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Washington State Grandmother Defies Expectations About Retirement, Builds Her Own Timy Hemp House

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Washington State Grandmother Defies Expectations About Retirement, Builds Her Own Timy Hemp House
Tiny Hemp House: Washington State Grandmother Joins Tiny House Movement With Hemp Construction Materials McMansions are so out. Perhaps it was a result of the forced cutbacks following the banking meltdown in 2008, but unless you’re a television preacher or a newly minted rock star, ostentatious, tacky, giant houses are no longer on everyone’s wish list. In fact, quite the opposite is the case.… Read the rest

The U.S. Is Waking Up From Its Anti-Marijuana Nightmare: Nine States Leading The Way To Normalization

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The U.S. Is Waking Up From Its Anti-Marijuana Nightmare: Nine States Leading The Way To Normalization
There Are Nine States With Marijuana Reform Laws On Their November Ballots–Here’s Who Is Trying To Change We finally seem to be waking up from our long national nightmare. Of course we’re talking here about U.S. drug policy, a ridiculous, reactionary hodgepodge resulting from decades of fear-mongering, the stoking of racial prejudices and pseudo-science posturing as reality. With 25 states on the books with laws permitting medical marijuana use, and two states–so far–allowing recreational use, it seems like the Drug Enforcement Agency really is behind the times.… Read the rest

Unhappy With DEA Restrictions On Marijuana Research, Washington State Begins Its Own Testing Program

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Unhappy With DEA Restrictions On Marijuana Research, Washington State Begins Its Own Testing Program
Onerous DEA Regs Getting Irksome: Washington State Sidesteps Them On Marijuana Testing In the wake of the DEA’s latest inexplicable decision to keep marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug (read: huge favor for Big Pharma) the agency’s collective jamming of its head in the sand caused many observers threw up their hands in a collective WTF moment. The Schedule 1 designation puts marijuana on the same plane of potential danger as heroin, and indicates that it has no known medical use, a notion which the DEA’s own actions contradict: if there is no known medical use for it, why has the DEA opened up testing protocols and regulations, allowing pharmaceutical companies to grow their own strains for testing purposes, and to develop pharmaceuticals from the plant?… Read the rest

Letting The Genie Out Of The Bottle: Unauthorized Gmo Wheat Found In Fallow Field In Washington State

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Letting The Genie Out Of The Bottle: Unauthorized Gmo Wheat Found In Fallow Field In Washington State
Say Goodbye To Natural Food: GMO Wheat Found Growing In Fallow Field In Washington State Could Be The Beginning Of The End They say you can’t really appreciate something until it’s gone. And the human race may be on the verge of finding out just how true those words really are, when it comes to naturally foods grown in the natural ways they have been for millennia.… Read the rest

Nestlé May Be Coming Up Against It: Small Town In Southeastern Washington State Latest To Stand Up To Water Bullies

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Nestlé May Be Coming Up Against It: Small Town In Southeastern Washington State Latest To Stand Up To Water Bullies
The Latest In The Battle Against The Water Bullies: How A Small Town In Washington Stood Up To Nestlé There is something so satisfying when a bully finally gets his comeuppance. A huge slice of Hollywood culture mines this area of the human experience, and not jut in cheesy 1980s movies or kids cartoons either. Deep within, we are all hardwired to cheer for the toppling of a bully–all of us except the bully, that is.… Read the rest

Washington State Nuclear Waste Storage Site Found To Be Leaking–Whistleblower: I Told You So

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Washington State Nuclear Waste Storage Site Found To Be Leaking–Whistleblower: I Told You So
Hanford Nuclear Storage Facility In Washington State Is Leaking; No Idea How To Fix It There are few threats to humanity so terrifying as our own hubris, especially in the form of the nuclear genie the US let out of the bottle back in 1945. That sickly, poisonous legacy continues: five years after the Fukushima meltdown we are still assessing the toll that disaster had on Japan and the sea surrounding it; 30 years after Chernobyl, we have seen animals and birds returning to a region that has been forever altered.… Read the rest