyoming.
 
Full Article:
http://www.theweedblog.com/republican-senator-from-wyoming-supports-medical-marijuana/

Here’s the link:
http://www.prisology.org/action.html

By Ray Downs

 

 
When Eric Sykes, a mass communications senior at SIUE, read the October Daily RFT story about Jeff Mizanskey, the Missouri man doing a life without parole sentence for marijuana, he thought he might have a good subject for his video documentary class. But as he delved into the project, it became more important than just a grade.
“When I first contacted Chris Mizanskey, Jeff Mizanskey’s son, I realized just how real this situation was,” Sykes tells Daily RFT.
In November, Sykes made the trip from Edwardsville to the Jefferson City Correctional Center where Mizanskey has been held for nearly 20 years for an on-camera interview. He was able to speak to Mizanskey and hear his story in person. The next day, Sykes met some of Mizanskey’s family. And although Sykes had never been a proponent of marijuana legalization, this experience convinced him that prohibition laws are a lost cause.
“I have never been one to support the legalization of marijuana until I heard about this case,” Sykes says. “I can truthfully confess that I have never been in the same room with marijuana. Never smoked it and never will, but after meeting these people, however, I feel that we need to decriminalize marijuana. Who are we to sentence someone to die in prison because they were in possession or marijuana? This entire story is just painstakingly wrong.”
 
Full Article:
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2013/12/documentary_jeff_mizanskey_life_for_pot.php

By Dave Philipps

Sydni Yunek, 9, helps her mother, Holli Brown, decorate their Christmas tree Friday, December 6, 2013. Two months after her first dose of cannabis oil, Sydni’s seizures have dropped and she went nine days, a personal record, without a seizure. While Sydni is still experiencing some fluctuation in how she is feeling, Brown has noticed much improvement. Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette
This is the first Christmas that the Swann family won’t spend with extended family in Alabama – a situation that makes members shake their heads in disappointment and tear up with joy.
They can’t go home because they moved to Colorado Springs this fall to treat their daughter Allie’s severe epilepsy with a marijuana oil that is illegal in Alabama. But, they say, their sorrow is overwhelmed by the joy they feel seeing their daughter’s rapid improvement.
After three weeks of taking the oil, her seizures are drastically reduced.
Full Article:
http://gazette.com/marijuana-oil-brings-relief-joy/article/1511475

Here’s the link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/papsite-radio/2013/12/22/the-human-solution