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Canada: Patients Now Allowed to Grow Medical Cannabis at Home (Indoors and Outdoors) News September 1, 2016 by  Anthony Martinelli In Canada, medical cannabis patients are now legally allowed to grow the plant at home. The change made by Health Canada  comes roughly six months after a  federal court struck down  the nation’s ban on home-grown medical cannabis. Under the new law, patients are allowed to grow at least two plants outdoors, or up to five plants indoors. They can cultivate higher amounts if their physician recommends it. According to  Health Canada , the new rules provide “an immediate solution” for complying with the February court order that mandates the government to make the medicine more affordable and accessible for those in need. The rules – which officially took effect on August 24th – are temporary and may be changed in the future, though no change will completely prohibit the private cultivation of medical ...

5 New Cannabis Discoveries That You Won’t Hear About in the Corporate Media Paul Armentano,  NORML Waking Times Scientific discoveries are published almost daily in regard to the healing properties of the cannabis. But most of these findings appear solely in subscription-only peer-reviewed journals and, therefore,  go largely unnoticed  by the mainstream media and by the public. Here are five just-published cannabis-centric studies that warrant attention. 1. Men Who Smoke Pot Possess a Reduced Risk of Bladder Cancer Is cannabis use protective against the development of certain types of cancer? The findings of  a just released study  in the journal Urology imply that it might be. Investigators at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Department of Neurology assessed the association of cannabis use and tobacco smoking on the risk of bladder cancer in a multiethnic cohort of more than 80,000 men aged 45 to 69 years old over an 11-year peri...

How our cells use mother's and father's genes September 28, 2016 Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have characterized how and to what degree our cells utilize the gene copies inherited from our mother and father differently. At a basic level this helps to explain why identical twins can appear rather different, even though they share identical genetic makeup. With this knowledge we will better understand the variation in outcomes of genetic disorders. Humans have two copies of all autosomal genes, one inherited from the mother and one from the father, and often the two copies are not perfectly identical due to small differences in their DNA sequence. Therefore, variation in the utilization of the two copies in cells has functional consequences, but the nature and patterns of their gene copy utilization has remained largely unknown. Now, the researchers have provided answers to this longstandi...

A Rare Suite of Kandinsky’s Experimental Prints Goes on View by  Claire Voon  on  September 28, 2016 Wassily Kandinsky, “Kleine Welten VI” (1922) (all images courtesy Springfield Museums) In 1895, after deciding to turn from a career in academic law to art-making,  Wassily Kandinsky  was working as the artistic director of a print shop in Moscow. There, he designed covers for chocolate boxes while gaining early exposure to printmaking traditions. It was only until two years later that he first started working with the medium himself, creating many etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs. A rare portfolio of 12 works he produced in 1922 showcases his achievements with all these techniques, offering a taste of Kandinsky’s broad skills and revealing his eagerness for experimentation. Titled  Kleine Welten  (Small Worlds), these works contain the same denseness in composition and harmony of form so present...

New colors, a new world of pigments continue to evolve from accidental blue discovery September 28, 2016 Credit: Oregon State University A bright blue compound that was first discovered by accident seven years ago in an Oregon State University laboratory – and has since garnered global attention – has now led to the more rational and methodical development of other colors that may ultimately change the world of pigments. Findings on the newest  pigments , in shades of violet and purple, were just published in  Inorganic Chemistry , a journal of the American Chemical Society. More important, researchers say, is that progress made since the first accidental discovery of this family of inorganic compounds has allowed intensive science to take the place of luck. What's emerging is a fundamental understanding of the chemistry involved in these "trigonal bipyramidal" compounds. As the basis for pigments, they are quite remarkable. Compared to the flaws that...