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How Hemp Could Replace Petroleum Fuel

How Hemp Could Replace Petroleum Fuel

Posted by | Dec 1, 2016 | ,

It was midday on February 10, 2013, and I was very smoothly cruising south out of Denver, Colorado, in a hemp-powered limo. A sleek cream-colored 1979 Mercedes 300D, in fact, purportedly originally owned by Ferdinand Marcos. “Plenty of space,” the driver told me as when I asked for the keys to the trunk before the drive. “Imelda’s shoes aren’t in there any more.” Hemp oil was the fuel, but it’s not the kind of thing that I, the pampered passenger, would notice if I weren’t a cannabis journalist. The vehicle was equipped with a proprietary shock system that results...

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Cherokee Nation files breach of trust lawsuit against federal government

Cherokee Nation files breach of trust lawsuit against federal government

Posted by | Nov 30, 2016 | ,

It’s a sad state of affairs that our government is STILL breaking treaties with the people of the First Nations but, they are. And since they have been routinely taken advantage of, the Cherokee Nation is now doing something about it and suing the federal government. At issue, its trust funds. The complaint was filed in federal court in Oklahoma on Monday. From the article: “Citing dozens of treaties and agreements dating to the late 1700s, the tribe said it has never been provided with a proper accounting of the proceeds from land sales, oil and gas development and other...

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Artist Creates A Tank To Deliver Free Books

Artist Creates A Tank To Deliver Free Books

Posted by | Nov 30, 2016 | ,

This is SO COOL! Read on and enjoy! XO- Erin An eccentric artist in Buenos Aires, Argentina, named Raul Lemesoff, has built a tank-like ‘Weapon Of Mass Instruction’ (his words!) which he intends to use as a way to battle ignorance and spread knowledge. Lemesoff took a 1979 Ford Falcon and converted it into the tank-like vehicle (complete with a swiveling turret, a non-functioning gun) with space to store about 900 books on the inside and outside of the vehicle. And he’s done all this because as he says, “Books open the mind”. His only demand is that you MUST...

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How Complaining Physically Rewires your Brain to be Anxious and Depressed

How Complaining Physically Rewires your Brain to be Anxious and Depressed

Posted by | Nov 30, 2016 |

I’m pretty sure we can all pick out that one person who is a consistent negative ninny. The one person who we think sees the glass half empty, but who insists that they are just a hard-edged realist. For me, it is one of my long time childhood friends Sam. Things are never good enough for Sam and she is always the victim of something. After knowing her for about 15 years now, I’m pretty used to her negativity and I can just let it roll right off my back. But, this is only after a lot of practice....

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Meditation, Yoga, Qi Qong, Tai Chi, et al, is all good…

Meditation, Yoga, Qi Qong, Tai Chi, et al, is all good…

Posted by | Nov 30, 2016 | ,

The science: Scientists put 24 participants with no history of meditation through an eight-week course on best practices for, “mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR),” fancy science talk for meditation. The course consisted of 2.5-hour sessions each week where participants learned “body scanning, sitting meditation, walking meditation and mindful stretching movements.” The scientists also requested each participant perform at least 45 minutes of meditation each day. MRIs were performed before and after the meditation boot camp, and each participant answered a series of psychological evaluations to determine their stress and anxiety levels before and after the MBSR course as well. The...

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