Jay Leno drives a car made out of cannabis


Image result for Jay Leno drives a car made out of cannabis
 
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 dioxide into the atmosphere. “That’s before it even hits the road,” notes Leno, where it will release another six tons a year.
 
Full Article: 
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/19/jay-leno-drives-a-cannabis-car.html

You Can’t Fire Cannabis Patients Just for Using Cannabis, Massachusetts High Court Rules

BEN ADLIN
Image result for employment newspaper
 
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 decided that employers may indeed fire workers who test positive for cannabis—even if those employees are abiding by state law. In Colorado, for example, the state Supreme Court in 2015 held that a state law barring employers from firing workers for legal, off-duty behavior didn’t apply because cannabis is still illegal under federal law. California, Washington, Montana, and others have issued similar rulings.
 
Full Article: 
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/cant-fire-cannabis-patients-just-using-cannabis-massachusetts-high-court-rules

An abandoned Pepsi factory is being turned into a massive cannabis grow

Melia Robinson
doyen elements marijuana pepsi factory 4
 
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. Upon completion in 2019, the facility could potentially produce up to 70,000 pounds of marijuana flower a year.
 
Full Article: 
http://www.businessinsider.com/abandoned-pepsi-factory-turned-marijuana-farm-2017-7/#for-many-years-the-104000-square-foot-plant-at-1900-south-freeway-was-used-for-bottling-pepsi-products-but-the-soda-company-like-the-steel-industry-left-pueblo-county-1

Why Hemp, The Sustainable Wonder Crop, Is Sweeping The Nation

By Chloe Fox
Image result for dollar signs
 
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 year, more than 70 bills related to hemp have been introduced in more than half of the country’s states. Passage of the recent Farm Bill, which legalized the crop for research purposes, further cleared the way for industrial hemp production.
Hemp, which is the same species as marijuana (Cannabis sativa) but contains little to no THC, was grown widely in America before anti-drug sentiment helped make it unpopular in the 1950s. Today, however, the nation’s turning tide on marijuana means its “sober cousin“ is also making a comeback.
Hemp policy is “not just turning a corner,” Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) told The Huffington Post earlier this year. “It’s turning a corner and running downhill.”
 
Full Article: 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/03/hemp-sustainable-crop_n_5243351.html

Swiss supermarket to start selling ‘legal cannabis’ cigarettes

news@thelocal.ch
Swiss supermarket to start selling 'legal cannabis' cigarettes
 

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 has turned its hand to making cigarettes using legal cannabis.
In 2011 Switzerland legalized cannabis containing up to one percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – higher than the 0.2 percent legal limit in many other European countries.
Full Article: 

Cannabis Can Relieve Symptoms Of Lyme Disease


Image result for wood tick
 
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. In 1982 scientists made a connection between Lyme disease and some of the bites of certain ticks. Lyme disease is a priority for the Centers for Disease Control because annual cases can exceed 27,000, up almost three-fold since the mid 1990s. Frighteningly, it affects the brain and nervous system. And it all starts by being bitten by one of the smallest insects we can see with the naked eye, the black-legged tick, AKA the deer tick.
 
Full Article: 
https://thefreshtoast.com/cannabis/tick-cannabis-to-the-rescue-for-symptoms-of-lyme-disease/
 

Grow your own lamp out of mushrooms and hemp

by 

 
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 where they will end up,” says its Brooklyn-based designer, Danielle Trofe. “We want to disrupt not only the way in which we manufacture goods, but how as a consumer, you can be empowered to be a part of the growing process creating a greater understanding and connection to your objects.”
 
Full Article: 
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/11/15951590/mushroom-hemp-lamp-price-ecovative
 

UN Drug Office can’t find a single cannabis drug overdose, despite it being most widely-consumed drug

By , 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 reported zero fatal marijuana overdoses in 2015, unchanged from 2014.
 
Full Article: 
http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/06/28/united-nations-drug-office-cannabis-consumption/82564/