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EDIBLES Bhang Iced Tea

EVENTS Hempfest Weekend

FEATURE Stephen Marley

HEALTH 10 Diseases

EVENTS Do’s & Don’ts Hempfest

FEATURE CO-OP Ocean Grown

FEATURE VENUE Cannabis City

MARIJUANA NEWS Shortage

GROW Hemp Grow

ROAD TRIP Medicine Maker

GROW Cannabis Club Collective

PIECES Pendant

HEALTH Parkinsons

HERBAN MYTHS Cannabis Delivery

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

August 2014 The Hempfest Issue

STRAIN OF THE MONTH Grapefruit

This photo and cover photo by Allie Beckett

DOPE is a free publication dedicated to providing an informative and wellness-minded voice to the cannabis movement. While our foundation is the medical cannabis industry, it is our intent to provide ethical and research-based articles that address the many facets of the war on drugs, from politics to lifestyle and beyond. We believe that through education and honest discourse, accurate policy and understanding can emerge. DOPE Magazine is focused on defending both our patients and our plant, and to being an unceasing force for revolutionary change.

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Sharon Letts Michael Condon Jr Heath Laslo Yasi Firoozi

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STRAIN OF THE MONTH CANNABINOID CONTENT 24.24% THC 0.11% CBD

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Grapefruit

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WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTO BY ALLIE BECKETT

GENETICS Summer isn’t quite the same without a little Grapefruit in the morning. This strain is the sativadominant Cindy 99 crossed with a combination of other, fruitier sativa strains. It’s a powerful morning-fog equalizer, an earlymorning-jog kind of strain with a few uniquely indica-like effects. No need to slice based on the…

MEDICAL BENEFITS Of course there are. Grapefruit has oft been reported as a strain to combat the symptoms of the over-diagnosed ADD and ADHD. Folks with severe headaches or debilitating migraines can seek Grapefruit for instant relief along with anybody who may be dealing with depression. Antianxiety qualities have also been listed as other positive…

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EFFECTS

The sample provided had nugs thinner than your standard, dense and bushy indica, but still seemed noticeably thicker and sturdier than your average sativa strain. It’s undoubtedly an anomaly of modern breeding, but a welcome one. I pulled it apart with a brisk snap and the sound alone was alluring. Until I noticed the…

Upon snapping the longest bud, the already citrusy-sweet aroma was magnified by what could only be sanely described as…dare I say…the smell of an actual, ripe, tart and juicy grapefruit. The fruit has such a distinct aroma; it’s hard to imagine a flower with the capability of simulating the same smell. What about the…

Tropical breezes floating over your pineapple-topped Mai Tais in Hawaii couldn’t even match the sweet then sour flavor of the smoke from this strain. I’ve had other fruitynicknamed strains, which tasted nothing like advertised. Does it taste like biting into a chunk of grapefruit? No. But it tastes like smoking one. Could there be any…

And it’s no wonder. After puffing half of my morning Grapefruit joint I immediately felt awake and inspired, which isn’t standard waking procedure for a person like myself. The second half of the joint eased my sore neck and allowed me a proper morning stretch for a loose and relaxed body and centered mind.

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EDIBLES

SIDDHI BHANG INFUSIONS An Overlooked Morning Supplement WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTO BY ALLIE BECKETT We could all be a little closer to Shiva. Not just on Maha Shivratri, but every damn day. Twister-like yoga sessions and burnt buckets of Starbucks chai tea aside, sometimes you need that true and honest oneness with an omni-healing drink infusion to boost your morning, your health and your overall vitality. Siddhi Bhang has now delivered a renovated, repackaged variety of Bhang tonic mixes with vigorenhancing natural additions unseen elsewhere. Drop the brownies, Little Debbie, and medicate to your health. The three herbal blends available from Siddhi, in their noticeably slick new design, range in benefits, but have a similar versatility of use. Each can be sprinkled on any anything warm and/or edible. I tried the caffeinated herbal blend, the 40mg THC version in the orange package, by adding it to my morning coffee. I always take mine with a tablespoon of organic butter and some coconut oil to aid my dexterity throughout the day. I inspected the packages of all three. A higher THC blend, weighing in with 75 mg of THC and an even CBD-to-THC ratio blend with a healthful scroll of promising ingredients and promises of hours of effects. Read aloud and backwards at a high pitch because the ingredient list

of these blends can make anybody sound like they’re speaking tongues. Try it sometime at a social gathering. Back to bhang. The ingredients read as a cameo list for health trends: maca, goji berry, nutmeg, roasted carob (!), suma, organic cacao, chicory root, ginseng and, of course, cannabis, just to name the all-stars. The chai flavor added to my coffee and butter was distinct and pleasant, a bit more stimulating than the basic cup of jo. Already completing one of the package’s promises. I was immediately on alert and noticed my mood had improved. An immediate and pure mood improver? That’s the key to health, isn’t it? Bhang is ancient, as ancient as quinoa, as ancient as maca. Bhang is a fresh and refreshing addition to anybody’s day. To have an improved mood from sunrise until sunset is the very meaning of health. We’ll see all these cancer-fighting superfoods, miracle products and ancient remedies being hocked forever. It’s good to find a valuable, clean and inspiring product among the fog. While the listed benefits are modest in expectations, alertness, focus and positive outlook are mentioned, the benefits of daily consumption are maximum. An important and honest addition to anybody’s morning ritual.

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EVENTS

MAKE T

F YO O T U O T S HE MO

EKE E W T S E F HEMP

SSES A M E H T R O F E ID A GU DON JR.

BY WRITTEN

MICHAEL

CON

The third weekend of august, as usual, is hempfest weekend. A conglomeration of chronic coughers, a weekend of ash and happiness. In this year, also known as the year 2 al (after legalization) promises to be another astronomical affair of avid cannabis devotees and businesses. Where should you begin? What booths should you visit? Where should you snag snacks? Which speakers should you listen to and which bands should you arrive early to see? Here’s a guide to help corral your meandering mind and always remember your 2014 hempfest. Oh…and buy a shirt.

Once you enter Hempfest, be sure to align yourself with some positive Hempfest Karma by donating a few bucks to the cause. The universe will look kindly upon your generosity and good tidings will follow you throughout your adventuring.

Want a break from the Hempfest action and crowds? Hop on one of the shuttle buses outside of Hempfest this year and ride down to Tacoma to check out the CannaCon. A cannabis business convention held at the Tacoma Dome. And you don’t even have to drive.

Stop by the DOPE Magazine booth. Pick up some of the highly sought after DOPE gear and chitty-chat with the creators and great minds behind the finest cannabis publication in existence. No bias here. Did I mention our scavenger hunt?

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Hempfest is one event at which thousands of people annually purchase new smoking paraphernalia. Check out the wide assortment of pipes, bongs, papers, wraps, grinders, rollers, vaporizers, gadgets, gizmos and one-hitters. There will be a lot to choose from. This mission could take an entire day.

The barbecues, steamers, shaved ice machines and ovens will be out in full force. Food in abundance. One particular booth always worth stopping by is the Peanut Butter Goodness stand. Deep fried PB&J’s? They’re even good for breakfast.

These days, if you didn’t post about an event on Facebook, Instragram, Twitter or Tumblr… It didn’t really happen. One way to establish existence in the digital reality is by “hashtagging” your photos and tweets with one or all of these: #Hempfest, #SeattleHempfest, #Hempfest2014…

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Do you like loud, borderline obnoxious Electronic Dance Music? Maybe you’re not into EDM. Maybe you simply want to learn more about therapeutic uses of MDMA. The DanceSafe booth is chockfull of information regarding safety and use of other drugs. Located near the BassDrop stage.

FUN FACTS:

LIVE MUSIC FOR AURAL PLEASURE:

FACT - Last year, Hempfest volunteers registered over 2,500 new voters and assisted countless others with updating their addresses. It’s the only way to make change. FACT - Hempfest is for everybody. That couldn’t be more evident once you consider that Hempfest has the largest youth attendance of any festival in the world. FACT - Co-founder of Hempfest Vivian McPeak wrote a book called “Protestival” about the first 20 years of Hempfest and it’s available at official merchandise booths. FACT - Every year the cost of Hempfest raises nearly $40,000! This is due to the universe-like unceasing expansion of the festival. It’s constantly outgrowing its own skin.

NEW INFORMATION: NEW - Now available for adults of legal recreational age (21+) are smoking tents to keep out of view and whiffing range of kids and nonsmokers. NEW - For those cycling to Hempfest, be sure to park your dual-wheeled, pedaled speed machine at the new Bike Corral at Bay Street and Elliott!

Another, more tangible way, to remember your visit, or to pick up gifts for friends who couldn’t make it this year, stop by the Hempfest Central Merchandise Booth. Pick up an official shirt, sweater or poster to commemorate your Hempfest.

NEW - Are you new to cannabis? Check out Hempfest’s new information cards, dubbed Hempfest “Gut Checks.” Hempfest has been about education from the start. NEW - Can’t make it to a certain day at Hempfest? This year you can stream Hempfest performances and speeches live through the Hempfest website.

I hope this piece will help guide your restless spirit on its 2014 Hempfest adventure and make it the greatest Hempfest ever. Until next year that is…Ta-Ta.

For Hip-Hop heads like myself, Friday night the main stage has a performance promising live beatmaking, authentic turntablism, B-Boys, B-Girls and tons of unadulterated awesomeness. Fresh…for 2014…you suckaaaaas. (Hosted by Julie C, scheduled at 7 pm Friday) Neal Storme will be taking over the Seely Stage on Sunday, apparently with some friends, at the pivotal hour of 4:20. Neal is a legendary local musician who played at some of the early Hempfests. 20+ years strong and still smoking. (Seely Stage, scheduled at 4:20 pm Sunday)

A FEW NOTEWORTHY SPEAKERS: PETE HOLMES – No relation to John, Seattle City Attorney is fresh from his recreational marijuana buying spree will be on hand to talk to everybody about the benefits of legalizing ganja for everybody…And how it decreases the Attorney’s workload. KARI BOITER – Americans for Safe Access Washington Chapter CoChair, dedicated patient advocate and cannabis lobbyist, Kari is wise, well-versed in the politics of pot and will assuredly deliver an inspiring speech for Hempfestians. DJ SHORT – Breeder of the famous “DJ Short’s Blueberry” and other wildly popular cannabis strains, this bright botanical brainiac will be in a roundtable discussion with other heavy hitters like Jorge Cervantes. (Saturday 12:40 pm, Ric Smith Hemposium) RICK STEVES – The excitable and enthusiastic locally based travel writer has always been an outspoken proponent of pot and credits it with helping out his writing. He’s right, I can tell you, it works.

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FEATURE

LESSONS Backstage With Stephen Marley WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT

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OF LIFE

FEATURE one asking the questions.

This is the raw version of an historical meeting.

out Ziggy wrote and sang the synthy reggae

The son of, to many, a prophet was speaking

theme song for the old “Arthur” cartoons. But

to the crowd from the stage. Speaking with

Stephen was always a standout in the band

music, speaking with his father’s powerful,

and fleet of Marley musicians since. Damian

overwhelming

worldly lyrics and, of course, his own. Stephen

has talent, a raw, powerful, attention grabbing

respectfully and made his way off stage.

Marley, a five-time Grammy award winning

voice. Ziggy had the early popularity, Julian

Butterflies were flying in and out of my

artist in his own right, has set himself apart

was a natural musician and Stephen…

stomach like an airport. When Bob passed

as an artist from his influential father without

Stephen was simply…pure. Emotion blending

away I wasn’t even spermatozoa yet. This

straying from the tradition and message of

effortlessly with soul and guitar strings... just

encounter would be the closest I could

Bob’s music. It’s a different world today but

like his pops.

get to Bob without a Ouija Board. Stephen

The

audience

applause,

unleashed

cheers, joy.

raised

torrent

blunts

Stephen

and

bowed

there Stephen is, singing, “No Woman No Cry”

Stephen was destined for reaching the souls

approached us, shorter than I expected but

to a riveted audience. Soon…I was going to

of his listeners. Not just by heredity. He was

brimming with joy he immediately displayed

meet him. Speak with him.

born on April 20th…no seriously. A cannabis

a wide, welcoming smile and beckoned us to

My foot was tapping nervously as the

enthusiast, like his father, he requested that

have a seat outside of his tour bus.

time of our talk drew nearer. What could I,

we bring some healing herb when we met.

He sat on a basic folding chair, I hunkered

a peon from a paper, say to such a critically

What would he say about cannabis and

down on the floor of a shipping container next

acclaimed, spiritually lifted artist like Stephen Marley? I couldn’t ask him about his father, I was sternly warned of that by a friend of Stephen’s who I met in the crowd. Of course, he must be sick of absurd and headscratchingly moronic questions like, “Can you remember your father’s voice?” The press can be dreadfully stupid just like everyone else sometimes. Stephen sped up the tempo with the

“Stephen was destined for reaching the souls of his listeners. Not just by heredity. He was born on April 20th…no seriously.”

next song. But only a smidge. It was

Reggae music and the influence of each on

to him and the photographer and weed man

almost unnoticeable. The eager crowd was

the other and how they’re so intertwined

sat, legs crossed in the healthy green grass.

ensorcelled by the rhythm, the melody, the

like dreadlocks? They are both spiritual

Anybody witnessing our arrangement would

proximity, the air…Stephen was singing, “Mind

devices so pertinent to many devotees. They

believe he was there to teach us. We were

Control” off of his 2007 Grammy winning

complement each other, they speak of the

eager and apt pupils. Each question I tossed

album of the same title. “Don’t let them mold

same yearning for freedom.

his way was carefully, wisely considered. He’d

your mind…they want to control mankind.”

I paced the grounds at Marymoor. Stephen’s

pause a moment, look to the sky and answer

We know his words are true. Truth, is a Marley

set was nearly finished. I shuffled to the stage,

slowly, with the wisdom and beauty of a sage,

family specialty. “Corruption of your thoughts

joined by a photographer and a weed man,

a prophet…a Marley. It’s clear he was here to

is the destruction of your soul.”

to meet Stephen’s tour manager. We arrived

teach us.

I pegged a few from the crowd for their

right on time. Stephen was still holding the

(visit www.dopemagazineonline.com to read

opinion. What would they ask him? How

attention of the crowd like a magnet. He was

the full interview.)

does he write his songs, do the lyrics form in

finishing a song of his father’s. I’ve cried many

his mind as he hears the sweet sound of the

times listening to Bob Marley…Tears of joy

instruments or vice versa? Yeah, that’s it. Get

and love, that’s what I noticed in Stephen as

him talking about the creative process. Insight

he performed those songs. His tour manager

about songwriting from a 2nd generation

granted us backstage access.

musical fucking genius. Maybe the songs

I don’t generally get nervous prior to

just appear in his day-to-day life. Arguably

interviews. Celebrities are just people, I’ve

Stephen has the most intricate lyrics of any of

always thought, like anybody else. You find

the second generation Marleys.

what they like, you press them to talk and they

Stephen broke into another song, “Traffic

either spill their guts and deepest thoughts or

Jam” also from “Mind Control.” The album

they are complete assholes and answer with

version featured his brother, Damian, and a

short, unquotable mumblings and wait for

few marijuana mentions. Stephen first began

you to get out of their sight. I concluded that

with the famous family band, the Melody

Stephen might not fall into either of those

Makers, headed by his brother Ziggy, when

categories. I had a hunch he would be the

he was just a kid. Side note: I later found

one guiding the interview even if I was the

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HEALTH

MEDICINAL USES FOR CANNABIS

23 states currently have medical cannabis laws on the books, clearly the opinions and stance of physician’s, and patients alike are changing regarding the medicinal use of cannabis. Although the Federal Government has blocked the ability of researchers in the US to study the potential positive effects of cannabis, internationally research continues as demonstrated by my article on Parkinson’s disease in this month’s edition of DOPE.

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HEALTH

While recreational cannabis consumption still remains controversial in the mainstream medical community, the majority of citizens in the US agree that the drug should be legal for medicinal use. Unfortunately, due to the fact that cannabis is still considered a schedule one drug, research in the US is at its infancy. Currently in 2014, only 6% of studies being conducted on cannabis are investigating the potential benefits of the plant for treating various disease states, namely epilepsy and pain related to cancer. While the benefits of smoking cannabis may be overstated, based on patient physician and patient testimonial’s, clearly the drug has a number of benefits controlling symptomology of numerous disease states. So what are the top 10 medicinal uses of cannabis, I am glad you asked.

1. 2.

3 4 5

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) – Naturally occurring cannabinoids in the plant can help regulate the system that causes fear and anxiety in the body and brain. Cannabis is approved to treat PTSD in some states already. In New Mexico for example, PTSD is the number one disease state that patients apply for a medical cannabis authorization. HEPATITIS C - Treatment for hepatitis C infection using Interferon’s (gold standard for treatment) is very difficult to endure. Negative side effects include fatigue, nausea, muscle aches, loss of appetite, and depression. A typical course of Interferon therapy lasts a year and only 50% of patients respond to therapy. Many people aren’t able to finish their treatment course because of the harsh side effects. However, according to a 2006 study in the European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that 86% of patients using cannabis successfully completed their Hep C therapy, while only 29% of non-smokers completed their treatment, possibly because the cannabis helps lessens the treatments side effects. Cannabis also seems to improve the treatment’s effectiveness: 54% of Hep C patients smoking cannabis got their viral levels low and kept them low, in comparison to only 8% of nonsmokers. PAIN – Cannabis was studied in HIV related peripheral neuropathy, arguably one of the most painful syndromes, and was found to decrease pain levels significantly in these patients. Cannabis has also demonstrated the ability to reduce the amount of opioid pain medications needed by patients with intractable pain. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE – Cannabis may be able to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study found that THC slows the formation of amyloid plaques by blocking the enzyme in the brain that makes them. These plaques are what kill brain cells and cause Alzheimer’s. PARKINSON’S DISEASE - In 2014, the first observational study reported that cannabis helped PD patients control both motor and non-motor symptoms of the disease. Cannabis can reduce tremors, improve sleep, and decrease pain in Parkinson’s disease.

6. 7 8. 9 10.

GLAUCOMA – Cannabis can be used to treat and prevent the eye disease glaucoma, which increases pressure in the eyeball, damaging the optic nerve and causing loss of vision. EPILEPSY – While most of the attention and research for controlling epileptic seizures is focused on the use of high cannabidiol (CBD) strains, some patients don’t respond to just CBD in their medicine. Unfortunately, some states have began legalizing medical cannabis with just CBD strains/oils and are not taking into account that THC has also been linked to controlling seizures by binding to the brain cells responsible for controlling excitability and regulating relaxation. CANCER – Cannabis is helpful in a number of ways for a patient with cancer undergoing chemotherapy. Cannabis helps stimulate appetite, decrease nausea, and reduce pain. Additionally, cannabidiol (CBD) may help prevent cancer from spreading according to researchers. CBD stops cancer by turning off a gene called Id-1, cancer cells make more copies of this gene than non-cancerous cells, and it helps them spread through the body. The researchers studied breast cancer cells in the lab that had high expression levels of Id-1 and treated them with cannabidiol. After treatment the cells had decreased Id-1 expression and were less aggressive spreaders. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS – Cannabis has been shown to ease the painful symptoms of MS, specifically spasticity (involuntary muscle contracts). Cannabinoids bind to the endocannabinoid receptors in the central nervous systems and peripheral muscles to relieve pain and muscle spasms. INSOMNIA – Getting a full nights sleep (7-8 hrs./night) is one of the most important bodily functions we need as humans. When we don’t get enough sleep it has dire consequences, this includes a decrease in cognitive abilities, our immune systems, and hormone balances.

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EVENTS

DO’S AND DON’TS OF HEMPFEST FUN FACTS, BLURBS, AND NEW STUFF

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT

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DO’S

DO your part. Offer a donation, whatever you can spare, to Hempfest. Every year the expenses of Hempfest increase, therefore the need for donations raises right along with them.

DO clean up after yourself. Every year tons of garbage and recycling are collected by volunteers and hundreds of personal items (cell phones, IDs, key chains, etc.) are left behind.

DO download the new Hempfest App! It has the entire weekend’s program, guides and maps to help you navigate and make the most out of your Hempfest experience.

DO carpool or ride transit. Looking for parking in Seattle during Hempfest weekend is no fun. Lyft is offering carpool discounts to Hempfest attendees. Take advantage of it.

DO visit the official Hempfest merchandise booths. They’re full of shirts, bags, programs and other fun gear and souvenirs to keep the fond memories of Hempfest strong and vivid.

DO hydrate regularly. Water, water, water. Hours of stomping around Myrtle Edwards and all that unforgiving cottonmouth can really suck the life out of you. Really.

DON’TS

DON’T bring alcohol, narcotics, weapons, fireworks, spray paint, handheld torches (that’s you dabbers) or your beloved pets (other than service animals) to Hempfest. These are simple requests often forgotten.

DON’T sell anything. Taking it one step further, don’t even vend shirts, stickers, products or pipes, inside or outside of Hempfest, unless you have an approved booth. BYOBud.

DON’T drive impaired. Some people claim they can drive stoned, that doesn’t mean they should. DUID limits are legally established. Don’t be that guy who gets hit with a case.

DON’T bring glass objects other than pipes, bongs and rigs. Leave any other glass object that can shatter on the ground or be used as a projectile at home.

DON’T leave pets in cars. This should be obvious, but some people don’t realize they can’t bring their pets in and unthinkingly leave them in the car to overheat.

DON’T vandalize anything! Not inside of Hempfest, with stickers and markers, or outside of Hempfest on nearby buildings and businesses. It’s just disrespectful, dude.

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OCEAN GROWN A Sea of Care

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTS BY ALLIE BECKETT

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WHAT’S INSIDE

Since September 1 of last year, Renton has been home to a medical access point built on the idea that patients need more than just variety, quality and potent edibles; they also need education and care. That foundation is what sets Ocean Grown in Renton apart from the rest. The storefront up the hill on the busy 4th Street is unassuming from the outside. Closed blinds and a welcome mat in the shape of a green cross lead the patient into the refreshing and comfortable lobby. The products available at Ocean Grown are from some of the best and most reliable companies in the sometimesfickle medical marijuana realm. Award winners and longtime mainstays in the industry occupy the shelves for excited patients. Peace concentrates from the awardwinning Farmer Joe (including his new terpene-enhanced clear stuff), a large grouping of in-house concentrates, Cap’n Cosmic and their full line of well-dosed edibles along with other fine munchie-makers like TLC, Elevation and Cheeba Chews all make appearances on the menu at Ocean Grown. The flower available is also of the highest caliber. Phenotype Farmers strains, a wide variety of strain-specific pre-rolls and jars with labels reading Starfighter (from Exotic Genetics), Kosher Kush, OG Cindy 99, Kush Berry, Intimidator OG, Honey Bee and Ace of Spades were just a few originally noted of the 30-plus strains available. While the bud on the shelves is as fine as china, the real reason people keep coming back to Ocean Grown is because of the open environment and experienced staff. At Ocean Grown, comfort is key. Nothing makes a patient feel more comfortable than a kind, welcoming and knowledgeable budtender to guide them through the full range of options available. The selection is impressive for new patients and for connoisseurs alike. Patients are never rushed, the open-room policy allows for maximum fluidity and enough staff members are on hand to keep the waves of patients flowing through at a steady, rhythmic pace. Dive into Ocean Grown whenever you’re in the Renton area, and experience what customer care really means.

ADDRESS: 3700 NE 4th Ste. #201, Renton, WA 98056 PHONE: (425) 228-6016 WEB: instagram.com/oceangrowncollective

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CANNABIS CITY

Seattle’s First Recreational Statement WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTS BY ALLIE BECKETT

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WHAT’S INSIDE

On July 8, 2014, the day had finally arrived. All of the talk, all of the bickering, all of the effort, all of the fist-shaking and all of the smiles were gearing up to witness the unveiling of a group of historic cannabis retail storefronts in Seattle and other stores throughout the state. The state’s new I-502-based stores were here, in all of their glory, in all of their triumph, to serve the hungry consumers of cannabis from all over the world. While the opening of these stores wasn’t as impressive as Colorado’s grandfathered recreational cannabis shops, they were open, nonetheless, to remind us that we were entering a new era, a new world to which no one could know what to expect. Here’s what happened on that faithful day. The sun beat down with no remorse on the human line wrapped along the side of Cannabis City (which began the day before as the first person set up camp at 3 p.m.), the only recreational store ready for opening on July 8. People of the press, like locusts, were confined to a sweaty pile of cameras, digital recorders, notepads and questions. All of the bigwigs were there: CNN, NPR, ABC, NBC, along with local cats from The Stranger, The Seattle Times, DOPE Magazine and more. All on hand to witness the ceremonial ribbon cutting (the ribbon consisted of, fittingly enough, police “Do Not Cross” tape) and the grand opening of the first operational business in Seattle to dispense cannabis to any ol’ adult with identification and enough dough. As the ribbon was cut by store-owner James Lathrop, the press area became more intense. Each journalist and their cohorts were elbowing and clamoring to get the perfect shot, the perfect angle to show to their boss and their readers, listeners or viewers who couldn’t make it down to this once-in-a-lifetime event. Alison Holcomb, an I-502 architect, along with Pete Holmes, a Seattle city attorney and avid supporter, and many other 502 advocates were on hand to witness the fruit of their efforts. Even ardent opponents, like Steve Sarich, were still in line to check out what Washington citizens had voted for. Speeches were given as the excitement bubbled to boiling. The first person entered the store and the media frenzy followed suit. One security guard mentioned that there might have been more press than customers. It sure seemed that way. The inside of the store was not unlike many dispensaries. No jars of cannabis could be seen; instead, the glass display cases were filled with black, prepackaged two-gram bags with four individual strains for your purchasing needs. Copper Kush, OG Pearl and a couple other high-priced and high-THC strains made appearances on the shelves along with local glasswork. No edibles, no oils…yet. This showing wasn’t about opening stores for the sake of customers and sales, hell, the decorations on the wall weren’t even hung yet; it was about making a bold and powerful statement. Despite all the hiccups, despite all the waiting, Seattle now had a recreational marijuana store for the masses and it was a good day. The following day, Cannabis City closed after selling out of product. It closed for over a week afterwards, but not before making that important, historic statement.

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MARIJUANA NEWS July 8th, 2014: the legal marijuana industry’s opening day in Washington State went well according to many. Despite extremely long lines, and slightly inflated prices, people were supportive of the new venture and eager to be a part of this historic moment. Although the Washington State Liquid Control Board (WSLCB) issued 24 retail licenses, a mere fraction of these were ready to open for business. Gene Johnson from Associated Press explains that: “the pot being sold at four stores in Seattle, Bellingham, Prosser and Spokane was regulated, tested for impurities, heavily taxed and in short supply - such short supply that several other shops couldn’t open because they had nothing to sell.” This will not only be the case for retail establishments that have yet to launch, but also for those that have already opened their doors. It appears that a pot shortage may damper the industry’s launch. Cannabis City, Seattle’s only licensed retailer is already out of pot. According to Cannabis Now, from July 8 to July 10, Cannabis City sold out of their entire stock of 11 pounds of marijuana, despite the 2-gram quantity limit set per consumer. So why the shortage you ask? A deficit in State licensed growers is the - basic answer. However, as with anything, it is a bit more complicated than that. The Huffington Post reports that the State has licensed less than 80 growers of the 2,600 total applicants. Therefore, not only are harvests limited due to a lack of sufficient licensing, but harvest timing is a complication as well. Only a handful are said to have been ready to harvest in time for the markets launch - the rest need more time. However, with such a limited number of licensed growers, there is nobody who can - legally - fill the gap with their product. According to Seattle Lawyer Kurt Boehl, “hundreds of growers are still waiting for initial contact from the state of even begin the licensing process,” (Cannabis Now). And since the WSLCB issued licenses in March, sufficient harvests were not ready to meet the overwhelming July demand. Not to mention sustaining supply after the initial launch. “Supply is going to be tight,” admits communications director for the WSLCB, Brian Smith. While some feel as

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The August 2014 Edition

Times by Michael Condon Jr

POT AROUND THE WORLD The Other Washington Decriminalizes Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny how the world works sometimes. The democratically (kind of) elected leaders of this country with their childlike squabbling and expensive suits are all centrally located in Washington D.C. and determine the laws of our country, including our marijuana laws, which, by federal standards, is a crime. Not so much in the fine locality of Washington D.C. A law that passed in the D.C. Council last spring is finally taking effect as of midnight on July 17, 2014. It is now decriminalized for an adult to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, a giant leap forward in the battle to legitimize cannabis in the country. While many are still being unnecessarily jailed and imprisoned for cannabis possession throughout the country, in our countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capitol city, a mere fine can be given and nothing more. Chew on that politicos.

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U.S. House Assists Marijuana Industry

First Legal Cannabis Buyer Fired Clad in a tie-dye shirt, the first legal cannabis buyer in Spokane, Washington, was inexplicably fired after his face was plastered all over local and national news. Michael Boyer was first in line to buy legal cannabis, and his part-time employer, TrueBlue Labor Ready, noticed him and drug tested him the following day when he returned to work. After the story went viral, there was a firestorm of criticism from the dutiful press and activists, and the company relented and hired him back stating, “We were not aware that he had taken the day off. He was scheduled to work, we saw him on TV that he was under the influence and that caused us to start a process of screening. When we realized that he was not on assignment, we reinstated him. Pot is legal, and we know that.” Boyer was seemingly unfazed by the original firing and was more excited to be the first to buy it.

One of the biggest concerns for anybody in the cannabis industry is banking. Too much cash on hand and pounds upon pounds of marijuana and marijuana products make for dangerous possibilities for cannabis-store owners and producers. The fear of federal prosecution for money-laundering charges is keeping banks at a distance from cannabis businesses. The United States House of Representatives voted on July 16 to allow federally approved banks to provide “traditional” banking services to marijuana businesses in states where it is legal. The amendment to the Financial Services Appropriations Bill prevents the Treasury Department from spending funds to penalize financial institutions that provide services to state-legal marijuana businesses. The amendment, sponsored by representatives of Washington, Colorado and California, unsurprisingly, prevents the Treasury Department from spending any money to penalize or go after any financial institutions that provide services to cannabis-related businesses. After the historic vote, Bill Piper from the Drug Policy Alliance released a statement saying, “Congress is yet again rejecting the failed war on marijuana. They have read the poll numbers and are doing both what is right and what is politically smart.”

Uruguay Delays Legal Sales The first country to legalize cannabis is deciding to take it slow and be sure to hash out all the difficulties and ramifications of a national legalized cannabis industry. President Mujica recently released statements mentioning “practical difficulties” and pressure from opponents to get things right. “We are not just going to say, ‘hands off and let the market take care of it,’ because if the market is in charge, it is going to seek to sell the greatest possible amount,” President Mujica mentioned in an interview. The government-run marijuana industry is expected to be up and running sometime in 2015, not this year as originally expected, and will allow anybody over 18 access to legal marijuana. Mujica also looked at Washington State and Colorado when making this decision claiming, “If we want to do this sloppily, it is not hard to do that; that’s what the United States is doing. But if we want to get this right...we are going to have to do it slowly.”

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WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTO BY ALLIE BECKETT Oh Hemp. The long misunderstood, non-psychoactive relative of marijuana. Banned, in theory, because of its similarity to the drug or medicine, though the true raison d’etre may be a wee bit more dubious. History, both U.S. and human, is so tightly woven with the fibers of hemp and yet people still know so very little about the once mandated, hugely beneficial crop. Did you know the Pentagon was erected on land previously sanctioned for a U.S. Agriculture Department hemp field? Ah, from seed to slaughter. So distinctively American. In an effort to defrost our collectively foggy windshield, in regards to hemp, I enlisted the aid of long-time industrial hemp

feds are trying to make way at least for research. I’m telling you the floodgates have opened. Oddly, and counterintuitively, Washington (State) has not taken advantage of it.” Activists like Joy have been waiting decades for the legalization of cultivation and production of Industrial Hemp. How much longer doe she expect to be waiting? Joy: “If we’re taking bets. I’m going to say within 5 years we’re going to see Industrial Hemp completely liberated and decriminalized. Within 5 years. On a state level, I predict that at least research and test plots within the next year and that two years from today we will have an industry. That’s my prediction, that may

“If we’re taking bets. I’m going to say within 5 years we’re going to see Industrial Hemp completely liberated and decriminalized.” activist and positive encouragement dealer, Joy Beckerman Maher. If there’s anybody earth who can provide you with the most upto-date and candid information about hemp, it’s this charming woman. I’ve recently heard about the U.S. Farm Bill and its section concerning hemp and hemp research and wanted to clear some things up so we all know what hurdles we’ve jumped and how many more are in our sights. I, like many, assumed since we had legal pot in our laws that surely hemp would be legalized as well. I couldn’t wait to hear how the Hemp industry in Washington was flourishing since the February Farm Bill Signing. Joy: “We don’t have a legal market, we don’t have a legal cultivation here.” Well, shit. Joy: “We started out ahead of the Farm Bill and now the Farm Bill is ahead of us…The Farm Bill only applies to states with industrial hemp legislation ‘on its books.’ We say it’s on our books, Washington, in a de facto manner…Industrial Hemp was de facto defined when our I-502 laws passed. Because of the definition of marijuana, which states that any part of the cannabis plant, whether growing or not, that contains greater than .3% THC.” Ah yes. I-502 and its numerous infamous wording concerns. Joy: “You cannot define these cultivars (Note: marijuana and hemp are separate cultivars) by their level of THC, but we’re willing to work with it. I often call these flawed definitions. Although we don’t take much exception to them, but it’s kind of like defining a man’s courage by the size of his penis. It’s so ridiculous.” My immense bravery aside, I wondered how we, progressive Washingtonians, could have fallen behind the U.S. Government in regards to legalizing a plant. Joy: “There’s no actual industrial hemp legislation specific on the books because none of it has passed. We had four bills last year, three senate bills, two are for research and one was just to add industrial hemp as a component of commercial feed here and they couldn’t even get that one passed. Then there was HB 1888…The

be very optimistic but I didn’t get as far as I have gotten without being optimistic…We’re making a ton of progress kissing ass, being diplomatic, making friends and writing letters. And if you’ve been doing this for as long as I have, I feel like I can now be optimistic. It’s reality, it’s not a vision it’s not something that’s going to happen, it’s something that exists in the world right now. And we need it desperately.” If Washingtonians can’t grow Industrial Hemp, who can? Must be states even more progressive than us, no? Joy: “Alphabetically: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia. I literally skipped the word Washington.” Industrial Hemp, Hempcrete especially, is the all-powerful “biospheric sponge,” as Joy calls it, and she can envision a cleaner, healthier world with an abundance of hemp fields. Joy: “It is a very fast growing crop, and a thick growing crop, and it will actually absorb four times more CO2 while it’s growing then it will give off when it’s burned as a biodiesel fuel. And that’s just one example. It’s cleaning…Our highways and roadways should be lined with industrial hemp because it would capture all of that exhaust and carbon monoxide. The soil remediation is pretty amazing on that plant, that root structure. It’s so obvious that the plant is necessary and essential to humankind.” A plant so essential to humankind. It’s no wonder more people are learning about hemp and extolling the litany of benefits that hemp provides. I asked Joy if she had a final message to readers and soon to be activists who need a starting point to begin the crusade to legalize hemp. She told me this… Joy: “If you have not done so already, let industrial hemp be your inspiration to avail yourself of the amazing legislative system that we have on a state and federal level, and contact your representatives, who work for you, and tell them you want them to work to create and industrial hemp industry for the state of Washington.”

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ROAD TRIP Missouri transplant and Washington State resident, Diana Campbell, has been familiar with the herb most of her life, partaking off and on since she was 15 years old. At 60, she’s a healthy and active grandmother of 10, enjoying a blended family with husband Leon “Wink” Campbell. Diana said she credits her good health solely to cannabis. “I’ve always considered this plant medicine,” Campbell said from her home in the woods across Puget Sound from Seattle proper. “It’s helped me in so many ways – but I’m most thankful, because it’s kept me away from problems with alcohol and drugs.” Legalization has opened the door for many to come out of the smoky closet of prohibition in the state. But as the door opened, the opportunity for medicine makers sharing recipes of healing is what makes legalization so very important.

Into the Light Legalization brought this writer to Washington State and the Seattle/Tacoma area, where Diana and Wink hosted me. While working from their home I was able to educate Diana about ingesting and, basically, she ran with it. “I was first introduced to the healing properties of cannabis from our local cannabis community about five years ago,” Diana explained. “But the door really opened when I invited Sharon Letts into my home. That’s when making personal care products became my purpose in life.” Diana became my special assistant while in Washington, accompanying me to dispensaries, farmers markets and introducing me to many movers and shakers in the cannabis community. She met several cannabis users while volunteering as a hostess of the VIP Lounge at the main stage of Hempfest. In turn, she was all ears, soaking up the information like a sponge, soon setting up crockpots filled with healing oils on the kitchen counter. “I really did not know what I had here, I just knew the spasms in my legs stopped completely,” she informed. “When my mom’s skin problems cleared up, then I knew this was something special, as we had tried just about everything the doctor could suggest and nothing helped.”

Caregiving with Cannabis As a certified caregiver to her elderly mother, Diana has watched her decline in years, suffering from common, but persistent maladies such as dry and cracking skin that wouldn’t heal, minor skin cancers and other maladies that are seemingly accepted as a part of old age now in the traditional medical community. “Mom’s feet worried me because of her diabetes,” she added. “She has pain from neuropathy, too, but all that has been helped with the products I make now with this plant. Her skin looks so good, her doctors remark on how nice she looks.” Friends and family are all helped when someone starts to make medicine with this plant. This is how it used to be done – stovetop remedies used to be the norm, with the matriarchs of the family passing down herbal remedies from generation to generation. Diana said it’s been a domino effect in helping those around her with real ailments, with her most rewarding patients close to home. “My granddaughter’s boyfriend has been suffering with eczema and psoriasis for a very long time,” she said. “He was at the point of

giving up hope, living with this itching and pain – and embarrassment. It’s hard for a young person when they have a skin disorder. Since he’s been using my products he now has healthy skin he’s never seen before!” “Diana’s World of Canna Beauty” began with one crockpot, a tub of coconut oil, trim that a past collective garden was going to toss and a desire to do something more with the plant. Her good intentions have turned into a cottage industry line of multiple care products and a full-time gig, working several of Washington State’s farmers markets regularly. On any given weekend, Diana can be found with her better half, Wink, behind a table full of lotions, salves, eye and face creams; hot oil hair and scalp treatments; lip balms, Dead Sea bath salts and more. All of it is available in gift packages ready to make a believer out of anyone willing to try. For, as Diana tells it, all one has to do is try cannabis to be a believer in the plant. “The medicinal properties in the plant accelerate the healing process, and many of my products are interchangeable for different ailments” she continued. “I have people who use my body butter to help heal tattoos, stretch marks, sunburns, burns, insect bites,

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ROAD TRIP corns, boils, scrapes and bruises. It also helps with circulation and rejuvenates your skins natural glow. I really can’t say enough about this plant and all the applications I’ve found to help people.”

Family Apothecary And while cannabis is the main and strongest active ingredient in her products, Diana, as other personal care makers in the industry have found to be important, adds other healing herbs and elements to the mix. “I add essential oils like grape seed, peppermint, avocado – even biblical scents, like frankincense and myrrh – to my products,” she said. “I’m also thoughtful of using natural bases like organic coconut and castor oil, beeswax and distilled water – everything matters and contributes greatly to healing. It’s putting the right things together that make a difference in what ails you and what makes you better, in my book.” Diana’s “book” is a lengthy brochure of sorts, listing all her products, what’s in them, how they work and how cannabis helps. Husband, Wink, helps build the catalog – along with many other items needed for this growing family business. “This is the last thing we thought we’d be doing in retirement,” Diana laughed. “But when you are healed and helped with this

plant, there aren’t many other choices. And I couldn’t do any of this without Wink! He is my expert assistant and my best friend. He makes the boxes, prints the labels – and he is right there with me from the time we load the car, to when we take down the table. It’s a team effort.”

A Healing Win Recently, Diana entered her “Foot & Muscle Butter” in the Kitsap farmers market competition in Gorst where Diana took home a first place trophy in the topical category – her first official acknowledgement that her work is working. “It felt great getting this award,” Diana said. “I entered the butter into the competition because so many people like it and it’s been used for so many things. Sore muscles, cracked and dry skin are a given, but it also deodorizes – you can actually use it as deodorant, as it kills bacteria and fungus.” Patients who have used the butter say it’s helped with hemorrhoids, neuropathy issues and mouth sores. Diana said her granddaughter mixed it with salt water and gargled for an infection, soothing her sore throat better than cough drops. Local medicine makers Windi and Sean Chamberlin gave Diana a place at their table early on at the now-defunct Green Light

Expo in Tacoma, formerly run by Myron “Myo” Connery. Windi, a fibromyalgia patient, learned through her own trials and errors on making good medicine with the plant and is a shining example of how the cannabis community cares for its own. “We totally love helping people with this plant and educating them on its benefits,” Windi said. “We are so proud of Diana and think it’s great she was recognized. She puts so much hard work and love into making every batch. Love is actually her main ingredient! True healers are hard to find and we are blessed to have Diana in our lives.” The State of Washington’s rules of legalization leave much to be desired when it comes to good medicine, but as long as medicine makers step up to the table, sharing healing for the masses, the plant will prevail. “I thank the plant for the medicine it gives,” Diana surmised. “But, I really need to thank our local medicine makers for their support and guidance and the markets for giving me a place to share my products. Without this combination, I wouldn’t be doing this good work.” “Diana’s World of Canna Beauty & Skin Health” can be found on Facebook and at the following markets: Sonshine Organics, Olympia; Patient Cannabis Exchange, Tacoma; Kitsap Cannabis Farmers Fair, Gorst and various dispensaries. For more information and wholesale orders, visit www.dianasworldofbeautyandskinhealth.com

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National lighter company allows pot leaf on product WRITTEN BY SHARON LETTS

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MARIJUANA NEWS In the world of branding, wearing someone’s company

she called back, she said the legal department’s response

on your person is a 17 billion-dollar industry, nationally.

was that they will allow us to print it, but they must review

According to Lightning Bug Branding, a promotional

every job for legalities. They need to make sure we aren’t

company catering to cannabis businesses based in

printing pot leaves on lighters going to non-legal states,

Washington State, the average man owns up to eight

medical or recreational.”

promotional caps. Check any cannabis enthusiast’s closet

In the world of legalization, ordinances prevail, and no

and no doubt you’ll find enough branded t-shirts to dress a

one single group can proclaim as many safeguards and

small orchestra.

demands as there are with this plant and the people who

Swag is big at cannabis events, and I’m not talking bud. At any given event this writer typically walks away with a swag

grow, distribute and create ancillary products surrounding it.

bag full of stickers, bud jars, t-shirts and typically a plethora

BIC responded accordingly, stating they too have noted

of lighters sporting dispensaries, product makers and even

the changes, with Communications Manager Margit

legal counsel information. Pulled over? Not to worry, your

Fawbush sharing the company’s reevaluation of the

first call is printed on the lighter in your pocket.

situation.

With all the lighters given out, the discerning smoker may

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its

guidelines

have noted in past years there have been nary a favored BIC

regarding orders for promotional products that include

lighter in sight with a pot leaf upon it. Only the lesser models

artwork related to ‘marijuana’ for medicinal or recreational

have been prominent – with many that stop working after

purposes,” Fawbush advised in a statement sent via email.

a few strikes.

“Our guidelines also require that the imprint on the product

Why is this, you ask? Because the BIC company,

promote the business or event.”

established in 1945 in France with its fountain pen for

In summation, BIC would rather not have just the leaf of

the common man, would not allow cannabis branding

my medicine on its lighters. The leaf needs to be related to

depicting a graphic of a pot leaf on its lighter. Until recently,

a cannabis business. It’s alright, baby steps. In my lifetime

thanks to the due diligence of Lightning Bug Branding’s

I never thought I’d be a cannabis patient, let alone write

David Woods.

about this plant internationally. It’s my feeling that we need

“We’ve specialized in products for dispensaries for the past several years and have fought with BIC’s legal

to be grateful for the good things happening and continue to work for change for the rules that still need fixing.

department the entire time to get them to print a pot leaf

“BIC lighters are hands down our top-selling item for

on the lighters,” Woods informed. “When we became a top-

dispensaries,” Woods added. “We are very excited to have

10 distributor of BIC lighters just a few months ago, they

won this battle for our clients, as the lighters are the best

changed their stance.”

kind of business for them in terms of marketing, branding

Last year was the first Hempfest after the vote for

and exposure – and one of the least expensive. We give

legalization and everyone boarded the green train, marketing

them the lighters at a cost that allows them to resell them

leaves and weed references all over Seattle proper for the

for a profit, if that’s what they’d like to do.”

mega event drawing more than 30,000 attendees over a

The lighters were added to BIC’s portfolio of products

three-day period along Puget Sound. Even Seattle’s finest

in 1973 and it’s easy to assume pot smokers have been

posted the rules of legalization with well wishes on a bag of

using them consistently ever since. Woods said he’d lay

nationally known Doritos, manufactured by the former Frito

odds that nearly every pot smoker has a BIC lighter in his

Lay Company, now PepsiCo. But according to Woods, BIC

or her pocket, including himself, and challenged this writer

wouldn’t budge.

to check her bag. He was right. Even during my travels to

“I can’t tell you the amount of phone calls made to BIC’s legal offices,” Woods said. “We just could not get them to get on board for the leaf for Hempfest last year.”

France this past month, BIC lighters were definitely part of the puff-puff-pass norm. With the recent addition of New York accepting cannabis

Money talks when it comes to the stigma of pot falling

as medicine, 23 states are now being helped with good

away for profit, and ironically, the top-10 sales accolades

medicine – nearly half the country, with several more states

came directly from the amount of cannabis companies

in line for either legalization, medicine or CBD-only oil for

printing branding on BIC lighters, making it hard for the

certain maladies. It’s only natural for national companies to

company to ignore the significance any longer.

gradually get on board the green train eventually.

“The day BIC called to give us the news about our top-

The lighters are one small step for the industry in a big

10 status, the first question we asked was if we can print a

way, hopefully BIC is lighting up the path for more synergy

cannabis leaf on the lighters for our clients,” Woods laughed.

in the business world of weed.

“The rep asked if she could call us back in 10 minutes. When

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GROW Dutch Master has designed the Commercial Edition nutrients for specific grow styles and systems. We didn’t just re-label and re-package our domestic range of products like our competitors–we listened, we developed and we mastered. We understand that different systems use different media and therefore require a different balance of elements to perform at maximum capability. There are four new ‘system-specific’ nutrients available, with two of them offering a hard-water version! (These are only available in

commercial sizes and volume quantities.)

MEDIA FEED

This nutrient formulation was designed with the likes of rock wool, perlite, expanded clay and other medias in mind. Also available in a hard-water version.

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DUTCH MASTER NUTRIENTS MAKES CULTIVATION A BREEZE We at Dutch Master Nutrients understand the true scientific qualities of the cannabis plant and have continuously worked hard to ensure our products produce the best possible quality and yield for the cultivator and consumer alike! So what’s next for Dutch Master Nutrients? Enter the all-new MED-SERIES COMMERCIAL EDITION, designed, tested and manufactured by our in-house team of doctors and scientists in Washington State. This is the world’s first ‘commercial-specific’ range of nutrient and foliar spray products designed exclusively for large-scale cannabis cultivation. Our design brief was simple: create a range of products that simplified use for the master grower while providing a complete arsenal of the latest, up-to-date plant nutrition technologies available. The Med-Series Commercial Edition range of products is a brand-new, modern approach to nutrient and foliar spray science. We began formulating and trialing the Commercial Edition in California and Washington in 2012. Since then, we have continuously upgraded to the latest advancements from all corners of the plantsciences globe. Commercial-scale grow-ops demand a lot of time and attention. Providing nourishment should be quick and easy. The master grower is way too busy to be adding a million additives to their feed tanks. This is why we designed a simple range of complete products that provide all the quality essential elements without the need for excessive additives. Our new Commercial Edition range of products provides many extras that have not normally been incorporated into base nutrients or foliar sprays previously. For example, the nutrient formulations include a root-zone delivery agent allowing maximal uptake of every element within the mix. Think of it as a wetting agent for the root system. Likewise, the foliar sprays also include a delivery agent in the mix, saving you time and money. Dutch Master was at the forefront of testing these technologies back in the mid 2000s at the UBC in Vancouver, Canada. We discovered maximum elemental uptake by attaching radioactive tags to various-size carbohydrate molecules and viewing their uptake through confocal microscopy in real time. This proved our theory that specific delivery agents, when applied to the nutrient or foliar spray regime in a unique format, increase elemental uptake considerably–resulting in healthier, faster-growing plants, period. This is pure science at work!

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AQUA FEED

Balanced just right to allow 24/7 contact with the roots. Formulated for performance growing in DWC, aeroponics and NFT-style systems. Also available in a hard-water version.

COIR FEED

Designed for use with coconut coir, this popular medium has its own inherent traits that definitely need to be taken into account when formulating a highperformance nutrient designed to work with the coir itself. The result is the correct supply of a balanced elemental delivery.

EARTH FEED

Designed for the grower who prefers to utilize one of Mother Nature’s finest natural mediums, such as garden soil or dirt. Our soil formula is balanced to provide the correct dosage of a typical soil-feed regime whilst maintaining an optimal pH balance. Along with the new nutrient range, Dutch Master has designed, developed and tested an all-new foliar spray product available in vegetative and bloom-specific formulas. (These are only available in commercial sizes and volume quantities.)

LEAF TONIC / FLOWER TONIC

Make elemental lockout and typical grow-room elemental deficiencies a thing of the past! We have incorporated a built-in wetting and delivery agent, along with a mild, proprietary mix of amino acids and vitamin B plus macro and microelements that maintain perfect ‘in-plant’ ratios. Just spray and any possible troubles go away real quick and with the added benefits of extreme nutrient absorption and superior plant growth. The perfect commercial foliar partner to the perfect commercial nutrient. You will find that the Med-Series Commercial Edition is by far the easiest and most-advanced feed regime offered by any nutrient manufacturer today.

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WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT TOURING OUR STATE’S MANY MEDICAL AND RECREATIONAL CANNABIS CULTIVATING FACILITIES OFFERS A UNIQUE VIEW OF THE INDUSTRY AS IT EMERGES FROM THE DARK AND INTO THE LIMELIGHT OF AMERICAN HISTORY. WE SEE THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE BASIC, THE ELABORATE, THE POWERFUL, THE FRAIL AND EVERY LITTLE STEM AND FALLEN, YELLOWED FAN LEAF IN BETWEEN. THE PRICEY EQUIPMENT IS APPEALING, SEXY, YOU COULD SAY. THE LAB COATS AND ZILLION DOLLAR HVAC SYSTEMS ARE IMPRESSIVE, THAT’S CERTAIN, BUT THERE’S SOMETHING TO SAY FOR BASIC, HONEST OPERATIONS PERFORMED BY A GROUP OF LIKE-MINDED AND WELL-VERSED FRIENDS TRYING TO CREATE THE BEST CANNABIS FOR EVERYBODY. CANNABIS CLUB COLLECTIVE, A FAMILIAR AND REPUTABLE NAME IN THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY, ARE DEDICATED TO QUALITY AND COMFORT. HERE’S WHAT WE WITNESSED AT THEIR CAREFULLY DESIGNED SPOT.

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We eagerly descended the downgrading slope, under a sun-filled day in Tacoma, towards a roll up door which was joyously flung open to welcome us. The building was noticeably older, 1920’s it turned out, but was still in admirable shape and appearance. Large bags of nutrient rich soil stacked in neat piles, the distinct aroma of flowering marijuana and the subtle hum of powerful 1000 watt lights were all signs we were in the right place. We scoped out the pungent flower room first. Three rows of short but thick-branched plants were feeding off of the buzzing lights. The blooming ladies were stationed in wide pots and bent daily (some under 6 inches in height) so those little, tiny, often neglected, buds near the bottom of the plant can soak up the light usually hogged by the higher nugs and reach their full healing capacity. Names such as White Rhino, Alien on Moonshine, Sour Tsunami (as they always produce at least one CBD strain with every run), Biker OG and the whole gamut of Cookies based strains; Thin Mint, Platinum and even a Phantom Cookies. Just beside the aromatically ambrosial flower room was the curing room. The last step in the waiting game of growing. Slats of cedar lined the walls of the narrow hallway-like room and dozens of drying plants were hanging upside down on a hook attached to a scale, checked daily, in order to keep track of the unavoidable weight loss caused by the curing process. Smart, honest. The room was airy and had a comfortable temperature for plants and humans. We walked through the door at the other end of the curing locale into an office-like space which was being occupied by professional, mindful and delicate bud trimmers equipped with proper gloves, shears and the sharp attire to snip the finalizing buds into cute little morsels of medicine for patients. We dipped our hats to the hard workers, good trimmers are hard to find, and inhaled the aroma of a Blueberry strain, I believed, that was currently being processed. Like a labyrinth we continued onward into yet another unexpected room. We walked up a few steps and were shown a greatly expansive albeit empty room. A future home of expansion we were to learn as we carried onward. We stepped into the next room which had previously been burned in a fire and only recently rebuilt. It will be a “sea of green,” or a room full of ever flourishing mothers. This place had immense potential for a complete 502 operation and medical. Down the stairs again, though a new set, and we were shown the clone room. Full of polite little baby plants this room was quaint but efficient and had the appeal of a science lab. Next door to the clone room was the vegging chamber, the future harvests…Continuity and consistency are in short supply in the industry. Thankfully there are still growers and workers like there are at the Cannabis Club Collective’s inspiring cultivating outfit. We were waved off with smiles from the staff and snorts from a pair of beautiful bulldogs. Allowing the media to scope out your grow op? Would’ve been a surefire federal sentence 20 years ago. I smelled the cannabis in the air as we walked back to the car. It’s a smell I’ll never forget. It’s the smell of progress.

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Portable Pendants HEMPFEST STANDARDS

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTO BY ALLIE BECKETT

It’s a difficult scene to imagine for many smokers: You bring your finest of bongs, pipes or rigs to proudly display at Hempfest, you’re full of eagerness and joy, when your hands clam up from the heat, causing your beloved piece to slip and fall to the ground in a shattering of ego and glass. Don’t let that happen this year; pick up a glass-blown pendant piece to not only give you an extra level of security and peace of mind, but also to serve as a slick, stylish addition to anybody’s collection. These reasonably priced mini-pieces come with a safety rope for both convenience and style and hit better than most. The pendants have been steadily growing in appearance at Hempfests for years now and are primed to become the most commonly held pieces this year, or in the coming years. The portability and function are undoubtedly the driving force

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behind the growth of the decorated water pipes, but many people are scooping up their own just to keep their hands available for the entirety of their Hempfest visit. Local glassblowers are setting their aim at the growing market and unloading a storm of new pendants for your festival-going needs, each with a personal artistic touch and utility. Some use water, some are fanciful Sherlocks, but all of them offer the safety necklace, often made of hemp, and the assurance of a good time. So what are you waiting for? You know you need that special piece to flaunt around Hempfest this year, so ride the wave of popularity and pick up one of these bad boys to forever be one of the cool kids and, more importantly, so you won’t end up with broken glass and a broken heart.

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MARIJUANA NEWS

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Marijuana. Weed. Bud. Herb. DOES SEX HAVE A PLACE IN MARKETING CANNABIS?

WRITTEN BY NOELLE COOK PHOTO BY ROMAN RIVERA

Those of you avid cannabis consumers know that this list of “pot” terminology could go on and on. Just as the lengthy list of synonyms varies, so do the types and kinds of people who partake in the benefits of the plant. You’ve got your middle-aged, hard working man, who just likes a few puffs before bed – the college student who tends to couple their joint with a can of PBR – the elderly cancer patient who often ingests 420 candies to relieve the pain – you name it…just about anyone smokes or eats cannabis these days! As the legalization of recreational cannabis grows, so do the entrepreneurs in the industry. One thing that any successful business owner knows to invest in (besides the quality of their product) is advertising. The more that a product or brand is shoved down America’s throat…the more likely the business will flourish. Cough, iPhone, cough. Now, what is the one thing that we all know effectively sells most often? SEX. “Sex Sells.” Or does it… While first discussing the “sex sells” method in regards to advertising in the cannabis industry, my immediate opinion was “Absolutely!” Hell, cigarettes, beer and just about ANY other product market you can think of, from shoes to cars to phones, have been utilizing good-looking women to help encourage sales for years. Why should the cannabis marketplace be any different? However, I had to back up my enthusiasm and consider the other 420 friendly folk. While we’re considering types of cannabis consumers, I’ll go ahead and say, I’m what they call a “functioning stoner.” I don’t need Marijuana to curb any pain (although it does come in handy for the occasional stomach ache), but I also don’t abuse the plant so much so that I have no drive or ambition to get up off the couch. So my opinion on using sex to sell cannabis and other THC products is the opinion of someone who has been pro-recreational use for years. For those who are still warming up to the idea of even medical cannabis, let alone recreational marijuana use, adding in a dose of “busty babe” to the flyer or commercial doesn’t exactly work towards relieving the plant of its negative connotations. I even know a few people who are extremely pro-medical use who are also largely against recreational use because they feel that the plant needs to remain a medication. You wouldn’t see Tylenol being advertised by a bikini model… There is a very broad spectrum of opinions regarding cannabis and its uses, so how smart is it to introduce “sleaze” into advertising? Who will love it? Who will hate it? Well, here at Online Marijuana Design (www.onlinemarijuanadesign. com), we were just too curious not to find out! We decided that if any company was going to take the plunge, it should be us. Our opinion, collectively being: If it is done right, in a non-trashy or raunchy way, the results could be quite positive. After all, having a pretty face and a cute frame representing the product does not affect the integrity of the product; but depending on how these assets are presented, could decide your fate. So at OMD, we decided to go “Retro, Pin-Up, Sexy”; we wanted to construct beauty and creativity in the eyes of both new and old cannabis connoisseurs. Let us know how we did! Email noelle@onlinemarijuanadesign.com

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UNSUNG HEROES VOLUNTEERS, THE HEART AND SOUL OF HEMPFEST WRITTEN AND PHOTOS BY SHARON LETTS

HEMPFEST BEGAN WITH A HOPE AND A PRAYER BY VOLUNTEERS WORKING TO EDUCATE AND ENLIGHTEN THE MASSES ON A PLANT THAT STILL PROMISES TO SAVE THE WORLD. WITH LITTLE COMPENSATION, THEY WORK TIRELESSLY – OFTEN AT THE MOST MUNDANE JOBS – YET THEY WORK WITH ENTHUSIASM FOR THE GREATER GOOD. FOUNDING ORGANIZER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VIVIAN MCPEAK SAID MORE THAN 1,000 VOLUNTEERS SIGN UP ONLINE, WITH AS MANY T-SHIRTS HANDED OUT TO STAFFERS AND MORE THAN 960 PEOPLE PHYSICALLY CHECKED IN FOR SHIFTS AT ANY GIVEN TIME.

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EVENTS “Chill switch, not kill switch” - Safety Patrol Motto Security for an event this size is serious business and starts months in advance with safety training sessions, stacks of paperwork and myriad meetings leading up to the event. Ami Audal has been in charge of safety as Draper Administrator in the “Draper Compound” since 2012. Named after the late Meril Draper, a longtime and beloved volunteer, the main safety compound is one of two security stations, with a crew of 100 “Safety Patrol” volunteers scattered throughout the park. Making sure simple measures are taken to prevent big issues is what the Safety Patrol does. Keeping people hydrated, free from injury and escorting scene-stealers out of the park keeps the event chill. “My favorite incident was when a guy was attempting to sell medicated brownies on site,” Audal shared, noting the “no-active-product” rule at the fest. “He attempted to make the sale in front of a staffer, was caught, then ran and hid in a Porta Potty… right in front of my compound! He was faced with me and a handful of other safety volunteers waiting for him when he came out.” Backup onsite is provided by “Staff Pro,” a private security company, the Seattle Police Department, Port of Seattle on the Sound side and the Seattle Fire Department. Audal said she and the staff have a good relationship with Seattle’s finest. “I’ve had nothing but wonderful experiences with them,” Audal said. “Working with them helped change my view on police in general. They are people like you and I trying to do a job, and it sucks a few bad eggs portray them in a negative light.” Audal said she originally began volunteering because her friends were doing it and it was fun. “I’ve stuck around because we are working toward the same goal,” she said. “Hempfest prompted me to start working with the Cannabis Freedom March as well as meeting with legislature in Olympia to help reform laws and save people from the heartache of unfair persecution. It’s heartbreaking we have families in the medical marijuana system facing jail time for trying to heal.” Queen of Hospitality Yvonne Snyder is the hospitality director in charge of budgeting and shopping for the kitchen. She also ensures everything arrives safely and meals are in place for the more than 2,400 performers and speakers who grace four stages, including a Friday night kickoff party for VIPs. Her title came after she noted Director McPeak eating a block of cheese before a band practice with her ex-husband, prompting her to bring food for their next gig. When she asked what she could do for Hempfest, it was a given she’d be in or near the kitchen. “That first year I had a budget of $125 and didn’t even have tables,” she laughed. “I borrowed flight cases from the stage.” Snyder said she first began volunteering because it was “fun,” but then she began hearing the stories from speakers with tragic tales of the country’s failed War on Drugs. “I met Ralph Seeley and heard his story, and after that I decided I was working for the patients,” she explained. “A few years later I met Will Foster and

wept. I had sent him cards when he was in prison and I had been so incensed that someone would be put in prison for growing this plant. At that point, I was working for the POWs.” Snyder said legalization has moved the ending of prohibition in the State of Washington along, but there is still much work to be done, with hemp yet to be grown in Washington soil. “People need to know the many varied aspects of the hemp and cannabis plants so they can make informed choices,” she added. “I believe over two decades of successful Hempfests have helped demonstrate how many people are behind repealing the prohibition of cannabis and hemp.” The Water Goddess Hempfest happens in the height of summer and with temperatures easily reaching up into the 90s, making water mandatory. For the past 10 years Jena Evans has been the “Hydration Coordinator” with the help of water cohorts Devin Krizan and Kellie Parker. “Hydration is a fancy way of saying that I bring all the other volunteers the water that keeps them working,” Evans shared. “It’s kind of important.” According to the hospitality coordinator, Snyder, carrying water to thirsty workers in all parts of the more-than-a-mile-and-ahalf stretch along Puget Sound is no “I PLAN ON VOLUNTEERING AT small task. Golf THIS EVENT EVERY YEAR UNTIL carts are the norm for transportation THEY PUT ME IN MY GRAVE.” along the park’s DIANA CAMPBELL, narrow paths, but MAIN STAGE HOSTESS not always available. “As simple as Jena’s job sounds, it is not,” Snyder explained. “It can be one of the most stressful jobs in the park. From one to six in the afternoon there is a golf cart moratorium, and she cannot drive water around. They get creative with wagons and, on occasion, a wheelchair! It’s been amazing to see the changes that have to be made to accommodate the growth of the event.” Evans’ water work doesn’t allow her to enjoy the event the way others do, but that’s the way she likes it. “I love my job – not because I’m in the limelight, but because I get to move in the shadows,” she shared. “If I’ve done my job right, people don’t even know I’ve been there, they just know

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PATIENT PROFILE James Stansberry FIGHTING CANCER WITH CANNABIS WRITTEN BY JAMES STANSBERRY As I sit here today, the trees outside my window making me feel like I’m in a tree house instead of an apartment, I’m very aware of two facts: that the cannabis has fully ‘bloomed’ in my system and that I’m very, very lucky. About one year ago (summer solstice), I noticed I was feeling more fatigued than usual after a long walk from a bus stop to the Fremont Solstice Parade. It was a hot day, so I attributed my fatigue, and the fact that I started to feel panicky and dizzy in the middle of the crowd, to possible heat exhaustion. Some very nice EMTs helped me, gave me water and stayed with me until I calmed down and the dizziness faded. I went on into the vendor area, still feeling a bit logy, bought a few things, made my way to the bus stop, then went home. It would be about a week later when I noticed that an area under my left arm felt more sore than the other side. This, I thought, was from an extra-hard series of workouts I’d been doing, that featured a lot of pushups. I also noticed discharge coming from my left nipple, and that scared me enough to see my primary care doctor. She palpated my breast, took a culture of the discharge and, with a worried look on her face, she made a referral for me to not

only get a mammogram, but an ultrasound too, to see if maybe I had an infection in my mammary ducts. So, the day of the mammogram and ultrasound, I was nervous, but still thinking it was merely an infection and tried not to worry. Worry poured into me and spilled over as I lay on the exam table, watching the ultrasound technician move the instrument over my breast and slowly begin to make little ‘marks’ on the screen, indicating that there was indeed something to worry about. It was when he took out a tiny ruler and measured an area on my actual breast that the blood began to pound in my temples. By the time he was done and told me that what he saw looked ‘worrying’ and that it could be cancer, I simply burst into tears. I think I scared the man, who I found out was still an intern, with my extreme display of sorrow, but I couldn’t help it. I’d feared the ‘C’ word every since my mother and grandmother succumbed to cancer over 20 years ago, now, and this was my worst fear come true. I gathered myself and a nurse came into the room, stirred by my loud sobs, to see if everything was okay. I told her yes I was okay, and when I was more collected, I called my partner’s mother and left a message.

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He had to leave after the mammogram for work so he didn’t know what had happened at the ultrasound exam. That was a year, and many tears and feelings of anger, ago and finally, I felt acceptance of the diagnosis that I had ductal carcinoma in situ: cancer in my breast ducts. Today, with a mass that was the entire left half of my left breast, from the chest wall to the nipple, starting to melt away under my super doses of cannabis concentrate, I feel more alive than I ever have in my life. I also have used cannabis leaves from my own cannabis plant to help one of my cats resolve what looks to be seizures. She now has what might be half of an attack a day, sometimes not even that, and sleeps a bit, then drinks a ton of water, eats and seems fine. My partner also used medical cannabis to treat the pain of a hernia he got from his none-too-kind retail job, finding it more useful than standard pain relief. We think this is why he’s been healing up so fast and is back to work on light duty now. I’m more of an activist for patients who use medical cannabis, determined to get this message, that yes you can cure cancer with cannabis, out to everyone. To me, I’m a walking miracle and, one year after being diagnosed, that is just fine with me.

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Happy Birthday, Peter! WRITTEN BY SHARON LETTS PHOTO BY ALLIE BECKETT

This year August 5th marks the 66th birthday of poet and bestselling author Peter McWilliams. His stage at the far end of the park stands in tribute to a man who was at the forefront of explaining cannabis as medicine when he was arrested for growing the very plant that could save him. “A Question of Compassion” was to be his defining book on the medical uses of cannabis. An AIDS patient, diagnosed in 1996, McWilliams was famously quoted as saying, “Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine, and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science,” but the quote fell on deaf ears as the writer perished during his trial, found dead on his bathroom floor, suffocated from his own vomit. Denver grower of “Charlotte’s Web” fame, Josh Stanley, narrates a video based on the book that couldn’t be finished, compiled by fan Julia, who keeps McWilliams’ memory alive.

For more information about Peter McWilliams visit www.petermcwilliams.org “A Question of Compassion” can be viewed on You Tube www.facebook.com/ QuestionofCompassion

CELEBRATING PETER MCWILLIAMS (1949-2000)

Cannabis Oil creator Rick Simpson said he feels the video has a great deal of impact for the cause. “Peter was a great man, who was taken from us due to the insanity of those who have been controlling our existence,” Simpson said, “But, I expect that his work will have an everlasting effect on our culture and soon others will no longer have to suffer the same fate that he did, at the hands of these monsters.” Steve Phun runs the McWilliams stage at the fest and said he was in Europe when Peter died in 2000. “When I returned from Europe I was told the stage I was volunteering for was now named after him,” Phun shared. “I had not heard of Peter before then, but read “Ain’t Nobody’s Business if you Do,” and was immediately a huge fan of his outlook. He solidified a lot of my focus on activism to promote freedom.” Phun said the 1993 page-turner “Ain’t Nobody’s Business if you Do,” is a training

manual of sorts on the reasons to abolish consensual crimes, allowing for a truly free society. It’s also been called the “Libertarian Bible” and a “manifesto” for the Libertarian movement. Hempfest General Manager Sharon Whitson said the work created by Julia is touching and informative, and details the miracle that is the cannabis plant. “Peter sought out to find a cure for himself, found cannabis and brought insight, compassion and sense to the world,” Whitson said. “Peter’s life was sacrificed to the War on Drugs. Although we still travel the road of understanding cannabis as medicine, it’s my hope that our burgeoning legalization will allow research to take its study to the next level and bring it from the shadows and into the public realm to benefit mankind. Peter took us a long way on this journey and he will be forever missed.”

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SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM Solstice Unleashes Their Pack

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT

Medical patients are used to seeing those nondescript, nonstrain-specific pre-rolled joints wrapped in bleached paper at damn near every dispensary. Usually they’re full of shake, stems, seeds and who knows what else stuffed into sloppily rolled disgraces to the cannabis industry. Now there’s a new solution brought to you by the perpetually bubbling brains at Seattle’s Solstice. Now available at any access point (any access point that’s worth their penny loafers, that is) are Solstice’s pre-rolled packs of their award-winning cannabis. No fluff, no shake, no mixes and no more having to carry around a smelly bag of doja and loose papers in your pocket. It’s time for us to start carrying our chronic with some pride, with some maturity. It’s legal(ish), after all. Each box contains six slim, hand-rolled, half-gram Js of whichever flavor your fluttering heart desires. The White, Headband, Jesus and Blueberry Cheesecake are the mainstays, the regulars you could say. Solstice will also be offering seasonal strains in the near future including Tangelo, Dutch Treat and Grand Daddy Purple, just to name a few. Solstice plans on revolving the flavors as the market dictates. The pre-rolls are not only stuffed with premium nugs, but are also twisted up with love and without the saliva-covered gum lines many pot enthusiasts are accustomed to when rolling their own. The long, narrow crutch leads up to a simple cone joint in natural paper, which is carefully filled and sealed by trained employees. The packs will only cost you a reasonable $30 for three grams of high-quality pot and they are available in roughly 17 locations around our state. Talk to your local flowering hole about picking up a display case full of Solstice’s prerolled packs, take ‘em with you to your miscellaneous misadventures and talk about them to friends when you’re hobnobbing in secret soirees and wild celebrations. The future is here.

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POTENTIAL ROLE OF CANNABIS IN TREATING PARKINSON’S DISEASE SYMPTOMS BY HEATH LASLO

HEALTH Growing up during the 80’s as a teenager I remember a new young actor by the name of Michael J. Fox who was hitting the big screen with his widely successful roles in the “Back to the Future” movie franchise. The movie series ran from 1985-1990, and one could argue that Michael was seemingly at the top of his career. Shortly afterward in 1991, Michael J Fox was diagnosed with Parkinsons Disease and has been a champion for the disease ever since. In 2000, the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research was started and his organization has been on the forefront for finding a cure ever since. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the more common neurodegenerative brain disorders that progresses very slowly, similar to Alzheimer’s disease. This typically means that a Parkinson’s patient will live with the symptoms of the disease for twenty years or more from the time of diagnosis. Although Parkinson’s itself is not fatal, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) rated complications from the disease as the 14th top cause of death in the United States. Currently, there isn’t any cure for Parkinson’s, however; there are a number of medications aimed at controlling the symptoms of the disease and increasing quality of life for patients. Since most symptoms of PD are caused by the lack of dopamine in the brain, many Parkinson’s medications are aimed at either temporarily replenishing dopamine or mimic the action of dopamine. These types of drugs are called dopaminergic. These medications generally help reduce muscle rigidity, improve speed and coordination of movement, and lessen tremor. Physicians are increasingly recognizing the presence and effects of other symptoms of PD that are sometimes called “non-motor symptoms”. These symptoms are common and can also have a major impact on Parkinson’s patients. They include: Sleeping problems (REM Sleep Disorders, where patients act out their dreams), mood disorders (depression and anxiety), cognitive impairment, and pain. With the slow onset of the disease, managing symptoms and increasing quality of life is paramount for patients. Unfortunately only 75% of patients who are given traditional therapies to boost dopamine levels do not respond to medication, hence additional options to control the symptoms of the disease over the long-term become paramount; hence enter the role of cannabis in treating the disease.

According to recent observational trial data published in the March/ April edition of the journal Clinical Neuropharmacology. Investigators at Tel Aviv University, Department of Neurology evaluated Parkinson’s disease symptoms in 22 patients at baseline, and 30-minutes after inhaling cannabis. Researchers reported that inhaled cannabis was associated with “significant improvement after treatment in tremor, rigidity, and bradykinsea (slowness of movement). There was also a significant improvement of sleep and pain scores. “No significant adverse effects of the drug were observed.” They concluded: “This observational study is the first to report an amelioration of both motor and non-motor symptoms in patients with PD treated with cannabis.” Additional recent studies have demonstrated that the administration of cannabidiol (CBD), a nonpsychotropic cannabinoid, controls sleep disorders in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to a series of case summaries published in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. An international team of investigators from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and the University of Minnesota Medical School reported on the ingestion of CBD by four Parkinson’s disease patients with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) - a condition characterized by nightmares and active behavior during dreaming. Daily cannabidiol treatment reduced symptoms in each of the four subjects, researchers reported. Symptoms returned with the same frequency and intensity following subjects’ discontinuation of the cannabinoid. The researchers concluded, “This case series indicates that CBD is able to control the symptoms of RBD,” “Further research is necessary to confirm the possibly beneficial effects of CBD in the treatment of RBD in patients with PD. Furthermore, the enrollment of patients with idiopathic RBD in clinical trials with CBD is desirable, as it would enable the investigation of the effects of the drug both on the symptoms of the disorder and as a neuroprotective agent.” Both of the studies cited above were published in 2014 and demonstrate the continued interested in finding alternative treatments to manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and it appears that cannabis might be an alternative to traditional dopaminergic medications for PD.

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WE’RE BACK!

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SOJA: AWAKENING THROUGH MUSIC WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT Though the sky over Marymoor Park was overcast, the radiance was intoxicating. Michael Franti headlined the show and a yoga class preceded it. But the radiance emanated from the fans, the people, the staff and the families out in the relaxed, joyful crowd. The radiance was never more evident than in the performance by the energetic and honest band on stage just before Michael Franti… SOJA…

FEATURE Origin “I figured this guy might be a good guy to know. We went to lunch and he traded me a Garfield pencil topper for a whole Garfield Christmas book, which was a horrible trade,” Jacob Hemphill, lead singer of SOJA, told me about his band’s origin, in particular his first meeting with bandmate Bobby Lee. “But I didn’t care because I liked him and I was scared in this school. He was the kid that would act up and talk back to the teachers. They always made him turn his desk around every day, which he loved because he was just looking at everyone he was trying to make laugh.” Jacob laughs at the recollection, “We’ve been best friends ever since then and I was seven years old. The band’s been building slowly over the course of that time. We’ve known each other as long as we can all remember anything.” SOJA was formed on the East Coast, not exactly a reggae hotspot back in the day. I asked him how he found reggae. “Originally it was my cousins at family reunions. My cousins gave me reggae records, and me and Bob were always into rock and then hip-hop, and reggae seemed like it was a bigger deal. A l l the songs kind of worked together and made the album like one kind of big song and this person has something they’re

trying to do or trying to change or something they believe in and they use the music as the vehicle to do that. It elevated it to me, higher than other stuff, because I thought, man, this stuff can really connect the human race,” he explained. “Music, to me, is very different, often, then what I do for a living.” Jacob learned early from his father who, through the interview process, I learned, played a dominant role in his moral development and therefore his musical message. “My dad would always say to me, ‘Go placidly amid the noise and the haste. See the beauty in silence and be nice to people even if they’re dumber than you. Stay away from people who are loud and aggressive.’ And he said, ‘Don’t pay attention to what other people do. There’s always going to be somebody better than you, there’s always going to be somebody worse than you. If you see the better person, you’re going to see jealousy. And if you see the worse person, you’re going to see vanity. If you just focus on yourself and your contributions, however small, your business that you do, however small someone else thinks it is, you know, that’s real currency in this world.’” Onstage at Marymoor, Jacob eyed the crowd as a single person and sang, “I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, no matter what you do, it’ll all come back to you.” The chorus comes around again and the reciprocation from the crowd gets louder as man, woman and child sing the inspiring words back to him in complete understanding. “I’d say the majority of this music industry, there’s a lot of room for positive stuff and there’s a lot of room for negative stuff. We’re trying to get our foot in the door as a positive deal. We stay tight; we play sports on the days off or go do something on the days off. We have

a really good time.” It’s rare that a musician exudes honesty when he says he’s not in it for the money. I could tell he meant it. I could tell he wishes for a world without the constraint of money, jealousy or competition. I could tell his musical intentions were positive influence not affluence. Jacob drove his philosophy home with the story of how his new song “Shadow” came to be. “The song I did with Trevor, the newest member of the band, we were walking around in Portugal and I heard Africans singing, it’s very distinctive if you grew up there, we walked into this church and they were all singing this song. We walked in and just sat there listening to them, they were practicing for church. We went back to the hotel room, it was like one o’clock in the afternoon, and I’m like, man, seeing that when I was a kid, seeing people with that little that are that happy all the time. With a smile on their face running down the streets with 10-year-old flip-flops and shorts, that’s all this guy’s got, he doesn’t have a shirt. But he’s smiling and chasing his friend around. And I told Trevor that stayed with me forever. I’ll never forget how happy these kids were and how I felt like I wasn’t nearly as happy as they were. That was my first impression of African children. I have so much more than they do, why does he look so happy? And Trevor was like, ‘That’s because nobody is a throwaway citizen. There’s no such thing as a human being that doesn’t matter.’” “We all operate a little differently, but we’re one big human consciousness.” Money is worshipped, the only purpose for billions of people, yet, subconsciously stems from a child playing with their own feces. Which makes one wonder how something as natural and pure as reggae music could battle something as evil and innate as the need and quest for money. Yes, SOJA makes money off music, but it is purely a means to continue making the music and teaching the people a message. It’s a shame such a force of good like SOJA must navigate through the fecalentrenched music industry… “The music industry is weird. Any industry is weird. Anytime you involve money in anything, it gets weird. It’s money, dude, everybody wants it and nobody’s got it,” Jacob tells me as he reflects on what he’s learned being in the music industry for so long and being such a heavily touring band. “If you do the elite deal or the ‘I wish I was where they were,’ you can ruin your life with that shit. Why do you care? You’re doing a music festival for 12,000 people! They give you a fuckin’ bag of money this big!”

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CHAMPION OF THE CAUSE AN AFTERNOON WITH GARY COOK

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT

Before There Was Hempfest… There’s always that one open-minded individual, who, for some rhyme, reason or lightning strike of chance, happened upon an idea. This idea, at first just a curiosity, becomes something more powerful, more socially poignant, more transformative, more involving, more invoking, more encompassing and, eventually, after all the clawing, scratching, begging, compromising, handshakes, hugs and acceptance, this idea changes the course of history. Sometimes those ideas are birthed by something as simple as a guy walking around Seattle and noticing a shoddily designed poster on a light pole advertising an informational event. The energy from this particular light pole merged together with the tense, unrelenting political climate of the decades following the revolutionary 1960s, an era known as the “Hippie Hangover,” and converged into an amorphous cloud that hovered over a bright, youthful man named Gary Cook. Setting the course of events, which inevitably led to Gary’s grand, long-overdue yet society-altering idea. Seattle, the Beautiful. Before there was legal recreational cannabis, before there were cops handing out bags of Doritos to stoners, before Myrtle Edwards Park was filled to the brim with vendors, enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, families and people of all races, before the Sculpture Park was envisioned, before a Washington State medical marijuana system, before there was even a California medical marijuana system, there was Seattle entrenched in anti-pot rhetoric. During this time, a young transport, by the name of Gary Cook, was just another openminded cat walking the streets of Seattle in the late ‘80s. He wasn’t used to the police aggressively arresting citizens in the fashion he was witnessing on Seattle streets. “I moved here from San Francisco. Cops there weren’t ballbusters like here. I was appalled,” Gary mentioned to me as we chatted around the perimeter of the tourist-laden Seattle Center on a sizzling summer day. I was frantically late to the meeting and, yet, Gary was accepting and friendly when I finally arrived. His hair was cropped short and wispy, and he rocked an original Meat Puppets shirt (“I used to run an underground punk club in Eugene”) and he possessed the candor and wisdom of a moun-

taintop monk...and a falafel. “Back then [late 80s], I didn’t even know what hemp was.” “Back then, I didn’t even know what hemp was.” On the street one day, Gary noticed a poster, cheaply made, promising a free event with speakers and information about hemp and cannabis. He noted the date and time, the location was at what is now known as Gasworks Park, and set forth on his merry way. On the designated day of the event, Cook showed up at the location on time, but the speaker, along with any semblance of a crowd, never made it. “This was back when Gasworks was called ‘Peace Works’ Park because of the Gulf War. Not many people showed up.” Gary explained to me, “It was right around the time of ‘Operation Green Merchant’.” “I started learning about hemp from a friend who found an old hemp salesman’s briefcase. It still contained information packets and samples of hemp fibers. It was like a hemp museum.” I kept any B-Legit comments that popped in my mind to myself as Gary went on to say, “How our government can steal our history away from us like that. Our government has always been worried about this cat-outta-thebag. Well, ‘the truth seeps through the smallest of cracks.’” “Well, ‘the truth seeps through the smallest of cracks.’” Not one to balk from challenges and certainly not one to sit by idly while his government is freely and blatantly lying to its own citizenry, Gary cooked up a little idea so crazy, it just may have been genius. Looking back on the first Hempfest (originally entitled “Hemp Expo”), he said, “It was supposed to be like an exaggerated barbecue or picnic-type event.” Ever humbly, Gary added reflectively, “I like to say that I didn’t found Hempfest. Hempfest founded me,” Once the idea crossed his mind, Gary collected like-minded friends and acquaintances, including Vivian McPeak, the more recognizable co-founder and current directing force behind Hempfest, “People kept telling me, ‘You need to meet Vivian, you have to meet Vivian.’ I was always asking, ‘Who is she?’” “Viv introduced me to all this NORML stuff. He told me I should call Jack Herer (author of

OPERATION GREEN MERCHANT Operation Green Merchant was a DEA operation during the reign of Bush the first. The DEA seemed to believe that not only should they bust cannabis growers, users and sellers, but also seed slangers, marijuana journalists and magazines (Gulp!) and, absurdly enough, hydroponic equipmentmanufacturing companies. Not to mention there was the better part of a decade of Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign and the founding of the botched D.A.R.E Program fueling an uncomfortable environment for pot smokers.

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MYTH: I-502 ALLOWS FOR LEGAL MARIJUANA DELIVERY SERVICES Unfortunately, this is a myth that some entrepreneurs in Washington State have built their businesses on. Initiative 502 provides for a tightly regulated recreational marijuana system, and aside from retail locations licensed by the Washington State Liquor Control Board, anyone else selling cannabis without a state license is operating illegally. This includes delivery services. Anyone delivering cannabis (or selling cannabis without a license) is committing a crime, not only at the federal level (where marijuana remains an illegal Schedule I controlled substance), but also at the state level, where selling marijuana without a license constitutes a felony. While law enforcement has not made marijuana a top priority to date, it is likely that, once more retail locations are up and running, the police will crack down on those operating outside the ambit of the law. In fact, in the wake of recent media attention, one large Seattle marijuana delivery service announced that it would be changing its

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business model and no longer delivering recreational marijuana – a smart move to avoid possible felony prosecution. Many cities throughout the country currently have these types of delivery services, but despite the argument that these service providers operate in a legal “gray area,” they don’t; they are 100 percent illegal. However, given that undermining the black market is one of the primary goals of I-502, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the legislature rethinks its stance on delivery, potentially providing licenses for these types of businesses. Given the convenience and anonymity of delivery, it is unlikely that brick and mortar retail stores will eliminate this type of black market just yet. Regardless, unless and until the legislature amends current regulations, operating any kind of cannabis delivery service constitutes a crime, even under Washington State law.

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