Marijuana, Not Monoculture: How to Make Your Pot Crop Sustainable

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http://www.alternet.org/drugs/marijuana-not-monoculture-how-make-pot-crop-sustainable

We need earthquake retrofits fast.

Rong-Gong Lin IIContact Reporter
 
Hempcrete foundation walls are up to seven times stronger than those made of concrete, half as light and three times as elastic. This superior strength and flexibility means that hemp foundations are resistant to stress-induced cracking and breaking, even in earthquake-prone areas. It’s fireproof, too.
 
San Andreas fault ‘locked, loaded and ready to roll’ with big earthquake, expert says
San Andreas fault
This simulation by the Southern California Earthquake Center shows the shaking that could be felt by Los Angeles during a possible magnitude 8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault. (SCEC)
 
 
Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.
The San Andreas fault is one of California’s most dangerous, and is the state’s longest fault. Yet for Southern California, the last big earthquake to strike the southern San Andreas was in 1857, when a magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured an astonishing 185 miles between Monterey County and the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles.

It has been quiet since then — too quiet, said Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.
 
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-andreas-fault-earthquake-20160504-story.html
 

Desert Hot Springs marijuana startup aims to produce 10 thousand pounds of pot monthly

Tom Tucker, CBS Local 2 Morning Anchor, thomas.tucker@cbslocal2.com

Artist’s rendering of new 10 acre “Pineapple Park” cannabis cultivation complex planned for Desert Hot Springs.
 
 
A Los Angeles-based cannabis company is poised to “rake in the green” at their new operation in Desert Hot Springs.
The company, Pineapple Express, Inc., is one of several new business ventures in the city, looking to capitalize on the booming demand for medicinal marijuana.  They’re also betting that California voters will approve recreational pot use in November.
The company is part of a wave of investors and entrepreneurs flocking to Desert Hot Springs, in the wake of voters approving local ordinances, which allow the city to tax the sale of medicinal marijuana, and tax the cultivation of cannabis.
Pineapple Express CEO Matthew Feinstein says his company will eventually occupy 10 buildings in Desert Hot Springs at a complex called “Pineapple Park”.
 
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http://www.kesq.com/news/desert-hot-springs-marijuana-startup-aims-to-produce-10-thousand-pounds-of-pot-monthly/39354774

‘Marijuana Tampon’ Might Be the End of Your Period Cramps

 Period cramps suck and can turn some women’s menstruation into a monthly encounter with severe and intense pain. According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, at least half of all women who get their periods experience one or two days of cramping, and while women try lots of ways to relieve the issue, from Midol to acupuncture and beyond, not everything works for everyone, making almost any new proposed solution worth investigation. Enter Foria Relief, a THC-infused suppository that’s come to be known as the “weed tampon.” The company says it won’t get you—or your vagina—high, but it might be the cure for what menstrually ails you.
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Support for medicinal cannabis growing among Grey Power groups and elderly

JACK FLETCHER

 
A Christchurch man dying of cancer fears he will have to become a criminal if he cannot legally access medicinal cannabis.
The 63-year-old man, who only wanted to be known as Bill for fear of persecution, said he was convinced of the therapeutic benefits of cannabis for cancer sufferers.
“It makes you sleep better, it makes you eat better and when you reflect on your life, as a person in my position would do, coming up to death, you can see it clearer.”

Bill was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer called mucinous adenocarcinoma in February 2014, undergoing surgery in October 2015 to remove his large intestine.
 
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/79400623/Support-for-medicinal-cannabis-growing-among-Grey-Power-groups-and-elderly

Walgreens Tells its Customers to Consider Medical Cannabis

Alan Brochstein, CFA
Walgreens Medical Cannabis
 
Chris Male of Anslinger Capital shared something today with our almost 4000 member LinkedIn group, Cannabis Investors & Entrepreneurs, that was just too good to be true.  I dismissed it incorrectly as fake news, but indeed it is true:  Walgreens (NASDAQ: WBA) sent out a blast email on April 26th discussing medical cannabis.  The piece, “What is Medical Marijuana? Clarifying Clinical Cannabis“, was written by Dahlia Sultan, PharmD, Resident Pharmacist, Walgreens and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
 
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https://www.newcannabisventures.com/walgreens-tells-its-customers-to-consider-medical-cannabis/