Month: March 2014

Players Network Announces Marijuana Lifestyle Channel

Jeannie Herer

LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwired – Mar 26, 2014)
Players Network (OTCQB: PNTV), a Digital Television, Technology and New Media company that develops, owns, and operates Branded Lifestyle Channel Destinations, announces today the development of a new Lifestyle Channel Destination for the Marijuana Industry that will be powered by the company’s proprietary NexGenTV Technology and Enterprise Platform.
 
Full Article:
http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6660795-players-network-announces-marijuana-lifestyle-channel

Kleangas Energy Technologies Hemp Pellet Test Results Exceed Expectations

Jeannie Herer

Kleangas Energy Technologies, Inc.
 
Kleangas Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: KGET) is pleased to report that our Hemp Pellet test results have more than exceeded our expectations, and are equal to wood pellets tested in many respects. Given the successful KLEANGAS proprietary testing results we received from utilizing Hemp, we are enthusiastically moving forward with the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of our exclusive new Pellet brand HEMP-PEL™.
Hemp farming is completely sustainable when rotated with other crops, produces four (4) times as much fiber per acre as pine trees, and Hemp is an ideal source of biomass as fuel which will be used as an alternative to coal and other fossil fuels.
 
Full Article:
http://www.einnews.com/pr_news/197045582/kleangas-energy-technologies-hemp-pellet-test-results-exceed-expectations

Rhode Island man says medical marijuana has been a lifesaver

Jeannie Herer
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Michael Szeliga, 60, a recently retired Postal Service employee, with his wife, Peggy, at Goddard State Park in Warwick. Michael has been using medical marijuana for six months to relieve chronic pain from a rare condition where spinal nerves tracking through the shoulder malfunction.
Michael Szeliga remembers clearly the morning he was awakened by something that would all but ruin his quality of life for the next eight years.
He was 50ish and worked for the Postal Service. His wife, Peggy, taught fourth grade in West Warwick. They had two adult daughters.
Michael woke that day with the worst pain he’d ever experienced. It went from his right shoulder to his hand. Moving the arm, even slightly, was so excruciating he at one point began to cry. His hand had tremors he couldn’t stop. Despite it being on the right side, he feared a heart attack, so Peggy helped him into their Volvo and they drove from their North Kingstown home to Miriam Hospital.
It was early on a Sunday morning in 2005, the start of an ordeal that would take him through nearly a decade of painkillers, including OxyContin and methadone. Ultimately, it led him to a drug he never expected to turn to, especially as a 60-year-old grandfather of three who continued to soldier on with the Postal Service — marijuana.
 
Full Article:
http://www.providencejournal.com/writers/mark-patinkin/20140323-mark-patinkin-r.i.-man-says-medical-marijuana-has-been-a-lifesaver.ece

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking to help the economy of Ukraine by bolstering imports of its hemp seed.

Jeannie Herer

By Alan Bjerga
 
Ukranian hemp — a cousin of marijuana — lacks the active ingredient that gives pot smokers a high, and is prized for commercial and industrial applications. Hemp seed can be used in high-protein oils or for making paint and plastics.
“We are now involved in trying to figure out ways in which we might be able to use the industrial hemp seeds that are created in the Ukraine in the U.S.,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said today in an interview.
 
Full Article:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-25/hemp-seed-weighed-as-non-lethal-aid-to-ukraine

Prisoner Re-entry: Ex-Convicts Need More Than Clemency

Jeannie Herer


Prisoner Re-entry: Ex-Convicts Need More Than Clemency
 
There has been a lot of talk recently about prison crowding and clemency. We are past the point of debating if our country has a prison problem. The facts that we imprison one in 100 of our citizens, and that the “land of the free” is home to 5% of the world population and 25% of its prison population, are thrown around so often we become numb to what they say about us, and what it means for the people inside.
 
Full Article:
http://www.ladybud.com/2014/03/25/prisoner-re-entry-more-than-clemency/

Marijuana Legalization Measures Will Drive Voters, Poll Finds

Jeannie Herer

By Annie Linskey
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Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
 
A majority of Americans favor legalizing marijuana and would be motivated to vote if a measure to do so is on the ballot, according to a George Washington University Battleground poll released today.
The survey of 1,000 likely voters found 73 percent support allowing marijuana for legal medical purposes, 53 percent favor decriminalization and 68 percent are “more likely” to go to their polling place to weigh in on a ballot.
 
Full Article:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-25/marijuana-legalization-measures-will-drive-voters-poll-finds

Missouri “Medical Marijuana Refugee” Explains Why She Had to Leave the Show-Me State

Jeannie Herer

By Ray Downs

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When Jacqueline Patterson took her first toke of marijuana at the age of fourteen, she experienced what it was like to be without pain for the first time in her life. It’s also why she eventually had to leave Missouri.
Patterson was born with cerebral palsy. The muscles on the right side of her body are significantly weaker and less developed than her left, and she speaks with a severe stutter, or as she prefers to call it, a “speech spasm.” Medical marijuana, Patterson says, has helped her deal with the pain her medical condition causes every day of her life, and it also helps with her speech. When she smokes, her brain doesn’t feel as rushed, and she’s able to get the words out easier, she says.
Although using marijuana to treat cerebral palsy is not unheard of these days, it wasn’t an accepted notion roughly twenty years ago when Patterson first tried it and noticed a remarkable difference it made on her body.
 
Full Article:
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/03/missouri_medical_marijuana_ref.php

Should Missouri Legalize Marijuana?

Jeannie Herer

Allison Blood
Photo: KMOX

Photo: KMOX
 
Is it time Missouri legalized marijuana?
That was the topic a panel of five experts discussed Monday night at Harris Stowe St. University.
At the public forum, members from the ACLU, police, and pro-pot groups, among others, gathered to talk about what Missouri should do, while other states are legalizing and decriminalizing marijuana.
 
Full Article:
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/should-missouri-legalize-marijuana/