U.S. Senator Rand Paul speaks on Senate Bill 50

posted in: Hemp Legislation 1

U.S. Senator Rand Paul joined a bipartisan lineup of witnesses who testified before the state Senate Agriculture Committee in support of Senate Bill 50, state Senator Paul Hornback’s legislation to establish an administrative framework for industrial hemp, on February 11 in Frankfort.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Chris Taylor is running for the District 48 State Assembly Seat in Madison, Wisconsin. In this video she responds to the question “Would you support hemp and/or medical marijuana legislation?”

This video was taken on May 31, 2011, at a Candidate Forum held at the Barrymore Theater. In this Forum, Chris introduced herself and responded to a variety of questions demonstrating that she will best represent the citizens of Madison’s east side, Monona, Blooming Grove, McFarland and Dunn in the District 48 State Assembly.

Vote for Chris Taylor, Tuesday, July 12th!

Chris Taylor’s Priorities:

— Protecting Working Families & Creating Living Wage Jobs
— Protecting and Enhancing Individual Rights
— The Rights of Women
— The Rights of the LGBT Community
— Our Children’s Future
— A Quality Public Education
— A Clean and Safe Environment
— Access to Quality, Affordable Health Care for Singles, Seniors and Families
— An Open, Transparent Government

Chris Taylor Website
http://taylorforassembly.com/

Chris Taylor Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chris-Taylor-for-State-Assembly/201377123226504

Adherence Information Management Announces Compliance Software to Support State Authorities and Banking Regulators for Marijuana Market

posted in: Cannabis 0


Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) March 25, 2015

Adherence Information Management (AIM) today unveiled the Cannabis Regulatory Compliance (CRC) Portal solution, an innovative iPad and cloud-based application designed to help state and banking regulators in their efforts to supervise, monitor and manage marijuana businesses.

Built on the Apple Enterprise and AWS platforms, the AIM Cannabis Regulatory Compliance Portal provides regulatory authorities with visibility into the end-to-end marijuana compliance cycle. The solution utilizes a proprietary iPad App to securely capture and assess compliance points related to regulatory adherence and generally accepted accounting principles. Through the use of individualized reports and action plans, the licensee or marijuana business client can work to immediately improve compliance and financial performance.

“Regulators that must assess, track and manage compliance face a broad range of challenges, including process automation and standardization.” said Steve Owens, CEO of AIM. “The AIM Cannabis Regulatory Compliance Portal solution helps address those challenges by providing information and insight to support timely decisions and immediate actions. Moreover, our solution is very secure with encrypted data at rest and in-transit as we approach HIPAA-level compliance. Our CRC Portal supports predictive analytics and big data, and is deployable in a matter of weeks, not months. “

AIM’s software-as-a-service solution is a flexible, modular platform that supports agency compliance cycles, including collection, scoring, ranking and reporting. The platform is designed for banking and state regulatory authorities that require a compliance supervisory program to monitor and report on marijuana businesses. It can be implemented quickly and cost-effectively through the use of Adherence’s rapid deployment model and supporting cloud-based technology.

About Adherence Information Management (AIM)

Adherence Information Management is the market leader in automated regulatory compliance solutions and revenue assurance services for the cannabis industry. AIM’s software is currently utilized in Colorado with more than 100 regulatory compliance audits delivered to date. AIM has operations in Colorado and Nevada and is currently expanding to Washington, Oregon and Arizona.

Contact:

Adherence Information Management

http://www.adherence-corp.com

720-536-0667

press(at)adherence-corp(dot)com







More Cannabis Press Releases

Hemp seed oil is the best ever skincare for acne

posted in: US Hemp Co 32

http://www.highonhealth.org
http://www.highonhealthstore.com

This is my new discovery! Hemp seed oil is now my most favourite EVER skin care. It has a comedogenic rating of 0 (so will NOT clog your pores), is green in colour (so great a hiding that redness) and has a high linoleic acid content which makes your sebum softer and smoother and therefore easier to become unplugged. More in the video..

Fran x
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Building with Hemp Part 1/2

Benefits of building with hemp Part 1/2
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Cannabis Science Inc (OTCMKTS:CBIS) Updates On Its Investor Relations …

posted in: Cannabis Science 0

Image from page 18 of “Hardwicke’s science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature” (1866)
Cannabis Science
Image by Internet Archive Book Images
Identifier: hardwickesscienc02cook
Title: Hardwicke’s science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825 Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895
Subjects: Science Natural history
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book

Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
s, andthe cells frequently terminate in a tongue-likeshape. Bariala is the native name of Sida rhomboidea,which yields a similar fibre in India. The micro-scopic appearance (fig. 15, a) is that of a regular,distinct, longitudinal structure. It is opaque andslightly woody. By reflected light it presents apearly appearance not unlike New Zealand flax. Ambaree is the brown hemp of Hibiscus canna-bbms, and under the microscope (Gg. 15, b) is verysimilar to the fibre of the Bariala. The true Hemp {Cannabis satira) is well known;and fig. 16 represents the microscopic appearance ofthree varieties : the Russian, Himalayan, and Italian.They are not unlike flax, except as to the transversemarkings, in which hemp is usually defective, and,when present, not so decided. It is difficult to dis-tinguish some fine samples of hemp from flax. Sunx or Bombay hemp (Crotalaria jvncea) offersa fibre which microscopically is rather like that of hemp, but rougher, and without any indication ofcross markings.

Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 16. a. Russian hemp : b. Himalayan hemp;c. Italian hemp. Jetee (Marsdenia tenacissimd) yields the Rajma-hal bowstring hemp, a> fibre much valued for itstenacity. The ultimate fibres (fig. 17, b) are regular

Note About Images
Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability – coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

Cannabis Science Inc (OTCMKTS:CBIS) Updates On Its Investor Relations …
Cannabis Science Inc (OTCMKTS:CBIS) informed that it has entered into a one-year deal with Derwin A. Wallace to offer financial and investor relations services. He will focus on expanding and developing the Company's financial communications with the …
Read more on Traders350

Cannabis Science Inc (OTCMKTS:CBIS) Retains Cohen Grassroots Research, Inc.
Cannabis Science Inc (OTCMKTS:CBIS) a U.S. firm operating in the cannabis industry stated that it has retained Cohen Grassroots Research, Inc. to begin detailed analytical coverage of the Company. The research firm is a leading name in field of …
Read more on Traders350

"If You Read One Book on Libertarianism…" for God's Sake, Make it This One …

posted in: Hemp Legislation 0

"If You Read One Book on Libertarianism…" for God's Sake, Make it This One …
How can someone be a Republican but question the sagacity of military intervention, care about criminal justice reform, and push hemp legalization legislation? The Daily Beast asked me to recommend to its readers a book that would help clarify where …
Read more on Reason (blog)

Seeing Hemp in an Entirely New Light
I hired a lobbyist to help me write the California Industrial Hemp Legislation, which was the first written legislation legalizing industrial hemp in the states. We gave the outline of the paperwork to Colorado for their hemp bill in 1995. Although …
Read more on Cashinbis

Construction Workers Welfare Legislation in India

posted in: Hemp Legislation 0
Hemp Legislation
by afagen

India has enough Labour legislation but due to lack of political will and timely implementation, such legislation remains on the statute book without having its force. The Building and other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and conditions of Service) Act, 1996 and The Building and other construction workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996 are the glaring example. These twin Acts were passed by the Parliament in the year 1996 and subsequently “the building and other construction workers’ (Regulation of employment and conditions of service) central Rules and The Building and other construction workers welfare Cess Rules were framed. More than 15 years these two Acts are not fully implemented.

In building and other construction works more than tens of millions of workers are engaged, who are exposed to higher risk of life and limb. These workers are one of the most vulnerable segments of the unorganized labour and don’t get basic amenities and social security. These twin Acts were enacted with an object to regulate the employment and conditions of the service of building and other construction workers and to provide for their safety, health and welfare measures.

The scheme of the BOCW (Regulation of Employment and conditions of Service) Act, 1996 is that it empowers the Central Government and the State Governments to constitute Welfare Boards to provide and monitor social security schemes and welfare measures for the benefit of the building and other construction workers. As per the section 1(4) the BOCW Act applies to every establishment which employs, or had employed on any day of the preceding twelve months, ten or more building workers in any building or construction work. Section 2 (d) of the Act defines “the building and other construction works”. Section 7 of the Act requires every employer in relation to an establishment to which the BOCW Act applies to get such establishment registered. Section 10 makes this requirement mandatory and therefore, without such registration, the employer of an establishment, to which the BOCW Act applies, cannot employ building workers.

Chapter IV of the BOCW Act contains provisions stipulating the registration of building workers as beneficiaries and requires certain contributions to be made by such beneficiary at such rate per month as may be specified by the State Government. Where the worker is unable to pay his contribution due to any financial hardship, the Board can waive the payment of such contribution for a period not exceeding three months at a time.

Section 18 sets out the constitution of State Welfare board. Under the provision of the section 18 every State Govt. is required to constitute the Welfare Board. Section 22 stipulates the provisions regarding functions of the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Boards. Section 24 sets out the provision for the constitution of the Welfare Fund and its application.

Chapter VI of the BOCW Act contains provisions relating to the safety, health and welfare of the construction workers.

The Building and other construction workers’ welfare Cess Act’1996 was enacted with an object to provide for the levy and collection of a Cess on the cost of construction incurred by the employers with a view to augmenting the resources of the Building and other construction Workers’ welfare Boards constituted under the section 18 of the Building and other construction Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act’1996.

Section 3 of the BOCW Cess Act setout the provisions for levy and collection of Cess at such rate not exceeding two percent, but not less than one percent of the cost of the construction incurred by the Employer. Rule 4 of the Building and other construction workers’ welfare Cess Rules, 1998 makes it mandatory for deduction of Cess payable at the notified rates from the bills paid for the building and other construction work of a Government or a Public Sector Undertaking. Rule 5 prescribes the manner in which the proceeds of Cess collected under Rule 4 shall be transferred by such Government office, Public Sector Undertakings, local authority, or Cess collector, to the Board. The powers of the Assessing Officer and the Board of Assessment are enumerated in Rules 7 to 14 of the Cess Rules.

Although the twin Acts were enacted in 1996, but a majority of states failed to implement the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Condition of Service) Act, 1996, and the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996 untill 2002, when Government of NCT of Delhi constituted the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board vide Notification No. DLC/CLA/BCW/02/596 dated 2nd September, 2002. A PIL was filed by an NGO National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour’ (NCC-CL) in the Supreme Court for implementation of the Twin Acts.

On the direction of the Supreme Court issued in the matter of National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour’ (NCC-CL) most of the states has constituted the Labour Welfare Board and started collecting Cess @ 1% of the Construction Cost where the construction cost is more than 10 Lacs.

The constitutional validity of the BOCW Act was also challenged by the Builders Association in the Builders Association of India vs Union of India, (2007) 139 DLT 578. The Division of the Delhi High court upheld that the BOCW Act, the Cess Act, 1998 Central Rules and the 2002 Delhi Rules were constitutionally valid.

The supreme court of India in civil appeal no. 1830 0f 2008 entitled M/S. Dewan Chand Builders Contractors versus Union of India  has also upheld the constitutional validity of the twin Acts.

Although the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of the twin Acts but the issue regarding effective date of the Cess Act is still unresolved. The Supreme Court in Dewan Chand Builder Case a view has been taken that the Cess Act and the Cess Rules are operative in the whole of NCT of Delhi w.e.f. January, 2002. But in SLP (C) 33486-33488 of 2011 Supreme Court has observed that the as per Section 1(3) of BOCW Act provides that the Act shall be deemed to have been come into force on 1st day of March’1996.

On concluding note it can be said that implementation of twin Acts has been a major concern. A critical factor impeding effective implementation is lack of political will of the state authorities and influence of builders lobby on them.

Author: Azeez Nazar Sabri (LLM Business Law). For more information write to him at/to [email protected].

Cannabis Now Magazine Celebrates the Return of American Hemp

posted in: Hemp Farming 0


Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) June 03, 2014

Cannabis Now Magazine featured the historic first hemp crop grown in the U.S. in decades on the cover of its latest issue. Photographer Kim Sidwell’s cover image, showcased in the publication driven to enlighten and educate the public on the legitimate and beneficial side of cannabis, demonstrates a celebration of cannabis’ long demonized cousin and a return of the industrial hemp industry in America.

“It’s all about job creation, that’s the whole point of this industry,” Colorado hemp cultivator Ryan Loflin said. “To get small town America back to having jobs that are profitable. The end result in rural America is going to be pretty outstanding. It has so many uses … everything except glass can be made from hemp, it’s a special crop.”

The latest issue of Cannabis Now also includes an article on hemp plastics and the future of the hemp marketplace in areas such as fashion, topical creams, nutrition and building materials.

During World War II American farmers harvested more than 150,000 acres of hemp promoted by the USDA’s Hemp for Victory propaganda film. Growing hemp was banned in the U.S. in 1957; however, non-psychoactive hemp products have remained available domestically, as the industrial hemp itself is grown and imported from countries where it is legal. A provision included in the passage of this year’s Farm Bill now allows colleges and state agencies to grow hemp for research purposes.

Ed Rosenthal’s Marijuana Growers Handbook clarifies that while hemp is a common name for plants in the entire genus of cannabis, the word typically refers to cannabis strains cultivated for industrial (non-drug) use as they contain minimal amounts of THC.

“Featuring hemp on our cover showcases the return of a fiber truly engrained in fabric of America’s history,” Production Manager Ellen Holland said. “At Cannabis Now Magazine, we promote every aspect of the plant including cannabis as a medicine and hemp for oil and fiber. We push for a full understanding of the cannabis plant.”

Cannabis Now supports Hemp History Week‘s efforts to advocate for further federal policy change and supports their 2014 campaign “Hemp: It’s Time to Grow.”

Cannabis Now Magazine is the only cannabis magazine available in iTunes. The bi-monthly print edition is also nationally distributed in Barnes & Noble, 7-Eleven, dispensaries, head shops, smoke shops, bookstores, and numerous other newsstand outlets including the U.K. and Canada. For breaking news, please visit cannabisnowmagazine.com.







More Hemp Farming Press Releases

Missouri House Committee Passes Bill to Legalize Hemp Farming, Effectively …

Vegetarian Body Builder Power Lifting champion Bill Pearl – Plant Based Protein Muscle Diet as in The China Study – Non Paleo – You were saying
How to grow Hemp
Image by Vegetarian-Vegan-Bodybuilding-Info
Vegetarian Body builder Bill Pearl. "The Original" PowerLifter. Five-Time Mister Universe. Huge massive strength using higher-quality tougher plant based human muscle.

Vegetarians are stronger and have higher-quality tougher muscle. Think about it, a Lion is your typical carnivore yet lions are "feline" which is feminine. Lions get tired easily, become exhausted under the slightest effort, and then have to sleep up to 20 hours a day. Male lions don’t even mainly hunt, hunting is done by ladies. When it comes to carnivores like lions, hunting is the job done by women, the job of female lions. The males are too exhausted and grow fatigued and then get tired and fall asleep after eating. Think about it, their eating meat makes them tired and they fall asleep, the food doesn’t make them have more Energy.

Lions slink around, they’re cats, which are carnivores. When it comes to muscle, lions are large in terms of cats, but are soft. Their muscles are soft, not ripped, or packed solid. Hardly any definition like a horse. Yes, even a horse has more definition and muscle than a lion. And remember, to give you an idea, what do we use to measure when we think of something with a lot of Power today? What do we use as the prime defining measure of a car engine that is immensely powerful? HORSE-POWER. Yes, that’s right! We don’t say how many ‘lion powers’ is your engine? It’d be silly. Because lions, which are carnivores aren’t very strong or powerful.

Rhinos are vegetarian. A rhinoceros can lift up and flip an entire jeep! A lion can’t even lift a car. Ever see one? Picture it. You probably can’t even see how it would even do it. It’d probably sniff it, paw pat it, or bite at it. Then lope away. Whereas a Rhino has 100% plant-based muscle and is so strong it could bull-ram that entire vehicle and dent it, and lift it and flip it over.

Even a cow is stronger. Bulls are cows. Even a bull’s neck muscles are so strong it can lift up a car or truck. The strongest land animal on the face of the earth is the Elephant. It grows to 12-24,000 pounds on plant based protein. Pretty good for the myth that there’s no protein in plants. There’s protein in plants. In fact, plants have more protein in them, than meat. This often dumb-founds lesser-educated steak eaters. Somehow this fact stupefies the meat-eaters brain. They falsely believe that meat is ‘a protein’, that steak contains protein, and that there’s no protein in plants. It’s funny! So they have no idea what to do when you tell them that an elephant grows to 12 to 24-thousand pounds full of protein, from the protein in plants. It eats plants. It eats protein. It has muscle. Not only some, but it’s the very definition of the most-powerful animal on the face of the planet. And every ounce of its muscle protein came from plants. Meat-eaters often get dumbfounded by this.

What happens next, is they try to come up with *something*, some reason concocted to explain it, like there must be some way the elephant is inventing protein though some magic ability it must have, like 4-stomachs. You’ll see that excuse given often. It’s funny but no. Elephants aren’t ruminants. Elephants have 1 stomach, like us! You can’t use the phony 4-stomachs, ruminant, herbivore, whatever excuse here. These are merely dreamt up false dead ends thought up by meat-eaters because they can’t figure out for the life of them that plants contain huge amounts of protein, even more than meat!

And it’s REALLY funny, when you get them to say that they think steak is the utmost, highest, best, most ultimate form of protein!….And then you point out Thanks! You just admitted the best source of protein is Plants! – This is usually followed by…"Huh?? What?". You see…every molecule of that protein, in that steak that the meat-eater just praised himself was the ultimate, came from plants! Cows don’t eat meat! So all that protein in a steak originated in plants to begin with!

The only difference is, steak-eaters are simply eating vegetarians’ "sloppy-seconds". Vegetarians are getting it fresher, and with more nutrients, in its original form. Meat eaters are eating things that have been in an animal’s mouth first. Essentially they put their food into the front of an animal, mixes it with the animals spit and whatever germs and bacteria are in its saliva and chewed up brownish green slime, then it sits in a stomach pouch where it smells awful, afterall, the stomach is the repository of vomit, then it comes out brown and semi-liquid from the other end. That’s what a meat and steak eater is doing. Vegetarians are simply getting the same protein, but more fresh, more original, cleaner, and more pristine, with all the original nutrients and enzymes that are destroyed by meat.

This is why a chimp has the power and 10-times the strength of a man. And think about it, think if you took the biggest human meat-eater bodybuilder, which currently stands around 200-300 pounds or so, and do this…Put them in a cage. And send in a SILVERBACK GORILLA. A Silverback Gorilla weighs upwards of 400, 500, 800 pounds! A Gorilla could beat the living tar out of any human in a natural fight. It’s far more muscular. It could rail and flap that meat-eater around like a rag-doll. Gorillas are vegan! They eat fruit! And…they aren’t herbivores or grass-eaters, they have 1 stomach, they are not ruminants, they are primates, with digestive systems just like us, they have so-called canine teeth inches longer than ours (which are used for Defense, not eating meat), and they are far stronger, bigger, weigh more, and more physically athletic, they share more than 98% DNA identical to us, and they get all their protein from fruit and could mop the floor with any bragging meat-head that thinks you have to eat steak to obtain protein.

Meat-eaters don’t know what to do after this. And then when you point out that virtually every single protein supplement in bodybuilding nutrition stores is vegetarian, they deny, refuse to believe, scoff, hem & haw, and then it’s pointed out to them that all of the protein powders for building muscle are made from WHEY (which is lacto-vegetarian), ALBUMIN (which is ovo-vegetarian) and SOY PROTEIN (which is vegan!). There’s also even Flax protein, Hemp protein, and more! There’s no pork-shakes, jugs of blood, beef flavored protein bars, chickenpills, or protein drinks with pieces of fish floating in it. At about this point, a meat-eating bodybuilder who always believed that the best protein for building muscle came from meat, gets a look on their face like when a dog tilts its head and looks confused when it hears a funny sound. Then they get mad, because they just found out that virtually ALL of the very top ultimate protein sources even those used by nearly every bodybuilder…are VEGETARIAN!

Think about it.

Missouri House Committee Passes Bill to Legalize Hemp Farming, Effectively …
It would also expressly legalize the commerce of hemp in the state, and not just the growth for research purposes as it being done in some states. And anyone with a hemp license would be able to grow and produce hemp crops as long as they are farming …
Read more on Tenth Amendment Center (blog)

Latest Hemp News News

posted in: US Hemp Co 0

Healthy Hemp
Hemp is a commonly used term for high-growing varieties of the Cannabis plant and its products. However, because the Cannabis plant is seen to be a source of psychoactive cannabinoid compounds, hemp is considered illegal to grow and produce in many …
Read more on Beliefnet

Massachusetts Bill Would Legalize Marijuana and Hemp, Effectively Nullify …
BOSTON (Mar. 18, 2015) – A bill introduced in Massachusetts would legalize marijuana and hemp for the general public, effectively nullifying the federal prohibition on the same. House Bill 1561 (H1561) was introduced on March 10 by State Reps.
Read more on Tenth Amendment Center (blog)

Hemp-oil sales begin, despite medical-marijuana ban
The Urbandale businessman is selling what he calls hemp oil — made from a plant that is closely related to marijuana. He knows his customers are using the oil to treat chronic ailments. But he swears he's not peddling medical marijuana before Iowa …
Read more on DesMoinesRegister.com

1 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 119