By Timothy Boyer

 
Anti-aging oil #1: Hemp Oil

Hemp oil is extracted from the seeds of the hemp plant that is known for its durable fiber that sailors of long ago used in making rope for their sailing ships. Today, you can find a wide assortment of clothing and accessories made from hemp that is popular among counter-culture individuals who are pro-legalization of marijuana. Although the plant that hemp oil is derived from is related to the type of Cannabis grown for marijuana, it either has no or very little of the psycho-active delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). In spite of this, growing hemp is illegal in the US. However, in its oil extract form, it is commercially available from seeds grown in other countries.
Used as cooking oil known for its nutty taste, the chief benefit of hemp seed oil is that it is rich in alpha-linoleic acid that reportedly can reverse the atherosclerosis developing in your arteries.
“Hemp oil helps keep your heart healthy as your age,” says Ms. Reinagel. “It’s one of the richest vegetable sources of omega-3 fatty acids,”
Aside from using as a healthy anti-aging cooking oil, hemp oil can also be integrated into your butter. Ms. Reinagel recommends making a spread of hemp seed oil by mixing one stick of butter with ½ cup of hemp seed oil in a blender into a smooth consistency that spreads over bread without tearing.
“You’re going to get a spread with all the taste of butter, but with only half the saturated fats,” says Ms. Reinagel.
 
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http://www.emaxhealth.com/8782/dr-oz-3-anti-aging-cooking-oils-kitchen-can-help-you-live-longer

 By Lauren Maschmedt, KTVM Reporter, lmaschmedt@ktvm.com
A judge decides to block portions of the stricter medical marijuana laws outlined in Senate Bill 423 on Wednesday- portions that providers say would have put them out of business and leave patients without access.

That injunction was established last year, but the Supreme Court overturned it. The MTCIA fought back.
He said the decision is good news for Montana medical marijuana patients, who won’t have to start growing their own marijuana.
 
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http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/Judge-blocks-portions-of-Montana-medical-marijuana-law/-/14594602/18159912/-/cr1dtlz/-/index.html

by Dawn M. Kurry
Richmond County Daily Journal

Contributed photo Jon Kennedy represents the North Carolina chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and recently conducted a survey that shows 58 percent of North Carolinians as being in favor of medical marijuana.
A poll conducted by Public Policy Polling reveals that most North Carolinians believe a doctor should have the right to prescribe marijuana for patients. Support for medical marijuana is at 58 percent overall, with 33 percent opposed and 9 percent undecided. A majority of every age group younger than 65 supports medical marijuana. The poll reached 608 North Carolina voters between Jan. 10 and 13.
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http://www.yourdailyjournal.com/view/full_story/21431950/article-Survey–More-than-half-of-North-Carolinians-favor-medical-marijuana?instance=popular

Veda Dante

 
BANGALOW-based Hemp Foods Australia is calling for local farmers to help cater for the growing worldwide demand in hemp products.
The company grows industrial hemp under government licence, but has been unable to keep up with consumer needs.
“We are using as much Australian-grown hemp seed as we can get our hands on,” said managing director Paul Benhaim. “We are actively looking to expand contracts to support more Australian farmers and supply our operational manufacturing plant,” Mr Benhaim said.
 
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http://www.byronnews.com.au/news/farmers-wanted-to-grow-hemp/1719200/

By Aaron Sankin

 
A case headed for the California Supreme Court early next month is expected to have a big impact on the future of medical marijuana in the Golden State.
The City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patients Health and Wellness Center, which will be heard at the University of San Francisco’s School of Law, is looking at cities’ ability to implement bans on medical marijuana clinics operating within their limits.
“You can imagine how glad I am to see this finally coming to an end–to decidewhether cities can ban collectives or not,” Lanny Swerdlow, founder of the Inland Empire center, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. “I just hope that if we win, the City of Riverside will sit down and do what we asked them to do 2 1/2 years ago, and enact an ordinance to license and regulate medical marijuana collectives.”
The clinic, which has operated in Riverside since 2009, argues that California’s voter-backed Compassionate Use Act (aka Proposition 215) permits medical marijuana dispensaries, and that governments are overstepping constitutional limits by banning them outright.
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/california-medical-marijuana_n_2490210.html

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by Benjamin R. Young

 
You might be surprised by what we’re about to say: the most tight-lipped, conservative and controlling country in the world is also a weed-smoker’s paradise. Despite the North Korean government’s deadly serious stance on the use and distribution of hard drugs like crystal meth (which has its own inauspicious legacy in the North), marijuana is reportedly neither classified illegal or in any way policed. The herb of the bohemian and free is not even considered a drug. As a result, it’s the discerning North Korean gentleman’s roll-up of choice, suggesting that for weed smokers at least, North Korea might just be paradise after all.
NK NEWS receives regular reports from visitors returning from North Korea, who tell us of marijuana plants growing freely along the roadsides, from northern port town Chongjin, right down to the streets of Pyongyang, where it is smoked freely and its sweet scent often catches your nostrils unannounced.
 
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http://www.nknews.org/2013/01/struggle-is-the-enemy-weed-is-the-remedy-the-truth-about-marijuana-in-north-korea/

By Laura McCallister, Multimedia Producer – email

 
State Sen. David Haley, D-4, has introduced a bill that would allow Kansans with debilitating medical conditions to obtain and use marijuana without fear of arrest.
S.B. 9 would allow patients with certain qualifying conditions, who have received recommendations from their physicians, to privately possess up to six ounces of marijuana and grow up to 12 marijuana plants in their homes. It also calls on the Kansas Department of Public Health to regulate and license medical marijuana compassion centers to provide medicine to qualified patients. The department would be able to limit the number of centers in any particular area.
“Kansas is a conservative state, but this is not a conservative or liberal issue,” Haley said in a press release. “This is a public safety issue. Many of the opioids and other narcotics these patients take now carry serious side effects and cause thousands of accidental overdose deaths every year. Marijuana, like any medication, is not harmless, but its side effects are milder, and it has never caused a fatal overdose. The bottom line is this is the right thing to do.”
 
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http://www.kctv5.com/story/20597568/state-senator-introduces-medical-marijuana-bill-to-kansas-senate
 

Adam Taylor

Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt
 
There is no taboo around pot smoking in the country – many North Koreans know the drug exists and have smoked it. In North Korea, the drug goes by the name of ip tambae or “leaf tobacco.” It is reported to be especially popular amongst young soldiers in the North Korean military – rather than getting hooked on tar & nicotine like their contemporaries in the West, they fraternize without fear of repercussion by lighting up king-sized doobies during down time on the military beat.
 
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http://www.businessinsider.com/north-koreas-and-marijuana-2013-1

By Steve Raabe
The Denver Post

Lynda Parker, from left, of Agricultural Hemp Initiative, James McVaney, director of McVaney & Associates Ltd., and Erik Hunter, engineer of Hemp Cleans, visit CannLabs in Denver and view a hemp plant. Proponents of hemp say it is going to become a big industry.(Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)
 
Passage of Amendment 64 has given life to a group of zealous enthusiasts who can barely contain their passion for the leafy green substance.
No, not pot. The fanatics get their kicks from buzz-free hemp.
A genetic cousin to marijuana, hemp is a look-alike plant with one key difference. It contains almost no THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that makes users high.
But what hemp lacks in THC, it makes up for by being a remarkable workhorse of industrial utility. From auto bodies to textile fibers to nutrition bars — even as a cleaner of toxic contamination — hemp struts its stuff.
Boosters say hemp is poised to become a big industry in Colorado because Amendment 64 allows its legal cultivation pending legislative authorization.
Lynda Parker’s eyes light up, the all-natural way, when she talks about it.
“My friends tell me I’m too evangelical,” says the retired Dex saleswoman. “But there’s hardly a problem in the world that can’t be solved with hemp.”
She ticks off an abbreviated list, just a tantalizing hint, of the practical applications.
“Hemp is food, animal feed, fiber, fuel, shelter,” she says. “It cleans the air, the water, the soil. Hemp could be enormous for Colorado because we’re the first state to legalize it.”
Hemp’s most common uses are food products derived from seeds and seed oil. Fiber from the stalks of hemp plants are used in clothing and industrial applications, including as a strengthening agent in concrete.
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http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_22368156