In Massachusetts, it’s a very good time to be in the marijuana business: pot is now legal for adults, and the unwieldy bureaucracy put in place to launch the new industry finally seems to be getting some footing. But not so for the state’s nascent hemp industry, which is related but distinct — and, as Adam Reilly reports, currently in legal limbo.

New state and federal laws permit licensed Arkansas farmers to grow hemp commercially for use in the manufacture of CBD and other products. Shawn Peebles of Peebles Organics in Augusta talked with us about the challenges of growing this unusual crop and having a profitable yield.

Google Tech Talks
October, 12 2007

ABSTRACT

Speaker: Violet Blue
Violet Blue is the best-selling, award-winning author and
editor of twenty books on sex and sexuality, all currently in print, a
number of which have been translated into several languages; she has
contributed to a number of nonfiction anthologies. Violet is a sex
educator who lectures at UC's and community teaching institutions, and
writes about erotica, pornography, sexual pleasure and health for
major publications and blogs. She is a professional sex blogger and
femmebot; an author at Metroblogging San Francisco (Metblogs); a
correspondent for Geek Entertainment Television; she is on the Gawker
Media payroll as girl friday contibutor and editor at Fleshbot; in
January 2007, Violet was named a Forbes Web Celeb 25. She is a San
Francisco native and human blog. Violet is the sex columnist for the
San Francisco Chronicle with a weekly column titled Open Source Sex,
and has a podcast of the same name that frequents iTunes' top ten.

Joe Rogan and Theo Von on porn and porn addiction.

The human preoccupation with sex is nothing new – but the internet has made it so much easier to explore and exploit every shade of desire. The online porn industry makes billions of dollars in profit every year, but the big winners are corporate players, not the women and men performing the sex acts. Stephen Sackur interviews Mia Khalifa. She was briefly a porn actress, garnering worldwide notoriety when she appeared in a sex video wearing the Islamic hijab. After years of threats and insecurity, she’s speaking out. What does her story tells us about the porn industry and 21st century culture?

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Published on Sep 28, 2012
Moyers & Company presents "United States of ALEC," a report on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of America has never heard of -- ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. A national consortium of state politicians and powerful corporations, ALEC presents itself as a "nonpartisan public-private partnership". But behind that mantra lies a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge.

Using interviews, documents, and field reporting, the episode explores ALEC's self-serving machine at work, acting in a way one Wisconsin politician describes as "a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests."

In state houses around the country, hundreds of pieces of boilerplate ALEC legislation are proposed or enacted that would, among other things, dilute collective bargaining rights, make it harder for some Americans to vote, and limit corporate liability for harm caused to consumers -- each accomplished without the public ever knowing who's behind it.

"All of us here are very familiar with ALEC and the influence that ALEC has with many of the [legislative] members," says Arizona State Senator Steve Farley. "Corporations have the right to present their arguments, but they don't have the right to do it secretly."

"United States of ALEC" is a collaboration between Okapi Productions LLC and the Schumann Media Center, headed by Bill Moyers, which supports independent journalism and public watchdogs including the Center for Media and Democracy, whose investigators are featured in the report.

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