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IN This Issue Cooking With Cannabis Page 4 Sudoku Page 4 Summertime Checklist
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Grower’s Corner
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The Hash Man
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Summertime Checklist Lacewing Ganja Gazette
As we all know, Colorado is one quarter summer, one half winter, and one quarter random weather days that are totally unpredictable. Given that shaky math, we need to take advantage of the summer weather while we can. It can be hard to figure out what to do day to day, so we’ve provided this handy checklist of potential activities to inspire you during these sunny months. Some of these activities are completely realistic, and some are bit outlandish, so feel free to pick and choose what is really applicable for your lifestyle. • Go camping. Be it down at the sand dunes or on the highest peak, there are a wide variety of great options for parking the ol’ RV or setting up that tent that’s been hiding in the attic for the past five years. It is highly recommended that you take the road less travelled, get off the beaten path, and head for a site visited more by bears than human beings. • Drive through sprinklers with the windows open. That cooling mist can be such a relief on a hot day. • Go horseback riding. Estes Park is a great location for this, but there are a surprising number of places that offer this fantastic
experience. Horses are majestic creatures and will teach you a thing or two about balance and muscles you had no idea you had. • Get a very slight sunburn. This one is tricky as there is a fine line to walk where sunburns are concerned. We’d like to be very clear in that we are not endorsing skin cancer in any way. Being able to complain about a sunburn is just something that needs to be done. • Attend/crash a neighborhood pool party. If you’re fortunate enough to live in one of those fancy neighborhoods where pools are available, consider yourself lucky. If not, however, make the effort and sneak through the gate in one of those neighborhoods and just blend… • Take your dog for a walk anywhere that has a sign that says “No Dogs.” Of all the rebellious behaviors open to you, this seems like the least harmful. Your dog will thank you. • Go to a water park. But only go to a water park that has a decent wave pool and a slide more than a mile in length. Anything less does not deserve to be called a water park. • Check out Film on the Rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Classic films at the best possible location of all time. Seriously, who doesn’t want to watch ‘Die Hard’ at Red Rocks?
• If air conditioning is more your style, go to a museum. As the centers of really cool exhibits featuring pop culture from thousands of years ago, museums are a brilliant combination of refreshing environment and education. • Start a water balloon fight with friends (or random
passing strangers). This is possibly the cheapest and best form of summer entertainment known to man. • Find someone who has access to a hot tub and befriend that person. Then chill in said hot tub—contradictory in terms, but oh so accurate. • Put on some
sneakers and head for the hills (could also be phrased as “take a hike” or “exercise”). Walk, bike, hike, whatever you want, just don’t be that couch potato we Coloradoans disdain so much. Get your friends and family involved, stay hydrated, and keep cool. Have a safe summer!
GROWER’S CORNER
4 Steps for Decreasing Transplant Shock Tucker Eldridge Ganja Gazette When growing cannabis, one of the most consistent responsibilities required of us is a regular transplanting of our plants from small pots they start in up to the larger pots they will eventually spend their final days before harvest in. This process can induce a response from the plant known as transplant shock, which is when the plant responds negatively to damage caused during the transplant process, and as a result, redirects its energy to the recovery of damage, and away from developing new healthy growth in its new home. These four steps will help you reduce the likelihood of shock occurring, as well as improve your plants immediate development of new growth regardless of your goal of transplanting into a new container or directly into the ground. • Beneficial bacteria and fungi are a huge benefit to the gardener attempting to transplant. A healthy soil food web provides a num-
ber of benefits to the freshly transplanted plant. Some beneficial bacteria break down organic matter into rich organic nutrients, while others are protecting your newly transplanted, potentially damaged, roots from attack by pathogens intent on infecting your plant in its weakened state. Fungi work symbiotically with the plant to help it find and uptake nutrients. Beneficial fungi also crowd pathogenic fungi out of root pores, protecting them from a potential infection source. And fungal hyphae aerate the soil as they push through, giving it a lighter structure that is easier for new roots to push into. • Developing a consistent media and sticking to it is also crucial to transplant success. If we grow healthy baby clones in a bed of perlite, the success rate and responsiveness of our clones will be markedly higher if we transplant into the same media (perlite) then if we transplanted into a media that was substantially denser, like clay. This is due to the fact that these soft tissue
roots have developed in a soil structure that requires very little strength to push through the media, while roots developing in clay would have to be much stranger and more developed to find purchase and grow in a similar situation. • Evenly moistening the soil you intend to transplant into does a number of things that are advantageous to you when transplanting. As a gardener, slightly moistening soil hugely reduces the amount of dust kicked up into the air during the transplant process, something your lungs will thank you for later. In regards to your plant, evenly moistening soil does a couple of things. It prevents the soil from becoming hydrophobic, which, in our context, is when the soil becomes resistant to the uptake of water because it is very dry. This even and consistent soil moisture content also allows for the plant to be watered evenly. • Watering in our new transplant with nothing other than fresh water for the first week is anoth-
er beneficial step often overlooked when transplanting our cannabis plants. This fresh watering in actually accomplishes a number of goals. The first is that an initial heavy watering in will provide all the soil packing necessary to put existing roots in good contact with the surrounding soil without doing any damage to said roots or over packing your media. It also forces out any additional air pockets from the soil, which would act as no grow zones for any new root hairs looking for somewhere to grow. In addition, adding water helps dilute any pre-
charged nutrients that may be in your soil, as well as allowing the plants natural internal hormone balance to indicate where it should focus its energy. Adding nutrients, even mild ones, can signal the plant as to where it should be distributing its energy, instead of letting it focus on immediate repair. I hope this helps all the transplanters out there this season and we will see you next month. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me at Naturesherbsgrower@ gmail.com!
Basic Principles of Making Hashish Trey Gochenour The Hash Man
First, I would like to congratulate last month’s winner! She asked for Strawberry Cough and Golden Goat and she named it Cos-Cough! You can name yours, too, but you have to play to win. Just drop your name and the strands you would like made into hash into the jars at either store. Good luck! Now let’s look at the basic principles of Hash making. Hashish is a psycho-active drug, prepared from the resin glands of the female (pistillette) cannabis plant. One misconception is that
Hashish is made by grinding dry cannabis flowers into a powder and pressing the powder into solid pieces. This fallacy is the result of uninformed observers trying to describe the sieving process. Sieving is when you take the cannabis and rub it through different size screens to get the most concentrated resin containing the THC. This process results in a much more potent product than crude marijuana. Cannabis resin glands are highly specialized plant cells that hold and secrete resins and essential oils consisting mostly of tertenoid compounds. These
resin glands are the primary souce of THC. These glands are the most well developed and numerous on mature female floral eracts. Resin glands can be rubbed off living plants by hand, or collected by sieving after the plant has been harvested. The labor intensive hand rubbing requires no tools and was, doubtless, the first method in making Hash. Today, there are several ways to collect these resin glands, or trichomes. Besides dry sieving, most collections use some form of cold to freeze these glands, then they can be taken off the plant. There are several ways to do this. Prob-
ably the easiest way is using dry ice and 220 micron screen in a jar or can, then shake off the trichomes into a fine powder, known as Keef. Then there is water extraction, using ice, water and a way to agitate the plant material so that the trichomes fall off into the water. The water is drained into several different size micron bags or screens. This form is called Bubble Hash. Then there is CO2 butane, which is forced through tubes
filled with plant material. This is called Earwax or Peanut Butter, because of the way it looks. Most generally today, we like to freeze off the trichomes; this is less labor intensive. Hopefully this gives you a more informed understanding of how Hashish is made. Don’t forget to enter the contest, you could be the next winner! Next time we will discuss how to press and store your Hash. Until then, keep your stash full of Hash!
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Peanuts, Pretzels and Nirvana Fu-Qua Johnson Ganja Gazette
Hello everyone, I am back for another review of a great product. I am sure everyone is enjoying the warmer weather. It really feels like spring time going into summer. Do any of you have big plans for the summer? I will be visiting friends in the Caribbean. They go to school out there and this is my excuse to visit them and sip on some sort of a fruit concoction and relax! After three years of working every summer, I deserve some time off! Now, after hopefully making you jealous of my summer plans, on with the show… I am very pleased to review a company that I have always liked. They are the recent winners of the Denver High Times “Best Edible” award, and I heard they had an amazing display at the convention on 4/20. My friends who got the chance to go said they had an awesome medicated chocolate fountain and everyone got to enjoy fondue style medication. If you already didn’t know, the company is Incredible’s out of Denver. I love the different varieties they offer and I believe they have one that will fit anyone’s needs. I have reviewed this company many times and the most recent review was on the Mile Higher bar. This new flavor they came out with is a product that I have been fighting all of you (patients at Nature’s Herbs and Wellness) for the last month to get a hold of. Incredible’s does not rush any products out because of demand. Which is why Nature’s might run out of some before
getting more in. I truly believe this company takes pride in their products and makes sure every batch is consistent. I also have read they test their products at “CannaLabs” out of Denver. I can see now why they were awarded the “Best Edible” from High Times this year. The product I finally got a hold of was the Peanut Budda Buddha bar. Like the Mile Higher bar, the Peanut Budda Buddha (PBB for short) comes in three pieces with 200mgs of active THC. (Stay away from this product if you are allergic to peanuts! They have other flavors for you to try, so let’s try not to get sick, ambulance rides are expensive.) I took this on my recent outing of disc golf with some friends and our dogs. I took the first piece before my bike ride out to the course. It was a short ride so I knew the medication hadn’t kicked in yet. I took the second piece before the first tee box. It was a great day to be outside with my dogs and good company. I was looking for my disc around the 6th hole when I noticed I was moving a little slower and I knew the medication was working. I took the last piece after we made the turn, and by the time we finished, I was very happy with my score and the way I was feeling. I forget that edibles last so much longer compared to smoking and the feeling is more spread out over time. Next month, I’ll be changing things up a bit by tackling a hash product. This will be a new experience for me, so I can’t wait to do the research so we can all learn! I will also be creating a social network site for any of you
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Marijuana Legalization and Gay Marriage Alvin Dy Ganja Gazette
If you are losing hope that marijuana will ever be legalized in your state, just take a look at gay marriage and see how rules have progressed on that thinking. On May 7, 2013, Delaware became the 11th state to allow gay marriage. Barely a week earlier, Rhode Island also legalized same sex marriage. The change of heart has been quite fast, with most state efforts to legalize gay marriage only succeeding in the 2010s. Massachusetts became the first state to allow and perform gay marriage in 2004. Obviously, times are changing and what used to be marginalized views are now becoming mainstream. A recent Pew Internet study citing statistics from Gallup showed that 53% of Americans think that same-sex marriage should be valid. This is a big jump from only 50% in 2012 and around 40% just ten years ago. Marijuana legalization is taking the same route. In 2003, an overwhelming 64% of Americans were opposed to legalizing marijuana, while only 34% said that it was
okay. Fast forward 10 years and the majority has shifted towards allowing patients to have access to marijuana, with 52% of Americans agreeing to it. What’s more, according to the study, Americans want the Feds to stay away from the states where marijuana has been legalized. Around 64% of those polled indicated that federal prohibition should not be imposed in Colorado and Washington State. One of the most poignant campaigns in the fight to make gay marriage legal is the slogan “You are on the wrong side of history.” The message was simple: gay marriage, like interracial marriage and equality rights for women and African Americans, is a natural progression. And people who oppose it will soon find themselves in history books being likened to the Ku Klux Klan. We would like to think that marijuana legalization could be likened to that. That those who are making it difficult for those who are sick and suffering to get unfettered access to marijuana would somehow be vilified in history. It is, after all, about basic rights. The move to legal-
ize same sex marriage is a call for equality. Marijuana legalization, on the other hand, harkens to the constitutional right to life. We cannot see how anybody in his or her right mind would want to keep people from accessing what they need! A lot of alarmists are saying that allowing gay marriage or marijuana to be legalized is a sign that we are living in a degenerate society where kids will be smoking pot because they have been raised by homosexual parents. It is over-simplistic to think that when gay marriage became legal, every gay and lesbian couple already wanted to head off to the city hall and ask to get married. It is like saying every heterosexual person alive in the United States is married by the time they turn 18 years old just because that’s the legal age to get married. We all know that is not true. We also know that having marijuana legalized does not mean that everyone would start smoking it. Nor would it be accessible to kids and people who have no business using it in the first place. In fact, even with the most liberal marijuana laws that are now being debat-
ed in different states, marijuana legalization comes with a lot of caveats, precautions and restrictions. To say that it would flood the streets is not just an exaggeration, but a downright lie. Political America has always been divided. Take one issue and Republicans would most likely fight it out with Democrats. The American public is not any different. We are a nation of differing opinions. But that is not necessarily the case with marijuana legalization. Among those polled, a majority voted for marijuana legalization. As a last word, we never thought that the day would come when we would thank the dirty world of politics. Now that marijuana legalization, like gay marriage, is a popular issue, it will not be long before we
see politicians vowing support for legalization. To be honest, it has been frustrating how very few of our esteemed senators have come out in support of marijuana over the years. But as the majority clamors for it, we could expect them to do just that. In fact, it has already started. Remember last year when Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank and Texas Rep. Ron Paul wrote a bill against the federal ban on marijuana? And remember how there were more than a dozen congressmen who signed on? We must never forget that to succeed in politics, it will all boil down to the popular vote. As marijuana legalization becomes more and more mainstream, we will see more politicians singing a different tune.
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Fishing for Steroids Leaders of the ice-fishing community, aiming for official Olympics recognition as a sport, have begun the process by asking the World Anti-Doping Agency to randomly test its “athletes” for performance-enhancing drugs, according to a February New York Times report. However, said the chairman of the U.S. Freshwater Fishing Association, “We do not test for beer,” because, he added, “Everyone would fail.” Ice-fishing is a lonely, frigid endeavor rarely employing strength but mostly requiring guile and strategy, as competitors who discover advantageous spots in the lake must surreptitious-
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If you remember, last November, Colorado made history by being the first state, along with Washington State, to make the possession, growing and use of recreational marijuana legal. Under the amendment, adults 21 years and older could now carry with them up to an ounce of marijuana, while they can grow up to six cannabis plants at their own homes. These plants may be consumed for personal use but must not be sold to other people. On the other hand, Amendment 64 also allowed people to give and receive marijuana as gifts, provided that it does not go over an ounce. In short, the voters
of Colorado opted to use their common sense in using marijuana. But it seems that some senators are not happy with that. With 24 senators backing it, a last-ditch attempt was made to stop the sale of recreational marijuana in the state. Fortunately, the issue died an almost instant death. The motion, officially called the Senate Concurrent Resolution 13-003, aimed to put two measures on this year’s state ballot. The first would let voters decide on the 10% special tax and the 15% excise tax rates. The second would be to ask the voters to de-
cide on whether recreational marijuana should continue to be sold in Colorado. It was introduced on the senate floor at 6 pm on May 6, roughly six hours before a necessary midnight deadline for it to be successful. It was cleared by a Senate Committee within an hour after it was introduced, but time ran out. Senate President John Morse, who also backed the resolution, finally gave up at around 9:30 pm. What these senators did was so reprehensible and laughable that we did just that. Continued on page 15
Sneaky Marijuana Repeal Move Is Now Dead We laughed out loud at their failure! We all need some major stupidity some time. You just have to applaud the gall and thick-headedness of these politicians. Launching a last-minute, super sneaky assault to subvert the will of their constituents. If the resolution had been successful, it would have provided an avenue for the repeal of Amendment 64. But the Hon. John Morse went on record that the move to repeal was not really a serious one. It was to ensure that they get the marijuana industry and the proponents of Amendment 64’s attention. It seems that the marijuana industry is not keen on keeping its promise of increasing taxes from the sales of legalized marijuana. And Morse, et. al., did not like to be ignored. And so, in a colossal show of wasting taxpayers’ money, they put on the drama of moving to repeal Amendment 64. That is if Morse is to be believed. We really do not know which is worse: to be seen as sneaky and underhanded, or just plain idiotic. What we do know is that the proponents of Amendment 64 are indeed in favor of increasing taxes from marijuana sales. They have even inserted the provision for the 15% excise tax in the bill. Now who is Morse pouring the cow manure on? Mason Tvert, who had
supported Amendment 64, explains that the Amendment clearly provided for a tax scheme that would help pay for the regulatory costs of legal marijuana. Tvert is currently working for the Marijuana Policy Project as its communications director. What’s more, a Heizer Paul Grueskin LLP lawyer named Ed Ramey has written that the move was unconstitutional in the first place, saying that amendments to the constitution can never be inserted in ballots for odd number years, unless it concerns spending, taxation and financing. Meaning, the move to repeal would not have prospered even if it was miraculously passed by the senate. Colorado is such an awesome state filled with awesome people. In a recent poll from Public Policy Polling, results showed that an overwhelming majority of 77 %of voters in the state will say yes to the 15% excise tax. The excise tax would be going to the construction of new and the improvement of existing public schools. The poll also showed that a majority will agree to the additional 10% sales tax. The sales tax will help cover the costs of regulating marijuana. So, in the lame excuse that Morse offered, their unconstitutional move to repeal Amendment 64 came because they were afraid that there would not be enough moolah to go around. Another lie. A recent report from Harvard economist Jef-
frey Miron said that the US government stands to save close to $8 billion a year if it legalizes marijuana. The report also reveals that another $6 billion is all for our taking if the government decides to tax marijuana at the levels that tobacco and alcohol are currently taxed. In the same manner, the State would not have to rely on taxes to cover regulatory costs. They can get the money from the savings they are getting from not enforcing an outdate prohibition. As to why Morse and his cohorts would want more money from marijuana, your guess is as good as ours! If you are from Colorado, you might want to know who supported this motion, along with John Morse. Beware of supporting these person in th eir future endeavors: • Bill Cadman • David Balmer • Randy Baumgardner • Larry Crowder • Angela Giron • Kevin Grantham • Lucia Guzman • Ted Harvey • Rollie Heath • Mary Hodge • Michael Johnston • John Kefalas • Andy Kerr • Steve King • Kent Lambert • Kevin Lundberg • Linda Newell • Jeanne Nicholson • Scott Renfroe • Mark Scheffel • Gail Schwartz • Lois Tochtrop • Nancy Tod
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