Kentucky’s hemp crops flourish

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University of Kentucky researcher David Williams is studying which hemp varieties are best suited for growing in Kentucky. Mark Vanderhoff WLKY
 
It took a legal fight just to get the seeds in the ground, but two months later, Kentucky’s first legal hemp crops in decades are flourishing.

The hemp plants have grown from 6 to 16 feet in two months and researchers say that’s a good sign for what could be a new cash crop for Kentucky.


“It’s exciting,” said University of Kentucky plant researcher David Williams. “It’s new. It has potential. And so it’s very fun. It’s a lot of fun to be involved in something that’s new and potentially possible for Kentucky farmers.”


Williams will harvest UK’s hemp crop in September and compare its growth to 12 other varieties he planted.


“I think we can grow larger plants with a full growing season,” Williams said. “We lost about a month.”

 
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http://www.wlky.com/news/kentuckys-hemp-crops-flourish-after-troubled-start/27251006#!bsux60

CBN: A Sleeping Synergy

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CBN is either non-psychoactive or very mildly psychoactive. It reduces intraocular pressure in the eye (similar to D9THC), so it can be used in the treatment of Glaucoma without the psychoactive effects of THC. CBN is synergistic with THC for treatment purposes. CBN also fights free radicals in the bloodstream, and it performs similarly to THC in pain reduction treatments.

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http://steephilllab.com/cbn-a-sleeping-synergy/

Bill O’Reilly’s pot poll: 90 percent of America wants legal pot

By , The Cannabist Staff
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Bill O’Reilly (Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images file)
 

On Bill O’Reilly’s personal website, visitors can buy tickets to see O’Reilly’s tour, take history quizzes, buy a copy of O’Reilly’s nonfiction work “Killing Jesus” or read articles that reflect the conservative views popularized on O’Reilly’s work on Fox News.

Or visitors can vote in O’Reilly’s daily polls to “see how folks all around the country responded.”

On July 28, O’Reilly’s poll took on marijuana legalization: “There is momentum behind the move to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Where do you stand?” There were two possible answers: “It should be legal, like alcohol” and “Dangerous idea with many unintended consequences.”

When we last checked O’Reilly’s poll on July 30, 90 percent of the 65,000-plus respondents voted pro-legalization, “like alcohol,” with all 50 states voting in unity — not likely the response O’Reilly’s team was hoping for.

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http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/07/30/bill-oreillys-marijuana-poll-shows-90-percent-america-wanting-legal-pot/17247/

6 unexpected products made from hemp

By: Matt Hickman
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A woman explores a hemp maze at Château de la Roche-Jagu in France. (Photo: Barbetorte/Wikimedia Commons)
 
Once upon a time, hemp was one of America’s most vital cash crops, a hardy, low-maintenance and incredibly versatile plant, the fiber of which was used to produce everything from rope to paper. Heck, even George Washington — and a smattering of other early United States presidents including Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson — were proponents of industrial hemp cultivation and grew cannabis on their plantations (presumably not to craft chunky beaded chokers and macramé plant hangers).
 
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http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/6-unexpected-products-made-from-hemp

Las Vegas lists all medical marijuana applicants

By JANE ANN MORRISON
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The full list of applicants hoping to win approval to open medical marijuana establishments within the City of Las Vegas is listed below. The address is the site they plan to use. Some have filed for multiple dispensary sites and some are seeking a dispensary, a cultivation site and a production site.
 
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http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/pot-news/las-vegas-lists-all-medical-marijuana-applicants

The Federal Marijuana Ban Is Rooted in Myth and Xenophobia (intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries).

Smartphone app promises medical pot delivery

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Startup Eaze on Tuesday released a smartphone application promising prompt, professional delivery of medical marijuana the doors of patients in San Francisco.

Eaze said that drivers referred to as “caregivers” will get medicinal doses to their intended recipients in an average of 10 minutes in most cases.

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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140729/smartphone-app-promises-medical-pot-delivery

Former Colorado Jail Might Transform Into a Massive Marijuana Grow Facility

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In March, Colorado native Nicholas Erker purchased the town of Brush’s defunct Correctional Facility. Now, with more than six months of successful legal weed in Colorado’s history books, Erker wants to turn his purchase into a cultivation facility and start selling retail cannabis in Brush.

The only problem? Brush–a town with the motto “Homegrown Happiness!”–has a moratorium on marijuana businesses in place until 2016. That moratorium means no individual can legally grow cannabis or sell retail marijuana in Brush’s confines.

Fortunately, the moratorium can be revisited at any time. To plead his case and move the town’s stalled weed needle, Erker wrote a letter to the Brush City Council, politely asking them to lift the moratorium and allow him to turn the empty jail into a field of (marijuana) dreams.

Full Article:

http://marijuana.com/news/2014/07/former-colorado-jail-might-transform-into-a-massive-marijuana-grow-facility/