A single ultra low dose of THC before ischemia is a safe and effective treatment that reduces myocardial ischemic damage.

Waldman MHochhauser EFishbein MAravot DShainberg ASarne Y.
 

Abstract

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the major psychoactive component of marijuana, is a cannabinoid agonist that exerts its effects by activating at least two specific receptors (CB1 and CB2) that belong to the seven transmembrane G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family. Both CB1 and CB2 mRNA and proteins are present in the heart. THC treatment was beneficial against hypoxia in neonatal cardiomyocytes in vitro.
 
Full Abstract Here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537701

Minnesota Group plans first Hemp Fest

By Trey Mewes
Deanna Jean discusses medical marijuana at the Austin Daily Herald office in June.Deanna Jean discusses medical marijuana at the Austin Daily Herald office in June.
 
A local marijuana and hemp advocate is ramping up her push for legalization.
Deanna Jean and area organizers plan to put on a festival promoting the legalization of the hemp industry in mid-September. The Austin Minnesota Hemp Fest is billed as a drug-free, family-friendly event featuring at least five musical acts by local and regional artists, according to Jean.
“Prohibition is ending, and it’s time we embrace this change instead of fight it,” Jean said.
 
Full Article:
http://www.austindailyherald.com/2013/07/31/group-plans-first-hemp-fest/

Hemp is used in over 25,000 products, now including BMWs

 
 
 
By Siraj Datoo
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Hemp fibers are probably something you associate more with ropes, sacks and baggy ethnic clothing than with luxury cars. But in a report on BMW’s new electric car, the i3, Bloomberg notes in passing that the car maker will line the door panels with hemp, as part of an interior design apparently aimed at making the i3′s drivers feel closer to nature and less likely to drain the battery in a speed-freak fit.
 
Full Article:
http://qz.com/109268/hemp-is-used-in-over-25000-products-now-including-bmws/
 
 

Marijuana Legalization in Missouri: Rep. Rory Ellinger Plans Bill to Regulate Pot Like Colorado

By Sam Levin
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Missouri is one step closer to legalizing marijuana.
State Rep. Rory Ellinger, a Democrat from University City, plans to introduce legislation next session to legalize pot in the state, modeled after the successful reform effort in Colorado. It will definitely be a long shot here, but this will be the first time a lawmaker in Missouri has introduced a proposal of this nature.
“I expect there will be a lot of good people that feel marijuana is wrong, that it leads down a path of worse drugs and trouble and so on,” he tells Daily RFT. “I respect their opinion, but I think that it can all be disputed.”
He continues, “I don’t know anyone who has ever died of a marijuana overdose.”
 
Full Article:
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2013/07/marijuana_legalization_missouri_rory_ellinger.php

Medical Marijuana Experts Host Las Vegas Educational Event with Senator Tick Segerblom

by lasvegasnvblog
 

What: Southwest CannaBusiness Symposium

Where: Renaissance Las Vegas, 3400 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV‎

When: Saturday, July 27, 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Who: Senator Tick Segerblom, NV State Legislature

Sebastopol Vice Mayor Robert Jacob, Peace in Medicine & SPARC

Steve DeAngelo, Harborside Health Center

Aaron Smith, National Cannabis Industry Association

Betty Aldworth, National Cannabis Industry Association

Fifteen medical marijuana experts & entrepreneurs from NV & across the nation providing presentations

More than 125 prospective investors & entrepreneurs attending

 
Full Article:
http://www.lasvegasnvblog.com/2013/07/medical-marijuana-experts-host-las-vegas-educational-event-with-senator-tick-segerblom/

First hemp house in Atlantic Canada under construction in The Falls

By Sherry Martell
 Dominic Watson Wall, project manager at Dorje Denma Ling in The Falls, holds hempcrete, the main building material being used to construct a staff residence at Dorje Denma ling, near Tatamagouche. The coarse, sticky mixture of hemp, lime and water is packed, or tamped, into a house frame using wooden hammers that hardens into concrete-like blocks. SHERRY MARTELL – TRURO DAILY NEWS
Dominic Watson Wall, project manager at Dorje Denma Ling in The Falls, holds hempcrete, the main building material being used to construct a staff residence at Dorje Denma ling, near Tatamagouche. 
 
A popular European construction technique is taking root here with the first hempcrete building currently underway in the Atlantic region.
Dorje Denma Ling, a Shambhala program and group retreat centre in The Falls, is spearheading the project with a long-term goal to work with local farmers to grow the hemp industry.
“We are very excited about it, so we can put that first dot on the land,” said Lennart Krogoll, centre executive director. “It’s something tangible that people can come and touch it and see it.”
Hemp-lime masonry, or hempcrete, is a cutting-edge natural building material. It is a mixture of chipped industrial hemp stalks, that look and feel like coarse wood sawdust, mixed with lime and water.
There are about 40 hemp-constructed buildings in Canada but it has been a widely used construction material in Europe for many years.
 
Full Article:
http://www.trurodaily.com/News/Local/2013-07-26/article-3329311/First-hemp-house-in-Atlantic-Canada-under-construction-in-The-Falls/1

Hemp Seeds: Why and How You Should Be Eating This Superfood

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Humans have been using hemp for thousands of years, and for good reason too–it’s extremely versatile. Used for clothes, beauty products, paper, food, milk, pet products and more, hemp lives up to the definition of a superseed.
Although hemp is breaking away from it’s negative reputation for being associated with the Cannabis plant, it’s important to know that it’s not relatively close to being like marijuana–it is bred with much lower levels of the psychedelic chemical THC than the drug is. Our favorite way to use hemp is, of course, in its edible form: as an oil, a fiber and a seed. Hemp seeds especially carry tons of nutritional benefits and can be used in numerous amounts of recipes.
 
Full Article:
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/hemp-seeds-why-eating-superfood-171600844.html

Medicinal use: Pot educator wages war on war on drugs

By Ben Cooper

photo by Meg Runion
 
Mary Lynn Mathre is a former nurse who wants patients to have access to a controversial medicine: pot.
From an early age, the Minnesota native was interested in practicing medicine. She enrolled in the Navy to finish her undergraduate degree in nursing and after being discharged, she pursued a graduate degree.
In the 1980s, as a medical experiment, the federal government began supplying a small number of people with medical cannabis for various problems, says Mathre. She witnessed the benefits to these patients  and has been outraged ever since by Uncle Sam’s refusal to acknowledge marijuana as a legitimate form of medicine.
 
Full Article:
http://www.readthehook.com/109812/medicinal-cannabis-aims-educate-healthcare-professionals

Pro-marijuana ad to appear outside big NASCAR race

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7H8Cz9woC2A
 
Fans attending a major NASCAR race this weekend will see a most unlikely video posted on a giant video screen shortly before entering the track: a pro-marijuana legalization ad.
Outside the NASCAR Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis, the same track that hosts the famed Indianapolis 500, Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s largest pro-marijuana legalization advocacy group, has purchased space to air – dozens of times over the weekend – a video that pushes the theme that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol.
 
Full Article:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/25/nascar-brickyard-400-pro-marijuana-legalization-ad–marijuana-policy-project/2587511/