Richard Jansen
“The new materials have a different combination of stiffness and stretchiness compared to both existing bioplastics and traditional plastics. They can also inherit the properties of the original plant, meaning parsley plastic could have antioxidant properties, or cinnamon plastic could be antibacterial.”
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http://www.tcetoday.com/latest%20news/2014/august/italian-team-builds-better-bioplastics.aspx
Category: Cannabis News Corner
Our view: Let’s legalize hemp
Editorial
Hemp is not marijuana.
It looks like marijuana.
It’s related to marijuana.
But it’s not marijuana.
You can’t get high off of it. But someday, maybe, you could get rich off of it. Well, OK, maybe not rich. But there might be some money to be made in a plant fiber so useful that it can be used in making things from auto parts to yarn. Not quite A to Z, but close enough.
A hemp car? Really? Apparently so. “Hemp fibers have higher strength to weight ratios than steel and can also be considerably cheaper to manufacture,” reports Alan Crosky of the School of Material Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia. He and other researchers are working on using hemp fiber to replace plastic in some car parts. The result could be a car that has more fuel efficiency because it weighs so much less, but is still just as strong.
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The Marijuana Retirement: How My Parents Became Late-Life Pot Moguls
By Anonymous
At some point in the middle of my 70-year-old mom’s bong rip, as the distinctive schalp schlap schlap sound echoed in the kitchen, it dawned on me that my family life had recently taken a strange turn. Through a haze of pungent smoke I saw not just the woman who raised me, but a late-life social pioneer. Just a few years ago, my parents were a solid middle-class couple in a wholesome midwestern town who faced a fairly normal array of financial uncertainties and stresses as their careers wound down. But now, they have embarked on an astonishing second act in life — call it a Walter White retirement. Today, Mom and Dad are on the West Coast, living at the edge of the law, and bringing home huge wads of cash growing extremely high-grade weed in their backyard.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/08/how-my-parents-became-late-life-pot-moguls.html
Neil Young Urges Boycott of Non-Organic Cotton
BY MIRIAM COLEMAN
“Young follows the information about cotton agriculture with a few tips on sustainable laundry habits, noting that most of a garment’s environmental impacts come from washing and drying. Among the rumpled-rocker-friendly tips, he suggests line-drying over machine drying, skipping the iron and washing less often. He also notes that hemp is an even better choice than organic cotton, but less widely available.”
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-urges-boycott-of-non-organic-cotton-20140804
Cannabis oil: Raided for helping their son
REPORTER: HELEN KAPALOS | PRODUCER: ALEX HODGKINSON
Cassie Batten and Rhett Wallace’s home was raided just weeks after revealing on Sunday Night they treated their severely epileptic son with cannabis oil.
The Epping Sex Offences and Child Abuse Investigation team raided the family’s Mernda home and seized all of the three-year-old’s cannabis oil tincture, which he began receiving under doctor’s supervision.
Cooper was born healthy, but contracted meningitis which left him suffering from hundreds of life-threatening seizures a day.
The family turned to the oil after Cooper did not respond to epilepsy medications and soon his seizures went from hundreds a day to two or three.
“Cooper uses his vision a lot more now than he ever has, he is more alert about his surroundings he’s not crawling yet but he’s close to it, he gets up on all fours”
“Without the cannabis oil we wouldn’t have our son today. We would be visiting him in a cemetery.”
His father says without the cannabis oil he will deteriorate quickly.
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/a/24496566/cannabis-oil/
Can Juicing Cannabis Change Your Life? 5 Reasons to Juice Cannabis!
Besides fruits and vegetables, it turns out cannabis can be added to your juicer as well. For those unfamiliar with the juicing phenomenon, the process of making cannabis juice is surprisingly simple. All you really need is a blender/juicer and some raw material.
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http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/can-juicing-cannabis-chage-your-life-5-reasons-to-juice-cannabis/
“MONSANTO GO AWAY” Anthem – Performed by HUMAN – Occupy Maui
As part of a week of action against Monsanto, musician HUMAN joins Occupy Maui in solidarity to sing their new anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4GaT-Otv9U
Kentucky’s hemp crops flourish
By Mark Vanderhoff
University of Kentucky researcher David Williams is studying which hemp varieties are best suited for growing in Kentucky. Mark Vanderhoff WLKY
It took a legal fight just to get the seeds in the ground, but two months later, Kentucky’s first legal hemp crops in decades are flourishing.
The hemp plants have grown from 6 to 16 feet in two months and researchers say that’s a good sign for what could be a new cash crop for Kentucky.
“It’s exciting,” said University of Kentucky plant researcher David Williams. “It’s new. It has potential. And so it’s very fun. It’s a lot of fun to be involved in something that’s new and potentially possible for Kentucky farmers.”
Williams will harvest UK’s hemp crop in September and compare its growth to 12 other varieties he planted.
“I think we can grow larger plants with a full growing season,” Williams said. “We lost about a month.”
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http://www.wlky.com/news/kentuckys-hemp-crops-flourish-after-troubled-start/27251006#!bsux60
CBN: A Sleeping Synergy
CBN is either non-psychoactive or very mildly psychoactive. It reduces intraocular pressure in the eye (similar to D9THC), so it can be used in the treatment of Glaucoma without the psychoactive effects of THC. CBN is synergistic with THC for treatment purposes. CBN also fights free radicals in the bloodstream, and it performs similarly to THC in pain reduction treatments.
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Bill O’Reilly’s pot poll: 90 percent of America wants legal pot
By , The Cannabist Staff
Bill O’Reilly (Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images file)
On Bill O’Reilly’s personal website, visitors can buy tickets to see O’Reilly’s tour, take history quizzes, buy a copy of O’Reilly’s nonfiction work “Killing Jesus” or read articles that reflect the conservative views popularized on O’Reilly’s work on Fox News.
Or visitors can vote in O’Reilly’s daily polls to “see how folks all around the country responded.”
On July 28, O’Reilly’s poll took on marijuana legalization: “There is momentum behind the move to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Where do you stand?” There were two possible answers: “It should be legal, like alcohol” and “Dangerous idea with many unintended consequences.”
When we last checked O’Reilly’s poll on July 30, 90 percent of the 65,000-plus respondents voted pro-legalization, “like alcohol,” with all 50 states voting in unity — not likely the response O’Reilly’s team was hoping for.
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