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Roots and tops is a great choice if you feel a common cold coming on. This vibrantly colored juice will help boost your coldfighting potential before anything gains traction inside your body while helping to replenish vital nutrients. Turmeric and ginger are both warming, making this an ideal winter juice. This high-iron juice is an ideal choice for women who might feel weak or depleted after menstruating or giving birth.

Ingredients: 1 red apple 2 beets (golden or red) 3 large carrots 1 (1-inch) piece of ginger 2 leaves spinach or kale 3 leaves cannabis 1 small piece of fresh turmeric

Portlander Tip: Add this juice slowly to your favorite kombucha drink. Kombucha is a probiotic drink derived from a yeast and bacteria culture. This drink reintroduces enzymes and bacteria to your stomach, encouraging a healthy digestive system. Adding this juice would create a very medicinal drink.

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While consuming large amounts of vitamin lizing both high THC and CBD rich plants when juicing. These base recipes are easy C can be very beneficial, there are more to produce, yielding maximum benefits wholesome and effective ways to boost while remaining palatable. After all, what our immune systems as well as our overall good is a juice that is too hard to drink? health and vitality.

Cheers to wellness delivered in the form Raw cannabis juicing has been gainof wholesome nourishing plant goodness. ing traction in the health and wellness communities just as much as the cannabis industry. There has been an influx of anecdotal evidence supporting the broad gains in health given by raw cannabis - to learn more, reference the research conducted by Dr. William Courtney.

Raw, green cannabis juice does not get you high because heat is required to convert the THCa - the acid form of thc - into THC. The lack of psychoactivity makes it much more tolerable to consume high doses of cannabinoids as well as getting large amounts of the acid forms of the cannabinoids. Raw and decarboxylated cannabinoids have been shown to possess very potent antioxidant, and even neuroprotective properties, making them a powerful and necessary dietary supplement.

The next step is to enhance the healing power of cannabis juice by blending it with other raw whole plant juices. Create powerful immune stimulating concoctions that can ensure another level of health through the rest of the dreary win-

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rules governing cannabis production back in October, consumers may have missed a thorny issue wrapped within the regulations for packaging, labeling and testing: Dosage limits that could hit medical and recreational users in their wallets and at their waistlines.

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STATE DIRECTOR’S LETTER HAPPY NEW YEAR! To start it off right, DOPE Magazine would like to present our “DOPEST” issue yet! What does it mean to be DOPE? January usually comes with resolutions, but DOPE Magazine wants to inspire a revolution. It’s 2016 - old ways of thinking are not only outdated, but also completely false when it comes to cannabis. Being DOPE is sacrificing to spread the knowledge, actual facts and information, that will improve our community and the world around us. This is one of our goals and we challenge it to be yours, too. We saw an incredible amount of growth in the cannabis industry in 2015. Money is flooding into the state, creating greater possibilities for Oregonians. The cannabis industry is too large to be kept in the closet, and now our plants don’t have to be hidden, either.

Imagine the future if cannabis was legalized nationwide. With laws changing and dispensaries opening all around us, now is the chance to speak up and defend our plant everywhere - starting with education.

Every one of us has experienced some form of negative stereotype or propaganda surrounding cannabis culture. Most of us roll our eyes, shake our heads and carry on. There is no shame in responsibly medicating or recreational use of the plant in its many forms. Why carry on living under the burden of an arbitrary propaganda campaign released long before our time? As DOPE sheds light on the history of cannabis, we continue to educate ourselves and realize that the old propaganda is false and very misleading.

In addition, this month’s issue has so many post-holiday treats for your “cannasumption.” Ideal Farms brings our featured flower of the month testing at over 30% THC. Leif Medicinals features some of their amazing product. Check out local dispensaries Plane Jane’s, The Green Planet, and The Herb Center - continue to support local business. Our featured cannabis pioneer is Jorge Cervantes, a world famous American horticulturist with published works on the cultivation and farming of our favorite plant.

In honor of those who have sacrificed before us for the spread of cannabis knowledge, like Cervantes, our New Year’s resolution should be to actively join the fight. Why do people think cannabis is bad? Along with defending our plant, DOPE defends its patients, too, and we are here to stand up with you. Don’t be afraid to ask why? We have all heard the quote, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” If you want to live where you are not persecuted for your role with cannabis, then stop apologizing for it. Next time when it’s easier to stay out of the conversation because you run the risk of sounding radical, just be radical.

Educate those who may only be exposed to lies and take the risk so that we are the last generation to feel the undue stigma. Many other cultures in other parts of the world know the truth and recognize the plant for its many common, industrial, and medical uses. How can America claim to lead the world when we are so far behind in our common knowledge? We let denial run rampant and call it fact when it comes to cannabis, and we have for so long. It’s time for it to end. One of DOPE Magazine’s goals is to change the derogatory perception of the “stoner” and normalize cannabis, which is how it should have been all along.

Why are we so quick to jump to conclusions in our society? Everyone can find common ground with each other on a human level, so let’s get the conversation sparked with a J and see how quickly the snap judgements fade. All you have to do is stand up.

Stay DOPE!

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GENETICS L.A. Confidential is paired with Family Secret by Crockett Family farms, a well-known cannabis seed breeding company with awards across the world for their genetics. It’s easy to tell why their strains possess the ability to reach over 30 percent THC when grown properly, and Crockett’s Confidential is an indica-dominant hybrid.

EFFECTS Relaxation and whole body sedation are the prominent effects delivered by Crockett’s Confidential. Introspective and happy creativity cascades over the mind, while hunger sets in. The result is a peaceful and tension-free state of mind with staying power. A small amount of this strain goes a long way.

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LOOKS Prominent calyxes with an ascending golden spiral structure accompany bright orange pistils and multiple layers of trichomes. Ideal Farms has invested time and care in the growing of a very fine phenotype that hides its light, lime green color underneath a coat of white frost. The nuggets are very dense and uniform in size and structure.

FLAVOR Like a port wine, this strain is a very smooth and sweet treat. The flavor is a crisp and delicious combination of a strong chocolate-y hash and fruit, almost identical to the aroma. It’s a distinctly different sensation than the initial draw - a light spice and mango is present during exhale, leaving behind a long lasting and satisfying terpene aftertaste.

30.6% THC 0.29% CBD

AROMA Earthy hash is the dominant scent of Crockett’s Confidential, with a fresh picked apricot undertone. The overall aroma is subtle, pleasant and very discreet. It’s not skunky cannabis strains, which can be overwhelmingly pungent.

Instead, this is more like forest floor and stone fruit. I find myself lingering at the jar, drawing in the scent slowly.

THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS This flower possesses slightly narcotic effects that come on quite immediately, so pain relief would be an assumed characteristic. Ideal for focusing on stationary or creative work, there are uplifting properties that could be considered an option for treating depression.

A very relaxing and intoxicating strain, it has the ability to cause a severe case of ‘the munchies”.

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HEN LOOKING FOR AN EDIBLE of the highest quality, a great place to start is with Leif Medicinals’ White Chocolate Bars. Reasonably priced and made from premium, fair-trade Guittard white chocolate, these products are blended with local ingredients to satisfy even the most demanding palate. The Coffee Cacao Chocolate Bar is sourced from Ristretto Roasters, a Portland-based coffee company supplying the delicious mocha flavor of the bar. In the Chai Latte Bar, the taste buds are delighted by the spicy flavor of chai sourced from another local company, The Jasmine Tea Co. These robustly flavored white chocolate bars are designed for sharing, and each bite tastes as if Leif Medicinals figured out how to cram our favorite coffeehouse drinks into an edible, solid bite.

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“Quality really matters to us,” says Solomon. “My husband and I are the makers of these products and we try to be as healthy as possible. We eat whole, natural, unprocessed foods. We wanted to produce a product that we would consume ourselves; we never wanted to make anything other than a higher end product.”

Solomon says she’s passionate about food as medicine, adding that the synchronicity of the ingredients within their products really adds to the experience for the consumer. “There’s something special about mixing caffeine with cannabis. Edibles can cause drowsiness for some consumers. Doing something lightly caffeinated for people can make the edibles easier to consume.

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becoming the fastest growing part of the industry (there are nearly 200 edible makers across the country now), but the emphasis today is more about getting and maintaining the right dosage of THC or CBD than actually inventing a new product.

The process starts from the top down, according to Jaime Lewis, owner and executive chef of Mountain Medicine in Colorado. A graduate of the California Culinary Academy, Lewis began her career in the cannabis industry in 2006, making edibles for patients living with HIV and AIDS. “Cooking with

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cannabis starts with really well-defined recipes, and with training,” she said.

The baking process for most edibles is much like any other baking process, in which cannabis butter replaces dairybased butter. After chefs test for contaminants and determine the plant’s THC levels, they activate the THC by either decarbing or roasting the bud.

When cooking with cannabis, it’s important to keep all of the ingredients, especially the THC, evenly dispersed in order to establish homogeneity in the product. “Getting the right homogeneity is a simple process of making sure that the recipe and the batches are mixed

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properly,” she added. Lewis uses decarbed cannabis butter, which has a precise cooking time, water content, and temperature. “It’s a stirring process in there as well. I stir it every 30 minutes, and then during the straining process it’s stirred again.”

Lewis then tests it for homogeneity to confirm consistency before it goes into Mountain Medicine’s baked breads. “Each recipe has a defined mixing process. For our pie bars, it’s mixed seven and a half minutes to the left, and seven and half minutes to the right. It’s really that defined.”

Cooks are generally told to taste what they cook as they go, but that’s not the case in the cannabis business. In Colorado, edibles cannot be consumed on site. “I can’t taste my product after it has cannabis in it,” Lewis said. “My staff doesn’t taste anything in my kitchen. We don’t have that luxury.” Instead, Lewis’ team provides samples to dispensaries and asks them to fill out surveys on the products. “From that, we are able to gauge if it’s going to be a flavored product.”

“Cannabis, to some consumers, has a very pungent flavor that we don’t generally try to mask in the baked goods,” she said. “But in the chocolates, we just do added things, like add ginger which is actually good at helping cover the flavor of the cannabis.”

The biggest issue in this unregulated industry is consistency: a product must have the same level of THC in every bite. If a regulator identifies inconsistency in a product’s strength, the makers face serious consequences.

There’s another challenge to consistency, according to Guy Rocourt, a lead extraction artist and partner in Neos. “While the products may be consistent in dosages, especially

when it comes to edibles, the physiology of the consumer is different, so if you have two pieces of chocolates, two different people have a different experience. It’s likely that they just need a different dosage based on their physiology,” he clarified. “We have to understand this, and have to start getting data on how cannabis affects users based on a bunch of other metrics.” The industry is seeking regulation not only to increase understanding of the plant, but also to make edibles predictable for recreational consumption and, more importantly, safer for those with health conditions.

This effort is getting a boost from the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS), a nonprofit based in Urbana, Illinois. The AOCS studies fats, oils, detergents, and related materials, and has been looking for an unmet need in the industry, according to Cynthia Ludwig, the AOCS director of technical services and former research scientist for Monsanto.

“Cannabis people started calling about a year and a half ago asking if some of our official testing methods would work on THC and CBD oils, and we were like, ‘We really don’t know,’” she said. “We don’t want people to have heavy metals and pesticide residue or any other contaminants in the product.

This is about patient safety.

So we say, let’s develop some investigative analytic lab procedures to make sure that these things are safe and that the dosage is correct. This is something that’s in our wheelhouse.”

In order to determine a validated method for testing cannabis, the AOCS is working with several cannabis labs to do a large-scale collaborative study of hops (the closest cousin to cannabis). Once

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“While the products may be consistent in dosages, especially when it comes to edibles, the physiology of the consumer is different,” cannabis is federally legalized, the AOCS hopes to have its method adopted by the industry as a whole.

Lewis said that working with the AOCS is one of the most exciting pieces of news she has heard. “We have three to five years of data that we can bring to the table. Smarter people than ourselves can help guide us in terms of taking the cannabis and treating it, just like they do for oils in any other industry,” she said. “This company can bring that knowledge of the standardization process that they have done for every other industry before us.”

Ludwig said that she would really like to see industry regulators talk to analytical chemists more before they write their regulations. “They should work together to get things on the books that are enforceable, that are traceable, and that are reasonable,” she said. “Analytical chemists have been around forever.

We know how to do this. So let’s look to the people who do this and quit reinventing the wheel.”

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S THE Canadian director of poison control, Dr. Henri J. Breault was instrumental in creating the first child-resistant container. He established the Ontario Association for the Control of Accidental Poisoning in 1962, paving the way for the 1967 invention of the “Palm N Turn” cap design, which has since become the standard in child-resistant packaging.

Although child-resistant (CR) packaging is a part of everyday life, poisoning still remains a hazard to children, causing about 30 pediatric deaths each year. In 2014, the American Association of Poison Control Centers received about 3 million calls from consumers for poison exposure treatment or information.

CR packaging is required by regulation for prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, pesticides, and household chemicals. Some jurisdictions require unit packaging such as blister packs for child safety.

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Every 30 seconds, an accidental poisoning is reported in the United States and Europe. More than 800,000 children are rushed to a hospital with symptoms of poisoning. Of these, 100,000 are actually hospitalized.

In Europe alone, 3,000 young children die each year from medicine or household chemical poisoning, and children under six account for the majority of all poisoning accidents.

When selecting packaging materials and components for solid oral drugs, drug manufacturers (and now cannabis processors) must balance the needs of both children and adults. Under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970, manufacturers must design packages that help protect children from potentially toxic prescription drugs and make sure that adults who have limited dexterity can use the packages properly.

Devising such a package isn’t always a scientific endeavor: manufacturers must base their selections on unpredictable factors like marketplace opinions and child testers. They are also burdened by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which hopes to eliminate child poisonings through regulation but offers manufacturers little guidance in package selection.

THE NEED FOR EVOLUTION Despite the established designs of CR packaging, companies are looking for new designs because of changes in varying industries. There are more products that require CR packaging now because of cannabis legalization, widespread publicity about poisoning incidents related to detergent pods, and an ongoing shift from rigid containers

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An example of a child-resistant option for flexible packaging is Presto’s Child-Guard zipper, which unzips the pouch when the slider tongue is simultaneously aligned with a groove, depressed, and pulled. PPi Technologies also uses a re-closable CR zipper for its Cannapaq standup pouch for cannabis.

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“Designers of child-resistant packaging must always work against the paradox that a package that is difficult for a child to open can often be difficult for the adult patient it is intended to treat.”

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To comply with state guidelines, cannabis companies must ensure that their packages are tamper-proof, childresistant, and within accordance of their local laws. Unfortunately, because the laws are constantly changing, businesses are forced to keep up with the perpetual tweaks made to remain in compliance and to protect the safety and security of the general public.

Designers of child-resistant packaging must always work against the paradox that a package that is difficult for a child to open can often be difficult for the adult patient it is intended to treat. In fact, up to 90 percent of adults struggle to open child-vresistant packaging, according to a report in the journal of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

While there’s no consistent set of guidelines for cannabis packaging, there are resources available that help maintain the brand’s look and feel while following state rules and requirements.

Assurpack, Locked4Kids, and CoolJarz are but just a few of the firms that have formed to assist cannabis brand owners with state rules and regulations of child-resistant packaging. For example, cities and counties can have more stringent cannabis packaging restrictions than the state of California in general. Recreational packaging laws in Washington and

Colorado also vary greatly, causing mass customization across state lines as brands now grow nationally.

Dixie is a solid example. Working closely with a pharmaceutical and consumer product packaging industry expert, Dixie leveraged years of experience to create child-resistant packaging for their “Toasted Rooster” and “Crispy Kraken” chocolate bars. Lindsey Topping, Dixie’s director of marketing, asserted that their multi-state, child-resistant solution remained true to the Dixie brand.

It’s in the industry’s best interest not to reinvent the wheel. Instead, it should take the best practices that already exist from relevant sectors (pharmaceuticals, cosmetics) and utilize them. The companies that stay true to their brand while adhering to state regulations will rise above the rest.

The onus is on cannabis brands to create safe, consistent products in the most effective child-resistant packages available. It’s on the CPSC to do a better job showing people how to use child-resistant packaging and explaining why it’s important to put all medications away after use. The only way to protect children is to teach adults how to properly use child-resistant packages, but the bottom line is that no package is 100 percent safe.

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Unfortunately, our society still has trouble separating cannabis from drugs like methamphetamines and crack, so when dispossessed people use cannabis in public encampments, they are seen in a negative light: seen as not responsible enough to work, to take care of their children, to have adequate housing, or to receive federal benefits.

Due to unfortunate (and false) connections between the supposed cause and effect of cannabis use and homelessness, advocacy groups for cannabis and homelessness have come to realize that they must work together in order

to promote their respective causes and improve the lives of their beneficiaries.

Their intention is to shed light on the truth about cannabis and homelessness, and show evidence that the use of one does not lead to the other. While cannabis use can perpetuate homelessness, it does so not because of its effect on the user, but because of the public’s imagined effect on the user.

“Homeless people have to perform activities in public that would go unnoticed in a private residence,” said Eric Tars, senior attorney at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP). “They are more vulnerable to being caught and punished than people who have housing.”

There are a plethora of negative consequences if someone is caught with cannabis or its paraphernalia, aside from the risk of going to jail. A drug charge affects a person’s finances, credit history, driving record, federal benefits like housing and student loans, employment opportunities, and child custody. “Every time a homeless person is cited or gets arrested, that’s one more barrier between that person and exiting homelessness. Homeless people have a much better chance of success if they are engaging in marijuana use from a sheltered situation versus an unsheltered situation,” said Tars.

For that reason, the NLCHP supports putting people into housing without a requirement to be drug free. “If we can get people into housing, their arrest rates go down and their health improves,” said Dr. Barbara DiPietro, senior director of policy at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.

“There is a greater likelihood of them getting a job and being reunified with their family, if these are their goals.”

Both Tars and DiPietro said it is con-

cerning that the general public views cannabis as a contributing factor to homelessness. “When people can see and smell marijuana smoke coming from a homeless encampment, it reinforces the stereotype that all homeless people are drug addicts,” said DiPietro.

Tars said he is concerned that law enforcement officers could cite cannabis use in a homeless encampment as a pretext to search it or shut it down. “It only disperses people further and takes them away from a community that they may have built. The appropriate approach is to get people into social services instead of the criminal justice system.”

Don Duncan, California director of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), had suggestions for how to help solve the problem. “Two things need to happen.

One is an educational campaign for homeless cannabis users, so they can know their rights and risks. This will help them minimize their risk. The other is training for law enforcement and security officers to show them how to interact with homeless people.”

Duncan said it is a major concern that many religious organizations require a person receiving shelter or social services to be drug free.

“Some communities of faith see cannabis as a drug of intoxication and not as a medicine,” he said. “I think education needs to come from within those communities. Medical service providers who are part of the communities must educate others.”

Some religious organizations already welcome those who use cannabis. Captain Dana Libby, social services secretary for the Western territory of The Salvation Army, said the organization’s low-barrier and long-term shelters welcome people who are active cannabis users. In states that have legalized medi-

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“In the low-barrier shelters, people have a mat and a blanket. They tend to keep their stuff next to them. In the long-term shelters, they’ve got a locker. There’s also a medical refrigerator at the front desk made of steel with a padlock on it where people can store their medicine.”

Libby said The Salvation Army requires those who store cannabis in the refrigerator to treat it as medication.

“They can bring in edibles, tinctures, creams, and Marinol or cannabis in other pill forms. If they come in with loose plant material, they can still stay at the shelter, but we ask them to store that somewhere else. We don’t let people smoke or vape anything in the building. We don’t want to burn the building down or expose other people to second-hand smoke.”

While The Salvation Army has responded to state legalization by allowing patients to store their medicine in shelters, it does not allow people to stay at its rehab centers while using cannabis. The Portland Rescue Mission (PRM), a Christian organization, is a little more forgiving with its guests, though it doesn’t offer storage for medical cannabis. “Anyone who is non-violent and needs a meal or a place to use the bathrooms or rest is welcome to use the Mission’s non-smoking facilities,” said Ron Arp, the organization’s spokesperson.

Allan St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), said it would be helpful for cannabis advocacy organizations to engage in more con-

versations with homeless advocacy organizations. St. Pierre and Duncan separately acknowledged that NORML and ASA have not had many of these conversations, though both indicated their respective organization had an interest in having conversations in the future.

St. Pierre also advocated the creation of a safe place for homeless people to use cannabis for recreational or medical purposes. “These individuals need unfettered access to that space at reasonable hours. Not 24-7, but at minimum, at least as available as liquor. The space should not be treated as a place to ‘shake down’ or have heightened enforcement. It should be treated like a sanctuary. Why not come up with a way [for people to use cannabis] that’s creative, humane, and constitutional?”

He said legalization has led to an increase in communication between cannabis advocacy organizations and the state’s local government.

“It’s night and day between the states that have legalized it and those who treat it as illegal. In the states where it’s been legalized, they are so much more open and amenable to conversations. Individuals like myself are not treated as political lepers,” he said.

Duncan said that by changing the public’s perception of homeless cannabis users, we could find solutions to the problem.

“Cannabis is much less harmful, much less of an obstacle for homeless people wanting to move forward than other drugs, like alcohol,” said Duncan.

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“I think there’s a misperception by the public that if homeless people are using medical marijuana, that they’re somehow not helping themselves—that they have to be busy every hour of the day,” said Duncan. “That’s not a realistic expectation. The vast majority of people who are using medical marijuana are using it to treat medical concerns. That’s not wasting time.”

Duncan argued that educating Americans about homeless cannabis users would improve the perceptions the public has of both cannabis and homeless people. Likewise, DiPietro said now is an excellent time to start more conversations.

“I think there’s certainly less of a stigma around marijuana because our social and cultural views are changing,” she said. “I’m excited about the changes that we’re seeing in jurisdictions changing these laws. It’s an exciting time.”

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HE HERB CENTER MAY be Bend’s best-kept secret, though, clearly not for long. This vibrant shop is the mecca of organic therapeutic cannabis for discerning, organic connoisseurs.

Just north of the heart of Bend, they sit within a beautiful piece of local history.

The eye-catching, century-old mosaic stone building is home to Bend’s first dispensary, and they’ve proudly provided Oregonian patients with top quality cannabis for six years. With an abundance of parking and a wheel-chair accessible ramp leading up to the front door, this business has core values that center on serving the highest quality care to their patients and it shows.

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EEKING A CONVENIENT location in Beaverton to find an enormous variety of excellent cannabis? Green Planet is the place to go. Be prepared for an alien land of surprise, fun, and variety once you enter their doors.

The outer atmosphere of the Planet is a head shop/vape shop/glass art/E-smoke emporium. Justin West, his wife Miranda, and their team will welcome guests and patients with a smile. Their prime location means customers will frequently have to take a number, but that will only provide more time to appreciate the vast array of pieces. Row after row of exquisite glass pieces of all shapes and sizes line the left side, while every item for e-smoking and vaping can found to the right. The great width of the shop provides impressive display space.

After a brief wait, one of two doors will open to allow entry to the Green Planet’s surface. The OMMP Door on the left leads

to one of the most extensive selections of flower, edibles, and concentrates available in the greater metro area. Justin and the team have a strong heart for the medical community and Wes says, “We always give first choice on the best products to our patients.”

The Recreational Door on the right leads to a jungle of abundance in strains and clones. The sheer quantity and choice quality of their flowers are difficult to find elsewhere. Green Planet sports 50 different strains for all customers to purchase. That’s right - 50. Of course, that will fluctuate due to which strains are in stock, but know that their claim to variety is solid.

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HEN OREGON released its proposed

rules governing cannabis production back in October, consumers may have missed a thorny issue wrapped within the regulations for packaging, labeling and testing: Dosage limits that could hit medical and recreational users in their wallets and at their waistlines.

The limits set by the Oregon Health Authority were included as part of temporary rules for labeling and packaging that are in effect through mid-June. The restrictions, which affect concentrates, extracts, and edibles, frustrate cannabis advocates and producers, who say they place a financial burden on users and give government officials undue influence over medical decisions that should remain between patients and their cannabis-educated doctors.

Activist Anthony Taylor, director of the medical marijuana advocacy group Compassionate Oregon says, “The Oregon Health Authority has never advocated for the Medical Marijuana Program or the patients in it.” At the heart of Taylor and others’ concerns are the limits the health authority set on concentrates and extracts, despite outcry against such limits during the public comment portion of the advisory committee’s meetings. Under the new rules, Oregon limits recreational users to 5 mg of THC per serving and up to 50 mg per package, even more controversial is limiting medical users to 10 mg THC per serving and 100 mg per package.

The main objections that users and producers had regarding the health authority’s proposed changes are that such limits mean cannabis patients and consumers alike would need to spend more money,

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“Patients who buy these products at dispensaries will no longer be able to do so in a single package, and will be forced to purchase multiple packages.” and consume more calories in edibles for the needed effect. In addition, the package size limits may also result in unnecessary waste leading to a negative impact on the environment.

For medical users, the calorie issue is more problematic than for recreational users, as most of the calories involved come from sugar. Patients, who consume far higher doses of THC than most recreational users, could harm their already precarious health. There are a number of high-dose edibles currently on the market that range from 200 to 500 mg of THC per package.

The companies that make these highdose products for medical patients are now seeing their packaging costs rise as they try to comply with new rules.

Patients who buy these products at dispensaries will no longer be able to do so in a single package, and will be forced to purchase multiple packages.

Producers have similar concerns about the limits set for concentrates and extracts. The health authority set medicinal THC limits for tinctures at no more than 500 mg THC per package, while extracts are limited to 1000 mg THC to accommodate medicinal needs. Recreational users really got the disadvantageous side of these rules, though, with extracts and con-

centrates, both limited to 250 mg THC per serving. This translates into extracts that would only be 25% THC if packaged in a single-gram portion.

Frank Wallace, who owns Oregonbased Sirius Extracts, says that in order to accommodate the new limits, processors of high-THC extracts would have to reduce their serving sizes to about a quarter gram per package. “The current limit for recreational users to purchase out of a dispensary is 5 grams of product per day,” he explains. “This would effectively mean that a recreational user would have to buy twenty packages of extract if they wanted to purchase their limit. This is also a huge cost to the processor in packaging, which would ultimately be passed along to the end consumer. Not to mention, the excess packaging created will have a negative impact on the environment, which is not what we believe Oregonians stand for.”

The health authority is also currently drafting oversight rules for medical marijuana processors, medical dispensaries and medical grows. The proposals go through an advisory committee before being adopted by the health authority, and that process is ongoing through April 2016. Early drafts have once again raised flags with medical marijuana advocates, as there are proposals to

limit how many cannabis products and flowers a medical patient can purchase out of a dispensary. More troubling to some, there has been talk of “decoupling” growers from their patients within the medical marijuana program.

Anthony Taylor of Compassionate Oregon expressed his concerns for patients after he heard health authority deputy director Priscilla Lewis speak before the legislature. He said her testimony showed a lack of understanding of how the program works and how products are manufactured, as well as a lack of concern for how patients work with growers.

“The draft rules were so fundamentally flawed, several issues were redrafted,” Taylor says, yet state health officials still seem unaware of the negative impact recent legislative changes to the medical marijuana program will have on patients.

The health authority’s rule-making process is ongoing, and public comment is often accepted at the end of each advisory committee meeting. To follow the latest developments, visit: www.oregon.gov/oha/ mmj/Pages/RAC.aspx. Comments are encouraged to be clear, concise, and on topic of that day’s meeting.

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scribed love song, Purple Haze, is often thought of as a nod to a psychedelic trip on acid, inspiring the genre of psychedelic rock during the late 1960s.

He had been fingering the unmistakable opening riff for a while, writing down lyrics before allegedly finishing the melody in the dressing room of a London club in 1966. He then went on to record the song in 1967 with his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Later he would say he wrote the song from a dream in which he was walking under the sea. “[Purple Haze] had a thousand words. I had it all written out. It was about going through, through this land. This mythical ... because that’s what I like to do is write a lot of mythical scenes. You know, like the history of the wars on Neptune,” he trailed during an interview.

“Jimi was obsessively, compulsively, addicted to playing his guitar,” Leon laughed. “He would go to sleep with it on his chest, and when he woke up in the morning—before brushing his teeth—he’d play his guitar.”

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Today, Jimi’s brother Leon Hendrix is in partnership with Andrew Pitsicalis of Rockin Artwork, LLC, to form Purple Haze Properties, LLC, in an effort to license and market merchandise under the iconic name that is already a brand.

Hendrix and Pitsicalis are laying out multiple platforms globally.

Merchandise will be marketed under Jimi’s Cannabis Collection, with cannabis products, such as infused lavender macaroons, marketed under Jimi’s Edibles, further defining the Purple Haze strain (among others to come) in packs of pre-rolled joints under Jimi’s Genetics. The farmer involved in the California operation is Scott McPhail of California’s Finest, who has been doing well sourcing for packs of pre-rolls since 2012.

Purple Haze lounges are planned in Las Vegas with Pitsicalis in association with the owner and creator of Hard Rock Café and House of Blues. One building, in the shade of Capitol Records on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, was in acquisition at the time of press.

When discussing keeping his brother’s name alive through branding, Leon scoffed at the concept. “He’s already a legend,” he said during a phone conversation from his home in Los Angeles. “He’s the greatest guitarist that ever lived. There’s nothing I can do to improve on that. It’s done and he’s not going away. He’s here to stay like Mozart or Beethoven.”

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Leon, who is four years younger than his brother Jimi, idolized his older brother. When Jimi first began playing guitar with Ray Charles at 16, Leon was there. “We drove my dad’s old Plymouth 30 miles out to Spanish Castle and slept under the stage at night so he could play.”

Jimi would later write a song about the historic castle-like venue outside Seattle proper, but Leon remembers being a wide-eyed young man, proud to be in the shadow of his talented brother.

Leon was in prison while his older brother became a rock star.

He was ironically serving time due to going AWOL in order to be with his brother as he toured.

“When he played the Star Spangled Banner the prison warden was so angry at what they called the disrespecting of the song, they treated me very

badly,” he remembered. “I must have peeled 15 tons of potatoes after that.”

His brother’s notoriety made him famous in prison, much to the warden’s dismay. “The warden called me into his office and told me, ‘There’s only one general here, and that’s me.’” Leon remembered being put in his place, “but everyone loved my brother.”

When his brother passed, he said he felt alone, though many in prison shared his grief. “They called my name over the loud speaker, told me to go to the chaplain’s office,” he said, adding that it was the longest walk he ever made. “Everything stopped for me then.” Leon has fought with his own demons over the years. While Jimi worked his out with music, Leon turned to drugs, alcohol, and women, with his problems worsening after Jimi’s death.

OBSESSED WITH MUSIC Immediate rumors of Jimi’s demise were that he died of a heroin overdose like his tragic counterparts, Joplin and Morrison. But a little known fact is that the young woman he was dating at the time of his passing was actually the daughter of the owner of a prominent pharmaceutical company in Germany. Jimi overdosed by taking nine prescription sleeping pills, which his girlfriend provided, with alcohol.

The cause of death was asphyxiation: the pills stopped his heart.

Jimi was not a heroin addict, nor was he a drug addict. The only addiction his brother said he had was playing music on his guitar. “Jimi was obsessively, compulsively, addicted to playing his guitar,” Leon laughed. “He would go to sleep with it on his chest, and when he woke up in the morning—before brushing his teeth—he’d play his guitar.”

The path to addiction or obsession often lies in a family’s lineage, and the brothers’ father was a known alcoholic, making Jimi and Leon what are called “adult children of an alcoholic,” with a lifetime of dysfunctions to overcome.

Leon has been in recovery for 15 years and has come to terms with his pratfalls and weaknesses. He attends Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) meetings regularly, but he won’t give up the herb. “I have to smoke a joint just to get in the door—to go into those meetings,” he laughed.

“I know it is medicine and good. It relaxes me and takes the edge off.

There is no way I would ever compare it to alcohol or any of the other drugs I played around with over the years, and I’m sure my brother would agree,” he surmised. “Jimi loved the herb. Oh, yes he did.”

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Amanda Reiman, manager of Marijuana Law and Policy at the Drug Policy Alliance, lectures on the successes of studies on “harm reduction,” in which alcohol, prescription medications, and street drugs are replaced by ingesting or smoking cannabis.

During her lectures, Reiman sites many studies on the subject, explaining how withdrawal symptoms from drug and alcohol addictions are quelled with the beneficial effects of cannabis in an often smooth transition to sobriety. Studies cited include patients’ accounts of the efficacy of cannabis as superior to many drugs prescribed by a doctor for other ailments.

California physician Tod H. Mikuriya, MD, led many studies on the subject and came to the conclusion that 12-step programs under AA should incorporate cannabis as a beneficial substitute for alcohol and other addictive substances. In other words, Leon is on the right path. He should keep smoking that joint before and after meetings; it’s all good.

Leon continues to tour, playing his brother’s songs and more on the road. He is bent on doing good work for the greater good and making his big brother proud, continuing the tradition of helping others in their hometown of Seattle. This past Thanksgiving, as per usual, Leon teamed up with the food bank of Seattle, delivering turkey sandwiches to the needy in Pioneer Square.

“He’s still here with me,” Leon concluded.

“I can go anywhere and his music will be there with me. He tells me to ‘bend them strings’ when I’m in trouble on stage.”

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for health issues in the United States, and infectious diseases are at the top of the list of preventable ailments, alongside the heart disease, diabetes, and cancer statistics that plague the rest of the country, according to a study done at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Being the only state in the country that allows prostitution, it’s telling that infectious disease is at the top of the list. Ironically, Cook County is one of the counties in Nevada that doesn’t allow the world’s oldest profession, yet Las Vegas is one of the top workplaces for both male and female prostitutes in the Silver State. Traditional casino, hotel, and food service gigs rank second, and they don’t pay nearly as much.

And though gun violence and drug abuse play huge roles in Nevada’s deaths and illness, the emotional issues associated with prostitution are often overlooked.

PTSD WITH OR WITHOUT CONSENT Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is very real in the lives of strippers and prostitutes of both sexes. Melissa Farley, clinical psychologist and founder of the San Francisco-based non-profit, Prostitution Research & Education, has spent a career studying, writing about, and advocating for prostitutes abused by sex trafficking and violence—with a focus on PTSD within the profession.

Of the hundreds of sex workers interviewed on the streets, in brothels, and in strip clubs, Farley found 68 percent had been diagnosed with

PTSD from violence, rape, or slavery.

Her findings put an end to the myth of consent in the business, finding that many enter into the field due to a history of abuse within the family, financial dependency, or drug addiction.

Farely’s 2007 book, Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada, found that 90 percent of prostitution took place in Las Vegas and Reno, where it’s illegal. A staggering 81 percent of sex workers interviewed in legal brothels said they wanted to leave for a better life but were physically prevented from doing so. Corroborating the violence, Farley writes that she was even threatened at gunpoint by a brothel owner.

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MEDICATING THE PAIN Ashley, a Las Vegas dancer and occasional prostitute, said she sought to leave the world of prostitution for good and enter the healthier workplace of the cannabis industry. She’s looking forward to legalization and the opportunities it may bring.

“I’m 27 and have been dancing since I was 19 years old,” she explained. “I grew up fast in Vegas and soon moved on to prostitution. My mother used to smoke bud. It was like smoking ciga-

BONNIE AT BUNNY RANCH The Moonlight Bunny Ranch, located east of Carson City, is one of several legal brothels located in Nevada. First opened in 1955 as The Moonlight Ranch, it recently gained notoriety by being included in HBO’s America Undercover special, Cathouse.

Bonnie came for two months in the fall of 2014, then recently came back to stay longer. She originally hails from Washington. No stranger to cannabis, she has grown it herself in the past, keeping track via a high-tech remote system to keep her day job.

“I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease at the age of 24, and was told I could use cannabis for pain,” she shared. “Doctors are so quick to prescribe pain medication, and they kill your liver. I have seen

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rettes in our family, and I started smoking at the age of 13. Cannabis has been my ultimate release from the things I had to do down the road from stripping—the kind of stuff the whole world knows about, but no one wants to talk about—or at least they never tell the truth.”

Ashley said she specifically chooses cannabis to medicate for emotional issues connected to her work, because it is effective.

“I was what they call a ‘renegade,’ a girl who answers to no one and never gives her money to any man for protection,” she continued. “To me, protection was carrying my little handgun in my purse, pepper spray, and a Taser. Can-

nabis always helped calm me down if I was uncomfortable or if I was just feeling bad about myself for choosing the crazy things I did for money—but a girl’s gotta eat.”

Ashley said she never apologized for the work she did, but that cannabis helped her remain in control and stay safe.

“Bud was the best thing to use when you deal with the men and women I’ve dealt with in this business,” she concluded. “The best part was how empowered I felt. I was in control and I decided what the rules were, and how far things would go. Cannabis helped me with that.”

people really regain their life due to using cannabis.”

In Washington, Bonnie said she uses Kush Creams topically for migraines, applying the lotion to the base of her neck and temples.

“I’ve also rubbed it on my abdomen for menstrual cramps, and it really, truly works!” she exclaimed. “I’ve also used it on my runner’s knee. The girls at the ranch and I talk about cannabis as medicine all the time. I’m also a big supporter of CBD products.”

Bonnie said that not all illnesses are visible, and though she’s a cannabis patient, she’s actually in line for dialysis or a kidney transplant very soon.

Not knowing about ingesting, I informed both of them of the many ways they could further use the plant as medicine. For Bonnie, I advised that ingesting the strong cannabis oil has been reported to cleanse and heal organs, possibly making her pending kidney transplant surgery unnecessary.

Hopefully, she’ll keep in touch on her path to recovery.

As for the many ailments that can be associated with prostitution, such as myriad infections and the stress of the job, there are cannabis products out there for purchase in legal and medically legal states—many able to ship across state lines because of their sole CBD base.

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Medicated salves or lotions can be used topically for inflammation caused by chafing, minor infections such as yeast infections, personal lubricants, and to enhance the senses.

Ingesting tincture or capsules (CBD- or THC-activated) can help you sleep, ease nightmares, and prevent infection.

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Vegas translates to “the meadows,” despite the fact that it is now a barren valley. The last watering hole after the glaciers of the ice age melted, Vegas was once a lush, green valley that formed the pools of water that now flow through the Hoover Damn.

In the late 1930s, Thomas Hull, owner of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, had his eye on the desert and built the first casino in downtown Las Vegas. The fancy Westernthemed El Cortez Hotel opened in 1941. At the time, Vegas was a weekend getaway from Los Angeles for rebel rousers—a place to drink, gamble, and get a quick divorce.

Once El Cortez was a hit, Hollywood reporter Billy Wilkerson built the Flamingo Hotel in an attempt to attract high rollers. It was the long, skinny legs of Bugsy Malone’s starlet (and sometimes mob courier) girlfriend, Virginia Hill, that inspired the name. Funded by mobsters, The Flamingo became the start of a string of hotels along what is still

referred to as the Strip.

As a child visiting Vegas with my parents in the 1960s, I remember Highway 15 cutting straight through town and into the lights. It was, and still is, a magical experience to arrive in Vegas, with its metropolis of fun rising up from the desert floor. The casinos were built as gaudy palaces, with winding driveways circling fountains overlooked

by Greek Gods. Star-struck visitors milled about, hoping to strike it rich on the card tables and slot machines.

My sister and I were only welcome poolside at the casinos or inside Circus, Circus. We played our own slots on rows of pinball machines upstairs and watched the adults in the casino below. There, my dad played Keno and my mom camped out in front of a nickel slot machine.

Our coffee table at home held ashtrays from The Flamingo, Caesar’s Palace, and The Golden Nugget: relics from the old strip, where casino lights still give the illusion of daytime at 3 a.m. and light shows entertain out front for free.

“Nevada has the potential to become the next major source of cannabis information & research.”

WINNING GREEN

Since medical cannabis was voted into effect through Nevada Senate Bill 374 with a 17:4 vote during its State Legislative session in 2013, Vegas has embraced the culture. A year prior to legalization, the historic Bonanza Gift Shop (the city’s block-sized tourist attraction) added ashtrays and shot glasses emblazoned with cannabis leaves, putting a whole new meaning to the term “high roller.” My anti-hippie dad would roll over in his grave at the sight.

Just four retail shops were open by the time the city’s second annual Marijuana Business Conference & Expo took place. I was able to visit two of them: ReLeaf and Inyo, both beautiful, stateof-the-art facilities staffed with knowledgeable and friendly reps.

As a patient from another medically legal state, I’m in luck in Nevada, as they recognize my rights to safe access of my good medicine; all I needed was a letter of recommendation and my I.D.

GETTING RELEAF

While in ReLeaf, I had the good fortune to chat with Mr. Johnston, a longtime Vegas resident who arrived

in the city in 1959 as a working musician. Not allowed to enter the casinos through the fancy circular driveways I traversed with my family years ago due to the color of his skin, Mr. Johnston had to enter through the back.

I mentioned that I was working on an article for the Jimi Hendrix issue of this magazine, and he shared with me that he once had the good fortune of playing with the late guitarist, recounting Jimi Hendrix’s last performance at The Monterey Pop Festival in California.

It was a surreal encounter, as the lineage of the stigma with black musicians and cannabis runs deep. One can imagine Sammy Davis, Jr. burning one outside the rear entrance with some of the great entertainers of the time, both black and white, for the herb knows no color.

An outspoken proponent of the plant, Louis Armstrong was no stranger to the herb or to Vegas, and once stated, “I just won’t carry on with such fear over nothing, and I don’t intend to ever stop smoking it, not as long as it grows. And there is no one on this earth that can ever stop it all from growing. No one but Jesus—and he wouldn’t dare, because he feels the same way I do about it.”

HEALING AT INYO

While filling out my patient intake form at Inyo Fine Cannabis Dispensary, I noticed a woman in a wheel chair attempting to fill out her paperwork with the help of her grown daughter. She had dropped the clipboard on her leg and was sobbing in extreme neuropathy pain.

My heart sank and I handed her my vape pen for quick relief. Cameras were watching and patients are not allowed to medicate inside, nor are they allowed to share, so she took my pen outside. I soon learned she was there just for flower to smoke. We laughed at the thought of her being able to pop an oxy inside a pharmacy, but taking a hit of a natural plant-based medicine in a dispensary is off-limits.

Despite having a morphine pump implanted in her body, smoking gave

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her the most relief. As is common with opiates and other pain killers, cannabis enhances their effect. Patients can still have pain while on up to 300mg of morphine, but when they smoke, relief is immediate. Patients are just beginning to learn that they can do away with the morphine and solely ingest cannabis for complete pain relief.

I made a deal with her and said I would help pay for a topical cream or edible tincture if she’d like to try it. She ended up buying flower and a transdermal patch from Mary’s Medicinals, a Denver-based company that produces CBD-only products (from cannabis) that can be shipped across state lines, due to their low THC count of 0.03 percent. She told me to keep my money and was grateful for the help.

TESTING, TO BE SURE

One evening, Susan and Curtis Bunce were watching the news when they saw a laboratory in Nevada getting licensed to test medical cannabis. Susan said a light bulb went off in her head, as she surmised it probably would take more than one lab to test all of Nevada’s finest.

One thing led to another, and as is often the case in this seemingly magical industry, someone knew someone who “used to work at a lab.” That someone turned out to be none other than Savino Sguera, who holds a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering from Columbia University. He was the former laboratory director for Steep Hill Labs, the first cannabis-testing lab in California. Not a bad connection.

Encouraged by her new alliance, Susan started DB Labs. Sguera is the laboratory director and his business partner, Marco, is the laboratory manager. The team they put together has a combined lab experience of 80 years, and the majority of them are women.

The 20 samples DB Labs currently tests per week will soon jump to 60 samples per day in the immediate future, but it won’t stop there. “That number will soon expand to 100 samples per day as the production increases in the

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New Year,” Bunce explained. Nevada currently has the most stringent testing in the world’s cannabis market. DB Labs uses the most state-of-the-art equipment available, with rigorous standards.

Sguera, who also consults for the cannabis industry on the topics of extraction and analysis, said the lab is currently “opti-mixing” its output efficiency and refining its methods in order to make room for the onslaught of samples to come. “We are also looking at the possibility of seeing more analytes: new cannabinoids, more required pesticides, lower tolerance levels, and so forth,” he explained. “With such an expansive market due to open in Las Vegas and elsewhere, Nevada has the potential to become the next major source of cannabis information and research.”

The advantage of coming in to the game behind Colorado and Washington, Sguera said, is being able to share information. “When different doctors, cultivators, producers, and especially laboratories begin to pool the information gathered on this enormous set of samples, we will have an invaluable new insight into the cannabis plant. For instance, how does the plant handle different chemical additives and contaminants? How can we identify strains based on chemical profile?

How do growing conditions control this profile, and how do these chemical profiles translate to the pharmacodynamics of cannabis medicine?”

One thing Sguera said we must remember about cannabis is that it is still a plant, and unlike pharmaceuticals, its effects cannot be narrowed down and attributed to one or two chemicals that can be isolated and purified—although some companies do take that approach. “A majority of cannabis’ medicinal qualities stem from the as-of-yet unknown interplay between hundreds of cannabinoids and terpenes that currently only living plants can produce in the correct amounts,” he said. “As such, the best cannabis will come from the healthiest plants, and healthy plants are in constant symbiotic balance with thousands of different bacteria, fungi, and even parasites—with most of these microbes easily kept at bay by a healthy human immune system.”

GOING GREEN

FARMING NEVADA

Former attorney Chris Van Hook is the founder, program director, and chief inspector for Clean Green, a certification program for farmers. Clean Green is a start-to-finish inspection program, covering all areas in which crops would be worked, stored, or cured.

Prior to its inception in 2004, the company was working closely with the USDA National Organic Program, certifying organic farms, so the transition to cannabis was natural. With nine inspectors working separate regions, Clean Green has been able to spread out. Currently certifying five states, they have applications pending in five more. “Eighty farmers were certified last year alone, but all told, we’ve helped more than 1,000 come into compliance since we began,” he said.

Green Life Productions, operated in Parhump, was the first farm to be certified in Nevada. Parhump is a small town about an hour out of Las Vegas proper, and to the east of Death Valley. The farm is indoors, a result of the harsh conditions of the Nevada desert, which has snow and frost in the winter and a short outdoor season before temperatures climb to 120 degrees in August.

“The facility is an excellent example of how top quality indoor cannabis can be grown in a manner with very low consumption—and in a remarkably sustainable manner,” Van Hook said.

Green Life Productions uses LED lighting, which does not need to be cooled, making the reduction of energy in Nevada’s harsh environment easy. Producing a high quality flower with the lowest electricity possible is quite a feat in a region that demands constant energy use. “Its continual reuse and rebuilding of the soils in place further reduces the overall footprint of the facility by not having to replace their soils with each crop, which would require trucking it in and out of the valley,” he explained.

The cannabis market is still developing in Nevada, with farms and product being procured as I write, leaving dispensary shelves a bit wanting at the moment. Green Life Productions has been able to acquire a license and a step up in the market. The difference between Green Life Productions and a traditional indoor cannabis farm is that they grow in large, square beds with cover crops to feed the soil. They regenerate soil through organic composting—otherwise known as sustainable farming.

But the real story lies in its cofounder’s past. Steve Cantwell was born and raised in the tiny desert town of Parhump. Bored and challenged, Cantwell speaks of his time as a “troubled youth” before he began training in martial arts as a diversion.

At 17, Floyd’s Ace Hardware sponsored his move to Las Vegas to live, train, and compete as a professional. It was a good move, and by the time he was 20 Cantwell was signed by the WEC, and soon after won his first title. At 21, he was the WEC Light Heavy Weight Champion. Then the injuries came.

“I started fighting with serious injuries,” he explained. “I knew the dangers of pain pills from what close friends and family had been through with them, and knew I had to find an alternative way to manage what was sure to be a lifetime of chronic pain.” Cantwell began researching, studying, and testing cannabis as medicine, realizing the benefits of the plant. With reservations, he enlisted his wife, Kouanin Villa, to help him.

“Steve and I met when we were 17, when he moved into the gym where I worked,” Villa explained. “Twelve years later we are still happily working together, growing cannabis in the former hardware building where it all began.”

Villa shared that Cantwell’s attention to farming wasn’t always focused on cannabis. His love of farming started with fruits and vegetable gardens at home before transitioning to coral reef fish tanks, then to hydroponics and working with nutrients. “I began growing in soil first with rock wool cubes, then coco coir and bottled nutrients,

to mixing and recycling super soil, to finally what I believe to be the safest, most sustainable style on the planet earth—no till, organic, living soil.”

Cover crops are used as companion planting, just as backdoor, organic farming dictates. The outcome is biodiversity and rich soil with fewer pests. “Our goal is to introduce and grow healthy, beneficial life that outcompetes negative pests and pathogens, creating symbiotic relationships above and below our soil,” he concluded. What this means is that Green Life Productions’ bud and the medicine it makes is clean and pure, loaded with beneficial compounds.

Truth and wellness go hand in hand in this industry, and both Cantwell and Villa say they are in this for the long haul. Putting off kids for three Rottweilers, they intend to focus on growing some of Nevada’s finest.

Cantwell shared, “We feel true healing can only take place when we first free ourselves from the legal and moral convictions both society and our legal system has put on cannabis.”

FROM SILVER TO GOLD, AND THEN TO GREEN

Nevada has had the advantage of watching what other states do for a very long time. We already know the money is there and the green tourist trade is a given, so the state is preparing in a very smart way. Starting with testing all products from seed to shelf and farming with the cleanest and most efficient methods, they make medicine for real ailments, not just prepping for recreation.

Now five states into my Road Trip series, I’ve noticed that when a state legalizes, more people get help and heal. Legalizing helps a medicine maker feel safe to come out of the green closet and to share for the greater good.

Whether you are a high roller or just heavily medicated in Sin City, you will experience healing with this plant— fiscally or otherwise. Inevitably, the plant, with its people, prevails.

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cannabis is a gift that we have been historically robbed of. As weed smokers, cannabis activists, and entrepreneurs, we have been forced to live in the shadows and hide our relationship with the queen of plants. I encourage everyone to come out of the cannabis closet and speak openly. Only then can we wash away more than 70 years of prohibition and the stigma of the past, evolving into a new era of exploration and reverence for this plant.

I am honored and proud to be the founder of Women of Weed (WOW).

Among our ranks are activists, growers, patients, naturopaths, nurses, herbalists, extractors, hash makers, entrepreneurs, political analysts, agronomists, inventors, scientists, graphic designers, nationally published writers, photographers, and publishers. We are CEOs, COOs and CFOs, 502 producers, processors, and retailers, lawyers, lobbyists, international cannabis experts, and policy advisors. Currently, there are 128 participants. At full capacity there will be 200 members in

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Washington and 100 honorary members from around the country and the world, totaling 300 altogether.

In May of 2013, nine brave female souls gathered at my house in Magnolia for the first Women of Weed celebration.

We have continued to gather monthly for almost three years. We have had clothing exchanges, jewelry-making and slumber parties, bonfires, extraction demonstrations, and karaoke nights.

Throughout those events, lots of beautiful food, cocktails, and weed has been shared. About half of our events are members only, so members can bring a guest to several events every year. We have an annual holiday mixer and welcome husbands, boyfriends, and partners (all privacy boundaries still apply).

Women of Weed is the result of my own need for community within the cannabis space. From 1995 to 2007, I ran a hemp company, and my only cannabis support came from my best friend Kelley. Kelley has yet to come to a single Women of Weed event, despite being a true woman of weed. A felony conviction for growing cannabis,

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along with the imposed social shame and financial burden, has kept this goddess closeted and timid about being “out” in any way, even today.

The vast majority of participants may not have a problem being photographed, but let us not forget that people are still going to prison and losing their children over cannabis use. For this, Women of Weed is now private, and will remain so. Media has never been allowed inside our celebrations.

While photography is permitted at our events, sharing photos publically is prohibited, unless every single person in the photo agrees to it. Call me old school, but I believe that the best parts of life still happen, even when they’re not posted on social media. Sometimes all that picture taking and posting takes away from the joy of the moment.

Women of Weed is a Washington state private social club that’s intended to provide a private, celebratory respite and source of empowerment for its dedicated cannabis industry and movement participants. I have fought to keep my vision intact, making Women of Weed a social club where we simply enjoy, support, and love each other. We have taken great effort to keep the focus on the individual women and their particular dreams, not on the group itself. In an act of empowerment, each of the original 100 members has one spot in the second 100 to give to the cannabis woman of her choice. These new members should be women who have sacrificed personally and given themselves freely for the greater good of the cannabis community. NORML Women of Washington, MJBA Women’s Alliance, and Hempfest are all great places where work is actually being done. Get involved in any cannabis organization and you will naturally find us. Women of Weed sisters are everywhere and there are still 83 spots available for Washington women.

My goal is to clear up misconceptions and illustrate that Women of Weed is actually all about being inclu-

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“Among our ranks are activists, growers, patients, naturopaths, nurses, herbalists, extractors, hash makers, entrepreneurs, political analysts, agronomists, inventors, scientists, graphic designers, published writers, photographers, and publishers. We are CEOs, COOs and CFOs, 502 producers, processors, and retailers, lawyers, lobbyists, international cannabis experts, and policy advisors.” sive, but the most important message is to encourage others to form their own social groups. We are here for fun and support, and our intent is to get together away from the pressures that we carry in the worlds of business and activism. Spending real time in a community—not virtual time—will benefit everyone involved. The larger cannabis community will be stronger, healthier, and happier for it.

I am grateful to all of the women taking part in this grand social experiment. I am excited to see all of their accomplishments, and look forward to the ones we will share in the future. These women have been there for me, supporting me and bringing joy to my journey. I am forever grateful and in their debt. dopemagazine.com ISSUE 21 THE DOPEST ISSUE

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Women of Weed does not accept event sponsorships of any kind: there is no buy-in. Events are voluntarily hosted by signed participants. There are no dues or membership fees.

However, every member must sign an agreement that covers everything from liability waivers and use of the association’s logo to inviting event guests and sponsoring new members.

Women of Weed does not promote, endorse, condemn, or condone anything, except the removal of cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act.

Women of Weed is not a business association or an activist group. The only agenda at our gatherings is to have no agenda.

“Call me old school, but I believe that the best parts of life still happen, even when they’re not posted on social media.”

Women of Weed is not a secret society. There is no clandestine activity, no women smoking weed in lingerie, and no plots are being forged to push away our cannabis brothers. If you are a cannabis brother who supports, loves, and respects your cannabis sisters, we support, love, and respect you right back.

Women of Weed has no email list, even for use by members themselves. All personal requests, business pitches, and activist pleas are not allowed at celebrations.

Instead, we use our private Facebook group, where all signed members can network freely.

Ah Warner is the Founder and CEO of Cannabis Basics, Seattle’s own since 1995. She has a bachelor’s in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Washington. As a guiding member of NORML Women of Washington, she recently received a special MJBA Women’s Alliance award for focus and dedication to the women in Washington’s cannabis industries.

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REGONIANS LOVE to grow high-grade cannabis - craft farmers know this means extra attention to the girls in the garden. With the advent of legalization, we are gearing for fullscale recreational sales, but there are problems that need solutions.

One of the recent dilemmas brought to light was off-label pesticide use.

There are no FDA-approved products for pest control when it comes to cannabis.

The reason for this is, of course, federal prohibition. There have been no longterm impact studies on consumption of cannabis grown using various products that horticulturists utilize during cultivation. This means that we have no idea what these products may or may not contribute to our health while we medicate. The state of Oregon has gone as far as to send a letter stating, among other things, “pesticide applications that do not follow the pesticide product label pose risks to public health and safety and are a violation of state and federal law. The label is the law.”

Following this USPS-delivered warning, Oregon growers from large-scale producers to hobbyists are wondering what to do about pests. The past few years in Oregon has shown a consistent increase in the realm of invisible scourges - specifically the broad mite.

It seems that a large share of growers have faced or are currently dealing with these little monsters. All manner of pesticides are being applied, some in com-

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binations on schedules in an attempt to salvage the crop. Commonly used products individually and in mixtures are Eagle20 (myclobutanil), FloraMite (spiromesifen) and Avid (abamectin).

Each is made by Dow, Bayer or Syngenta, and approved for use on ornamental shrubbery. They are all considered toxic to humans in some capacity.

Jorge, you have taught people how to properly and efficiently grow cannabis. Enthusiasts, many of them our very own readers, look up to you as a “weed guru,” looking to your literature for answers to many garden problems. We’d like to hear your thoughts on broad mites, and how to diagnose, treat and cure an infestation.

mites have infested all the plants in the garden. I was at a garden recently that was completely infested, 24 huge 10-foot-tall plants. The mites were so bad that none of the flowering females had any white stigmas in their flowers.

Hemp russet mites are hard to control if they get started in the garden. The 0.2 mm-long mites have two pairs of legs on beige bodies. No webbing distinguishes them from other mites. At 80º F, russet mites have a 30-day life cycle.

They feed on foliage, including petioles, meristems and leaves. Leaf edges curl yellow and die. Foliage becomes brittle and becomes beige with mites when infested. Russet mites feed on stigmas rendering them sterile. They eat resin glands, too. This can diminish harvest potency substantially.

What exactly is a broad mite and how are they different than an How is a broad mite infestation average spider mite? diagnosed? What are the main symptoms a grower should look Spider mites are much larger than for? broad mites, hemp russet mites or cyclamen mites. Spider mites are most common indoors.

Broad mites and cyclamen mites cause similar damage. Broad mites are about 0.1 millimeter (mm) long with eight legs. Larvae have six legs and are hungry at hatch. Broad mites reproduce prolifically between 70-80º F. They hatch in two-to-three days and each female can produce 40-50 eggs.

Cyclamen mites are about 0.2 mm long. Larvae hatch hungry and have four pairs of legs with a waxy body.

They have very similar reproductive cycles as broad mites.

Both broad mites and cyclamen mites secrete and inject a toxic growth regulator into plants as they feed. The toxin and feeding by mites deforms foliage and distorts growth.

Leaf edges tend to cup up or down, become brittle and show signs of scarring. Intermodal growth is stunted and overall growth is underdeveloped.

New growth can blacken and die. The damage resembles herbicide damage or it could also be confused with a viral disease or micronutrient deficiency.

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Initially leaves will start to curl up slightly, and the entire plant will lose its vibrant green color. Leaves generally curl near the base at the petiole. New growth is stunted and weak. Broad mites inject a toxic growth hormone into the plant that slows and distorts growth. The toxins persist for a time after the mites are dead. The problem is usually confused with a micronutrient deficiency or pH imbalance. But if you look closely you will see more consistent signs of damage.

Super small broad mites are difficult to identify without a 60-100x microscope. Once you have sight of them in the microscope, they are easy to identify because they move relatively quickly. Without positive identification, control is difficult.

In your experience, when treating broad mites, what has worked and what has not worked for you?

Personally, I have had no problems with broad mites, hemp russet mites or cyclamen mites. I use Aerated Activated Compost Tea (AACT) that I explain below: I was at a friend´s house when

visiting Portland. Paul Stanford, who organizes hhempstalk.org, had a crop of 24 big 10-foot-tall plants. They looked great at a distance, but looking closer, the buds don’t have any white stigmas popping out of the seed bracts. The broad mites had done away with them all.

We looked at the leaves closely.

Cupped upward near the base, all the new little flower buds were just little nubs, with no white female stigmas.

I thought the crop would be lost, or at best they could get half as much harvest. That was on August 26, 2015.

About a month or so later, I spoke with Paul on the telephone; his crop is fine, with lots of fuzzy white female stigmas and healthy growth.

What organic treatment options are available? During vegetative cycle? Flower?

My favorite prophylactic measure is to spray with aerated activated compost tea (AACT). This stuff is great. You mix in a bit of compost, chicken manure, base of microbes and biological life with water and add oxygen. Make the mix in a 30-gallon container filled with 20 gallons of water and mix. Add an air pump to increase oxygen content of water and let it rip for 24-48 hours. Apply the mix directly and heavily to foliage with a hose-end sprayer or pump-up sprayer and soak the ground as well.

The biological life in the mix will coat and out-compete any and all intruders.

Look on the Internet for AACT. Vital Landscaping in Grass Valley, Calif., is helpful with a great supply.

Applications can continue through flowering, but remember that the plants should be rinsed at harvest. A rinse will remove dirt, disease and pest residues on the surface of the plant. I like to rinse buds with dilute hydrogen peroxide (H202) at harvest. I mix up a dilute, 5% solution of H2O2 and water in a large shallow container. Then, harvesting 12- to 24-inch-long branches, I dip them into the mild H2O2 water for 15-30 seconds, agitating them around in the water. I remove the branches and shake them off to get rid of the big drops of water, then dry them in front of a fan for 10-30 minutes to remove the rest of the water and prevent mold.

Once we identified the problem as broad mites with the help of the Cannabis Encyclopedia at Paul Stanford´s garden, we knew what to do - find the newest biological product.

We consulted Samantha Miller from Pure Analytics, and he suggested BotaniGuard. Paul called around to a few grow stores and could not find it in stock; only one garden store knew about broad mites. I found it on Amazon. com, Paul applied as per directions, and a few days later, the plants showed signs of new healthy growth.

Share with us some specific contributing factors to infestation in the garden, i.e where or how does one “get” broad mites or what attracts them to gardens?

The little bastards are everywhere. We first had them in Spain about seven, maybe eight years ago. They came in from the grape crops in the northern wine-growing regions around Barcelona, but all of these mites can come from many different crops, annual flowers and vegetables as well as perennials.

Once they are in an area, you have to beware all the time. Even when you get rid of them, they may easily be in your neighbor´s garden.

Do you have any other recommendations for DOPE readers?

Always learn more about growing and share it with friends. Upload your garden videos to YouTube and check out my YouTube channel, www. youtube.com/user/jorgecervantesmj. I will upload a video about broad mites in the next few weeks and continue to upload videos. I am also on my website forum answering questions regularly at www.marijuanagrowing. com. My Internet cultivation classes are at www.THCUniversity.org and my new book, the Cannabis Encyclopedia, is out. Pay attention to chapter 24 “Diseases and Pests” as it gives much background on, and control measures for all mites and other pests and diseases that attack cannabis.

What are some DIY preventative measures that can be implemented against these pests in the garden?

Grow organically. Grow a strong healthy garden. Build strong healthy soil. Use AACT early in the season. This compost tea will save you from many problems and the plants love it. I use it prophylactically against diseases and pests, and it works to build an organic environment in the soil as well.

Where in the U.S. are hot spots for broad mite activity and which are the least?

Wherever they can over-winter; warm climates are the worst. Indoors, they can be a menace because they are attracted to indoor plants. There should be a “broad mite” hotline.

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it’s the beginning of a new year and our immune systems need a boost. It begins in the fall, when we start staying indoors more and kids are spreading new and mutated forms of germs throughout the schools and bringing everything home. We are fighting these germs as well as contending with workplace exposure. There are a number of proven ways to boost the immune system this time of year, usually in the form of massive doses of vitamin C in pill form.

While consuming large amounts of vitamin C can be very beneficial, there are more wholesome and effective ways to boost our immune systems as well as our overall health and vitality.

Raw cannabis juicing has been gaining traction in the health and wellness communities just as much as the cannabis industry. There has been an influx of anecdotal evidence supporting the broad gains in health given by raw cannabis - to learn more, reference the research conducted by Dr. William Courtney.

Raw, green cannabis juice does not get you high because heat is required to convert the THCa - the acid form of thc - into THC. The lack of psychoactivity makes it much more tolerable to consume high doses of cannabinoids as well as getting large amounts of the acid forms of the cannabinoids. Raw and decarboxylated cannabinoids have been shown to possess very potent antioxidant, and even neuroprotective properties, making them a powerful and necessary dietary supplement.

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ter. The benefit to raw cannabis juice is its versatility. It tastes like a very sweet wheat grass, but much less grassy. It blends well with fruits and vegetables, even enhancing the overall flavor of the juice itself.

Here are three cannabis juice infuse mixtures to try for yourself. Don’t be afraid to adopt these recipes as your own and adapt to suit your tastes. Also remember that every strain of cannabis will have different levels of cannabinoids, terpenes and other compounds that have a positive impact on health. I always recommend utilizing both high THC and CBD rich plants when juicing. These base recipes are easy to produce, yielding maximum benefits while remaining palatable. After all, what good is a juice that is too hard to drink?

Cheers to wellness delivered in the form of wholesome nourishing plant goodness.

ROOTS AND TOPS Roots and tops is a great choice if you feel a common cold coming on. This vibrantly colored juice will help boost your coldfighting potential before anything gains traction inside your body while helping to replenish vital nutrients. Turmeric and ginger are both warming, making this an ideal winter juice. This high-iron juice is an ideal choice for women who might feel weak or depleted after menstruating or giving birth.

Ingredients: 1 red apple 2 beets (golden or red) 3 large carrots 1 (1-inch) piece of ginger 2 leaves spinach or kale 3 leaves cannabis 1 small piece of fresh turmeric Portlander Tip: Add this juice slowly to your favorite kombucha drink. Kombucha is a probiotic drink derived from a yeast and bacteria culture. This drink reintroduces enzymes and bacteria to your stomach, encouraging a healthy digestive system. Adding this juice would create a very medicinal drink.

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For those who love both their citrus and mega-dosing vitamin C, this juice is for you. This is a recipe that brings all of the high citrus powerhouses to the table. Each ingredient contains powerful antioxidants and immune boosting nutrients. Pineapple contains high amounts of bromelain, a natural cough suppressant, as well as a nasal decongestant and anti-inflammatory compound.

Ingredients: 2 oranges, peeled and quartered 1 grapefruit, peeled ½ cup pineapple ½ lime, peeled ½ lemon, peeled 5 cannabis leaves

Portlander Tip: If you want to try a one-two punch for the ultimate cold knockout add Vitamins E and A to this citrusy delight. These vitamins work synergistically with Vitamin C. Oranges can be replaced with kiwi if you want a more tropical flavor and a mega-dose of Vitamin C.

First of all, coconut water has an almost identical chemical makeup as our blood plasma, which makes up about 55% of our blood. Coconut water is a hydrating beverage as well as possessing natural manganese, calcium and zinc. This exotic water is best when cold pressed from raw young coconuts. Combining coconut with the other “green” ingredients creates a very cleansing and detoxifying juice capable of stimulating focus and enhancing energy levels.

Ingredients: 2 cannabis leaves 2 leaves spinach 1 celery stalk ½ cucumber 1 cup raw coconut water.

Portlander Tip: If you’re feeling brave or a bit under the weather, adding a dash of siracha or aardvark sauce will help warm things up, clear the sinuses and really bring the heat to any microbiological invaders you may be fighting.

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in the United States is evolving from taboo to truth. Society is becoming increasingly tolerant; medical cannabis movements across the nation are gaining ground, with many states allowing medical cannabis to be used and grown for a wide variety of ailments. Some states have relaxed their laws, even decriminalizing nonviolent, victimless, cannabisrelated offenses such as possession; other states have legalized the plant altogether.

With these shifts in opinion and policy come changes in parenting: children are exposed to fewer misguided drug-war, rhetoric-filled warnings and dissuasions and are hearing more open-minded, truthful discussions about cannabis.

Beginning with those funny smells, Cortés tells the story of a day in the life of Jackie, the daughter of a medical cannabis patient. Jackie stumbles upon her parents smoking a joint, and naturally questions it. Her mother tells her it is a joint, made of marijuana. The child becomes confused; her mother takes her on a bike ride the next morning, with the intention to inform her about the plant.

The author weaves a story that touches on the medical cannabis industry, first paying homage to the farmer, where cannabis gets its start. Farmer Bob grows vegetables as well as cannabis; this creates familiarity in the child’s mind and shows that cannabis is a plant that is grown by everyday people. Bob gives a brief historical account of the plant and makes an anecdotal comparison of it to fruit.

The intention is to create the acceptance of cannabis as a medicine while leaving its use for adults only. Jackie and her mom visit her mother’s doctor,

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Teaching children about drugs and alcohol is an integral part of child-rearing that all parents face. It’s often accompanied by anxiety and confusion: parents want to educate their children well, without glorifying substances or creating curiosity, and at the same time they want to be firm and provide warnings without being overbearing. Since medical and recreational cannabis are different, the approach to teaching kids about each must be as such.

Educational children’s books are a helpful resource for parents of all ages, and people in all life stages. Here are three books that provide a great starting point in the conversation and could prove useful to those who wish to educate their children about medical cannabis.

who discusses medicinal cannabis. It’s a great example of how to broach the subject of one’s own medicinal cannabis use with your children. Cortés shows many facets of cannabis in the book, introducing topics like recreational users and police, and offering honest discussions about cannabis laws and how they can be changed. Though the story is appropriate for children of all ages, it’s advanced enough to be interesting to kids who have an understanding of facets of society such as laws, medicine and rights.

“It’s Just A Plant” has been lauded as a resource for progressive parents who are seeking a way to foster informed discussion about the cannabis plant.

“What a refreshing alternative to the outdated options that dominate today’s programs and messages!” writes Dr. Marsha Rosenbaum in her epilogue to the book. Rosenbaum is the founder of the Safety First Project for drug education and director emerita of the Drug Policy Alliance’s San Francisco office.

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“Stinky Steve Explains Kids Who Use Cannabis”

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At age 17, Morgan Carman wanted to do her part to break stereotypes that have plagued cannabis users for decades. She found that medical cannabis patients often can help break the barriers in people’s minds and dispel their preconceptions by talking about the medicinal benefits they found in cannabis use. Carman, a medical cannabis patient herself, put pen to paper to help educate future generations with a children’s book.

“I really wanted to be able to normalize the concept of cannabis to children and the fact that children are using cannabis,” Carman said. “Growing up with a parent who was using cannabis for medical purposes but still being in an illegal state at the time, I felt like I had to hide that aspect of my life because I didn’t want people to think my mom was a bad parent. So when I had the opportunity to make something so other kids growing up wouldn’t necessarily have to feel that way, it was definitely a huge goal of mine.”

Peter the Peacock is the hero of this story, even though he suffers from de-

pression. During an excursion outside, he stumbles upon a cannabis leaf lying upon the ground. Curious, he scoops it up and shows his friends. Along the way, beavers, owls, spiders, camels and more each reveal their personal medicinal use of the plant. The animals suffer from a myriad of ailments, such as pain, cancer and insomnia. Carman artfully weaves knowledge with entertainment, introducing fanciful and fun characters, such as a trio of “Rasta pigs.”

Geneva Carman, Morgan’s mother, provides unique, hand-drawn illustrations that children will enjoy looking at and discussing. The images fill the pages with life and will spark the imagination and curiosity of a child.

The story concludes happily, with Peter becoming a medical marijuana patient himself after being inspired by the positive stories shared by his counterparts.

This book is a great way to discuss the medical benefits cannabis users can find, even for basic problems like back pain that children may be able to relate to and accept.

Stinky Steve is a skunk. Stinky Steve is also a child’s “Cannabuddy,” here to help explain cannabis in all its forms and touch on cannabis safety. Kids who use cannabis are the topic of the eighth installment in the series aimed at educating children of all ages and focused on pediatric cannabis therapy patients and their siblings. Featuring rhymes that give Dr. Seuss a run for his money, Volpo deftly introduces a trio of pediatric patients who have cancer, epilepsy and muscular dystrophy. When the trio comes together, Stinky Steve shows up to answer all of their questions.

Steve explains the differences between Western and alternative medicines, and covers parental choice and some of the main reasons why patients’ parents opted for cannabis therapy. At the end of each page there is a “Canna-Bit,” a bit of information that helps provide a positive take on what was just read.

It’s also a place where questions will be asked by your children, a great way for a parent to customize and augment the learning experience provided by in this cute book.

The book includes two pages of safety tips and recommendations for both children and adults. These are little facts to help create an awareness of and need for discretion as well as acceptance of the cannabis plant. The author discusses child protection services, law enforcement, solvents and more for those who may not be aware of some of the basic things that each day affect both cannabis patients and pediatric patients’ parents once the choice to use the plant as medicine is made.

If your child is suffering from a debilitating condition and you have turned to medical cannabis to help ensure a good quality of life, this book is a way to help start the conversation.

If you don’t treat your child but use or grow cannabis, there are other Stinky Steve books that you may want to read.

In other books in the series, Volpo covers medical marijuana, “Mommy’s Medibles,” “Daddy’s Dabs,” “Grandma’s Growroom” and “Casual Cannabis.”

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cannabis analytical laboratories.

Instead of an unregulated industry, Oregon will soon be well regulated. The state will lead the nation with its new testing requirements, as well as the mandatory ORELAP (Oregon Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program) accreditation and NELAC/TNI Standards.

Not only will laboratories be required to undergo an extensive licensing procedure, but each lab will also be required to become accredited with ORELAP, the respected accreditation agency based in Oregon. Furthermore, new testing standards will be required for all cannabis products.

The new testing rules and accreditation process will create a system in which Oregon’s cannabis industry will be able to rely upon more continuity in testing and reporting from different cannabis analytical laboratories.

Cannabis analytical laboratories will have three major regulatory bodies for oversight - the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC), which will be adopting the rules for licensing laboratories; the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), which will be adopting the rules for standards of testing; and the aforementioned ORELAP, which will be accrediting the laboratories to the NELAC/TNI and OHA standards.

What is the difference between licensing and accreditation? Licensing is the process in which laboratories will have to apply to the OLCC for a license and comply with rules similar to the licensing rules for dispensaries, producers, processors and wholesalers, such as documentation and safety measures. Accreditation is the process in which laboratories have to follow certain standards. One example of these standards is being able to prove the method and process in which labs test cannabis is valid, consistent and repeatable, making sure certain documentation protocols are being followed and having qualified staff.

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This process is extremely complicated and extensive, adding many layers of oversight for cannabis testing laboratories.

While there are many specific rules that we recommend each business review with their attorney, we have outlined some important basic rules to remember.

The two important dates to remember in the coming year are April 1 and June 1.

APRIL 1, 2016 Any cannabis product that has been transferred to a dispensary must comply with the new labeling rules as well as concentration and serving-size limits.

Each marijuana item or product will have its own specific labeling rules, as well as general labeling requirements that must be followed. This means that plants, seeds, usable marijuana, topicals, edibles, concentrates and extracts, tinctures, and cannabinoid products other than edibles, topicals or tinctures will each have their own specific labels.

The rules include specific requirements for both concentration limits as well as serving-size limits. There are different requirements for maximum concentrations or amounts of THC per serving, container size, and concentration or amount of THC. These differing requirements are based on the type of marijuana product and whether the product or item will be used for the medical marijuana or retail marijuana market. Again, each of these rules is extremely specific. Businesses should understand what rules apply to their product and whether they are going to have different product lines for both the retail and medical marijuana markets or just serve one.

It is important to note that if the new labeling rules or concentration limits have not been met, the cannabis product must be transferred out of the dispensary and returned to the person who transferred it in, with documentation as to whom it was returned, what was returned, and the date of the return.

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Batches of usable marijuana must be tested for pesticides, microbiological contaminants (e.Coli and salmonella), water activity, moisture content and THC and CBD concentration.

Batches of usable marijuana must be tested in 10-pound increments.

The term “batch” is defined differently for usable marijuana and for cannabinoid concentrates, extracts or products. The term “process lot” further defines “batch” for cannabis concentrates, extracts or products.

Every batch of usable marijuana prior to being used by a processor to make a cannabinoid edible must be tested for pesticides.

A concentrate or extract process lot, prior to being used by a processor, must also be tested for pesticides and solvents.

Cannabinoid products (except for products applied to skin or hair), prior to being sold to a consumer must be tested for THC & CBD and homogeneity. Products intended to be applied to the skin or hair must also be tested for THC, CBD and solvents.

Proof of homogeneity is required for cannabinoid edibles. Samples from five consecutive process lots of the same product must not exceed a 30% relative different in THC. Samples that have greater than a 30% relative difference in THC fail.

Only laboratory personnel may take samples. Processors, producers, wholesalers and retailers will no longer be able to choose samples submitted to the laboratory.

If samples fail from an initial test, the lab may be instructed to send a portion of the samples that failed to two other laboratories for retesting or have two other laboratories resample and re-test the new samples. If samples pass re-testing by other two laboratories, the samples are considered compliant with the rules.

If samples from a batch fail for microbiological contaminants, that batch may be used to make a concentrate or extract, provided that process sterilizes the batch.

If samples from a batch fail for solvent testing, the batch may be re-processed using procedures that will reduce the concentration levels of solvents.

If samples from a batch fail for water activity, the batch from which the sample was taken may be used to make a cannabis concentrate or extract or continue to dry and cure.

If samples that have been re-tested for microbiological, solvents or pesticides fail, the batch associated with the re-tested samples must be disposed of or destroyed.

For more information on Oregon’s testing rules, visit www.oregon. gov/oha/mmj/Pages/rules.aspx

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EBBIE WILSON wouldn’t be

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HAT’S CLEAR a few hours after meeting her at Cannacea, a Northeast Portland dispensary. Her story is inspiring, miraculous and incredible. She’s living proof that cannabis is medicine.

Wilson was born and raised in Tampa, Fla., to a mother and father each with long careers in the judicial system.

Wilson began steps as early as high school to follow in her parents’ footsteps. Throughout childhood and into her adult life, as she became a regional parole officer for special needs parolees, cannabis wasn’t one of her interests.

But in 1989, her life would change forever. She was struck by a truck in reverse, knocking her to the concrete and causing a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The injury resulted in seizures that remained undetected for two years because they only occurred during sleep. Once discovered, she was prescribed a plethora of pharmaceuticals but routinely had adverse reactions, forcing doctors to ponder alternatives.

Brain seizure surgery was considered but quickly eliminated as an option when doctors realized there were multiple points the seizures originated from instead of a single spot. Wilson continued to use various pharmaceuticals while tests were run and treatment options were discussed.

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“I have never had such relief in my life. I went from four grand mal seizures a day, that’s sixteen a month, to four seizures that first year.”

In 1996, Wilson lost her balance and fell, again injuring her head and causing a second TBI while simultaneously breaking her neck and injuring her C3 and C6 vertebrate. Thus began a serious decline in Wilson’s condition, accompanied by additional pharmaceuticals and complications. She was formally diagnosed with epilepsy; in all, she has endured seven different types of seizures. Due to complications from unprocessed pharmaceuticals, Wilson has lost her teeth, large intestine, gall bladder, and colon. Her cognitive abilities took a huge dive - so much so her son Cody became her full-time caretaker. Debbie Wilson was dying.

She had lost the feeling in her hands and was up to 44 pills a day to combat the various types of seizures, pain, and inflammation. Placed in a backand-neck brace and informed she’d be in it for the rest of her life, she was fitted for a helmet to help with the concussions she suffered during seizures. In 2009, she was diagnosed with early onset dementia, which is often indicative of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). By the end of the year, she’d all but lost hope and nearly given up. Then, in 2010, Wilson made a major breakthrough.

Desperate after years of failed medical treatments, she signed up for a trial using cannabis in a legalized medical program in Michigan. “At first, I did it for my post-traumatic headaches,” she said. “We didn’t even know it would help the epilepsy, [we] had no idea what it would do for the seizures. I have never had such relief in my life. I went from four grand mal seizures a day - that’s 16 a month - to four seizures… that first year.”

She has been writing poetry about life with a brain injury since her first accident in 1989. In a twist of fate that would almost literally revive Wilson, Tisha Siler, owner of Cannacea, discovered Debbie’s words and then her story.

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Turns out Siler had embarked on her own crusade in 2007 when her husband suffered a brain injury. Siler has worked with hundreds of patients suffering from a variety of ailments over the years, employing a unique approach reflective of her dedication to healing. Targeted Cannabinoid Therapy is Siler’s proprietary method for patient- and ailment-specific treatments. When Siler uncovered Wilson’s story, she realized it was an opportunity to get documented evidence of the benefits of cannabis to TBI and epilepsy sufferers. In 2013, Siler convinced Wilson to relocate to Oregon and begin a free treatment program.

The results have been life changing.

Within two years, Wilson’s condition has improved dramatically. She has shed the neck-and-back brace and regained feeling in her hands. Her cognitive abilities have improved significantly. And, perhaps most miraculously, her dopamine receptors became active again last fall. Wilson is down to one pill a day along with her specialized cannabis formula concocted by Siler.

So, does cannabis have neuro-regenerative capabilities? There’s nothing definitive, but here’s what is known.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has owned a patent on cannabinoids as neuroprotectants and antioxidants since 2001. You figure it out. “The medical community needs to realize they have a responsibility to these patients to be willing to take a step into the future,” says Siler.

The federal decriminalization of cannabis would spell access for millions to a better quality of life, relief from many illnesses and pain and a more natural medicinal alternative.

Wilson’s dream is to educate others about our miracle plant and to inspire hope among those without it.

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1991

November 5th San Francisco passes a medical cannabis initiative.

Proposition P granted with 79% approval.

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One of the biggest scientific discoveries for cannabis happens when Dr. Lumir Hanus, Dr. William Devane and Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, discover the first endocannabinoid of the endocannabinoid system. Named “anandamide,” which translates to “supreme joy” or “eternal bliss,” This endocannabinoid is believed to cause the “runner’s high” that many experience.

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The modern cannabis industry gets its first introduction to ancillary products designed for extraction.

Amsterdam gains locally-sourced hashish in its coffee shops after the introduction of equipment for local production.

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The Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) Program is suspended from taking new patients in due to the “War on Drugs.” New apps are mostly denied. Currently there are four patients under this program, one of which resides in Oregon - Elvy Musikka.

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Two Compassionate IND program patients, Irvin Rosenfeld and Musikka, seek help to reinstate the program and cannabis reclassified to a schedule II substance. Representing 48,000 medical students, the group made the unanimous recommendation to the federal government for the reclassification of cannabis.

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The first state to ban cannabis use in 1915, California became the first to relegalize medical cannabis on November 5, with Proposition 215, which passed with 56% approval.

The U.S. Federal Government ignores the Institute of Medicine (IOM), instructed by The American Office of National Drug Control Policy to conduct a thorough study of the medical cannabis. The IOM declares patients should have access to cannabis, which is deemed effective and safe medicine.

They also recommend the Federal Government further their methods for the research and development of cannabis. President Clinton continues to ignore these recommendations.

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Arizona also passed a comparable medical cannabis law for the first time in their state the same year and then again in.

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1999

Maine voters legalize medical cannabis with 61% of the vote when Ballot Initiative Question 2 passes on Nov. 2.

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On November 3, Oregon, Washington and Alaska become the second, third and fourth states to legalize medical cannabis. The vote was passed in Oregon via Measure 67 with 55% of the vote gaining approval. In Washington, 59% approved Measure 692, and 58% favored Alaska’s Ballot Measure #8.

In fact, in Washington, the measure took effect immediate upon passage.

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Canada adopts the first federal laws in the world in support of medical cannabis.

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Darker days set in as President George W. Bush wages his dramatic version of “The War on Drugs,” focusing on care providers and even patients, mostly in California.

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On June 14, Hawaii becomes the first state to enact a law to remove criminal penalties for medical cannabis users through the legislative process. The first initiative seeking legalization of cannabis is ahead of its time in Alaska and fails the vote. Nov. 7, Nevada and Colorado become the 7th and 8th states to legalize medical cannabis. Voters approve Question 9 in Nevada, with an overwhelming 65% of the vote. Colorado voters OK’d Amendment 20 with just 54%.

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1999

The U.S. DEA reclassified dronabinol as a schedule III drug, making the medication easier to prescribe to patients for nausea. Cannabis in its natural form continues to be listed as a schedule I drug with “no accepted medical use.” Health Canada announces government funding of up to $1.5 million for cannabis research thru 2004.

In a landmark move, Canada becomes the first country in the world to approve medical cannabis nationwide. In September, Dutch pharmacies start to provide cannabis to their patients and are expected to instruct patients on how to use it medicinally.

2003

On Oct. 7, the U.S. government receives the U.S. Patent 6,630,507 B1 on cannabinoids, for the therapeutic use of “cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants,” while simultaneously maintaining its position that cannabis has no medicinal value.

2004

The U.K. lowers cannabis from a Class C to a Class B, which comes with lower possession penalties. In the U.S., Vermont and Montana receive medical cannabis laws. On May 26, Vermont becomes the 9th state to legalize medical cannabis when the governor allows an Act Relating to Marijuana Use by Persons with Severe Illness to become law without his signature.

Later, on November 2, Montana becomes the 10th state to legalize medical cannabis with a 62% vote.

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The owner, Patricia Wiegele, is an outgoing businesswoman with a friendly and compassionate team that is eager to help. The excitement is palpable. Wiegele says, “I see how much of an impact our industry is making, much like air planes and automobiles had during their time of emergence.”

Marketing largely to women, this facility works hard on building a plentiful

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HEN TRYING TO DESCRIBE what GD Garner creates, art doesn’t quite capture it all. He is an entrepreneur, a vagabond, a dreamer, and a philanthropist who just so happens to make some wild, mindbending pieces of art that have found favor on the red carpets of Hollywood. We spoke with the ebullient Garner from his current base in Puerto Rico. A seemingly nomadic artist, Garner has spent time in Seattle, Park City, Los Angeles, and has travelled extensively throughout all seven continents.

How can a man–who mingles with, and successfully sells his work to, some of the nation’s rich and famous–travel so much and continue to produce without a studio? Simple: His studio is his journal, mobile and with him wherever he goes. With over twenty handmade tomes already filled, Garner’s prolific hand is free to write and draw his life stories whenever inspiration strikes, even if it’s in the midst of a Maasai village.

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His medium is whatever is available at the time, whether it’s chicken blood, mustard, or a pen, and all of his “paintings” are interactive.

Touching is encouraged. When asked about his inspiration, Garner reflects on his travels and experiences explaining that he almost died on Mt. Everest, “It’s impossible to come back the same person after that happens.” He says that art is his therapy, his place to escape, it helps him relax, and it’s the only thing in his life he ® “can do with no intent.”

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#END420SHAME

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TRACKING THE PATH TO LEGITIMACY LEGITIMATE CANNABIS INDUSTRY – that’s the end game. That’s why Steve DeAngelo wrote The Cannabis Manifesto.

That’s why states have put strict regulations in place for cannabis consumers, growers, and retail stores. It’s also why seed-to-sale tracking systems are so vital. Tracking systems help businesses and lawmakers keep track of every gram of cannabis to prevent diversion, improve transparency, and create accountability.

Whether it’s fair or not, cannabis faces an uphill battle on the road to legitimacy. Without seed-to-sale software, the cannabis industry is just another barely legal drug operation.

Software that helps the industry demonstrate to naysayers that cannabis can be produced and consumed completely above board can only be a good thing. Seed-to-sale cannabis tracking companies have helped to #end420shame by legitimizing the industry.

First, it’s important to recognize what the industry would look like without the ability to track each and every plant. “Lack of access to the data provided by seed-to-sale cannabis tracking would mean a lack of transparency and accountability,” says Patrick Vo, CEO and President of BioTrackTHC (Full disclosure: he’s also the author’s husband.) “A lack of transparency and accountability is unsettling and uncomfortable for law enforcement, the government, and concerned citizens.”

“Cannabis would not be nearly as accepted as it is now without tracking,” says Scott Denholm, Executive Director at Metrc. “v willing to step out and the entire industry would probably be on iffy footing if these systems weren’t out there.

Regulation and tracking benefit the industry’s ability to not only survive but to thrive.”

To appreciate the advantages of operating in a well-regulated market, all you need to do is look at the one state where cannabis isn’t tracked: California. “While California’s cannabis market has certainly survived without tracking software, cannabis businesses in the state are much more

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While California’s cannabis market has certainly survived without tracking software, cannabis businesses in the state are much more at risk for federal and local prosecution, raids, and seizures. at risk for federal and local prosecution, raids, and seizures,” says Heather Smyth, Marketing Manager at MJ Freeway. “Seedto-sale tracking means that every touch to the plant will be recorded to ensure consumer safety and integrity. Tracking software makes regulation possible. And local regulation means protection from federal prosecution.”

“From a state tracking perspective, a seed-to-sale system enables government agencies to have full visibility of everything – every plant and every gram,” Vo says. “That gives peace of mind not just to the naysayers, but to patients. And from a business perspective, we don’t want people buying their cannabis from dark alleyways.

A tool that keeps employees accountable, tracks inventory, and helps maximize revenue is hugely important.”

One of the biggest problems that tracking helps solve is diversion. “When I talk about diversion, I’m talking about stopping illegal marijuana from finding its way into the legal market. If we eliminate that diversion, it protects the consumer from unregu-

lated product and results in better prices.”

All of that transparency is necessary if the cannabis industry wants to improve its public image. “There’s a halo effect that takes place when product is created in a legal structure,” Denholm says. “We don’t walk into the grocery store concerned about the fruits, vegetables, and canned goods we buy. If cannabis is regulated the same way, you’re going to see a boom. You’re going see people have a much friendlier attitude toward regulated cannabis products.”

“We need to hold ourselves to a high standard of accountability to become more widely accepted,” Vo says. “Showing that we are responsible, that businesses are responsible, is absolutely critical to continuing to positively influence perceptions and the political landscape of the cannabis industry.”

But it’s not just about other people’s perception of cannabis; it’s also about helping those individuals already in the business.

“With cannabis tracking, business owners can understand patient and customer data to better serve their market and improve

their business model,” Smyth says.

At the end of the day, tracking is about bringing the cannabis industry up to the standards of other legitimate industries.

“I really want people to look back and see what has happened in states like Colorado and Washington, and what’s starting to happen in Nevada and Oregon,” Denholm says.

“The world has not crashed and burned.

People aren’t getting sick. People aren’t dying. The population hasn’t fallen off the edge of the world. Cannabis has not been the big issue that a lot of people thought it was going to be.”

Even more, cannabis is about passion for the plant and it’s many uses. “I’ve seen firsthand the positive impact that cannabis has on the lives of individuals,” Vo says. “The legalization of cannabis, in and of itself, is nothing for anyone to fear. The prohibition of cannabis harms families and unjustly imprisons millions of people. Even if you have concerns, know there is technology out that we can use to show this industry is filled ® with good businesses and people.”

INDUSTRY LEADERS BioTrackTHC is the only cannabis industry software company providing tracking solutions to both government agencies as well as the private sector. Founded six years ago, fourteen hundred businesses use their paid commercial system and they have four government contracts.

Metrc deployed Colorado’s seed-to-sale tracking system for the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division starting in 2013. Their system has eleven thousand users and has been used to track over three million plants and two million packages.

MJ Freeway has provided professional services since 2010 that include cannabis business license application support, operational consulting, and marketing services. They offer digital menu services, a white-label mobile application for cannabis businesses, in-store mobile ordering, cash kiosk integration, and retail supplies.

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