Building your dream home could send you to the hemp dealer


Main entrance of the Maui hemp house.

Source: American Lime Technology
Main entrance of the Maui hemp house.
One of the oldest and most sustainable building materials of all time is staging a comeback: hemp. Now that several states have legalized the use of marijuana for some recreational and medicinal purposes, a big untapped market is emerging for cannabis to be used as a building tool.
Across America a grassroots effort is underway among builders, architects, material suppliers and farmers to renew this fledgling market. Mixing hemp’s woody core with lime and water produces a natural, light concrete that retains thermal mass and is highly insulating. No pests, no mold, good acoustics, low humidity, no pesticide.It grows from seed to harvest in about four months.

 
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/20/building-your-dream-home-could-send-you-to-the-hemp-dealer.html

Back When We Thought Hemp Would Be a Billion-Dollar Crop

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After decades of criminalization and a blatantly racist War on Drugs that has succeeded primarily in putting millions of people in jail, the tide is turning on marijuana. Today, on 4/20, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer came out in support of ending the federal prohibition on marijuana, one of many recent moves by politicians to decriminalize the commonly used, low risk drug.

Back in 1938, long before this modern wave of acceptance and approval, Popular Mechanicswas bullish on weed, though not for recreational purposes. Instead, we wrote about the economic potential for hemp, the so-called billion-dollar crop.

 
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a19876318/popular-mechanics-billion-dollar-hemp/

Jack Herer: Not Just A Marijuana Strain, But A Marijuana Legend

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In the decades-long battle against cannabis prohibition, when growing and possessing cannabis was illegal everywhere in the United States, a handful of brave soldiers stood out as leaders in the battle — and all of them were persecuted because of it.
Dennis Peron, long considered the father of medical marijuana, was shot by police, but survived to sponsor Prop. 215, the landmark California medical marijuana law that was the first in the nation.
Dr. Tod Mikuriya, the first medical marijuana doctor to give lifesaving cannabis recommendations to California Prop. 215 patients, was ruthlessly hounded by law enforcement, prosecutors, anti-cannabis proponents and medical associations.
And then there’s Jack Herer, one of the cannabis lobby’s most famous activists, authors and educators. The man worked so tirelessly to legalize the plant that his health suffered, and a series of heart attacks and strokes eventually led to his death eight years ago on April 15, 2010 at the age of 70. Before and since his untimely passing, Herer has been a major inspiration for cannabis legalizers, growers and consumers the world over.
 
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http://bigbudsmag.com/jack-herer-marijuana-activist-marijuana-strain/

This Cannabis-Based Mascara Uses CBD Instead Of Beeswax

By Calvin Hughes

 
A new makeup brand is looking to shake things up by introducing a line of cannabis-based mascara.
On 4/20, Milk Makeup will be releasing their new Kush Mascara line produced with the cannabis extract CBD. Milk is a vegan company and was looking for something to replace the beeswax often used as the thickening agent in mascaras. That’s when they turned to CBD.
 
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https://www.civilized.life/articles/cbd-finds-its-way-into-the-cosmetics-industry-with-cannabis-based-mascara/

Non-alcoholic, THC-infused beer

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Blue Moon Founder Intros ‘Cannabis-Infused Craft Beer’
Photo Credit: Ceria Beverages (ceriabeverages.com)
 
After announcing his retirement from MolsonCoors earlier this year, Blue Moon Brewing company founder and creator, Keith Villa has announced his next venture: THC-infused beer.
The new company, called Ceria Beverages, will be helmed by Villa as co-founder and brewmaster, and his wife, Jodi Villa as CEO. “Ceria” is named for a part of the University of Brussels campus, in Belgium, where Villa received his doctorate in brewing science.
This is no hemp beer. According to an announcement from Ceria, which is based in Arvada, Col., a suburb of Denver, the company has been working with cannabinoid research firm, Ebbu to develop a cannabis-infused beverage that contains THC, along with other cannabinoids and terpenes, to produce the psychoactive experience of being “high,” while having the same onset time as alcohol.
 
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https://vinepair.com/booze-news/ceria-cannabis-thc-beer/