By Karen Keast 

Daniel Haslam

Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career, Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New South Wales, often assisting palliative care patients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel began battling bowel cancer four years ago that she realised the medical benefits of cannabis.
Cannabis has helped Daniel, now 24, largely overcome nausea, vomiting and poor appetite around his chemotherapy treatments while Daniel is also using cannabis oil in a final bid to halt the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her husband, a former drug squad police officer, are fighting to decriminalise the medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others like him.

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http://www.ncah.com.au/news-events/former-nurse-fights-to-decriminalise-medical-cannabis/2125/

by sam whitten

 
sam whitten has designed and manufactured ‘hemp eyewear’, sunglasses made from a hemp fibre composite. 
 
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http://www.designboom.com/design/hemp-eyewear-07-16-2014/

Doug Fine

 
After a 77-year break, hemp plants are growing in American soil again. Right now, in fact. If you hear farmers from South Carolina to Hawaii shouting “God bless America,” the reason isn’t because Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper (he did). Nor is it because the canvas that put the “covered” in pioneer covered wagons was made of hemp, nor that the hemp webbing in his parachute saved George H.W. Bush’s life in World War II.
Nope. It’s because U.S. policy is finally acknowledging that hemp can help restore our agricultural economy, play a key role in dealing with climate change and, best of all, allow American family farmers to get in on a hemp market that, just north of us in Canada, is verging on $1 billion a year.
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-fine/thomas-jeffersons-favorit_b_5582029.html

By HOWARD STUTZ
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

 
The primary owner of a slot machine route operation, whose wife is an investor in a potential Clark County medical marijuana dispensary, said state gaming regulators “blindsided” him when they told owners of a Las Vegas restaurant — where he was set to manage five slot machines — to find a new partner.
In an interview Monday, Nevada Gaming Partners owner Bruce Familian said several of his current clients have been told by state gaming agents they need to find another route operator because of Thursday’s ruling. Nevada Gaming Partners manages slot machines in roughly 40 Las Vegas bars, taverns, convenience stores, and restaurants.
“Right now, I’m in damage control,” Familian said.
Familian said he “was taken by complete surprise” when the Gaming Control Board stipulated the Crab Corner on South Rainbow Boulevard could only have its slot machine license if it contracted with a different slot route operator.
 
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http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/slot-route-operator-blindsided-gaming-control-board-ruling
 

By Emily Goddard

 
Canadian Olympic champion snowboarder Ross Rebagliati is building a firm to brand and licence the substance that briefly saw him lose his Nagano 1998 gold medal – marijuana.
The former athlete, who after winning the giant slalom was disqualified as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) was found in his system but later regained his Winter Games medal as the drug was not on the banned list, is hoping the ironically named “Ross’ Gold” firm will grow with the interest in medical marijuana following the Canadian Government’s move to commercialise production in April.
 
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http://www.insidethegames.biz/sports/winter/skiing/1021277-olympic-champion-snowboarder-rebagliati-builds-marijuana-business

By JOE KNYCHA

 

A “hemp-infused” bio-composite bodied electric car concept, called the Kestrel, was unveiled in Calgary, Canada, by Motive Industries Inc. The company says that its manufacturing techniques will allow the vehicle to be made profitably at smaller initial volumes than traditional vehicles.

Motive’s Nathan Armstrong said a major advantage to using advanced composites versus metal are increased impact absorption, rust resistance and reduced weight. Where a steel-stamped vehicle will absorb impact by crumpling under pressure, “a composite vehicle will absorb the energy, then return to its original shape.” That observation, he said, was recently verified by British automaker Lotus, “who found similar results with its Evora sports car.”

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/classifieds/cars/2014/Wheelbase/07/veggies

Submitted by Jeff Munson

 
Have questions about the state’s marijuana laws and the new city ordinance? Join Partnership Carson City and Sierra Nevada Forums for a special forum Monday that will address these and more.
The July 14 forum, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Bob Boldrick Theater inside the Carson City Community Center, will present an explanation of the Nevada Revised Statute 453A relating to medical marijuana, and the new Carson City ordinance outlining the zoning for medical marijuana production and distribution facilities as they relate to the future of medical marijuana in Carson City.
 
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http://www.carsonnow.org/story/07/12/2014/monday-forum-discuss-carson-city-medical-marijuana-dispensaries

Six months into Colorado’s great experiment in legal marijuana, the state is starting to get a handle on just how big the market is.

It’s pretty big.

“This study finds total marijuana demand to be much larger than previously thought,” according to a report released Wednesday by the Colorado Department of Revenue, Marijuana Enforcement Division.

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http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235572

ANGLING: How to use hemp and tares for Thames roach

We’re fast approaching the time of year when the roach in the Thames will be in the mood to eat small seeds, mainly hemp and tares.
You use hemp as a loose bait and tares on the hook and the secret to success is patience. I will come back to this later.
 
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http://www.bicesteradvertiser.net/sport/11333975.ANGLING__How_to_use_hemp_and_tares_for_Thames_roach/