California Governor Signs Senator Leno’s Industrial Hemp Bill

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SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown today signed legislation that allows California farmers to be prepared to grow industrial hemp upon federal approval. Senate Bill 566, authored by Senator Mark Leno, would permit growers in the Golden State to cultivate industrial hemp for the sale of seed, oil and fiber to manufacturers and businesses that currently rely on international imports for raw hemp products. The bill, which is co-authored by Assemblymember Allan Monsoor, R-Costa Mesa, would allow cultivation once the recent announcements from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder allowing states to regulate cannabis are clarified to include hemp.
 
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http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-09-27-governor-signs-senator-leno-s-industrial-hemp-bill

Mother Investigated After Opting For Marijuana Over Chemotherapy

Landon and Sierra Riddle (credit: CBS)

Landon and Sierra Riddle (credit: CBS)
 
A year ago Landon Riddle, 3, was diagnosed with leukemia. He underwent extensive chemotherapy and radiation and lost his hair. His mother observed his pain and stopped the treatments. They then moved to Colorado and began using oil capsules from marijuana plants.
Sallinger asked Riddle if she feels the marijuana has helped her son.
“Yes, a hundred times better, I mean a million times better,” Riddle said.
 
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http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/09/27/springs-mother-investigated-after-opting-for-marijuana-over-chemotherapy/

Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal and Other Mexican Celebrities Push for Marijuana Legalization

By Laura Cañupan

 Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal (Photo : Reuters)
Actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal were among the 67 Mexican artists, politicians, intellectuals and attorneys who signed a petition requesting full decriminalization of marijuana consumption, Fox News Latino reported.
The petition was published in several dailies and was signed by writers Juan Villoro, Javier Sicilia and Ángeles Mastretta, former Health Secretary Julio Frenk, and attorneys Agustín Acosta and Fernando Gómez Mont, among others.
The Mexican celebrities pointed out marijuana is far less addictive than tobacco. They also claimed legalizing marijuana would help decrease criminal activity in the country. “Criminalization increases the (street) price of drugs,” while the country’s drug cartels get much of their revenue from marijuana sales, they said.
 
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http://www.latinospost.com/articles/28627/20130927/diego-luna-gael-garc%C3%ADa-bernal-mexican-celebrities-push-marijuana-legalization.htm

Grand opening for New Zealand’s first Cannabis Museum


 
The grand opening of New Zealand’s first Cannabis Museum will be held at midday on Sunday October 6 in Dunedin.
Whakamana: the Cannabis Museum of Aotearoa will open with an exhibit on the history of cannabis law reform activism at the University of Otago dating back to the 1970s, including the “420 protests” that have been taking place over the last decade.
This will be followed by subsequent exhibits focusing on the history of cannabis and New Zealand cannabis culture.
Museum director Abe Gray said a number of guests have been invited to tour the Museum for the opening from noon on Sunday October 6th.
“All the local journalists and politicians will be invited, plus a few celebrity musicians,” he said. “The general public are also invited.”
 
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1309/S00827/grand-opening-for-new-zealands-first-cannabis-museum.htm

Chocolate DC getting new life as medical marijuana facility

BY CAROLYN GRUSKE
Like any distribution operation, Tweed will need to cope with SKU proliferation, inventory security, and automation. (Photo: Thinkstock)
Like any distribution operation, Tweed will need to cope with SKU proliferation, inventory security, and automation. (Photo: Thinkstock)
 
SMITHS FALLS, Ontario—Ever since Hershey Canada Inc shut down its chocolate production plant and distribution centre in 2008, the Smiths Falls, Ontario facility has sat empty. But over the course of the next few weeks, the site’s new owner wants to pull it out of mothballs and give it a new purpose: serving as a medical marijuana production and distribution facility.
The company that has purchased the facility, Tweed Inc, is a new organization, created specifically to become a supplier of medical marijuana under a Health Canada program that licenses the production and distribution of the drug.
 
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http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/distribution-and-transportation/news/chocolate-dc-getting-new-life-as-medical-marijuana-facility-117965

Oklahomans Ready for Marijuana Law Reform, Poll Finds

by Phillip Smith
Oklahoma NORML Friday released survey results from a Sooner Poll showing strong support for medical marijuana and majority support for marijuana decriminalization. The poll had support for medical marijuana at 71% and support for decriminalization at 57%. The poll did not ask about legalization.
 

 
The poll of registered voters was conducted between August 28 and September 9. The margin of error is +/- 4.9%.
If someone is going to be arrested for a marijuana offense, nearly two-thirds of respondents (64%) said they should be treated instead of jailed.
Under current Oklahoma law, possession of any amount can earn one up to a year in jail for a first offense and from two to 10 years for a second offense. Marijuana sales — of any amount — can earn a sentence of up to life in prison.
 
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http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/sep/21/oklahomans_ready_marijuana_law_r

You put WHAT in your tea loaf – cannabis flour? Great British Bake Off contestant introduces judge Mary Berry to baking with hemp

By SIMON CABLE
Get a good whiff! Mary Berry smells some hemp flour before eating a Date & Hemp Yorkshire Tea Loaf on The Great British Bake Off
Get a good whiff! Mary Berry smells some hemp flour before eating a Date & Hemp Yorkshire Tea Loaf on The Great British Bake Off
Considering she’s been a cookery expert since the Swinging Sixties, you would have thought there was little left for Mary Berry to learn about.
Then she was confronted with a rather exotic tea loaf on this week’s episode of the Great British Bake Off.
The 78-year-old judge on the show had to expand her mind to the idea of hemp – made from cannabis plants – when a contestant decided to use it in flour form.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2432837/The-Great-British-Bake-Off-Mary-Berry-tucks-Howards-hemp-tea-loaf.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Rabbi Ties Jewish Faith to Medical Marijuana

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Rabbi Ties Jewish Faith to Medical Marijuana
(Photo Credit:  Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn with D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser at the Takoma Wellness Center. (Courtesy Jeffrey Kahn))
 
(WASHINGTON) — Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn spent his 30-year career educating others and helping to ease human suffering, leading Jewish congregations in Australia, Illinois, his hometown of Miami and New Jersey.
Now, he is practicing his faith in a different line of work: Kahn runs a dispensary for medical marijuana. Call it a mitzvah — or one of God’s commandments.
“From the Jewish perspective, nothing is more important than the concept of healing and bringing sufferers relief,” said Kahn, 61.
“I was a congregational rabbi during the worst days of the AIDS epidemic and saw up close and personal what people living with AIDS were dealing with and finding relief with medical marijuana,” he said.
 
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http://www.wtma.com/common/more.php?m=58&ts=1380081904&article=A894AD2E259711E386DEFEFDADE6840A&mode=2