Hey buds…

Last week we covered how illegal pesticides were showing up in California’s ‘legal’ cannabis products. Today, the state is burning.

Yeah, the news cycle must go on, but some topics deserve a bit more attention than others…

Natural disasters causes a type of pain that doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t care about your politics, opinions or where you fall on the spectrum of humanity (even if you are the type of person to blame wildfires on diversity initiatives).

With this in mind, today we’re bringing you a special issue focused on hemp, including its role in fire-resistant housing.

If you want to support, you can donate directly to those affected here.

P.S. Nearly 1,000 of the firefighters on the frontlines are incarcerated individuals.

Sixteen years after his drug conviction, Conbud funder is building a weed empire in NY. The only thing criminal now? Lack of access to federal tax deductions for payroll and other business expenses cutting his profits in half.

Dr. Marion McNabb, president of the Cannabis Center of Excellence (CCOE) and co-founder of the Cannabis Education Center, gets the green light from federal administrative law judge, to testify at the upcoming landmark Cannabis Rescheduling Hearing.

If you're a cannabis user and want to be part of CCOE’s upcoming study to assess the impact of three undoo® softgel products for:

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Florida’s appeals court have confirmed what should’ve been obvious to anyone with a brain: police dogs can’t be the only reason to justify a car search when they can’t even tell the difference between legal and illegal weed. Perfect timing for a little crash course on dog sniffing rights.

STIIIZY is looking to support customers affected by their recent data breach, offering free credit monitoring, fraud assistance, and remediation services for 12 months. The attack, claimed by the Everest cybercrime gang, resulted in the theft of approximately 400,000 personal records including name, address, date of birth, age, drivers’ license number, passport number, photograph, the signatures appearing on a government ID card, medical cannabis cards, transaction histories, and other personal information.

Now, instead of just getting your munchies on DoorDash, you’ll also find hemp-derived THC and CBD products like gummies, drinks, mints, chocolates and honey sticks after the company expanded their on-demand delivery offerings in select states.

Here is the breakdown of this 2021 review on industrial hemp:

👉Hemp For Soil Clean-Up:

Growing 1 metric ton (mT) of industrial hemp removes 1.37 to 1.6 metric tons (mT) of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.

On average, a single hectare (ha) of hemp farming produces 2.3 mT of hemp.

Using those numbers, a hectare of hemp cultivation can absorb 3.15 to 3.68 mT of CO2—making it a strong tool for reducing greenhouse gases.

👉Hemp vs. Fiberglass Insulation:

1 m² of wall insulated with hemp lime can either sequester (store) 10 kg of CO2 or emit up to 6.24 kg, depending on production methods.

In contrast, 1 m² of wall insulated with fiberglass, emits 47.25 kg of CO2.

👉Hemp For Soil Clean-Up:

Hemp can grow in polluted soils and naturally extract harmful metals like lead, cadmium, and copper from the ground. This process, called phytoremediation, helps clean up contaminated land in an eco-friendly way.

Although, in the study reviewed flax had the highest HM accumulation potential followed by hemp, then cotton, flax stores most of the contaminants in its roots, which are harder to harvest. This limits flax's effectiveness for fully cleaning the soil.

Hemp, however, accumulates most of the metals in its flowers, followed by roots and stems, making it easier to harvest the contaminated material and remove it from the soil.

Today we are talking hemp!

The Mat Chair, crafted from hemp and eelgrass, redefines design with circularity at its core.

A stylish, eco-friendly alternative to the classic plastic shell chair… “It absorbs carbon dioxide, making it a tool for carbon sequestration, resulting in a lower CO2 footprint of the final chair product. In addition, hemp grows at enormous speed, up to four meters in one season, allowing it to be harvested once or twice a year. The entire plant is used, each part of it for different industries, ensuring as little waste as possible.”

Would you live in a house of hemp? These 9 hemp-built beauties prove eco-friendly living is the new luxury.

Earth-friendly, vibe-approved, and ready to reshape the way we think about home design. We are having trouble picking out our favorite. How about you?

Not built to smoke, but does hempcrete go up in smoke?

Hemp’s been dragged through the mud thanks to decades of propaganda that lumped it in with, well us, potheads. Spoiler alert: it’s got incredible fire resistance capabilities. It also dissipates flames, maintains its structural integrity, and doesn’t release toxic smoke.

“Unlike what you might imagine, hemp-based materials work very well when exposed to fire. In order to measure the characteristics of each material, tests are carried out following specific rules. In the United States, for example, ASTM E 84-19B test results for hemp concrete showed impressive performance, reaching top marks for "flame spread" and "smoke production" ratings.

In Australia, a fire test has been documented to simulate embers' attacks during wildfires, where there is a potential for fuel to accumulate at the base of the walls. This is a particularly worrying situation in Australia, where large forest fires routinely occur. No damage was observed on the 200 mm thick hemp concrete walls, which were exposed to a 600 mm high flame, burning directly against the wall for a period of 60 minutes.”