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Miss Canada Given Attention after taking the International Stage wearing a Marijuana-Themed costume, to Miss Universe.

“Just because I was supporting it, people think I smoke it,” the 24-year-old tells our staff on the phone from Tecumseh, Ont., near Windsor, where she lives.

“As a kid growing up, I was never interested in marijuana. It was not something for me,” the Sudbury, Ont., native explains. “It’s pretty cool that since it’s legalized, people’s perspectives have changed and more people can have an open conversation about it. I was so interested to learn how something becomes illegal to legal? What would happen to the black market?”

As for her choice for the National Costumes segment of the competition, which was designed by Nicaragua’s Neftali Espinoza, Boston knew it would turn heads.

“There’s no set national costume in Canada,” she says. “Over the years, there’s been a maple leaf, a hockey player… but we’ve never had something so controversial. It was something I believed in.”

Competing for the Miss Universe title was a dream Boston has had since she was a little girl — one she concedes could have gone up in smoke with her costume choice. The Dec. 8 competition was held at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, where cannabis is illegal for recreational purposes federally and within the state.

“I can’t tell you for sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing — it was a risk as drug laws across the world vary and wearing a cannabis-inspired costume might be considered an affront,” she says. “But we had to clear it with Miss Universe prior to wearing it and they were all okay with it.”

So were fellow contestants.

“I was with Miss Uruguay at the beginning and Uruguay was the first country to legalize marijuana and when she found out about my costume, she was like, ‘I am so mad I didn’t think of that first.’ Miss Colombia thought it was a good idea.”

Boston says Miss Indonesia, on the other hand, was a little more distant.

“She didn’t want to be anywhere near when photos of my costume were being taken.” Drug laws in Indonesia are among the strictest in the world. Cannabis was banned in 1927 and remains prohibited — people caught can face hefty fines or a minimum jail sentence of four years.

The costume also caught the attention of mainstream media and talk show hosts like David Spade, who weighed in on his show Lights Out.

“A Canadian competitor in the Miss Universe pageant wore a marijuana-themed costume,” he said after the pageant. “She was the most stoned contestant since Miss Saudi Arabia.”

As for Boston’s family, they “weren’t opposed to the costume, but they were a little confused. They were more worried about me crossing the border,” she told the Cannabis Update Podcast.

With no trouble at border crossings and the pageant behind her, Boston is now preparing for her new role — in the cannabis industry. She was just hired to work with The Cannabis Investor, a Windsor-based marketing company. And she was also hired to speak at NoCo Hemp Expo in Denver, Colorado.

As for the ones who might diss her for lack of experience in the cannabis space, she says, “People who are not into the industry at all may not want to work with me because they think I am a stoner. But ‘stoners’ might say that I don’t even smoke weed so I may not know anything. I kind of stand-in between everybody. I am very up front about the fact that I don’t smoke. But I never say I won’t use it — if it was something I needed medically, sure I would take part in it.”

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Why Hemp Will Be the Smart Answer About Our Future!

The current rate of yearly plastic production is now about one billion tons. That is quoting a University of Leicester study. Plastic is inert and hard to degrade. So it becomes a toxic techno-waste that has severe polluting effects on the earth’s biodiversity.img_1843

National Geographic reports that plastic kills millions of marine and land animals every year. Experts have found that we are all consuming microplastics. The effects of these microplastics in the food supply may cause damage to our digestive and reproductive systems and eventually lead to an early death.

Mother Nature has provided a simple solution to this menace: The Hemp Plant.

Hemp: A Victim of Human Folly

Once a flourishing product, look to rejuvenate 2020

Hemp, or industrial hemp, is one of the earliest plants that our ancestors cultivated and used. Archeologists have found evidence of the use of hemp fiber some 10,000 years ago. Experts estimate that hemp cultivation began about 8000 years ago.

The many benefits of hemp have been available to human beings for centuries. But its cultivation and use were banned in most countries across the globe in the 20th century. The only crime of the plant is that it belongs to the same species, Cannabis Sativa, as marijuana.

But there is a significant distinction between hemp and marijuana. That is in the concentration levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the component that gives marijuana its psychoactive properties. Marijuana can contain up to 30% of THC per dry weight.

Hemp, in contrast, contains 0.3% THC per dry weight. It does not have the psychoactive potential to get people high. Hemp got banned because this vital difference got overlooked.

The 21st century has, at last, brought a realization of this mistake. Many countries across the globe have now legalized hemp farming and the production of hemp derivatives fully or partially.

With the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Farm Bill 2018), hemp is now legal across the USA. It is also legal in the EU countries as long as the THC content is 0.2%. It is now legal in Australia, Canada and several other European and South American countries.

In Asia, China is the biggest grower and supplier of hemp seed and hemp products across the globe. China also has the longest history of continued hemp production for almost 6000 years.

Hemp Against Plastic

People once hailed the 1907 innovation of synthetic plastic as a solution to a wide range of problems. However, it has now become an unmanageable problem in and of itself. But we do not need any technological innovation to counter it. The hemp plant offers a ready solution.

Hemp fiber can produce a non-toxic and fully biodegradable substitute for plastic. Natural plastic derived from the cellulose fibers in plants has been in use since much before the current petrochemical-based synthetic plastic was invented.

The cellulose fiber in plants is used for producing several varieties of biodegradable plastic. Hemp has about 65-70% cellulose, which makes it a viable plant for natural plastic production.

Henry Ford produced the original Model T Ford in 1941 using hemp plastic panels. This plastic was 10 times stronger than steel in withstanding the impact of a hit without denting.

Substituting synthetic plastic with 100% biodegradable hemp plastic will be a blessing for our environment. Apart from being eco-friendly, hemp is also sustainable.

Why is Hemp Sustainable?

Hemp is sustainable for a variety of reasons. Apart from being a natural source of non-toxic biodegradable plastic, the hemp plant helps in topsoil conservation. Farmers use hemp as an in-between crop to keep their soil fertile.

Hemp cultivation needs 50% less water than cotton. Hemp is totally free from pesticides because it is naturally insect resistant. It is also easy to grow hemp plants organically.

Hemp is a source of paper more efficient than other trees currently used for paper production. One acre of hemp can produce four times more paper than an acre of trees. Incidentally, the first paper ever used was in China, and it was hemp paper.

Hemp is also a source of biofuel. If we use a biofuel derived from hemp, our transportation fuel will be 86% greener than gasoline. It is not for nothing that Henry Ford designed his first Model T hemp plastic car to run on hemp biofuel.

Hemp Plastic and the Chinese Plastic Pollution Riddle

This is an obvious question. If hemp plastic is such an eco-friendly product, why does China still contribute 30% of global plastic pollution? China is the global leader in producing and exporting hemp and its products. It truly seems inexplicable.

But the answer is rather simple, as it happens. First of all, much of China’s plastic pollution is because the country was importing plastic waste from many European countries. China believed that it has solved the recycling problem of single-use plastic. The country started making products out of hemp plastic.

However, because the products proved to be below international standards, China had to stop making them. It also banned the import of plastic waste from European countries in 2016. But the aftermath of this import policy is still far from over.

Secondly, because of the long-term ban on hemp and its products in much of the world, hemp plastic is only just beginning to find its way into public consciousness. As of now, hemp plastic is far more expensive than the kind of cheap single-use plastic the world has become used to.

This is another barrier. Global commitment to end plastic pollution is not high enough to make hemp plastic commercially viable immediately. China is not an exception in this. Only a strong global political will to ban single-use plastic within national boundaries will facilitate the uptake of the more expensive hemp plastic.

If world leaders can actually make a concerted move, planet earth will benefit in a number of ways.

The Many Benefits of Hemp

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Hemp seeds are highly nutritious and constitute a source of complete plant-based protein. The omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acid content of hemp seeds is precisely the right proportion (1:3) that the human body needs. Hemp seeds are ideal for vegans as no other plant-based protein is so complete.

Dehulled or unshelled hemp seeds are also rich in fiber. Hulled or shelled hemp seeds lack in fiber content. But even hulled hemp seeds are high in nutrition value. These seeds are also extremely versatile, usable in several ways – cooked or raw.

Hemp seed oil is also equally nutritious with a high content of good fats and a low content of the harmful ones. Cold-pressed hemp seed oil preserves the goodness of the oil in its entirety. Like the seeds, the oil derived from hemp seeds is also versatile.

Hemp seed oil is edible and can be taken by itself or as a salad dressing. It is also good for cooking, except for deep frying. Topical use of hemp seed oil can improve hair and skin health. It also has anti-inflammatory properties.

The cannabinoids (CBD) derived from hemp buds, flowers, leaves, and stems have much medicinal potential. CBD oil is particularly good for arthritis. Healthcare professionals have also used it with success to manage anxiety and sleep disorders.

Hemp stalks yield fibers that can be processed into fabric for clothing. Hemp fiber is also used for making ropes and sails. All of these products have natural antibacterial and antifungal properties. Incidentally, canvas used to be made of hemp fabric.

Finally, hemp can also be used as a building material. There are amazing benefits attached to this use as well. This easy to grow plant seems to provide an environmentally sustainable solution to many problems we’ve created for ourselves!

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When US Farmers heard that President Trump had legalized the cultivation of hemp across the US just before Christmas, one Colorado farmer immediately thought: “Oh boy, here we go! Things are going to move very fast.”

That Colorado farmer tends to about 15 acres (six hectares) of hemp, the species of the cannabis plant that doesn’t have any psychotropic effect – it cannot be used to make a person “high”.

Hemp, or cannabis sativa, to give it its Latin name, is the straitlaced cousin of cannabis indica, which is better known as marijuana.

Hemp – It’s Last 50 Years United States Story in Brief !

1 – Unfortunately for hemp, being a near-relative and lookalike of marijuana has meant that it has always been tarnished by association.

2 – So while hemp is a very useful crop that can be turned into everything from clothes to shoes, paper, animal feed and building insulation, the cultivation of it was banned in many countries during the 20th Century.

3 – In the US it was outlawed in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, and that remained the case until December last year, when the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 was passed into law.

4 – Hemp farmers now expect US production to skyrocket, and industry estimates back that up.

5 – New Frontier Data expects US sales of hemp products to reach $2.6 Billion by 2022. At the same time it predicts Global hemp industry sales to jump to $5.7 Billion by 2020, from $3.7 Billion in 2018.

6 – The chemical compound in marijuana that makes a user high is called tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. Hemp contains a trace amount of THC, but not enough to make a person high

7 – While hemp can now be grown legally across the US without a licence, marijuana can be cultivated only in about half the states, often only under licence and solely for medical use

8 – Hemp farming has a long history in the US, with first President George Washington growing the crop

9 – Hemp can grow up to 20ft or six metres high, twice as tall as marijuana

10 – You need to become involved, NOW.

“Soaring demand worldwide for a key chemical compound called cannabidiol or CBD, which is found in the flowers of the hemp plant, is behind the growth.”

“CBD – which is also present in marijuana, but does not make the user high – helps to treat epilepsy. As such it is used to make epidiolex, an anti-epilepsy drug that is now prescribed in both the US, and by the National Health Service in the UK.”

“Once more consumers get educated about CBD, that’ll drive more demand,” says Elliot Brown, another Colorado hemp farmer.

Mike Lewis, a hemp farmer in Kentucky, agrees that CBD production is now going to lead the hemp industry as opposed to the crop’s industrial uses.

“Everyone in the hemp industry is turning to CBD because that’s where the money is,” he says.

Whether CBD and products containing it actually do have widespread health benefits, or could in fact harm you over the longer term, is still being debated in the medical community, as the Guardian newspaper reported last year.

In the meantime the boom in demand for hemp is good news for the US environment because the fast-growing and hardy plant needs very little water, and therefore requires far less irrigation than corn, wheat or soybeans in dry areas.

Hemp plants can also be planted very close together, making it high yielding. And unlike marijuana, whose plants are half as tall and have bigger leaves, hemp isn’t fussy about temperature and humidity.China is currently the world’s largest exporter of hemp products, but the US industry wants to change that.

“At some point we’ll see American hemp production eclipse China,” says Bob Hoban, a commercial lawyer who represents growers of both types of cannabis across the US.”We’re already seeing a massive investment in production infrastructure, and that takes time. We’ll eventually reach the point where hemp will not just appeal to the cannabis industry and their consumers.”

However, Erica Stark, executive director of the National Hemp Association, cautions that the industry needs to walk before it can run.

Last year just 78,176 acres of land in the US was planted with hemp, compared with 47 million acres dedicated to wheat, and 90 million acres to both soybeans and corn. “The danger we’re facing now is over-enthusiasm,” says Ms Stark. “We just don’t have the infrastructure to go into full commercial production. Yet.”

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Is The Death Of Your Dream, A Reawakening?

 

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This past year has been filled with a full range of emotions. January 1, 2019. From the beginning of this year, the date of the death of my aunt,  became the catalyst for my traveling to California and from there began an adventurous ride that continues to today. During this year I have encountered many new and exciting precepts of my upcoming journey. As I reflect on this amazing pathway that I have chosen to be my roadmap to my future, I must first make state that as I am referencing myself in this writing, I cannot fully impress on, those reading this, of how my wife, Janet, has been the impetus of all my motivation and the drive for the direction my company is moving. I give all the glory to God and pray for divine interpretation. Meanwhile,  I have been taking time during the past few weeks to focus on the upcoming year 2020. My usual  attempts to plan anything have been thrown out the window. I am reinventing my goal setting, reworking my flowcharts and diagrams with the newfound knowledge and true inspiration that I have been soaking up these past 350 days. My newfound peer group is now made up of a multi-talented group of self motivated individuals, who I have drawn my courage from and fearlessness to  jump into the preverbal fire. At the end of this year, I encountered another death. This one was a catastrophic nightmare, in not only my mind, but also my company’s growth. However, I have woken up and now realize the opportunities afforded me during my sleep. Now, it is eyes wide open and the exuberance of the new days ahead. I am eternally grateful for the direction my mentors have provided me. 2020 is going to be the year of positive changes for those who live an awakened positive life.

Steven M Smith

CEO FOUNDER INSPIRATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES 2019

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“Prescription Drug, Take Back” Program At Lake Elsinore Sheriff Department on Saturday, October 26th 2019.

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The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications. Drop off location in Lake Elsinore will be 333 Limited Ave. The event will last from 10:00am – 2:00pm. More locations at http://www.deadivision.usdoj.gov

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“Background Noise” Studios Morns Loss of Rick Ocasek of “The Cars” at age 75.

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“Rick Ocasek, has had a big influence on my inspired choices in my music direction.” Said Steve Smith, Producer and Director of Operations of “Background Noice” Studios.

The Cars frontman was transforming popular culture with their Techno Style and MTV videos. The rare musical chemistry was in it’s heyday in the early 80’s and “The Cars” we’re just what the New Wave Generation needed and and for me, “Just What I Needed”.

Rick Ocasek frontman for “The Cars”

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