Motive Industries’ Cannabis Composite EV Satisfies Your Need for Speed, Weed
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ Fri Aug 20, 2010
Motive Industries recently announced plans for Canada’s first biocomposite electric vehicle–made of hemp. Will cops have automatic probable cause to search it?
In a move that will only strengthen the association between potheads and environmentalism, Motive Industries recently announced that it is working on Canada’s first biocomposite electric vehicle. The biocomposite in question? Hemp.
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Marijuana may cause Canada’s economic comedown
A thriving marijuana industry has aided Canada’s economy – but political shifts in the US and at home are now threatening this.
Douglas Haddow, Thursday 5th August 2010
If you’ve been paying attention to some of the more peculiar side-effects of the global recession, you may have noticed that Canadians have been behaving uncharacteristically uppity of late. This new-found swagger is a result of Canada having the dubious distinction of being the “least-bad-rich-world-economy” – an honour that would be rather unimpressive if the rest of the G8 …

Why hemp could save the world
August 10th, 2010
By: D.M.Murdock
That title probably should say, “Why hemp could have saved the world all along,” because the plant should never have been banned in the first place, and its prohibition has led to untold suffering around the globe. If we—the global human population—had been able to grow the miracle plant hemp (Cannabis genus) locally and to use it for local industries and businesses, including and especially for fuel, we would never have needed to be addicted to oil, for one, an addiction that is …

It has been generally standard fare in the media to refer to Venezuela’s Globovision as the “sole opposition-aligned television channel,” as the AP has put it.  Rarely, if ever, is the actual reporting of Globovision put into context, which makes a July 29 Los Angeles Times article all the more amazing.  Chris Kraul and Mery [...]

Mark Weisbrot’s new response to New York Times reporter Larry Rohter’s latest attacks on “South of the Border” was posted on the History News Network site yesterday…

FAIR questions why the Washington Post editorial board would cite an alleged photo of an ELN guerrilla commander drinking Venezuelan beer as evidence of Venezuelan support for the FARC, which is, after all a different armed group.

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Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms Eighteen months ago, Tariq Ali got a call from Oliver Stone: could he help with his new film? The result was a powerful documentary about Latin America – and a new friendship by Tariq Ali Monday 26 July 2010 21.31 BST Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call [...]