Jay Leno drives a car made out of cannabis
Jonathan Blumberg On Wednesday’s episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage,” retired Dell executive Bruce Dietzen sells the host on his unconventional 2017 Renew, a car that was designed with the environment in mind. It was “carbon neutral” to produce and made from woven cannabis hemp. Manufacturing the average car emits about ten tons of carbon […]
Read more.You Can’t Fire Cannabis Patients Just for Using Cannabis, Massachusetts High Court Rules
BEN ADLIN In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Monday said that employees can’t be fired simply for using medical cannabis. Such terminations, the court said, violate state antidiscrimination rules. The opinion came as a shock to many, as every other state to consider the issue has […]
Read more.An abandoned Pepsi factory is being turned into a massive cannabis grow
Melia Robinson A former Pepsi factory that sat vacant for a decade is being reincarnated as an indoor marijuana grow — one of the largest in the pot-friendly state of Colorado. Doyen Elements, a holding company that leases real estate properties out to legal cannabis companies, bought an old bottling plant in Pueblo County. […]
Read more.Why Hemp, The Sustainable Wonder Crop, Is Sweeping The Nation
By Chloe Fox There’s a new hemp trend sweeping the nation and it has nothing to do with those beaded friendship bracelets from the ‘90s. Twenty-three states have now enacted pro-industrial hemp legislation (Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie signed the latest bill this past week), making the cousin crop to marijuana a national phenomenon. Since the beginning of the […]
Read more.Swiss supermarket to start selling ‘legal cannabis’ cigarettes
news@thelocal.ch An independent Swiss cigarette maker has this month launched what it calls the first hemp cigarette in the world – and from July 24th they will be on sale in major Swiss supermarket Coop. Heimat, based in the canton of St Gallen, has been producing tobacco cigarettes since last year. But now it […]
Read more.Cannabis Can Relieve Symptoms Of Lyme Disease
By: Trey Reckling Although tiny and unassuming, ticks can cause revulsion in people on sight. It’s not just because they are blood suckers and appear uninvited ready to make us their host meal. Ticks have caused untold human suffering throughout history by helping spread plague, fever, paralysis and a variety of other nasty conditions. […]
Read more.Tav Group builds rural artist’s house in Israel with “cannabis walls”
Eleanor Gibson Walls made of hemp and lime, and local stone make up this sand-coloured house on a hill in northern Israel, which Haifa-based studio Tav Group designed for environmentally conscious artists. Full Article: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/06/ein-hod-tav-group-israel-house-canabis-artists-house/
Read more.Grow your own lamp out of mushrooms and hemp
by Thuy Ong In a dream crossover of sustainability and design, mushrooms have been used to grow everything from dresses to houses and furniture as an ecological alternative to synthetic materials. “The overall goal of this lamp is to challenge our ideas of what interior products should be made from, how they’re made and ultimately […]
Read more.UN Drug Office can’t find a single cannabis drug overdose, despite it being most widely-consumed drug
By Polly Washburn, The Cannabist Staff The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released its 2017 World Drug Report, covering 2015 statistics from around the world. The report finds that cannabis is the most consumed, most widely cultivated and most confiscated drug the office tracks. Despite leading in all of these categories, UNODC […]
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