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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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EDITOR’S NOTE

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RECREATIONAL STRAIN OF THE MONTH

PREDATOR PINK

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Our California readers will also recognize some very familiar names, including Debbie Goldsberry and Cheryl Shuman. And in the Seattle area, Steve Elliott.

These staples in both cannabis and journalism are as excited to write for DOPE Magazine as we are to feature their excellent work in our publication. Of course, one thing you can always count on is that DOPE Magazine always brings some local flavor to everything that we do.

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20 CANNA-NEWS MICHELE LEONHART

22 CANNA-NEWS DEMOCRACY WINS IN THE WILD WILD EAST

32 CANNA-NEWS DUTCH MASTERS

24 CANNA-NEWS CANNATOMY OF A WORKOUT

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48 CONCENTRATE JESUS BY SOLSTICE

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Speaking of local, this is our cultivation issue, which means it’s just in time for the beginning of the outdoor grow season across the western United States. Of particular interest in this issue is the article on new approaches to greenhouse light deprivation--one of the bigger challenges for those farmers using greenhouses as their outdoor growing method of choice.

Our California readers, of course, are paying close attention to the sustainability and water use implications of this summer’s outdoor cannabis grow season, and it will be very interesting to see how a new player in the commercial agriculture space fares against the lobbyists and highly organized interests of our current subsidized agricultural industry in United States. When it comes to the very sensitive and complex issue of water rights and water use in an era of not enough water to go around, we find an outlook that doesn’t look too rosy.

Yes, the industry is changing very, very quickly. But fortunately many of those at the helm driving this change are rooted in the same values that kept this community together before it was able to step into and stay in the light. Many of you know these values and share them: cooperation, innovation and problem-solving, commitment to community and patients first, recognition that we are all in this together and this is our opportunity to do things right.

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If you’re reading this in California today, then all of us in the DOPE Magazine family would like to officially say welcome, and thank you. DOPE Magazine is continuing its rapid expansion across the West and we’re very excited to bring our unique cannabis lifestyle magazine, with local flavor, to Northern California.

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As legislatures around the country draw their sessions to a close, many new rules and regulations governing both medical and recreational cannabis industries are going to be rolled out. Like any new industry, politicians and community leaders are working to balance both the planned and unintended consequences associated with growth. From issues of social justice to sustainability, we as a collective cannabis community are well on the right path to being part of the change we want to see.

Here at DOPE Magazine, we will continue to be one of the voices that brings that change to you and makes it both accessible and engaging. We recognize both the responsibility and incredible honor we have to educate and inform.

Stay DOPE. Jonathan Teeters, MBA Operational Director

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Predator Pink FLAVOR A TREAT to be certain. Sweet candy like

notes of tropical flowers, berries and pineapple swirl on the palette, complimented by a robust, pine-flavored cloud on the exhale.

LOOKS THE PERFECTLY cured buds are teardrop shaped and bright green. Frosted with resin, the inner nodes glow a vibrant fuchsia. This is a solid chunk of premium pastel herb with amazing density.

AROMA EXOTIC FRUITS intermingle with a

mix of jasmine and cherry blossoms. The bouquet is mouthwatering and notably floral before submitting to the rich earthy undertones of chocolate and spice.

EFFECT I WAS bathed in a mood of lighthearted reflection following a noticeable initial burst of energy. This was trailed by a state of mindful relaxation progressing into a yawn-inducing oblivion.

GENETICS EXOTIC GENETIX has bred a Plushberry mother with a Starfighter stud, producing the elusive gem, Predator Pink. This is the coveted pink phenotype, and a true rarity, as the green variety is much more common and far less exciting. A 60/40 indica-dominant hybrid, Predator Pink is the best of both worlds.

MEDICAL BENEFITS ALTHOUGH THE Predator Pink is not a pure indica, it’s a great strain for insomnia and anxiety due to its mood enhancing qualities.

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P-51 Rootworx LOOKS DENSE,STURDY two inch nuggets of a rich forest green sport bright orange pistils covering the bud in thick tangles. When broken, the bud’s interior reveals layers of shining white trichomes over spring green foliage.

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AN UNMISTAKABLE aroma of black-

berries is subtle yet permeating. The dank earthy scent that kush is famous for is unmistakable as it wafts from the grinder.

Notes of musk, coffee, soil, and citrus come together for this strain’s unique bouquet.

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Pierce County, the P-51 is an indicadominant progeny of a Tahoe OG Kush male and a resinous blackberry female. Out of seventy phenotypes, it was selected for Washington consumers because of its ability to produce large yield, high THC harvests.

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ACTIVITIES TO ENJOY KNOWN IN some circles as “The Tran-

quilizer Dart”, one may not feel like accomplishing much after a joint of P-51. A euphoric and cheerful effect at first, the indica traits kick in eventually, so this is a great strain for listening to a favorite record and unwinding.

EFFECT THE P-51 is very stoney. Perfect for nighttime or a day of non-productivity, there’s a slightly confused, giggly theme overall.

I found it quite a mellow buzz and perfect for dulling the senses and vegging out.

FLAVOR MUCH LIKE the smell, there is a strong essence fruit and musk. Reminiscent of the air’s scent in a forest after a heavy rainfall; rich and full of life. Sweet berry plays nicely off this earthy landscape, and its fruity sweetness lingers.

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ZootBlast is offered in 5 or 10 mg potency, with a 30 mg extra-strength coming soon.

With as much caffeine as an espresso shot, a single drink contains enough cannabis to balance out the stimulating effects, leaving you on a comfortable even keel. Refreshing, with a pleasant flavor (unlike most energy drinks),

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ZootDrops complement the ZootBlast nicely.

With easily controlled dosing, a few milligrams at a time of ZootDrops can easily be squeezed into water and voila, a tasty, healthy blend of organic fruit, green tea, and cannabis.

Zoots also offers edibles ZootBites and ZootRocks. The Bites are small, decadent brownies with 10 mg of THC each, and they are so exceedingly moist and rich, you won’t even know they’re gluten-free. Their small 5mg.

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight: The Infamous Career of DEA Chief Michele Leonhart

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OP COPS at the DEA have blown a lot of smoke over the

years, but few did it with the deer in the headlights style of Michele Leonhart. Her elementary admonition during testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security became a viral sensation--pushing 600,000 views on Congressman Jared Polis’ (D-Co) YouTube channel. She may forever be remembered for her enlightening statement “All illegal drugs are bad. I don’t think any illegal drug is good.”

That statement was during official testimony on whether crack, methamphetamines, or heroin pose a greater threat to people than cannabis. Raising eyebrows across the nation, the response pushed Polis to further pursue Leonhart, pointing out “you should know this” and “this is your area of expertise”. In the end, he got nowhere with her, but the hearing spotlighted an era of ignorance which could finally be coming to an end, ushering in a new way to think about how we view “illegal drugs” in America.

While the falling out between her fellow feds could have brought the heat in her direction, it was a different scandal that most likely led to

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her retirement. A report outlining a prostitute-filled sex party arranged

by Colombian drug traffickers for DEA agents surfaced. A lack of disciplinary action towards the agents brought on a whole new glare to the eyes already dissecting Leonhart’s every move. The slap on the wrist suspensions of 2-10 days were widely questioned, and Leonhart claimed she didn’t have authority to fire agents or revoke security clearances.

Regardless of why she’s stepping down, advocates in the cannabis movement quickly took notice. In the words of Americans for Safe Access’ Executive Director, Steph Sherer, “Michelle Leonhart, a Bush Administration holdover, has been out of line with this administration’s policies on medical marijuana and has consistently been a roadblock to the rescheduling of marijuana. We encourage the President to pick an administrator that better reflects his stated desire to design policies reflecting the science on medical marijuana rather than outdated ideologies.”

As pot policies continue their rapid evolution, we can only hope that our next top drug cop blows the right kind of smoke and injects a heavy dose of common sense into a very sick conversation.

FACTS ABOUT MICHELE LEONHART • She was the first female to hold the position of DEA Administrator.

• She was in charge during the Operation Black Gold Rush bust, where nearly 50 pounds of Mexican black tar heroin and $500,000 in cash were seized in 2006.

• She had to return industrial hemp seeds to Kentucky when the state sued the feds over their wrongful confiscation by DEA agents.

• In response to the high levels of children dying in drug wars, she said, “It may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in the fight against drugs.”

• She was in charge during Project Synergy, a bust of synthetic drug manufacturers such as spice and bath salts. Hundreds of thousands of drug packages and over twenty million in assets were seized, as well as 150 arrested.

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Democracy Wins In The Wild Wild East N WASHINGTON D.C. on April 20th, at the Mall

just a few hundred feet from the capitol, a group of about 30 protestors led by the city’s marijuana activist Adam Eidinger smoked joints and discussed politics at a five-day “Democracy Vigil” that was winding up on this day.

Eidinger, the very vocal and very public guy who created the

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D.C. Cannabis Campaign driving Initiative 71 to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington, D.C., worked his way up to a leadership position in the community group, DCMJ, that has worked on the marijuana agenda in the city. He developed an angle to his protests that would get the city council to play ball with the issue, becoming a politico noise-maker instead of the kind of whiney stoner officials expected.

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And that angle was democracy - freedom from excessive incarceration, freedom from wrongful arrest, freedom from targeting groups with no probable cause. And, the real kicker, freedom for the district to become a state and vote for its own representation – something that has never happened in this area, because here, as in no other place in the country, Congress has the final say on all rules and regulations that the district voters vote on.

non-partisan organization that works on public policy problems in the district, says that the D.C. city council has not moved forward with regulating and taxing marijuana sales in the district for a couple of reasons. “I think that is what the city council and the people want to do,” he says. “But the attorney general in the city (Karl Racine) has advised the council that they don’t even have the authority to hold a hearing about taking further steps, much less enacting a regulatory regime.”

This day, 4/20, was a kind of celebration of achievement and a fist in the air that the fight would continue. Democracy would prevail.

DC Appleseed has proposed a way for the city to move forward on creating a regulatory structure using something called the contingency reserve fund, which congress put into place in 1996 to help states in economic distress. Those funds were used to keep the D.C. city government functioning during the federal government shutdown in October, 2013. “No one in congress objected to that or criticized the district for doing that back then, and I think the same would and should be applied here if the city essentially vindicates the vote of the people who obviously wanted a well-thought out regulatory regime to legalize the use of marijuana in the city. But so far we have not been able to do that.”

“No one talked about legalization of recreational marijuana as a business because there is no business model,” he says. “This is about people going to jail. And when we talked about it from that perspective, the numbers went through the roof.”

Over 70 percent of voters in the district approved the initiative on November 4, 2014, and it became law on 12:01 a.m. Thursday, February 26th 2015.

But the fight was not over. Congress did their usual review of the law and tried to stop it. Hours before the law went into effect, two Republican congressmen, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) threatened to arrest Mayor Muriel Bowser, who stood her ground. Her constituents had voted, overwhelmingly, to legalize recreational marijuana, she said. The people had spoken. The congressmen backed down – for now.

Now, after much celebration of a victory legalizing recreational possession and use of a DEA schedule 1 drug in the heart of the federal government, here’s the deal: Any adult 21 or over in the district can possess up to two ounces of cannabis for personal use, and grow no more than six cannabis plants in their principal residence.

Since the issue of growing and using pot legally is settled, albeit still not regulated for sale, and still somewhat unclear to the average D.C. resident, adult residents of the district quickly turned to other questions: Where can I get pot in the district, and where can I smoke pot? The answers: nobody can sell it (unless you have a medical card and get it from a dispensary), but you can get it free if someone wants to give it away. And you can only smoke at home, generally speaking.

“I am for commercial sales,” Eidinger says. “But I am happy it’s not happening overnight. And I think some people on the business side of this have really done themselves a disservice by showing that their main priority is greed and not human rights and civil rights. We put civil rights before the sale of marijuana.”

Walter Smith, executive director of DC Appleseed, an independent,

While the city council and congress tussle about this issue, confusion reigns in the district. From an informal survey of various bars and restaurants in the district, I found that saying the “m” word gets two responses: nervous laughter and a quick end of the discussion, or knowing grins and a few observations.

“Just cause it’s possible doesn’t mean you should do it,” a bartender at a well-known Capitol Hill drinking establishment, Hawk and Dove told me about the prospect of marijuana use in their establishment.

“Ha,” a bartender said at The Hamilton, which is an upscale bar/ dining establishment just two blocks from the White House. Then he quickly changed the subject. “What? I never heard of edibles,” a bartender at the National Press Club across the street from The Hamilton said, when asked why not have an edibles night for dues-paying members or as a special night for new members.

It was clear that changing the perception of pot, or even talking outloud about a legal, recreational substance while sitting within arm’s length of gallons of poisons that could kill anyone sitting at a bar, will take time in a city not known for embracing this sort of game-changing move.

“Ultimately I think this is a decision for the mayor and the council and the attorney general to come together on, and I think that will eventually happen,” Smith says. “I think it will take some time for the dust to settle for people to realize that the current situation is probably not the best. And that it’s not what the voters intended,” he says.

“When will it (regulation and sale) happen? When Congress gets out of the way,” Eidinger says.

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Cannatomy of a Workout: Is cannabis the athlete’s best friend?

HEN THE most decorated olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, got busted for bong hits, some wanted to strip him of his 22 medals, while others couldn’t resist cracking jokes about lung capacity. Beyond all the outrage, giggling and coughing, many wonder- could cannabis be a legitimate aide to an athlete’s regimen? While this is in no way a doctor’s recommendation to dab and pump iron, check out this DOPE food for thought, outlining the parts of an athlete’s anatomy that could potentially benefit from cannabis.

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The competitive nature of athletics can leave your mind spinning. While that may be the nature of the game in many cases, a stressreducing cannabis can calm the nerves, while helping to keep your head in the game.

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In 2012, a 20-year study sponsored by University of California San Francisco and the National Institute on Drug Abuse published research that concluded smoking the equivalent of one joint daily for seven years will leave you with a lung capacity 1.6x higher than a non-smoker.

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The well-documented analgesic properties of cannabis suggest it’s very effective for treating arthritis, both alone and as a therapy that enhances the effectiveness of opiod pain medications.

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Any good workout will leave you with muscle aches and pains, but deep and lasting pain relief can certainly be found through cannabis edibles and capsules, and the antiinflammatory properties of cannabis are well known.

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Sweating and chafing, yes it’s gross, but this side effect of exercise can leave people with significant post-workout discomfort. Cannabis health and beauty products are naturally anti-bacterial, and can provide tremendous relief from skin pain.

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Tropical Storm Ana may be to blame for some lost cargo. This month, packages containing more than ten pounds of weed washed ashore on beaches in Alabama and North Carolina. While it’s not unheard of for traffickers to ditch their stash on the high seas, it’s a rarity for the bags to reach solid land unscathed. Beachcombing is beginning to look like a lucrative hobby.

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A street cleaner in Berlin has seriously ruined someone’s day. After discovering around 700 plants growing on a traffic island in the Kreuzberg district, police were alerted and promptly disposed of the mini plantation. Known as an accepting and tolerant city, Berliners generally don’t take issue with cannabis, which may explain how it was possible to grow a large field of pot in plain sight in one of the busiest intersections in the city. The authorities, however, weren’t so understanding.

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Initially held in the southern city of Bangalore, the Medical Cannabis Conference is spreading awareness to the public as well as medical professionals about an herbal remedy that was legal in their country up until the 1980’s. Rick Simpson spoke to the audience about his successes treating cancer patients with CBD cannabis oils. Considered a sacred herb in the Hindu religion, cannabis is widely used across the country but with little access to CBD extracts and methods for quality control.

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Troubled teens in Bloomington, Illinois may be working for medical cannabis businesses this summer. Curative Health Inc., a New York based medical marijuana company, donated $20,000 for a labor creation program aimed at helping youth get off the streets and become productive citizens.

Curative Health Inc. runs a dispensary in Chicago and is using the opportunity to connect with their community, as well as the local government, building ties that help to better society as a whole.

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The cannabis industry, including medical and recreational, is becoming the biggest moneymaker since .com and liquor, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. So how do growers and business owners decide which property to rent, lights to buy, systems to run, nutrients to feed, strains to harvest or which processing methods to use? Decisions to be made can seem endless. This new column will run monthly, written by the scientists and canna-business professionals at Commercial Grower Services. We’d like to separate the facts from the hype using science, numbers and results. Let’s weed out the urban myths and arrive to conclusions based on sideby-side results that we share with you. Our passion is the growth of cannabis and the technological advancements that surround it.

Being a cannabis consulting firm, our primary focus is to stay up on the latest in cannabis cultivation, processing techniques, and consumption options. In the past, growers relied mostly on clandestine online forums, manufacturer’s claims, or simple word of mouth to select their gear.

And now that we are approaching the end of prohibition, cannabis cultivation data is coming out of the woodwork on a daily basis.

Often the most compelling advances in cannabis cultivation don’t see the light of day because people are afraid of that scary word ‘change’.

Take LED lighting for example. There’s probably no single topic that provokes such a negative reaction between most growers. The first run of LED lighting did lack the necessary punch to stand up to the high Photosynthetically Active Radiation (“PAR”) demand that top-shelf cannabis requires. Nearly a decade has passed since that initial release. Even though many current LED grow lights can outperform any HID watt-for-watt while staying cooler, a doubtful stigma still follows them. Although the initial investment to fit a grow with LED can still prove prohibitive for some, the savings in lack of globe replacements, decreased power draw, and reduced HVAC easily pays for units within two harvests. That’s not to say that LED is perfect for every grow style. We are currently conducting non-

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Another perfect example of cultivation evolution is the utilization of vertical farming for indoor applications. Japan was first to pioneer vertical farming systems, which are vertically stacked, multi-level hydroponic systems. These have the capability to triple indoor production within a warehouse environment and cut square foot costs dramatically. For the most part the current mentality remains unchanged, with many growers still insisting preferred methods of cultivation should involve extended vegetative growth cycles to promote massive per-plant yields. In some cases these systems could be necessary, depending on plant number or canopy size regulations.

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DOPE found Greenhand while cruising along Eastlake Ave between the U-District and Capitol Hill, they’re nestled precariously between a storefront offering massage, and another with psychic readings, creating a quirky little Amsterdam vibe.

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HEN YOU want to hear the unvarnished truth – no b.s. allowed – you go to a plain talker. And there’s no more honest man in politics than the outspoken Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota, who took the time to sit down with DOPE Magazine’s Steve Elliott.

Just as he usually is on other subjects, the Governor is completely forthcoming when it comes to the rollout of marijuana legalization in Washington State. The patients of Washington should “stand up” to efforts threatening to shut down the medical marijuana community, calling the taxation scheme of recreational legalization measure I-502 “unfair and unworkable.”

I-502’s heavy taxation, under which marijuana is taxed 25% at each stage of the process (growing, processing, and retail), plus regular sales taxes, particularly incensed the liberty-loving Ventura.

“It’s ridiculous to have a special marijuana tax,” said Ventura.

“Marijuana should be taxed the same as anything else you buy.”

The fact that the heavy taxation and onerous bureaucracy imposed in Washington under I-502 results in prices roughly double (or even triple) black market street prices highlights the absurdity of over-regulation.

“If people can get marijuana cheaper from the guy down the street where they’ve always gotten it, maybe that’s where they should go to get it,” Ventura said. “There’s no reason to pay insanely high taxes to give greedy politicians more spending money.”

According to Ventura, any legalization scheme which doesn’t include the right to grow your own cannabis at home is little more than a money grab by politicians and their rich friends. “That’s nonsense. You cannot let these people become the only source of marijuana; that’s not legalization,” Ventura said. “Politicians enjoy spending your money, and you’re being taken for a ride. Look at Colorado; that’s how it should be. They are allowing home growing.”

“Marijuana won’t be legalized because it’s the ‘right thing to do’; it’ll be legalized because of the vast amount of money that can be made,” Ventura said explaining, “When enough politicians and the general public realize how much money is on the table, marijuana will become legal very quickly.”

Ventura is definitely the happiest guy I’ve seen in awhile.

Appearing tan and relaxed in a sleeveless, tie-dyed t-shirt at his place in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (he splits his time between there and his home in Minnesota), Ventura said he didn’t expect any real leadership in the 2016 Presidential race from either the Republicans or the Democrats when it comes to the marijuana issue.

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Jesse Ventura with the First Lady of Minnesota on inauguration day in the governor’s office.

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“You’re not going to have either the Dem or the Repub nominee making a stand for marijuana legalization in 2016,” Ventura flatly predicted.

“If you want that, I think you’re going to have to look elsewhere.”

Does that mean that Ventura himself, at age 63, may not be tired of politics? “Well, there’s not really a place for me in any state Legislature,” he told me with a rueful chuckle. “I’m a little too outspoken to ever be in that position. I’ve been Mayor [of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota], and I’ve been Governor, so really the only place left for me to run for at this point, is President.”

And is that a possibility, Governor Ventura? “Well, I’ve really been enjoying the peace and quiet,” Ventura said with a laugh. “But something keeps telling me that big changes are about to happen in American politics, and I wouldn’t mind being a part of that.”

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Should Ventura, the 38th governor of Minnesota (from 1999-2003) decide to be part of the 2016 Presidential race, he’ll wait until mid-2016 to throw his hat into the ring as a third-party candidate.

“I’m going to wait until the little guys are out of the race,” he said. “I only want to have to run against the top two guys.”

“My question to you, and to the cannabis community, is would you guys support my candidacy financially if I decide to run for President?” said Ventura, currently the host of a TV show called Off The Grid.

The possible candidate then mentioned the physical toll being President has on anyone taking the job. “Bill Clinton’s hair turned white while he was President,” Ventura pointed out. “Barack Obama will be completely white-haired before his term is up. What effect is that going to have on me? I don’t have hair!” Ventura said with a big laugh.

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Elvy Musika

The First Federally Recognized Female Medical MJ Patient LVY MUSIKA is certainly not your typical 75 year old

patient. She proudly tells me this year she celebrates fourty years as a medical marijuana patient, and she is doing great!

Elvy has had glaucoma a since she was a small child. In 1953 she had her first eye surgery on the right side, to treat congenital cataracts. The surgeries where followed by 21 shots into her eye which worsened her condition, leading to her total blindness in that eye. She retained the vision in her left eye by refusing the surgeries and shots, but that later changed when the federal government gave her the wrong kind of cannabis.

Yes, the Federal Government supplies Elvy Musika with medical cannabis- to the tune of 300 joints per month!

She has been in a federal medical marijuana patient program, called the Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program, for over 26 years.

In 1988 she was tried for possession and cultivation of four medical cannabis plants that she was using to treat her condition in the state of Florida. Taking her story to the press instead of hiding in shame, she decided it was time she took a stand.

Elvy became Florida’s first patient to succeed at creating a medical nectessity defense in court. She then went on to sue the Federal Government for safe access to her medicine.

“Before any patient could join the program they had to have reliable doctors which they would approve. The FDA, DEA, and NIDA had to be satisfied that marijuana was the safest, most reliable, most efficient, part of our treatment.” She was federally approved after joining the lawsuit against the Federal Government for safe access to medicinal cannabis, and is one of four patients remaining in the nearly defunct program. She

is deeply faithful and grateful, saying “Thank God for God and Marijuana because both are very powerful.”

The cannabis used for the federal program is grown in one of the most conservative parts of the country, at the University of Mississippi. It grows there legally, and has been provided to out-of-state patients since 1968. In 2012 the program decided to provide her with high CBD joints, instead of the 11-12%THC joints she needs to treat her condition. The glaucoma progressed, stealing more vision from her healthier eye, leaving her almost totally blind. She was placed back on her THC joints, but not before irreversible damage was done, causing her to lose part of her optic nerve.

Speaking of cannabis prohibition she says, “To arrest an adult for choosing a wiser bud is the epitome of hypocrisy and stupidity. To arrest a patient for choosing The Creator’s work is blasphemy, blasphemy, blasphemy.”

Meanwhile, she’s helping the fight for medical cannabis in Oregon, speaking all around the country about her story and the federal MMJ program. She was been presented with the High Times Freedom Fighter of The Year Award in 1992, the Drug Policy Alliance’s (DPA) Citizen Action Award, and NORML’s Outstanding Citizen Activism Award in 2003.

Elvy is very much a family lady who is just exasperated with the war on drugs, “We have arrested over 25 million people, how does that promote family values!?” Lori Duckworth, a fellow Oregon activist, is also Elvy’s assistant. Mentioning Elvy she says,“She’s been overlooked in this rise from prohibition, and I want her to have her rightful place in history as the first woman federal patient, a mother, and a grandmother.”

THE ELVY PROJECT

is a campaign to make a movie about Elvy’s story. At the time of this writing she is in Florida raising funds for the film’s production and attending the Patients Out of Time Conference. The soundtrack is written and performed by Elvy, and an indiegogo account has been established where people can go to help fund the film. www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-elvy-project

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ROAD TRIP

History Made In Humboldt

WRITER & PHOTOS SHARON LETTS

First-time celebrations of the plant where it’s grown, for all to see ARKETING COMPANIES pay millions to brand a company and its product – putting it in the public’s eye purposefully with a catchy name and (hopefully) memorable logo. Being a good, reliable product really doesn’t matter in the land of advertising, but it never hurts.

Humboldt County is both envied and blessed with an internationally known brand spread merely via word of mouth, based on one damn consistently good product.

And while the raising of THC levels for recreation of said product over the past 40 years has also (and ironically) increased the product’s branding strength; bringing the levels back down again has proven to

Celebrating The Plant

Legalization is looming for California in 2016, and farmers are coming out of the woods, so to speak, getting business permits, having their longtime lands checked for compliance, setting-up rainwater catchment systems, and coming together in town hall meetings across the counties, talking about what’s next. The top of the conversation is conservation – following in the footsteps of stewards of the land before them, with an eye on preserving what we have for future generations.

With this newfound networking, locals are feeling more secure and public celebrations of the plant are being openly held for the first time, via a “Medical Cannabis Conference,” hosting physicians, herbalists, and others well versed in good medicine for the first time on Humboldt soil.

The first-ever “Cannabis Film Festival” (CFF) was held in the tiny town of Garberville, hub of the Southern Humboldt grow-in-the-sun empire, with films surrounding the herb sent in from around the country.

Albeit, smoke outs on 420 (April 20) have been quelled for several years, with Arcata’s Community Forest (formerly hosting hundreds on the blessed day) literally closed and locked on 420, the firstever CannaFest was flawlessly pulled off this past April in the more conservative town of Eureka – Humboldt’s county seat.

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be a surprise marketing trend – and boost to the product’s desirability.

Yet, with all this activity, Humboldt with neighboring Trinity and Mendocino Counties – making up what’s referred to as the “Emerald Triangle” (a brand in itself) has remained purposefully and covertly hidden from mainstream culture for just as long.

While others have covertly acquired Humboldt’s strains, taking them home to their own states and marketing and branding them, with praises and celebrity given, Northern California growers have been hesitant to take credit – until now. And while they won’t out their Stateline-crossing neighbors just yet, they would like to get credit where credit is due – for growing some of the finest medicine in the world.

CannaFest was the perfect end to the more traditional “Humboldt Green Week,” where environmentally friendly events have been organized throughout the county for some time, with the festival held at the equally historic Redwood Acres Fairgrounds – another first for the venue.

The event mirrored typical cannabis events found in metropolitan areas, with a twist, as cannabis farmers mimicked county fair fodder, hosting “Grow Games,” which are relay races with participants competing in repotting races, adding a bit of normalcy to cannabis growing.

Event organizer Steve Geider said the “Grower Olympics” had been an idea for more than ten years, stating, “Our committee is excited to produce the “Humboldt Grow Games” for many years to come, and it will eventually be a full day of activities in a full-scale production.”

Yes We Cann!

The day began with the County’s first ever “Yes We Cann!” community parade to the fairgrounds, led by rope smoking, hemp loving Benjamin Franklin himself in horse and buggy, played by Thomas Hummel, father of fest co-organizer, Lori Cosgrove. Amazingly, Hummel hails from the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, and travels three thousand miles to play the man who encouraged the country to plant Hemp.

The parade was another huge first, with hydroponic grow shop trucks boldly pulling flatbeds decked out in green-glitter pot leaves. Rock bands echoed through the town of Eureka, with participants carrying signs and sporting green t-shirts proclaiming,

Got Medicine?

Humboldt medicine maker Sunshine Johnston’s table holds bottles of tincture under her “Sun Boldt Grown” brand, offering plenty of healing information along with her quality products.

“After living in the cannabis farming culture of Humboldt for more than thirty years – seeing the evolution of the craft and artisanship that has not been able to be shared for fear of retribution – it was so cool that the idea that cannabis is medicine could be delivered fresh to patients!”

Over her table, Johnston said she was able to share “dietary supplements”, like freshly juiced buds,

Hi-Tech Futures

Vendors provided the usual fare, supplying various medicating and smoking opportunities, and a rainbow of gadgets. Humboldt’s own retail trimming shop “Trim Scene Solutions” displayed hi-tech machines for making effective medicine. A trimming production line system said it’s capable of snipping five pounds per hour without humans ever touching the bud from start to finish. A shining stainless steel “Dab Genius” cooker makes clean oil production safe at the low price of around $10K.

“I am a Farmer,” and “I love Farmers.”

Yes, with the new attitude “farmers” are reclaiming their heritage in growing the herb, not the stale semantics of the past. Growers are farming and “dealers” are “healers” in the new world of weed in America and beyond.

Of the many firsts, there was a medicating area set-up outside on the fairgrounds, jam-packed with 215 card carrying patients, featuring product and dab stations aplenty. Being Humboldt, medicine was out in full force in the form of tinctures, oils, and medibles by some of the areas finest organic farmers and producers.

CBD cookies, CBD chai tea with homemade hemp milk, and a signature brand of “Loopy Fruit” to smoke.

Johnston said the flowers were grown on the farm with reverence, representative of the small farmers of Humboldt. She is one of the many small farmers working to come into compliance, so she can have an above the board, legal business with an eye on the future.

“Navigating the pathways of legalization is confusing,” Johnston shared. “We are following the advice of legislators and others as we try to form a co-operative that truly serves our community, and we are leading by example as we come out of the shadows.

For example, we ‘re working on a land use ordinance that would protect small farmers and the fish in our watershed.

Our goal is that Humboldt’s cannabis heritage, and our role as stewards of the land, is preserved. It’s a bit scary and it is truly liberating!”

Along the line of conservation, there were organizations tabling information on water conservation and other environmental concerns plaguing the region, like large grows with big equipment that are altering watersheds, draining creeks, and bringing in generators and diesel fuel to the mix. Companies consulting on soil and water testing and land use are coming out of the woodwork now for farmers, and they are all ears with their eyes on the future of sustainable cannabis production. dopemagazine.com ISSUE 46 THE GROW ISSUE

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“Weed, the Game”

Ancillary cannabis products are getting more common and varied, now including clothing, jewelry, art, and games. Jim and Erin Gray of McKinleyville are having a ton of fun with Humboldt’s largest cash crop and have created a board game. “Weed the game,” takes players on a wild ride of weed mishaps, inspired in-part by the historic C.A.M.P (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) began in 1983.

“We met in Arcata thirty years ago,” Jim said. “The area was very much like it is now, economically depressed and lots of people working for minimum wage, lots of homeless and plenty of young people trying to grow cannabis – then a felony.”

Jim said the couple left Humboldt for some years, but recently came back to the region they love. The game is a reflection of struggles that have occurred in the region, featuring helicopter raids, jail time, and the occasional “good year.”

“Erin made the proto-type board game where you could take different routes to grow – greenhouses, back yards, Forestry Service land, illegal trespassing onto private property – and each one had its pitfalls,” Jim explained. “Many of the playing cards are based on real experiences like ‘your neighbor destroys ten plants because they are over the property line’, or ‘a cop knocks on your door to return your wallet and you flush 50 seeds down the toilet’.”

The game launched at the Seattle HempFest in 2013 and is currently distributed on their website, and at Humboldt shops and festivals (who say they can’t keep them stocked).

Fest with a Green Heart Festival organizer Geider has been in the ancillary side of the cannabis industry for over ten years founding Northcoast Horticulture Supply (NHS), a chain of stores in the county offering a plethora of supplies for indoor and outdoor grows.

The industry has been good to him so he decided to give back, organizing the county’s first fest under the shingle, “Humboldt Green” after nine years of organizing “Humboldt Green Week”.

“I’ve always enjoyed bringing different folks together,” Geider said. “Cannifest was the culmination of many years of planning and eleven weeks of jumping through hoops to make this work for the city of Eureka, the county, and at the state levels – with the fire marshalls being the most intense. The 2,200 attendees and 250 people working together made the fest a success in its first year.”

In true “Humboldt Green” tradition, the event left a green foot print – something other events at the historic venue have never done.

“We greened the event while it was happening,” Geider shared proudly. “With help from other community members and groups, we were able to leave behind a rain catchment system that can catch 67,000 gallons from one 2,000 square foot rooftop in a normal rain year.”

The venue also says it’s one of the “calmest” events they’ve ever held. Festival goers attribute the lack of violence to an herb that is making history by lowering crime rates in legal states – Colorado, for one, is down 25% in its first legal year.

They also broke garbage records at the fairgrounds, with just one trash container hauled away at the event’s end, where other past events there have used three or more.

“All food waste was composted on site and compost bins were built using cardboard from the event to make worm binds” Geider added. “Redwood Acres told us we had one-fifth of the waste that usually comes from a crowd of that size.”

When asked if he’ll bring the fest back next year, it was met with a resounding, “Yes, we CANN!” mirroring the theme.

“This event could be produced nationally and internationally, in time,” Geider added.

“Humboldt County is the worldwide leader in all things cannabis, so the world should prepare as we embrace this change together, and look to the leaders to guide our path.”

Education via games, festivals, and educational activities to enlighten the public regarding cannabis as medicine, is what legalization can bring to a state, and those in the industry in Humboldt are ready to play.

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XSW ATTENDEES were ‘a buzz’ as they encountered a new green-themed billboard touting “World Cannabis Week” in Austin, Texas. Representative David Simpson (R-Longview) called for legalization in the Lone Star State to give the people what they demand. That demand for a vision of legal cannabis takes Texas and tourists from around the world to Denver. While cannabis remains illegal in some states, the sign touts a conference, concerts, and cannabis in Colorado during

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“4/20 week” -- a date when cannabis enthusiasts typically get together to get high. The team at World Cannabis Week has been avalanched with celebrities and media requests from around the world.

Colorado tourism companies are growing like weeds offering the “Cannabis Experience of a Lifetime” as touted by My420Tours.com. At SXSW, like everyone else, I saw the billboard.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the pot ads. How could I resist offers of cannabisfriendly limos, accommodating hotels offering

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cannabis with breakfast, smoking equipment, and “therapeutic” cannabis-infused massages?

Colorado legalized recreational marijuana a year and a half ago, and experts say the industry is already showing huge dividends in cannabis-friendly tourism.

A survey by www.Hotels.com found that cannabis legalization has boosted tourism interest in Colorado and Washington.

The study found many people now looking to Portland, as the state embarks on its recreational marijuana program.

Business Insider just named Colorado the fastest growing economy in the country. Colorado had one of the best tourism years of all time in 2014 with an estimated 14million visitors, bringing in $4 billion in revenue. Pot shop owners claim they not only see people coming in from the rest of the country, but from all around the world.

My420Tours, travel partner of World Cannabis Week, is experiencing a 4000% increase in its attendance from worldwide travelers wanting a taste of pot legalization. “Denver has become the international epicenter of all things cannabis. We were first to market with our concept, and we are proud to set the standard of service for the emerging cannabis tourism industry,” states J.J. Walker, C.E.O. But what about other states? Take Nevada for example. Some experts claim Nevada could dominate the cannabis tourism market because of their full reciprocity laws, presently allowing legal medical cannabis patients to purchase and consume cannabis in the state.

Nevada is perfectly poised with votes to legalize responsible adult use of cannabis in 2016. Most industry experts foresee a legal cannabis economy featuring pot-friendly destination resorts. A variety of companies are contemplating expansion plans, and casinos are considering designating “pot-friendly” floors to test the market.

The city of Las Vegas sees approximately 40 million visitors each year. Could “Sin City” divert cannabis tourist traffic from Colorado, Washington and other states with their adoption of fully-legalized recreational cannabis legislation?

The April 10th edition of USA Today reported Denver was bracing for another rush of cannabis related tourism to celebrate April 20, thanks in part to the annual Cannabis Cup event hosted by High Times magazine.

An envoy of Nevada politicians set course for Denver recently to investigate. Senator Patricia Farley states, “I see it as a huge industry we need to cash in on. The people of the state have spoken and said they want medical marijuana and this trip gives us an idea of what’s involved with that industry and perhaps eventually with recreational marijuana as well.”

According to Hotels.com, in 2014 Denver saw a 73% increase in hotel searches for arrivals during the April 20th weekend, which featured a number of organized marijuana events and music festivals, but also coincided with the Easter holiday. This year, April 20th fell on a Monday, and hotel searches for arrival-dates between April

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17-20 rose yet again, more than 60 percent up from a year ago.

Washington, which legalized recreational marijuana in July 2014, has also seen an increase in travel interest, according to the website. Seattle, the 18th most popular domestic destination on the Hotels.com index, saw a 61% boost in searches within the second half of 2014, after the marijuana law took effect.

Even though Oregon’s recreational marijuana doesn’t become legal until July 1, Hotels.com’s survey found that travel interest to Portland has increased about 25 percent during the three-months following full legalization. Interest in Portland in general has increased about 64 percent, according to the website survey.

Colorado Businesswoman, Wanda James has been exploring cannabis tourism in Jamaica. Senator Terrence “Positive” Nelson from beautiful St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, has also become a brand ambassador interested in cannabis tourism for his district. With the recent decriminalization of cannabis for under two ounces, Jamaica stands to benefit from those who seek a sun-drenched Caribbean cannabis retreat.

“The bottom line is this movement is bigger than any one state or business,” notes JJ Walker of My420Tours. “People will always love coming to Denver for the mountains, the museums, the nightlife, and now they get to enjoy all of those things with legal marijuana. We are proud to represent excellence with the adventure of a lifetime in 420 tourism, celebrating our national expansion.”

In 2006, Shuman was diagnosed with cancer. After years of following failed allopathic medicine treatments, she opted for medical cannabis in the form of raw juice and oils as an alternative. Her success using medical cannabis led her to found the Beverly Hills Cannabis Club. Today, Cheryl is the most visible and recognizable woman in the medical marijuana reform movement, recently receiving the 2013 Activist of the Year Award at Seattle Hempfest. Together Cheryl and Aimee, her daughter and EVP of Cheryl Shuman, Inc., have reached over 100 million viewers worldwide while appearing on such mainstream shows as CNN’s Piers Morgan Live, The Katie Couric Show, The View, ABC’s 20/20, Good Morning America, Fox Business News and many other media outlets. Cheryl Shuman is represented by the prestigious William Morris Endeavor Agency in Beverly Hills.

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Humboldt Medicine

From recreation to healing Humboldt embraces the plant Arcata Community Center with Humboldt Bay in the background

MONG MANY firsts in Humboldt County this past year

surrounding the once covert cannabis plant was the firstever Medical Cannabis Conference, held this spring at the Arcata Community Center and sponsored by the Dandelion Healing Center of Northern Humboldt.

Executive Director and Founder, Herbalist, Jane Bothwell says she felt it was time the beneficial herb was recognized in the place from whence it came, so to speak. Being a novice to the medicinal applications of the plant, she said she gathered national and international experts in the field to present.

While many outside the area might believe Humboldtians are well versed in the medicine of the plant, being covert for decades has not exactly helped spread the good word of healing throughout the land.

“As an herbal educator I thought it essential that my students begin to learn of the healing qualities of cannabis,” Bothwell explained. “As the idea progressed I realized the potency of this topic, for not only

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Amanda Reiman Manager of Marijuana Law and Policy, Drug Policy Alliance

Amanda Reiman is Manager of Marijuana Law and Policy at the Drug Policy Alliance. She’s conducted many studies on dispensaries, patient’s use of them, cannabis use as addiction treatment therapy, and the perceptions thereof. Cannabis is thought to have potential as a suitable replacement therapy for harmful addictions like prescription meds, street drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

Among some of the impressive and surprising statistics Reiman offered – out of 80% of hardcore drug users, just 20% ended up being truly addicted. Not the overwhelming and societal damaging numbers the powers that be would have us believing – and surely not serious enough

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my herbal students, but for health care providers, patients and those growing, manufacturing, and dispensing marijuana as medicine.”

Presenters spoke to full rooms of eager participants that included doctors, nurses, patients, herbalists and everyone in between.

A young man from the military was there, only to learn about cannabis as medicine benefitting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder sufferers, or PTSD, and nothing more, but it was a start.

A concerning divide is arising between herbalists and those who make concentrated cannabis medicines, as some believe the plant concentrates should not be ingested daily due to a proposed toxicity. While this factor is yet to be fully debated with trials pending, Bothwell feels both parties can come together in unity.

“Marijuana is just another plant,” Bothwell offered. “The same principals apply. The herbalist’s approach is to study a plant with the tools they have acquired as plant healers, learn about it thoroughly, and then apply it in therapeutic situations. To me this is a collaborative situation.”

numbers to continue the failed “War on Drugs,” in my mind.

Reiman also rattled off some stigmas still surrounding dispensaries as safe access points, namely that 30-something able-bodied males line up for recreational pot, calling it their medicine.

“Changing the perception of cannabis patients is something we need to take a look at if we want to understand how the plant is being used as medicine,” Reiman said. “By the time a male laborer is in his 30s he’s already worked ten years or more of physically challenging work and it’s safe to say they might have pain issues clearly helped with cannabis.”

Replacing pharmaceutical meds used for pain with cannabis is one of the most amazing implications for the plant, while stronger concentrates can bring relief and remission to more serious illnesses.

CANNABIS & KIDS

Recently a workshop of particular interest is “Pediatric Epilepsy,” although this writer will not expose lecture content, or the families involved. The group of roughly thirty families came together four years ago in the Emerald Triangle (Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino counties) and they have been going through lengthy trial and error making the right oil to put seizures at bay for the kids.

popular with epilepsy patients, “Harly-Tsu,” continues to heal.

While Charlotte’s Web garnered fame in the Rocky Mountain for its CBD only properties, a little known fact is the original CBD strains were developed in Southern Humboldt County by longtime hybridizer Lawrence Ringo. Though “Ringo” (as he was known) passed away last year, his strains, “AC/DC,” “Harlequin,” and the strain

The thing about coming out of the smoky closet of prohibition with an above the board medical conference, is that it allows the community an opportunity to come together. The proverbial medicine wheel doesn’t need to be reinvented, and the cannabis community is there to help when the window opens.

The workshop presenter shared their trials and tribulations of making oil with the right balance of CBD to THC, to keep the kids from seizing. So far, so good, they report, as medicine makers from the county came forward to offer further expertise and help.

TRUE SELF VIA MEDICATING Humboldt physician Dr. Ken Miller discussed his patients’ use of cannabis to deal with mental disorders – especially those dealing with trauma that may be reached in a counseling office.

Workshop about using Cannabis with mental disorders with Humboldt Dr. Ken Miller

“I tell my patients to go for a walk in the woods to do this particular therapy,” Miller advised.

The type of self-reflection found by smoking one joint in the woods can’t be underestimated.

Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” and Dr. Miller has brought that old adage out and dusted it off.

Cannabis, he said, causes the blood pressure to lower, anxiety to diminish, and the third eye to open, allowing us to examine our deepest and truest self. A walk in the woods seems like the perfect prescription.

Dandelion Herbal Center, Executive Director, Jane Bothwell

One of his male patients shared he had been though many treatments over the years, including “Primal Scream” therapy in the early 70s. Though his many practices have come and gone, using cannabis to heal himself has been a constant for more than fourty years, stating “feelings don’t live separately; feelings are a bowl holding emotions.”

“Cannabis can lead us to a deeply satisfying emotional life,” he continued. “Before I use cannabis I am a walking, talking putdown machine. The voices in my head are negative, but after one hour of smoking and being alone, there is nothing on the table in front of me but my own heart.”

Another patient in her 50s shared that she had stopped smoking cannabis in her 20s, because it caused her social anxiety. Yet, after ten years of traditional therapy all she felt was hopelessness and frustration.

“Dr. Miller suggested I have faith in myself,” she explained. “One hour after I eat a brownie I can relate to myself more easily.”

The patient’s background of abuse included being bullied for “being a girl” by five older brothers. She says her family was emotional abusers – loud and foul mouthed.

“Cursing is how my family expressed themselves,” she said. “Their words in my head feel like my flesh tearing. When I medicate I can speak truth to my father, and things soften between us. I can see his insecurity and I can deal with our truth.”

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KNOWLEDGE GROWS Other speakers included herbalists, growers and medicine makers all sharing a years’ worth of expertise and healing.

Author and “Project CBD” founder Martin Lee was on hand discussing the incredible benefits of CBD, or the Cannabinoid, compounds and of cannabis. Lee is no stranger to the politics of the plant, as his foundation outs bad medicine makers, while enlightening patients to the differences between CBD found in hemp, and medicinal grade found only when the cannabis plant is hybridized, with the THC bred down to medicinal levels.

Samantha Miller, Chief Scientist of “Pure Analytical” laboratory spoke on high CBD strain isolation and plant physiology with Kevin Spelman, giving an overview of our Endocannabinoid system and what that means to our healing with the plant.

For me the highlight of the event was meeting Dr. Donald Abrams, Chief of Oncology and Hematology San Francisco General Hospital, as well as a cancer and integrative medicine specialist at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Mount Zion.

Dr. Abrams was at the forefront for testing with AIDS patients in San Francisco at the height of the epidemic in the 1980s. He conducted real studies on pain management and nausea with cannabis that are still respected today.

When he flashed Tommy Chong’s story on his overhead presentation, then said he couldn’t get next to the oil just yet, my heart sank. Without real trials, he just can’t fully support cannabis use publically being a scientist and doctor, plus all the anecdotal stories just don’t fly with him.

He also reiterated that he is an oncologist and prescribes chemotherapy, radiation and other traditionally damaging treatments for cancer. He posed the question, “If the oil works, why aren’t I seeing more success stories?” The answer may lie in the treatments used in conjunction with the oil.

After his lecture I approached him asking for details, because in my world I see success stories with the oil every single day. It’s the world of weed I travel in. Perhaps healing doesn’t happen as often in his world of chemo. Perhaps I see more success of the oil being used alone with great success.

Author & Project CBD Founder Martin Lee Dr. Abrams let me know he felt my writing, alerting people to the benefits of the strong oil – especially where cancer is concerned - is irresponsible. I respectfully agreed to disagree, and there we stand. Nothing but respect for the good doctor, but until the U.S. Government admits this is good medicine and starts handing out pamphlets, I’ll continue to alert the masses to the good work being done outside the cancer clinics.

SENIORS MEDICATING

One of the more enlightened physicians was Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, who is Head of the Society for Cannabis Clinicians, and in-house doc for a senior center in Santa Rosa, California, that is incorporating cannabis in its therapies.

After witnessing Dr. Abram’s sober lecture (or lack there of) on the use of the oil, Dr. Hergenrather’s talk was nothing short of inspiring, praising the herb in all its glory as a magnificent healer.

His “Society for Cannabis Clinicians” is a platform where cannabis patients can document their stories of healing, so that doctors like Abrams can see the healing being done and learn.

Some weeks ago a woman posted on a social media page that she began giving her father cannabis oil as he faded from life at a retirement home for the demented. After two and a half weeks, she reported her father had “come back,” with the care home asking her to take him home.

Dr. Hergenrather confirmed the successful use of ingesting cannabis to aid in calming the muscle spasms and shaking from neurological ailments stemming from diseases associated with aging like Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s, and other central nervous system based disorders typically brought about by toxins.

He’s also confirmed he personally knows of several cases of cancer, and other serious ailments, that have gone into remission from ingesting the strong oil – albeit, via anecdotal stories only, backed up by a physician’s observance.

Knowledge regarding the plant will continue grow, and hopefully, historic conferences such as this one on Humboldt soil are the first of many to come. Albeit, two steps forward and one step back has been the norm for this movement, and today as always, the emphasis is on forward.

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THE PLACE Walking into Solstice gives you the feeling of an industrious start-up, beaming with high values and professionalism--a place where people are truly leading by example.

Here we found an organizational buzz about the entire facility, where managers of each department were actively engaged in a jovial, productive environment.

The building itself is a bit of a medical cannabis Mecca--several thousand square feet of office, production and processing space. They even have a sprawling loft-style break room filled to the brim with food and drink for staff.

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THE PLANTS The lovely ladies receive exquisite care and attention at Solstice. One look at their Headband under the lights and we were extra-happy we were wearing eye protection.

Nothing but eyefuls of glistening trichomes here.

Walking into the processing room we immediately noticed the unmistakable smell of Jesus--a flagship strain from Solstice. Their name is also synonymous with the highly decorated CBD strain, Sour Tsunami, which has won best CBD awards from both High Times and DOPE Magazine.

THE PRODUCTS Solstice has some serious swagger when it comes to their product line. Their joint packs are a quintessential component to many patient’s on-the-go medication regimen and their concentrates are packaged to perfection in parchment paper and stylish sliding boxes.

Solstice also enjoys a partnership with Burton. Breaking serious molds with the official collaboration “The Kit”, it is an impressive pouch, complete with nug storage, Solstice lighter and a unique Burton poker.

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THE PEOPLE If you’ve ever heard of Solstice, you most definitely know the name Alex Cooley. The leader of this pack of cannabis revolutionaries, he holds degrees in early childhood development and often has a microphone in his hand giving legislators a piece of his mind in Olympia. His right hand man during our visit was Joe Santucci, director of sales and marketing, as well as a staff of 31 to help the Solstice mission push forward.

Decisions are made at Solstice using the “Culture Compass”--a breakdown of intentions and structures--designed to guide the decision making process. With a culture such as this, it is no surprise that all employees have the opportunity to work full time with full benefits.

They’ve also invited a 20-something individual with autism to join the Solstice crew, a decision reflective of their strong culture, indeed.

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Doors Opening In Washington State DURING THE gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.”

—Mark Twain Just like Kermit said, “it’s not easy being green”—or being a producer of green in Washington. With price volatility and huge tax burdens, even established players in the market are working hard to stay afloat. Market size estimates and retail predictions show a huge opportunity in the recreational market, and there are a number of complicating factors—factors that might hobble the ability of the industry to scale rapidly. In response to these factors, models are developing around Washington State to service the industry and growers, like the industrial campus vision of Evergreen Farms, LLC. One factor making life interesting for growers is that there is a belief

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in the investment community and the secondary services market that the gold rush is in full effect… and that growers are the miners with the gold in hand. However, as one grower shared, “the only one making money hand over fist in this system is the government.”* * He went on to state that he has great relationships with the LCB and with local authorities, and requested anonymity in this article.

Farmers we asked pointed out that finding the right real estate—and then paying for it—is the first most imposing barrier to new entrants.

According to Josh Owens of Sustainnabis Farms, “if you are planning on buying property or infrastructure, traditional financing or mortgages are not really available.” He went on to state that for his grow, Sustainnabis focuses on “[keeping] debt low, which allows us to thrive in a market that continues to show volatile pricing and demand.”

Gershom “Gersh” Spengler of Forever Green Farms thinks he has one solution that will benefit growers, partners and the community.

A 502 commercial real estate development in Thurston County, they’re developing a 400,000-square foot campus that will rent as turnkey, high-tech facilities to licensed Tier 2 and Tier 3 producers.

Each tenant will work with Forever Green’s Master Gardener and their team of engineers and contractors to build out their unit to specifications. Integrated lighting systems, HVAC units, and humidity controls are all part of the service. The campus is located near a major highway and has experienced little to no resistance with the county or the neighbors. “I consider it a manufacturing business,” says Spengler, “and it belongs in an industrial area.”

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Gersh is insistent that unlike campus models of the past, Forever Green Farms has no interest in growing. Instead, they are focusing on the success of their tenants, developing support and strategy systems to help build the industry and product development. ` Forever Green plans to open its doors in summer 2016. In many cases established producers that have already located and developed property are now facing entirely new challenges as they race to scale up. “The early adaptors in the market are fighting the battles,” said Brian of Cannaman Farms, and “later entrants will have some advantages in the market.” As secondary and tertiary service models like that of Forever Green Farms develop to serve growers, we’ll see how those advantages play out—hopefully into more green in grower’s pockets.

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hire to take you to a favorite medical marijuana dispensary, or just to get you to the grocery store, post office, doctor, or even a night out on the town, you’re going to like Everettbased Chronic Carriages (http://chroniccarriages.com).

Owner Chuck Orozco, a carpeting guy by trade, told us he got the idea at a dispensary one day. “I saw a 65-year-old lady at a collective,” he said. “When she told me about the challenge of just getting there, I thought, ‘I will be a lift service for patients.’ I started taking them to doctors’ appointments and dispensary visits.”

“I put an ad on Craigslist to drive people around,” Chuck, whom we met on a sunny day on an Edmonds beach, told us “I was going to work for Uber or Lift, but they have pee testing,” he said with a laugh “So I started my own company, including giving a lot of single moms rides to Social Security and similar appointments.”

A minivan is used for most doctor visits and dispensaries, according to Orozco, but he also charters other vehicles when needed, particularly for event-based outings.

While Chuck provides cannabis tours and 420-friendly rides to area events like Seattle’s DOPE Cup, he says “With the laws changing we can’t allow people to smoke in the vehicles yet,” he said. “Since I got my business license, I have to be careful.”

Soon after starting up, Chuck met Baby Jesus, who runs Heaven Bound 420, a medical marijuana delivery service for King and Pierce counties. Since Chuck was taking people to the weed, and Baby Jesus was bringing weed to the people, they realized they each represented

one end of an essential transaction, and became business partners.

Baby Jesus, a beatific man with a beneficent, spiritual presence , told us that Heaven Bound 420 partners with 13 different collectives in the area to ensure a wide selection of quality medication; for more information, visit www.heavenbound420.com. One of the most popular delivery items has been gift baskets, according to Baby Jesus, who said the baskets come in both MMJ-authorized versions (including cannabis) and non-MMJ versions (non-medicated).

Among the projects which captivate Chuck and Baby Jesus are Hemp For Hunger, whereby patients can get discounts on cannabis medicine by donating canned goods for the homeless.

“We’ve had interest from other states,” Baby Jesus told us. “The good thing about this is, it would work anywhere.” According to Baby Jesus, franchises in cannabis hot spots like Colorado and Oregon are a distinct possibility for the near future.

“If we expand to other states, we’ll bring Hemp For Hunger wherever we go,” Baby Jesus said. “We’re all about improving the community and working together, and that goes for both the Chronic Carriage and Heaven Bound 420 delivery sides of our business.”

When it comes to the future, Chuck and Baby Jesus continue to dream big. A project already in the works is Camp Roots, a future resort in Arlington. The cannabis camp, as envisioned by the two men, will include toking lounges.

“We’ve just acquired the space,” Baby Jesus told us. “Construction began this month.”.

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A film enthusiast, none of his pieces are shot with a digital camera. This allows Evans the freedom to shoot subjects and portray life as is, instead of spending hours editing and touching up photos.

A recent show at Trichome featured Evans’ art, as he’s produced a whole series focused on growing, trimming, and smoking bud. His photos are full of texture and convey a sense of undistorted reality that’s gaining attention.

This wasn’t always the case, as Evans first studied at art school in order to become a fine art photographer. After a couple years he realized his passion lay in another direction, and he began to seek out grittier material.

Documenting the inhabitants of alleyways, park benches, and street corners Evans is dedicated to the small moments that people miss. He views his art as an exercise in human nature; his portrait sittings offer him a chance to connect and converse with people that would otherwise be complete strangers.“I get mad at myself when something happens and I don’t have my camera on me,” Evans laments. His feverish desire to showcase the grunge and the grime of the streets illuminates his pieces with a familiar yearning, a reminder that we’re not alone in this sprawling hive of a city.

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be better than an enormous fall harvest after a sublime summer of sun? -Three healthier harvests within the same time frame. As most know, cannabis plants don’t typically flower outdoors until early fall. This is because they are getting too many hours of sunlight. A light deprivation system can change that game however, allowing the usage of potent summer sun during optimal windows of time during the day for faster harvests earlier, avoiding mold and frost.

I love growing and ten feet of swaying resinous colas glistening in the cool redness of the autumn sun is an unforgettable sight. Witnessing all of your hard work from April to September standing as a proud representation of your achievements is hard to beat.

The downside of the fall harvest is dealing with all that glory at once! The massive leaf pruning, the building of the dry space, and of course hiring your buddy’s buddies to come trim because there’s no way you can get through it all by yourself! Unfortunately, this part of the gig is also where people experience losses due to mold, or others helping themselves. After you’ve pumped all

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that energy into your babies, it’s hard to see even a little bit be lost or stolen.

A light deprivation system sounds pretty fancy, but it’s really nothing more than a cloth blocking out daylight, and such a simple idea can have pretty astounding benefits. Rather than giant outdoor plants flowering through August and September, the same amount of summer sun can produce three separate smaller flowering crops using light dep.

Imagine harvesting at the beginning of June, August and October and being able to manage the work load!

Here in the Northwest, avoiding the intense mold causing humidity of the fall through two harvests is pretty spectacular. The first frost killing everything gave outdoor growers the same gut wrenching fear when I lived in Colorado too. This way, whatever loss you may inevitably endure in your fall harvest doesn’t matter as much when you already have a back stock.

As with any outdoor grow, the biggest beauty is getting to use the sun, but what’s crazy is the sun isn’t the same throughout the summer. The intensity of light changes throughout the season giving many different spectrums, so harvests of the same strain are each unique in color and calyx structure.

The perks of light deprivation speak volumes but in comparison with an indoor set up, your costs are minimal and your electric usage even lower! While the big fancy auto systems can cost an arm and a leg, they aren’t designed for home growers. Luckily, cannabis has kept growers creative for years and these dedicated canna-engineers come up with numerous ways to achieve a light deprivation system without the dough.

Sometimes the most successful kept it simple. Hoop houses make a nice structure for covering and uncovering easily. Guide wires are useful to drape the covering over, allowing it to be pulled back and forth easily. Some favorite coverings are simply tall fence like structures, providing just enough shade in the morning or evening to kick plants into an early flower. While the fence may not procure three harvests, a grower can finish a harvest before frost or mold become a concern.

Feeling like now is the time to build? We absolutely agree, and with the early start to the grow season this year, it’s definitely set to be a great season. So if you’re not able to get your hands dirty, at least get out there and toke up your share of some sunshine! Happy growing!

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HEN WASHINGTON Governor Jay Inslee signed into law Senate Bill 5052 in April, it codified regulations essentially eliminating medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, along with the medicinal cannabis system as it’s been known there since voters approved it back in 1998.

Purportedly an “overhaul” measure to subject medicinal cannabis to the same licensing, testing, inspection, and tax requirements as the recreational system. Many are concerned the bill’s actual intent, and possible effect, is to get rid of the pesky medical marijuana community, which has threatened to consistently outperform the recreational I-502 cannabis outlets, with better product selection and lower prices.

Republican Senator Ann Rivers of La Center claimed the state could “no longer wait” to “reconcile” the medical and recreational markets, effectively forcing patients to pay the much higher prices in recreational pot stores, where employees are forbidden to even mention the medicinal applications of cannabis.

“The reality is that we have a thriving illicit market,” Rivers said, ignoring the fact that medical marijuana collectives have been legal in the state since 1998. “It’s essential that we shut that down.

“But it was also essential that our patients had a clean supply and an adequate supply,” Rivers said in a statement that is dripping with irony, given the fact that her bill does neither.

Patients who’ve enjoyed the ability to visit medical marijuana dispensaries for years, where the employees themselves were also facing medical challenges and had bothered to inform themselves about medicinal applications of cannabis, will now be forced into the recreational market, where the focus isn’t on medicine and store employees are forbidden by law to even mention the medical applications of marijuana.

Plant counts for patients, in one fell swoop, are being reduced from 15 to 6. Dried marijuana limits are similarly being slashed from 24 ounces to 3 ounces per patient. Ironically, the 15 plants/24 ounce limits were themselves compromises, reached a few years ago when the best scientific studies available showed more appropriate limits would be 71 ounces and 99 plants.

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Inslee line item vetoed a few parts of the bill, but kept most of it, including authority for collectives of up to four patients to form growing cooperatives of up to sixty plants, reports Jordan Schrader at the Bellingham Herald.

Patients will now face tighter restrictions on medical authorizations and marijuana possession. Arrest protection is included only if patients agree to register in a state database; no other group of patients -- using any other medicine -- has such a requirement.

Among many other provisions, Senate Bill 5052 creates a database of patients. Oddly, recreational marijuana users are not required to be part of any database, and neither are OxyContin users, so the provision of registry puts medical marijuana in a similar category as child molesters.

Since local municipalities have the power to ban recreational marijuana outlets -- which will be the only game in town once the last medical cannabis dispensaries are shut down by the deadline of July 2, 2016 -- some areas of the state will be virtual cannabis deserts, lacking any safe and legal access to marijuana for patients or other customers, said Rep. David Sawyer (D-Lakewood).

The measure renames the Washington State Liquor Control Board to the Liquor and Cannabis Board.

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Speaking on condition of anonymity, one Tacoma medical marijuana dispensary owner said he planned to run “full tilt” until the deadline next year. “Then I’m going to retire,” he told DOPE Magazine.

Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Seattle) said that while she agreed the medical and recreational system needed to be aligned, she voted no on the bill “because I need to make that point for the patients. I’m worried about the patients who are dependent upon the places they know well,” she said.

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material contained within each cell of our body, our DNA, provides the information which maps out how we are made and how we function down to the smallest detail.

Variations among the most basic building blocks of our DNA, our nucleotides, are called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs. This type of genetic variation is the most common type among humans. The effect of a SNP can be unnoticeable or it can be profound, depending on its location. SNPs usually occur between the DNA information that codes for specific genes.

Here, they usually do not affect health or development. When the SNP occurs within a DNA segment that regulates gene function or the formation of the gene itself, it can affect health and disease processes directly.

Alterations or dangerous mutations to our DNA can occur for numerous reasons. The DNA we are born with is determined by inheritance from our parents.

Throughout our lifetime genetic alterations can occur due to our diet, environment, illnesses, and exposure to toxins including stress.

May’s article (Part One) discussed the CB2 receptor of the Endocannabinoid System, the CNR1 gene that codes for its formation and function, and some of the health effects and conditions associated with variations and alterations to this gene and receptor. Here in

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Part 2, the CB2 receptor of the ECS, the CNR2 gene that codes for its form and function, and the health effects influenced by its genetic alteration or variation will be explored.

The CB2 cell receptor of the ECS is found in two variants on the cellular membranes of the human body. Form CB2ß is primarily found in the testes, ovaries and brain. Form CB2ß is found primarily in the spleen and on leukocytes or white blood cells. The highest concentrations of CB2ß receptors are found on the following cells of the Immune System; B cells, Natural Killer cells, monocytes, neutrophils, CD8 lymphocytes and CD4 lymphocytes. The endocannabinoid 2-AG is an agonist or positive activator of the CB2 receptor, while the endocannabinoid anandamide is an antagonist of the CB2 receptor, blocking activity at the receptor site. Overall, activation of the CB2 receptor mediates the anti-inflammatory and immune-modulatory processes of the endocannabinoid system.

Specific immune system actions promoted by CB2 receptor activation include the inhibition of release of inflammatory cytokines and an increase in release of anti-inflammatory cytokines, induction of apoptosis (cell death) and suppression of proliferation in specific immune system cell types, and prevention of injury to the Blood Brain barrier. CB2 receptors are found on the microglia (immune

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system cells) of the brain and also within the endothelium or skin cells lining the blood vessels of the brain. The brain contains actively dividing neural stem cells in very specific locations.

Activation of the CB2 receptors enhances the proliferation of these embryonic neural stem cells and also enhances the proliferation of hippocampal neural progenitor cells. CB2 receptor activation decreases the neuroinflammation and neuroinflammatory processes which impair neurogenesis or new neuron development and growth.

The phytocannabinoids of the cannabis plant which initiate activity at the CB2 receptor site include ∆9 THC (Delta-9tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD (Cannabidiol), and THCV (Tetrahydrocannabivarin) to name a few. Activation of the CB2 receptor by endogenous and phytocannabinoids does not stimulate a psychotropic effect. Cannabidiol or CBD activation of the CB2 receptor has been found to have anticonvulsant, antipsychotic, anxiolytic, anti-emetic, neuroprotective, anti-cancer and sleep inducing effects. THCV or Tetrahydrocannabivarin has agonist or activating activity at the CB2 receptor and antagonist or inhibiting action at the CB2 receptor making it a unique phytocannabinoid to study for the treatment of appetite and digestive issues, obesity, anxiety, tachycardia and diabetes.

The CNR2 gene provides the DNA code for CB2 receptor

form and function. The quality of expression of this gene impacts bone homeostasis, the inflammatory response, the immune response, the sensory perception of pain including chronic pain, and behavior. Due to its important physiological actions affecting a wide range of metabolic processes throughout the human body, alterations to its structure and function can have seriously detrimental effects on human health. Some of the health conditions associated with an altered CNR2 gene include Alzheimer’s disease, blindness, breast cancer, catalepsy, cirrhosis, chronic liver disease, chronic pain including fibromyalgia, glioma, liver fibrosis, leukemia, neuropathy, neuritis, obesity, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, multiple sclerosis and other serious auto immune conditions.

While the CNR2 gene works in conjunction with many other genes to promote immune system health and function, its coding for the CB2 receptor in the human endocannabinoid system makes it uniquely important. The ability of the body to balance inflammation and to have an appropriate immune system response depends on the integrity of the CNR2 gene and CB2 receptor. These two elements are integral to the human body’s ability to successfully grow, repair, prevent and heal itself from damage and disease throughout its life.

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