Nora Landis-Shack

 
If you’ve ever wanted to mix your — ahem — “extracurricular activities” with your burrito obsession, get yourself to a Tijuana Flats.  They’re rolling out some new burritos made with hemp tortillas.  Hemp is a variety of cannabis plant, and while these tasty lunch creations won’t give you the trip you’re looking for, they still look pretty damn tasty if we may say so.

 
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http://www.foodbeast.com/2014/07/11/burweedo-is-made-with-hemp-tortillas-delights-stoners-everywhere/

A Tulsa mother hopes voters get a chance to decide if medical marijuana is legalized in Oklahoma this November.

Brittany Hardy says her 23-month-old daughter, Jaqie, suffers from epilepsy. She said Jaqie suffered 150 seizures a day. Hardy said she tried every anti-seizure drug available in Oklahoma, but nothing worked.

She decided to move her family to Colorado, to allow Jaqie to be treated with medical marijuana. She said it reduced the number of seizures Jaqie suffers. Brittany said the number of seizures Jaqie now suffers in a week is fewer than the number she suffered in a day without the medicinal marijuana.

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http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/tulsa-mom-fights-for-medical-marijuana-legalization-in-oklahoma

By AlterNet

 
“Myrcene is responsible for the aromas of apricots, walnuts and Valencia oranges and is widely used in the perfume industry. It gets its name from the plant mercia and is also found in lemon grass, verbena, hops and the West Indian bay tree used to make bay rum. Its aroma is much like cannabis as it can be woodsy, citrusy and fruity.

But one of its lesser-known qualities is that the myrcene allows THC to pass through the blood brain barrier much faster. On average, it takes THC seven seconds to reach the brain after inhaling. But if you eat a mango — or a mango smoothie — 90 minutes before smoking, you could potentially halve that time.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/10/get-extra-stoned-with-some-help-mangos-the-fruit-might-enhance-thc-absorption/

 
Cannabis Clubs will be protesting today in front of San Jose City Hall from 12:00pm-7:10pm Thursday, July 10th. The first 1,000 San Jose residents to attend will be given a voucher for a free medical cannabis evaluation, and if they qualify as a medical cannabis patient, they can get a free Medical Marijuana Recommendation (aka: a “cannabis card”). All patients, collective employees and community supporters are urged to attend the protest and to sign a petition for a referendum that would stop the city from closing collectives in just 8 days, on July 18th.
 
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http://uspolitics.einnews.com/pr_news/213171277/1000-free-medical-marijuana-recommendations-for-san-jose-residents-today-7-10-at-city-hall-rally

By Joe Coscarelli

 
If there is a more chill man than Mike Boyer, we haven’t heard of him. After waiting 19 hours to become the first person to buy legalized marijuana in Spokane, Washington, Boyer’s local celeb status cost him his job as a security guard. He is most definitely not sweating it: “I’m still the captain! I’m still number one!” he told Vocativ. “I mean, a man can always can get a job. But a man can only be the first person to buy recreational cannabis in Spokane once.”
 
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/chill-guy-fired-for-waiting-19-hours-to-buy-weed.html

By Lawrence Smith – email

 
Kentucky’s first legal hemp crop in more than 50 years is growing quickly.

After just six weeks in the ground, the hemp seeds planted May 27 at the University of Kentucky, have grown to about 5-feet tall.

“Six weeks in, it’s looking just fine,” said UK agronomist David Williams.
 
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http://www.wdrb.com/story/25979146/kentuckys-first-hemp-crop-growing-quickly-sprouting-interest

 

Vertical gardens, solar panels and smart glass have become popular facade materials for their green credentials, but bio façades take things a step further, generating energy for their buildings.

The trend toward bio-materials is a trend being driven by the depletion of fossil fuels. Buildings are responsible for approximately 40 per cent of the world’s total energy consumption, and the architecture industry is responding through the new form of building exteriors.

 
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http://sourceable.net/world-firsts-bio-facades-generate-energy-for-buildings/

BY DRHEINS 

 
WASHINGTON: The Evergreen State became the second state in the union to allow for recreational marijuana sales to adults.  More than 200 customers waited in line, along with an equal number of press — straight, cannabis and internet — at Seattle’s Cannabis City in SODO.
 
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http://mjnewsnetwork.com/news/seattles-top-cop-buys-pot-legally/

By COCO MCPHERSON

 

In the annals of strange bedfellow politics, the story of how, in 2014, industrial hemp emerged from Drug War purgatory is an epic one. But even for long-time hemp advocates, the sight of Rep. Thomas Massie, a conservative Republican from northern Kentucky, biting jubilantly into a hemp bar on live TV last month was startling.

Buried in February’s $956 billion farm bill is an amendment, co-sponsored by Rep. Massie, that legally distinguishes industrial hemp from marijuana after decades of conflation. It defines hemp as an agricultural crop rather than a drug — and effectively frees American farmers to grow it for the first time in almost 60 years.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-other-cannabis-war-20140603

Andrew Tarantola, Gawker Media

 

Now that you’re good and deafened from last night’s Independence Day celebrations, it’s time to do something productive with your recovery day-like, say, brewing alcohol-derived cannabis concentrates that will have you melting into your couch all day tomorrow.

What is a Tincture?

Unlike Cold Water Press or Bubble Hash, which respectively rely on cold temperature and butane to extract the active THC molecules, tinctures utilize alcohol extraction. THC actually starts off in the plant as THCA (tetrahydrocannabolic acid) and usually must be heated to convert the THCA molecules into active THC, but the same effect can be achieved using an alcohol bath to dissolve the THC present within the plant matter.

What you’re left with after these methods? Highly concentrated iquid TCH, consumed a few drops at a time, making your weekend that much more wonderful.

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http://www.gizmodo.in/news/How-to-Brew-Cannabis-Tinctures-Eyedroppers-Full-of-Happiness/articleshow/37854790.cms