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5 Feb 2013

Court Upholds Canada’s Medical Marijuana Laws

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The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld medical marijuana provisions that require those with serious illnesses to obtain a physician’s approval before they can legally acquire cannabis to alleviate their pain. The 3-0 decision overturned a lower court decision that had earlier struck down the laws as being impractical and difficult to comply with. The appellate judges ruled that the case under appeal had failed to establish that patients at the heart of the case were systematically unable to obtain … Read More

3 Feb 2013

Doing study on coal-hemp, calls on changes in fed law

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January 31, 2013 Patriot Energy joins state hemp association CORBIN — By Jeff Noble, Staff Writer Could industrial hemp be useful in reducing coal emissions and reclaiming mined coal fields in Kentucky? And could the reclaiming bring a hike in southeastern and eastern Kentucky’s economy? A bioenergy company with roots in the Tri-County thinks so. Patriot Bioenergy Corporation recently became the first corporate member of the Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association, a Lexington-based organization that wants to make industrial hemp … Read More

29 Jan 2013

The Latest Hemp news in Kentucky…

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Kentucky state senator to bring hemp bill up for vote By The Associated Press Posted January 28, 2013 at 3:13 p.m. FRANKFORT, Ky. — The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee sounded upbeat Monday about prospects for his bill that would regulate industrial hemp production in Kentucky if the federal government lifts its decades-long ban on the crop that once was a Bluegrass state staple. Republican Sen. Paul Hornback of Shelbyville said Monday he intends to bring the … Read More

29 Jan 2013

Will States Lead The Way To Legalizing Marijuana?

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When citizens of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana in November they created a conflict, because pot remains illegal under federal law and anyone who lights up is committing a federal crime and could theoretically still be arrested for it. After Colorado passed the referendum, Governor John Hickenlooper said the implementation of the law in his state would be a “complicated process” and he warned residents not to “break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly.” While it seems … Read More

29 Jan 2013

Atmospheric Oxygen Levels Are Dropping Faster Than Atmospheric Carbon Levels Are Rising

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Posted by Good German on January 27, 2013 Forget rising temperatures and bigger storms, this is the big problem that neither side of the mainstream debate over environmental destruction is talking about. Peter Tatchell reported for the Guardian back in 2008: The rise in carbon dioxide emissions is big news. It is prompting action to reverse global warming. But little or no attention is being paid to the long-term fall in oxygen concentrations and its knock-on effects. Compared to … Read More

23 Jan 2013

Effort to legalize hemp gains new life in Kentucky

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Gregory A. Hall, The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal FRANKFORT, Ky. — With support from some of the state’s top politicians and claims that it would create thousands of jobs, an effort to legalize industrial hemp — the less-potent cousin of marijuana — may have its best chance of passing the Kentucky General Assembly. Opposition from the Kentucky State Police helped kill earlier efforts to legalize hemp, which can be processed into fiber for clothing or provide an oil used … Read More

21 Jan 2013

Ky. hemp supporters gain big endorsement

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Published: January 20, 2013 By BRUCE SCHREINER — Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Industrial hemp’s repositioning toward mainstream status gained ground with a timely endorsement from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. But the plant’s proponents have more work to do in cultivating support to legalize a crop that once was a Bluegrass state staple. The chamber said recently that provided there’s adequate regulatory oversight, it supports legislation to position Kentucky as a leader in the production and … Read More

19 Jan 2013

If You Smoke It, You Will Become Addicted!

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In recent weeks, we have seen a shift in how drug war proponents are talking about marijuana. No longer able to convince the public that people who use marijuana should go to jail, they are singing a new tune; they should all go to treatment. This is a shift we have seen before. When marijuana first came on the scene in the U.S. in the early 1900s, reports of marijuana induced violence among Mexicans fueled the nation’s fear about the … Read More

18 Jan 2013

Studying Marijuana and Its Loftier Purpose

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Tikkun Olam, a medical marijuana farm in Israel, blends the high-tech and the spiritual. By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: January 1, 2013 SAFED, Israel — Among the rows of plants growing at a government-approved medical marijuana farm in the Galilee hills in northern Israel, one strain is said to have the strongest psychoactive effect of any cannabis in the world. Another, rich in anti-inflammatory properties, will not get you high at all. Marijuana is illegal in Israel, but farms like … Read More

17 Jan 2013

Colorado Preps for Recreational Marijuana

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Driving east on Interstate 70 through Denver’s warehouse district, the smell of the marijuana plants growing inside unmarked industrial buildings blasts through car air vents and overwhelms drivers who roll down their windows. The smell is a pungent reminder that the state of Colorado is now home to some of the world’s laxest marijuana regulations. The state legalized medicinal marijuana use in 2000, but in November voters in Colorado went even further by approving a constitutional amendment that legalizes recreational … Read More

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