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 Time 4 Hemp Exposes Fake News
We Offer Truth In Broadcasting By Exposing Government Lies!

The Time 4 Hemp Broadcasting Network is a

digital media outlet that shares factual
information which is difficult to locate
elsewhere. This broadcasting network is
dedicated to exposing the lies embedded in
FAKE NEWS created and released as FACT
by the United States government about
cannabis hemp. Visit our archives often and
share them with your friends.

Since the 1930s, the United States government has

actively hidden factual information about cannabis
hemp and replaced it with propaganda promoting an
agenda formulated by the fossil fuel industry, the
pharmaceutical industry, and the paper industry
along with many government leaders.
One example of this is the film Hemp for Victory. This 14-min black and white short was produced by the
United States Department of Agriculture during World War II and released in 1942. It explains the many uses of
hemp and encourages farmers to grow as much as possible.

Before 1989, the film was relatively unknown. The United States government denied ever having made such a
film. The United States Department of Agriculture library and the Library of Congress told all interested parties
that no such movie was made by the USDA or any branch of the US government. They further stated that had
any such film been produced, all copies of such film would have been destroyed over the years.

Two VHS copies were recovered and donated to the Library of Congress on May 19, 1989 by Jack Herer. The
only known copy in 1976 was a 3/4 broadcast quality copy of the film that was originally obtained by William
Conde from a reporter for the Miami Herald and the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church of Jamaica. In 1988 it was
given to Jack Herer in trust that he would make it available to as many people as possible.

Even today the United States government actively engages in producing propaganda about cannabis hemp.
The Drug Enforcement Administration heads the nations drug war. As part of that, its done a lot to push
messaging that marijuana is dangerous at times struggling to admit that pot isnt as dangerous as heroin.
On January 10, 2017, the DEAs Twitter account put out a chart making the case for why this kind of
messaging is, in its view, necessary:

"CHALLENGE: Over the long term its proven that the perception of drug harm is correlated w/use, a trend
thats going in the wrong direction."

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In the DEAs interpretation, this chart shows there a correlation between perceptions of risk and a drugs use.
Sure enough, the chart largely exemplifies that: As the perceived risk of tobacco rose, its use among 12th
graders declined. And theres a similar, although not quite as clean, story with pot, with marijuana use among
12th graders going up and remaining relatively flat as risk perceptions have dropped.

But theres another reading of this chart that the DEA in particular wont like one that argues against the
DEAs work in prohibiting marijuana and cracking down on its use.

Tobacco, after all, has been legal for the entirety of the DEAs chart. Yet all this time, the perception of how
risky it is has gone up and its use has declined. Thats because of various policies, including education
campaigns, mandatory warning labels, public and workplace smoking bans, and higher taxes on tobacco
products.

Marijuana, meanwhile, has remained illegal on the federal level. Yet, as the DEAs chart shows, its use has
continued fluctuating and perceived risk has continued dropping despite the hundreds of thousands of arrests
each year for pot possession.

While most of the world was celebrating the holidays, President Obama signed into law the 2017 National
Defense Authorization Act on December 23, 2016. It turns out to be one of the most horrendous attacks on
our Freedoms done by that administration. Buried in the pages of that Act is the The Countering Foreign
Propaganda and Disinformation Act. Its one of the few times in political history that the Senate, the Congress
and the White House were ALL in full agreement. It is a straight out assault on the First Amendment.

To briefly summarize, what this means now is the government will be the arbitrator of Truth and through an
appointed agency, the new government agency will determine what is and what is not FAKE NEWS. It is
doesnt line up with their standards, it will be considered propaganda and/or disinformation and the
perpetrators of it will be punished.This enables media outlets such as CNN to declare themselves to be an
OFFICIAL Government News Source. As an official government news source, CNN is allowed to possess
documents that the average citizen cannot. This is why it is OK for CNN to have copies of Wiki Leaks
documents about Hilary Clintons emails, but if the average citizen has copies of those documents, that person
will be arrested. Therefore, the only way to get the TRUTH is to get it from a government approved source.

It should be interesting to note: CNN has be frequently exposed as an outlet of FAKE NEWS over the years.
You can find many examples on YouTube alone. They produced FAKE NEWS for the Iraq War. They
produced FAKE NEWS for a report from Ukraine. Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield hold a split-screen
interview in same parking-lot on CNN while pretending to be in two different places in the world. The 3
examples are just the tip of the iceberg. If you have time to do your own research, you will quickly discover
that CNN is just one of many networks that produce FAKE NEWS on a regular basis. Another form of FAKE
NEWS are the soft story press release. This is a report that is released to the public as news when, in reality, it
is an advertisement for a product. Here is another example of this for ice cream. The best of this is called
Native Advertising. George W Bush admitted the White House plants fake news reports. The recent
Presidential election was another example of FAKE NEWS. By now, everyone is aware of the members of the
media who were on the Clinton pay-roll and the effect that had on the networks reporting about the candidates.

As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and
Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify
avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks
a whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions to counter foreign disinformation and
manipulation, which they believe threaten the worlds security and stability.

Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob
Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. These
countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital media capabilities, targeted
campaigns, funding of foreign political movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and
populations, Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a relatively small amount on its Voice of
America, the Kremlin provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.

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Surprisingly, Portman continued, there is currently no
single U.S. governmental agency or department charged
with the national level development, integration and
synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to
counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.

Long before the fake news meme became a daily topic of

extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream
portals as CNN and WaPo, H.R. 5181 would task the
Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of
Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the
Broadcasting Board of Governors to establish a Center for
Information Analysis and Response, which will pinpoint
sources of disinformation, analyze data, and in true
dystopic manner develop and disseminate fact-based
narratives to counter effrontery propaganda.
In short, long before fake news became a major media topic, the US government was already planning its
legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label fake news.

U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced that their Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act legislation designed to help American allies counter foreign government
propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations has been signed into law as part of the FY 2017 National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bipartisan bill, which was introduced by Senators
Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the United States to counter foreign propaganda and
disinformation from our enemies by establishing an inter-agency center housed at the State Department to
coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government.

To support these efforts, the bill also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and other
experts outside government who are engaged in counter-propaganda related work. This will better leverage
existing expertise and empower our allies overseas to defend themselves from foreign manipulation. It will also
help foster a free and vibrant press and civil society overseas, which is critical to ensuring our allies have access
to truthful information and inoculating people against foreign propaganda campaigns.

Our enemies are using foreign propaganda and disinformation against us and our allies, and so far the U.S.
government has been asleep at the wheel, Portman said. But today, the United States has taken a critical step
towards confronting the extensive, and destabilizing, foreign propaganda and disinformation operations being
waged against us by our enemies overseas. With this bill now law, we are finally signaling that enough is
enough; the United States will no longer sit on the sidelines. We are going to confront this threat head-on. I am
confident that, with the help of this bipartisan bill, the disinformation and propaganda used against us, our allies,
and our interests will fail.

The use of propaganda to undermine democracy has hit a new low. But now we are finally in a position to
confront this threat head on and get out the truth. By building up independent, objective journalism in places like
eastern Europe, we can start to fight back by exposing these fake narratives and empowering local communities
to protect themselves, said Murphy. Im proud that our bill was signed into law, and I look forward to working
with Senator Portman to make sure these tools and new resources are effectively used to get out the truth.

NOTE: The bipartisan Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act are organized around two main priorities
to help achieve the goal of combating the constantly evolving threat of foreign disinformation from our enemies:

The first priority is developing a whole-of-government strategy for countering THE foreign propaganda and
disinformation being wages against us and our allies by our enemies. The bill would increase the authority,
resources, and mandate of the Global Engagement Center to include state actors like Russia and China as well
as non-state actors.

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The Center will be led by the State Department, but with the active senior level participation of the Department
of Defense, USAID, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Intelligence Community, and other relevant
agencies. The Center will develop, integrate, and synchronize whole-of-government initiatives to expose and
counter foreign disinformation operations by our enemies and proactively advance fact-based narratives that
support U.S. allies and interests.

Second, the legislation seeks to leverage expertise from outside government to create more adaptive and
responsive U.S. strategy options. The legislation establishes a fund to help train local journalists and provide
grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think tanks, private sector companies, media
organizations, and other experts outside the U.S. government with experience in identifying and analyzing the
latest trends in foreign government disinformation techniques. This fund will complement and support the
Centers role by integrating capabilities and expertise available outside the U.S. government into the strategy-
making process. It will also empower a decentralized network of private sector experts and integrate their
expertise into the strategy-making process.

With the likes of WaPo having already primed the general public to equate Russian Propaganda with fake
news (despite admitting after the fact their own report was essentially fake), while the US media has
indoctrinated the public to assume that any information which is not in compliance with the official government
narrative, or dares to criticize the establishment, is also fake news and thus falls under the Russian
propaganda umbrella, the scene is now set for the US government to legally crack down on every media outlet
that the government deems to be foreign propaganda.

Government controlled news is not a concept that only recently made it difficult to decipher truth from fiction.
Members of the Marijuana/Hemp Movement are fully aware that the term Yellow Journalism was invented to
label the intentional misinformation presented as truth by J Randolph Hearst through his media empire.

The term was coined by Erwin Wardman, the editor of the New York Press, in the mid-1890s to characterize
the sensational journalism that used some yellow ink in the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzers New
York World and William Randolph Hearsts New York Journal. The battle peaked from 1895 to about 1898,
and historical usage often refers specifically to this period. Both papers were accused by critics of
sensationalizing the news in order to drive up circulation, although the newspapers did serious reporting as
well.

The decision of the United States Congress to pass the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was based on poorly
attended Congressional hearings and reports based on questionable studies. In 1936 and 1937, the Federal
Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) noticed an increase of reports of people smoking marijuana. The Bureau drafted a
legislative plan for Congress seeking a new law, and the head of the FBN, Harry J. Anslinger, ran a campaign
against marijuana. Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearsts empire of newspapers used the yellow
journalism pioneered by Hearst to demonize the cannabis plant and spread a public perception that there were
connections between cannabis and violent crime. Hearst owned millions of acres of forest which he used to
harvest trees for paper pulp for his newspapers. He made a lot of money from doing this since he also sold his
pulp to many companies as well.

Several scholars argue that the goal was to destroy the hemp industry due to its competitive edge against trees
in making paper and against fossil fuel in creating oil. Hearst worked in association with Andrew Mellon and the
Du Pont family in efforts to rid the earth of this plant. Scholars point out that the invention of the Decorticator
made hemp a very cheap substitute for the wood pulp that was used in the newspaper industry. This 1938
three-page article in Popular Mechanics called HEMP The New Billion dollar Crop covers the Decorticator
and its impact on harvesting this crop.

Government influence of the United States media was brought out into the open in the 1970s with Operation
Mockingbird, a campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media in the US
and internationally. It was reportedly organized as an independent office by Frank Wisner in 1948. After 1953,
when Allen Dulles was appointed as head of the CIA, he took a strong role in overseeing the operation, which
already had influence with 25 newspapers and wire agencies. The operation has been documented as
operating at least during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

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 The unit recruited leading American journalists into a
propaganda network to help present the CIAs views. It
funded some student and cultural organizations and
magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to
influence foreign media and political campaigns, in
addition to activities conducted by other operating units of
the CIA. The CIAs use of journalists continued unabated
until 1973, when the program was scaled back. When
George H.W. Bush was appointed as director of the CIA
in 1976, the program of paying journalists for cooperation
was announced to have ended. Their voluntary
cooperation was encouraged.

In 1966 Ramparts magazine published an article revealing that the National Student Association was funded by
the CIA. It was the first time the agency was revealed to have interfered with US domestic activities. The United
States Congress investigated the allegations and published a report in 1976. Other accounts of these activities
have also been published. The media operation was first called Mockingbird in Deborah Daviss 1979 book,
Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and The Washington Post.

At various times, under its own authority or in accordance with directives from the President of the United
States or the National Security Council staff, the Central Intelligence Agency has attempted to influence
domestic and international public opinion, and sometimes law enforcement.

The Central Intelligence Agency has made use of mass media assets, both foreign and domestic, for its covert
operations. It was first reported on in the late 1960s, when it became known that the Congress for Cultural
Freedom was largely funded by the CIA. In 1973, the Washington Star-News reported that CIA had enlisted
more than thirty Americans working abroad as journalists, citing an internal CIA inquiry ordered by CIA director
William E. Colby. The Church Committee was the first congressional committee established in the 1970s to
look specifically into the CIAs past activities. Some classified information in the (unpublished) report of the Pike
Committee was leaked to The Village Voice, which showed more details on the CIAs media manipulation.

The Committee mentioned that the: The CIA, as no doubt every other major intelligence agency in the world,
has manipulated the media. Full-time foreign correspondents for major U.S. publications have worked
concurrently for CIA, passing along information received in the normal course of their regular jobs and even, on
occasion, travelling to otherwise non-newsworthy areas to acquire data. Far more prevalent is the Agencys
practice of retaining free-lancers and stringers as informantsCIA acknowledges that stringers and others
with whom the Agency has a relationship are often directed to insert Agency-composed news articles into
foreign publications and wire services. U.S. intelligence officials do not rule out the possibility that these planted
stories may find their way into American newspapers from time to time, but insist that CIA does not intentionally
propagandize in this country.

Since psychological operations can involve many variants of truth, it is useful to know the formal definitions
used in the Intelligence Community. These definitions come from the Operations Coordinating Board (OCB),
which, in 1954, was the White House organization that approved or disapproved covert and clandestine
activities. Policy-level control has always been under the Department of State.

White Propaganda is acknowledged as an official statement or act of the U.S. Government, or emanates from
a source associated closely enough with the U.S. Government to reflect an official viewpoint. The information is
true and factual. It also includes all output identified as coming from U.S. official sources. Authorized to engage
in white activity directed at foreign audiences are: The State Department, USIA, the Foreign Operations
Administration (a predecessor of the Agency for International Development), the Defense Departments and
other U.S. Government departments and agencies as necessary.

Gray Propaganda is deliberately ambiguous. The true source (U.S. Government) is not revealed to the target
audience. The activity engaged in plausibly appears to emanate from a non-official American source, or an
indigenous, non-hostile source, or there may be no attribution.

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Gray is that information whose content is such that the effect will be increased if the hand of the U.S.
Government and in some cases any American participation is not revealed. It is simply a means for the U.S. to
present viewpoints which are in the interest of U.S. foreign policy, but which will be acceptable or more
acceptable to the intended target audience than will an official government statement.

Responsibility for gray is assigned to the OCB designee, USIA and State. The following criteria will assist in
determining the responsibility for the execution of a proposed gray activity. If the answer to any of the three
questions below is affirmative, the activity is the sole responsibility of the OCB designee. If government
interest is not to be revealed but the answer to all three questions listed below is negative, the activity may fall
within the charter of State, USIA or the OCB designee:

1.) Would the disclosure of the source occasion serious embarrassment to the U.S. Government or to the
agencies responsible for the information activity?

2.) Would the activity or the materials disseminated be seriously discredited if it were to become known that
the U.S. Government was responsible?

3.) Would the outlet be seriously damaged if it were to become known that the activity is subsidized or
otherwise assisted by the U.S. Government?

Black Propaganda appears to emanate from a source (government, party, group, organization, persons)
usually hostile in nature. The interest of the U.S. Government is concealed and the U.S. Government would
deny responsibility. The content may be partially or completely fabricated, but that which is fabricated is made
to appear credible to the target audience. Black activity is also usually designed to cause embarrassment to
the ostensible source or to force the ostensible source to take action against its will. Black propaganda can be
considered clandestine, as the source is unknown.

In the mid-1990s, the CIA named Chase Brandon, an operations officer who was assigned to South America,
as liaison to Hollywood. Brandons film credits include The Recruit, The Sum of All Fears, Enemy of the
State, Bad Company and in the Company of Spies. He has consulted for television programs including The
Agency, Alias and JAG. He has appeared on Discovery, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, PBS,
and A&E. He has been interviewed on E! Entertainment, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight.

The Guardian journalist, John Patterson, criticizes the CIA assistance as being only to complimentary
productions, including not running material, such as the original pilot episode of The Agency, which was
pulled. It featured the spymasters preventing a plot by a Bin Laden-backed terrorist cell to blow up a
fictionalized Harrods. The airing of such an episode might have pointed up the real CIAs corresponding lack of
success in foiling the World Trade Center attacks.

According to Brandon, the agency would not endorse Spy Game, starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. The
final rewrite showed our senior management in an insensitive light and we just wouldnt want to be a part of
that kind of project, said Brandon, who also withheld approval from 24, a Fox series about a fictional
intelligence agency, CTU, that also suggests all is not hunky-dory in the companys upper echelons. And The
Bourne Identity, based on the 1984 novel by Robert Ludlum, was so awful that I tossed it in the burn bag after
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The United States Intelligence Community appropriated usage of the term disinformation in the 1950s. U.S.
intelligence utilized the tactic during the Cold War and in conflict with other nations. The New York Times
reported in 2000 that during the Central Intelligence Agency effort to substitute Mohammed Reza Pahlavi for
then-Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mossadegh, the CIA placed fictitious stories in the local newspaper.
Reuters documented how subsequent to the 1979 Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan during the Soviet
Afghan War, the CIA put false articles in newspapers of countries with predominantly practitioners of Islam,
inaccurately stating Soviet embassies had invasion day celebrations. Reuters noted a former U.S.
intelligence officer said they would attempt to gain the confidence of reporters and use them as a secret agent,
as a way to impact a nations politics by way of their local media.

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In October 1986, the term gained increased currency in the U.S. when it was
revealed two months previously, that the Reagan Administration government had
engaged in a disinformation campaign against then-leader of Libya, Muammar
Gaddafi. White House representative Larry Speakes said reports of a planned attack
on Libya as first broken by The Wall Street Journal on 25 August 1986 were
authoritative, and other newspapers including The Washington Post then wrote
articles saying this was factual. United States Department of State representative
Bernard Kalb resigned from his position in protest over the disinformation campaign,
and said: Faith in the word of America is the pulse beat of our democracy.

The executive branch during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan kept watch on
disinformation campaigns through three yearly publications by the United States
Department of State: Active Measures: A Report on the Substance and Process of
Anti-U.S. Disinformation and Propaganda Campaigns (1986), Report on Active
Measures and Propaganda, 198687 (1987), and Report on Active Measures and
Propaganda, 198789.

To further detail the many ways the government has censored truth and broadcasted
FAKE NEWS would cause this short report to grow into a large book. Over the years,
the CIA along with many other government agencies, have strong-armed the
entertainment industry in order to promote its own agenda. I would encourage you to
research this topic on your own. When you do, keep in mind the words of Edgar Allen
Poe: Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

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 Time 4 Hemp Gift Shop Is Now Open - PLEASE visit and shop.

When you do, you help the network grow!

Im not sure how many of you recall the time, a few years back, when President Bush asked Americans to go
shopping so as to help the national economy to remain strong and to keep our country safe and independent.
Many of us laughed at the idea of saving the country by going shopping. Im sure a Google search will bring
up many of the late night jokes that were made. Well, now that the Time 4 Hemp Gift Shop has opened, I
understand what the President was trying to get across in his message.

Over the 25 years Ive been broadcasting, people have encouraged me to place my logos and other art pieces
that I own onto hats and t-shirts and buttons. Ive never done so due to the headaches involved from order
fulfillment and shipping errors that occur in any retail outlet. Besides, Time 4 Hemp is a broadcasting network.
Thats what we are focused on and what we MUST REMAIN focused on.

What Ive done is opened a little shop spot on CafePress.com to handle all the headaches. YEAH! I like
CafePress. Ive ordered stuff through them before and have always been happy with the items Ive gotten. I
understand that when the company first started, way back in 2001, the material they used to produce their items
was on the low end of the spectrum.

Today, all that has changed and they now produce first rate products. They take care of the shipping and are
even happy to refund your money if you arent satisfied with what you receive from them. I love it.

Of course this means that the amount of money Time 4 Hemp receives from each purchase is a very small
amount BUT a little here and a little there it all adds up to being a big help over a period of time.

I was careful in making product selections for each piece of art and tried to come up with a few clever ideas for
T-shirts and greeting cards. I have to admit everything looks pretty darn good. I found items for every room in
the house and in every price range. There are many cool things under $10 such as calendars and greeting
cards and a good many more under $20 such as hats, T-shirts and puzzles.

Two of my favorite items are the tote bags and the dog T-shirts. I have two dogs that own me (Im THEIR pet).
Both of my dogs are Hemp Activists and both like to wear stylish t-shirts when they go out to a demonstration or
festival. The tote bags are just plain AWESOME. The art looks fantastic on them. They are made of strong
material. Everybody can find good use for one. You will find lunch-totes and beach-totes and just about any kind
of tote you want and you will get many years of good use from any one of them.

People are always asking me if they can help in any way with the broadcasting network. Any time I suggest they
MAKE A DONATION towards the cost of program production, Im usually met with a giggle and a smile and a;
Best of luck of with that happening.

Well, this time around, Im asking for a hand up instead of a hand out. I only asking that you visit the Time 4
Hemp Gift Shop. take a look around and see what all is on the shelf. If you find something that you like, buy it!

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Its a WIN-WIN-WIN when you part with your money at the gift shop. YOU win because you get a great product
at a great price. TIME 4 HEMP BROADCASTING wins because it gets a small portion of the sale to apply
towards the high cost of program production. THE HEMP MOVEMENT wins by having its voice raised to a
louder pitch with you having pro-hemp products in your home and/or on your body and by being heard through
the broadcasting network.

One last request. Please visit the Time 4 Hemp Gift Shop often. Maybe even make it the FIRST place you visit
when looking for a particular item. Theres a good chance you will find what you want. Maybe even at a lower
price than someplace else. Every year you need a new calendar right? If you do a lot of snail-mailing, you
need to buy cards often right? Every one likes getting a new hat or T-shirt every so often right?

If you are a retail outlet or an activist who attends a lot of events and sets up a hemp-education booth, consider
buying these items in bulk. CafePress gives a nice discount for bulk purchases.

In closing, let me say again, every time you shop through the Time 4 Hemp Gift Shop you support the network
and the cannabis legalization movement. I now cant say that enough.

We have a good number of program hosts and many amazing guests. Every single one of them needs to be
heard by every ear on earth.

Until every sick person who needs medical-cannabis to stay healthy and/or alive can get their medication with
out fear of arrest our work remains important.

Until every farmer who needs a good cash crop can plant industrial-hemp with out fear of arrest our work
remains important.

Until every one who wishes to enjoy the social use of marijuana can do so with out fear of arrest our work
remains important.

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 Medical error third leading cause of death in US
By: Marlowe Hood

Paris (AFP) - Medical error is the third largest cause of death in the United States, according to an analysis
published Wednesday in the medical journal BMJ. In 2013, at least 250,000 people died not from the illnesses or
injuries that prompted them to seek hospital care but from preventable mistakes, according to the study.

That number exceeds deaths from strokes and Alzheimer's combined, and is topped only by heart disease and
cancer, which each claim about 600,000 lives per year. The death toll from medical mishaps would be even
higher if nursing homes and out-patient care were included, the researchers found.

"People don't just die from bacteria and heart plaque, they die from communication breakdowns, fragmented
healthcare, diagnostic mistakes, and over-dosing," said Martin Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine in Baltimore and lead author of the study.

"Collectively, these represent the third leading cause of death in the United States," he told AFP, adding that it is
one of the most underreported endemics in global health. A earlier study estimated the toll at between 250,000
and 440,000 per year. Experts do not know the exact number of people who die from botched surgeries, faulty
prescriptions, or a computer glitch simply because no one is keeping count.

Along with more than 100 other nations, the United States uses a system for collecting national health statistics
-- recommended by the World Health Organization -- that does not keep track of medical errors. "The absence of
national data highlights the need for systematic measurement of the problem," said Makary.

"Our study took the best science on the incidence of medical mistakes killing people in the delivery of care, and
extrapolated that to the amount of care that we administer." The scope of the problem in the United States --
which tops the world in per capita spending on health care -- is probably about the same in other rich countries,
he said. As for the developing world, the situation is likely worse.

"I suspect that in Africa, poor quality medical care or preventable complications kill more people than HIV and
malaria combined," Makary said. While it is not realistic to expect that human error can be eliminated in health
care, protocols and "safety nets" can be put in place to track medical errors and reduce their number.

Death certificates, for example, could ask whether a preventable problem stemming from the patient's medical
care might have contributed to the death. But asking hospitals and doctors to self-report their mistakes without
offering a higher degree of protection from possible prosecution is a tall order, Makary acknowledged.

"It is difficult to create an open and honest conversation around the problem of people dying from the care that
they have received," he said. Among other leading causes of death in the United States in 2013 were accidents
(133,000), diabetes (76,500), influenza or pneumonia (55,000), and suicide (43,000), according to the National
Center for Health Statistics.

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 Cannabis To Be Planted Legally in WV For The 2nd time In 70 years

Morgantown, WV - The era of industrial hemp will come to West Virginia next week as hemp seeds will be planted
legally for the first time since the end of World War II. Industrial hemp is a cousin of the marijuana plant (aka
Cannabis sativa) with very small amounts of the psychoactive ingredient THC, but is still regulated like marijuana
in the eyes of the federal government. The first planting of hemp will be in Morgantown as part of a West Virginia
University research study that will investigate the plants ability to remove contaminants from the soil using a
process known as phytoremediation.

In 1938, hemp was named by Popular Science magazine as The Next Billion Dollar Crop because of the nearly
25,000 products that could be derived from the plant. Some of those industrial applications that are used today
are bioplastics, building materials, insulation, and paper. Some European automobile manufacturers, such as
BMW, have started using molded plastic parts from hemp for car interiors. The second part of the WVU research
study is to explore the use of hemp for these industrial application following its use in phytoremediation. In other
words, grow hemp to clean the soil, then harvest the same plant for making plastics for car parts or hempcrete for
building a house.

Agri Carb Electric Corporation Chief Executive Officer Don Smith II sees the impact that this study would bring,
There are a lot of contaminated brown fields throughout West Virginia that people find too expensive to cleanup.
We can be a complement to the states coal and gas industries by using a hemp cash crop to revitalize spoiled
lands. This research should interest every post-industrial community in West Virginia to invest (with grants) and
monetize what is now considered worthless.

The WVU research project will not be the only hemp planted in the state in 2017. Following in the footsteps of
well-known hemp farmers and politicians, George Washington and John Adams, two WV political candidates will
be planting commercial hemp plots. Mike Manypenny-D running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives
will be planting a hemp plot in Grafton, WV and understands the historic significance, I am excited to be the first
Congressional candidate to be a hemp farmer since Thomas Jefferson. J. Morgan Leach-D running for WV
House of Delegates will be planting a hemp plot in Parkersburg, WV. Followed by other hemp plots including
one in West Virginias birthplace and first capital Wheeling, WV in Ohio county as well as, Pocahontas, and
Berkeley counties.

The U.S. imports more hemp than any other country in the world from countries like Canada and China the total
retail value of hemp products sold in the U.S. in 2015 was about $573 million. Leach, who is also the Executive
Director of the West Virginia Hemp Farmers Cooperative, sees how hemp can bring jobs in an economic
downturn, We want to encourage commercial growers throughout the state because the demand for domestic
hemp will continue to increase. Hemp can be catalyst for agriculture in West Virginia providing farmers with a
high yield cash crop, but the real impact will come in the downstream industries that will provide jobs in both the
industrial and energy sectors of the state.

But, commercial farming of hemp this year was nearly prevented - until April 1st when Governor Earl Ray
Tomblin vetoed a bill presented to him by the Legislature that would have rolled back the states commercial
industrial hemp industry. WV Senate Bill 159, a rules bundle bill, would have changed the basic nature of the
states program from commercial in nature to research only in nature by only allowing such work to be done in
conjunction with a higher institution of learning, such as West Virginia University, even though commercial
farming of hemp is legal in nearly every industrialized country in the world, including China, Canada, United
Kingdom, Australia and more.

Agri Carb Electric Corporation Chief Operating Officer Erik Janus sees a greater vision The science is there.
Hemp has long had the potential to create sustainable products that are preferable to many current technologies;
however, what is really exciting is what we can do with hemp using the technologies of the future such as
genomics, nanotechnology and 3-D printing.

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 Vegetable Weed Lasagna
Time Required: 90-mins
Yields: 6 servings.
What You Need:
1 oz. Decarboxylated Medical Marijuana
20 oz. Spinach (Frozen)
2 Cloves of Garlic (Minced)
1 Can Tomato Sauce
16 oz. Ricotta Cheese
1 Cup Parmesan Cheese (Grated)
1 lb. Mozzarella Cheese
1 Egg
12 Oven-Ready Lasagna Noodles
Salt and Pepper to Taste
Steps:
Preheat oven at 350F. Put the following
ingredients in a large bowl and mix them until they
are properly combined: the egg, the minced garlic,
the Ricotta, half the grated Parmesan cheese, and
the spinach. In the bottom of a 13 x 9 glass baking
dish, thinly spread some of the tomato sauce,
approximately cup. Start constructing the
lasagna by placing three of the oven-ready
lasagna noodles on top of the tomato sauce. Go
ahead and add another cup of the tomato
sauce on top of the second layer of lasagna
noodles. After which you are going to add
approximately one cup of the cheese mixture,
then add the mozzarella on top of the cheese
mixture. Do another two layers using the following
order: lasagna noodles, tomato sauce, cheese
mixture, and finish with mozzarella. Use the
remaining Parmesan to sprinkle on top of the last
layer. Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil
and place it in the oven. Bake the lasagna for
about 40 minutes. Take off the aluminum foil and
bake for another 20 minutes or until the top layer
has browned. Remove lasagna from the oven and
allow to cool before cutting.
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Strawberry Weed Muffins
Do you ever get a craving for the sweet tatsts
found in nature? Then this recipe is just what
you're looking for.
Time Required: 50-mins.
Yields: 6 servings.
What You Need:
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of quick oats
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/4 cup of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 large egg
1/4 cup of cannabis butter
1 cup of milk
1 cup of fresh strawberries
1 Muffin Pan
Steps:
Mix together the oats, flour, baking powder, sugar,
and salt in a large mixing bowl. In a smaller bowl
mix together the egg, milk, and marijuana butter.
Make a crater in the large bowl and then pour in
the liquid mix from the smaller bowl. Stir it up a
little, don?t stir until smooth, it should be lumpy.
Carefully insert the strawberries deep into the mix,
you can slice the strawberries into halves and
quarters if you wish. Pour the mixture into a muffin
tin, using muffin liners, make sure that you leave
room in each muffin tin for them to rise, your mix
should fill about 75% of the capacity of the liners.
Bake for 25-30 minutes in an oven which has been
preheated to 380F-400F. Leave to cool on a wire
rack, and then enjoy!
 Little oversight, lots of success for marijuana delivery services

By Kay Lazar and Dan Adams - One delivery service offers gluten-free marijuana brownies. Another
promises a free marijuana-laced lollipop with each order. A third touts trained caregivers and delivery until 4
a.m. These marijuana delivery services the objects of an unsuccessful crackdown by Massachusetts health
officials two years ago were expected to fade away once the first state-sanctioned medical marijuana
dispensaries opened last year. Instead, they have proliferated.

More than two dozen of these Internet-based services are now openly advertising long menus of marijuana
strains and edibles, plus prices and user reviews. The cat-and-mouse dance between the services and
regulators intensified last week when the popular website Leafly, which features marijuana news and product
reviews, abruptly removed on line listings for more than 20 Massachusetts delivery services after patient
advocates and the Globe questioned their legality.

Unlike dispensaries whose owners must pay hefty licensing fees, submit to background checks, and test
their products for contaminants delivery services operate without oversight. They call themselves caregivers,
a designation they say allows them to supply patients. This booming cottage industry uses the Internet to offer
on-demand delivery to anyone who shows a state-issued marijuana card. But in online discussion forums,
several customers claimed to have used fake medical recommendations printed from the Internet to have
marijuana delivered by the services.

Operators say they are exempt from Massachusetts rules that prohibit caregivers from supplying more than
one patient at a time and that limit their compensation. State officials strongly disagree, saying only registered
dispensaries can sell marijuana. Leaders of Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, a group representing
medical marijuana patients, said they were troubled by complaints from patients about subpar products and
tense encounters with gun-toting drivers. Earlier this year, the advocates urged Department of Public Health
officials to rein in the delivery outfits, but said they were largely ignored.

Recently, health officials took another tentative step toward enforcement, telling Leafly the delivery services
listed on its site were operating illegally.Caregivers cannot sell marijuana or profit from its distribution, the
health agency said in a statement. Anyone distributing marijuana outside of state regulations may be subject
to law enforcement action. Before learning of the departments stance, Leafly had argued that Massachusetts
law permits personal care attendants to deliver marijuana to registered patients. The Seattle company, which
calls itself the worlds largest cannabis information resource and says that millions use its app and website,
later suspended the listings. But it questioned whether delivery services are really banned under state rules.

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Leafly is still seeking further clarification, the company said in a statement. The [departments] response did not provide
guidance beyond what was already published on [its] website. Patient advocates attribute the continued popularity of the
delivery services in part to supply problems that patients say they encounter at some of the states six dispensaries. Delivery
services also help patients with disabilities and patients who are too ill to travel to dispensaries.

High prices at dispensaries present another issue. Some delivery services sell marijuana for $100 an ounce less than the
dispensaries do, according to menus the delivery services publish online. But patient advocates acknowledge they face a
quandary. While worried that patients using delivery services may be vulnerable to theft and questionable products, advocates
also want increased access to marijuana. We want the delivery people to be licensed and funneled through the proper
channels, said Nichole Snow, executive director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance.

She said the states registration system is too cumbersome for some patients to use, and there arent enough licensed
dispensaries to meet demand. She pointed to health department data showing that while 22,500 patients have registered with
the agencys medical marijuana program, fewer than 9,000 have shopped in dispensaries. That means most are getting their
marijuana elsewhere on the street, from legitimate caregivers, or through the delivery services. A state health department
spokesman said the agency is aware of patients concerns. Leafly did not respond to questions about how or if it vetted
the delivery services that had been advertising on its site. The same delivery outfits are still listed on similar websites. A
spokeswoman said Leaflys removal of the services sparked a backlash from customers.

Leafly has been contacted by dozens of patients who are extremely upset and concerned about how they are going to access
their medicine, the spokeswoman wrote. Many of these patients are elderly or disabled. At the Hynes Veterans Memorial
Convention Center last month, a delivery outfit calling itself Boston Best Buds, which advertised on Leafly, set up a booth as
part of the New England Cannabis Convention. A man who would give his name only as Ray invited anyone who claimed to
have a state-issued medical marijuana card to enter a raffle for a free ounce of marijuana.

When a reporter asked Ray if his service was legal, he initially said it was. But when pressed, he conceded it was a gray
area. Are we an unregulated service? Absolutely! Ray said. Does the state need to add regulations? One hundred and ten
percent yes. Theres nothing I would love more than to be completely within the system.

Ray boasted that at $280 an ounce, his marijuana was selling for substantially less than at the dispensaries. And, he said,
Boston Best Buds offers a far greater variety of strains. Ray said he initially delivered the marijuana himself, but now employs
two drivers whom he pays $20 per delivery. He said he gets his inventory from small gardens in [patients] houses, guys
growing in their closet, growing in their old kids [empty] room, stuff like that. He referred further questions to his lawyer,
abruptly packed up his booth, and left the convention center.

What Rays doing isnt necessarily within the confines of the law at the moment, but that may very well change in short
order, Rudolph Miller, Rays attorney, said in a phone interview later. Its a newly developing landscape thats subject to a
great deal of interpretation. Miller declined to provide Rays last name but insisted Ray was trying to be as transparent as
possible. He attends hearings at the State House, trying to get what he does recognized, Miller said.

Germany relaxes rules on using cannabis for medical purposes

The German government gave the go-ahead to relax rules on cannabis use by the seriously ill
this year if they have no other treatment options. Dried cannabis flowers and cannabis extracts
will be available in pharmacies on prescription and the public health system will cover the cost,
according to the draft bill that is expected to come into force from spring 2017.

Other countries that allow cannabis use for medical purposes include Italy and the Czech
Republic. Some U.S. states have decriminalized cannabis completely. Portugal has
decriminalized all drugs for personal use, but does not allow cannabis use for medical purposes.

Until now, seriously ill people in Germany with cancer, AIDS, Parkinson's disease or multiple
sclerosis could only access cannabis with special approval and had to pay themselves. "Our aim
is that seriously ill people are treated in the best possible way," Health Minister Hermann
Groehe said in a statement.

The government is to set up specially supervised plantations to grow cannabis and will import
what it needs for now. IBISWorld, a market research firm, projects sales of marijuana for
medical use to increase to $13.4 billion in 2020 from $3.6 billion in 2015.

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 Hempcrete used for building houses

Imagine you had a building material that was energy-efficient, non-toxic and resistant to mold,
insects and fire. The material may even have a higher R-value, or thermal resistance, than
concrete, a claim that is still being investigated. The only problem? The base of the Hempcrete
creation is hemp, which comes from the cannabis sativa plant -- the same one that produces
marijuana, which is a federally banned substance. Because of this, industrial hemp production is
illegal in the United States.

Still, the Hempcrete mixture of hemp, lime and water is being used to some extent for
construction jobs across America. One of the companies working with Hempcrete is Hemp
Technologies, a construction company based in North Carolina that is adamant about the
advantages of building using Hempcrete. Theyve built homes out of hemp in Hawaii, Texas,
Idaho and North Carolina, where they are currently working on a project known as NauHaus.

Throughout Europe, the use of hemp for construction purposes has spread across many
countries. "We got started about three years ago and I was looking for sustainable building
products, Hemp Technologies co-founder David Madera told GOOD Design. [Co-founder Greg
Flavall] was in Europe, found Hempcrete and we basically did a tour of Europe and looked at
everything that they had done in the U.K., France, Belgium, and Switzerland. We did our first
seminar in 2009, and it was the most important thing that helped promote it.

Seeing Hempcrete as a more efficient and sustainable building material has led to some
dubbing it as a gateway product. The people behind the U.K.-based Tradical Hemcrete are
using their hemp based product to create a carbon negative thermal walling material.
Hempcrete can be used for everything from roof installation to flooring to wall construction. The
creators of the Carson, California-based HempTraders.com, distributors of fine hemp products,
sell Hempboard. Hempoboard is a medium density fiberboard made from 100 percent hemp
hurds and can be used to make environmental furniture, counter tops, walls and shelving.

Considering the ban on the industrial hemp production in the United States, the eco-friendly and
potentially cost efficient -- were it legal -- use of hemp for building will remain a bit complicated
for now. Hemp Technologies have a section of their site dedicated to the perplexing history of
Americas hemp laws, perhaps an indication that they understand their place in evolving the
discourse on the issue that hemp isnt just a drug, but an untapped, underused resource.

Letter to the editor about marijuana sentences from Emily C. Feinstein

Whether or not the Supreme Court rules that draconian mandatory sentences for marijuana use are constitutional, they are an
ineffective, harmful and extremely costly policy approach to substance use.

Marijuana use should be treated as a public health problem, not a crime. Incarcerating people for using marijuana serves
neither the individuals nor the publics interest. Having a criminal record for marijuana use is damaging to peoples livelihoods
and life opportunities, particularly for youths.

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse supports decriminalization, a public health approach that imposes
penalties intended to discourage marijuana use and encourage treatment when necessary for example, fines or mandatory
evaluation by an addiction treatment professional.

For individuals charged with more serious marijuana crimes (distribution), courts should explore the use of alternative
sentencing programs like drug courts and evaluate their effectiveness in reducing substance use, recidivism and costs.
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 In States With Medical Marijuana, Painkiller Deaths Drop by 25 Percent

America has a major problem with prescription pain medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. Overdose deaths from these
pharmaceutical opioids have approximately tripled since 1991, and every day 46 people die of such overdoses in the United
States. However, in the states that passed laws allowing for the use of medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010, 25
percent fewer people die from opioid overdoses annually. The difference is quite striking, said study co-author Colleen
Barry, a health policy researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. The shift showed up
quite quickly and become visible the year after medical marijuana was accepted in each state, she told Newsweek.

In the study, published August 25, 2014 in JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers hypothesize that in states where
medical marijuana can be prescribed, patients may use pot to treat pain, either instead of prescription opiates, or to
supplement themand may thus require a lower dosage that is less likely to lead to a fatal problem.

As with most findings involving marijuana and public policy, however, not everyone agrees on a single interpretation of the
results. It certainly can be said that marijuana is much less toxic than opiates like Percocet or morphine, and that it is
basically impossible to die from an overdose of weed, Barry said. Based on those agreed-upon facts, it would seem that an
increased use in marijuana instead of opiates for chronic pain is the most obvious explanation of the reduction in overdose
deaths.

Not so fast, said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, chief medical officer at Phoenix House, a national nonprofit addiction treatment
agency. He said that the immediate reduction in overdose deaths is extremely unlikely to be due to the substitute use of the
herb, for one simple reason: Marijuana isnt widely prescribed for chronic pain.

You dont have primary care doctors in these states [prescribing] marijuana instead of Vicodin, he said. Even in states
where medical marijuana is legal, it is only prescribed by a small subset of doctors, and, therefore, probably couldnt explain
the huge decrease in opiate-related overdose deaths. Kolodny says the study results are more likely due to a host of factors.
One example is differences in state policies to cut down on over-prescribing of opiate medications. Also, many people who
overdose on painkillers are already addicted, and these individuals are naturally among the most likely to take too much,
Kolodny told Newsweek.

States that pass progressive laws to treat addiction may be more likely to lower their rates of overdose deaths; for political
reasons these states may also be more likely to legalize medical marijuana. This is a good example of where policy change
has gotten ahead of the science, Barry said. She and Kolodny would probably agree on that point. - By Douglas Main

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