By Kathy Garton

The winter season is quickly approaching and with it, the need for a reliable heat source. Wood pellet stoves are becoming popular because of the reduced cost compared to propane, electricity and heating fuel. Wood is also a renewable resource. However, the quality of wood makes a big difference. Issues like softwood, hardwood and whether or not there is bark included in the pellets can make a huge difference in the type of heat provided and the amount of ash produced.
This is where hemp fuel pellets come in. Hemp pellets produce around 2% ash and can be used in a large range of pellet burners currently on the market today. Hemp is less corrosive to burn than wood pellets, creates less ash, and always has the same high quality as what you find in premium grade wood pellets. This product comes from the shiv of the hemp stalk and has no possibility of including any additional material that can lead to a lower grade of quality.
 
Full Article: 
https://www.marijuanatimes.org/hemp-fuel-pellets-a-great-alternative-for-heating/
 

By LAURA M. HOLSON

 

When Lisa Mastramico needed relief for her ailing tabby, Little Kitty, she turned to an unlikely source: marijuana.

At 12 years old, the cat had arthritis. For a long while she spent her days hiding in a closet, where Ms. Mastramico had built her a bed of plush blankets. After trying various supplements that proved ineffectual, she went to a meeting for Women Grow, an industry group for cannabis entrepreneurs.

She was not sold on the idea right away. “My concern was that it’s not my place to get my cat high,” said Ms. Mastramico, the director of a public access television network in Long Beach, Calif.

But with Little Kitty becoming increasingly isolated, it was time to give it a try. She got a medical marijuana card and purchased two edible oils made for pets and derived from cannabis that she squirts into her pet’s mouth.

Full Article: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/fashion/pets-medical-marijuana-dogs-cats.html?_r=0

by Andy Gensler

 
Full Article: 
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7526662/damian-marley-coalinga-california-prison-pot-farm-exclusive
 

Oona McGee

 
With her own official Twitter account and a town in Tottori Prefecturebehind her, Japan’s first ever cannabis character comes dressed as apink-haired shrine maiden.
 
Ever since Japan’s first lady Akie Abe spoke out in support of reviving the country’s hemp culture in an interview last year, the topic of cannabis cultivation has become a hot topic in Japan. While marijuana and hemp can be produced from the cannabis plant, the country’s Cannabis Control Law strictly bans the purchase, cultivation, and trade of marijuana. However, a very small number of legal hemp farms exist in Japan, and with the Prime Minister’s wife herself saying she’s considered applying for a permit to grow hemp, mainstream use of hemp products looks set to grow throughout the country.
 
Full Article: 
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/09/23/new-cannabis-mascot-character-asamiko-chan-appears-in-japan/

By Steve Elliott

Willie and Micah Nelson in 2013. Son Micah is now on the Board of Directors of the National Hemp Association (NHA)
[ABC 7]

History was made in the industrial hemp legalization movement as music fans watched and listened to talented musician Micah Nelson perform with a hemp-made guitar at Farm Aid 2016 which took place last weekend in Virginia.
The one-of-a-kind all hemp musical instrument was provided by the Iowa Hemp Association on behalf of the National Hemp Association (NHA), that recently announced the addition of Nelson to its Board of Directors.
 
Full Article: 
http://www.tokesignals.com/micah-nelson-son-of-willie-nelson-named-to-board-of-directors-for-national-hemp-association/

By Ross Benes
The NFL continues an authoritarian stance on marijuana use while team doctors still dole out powerful and addictive painkillers
 
“The medicine being pumped into these guys is just killing people,” Nate Jackson says. “NFL owners think marijuana is something players do to get around the system, not knowing that it’s actually allowing them to be in the system. It’s allowing them to deal with the rigors of the game.”
 
Full Article: 
http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/nfls-backwards-marijuana-policy-w438912

NOBLE

PHOTOGRAPHY: SAMANTHA HEARN
 
Confession: We got lost in a hemp maze.
Yup. We spent a Sunday afternoon meandering through a tall, waving forest of industrial hemp and got lost, briefly. But, it’s all good, because we eventually got out and had our camera on us to capture the maze in all of its heavenly hemp glory.
Located an hour outside of Nashville in Chapel Hill, the one-acre hemp maze was recently opened up to the public thanks to Tennessee Hemp Industries Association.
 
Full Article: 
http://noblenashville.com/blog/2016/09/20/photos-got-lost-hemp-maze-outside-nashville/

 
Ljubljana, 21 September – A task force at the Medical Chamber has called for a regulative framework enabling the prescription of marijuana as opposed to only cannabis extracts for medical purposes. The initiative was embraced by the opposition United Left (ZL), which requested on Wednesday a parliamentary session to discuss the topic.
 
Article Link:
 https://english.sta.si/2306029/doctors-and-leftists-urge-embracing-of-medical-cannabis

CBC News

Meier, president of Hemp Production Services, says hemp has tremendous benefits when it comes to nutrition. (CBC)
 
Saskatchewan hemp growers and processors have been working to meet the exporting demand for the multi-use crop.
Hemp is used in all kinds of products from paper to clothing but has found its calling for its use in nutrition and supplements.
The market has been expanding in Europe and Asia and thanks to some hemp infomercials in South Korea, the product has made its way to the store shelves in various forms.
 
Full Article: 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-hemp-processors-helping-to-meet-demand-1.3769177