By Steven Nelson

An amendment from Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., that would allow veterans easier access to medical marijuana was attached in May to the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill, which passed the Senate on Tuesday.
 
On the eve of Veterans Day, the Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would for the first time allow Veterans Health Administration doctors to authorize medical marijuana use for patients.
The Veterans Health Administration currently does not allow its physicians to discuss marijuana as a treatment option with patients in the nearly two dozen states with medical pot laws, forcing veterans to turn elsewhere for guidance and the paperwork necessary to acquire the drug.
 
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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/11/10/senate-oks-medical-pot-for-veterans

 
Good eating habits are important for good health. In order to succeed in our quest for good health, we should include seeds in our diet. The nutrients that are contained in the seeds to nourish the germinating plant are also very good for our health.
 
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http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/western-focus/20151110/dont-discard-seeds-eat-them

By AMY RADIL

 
 
The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board is accepting a second wave of applications for new marijuana retail licenses.
Gone are the quotas and lotteries used in the first round of licensing. Now there are no limits on the number of licenses that may be granted – a change that took some cities by surprise.
When Initiative 502, the measure to legalize pot, was implemented, state regulators set limits on how many pot stores a city or county could have. Seattle, for example, received 21 of these so-called “golden tickets.”
But when state legislators opened the licensing process to medical marijuana businesses last spring, they eliminated quotas. Instead they want to bring “gray market” medical marijuana into the state-regulated system.
 
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http://kuow.org/post/pot-stores-state-says-cities-can-have-many-they-want

By Cannabis Now
 
 

 
Industry and advocacy are set to converge in Las Vegas later this month at the fourth annualMarijuana Business Conference and Expo. The event, put on by Marijuana Business Daily, will take place from November 11 through 13 and boasts a lineup of speakers from many sectors of the cannabis industry including cultivation, politics and retail sales.
 
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http://cannabisnowmagazine.com/cannabis/industry-events/canna-business-set-to-shine-in-las-vegas-trade-show

Pueblo’s city council on Monday voted 5-1 to extend nearly $8 million in incentives from the city’s half-cent economic development sales tax fund to help CBD Biosciences get its hemp-oil processing plant off the ground.
The Pueblo Development Foundation will spend $3 million to rehab a Boeing rocket assembly plant at Pueblo Airport Industrial Park that has been vacant since 2004. CBD Biosciences, apartnership of Denver-based O.penVape and Thar Process Inc., receive $4.89 million to help purchase equipment.
According to the agreement OK’d by the council, the company will create 163 new jobs by 2018 that will pay an average annual salary of $41.590, not including benefits.
 
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http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_29030544/hemp-oil-plant-gets-8m-incentive-package-from

Laura Brodbeck , Benzinga Staff Writer

 
As marijuana slowly gains mainstream approval across the US, some entrepreneurs are looking to the plant for other uses. Hemp is a non-psychoactive variety of cannabis which can be used to make things like wax, paper, clothing and in this case, buildings.
Jim Savage, a New York-based former Wall Street analyst has started his own business making hempcrete, a building material he says could revolutionize construction.
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A New Kind Of Material
Hempcrete is made by mixing hemp chips with water and lime and can be used as a substitute for concrete. Not only is the substance only about an eighth of the weight of traditional concrete, but hempcrete is extremely fireproof, provides insulation and cuts down on mold and pests. Savage says that although hempcrete can’t be used to fix load bearing features, the substance could be useful in areas where flooding is a problem due to its resistance to mold.
 
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http://www.benzinga.com/news/15/10/5915142/the-house-that-pot-built-using-hemp-for-construction

By ADAM K. RAYMOND

 
Kyle Turley spent eight years as an offensive tackle in the NFL, which means he spent eight years standing in the way of oncoming traffic. The gig led to two diagnosed concussions and, Turley says, a estimated 100 that went undiagnosed during his tenure on the turf.
Now that he’s retired, Turley is feeling the full force of those had injuries. And after years of trying to treat the symptoms with pharmaceuticals, he’s discovered the one drug that works better than anything else: marijuana. On Thursday, Turley appeared on ESPN’s “Highly Questionable” and described the difference smoking has made in his life.
 
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http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/sports/article/nfl-medical-marijuana-testimonial-2015-11

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

 
 

Support for making marijuana legal is increasing around the world, and that is a good thing. Earlier this week, the Mexican Supreme Court opened the door to legalizing the drug by giving four plaintiffs the right to grow cannabis for personal use.

In Canada, the newly sworn in prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has said he intends to change the law so people can use the drug recreationally;medicinal use is already legal in that country. And in the United States, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, recentlyintroduced a bill that would let states decide if they want to make the drug legal without worrying about violating federal law.

Laws banning the growing, distribution and possession of marijuana have caused tremendous damage to society, with billions spent on imprisoning people for violating pointlessly harsh laws. Yet research shows that marijuana is far less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, and can be used to treat medical conditions like chronic pain.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/opinion/the-push-for-legal-marijuana-spreads.html?_r=0

Brad Tuttle

 
In this week’s election in Pueblo County, Colo., voters were asked to weigh in on a number of proposals. With the exception of two issues, according to the Pueblo Chieftain, “all of them have something to do with marijuana.”
On one question, voters approved a 5% excise tax on marijuana growers, which is expected to raise $3.5 million annually by 2020. Half of that money will pay for scholarships for local students who attend either of the county’s two public colleges. In other words, proceeds from marijuana sales will be used to fund college scholarships. That’s never happened before, and it’s a concept that probably would have been laughed off as a total joke just a few years ago.
“This is the first time you have marijuana tax money being used directly for scholarships, and that’s pretty remarkable,” the Denver Post summed up.
 
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http://time.com/money/4101583/marijuana-taxes-college-scholarship/