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MARIJUANA NEWS Marijuana Deficiency

HEALTH Pain Killers

FEATURE Clayton Holmes

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October 2014 The Health Issue

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GENETICS Lucy is a relatively uncommon 70/30 Indica/ Sativa, 3:2 CBD/ THC ratio strain, and is the result of a female Luca Brasi that got busy with a male LA Confidential plant. The mother, Luca Brasi, is the child of Corleone OG x Pre-98 Bubba Kush.

MEDICAL BENEFITS Since this is our wellness edition, I stepped up to the plate and chose a good medical strain – Lucy - based on a unique THC: CBD ratio and high THC and CBD cannabinoids, paired with a predominate Indica dominate heritage. Excellent for inflammation, pain, anxiety, muscle spasms, and insomnia.

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The plant produces copious amounts of resin covered with clear trichomes. That being said, the plant might have been harvested a little early with the crystal clear trichomes present under a scope. Perhaps that was the intention of the grower to reduce the possibility of an Indica couch lock. According to the seed company, the strain is notorious for low yields. The sample I received had nice small to medium sized nuggets that are sticky (got stuck on my scope) and hard as a rock.

After snapping a bud in half it released a pungent earthy, flowery, and sweet bouquet that reminded me of cotton candy, very pleasant.

I used a Pax vaporizer and the vapor tasted very similar to the smell of the nuggets. Earthy, sweet, with a hint of berry. The flavor evolved as the device vaporized the trichomes. My guess is the plant was grown in soil and fairly well flushed.

After enjoying ½ of a gram in my Pax, I knew my pain had met its match. Then following a few minutes sitting outside, my attention drifted from my spinal pain to a squirrel family that had taken up residence in my backyard. The CBD tames the THC effects, however this flower has a very strong anxiolytic and antiinflammatory effect. I tried this at night and went to sleep in a matter of minutes.

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One to one. Stick a breath strip under your tongue. The peppermint oil bites like medicine. The 10 mg of THC loosens that unyielding belt around your brain. The equal, no lesser, 10 mg of CBD softly eases your pains into sweet, sweet oblivion. Oakor, the fresh maker, you could say, so wisely allied with the now legendary grow company TKO for a revolutionary cannabisbased medication. Can a breath strip really medicate? Can it deliver those succulent cannabinoids quicker than typical, digested edibles? Can an advanced warning really prevent me from eating the paper backing of said strips? These were tough questions and they needed answers. After doing some preliminary “research,” as they call it in the trade, I learned a bit about bioavailability and the benefits of the sublingual absorption of cannabis. Fast-acting and breath-freshening? I was eager

to try these little bad boys out. I decided to take them early in the morning so I can accurately time and gauge the effect of the strips. I also decided to not brush my teeth for a few days to see how well it fights bad breath. After all, it is a breath strip. The things I do for the sake of experimentation, I tell ya. Promptly upon awakening I crammed two strips under my funky smelling tongue. It reminded me a little of the funny potions I consumed during my Haight Ashbury days before disco. The taste was invigorating. I could really feel the peppermint dancing around my mouth. I waited roughly three minutes for them to properly dissolve then looked at the clock. 2:48 p.m. which is typically the time I wake up. I don’t believe in alarm clocks…or jobs. According to my research the sublingual method should deliver results in less time than a brownie, and more cannabinoids should be flooding my

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bloodstream due to a higher bioavailability. After a minute or so of my morning fracas with books on my floor, I arose from my coffin and stepped out into the afternoon sunlight. Already I felt less groggy than normal. More prepared for the day, I suppose. 2:58 p.m., ten minutes after consuming the strips I feel loose and jovial, generally something that doesn’t occur until after I inject myself with caffeine. Thirty minutes after gobbling the strips, I feel, not only medicated but, so alive. An hour later, after a luxurious breakfast of coffee, eggs and SportsCenter, I jotted down this little review. I was skeptical, I admit, of any sublingual strips. I was skeptical and distrustful. These strips changed that. Only after trying them myself do I truly understand what “bioavailability” means. The pain relief was instant and never did I feel overmedicated…I still needed to brush my teeth though. My breath wasn’t all that fresh.

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Are you Marijuana Deficient? By David Bailey

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MARIJUANA NEWS Know anyone with IBS, Crohn’s or Colitis, or perhaps some more talked about condition like migraines, fibromyalgia and glaucoma? All of these disorders have shown to respond well to marijuana as a medicine and it’s not a coincidence. Our bodies produce a very important chemical that has only been mimicked by one plant and you might be lacking in it. The different systems in our bodies help to regulate many important behaviors from birth. Our feeding, sleeping, pain, inflammation, and even instinct for survival are all controlled by our endocannabinoid system. Believe it or not, it’s our endocannabinoid system that

their AEA levels, the results showed their levels to be considerably lower than average. For years, people suffering from these conditions have sought relief through cannabis in many different ways, unknowingly seeking to regulate their endocannabinoid system. The obvious problem many have encountered is all of the side effects that come along with a psychoactive chemical such as THC. We often lump the side effects into the word “high”, but when considering patients that need to function fully and normally on a daily basis and still consume large enough amounts to receive the necessary relief from their condition, this “high” side effect is too overwhelming for

doesn’t do anything, when in actuality, THCA has as much or greater medical potential than its counterpart THC. THCA has the same beneficial effects on the body as THC, it is an anti-inflammatory, an antispasmodic and a pain reliever, without the side effects. All of the conditions listed above benefit tremendously from those effects by supplementing the body’s natural endocannabinoid. Even better yet, just as with THC, you cannot overdose and the body neither becomes overly tolerant or chemically dependent. One key benefit for many patients is that a market targeted toward THC production means that THCA can actually be

“THCA has as much or greater medical potential than its counterpart THC.” gives Tylenol the ability to moderate pain and inflammation. Some of the most common misdiagnosed or diseases of unknown cause are likely due to an under regulated or unregulated endocannabinoid system. In all of our bodies we produce a chemical called anandamide (AEA). This is an endocannabinoid, and its make-up and function in our bodies is very similar to our favorite extocannabinoid, THC. Anandamide plays a very important role in our health by regulating our eating and sleeping behaviors, digestion, pleasure, motivation, and even our immune system. AEA acts as a natural pain reliever, anti-inflammatory and even an anticancer agent. The same way the body absorbs anandamide is the way the body absorbs other extocannabinoids like THC(A), CBD(A), CBG(A) etc. and it may be the reason they can have so many medicinal benefits. An interesting discovery has surfaced in recent years connecting many disorders of unknown causes such as IBS, Crohn’s and colitis to others like migraines, fibromyalgia and glaucoma which were previously thought to be largely unrelated. When patients enduring these conditions were tested for

some, and ultimately may lead to the use of other, often harmful medicines to control their condition. What is worse is that opiates, the most common pain reliever, can often worsen the AEA deficiency. While the majority of the medical marijuana community hasn’t adapted just yet, largely due to laws and culture, there is actually a rather simple solution to treating these conditions that has been under our noses the entire time. Raw cannabis buds, it’s as simple as that. Due to an over all focus on the mind altering effects of THC, our culture seems to be trapped into producing mainly THC rich products and even high testing plants. The beauty of this is we can use the same high THC testing plants our CBD constituents often argued against, to our enormous benefit. On the growing plant, and even on dried and cured buds there is little to no THC, but instead its non-activated version called THCA. For years we have been burning, heating and chemically activating this chemical to its psychoactive version THC. When you consume THCA, because it is non-psychoactive, many don’t recognize a difference. Very wrongly so, we have interpreted this lack of a “high” to mean that it

more affordable than CBD and more readily available. You can even grow your own plants, as long as you live in a legal state of course. The recent craze of cannabis as a food and juicing raw cannabis isn’t a fluke, it’s because the raw form maintains all of the chemicals in their most wholesome state such as THCA. A patient can take 300mg of THCA in their morning smoothie and receive all-day relief from potential migraines or Crohn’s flareups where even 50mg of THC in a morning smoothie would put most of us back to bed. CBD has likely seen such success for the same reason, because it too acts in regulating the endocannabinoid system as well as the immune system without the psychoactive effects. While there has been debate for years over this plant, and marijuana has all too often been referred to as “the devils weed”, cannabis has a unique and direct interaction with our bodies unmatched by any other medicine. As crazy as it sounds, you could be marijuana deficient, and now there is a solution.

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CAN CANNABIS REALLY REDUCE OPIOID OVERDOSES? BY HEATH LASLO

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HEALTH Prescription opioid painkillers like Vicodin (hydrocodone) and OxyContin (oxycodone) have been under intense scrutiny because of the increasing number of overdoses and deaths associated with their inappropriate use. We have seen this played out time and time again typically grabbing headlines when a celebrity passes away from an accidental overdose of prescription medications. What the media doesn’t typically report is the large numbers of regular American’s that loose their lives every day due to pain medication overdoses. According to the CDC, currently in the U.S., an average of 46 people each day, or 17,000 per year die from overdosing on pain medications. While the DEA & FDA trolls/scrutinizes state level prescription-monitoring programs (PMP) databases for physicians who prescribe copious amounts of opioids or patients

failure or death. This is especially problematic when opioids, benzodiazepines, and alcohol are mixed together; this is a recipe for disaster. Heath Ledger right after his exceptional performance as the Joker in Batman, is a sad example of this. In 2008, Mr. Ledger was found dead in his NY apartment due to the combined drug toxicity of oxycodone-generic name (OxyContin-brand name/extended release opioid), hydrocodone (Vicodin/ immediate release opioid ), alprazolam (Xanax/ benzodiazepine anxiety, panic attacks), diazepam (Valium/sleep, anxiety, muscle relaxant), temazepam (Restoril/benzodiazepine sleep med.), doxylamine (OTC sleep med.). All of the drugs mentioned above are CNS depressants with extremely long half-lifes with the exception Xanax and Vicodin, (half-life of a drug is the number of hours it takes for ½ of the drug to clear your blood stream) resulting in

as a condition of the treatment contract. If you breach the contract, your pain management physician can and will likely show you the door and categorize you as a drug seeker in your electronic healthcare records (thank you Mr. Obama) which will follow you to your next healthcare provider. This creates quite a dilemma for patients who can’t get by using cannabis alone to control their pain. On a federal level we need cannabis removed from its current schedule I status. This will alleviate some of the liability concerns physicians have regarding recommending cannabis use in chronic pain patients. Multiple studies have shown the synergistic effect of cannabinoids and opioid interactions in chronic pain. The most recent study that comes to mind is, “Cannabinoid-Opioid Interaction in Chronic Pain”, by Dr. Abrams, et al., 2011: Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

“the federal government is now fueling the largest resurgence of heroin use we have seen in decades.” who doctor shop for drugs, multiple states agencies have found alternatives to their opioid overdose problem, medical cannabis. An interesting study was recently published in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) which demonstrated that states that have legalized cannabis for managing chronic pain have significantly fewer deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses each year. Researchers looked at medical marijuana laws and death certificate data in all 50 states between 1999 and 2010. During that time, only 13 states had medical cannabis laws in place. “We found there was about a 25% lower rate of prescription painkiller overdose deaths on average after implementation of a medical marijuana law,” said Dr. Marcus Bachhuber, lead author on the study. “We think that people with chronic pain may be choosing to treat themselves with cannabis rather than prescription painkillers, in states where this is legal”. Typically patients will run into trouble when combining multiple “CNS depressant” type drugs, (including alcohol) above prescribed dosages. A cocktail of multiple pharmaceuticals alone or in concert with alcohol, slows down breathing, heart rate, and blood flow to the brain causing the body to shut down and go into cardio respiratory

high blood concentration levels that build over time. As you can see from my explanations in brackets above not only are all these drugs CNS depressants, they are also redundant (same class of drugs) in many cases. WA State has had a PMP program in place since 2007, which means any healthcare provider (physician, pharmacists, hospital, etc.) can access the last 7 years of your prescription history. According to the Washington State Department of Health, the PMP program is a patient safety tool, and practitioners have access to the information before they prescribe or dispense drugs. This can help prevent overdoses and misuse, and promote referrals for pain management and treatment of addiction. Inevitably, these patients are going to be pushed from a primary care setting to a pain management clinic/physician. Most pain clinics require patients to sign an opioid contract agreements. This document includes language regarding use of federally scheduled I drugs, i.e. cannabis, along with other illegal drugs, and doctor shopping, which they confirm with the state’s PMP before they prescribe anything. These pain contracts also require patients to provide random UA to ensure the prescribed medication is being taken and not diverted. Additionally, these UA will test for all illicit drugs including cannabis

and Therapeutics. I quote, “pain was significantly decreased (average 27%) after the addition of vaporized cannabis. We therefore concluded that vaporized cannabis augments the analgesic effects of opioids without significantly altering plasma opioid levels. The combination may allow for opioid treatment at lower doses with fewer side effects.” If reducing mortality associated with pain medications is the goal, why are we ignoring the science that suggests patients are able to control their pain better with the addition of cannabis and were able to achieve this with lower doses of opioid pain medications, i.e. less chance for overdose. We all know you can’t OD on cannabis so where is the harm in trying this approach? Due to the efforts of the DEA/FDA on pain pill abuse and the recent rescheduling of the #1 most commonly prescribed medication in the country, hydrocodone (Vicodin), the federal government is now fueling the largest resurgence of heroin use we have seen in decades. The problem of addiction hasn’t gone away, if anything the demand for opioid narcotics in any form including heroin will be increasing in frequency. Now drug abusers are financing the Mexican drug cartels instead of pharmaceutical companies. People have traded one evil for another, so goes the war on drugs.

AN NFL STORY CLAYTON AND CANNABIS Written by Michael Condon Jr. Photos by Allie Beckett

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“Even today’s players are full of drugs. Vicodin being tossed about on planes after hard-hitting games from team doctors” It’s been a hell of a year for football. The national spotlight of scrutiny has zeroed in on the NFL, its players, its hated and dishonored commissioner, and everything will be different. Within a month’s time, the billion dollar business that is professional football in the United States has altered their rules and punishments regarding both domestic misbehavior, due to a much maligned elevator incident, and drug usage, after intense scorn and unrelenting public pressure…and it’s only October. Drugs have been a fixture of the NFL for a long, long time, even leaving out the steroids. Heroic tales of mass alcohol consumption and cocaine fueled the likes of legendary New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor (LT was known to stay up all night on Saturday pounding pitchers of Kamikazes and railing countless lines of blow then, without sleep, recording three sacks on game day), Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin, the amphetamine riddled Chargers of the early 70’s, and nearly the entire NFL during the 70’s and 80’s. Even today’s players are full of drugs. Vicodin is tossed about on planes after hardhitting games from team doctors, Wes Welker was possibly popping Molly at the Kentucky Derby, DUI’s pepper the roster of every team and, of course, WR Josh Gordon is staring down a year-long suspension for his third marijuana positive test. A suspension so egregious, it forced the NFL to reconsider and renegotiate their current drug policy. One retired NFL player is all too familiar with the league’s drug policy. Clayton Holmes was a rare and exceptional athlete when he was drafted in the third round of the ’92 NFL Draft by the rebuilding Dallas Cowboys, a team on the rise. He was a spry, quick defensive back and a special teams ace with a 4.22 40. The late 80’s Cowboys were somewhat of a joke, finishing the decade with a 1-15 season, and it didn’t take long for the new owner Jerry Jones, and new coach Jimmy Johnson, to turn things around. By the time Clayton was drafted, the Cowboys were building a modern dynasty with quarterback Troy Aikman, running back Emmitt Smith, and wide receiver Michael Irvin just to name

a few of the dozen or so Pro-Bowlers. The year Clayton was drafted the Cowboys won a Super Bowl. Then another the next year, and another two years later. With millions of dollars and three Super Bowl rings, what could possibly go wrong? After his fourth year in the NFL, Clayton began smoking cannabis. Immediately he felt the benefits on his sore, beaten body. “Growing up my father had rules about smoking weed.” Clayton told me, “He’d say, ‘First of all you have no money. Wait until you’re a man and making your own money. Second, you better not be doing it in my damn house.’” Unfortunately, a month and a half after he started smoking, as an adult making his own money, Clayton was drug tested by the NFL and tested positive. The first positive required that he enter a Narcotics Anonymous class and he was tested three times a week (“For years I hated seeing FedEx Trucks. They brought the tests.”) while placed in the NFL’s drug program. Within that drug program, from 94-96, he received what he called a “free education” about ecstasy (which was just making a name for itself in Texas nightclubs in the early 90’s) and cocaine. Then he tested positive again… and again…and again. The first time he used cocaine was when it was sprinkled in a blunt that he was offered. In 1995, with Clayton facing a suspension and starting cornerback Kevin Smith suffering from a season-ending foot injury, the Cowboys sought out another legendary defensive back football fans may have heard of... Laughing, Clayton tells me, “Dion (Sanders) can thank me for that ring.” A yearlong suspension essentially ended his career with the Cowboys and another positive test, after being signed with Miami, ended his football career entirely. Since Clayton’s NFL days the world has been exposed to the medical benefits of marijuana and opinions on the substance have lightened while the NFL’s opinion on marijuana hasn’t. Even the new threshold for positive test, 35 ng/ml versus 15 ng/ml, is far below the standards set by the World AntiDoping Association (WADA), which is used for the Olympics and has a threshold of 150 ng/ml. Clayton, now a medical marijuana

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FEATURE patient and budtender in Wenatchee, Washington, hopes that will soon change. “When I went into treatment, the doctors couldn’t help me. I was diagnosed at 24 with dyslexia and ADD. The NFL wouldn’t let the doctors prescribe me what I needed. Marijuana saved my life, it helped me with my depression and my ADD. It helps me eat.” Clayton still has occasional uncontrollable muscle spasms also alleviated by cannabis. He doesn’t want to see current NFL players suffer like he did. “The NFL is made up of guys that grew up like me. They need to be more concerned about the mental health of the players.” Currently there’s a lot of science coming forward about the neuroprotective qualities of cannabinoids. Especially when used directly after massive head trauma. Something rather common in the hard-hitting, bonecrunching NFL. Clayton stresses the need for the NFL to review the medical evidence. He had numerous concussions on the field himself, one of which caused a blackout that lasted for hours. I asked Clayton what he would ask Roger Goodell if he were right next to him. “I’d ask the main reason why he believe marijuana should be banned. I’d ask him to look at the research and see the benefits.” Clayton is also optimistic about the future of marijuana in the NFL hoping it’d be outright legal in the league within 5 years, “I don’t see how they can’t.” If not, he hopes punishments can be reduced to fines not suspensions. Marijuana is already the most used illicit drug in the NFL. “They need to teach the younger players about marijuana and its medicinal properties. They need to respect the plant.” Clayton is in a much better place these days. After a few dark, suicidal postfootball years, an ESPN article helped invigorate an impoverished Clayton. He became a personal trainer and motivational speaker. “What I believe in…Marijuana and religion. I’m me. I’m a soul searcher. I’m free. It feels good.” He’s looking forward to his future, he’s recovered two of his previously pawned Super Bowl rings and is hoping to set up his own medical marijuana dispensary and is working towards changing the drug policy of the NFL even further. “I want to run a medical marijuana store. It would stay medical to educate and help patients.”

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East of the mountains for true Releaf WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CONDON JR. PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT

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I’ve been through many, many dispensaries, access points, what-haveyou...and I’ve noticed a significant change in operations over the years. It seemed in Seattle, early on, there used to be so many quaint, inviting, folksy establishments run by passionate, health-minded owners and thankful employees. Dispensaries east of the mountains, while less numerous, have kept that organic concept of helping patients and the community intact and close to their hearts, and Chronic Releaf Center in East Wenatchee is one such place. A step into the Chronic Releaf Center brings an air of insouciance to the patient. No pretentiousness, no discomfort; it’s just as if you are stepping into the house of a dear friend, even if you’ve never been there before. The horseshoe-shaped display case stood loaded with jars full of high-quality bud, donning ever-changing labels that read “Sweet Hawaiian Skunk, Northern Berry Pie, Mandarin Kush, Banana Kush and Buddah’s Sister”. Also on display, award-winning concentrates like the full range of Farmer Joe Parker’s Peace Oils, and delectable edibles from the state’s most admired and well-respected infused treat makers. A dab setup was sectioned off by curtains, in case patients would like to sample a concentrate with the dab setup, sectioned off by curtains. This dispensary was so comfortable you would never know that it used to be an old warehouse. The proprietors of Chronic Releaf were exceptionally gracious and courteous, the employees were congenial and lively, and there was even a feisty bird on hand for a touch of comic relief. If a patient requests a product, by golly, the kind folks at Chronic Releaf will find it and get it to the shelves. They may have had the widest assortment of products out of all the dispensaries we toured in the city of Wenatchee, and possibly the entire eastside of the state. Here’s to access points with heart and soul. *Lifts joint in solidarity*

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The wheels of recreational cannabis are turning, albeit slowly, and evidence of such movement is noticeable at Herbal Nation in Bothell, Washington. Sure it didn’t have the glam, glitz and journalistic frenzy of a Seattle-based store on opening day, but that’s because Herbal Nation did it differently. Rather than cracking open their doors to a line of hundreds on legal opening day, they decided to wait until August 18th, just recently, to avoid the same inventory issues that plagued most recreational shops. They have yet to run out of stock like, dare I say, the competitors. The prices of recreational bud are higher than most of the clientele, and still averaging over $20 a gram. This doesn’t seem to scare away the thousands of 21+ cannabis customers from all over the globe though, who sashay through Herbal Nation daily (a map on the wall crammed with autographs of customers proves it). These customers explore their newfound liberty of legal cannabis, not for medicating, but for simply getting stoned. The flower is readily stocked and the edibles are coming in soon enough, for Herbal Nation is more than just a weed store. The bud offered at Herbal Nation, as of this printing, is sun-grown (see: outdoors) from the folks at CannaSol Farms, way out in Okanogan County, and boasts a THC content of over 20% (even the Sour Diesel). Herbal Nation plans on building long-term relationships with only the finest growers and the most dependable edible makers the industry has to offer. Advertisements cling to the walls for recreational edible company Zoots, expected to arrive within the next couple of months to legions of excited customers. Other safe edible products will find their way to the shelves at Herbal Nation soon as the market trends dictate. For those tired of recreational cannabis stores running dry of product, perhaps you should drive a little farther and visit Herbal Nation for a change. They are open late and guaranteed to have the product you need for a weekend or so of cannabis inebriation. Long live being high for the hell of it.

ADDRESS: 19302 Bothell-Everett Hwy, Bothell, WA 98012 PHONE: (425) 486 -1111 WEB: www.facebook.com/HerbalNationBothell

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HOW DOES IT WORK? BY DAVID BAILEY With all the news about I-502 and recreational marijuana in Washington, there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much information about the operation itself. Much has been figured out on the run for both owners and the state themselves but this has left the public with many questions about just how this will all work. With the first retail shops open now, there are many more definitive answers and some things we should all understand about how this whole thing works. Out of the gate, Washington Liquor Control Board oversees all recreational details from who can apply to the tracking and selling of the final product. One of the first things announced was who could apply. Unlike Colorado, dispensary or collective owners were not allotted a window of time to seamlessly transition their business. The LCB has no interaction with medical marijuana in Washington so all applicants had to meet their new criteria. In case you were worried about any large scale drug scandals, they laid out a pretty intensive set of restraints for criminal history and financial records of all applicants, including a large amount of video surveillance requirements with backup files available for review at any time. The LCB divided the entire production-to-sale process into three different licensing categories. The first step, the producer, is the growing and bulk sell of the fresh or dried marijuana in its natural form. The second step is the processor license. Processors may trim, cure, extract from the plant material and produce infused products from the concentrates. This is where most name brands will be coming from,

whether the product is pre-packed bud or an edible. The third license type is the retail shop itself. This is your basic pot shop, and what most will associate the experience, as it is unfortunately the only part of the process the public gets to see. Owners may have a producer and a processor license or a processor and a retail license but they may not have a producer and a retail license, or all three. The producer license is split into three size-based tiers, with tier 1 being the smallest and 3 being the largest. A tier 1 license holder can grow under 2,000 square feet of canopy space, a tier 2 between 2,000-10,000 square feet, and a tier 3 between 10,000-30,000 square feet. Many applicants had to base the size of their producer license on the size of the facility they could attain. Many restrictions limit where a producing or processing facility can exist. With the open application process, applicants were forced to act quickly to secure their spot. Tier 2 producer licenses make up the most popular category with the most applicants and recipients. Many echo that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big enough to make a name and small enough to maintain, but the future will be determining factor on that one. As we move forward, expanding into this new industry and ever evolving culture, the way things are done will change. This basic system may set up a good model to start from, but with any new business model, many things can be improved. Regardless, now everyone over 21 in Washington can legally purchase pot, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one great starting block.

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MEDICAL BENEFITS The list of benefits for a high CBD concentrate would far exceed the spatial capacity of this magazine and likely bore readers into submission, but I can certainly attest that this high CBD oil alleviated an unceasing headache I was suffering from, and did it with clarity and a delightful springiness. It could also assist patients with diagnosed arthritis, heart disease, IBS or anxiety…just to name a few.

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MARIJUANA NEWS

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October 2014 Edition

by Michael Condon Jr

POT AROUND THE WORLD

Anti-Pot Crusaders are Terrorists ISIS, or ISIL depending on who you ask, released a video in September showing their brand of freedom fighters burning down a marijuana field in North Syria. The video was posted on YouTube, a known terrorist haven, and shows the religious extremists denouncing drug usage as they chop down and burn the crops. Masked ISIS turds scared away the farm owner and operator by claiming it’s against Islamic

law (doubtful) to take drugs. No word so far on ISIS’s opinion on caffeine but judging by their actions in the video, they have too much energy and far too much time on their hands as they’ve banned cigarettes, alcohol and other various drugs in the areas they control. Kevin Sabet and Patrick Kennedy have a lot in common with terrorist cells it appears.

Wisconsin Police Chief Calls for Legalization While many law enforcement agents have joined the effort to legalize cannabis, calling it a waste of police resources (which it so obviously is.), it’s something else when it comes from a major Police Chief in the Midwest, especially Wisconsin. From Madison.com “Madison Police Chief Mike Koval endorsed the legalization of marijuana last week, saying the drug should be

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regulated and taxed, with revenues used to fund treatment programs for harder drugs.” Chief Koval isn’t alone in believing there are more important things to worry about than people toking up, Old Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper is an active and outspoken leader of the organization L.E.A.P. which stands for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

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10/20 the New 4/20 in Philly Well Philadelphia “Flyers” can now breathe a bit easier in the fair city of the Liberty Bell. The city is not only always sunny, but on October 20th of this year the city will decriminalize up to 30 grams of cannabis for personal use. Mayor Michael Nutter declared that he will sign the City Council approved decriminalization on that fair, fair Monday in October. Those caught with marijuana will now be fined $25 instead of arrested and fined $500. The Mayor stresses this is not legalization… but it’s a positive step in the right direction.

Australia PM Pro MMJ

The Australian Prime Minister, that Americans know and love, Tony Abbot has come out in support of a recent proposal to legalize medical cannabis in Australia’s largest and most populous state, New South Wales. Abbot scribed in an upbeat letter, “I have no problem with the medical use of cannabis, just as I have no problem with the medical use of opiates…I was under the impression that the personal use of cannabis was no longer an offence in NSW. If a drug is needed for a valid medicinal purpose however, and is being administered safely, there should be no question of its legality. If a drug that is proven to be safe abroad is needed here, it should be available.”

New Study Suggests Marijuana May Prevent Domestic Violence Yet another reason for the NFL to allow their players to use pot. A recently published study from the journal Psychology and Addictive Behaviors showed couples that use cannabis don’t beat each other up. Go figure. Analysts from Yale, Rutgers and the University of Buffalo studied 600 couples to find out if cannabis use was predictive of domestic violence, also known as intimate partner violence (IPV). Turns out those relationships were less physically violent as opposed to alcohol consuming couples in which the IPV rate is much higher. Authors of the study determined that “marijuana usage days did not increase the odds of any type of aggression,” while “On any alcohol usage days, particularly heavy usage days (five or more standard drinks) the odds of physical and sexual aggression perpetration increased.” Tell us again why alcohol is legal and cannabis isn’t…It’s getting harder and harder to understand.

School Suspends Girl for Marijuana References A girl in a Missouri school district was suspended for “possession of a controlled substance” without ever being caught in possession of a controlled substance. The peculiar case involves the girl’s lost notebook journal, which contained references to her past marijuana use, which was in turn found by school administrators. The girl had never been in any sort of scholastic trouble prior to this incident, or non-incident. The girl has been suspended for a whole seven months (!) because she wrote the word “marijuana” in her private, personal journal. So much for freedom of speech, I guess.

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Cannabis Farmers Markets in California Nor Cal comes out of the closet, while So Cal gets driven back in

Ever since the first farmer piled pounds of potatoes onto a cart and pushed it into town, food has been brought to market. America was fed from 10 acre “truck farms”, as a local farmer could raise enough food to feed his family and offered up the rest. Sustenance, seeds, and stories were shared, as the country grew. When industrialized farming began in California’s central valley, newly crafted agricultural regulations prohibited the small farmer from selling his crops anywhere but in a retail store. In the summer of 1977 a surplus of peaches were left to rot for lack of distribution options, prompting farmers to protest. Then Governor Jerry Brown relaxed the guidelines,

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allowing farmers to sell their produce at specially arranged markets. The first market was in the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena and was so successful the Mayor of the coastal town Santa Monica sanctioned another, in an effort to boost the community’s economy, and the modern Farmer’s Markets we see today - comprising more than 8,000 across the country - were born, putting a face on the farmers who grow our food and giving us a connection back to the land. MEDICINAL FARMERS With the same inspiration that began traditional farmers markets,

ROAD TRIP Photographers caught young women serving up bud in bikinis, rather than focusing on the fifty-something woman with the jars of salve in front of her, ready to take your pain away completely. SO CAL’S MARKET FAIL Los Angeles’ first attempt at the market in its Boyle Heights neighborhood, an industrial suburb of the city, was a huge success, although it shut down after its second opening a week later, with city officials sighting newly voted in “Measure D” not allowing for “multiple vendors” selling under one roof. Curious, as that is the exact model used in dispensaries throughout the city – many vendors and many products, all coming together under one roof for good medicine and healing. The thought process on the preliminary injunction, then subsequent ruling given by the Superior Court of Los Angeles prohibiting the market from re-opening, makes this Nor Cal patient wonder about the health of cannabis in her home region of So Cal, as well as the serious lack of education regarding good medicine within the confines of politics there. OB Gold is co-founder of Medi-Fresh, a humidification and storage system distributor based in Southern California. Gold said he stood behind what seemed like seventy or so people waiting to get in at the LA market, and was saddened at its demise. “It’s sad, and a symbol of the completely broken cannabis distribution system in Southern California,” he said. With Los Angeles County’s hundreds of dispensaries lining its streets (documented and otherwise), it seems silly to shut down the one place where you can actually put a face on the people who cultivate and make our medicine. The larger travesty is limiting another true safe access point for good medicine straight from the source, and more competitively priced than retail dispensaries. While Los Angeles’ market organizers remain hopeful to relocate its event to a friendlier local venue, the folks in Northern California are untraditionally coming out of the closet, and setting up their own tables full of goodness, with great success.

Washington state cannabis farmers decided to set up tables on the heels of legalization, offering up bud straight from the grow - when a surprising thing happened - good medicine came out of the closet. A successful Cannabis farmers market is a place where real medicine and, more importantly, real medicine makers can sit at a table and share important information on healing with the plant; information that, up until recent years, was stifled under the veil of prohibition. Legalization makes the sharing possible, but the misconception is the markets are just another place for stoners to get stoned. You can see this in the national coverage of the first ever Cannabis Farmers Market in Los Angeles.

NOR CAL GETS ORGANIZED With the sting of failed Proposition 19 now subsiding in California, it is rumored legalization is on the horizon once again, with a hopeful nod to 2016 in the Golden State, now turning a lovely shade of green. Growers and others supporting the ancillary business of the industry of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity counties, comprise what has long been referred to as “The Emerald Triangle”. They are hopeful for a future of freedoms to grow, medicate, and heal as they please. Longtime Cultivator Tim Blake is proprietor of “Area 101.” One hundred and fifty acres of a self-proclaimed spiritual healing sanctuary, open to all religions, cultures and views sits just off Highway 101 in Mendocino County in the heart of the redwoods. The event location and newly designated dispensary has its own kitchen, indoor event area, and an outdoor stage flanked by a circular lawn where vendors can set up their wares. Former location of the infamous “Emerald Cup” competition, Area 101 proved a welcoming spot for Mendocino’s “Healing Harvest Farmers Market,” with its first market held this past August. HISTORY & HEALING IN THE HILLS The Emerald Triangle’s history of Cannabis is also the history of hybridization of cannabis in America, and the growers and

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ROAD TRIP medicine makers involved are serious about what they do – right down to the science of the plant. A chat with a Humboldt healer is a precious gift, indeed - for up until just a few short years ago, they were locked in their own closet, and rightly so. America’s failed “War on Drugs” took the plant off the list of botanical medicinal plants and put it right alongside heroin, instilling fear where healing used to be. This is in stark contrast to vendors at Nor Cal’s first market, with family members lined up behind tables of flower, sporting brand names such as “3rd Gen Family of California” or the brilliantly named, “Humboldt Oil Cartel” pitching pride and irony in the face of politics. While there was plenty of bud presented at the Nor Cal market, and a good amount of wax and dabber stations set up, there were also real organic farmers at the table, offering up the area’s finest in produce and other locally crafted items right next to good medicine in all shapes and forms. TRUE HARVEST CELEBRATION Husband and wife farmers Casey and Courtney of Happy Day CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) brought their apple press, and baskets of apples fresh from the tree, offering refreshing apple juice beside produce from their farm for donation. The couple’s newsletter welcomed harvest time and provided recipes and blessings for the season ahead. For the first time in ever in this historic and illicit agricultural region, legitimate jars of jam share space with long covert medicated tinctures and salves. Its a gift, being able to speak to the makers – who often have decades of experience in strain management, a bevy of recipes, coveted dosing information, and are ready to educate and enlighten. Past hybridizer Lawrence Ringo may be tending other gardens now, but his high CBD strains were represented by longtime partner Kathleen Hart, via bottles under the umbrella of the “Lost Coast Botanical Cooperative,” with seeds provided by “SoHum Seeds,” bottled by the “Statewide Collective.” One bottle of oil labeled at 15% CBD from Cannabis (not Hemp) is a great find for those wanting healing without the psychoactive effects of THC. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS Husband and wife team Rosebud and Scott of Emerald Heart Farms are known for their “Veganic Sun-Grown Medicine,” with Rosebud offering up medicated raw ginger snaps in the shape of hearts and information on healing by the handful. It’s a bodacious, joyful happening” Rosebud exudes, “ It’s a place where patients join together in elated conversations revolving around sustainable practices, biodiversity, rich cannabinoid profiles, the entourage effect, the Endocannabinoid system, terpenes, and every topic on plant biochemistry.” With the private life of the plant in the past, Rosebud said they come to the market in a “dance of trust and gratitude,” echoing back to the days of discretion when those in the know had to draw a leaf in the loamy soil as a connection to the Emerald Triangle. Today, all they need to do is bring a table, a chair, and the knowledge from the years of work they were formerly persecuted for. “Every whiff of sweet, clean mountain air is infused with the uplifting scent of kindness, and the loving intentions that abound at this long awaited for community celebration!” Rosebud surmised. “Where food is medicine and medicine is food.”

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THE WEED BUCKET CHALLENGE IS CANNABIS A POTENTIAL TREATMENT FOR ALS? Written By Heath Laslo

"Cannabis is both an anti-oxidant and a neuroprotectant, as documented in the federal government's patent 6,630,507 on cannabis."

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HEALTH By now most have been inundated on social media with videos of people dumping buckets of ice water over their heads, otherwise knows as the “Ice Bucket Challenge”. Started by the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Association back in July, the challenge dares nominated participants to be filmed having a bucket of ice water poured on their heads and then nominating others to do the same. A common stipulation is that nominated participants have 24 hours to comply or forfeit by way of a charitable financial donation to support ALS research. Ice Bucket Challenge went viral on social media sites in early August and donations have skyrocketed ever since to currently over $100 million dollars. To put this into perspective, the ALS Association has received $94.3 million in donations compared to $2.7 million during the same time period last year (July 29 to August 27). The majority of these donations came from 2.1 million new donors with help from celebrities, politicians, and thousands of participants from across the country. One of my favorite “challenges” came from a rapper by the name of B-Real from Cypress Hill, a well-known cannabis advocate. “I know we’re going through a drought with water and all that stuff, so we’re going to do it a little different, but I accept the challenge,” B-Real says in a video posted recently on YouTube, just before a large bucket of cannabis is dumped over his head. “Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson, you’ve got 24 hours to accept,” B-Real says at the end of the video, challenging three other‬ well known pro-cannabis celebrities. While the widely successful Ice Bucket Challenge continues to raise awareness and money for research, the majority of Americans remain unaware of the potential benefits of medical cannabis in ALS. What is ALS? ALS or more commonly known as “Lou Gehrig’s disease” in the US, and “Motor Neuron Disease” in Europe, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that attacks the neurons responsible for voluntary and involuntary muscle control throughout the body. Based on U.S. population studies, over 5,600 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with ALS each year. (That’s 15 new cases a day.) It is estimated that as many as 30,000 Americans have ALS at any given time. Most patients that are diagnosed with ALS have rapid disease progression of muscle weakness eventually leading to paralysis and death (3-5 years) after the initial diagnosis. As ALS progresses, patients literally become trapped within their own bodies, due to loss of lower and upper bodily functions, while cognitive

functions remain intact. There are a number of patients that have defied the odds and have lived considerably longer than 5 years. The famous theoretical physicist Steven Hawkins has lived with ALS for 30 years now, although I doubt he would attribute his longevity to cannabis. There is one patient by the name of Catherine Jordan that has used cannabis to beat her ALS and has become quite the patient advocate for the deadly disease. Ms. Jordan was diagnosed with ALS in 1986 and was told by her Neurologist that she had approximately five years to live. She began using medicinal cannabis in 1989, which she credits with halting the progression of the disease. Ms. Jordan successfully stopped the disease from ravaging her body utilizing cannabis. Ms. Jordan is now recognized by the ALS Association as one of the longest living ALS patients. So how could cannabis benefit ALS patients? Cannabis is both an anti-oxidant and a neuroprotectant, as documented in the federal government’s patent 6,630,507 on cannabis. In the case of ALS, this is critically important because the neuroprotectant and anti-oxidant properties of cannabis may help slow the progression of the disease by protecting the motor neurons the disease attacks and kills (Gregory T. Carter 201). The anti-oxidant properties of cannabis help reduce the oxidative stress at a cellular level that contributes to cell death. From a disease symptom management perspective, cannabis can provide great relief for ALS patients. Symptoms of ALS patients and caregivers have to manage include; pain, involuntary muscle spasms, wasting, shortness of breath, drooling, and depression to name a few. A regimen of at least 7-8 different pharmaceutical medications would be required to make the patient comfortable and that could possibly be replaced by, or augmented with one drug, cannabis. Dr. Gary Carter, a Physical Medicine and Rehab physician at St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute in Spokane Washington, has been an outspoken proponent of medical cannabis use in ALS. In Portland Oregon earlier this year at the 2014 Eighth National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics - sponsored by Patients Out of Time and the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Carter addressed the use of cannabinoids for the treatment of ALS and other neurodegenerative disorders. He says, “We know more about cannabis than 95% of all other medicines. Cannabis is custom made to treat ALS”. Dr. Carter is an expert in treating neuromuscular disorders and has seen many ALS patients benefit from the use of cannabis.

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Football, Cannabis & Healing

One young athlete’s story WRITTEN & PHOTOGRAPHED BY SHARON LETTS

Twenty-five year old former California State University football player “Joe” (pseudonym) has been playing sports since he could stand upright. Everything in his life that’s good he can pretty much relate back to a physical activity on a field – first soccer, where he says he gained “footwork skills,” then basketball, and finally football by his sophomore year of high school. “It’s just in my blood to do sports,” he explained from his home located in the Bay area of California. “Soccer was one of the best experiences in my life, because it conditioned me as a child for team sports. Then basketball took over my life and helped me transition to football more easily – football was a natural sport for me to play next.” The love of the game – any game – is often waxed poetically right down to the scent of the field, but the injuries sustained come fast, hard, and at a price, leaving most players at a loss for words at the end of the day, let alone an idea of what to do with the rest of their lives. SPORTS = INJURIES During Joe’s junior year of high school he tore his ACL in his knee, and it was the beginning of football season, so his doctor prescribed Vicodin to the 16 year-old athlete. “I thought my life in sports was over for me,” he said. “The injury had a negative effect on me physically and psychologically and I started slacking in my school work, I was depressed a lot – and worried about my future. Playing sports was all I knew…it was my life.” ACL, or “Anterior Cruciate Ligament” injuries, where the tissue surrounding the knee or elbow is sprained or torn, are common among athletes and more common young athletes who often play year round in competitive sports with little downtime between sprains and tears. According to the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine, football and soccer are at the top of the list for ACL injury, with nearly 150,000 occurring each year at a cost of more than $500 million in health care alone. A paper published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (April, 2014) reports that over the past 20 years more children have participated in competitive sports, making them more susceptible to injury. Pre-teens, they say, are especially subject as they enter into puberty, growing taller and heavier, increasing the risk of an ACL injury. The paper goes on to say that these tears can be long-lasting, with athletes being forced to leave a beloved sport or continue in pain – albeit heavily medicated – sometimes causing depression, thoughts of suicide, or poor performance in academics. HERE, SMOKE THIS. It was during this time, facing a possible end to his young athletic life, when Joe said a friend offered him a bowl. “My buddy was smoking out of a pipe – that was my first time seeing cannabis.” Joe said. “He asked me if I wanted to try, so I did. About this same time I had stopped taking my pain meds, as they made me feel worse. The day after I smoked I went to school and noticed I didn’t have the same pain in my knee that was always there. I didn’t think anything of it until I tried the cannabis again a few days later, and had the same results.” Due to the America’s stunted drug policy surrounding its failed “War on Drugs,” the Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) hands are tied by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) placement of the herb as Schedule 1, alongside Heroin. With Colorado’s hefty mid-year profit margin in 2014 topping more than 250 million dollars, 9.5 million is said to be earmarked for trials, but a short history of cannabis abroad and at home tells another story entirely. KNOWLEDGE

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In 1964 Israeli Professor of Chemistry and Medicine Raphael Mechoulam isolated THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive ingredient in the plant. By 1973 they realized its potential in reducing tumors in lab rats. In 1974 the U.S. Government responded by hiring California physician, Dr. Todd Mikuriya to discredit the findings. He could not, and spent the rest of his life advocating for the plant, co-authoring what would become the country’s first legislation on cannabis as medicine in 1996 with Prop. 215, making California the first medically legal state in the union. Knowing the fruits of Israel’s findings via America’s response, it’s safe to say we can sight studies from the progressive county with confidence. Regarding pain, in a study published by the Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, a team of Israeli physicians noted, “A significant 45 percent reduction in pain intensity was noted 20 minutes post inhalation [of cannabis], turning back to baseline within 90 minutes. Tolerable lightheadedness lasting 15-30 minutes requiring no intervention was the only reported adverse event.” Though most studies are done using inhaled or vaporized cannabis from flower, there are many anecdotal accounts of patients ingesting the plant in a wide array of forms – tinctures, oil, etc. – proactively keep the inflammation and pain at bay. SELF-MEDICATING, KNOWINGLY Joe added to his injuries with a slipped disk, then a car accident was combined with the prior injury, and he was forced to leave football for good, college or otherwise. “I have bad back pain all the time now,” he shared. “I tried physical therapy, prescription pain meds – anything you can think of – but nothing works consistently like cannabis. Smoking helps immediately, but I just started using a medicated salve on my back and knee every day, and I ingest a tincture at night to keep the medicine in my system – that way I don’t wake up stiff and in pain.” A Psychology major at his university, Joe was realizing the damage being done to his young brain through years of competitive field sports, and it wasn’t pretty. “Football head injuries, or Hippocampus injuries, are the most important factor when it comes to the sport,” he said. “It’s downplayed to the point that the NFL isn’t doing much on prevention. If this part of the brain is struck too often on the field, players can suffer chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is common in contact sports. This is bad for the future of football and sports in general, as the number of players getting injured each year is rising.” PRO-SPORTS, PRO-PAIN, PRO-DEPRESSION In April of 2014 ESPN reported Pro Football Hall of Famers Tony Dorsett, Joe DeLamielleure, and former NFL All-Pro player Leonard Marshall all had been diagnosed as having signs of CTE, after undergoing brain scans and clinical evaluations at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) during a three month process. According to the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, CTE has been on the radar of boxing enthusiasts for decades. Originally termed, “demential puglistica,” it is associated with memory disturbances, coupled with behavioral and personality changes, leading to depression and thoughts of suicide.

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PATIENT OF THE MONTH Fifty-nine year old former Cowboys running back, Dorsett, said he must constantly “remind himself of where he is, where he is going”, and has difficulty remembering the most familiar parts of his life, such as where his daughters practice soccer and volleyball. As quoted in the ESPN article, Dorsett, who has been diagnosed as clinically depressed, said of the outbursts his family must endure, “It’s painful, man, for my daughters to say they’re scared of me.” HARVARD STEPS UP TO THE YARD LINE In June of 2014 Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Assoc. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and longtime advocate of cannabis as medicine, sent an open letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell urging the league to stop testing its players for cannabis use, stating it’s benefits.

hope for the future with advocacy such as Dr. Grinspoon’s. “I think Dr. Grinspoon’s letter was right on point,” he said. “He definitely explains how the skull works as far as doing its job protecting the brain to its best ability , but injury can’t be fully prevented with the equipment being provided to players now.” The plot continues to thicken, as on the heels of Prop. 215, established in California in 1996, as a team of physicians from the neuropharmacology, neurosciences, and pharmacology specialties began doing research assigned by the U.S. Government, represented by the Department of Health. By 2003 their work prompted the government to attain Patent No. 6,630,507 B1 with the following abstract: “Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA

SELF-MEDICATED OR JUST STONED? This month’s cover features Arizona Cardinal’s linebacker Daryl Washington and his extreme one year suspension from the game for using cannabis. Joe thinks it’s a sad day for organized sports, and a step back for good medicine. “You don’t get to hear Washington’s side of the story.” Joe said, emphatically. “The outcome is biased because the league is speaking for him like he’s done something wrong, saying ‘he’ll get the help he needs.’ What does that even mean?” Speculators say Washington will stop smoking cannabis and get his life back on track. Those in the know understand, that whether Washington realizes it or not, he’s doing his body a favor by using cannabis, even if he’s only smoking it.

“As a player and a lifetime athlete, I know it. Cannabis is the only medicine I’ve found that works - but it’s frowned upon by society out of ignorance. If people do the research, despite what our government says, they will see the truth and how this plant is a really positive thing in people’s lives that have the courage to use it.” “I am becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the growing specter that many of these athletes will pay the price of developing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) to a greater or lesser extent as they grow older,” he states. “The skull is nature’s way of protecting this most important organ, the brain.” Grinspoon goes on to explain how, over the past two decades, the “interest, knowledge and use of marijuana has grown exponentially.” He shares how “cannabinopathic medicine” is neuro-protective and free of toxicity, with the cannabinoid (CBD), having non-psychoactive, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant properties. He goes on to list the challenges of funding for research in the U.S. and the politics involved, urging Goodell and the NFL to decrease the instance of CTE by using its “deep pockets” to fund a “crash research program” in order to determine the right combination of CBDs to THC needed to protect its players. Joe agrees with the good doctor and sees

receptor antagonism. This new-found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limited neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and IIIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H², CH³, COCH³.”*

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“Really, Washington’s going to get his life back on track?” Joe questions the messenger. “He’s self-medicating. As a player and a lifetime athlete, I know it. Cannabis is the only medicine I’ve found that works, but it’s frowned upon by society out of ignorance. If people do the research, despite what our government says, they will see the truth, and how this plant is a really positive thing in people’s lives that have the courage to use it. I know I’ll never take another Vicodin again, that’s for sure.” While Dr. Grinspoon waits for a response to his letter, and the NFL decides to either wait for someone else to do the studies or tackle it themselves, Colorado is the only one crossing the field line on this play. Players will continue to self-medicate – even if they don’t fully understand the benefits – because humans and the plant prevail, one play at a time toward the finish line.

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HALLOWEEN HORROR GOVERNMENT GANJA By michael condon jr.

FICTION I thought the government grown weed would actually be pretty good, all things considered. I didn’t know it would cause that fleshless woman to dip her fists into my chest and remove my heart right before my eyes. That I couldn’t have expected. It sounded so good, the national legalization measure, but the government had other ideas, I guess. After a year things were progressing effortlessly. Money was being made from taxes, people were high and peaceful, and then, something happened. Something… indescribable. Soon, people started becoming forgetful, and prohibitionists blamed the phenomenon on cannabis. Claiming they were right all along, it’s the Devil’s Lettuce and all that, even non-smokers were suffering from the same memory blanks. It was becoming an epidemic of amnesia all over the country. People required electronic devices, all-in-one computers basically, implanted into their palms to be used as, sort of, a…mind crutch. They read these, not books, and any memory that escaped someone could be conjured up on these implants. So the world kept toking up…and forgetting. The following year saw the world’s first serial cannibal. A man, by most means normal, began eating the flesh of friends and neighbors. A whole month of cannibalistic carnage occurred before anybody noticed. It didn’t scroll by on the personalized information stream from their implants, so they never saw it coming. Then it started happening more frequently. People eating people. The ones being eaten never saw it coming; caught unguarded staring at their neon palms as it moved from state to state until it covered the whole nation. A nation torn… Even the government couldn’t control the outbreak of cannibals, nor could they pinpoint the source…until it was too late. Once the government declared martial law…that’s when it all went to shit. I’ve always smoked my own weed, you know. Grown in my closet, with my own soil formula and my own nutrient

blends, and I appreciated that it was now legal and accepted. I just had my own taste. The weed sold by the government was different. It was so bright, so…unnaturally green, almost neon. It got people high, though. It got them real high. Later someone from the government leaked the truth. Odd, I know. The weed was genetically modified, and It had an extra ingredient, an extra chemical even in the second-hand smoke that was meant to control the masses, meant to make them forget about independence. I remember when everybody revolted, killing the president, the congressmen and women…all of them. But that didn’t change anything. Impaling heads of state didn’t make everybody remember again. At that point they didn’t care, and the chemical was airborne. Now even those who didn’t smoke weed were at risk. Those who smoked their own weed or bootleg, bathtub weed were the only ones who survived. I remember the anarchy. I remember entire families being torn apart. Limb by limb, and in most cases, piece by piece. Gas shortages ensued and water was poisoned with blood of the dying. It was how I always pictured the plague-ridden England in my history books. Gaseous fumes causing swollen limbs and loose, failing flesh leaking off of human bodies. Blood coagulated before it even left the cut. The brains died first, the bodies…long afterward. Some people called it the Zombie apocalypse but those people have seen too many movies. These weren’t zombies, they were people. People gone bad. People trapped in our most basic, reptilian-minded mode of being. There was no more intelligentsia. The survivors were still dependent on their implants for everything. Continually rehashing misinformation amongst one another until it became truth or fact. Even after all The Government grown weed was destroyed. It was almost as if there were two levels of these mindless cannibals. The ones that ate flesh and the ones that didn’t…but were still without original thought. The End…ish…

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Wildfires were raging during our visit to Monkey Grass Farms and the smoke drifted hundreds of miles. Despite the sultry, arid day, a plume of thick smoke filled the sky, darkening the sun to a red only shades lighter than a stoplight. We approached the parking lot of a largely undecorated warehouse in a portion of unincorporated Wenatchee. Inconspicuous, just as the law orders. This was my first visit to an operational 502 producer. We’re greeted at the front door of Monkey Grass Farms and given visitor passes to adorn our loose, warm weather attire. The operation was clean, yet fun. Despite the scale, it seemed friendly and welcoming, not corporate or as bureaucratic as the operational Tier III licensed 502 grows that I had imagined. We are guided along a tour of the facility, which operates 7 days a week, 365 days a year. A nursery, boasting proud sprouting babies…A veg

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room, aligned with rows and rows of green…A flower room, housing tall, powerfully blooming plants…It all seemed so surreal. I asked for a plant count estimate and was knocked upside the head with a “5000” ballpark. Harvesting an average of nearly 200 plants per week. I let out a loud whistle signifying that I was impressed. Rooms and rooms and rooms filled with up to 60 lights at a time…each. Ten-foot folding tables were shaped into an “L” in the center of the facility. The trimmers…artists, I’d say...used said tables as their operating desks for handcarving harvested nugs to be packaged into carefully labeled two gram (more to come) packages and sent to retail-establishment locations (currently 6) around the state. This was to be the weed Washington tourists will remember us by. I noticed the strain names as we walked along the aisles

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of plants as they were all clearly and triumphantly labeled. Old familiars like; GDP, Maui Wowie, Ace of Spades, White Widow and Sour Diesel. Even as a recreational producer, Monkey Farms grows High CBD strains believing a market for those products will exist and, in their perpetual harvest system, will keep up with demand for such products as deems financially feasible. Monkey Grass Farms is mostly family operated which, considering the money investors are tossing about, is something I never expected to see at a recreational grow. We even gathered them all together for a family photo amidst the expansive flower room. It was proudly American business in its purest form. An indoor farming business not too dissimilar to surrounding cherry and apple farmers and somehow, even more promising, and more inspiring.

The warehouse was clean and professionally looked after. Monkey Grass has been licensed since April 18th of this year and were experienced with previous years of medical grows…not some Joe Schlub hired by StonedOnes Investment Group or what have you...Music, of classic rock persuasion, echoed through the building, brightening the moods of employees on a warm day. Giant reservoirs of water and nutrients pumped through the plants. Overall a positive direction for a feared rushed 502 system. While some of the retail locations haven’t thrilled the public’s eye with tangible competency, a set up like Monkey Grass’ will surely highlight the positive progress of the recreational industry. An aspiring family company aiming for the top… top quality…top of the industry…the works…We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to this exciting vision of the future, and possibly a standard setting, thriving local business.

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EVENTS High Times Cup 2014

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Thousands of Cannabis enthusiasts from all over the West Coast showed up to the Comcast Arena early September to partake in seminars, visit vendor booths and take some legal tokes in the fenced off smoking area. High Times awarded Cannabis Cups for the best pot, hash and edibles in medical and US Cup categories. Phenotype Farmers took home the Indica cup with their Kosher Kush, while Olympia

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Mike snagged the Sativa Cup with his Super Lemon Haze. Solstice took home Best CBD Strain with their Sour Tsunami #3, and A Greener Today won the Best Hybrid with Zeus OG as well as taking grabbing the win with their Pineapple Express 73u 5 Start Bubble Hash (partnered with Goat Organics). Much cannabis was shared and enjoyed the entire two days and as you can see, everyone was on their best behavior.

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