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I Used Pot for Morning Sickness

thedailybeast.com

November 2, 2015

Some doctors believe moms with a debilitating pregnancy complication could get relief from smoking pot, but it's not as simple as that.

In early January 2015, Trinity Dogood started vomiting and couldn't stop. "I thought I had food poisoning or an awful stomach bug," Dogood said. But after three days, the vomiting still hadn't subsided, and Trinity found herself in the ER of a local hospital, begging for relief. When the triage nurse took her blood for testing, they discovered she was pregnant.

EU lawmakers throw out GMO compromise law

wort.lu

October 28, 2015

EU lawmakers on Wednesday rejected by a huge majority a hard-won compromise which would have allowed EU member states to decide for themselves whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms for use in food and animal feed.

Parliament voted 557 to 75 against a law which took the European Commission years to negotiate amid deep suspicions about the possible health and safety implications of GMO products. The outcome, however, turned on a matter of principle -- allowing member states to ban GMO products would mean erecting barriers within the EU's most cherished achievement, its single market of more than 500 million people.

Lobbying Group Thwarts Attempts to Monitor Homeschooled Children with Testing

kkla.com

October 17, 2015

Advocacy groups for homeschooling have blocked attempts to require homeschooled students to complete annual academic and medical tests.

The controversy started in 2003 when a New Jersey boy, 19, was found going through the neighbor's garbage. He was four feet tall and weighed 45 pounds. He and his three younger brothers were all homeschooled, according to The Pacific Standard.

Write about climate change; win a trip to Paris!

jamaicaobserver.com

October 17, 2015

The Environmental Education Unit of the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Energy, Science, and Technology here has issued a challenge to journalists to cover climate change-related issues for a chance to win a trip to Paris.

The winner will receive an all-expense paid trip to cover the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21), scheduled for Paris in December, where world leaders will attempt to forge a legally binding agreement to keep the effects of climate change in check.

In another 'free range' case, Chicago mother wages 2-year fight against child neglect citation

wcfcourier.com

October 16, 2015

Two years ago, Natasha Felix's three children were outside playing at a playground next to her East Ukrainian Village apartment while she was at home.

She was checking on her sons - then ages 11, 9 and 5 - by looking out the window every 10 minutes, she said. But when a passer-by saw the Felix kids, along with a 9-year-old cousin, she assumed they were unsupervised and called the state's Department of Children and Family Services hotline. What one mother views as a benign activity, the state's child protective agency sees much differently.

Homeschooling On The Rise In District Of Columbia

baltimore.cbslocal.com

October 11, 2015

Homeschooling appears to be an increasingly popular education option for families in the District of Columbia.

The Washington Post reports that the growth corresponds with an increase in the number of home-school cooperatives and Internet mailing lists offering support and advice for home school families.

Daesh disrupts Afghan polio vaccination in Afghanistan

presstv.ir

October 11, 2015

Daesh Takfiri terrorists have disrupted a national polio vaccination campaign in three districts of Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, local officials say.

Kamawal added that Daesh terrorists have shut down 10 health care centers in the districts, "and people there face a lot of issues." A number of religious leaders and civil society activists in Nangarhar have denounced the move by Daesh terrorists as "an act of oppression against the children."

Can marijuana save the Fukushima Prefecture?

fukushimawatch.com

October 9, 2015

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has been desperately seeking ways to clean up toxic radiation spewing from the Fukushima Daiichi site. Now, a natural plant may be able to save the nuclear power plant: cannabis.

Using plants to clean up toxic soil is known as phytoremediation. Two members of the mustard seed family are usually used in phytoremediation. However, cannabis has been proven to be just as effective, if not more so, at absorbing toxic metals from soil as other phytoremediation plants.

Mothers, infants face mandatory drug testing at Cincinnati hospitals

RT

October 3, 2015

A group of Cincinnati hospitals has mandated drug testing of new mothers and infants amid an 841 percent increase in the number of expectant Ohio mothers found to have an opioid addiction in the last decade, according to state health officials.

Seven hospitals in the Cincinnati area have universally tested for drugs since late 2013. The number of newborns in the area that were exposed in the womb to Percocet, methadone, heroin and other opiates quadrupled from 10.8 infants per 1,000 births in 2009 to 46 per 1,000 births in the first three months of 2013, according to Cincinnati Children's.

California Governor Appoints Three Tuolumne County Residents to the 29th District Agricultural Association, Mother Lode Fair Board of Directors

goldrushcam.com

October 2, 2015

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. has announced the following appointments.

Kevin Day, 55, of Tuolumne, has been appointed to the 29th District Agricultural Association, Mother Lode Fair Board of Directors, where he has served since 2004. Day has been tribal chairman of the Tuolumne Me-Wuk Tribal Council since 1996. He was an officer at the Tuolumne County Economic Development Authority Governing Board from 2000 to 2004 and served as a correctional officer at the Sierra Conservation Center from 1991 to 2000.

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