Category: Cannabis News Corner

Hemp Seed To Battle Water Contamination In Australia

Jeannie Herer
By  Gillian Jalimnson
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A powder made from industrial hemp seed has been found to be very effective in removing particularly problematic toxins from water.
Chemicals contained in foams used for fire-fighting at some Royal Australian Air Force bases has left a nasty legacy –  per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminating wetlands and water supplies. Some of these PFAS compounds have been found to be toxic in laboratory animals, which means they may also affect fish and other aquatic animals.

 
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https://www.hempgazette.com/news/hemp-seed-pfas-decontamination-hg0411/

How One Woman Transitioned from Oxy to Oil

Jeannie Herer

By Sharon Letts
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In 1997, 28-year-old Oregon resident and stay-at-home mom Amy Mellen was pregnant with her second child when her physician prescribed Percocet for severe migraines that began when she was in college.

“My migraines were debilitating,” Mellen shared. “It was impossible to care for my oldest daughter, while pregnant with my youngest daughter. I get vision tracers that take over my entire field of vision—my face, lips, and fingers go numb—and I have a horrible time forming words to speak. These symptoms begin before the actual headache happens.”

According to the Migraine Research Foundation, migraines are the third-most prevalent and sixth-most disabling disease in the world, with “an extremely incapacitating collection of neurological symptoms.”

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https://prohbtd.com/how-one-woman-transitioned-from-oxy-to-cannabis

Take a look inside Canberra’s first hemp house

Jeannie Herer
RACHEL PACKHAMTWITTER
Construction of Canberra’s first hemp house. From left, homeowner Rowan Woodburn, Prostyle Building director David Fogg, and Plan It Green designer Angela Knock. Photo: Jamila Toderas

It’s fire resistant, termite proof, completely natural and carbon positive – welcome to Canberra’s first hemp house.

The home, which is under construction in O’Connor, is one of just 24 hemp houses in Australia, but when you hear the benefits it’s surprising that there aren’t more.

 
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https://www.domain.com.au/news/canberras-first-hemp-house-under-construction-in-oconnor-20170823-gy2a3j/

A pot club seniors can love

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JACKIE FLYNN 

Mary Ann Blackwell (center) smokes marijuana out of a vaporizer during the East Bay Senior Social Club at the Magnolia Dispensary on Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, in Oakland, Calif. SOURCE: Santiago Mejia

 
Although seniors are the fastest growing demographic of cannabis consumers, they’re also a group that often faces isolation and shame from medical professionals, family or friends for using marijuana. One Northern California group, the East Bay Senior Cannabis Social Club, is trying to change that.
On Friday Aug. 18, the 50-plus member club met at Oakland’s Magnolia Wellness, a licensed dispensary with a large lounge. About 30 seniors showed up, chatted, snacked on tomato basil mozzarella skewers, finger sandwiches, and cookies, sipped juice and sweet tea and took turns hitting communal cannabis vaporizers — and it didn’t take long for a smoky haze to fill Magnolia’s private, purple-walled vaping room.
While some of the seniors smoked cannabis just for the fun of it, most of them were using the plant to treat arthritis, anxiety or pain.
 
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http://www.greenstate.com/culture/a12050011/a-pot-club-seniors-can-love
 

This THC Powder Turns Any Dish Into an Edible

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If you’re someone who wants a dish that will give you a good high without having to make the classic brownies or deal with marijuana directly, there’s a new option for you. Stillwater Ripple is a dissolvable THC that’s completely colorless and odorless, so you can literally add it into any food and not taste it at all. It comes in two options, Ripple Pure 10, which contains 10 mg of purified THC distillate, and Ripple Balanced 5, which contains 5 mg THC and 5 mg CBD distillate.
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Mr. Hemp and the Amazing Dream Crop

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By Rob Hill

Michael Bowman on the state of farmers, the uncertainty in Washington D.C., and why hemp is good for the environment and economy.

On a sweltering July night, Michael Bowman entered the Washington, D.C., watering hole The Dubliner to meet a member of Law Enforcement Action Partnership with ties close to the White House. As a longtime advocate for federal public policy that strengthens rural communities with a focus on soil health, biochar, renewable energy, and environmental markets, Bowman has been to the United States capitol many times. But this trip was different. Since the passage of Colorado’s Amendment 64 in 2012, his focus has turned exclusively to industrial hemp policy. His decade-plus of work in sustainability issues garnered a robust bipartisan network that trusted him.
“This trip was purely agenda-driven due to what the industry has been missing since November’s election—namely, a president with still no clear message or directive regarding our industry,” said Bowman, a bearded, avuncular man with a calm demeanor and an intense gaze.

“Hemp is a drought-resistant plant. It needs little or no herbicides and pesticides. It has a root structure that improves the tilth of the soil [and] can absorb four times more CO2 per acre per crop than a standing forest. Suddenly, I found every box on my list of attributes of a ‘dream crop.’” —Michael Bowman

 
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https://mgretailer.com/mr-hemp-and-the-amazing-dream-crop/

Federal judge blocks prosecution of Northern California cannabis growers

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A judge in San Francisco, in the first known ruling of its kind, has halted federal prosecution of two North Coast marijuana growers because Congress has prohibited the Justice Department from interfering with states’ medical marijuana laws.

Anthony Pisarski and Sonny Moore pleaded guilty in 2014 to conspiring to possess and grow marijuana on a farm in Humboldt County and faced a three-year prison sentence under federal guidelines. But U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg suspended further proceedings in the case this week and said the prosecution was barred by restrictions Congress first added to the Justice Department’s budget in late 2014, and has renewed ever since.

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http://m.sfgate.com/crime/article/NorCal-pot-growers-prosecution-blocked-by-11753672.php

At This LA Rehab Center, Cannabis Is an ‘Exit’ Drug

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HAYLEY FOX

 
By Mac Kirk’s own count, he’s already attended more than 30 drug rehabilitation programs. With a propensity for heroin, Xanax, and “pretty much everything under the sun,” the 20-year-old musician moved from New York to the West Coast in April to get clean. Bouncing between recovery facilities and sober living centers, Kirk overdosed twice this year.
Then he found High Sobriety.
The concept behind the Los Angeles-based recovery center is relatively simple: Instead of demanding complete drug abstinence—which has been the reigning method of treatment in Alcoholics Anonymous and offshoot programs based on the 12-step model—High Sobriety promotes a “cannabis-inclusive” model that uses marijuana as a means to smooth withdrawal’s rough edges and replace other, more life threatening drugs. Cannabis isn’t just tolerated, it’s provided as part of the program.
 
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https://www.leafly.com/news/health/la-rehab-center-cannabis-exit-drug

The VA Can’t Provide Cannabis to Veterans With PTSD, so This Group Gives It Out for Free

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BAILEY RAHN
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Once a month, staff members at the Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance (SCVA) fill more than 100 brown paper bags with high-quality medical cannabis and pass them out for free at a local community center. For the military veterans who receive it—many of whom struggle with PTSD—the medical cannabis acts as a lifeline to health.
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Cannabis Pests Can Be Easily Prevented with Non-Toxic Methods

Jeannie Herer
By Cory Hughes

So your cannabis garden is up and running and everything is on track for a great harvest, but then you realize that pests have started to call your grow room home. While there are many over-the-counter solutions available for dealing with cannabis pests, many people don’t feel comfortable covering their beautiful buds with potentially toxic chemicals. If you are one of those people, you are in luck. There are a slew of pesticide alternatives that will have your garden pest free in no time.
 
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http://www.marijuanaresources.com/cannabis-pests-can-easily-prevented-non-toxic-methods/