By Lindsey Foltin @LindseyBaseball

 
Jay Williams thinks the NBA needs to get with the times when it comes to marijuana, and allow players to use it without punishment.
The former Chicago Bulls guard-turned NBA analyst toldFOXBusiness.com that 75 to 80 percent of players use the drug, which he believes is much safer than the narcotic painkillers that many athletes are prescribed.
 
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http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/former-bulls-guard-jay-williams-says-80-percent-of-nba-players-use-marijuana-031616

BY RORY APPLETON rappleton@fresnobee.com

 
This city founded on the discovery of a petroleum field is looking to strike it rich in a new oil industry. Instead of relying on the black gold pulled from the ground for jobs and economic stability, Coalinga could find future wealth in marijuana by transforming its vacant state prison into a cannabis oil cultivation and manufacturing operation.

A tiny California desert town is making a drastic change to reverse its downward spiral and embrace an enlightened future. For 24 years, Adelanto tried unsuccessfully to sustain its economy through prisons, but now it will be hosting a very different kind of business—cannabis cultivation.

The town became only the second city in California to permit commercial cultivation of medical cannabis, after a year of heated debate in the City Council. The persistence of John “Bug” Woodard, Jr. paid off in a 4-1 vote on Nov. 23 to allow cultivation.

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http://my.medicarepublic.com/prison-town-selling-its-jails-to-grow-cannabis-to-save-their-economy-and-its-working/

By Paul Ausick

 
For the week ended Friday, March 11, the spot price index for a pound of cannabis was essentially unchanged from $1,920 in the prior week to $1,918. The simple average price for a gram slipped a penny from $4.57 to $4.56.
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Rick Stella
A stalk of hemp
 

“Obviously, hemp can’t do all the things graphene can,” Mitlin acknowledged. “But for energy storage, it works just as well. And it costs a fraction of the price [at] $500 to $1,000 a tonne.”

Countries like Canada, China, and the United Kingdom rely heavily on industrially grown hemp for use in clothing, jewelry, building materials, among other applications. What’s left over after these goods are created is the aforementioned bast fiber, which typically finds its way to landfills. Additionally, Mitlin points out that the hemp used to create the graphene-like supercapacitor is entirely legal to grow and contains absolutely zero traces of THC.

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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/college-professor-found-way-turn-223004242.html

David Palmer

 
Companion bills in the Alabama Senate and House of Representatives is aimed at opening a new market by allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp.
Sen. Paul Bussman, R-Cullman, and Rep. Ken Johnson, R-Moulton, are sponsoring the bills. The legislation would authorize the state Department of Agriculture and Industries, pr institutions of higher learning, to research uses of industrial hemp, which is genetically different from marijuana.

“I think the bill has a chance if we understand this is not marijuana. We did a lot of checking before the bills were introduced,” Bussman said. “About 28 other states have moved forward with this. The products are used for a wide range of purposes, from the automotive industry to building materials. In Kentucky, the company that processes it is need of a lot more just to meet the demand.”
 
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Anthony Johnson

Inspired by Bill Maher lighting up a joint during his Real Time and calling for the national legalization of marijuana, Washington, D.C., cannabis law reform activists have called for a cannabis smoke-out protest in front of the White House on April 2nd. Why 4/2 instead of 4/20 (as originally called for), you may ask? Well, organizers of the protest have deemed the Obama Administration a “zero” on cannabis law reform, so the protest has been rescheduled to 4/2.
 
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http://marijuanapolitics.com/42-smoke-protest-front-white-house-scheduled-cannabis-activists/
 
 

 
Summary: “Cannabis sativa, popularly known as ganja or bhang, was found mixed in the clay and lime plaster at Ellora. “Studies conducted in Europe suggested that buildings constructed with the use of cannabis sativa could last for 600 to 800 years. In the sample collected from the Ellora cave, we found 10% share of cannabis sativa in the mix of mud or clay plaster. “Hemp was extensively used in Ellora as well as by the Yadavas, who built the Deogiri (Daulatabad) fort in the 12th century. Hemp was not used in the Ajanta caves, which are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist structures dating back to the 2nd century BC.
 
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http://www.nyoooz.com/aurangabad/384571/hemp-shielding-ellora-caves-from-decay-for-1500-years58-study

 
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http://www.latimes.com/travel/california/la-trb-las-vegas-pot-store-20160308-story.html

 
Emerald Palace is a state-licensed medical marijuana dispensary in Gilbert, providing patients with medical marijuana since August 2013.
In the segment, former anti-drug crusader and US Attorney, Mel McDonald, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, talks about his professional background and his experience as it relates to Arizona’s medical marijuana program.  As he explains, Mel McDonald’s son was in an accident in 1997 that left him with a serious brain injury and a severe form of epilepsy.  Through many challenging days of treatment, Mel, and his wife Cindy McDonald, found help in the use of medical marijuana for their son, Bennett.  Medical marijuana made it possible for him to fight the nausea of the anti-seizure medications, and helped him eat.  As a result, Mel McDonald has become an advocate for medical marijuana and he continues to address the challenges currently facing the program throughout the state, and especially where he lives in Gilbert.  One of those challenges is the limited business hours required by the city for dispensaries operating in Gilbert.
 
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http://www.abc15.com/lifestyle/sonoran-living/sl-sponsors/state-licensed-medical-marijuana-dispensary-offers-help-for-man-with-brain-injury