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.
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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.
 
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http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/federal-government-careful-not-to-trip-in-hemp-ind/2219553/

 
If you’ve ever watched “House Of Lies,” you probably assumed the writers were high as balls. With the crazy plot lines, twists and general undertones of the show, it’s got the eccentric mind of a stoner written all over it.
 
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DENVER — Last month, Colorado diner owner Mark Rose posted an unusual job description: “Looking for part time experienced breakfast cook. Pays well, must be friendly and a team player, could turn into a full time gig by summer. 420 friendly a must.”
With that public declaration, Rose put himself squarely in the camp of employers acknowledging that marijuana use is perfectly legal in Colorado. Perhaps more significant, it also puts him in the camp of employers who officially don’t care if their employees use pot off-duty. The phrase “420” is shorthand for someone who uses marijuana.
 
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http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2014/04/07/legal-pot-becomes-a-touchy-workplace-issue/7443333/
 

By Steve Raabe
The Denver Post

Pot plant-growing competitions. Pot brownie judging. Pipes. Vaporizers. Rolling papers. And oh, by the way, there’s also a county fair taking place.
But excuse the Denver County Fair organizers for making hay with marijuana while public interest is high.
Organizers said Tuesday that the fair’s “Pot Pavilion” will now occupy an entire floor of the National Western Complex during the event Aug. 1-3.
“Originally the pot pavilion was going to take just half of the third floor,” said fair director Dana Cain. “But the response has just been enormous. We’re having to turn away sponsors.”
 
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By Steve Raabe
The Denver Post

The Denver County Fair draws thousands of attendees to the National Western Complex in Denver. (Denver Post file photo)

Pot plant-growing competitions. Pot brownie judging. Pipes. Vaporizers. Rolling papers. And oh, by the way, there’s also a county fair taking place.
But excuse the Denver County Fair organizers for making hay with marijuana while public interest is high.
Organizers said Tuesday that the fair’s “Pot Pavilion” will now occupy an entire floor of the National Western Complex during the event Aug. 1-3.
“Originally the pot pavilion was going to take just half of the third floor,” said fair director Dana Cain. “But the response has just been enormous. We’re having to turn away sponsors.”
 
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http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_25522161/denver-county-fair-putting-high-emphasis-pot-pavilion

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NEW YORK — Uruguay is considering using medical marijuana to treat prison inmates addicted to a crude and cheap form of cocaine, one of the country’s top health officials said Thursday at the United Nations.
The South American country made headlines last year when it became the first in the world to legalize the sale of marijuana. Now, as Uruguay prepares to implement its pioneering legislation, health leaders are considering possible uses for medical forms of marijuana — including in prisons, where many of the incarcerated are addicted to drugs.
“Jail is not a very suitable place for someone to safely overcome drug addiction,” Leonel Briozzo, the country’s undersecretary for public health, said in an event at the U.N. Briozzo called for “new strategies for drug addiction treatment, especially for harder drugs like ‘pasta base.’ And in that sense, we harbor a possible hope that medical marijuana can play a role in this as well.”
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/04/uruguay-medical-marijuana_n_5092773.html?1396639478

by HARVEY WASSERMAN
 

 
High above the Bowling Green town dump, a green energy revolution is being won.
It’s being helped along by the legalization of marijuana and its bio-fueled cousin, industrial hemp.
But it’s under extreme attack from the billionaire Koch Brothers, utilities like First Energy (FE), and a fossil/nuke industry that threatens our existence on this planet.
Robber Baron resistance to renewable energy has never been more fierce. The prime reason is that the Solartopian Revolution embodies the ultimate threat to the corporate utility industry and the hundreds of billions of dollars it has invested in the obsolete monopolies that define King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas).
The outcome will depend on YOUR activism, and will determine whether we survive here at all. Four very large wind turbines in this small Ohio town are producing clean, cheap electricity that can help save our planet. A prime reason they exist is that Bowling Green has a municipal owned utility. When it came time to go green, the city didn’t have to beg some corporate owned electric monopoly to do it for them.
 
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/07/winning-the-green-energy-revolution/

 
 
The Maryland House of Delegates voted 78 to 55 in favor of a Bill which eliminates criminal charges for possessing small amounts of marijuana and reduce the offense to the severity of a traffic violation.
 
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http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/25172750/maryland-house-of-delegates-approves-marijuana-decriminalization-bill

Written by Rachel Moore – email

 
As Clark County and the City of Las Vegas prepare to welcome the medical marijuana industry, Compassion Nevada Consulting is getting a jump-start on staffing the dispensaries and cultivation facilities that may start sprouting up.
The consulting firm hosted a medical marijuana career fair to educate and train job-seekers interested in the business.
Compassion Nevada Consulting owner Adam Sternberg said the medical marijuana industry will bring hundreds of jobs to the Valley. He wants to make sure those positions are filled by locals.
 
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http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/25173375/medical-marijuana-career-fair-educates-job-seekers