BLOG GROUP NOTES

*CANNABIS, Sam Hoh*

- link to health, medicinal
- members of nettle family

* textiles

* hemp

* medicines

- 400 chemicals in marijuana

- can help with a lot of illnesses e.g. AIDs, arthritis 

- argument against is mental health problems

- for, rely on it and believe its treating it, can't die from overdose, gets rid of dealers

- 973 die from pharmaceuticals each year, 0 from marijuana

*TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL MEDIA, Emily*

- social networking

- if facebook were a country it would be the third biggest

- spend an average of 55 minutes on it a day

- Australia has most users of social networking

- most popular youtube video is Justin Bieber 

- 80% of twitter is from mobile devices

*CLOTHING INDUSTRY, SLAVE LABOUR, Simon*

- more people now in slave labour than ever before

- more than 1 million given title of a slave in US today

- GAP Kids...child slave labour in India

- 250 million kids working in developing countries

- massive slave labour in chocolate and fireworks

*BRANDING, Imogen*

- Coca-Cola, idea behind original bottle, recognition...helped shape the modern day centre

- social effects, consumerism

- branding of cities, NY attracts 35 million a year

- logo development of apple, nike, pepsi

- 75% of buying decisions based on emotion