Vanessa Luis
Hemp seeds are good for weight loss as they contain omega-3 fats that help burn body fat. They are also high in magnesium and iron, which can boost energy levels and their potassium content prevents bloating.
 
Full Article:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/diet/Healthy-seeds-for-weight-loss/articleshow/26626541.cms

 
“I think we’d all be healthier, wealthier and wiser if we took a look inside ourselves – at our hub – and start seeing the cannabinoids that are in all of us.”
 

Full Article:

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwbooks/article/Work-the-Hub-Obesity-and-the-Cannabinoid-System-A-Publius-Update-20131130

by Jeremy Hubbard
 
DENVER — Any parent would do whatever it takes to make a sick child feel better.  But would you uproot your entire life, pack up the kids, and move across the country?
A growing number of families are doing just that.  Relocating to Colorado.  Some call them “marijuana refugees.”
People like Ornella Pisciuneri.  She left her husband and two of her children back home in New Jersey, and moved to Colorado Springs a month ago, seeking treatment for her son Alex, 20, who suffers from Lefora Body Disease, an incurable and often deadly form of epilepsy.
 
Full Article & Video:
http://kdvr.com/2013/11/27/marijuana-refugees-stuck-in-colorado-while-children-receive-treatment/

By David Nutt

 
Or is it time for scientists and doctors to change the rules so research and clinical treatments can flourish.
 
Full Article:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/11/27/the-potential-of-lsd-heroin-marijuana-and-other-controlled-substances-in-brain-research/

 
Faurecia is poised to become the first automotive supplier to mass produce a 100% bio-based plastic with hemp-based fibres and a natural-substance matrix to replace injection-moulded polypropylene.
 
Full Article:
http://www.ecocomposites.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10462%3Ahemp-based-first-for-faurecia&catid=3%3Anews-free&Itemid=2

Latrisha Bentch

Anna, age 6, diagnosed with intractable epilepsy
Photo: Danielle Keyser
 
It’s Sunday morning. I look over at the clock beside my bed at 5:59 a.m., just seconds before the alarm starts to buzz. I roll over, place my hand gently on my daughter’s chest, and wait to feel the subtle rise and fall of her ribcage. Ahhh, Anna is breathing. I’m good now.
You’d think having just celebrated her 6th birthday, that I would no longer feel the need to make sure Anna is still alive every morning, much less have her nestled between her father and I night after night. But when you have a child with intractable epilepsy, all the conventional rules on parenting will inevitably be thrown out the proverbial window.
 
Full Article:
http://www.ladybud.com/2013/11/25/moved-to-action-the-diary-of-a-mothers-fight-for-access/

 

What if plastic could be made without using fossil fuels and toxic chemicals? An Australian company has done just that, with a new type of plastic that can turn hemp fiber into pretty much anything.

 
Full Article:
http://www.leafscience.com/2013/11/19/zeoform-new-plastic-turns-hemp-almost-anything/

BY JOEY HOLLEMAN jholleman@thestate.com

 
Research into the impact of the principal ingredient in marijuana at the molecular level on diseases keeps leading University of South Carolina researchers to new possibilities.
The latest study, published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, deals with the impact of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on a recently discovered class of molecules called microRNA.

By Courtney Subramanian @cmsub

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Dec. 6 marks the one-year anniversary of legal marijuana
Seattle residents will light up this holiday season in celebration of the first anniversary of Washington state’s legalization of marijuana.
Full Article:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/23/seattle-to-light-up-city-with-public-pot-party/

POSTED BY DANA GOODYEAR

 
The first edition of “The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, ” in 1954, censored the recipe for “Haschich Fudge.” (It made it into the paperback, in 1960, and from there more chocolate-y, childlike versions entered the repertoires of hosts everywhere.) The recipe, which Toklas attributes to her friend Brion Gysin, contains a sly warning about sourcing: “Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties, but the variety known as canibus sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognized, everywhere in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called canibus indica, has been observed even in city window boxes.”
 
Full Article:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/one-bunch-of-fresh-cannabis-leaves.html