Marijuana culture in Colorado

Mark Silk
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Mark Silk is Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and director of the college’s Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. 
 
After a week in the brave new world of legal marijuana, I am happy to report that civilization as they know it out there does not seem to have come to an end. Last Tuesday, my wife and two of our twenty-something sons hopped a plane to Denver and drove through Rocky Mountain National Park to Steamboat Springs, where the wildflowers were blooming, the aspens leafing out, and the kayakers twisting and turning on the snowmelt-swollen Yampa.
 
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http://marksilk.religionnews.com/2014/06/03/marijuana-culture-colorado/

 

Archives from 1970s show Big Tobacco had high hopes for cannabis

TIM WALKER 
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Philip Morris considered entering the legal marijuana trade and was even promised ‘good quality’ cannabis by the Justice Department’s drug sciences chief
 
Big Tobacco firms were making plans to enter the legal marijuana trade in the early 1970s, even as US President Richard Nixon launched the so-called “War on Drugs”, according to documents from the era unearthed this week.
Though the Nixon administration was anti-drugs, there was popular support for marijuana legalisation in the US at the time, much like today, and tobacco firms sensed both a threat and an opportunity.
 
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/archives-from-1970s-show-big-tobacco-had-high-hopes-for-cannabis-9481229.html
 

Las Vegas City Council to consider medical marijuana licensing bill Wednesday

By JANE ANN MORRISON
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
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A 28-page bill regarding licensing of medical marijuana establishments in the city of Las Vegas remains a work in progress, but final decisions are expected at Wednesday’s Las Vegas City Council meeting.
On Monday, a three-member recommending committee discussed plenty of changes but passed the bill on to the full council for consideration as written, with the understanding it will be changed.
After the meeting, former City Councilman Frank Hawkins said his two major concerns are the restrictions on advertising in the bill and its failure to address compassionate care.
There is no language allowing a caretaker to go to a dispensary and obtain medical marijuana for a severely ill patient unable to travel.
 
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http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/las-vegas-city-council-consider-medical-marijuana-licensing-bill-wednesday

What A Concept: Cars Made of Hemp, Powered by Air

by Channing Sargent
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In 2008, automaker Lotus took a new approach to the “green” car with the announcement of its Eco Elise. Featuring a body made of hemp and other renewable materials, Lotus overhauled its entire manufacturing process to reduce energy and water usage, boost recycling, use locally-sourced, renewable and carbon-neutral materials, and provide dash instrumentation to encourage greener driving habits. 
 
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http://www.lamag.com/ladriver/2014/06/02/what-a-concept-cars-made-of-hemp-powered-by-air