Does #Weed #smell good or bad to you? What does it most closely resemble? The court rules on this! - http://clapway.com/2015/08/23/whats-that-funk-marijuana-doesnt-smell-like-raw-sewage-court-rules-242/

Have you ever heard someone complaining that their apartment “reeked of weed” from their neighbor’s joint?

Some people in Oregon brought an unusual neighborhood complaint to the Court of Appeals News Week reported: that the smell of marijuana was – to say the least – “unpleasant”. But the court ruled earlier this week that while odors such as rotten eggs and raw sewage are “objectively unpleasant,” weed doesn’t necessarily smell that bad.

A “physically offensive” smell?

“We are not prepared to declare that the odor of marijuana smoke is equivalent to the odor of garbage. Indeed, some people undoubtedly find the scent pleasing,” the appeals court wrote.

“Who determines whether a particular odor is offensive?” the appeals court added. “Although some odors are objectively unpleasant — rotten eggs or raw sewage come to mind — others are more subjective in nature.”

Marijuana Smoke not that nasty

The appeals court found that it couldn’t declare the odor of marijuana smoke offensive. They explained that an odor that is excessively intense and persisted could be regarded as nasty – regardless of its nature. Yet according to Oregon Live the scent in this case was regarded as “subjective” and dependent on the “intensity, duration or frequency” of the smokers’ habits.

If you consume marijuana “like a chimney” you might want to buy a smoke sucker or something. While for those who believe that the right to consume marijuana does not grant the right to be a bad neighbor, following are a couple of ways to resolve smelly issues.

Ways to Clear the Air

According to the Denver Post you can always call the city’s odor police. Calling the smell police. Complaints related to marijuana are not uncommon according to Denver’s Department of Environmental Health. However, complaints usually stem from industrial-level smells and just a few cases from the cultivation or consumption of weed at household level.

Finally, the best way is probably just to talk to your neighbor who probably didn’t even realize that you could smell his or her weed from your couch.

What do you think of the court marijuana skunk and the court ruling? Share your views in the comments section below.

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What’s That Funk? Marijuana Doesn’t Smell Like Raw Sewage Court Rules

New breakthroughs in #StemCell #research after a real developing #need was revealed. - http://clapway.com/2015/07/23/stem-cells-biomedicine-factories-here-sooner-than-we-think-235/

Researchers at the University of Nottingham discovered a totally synthetic substrate material that could grow billions of stem cells at a time, an advance that may allow industrial-scale biomedicine to materialize soon than we think.

“The possibilities for regenerative medicine are still being researched in the form of clinical trials. What we are doing here is paving the way for the manufacture of stem cells in large numbers when those therapies are proved to be safe and effective,” Morgan Alexander, professor of biomedical surfaces at University of Nottingham, said.

Stem cell factories of the future

The mass production of stem cells could turn out to be revolutionary–providing an off-the-shelf product for clinical use in the treatment of the heart, liver, and brain. Scientists hope that laboratory-based research may eventually turn into large-scale production.

Clinical trials are still ongoing, yet if man-made human embryonic stem cell “factories” could get commercialized and validated by regulators, patients could have access to treatment in two to three years, researchers said.

Supply and Demand

Researchers said that overall the field of regenerative medicine has “snowballed” in the last five year. In the future, a lot more patients will be receiving stem cell treatments.

However, in the new research published in the journal Nature, scientists mentioned that more than 1 billion cells for each patient are needed to replace losses during heart attack, multiple sclerosis and diabetes.

“Producing this number of cells is challenging.” Researchers are now thinking outside-the-box to provide technology that can be scaled to meet the needs of millions of patients per year  and improve their chances of survival.

Why are stem cells important?

Perhaps the most important potential application of stem cells is the generation of cells and tissues. Today, the need for transplantable tissues and organs far outweighs the available supply.

To match supply with demand, scientists have been looking for polymer substrates on which human pluripotent stem cells can be concurrently grown in numbers in the billions, yet free from possible contamination.

According to the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), research in this field holds tremendous promise for medical treatments, but scientists still have much to learn about how stem cells, and the specialized cells they generate, work in the body and their capacity for healing.

What do you think of “factory-produced” stem cells and the advancements in the regenerative medicine field? Share you opinion in the comments section below.

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Stem Cells: Biomedicine "Factories" Here Sooner Than We Think