A Byron Bay industrial hemp farm is opening its doors to the public for daily eco-tours from 9^th October. Family friendly, visitors to this sustainable permaculture farm may experience all the action of an eco farm without the hard work!
Industrial hemp has been legal to grow in Australia and New South Wales in particular for a few years now. Byron Bay’s first industrial hemp farm is run by local hemp expert, Director and Founder of the Hemp Farm Paul Benhaim who states “This is a normal crop in Europe, I was surprised to learn Australian’s have been missing out on all the fun of growing a crop of industrial hemp in Australia and it is about time I did something about this.”
Industrial hemp is well known for it’s use in ropes and clothes, but visitors to the Hemp Farm get a lot more. You can see the crop grow and learn about the equipment required for growing, harvesting and processing. The hemp farm is planned to be Australia’s centre of hemp food processing, with hemp seeds and hemp oil production already in place with plans for expansion early next year.
Visitors to the eco farm can see a demonstration of hemp milk, hemp ice-cream or hemp chocolate making and if you are lucky – get a taste of these healthy nutritious products that are sold widely throughout Europe and North America.
 
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http://www.eco-business.com/press-releases/a-world-first-in-australia-hemp-farm-offers-visitors-a-greener-side-to-byron-bay/

MANZINI – Smart Partners have suggested that the country should legalise marijuana to manufacture painkillers.
This was one of the submissions made by Table six which was represented by Senator Thulile Msane during presentations.
This has added to the growing suggestions that the prohibited shrub must be legalised.
Smart Partners were making submissions on ideas for the economic recovery, when the marijuana suggestion came up.
“We have to explore the use of herbs for treatment of ailments. We can also use marijuana to make painkillers. Nawuyigaye kahle imarijuana it can be useful for the production of painkillers,” she said.
 
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http://www.times.co.sz/News/32483.html

 
Kansas City Hempfest 2011: Hemp for Jobs!
This is a FREE event.
Donations are greatly encouraged though!
RAFFLE PRIZES thanks to donations from
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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY, 3918 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64111
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-A-Beautiful-Day/10150135961025265?sk=wall
HEADSPACE ON TROOST, 4254 Troost Ave, Kansas City, Mo. 64110
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000742151511
HEMP OIL OF CANADA
http://www.hempoilcan.com/
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SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS
MC: Sahj Kayah
SPEAKERS:
Dan Viets, Missouri NORML, Show-Me Cannabis Chairman
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4506
Brian Leininger, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition/NORML
http://www.leap.cc/author/Brian/
Kelley Wesley, KC NORML/Women’s Marijuana Movement
Toni Bones, KC NORML Hemp Committee
Also Sean Randall, Amber Langston, and Jacqueline Patterson
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COMEDIANS:
Marty McIrvin
Travis Wright
http://www.youtube.com/user/ComedyTerrorism420?feature=uploademail_ch
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MUSIC:
MindzEye http://www.facebook.com/MindzEyeReggae
Sahj Kayah Divine Intervention http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1072431837&ref=ts
KanEyed http://www.facebook.com/kaneyed
David Hasselhoff on Acid http://www.facebook.com/DHOAmusic
Lando Kloud http://www.facebook.com/lkloud
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002364932331
The Phantastics http://www.facebook.com/thephantastics
StoneDeph http://www.facebook.com/StoneDephMusic
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PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=247344631972665
AFTER-PARTY: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208121565912675
WEBSITE: http://www.kchempfest.org/

I left Amsterdam last week, after the shit hit the fan in Michigan, and the Dutch authorities were striving to match the sheer idiocy of the anti-marijuana crusaders in the United States by forcing 58 licensed cannabis coffeeshops out of business pursuant to a recent dictum that weed can’t be offered for consumption within 350 meters of a secondary school. “The cabinet does not want pupils’ education careers going up in smoke,” puffed education minister Marja van Bijsterveldt.
These grandstanding plays aimed at the most regressive sector of the citizenry look noble and civic-minded on the surface, but, in fact, have no actual relevance in terms of public safety. The coffeeshops being shut down have existed in proximity to the schools for 30 or 40 years with no appreciable impact on the student population.
In fact, nothing is more difficult in the Centrum of Amsterdam than minors acquiring cannabis products at a coffeeshop — or even getting up to the hash counter to order up some smoke. Strict ID checks are conducted without fail, because minors on the premises are grounds for immediate suspension of the shop’s cannabis privileges. Even if the school were next door to the coffeeshop, no students would be allowed entry in any event — ever.
Like raiding growrooms and linking growing to “serious crime” and “criminal violence,” shutting down marijuana outlets because of their proximity to a schoolhouse is an entirely cynical political ploy directed at the addled denizens of the religious and secular right in a last-ditch attempt to stave off the ever-encroaching rule of reason. But the real shame is that these small, independent businesses are being hounded out of existence in increasing numbers.
 
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http://metrotimes.com/mmj/let-it-grow-1.1202612

 
The following recipe is taken from what is considered the oldest cookbook ever written. Known as De Honesta Voluptate Et Valetudine (Of Honest Voluptuousness and Health), it was written by Bartholomaeus Platina in 1475 and contained around 300 recipes, one of them being for cannabis.
The recipe goes as follows:

To make cannabis yourself known as flax for thread
Use a mallet to crush clods collect after good harvest
Taken as food in wine or cake
Add cannabis to nard oil in an iron pot
Crush together over some heat until juice
A health drink of cannabis nectar
Carefully treat food and divide for the stomach and the head
finally remember everything in excess may be harmful or criminal.

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http://goodandbaked.com/history/the-oldest-recorded-cannabis-recipe/

Vancouver manufacturer creates a buzz in apparel

Changing the way an industry does business takes time, especially if there is a perfectly acceptable and entrenched way of doing things. Try doing it on your own and you may find more than a few closed doors, which underlines the importance of working with, not against, existing industry players.
A collaborative approach certainly is paying off for Naturally Advanced Technologies Inc. (NAT). Initially, it was primarily a hemp apparel manufacturer. But when industry veteran Ken Barker joined as CEO in 2006, he quickly realized the Vancouver-based company offered more potential than just selling T-shirts made from alternative fibres.
NAT first had to prove the hemp and flax fibres it manufactures, using enzymes to break down the raw material into fine strands, were a more effective, durable and sustainable alternative to cotton, which has been used to make clothing for millennia.
At the time, cotton was cheaper than alternative fibres even though it’s a land-intensive crop that requires huge quantities of water and large amounts of pesticides.
 
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http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/13/hemp-couture/

Memphis, Tn – Congressman Steve Cohen is making another push to legalize marijuana.
Monday, the Democratic Congressman from Memphis sent the Federal Drug Czar a letter asking the Office of National Drug Control Policy rethink marijuana laws.
Cohen said in part, “There is no evidence that marijuana has the same addictive qualities or damaging consequences as cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine and should not be treated as such.”
 
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http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/10pm/cohen-pushes-to-legalize-marijuana-mfo-20110912

Between the use of 50 percent recycled aluminum in the chassis and making interior panels and seats out of hemp fibers, recycled water bottles and the like, the lifetime global warming potentialof the fully electric i3 is said to be a third less than that of a similar diesel 1-series hatch. That drops to half if recharged using renewable electricity. The Leipzig plant that will build the i3 will also consume 70 percent less water per vehicle and run on 100 percent renewable energy.

After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson sought relief from his medical condition through the use of medicinal hemp oil. When Rick discovered that the hemp oil (with its high concentration of THC) cured cancers and other illnesses, he tried to share it with as many people as he could free of charge – curing and controlling literally hundreds of people’s illnesses… but when the story went public, the long arm of the law snatched the medicine – leaving potentially thousands of people without their cancer treatments – and leaving Rick with unconstitutional charges of possessing and trafficking marijuana! Canada is in the middle of a CANCER EPIDEMIC!
This film allows you to meet the individuals who were not allowed to testify on Rick’s behalf at the Supreme Court of Canada’s Infamous Rick Simpson Trial on September 10, 2007…
INCLUDING A MAN WHO WAS CURED OF TERMINAL CANCER USING HEMP OIL! IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE DOCUMENTARY THIS YEAR… MAKE IT THIS ONE!
A Film By Christian Laurette
See it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2LQvRiJKxQ&sns=fb

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