Kush Northern California December 2010 by Randy MALINOFF

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The benefits of this ancient Chinese form of medicine is used worldwide to cure all types of ailments. Read part 2 series of this series on the benefits on this non traditional medicine.

20 | Stay Warm Stay Green by Charlotte Cruz

10 The Health Report: Acupuncture

52 Post Traumatic Stress How a professional rescue EMT witnessed two traumatic helicopter disasters and found that medical marijuana was the only medicine that managed his PTSD.

56 Sking & Boarding in Lake Tahoe A winter wonderland of skiing and boarding awaits those who have been craving a new ski season -- so many choices for everyone’s taste.

70 Hemp Frozen Desserts You scream, I scream we all scream for Hemp Ice Scream. The latest and most delicious form of hemp is now a non dairy frozen treat.

72 New Year’s Entertaining From our resident Chef Herb – classic elegant recipes to help ring in the New Year. 6

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ccording to the Union Local 13, Santa Clara County is in the middle of a war. County law enforcement and the district attorneys are acting in a rogue fashion and raiding medical marijuana dispensaries that have opened pursuant to Prop 215 and Attorney General Guidelines established by Jerry Brown. Union Local 13 is attempting to unite collectives in San Jose and Santa Clara County to work together to abate this unconscionable behavior by law enforcement. Prop 215 was passed in 1996 without any edict on how to get seed to the store to the patient. SB 420 attempted to create rules and regulations to assist medical marijuana patients and caregivers in how to get their medicine. Over 15 years have passed and the State has ignored the will of the people by allowing local municipalities, cities and counties to pass ordinances and laws that deal with medical marijuana dispensaries in their communities. What we have seen are ad hoc, unorganized and sometimes purely prohibitive laws being passed that basically prevent collectives or place them in areas that deny access to patients. The city of Los Angeles passed an onerous ordinance in June of this year and on December 10th after months of litigation by a group of 30 plus collective owners who were forced to close down by the city, Judge Anthony Moore of the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, issued an injunction against the city, saying that many parts of the ordinance were unconstitutional, unenforceable and in violation of both the Constitution of the United States as well as the State of California.

While the battle is far from over, the message is clear ...

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So hopefully Santa Clara County as well as other cities and counties will learn from this recent Los Angeles decision and enact ordinances that ensure that patient’s can get safe access to their medicine. The California Appellate Court in the Anaheim case recently ruled that dispensaries cannot be banned in our cities in California and that case is now pending in the trial court once again. Whether you are a member of Union Local 13 or not, in cities such as Los Angeles and San Diego, coalitions have formed comprised of patients and collective to force our citizen’s rights to equal protection and due process under the California Constitution. Working together is more effective and when thirty collectives grouped together in Los Angeles, they were able to prove that the city was wrong. While their battle is far from over, their message is clear. In San Diego, a citizens group has put together their own ordinance to put on the ballot for the next election. As we enter a new year, Kush Magazine is hopeful that the will of the voters is the most powerful voice we have and that as soon as like minds can join together, we can once and for all end the political turmoil and resulting discrimination against medical cannabis patients in this state. Wishing you a peaceful holiday and happy New Year from all of us at Kush Magazine and dailybuds.com.

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‘TIS THE SEASON FOR SLIPPERY FALLS, SNOWBOARDING SPILLS AND LIFTING HEAVY BOXES. INJURY IS DECEPTIVE since often we don’t realize that perhaps we overdid it in the new post -thanksgiving workout. Sometimes a muscular injury can linger as a dull ache or pain when actually tissue, tendons or nerves may actually be damaged. As disciplined or motivating “pushing through the pain” may seem, often we do more damage than good by aggravating an injury. Sports injury, perhaps the most common form of injury, includes: medial & lateral epicondylitis, frozen shoulder, plantar fascitis, acute olecranon bursitis, acromioclavicular joint separation, rotator cuff tendonitis, osteoarthritis of all joints, meniscal tears, bicepital tenosynovitis, lumbar disc herniations, anterior & posterior cruciate ligament tears, patellofemoral syndrome, Osgood Schlatters syndrome, and more. Pro sports teams and clubs often have acupuncturists on staff to decrease healing time and treat lingering injuries. Acupuncture has been used for centuries to treat acute injuries and was and still is used commonly in martial arts to speed up healing. Repetative physical activity is one of the easiest ways to injury yourself; that’s why so many exercise programs emphasize muscle confusion and of course, the importance of stretching. But if you do go overboard and find your tennis elbow has turned into no-moretennis elbow, acupuncture may be an excellent way to aid the healing process and get you back to serving up aces. Acupuncture plays the role of inducer in the healing process and the effect are accomplished because acupuncture decreases inflation and swelling, relaxes the muscles and improves blood circulation. Some athletes with sprains have even reported a 3-day healing time as opposed to 1-2 weeks that the healing process takes with the absence of acupuncture. Chronic injuries can be effectively treated with acupuncture as well. If that knee you “messed up” playing high school football still bothers you when it rains and “goes out” every once in a while, your injury may never have properly healed. Chronic injuries are a deficient condition, meaning that the affected area is losing strength and stability. What acupuncture does is treat the surrounding muscles and areas near the injury to increase stimulation while simultaneously reducing pain. Chronic injuries often take longer to treat (8-10 sessions is generally the consensus on when you will start to see improvement in a lingering injury area.) but if it’s a coin-toss between lifelong pain and discomfort, 8-10 sessions and regular follow-ups don’t sound so bad. As with every injury, it is always a good idea to get an MRI or x-ray to know exactly where the damage is. Many acupuncturists and chiropractors provide these services but you may need to see your doctor. In any case, the not knowing can cause more harm in the long run so it’s better to be err on the side of caution when it comes to your body. It is after all, the only one we’ve got!

are so many types of comedy styles:

the

everyday

stuff

observational from

George

Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, and Chris Rock. There’s the self-deprecating comedy of Rodney Dangerfield, or the machine gun insults of Don Rickles. There are the physical comics, such as Jim Carrey, John Belushi, or Conan O‘Brien. Deadpan comics like Steven Wright or Mitch Hedberg (another tragic loss to hard drugs), or witty intellects like Woody Allen or Groucho Marx. For

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have sang, danced, or biffed their way into our lives, a chance to redeem themselves, and they often do.

the darker side of “black” or “blue” comedy, there are many greats to

Tosh’s skits are another hilarious part of his show. Because it’s a

enjoy: Bill Hicks, Redd Foxx or Eddie Murphy to name a few. With so

web based show, he will often combine his own graphics and bits into

many greats to draw from, there is only one relevant comic right now

the original videos, making his comedy multi faceted. Some of his stuff

who effectively uses a bit of everything - his name is Daniel Tosh, and

can be eye, and ear popping, but his all American appeal, along with his

if you haven’t heard of him by now, you’re either failing “Pop Culture

cardigan sweaters and casual jackets allows him to get away with a lot -

101”, or your head is under a rock.

tongue in (or out) of cheek.

Daniel Tosh hosts a show on Comedy Central called TOSH.O that

To get a taste of Tosh’s comedy, check out Comedy Central’s listings,

recently toppled the Jon Stewart Show, and the Colbert Report, with 2.2

and their website at www.ComedyCentral.com/tosh.o… For his live show,

million viewers. So what if most of the viewers are college kids playing

expect a more traditional stand-up act - mic stand, and bottle of water

drinking games (a shot for every “bleep” cut from Tosh’s often vulgar,

on a stool. A traditional set up, with not

irreverent rants), or males in the 18-34 year old age bracket… That’s who

so traditional punch lines. Expect

he appeals to, and it seems to be working. The show is based around

to laugh out loud. Tosh will be

the internet, and commenting on the wacky things that take place there.

destroying it in San Francisco

He has special exposes’ on these “non”-celebrities that somehow gain

at the Nob Hill Masonic

15 minutes of “fame” based on the number of hits they’ve received on

Theater, 1/29/2011

YouTube.com. Whether you’ve seen most of them or not, Tosh has a gift

for taking these people and highlighting their talents, or lack thereof. His

10:00. - Highly

segment entitled Web Redemptions does just that, giving those who

advised!

7:00

and

The season

has changed and that

means that a lot else changes, too. It’s time for layers and sweaters, coats and socks. Summer has gone and even the Indian variety is done for the year. It’s getting cold. When it’s time to adjust your life to the falling mercury, we do the usual things: We pull out the down comforters and flannel sheets; we think about the fireplace; we buy new clothes or dig out the old ones and retire the tank tops to make room for longer sleeves; we turn on the heat. While we all want to be comfortable in this cooler weather, the changing climate also opens up the energy conversation and that means finding ways to stay warm without depleting resources, both natural and financial. There are ways to be ecofriendly and reduce the gas bill that are simple and inexpensive. This winter, stay warm and stay green.

BUNDLE UP Wearing an extra layer or two of clothing while you are inside your own house is a simple way to reduce the amount of time you run your heat. Since we lose a lot of heat from our heads, a warm hat will keep heat locked in and make your whole body feel warmer. On a day when you want to run the heat at 74, try setting it at 68 and let your body do the rest. A little layering goes a long way!

WEATHERIZE If you own your home, weatherizing is one of the keys to keeping heating costs down. By checking for cracks in windows, doors and foundation, you can fill them in and reduce drafts. Weather stripping and caulking gaps in drafty areas is well worth the time and money and will likely pay for itself within a season or two. If you rent, talk to your landlord if you notice drafts coming in and suggest a little weatherizing to save you some money and him weather damage.

TURN IT DOWN Before you go to bed, make sure that your heat is lowered a few degrees. Your body and the extra blankets will keep you comfortable and if you have ever fallen asleep with your heat too high, you know that waking up with hot air on you can cause scratchy throats and dry sinuses. It’s not only better for you; it’s better for your bill and better for the environment.

REPLACE BULBS Since there are fewer hours of sunlight in the winter months and you will likely be keeping lights on longer. If you haven’t already, CFLs are a must-do replacement for regular light bulbs. The long-lasting bulbs can save you hundreds over the course of a year and take less energy and emit as much or more light. A great idea any time of year!

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Today’s boutique medical cannabis grower invests significantly in grow room construction, increasingly expensive electricity, high quality nutrients, and state of the art equipment to produce their highly valuable crop often worth 10’s of thousands of dollars. Strangely, the same grower may rely on antiquated techniques to determine harvest time when more precise methods are readily available. Patients are now armed with laboratory analysis of THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD (Cannabidiol), and other cannabinoid potency to choose what cannabis is right for them. More and more, growers and breeders are implementing cannabinoid profiling to determine their ideal harvest time in conjunction with the other tools they have been using up until this point. By conducting potency tests at our lab, we have seen a notable increase in cannabinoid strength in the final two weeks of flowering. There is a peak point where the percentage of THC and CBD starts to decline. The peak of potency is prime harvest time. Most growers follow the directions from seed companies and clone providers about the specific number of days until prime maturation. This is certainly a good place to begin but at Steep Hill Lab we see notable variation across strains based on variables such as environment, growing medium and nutrients. Flowering time has become one of these factors. Recently we encountered a strain that went from 11.3% THC at day 56 of flowering to 15.9% at 63 days. The grower had been growing the strain for a few years and had always harvested the plants at 56 days on advice from the breeder but after analysis of laboratory results, the grower decided to change their grow cycle to reflect the significant increase in THC with an added 7 days. In this instance, Steep Hill did 4 potency tests over a 12 day period. In his book, Organic Marijuana Soma Style, breeding guru Soma writes, “Not knowing the correct time to cut plants down is the downfall of many growers out there. In the Amsterdam coffee shops buyers continually turn down marijuana that has been picked too early.”

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On the advice of master growers, most growers we meet harvest based on visual indicators from the plant’s trichromes. Ed Rosenthal said in his book, Marijuana Growers Handbook, “At maturity the glands should sparkle like individual jewels in bright light. The individual glands should appear clear under magnification. When the glands turn amber, the buds should be harvested.” Rosenthal’s advice is based primarily on bag appeal which along with economics has historically driven the cannabis market. Using these traditional indicators in addition to laboratory analysis finely tune a product that is meeting more competition than ever. David Pate, internationally renowned cannabis scientist said, “Visual cues within the trichromes, for determining overall peak flower cannabinoid levels, are probably less effective than accurate scientific analysis. This is certainly a fertile area for investigation of a very important parameter in the life of this plant.” Growers are learning that using lab testing to harvest at the time of peak potency increases the value of their crop to collectives. In the experience of Rachael Szmajda, purchaser at Harborside Health Center, the largest medical cannabis dispensary in the United States, it is beneficial for growers and breeders to focus on optimizing the cannabinoid profiles of their crops. Szmajada said, “Cannabis of higher cannabinoid content sells faster than the same strain with a lower cannabinoid profile.” By AnnaRae Grabstein, CEO Steep Hill Lab, California’s premier medical cannabis analysis laboratory and Wilson Linker, Sales Executive at Steep Hill Lab and host of Cannabis Cuts on Pirate Cat Radio.

This graph reflects potency data determined by Steep Hill Lab over the last 12 days of flower for a Northern California indoor grower. The THC profile drastically climbed during the final days of budding. By conducting multiple potency tests at different times throughout the grow cycle, growers can learn about the maturation of their strain.

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A YOUNG ChILD, BrOUGht UP IN the erA Of the

“SAY NO tO DrUGS” CAMPAIGN (ironically enough, led by the

Queen of cocaine trafficking), I never thought that Marijuana would get to the point of “quasi-legality” that it has in California. With dispensaries popping up faster than McDonald’s, and the idea of legalization finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, Marijuana’s overall acceptance is finally heading in the right direction. having many friends in all aspects of the Marijuana industry, from growing and sales, to hydro shops and fertilizers, to water pipe makers and distributors, to KUSh magazine, means I’ve been around my fair share of buds. I’ve always been intrigued by the plant, it’s many stigmas, it’s place in pop-culture, and it’s natural beauty, so when a friend asked me to spend a week on his farm to help the cause, my first instinct was “hell Yeah!!”. But then my childhood instincts envisioned helicopters, hordes of DeA agents raiding us, and being sent down the river on a major distribution rap. Whoa! This was all pretty surreal for a kid from the Valley, raised in a very liberal, but non-using household. With memories of tIMe and NeWSWeeK magazine articles, depicting huge growths, (some gorilla-styled growing in National Parks of all places) right under the authorities noses, and the very different legal ramifications that using or possessing Marijuana can hold in this great country of ours - it‘s still amazing how liberal California is, compared to most states. Some laws are so absurd that people are rotting away in jails for possessing as little as a roach. The thought of this happening has incensed me for years. I wasn’t sure if 34 34

I was ready to cross that bridge…. (the figurative one, not the literal one…) but these fears were put into perspective once I found out that the Sheriff of the town is also a farmer. hmmm?!? That’s a new one, right? Not for this area, it isn’t. So convinced that I would be safe, I ventured up north to a very lush part of our beautiful state. Out of respect for the whole process, I will refrain from describing exactly where I went, but let’s just say I did cross a bridge on that trip, both literally and figuratively. I was no longer just casually watching this story unfurl from the sidelines - I was entering the world of the growers… ….I was going to add “Marijuana farmer” to my long list of jobs I’ve tackled in this lifetime……………

always perceived Marijuana as the least dangerous “evil”- drug,

and even though it was tagged as being a “gateway-drug” to far more dangerous evils, it was also processed with the farcical images of reef-

Arriving

er Madness, The freak Brothers, and of course, the iconic Cheech at the farm after dark was a bit creepy, but

and Chong. Was Marijuana so bad? Was it so evil? Would it lead me

as morning arose for the first day of work, I was amazed at the beauti-

down the path to hardcore drugs and a life in the gutter? Would my

ful location and surrounding plants - about 90 of them. tucked just 15

trip to the Marijuana farm put me behind bars? No, none of these

minutes from “civilization”, this fifty acre farm had a house, running

stigmas or fears were going to come true. And as time has gone on,

water, a natural pond used for watering, and most amenities of the av-

I’ve learned to use Marijuana for its virtues. I’ve seen the present

erage home, including cable tV. This wasn’t the makeshift hillside vil-

wave of Marijuana acceptance take shape. to think that one could

lages I’d seen on NBC’s Dateline. This was a real, very normal farming

go get a prescription, (quite easily), and go shop for weed, just like

operation, probably not too much different from a pig or sheep farm.

in Amsterdam…. Was this really happening in my hometown of Los

With barely enough time for breakfast, we were off in a 4X4 go

Angeles? had the inmates taken over the asylum? No, the realities of

cart, and heading out into the forest to feed these enormous 9‘-10’

Marijuana’s benefits had finally grinded through enough generations

plants, 7’ in diameter. holy Shit! I was in the middle of a real Marijua-

where its stigmas just wouldn’t stick anymore. This was amazing! The

na farm, and helping feed and water these massive plants, with amaz-

talk of legalization that was once just a comedic skit, has become an

ing budding nuggets of gold and purple, emblazoned with glistening

actual issue on the ballot, and is in the process of being passed. Wow!

green and purple leaves. Between all the trips to Cannabis Cups in

Never in my lifetime would I have thought. With our obvious edge

Amsterdam, and all of California’s best weed, I had never seen any-

in liberal thinking, the Golden State has carried the torch for the rest

thing quite like this. This was like Mecca for a pothead. round and

of the country in regards to this very sticky subject. Let’s hope that the

round, all day. Circling the plants like some over-zealous nut. feeding

rest of our country follows suit.

nutrients in 5 gallon buckets, and watering plant after plant, day after day. It was quite grueling work for the first three days. The work of a Marijuana farmer is no walk in the park. It takes a lot of hard labor and diligence to bring that many plants of that size to their budding fruition. With many tasks to attend to, including chopping firewood for the impending winter, we worked around the heat of the mid-day sun, thus breaking up the work with well needed breaks, while conserving our energy. With most of the hard work done in the first three days, the last few days were mostly spent watering. This was much easier than the feeding process.

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Best Driving Ranges in Sacramento I play golf about as well as I sing and I’m pretty sure I am tone deaf. But like so many other hackers out there, I just love it. I became addicted to the afternoon of walking around a grassy course with a buddy in the sunshine, doing something that looks so easy and is really just so hard. That little ball has a mind of its own but when you hit it on that sweet spot of the club and follow through on your swing so perfectly that with no effort at all, that little white monster takes off and arches through the air onto the middle of the fairway, you too will be an addict. That

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one perfect ball makes up for the 500 that have gone or will inevitably go into a bunker, behind a tree or in the water. Golf is hard and boy does it take practice. The driving range is the best way to work on your swing and start to get a feel for distance. Another great thing to do at a driving range is hit something! Hitting golf balls doesn’t have to be all Zen and focused, sometimes it just feels good to take a swing. Batting cages are also good for releasing tension, but hitting ball after ball into the grass is a pretty good feeling, too.

Haggin Oaks Golf Complex

Big Maloney Golf Course

3645 Fulton Ave Sacramento

6801 Freeport Blvd Sacramento

In the summeartime, Haggin Oaks’s driving range is open 24 hours in case you find yourself with a touch of insomnia or just need to blow off some late night steam. And if you’re into the wow factor, their driving range boasts one of the biggest— the Power Tee system How it works is, the balls are stored in an underground container and after adjusting the height of your tee, a ball pops out of the hole in the mat and tees the ball automatically. After a shot, the tee disappears into a hole and reappears seconds later with another ball. How cool is that?

The range at Big Maloney is open late and has night lighting so you can work on your irons until 10p.m. Winter hours vary but are generally quite a bit earlier so make sure you check to see if they’re open if you feel like hitting after 6 p.m. The mats here are very well kept and there are 40 hitting stations so you rarely have to wait. The pricing here is very competitive. A large bucket of balls is $13 (for 150) and they do offer a frequent player card where you can get a 10% discount.

Natomas Golf Center 3060 El Centro Rd Sacramento

Natomas is a no frills golf course with even less frills on the driving range, but what they do have is grass—real grass! While so many other ranges use artificial turf, Natomas is the real thing. They also have a bunker that you can practice hitting out of to the range, which is good if you are like me and find yourself in them a lot. You can get a jumbo bucket of balls for about $15 and hit until dusk. A great place to check out if you’re not into matching your golf bag to your shoes. Just hit and enjoy the grass.

The Spare Change Tour!

By: Mike Marino

The Spare Change Sixties. The times? Well, they were a spare changin’ Mr. Dylan. The East Village, Jolly Olde English London, Dandy Plum Street in Detroit and of course, the hallucinogenic vortex of the times.. Haight Ashbury in San Francisco. I had the good fortune to live in the Haight from early 1966 through the early part of 1968. (By then it had burned out like a psychedelic comet!) This era was prior to the wannabe penetration of the teeny bopper-tourist-hippie invasion of the Summer of Love. Before that the neighborhood was a true experiment of humanity, a mandala of art, vision and karma. Incense and marijuana filled the air, drifting thicker than the words on the page of pre-Soviet Russian novel. It was a fornication of Dostoevsky and Dharmabums. Jaunty Jack Kerouac had passed the cheap bottle of wine to a new generation of rucksack bums, who would venerate him even more than he was by his own generation. Jack, in the drunken fog of his last days, would in turn despise this new outcropping of young and their outpouring of adulation, and tell them in no uncertain terms...”Go find your own heroes!” Which translated is Kerouac for “Go Fuck Yourself!” The Spare Change Sixties gave birth to a vibrant garden of flower power Eden in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury District. Half a world away, “the” war, the only one our generation knew, raged on in Vietnam, all the while the hands of the clock were spinning in reverse in a counter clockwise counter-culture of dissent. We protested and played a childs game of draft dodging hide and seek, searching for answers on the homefront and across the border in dear old Canada, which even today is the War Resisters friend. In America, and not the jungles, olive drab was replaced by colorful tie dyed robes, hats and shirts...peace symbols and beads were the new ammunition of a newer left, replacing bullets and grenades...and don’t forget the big beautiful bongs. as big as mortars that created sweet dream smoke that mingled sensuously with the San Francisco fog. The Lone Ranger and Tonto, heroes of a prior generation were displaced by Cheech and Chong, and Timothy Leary told everyone to Tune In...Turn On..and Drop Out!! The cries of “Make Love, Not War” rang out loud, proud and clear, with many answering the call. They came from New York City...Fargo, North Dakota... Detroit, Michigan...Amarillo, Texas and from every small town and large city in between. Horace Greeley once said..Go West Young Man, and this time they came in droves, with many of them wearing flowers in their hair.

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It was an urban starship, Jefferson, with a cast of characters that included hippies, yippies, Hells Angels, Diggers, musicians, artists, seekers and searchers, sinners and saints. Peace, Love and Spare Change became the battle cry of a generation in search of itself. If the Beat Generation was geriatric, getting old and gray, Haight Ashbury hit the scene like a tie dyed dose of Grecian Formula. Lyndon Johnson had proclaimed The Great Society complete with social reform and welfare programs aplenty. In the Haight, a group called the Diggers had declared The Great Un-society. They put on free feeds in the Panhandle during the week for the local resident weed whackers and foods such as rice and beans were elevated to the status of Haight haute cuisine. The Diggers also operated The Free Store at 1090 Cole Street. Downstairs were blue jeans and field jackets of every style and size and on the mezzanine balcony were shelf after shelf of books and magazines that resembled an underground version of the Library of Congress... nothing in the store was for sale..it was all absolutely FREE!! During the Summer of Love, the park was the scene of pleasant afternoons of giant bubbles and kites flier higher than most of the area’s residents and on January 14, 1967 the amplifiers of the Jefferson Airplane inaugurated the Human Be-In at The Polo Grounds that was attended by a veritable hipster’s Who’s Who including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerry Rubin and Dr. Timothy Leary. Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead are the undisputed crowned heads of the Deadhead Realm that was Haight-Ashbury. Originally known as the Warlocks, the name was changed and the rest is histoire!! The legendary group has inspired faithful legions to kick asphalt across the American continent to take in as many Dead shows as the braincells will allow. 60’s MIA’s on an inner journey for Garcia Nirvana singing along to worn 8 tracks to “TRUCKIN” and “CASEY JONES”. If The Grateful Dead were kings of the psychedelic kingdom then 710 Ashbury Street was Buckingham Palace!! After your pilgrimage to the Dead House, go to Ben and Jerry’s for a double scoop of Cherry Garcia ice cream. Black leather jackets lived side by side with jeans and sandals. Two wheeled Darth Vadars lending an ominous air to a land of peace and love. The gangs name came from a legendary WWII fighter wing and although they gained true notoriety at Altamont during a Rolling Stones concert they flew missions up and down the streets of the Haight. The Jedi meet the Dark Side. If you cross the street from the Dead House you’ll see 715 Ashbury where the Angels called home. Home is where the heart is! Every kingdom reveres it’s court jesters and in the Haight Ashbury district that moniker has to be bestowed on Country Joe and The Fish. Their dark, musical humor cut right through the fabric of 60’s social hypocrisy and scored a bull’s eye each time out. The MacDonald family

had long been a voice of social reform in the Bay Area and Joe carried on the tradition in a style that was Lenny Bruce mixed with Bob Dylan. The Fish Tank was located at 638-640 Ashbury. ...And it’s One..Two... Three..What are we fighting for? The reigning psyche-diva’s of the day were Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. It was said that when Grace sang you could tell by her voice that she wanted to make love to her audience, however, when Janis belted out Little Piece of My Heart it was clear she wanted to do much more than that! Janis hit the Haight to take the vocal lead for Big Brother and The Holding Company on a rockin’ blues journey that began in her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas. Her star shined brightly for a brief time until it exploded and her raspy voice and plaintiff wails were no more a beacon in the 60’s night sky. Port Arthur has a bronze bust of the psychedelic era’s musical version of Calamity Jane, but you can visit her homes away from home in the Haight. Two of them are located at 112 Lyons and at 635 Ashbury. To round out your Joplin pilgrimage go north of Haight Street one block to Page, turn right and find 1090 Page, not only the site of one of the Haights early crash pads, but is also where Big Brother went full tilt boogie in between gigs. The truly experienced will want to kiss the same sky that Jimi did while living in a Haight Ashbury purple haze simply by heading back up to Haight Street and crossing Ashbury on your way towards Stanyan. Jimi was the favorite son of Seattle, Washington and is buried there overlooking the land of the Space Needle but his pre-wah wah Woodstock days were spent around the lava lamp at his apartment at 1524A Haight. You can almost hear the Star Spangled Banner ripping from the windows!! Heading towards Fulton Street you won’t run into any hookah smoking caterpillars but if you go to 2400 Fulton Street you will see where Alice would have hung out had she been around in the 60’s. Grace Slick left the Great Society to join The Airplane and in their search to find somebody to love they left an indelible mark on the Bay Area sound that is legendary. Although the group has gone through many name changes and incarnations they truly were the group that built this city! Not exactly a Flower Child but for those who truly want to get gruesome you can visit 616 Page Street where Charles Manson lived for awhile content with his own dementia. Finally, no trip to the Haight would be complete without a visit to 1535 Haight Street, site of the Psychedelic Shop..The Grandfather of All Head Shops. Black lights, posters and enough patchouli incense to fill the Taj Majal were its hallmarks. Sitar music greeted you as you entered the shop and zig-zagged your way to the back of the shop where the beads parted and you gained entry to the womb room that contained the best poster art on the planet. Black lights added ambience and low, murmured WOWS and FAROUTS punctuated the air.

and culturally important lasts. Lenny Bruce who taught a generation to talk dirty and influence people gave his very last concert appearance on the stage at the Fillmore on June 24, 1966 sharing the bill with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. By July of 1968, Bill Graham like Elvis, had left the auditorium to take over the Carousel Ballroom at Van Ness and Market Street and would soon change its name to The Fillmore West. Bill Graham died in a helicopter crash in 1991. The corner of Haight and Ashbury is symbolic of not only a particular summer but of a changing of the guard...an elevated social questioning and inner search. It is also the location where on October 6, 1967 it all ended with a procession that proclaimed The Death of Hip. There are walking tours throughout San Francisco, and the Haight is no different, but to truly explore the neighborhood, leave the tours and crowds to the less adventurous, and discover this jewell on your own. Plenty of shopping and dining to do at some unique stores and shops not found elsewhere in the city. Peace and Love have been replaced by commerce but every now and then coming from some second floor bay window you can hear a CD blasting out a rendition of The Dead’s CASEY JONES!! Some vestiges of the Summer of Love remain but mainly it’s been gentrified with walking tours, fern bars and bed and breakfasts, about as mainstream wannabe as it gets, and the old girl has been given a real Oprah makeover. Today the Haight has replaced beans and rice with nouvelle cuisine and there are now more ATM machines than roach clips. Pseudo hippies haunt the Haight today, so when you’re walking down Haight Street and someone plaintively cries out for Spare Change and you don’t have two nickels to rub together don’t despair, chances are they’ll accept most major credit cards! ...some things never change.

The Fillmore Auditorium is the Holy Grail of rock venues. Located at 1805 Geary at Fillmore, it first saw dancing action in the art deco 30’s and by the 40’s zoot suiters and others roller skated the night away. The 50’s brought rockin’ rythym and blues with performances by greats like James Brown and Ike and Tina Turner and in the 60’s the Fillmore would become the auditorium of choice and would be the locale for many musical firsts and some highly significant

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Winter is here and it is time to ski, board, snowshoe or whatever else it is you like to do in the snow. Whether you are more of a snowball fight, sledding type of adventurist or even a chill by the fire and drink hot beverages type, a trip to Lake Tahoe is the cure for the chilly city blues of the winter months. Let’s also not forget that after a long day of fun in the snow, or heck, even instead of a day of fun in the snow, Tahoe is a playground for those who wish to roll the dice, double down or hit triple 7’s on the slots. With breathtaking views and more things to do than you can manage in a short weekend, Lake Tahoe is the place to play and definitely the place to ski and ride. Tahoe has 7 (count them!) ski resorts to choose from which equates to hundreds of runs and even more possibilities for every level of skier. If you’re unfamiliar with the mountains, it’s a good idea to do a little research and see what suits your skill level and preferences. Here are the top 5.

The resort has 11 chairlifts and 2 surface lifts covering 2,400 acres of terrain. Alpine has a vertical drop of 1,800 ft with a top elevation of 8,637 ft. Alpine Meadows is near Squaw Valley, which is where a lot of people stay; others opt for Tahoe City or Truckee. Fun fact: Alpine Meadows is home to the Jamaican Ski Team!

Ahh, Heavenly. No place is more aptly named if you are looking for awesome snow and endless terrain. It has 97 runs and 30 lifts that are spread between California and Nevada and four base facilities. The resort has 4,800 acres and boasts the highest elevation of the Lake Tahoe area resorts with a peak elevation of 10,067 ft. and a peak lift-service elevation of 10,040 ft.

Kirkwood is a favorite for snowboarding because the snow gets deep and there are countless bowls to ride. Kirkwood has the highest annual snowfall of all the local hills, so if you love powder, this is the place! Two new surface tows opened in the 2008-2009 season to provide access to formerly “hike-to” terrain along Vista Ridge and Fawn Ridge.

Squaw Valley is the crème de la crème of Tahoe skiing. It is one of the largest ski areas in the United States, and was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. It is the second-largest ski area at Lake Tahoe (after Heavenly) and has 33 lifts. The resort attracts approximately 600,000 skiers a year.

Northstar Resort is a playground for those of you who want variety. The mountain offers 93 ski trails spread across 3,000 acres, award-winning terrain parks, and snow sports including alpine and telemark skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and tubing.

Becoming a firefighter/paramedic at the remarkably young age of 16, Derek had seen tragedy. Fatalities, and dealing with them, were part of the job. “Among all the living species on Earth, humans are the only ones who have learned to stop the dying process,” he says. “I was getting in the way of the Grim Reaper, sometimes head-on. On some days we won, some days we didn’t.” Those fatalities also included people he worked with. “In my time on the job,” he relates, “I personally knew five people who committed suicide.” After 20 years on the job, however, Derek appeared to be one of the last people who’d fall victim to the psychological trauma that plagues firefighters and medics to the extreme of taking their own lives. “From the time I was 14 years old,” he says, “I never thought of doing anything else.” Nothing in that 20 years, though, had prepared Derek to deal with the events of June of 2008, tragedies that pushed him to the brink of suicide after the initial treatment attempt he underwent completely and utterly failed. Forced to choose between permanent disability due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or curing himself, he created a treatment that finished fixing the damage almost completely on his own. And ironically, Derek himself would have never considered that the treatment would involve medicinal use of marijuana. “I’m not exactly a poster-child for pot-smoking,” he’ll still say now, looking more like the critical care flight paramedic that he was than a tie-dyed, bong-twirling Bob Marley fan. This also makes it easy to see him right in the middle of two tragic airrescue accidents that occurred in northern Arizona in June of 2008 - three

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helicopters crashes that caused seven fatalities within just 48 hours, an unprecedented event in helicopter rescue history. The first accident occurred on June 27th.

“At that time, I managed or assisted management of bases in Show Low, Prescott and Kingman,” Derek recounts, “pulling paramedic shifts out of Show Low. I had just gotten to sleep around midnight, and at 4am I got the call that Air Evac 31 went down and the crew was being transported to Flagstaff Trauma Center.” Air Evac 31 was responding from Prescott to an emergency call about 50 miles north when it went down at 3:30am, rolling over four times and throwing two of the three crew members out of the helicopter as it slammed into the ground. “You couldn’t have picked a worse place to crash,” Derek says. “It was in the middle of nowhere. Prescott was a base I had helped start up. Everyone there was family to me, so I was the first one notified.” As he rushed to the Trauma Center two miles from where he lived, Derek had no idea of the extent of their injuries. “I was told that they thought everyone was still alive,” he says, “but there had been some chaos. There was bad communication.” Procedure for emergency air rescue assistance calls for the highest-ranking member of the crews responding to determine the landing zone for the helicopter, and the FAA later determined that the wrong LZ was chosen for the helicopter - with disastrous consequences. “The LZ was like fine talcum-powder desert,” Derek recalls, “like walking on the moon. Every step you took kicked up dust. The crew is under nightvision goggles, so when the pilot tried to land dust kicked up through the rotor blades, throwing everyone’s equilibrium off. On the helicopter, what was happening outside looked completely opposite of what was really

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happen if I left,” he says. “I thought something bad would n’t feel any emotions at “I was so sleep-deprived I could w I couldn’t let it affect that point. I knew I would, but I kne for my guys.” re me right now. I needed to be the happening. They came in tail low, the tail hit the ground, and blew the helicopter everywhere.” Derek arrived at the Trauma Center as three other helicopters were dispatched to rescue the injured crewmen. A familiar face there, where his wife (whom he was separated from at the time) also worked, he dashed straight through the lobby up to the helipad, waiting 45 minutes for the first helicopter to arrive. “It felt like it took forever,” he says. The first helicopter transported the male nurse, in need of an immediate assistance due to injuries causing him extreme difficulty breathing. “He was conscious, but I could barely recognize him,” Derek recalls. “His flight suit was all cut up, and his whole body was caked in that light brown powder. He was in shock, saying ‘I thought the helicopter was going to explode. I thought it was gonna burn up’.” The nurse told Derek he’d landed just 20 feet from the wreck on top of one of the rotor blades, covered in jet fuel. He couldn’t see the aircraft’s jet engine, which had landed three feet from his head, but feeling the intense heat, he was sure it would ignite the fuel and explode. Derek also learned the dust had been so thick that it took rescue personnel on scene a 20- minute eternity to find the crew. Derek held his injured crewmate’s hand, talking to him to him as he was transported down the elevator into the trauma room, and continued to hold his hand as the ER staff went to work. “Everybody knew not to push me away,” he says. “They worked around me.” Derek was soon informed that the second helicopter was five minutes away, transporting the flight medic, so he ran back up to the helipad to assist. The medic, who had been flying for 25 years, had sustained the worst injuries and was barely clinging to his life as he arrived unconscious at the trauma center. Derek was informed that the man had suffered severe internal injuries, and he repeated the routine of taking the medic’s hand, talking to him as he was taken down the elevator into the ER. “You learn in medic class,” he said, “that even if the patient appears unconscious, you still have to watch what you say because the brain could still be awake. They could be in a coma, but still be completely awake, in pain and not able to tell you.” As if the scene wasn’t chaotic enough, Derek’s phone then began ringing non-stop. “Air Evac has about 400 employees,” Derek says. “I was management, making my number easy to find, so people started calling my phone like crazy and I’m trying to be there for my guys, so all I could tell them was everyone was still alive and I had to go.” As he waited with the medic to get a CT scan, Derek realized the extent of the man’s injuries. “He was white as a ghost,” Derek recalls. They couldn’t get a pulse, he was about to go into cardiac arrest, and I actually expected him to die before our partner got out of his CT scan. They were about to start CPR when they finally found a pulse. In my mind, that changed it to he’s not going to die now, but he’s going to die tonight.” When Derek saw the x-rays on the injured medic, his worst fears were confirmed. “I thought there was no way anyone could live with what I’m looking at.” Amazingly, the man pulled through and eventually got back on a helicopter, though it appeared for months that he would never even walk again

without assistance. Then Derek heard the third helicopter touching down with the injured pilot. “So I ran back up to meet the pilot, the best off of the three physically, but he was carrying a heavy burden. He was crying, ‘Oh my god, what did I do?’ At that point, he wished he was dead.” The pilot, suffering from fractures and other injures, had tried in vain to find his crew after the crash. “This was devastating to him,” Derek says. “He told me he could hear them calling for him but couldn’t find them. A firefighter there literally picked him up and carried him away from the wreck before it could explode, but he kept saying ‘No, I’ve got to go back for my crew.” With the pilot now down, Derek went back to stay with the still-conscious the flight nurse, and found himself taking on the role of liaison between the injured crewman, family members and other medical personnel arriving at the ER, though nothing in his training had prepared him for this and he was literally dealing with the situation as it unfolded as best he could. “I was just trying to stay focused on answering calls and being there for my guys,” he says. Derek began spending time in each room with his injured crewmen while continuing to act as liaison. Over the next 24 hours, the medic had multiple surgeries and repeatedly almost died while Derek fought to maintain his composure, watching his friend fight for his life and while continuing to deal with the mounting number of people arriving at the hospital. Of the 1200 hours of paramedic training Derek had underwent, only two hours were devoted to “coping” with traumatic situations, but “coping” wasn’t exactly what was taught. “What we had when I started my career” Derek says, “was called ‘Choir Practice’. You got off work at 7am, split a pitcher of beer and an omelet with your crew, talked sports, went home with a buzz and that was that.” When Derek was finally ordered to go home by his superiors Sunday morning at dawn, he still didn’t want to leave. “I thought something bad would happen if I left,” he says. “I was so sleep-deprived I couldn’t feel any emotions at that point. I knew I would, but I knew I couldn’t let it affect me right now. I needed to be there for my guys.” Unfortunately, the weekend’s tragic events were not over yet. Another horrendous situation was about to unfold, one even more devastating than the first.

Derek had been awake for only 30 minutes Sunday when he got the call that a second accident had occurred. “A flight paramedic from Air Evac called to tell me Lifeguard 2 had just crashed into the side of Mount Eldon. I asked him when, and he said right now, it just happened.” Though this helicopter was not from Air Evac, Derek still responded. “Why I felt like I had to do anything to this day I don’t know,” he says. “It was an automatic reaction.” As he rushed to his car, Derek could see the smoke plume from one of the two wrecks. At this point, he still didn’t know that a second helicopter had also gone down. “One accident site was just 500 yards from the ER entrance,” he recalls. “Half the ER staff was outside just standing there. A flight medic was also standing there catatonic. People were crying and screaming.”

The “catatonic” flight medic was part of the crew of one of the two helicopters that had just crashed. His helicopter couldn’t hover-land at the med center because it was overweight, carrying a full crew and patient, so it did a “skid landing” like a plane would land at an airport two miles away from the hospital. He then bailed out so it would be light enough to hover-land. Tragically, this would set in motion a chain of events leading to the helicopter collision just minutes later. A second rescue helicopter from another company was also converging on the med center with a patient, and though both pilots knew they were in close time proximity to each other, a communication breakdown failed to warn them that the crucial minutes they thought they had between landings were erased when the medic was let off. Moments later, both helicopters were on final approach from the north and south of the helipad and unable to see each other due to their landing angles. They collided 500 yards short of the helipad, sending both careening into the foothills of the mountain. “As I pulled into the ER,” Derek recalls, “I saw a medic and an EMT arguing about which way to go. This was the first I heard about a second helicopter involved.” Still not fully clear on what had happened, Derek launched into rescue mode. “I walked up, grabbed both of them and yelled go over there and you’ll know what to do when you get there, pointing then to the first accident site.” Derek then ran to the ambulance with them. He also called the director of Air Evac to inform him of the situation, and to let him know that he was responding with the Guardian ground crew. “The questions was,” Derek now says, “was I on duty at that point, or wasn’t I? He could have said you have no business being over there. Go be with our crew. In hindsight, that’s what he should have said, because I had just been through something very traumatic, and this is the reason why we pull people off the helicopters before going on other calls. He was supposed to put the brakes on, like I would have with one of my crew.” As the ambulance rolled towards one accident site, a police officer redirected them to the other accident site. Derek then fully realized that two helicopters had gone down. As they pulled up they came upon a flight nurse, who’d landed 80 feet from the wreckage and was unconscious with a serious head injury. Jumping out of the ambulance to assist the nurse, Derek saw the pilot still stuck in the wreck. He raced up to assist the pilot, and then ran back down to help transport the nurse to the hospital. Derek then returned with the ambulance crew for the pilot. When they arrived, they found the pilot of a state police helicopter who had flown in to assist giving the other pilot CPR. There were no survivors of the other crash. Tragically, the liquid oxygen tanks on the other helicopter exploded moments after the aircraft went down, killing the entire crew and patient before they were pulled clear of the wreckage. After transporting the pilot to the med center, Derek found himself standing outside in a daze. “That’s when all three days hit me,” he recalls. “I remember thinking ‘How could this have all happened?’. I felt my knees go weak, and I started to get sick.” He then realized his wife Kelly, working in the med center ER, had come outside to get him back inside to clean up. “The Air Evac nurse and pilot had to relive their accident tenfold when they were told their friends had crashed and not survived,” Derek remembers. “The nurse that I worked on, the only survivor of the collision on Sunday, died the next day.” The incident still weighs heavily on Derek to this day. “There are so many things you can look back on,” he recalls. “There are so many things that could have happened to stop it…but didn’t. The perfect combination of events led to this immense tragedy.”

Derek was again finally ordered by his superiors to go home Monday morning, where he collapsed and slept for 18 hours. “Over the course of the next week,” he recalls, “I never ate alone. I was always with co-workers, and we were never alone unless we went home to sleep. This was nothing official. We were just trying to be there for each other.” Group therapy sessions also began with counselors, members of the base, family and combinations of everyone meeting over the next ten days. “It was a way for people to vent,” Derek recalls. “People were mad. There was a lot of anger, a lot of misconceptions about how things should be dealt with.” Unfortunately, these sessions didn’t help Derek. “The people there,” he explains, “were all seeing it from the outside, being there hours or days later. Nobody was there from the very beginning like I was.” Derek also felt himself about to blow. “I sat there thinking, ‘How could you be so upset?’” he recalls. “You didn’t see it. You didn’t smell it. I understood them being upset, but still felt like I had much more of a right to be angry and depressed, and I was holding it together better than people who weren’t there. I was getting mad at them. It was like, how dare you? What I didn’t realize was that this was a protective mechanism that had kicked in.” The sessions did make it clear to Derek that he was going to need help himself. “I knew I was going to need to see somebody private,” he remembers. “During the group sessions they were asking me questions, and I was responding as best I could. I was helping them, but it wasn’t helping me. I was on the wrong side of the therapy.” People began noticing Derek was not himself, and that he was in trouble. “I was showing no emotions outwardly,” he remembers. “People could see that I was holding it in and ready to lose it, to explode and go off the deep end. I wasn’t looking normal. My facial expressions and reactions were different. I had what’s called the ‘thousand yard stare’, like you see in combat veterans. I was slightly catatonic without knowing it.” The counselors also noticed the difference, and alerted his supervisors. Unfortunately, they didn’t notice and try to get him help until a full week after the accidents. “I think that was a little late,” he says now. “I didn’t feel I had any input in it. I didn’t feel I needed or didn’t need it. I just did what I was told to do. I was on autopilot, but with less of my senses than when the accidents were going on. When I was with my partners in the ICU I had to focus. Now I had nothing to focus on. At that point, it was clear to them that at any moment I could go home and blow my own head off.” The assistance available to Derek was also fraught with problems. “I was left on my own,” Derek recalls. “They didn’t help me find anyone. If I wanted to do it through the company, I’d have to go to Phoenix over two hours away.” Derek did find out that he was guaranteed eight sessions with a mental health professional, so he located the only PTSD Specialist in Flagstaff on the company insurance plan. “Most of the counselors there were for rape victims or family trauma,” he says. “There was almost no one for a public safety worker in need of help. This was a whole different monster.” As no one could go back on duty without counseling, Derek set up an appointment. This would become yet another disaster that almost ended Derek’s life.

For anyone that owns a medical marijuana business, they know how exciting and turbulent the industry has been over the last several years. In the book by F. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled, Peck could be describing the journey dispensaries or infused products manufacturers have taken when they opened their doors. The book starts out with, “life is difficult,” but dispensary owners could add “especially in the medical marijuana industry.” Unable to find willing or suitable vendors to support their businesses and burdened by state and local regulations, many owners have been left frustrated or humiliated trying to conduct normal, everyday business dealings. In contrast, other industries outside of medical marijuana are able to participate in trade associations that help them operate their businesses. Over the years, trade associations have flourished, providing support to attorneys, realtors, printers and banks. Members can take advantage of privileges that include education, resources, and legislative assistance to ensure their interests are properly represented in Congress. In addition, they might offer seminars on employment or discounts for essential products and services to operate their company. They rely on their trade association for answers to common problems faced by their peers, and present a united front when tackling larger issues that might threaten or challenge their business. Finally, the medical cannabis industry has its own trade group to represent their interests and allow them to rally as a legitimate economic force. The National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) was launched at KushCon II at the Colorado Convention Center this month. The initial board will consist of over 20 professionals representing dispensaries, media, legal services and other ancillary businesses. All of them are connected by cannabis, but differentiated by their specialty. According to Executive Director, Aaron Smith, between state sanctioned medical cannabis providers and ancillary businesses, the amount of tax revenue paid each year could reach hundreds of millions of dollars. Smith further says, “By joining NCIA, cannabis business professionals will be able to exert their collective strength as a unified and legitimate national industry. Our plan is to ensure that these dynamic businesses are no longer ignored as the tremendous economic force that they are.” For More Information: National Cannabis Industry Association P.O. Box 78062 | Washington, D.C. 20013 | P: (707) 291-0076 | F: (202) 232-0442 Email: Info@TheCannabisIndustry.org | www.thecannabisindustry.org

The Pharcyde 1.08.11 @ The New Parish (Oakland)

Primus

12.31.10 @ Fox Theater (Oakland) Primus, the bass heavy rock band led by Les Claypool, and from San Rafael, play the Fox Theater in Oakland on New Years Eve in a show that will be sure to get your head bangin’. Aside from their raucous music, their twitter profile description offers a pretty accurate depiction of the Primus boys: “Born in a mountain, raised in a cave. Fishing & fucking is all I crave.” Formed in 1984, they’re still rocking and you will be too if you decide to join the mayhem on your way in to 2011. www.primusville.com

South Central LA’s own, The Pharcyde come together for a post New Years show to send you in to 2011 with a little extra 90’s swagger. Boasting a live band for this show, the boys should be in top form. Most active and well known in the 1990’s with hits like “Running”, “Drop”, and “Passin Me By”, original members Imani, Bootie Brown, Fatlip, and Slimkid3 will get back together for an unforgettable night of classic hip hop. Get to The New Parish in Oakland on January 8th for a tremendous night of hip hop. www.thepharcyde.com

Willie Nelson

1.09.11 - 1.12.11 @ The Fillmore (SF)

Laidback Luke

1.1.11 @ Ruby Skye (SF) Making his name as a graffiti artist in the Netherlands to start his career, Laidback Luke has been voted on DJ Mag’s top 100 DJ’s for the last 3 years: #46 in 2008, #27 in 2009, and #17 in 2010. He’s released dozens of original singles, and has remixed the likes of Jay-Z, Daft Punk, Moby, Christina Aguilera, Coldplay, Chromeo, and Beyonce... just to name a few. Kick off the new year with your dancing shoes on, as this show will absolutely get your feet moving. Expect a sweaty, debaucherous time at Ruby Skye on this Saturday night, the first of 2011. www. laidbackluke.com

Willie Nelson is one of those American heroes that everyone knows and loves. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone speak unkindly of this man. His voice is infectious, his songs are timeless, and he’s one of the friendliest men with his level of fame that you’ll find. His strong support in the legalization of marijuana has undoubtedly shed positive light on the issue to a more conservative crowd of fans, and he’s seen his share of controversy in relation to that. Busted again recently, it’s pretty clear that they won’t stop him, but only slow him down. Whether you like country music or not, this is a show everyone can be comfortable at. Barring some sort of long term imprisonment for the recent bust, Willie and the fam will be keeping you company at the Fillmore in San Fran on this January evening. www.willienelson.com

Joe Satriani

1.13.11 @ Fox Theater (Oakland) One of the most respected guitarists in the world, Joe Satriani has been shredding since his teens, finding inspiration in Jimi Hendrix shortly after his death. As legend has it, Satriani was 14 years old at football practice when he heard of Jimi’s death, and he walked up to his coach and quit on the spot, opting to become a guitarist instead. A career guitar teacher,

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in addition to performing with acts from Mick Jagger to Alice Cooper and Sammy Hagar, Joe also writes a lot of his own music. Thirteen albums since 1986 to be precise. His most recent, Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, was released in October and he is now embarking on an extensive US tour, with this show being his only scheduled NoCal date. www.satriani.com

Dashboard Confessional 1.15.11 @ The Regency Ballroom (SF) In November, Dashboard Confessional re-released their first album, The Swiss Army Romance in honor of their 10 year anniversary. How “emo” of them, you may say. And that certainly is the term to describe this group... the professional emo band that so many lonely bros have listened to while sulking in their bedrooms. Song titles like “Pretty Pathetic”, “Screaming Infidelities”, “Rapid Hope Loss”, or “Don’t Wait” all demonstrate this melancholy brand of emotion poured out of lead singer Chris Carrabba’s soul. Millions of breakups have surely been sound-tracked by DC albums. Despite their indie/alternative vibe, they have always been the mainstream band of the ‘sensitive jock’ who is in touch with his feelings. Formed in Boca Raton at the beginning of the century, they continue to fill the world with sad music that for some reason makes you feel a little better about yourself... an outlet by comparison perhaps. Maybe you haven’t had such a great start to the year? Well here’s your chance to go let those pent up feelings loose with a bunch of other emos. www. dashboardconfessional.com

Rebelution 1.15.11 @ Fox Theatre (Oakland)

Representing Santa Barbara, Rebelution has become a leader of the pack in grassroots, independent, touring driven bands reppin’ the California reggae scene. Originally formed in 2004, members Eric Rachmany, Rory Carey, Wesley Finley, and Marley Williams met in college, in Isla Vista, the laidback beach-side community in Santa Barbara. They bring their tremendous live show to Oakland on the Winter Greens Tour, and if you like cannabis friendly music this is a must see show. Don’t miss it! www.rebelutionmusic.com

Snoop Dogg 1.19.11 @ Montbleu Resort (Lake Tahoe)

Set to release his new album Doggumentary Music in 2011, Snoop Dogg refuses to rest on his past success. And while his last couple releases haven’t achieved the levels of popularity the Doggfather saw back in the day, Snoop has managed to remain relevant in the hip hop scene. His live show is always great, and he rarely does not toss a half smoked blunt out into the crowd. Also playing at the Fillmore in San Francisco on January 18th, this show in Lake Tahoe is a good opportunity to hit the slopes during the day, then warm up with Snoop at night. www. snoopdogg.com

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One of the most prevalent misconceptions regarding how to fertilize cannabis is that more is better. Whether you’re asking for advice at your

local hydroponic store or searching online grow forums – you’ll notice that almost everyone seems to agree that the goal of fertilizing Cannabis is to “force” as much nutrients into the plant as possible. So it doesn’t surprise me that 9 out of every 10 growers I meet today over-feed their crops to some degree, many of them significantly. Some of them are otherwise very proficient growers with many years of experience and good looking product to show off, but when it comes time to burn a joint of their pretty herb, the visual appeal is forgotten in a cloud of harsh, heavy smoke that really irritates the throat and lungs. Smoking Cannabis is supposed to be a pleasant experience from the first whiff of a new bag to the last tasty toke off a joint. By understanding what fertilizer is, when the plant wants it and how to know the appropriate amount to feed, growers can yield as much or more than they ever have while improving the quality of their crop significantly.

First things first – what we call “plant food” is more appropriately called fertilizer or nutrients. A plant’s “food” supply is actually sugars – simple carbohydrates made through photosynthesis. Plants make their own food out of light, air (CO2) and water. Fertilizer - the stuff that we’re supplying in those fancy bottles with big claims on the labels - is actually more like multivitamins for humans than it is to actual food. Now, if you take a good cross section of traditional tips regarding Cannabis fertilization and boil them down, you’ll get something that goes like this: find the maximum feeding level for your plant by adding increasingly larger amounts of fertilizer until mild symptoms of overfeeding occur (like leaf curl or burned leaf tips), then back off slightly to the point where the symptoms are no longer seen. 62

The theory here seems to be that the ideal feeding level for plants is very close to the toxic level. This is simply not true and most growers who start backing away from these high fertilizer levels with their crops find no reduction in yield, but always find a marked increase in quality. In many cases, yields actually increase as the plants are given less fertilizer. When crops are regularly subjected to high concentrations of fertilizer, they can adapt to tolerate the conditions without showing symptoms of burn, but can also be stunted in less obvious ways. Loss of yield and quality from overfeeding are far more common than most growers and consumers are aware of.

Recently, in many parts of the medical Cannabis community, a heightened awareness of these trends is placing more pressure than ever on growers to hit a high quality standard. In the past, mediocre crops simply sold for less than excellent crops. Now, in many places, only the excellent crops sell. Avoiding over-fertilization is one of the key aspects of separating a sample of Cannabis from many others that all look good. The most effective way to do that starts with an understanding of how growers measure nutrients.

Let’s consider the analogy of fertilizer to multivitamins in light of this theory. If the previous theory were true, then even if one multivitamin per day provides all the nutrition a person needs, they should take more and more multivitamins each day until they start to notice signs of toxicity. After taking 4, 5, 6 multivitamins per day, the person starts to get ill so they reduce the amount they take down to 3 multivitamins per day to relieve the symptoms of vitamin toxicity so it’s not immediately noticeable. This is obviously not the proper way to determine the right amount of nutrients to give to you or your plants. Many negative health effects may develop over time, stunting growth and impairing function in ways that aren’t acute on a day to day basis, but which can become serious over time.

In many modern gardens, the plants are watered and fed simultaneously by using a nutrient solution. Nutrients are diluted in water to a particular concentration, adjusted for pH, and then applied to plants. In recirculating hydroponic systems, the nutrient solution from a main reservoir is pumped to the plant’s roots continuously or at regular intervals. Even in many soil gardens, fertilizers are applied via nutrient solution. This allows the growers to have maximum control over exactly how much fertilizer is being applied to the crop. Digital meters can instantly test the concentration of fertilizer in the water as well as the pH of the water.

How did the “more is better” advice become so popular? Having worked in both the medical marijuana and hydroponics industries for over a decade, it’s clear that most of the advice floating around about how much to feed your plants inevitably comes from the nutrient manufacturers. While slight variations of nutrient formulas are often repeated in online forums as the assertion of the grower, the overall feeding levels are typically in line with manufacturer recommendations. Few growers are carefully tracking yield according to variety and feeding only what is necessary for peak growth independent of these guidelines. If there aren’t any acute signs of toxicity in the plant, the “more is better” mentality seems to make both the

grower and the nutrient company happier. The grower feels good about there being more than enough nutrition for optimum growth out of fear of underfeeding (which almost never happens – even at half the rate of common heavy feeding standards) and the nutrient company is always happier when the growers are using more products. In the competitive market of medical Cannabis vendors, the review process that buyer’s use to judge pot now includes physically testing a sample, often by multiple reviewers, before a decision is made to carry a product. Harsh burning, overfed Cannabis is frequently turned away, even when it is otherwise resinous and attractive on the outside. Even “rinsing agents”, if used improperly, can cause Cannabis to burn harshly (more on that in next month’s Growers Grove). The exponential influx of new growers into the medical Cannabis market in the last 5 years has created a market with much greater quantities of Cannabis being produced by an increasingly larger percentage of inexperienced growers. For direction, growers look online for advice and ask the nutrient manufacturers for advice on fertilizing their crops. This has led to the widespread over-fertilization of many medical Cannabis crops.

Nutrient Solutions: EC, PPM, TDS...WTF?

EC stands for Electrical Conductivity. All meters measuring fertilizer concentration are measuring it by its electrical conductivity. The EC scale is typically displayed as a range of 0.1 to 3.0 - the higher the number, the more concentrated the nutrients in the water. In Europe, growers almost exclusively use EC for measuring nutrient concentrations in water. In the US, where we love our standard system of feet and yards and miles, we’ve also found a way to complicate this very straightforward system of measurement as well. Instead of simply using EC as a standard scale, growers in the US usually prefer to measure nutrient concentration in TDS, or Total Dissolved Solids. The TDS is represented as a number between 0 -2000 and is often referred to as PPM, or Parts Per Million. TDS and PPM are, at least for our purposes here, interchangeable terms. The total dissolved solids (TDS) are shown as a certain number of parts per million (PPM). That number is based on how much electrical conductivity (EC) the water has. So far, so good. But there’s a major problem that many new growers overlook when discussing how many parts per million worth of fertilizer they feed their crops. The manufacturers of the different nutrient meters that growers use to calculate fertilizer concentration use different conversion factors in their assumptions – that means that different meters can display different TDS numbers at the same EC value. This is very important when considering any fertilizer recommendations that are given in TDS. Hanna brand meters assume a conversion factor of 0.5. That means for every 1.0 of EC measured, the Hanna meter will assume 500 ppm of nutrients in solution. Truncheon meters assume 700 ppm of nutrients in the same solution. So an EC value of 2.0 could display as 1000 ppm on one meter and 1400 ppm on the other meter. That’s a pretty huge difference. If grower A gives grower B a new variety and recommends a feeding level for that variety, grower B needs to make sure they are using the same brand of meter as grower A. If not, the same numbers may actually mean different amounts of fertilizer. (Technically, EC values are best represented as 1.0 mS, which stands for milli-Siemens but you’ll see it referenced as “1 EC point” or “an EC value of 1.0” in common grower vernacular. For simplicity’s sake, I typically refer to it this way as well.)

Fertilizer Preferences: Sativas vs. Indicas Sativas are originally adapted to equatorial climates where rainfall is usually plentiful. As a result, modern sativa varieties often drink larger amounts of water than indica varieties in a given period of time. For example, let’s imagine 2 different 63

plants both receiving the same nutrient solution of 1000 ppm worth of fertilizer. If an indica plant is consuming a gallon of water per week and a sativa plant is consuming 2 gallons of water per week, then the sativa is actually receiving twice as much fertilizer overall because the fertilizer is suspended in the water and the plant has no choice but to drink. For this reason, sativa varieties should be given lower concentrations of fertilizer due to the fact that they typically drink more water. Indica varieties can tolerate higher concentrations of fertilizer in the root zone, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they enjoy it. Indica plants have simply adapted to regions that are more arid. As soils get dry, the nutrients become concentrated in the remaining amount of water. The last few drops of water in a dry soil will be extremely concentrated with fertilizer. (That’s why you never want to apply nutrient water to extremely dry soils – always re-wet the media with unfertilized water if they get really dry.) This adaptation gives indicas the ability to withstand higher levels of fertilizer in the root zone than sativas but it’s still very important to note that tolerance is not preference. Just because a variety can tolerate the 2000 ppm solution you’re determined to give it, doesn’t mean that it is performing at its peak or yielding as much as it could. It might be yielding the nutrient companies a big return, but your crop is probably just overfed.

What We Want vs. What Our Plant Wants When it comes to Cannabis, what we want is resin – the sticky psychoactive stuff. When plants are properly fed, they produce plenty of flowers and resin. The plants want to produce as many flowers as possible – it’s in their best interest and it’s what we want as well. The difference between our desires and the plant’s is that the plant is trying desperately to reproduce with its flowers and we’re trying to stop it from reproducing so that the buds swell with resin instead of seeds. The point here is 2 fold. First of all, you don’t have to cram as much nutrients into your plant as possible for it to yield well - the plant wants to get big on its own. Secondly, when a plant is given more fertilizer than it needs to produce its structures, it just keeps storing nutrients as a survival mechanism. If the female plant goes un-pollinated, it’s just going to keep storing nutrients in an attempt to hopefully survive a mild winter and re-grow in the spring. Despite being an annual plant, un-pollinated females will frequently live through a mild climate winter (like many places in California) and sprout new vegetative growth when the days start to get longer. So, overfed plants simply keep storing up excess fertilizer in the hopes of later re-growth. At a certain point, the extra fertilizer doesn’t contribute to the development of flower structures or the production of resin, it’s just building up. The plant doesn’t know that we want it to burn cleanly after we harvest it; it’s just thinking about how to live long enough to make a seed. As for adding weight, excess fertilizer actually contributes very little and besides, that’s not the weight you want. When the plants aren’t forced to cope with storing excess fertilizer, they use all their energy and available resources to build as many flower sites as possible (hoping for seeds) and then use their energy to fill the empty seed pods with resin (as a defense mechanism to keep animals from eating them). What we want is resin weight, not fertilizer weight. If you take 2 nugs of equal size and shape, but one is clearly more resinous, then that nug will always weigh more. An excess of fertilizer in the bud contributes little in the form of weight but can essentially ruin otherwise excellent pot. Again, the plant wants to grow big flowers and swell with heavy resin. Growers need to stop thinking about fertilizing in terms of force feeding the maximum amount and start thinking about it as “covering your bases”. It’s very easy to get lost in all the hype and claims on the nutrient bottles – at times it seems as though you need every product in the store. Don’t get overwhelmed. The best gardens I’ve 64

seen are the product of well managed environments – not the result of a magic bottle. When plants are provided with ample, but not excessive nutrients, in a good environment, their genetic potential is easily realized. If you love to feed your plants, try reducing your fertilizer strength by 20% on a few representative plants and see the results for yourself. If they start doing substantially better, you may want to try another small scale trial of fertilizer reduction and reduce the concentration even more. Not only will you start saving money on nutrients immediately, I bet those are also the plants you smoke first. For those aiming for the highest standard of quality in their medicine, less is more when it comes to fertilizer.

In Next Month’s Growers Grove: We’re going to take a closer look at some common garden styles and the EC values that work best in those conditions. Many factors can be involved in finding just the right nutrient concentration for your crop. Among these are Cation Exchange Capacity, pH and the concentration of fertilizer in the garden’s runoff water. With these considerations in mind we’ll look at healthy standards We’re also going to take a closer look at rinsing agent products to better understand when and how to use them (if at all) and how to know when it’s time to rinse. Methods for improvement of outdoor soils and a discussion of outdoor fertilizers will also be covered. Until then, Happy Holidays from the Grove! (Growers Grove writer Jade Kine is a former greenhouse manager for the medical Cannabis industry with over a million plants worth of experience. He is also the founder of CannAcademy, a trade school dedicated to horticultural training for growers. Got a grow question for Jade? Drop him a line at JadeKine@ gmail.com Complete bio at JadeKine.com)

New York is known for a lot - pizza, crowded streets, taxis, the subway, art, clubs and bars open until 4am, live music, Broadway, and a million other things. But it seems that over the years, kush isn’t typically included on that list. California to the west, Canada to the north, and even Mexico to the south seem to take all of the credit for good medical marijuana strains. Well a little Diesel strain that could, has come chugging along from NYC, trying to bend some of these common stereotypes. NYC Diesel is a fine hybrid strain of medical marijuana, commonly grown from seeds originating in the Big Apple. Like early settlers, these seeds have naturally made their way out west. Many of the most common NY Diesel seeds originate from a cannabis seed bank called Soma Seeds. The hybrid is a cross of Mexican Sativa & Afghani (indica), with some variations being closely related to the Sour Diesel strain. The indica/sativa balance is somewhere right around 50/50, but can go 60/40 either way depending exactly where you get it. thC levels are certainly a bit higher than average, registering at a percentage somewhere in the high teens. Strong, but definitely a good, manageable kind of strong. In terms of physical characteristics, NY Diesel has a wonderful amount of orange and red hairs scattered over a light green landscape bedazzled in shiny white trichomes, oozing with thC. It’s pretty dense and can often be real sticky, but at its best is soft and light as a pillow, smoking with a consistent smoothness. The taste is often compared to that of sweet, ripe grapes with hints of citrus. The smell weighs more heavily on the citrus side, sending you into a world of grapefruit and sugar coated lemons. It’s pretty easy to see that this is going to be a good experience just from the appearance and smell alone... it satisfies all of the necessary senses quite nicely. The buzz is just about perfect, somewhere in the middle of passing out on the couch with two pounds of munchies and finding the inspiration to clean the house, make an ambitious to-do list, and wash the car. With a typical amount of ingested thC, it should last around 90-120 minutes. It’s a really good daytime buzz, with a cerebral quality fit for solving problems and being productive at a relaxed, manageable pace. Also works pretty well for being social, rather than one of those kush strains that makes you want to shut off your phone, curl up with a movie, and just enjoy your own company. This can easily lead to one of those highly talkative and insightful highs where you wish you’d taken notes on all your great ideas the next day. Strong bouts of giggle fits are also not uncommon. In New York, it’s not quite as easy to obtain a gram or eighth of weed as it is in states where medical marijuana is legal. When I visited the city a few months ago, my friend told me about his selection and process to obtain. While many names were the same as what I can find at my dispensary, he was paying more than double my price and delivery was the most common method of getting it. his plights made me 110% more grateful of being in one of the pot-friendly states. In Colorado, an eighth of NYC Diesel should not run much more that $50-$60, and seeds are relatively easy to find. If taking the ambitious and botanical growing route, you’re probably making a good call. Yield is said to be particularly high, with a flowering period around 9-10 weeks. rightfully so, NYC Diesel is no stranger to awards. It has long been a favorite amongst avid smokers in Amsterdam, and the Soma seeds have placed in the Cannabis Cup 3 times (2001, 2003, 2004). I suggest you get a little taste of New York in your diet, and considering the hassle and cost of travel these days, why not just dabble in NY Diesel kush? Be sure to pick this up and sample where it’s available. Chances are you’ll be going back for more.

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WITH SO MUCH GOING ON IN DECEMBER, KUSH would like to remind you how far we’ve come in our battle to legalize Marijuana. With 73+ years between its inception and today’s liberal standard (in comparison) we take a look back at the very significant Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. This December power play had deep implications then, and they are still rippling into the news of the day. IT WAS DECEMBER OF 1937, and not much different from today’s standard practices, there were political parties in favor of one issue over another, inherently propelled by some other issue within some other industry, that happened to have their hand (or tentacle) in the reach of a convincing politician. Case in point, the DuPont family and their desire to curb the booming Hemp Industry. With hemp being used as a cheaper substitute for paper pulp, Randolph Hearst felt it a threat to his extensive timber holdings, while Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon was protecting his huge personal investment into DuPont stock, and its latest product “nylon”. With Hemp out-performing these common and innovative products, big business turned its cheek on rational thinking, and proposed the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, essentially enforcing certain provisions on the use or possession of Marijuana or Hemp, forcing the need for a “tax stamp” to grow, or distribute Marijuana. Although the tax was only equal to $1 for anyone dealing commercially in Cannabis, Hemp, or Marijuana, the Act did not criminalize the possession or usage of Cannabis, Hemp or Marijuana, (while the provisions were enforced for those handling the products.) Violations of these procedures had penalties up to $2000, and five years imprisonment. That was a lot back then, and it was all the control the government needed, at least for a few decades...

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IN 1969, LEARY VS. UNITED STATES PROVED part of the Act to be unconstitutional as a violation of the Fifth Amendment, since a person seeking a tax stamp would have to incriminate him or herself in doing so. In response the Congress passed the Controlled Substance Act in 1970. Leave it to big government to merely re-write a flawed law, putting the clamp down even tighter in the revision. This has historically proven to be “The American Way” - Love it or leave it!

With Hemp out-performing these common and innovative products, big business turned its cheek on rational thinking, and proposed the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 SO AS YOU ENJOY YOUR EGGNOG and holiday festivities, let’s keep the focus on the future, and hope that we as a people are learning from the past, and can make future laws based on fact and rational, not that of political arm-twisting or back-scratching.

This Winter, the Los Angeles City Council considers taxing medical marijuana growing collectives at a rate of $500 per plant, equivalent to perhaps two ounces of dried, processed medicine sold in a dispensary, and quite a huge chunk of change for patients. The proposed tax follows confiscatory measures up in Northern California, where one rural city, rancho Cordova, wants to charge patients $600 per square-foot of indoor grow space. In the aftermath of Prop 19’s rejection, watchers say recalcitrant cities have started using these age-old tax techniques to persecute patients. These tax rates are multiple times higher than in liberal cities such as Oakland, or ones proposed by lawmakers in Sacramento. Such rates amount to de facto bans on medical marijuana in those localities, in defiance of state law, critics say. It could take years for patients to overturn taxation so high it, they say it blocks access to life-saving medicine. Kris hermes, spokesperson for medical marijuana lobby Americans for Safe Access said the ASA opposes any additional taxes on medical cannabis. It’s harmful to patients, who already pay sales tax on medicine. California collects about $100 million a year in medical cannabis dispensary sales taxes. “If additional taxes on medicine or cultivation are imposed, they must include specific protections for patients and providers,” the ASA states. During the November 2 election, ten California cities adopted eleven local medical cannabis tax measures. The citizens of inland, rural Sacramento County town rancho Cordova voted overwhelmingly for medical cannabis collective taxes of $600 per square-feet of cultivation. That’s $180,000 per year for a small, 200 square-foot collective, hermes says. By comparison, the city of Albany, CA. in the east Bay voted in favor of a $25 per squarefoot tax.

“It’s beyond a large amount. It is so excessive that it’s essentially a ban on cultivation altogether. I don’t know whether it was cynically placed on the ballot by a local official or if they’re are completely oblivious to what they did.” This Winter, the Los Angeles City Council, which has long battled with its dispensaries will consider charging collectives $500 per plant. “The tax-per-plant model is based, in part, on the City Attorney’s mistaken interpretation of state law, which regards sales of cannabis as illegal,” says Don Duncan with the ASA. “This is why [Los Angeles] is avoiding the more common strategy of taxing the gross receipts of the collectives. This unusual tax is not based on the normal, legal operation of collectives. It is likely to be unduly burdensome for patients’ collectives, complicated to implement, and almost impossible to enforce.” hermes says sky-high taxes will almost certainly be challenged in court by the ASA or another group. They’re an unprecedented assault on patient rights, he says. But overturning them would be unprecedented as well. Dale Gieringer with California NOrML said the rancho Cordova tax is probably higher than the value of the marijuana a squarefoot could produce. “No one is going to pay this tax. Instead of collecting money, rancho Cordova is likely to end up being hit with a lawsuit,” he said.

By comparison, bills in Sacramento have proposed charging roughly $50 per ounce for recreational cannabis sales. The City of Oakland currently levies a 6.8 percent tax on gross sales of medical cannabis at dispensaries. historically, the federal government has used taxes to create cannabis prohibition in everything but name, starting with the Marihuana tax Stamp Act of 1937. It levied a $1 tax on any commercial seller or buyer of cannabis. Lawful taxpayers were ordered to obtain a stamp by paying what would be $14.78 in 2010 dollars. The federal government never issued the stamps, however, and the first federal cannabis arrests started shortly thereafter.

alifornia’s schizophrenic cannabis laws change slightly for the better on January 1, when simple possession of under an ounce of recreational marijuana is reclassified from a misdemeanor down to an infraction. More than 60,000 Californians were arrested this year for simple possession of up to 28.5 grams of the plant. They used to face a $100 fine and a misdemeanor mark on their “criminal record” that lasts for two years. But they could also fight the misdemeanor in court, requesting a jury and public defender. It cost the debt-laden state tens of millions of dollars in court costs. According to defense attorney Omar Figueroa, founder of the Cannabis Law Institute, that changes on January 1, 2011 because of new state law SB 1449 from San Francisco State Senator Mark Leno. Possession of under an ounce without a medical cannabis card will become an infraction, subject to the same $100 fine. Police can still arrest you, but they cannot book you if you have valid identification and promise to appear in court. Once issued the infraction, defendants simply sign the citation in lieu of appearing in court, and send in their money. They can also contest the ticket in front of a judge, but they lose the option of a jury trial and a public de-

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fender. The infraction will not appear in state and federal criminal databases. But there are plenty of caveats. Possession of any amount of concentrated cannabis, commonly called “hash” can result in up to a year in prison. Possession of more than one ounce of recreational plant cannabis can land convicts in jail for up to six months and result in fines of up to $500. Selling someone any amount of cannabis can also result in up to four years in state prison for the more than 14,000 recreational cannabis vendors caught this year. Possession of under an ounce on school property can result in ten days jail and up to $500 in fines for adults. Those under 18 caught with marijuana at school can be fined up to $250 for the first offense and get ten days incarceration and $500 in fines for the second offense. Federal law also bars college students who’ve been convicted of “any [drug] offense” from receiving financial aid. Applicants for aid must disclose any convictions. But if a student fails to disclose, the federal government lacks the resources to check its hundreds of thousands of applicants each year. Even if they looked, they would not be able to find an infraction in federal or state databases. Most job applicants will not have to fear disclosing an infraction either. Possession of under an ounce inside a vehicle in California would be considered an infraction, but if the driver was found to be under the influence of cannabis it counts as a misdemeanor - or in cases of an injury accident, a felony - that will go on DMV and criminal records, and cause car insurance rates to rise. Of course, qualified medical marijuana patients are exempt from criminal penalties that would limit possession of up to eight ounces, or cultivation of six mature medical cannabis plants, unless higher quantities are recommended by a physician. Figueroa says the downgrade of cannabis to an infraction should result in less tickets being issued, and is part of a larger trend of decriminalization in California, despite the failure of legalization initiative Proposition 19 this year. “Probably not a whole lot will change at first, but over time officers will issue less tickets as they use their discretion. It’s already not a serious crime to them, Figueroa says. “This is a little blip, but it’s part of trend that leads to the 2012 election with a new initiative.”

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RASPBERRY VinAigREttE IngrEdIEnts -1- 12 oz. jar of raspberry puree -1 cup raspberry vinegar -1 Â˝ cup thC oil -1 squeeze lemon juice -Salt and Pepper to taste dIrECtIOns In a bowl, whisk raspberry puree with raspberry vinegar. Slowly drizzle in oil, continue to whisk until dressing looks shiny, about one minute. Whisk in lemon juice, salt and pepper. Make your own combination of greens and veggies, pour vinaigrette over salad.

PomEgRAnAtE SPinAch SAlAd IngrEdIEnts

-1 (10 ounce) bag baby spinach leaves, rinsed and drained -1/4 red onion, sliced very thin -1/2 cup walnut pieces -1/2 cup crumbled feta -1/4 cup alfalfa sprouts (optional) -1 pomegranate, peeled and seeds separated -Âź cup medicated balsamic vinaigrette dIrECtIOns Place spinach in a salad bowl. top with red onion, walnuts, feta, and sprouts. Sprinkle pomegranate seeds over the top, and drizzle with medicated vinaigrette.

QuinoA cRAnBERRY SAlAd IngrEdIEnts -1 cup quinoa, rinsed and drained -2 cups water -1/2 cup chopped toasted pecans -1/2 cup dried cranberries -1/4 cup thC olive oil -2 tablespoons lemon juice -salt and pepper to taste

heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until the quinoa is tender, and the water has been absorbed, about 15 to 20 minutes. Scrape into a mixing bowl, and cool to warm, about 20 minutes. Once the quinoa has cooled, stir in the pecans, cranberries, thC olive oil, and lemon juice; season to taste with salt and pepper to taste. Let stand at room temperature for 1 hour before serving.

gREEn SAlAd with PEARS And goRgonzolA IngrEdIEnts -1 head of butter lettuce (or Boston lettuce), cored, washed and dried and torn into bite-sized pieces -1/4 cup dried cranberries or cherries -1/3 cup crumbled gorgonzola cheese -2 pears, cored and sliced -1/2 cup candied pecans drEssIng -2 teaspoons whole grain mustard -2 tablespoons champagne vinegar (or red wine vinegar or balsamic) -1 tablespoon honey -1 tablespoon of minced shallot -1/3 cup thC olive oil -Pinch of salt and pepper dIrECtIOns toss lettuce, cranberries or cherries, gorgonzola, pears and pecans in a large salad bowl. Set aside and prepare dressing. Alternately, set lettuce leaves on 6 salad plates, and top with cranberries or cherries, gorgonzola, pears and pecans. Place mustard in a medium-sized bowl. Whisk in vinegar, honey and shallot. Slowly drizzle in thC olive oil, while whisking constantly, to emulsify. Season with salt and pepper. toss salad with half of the dressing (or drizzle over the plated salads). If more dressing is needed, add it a little at a time, taking care not to drench the leaves. taste for seasoning and add more salt or pepper if needed. Serve immediately.

dIrECtIOns Bring the quinoa and water to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. reduce

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cRown PoRk RoASt with APPlE cRAnBERRY Stuffing And PoRt winE SAucE IngrEdIEnts stUFFIng stUFFIng -Âź cup thC olive oil -3 onions, chopped -1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon -1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper -1/4 teaspoon ground allspice -1 14- to16-ounce package of cornbread stuffing mix -1 cup pecans, chopped -3 apples cored, not peeled and chopped -1/2-cup fresh cranberries, chopped CrOWn rOAst -1 12 to16 rib crown pork roast -2 teaspoons salt -1 teaspoon ground black pepper sAUCE -1 cup chicken broth -1/4-cup port -3 tablespoon thC butter COOKIng InstrUCtIOns stUFFIng: In large skillet over medium heat, heat thC oil until shimmers. Add onions and cook about 6 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until translucent. remove from heat and stir in cinnamon, pepper, and allspice to combine. In large bowl combine onions, stuffing mix pecans, apples, and cranberries. POrK rOAst: heat oven to 350 degrees f. Sprinkle roast inside and out with salt and pepper. Add stuffing to inside cavity; do not pack it. Cook for about 2 hours 20 minutes, or until a thermometer in the thickest part of the meat registers 155 degrees. remove from oven and cover with aluminum foil. Let rest at least 15 minutes. sAUCE: Place roasting pan over medium heat; add broth and port. Bring mixture to a boil, scraping up bits on the bottom of the pan. reduce liquid by about half. Add thC butter and swirl to combine

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PEcAn cRunchY SAlmon IngrEdIEnts -3 tablespoons Dijon mustard -3 tablespoons thC butter, melted -5 teaspoons honey -1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs -1/2 cup finely chopped pecans -3 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley -6 (4 ounce) fillets salmon -salt and pepper to taste -6 lemon wedges dIrECtIOns Preheat the oven to 400 degrees f. In a small bowl, mix together the mustard, butter, and honey. In another bowl, mix together the bread crumbs, pecans, and parsley. Season each salmon fillet with salt and pepper. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Brush with thC mustard-honey mixture. Cover the top of each fillet with bread crumb mixture. Bake for 10 minutes per inch of thickness, measured at thickest part, or until salmon just flakes when tested with a fork. Serve garnished with lemon wedges. .

choco-PREtzEl StickS with A kick IngrEdIEnts -12 ounces white or semi-sweet or chocolate chips/melting disks -24 pretzel rods (8-oz. package) -4 tsp thC vegetable oil -2 cups of your favorite candy, nuts or topping -8 clear plastic bags -8 ribbons COOKIng InstrUCtIOns Line three baking sheets with wax paper and set aside. Melt chocolate over a double boiler or in the microwave. dOUBlE BOIlEr Place chocolate and thC vegetable oil in a heatproof bowl over a pot of simmering water. Water should barely simmer, not boil. Stir the chocolate frequently with a rubber spatula until melted, approximately 5 to 10 minutes.

MICrOWAVE Place chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave at 50 percent power for anywhere between 2 and 4 minutes (cook times vary with different models). heat in 20-second intervals, stirring in between. finish heating when most (but not all) of the chocolate is melted. Stir continuously until chocolate is smooth, shiny, and completely melted. remove the bowls of melted chocolate from the double boiler/ microwave. Working in the chocolate bowl, dip in each pretzel. If the chocolate level is shallow, use a silicone pastry brush or rubber spatula to help smooth the chocolate over three-quarters of the pretzel. Be sure to leave a small portion of the pretzel uncovered by the chocolate to serve as the handle. Shake off excess chocolate so the pretzel has a thick – but not too thick – layer of chocolate. Place each dipped pretzel on a wax paper-lined baking sheet and sprinkle with your toppings. refrigerate for 15 minutes or until chocolate is completely set. Gently peel the pretzel rods off of the wax paper and place 3 to 4 rods in each cellophane bag. tie each with a ribbon and refrigerate until ready to give.

Almond ButtER cookiES IngrEdIEnts -Cooking spray -3/4 cup all purpose flour -1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour, or regular whole wheat flour -3/4 teaspoon salt -1 teaspoon baking soda -1/4 cup unsalted thC butter, softened -3/4 cup smooth, unsalted almond butter -1/3 cup packed light brown sugar -1/3 cup granulated sugar -1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract -1 egg -36 raw whole almonds dIrECtIOns Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Spray two baking sheets with cooking spray. In a large bowl whisk together the flours, salt and baking soda. In another large bowl beat together the thC butter, almond butter and sugars until fluffy. Add the vanilla and egg and beat until well combined. Gradually stir in the flour mixture, blending well. Shape the dough into 3/4 inch balls, and place on the baking sheets. Place an almond in center of each cookie and press down lightly. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.

tAStY thc PRAlinE cookiES IngrEdIEnts -8 ounces thC butter -1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed -2 teaspoons vanilla -2 cups sifted all-purpose flour -2 cups finely chopped pecans -sifted confectioners’ sugar, optional dIrECtIOns Cream thC butter and brown sugar; stir in vanilla. Gradually work in flour. Mixture will be crumbly. Add chopped pecans and work into dough. Pinch off dough and roll in hands to form balls about 1 inch in diameter. Place on greased baking sheets; bake pecan cookies at 325° for 15 to 20 minutes, until firm and browned on bottoms. If desired, roll pecan cookies in confectioners’ sugar while still warm.

tRAditionAl holidAY iRiSh cREAm (no thc) IngrEdIEnts -1 cup heavy cream -1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk -1 2/3 cups Irish whiskey -1 teaspoon instant coffee granules -2 tablespoons chocolate syrup -1 teaspoon vanilla extract -1 teaspoon almond extract dIrECtIOns In a blender, combine heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, Irish whiskey, instant coffee, chocolate syrup, vanilla extract, and almond extract. Blend on high for 20 to 30 seconds. Store in a tightly sealed container in the refrigerator. Shake well before serving.

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Chronic Relief Cooperative

ANDERSON

5841 Fair Oaks Blvd #B Carmichael,CA 95608 (916)550-2282

3065 West Center St. Anderson, CA 96007 (530) 365-8500

City of Trees

The Green Heart Collective

ARCATA

Arcata Saicenter 1085 K St. Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 496-9769

Humbolt Medical Supply P.O. Box 4629 Arcata, CA 95518 (707) 825-6700

Humbolt Patient Resource Center 980 6th St. Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 826-7988

The Humbolt Collective 601 I St. Ste 2 Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 822-9330

BERkELEY

Berkeley Patients Group 2747 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley, CA 94702 (510) 540-6013

Cannabis Buyers Club of Berkeley 3033 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94702 (510) 849-4200

Berkeley Patients Care Collective 2590 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 540-7878 Cameron Park

MMCA 4100 Cameron Park Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 (530) 667-5362

CAMPBELL

420 Lifestyles 2345 Winchester Blvd #E Campbell,CA 95008 (408)370-6869

CARMICHAEL

California Hollistic Collective 7614 Fair Oaks Blvd. Carmichael, CA 95608 (916) 944-1604

6743 Fair Oaks Blvd Carmichael,CA 95648 (916)481-1116

CHICO

California Harm Reduction Cooperative, Inc. 2700 Hegan Lane Ste 102 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 345-6303

Cascade Wellness Center 15430 Highway 99N Ste #B Chico, CA 95973 (530) 230-2121

D.O.C. (Doctors Orders Cooperative) 4950 Cohaseset Rd. Ste #10 Chico, CA 95926 (530) 891-1420

North Valley Holistic Health 2961 Hwy 32 Ste #17 Chico, CA 95926 (530) 592-4327

CLEARLAkE Lake Co D&M

14491 Olympic Dr. Clearlake, CA 95422 (707) 994-1320

Triple C Collective 14196 Lakeshore Dr. Clearlake, CA 95422 (707) 701-4160

COLFAx

Golden State Patient Care Collective 233 Hwy 174 Colfax, CA 95713 (530) 346-2514

CORTE MADERA Going Green

402 Tamal Plaza Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 891-8552

Marin Holistic Solutions 200 Tamal Plaza Ste #135 Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 945-9416

COTATI

Native Herbs Collective 7000 Graveinstein Hwy Cotati, CA 95431 (707) 795-0420

DUNSMUIR

LUCERNE

Harborside Health Center

5711 Sacramento Ave. Dunsmuir, CA 96025 (530) 235-4543

6045 Second Ave. Lucerne, CA 95458 (707) 274-2144

Purple Heart Patient Center

EUREkA

MERCED

415 Fourth St. Oakland, CA 94607 (510) 625-7877

2701 Harrison Ave. Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 497-6213

1744 G street, Suite D Merced,CA 95341 (209)725-8633

ORANGEVALE

FAIRFIELD

MIDDLETON

Green Collar Compassion Collective

Hummingbird Healing Center

Tree Of Life

4227 Lozan Lane #6 Fairfield, CA 94534 (707) 421-0420

FORT BRAGG Herban Legend

17875 North Hwy 1 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 961-0113

Good karma Growers Collective

The Blue Horizon

Homegrown Holistic Collective 21136 Calistoga Rd. Middleton, CA 95461 (707) 987-9882

MOUNT SHASTA

Hearts Of Mount Shasta Inc.

1840 Embarcadero Oakland, CA 94606 (510) 533-0146

Enso Wellness

6224 Walnut Ave. Orangevale, CA 95662 (916)988-8500

Gaia’s Gift 9353 Greenback Lane Orangevale, CA 95662 (916)987-2863

Magnolia Wellness

408 S. Mt. Shasta Blvd. Mount Shasta, CA 96067 (530) 926-6337

9198 Greenback Lane Orangevale, CA 95662 (916)865-7351

P.P.M.

The Green Heart Collective

Natures Own Wellness

1189 South DeAnza Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 (408) 973-0864

108 Chestnut St. Ste B Mount Shasta, CA 96067 (530) 918-9440

8880 Greenback Lane Orangevale, CA 95662 (916)987-2846

GRASS VALLEY

NAPA

REDDING

1061 Main East St. Ste #201 Grass Valley, CA 95945 (800) 978-7616

735 8th St. Napa, CA 94559 (707) 253-2646

2728 Churn Creek Redding, CA 96002 (530) 221-3790

GILROY

NEWARk

Family Tree Care Center

7180 Thornton Ave. Newark, CA 94560 (510) 744-1261

Herbs and Edibles

FREMONT

Nevada County Co-Op

MediLeaf Collective 1321 B 1st St. Gilroy, CA 95037 (408) 847-2400

GUERNEVILLE Marvin’s Garden

14016 Armstrong Woods Rd. Guerneville, CA 95446 (707) 869-9687

HAYWARD

Going Green

N.B.D Medical Cannabis Collective

NORTH HIGHLANDS One Solution

3901 Madison Ave North Highlands,CA 95660 (916)993-9924

Garden Of Eden

Rx Pot Shop

21227 Foothill Blvd Hayward, CA 94541 (510) 200-9555

6639 Watt Ave North Highlands, CA 95660 (916)538-1006

kELSEYVILLE

NOVATO

9781 Point Lakeview Rd. Kelseyville, CA 95451 (707) 277-0121

7586 Redwood Blvd. Novato, CA 94945 (415) 898- 4437 (TIGER)

LAkE TAHOE – SOUTH

OAkLAND

3445 Lake Tahoe Blvd. South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150 (530) 544-8000

377 17th St. Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 251-0690

Triple C Collective

Tahoe Wellness Collective

Green Tiger Collective

Coffee Shop Blue Sky

Cal Patients Collectives

2753 Bechelli Lane Redding, CA 96002 (530) 605-3636 991 Lake Blvd. Redding, CA 96003 (530) 246-4372

Medicali Collective 2610 Churn Creek Rd Redding, CA 96002 (530) 221-4804

Nature’s 420 1133 Hilltop Redding, CA 96003 (530) 605-0545

Nature’s Nexus 1647 Hartnell Ave Ste #21 Redding, CA 96003 (530) 222-6700

Northern Patients’ Group 11111 Ryolite Dr Ste #1 Redding, CA 96003 (530) 242-6490

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Redding Wellness 1840 Churn Creek Redding, CA 96002 (530) 221-1900

All About Wellness Collective

Florin Wellness Center

Northstar Holistic Collective

1900 19th St. Sacramento, CA 95811 (916) 454-4327

7047 South Land Park Dr. Sacramento, CA 95831 (916) 391-8200

1236 C St. Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 476-4344

All Natural

Fruitridge Health & Wellness Center

P St. Health Care Cooperative

3127 Fite cir. Suite A Sacramento, Ca 95827 (916) 368-6200

Alternative Medical Center 8665 Folsom Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95826 (916) 386-3588

2831 Fruitridge Rd. Ste #F Sacramento, CA 95820 (916) 706-3806

Grass 4381 Gateway Park Blvd. #560 Sacramento, CA 95834 (916) 419-6322

2012 P St. Sacramento, CA 95811 (916) 930-1920

R & R Wellness 8701 Center Parkway Ste #130 Sacramento, CA 95823 (916) 585-3483

River Valley Collective

American Collectives Dispensary

1530 Placer St. Redding, CA 96001 (530) 244-4701

1855 Diesel Dr. Ste #1 Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 927-02373

2014 10th St. Sacramento,CA 95818 (916)930-0939

The Hampton Collective

American Holistic & Mr. Nice Guy’z Deliveries

Green Harmony Collective

Sara Jane & Co. Cooperative, Inc.

5501 Power Inn Road, Ste# 110 Sacramento, CA 95820 (916) 222-3099

908 21st St. Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 446-8985

Green Solutions

Sacramento 420 Evaluations

1404 28th St. Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 706-3568

2100 Watt Ave. #190 Sacramento, CA 95835 (916) 480-9000

Horizon Non-Profit Collective

Sacramento Healing Center

3600 Power Inn Rd. Ste #1A Sacramento, CA 95826 (916) 455-1989

2014 10th St. Sacramento, CA 95818 (916) 930-0939

Hugs Alternative Care, LLC

South Sacramento Care Center

2745 Bechelli Lane Redding, CA 96002 (530) 222-6337

Trinity Gardens 2160 Railroad. Ave Redding, CA 96001 (530) 510-4462

Trusted Friends, Inc. 1943 Pine St. Redding, CA 96001 (530) 229-0454

Trusted Friends, Inc. 3016 Churn Creek Redding, CA 96002 (530) 222-3645

RICHMOND

7 Stars Holistic Healing Center 3288 Pierce St. Ste #M108 Richmond, CA 94804 (510) 527-STARS

Granddaddypurp Collective 2924 Hilltop Mall Rd Richmond, CA 94806 (510) 243-7575

SACRAMENTO 1 Love Wellness Cooperative 1841 El Camino Ave Sacramento, CA 95815 (916) 231-5683

A Therapeutic Alternative 3015 H. Steet Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 400-3095

Above Average Collective 3621 Marconi Ave. Sacramento, CA 95821 (916) 285-5554

1855 Diesel Dr. Ste #1 Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 669-9337 or (800) 281-3017

Another Choice 9555 Folsom Blvd. Ste #E Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 821-4480

Canna Care 320 Harris Ave. Ste #G Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 925-1199

Capitol Wellness Collective 2400 14th St. Sacramento, CA 95817 (916) 325-9000

Choice Health Mutual 2833 Marconi Ave. Sacramento,CA 95821 (916)488-4200

Country Club Health Services 2235 Parktown Circle Ste #420 Sacramento, CA 95825 (916) 856-2709

Delta Health and Wellness 2418 17th St. Sacramento, CA 95818 (916) 231-9934

D.O.C. Sacramento 1704 Main Avneue Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 564-2112

El Camino Wellness Center Collective 2511 Connie Dr. Ste #200 Sacramento, CA 95815 (916) 473-2427

Grass

2035 Stockton Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95817 (916) 452-3699

IndiCare 5847 Auburn Blvd. Ste #6 Sacramento, CA 95841 (916) 332-3358

J St. Wellness 2321 J St. Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 492-8718

Magic Health Inc 1999 Monterey Hwy #100 San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 291-0080

Magnolia Wellness 9198 Greenback Lane, Ste # 204 Sacramento, CA 95662 (916)865-7351

Marconi Medical Co-Op 2105 Marconi Ave. Sacramento, CA 95821 (916) 565-1943

River City Wellness Collective 3830 Northgate Blvd. Ste #A Sacramento, CA 95833 (916) 736-6337

114A Otto Circle Sacramento, CA 95822 (916) 393-1820

The Green Temple

SAN FRANCISCO

1944 Ocean Collective 1944 Ocean Ave. San Francisco, CA 94127 (415) 239-4766

Alternative Patient Caregivers 953 Mission St. #108 San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 618-0680

Bay Area Safe Alternatives Collective (B.A.S.A.) 1326 Grove St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 409-1002

Bernal Heights Dispensary 33 29th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 642-5895

Divinity Tree 958 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94101 (415) 614-9194

Emmalyn’s 211 12th St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 861-1000

Good Fellows Smoke Shop & Medical Cannabis 473 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 255-1323

Green Acres 6256 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 94124 (415) 657-3484

3244 Fulton Ave. Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 670-2299

Grass Roots Clinic

The Holistic Collective

Green Door

4261 B. Auburn Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95841 (916) 285-5822

Therapeutic Wellness Center 430 North 16th St. Sacramento, CA 95811

Valley Health Options 1421 Auburn Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95815 (916) 779-0715

Unity Non-Profit Collective 1832 Tribute Rd. Ste #E Sacramento, CA 95815 (916) 564-1824

1077 Post St. San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 346-4338 843 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 541-9590

ketama Collective 14 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 861-2451

Love Shack 502 14th St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 552-5121

Market St. Cooperative 1884 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 864-6686

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Amsterdam’s Garden

Fat Boy Medibles

MediLeaf Collective

SV Care Collective

1933 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 556-2000

2170 The Alameda San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 717-3035

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1340 Meridian Ave. San Jose, CA 95125 (408) 448-4798

1711 Hamilton Ave. San Jose, CA 95125 (408) 264-4200

Nor-Cal Herbal Relief Center

Arc Healing Center

MedMar Healing Center

San Jose Hydroponics

1545 Ocean Ave. San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 469-7700

885 W. Julian St. San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 564-5118

Harborside Health Center

170 South Autumn St. San Jose, CA 95110 (408) 385-9600

1999 Monterey Rd. Ste #100A San Jose,CA 95112 (408)298-8081

Releaf Herbal Center

Blue Harvest Collective 1660 Alum Rock Ave. San Jose, CA 95116 (408) 251-9600

Meridian Herbal Patient Co-Op

San Jose Patients Group

1284 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 355-0420

2106 Ringwood Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 321- 8424

Sanctuary

Bay Pacific Care

669 O’Farrell St. San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 885-4420

1851 Little Orchid St. San Jose, CA 95125 (408) 297-1696

SF Medical Cannabis Clinic #1

Better Health Group of San Jose

122 10th St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 626-4781

1630 Oakland Rd. Ste # A202 San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 217-9072

The Green Door

California Naturopathic Agricultural Assn.

843 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 541-9590

The Hemp Center 4811 Geary Blvd. San Francisco, CA 94118 (415) 386-4367

HopeNet Co-Op 223 9th St. San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 863-4399

Valencia St. Caregivers 208 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 621-0131

2175 Stone Ave Building #1 San Jose, CA 95125 (408) 288-7990

Cal-Med Wellness Collective Centers 1926 O’Toole Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 432-6170

Cinnabar Health Collective 910 Cinnabar St. San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 295-0420

Double Dynamite

The Vapor Room Cooperative

80 Keyes St San Jose,CA 95122 (408)289-1054

607A Height St. San Francisco, CA 94117

Eko Fresh

SAN JOSE

6140 Camino Verde Dr. San Jose, CA 95119 (408) 226-4372

2730 Aiello Dr. Ste #B San Jose, CA 95111 (408) 229-2373

Elemental Wellness

408 Compassionate Center

A Better Way Collective

711 Charcot Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 433-3344

3851 Charter Park Dr. Ste #Q San Jose, CA 95136 (408) 445-9333

Elixir Medicinal Cannabis Collective

All Bay Cooperative 351 Lincoln Ave. San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 289-8998

Fortune Wellness Center 2231 Fortune Dr. Unit #A San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 432-1776

Herb Appeal 450 Drake St. San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 297-4372

Herbal Leaf Care Collective 1621 Almaden Rd. San Jose, CA 95125 (408) 280-0900

Holistic Health Care 88 88 Tully Rd. Ste #107 San Jose, CA 95111 (408) 294-6973

Holistic Herbal Healers 5406 Thornwood Dr, Suite #175 San Jose CA 95123 (408) 226-5500

Holistic Pain Mangement Institute (HPMI) 1850 S 10th St. #10 San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 280-7551

La Vie MMx 2081 Bering Dr. Ste #Y San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 573-7123

Magic Health Inc 1999 Monterey Hwy Ste #100 San Jose,CA 95112 (408)291-0080

MannaLeaf Collective 3039 Monterey Road San Jose, CA 95111 (408) 225-5404

Mary Janes Cares 1999 Monterey Rd. Ste #140 San Jose,CA 95112 (408)275-1752

MedEx

455 ½ Meridian Ave. San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 275-6472

Natural Herbal Pain Relief 519 Parrot St. San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 283-9333

824 The Alameda San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 295-5411

Santa Cruz Naturally 93 North 14th St. Ste #4 San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 416-3398

New Age Healing Collective

Silicon Valley Veterans Care Collective

914 South Bascom San Jose, CA 95128 (408) 298-2788

282 San Jose Ave San Jose,CA 95125 (408)975-WEED

Nirvana Wellness Center

Simply Chronic Healing

1855 O’Toole Lane San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 954-9888

970 Story Rd. San Jose, CA 95122 (408) 462-5673

NorCal Health Center

SJCBC, LLC

Medical Cannabis Co-Op 25 North 14th St, Suite 60 San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 294-6532

1082 Stockton Ave. San Jose, CA 95110 (408) 247-0400

Pallative Health Center

South Bay Apothcary Collective (SBAC)

1670 Zanker Rd. Ste #A San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 437-1420

1907 Concourse Dr. San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 428-9827

Pharmers Health Center Cooperative

South Bay CannaMed Patient Association (SBCPA)

3131 S. Bascom #220 San Jose, CA (408) 899-4901

334 Commercial St. San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 279-6700

Proper Treatment

South Bay Compassionate Relief Center

1837 Monterey Hwy San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 289-9111

Purple Lotus Patient Center 125 N Jackson Ave Ste #108 San Jose,CA 95116 (408)272-1655

ReHab 420

2417 Stevens Creek Blvd. San Jose, CA 95128 (408) 217-8955

2000 Senter Rd. San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 930-6339

2114 Senter Rd. Ste #22 San Jose,CA 95112 (408)982-3032 (800)282-0538

Emerald Crossing

MediLeaf Collective

SCVCS Inc

560 East Gish Rd. San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 512-2300

2129 South 10th St. San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 418-3630

2051 O’toole Ave San Jose, CA 95131 (408)775-7054

90 Great Oaks Blvd. Ste #202 San Jose, CA 95119 (408) 224-6000

South Bay Healing Center 991 Saratoga Ave. Ste #140 San Jose, CA 95129 (408) 899-4676

South Bay Natural Remedies Dispensary 2950 Daylight Way San Jose, CA 95111 (408) 512-2300

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Valley of the Moon Collective

Life Enhancement Services

855 Commercial St. San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 634-5323

5875 Sanoma Hwy 12 Santa Rosa,CA 95409 (707)843-3096

650 Benicia Rd Vallejo, CA 94591 (707)552-1540

The Portal Herbal Health Collective

SAUSALITO

North Bay Alternative Healing

1141 Ringwood CT Suite100 San Jose, CA 91531 (408)526-0500

495 Gate 5 Rd. Sausalito, CA 94965 (888) 542-73033

Theraleaf Careness Cooperative

SEBASTOPOL

606 Saratoga Ave. Ste #D San Jose, CA 95129 (408) 246-4420

6771 Sebastopol Ave. Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 823-4206

University Ave. Wellness Center

The Green House Wellness Center

630 University Ave. San Jose, CA 95110 (408) 564-5244

4290 Graveinstein Highway South Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 548-4700

Yerba Buena Collective

SHASTA LAkE

2365 Quimby Rd. Ste #A San Jose, CA 95122 (408) 238-8812

SANTA CLARA

Angels CareCollective 891 Laurelwood Rd. Ste #1001 Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408) 986-0131

SANTA CRUz

Greenway Compassion Relief 140 Dubois St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 420-1640

Santa Cruz Patients Collective 115 Limekiln St. Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (831) 425-SCPC

SANTA ROSA

Alternatives, A Health Collective 3020 Santa Rosa Ave. Santa Rosa, CA 95407 (707) 526-9333

Organic Cannabis Foundation

Caregiver Compassion Group

Peace In Medicine

530 Collective

1550 Locust Ave. Shasta Lake, CA 96019 (530) 275-0420

SONOMA

Alikchi Wellness 17503 Sonoma Highway Sonoma,CA 95476 (707)655-9157

VALLEJO 101 North

1409 Georgia St Vallejo ,CA 94590 (707)648-1386

Better Health Group 707 432 Tennessee St Vallejo, CA 94590 (707)655-6497

California Collective Care 1639 Lewis Brown Dr.# C Vallejo ,CA 94589 (707)643-6313

Compassionate Heart

301 East Todd Rd. Santa Rosa, CA 95407 (707) 588-8811

2020 Industry Rd. Ukiah, CA 95482 (707) 462-5100 Vallejo

Sonoma Medicinal Herbs’

Greenwell Cooperative

3403 Santa Rosa Ave Santa Rosa,CA 95407 (707)206-0748

616 Marin Vallejo, CA 94590 (707)980-7774

Sonoma Patient Group

Happy ‘Lil Trees

2425 Cleveland Ave. Ste 175 Santa Rosa, CA 95403 (707) 526-2800

850 Redwood St .Ste #A Vallejo,CA 94590 (707)647-1127

1516 Napa St. Vallejo, CA 94590 (707) 980-7221

Red Dog Green Collective 1914 Broadway St. Vallejo, CA 94589 (707)649-1022

Solace Wellness Collective 1614 Sonoma Blvd Vallejo, CA 94590 (707)652-5474

Collective Wheels Of Compassion Hayward (510) 688-7096

HILLTOP RICHMOND

JC Cando Delivery Service

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NorCal Compassionate Commune Northern California (530) 246-9002 Oroville

Hilltop Richmond/El Sobrante/ San Pablo (925) 209-4354

A & B Delivery

kERN

PLACER COUNTY

Kern/King/Tulare Counties (661) 910-2431

Placer County (530) 406-9341

LAkE TAHOE

PLEASANTON

Valley Green Deliveries

Corinas Mtn. Meds Lake Tahoe/South/West/North Shore (530) 318-5857

Oroville/Forbestown (530) 589-9865

Canyon Collective

C.P.C. Compassion Patients Care Pleasanton/Dublin/Livermore/Sunol (925) 395-1837

DELIVERY SERVICES

LAkE TAHOE – NORTH

BERkELEY

North Lake Tahoe/Surrounding Areas (530) 414-0779

Rocklin/Marysville/30 Mile Radius (916) 751-9849

LIVERMORE

SACRAMENTO

Green Life Compassion Caregivers Berkeley/Dublin/San Ramon/Pleasanton (888) 421-0893

Northstone Organics Berkeley/Oakland (707) 485-8814

Waterleaf Collective Berkeley/SF/Alameda/Contra Costa (510) 224-4420

BUTTE COUNTY

S.O.S. Scripts Only Service Butte County (530) 354-1812

Thompson Delivery Butte County/Oroville/Chico (530) 693-0201

CHICO

Affordable Butte Cannabis Chico and Surrounding Areas (530) 230-7716

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY kGB Wellness Co-op Contra Costa County (925) 395-3687

Northshore Alternative Medicines

P.O.M.A.H. (Peace Of Mind Alternative Healing) Livermore/Pleasanton/Dublin (415) 944-4444

High Flight Livermore/Sunol/Pleasanton/Dublin (952) 336-7706

A Natural Solution Collective Sacramento (916) 722-6337 vAbove All Dispensary (916) 342-4130 www.abovealldispensary.com.

Greenbay Delivery

NorCal Organic Herb

(916) 972-1990 www.greenbaydelivery.com

Marin/Sonoma/Mendocino (707) 540-5194

Green Earth Delivery

Northstone Organics

(916) 222-2520 www.greenearthdelivery.net

Marin/Sonoma/Mendocino (707) 485-8814

Green Meds Collective

Compassionate Collective

Sacramento (916) 295-4633

Marin/Sonoma/Napa (707) 326-3355

NorCanna

7 Nortern kind Delivery Service Marin/Sonoma/Napa/Mendocino (707) 934-5759 Napa

Vanjo Group

EL DORADO COUNTY Shaman Therapeutics

El Dorado County & Surrounding (916) 605-6534

The Giving Tree

Speedy Weedy Rx

Natural Herbal Remedies

MARIN

Napa/Solano/Yolo Counties (888) 826-4456

FAIRFIELD

ROCkLIN

Napa/Sonoma/Napa/Solano Counties (877) 420-0215

Sacramento (877) 420-2015

Northern Exposure (916) 431-0482 www.northernexposure.com

Ugly Bud (916) 534-9800 admin@bcgcollective.org

SAN FRANCISCO Green Cross San Francisco (415) 648-4420

Fairfield/Napa/Vacaville/Dixon (707) 624-5552 Hayward

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DISPENSARY Listing Northstone Organics San Francisco (707) 485-8814

The Union Collective

The Canny Bus

SUNNYVALE

San Francisco (Bay Area) (415) 665-8224

SAN JOSE MedEx

2000 Senter Rd. San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 930-6339

The Green Samaritans San Jose, CA (408) 578-8595

South Bay (800) 921-5012

Shade Of Green Collective Sunnyvale/Mountain View/Los Altos (408) 824-1371

TRUCkEE

Tahoe Herbal Care Truckee (530) 563-8423

WALNUT CREEk

C.P.C. Compassionate Patient Caregivers

THCeval Center

Be Legally Green

1127 Webster St. #12 Oakland CA 94607 (888) 933-3732

826 The Alameda San Jose, CA 95126 (650) 669-4062

SACRAMENTO

Compassionate Health Options

2015 Q St. Sacramento CA. 95811 (916) 476-6142

25 N 14th St. #740 San Jose, CA 95113 (408)298-0420 (408) 298-0410 fax

M.C.N.C

Safe Harbor Med Evaluations

420 Med Evaluations

2222 Watt Ave. Sacramento CA 95825 (916) 333-3831

2102 Ringwood Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 383-9911

Med/Rx

SF Bay Clinic

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO

Walnut Creek/Alamo/Danville/ San Ramon (925) 395-1836

1851 Heritage Lane #299 Sacramento, CA (877) 563-4156

1669 S. Main St. San Jose, CA (408) 262-3412

South San Francisco to Sunnyvale (650) 361-8009 San Jose

YUBA

Take Care 420

THCeval Center

Blue Heaven

420 MediGrowers Collective & Delivery San Ramon/Dublin/Pleasanton/Danville (925) 640-5899

Plant Providers Plus San Jose & Surrounding Areas (408) 824-1184

South Bay Collective

Yuba/Sutter/Butte/El Dorado/Placer (530) 282-6747

2410 Fair Oaks Blvd. Sacramento CA 95825 (916) 538-4216

598 E Santa Clara St. #200 San Jose CA 95112 (888) 933-3732

DOCTORS

SAN FRANCISCO

SANTA CRUz

CARMICHAEL

1200 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 255-1200 (415) 255-1215 fax

140 Dubois St. Suite B Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 457- 0420 (831) 457-0422 fax

Dr. Ruben Ruiz

SANTA ROSA

Americann

NorCal Certifications

6403 Coyle Ave. #460 Carmichael CA (916) 863-1000

San Jose/Santa Clara/Campbell/ Los Gatos (408) 666-2509 Santa Cruz

Qualified Patient Id Center

The Green Smaritans

COLFAx

San Jose (408) 512-2803

West Coast Meds Santa Cruz/Fresno/Holister (831) 316-8301 Santa Rosa

420 Herbal St.

4748 Engle Rd. #105 Carmichael CA 95608 (916) 642-3107

Compassionate Health Options 333 S. Auburn St. #6 Colfax, CA 95713 (530) 346-8800 (530) 346- 8809 fax

CUPERTINO

Cali 420 Doctor

Compassionate Health Options

2460 Mission St. #220 San Francisco, CA (415) 550-0822

Green Relief 1224 Sutter St. #740 San Francisco CA 94109 (415) 351-1919

Greenway 393 Tehama San Francisco CA (415) 312-5070

MediCann

Santa Rosa (707) 528-9420 Sonoma County

10601 S De. Anza Suite #305 Cupertino CA 95012 (408) 320-KUSH(5874)

1426 Fillmore St #206 San Francisco,CA 94115 (415)440-4764

North Coast Collective

MILPITAS

Price Less Evaluations

Sonoma/Central Valley/Foothills/ Redding (707) 535-9570

The Green House Wellness Center Sonoma County (707) 548-4700

SOUTH BAY

480 Delivery Service South Bay to Peninsula (408) 876-3224

SF Bay THC

1669 South Main St. Milpitas, CA 95035 (408) 262-3412

OAkLAND

Compassionate Health Options 1322 Webster St. #308 Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 465-0420 (510) 465-0421 fax

3490 20th St. Ste 302 San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 796-2254

Social Med Ex 3150 18th St. #340 San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 324-9875

SAN JOSE

420 Evaluations 115 North 4th St. Ste #106 San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 998-0980

Compassionate Health Options

Compassionate Health Options 741 5th St. Santa Rosa, CA 95404 (707) 568-0420 (707) 568-0400 fax

MediCann MediCann 5202 Old Redwood Hwy Santa Rosa,CA 95403 (707)570-2706

TRUCkEE

Compassionate Health Options

Steep Hill Cannabis Analysis Laboratory (510) 698-4446

FAIRFAx

Marin Alliance for Medical MJ 6 School St. Plaza Ste #215 Fairfax, CA 94930 (415) 256-9328

OAkLAND

Official City ID Cards & Patient Info 1733 BRd.way Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 832-5346

SACRAMENTO

California Naturopathic Agricultural Assn. 2150 Bell Ave. Ste #130 Sacramento, CA 95838 (916) 333-4622

SAN FRANCISCO

The Cannabis Company 1334 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 829-7554

SAN JOSE

San Jose Hydroponics 1999 Monterey Rd. #100A San Jose, CA 95112

SMOkE SHOPS 420 Smoke Shop 436 E. Santa Clara St. SJ, CA. 95113 (408) 998-2353

BBS Smokeshop 3008 E. Hammerlane Ste #122 Stockton,CA 95212 (916)912-9986

Blow & Tell Smoke Shop

10038 Meadow Way, Suite D Truckee, CA 96161 (530) 550-8866 (530) 550-8899 fax

1914 Fulton Ave Sacramento,CA 95825 (916)486-2569

VALLEJO

1814 Hillsdale Ave. San Jose, CA (408) 269-3832

Compassionate Health Options 301 Georgia St. Suite 125 Vallejo, CA 94590 (707) 558-0420 (707) 558-0421 fax

OTHER SERVICES HempFushion

www.hempfusion.com

Blunts Tabacco

Bulldog Lifestyles 1166 Tully Rd San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 537-0500

Bull Dog Life Styles Smoke Shop 291 S. Capitol Ave. San Jose, CA (408) 729-3605

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(650) 349-2283

Buzz Smoke Shop

Pipe Dreams

4155 Hamilton Ave. San Jose, CA (408) 963- 6406

1376 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 431-3553

Chill Mode

Puff Puff Pass

1140 Fair Ave. San Jose, CA (408) 292-1235

Cigarettes and More 1916 Camden Ave. San Jose, CA (408) 371-7400

Good Fellas Smoke Shop 1432 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 875-9628

Haight Ashbury Gift Shop 1448 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 355-9200

Haight Street Tobacco 1827 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 221-3415

HAzE 40675 Grimmer Blvd Fremont, CA 94538 (510) 668-0500

IMP Glassworks 5911 Auburn Blvd Citrus Heights ,CA 95621 (916)344-4442

kings Market Food & Smoke 6421 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Sacramento,CA 95823 (916)333-4387

Millenium Clothing & Smoke Shop

1467 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 558-9593

List of Advertisers 420 Evaluations p 7

Med Ex p 2

A Better Way Collective p 28

Med Mar Healing Center p 31

Above Average Collective p 21 All About Wellness p 12 & 41

Puff Puff Pass 2499 El Camino Real San Mateo, CA 94403 (650) 349-2283

Royal Smoke Shop 3112 Arden Way Sacramento,CA 95825 (916)774-0964

All Bay CoOp p 18

Natural Herbal Pain Relief p 5 NBD Medical p 29 Nevada Country Co-Op p 28

Alternative Medical Center p12 & 33 Northstar Holistic Collective p 15 Americans for Safe Access p 71 Arc Healing Center p 9

Palliative Health Center p 13 Proper Treatment p 37

Rx Mayhem

Be Legally Green p 57

5207 Madison Ave. Sacramento CA 95841 (916) 332-8981

Cal Med Wellness Collective Centers p 49

Releaf San Francisco (backcover)

Cann Academy p 46

R&R Wellness Collective p 12

Canna Care p 43

Santa Cruz Naturally p 53

Chef Herb p 30

Sacramento 420 Evaluations p 47

Smoke Shop 3259 Stevens Creek Blvd. San Jose, CA (408) 615-1131

Smoke Town 2095 North Capitol Ave. San Jose, CA 95132 (408) 835-9282

Still Smokin 5323 Elkhorn #B Sacramento CA (916) 332-6190

Choice Health Mutual p 4 City of Trees p 19

San Jose Patients Group p 57

Delta Health and Wellness p 49 Simply Chronic Healing p 57 Divinity Tree Wellness Co Op p 32 SJCBC LLC p 38

Still Smokin

El Camino Wellness Center p 36

212 Harding Blvd. #J Roseville CA (916) 774-0964

Elemental Wellness p 33

Sunshine Smoke Shop

Sara Jane Cooperative p 23

Enso Wellness p 42

Solace Wellness Collective p 28 Steep Hill Lab p 27

1000 Melody Ln. Roseville, CA. 95678 (916) 772-6969

4501 Auburn Blvd #102 Sacramento,CA 95825 (916)972-0513

Florin p 12

The Cave/ Puff Puff Pass Smoke Shop p 39

Fruitridge Health & Wellness Collective

The Green Temple/Another Choice p 3

Millennium Clothing & Smoke Shop

Up In Smoke

p 25

102 E Main St Grass Valley,CA 95945 (530)477-9420

Millenium Smoke Shop 440 Colfax Ave. Grass Valley, CA. 95945 (530) 477-9420

Millenium Smoke Shop 13466 Lincoln Way Auburn, CA 95603 (530) 887-0420

1711 Branham Lane San Jose, CA 95118 (408) 264-1100

Greenwell & Alikchi p 30

Twisted

Green Point Insurance p 59

3718 J St Sacramento,CA 95816 (916)457-4141

Happy Lil Trees p 37

Twisted 1120 Fulton Ave Sacramento,CA 95825 (916)514-0660

The Hemp Center p 22 Union Local 13 p 56 Unity Non-Profit Collective p 82

Holistic Herbal Healers p 22 Hugs Alternative Care LLC p 30 J Street Wellness p 38

University Ave Wellness p 21 Valley of the Moon p 18 Valley Health Options p 18

Monsters of Rock #2 Smoke Shop

Leaf Lab Inc p 38

Vapor Room Coop p 11

1189 South DeAnza Blvd. Ste #A San Jose, CA 95129 (408) 366-0199

Magnolia Wellness p 16 & 17

Yerba Buena Collective p 83

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