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]]> 10:05 false full Baked and Awake News Brief 020 Baked and Awake News Brief 020 Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:07:47 +0000 A rant about the "How hard has Aging Hit You" challenge

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Host and Creator: S Cominski

Google Alert Keyword Phrase: Roanoke Colony

Sources: Wikipedia, The Winston-Salem Journal

Welcome to the Baked and Awake Newsbrief for Friday January 4th 2019, and today's brief is about an enduring mystery of early British colonization of North America, The Roanoke Colony, just off the coast of what is today North Carolina. The mystery of what happened to this early Anglo American settlement, sponsored in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh, although in name only as we come to find out he never set foot in the settlement in question itself- this at the time nameless band of settlers number ing in the twenties- was lost, when it was "lightly abandoned" for almost two years due to weather and an Anglo-Spanish war involving both nations entire Seaworthy fleets- until 1587, when Captain Francis Drake returned with future Governor John White, of the (about to be marooned for real) 115 member party that was put ashore to look for the survivors (none) of the previous contingent on their way to their own new colony. The Roanokers to be were surprised to be disallowed from returning to the ships, because their intended destination was actually Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, or is today anyway- and that is significantly to the North and would have been closer to other early settlements in Maryland etc. These 115 Colonists, put ashore and left in the charge of Mr. White, Grandfather to the so called "Firstborn Daughter of America" by some, Virginia Dare- were ALL to be lost when they themselves would be left behind (for almost three years!) in this area that had been seen already to have been a bit, shall we say dangerous- as the local native tribes were barely tolerating the British at best at this time in this region, and had in fact killed one in the first 25 hours of their arrival in '87! For, in 1590, when Drake again returned with desperately needed food, medicine, and general supplies for the Sick and Cold when we left them Roanokers- everybody and everything was gone, down to the log structures they were occupying for shelters. On a nearby tree was carved a single word, "Croatoan" the name of a local tribe associated with some fractious interactions with the to them interloping British settlers. This story is an early favorite of mine, and looking back now I can honestly say it birthed my love for conspiracies, for many theories exist that posit explanations for what happened to the first group, and then the Colony proper, all 115 of them including the famous Virginia Dare, of whom legends of her whereabouts and final resting place abound.

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Friday 01.04.19

Host and Creator: S Cominski

Google Alert Keyword Phrase: Roanoke Colony

Sources: Wikipedia, The Winston-Salem Journal

https://www.journalnow.com/opinion/columnists/d-g-martin-what-happened-to-virginia-dare/article_f63221c0-0d2f-11e9-912b-af8e3d17990c.html

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Google Alert Keywords: Artificial; Intelligence

Story: The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/16/tech-experts-worried-about-artificial-intelligence-pew-research-center

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Google Alert Keywords: Artificial; Intelligence

Story: The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/16/tech-experts-worried-about-artificial-intelligence-pew-research-center

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Good Morning and welcome to another edition of the Baked and Awake News Brief, a Baked and Awake Podcast Production. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday your host Steve Cominski (that's me!) will bring you Cannabis, Tech, and "quote" Conspiracy headlines in a concise report. I will also share with you upcoming topics for discussion on my long form podcast, Baked and Awake, which is available EVERYWHERE. Please, find and subscribe to the podcast today on your favorite pod catcher to get much more content like this.

Today's Headline: https://truththeory.com/2018/11/12/trump-says-he-is-likely-to-end-the-federal-ban-on-marijuana/?fbclid=IwAR1-Krl_2FtHbFUyvSOL8IepmAkkWYcfbHovNlVu6Qw1xFisPENKxwy_QmQ

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Today's Headline: https://truththeory.com/2018/11/12/trump-says-he-is-likely-to-end-the-federal-ban-on-marijuana/?fbclid=IwAR1-Krl_2FtHbFUyvSOL8IepmAkkWYcfbHovNlVu6Qw1xFisPENKxwy_QmQ

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]]> 04:16 false full Baked and Awake News Brief 008 FB Hired its own fake news Firm, then denied it Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:22:49 +0000 Baked and Awake News Brief 26 Nov 2018

And now a Headline and Source I won't necessarily follow up on after this, but you SHOULD- Powered today by my morning review of Slashdot.org. Today's keyword is "Social Media".

From the NYT:

Nellie Bowles and Zach Wichter, reporting for The New York Times:
Joining a long tradition of companies and campaigns that drop bad news on holidays, Facebook on Thanksgiving eve took responsibility for hiring a Washington-based lobbying company, Definers Public Affairs, that pushed negative stories about Facebook's critics, including the philanthropist George Soros. Facebook's communications and policy chief, Elliot Schrage, said in a memo posted Wednesday that he was responsible for hiring the group, and had done so to help protect the company's image and conduct research about high-profile individuals who spoke critically about the social media platform. Mr. Schrage will be leaving the company, a move planned before the memo was released.

Facebook fired Definers last week, after a New York Times investigation published on Nov. 14. "Did we ask them to do work on George Soros?" Mr. Schrage wrote in the memo, a draft of which had circulated online earlier in the week. "Yes." He added: "I'm sorry I let you all down. I regret my own failure here." This is a change from just a few days ago, when Facebook wrote on Nov. 15 that the Times report was full of "inaccuracies." The same day, Sheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer, posted on her Facebook page that she had no idea the company had hired Definers.

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And now a Headline and Source I won't necessarily follow up on after this, but you SHOULD- Powered today by my morning review of Slashdot.org. Today's keyword is "Social Media".

From the NYT:

Nellie Bowles and Zach Wichter, reporting for The New York Times:Joining a long tradition of companies and campaigns that drop bad news on holidays, Facebook on Thanksgiving eve took responsibility for hiring a Washington-based lobbying company, Definers Public Affairs, that pushed negative stories about Facebook's critics, including the philanthropist George Soros. Facebook's communications and policy chief, Elliot Schrage, said in a memo posted Wednesday that he was responsible for hiring the group, and had done so to help protect the company's image and conduct research about high-profile individuals who spoke critically about the social media platform. Mr. Schrage will be leaving the company, a move planned before the memo was released. Facebook fired Definers last week, after a New York Times investigation published on Nov. 14. "Did we ask them to do work on George Soros?" Mr. Schrage wrote in the memo, a draft of which had circulated online earlier in the week. "Yes." He added: "I'm sorry I let you all down. I regret my own failure here." This is a change from just a few days ago, when Facebook wrote on Nov. 15 that the Times report was full of "inaccuracies." The same day, Sheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer, posted on her Facebook page that she had no idea the company had hired Definers.

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]]> 02:45 false full Baked and Awake Baked and Awake News Brief 007 Transhumanists reveal motives behind chipping everyone Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:26:07 +0000 Baked and Awake News Brief 23 Nov 2018

And now a Headline and Source I won't necessarily follow up on after this, but you SHOULD- Powered as always by my google alerts. Today's keyword is "Transhumanism".

Transhumans reveal why they want everyone to implant chips under their skin
- Beneath a headline ripped from Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World, we find a story that might as well be Mr. Robot Season 2- A Danish Company named BiChip announced the creation of a new cryptocurrency last week that uses a unique "wallet"- a microchip that is implanted permanently in the user's body.
- You know the drill- its an e wallet that absolutely does have tracking capability, and is intended to be rolled out widely in the next few years.
- The company has already manufactured 1 million of the chips, with plans for 2 million to be produced next year- and that's just the beginning.
- Of course, as is required by law in 2018 and on the go forward- they MUST make grandiose claims of having re-invented the wheel here with yet another "like Bitcoin, but better" electronic currency, taking digs at Bitcoin's tech in their marketing lingo, with statements like "Bitcoin has no backup because no-one knows how they created it", and "Our (also made up- emphasis mine) currency has value backed by real company assets". OK, if you say so.
- And now, for the "reasons" or "Use Cases" being pitched to, you guessed it- Governments and Military Contract writers. Forget payment processing and carrying your E-Passport and Medical records on you at all times- these are merely marketing gimmicks to get people to adopt the chips. These chips can be used to (In the words of prominent Transhumanist Evangelist Zoltan Istvan, "We have worked with the US Navy to discuss the idea of installing chips in Sailors working in high security environments", "My guess is that many governments and corporations see opportunity in this tech to improve services and efficiencies" "It makes perfect sense for the military to make their own chips which could also be used by the CIA, Navy, and Air Force" and, chillingly he went there folks " Implants could be used to allow in large numbers of immigrants and still be able to track them" and for the "Build the Wall" crowd, he clarifies " They also scare some people, so Trump could use it as a tactic to lessen immigrants' desires to come to the US. Implants are dramatically cheaper than building a wall".

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And now a Headline and Source I won't necessarily follow up on after this, but you SHOULD- Powered as always by my google alerts. Today's keyword is "Transhumanism".

Transhumans reveal why they want everyone to implant chips under their skin
- Beneath a headline ripped from Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World, we find a story that might as well be Mr. Robot Season 2- A Danish Company named BiChip announced the creation of a new cryptocurrency last week that uses a unique "wallet"- a microchip that is implanted permanently in the user's body.
- You know the drill- its an e wallet that absolutely does have tracking capability, and is intended to be rolled out widely in the next few years.
- The company has already manufactured 1 million of the chips, with plans for 2 million to be produced next year- and that's just the beginning.
- Of course, as is required by law in 2018 and on the go forward- they MUST make grandiose claims of having re-invented the wheel here with yet another "like Bitcoin, but better" electronic currency, taking digs at Bitcoin's tech in their marketing lingo, with statements like "Bitcoin has no backup because no-one knows how they created it", and "Our (also made up- emphasis mine) currency has value backed by real company assets". OK, if you say so.
- And now, for the "reasons" or "Use Cases" being pitched to, you guessed it- Governments and Military Contract writers. Forget payment processing and carrying your E-Passport and Medical records on you at all times- these are merely marketing gimmicks to get people to adopt the chips. These chips can be used to (In the words of prominent Transhumanist Evangelist Zoltan Istvan, "We have worked with the US Navy to discuss the idea of installing chips in Sailors working in high security environments", "My guess is that many governments and corporations see opportunity in this tech to improve services and efficiencies" "It makes perfect sense for the military to make their own chips which could also be used by the CIA, Navy, and Air Force" and, chillingly he went there folks " Implants could be used to allow in large numbers of immigrants and still be able to track them" and for the "Build the Wall" crowd, he clarifies " They also scare some people, so Trump could use it as a tactic to lessen immigrants' desires to come to the US. Implants are dramatically cheaper than building a wall".

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]]> 04:52 false full Stephen Cominski Baked and Awake News Brief 006 Baked and Awake News Brief 006 Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:51:03 +0000 Please tune in to the Baked and Awake Podcast later today for a full field report from the floor of the 2018 MJ Biz Con Cannabis Industry Convention in Las Vegas Nevada from our friend Superchronic Josh aka Josh Kinkaid, a well known Seattle Cannabis Pro with special chops in the realm of financials.

Thanks for listening!

www.bakedandawake.com

]]> Please tune in to the Baked and Awake Podcast later today for a full field report from the floor of the 2018 MJ Biz Con Cannabis Industry Convention in Las Vegas Nevada from our friend Superchronic Josh aka Josh Kinkaid, a well known Seattle Cannabis Pro with special chops in the realm of financials.

Thanks for listening!

www.bakedandawake.com

]]> 01:01 false full Baked and Awake News Brief 005 News Brief 005 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:57:32 +0000 Good Morning and welcome to another edition of the Baked and Awake News Brief, a Baked and Awake Podcast Production. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday your host Steve Cominski (that's me!) will bring you Cannabis, Tech, and "quote" Conspiracy headlines in a concise report. I will also share with you upcoming topics for discussion on my long form podcast, Baked and Awake, which is available EVERYWHERE. Please, find and subscribe to the podcast today on your favorite pod catcher to get much more content like this.

Two Headlines and Sources I won't necessarily follow up on, but you SHOULD- Powered as always by my google alerts. Today's keywords are "Marijuana", and "Robots".

November 18, 2018- The Motley Fool, a popular financial advice oriented podcast and blog posts: 3 Marijuana Stock Risks No One is Talking About I read it, it's a good story, and the three areas they mention are worth considering for sure. I won't spoil the story for you though- go check it out at fool.com

Two days ago on November 16th, The Register UK's Andrew Orlowski writes that Google's Parent company "Alphabet gives bipedal robots the Schaft 'cos no one wants to buy its creepy machine maker" This story, I can't call it a report, dismissively describes the demise of the Schaft project, which, along with Boston Dynamics, is also owned these days by our friends over at oh let's just call them Google because we knew them back when. To my eyes this robot sounds like it was an Acqui-hire situation from the start. Conjecture, sure- but I bet all it's best technologies have already been parceled out to the scary af, parkour robot Atlas and its successors, or in fifty other projects we will never hear about. That's cool though, it's all cool, right?

Links to both stories are in the show notes and you can find them by visiting http://bakedandawakenewsbrief.libsyn.com/rss

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Alright, get out there, Stoners- but remember: Knowledge is only equal to power, when applied. And remember to Smoke Indica, and do Schtuff anyway..

]]> Good Morning and welcome to another edition of the Baked and Awake News Brief, a Baked and Awake Podcast Production. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday your host Steve Cominski (that's me!) will bring you Cannabis, Tech, and "quote" Conspiracy headlines in a concise report. I will also share with you upcoming topics for discussion on my long form podcast, Baked and Awake, which is available EVERYWHERE. Please, find and subscribe to the podcast today on your favorite pod catcher to get much more content like this.

Two Headlines and Sources I won't necessarily follow up on, but you SHOULD- Powered as always by my google alerts. Today's keywords are "Marijuana", and "Robots".

Links to both stories are in the show notes and you can find them by visiting http://bakedandawakenewsbrief.libsyn.com/rss

Email me, Steve with questions, feedback, or ideas! talktous@bakedandawake.com

Follow me on Instagram for lots of memery and Podcast related images: @baked_and_awake

Alright, get out there, Stoners- but remember: Knowledge is only equal to power, when applied. And remember to Smoke Indica, and do Schtuff anyway..

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November 16th 2018

Baked News

Hemp History Fact of the Day: 2,000-800 BCE Bhang (dried cannabis leaves, seeds and stems) is mentioned in the Hindu sacred text Atharvaveda (Science of Charms) as "Sacred Grass", one of the five sacred plants of India. It is used by medicinally and ritually as an offering to Shiva.

1,500 BCE Cannabis cultivated in China for food and fiber. Scythians cultivate cannabis and use it to weave fine hemp cloth. Expanding upon this slightly, Bhang is a popular ritually and recreationally consumed coconut milk beverage, consumed to this day, in parts of the world. To learn a little more about Bhang, please check out my early Pilot episode for the show on Youtube, at my Baked and Awake Youtube Channel as Baked and Awake Test Episode "0.1"

Source: the Hemp History Timeline on RediscoverHemp.com

Awake News

Robots deserve human rights: Why activists want to protect machines from their creators

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November 16th 2018

Baked News

Source: the Hemp History Timeline on RediscoverHemp.com

Awake News

Robots deserve human rights: Why activists want to protect machines from their creators

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November 14th 2018

Stephen C Cominski

A Primer on the Brief

Hello and welcome to the third episode of the Baked and Awake News Brief, from the creator of the Baked and Awake Podcast. I'm your Host Steve Cominski, and today I thought I'd take just a few minutes and walk us through my idea for the format of the Brief as it stands today, and by doing so, allow you, through Social media or email at talktous@bakedandawake.com, to assist me by voicing your own thoughts on what you are looking for in a show such as this. To begin, I think it is appropriate to put forward the focus of the show, and that is to bring Super current Cannabis stories and unusual news topics in the vein of those that we sometimes take on in the long form podcast. Basically, the News Brief is intended to be a condensed version of the podcast in terms of bringing you something from the "Baked" files, and something from the "Awake" files, in this case almost daily (I think we'll shoot for something like three News Briefs a week to begin with on M,W,F). I/ we will power the News Brief with a number of Google Alerts I have set up to serve us with a continual stream of new results that lead to stories to investigate. I thought it might be helpful to share with you a few of the, so far rather generalized alerts I am currently receiving, and read a few of the headlines from them, sort of piecemeal, just to give an indication of the type and amount of stories we are dealing with on a daily basis. Keep in mind that these alerts come in sometimes twice or three times a day, usually with a little bit of overlap but mostly new results. The internet is a powerful engine and it churns out new content for us to parse constantly. Let's take a look at a couple of these alert emails and see what's going on, shall we?

November 14th 2018

Stephen C Cominski

A Primer on the Brief

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November 14th 2018

Stephen C Cominski

A Primer on the Brief

November 14th 2018

Stephen C Cominski

A Primer on the Brief

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Cannabis won America's mid term elections

Stephen Cominski

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Baked and Awake News Brief. If you like the content you get and want more, please subscribe to the Baked and Awake podcast on all major podcast destinations or at bakedandawake.com.

Today is November 8th 2018 and I am reporting on the biggest winner of the mid term elections in the United States- Cannabis. Without extending today's commentary to the possibly overshadowing shockwave that is the Resignation/Firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a well known and powerful opponent of Cannabis legalization now for the literal lifetimes of many young smokers and would be tokers- the biggest takeaway from this week's election results is that Americans will have their weed, and soon. Just two weeks or so into Canada's historic national legalization of everybody's favorite illicit plant, Michigan voters turned out in droves to ram through a recreational cannabis victory. Utah and Missouri, two staunchly red states, each passed Medical Cannabis measures. Add to this the prospect of several newly elected, Progressive as regards Cannabis Governors who just got elected in several other states, and we can safely surmise that the Green Rush will continue to outpace any hoped for Blue Waves or Red Tides across the American Political landscape, with a recent Gallup poll indicating that 66 percent of Americans support full legalization of cannabis.

Facts for this story were provided by Forbes.com, linked in the show notes. We will continue to keep a very close eye on developments in the legalization space, you can count on 2019 being a very dynamic year for Cannabis in all its forms.

And now, since we can't let you leave on a happy note like that and not give you something to keep you up at night- from my usual perusal of Slashdot.org by way of the South China Morning Post's International Edition's Stephen Chen- China's brightest children are being recruited to develop AI 'killer bots' (Paraphrasing the article that is linked in full in the show notes, this somewhat worrying story's highlights are as follows.

Beijing Institute of Technology recruits 31 'patriotic' youngsters for new AI weapons development programme
Expert in international science policy describes course as 'extremely powerful and troubling'
According to the program's brochure, each student will be mentored by two senior weapons scientists, one from an academic background and the other from the defence industry
The BIT is one of the country's top weapons research institutes, and the launch of the new programme is evidence of the weight it places on the development of AI technology for military use
(A quote from the story) "These kids are all exceptionally bright, but being bright is not enough," said a BIT professor who was involved in the screening process but asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject. "We are looking for other qualities such as creative thinking, willingness to fight, a persistence when facing challenges," he said. "A passion for developing new weapons is a must … and they must also be patriots."

Read the full story over at https://www.scmp.com/, and if this is an area of interest for you, it is likely I/we will look at this story and others like it in more depth soon on our long form podcast, Baked and Awake, available in your iTunes app, and everywhere you get your Podcasts.

Until next time, this is Steve Cominski saying smoke indica, do shit anyway..

Music for the show provided royalty free with attribution by Antti Loude of Soundcloud and Reddit fame. Listen to Antti's Beautiful tracks and get him paid for his work by streaming him on Spotify

Email Steve anytime at talktous@bakedandawake.com

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Baked and Awake News Brief 002

Cannabis won America's mid term elections

Stephen Cominski

Beijing Institute of Technology recruits 31 'patriotic' youngsters for new AI weapons development programme
Expert in international science policy describes course as 'extremely powerful and troubling'
According to the program's brochure, each student will be mentored by two senior weapons scientists, one from an academic background and the other from the defence industry
The BIT is one of the country's top weapons research institutes, and the launch of the new programme is evidence of the weight it places on the development of AI technology for military use
(A quote from the story) "These kids are all exceptionally bright, but being bright is not enough," said a BIT professor who was involved in the screening process but asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject. "We are looking for other qualities such as creative thinking, willingness to fight, a persistence when facing challenges," he said. "A passion for developing new weapons is a must … and they must also be patriots."

Until next time, this is Steve Cominski saying smoke indica, do shit anyway..

Music for the show provided royalty free with attribution by Antti Loude of Soundcloud and Reddit fame. Listen to Antti's Beautiful tracks and get him paid for his work by streaming him on Spotify

Email Steve anytime at talktous@bakedandawake.com

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November 05 2018

Host: Steve Cominski

Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Baked and Awake News Brief, an Alexa Flash Briefing about Cannabis News and Headlines from around the world, from the creator of the Baked and Awake Podcast, Steve Cominski.

I'm Steve Cominski, recording and publishing from the beautiful Pacific Northwest where the seasons have officially turned and we are entering the long, wet, winter we love so well up here around Seattle. Thanks for joining me as I bring you a short but impactful update on Cannabis news, and usually, something a little more… UNusual to finish things off. If you like what you hear in the News Brief, I strongly urge you to find me and subscribe to my long form Cannabis and Conspiracies (in air quotes!) show, Baked and Awake. Just search anywhere you're already consuming podcasts, and it should pop right up.

And now- to the news!

With Canada being the second nation in the world to legalize Cannabis, after tiny but admirable Uruguay, I thought it only fitting that our first brief be about some news from North of de Bordah- with the headline Alberta Hemp Farmers see a bright future in wake of Canada's Cannabis Act, and a story from the Calgary Herald written by Amanda Stephenson. Link in the show notes that can be found at http://BakedandAwakeNewsBrief.libsyn.com/rss, I think ;)

Story Highlights:

Alberta Hemp farmers will for the first time ever, without a rigorous criminal background check- be allowed to grow and process the whole Hemp plant for the purpose of CBD extraction and sale.
Some are drawing comparisons between Hemp and Canola, Canada's other number one globally exported cash crop.
Canola, selectively bred in the 1970's and developed into a cooking oil, fuel, and other applications, is a multi billion dollar a year industry in Canada
Unlike Canola however, Hemp has been until now, a regulated crop, and as such, even licensed farmers under the old system were banned from harvesting or processing any part of the plant except for the seeds and stems. The leaves, and flowers, or buds, were to be discarded. (Spoiler alert- that's where the CBD is)
In August of 2018 the Canadian Government changed its rules around the plant as part of coming in line with the Cannabis Act, and has opened up the whole plant for harvesting and processing.
Alberts is already Canada's second leading producer of Hemp, after Saskatchewan, with 45,000 Acres grown in Alberta in 2017 out of a total of just 138,000 acres in all of Canada.
The Industry believer the CBD opportunity is up to $100 million in new revenue to hemp growers.

Reda the whole story at thegrowthop.com

And before we go, I want to let you know that today I am smoking on some of my own home grown Lake of Fire, and that plant is a cross of the famous Gorilla Glue #4 and Cobain Kush. Lake of Fire Strain by Red Eyed Genetics is an indica heavy hybrid that, in the case of my own personal example, has a notable sweet top note to its fragrance, and an always consistent relaxing, mellow, body focused high.

Also- your Alexa is spying on you, so maybe consider turning off the wifi at night so it doesn't start talking to you in your sleep.

As I always say to my faithful listeners over at the Baked and Awake Podcast, have a great rest of your day, and remember to #smokeindicadoshitanyway

Episode ambient Music generously provided by Antti Luode, as posted to reddit:

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November 05 2018

Host: Steve Cominski

And now- to the news!

Story Highlights:

Alberta Hemp farmers will for the first time ever, without a rigorous criminal background check- be allowed to grow and process the whole Hemp plant for the purpose of CBD extraction and sale.
Some are drawing comparisons between Hemp and Canola, Canada's other number one globally exported cash crop.
Canola, selectively bred in the 1970's and developed into a cooking oil, fuel, and other applications, is a multi billion dollar a year industry in Canada
Unlike Canola however, Hemp has been until now, a regulated crop, and as such, even licensed farmers under the old system were banned from harvesting or processing any part of the plant except for the seeds and stems. The leaves, and flowers, or buds, were to be discarded. (Spoiler alert- that's where the CBD is)
In August of 2018 the Canadian Government changed its rules around the plant as part of coming in line with the Cannabis Act, and has opened up the whole plant for harvesting and processing.
Alberts is already Canada's second leading producer of Hemp, after Saskatchewan, with 45,000 Acres grown in Alberta in 2017 out of a total of just 138,000 acres in all of Canada.
The Industry believer the CBD opportunity is up to $100 million in new revenue to hemp growers.

Reda the whole story at thegrowthop.com

Also- your Alexa is spying on you, so maybe consider turning off the wifi at night so it doesn't start talking to you in your sleep.

As I always say to my faithful listeners over at the Baked and Awake Podcast, have a great rest of your day, and remember to #smokeindicadoshitanyway

Episode ambient Music generously provided by Antti Luode, as posted to reddit: