By Vittorio Hernandez

Activist Ray Turmel holds a bag of medical marijuana while he smokes a marijuana cigarette, as he calls for the total legalization of marijuana, outside the building where the federal election Munk Debate on Canada’s Foreign Policy is being held in Toronto, Canada, September 28, 2015. Reuters/Mark Blinch
 
To those who are concerned that legalisation of cannabis will spawn a community of pot-smoking teenagers, park aside those fears. To begin with, a decades-long study conducted by the National Institute of Health from 1991 through 2014 arrived at the conclusion that making recreational marijuana legal will not necessarily increase its use among teenagers. However, the reverse is true: it is these adolescents’ grandparents who are asking that cannabis — but this time, of the medical kind — be made more available and affordable. Legalisation can certainly help. These so-called Baby Boomers, who are aged 55 and above, have taken to cannabis as a way to alleviate joint pain, remove insomnia and prevent the spread of cancer.
 
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http://www.ibtimes.com.au/weed-smoking-baby-boomers-cannabis-treated-patients-senior-citizens-have-become-new-market-medical
 
 

 
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By Brianna Gallegos

 
MARFA – A unique house is being built in Marfa but it’s not constructed with bricks and mortar, instead it’s made of hemp. The byproduct of the same species of plant as marijuana.
Yoseff Ben-Yehuda fell in love with the southwest feel in Marfa after he arrived in Marfa from New York. So he bought property and started building a house of his own but what makes his future home unique is its being built with 100 percent hemp. It comes from Marijuana but it has less than 1 percent THC.
 
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http://www.cbs7.com/content/news/First-Hemp-House-in-Texas–379068141.html

 
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http://www.producer.com/2016/05/hemp-takes-off-in-s-korea/

BY TYLER BRIDGES| TBRIDGES@THEADVOCATE.COM

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING — Sen. Fred Mills, R-Parks, right, gestures while talking with Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, right, while working the House floor Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge. His medical Senate Bill 271 on medical marijuana was on the House agenda to come up later . Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, center, had previously deferred his own medical marijuana bill in a House committee.
 
Adults and children would be able to take marijuana in an oil form for a specific list of diseases under legislation approved by the Louisiana House Wednesday night.
The vote was 62-31 following an often emotional debate. The measure, Senate Bill 271, must return to the Senate — where it was already approved — for minor changes made in the House.
Gov. John Bel Edwards would sign the legislation, his spokesman Richard Carbo said after the late night vote.
Two powerful political groups — the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association and the Louisiana District Attorneys Association — opposed the legislation, but that was overridden by heartfelt pleas to aid children and adults suffering from seizures, epilepsy, cancer and other diseases.
“This bill will enable our doctor to have another tool to treat my baby girl,” state Rep. Reid Falconer, R-Mandeville, told a hushed chamber, referring to his 29-year-old daughter, Caroline, who suffers from Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy.
Rep. Mike Huval said he wished his brother had had the opportunity to consume the marijuana while he was terminally ill with cancer.
“The pain he endured hopefully would have been take care of by this miracle medication,” said Huval, R-Breaux Bridge.
 
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http://theadvocate.com/news/15764276-154/louisiana-house-oks-therapeutic-use-of-marijuana
 

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By Darren Coyne

Cannabis plants from Nimbin will be onboard the spaceship in the latest Alien movie.

Cannabis plants from the Nimbin area are set to be featured in the latest Alien film being directed by Ridley Scott.
The plants, which have been delivered to Fox Studios in Sydney, are to be used as props in Alien 4: The Covenant.
The film is a sequel to the 2012 film Prometheus, and will take place roughly ten years later.
The story will follow the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, where the crew discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, inhabited solely by the android David, survivor of the ill-fated Prometheus expedition.
However, the planet is soon revealed to be far more dangerous than they expected.
But how will the crew survive during their long periods in outer space, dealing with illness and trauma? Medicinal cannabis of course.
 
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http://www.echo.net.au/2016/05/nimbin-cannabis-to-feature-in-latest-alien-film/
 
 

Posted By: Andre’ Gabriel Esparza

 
Jeremiah Looney has entered his city’s corrupt interior to make a change from the inside. The Whitewright native, loving single dad, and Army veteran has overwhelmingly charmed his fellow residents and captured the key’s to his once thriving and beautiful town. Out of the three candidates vying to be the new leader, Looney scooped up 175 votes, local business owner Rock Magers reeled in 101, and the incumbent Allen West was only able to round-up a mere 34.
 
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http://www.dontcomply.com/veteran-self-medicating-with-cannabis-named-mayor-of-his-hometown/

Tom Tucker, CBS Local 2 Morning Anchor, thomas.tucker@cbslocal2.com
Patrick Edgell, Digital Content Director – KESQ & CBS Local 2, patrick.edgell@kesq.com

 
DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. –
The city of Desert Hot Springs is on the verge of experiencing what could turn out to be the biggest economic boon in the history of the city.
Investors and entrepreneurs are spending millions of dollars, buying up land and drafting plans to build huge, indoor marijuana growing operations.
 
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Considerable amounts of glass-fiber reinforced plastics (GRP) are used in many constructions and construction components. But although 250,000 tons of end-of-life GRP waste materials are currently produced annually, no practical solution has been found that would enable true recycling of GRPs. At the moment the only technically applicable concept entails thermal processing and the use of the remaining glass-fiber waste products after pyrolysis as an additive to cement. There is definitely no recycling, in the true sense of the word.
The urgency of the recycling problem is being accelerated by statutory regulations, which force manufacturers to take their products back.
 
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http://www.textileworld.com/textile-world/nonwovens-technical-textiles/2016/05/purcell-a-renewable-composite-material-made-of-pure-cellulose-a-biopolymer-to-replace-established-grp-construction-components/