Nimbin cannabis to feature in latest Alien film

By Darren Coyne
Cannabis plants from Nimbin will be onboard the spaceship in the latest Alien movie.

Cannabis plants from Nimbin will be onboard the spaceship in the latest Alien movie.

Cannabis plants from the Nimbin area are set to be featured in the latest Alien film being directed by Ridley Scott.
The plants, which have been delivered to Fox Studios in Sydney, are to be used as props in Alien 4: The Covenant.
The film is a sequel to the 2012 film Prometheus, and will take place roughly ten years later.
The story will follow the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, where the crew discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, inhabited solely by the android David, survivor of the ill-fated Prometheus expedition.
However, the planet is soon revealed to be far more dangerous than they expected.
But how will the crew survive during their long periods in outer space, dealing with illness and trauma? Medicinal cannabis of course.
 
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http://www.echo.net.au/2016/05/nimbin-cannabis-to-feature-in-latest-alien-film/
 
 

Texas – Veteran Self Medicating With Cannabis Named Mayor Of His Hometown

Posted By: Andre’ Gabriel Esparza
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Jeremiah Looney has entered his city’s corrupt interior to make a change from the inside. The Whitewright native, loving single dad, and Army veteran has overwhelmingly charmed his fellow residents and captured the key’s to his once thriving and beautiful town. Out of the three candidates vying to be the new leader, Looney scooped up 175 votes, local business owner Rock Magers reeled in 101, and the incumbent Allen West was only able to round-up a mere 34.
 
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http://www.dontcomply.com/veteran-self-medicating-with-cannabis-named-mayor-of-his-hometown/

Desert Hot Springs looks to become leader in cannabis cultivation

Tom Tucker, CBS Local 2 Morning Anchor, thomas.tucker@cbslocal2.com
Patrick Edgell, Digital Content Director – KESQ & CBS Local 2, patrick.edgell@kesq.com


 
DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. –
The city of Desert Hot Springs is on the verge of experiencing what could turn out to be the biggest economic boon in the history of the city.
Investors and entrepreneurs are spending millions of dollars, buying up land and drafting plans to build huge, indoor marijuana growing operations.
 
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http://www.kesq.com/news/dhs-looks-to-become-leader-in-cannabis-cultivation/39493482

Purcell: A Renewable Cellulosic Composite Material Can Replace Established GRP Construction Components


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Considerable amounts of glass-fiber reinforced plastics (GRP) are used in many constructions and construction components. But although 250,000 tons of end-of-life GRP waste materials are currently produced annually, no practical solution has been found that would enable true recycling of GRPs. At the moment the only technically applicable concept entails thermal processing and the use of the remaining glass-fiber waste products after pyrolysis as an additive to cement. There is definitely no recycling, in the true sense of the word.
The urgency of the recycling problem is being accelerated by statutory regulations, which force manufacturers to take their products back.
 
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http://www.textileworld.com/textile-world/nonwovens-technical-textiles/2016/05/purcell-a-renewable-composite-material-made-of-pure-cellulose-a-biopolymer-to-replace-established-grp-construction-components/

Study: No scientific basis for laws on marijuana and driving

The nation's largest automobile club says six states that allow marijuana use have legal tests for driving while impaired by the drug that have no scientific basis, and it's calling for scrapping those laws.
 
The nation’s largest automobile club says six states that allow marijuana use have legal tests for driving while impaired by the drug that have no scientific basis, and it’s calling for scrapping those laws.
The study commissioned by AAA’s safety foundation said it’s not possible to set a blood-test threshold for THC, the chemical in marijuana that makes people high, that can reliably determine impairment. Yet the laws in five of the six states automatically presume a driver is guilty if they test higher for THC than the blood threshold, and not guilty if they test lower.
 
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http://www.khq.com/story/31931532/study-no-scientific-basis-for-laws-on-marijuana-and-driving

Vacant California prison could be turned into cannabis production site

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As thousands of people have served unfair sentences for marijuana possession, one California prison might actually be used to grow pot.
The city of Coalinga is currently reviewing a proposal to transform the currently vacant Claremont Custody Center into a manufacturing center for marijuana cultivation and cannabis oil production, the Fresno Bee reports.
The city council voted 4-1 in April to prepare an ordinance to allow commercial cannabis cultivation at the former prison. The decision was made after officials fielded a proposal from a California-based cannabis oil company called Ocean Grown Extracts, who hope to turn the empty 77,000 square-foot prison into a massive growing operation.
The move could effectively bring in millions annually in tax payments and hundreds of job opportunities, both of which would bring Coalinga up from their diminishing crude oil and prison industries. Located in Fresno County, oil-related jobs have fallen over 20 percent since January 2015.
 
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http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2016/05/09/vacant-california-prison-could-be-turned-into-cannabis-production-site/

Hemp is two shades of green

By BRENDA S. EDWARDS
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Hemp has been a crop in Kentucky since 1775 — 17 years before Kentucky became the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains.
This area became the nation’s leading hemp-producing state in the mid-19th century with peak production of 40,000 tons in 1950, according to the state Department of Agriculture website.

Hemp production declined after the Civil War and almost all of the nation’s hemp was grown in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky.
Federal legislation passed in 1938 outlawed production of hemp. The U.S. production began again during World War II as part of the war efforts, but fell again after the war and ended in 1958.
First crop raised in Danville
Archibald McNeil, one of the first settlers here, has been credited with raising the first crop on the banks of Clark’s Creek in Danville, according to an article in The Kentucky Advocate’s 100th edition in June 1965.

 
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http://www.centralkynews.com/amnews/life/looking_back/hemp-is-two-shades-of-green/article_ce761cda-15df-11e6-819e-17a106943d27.html

Hemp houses are smoking hot in eco-design

Louise Loik | Bowen Island Undercurrent
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The first prototype tiny hemp house, built by HNB in Alberta in 2014. Above: A hemp house can fit into almost any setting. photos supplied by Hempcrete.ca   Photo by hempcrete.ca
 

Cannabis is big news these days, and 15 years ago, Jayeson Hendyrsan was already using it in mass amounts – in the industrial hemp version.

Hendyrsan has been building homes with hemp, a non-narcotic strain of cannabis. “I was a bit naive when I started out,” says Hendyrsan. “I heard that the police in town were burning marijuana they’d seized from drug dealers,” he continues, recalling that he went up and asked if he could have the stalks assuming that they would be similar enough to the industrial hemp he was bringing from Alberta. “The cops looked at me like I was joking when I told them I wanted to build a house with it.”

Not surprisingly, he didn’t get the hemp. The kind of hemp that he uses in construction is the same kind that was being used extensively in fabric manufacturing prior to the arrival of synthetic fabric, and specifically, polyester. Hemp oil and hemp seeds are mainstream products in grocery stores and for industrial uses, though hemp houses aren’t quite so common.

The attraction to the material for Hendyrsan is that it is strong, enduring, and ecologically logical and cost effective. 

“This is very inexpensive relative to other construction,” says Kim Brooks, Hempcrete CEO. She and Hendyrsan live in their second Bowen Island Hempcrete home whose thick walls are rich in mineral-based colours, from cinnamon to saffron to sage and blue. The two will be hosting a two-week intensive building workshop May 9-20 on location.

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http://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/business/hemp-houses-are-smoking-hot-in-eco-design-1.2249116

 

This car is made out of cannabis hemp

This sports convertible brings new meaning to “high-performance” vehicle.
Made from the chassis of a Mazda, the car is made from cannabis hemp – and is touted as possibly leading the charge in making carbon-neutral vehicles, Barcroft Media reported.
Bruce Michael Dietzen from Florida, the mastermind behind the “green machine,” hopes his environmentally friendly car will weed out the taboo behind the cannabis plant.
“Cannabis hemp is still considered a dangerous drug according to the government. It’s considered as dangerous as heroin or cocaine – it’s insane!” he said. “This green machine is made from three plies of woven hemp, making it lighter than cars made from fiberglass.”
And with a body at least 10 times more dent-resistant than steel, the car wouldn’t need as much of a fix after an accident.
“The body of the car uses about 100 pounds of woven hemp,” he noted.
 
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http://nypost.com/2016/05/06/this-car-is-made-out-of-cannabis-hemp/