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10 Editorial 12 A Gem of a Cup

Inside this year’s

Emerald Cup

by TIM BLAKE

14 BudWise

Trust your plants to The Rev

52 Hot MILFs

American Beauties 60 Sensi Sermons

Defining Growing Styles

by THE REV

63 Rev’s Canna Crossword

by THE REV

by THE REV

16 Pissin’ In the Wind

by PETER GORMAN

20 True Living Organics TLO Druid’s Edition Book

by THE REV

24 Seed to Sale Traceability

by LEGACY 420

64 Tokin’ Female

Cici Dunn

by PEBBLES TRIPPET

70 Conversations on

Cannabis, Data,

Breeding and Ethics

Reports From the Field

by BETH SCHECHTER

74 In the Beginning…

Revolutionizing

26 Colorado’s Heart for

Sustainable Hemp

and Innovation

neuroscience

by FRED GARDNER

30 The Life and Work

of Jack Herer with

his son Dan Herer

by CICI DUNN

by FRENCHY CANNOLI

84 Ganja Kitchen Capers

Gluten-free Vegan Blue

Dream CBD Brownies

by JESSICA CATALANO

86 Parents 4 Pot 88 Circular Whispers

A Plant’s Tale

by KAT DONNELLY,

SUNDARAJAN MUTIALU,

DAVID YOUNAN MONTGOMERY

91 Herboscopes

by MOTHER SHABUBU

92 The Cannabis Trail

The Cannabis Murals of

San Francisco

by BRIAN APPLEGARTH

76 Chasing Cannabinoids

by MATT BROWN

82 Full Spectrum

The new buzz words

by MAYA ELISABETH

40 Pedro’s Grow Room

Bringing pride and honesty

into practice

by ERIC LANCASTER

46 A Regenerative Oasis

Visiting Lane Creek

Hemp Company

by SELAH MOORE

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DECEMBER 2019

MY SAY

“Confusion will be my epitaph As I crawl a cracked and broken path If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh But I fear, tomorrow, I’ll be crying Yes, I fear, tomorrow, I’ll be crying Yes, I fear, tomorrow, I’ll be crying”

-Peter Sinfield, King Crimson

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have to admit; the more I learn and discover, the less I really know. It’s true about the world and it’s also true about cannabis, and likely for the same reasons. While it’s hard to argue that things are worse than they’ve ever been given that only a short time ago people could own other people, women had no rights and others were beaten, jailed and even killed due to their sexual orientation, the same forces responsible are still plaguing us, and pretending it’s for our own good.

I was lucky enough to witness Greta Thumberg gather hundreds of thousands of people during this past summer in Montreal. I understand that many, including myself wonder if it’s right to do this to a child and others deny climate change altogether, I was shocked and disappointed at how viciously this little girl was attacked by so many who didn’t want to hear the message. Sadder still, for me, is that merely days later most who marched with her had already forgotten about the issues she was raising. Inspiration is fleeting and it’s so difficult to stay inspired in a world with so many challenges and the lawmakers use this against us and change if it disrupts the status quo and their power.

The same dynamic is present in the cannabis industry. In Canada, fear mongering and the usual reefer madness arguments have allowed the government to attempt a complete corporate takeover of cannabis with disastrous results.

Companies are bleeding money, committing crimes and providing inferior and pricier product to a public accustomed to much better. Many of these companies will ultimately fail as a majority of Canadians are choosing the legacy providers.

Instead of admitting they were wrong and opening up the system and making it more inclusive the government’s response is to do what they know best with raids and persecution being the norm.

Not so different is what’s happening in California where most craft farmers are finding themselves unable to participate in a system designed for only the wealthiest and well connected. Consolidation is happening at a rapid pace and many farms are shutting down or taking their chances in the black market. Here again, the response has been force with even the National Guard sent in to seek and destroy a plant and its custodians.

Where this all gets confusing but also painfully clear is that while I know that regulations are needed to protect consumers from unscrupulous vendors and the recent vape deaths are the best example of this, these regulations are being written by those who fuck everything else up and who don’t give a shit about any of us.

Stay confused, it’s sometimes better not to know.

John Vergados Editor-In-Chief P.S. We’ve started a new campaign where we send a SKUNK t-shirt to one lucky reader who sends us a picture holding up a recent issue. Our first winner is Carlos.

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A HOLY MOLEY! What more could be thrown at us over the past three years? Raging destructive fires almost burned down Santa Rosa, and the Emerald Cup with it. Then, last year, we had the devastating effects of cannabis legalization and the torrential downpour that drenched the event on Sunday. If that wasn’t enough, along comes this year with another set of fires that threatened to burn down the cities north of Santa Rosa and then Santa Rosa itself. This time the added horror was in everyone losing power for days on end in the middle of their harvests. With vast amounts of cannabis biomass being fresh frozen this year, all those freezers and their contents were endangered. Farmers had to scramble to find generators on the fly as their fans, dehumidifiers, lights, etc. were turned off with very little notice. Until the last minute most Emerald Triangle folks didn’t think their power would be cut off.

The great news is that between the incredible work of all the fire fighters, our prayers to the

heavens being heard, and the luck of the winds and weather settling down; most everything is still standing.

Now we have to deal with the continued adverse affects of relentless regulations. It’s wally whomped the entire industry. Not enough legal retailers, too many taxes, harsh challenges for farmers to get permitted, the vape cart crisis; you name it, we’ve been hit by it. Its honestly a dire situation. Most of the leading companies are laying people off and running out of cash. We went from 3000 retailers to well under a 1000 after legalization. Cannabis should have been treated like alcohol. The state should have regulated everything. Our proposition gave the cities and counties control, which lead to too much of a restricted market place.

Our community is made up of resilient souls, and through it all we’re doing our best and moving forward into the light and future that awaits us.

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the next few years things will stabilize and settle down. The farmers and brands that are left standing will be in great shape, as we spread out across the country and the world. Despite all of the roadblocks and challenges, there’s an exciting new vision we’re creating together.

With all this in mind, the 16th annual Emerald Cup prepares to continue our mission to produce the best cannabis competition in the world, help instill and restore the hopes and dreams of the folks working so diligently to succeed; to bring the community together to celebrate, lament, mourn, make some hard needed bucks, learn a thing or three; and to party down.

This year we’ve invited some old schoolers to join us. Tommy Chong will be at the Cup to receive the Willie Nelson Award. Snoop Dogg will be playing some beats for us. Steel Pulse has a new CD and they’ll be playing the new songs. We have Santigold, Emancipator, the Polish Ambassador, and many other really cool acts set to rock the days away.

We’ll have three stages of music to keep you grooving.

Every year, we switch things up around the space to keep everyone’s experience fresh and unique. We’ve learned from the past years challenges with the weather. We’ve moved as much as possible inside and covered as much as possible outside. We’ll have hundreds of booths selling the years finest flowers, concentrates, edibles; and all the other products we all love to partake in and share.

In regards to the contest entries, we’re a third ahead in the amount we’ve received so far, which would see us with about 900 entries. We’ve added a personal use concentrate category to go along with the personal use flowers competition. The Emerald Cup has become a serious competition and its nice to see the backyard farmers getting a chance to compete.

The speaker panels are filled with the very best our community has to offer. Every aspect of our industry will be discussed throughout the weekend.

What never gets old is that the Cup is the year long celebration of the fall harvest and the chance for our community to come together.

Come join us for whats promises to the best Cup yet.

We say that every year but so far we’ve been able to raise that bar every circle around the sun.

Remember to be kind to one another. Together we can elevate the benefits of cannabis and spread this medicine and its knowledge throughout the world.

See you all at The Emerald Cup.

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BUDWISE KNOW YOUR GROW

advice from THE REV

FROM AMATEUR TO EXPERT, there can be troubles in anyone’s growroom. Since it’s generally not a good idea to go and ask the local garden center what’s wrong with your weed, we have provided a spot for you to ask away. Send any questions, pictures and/or tips to therev@skunkmagazine.com.

If we use your submission, you might even get some free stuff.

REV’S TIP As you read in the question below with Josh, I recommended the smaller jars for storing your cannabis. Now the size you choose will be relative to your consumption rate from your stash, but if your herbs will be sitting for more than a couple weeks, this is a great storage thing I use.

One of my storage coolers with plastic ice cubes

Simply keep them in an insulated container like a cooler as in the photo. Keeping the temperatures cool and consistent are very important; along with the darkness. Temps vary over any 24-hour period a lot less inside a cooler like this. Notice the small dish of plastic ice cubes on the floor of the cooler. Any time I open the cooler to do anything, before I close it up again, I make sure and replace the plastic ice cubes with new frozen ones. But if these coolers were in a cool basement you wouldn’t need the cubes.

WINNER

Q

Thank you for getting back to me a.s.a.p., much appreciated.

Here are some pictures, and hopefully they will good enough for you to make an assessment. It seems to me to be a nitrogen deficiency, but the veins are yellow on the leaves being affected. All the references I have checked on the web. show the veins being green and interveinal being yellow. What I’m seeing is just the opposite.

Thanks for all your help, and I must say, the Katanga Sativa, Malawi Bhai Bhai, and Dark Dragon that came out of the light dep. 3 weeks ago, are stellar. Thanks for the great genetics.

Have an excellent weekend, JIMMY

Nitrogen fade pic from Jimmy

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Hey-hey Jimmy, you’re dat guy, dat guy that won! I selected this one because I see it all the time, and all too often growers will try and “fix” this “problem” usually adding some nitrogen—this is never a good idea well into flowering, never ever—so let me start off with this bit of good news…

You have no problem, none whatsoever my good man. (See photo from Jimmy); the plant is just cannibalizing some of her leaves to redistribute the wealth of water and nutrients—using them like batteries—don’t remove them until they are dead. These leaves are producing less and usually shaded more from the light as the plant grows, so she will take these leaves in favor of new growth. There is nothing you have to fix amigo, yay!

Glad you like the genetics Jimmy, and thanks for the question.

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Thanks, BOOGEY out!

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Howdy Boogey my good man. Let me answer your question this way: I would find it very hard to believe any mold spore that didn’t live from the soil, could survive in it for weeks while “cooking” was going on. Additionally, I have recycled soil and plants used during mold invasions in the past more than once and I have never noticed mold “coming out of nowhere” when using that soil; I am always the source—LoL— usually it’s me messing around in my outdoor veggie gardens and then forgetting “protocol” and messing with my cannabis indoor plants. Short answer is, I wouldn’t sweat it if I were you.

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Salutations Rev, love your TLO book, connoisseur all the way. I have two questions really, first is I wanted to get a copy of your latest edition of TLO on Kindle and I can’t seem to find it in that format, can you help? Second question is, since I grow many different kinds of cannabis, I tend to store a lot for months sometimes. How do I make sure all of them keep their awesome smells? Many do, but some don’t. Thanks Rev. JOSH

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High Josh, salutations. Hey I talked with my publisher and he tells me that issue with the Kindle versions will be resolved soon—thanks for the support amigo.

My answer to your second question is two-fold: first and foremost, they must be DRY ENOUGH when they first go into a sealed container. That is thee most common error in my opinion; it’s basically waiting until the main stems snap when you bend them. Second piece of advice I would offer up is storing your varieties in a greater number of smaller containers. Think of storing cannabis like storing ice cream … once it has been opened (the container) the clock is ticking.

Larger containers, once they have been opened repeatedly over the course of a month or more, tend to fade in their dank-punchpower as far as smells and flavors go. I like to use the size of mason jars—wide mouth easy hand access size—that hold about an ounce, give or take a few grams. Check out my tip below for something cool that is related. Cheers.

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Pissin’ In the Wind

WORDS PETER GORMAN

Court to Trump: Toothbrushes and Soap a Must ROUGHLY 2,000 MINORS are held in border facilities on any given day. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is charged with their care. We’ve all seen photos of the cages with little kids in them, many without mats, sleeping on cement floors with nothing but space blankets to keep them warm. Certainly not all of the border facilities — which are supposed to move those kids out to family, friends, or shelters within 72 hours, and must, by law, move them out in 5 days, tops — are that bad.

But many are, and investigators and whistleblowers have talked continually about the inhumane conditions in

which those kids are kept.

A humane government would try its level best to make the facilities holding unaccompanied minors who show up at our border and the children who have been separated from their families — many of the minors are separated from their parents or other relatives when those adults are arrested — good way stations until those children move on.

The Trump Administration chooses not to do that. And it’s gone to court repeatedly to fight for the right to treat those children badly.

Fortunately, the courts have thus far disagreed with the government.

Most recently, on August 15, over the objections of the Trump Administration, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (San Francisco) ordered the administration to begin supplying adequate food, basic hygiene necessities (toothbrushes, toilet paper, showers, soap), and improve conditions for sleep for children and teens held at border facilities.

The panel dismissed an appeal of a 2017 district court decision that said the

United States was bound by an earlier court case involving the “safe and sanitary” treatment of children and teens who had crossed into the United States from Mexico either illegally or seeking asylum.

The earlier case was a lawsuit brought on behalf of minors held by immigrations authorities in 1985.

The lawsuit was finally brought to a close in 1997 after an agreement between the parties was negotiated.

That agreement is known as the Flores Agreement, and resulted in the United States setting nationwide standards for the detention, treatment, and release of minors held by the Immigration and Naturalization Service — now known as U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services. Those standards require all agencies holding immigrant minors in their custody, regardless of the minor’s legal status, keep them “in facilities that are safe and sanitary.” The Agreement also requires that minors be “treated with dignity, respect, and special concern for their particular vulnerability as minors.”

The United States, led by Attorney General William Barr, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, challenged the 2017 district court

ruling that found the government was violating the Flores Agreement by keeping minors in unsafe and unsanitary conditions. The court held that “sanitary” specifically meant that those kids should get toothbrushes, soap, towels, showers,” and that “safe” included not overcrowding them, not having them sleep on cement floors, and feeding them edible food.

Yes, it’s hard to imagine that the administration objected to being blocked from serving expired or rotten food to children, and not providing pampers or diapers to the youngest kids, but that is exactly what they did when they not only brought the original case but then appealed the ruling.

In writing for the panel dismissing the government appeal, Judge Marsha S. Berzon said “Assuring that children eat enough edible food, drink clean water, are housed in hygienic facilities with sanitary bathrooms, have soap and toothpaste, and are not sleepdeprived are without doubt essential to the children’s safety.”

Berzon went on to note that in the 2017 district court decision, the court found that “although the Agreement makes no mention of the words ‘soap,’ ‘towels,’ ‘showers,’ ‘dry clothing,’ or ‘tooth brushes,’…these hygiene products fall under the rubric of the Agreement’s language requiring ‘safe and sanitary’ conditions.”

Berzon continued: “The district court also determined that although the word ‘sleep’ does not appear in the Agreement…citing evidence that many minors in Border Patrol custody are forced to sleep on concrete floors, with no bedding aside from pieces of thin polyester foil, and are subjected to cold temperatures, serious overcrowding, and constant lighting, the district court found that the government was violating the Agreement at certain Border Patrol stations by holding children in facilities that deprived them of adequate sleep.”

According to Bethany Carson, immigration policy researcher and

organizer for Grassroots Leadership, a non-profit trying to eliminate all private for-profit prison firms nationally, “Part of what is happening is that private companies are running these places. And they use private services from commissary to medical staff to other necessary people. And all of them have a hand out for a piece of the pie.”

That piece of the pie used to be about $700 per night per minor at the notorious tent city in Tornillo, Texas, run by BFCS, an international non-profit. That organization did not return phone calls asking if they were involved in any of the border facilities at this point.

The Department of Health and Human Services also did not return calls requesting the names of any private contractors involved in the border facilities for minors, and if so, what prices were being paid.

It is a reasonable question because toothbrushes simply do not cost very much, and if a company were receiving $700 per child per night you would think they would be housed in a motel suite with a full time adult guardian seeing to their needs.

“The majority of these kids have somewhere to go,” Carson said. “When they don’t there are humane shelters for them. Unfortunately, what is happening is happening for political purposes. It is an attempt to generate fear against immigrants and to feed the administration’s base, and to use this situation to create more and more repressive policies.”

The United States government has not announced whether they will mount another appeal to try to keep those minors from decent food and a bit of soap.

Let me reiterate: The United States appealed a decision that held the government to providing edible food, basic toiletries, and reasonable sleeping conditions to a couple of thousands kids a night. We didn’t agree that those kids deserved that treatment. We, the government, not the populous, thinks

those kids should suffer for having made their way hundreds or thousands of miles to reach our border looking for safety. We, the government of the United States and in particular the Trump Administration, think making life miserable for five-year-old children will send the message to other fiveyear-old children that it is not worth the suffering endured to get here.

Last week, in early August, 2019, a baby who was breast feeding was pulled from his mother’s teat by immigration officials. A baby who was breast feeding. Does anyone, even those who claim “the law is the law”, think that is a good thing? Even an okay thing? Does anyone who has ever had a child think that is acceptable?

There is only one reason the Trump Administration is doing this: To dehumanize the children. To make the children something other than regular children, who might be ours, our part of our family. If the administration can succeed in making these children non-humans, it won’t be difficult to make their parents out to be monsters who inflicted this on their own kids.

And if we can make the parents out to be monsters, well, then we can do anything we want to them because no one cares what happens to a monster, do they?

I am a lapsed Catholic, despite years as an altar boy, during which I fed and read to old people, kept people who were alone company for an hour on Saturday mornings, and helped paint houses the church gave to congregation members whose homes had burnt down in fires. But I still know what a sin is: When you purposefully hurt someone physically, emotionally, mentally, that is a sin.

When you use someone’s plight to raise yourself up, that is a sin.

Our current administration is doing its best to hurt the most vulnerable among us. It is doing it with almost frantic glee. It has to stop.

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New Rev-olution TLO Druidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Edition Book

YO SKUNK PEEPS! I hope you are all well and happy man. I have been working hard on a new TLO (True Living Organics) book that I hope to release in 2020 and the working title is: Druids’ Edition. This book goes way off the reservation—LoL—all about using nature’s ways without any kind of bottled nutrients. Total recycling, fish, kelp, poop, composting, worms, microbeasties, and water; using some dry amendments like bone meal, dolomite lime, etc., when recycling your soil, but not very much.

In my latest release of TLO (The 2nd Edition) there are limited use bottles, more dry amendments during recycling, less focus on the compost, bird & fish poop, worm castings & leachate. The 2nd Edition will be your stepping stone to the Druids’ Edition of TLO. The Druids’ Edition is hard core, so best not to be upset by “bugs” or the smell of chicken poop, heh heh—just sayin’. Anyhow, without further ado, let’s do a little prelim looksee at the new book…

THE NEXT TLO BOOK BY REV: DRUIDS’ EDITION My new book (TLO Druids’ Edition) that is not finished quite yet, takes all-natural growing to the next level. This edition of TLO is only for the hard core all-natural artisans out there who want the very best product nature can provide. The harvested results are nothing short of divine and top-shelf connoisseur all the way. The Druids’ Edition is written especially for those of you that have read and practiced the ways of the 2nd Edition of True Living Organics, and are good at growing that way—essentially you get it—the Druids’ Edition is the

One of my favorite compost tumblers My soil blending station where i customize soil per genetics

next natural evolution of that style.

So, I would definitely say you want a copy of the 2nd Edition of TLO first, get good with the supernatural style, then progress on to the Druids’ Edition to get your full all-natural Bohemian on. The differences in the two books is majorly with the sustainability of the style, lessening your need for commercial products to almost nothing, so uber inexpensive. Since you will be recycling your soil, no more buying soil either. The new book will assume a few things about your growing: you are good at composting and understand it. You are good at soil recycling and you understand it. You will also want to have a working stacked worm farm, a fresh water fish tank, and a compost tumbler.

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TLO : DRUID’S EDITION You will be truly amazed at what Mother Nature can do if you only let her be. Losing the synthetic mindset is a very difficult challenge indeed, very doable however with a little discipline and tenacity.

USING A HOME STACKED WORM FARM ISN’T SIMPLE; BUT YOU CAN DO IT!

My stacked worm farm - a shed or garage or even a tent works best – spiders oh my

The sheer power of this tool is mind boggling; yes, the castings you harvest truly make your soil supernatural. When you get good at the worm farm, and use a couple of additives I suggest in my books; greensand, etc., the liquid that you will collect from the bottom (leachate) is pretty much all you need as far as food goes. It’s food for your soil and for your plants, for all stages. Just gotta have a good amount of diversity regarding the organic matter you collect to feed your worms. Dosage is all you change up.

In the new book I give you some serious details about starting and running your worm farms, because it is ridiculous how powerful that worm juice (leachate) really is. A very little bit goes a very long way, and you must use bigtime restraint regarding dosing your plants with this. Since so little is needed during growth stages—literally like 1/8th teaspoon per gallon of water—you will have “extra” worm juice. No worries, when I am collecting used root-balls with used soil in totes I use the worm juice to pour on to them help keeping them moist and uber-processing—and adding a super-kick of organic matter ex-

A TLO druid style tent just starting to flower

Three queen indicas and a landrace hybrid sativa all TLO good

tremely rich in available nutrients.

The whole worm farm thing might change your life, it did mine.

You’ll have to eat real food so you have scraps for your worms. The horror—LoL! A nice coffee habit wouldn’t hurt and I bet around 25% of the organic matter I feed my worms is used coffee grounds and filters; my worms are truly wired. Anyways, lots and lots of good details in the new book on the stacked worm farm and running one, because it is amazing.

There is a learning curve, but with my help you can get through it faster—wink.

FISH TANK GOODIES, AND SOIL RECYCLING/ COMPOSTING My fish tank supplies all the food now for my plants’ needs to grow big, fast, and strong throughout vegetative stages up to the first couple weeks of flowering; at the two weeks into flowering mark, is where I would rather use the worm juice due to lower available nitrogen values. The first goodie is what I am talking about above, I always add between ½ to 1 oz. of water from my fish tank to the water I use on my vegging plants. The new book will tell you all about how cool that is and easy to do.

There will be detailed info regarding soil recycling and fast-composting (“cooking”) your Druid Soil Mix, heh heh. I have added several alternate additions for amending your soil, or spiking/layering, where

applicable because I know some things, like greensand for example, are hard for some of you to find.

With a worm farm, a fish tank, and a compost tumbler, you are ready for next level Druid growing.

In a nutshell TLO has always been about feeding your soil not your plant, or more accurately, feeding the soil life so they can feed the plant. If soil isn’t alive it isn’t soil, its dirt. TLO also preaches letting the plant decide what it wants for nutrition, and when it wants it. As opposed to you force feeding the plants with chelated liquid and/or synthetic nutrients, when you think you need to. It will blow your mind; learning TLO style isn’t an easy path normally, but highly rewarding, and very doable.

L8r G8rs.

(below, top to bottom) (1) Do not worry your buds will not taste or smell fishy, (2) Also a small detailed section on cloning in the new book

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Seed to Sale Traceability LEGACY 420 is an Indigenous Medical

Cannabis company located on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, situated on the shores of the Bay of Quinte in Southern Ontario.

Our main facility, located at 346 York Road, houses our retail outlet, commercial kitchen, production and state of the art laboratory facilities. All products produced and/or sold by Legacy 420 are subject to analysis and testing at our labs for cannabinoid potency, terpene profiles, pesticides and microbial analysis.

At our Legacy 420 farm location, for the 2019 growing season, we had 108 varieties of high CBD or THC plants, with a total plant count of just over 3,000 plants. Each plant was tagged with its own unique bar code, identifying the strain, date of planting and location. This information is maintained in an internal electronic database.

This unique identification follows the plant through to harvest and into the facility where it will either be extracted for use in oils, tinctures, edibles or topicals, or the flower will be broken down and packaged in various sizes to sell through our retail outlet.

Quality control and traceability of the product continues up to the sale of the product in our retail outlet.

During the growing season, the bar code is scanned by the applicable employee whenever something happens to the plant,

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ie, feeding, watering, trimming, culling and/ or harvesting. This allows us to track the amount of fertilizer, water and labour/time that is invested into each plant.

As well, on a regular basis our laboratory staff gathered samples from the various plants to monitor the cannabinoid and terpene levels of the plants throughout their life cycle. This allowed us to note the increase in CBD and THC levels, plus identify other cannabinoids and terpenes as the plant matured.

In conjunction with this, we were also closely monitoring the plants for insect infestations and mold, as mold is the biggest offender and source of contamination for any crop grown in a northern environment. Our crop has now been harvested and is currently in the curing phase. Â

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HEMP WORKS AND WE’VE KNOWN THAT FOR AGES …

For twenty-two years from 1993 – 2015 our store Hemp Works in Amsterdam was a welcoming spot where international Hemp enthusiasts and activists would meet and marvel over the cannabis plant and together we would dream of future full of hemp. In those days, we would hand-select both smaller and bigger brands from all over the world to fill our store with. The only hitch would be that there weren’t too many brands to chose from in the first place, so with open arms we’d welcome friends and street vendors that just had returned from their Nepal or Czech Republic trips and we would buy anything they had to offer such as hats, bags, wallets, jewelry and anything else made from the Plant to put on our store shelves.

Hemp Works was a dedicated Cannabis Lifestyle Store offering a range of products from Dr. Bronner’s Magical Hemp soaps, German hemp-health-food products to chic French designer clothing, and even seeds to plant for the grower savvy customer. During those years our in-houselabel HoodLamb was born from a need and lack of stylish hemp fashion.

There is no doubt we were inspired by the visionary Jack Herer and his educational book, ‘The Emperor Wears No Clothes’, where he lays out the facts about the versatility of Cannabis and the importance of bringing it back into western culture to create a more sustainable future…. Today, Jack’s words are ringing truer than ever, as brainless consumerism is simply not maintainable anymore. The good news is that as consumers we have more power than we realize by ‘Voting With Our Wallets’. It’s time to turn things around with the help of legal Hemp.

Consumer responsibility is here to stay but it takes human awareness to make that happen.

THE BUZZING AND PIONEERING COLORADO HEMP MARKET Luckily, thanks to the legalization of Hemp a new generation of conscious companies has emerged and the market with high quality hemp products has never been this strong before.

In 2011, Adam Dunn and I opened up HOODLAB, the first ever HoodLamb Concept Store & Art Gallery in Denver that quickly became a hot spot for cannabis industry insiders and hemp enthusiast alike. It was in that first year we became friends with Jourdan Samel and Ari Sherman, the founders of Evo Hemp, only this was when they where still making delicious and nutritionally complete hemp food bars out of their friend’s dad’s garage.

Now, they distribute nationally to corporate giants like Wholefoods, Walmart and Costco. I love the success story of Evo Hemp but what I love maybe even a bit more is their social business conduct. Since 2017, Evo Hemp has teamed up with Native American OG Hemp Farmer Alex White Plume from the Pine Ridge Indian Reserva-

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COLORADO’S HEART tion and the Lakota tribe, and has added a new wonderful range of Native American grown and harvested organic Hemp products. We love their CBD oil for the whole(some) family and their new CBD powered hemp protein bars that comes in flavors like Mocha, Brownie and Cookie Dough, are always gone within a blink of an eye in our family. To me, this is true corporate responsibility and the future of all business; likeminded people or movements working together for sustainability and building bridges that will take their brands to the next level. The example of the Evo Hemp and Alex White Plume partnership is exactly what the plant teaches us, namely that we need a greener, friendlier and more collaborative way to conduct business.

Colorado was the very first state to legalize the plant and hand on my heart I’m still in awe after 8 years living here by the diversity and innovation that this market has to offer. One of the most profound memories that I know our family will carry with us for the rest of our lives was in 2013 when we had the big honor to join rebellious Hemp farmer Ryan Loflin from Rocky Mountain Hemp to come plant and harvest the very first Hemp field in the US since the Prohibition. Ryan Loflin made Hemp history that year and for that we are forever grateful.

Some of my favorite pioneering Colorado women in Hemp are Barbara Filippone and her daughter Summer Star Haeske from EnviroTextiles. With a steady HQ located in the beautiful surroundings of Glenwood Springs they have been working with Hemp and fighting for the plant for more than 40+ years. Within Western contemporary hemp culture, the founder Barbara is literally the first person to design, manufacture and bring hemp textiles to the US. Needless to say; a true pioneer and visionary.

EnviroTextiles caters to independent and high-end designers looking for eco-friendly fabrics and hemp textile education. It was partially thanks to EnviroTextiles and their specialized knowledge about hemp fabric production that HoodLamb was able to set up its very first collection production in China 20+ years ago, the rest in history.

Another woman-owned company and person in CO that has reinvented American culture with Hemp is Carla Malone Boyd from Hemp Way Foods.

Carla’s all-vegan hemp seed burger patties, fauxmeat crumbles and breakfast sausages are absolutely delicious and will give you all your daily proteins and Omega 3’s. Her Hemp food line can be found in well selected health food stores like Lucky’s Market in Boulder, Nooch in Denver but also at the City Grill in downtown Denver. I can’t wait to see Hemp Way Foods stock the shelves at bigger national chains in the near future.

Colorado’s market for Hemp products has grown in rapid pace ever since the legalization and a great facilitator giving so many of these companies ex-

posure is NOCO Hemp Expo, produced by Colorado Hemp Company and the founders Elizabeth Knight and Morris Beagle. NoCo that started off as a small event with a few vendors in a bar up in Fort Collins has now quickly grown to become the largest Hemp Industry gathering for professionals and the public, possibly in the World. NoCo, now taking place in a much bigger venue in Denver, showcases every branch of the industry from unique products such as custom hemp-made musical instruments to Health/Beauty/Nutritional products to hemp plastics, processing and manufacturing. Furthermore, their speaker and panel lineup is always notable with activists and industry professionals taking the temperature on the growing industry. NoCo 7 is coming up at the end of March 2020 and is definitely a must-attend event for individuals interested in Hemp on any level.

NoCo stays true to the cause with all its marketing materials and brochures printed on Hemp and postconsumer-recycled chemical-free paper by Tree Free Hemp in Loveland CO. All of the products mentioned wouldn’t even be possible if it wasn’t for companies like Pure Hemp Technology in Fort Lupton CO, that specializes in developing Hemp Processing Equipment for whole plant extraction. With their Hemp Processing Technology they refine industrial hemp into pulp, sugars, lignin and full spectrum cannabinoids to manufacture thousands of unique hemp based products using plant conversion technologies.

All these unique Colorado companies (and many more that I haven’t mentioned) bring so much hope for a more aware and sustainable future. Visionary Jack would be proud about what he has inspired.

Let’s hope that the Colorado corporate and political interests will be lead by good intention and heart for what really matters the most; one plant, one people, one greener planet for generations to come.

The Life and Work of Jack Herer with his son Dan Herer Frenchy Cannoli sits down with Dan Herer and brings us back to the spirit of Jack.

FRENCHY: There is a whole generation or two of young people that are not familiar with the work of your father, he was really at the epicenter of the whole cannabis legalization, but he was really totally apart in his quest. As much as Denis Peron brought back awareness of the whole medical properties of cannabis to the world, your dad reminded the world of the potential of cannabis as a natural resource. Can you please give me some background on your father and his work?

first place, and it is the first time that I realized that the plant was a trinity. It was also a natural resource, and it had so much impact on history. Can you give me a little background of your father’s research to write that book?

DAN: For my father it started in 1969, when he first tried cannabis at 30 years old. It was one of those movie moments where something that happens in your life completely transforms what your future would be. And that was the experience that my father had when he understood that cannabis was completely different than everything he had ever learned prior to that point. Not only did he experience cannabis in ways that changed his life, it changed where he thought his future would go because he knew that there was such a lie that was perpetrated upon not just the American people but the world at large. He started to go down a path of introspection as well as a historical journey. This historical journey that he went on did not just take him into the past; it showed him what cannabis could be. He started to go

down a path of introspection, as well as, I want to say a historical journey, but this historical journey that he went on didn’t just take him into the past. It brought the realization of what cannabis could be, so it was quiet a powerful time in his life when he first got high.

FRENCHY: He wrote a pretty amazing book about it, The Emperor Wears No Clothes. For me as much as the appearance of the book wasn’t really, how would I say that inviting, it is literally one of the few books that changed my vision of the story in the

DAN: It was really an accumulation of both his own studies and many others. During the early 1970s as my father was starting to realize what cannabis was and what the cannabis community was, what the hip community was, what the counter-culture community was, and through his interaction with this community and with this plant, from the early 1970s when he wrote his first book called, Grass. He was still at that time understanding just what getting high was. He would meet people that would bring him bits and pieces of information that he would then go and research.

Then he realized after 1972, Proposition 19, which was the first cannabis initiative in the United States since prohibition; he realized that there was a greater need for understanding of this plant and a mission to continue year-after-year not just in an election year. There needed to be some level of collection of information, collections of energies within the cannabis community that he was becoming part of. He started

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Jack Herer with his son Dan Herer a political action group that was a part of every cannabis initiative up until the time of his death in 2010. In 1980, I was finally old enough to go out and collect signatures with my father. The undertaking back then, everything my father did in his life, the money that he made from jobs that he did or companies that he had; all of that money went into proposition support. So, he was either the proponent of or a supporter of the documentation that was going to be submitted to the State for possible voting on by the people.

The group of individuals that were out collecting signatures and educating folks around California were lovingly referred to as “Reefer Raiders.” We would go into neighborhoods, the event areas, social community areas like Westwood Village, or we’d go to the Rose Parade and collect signatures amongst the folks that were at the Rose Parade. We would do everything we could to utilize access to mass gatherings to collect signatures.

There was a time in 1980 that Ronald Regan had just been elected president, and we were protesting in Westwood Village outside the Federal Building. We had basically staked a tent there on the lawn with 1,000 other protesters and stayed for almost 90 days.

During that time, Regan left his home in Bel Air, which was just a couple of miles from the Federal Building, and he was going for a pre-inaugural. At least that’s the story that I am aware of. He saw all these protesters on the lawn of the Federal Building and asked security, “Why are all the Canadians so upset with us that they would be protesting?” The Security told Regan that those were not Canadians, those were marijuana protesters because he had mistaken the marijuana leaf for the Canadian maple leaf. He asked, “Can we not get rid of them?” And they said, we filed a complaint and took them to court, and they won the right to be there so no we can’t get rid of them. He was overheard to have said, “Well, I will be sworn in as president in the next couple of weeks; let me see what I can do.” And, it was shortly after that my father and a couple of other activists were arrested on Federal Building property.

My father was in the 1950s, a Korean War participant, and he was a military police officer. When he was

We’ve all heard Jack Herer referred to as a ‘pioneer’, but ‘trailblazer’ is more accurate since pioneers always follow the trailblazers.

All of us pioneers owe a great debt of gratitude to Jack for his work that paved the way for today’s blooming cannabis industry. The years of dedicated research evident in Jack’s groundbreaking book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, is the industry milestone that set in motion a movement that persists to this day. Jack was a great friend who was always excited to share his knowledge with everyone he met and was even more excited to share his cannabis with them! So whenever you say or hear the word ‘cannabis’, say a quiet ‘thank you’ to Jack Herer for being the original trailblazer for us all.

– Joe Hickey CEO Halcyon Holdings

being arrested or about to be arrested from the Los Angeles Police Department for the violation of the Sedition Act, my father was like, why are you arresting us? The officer said, you are in violation of the Sedition Act. My father, being Military MP, knew what the Sedition Act was, which means that, it’s an archaic law that was put in during the middle of the last century that says during times of war citizens not allowed to be on Federal Property after dark essentially.

So, my father said, but we’re not at War so the Sedition Act would not apply. The Officer poked my father in the chest and said, “We are at war with you!” My father was arrested along with a couple of other protestors for registering voters to vote on Federal property after dark.

My father being a man of great principle knew that this was wrong; knew that we were not at war, but in the political climate of the 1980s the courts were not very favorable. For this, and especially for one of the loudest or the loudest voice as an activist protester and advocate of cannabis, they were certainly not going to support my father’s ideas that he was within his rights to be there. He lost in court. They said look, you can pay the five-dollar fine and be on your way. The other protestors paid the five-dollar fine and were excused. My father being a man of

great principle said he would not pay a five-dollar fine and proceeded to lose in court. He appealed for multiple years, and by 1993-1994 he had appealed to the State Superior Court at which time lost and was sentenced to spend time in Federal Prison for registering voters to vote because he refused to pay a fivedollar fine.

It was that time, this was the early 1980s, for the first time in 14 years he wasn’t overwhelmed with places to be and events to be at and protests to run and signature gatherings to collect, business to run. He was a prisoner. He had always been a great thinker and writer. He requested from the family, pencils, and papers so he could write down his thoughts. It was then, in Federal Prison, that he started outlining the book The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

He didn’t write it there, but it was the moment that he realized that there needed to be documentation of all of the things that he had learned. He felt that he could put that in the form of a book. That outline started because the President who created the “Just Say No Program” along with his wife Nancy had my father incarcerated into Federal Prison because he was an activist. In

a sense, Regan had a great part in my father writing that book. That activist, while he was incarcerated, at the will of Ronald Regan, wrote a book that would unravel prohibition as we know it around the globe.

FRENCHY: Wow! Your father, his whole life, he was an ex-military, and then he became a hero to the cannabis community while he was also ostracized by the rest of the society. You were pretty young at that time when it all happened, and it must have been difficult for you to go through all that?

DAN: I was only 20 years old. We had a very odd life, but it was my normal life. When I look back our family’s life with my father, it was not traditional, for sure. In high school, I was the kid with the good pot. In some circles, that was a good thing. My father’s craziness from an outside perspective would have been something very odd. From inside my life, we had always been doing things within this industry even when I was 10, 11, and 12. My father’s first book was written called Grass, which became my coloring book as a child. When it was published, the publisher forgot the Published By page in the printing.

We had to get these stamps, and as we unpacked the books from their cases, stamp the Publisher’s name in each one of the books before it went out for sale.

These were like normal things in our

lives. We were selling paraphernalia back in the 70s. That paraphernalia, the sales for that went to support cannabis initiatives. Everything about our family’s life from that time all centered around either paraphernalia industry or back in the day they would say the drug paraphernalia industry and being a social advocate for the end of prohibition and the legalization of cannabis. It wasn’t odd for me. I was just the odd kid out in most neighborhoods. I was always appreciated for the cannabis I had access to as a teenager and a young adult.

FRENCHY: Your dad even treated his mom, your grandma with cannabis when she had early symptoms of Alzheimer’s by having her smoke or eat cannabis “morning, noon and night .

DAN: I remember that. It may have even been her last visit to California before her death.

FRENCHY: You had a very good understanding that it was a medicine at the same time because you actually experienced it in your life with your grandma.

DAN: When my grandmother was going through this, I don’t even think that my father looked at cannabis’ medicinal value like we do today. We had heard things that could improve x, y, and z.

Whether it was appetite, or stimulation or introspection because

Jack Herer brought light to the many amazing properties and products Hemp has to offer. I started following his work in the mid nineties when California’s proposition 215 was on the ballot. Jack through his book “ the Emperor Wears no Clothes” gave us the information that we needed to support cannabis reform on all levels from its Medical benefits to its many industrial possibilities.

Thanks Jack for doing your part in the normalization of this amazing plant, Hemp!

– Tom Lauerman

sometime when you smoke cannabis, there are things that are affected in your mind that bring back memories that maybe you haven’t thought about in fifteen or twenty years. It sort of opens your mind up, and it makes you think about every little thing. It makes you think about sometimes the last breath that you took, and that’s why some people get a little bit of anxiety. They start thinking about breathing instead of letting the breath be. When you start analyzing every little thing that is going on around you, your mind is opening up, and you are starting to process all of these things. I think it is really something like that; it could possibly be a contributing factor to how it affects Alzheimer’s. It opens up pathways in the brain, like memories, like experiences, a doorway you haven’t gone through in a while. I think for my Grandmother, that’s possibly what happened with her. She had this experience where pathways in her brain opened up for the first time; she was such a hypochondriac. She was on so many drugs from so many different doctors back then. She literally carried a case, like people carry a cosmetic bag.

She was on fifty different medications. I couldn’t imagine anybody’s brain working well under those circumstances. But with cannabis, she started remembering things and conversations and times with my father that she had not been able to experience for a long time. I think for my dad, it was a very powerful moment with his own mother that allowed them to be closer. And, I think that was probably a realization at that time that the benefits of cannabis medicinally.

FRENCHY: It’s fascinating because your dad is really known for his work on hemp, and about bringing the truth about prohibition. His whole advocacy has helped the legal environment. Today there are still groups that are dedicated to your dad’s message.

DAN: Yep, but here’s also a misunderstanding. Most people think my father was all about hemp. There is a great deal about my father’s book that is about hemp - the industrial applications and its use. The reality is that my father was a cannabis advocate. The right to be able to use it, the right to be able to grow

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Jack Herer with his son Dan Herer I met Jack in 1994 early in my career at HIGH TIMES, while covering the first Hemp Industries Association (HIA) conference. I’d heard descriptions of him, but when I met him in person and heard him argue fiercely in his signature growl, I realized he was a force of nature—a true believer, passionate and positive that his cause was just.

Jack had been invited to the HIA to bestow his blessing upon the organization. But he had his own agenda. Jack insisted that the HIA make total legalization of the plant, in all its forms, a central part of its mission statement. The HIA balked at first but, in the end, added a clause in support.

At the end of the conference, I sat down with Jack for my first interview with him. He told me: “I just hope that when people make a trunk load of cash, they don’t forget about the people in jail.”

I photographed him many times throughout the rest of his life and loved hanging out with him. He was loud and boisterous. It was always entertaining.

I miss him, but I wonder if he’d be happy with the current landscape. The industry is flourishing. Legalization is slowly sweeping the land. But people remain in jail for dealing with this plant. Are they forgotten?

Jack would have reminded us— loudly.

–Malcolm MacKinnon (aka Dan Skye) former Editor-in-Chief of HIGH TIMES

it, to smoke it, possess it. And, eventually, the right to be able to sell it. He believed in this plant in all of its uses. After he started putting this book together in earnest, being able to catalogue it in a way that could be expressed through this book and understood by those who read it, cannabis was the symptom of an excuse not just to make marijuana illegal, effectively to make hemp illegal. When you start making the natural process illegal you start destroying the possibilities of what can happen on this planet with regards to regenerative growing, when you talk about ecologically responsible companies - all of the different things that hemp could have interacted with and supported to develop new industries, to prevent the synthetic cycle from destroying what is happening now, today around the world. It became a focus for him through the 90s.

Cannabis was still important to make legal, which is why he was the proponent of every initiative since 1972. He believed that if you were going to get people to get on board with the legalization of cannabis that you had to understand that #1. Hemp is Cannabis, #2. The utilization of hemp would change how we live on this planet. It wouldn’t just give us the opportunity to live on this planet but to thrive on it. His book gives multiple examples of industries that benefited from

prohibition. And other examples of how if industry embraced cannabis, we could change our futures. I think that ecological change; the opportunity for us to take control of our future through a natural plant would resonate with folks that read his book.

FRENCHY: 30 years ago, it was pretty visionary.

DAN: You say, visionary. I say crazy.

FRENCHY: Well, at the time but if you look at it now his vision of the potential of that plant, that knowledge of history that he that had he could really project it into the future. I mean, it is fascinating for me to know that he was so involved with the other aspects of the plant but that message today, I would rather talk about that than hash to tell you the truth because we don’t have a choice.

DAN: Coming from you, that is extraordinary.

FRENCHY: Lately, that is what I have been writing about. I tell everyone that your mom is offering the book online for

everyone to read. I’ve been asking a lot of people in Europe to please read the book because that whole argument about CBD vs. THC, and CBD is hemp, and then the whole potential of hemp is totally forgotten. It’s a very dangerous approach to talking about the plant because it is so much more than that.

DAN: Very much so. Just a clarification.

Jeannie was my father’s fourth wife and not my mother. It is a shame that more people are concerned about the potentials of CBD, and therefore are accepting it, and not remembering that there is much, much, more than just CBD. But, the issue with that is from an industrial standpoint, when you think about all things hemp, the opportunities with industrial hemp are there, but to be able to monetize that in a society that is driven by money and greed and success and an easy pathway to a financial future, that the focus on CBD is problematic, as beneficial as it may be as a molecule and a part of cannabis. It is still not the engine that will take us into the future with regards to how do we save the planet, save ourselves as humans.

FRENCHY: Especially, when you grow hemp as cannabis sativa flower, and nobody uses the stalk or any other part of the plant. They just extract CBD. DAN: People are more focused on the immediate low hanging fruit of a molecule that can be derived from this plant than the tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars that it will take in infrastructure here in America or in any other country to utilize hemp to its full properties. So, when we are talking about creating hemp paper, there is a whole infrastructure that needs to be in place for that to become an economic engine, unlike what is happening with CBD. CBD you run it through a process, it does need some infrastructure but the money coming back because of the market that has been created, it’s profitable for those who have put in that infrastructure because at this point it’s almost an immediate return on investment. When you talk about industrial application, real industry, you know clothing, plastic, paper - all those things and all of these by-products, that

infrastructure will take extraordinary amount of investment. Now, looking at that is one thing, then looking at how do you feed an industry that is industrial in nature when it comes to scaling a paper company that is hemp, a plastic company that is hemp, a clothing company that is hemp. And, knowing that you would have to grow tens of thousands of and even millions of acres of hemp to make anyone of those a profitable global business. But, on the CBD side, you can do that in thousands of acres or even tens of thousands of acres, much more achievable which is why the acceleration of CBD is so prevalent, and these others are being forgotten.

When investors are coming in, they are saying, ‘well, we are going to be putting in tens of millions of dollars, when do we get our money back?’ You have to go back to people like Ben Dronkers. When he created HempFlax in the early 1990s, he made no profits for more than 17 years. Today an investor is not going to go through what Ben went through in order to create HempFlax.

And yet today, HempFlax is making and looking into plastics. They are making parts for the automobile industry. The application of his hemp that he has created over these twenty-plus years has started to change the industrial side.

But that is still small scale compared to what does the world need achieve more

equality with petrochemicals and other products that are being made outside of the hemp world. It’s going to take a long time and a great deal of investment to really change that narrative. Because all of what we are doing, Frenchy what you have done, what SKUNK Magazine has done, all these people that are in the community that we are in, the space that we share with growers both hemp and cannabis, processors that make hash to distillates, we are in this community but from a global standpoint we are still very, very small compared to how do we impact the world at a level that is meaningful and changes what we do. Hopefully, there will be some multibillionaire that decides instead of dying with his money, he’s going to invest some of it into transforming the way we live in the future and comes to the cannabis community and puts down roots and joins us in a way that perpetuates us as a species and gives us an opportunity to change the direction of mankind in a positive way by using the money and influence that they might be able to provide to this industry. I am hopeful somebody like, or multiple somebodies like that will decide to step up and play a part in the transformation of us as a species. We need to start thinking today about how to envision this.

Even outside of those types of investors coming in, there are people

Jack Herer was truly a special man. He forged a pathway that few people could ever do. He enlightened the world about the potential uses of the cannabis plant. he enlightened my world and was a guiding force in my early years as a cannabis activist. He made me believe in what I was doing.. he made me believe in the power to change the world with one plant.

He was a mentor to so many of us..I have incorporated some of the teachings of Jack Herer into my “why I do what I do” everyday.. he was a passionate leader, Pushed boundaries of reality and help drive the cannabis world to where it is now. I am forever grateful.

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Jack Herer with his son Dan Herer within this industry are already forward thinking. They are already looking at biodegradable plastics, even on a small scale. The fact that these folks are following their dreams and following their hearts, whatever voices may or may not be in their head that push them to go forward in the face of extreme difficulties that they are able to still focus on doing things that if they are not viable today, that the hopes and viability of these processes and technologies will be there for when we are ready to take those next steps. And I am so grateful to call many of them my friends.

One of the greatest things I think I have realized in the last ten years since my father’s passing, but looking back over the last forty years since he became an advocate, people come up to me and they say, Dan, what a legacy you have that your father has left you and you get to share. I don’t look at myself as my father’s legacy. I am in the cannabis space. I am in the hemp space. What I have realized is my family is not the legacy of my father. The legacy of my father is things I get to see every day in the people that he influenced. The people who have taken an idea because of something that they read or a conversation that they had with my father and that has pushed them down a road that they may have never had gone on had it not been for him. When I look at people that are growing cannabis in the mountains of Humboldt or in the Emerald Triangle or in Santa Rosa or Santa Cruz, all of these people or when I go into industry events, I walk into Las Vegas and go to the MJ Biz Con, or the event the Emerald Cup just had in London, and you walk in and see people in the business of cannabis or hemp commerce and I look to all of them as that is my father’s legacy.

I get to witness the influence of my father through them even if they don’t know who my father was.

FRENCHY: So true. Tell us what you do now on your side, what you do now because as you say you are not the legacy of your father. You are creating your own legacy among us, so can you tell us a little bit about what you are doing?

DAN: Well, I may not feel that I am that legacy when I go to events like I just previously described but the company I have created is based on my father, in many cases, my THC-cannabis company is called The Original Jack Herer.

It is because my father was probably the only person who couldn’t participate in the use of his own name within the space because it would have been too dangerous for my father to become a big grower or to put a product out there. I think he always hoped for cannabis commerce. I don’t think that he could have envisioned what is happening today in cannabis commerce. I think for him when he was looking at the legalization of cannabis, was the freedom of people to not be held back by their belief that this plant is something they should engage with or should be able to choose to engage with.

That is much different than creating a cereal aisle in a grocery store where you go down and you have Kellogg’s on one side, and you have Fruit Loops on the other side and Raisin Bran on this side, and you have Quaker Oats on this side, and you have all these different brands. I don’t think he ever envisioned that for cannabis. I think that for him, people should be able to grow if they wanted to sell an ounce to a friend that that shouldn’t be a problem. I don’t think he envisioned what capitalization and the real market of cannabis would be.

Since my father’s passing, it struck me as funny that this family was not part of the same community that he helped to create. I felt even more sadness that there were so many people that would use my In father’s name in commerce without the benefit 1998, I read The to my father. I decided that through my family, I Emperor Wears No Clothes which would no longer just stand back and allow that added fuel to my life-long passion toward to happen. So, I created the Original Jack Herer Brand. I wanted to make sure that the product Cannabis. However, it was a fateful journey that was in this jar, in this package, in this cart, that led me to Atlanta GA in April of 2000 for a in this bag - that if it had my father’s name on cannabis event where I got to meet the author, Jack it, that it was connected to my father, connected Herer in person that turned my life around. After the to this family. That if that product made money, event and deep conversations at his booth, Jack invited me the money from that would go to this family that carried that name. I made sure that the flower I back to his room for a meeting with him, Gatewood Galbraith have been producing with the help of some very and Stephen Gaskin. It was in this meeting, with these living talented, very dedicated, passionate growers legends, that Jack Herer looked at me and said, “It’s time you was indeed exactly what it should be. That if it turn this passion into action”. It was with this directive and had my father’s name on it that it was what it the words of his book resonating through my existence that should be. That it represents the legacy what ignited my career of Cannabis and Hemp Action, and I’ve my father was, the legacy that my father has left. That legacy from a commercial standpoint never looked back. His example of fiery passion and his is this family. This product that I produce, with words have been the torch that has lit the way of my the support of my family, is something that we Cannabis Journey. Jack Herer will forever be can all be proud of, that I can stand behind. The a foundation of the Hemp and Cannabis genetics that we work with today are more than Industry…. Long Live Jack Herer 20 years old. They are grown with great love and – Preston respect and commitment to what it is. Every time Whitfield we put out a product it, doesn’t just say the name,

Jack Herer. It shows the face of my father, the man who literally gave his last dying breath on stage fighting for this plant, fighting for our right collectively to grow and possess and create an industry.

Folks like Dennis Peron, Gatewood Galbraith, Wayne Justmann, Steve D’Angelo and Ed Alber, who was my father’s partner in life, and his greatest supporter throughout the 70s and 80s and into the 90s. They are the foundation for which we are all trying to build our futures on now. And for me, now being a part of this cannabis space, in a way where I function without fear. I am dedicated to making sure that the Jack Herer brand represents what it should be, and that is my father’s legacy to the space, my father’s relationship to my brothers and sisters and to this family. It shall always remain a conscious effort to maintaining dreams and the ideas of everybody in cannabis. Not just the Herer name. Whether it is Humboldt or whether it is down in San Diego, there are so many farmers that have given their lives and souls and risked everything for decades, even their lives and generations. I want to be able to make sure the small farms we deal with have opportunity to survive. There has to be some level of responsibility from all of us as an industry to do that, and I hope that I am able to do that through my brand, through my father’s image, through my father’s teachings to me.

Through the influence and love that he still has within an industry that is changing so rapidly.

The industrial hemp side of this is another opportunity to continue to make change. After my father’s death I started the Jack Herer Foundation. I will say up until now I have had a very rough go at it. Unfortunately, there are so many things happening in this space, in California and around the globe, I can’t be as vocal as I would like to be. It’s just too expensive when there is no enough money coming in to be able to fund ideas.

The foundation has been slow to grow but we are just now starting in earnest the very first Jack Herer Foundation fundraiser to create a national touring vehicle, an educational vehicle and museum to go around the country and not just go to cannabis-centric events. My father went on the road for 30 years of his life to educate folks, and I think that that is still

Happy Birthday Jack. I think of you and what you must make of our new cannabis world. I know you’re tickled pick that legalized hemp is blowing up across the world. Everything you hoped for in regards to hemp products is becoming a reality. I can only imagine how disgusted you must be at how quickly big business is taking over; not only hemp, but the THC side of things as well. I wish you were here to carry on the good fight, but you did your immense contribution to the cause. Rest peacefully in Gods love and if you get a chance, reincarnate soon so you can enjoy the fruits of your labor. Love you big brother!

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absolutely necessary for the future of cannabis and hemp.

When people start realizing that the Founding Fathers of this country looked to cannabis for health, wealth and security of this country and be able to show them in real-life documents and letters, statements and products that were created by those that are represented on the dollar bills. On our currency it shows all of our founding fathers. On the back of our currency, it shows all the ideas that are America, what it is that our values are, what it is that America stands for are depicted on the back of our dollar bills. When you start looking at cannabis, everybody wants to have a financial dream of being independent, in 1914 showing cannabis farming in America on the back of American currency. This is a very powerful statement. And something that will resonate with somebody who has no understanding. But when they see for themselves that our own department of Treasury represented cannabis on a dollar bill changes minds immediately. It takes bricks out of the wall immediately. The Foundation is one way of continuing my father’s work. Between the products that I make and produce and sell in within the cannabis or hemp space, the Foundation is probably the strongest, most important thing I can be part of.

FRENCHY: Yes, possibly. Education is going to be vital to the future.

DAN: If your understanding is only money then we have already lost.

FRENCHY: On a positive note, can you share a favorite memory of your father with me?

DAN: There are so many. My dad was pretty strict before he got stoned for the first time. In the 70s I spent a lot of time with my dad on the road. I loved driving around with him as he was selling his products up and down the state of California. I got to travel with him down to San Diego and up into Oregon. We got to spend a great deal of time driving together. You didn’t really want to fly up and down the coast of California when it was so beautiful to drive.

This is a moment not related to California, but the business side was related to California. We had a products company back in the 70s. There was a trade show that was in New York City.

1976 we flew to New York City. We stayed at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

And we stayed on the 13th floor. There weren’t many people on the 13th floor.

They didn’t want to be on the 13th floor, but the hotel had a 13th floor. It was the first time I had really seen seedless cannabis back in the 70s. It was just becoming more popular. Everything up until then had seeds whether it was Columbian, Oaxacan, Thai Stick. We got this one big giant bud from Maui, and

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Jack Herer with his son Dan Herer it was literally the size of my arm. We had it in this glass jar.

After the show, working the show in New York, we invited people back to the room to come and see this beautiful flower.

As people would come off of the elevator, we were smoking cannabis in the hotel, even in the 70s. My father was not one to fear many things. When the door of the elevator opened up the smoke from the hallway would waft into the elevator. It was quite the scene. I remember vividly.

That evening we were invited to event from High Times, which was at Studio 54 back in the day. I was 14 years old.

My father took me to Studio 54 to this High Times event and I remember walking into the club and just being really overwhelmed with what I was seeing visually - how people were dressed, the music, the women. Of course, I was in my young adolescence, coming up through puberty and all that to see these beautiful half-naked women dancing on the floor, it was something not to forget.

FRENCHY: Thank you so much. You’re living in LA these days?

DAN: I live in LA and the company that I started, The Herer Group, is based in Santa Cruz.

FRENCHY: I met some of them at The Emerald Cup last year.

DAN: Yes, we came to the New West Summit last year. We spent some time there. We met with some folks. I met you for the first time even though you don’t remember. I reminded you of the event when I just saw you in London. You were a little busy. You had a very, very large hash pipe (actually it was a 6-hose, 32-cup hookah) going in the middle of the upstairs. You were like a, I don’t want to say, like a witch doctor. You had this whole ceremonial kind of energy that was going on with regards to how this hash was being smoked. It was incredible to watch and be a part of for a few minutes. It was so smoky up there.

FRENCHY: Now I have a new fancy, hi-tech, French hookah bowl that you will experience at the Emerald Cup, I hope.

DAN: The one thing getting back because it’s really difficult for me to talk about myself, it’s much easier for me to talk about my dad. With the products that we put out that have the Herer name, the fact that it has my name on it, when we created the products that are put into it, we never skimp. If we can make something better, we will. It’s not about the profit; it’s about the product. I think this is one of the reasons why we’ve been successful. It’s not something that there is ever compromise on.

I hope that the readers who potentially try our product, I hope it resonates with them. That they do experience the love and passion that we put into and that represents my father.

I first heard about Jack Herer and his book The Emperor Wears No Clothes early in 1990. I got a copy and couldn’t put it down I finished it in one sitting and carried it with me everywhere.

In July of 1992 near the town of Paonia, Colorado I attended my first Rainbow Gathering and met my idol for the first time. He became a dear friend to me and many of my favorite memories are of our long acid-fuelled conversations about cannabis and how we were going to free the prisoners, make cannabis legal again and save mankind from imminent extinction.

Thank You Jack.

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FRENCHY: In a way you almost have no choice. The story is so strong. In a way you need a great brand with a great product. You cannot have it all if it doesn’t combine. The best gift you can give your father is to keep a dedication to quality and never compromise for anything. Money comes when you have quality. It’s not a problem. For us, it is being able to protect the small farmer. You have the ability to protect them through the name of your dad. It’s pretty amazing.

DAN: My father’s legacy I see every day in the lives, the ability, the passion and the compassion of the folks that are in this industry. I am humbled ever day at the love, respect, and remembrance of my father and his good work. How they have affected other people’s lives and the stories that they share with me, their experiences with him. I am blessed every day to be a part of this community and to be able to see the good things for the future because of the hearts and souls that are part of everything that is built. I am humbled to be invited to speak with you and to share my and to be a part of the community for which I love and believe in every day.

FRENCHY: I am really the legacy of your dad at the highest level. In my generation for me it’s like being a full revolutionary, you are ready to do anything for your beliefs.

There are not that many people in any domain in the history of humanity that have gone so far and risked so much for a plant.

DAN: My father had so many opportunities to grow cannabis in the 80s and 90s and even in the 2000s for his own profit.

And, I don’t mean for his own profit. Anything my father ever made he always gave back to the community, which he loved.

But he also knew that if he was a grower, he would put himself at great risk. He was always Public Enemy Number One. His value was better served being the voice and the face of a

movement to help others to find their voice than for him to produce a product for sale.

FRENCHY: He would have never found the time anyway to do both.

Dan: I think that he thought he would have probably ended up in jail for the rest of his life because of the voice that he was. For him to risk that as opposed to elevating other people’s consciousness through his teaching, through his writings, through his studies, through his documentation. I think that he choose to be that face instead of that martyr.

FRENCHY: And when you have family it must dictate your choice a little bit. At the time, selling paraphernalia wasn’t well seen either.

DAN: Being a voice was just as dangerous for him as being a grower.

FRENCHY: You know the next generation they will never believe us when we tell them those stories, how prohibition was. When we tell them the stories, I am sure they are going to think that we exaggerate the stories like crazy.

DAN: It’s hard to believe it even now. You know, you and I are all living within this time of great change. It is hard to understand the acceleration that is happening around us. And at the same time there is equal amounts of frustration due to the

same things that created prohibition. The same laws that created prohibition is the same framework that they used for legalization. And it is not even legal. To me cannabis is not legal. Right now, we have payed access. If we don’t pay the State and the city money, we have no access.

FRENCHY: Until they un-schedule.

That’s the only way for the plant to be really legal.

FRENCHY: That’s called racketing in my country.

FRENCHY: It’s the government.

Everybody knows the whole aspect of cannabis. It’s no more addictive than coffee. And, it is less of an impairment to your health than wine. Both of them are agricultural products that are on no schedule whatsoever. The plant is mild like crazy.

DAN: It’s called extortion.

FRENCHY: And the people who put them in prison are now investing in cannabis.

DAN: And, how do you un-schedule it? You have to un-schedule it through education.

DAN: For states and cities to still use the fears and lies of prohibition in order to use those as the framework for legal access, it’s bullshit. How do you build the future on a foundation of lies? If you are legalizing cannabis, then you need to understand it.

If you are legalizing cannabis, then you cannot be out their spreading fears.

DAN: If you ask me sugar should be Schedule I.

FRENCHY: The problem is that it is still on Schedule I. It’s an illegal drug that has no medicinal aspect (according the DEA).

FRENCHY: That’s what I mean; they can’t schedule it. It’s such a mild, psychoactive and relaxant that is therapeutic on top of it that it shouldn’t be on any schedule when you compare it to tea or coffee and a lot of stuff that we are taking on a general basis. It is the fear that is still among us about how bad it could be.

DAN: But here’s the thing, it’s Schedule I because of a lie. What I am saying is that it is not the fact that it is Schedule I, even the Schedule I is a lie. It’s all still based on a lie. Everything about cannabis is a fucking lie except what us, this community, this industry talks about.

Jack Herer was the catalyst for me in becoming educated about hemp, that hemp is cannabis, and the tremendous history and impact this plant has had on society for thousands of years. The Emperor Wears No Clothes is a foundational piece of literature that belongs in every cannabis activist’s and advocate’s personal library and I thank Jack for the inspiration he has provided myself and millions of others across the world over the last 30-40 years. His passion for the plant and his work on behalf of it is truly unparalleled and one of a kind.

Thanks, –Morris Beegle

FRENCHY: I have a hard time quitting sugar, oh, I know. I know.

DAN: There are more adverse health effects from sugar than cannabis.

DAN: Well, honestly, education is still the future. My father knew it. This industry knows it. This community knows it. But the only problem is that we are so busy fighting for our lives and our own existence at the moment that we are forgetting that our voices are still necessary. And, that education is still the only way out. It’s not through litigation in the courts. It is through education of the masses. Once people are educated then the laws that were enacted to keep cannabis from becoming what it needs to become, we are still going to have trouble.

We need to continue education. Hopefully we can stop fighting so hard just to survive in the economic world so that we can start speaking about the truth of cannabis again.

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few years ago while I was visiting a client on the Western Slope of Colorado he suggested I meet “Pedro”. Little did I know about whom I was going to meet. I met Pedro and his wife, The Dizzy Grower, who created a YouTube channel, an Instagram account, and a

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Twitch channel dedicated to teaching home growers how to produce high quality cannabis and then branched into producing superior quality rosin. Pedro and Dizzy have a blast doing what they’re doing.

They’re honest and sincere. I asked Pedro if he’d be willing to do an interview with me. I know there are thousands of smaller growers (and even larger ones) that will benefit from the information they share online on both Pedro’s Grow Room and The Whatever Show.

ERIC: HOW DID YOU GET INTO THIS? PEDRO: I’ve smoked cannabis since I was 16, and I’m not ashamed to admit or talk about that. It’s always benefited me. I’ve always been productive, and cannabis allowed me to focus and push aside things that had held me back in the past. I stopped smoking cannabis due to

legality and trying to work in a non-cannabis market in a red state. Soon after, I found myself trying to replace cannabis with alcohol and other “legal” smoking alternatives (spice). I wasn’t in a great place, but met Dizzy, found she consumed cannabis, and together we started this life and journey.

’SPEDRO’S ROWGROW OMROOM HOW CAN PEOPLE FIND PEDRO’S GROW ROOM? Website: https://pedrosgrowroom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ pedrosgrowroom/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pedrosgrowroom YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UCEnIa3XxCaB5qtcnKXvdWjg HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE WHAT TYPE OF BUSINESS THIS IS? Cannabis Consultation and Entertainment.

WHEN DID PGR START? April 15th 2016 lol. That was the date I decided to start showing my re-entry into growing cannabis. I had successfully grown in the past, but with all of the information being shared, I felt like it was time to join the push towards decriminalization. I felt the best way to do that was to desensitize everyone and show that growing great cannabis wasn’t beyond the reach of every home owner and renter.

WHEN DID THE WHATEVER SHOW START? May 9th 2017 - we had been panelists on the RoundTable for a while and everyone was asking us to make our own show, so we started building a studio.

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WHEN WAS THE FIRST SHOW RELEASED? May 9th 2017 (Whatever Show) WHAT IS YOUR VISION FOR YOUR PGR? We’re still unsure of this. We’ve always been informational/ educational at our base, but we’ve moved to a lot more entertainment and having fun while spreading the word of cannabis’ healing ability. We also do a lot of product highlights and reviews to help the community make decision on products to use based on our recommendations.

WHAT DOES YOUR AVERAGE CLIENT LOOK LIKE? LOL, we don’t have clients, so I’ll replace that with “fans”. And I still giggle. I feel like we could potentially appeal to everyone out there. And this comes completely naturally. We prefer to not judge or classify everyone. This is extremely important. It allows us to reach a larger demographic with our message.

WHAT IS YOUR SPECIALTY? Making Hash Rosin, Growing Cannabis, Making Hash, Entertaining, Educating. Pretty much in that order lol WHERE ARE YOUR LISTENERS/ WATCHERS FROM? Around the globe. Our message is that cannabis is very medicinally beneficial to the human body.

Anyone that is a human deserves to hear our message.

YOU DON’T SELL ANYTHING YOU MAKE, CORRECT? No. What I do is I reach out to companies that manufacturer products that I use and trust. I build a relationship with them, and generally bring a discount along with a recommendation for the product to my followers.

WHERE DID YOU DEVELOP YOUR GROWER PLAN? At home experimenting hand on with things I had learned and morphed to work in my environment.

PLEASE SHARE SOME GROWING TIPS… The biggest thing I can recommend is just try growing and K.I.S.S. The BEST way to learn is to get your hands dirty. You’ll run into an issue, and because you need to get through it, You’re NOW ready to learn.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE INPUTS? Pedro: Soil Amendments from Build a Soil, Effective Microorganisms

by Teraganix, soil amendments

by Rootwise Soil Dynamics., and Mammoth P. DO YOU PREFER INDOOR OR OUTDOOR GROWING? Pedro: Both. Both have their pluses and minuses. Both have their aspects of cruise control. Outdoors, the sun is in charge and you have the natural environment to influence, help, and sometimes destroy your crop. Indoors, you are in complete control. You can keep things under very tight management and have extraordinary grows that result

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O’SPEDRO’SPEDRO’S WGROWGROWGROW ROOMROOMROOM in the highest quality and most terpene rich flowers, but things can get out of hand extremely fast without mother nature there to give a helping hand.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER TO SMOKE? 99% of the time I only smoke what I grow, so I only grow what I like. Right now that’s (in rotation) Critical Kush, Primal Punch, Apple Diamonds, and 9lb Hammer.

HOW ABOUT ROSIN? Critical Kush and Primal Punch. Primal Punch is quickly becoming one of my favorite rosins to smoke.

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE STRAINS AND WHY? That’s always a hard one for me to ask, because I feel I haven’t grown the abundance of different cultivars that some have. That being said, I keep what I like. I stumbled upon this Critical Kush cut a few years back doing a last minute female seed popping run outdoors. She’s been around ever since. I call her smell and taste “Sweet Kush”. She grows beautifully indoors

and out (in my environments) and grows extremely sticky resinous buds that aren’t as dense as some would like, but that combination makes for an extremely good hash producer and the resulting rosin is out of this world. Again though, I just pheno hunted this cut of Primal Punch from Ocean Grown seeds that I’m very quickly falling in love with. She produces the stickiest resin I’ve grown to date, contains an extremely high concentration of trichomes, and I call her the “funky fruit” pheno.

WHO ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO INFLUENCED YOU ALONG YOUR WAY? A lot of early YouTubers, but there are a few who stand out. Some of which don’t produce cannabis content anymore. Mr. Tight, MedGrower1, Tricky-D, Vader, GrowMau5, Fregrowli, Dawgo The Hutt, GreenGenes, GML.... Now that I think about it, the list is rather long.

SINCE YOU STARTED, WHAT CHANGES HAVE YOU SEEN IN THE INDUSTRY AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO AVOID THEM? We’ve seen lots of drama. More than we care to talk about. Dizzy and I have done our best to stay neutral and most of all remain positive through everything. Remaining positive is an extremely important practice in my life.

IN WHAT DIRECTION ARE YOU TAKING THE SHOW NOW? We’re trying a bit more behind the scenes structure. It’s still “The Whatever Show” but, we’re working towards more valued content, and more content spread across multiple platforms (Instagram, Twitch, and YouTube).

I want to thank Pedro and Dizzy for answering all of my annoying questions and for having me on their show 2 times now. It has been fun!

Eric Lancaster is Executive Vice President of TeraGanix, Inc., the exclusive North America distributor of the Original Effective Microorganisms® and EM® Bokashi products.

Please visit www.TeraGanix.com for more information.

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his year’s winners of Portland Oregon’s Cultivation Classic Regenerative Farm Award, Lane Creek Hemp Company, are pioneering the regenerative movement within the rise of the rapidly growing, over-saturated legal hemp industry. With CBD products available at every convenience store and coffee shop and every big wig company trying to get a foot in the door, products that maintain the integrity and sustainability of the plant have become few and far between. There are hemp fields lining many major highways and small country roads, the majority of the open pastures have been tilled and laid out with plastic, drip lines, and rows upon rows of hemp plants. Lane Creek Hemp Company provides a refreshing insight into what regenerative hemp farming can and should look like, approaching this new retail market and farming model with sustainability and a sincere commitment to the plant and the earth.

Lane Creek Hemp Company demonstrates the potential for a regenerative hemp farm to maintain integrity and

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success while remaining afloat within the tsunami of hemp companies that are flooding in from a multitude of corporations. These corporations primarily have a financial interest in the industry, which shifts the focus from the plant and creates a competitive retail market. Family owned and run, the Lane Creek team has created an environment of thriving hemp fields, happy animals and healthy soil. This inspiring vision of a fully regenerative farm that not only cultivates full spectrum hemp, but cultivates knowledge and the grounds to experiment with integrating the regenerative model and conventional farming so that regenerative farming can become more accessible and approachable for the average farmer. Daniel Richardson, part owner of the company, wants to see “the average hemp and cannabis farmer able to be fully transparent within their practices, their farming model and to still see the results of high yield and top shelf quality that the industry demands”.

Nestled in the Jackson County just outside of Medford, Oregon, the Lane Creek Hemp Company is thriving amidst

the heat of the summer and is a refreshing oasis amidst the barren mono-cropped acreage of hemp that is rapidly filling the open spaces of Southern Oregon farm land. The property was previously used as cattle land that was barren and worn thin. Daniel, having lived and worked with his cousin Nick at Green Source Gardens, has since brought those methods to the property, green-thumbing biodiversity and life back into the soil in just the short 2 years since moving onto the land. With direct access and water rights to Lane Creek, Daniel and his partner Zach have been able to provide year round, entirely gravity-fed water to the property, creating a thriving permaculture of indigenous plants, critters and rejuvenated native soil. Designed and dictated by the terroir and climate of the land, rather than altering or bringing in foreign soils and substances, the Lane Creek Hemp reserve is a revived homestead - producing quality hemp, varieties of vegetables and bringing back pollinators and diversity to the fields and gardens.

Lane Creek Hemp was pure certified as of summer 2019, and practices the regenerative, organic methods of the Dragonfly Earth Medicine Pure Collective. Previously a productive hay field, the (4 acres) is now home to Hugelkultur beds, layered with home produced manure and an active polyculture of native pollinators, plants and hemp. The beds are bursting with an assortment of potatoes, onions, comfrey, daisies and a few added pollina-

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tors. Daniel and Zach are simply collaborating with the diverse network of plants and animals to encourage and support the natural course of the soil, stating that “the pinnacle of our success over the years will be our soil”.

No-till practices allows for nature to run its course and for the soil to accumulate a foundation of healthy biodiversity, with no store-bought additives, that can be built on and expanded each year. With no specific recipe or schedule, the soil is adaptive to seasonal progression and changes, as the beds are not covered in “protective” plastic. Over the course of the winter, their potting soil is developed through a compost of manure, straw and wood chips that are inoculated with forest-harvested IMO’s ( indigenous micro-organisms) as well as hemp stalk and leaves. This mixture is developed in the temperature controlled greenhouse to prevent leaching in the winter rains. Daniel and his team turn and add to the mixture as seen fit, depending on moisture content, smell and feel. Their berms are mulched with a mixture of straw and wood chips, suppressing the growth of the surrounded perennials and, when the winter rains subside, are layered with carbon and the “mother-load” of manure (primarily collected from the sheep and goats). Once the plants are established and growing, the soil is top-dressed with layers of

manure and carbon until harvest.

From seed to finished product, their flower is treated with care and intention. Daniel emphasizes that LCHC’s “post harvest practices are what differentiate us in this developing market.

We treat all of our flower as “Top Shelf”. Creating a “shelf stable” product that will still hold its value throughout the coming year.” While many of the hemp farms in southern Oregon are dedicated solely to creating isolate (because this has been one of the more lucrative products within the hemp industry), Lane Creek’s intention is to create high quality flower and product. Much of the hemp industry, due to mass production, has difficulty maintaining a sustainable model postharvest, and often use 24 hour propane or flash drying methods. This process runs the risk of cooking off essential terpenes and cannabinoids.

Lane Creek Hemp’s “Special Sauce” and “Cascade” are dried and cured for extensive periods of time, kept safely in a temperature controlled environment, devoid of light and disruption.

This process maximizes shelf life and maintains terpene and cannabinoid content, as it is not touched until it is fully shelf-stable. This allows the flower to maintain its full spectrum potential, that can then be processed into a multitude of medicines and interact with our endocannabinoid system in full force.

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Not only is Lane Creek Hemp creating and producing full spectrum product and a full circle of sustainability on their farm, but they are doing so amongst their community as well. With donations from local grocery stores, they feed their animals the â&#x20AC;&#x153;spentâ&#x20AC;? produce that the store would otherwise toss out, and the grains that are donated from a local brewery. These potatoes and onions are then plugged into the berms, which help break up the dense, native soil.

Building on these connections with the local community and raising upwards of 90 farm animals has created a full circle system on the farm. They are raising honey bees, which are key pollinators and contribute to the wellbeing of the entire farm. Chickens and pigs provide an outlet for food waste on the property and the manure is a necessary component for healthy gardens and carbon rich soil for the plants to grow and thrive. Every aspect of the farm is contributing to the land, the animals and the plants. This is creating space for hands on education that Daniel hopes to expand and enhance. He is in the process of setting up guest spaces for future WOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) volunteers and those seeking to learn and get hands on experience with not exclusively hemp or cannabis, but about regenerative farming and what a fully

active farm looks like when in harmony with the needs of the terroir of the land, the needs of the animals and the flow of the local water systems.

Leading through practice, intention and education, Lane Creek Hemp Company embodies the heart and soul of the Regenerative movement. Finding and creating balance in a competitive market, while maintaining a voice for the hemp and creating a system that benefits all of its components. The hemp industry is rapidly expanding and as the market develops, the regenerative family will be an integral part of keeping true to the cannabis plant and maintaining intentional farming and medicine.

With the influx of Big Ag and corporate interest in hemp, the necessity of education surrounding high quality product and low impact farming becomes more prominent. The modern addiction to convenience is a threat to sustainability and the regenerative movement. Lane Creek Hemp Company is one of many beautiful, sustainable farms that is leading by example, spreading their knowledge and working towards keeping the conversation going on what it means to be regenerative and bringing pride and honesty into their practices.

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STRAWBERRY BANANA SLUSH from Lempire Farmaseeds

NAME: Strawberry Bannana Slush NATIONALITY: Lempire Farmaseeds LINEAGE: ( Strawberry Bananan x Lem OG) x Lem OG WEIGHT: Massive FLOWERING TIME: Finishes Fast

Indoor or outdoor she always performs High THC High THCV Extreme Banana Terps Super Frosty Bright with Crazy Bag Appeal Produces Huge Chunky Sticky Colas that smell like Strawberry Banana Smoothie with gas undertones Perfect for concentrates she dumps white creamy hash full of terps

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ILLUSION from Massive Creations & Dukes HighGrade Seeds

NAME: Illusion NATIONALITY: Massive Creations & Dukes HighGrade Seeds HEIGHT: indoor3ft; outdoor up to 12ft. Very versatile AGE: 65 days RACE: 60%Sativa, 20%Afghani, 20%Indica ORIGINS: Classified

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: With the right blend of nutrients, you get these glistening purple, heavy crystalized, orange haired buds. Sight, smell, and taste; it’s all there. TASTE: A nice gassy 107 race fuel taste on the inhale, then you taste the sour, followed by a blast of fruit on the exhale. SCENT (BURNED & UNBURNED): Grape SPEED OF HIGH ONSET: 2-3 minutes after first intake. DURATION OF HIGH: 2-3 hours QUALITY/TYPE OF HIGH: Very clean. Warmly ushers in a euphoric sensation, slight body buzz but more apparent in the head. Slightly numbing. The potency is so profound that dab smokers will get high from the flower.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: Focus more, relieving & calming effect, creates appetite. Good for people with anxiety or trouble sleeping.

WEDDINGCAKE WEDDING CAKE is a super pheno derived from a Triangle Kush mother and an Animal Mints father. This particular phenotype was hunted by Lifted Cannabis Company in Tacoma, and is one of the 3 highest-selling strains in Washington State.

Resin production starts early, and continues throughout flowering. By week 5, the buds sparkle with trichomes on every surface, making it a standout in the grow room. Bud development can be observed on a daily basis, finishing with chunky grenade-like tops.

from Seed Junkie Genetics

NAME: Wedding Cake NATIONALITY: Seed Junky Genetics GROWER: Storm Cannabis in Bend, Or HEIGHT: Shorter and wider than

average with huge chunky colas.

WEIGHT: Heavy yielding tops with minimum B bud growth.

AGE: 60-65 RACE: Indica Hybrid

TASTE: Smooth smoking with a cakey and piney after taste, subtle hints of lemon. SCENT: Unburned: Vanilla Cake Batter, Cream, Sharp Pine, Lemon, Smokes best in a joint. WHAT THE DRIED BUD/CRUMBLED BUD LOOKS LIKE: Bright greens, some orange, and topped powdered sugar. SPEED OF HIGH ONSET: Immediate; peak high is achieved within 20 minutes. DURATION OF HIGH: High can last 2 hours, slowly tapering off. QUALITY/TYPE OF HIGH: great for nighttime or low-key activities; giggly and cloudy-headed. MEDICINAL QUALITIES: good for sleep, anxiety and appetite, full body relief.

PHOTOGRAPHER: Tyler Cameron @Terpcam on IG

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CAPULATOR from Jay Plantspeaker

MAC, OR “MIRACLE ALIEN COOKIES” is a hybrid made by Capulator.

Mac1 is known as “Caps Cut” in this case, Capulator specifically selected this plant. Mac1 has quickly taken the industry by storm with Caps Cut (Mac1) being one of the most sought after “A cuts” and it now circulates from click to click and is found in grows all across the land. Mac seeds are equally as sought after and grown and these are referred to simply as Mac. To grow Mac1 is to have Caps Cut and if you have other seed stock it is simply referred to as Mac. NAME: MAC NATIONALITY: Capulator GROWER: Jay Plantspeaker HEIGHT: medium AGE: 65-75days RACE: Hybrid LINEAGE: Alien Cookies number7 f2 x

Miracle15 (Colombian x Starfighter)

THE CUT: Mac grows at a slightly slower rate. Indoors she should be given an extra 2-3 weeks of veg time before sending to flower.

Mac seed plants grow very uniform, at a moderate rate the plants doubling in size from start of flower. SMELL: This is where it gets interesting. The melding, seemingly associated complexities make for a challenge to describe. Strong Colombian tones intertwined with mint, green apples and onions that come off the nose in a soft doughy off-gassing fashion. TASTE: Fruit to mint interwoven in herbs SCENT BURNED: Christmassy, lemon limey, herbal, piff/haze, the smell of which lingers for hours. She is extremely unique in that regard. The hype associated with Capulator and his gear is very real. WHAT THE DRIED BUD /CRUMBLED LOOKS LIKE: The frost is unreal. The trichome frequency and coverage rival any cultivar circulating these days. I say this about both the cut and the seed stock. Truly a testament to the breeder and the selections made and the time spent doing so. SPEED OF HIGH ONSET: Felt from the start creeping to full DURATION OF HIGH: A couple hours QUALITY /TYPE OF HIGH: Classic natured and calming MEDICINAL QUALITIES: stress relieving, calming , sleep , anti nausea, appetite inducing.

Jay Plantspeaker at GreenGoddessGardens / Oregon published writer. Grower for 26 years. Find Jay on instagram @jay_plantspeaker_ PHOTOGRAPHER: Erik Christiansen, Nugshots

OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE from Gage Green Group

HAVE YOU EVER enjoyed flowers that took you to another dimension? Out of Body Experience, a phenomenal selection by Old Anonymous in Michigan, combines its psychedelic effects and enchanting flowers to create an experience that will alter your reality forever. Out of Body Experience is a cross between the world-famous Skywalker OG heirloom from Los Angeles and the illustrious Grateful Breath, by Gage Green Group in collaboration with Norcal. The Out of Body Experience hits in all categories- aesthetics, aromas, palate and high.

This original GGG cross grows like an OG but produces like a beast. Her buds are glazed with druzy aquamarines and amethyst crystals. She is a potent plant that keeps the energy levels up and creative energy high. Out of Body Experience defines meditation herb. A truly mind opening flower with the flavor to match. Expect OG gas mixed in with blueberry and kombucha. The naturally grown Out of Body Experience by GGG is proof that Heaven on Earth exists.

The Out of Body Experience is paving the way for new crosses from GGG such as Guiding Light and the Fifth Dimension.

NAME: Out of Body Experience NATIONALITY: Gage Green Group HEIGHT: Medium Growth WEIGHT: Heavy Yields AGE: 63 Days RACE: 50-50 Sativa - Indica

TASTE: Blueberry. Cake. OG Kush. SCENT: Candy and dessert. WHAT THE DRIED BUD/ CRUMBLED BUD LOOKS LIKE: Spirit quartz covered in resin. SPEED OF HIGH ONSET: Immediate DURATION OF HIGH: Long duration. QUALITY/TYPE OF HIGH: Potent and well rounded. Uplifting. Energetic. Creative. MEDICINAL QUALITIES: Relaxing. Pain

relief. Calming. Nausea relief.

Out of Body Experience bred by Gage Green Group is available at The Seed Cellar; visit: www. seedcellar.com to learn more.

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KOUGH DROP from Dominion Seed Company

Seed Here Now MILF featuring: NAME: Kough Drop BREEDER: Dominion Seed Company LINEAGE: Strawberry Afghani x Screaming Eagle FLOWERING TIME: 58-64 days YIELD: Above average 13 Regular Seeds Per Pack MORPHOLOGY: Very strong vertical branching plants with high yields. She grows thick frosty chunky spears and big chunks all the way down. During flower the buds will smell of cherry cough drops or strawberry cough drops. After drying they turn more to their candied fruit smell. HOW DOES IT SMOKE: Depending on the selection it can lean more narcotic or more heady and even keeled. The flavor is a sweet hashy taste with a fruity notes buried within. GROWING NOTES: Super cropped or multi headed bush will do well. Medium feed in weeks 4-7, gradually increase your pk boost and then let them swell out. Don’t go too crazy with pk boost in week 7. They double height in flower so shape appropriately prior to flower. PEST RESISTANCE: 6/10 MOLD/MILDEW RESISTANCE: 8/10 STRESS NOTES: Do not overfeed. This will diminish the yield and quality of your finished product. No intersex traits noted.

Dominion Seed Company Kough Drop is available at: www.SeedsHereNow.com

FAMILY JEWELS

NAME: Family Jewels NATIONALITY: Humboldt Seed

Company GENETICS: Lost Coast Lemons x Old Growth OG, Selected from 10k plants RACE: 20% 80%

SMELL: Sweet Lime and Fuel / Very Pungent / High Terpene Content FLAVORS: Key Lime, Pine and Sour Diesel Terps APPEARANCE: Green Flowers with Purple Tones, Chosen for Uncanny Trichome Density EFFECTS: Uplifting and Ethereal, Creative and Energizing AGE: 55-60 Days, Outdoor Harvest: Sep 25- Oct 15 THC% 21-28 CBD% ND CBG% ND THCV% ?

GROWTH: Vigorous, Internodal: Disconnected, Density: Dense

from Humboldt Seed Company

THE FAMILY JEWELS was a “crown jewel” of Humboldt Seed Company’s Collaborative 10k Plant Phenotype MegaHunt. This very distinct individual expression of a cross that produced many wonderful plants with varying attributes, absolutely stood out above the rest! The selection of this cutting has a story worth telling. Blessed Coast Farms, the home of Humboldt’s “Grow Sisters” collective had received nearly 1,000 of our Phenotype Hunt seedlings in spring of 2018 with the intention of working collectively in our effort. We went to their farm several times to check on progress and finally, to take two cuttings/clones from every plant. The clones were labeled accordingly in the tray to the plant from which they were cut. As it turned out we had made two errors in determining the sex of the 1k seedlings and on a visit, we had to remove a couple male plants and unintentionally altered the track and trace/clone label numbers as they corresponded to the clone trays. When we identified the undeniably special nature of the one original Family Jewels plant in the field we had to be absolutely sure we had the exact correct clone but the label mishap had provided some doubt. We submitted tissue from the target “Family Jewels” plant in the field and the 5 clones that were most likely “the clone” of the target to a genetics lab that, ironically, used the same genomics assays used by the FBI to tie seized shipments of cannabis back to growers. Over two grand in lab work later we were thrilled when we found the match! The Family Jewels strain was alive and well back in our Phenotype Mega-Hunt selection library! The trichome density on this strain was uncanny, almost like a creamy coating of cannabinoids all over the flowers and sugar leaves and the terpene profile was equally rewarding and powerful. The purple hues behind its unbelievable trichome coating make this plant an absolute beauty whether grown indoor or out. The effects stay true to sativa, uplifting, creative and energetic. Growth is somewhat wide and viney as sativa’s tend to be in veg, but the stems are strong and once flowering begins the growth goes straight up, producing ideal colas dripping with cannabinoids and likely rich in Cannaflavins, the anti-inflammatory HOT M I LFS compounds that deserve much further research for their healing properties. We’re not greedy folks so we AMERICAN BEAUTIES can’t wait to share our Family Jewels with the world. We think everyone will want this vigorous, easy to grow, trichome covered anomaly for their grow and their pipes, once the word is out!

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REETINGS once again my green friends. You know … if you are new-ish to growing cannabis—or any other plants for that matter— you for sure need to absorb the info here today, even if you have been doing it awhile, this could still be stuff you need to know. I run into growers that have been growing for like 10 years plus, that still are super fuzzy on this stuff.

I’m going to lay down some of the “rules” here that define what style you use to grow your plants—cannabis, or anything else. It is very important to not crossover styles, because they are all counterproductive to each other. I’m not saying that mixing styles won’t work, I’m saying sticking to one style will work way better; like night and day better. Let’s get our styles on…

SYNTHETIC STYLE Pretty straight forward for this, it’s using synthetically delivered nutrients. Hydroponics, Aeroponics, DWC, SWC, Ebb & Flow, NFT, and soilless gardens use these nutrients. Unfortunately—very unfortunately—some of you still use soil and synthetic nutrients. Let me help you out here man, go soilless, like a 70/30 vermiculite/ perlite here instead of soil. Less problems, larger yields, better potency. You can even blend in a little coir fiber if you want to, like 20% of your vermiculite/perlite blend.

Of course, growing this way, synthetically, you have the “synthetic mindset” of force feeding your plants the nutrients you want to feed them, when you think they need them; and in the process of the synthetic nutrients delivering those nutrients, they also cause a lot of the synthetic delivery chemicals to be taken into your plants. Things like EDTA for example, and don’t fool yourselves that this extra crap can flush from your plants, nope. Plants can’t use it, can’t lose it, so they store it and it smokes like shit.

I know some of you synthetic growers are thinking I’m a dickhead right now, I get it, but please believe me when I tell you I am really here to help you—I used to be you, now I’m not—and there are really good reasons that’s the way it is now. Synthetic grown cannabis cannot be top shelf smoke, ever! Not when compared to organic, or especially all-natural grown herbs. Lose the bottles of poison crap, please. I swear, I’m hardly ever actually a dickhead, LoL. Start down your organic path … today. Synthetic nutrients come in liquid, and in dry forms, just FYI, like Miracle Grow, or Marine Cuisine, and many-many others; so, be mindful.

SOUP STYLE ORGANIC Soup Style Organics is a style that most often uses soil and liquid organic nutrients. This style produces a far superior final product compared to synthetically grown cannabis; but still not as elegant as all-natural grown would be. Using this style, you are still using the

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SENSI SERMONS: GROWING STYLES “synthetic mindset” of force feeding your plants nutrients you think they need, when you think they need them.

Rather than hideous synthetic compounds, the liquid organic nutrients use organic acids to force feed (chelate) the nutrients into the plants. The plants know how to use organic acids so these can for sure be flushed at the end to make an awesome smooth smoking harvest. Semiregular flushing should be used here when growing this style for best results.

Some problems can easily happen when using liquid organic nutrients: • Your water mixed with your organic nutrients will regularly create a solution that will pH often times super low; and so, will really piss off and kill a lot of the microlife in your soil, so they are significantly impeded from what they do best. Using dolomite lime and/or coir in your soil can damper this effect somewhat and is a good idea; along with using good water with some PPMs of calcium dissolved in it, like groundwater that has been dechlorinated—if needed.

• Avoid using anything that is a liquid organic micronutrient type product, especially during flowering at any point. This can cram (chelate/force-feed) a whole lotta shitty smoking mineral elements (like Mg, Fe, along with too much P often) in your cannabis buds.

It will make them smoke “hot” like in the back of your throat—a lot like synthetic herb smokes really. The burn.

• Using fish based liquid organic fertilizers, that also have a high P (phosphorous) number in their N-P-K values. This is highly available liquid phosphoric acid, which is HIGHLY unnatural in nature, ever! It’s a preservative and a chelation agent for the liquid fish product. However, using anything like this during flowering can actually transfer some fishy smells and even flavors into your final product; curiously weird, but not good—LoL. • Even if you make powerful organic teas using liquid organic additions, you are still using a synthetic mindset to a greater degree. Using “honey” or “nectar” type liquid organic products uses organic acids hard core to chelate, like humic and fulvic acids. These two acids (two of many organic acids) tweak your pH hard, causing chemical reactions to occur with your soil elements, locking elements out often. It also sends your microlife into Hella chaos and a lot of death, so they are rendered non effective for a couple of weeks, at least.

ALL-NATURAL STYLE Here’s the apex of connoisseur cannabis growing right here. Just letting Mother Nature do that Voodoo she do so well, and enhancing her when possible and desired. No bottles of liquid anything. In this style you are using living soil, and you are enhancing your Small containers can easily support soil’s capabilities— large plants all-naturally setting the stage if you will—for your plant to leverage, for its food and water. Your job then is simply to consistently give your plants good water, and let nature take its course.

The normal progression of cannabis growers starts out synthetic, usually with soil. Then more hydro-style or soilless synthetics. Then organics and synthetics combined, normally in soil. At some point they go straight up liquid organics—Soup Style—and at this point their product takes a big jump upwards in quality; it’s undeniable, and once you know the diff you can’t un-know it, heh heh.

The grower then usually moves on to an organic soup style combined with all natural. This product is awesome compared to ANY synthetically grown cannabis, but significantly hinders the all-natural processes that COULD be working for them if they went all-natural style without any organic liquids in bottles. This is the apex of quality right here, without a doubt. This is where you will be eventually if you are not already, why not get a head start? LoL—Do it! The hardest part of all learning to grow natural style is all the un-learning you need to do. “Words of wisdom Lloyd, words of wisdom.”—Cheers all.

Check out my book: True Living Organics 2nd Edition on Amazon for some all-natural (supernatural, literally) growing info. “Just Add Water” baybee.

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PEBBLES: Cici, you are known as a media trailblazer focused on hemp and healing. Both the plant and the process of healing are multi-dimensional and so found each other in you, your ‘green path’ as you call it, which you’ve said includes sustainability, social justice and an international community. How does all that mesh and move in sync?

CICI: This is a great question and I’d say that all those things are about love, the greater good, healing ourselves as a species and understanding that we are all connected and in this together. Sustainability is about taking care of Mother Earth and using traditional and more earth friendly methods and solutions and implementing this on every level.

Healing ultimately starts in the soil on a microbial food web level, which has an effect on the human ecosystem being your microbiota (gut), which affects mood and behavior.

Change starts within.

You describe your first job at a vegetarian restaurant at age 14 as a major influence. You also have a Master’s in Science and

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Applied Social Psychology plus a degree in Women’s Studies with a focus on culture, gender and sexuality. How did you get from one to the other?

In short, I traveled and pushed myself to learn foreign languages and that opened up doors so that I could immerse myself in new cultures. My first job as a teenager at Stockholm’s original vegetarian restaurant located in the House of Health, had a huge impact on me because that was the moment I found my ‘green path’ but also when I decided to begin to heal my own childhood trauma, which I believe was partially generational. In that moment I chose health, and food is more important than people realize for healing body/mind/soul. It’s Epigenetics. What you feed your body and army of gut microbes will have direct impact on how you unlock your DNA and help all your integrated systems to work more optimally and vibrantly.

A few years after that, when I was 19, I packed one suitcase and left Stockholm for Amsterdam. After about

three years in the new country, I delved into the academics and everything I ever wanted to learn (at that time).

But first I had to get a hang of this new language as the majority of my program was taught in Dutch. What that taught me is that anything is possible if you are motivated enough. At the end of my studies, I got the chance to spend a year in the ‘Freedom City’ of San Francisco where I worked as a team member on a National LGBTQ Rights project while finishing up my degree. Parallel to these experiences, I always stayed dedicated and working for our lifestyle store, Hemp Works in Amsterdam. Hemp was a cause in itself. All these experiences helped shape my perspective and eventually the industry professional I became.

Why was hemp clothing the thing that kick started HoodLab? It wasn’t. It was a passion for the cannabis plant that kick started everything. The very first brick and mortar place back in the day was Adam’s original location called C.I.A.

(Cannabis in Amsterdam), an educational meeting spot for cannabis enthusiasts.

That later led to the opening of Hemp Works, our Hemp-lifestyle store. Then decades later, we established HoodLab in Denver, a creative space with Hemp clothing and activism in focus. HoodLamb, the clothing brand, was the result of our team running a store in Amsterdam and realizing that there were hardly any fashionable and eco-friendly hemp clothes available.

So the idea of Hemp HoodLamb was born - hooded jackets made of hemp in the hood, meaning the heart of urban Amsterdam.

The lamb part came from the original liner, which was faux-lamb fur.

What are some of the creative projects and activities that used HoodLab as a venue?

Every month we featured a new art form, from music to custom built bikes to international street artists and photography. For two years HoodLab hosted ‘Neatmarket’,

a monthly Vegan Sunday Market filling our space with cruelty-free artesian craft and food vendors. We also presented Sunday Hemp Yoga with a live DJ and a ‘Hands On Hemp’ educational series, as well as hosting ‘Club 64’, the very first consumption club on the first day of legalization in Colorado. There were so many more moments. It was magical times.

Between Sweden, Amsterdam and Colorado, what are some lifestyle differences?

Of course there are numerous lifestyle differences in those places although they are all western countries. Sweden is a fair and beautiful country in so many ways but legalization of cannabis is still far away because the country’s politics lean on a ‘zero-tolerance’ attitude, meaning all drugs are bad and must be eliminated. Well, except for legal alcohol, tobacco and addictive pharmaceuticals. I call it naive politics and I understand the frustration Swedish cannabis activists go through over there when dealing with the average outlook on this sacred plant. It’s depressing to say the least. But with that being said, there is definitely hope with the new generation taking on this cause. They’ve started selling CBD in Swedish health food stores now and that’s a start.

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Why have you and your partner Adam decided to settle in the US rather than Amsterdam?

The reason we left Amsterdam for Colorado was to begin a new chapter together and also because we wanted to be part of the historical developments happening in Colorado with hemp. It was the best move for us. Colorado has been great so far.

Which of your many decisions has shaped you the most?

One of them is daring to try my own wings and go live in a new country. I legally integrated twice into new systems -- the Netherlands and the US -- and it’s been transformational both times in profound ways. Suddenly you are an insider in this new culture but you carry the experiences and understandings of the other cultures.

And it goes without saying, my decision to start a little family with Adam was the absolute best one I’ve ever made. I’m forever grateful to have these guys in my life.

What influences contributed most to making you who you are?

Getting on my ‘green path’ early in life and healing from complex PTSD and multiple autoimmune chronic conditions. I did it with the help of the right nutritional foods, cannabis, yoga technology, education, understanding the power of sacred plants and a big dose of introspection.

Another obvious when you are out there in the world on your own is to surround yourself with great friends you can call your international family. In other words, to find your tribe. The moment I found my Hemp Works family, I knew I had found my tribe.

What was your first experience with weed? How did it affect you?

My best friend and I had first arrived in Amsterdam and our curiosity led us to visit one of the many coffee shops.

We bought a pre-roll joint to share and felt rebellious. I liked the effect it had more than her. That teaches us that cannabis is not for everyone but that there should always be freedom to choose it, if it vibrates with you, whether that is recreationally or medically.

Does it all get down to freedom of choice?

Yes, it comes down to personal freedom to choose.

How would you describe your connection to Cannabis -- medical, spiritual, social? What does it mean to you?

It’s all of those things, which also shows the integrative and complex character of the cannabis plant. It can affect all of your different systems whether those are physical, spiritual or social. Initially, when I first tried it, I liked the s’oothing effect it had on my emotions and well-being.

Later it taught me about sustainability and how we can change the world with this plant.

At first you felt a soothing effect on your well being and then learned about sustainability and changing the world with this plant. That sounds like the evolutionary process took place in you as an individual as you matured and saw how the planet could be made more whole through the plant. Is that accurate?

Yes, cannabis is a teacher. The more you learn, the bigger the picture.

Cici Dunn is an incredible woman that I am honored to call a friend. She is a visionary, an herbalist, a mother, an earth protector and a woman who is fighting for a transformation in how we do business and how we utilize our resources on the planet. Cici’s work along with her partner Adam at Hemp Hoodlamb has been incredibly important in the global cannabis and hemp industries, they were way ahead of the curve decades ago and continue to spearhead the leading edge.

Thank you Cici for all you do for our community!

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Do you differentiate between cannabis and hemp in terms of your use? Do you seek out CBD, separate from THC? No, I don’t separate the two. To me, it’s holistic, meaning we’re talking about one plant with many traits that can be used for different purposes. I think the separation between hemp and cannabis is political and the result of a false stigma attached to the psychoactive properties of the THC cannabinoid. There is no reason to fear THC. It’s a very healing molecule and CBD works better with it in the mix, also known as the famous ‘entourage effect’. The moment we start to genetically manipulate and divide Nature, that’s when we lose the connection to it.

Do you expect agriculture to shift toward organic cultivation and soil building now that hemp prohibition is ending?

I don’t know what to expect, this country is a beast. But that is the only way I envision the future and how we can together clean up this mess. Monoculture crops and the toxins used have done enough damage to our planet and its people and continue to do so. All ecosystems work together.

The health of the soil-food web of your food plant and its roots will affect your personal soil, that being your microbioata (gut), which has a direct effect on human health.

GMOs and conventional monoculture crops are killing microbial life and the food is nutritionally depleted.

I believe we’re at a point where there needs to be a total reinvention of conventional food production and distribution systems. Imagine for example if some of the biggest catering companies for US public schools would invest all their buying power in organics instead of GMOs to feed our future leaders. All kids deserve clean nutritious meals to grow, learn and thrive and what better place is there (besides home) to instil good food habits than at school lunch?

We need to work more in sync with Mother Nature by using sustainable technologies and methods like regenerative organic farming and permaculture. Take back your power by growing your own organic food and medicine, even if it’s just a few plants.

What is your take on climate change?

Climate change is a big factor for us. It’s why we’re advocates for organics and going back to more traditional, regenerative and earth friendly farming methods, synchronized with the ecosystems. Hemp is part of the remedy and can only help with the CO2 issue concerning climate change.

In what ways would a freed up cannabis-hemp plant build a healthier and more sustainable world?

The Chernobyl meltdown comes to mind with hemp and mushrooms planted for bioremediation, that is, cleaning up the soil by ‘eating’ and breaking down the radiation.

Cannabis/hemp is one of our superstar plant allies that can help us clean up the soil with its long roots, as well as create thousands of sustainable products, ranging from ecofriendlier plastics and building materials to medicine and food, which in turn creates millions of jobs. We can change the world with this plant.

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Our organization had sought to use cannabis lab results -- first, genetic, and later chemical reports -- to document existing cannabis plants in an effort to thwart overbroad patents on cannabis plants. These kinds of patents may infringe on the public domain, or they may be so broadly written that they would halt innovation. For example, if only one com-

pany had access to a certain classification of CBD-dominant cannabis, as development, for those of us who are connected with our old, animal selves, we feel a strong dissonance about the phenomenon. It reverberates uncomfortably through our bones as we attempt to rectify the realities of “making it” in capitalism with integrity in our spiritual selves.

Within this system, and especially in the US, Cannabis’ previous installment as a mostly underground phenomenon made it ripe for this kind of abuse of intellectual property law, an abuse that can be expensive and time consuming to address

and undue. Documentation and databases proves a cheap alternative, and making information available to everyone makes it impossible for that information to become proprietary, while also creating an educational resource.

As we learned through this process, however, it’s not quite that simple. Genetic data, though better than no data at all, is not

the best example of prior art, or evidence that something exists and its unique attributes. Also, given the complexity of the data -- sometimes a gigabyte’s worth of information for a single plant sample -- its primary use is to researchers.

This idea sounds nice until you realize that many of them may be working for the kinds of companies many might not want to have access to their data. If the playing field was fair, and farmers could easily do similar analysis, it would be one thing. But as we know too well, the playing field is not fair.

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on Cannabis, Data, Breeding & Ethics In the time since then, people have asked what would happen next with OCP -- would there be a new organization? Who would run it? How would it operate? Where? For me, before answering these questions (and the endless practical realities that come with it) I must ask another first: What is, really, the best or right thing to do here?

If open source data and cannabis licensing isn’t always the right thing, then what is? How should the data be connected to actual plant material and preservation efforts? Lao Tzu, in the Tao Te Ching, says the supreme good is like water, which benefits all things, without conflict. Is there a way to truly benefit all here? Where does money and economic success fit in?

In the months and weeks since OCP closed, I have sought answers to these questions, primarily in the form of discussions and workshops. On July 9, we held one of these discussions on the Swimming with Fishes Podcast. The participants -- Dr. Eleanor Kuntz, Chrystal Ortiz, Heather Burke, Dr. Sunil Aggarwal, Deepak Chaudhary, Josh Rutherford, Shoshanna Silverberg, Dr. Dominic Corva and Stephen Raisner -- represented activists working in law, science, academia, and farming.

Here are some of the answers that this group of people has shared with me, along with some thoughts from the Law Office of Omar Figueroa.

What is the infrastructure we need to preserve genetics, create data-based educational resources, and generally help breeders and growers to protect their work?

• Appellations of origin. This approach, which ties cannabis plants to its place of tending, creates protections in the naming of cultivars and products that are specific to a certain region. It works well in wine, and it can work well for cannabis as well.

Organizations like the International Cannabis Farmers’ Association (ICFA) and the Origins Counsel (sprouted from Mendocino Appellations Project) are both working on these policies and definitions in California.

• Seed banks. A network of preservation projects, with duplication built in, is necessary to ensure that seeds remain available.

People who are already saving seeds are encouraged to continue doing so, and to consider duplication methods. For example, rather than keeping your whole library in one place, consider creating a backup in another location.

• Herbaria. In most botanical practices, samples of plants are kept on file at herbaria to be used as a reference for comparison. We need resources like these to extend the practice to cannabis.

• “LegalZoom” for growers. We love lawyers, but they can be hard for farmers and growers to afford. Having a set of standard documents or a portal for people to gain access to legal resources would be a game changer.

• Using a commons-based peer production (CBPP) system for documenting plants. This kind of system would allow for people to share information with one another. An example of this can be found at the Open Source Seed Initiative -- the page at osseeds.org/seeds/ holds a record of all the seeds that have been submitted to them. We could imagine something similar for cannabis. The idea of a data trust has also been posed, which would ensure that data collected could not be sold to a third party without the consent of all stakeholders.

• DIY / distributed marker assisted breeding. Along with using open source hardware and software -- like water sensors, weather monitors, timelapse, and aerial photography -- these technologies would give farmers and growers access to similar tools being used in large companies. I urge anyone who is interested in looking into open source sensing technology to check out Public Lab: publiclab.org. This technology is not as out of reach as you think.

What is good and right within this context?

• Paying respect or even dues to traditional communities. There is a general sense of agreement that doing what’s right in this space starts with understanding the origins of the plant -- and it’s not North America.There is a desire to connect the work in the Western market with with traditional and indigenous communities for the purpose of socio-economic repair. This definitely brings up no shortage of challenges from a cultural and management perspective, but all agree that it’s something that must be addressed in this question of goodness.

• Following a proper process...and taking the necessary time to do so. A key to doing this work is ensuring that stakeholders are included in the design and management of whatever system we create. As we are working as volunteers, this means following this process will take some time. Though there is a real sense of urgency -- Deepak Chaudhary of the Indian Landrace Exchange points out that many native species in India are being lost left and right -- rushing sensitive and collaborative work may cause more damage than reward.

• Bringing community-based documentation methods to cannabis & traditional plants. Traditionally, as Dr. Kuntz and others point out, traditional plant documentation practices has focused on the morphology of the plant (how it looks) rather than its genetic or chemical properties (how cannabis is classified within the market). Figuring out how to do this comprehensively given a lack of academic study will be a challenge of the very best kind.

What’s the next step?

In addition to creating a statement of ethics, which is the basis for these conversations, it sounds like creating community-based definitions of cultivars will be helpful for everyone. The appellations projects need it in order to get that piece of the puzzle off the ground, and having an understanding of how that works will be helpful for everyone. To get more information or get involved, go to bethschechter.com/about/ and sign up for the mailing list. Or just start or contribute to one of these projects in your community -- it will take a global village to preserve the plant.

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CANNABINOID EVOLUTION began some

600-800 million years ago in the sea in the simple 2-celled hydra sponge. Unlike with the one-celled amoeba, which was so primitive it had no one to communicate with, the 2-celled hydra needed to communicate between the two cells to survive. So Mother Nature found a way.

Multiply this communication process over hundreds of millions of years with endocannabinoid systems in every plant and every animal except insects, including human beings with billions of cells requiring communication in running human biology.

What makes humans tick? Is it the rhythm of the heart that, if it stops, we die. Is it in the brain that directs thought, consciousness and body control? Is it in cells that are said to be the structural units of organic life? Or is the mystery of life centered in endocannabinoids, which Clint Werner, author of Marijuana, Gateway to Health refers to as “endogenous ligands,” molecules which turn biological activities on or off, up or down, in a game of body balance called ‘homeostasis,’ i.e., maintaining internal stability in human biology. Think of it as a damper on a stove, the same organism going up or down depending on the desired balance.

Science is discovering the endocannabinoid signalling system as the key to human life, influencing all biological systems and physiological pathways from brain to bone to breast milk. According to Raphael Mechoulam, founding father of cannabinoid research, “There is barely a biological, physiological system in our bodies in which the endocannabinoids do not participate.”

This understanding began in 1964 in the field of scientific research when Raphael Mechoulam and his partner Yehiel Gaoni first identified and synthesized THC at Hebrew University in Israel. They received 5 kg of smuggled Lebanese hash and proceeded to examine cannabidiol (CBD) which they discovered to be non-psychoactive based on their observation of rhesus monkeys who only got high off of delta-9-THC.

Over the following two decades they continued their study of pharmacology, biochemistry and medicinal effects of cannabinoids with international scientists, but the elusive ‘enigma’ of the cannabinoid mode of action -how they did what they did -- remained.

It took nearly a quarter of a century for Allyn Howlett and her graduate student researcher William Devane to offer an answer to the ‘riddle’ of how cannabinoids work in the brain. In 1988, Howlett-Devane “marked a synthetic cannabinoid with radioactive tritium to follow its path through a rat’s brain,” as recorded by Clint Werner.

Where the drug was binding in the brain were the first known cannabinoid receptors, aka ‘docking sites’. Howlett’s team published a paper announcing their discovery: A pharmacologically distinct cannabinoid receptor had been located in brain tissue (known as CB1).

“This profound discovery led to the charting of a novel neurotransmitter system and the emergence of a new branch of biological science”, leading to a greater grasp of biological signalling systems in general.

This significant advancement of the scientific understanding of human biology “reveals a wholly novel physiological control system in the body”, according to Professor Leslie Iversen of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford in the U.K. According to author Michael Pollen in his book The Botany of Desire: “Someday soon Mechoulam and Howlett will almost surely receive the Nobel Prize, for their discoveries opened a new branch of neuroscience that

promises to revolutionize our understanding of the brain and lead to a whole new class of drugs.”

A new receptor, CB2, was found in 1993 by Cambridge University Medical Council. Mechoulam discovered a second endocannabinoid in 1995. All this activity led to “uncovering the surprising extent of the endocannabinoid system’s regulatory functions”. They kept learning as they dug deeper replacing decades of prohibition and misinformation. This was affirmed by a Scientific American 2004 article: “Everyone grows marijuana in their own brain whether they know it or not.”

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grew up on the coast of northern California, where farms are tucked away, hidden in the mountainsides. When we first started growing cannabis high up in the mountains of NorCal, we lived very remote and nomadic lifestyles. All of our farms were located on mountainsides miles and miles from anyone else. We would truck in soil as far as we could and then move it via wheel barrel or (if we were lucky) with a beat up tiny trailer pulled behind an ATV. Hard work, good genetics, a little sunlight, a 5gpm well and a few water hoses were all we ever needed to ensure a successful season.

As the years passed and laws changed we found ourselves moving from county to county, following the most recent and lenient grow ordinances. Truly living a nomadic grow lifestyle buying and selling properties while the California counties would accept a “grower” friendly ordinance one year only to revoke it the next season.

Constant raids, helicopters hovering over our home and garden, and SWAT style battalions of vehicles shutting down MY WIFE, DAUGHTER, AND I our remote roads were the were living and growing in Southern Oregon; my father had been norm. Cash was king and recently diagnosed with cancer and banks refused to work with was undergoing chemo in California. In prior years I had cultivated us. Those were the days of an strains bred by the late Lawrence outlaw THC farmer.

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Chasing Cannabinoids oil on unsuspecting customers. Yet there were very few farmers actually producing CBD hemp, let alone farmers utilizing sustainable and organic practices to produce high quality CBD hemp. I spent months diving through the wormhole that was the CBD market and was shocked to see the level of blatant deceit that was occurring. It was at this moment I realized and felt the need to start chasing cannabinoids.

I knew I could take the skills I had learned and perfected over the last decade cultivating THC and convert those same organic practices, to scale, into the industrial hemp industry. To the naked eye, THC and CBD cannabis are no different. They look, smell, and grow the exact same but the cannabinoids present in each act completely opposite. Cannabidiol, or CBD (non psychoactive), and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC (psychoactive), are two of many different cannabinoids present in cannabis. In the past I utilized a “top dress only” method in my THC grows, meaning we don’t use bottled nutrients. I took this same method and with the help of a local soil company we built a blend of local, organic, single ingredient amendments that I am able to easily and economically spread out over hundreds of acres and amend native soil. Using this method I perfected, we are able to grow happy, healthy, organic, premium high-CBD hemp plants fed only water, never using bottled or chemical fertilizers. With these successful results, our high-yielding CBD industrial hemp harvests far exceeded the competition and the industry’s expectations. It really comes down to heavy planning and attention to detail which starts long before the first seed is planted and continues until the final product is delivered. We don’t avoid the inherent risks; we acknowledge them and over prepare to ensure success. When first getting into commercial cultivation please remember it does not take chemical nutrients or fertilizers to

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If you are thinking about making the switch from THC to CBD, scalability will be a word that will be in your head every step of the way. For myself, could I take what I had perfected on 50 plants in a backyard and repeat that on 2,000 plants on an acre, 100,000 plants on 50 acres, 300,000 plants on 150 acres? And could I do it with the same love and respect I had given the land and the plant in the beginning? Could I produce 100% organic, never fed, never sprayed, top shelf high CBD hemp on a massive scale? It wasn’t easy and by no means was it cheap but the answer is definitely yes. With many factors at play, a hemp farm can cost (on a high end) up to $30,000 an acre from seed to sale. Meaning taking 50 acres of raw land and turning it into a perfected well-oiled machine could cost upwards of $1,500,000 from start to finish. These staggering numbers turn away the average farmer looking to purchase land and switch to CBD farming. Irrigation systems alone consisting of massive pumps moving 250 gpm, miles of mainline, timers, valves, and millions of feet of drip line cost upwards of $100,000 per farm.

Hemp seed alone costs an average of $1 per seed. At roughly 2,000 plants per acre that’s $100,000 for just seed on a 50-acre farm. All the financial burdens aside you still have to have a farm with a legal water source that can sustainably supply hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per day. These are just a few of the many hurdles first time hemp farmers encounter when starting out, yet the hopes of a $100,000 per acre profit keep entrepreneurs and budding farmers itching at a chance to join the race.

The passing of the 2014 hemp laws in Oregon changed everything for us. We are now able to use banks, purchase farm equipment, get loans, and get insurance on our crops. We have come out of the mountains and into the valleys onto giant parcels of flat land instead of hiding in the hills. And

now with the passing of the 2018 farm bill the entire CBD world has changed. I drive through valleys in southern Oregon where just last year there were only one or two farms there are now hundreds.

Massive percentages of the plantable acreage in the valleys have switched over to hemp farming.

Vertical integration will become key, with economical and organic practices a must. The small farmer will have to deal with biomass prices crashing but can still hold steady per acre income with the growth of the new smokeable CBD hemp flower market. I encourage every farmer thinking about switching to hemp to understand the US market as well as the world market before jumping into the hemp industry.

It’s a wildly fabricated market due to the amount of brokers and its unregulated nature. We will always buy local and support our local contractors. Hemp is such a blessing to the farming community as a whole. It’s the greatest gift to have our children be able to walk and help in our hemp fields without fear of prosecution like we used to fear in the THC world. As for the years to come I will continue to cultivate CBD as Fire Ridge Farms and the Fire Ridge Hemp Co but will start to switch our focus over to farming CBG which is proving to have miraculous health benefits.

But in the end if it’s THC, CBD, CBC, CBN, or CBG we are all just chasing the next cannabinoid.

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Full Spectrum The Complete (Or Incomplete) Picture

Full spectrum. A word that is getting so much buzz in WORDS Maya ElisabEth the cannabis and hemp community these days. So what exactly is it? And what is the difference between full spectrum, broad-spectrum, and isolates?

There is so much more to cannabis than cannabinoids. In fact, the more we discover the more we learn that it is the terpenes and other active constituents that bring cannabis its beautiful fragrances, flavors, and affects. So many, in fact, that we have not nearly learned about all of them nor have we found ways to measure them. Let’s just call this group of not yet measurable or discovered components the ‘magic’ of cannabis~ all the mysterious components that entourage together to bring added benefit.

The most potent cannabis is not the best feeling, smelling, or most therapeutic. If this is hard to fathom, let us consider this- how many people drink Everclear? Everclear is one of the more potent alcohols out there but people do usually not enjoy drinking it. When people do they experience a fast ‘spike’ onset with a flat experience, only to be left with often a hangover. Ironically, people use it as a solvent when making Rick Simpson Oil or Pheonix Tears- the Mother of all Full Spectrum Medicines (more on that next). People usually love to enjoy terpene-rich wines and flavorful elixirs for the flavor AND effect. Time and time again it is not the most potent strains and concentrates that win cannabis competitions like The Emerald Cup but the most terpene-rich or fragrant and flavorful strains. They offer us more full and supported experiences with added aromatherapeutic benefit.

Full and broad-spectrum medicines can often contain CBN. CBN is the cannabinoid that many people refer to as ‘couch lock’- it makes people hungry and tired. Non-functional but completely medicinal when needed for sleep and pain. That is one reason why taking an isolate can be beneficial if you need to be energized or functional.

Isolates refer to a concentrate that has an isolated cannabinoid in it. Null and void of terpenes and other active components, it has been stripped down and processed to an isolated state. Many people use CBD isolates in hemp derived products because they are sure to contain no THC. When dealing with the broad market and out of state business it’s essential to have an isolate with no THC. Broad spectrum CBD concentrates can definitely be hemp derived and often contain CBG or CBDA in addition to CBD along with terpenes and other active components. Broad spectrum and full spectrum hemp derived CBD extracts are usually quite odorous and flavorful, also dark in color. All of that gets lost through processing as we isolate the plant components more and more. The same goes for THC. Many distillates are in fact isolated cannabinoids although some of them have a little more to the spectrum making them a broad-spectrum distillate, although the volatile terpenes will most definitely have been destroyed. By default, distillates are not full spectrum. They have been refined, processed, and they are clear and the more processing and human interaction we have exposing

the cannabis to oxygen, light, heat, pressure, and agitation the more of the delicate plant components we lose along the way, taking it further and further from full and broad spectrum medicine.

So what’s the benefit to distillate? If you are on the infusion or manufacturing side of things with regulations it can make things easier to dose accurately. Something that someone is mass-producing and needs to be exact in serving size like a 10 mg gummy for example. A clarified concentrate is easier to lab test. Athletes and other people that need to be sure there is no THC in their CBD products are also good candidates for isolates. Isolated cannabis products can give somewhat of a spike when consumed in an edible or inhalable form. They can have a fast onset and a fast offset. When Cannabis is whole and complete with the other components that bring out her magic, she brings people on a very comforted, supported, and padded journey. She is meant to work within herself just the way she is- whole and complete.

Western medicine is wonderful for trauma, amputation, and dissection.

The western world loves to pick and pull things apart not recognizing that they were already perfect in their natural form. Much appreciation goes to the people who pull the terpenes out and then put them back in but many of the delicate components may be lost along the way. In my humble opinion, that is no longer a full spectrum medicine because it has been disrupted and it is no longer whole. Even if it’s the same terpenes put back into the same concentrate or product.

That being said, cannabis does love to entourage with other types of terpenes that can be found in essential oils and other plants that are not cannabis. Combining cannabinoids with terpenes helps our body receive them better.

So what about the strains that do not contain all of the varieties of cannabinoids, terpenes, and other active constituents? If those are undisrupted in the full flower form are they considered full spectrum? Is there a strain that contains every single cannabinoid? Have we discovered every cannabinoid?

How can we measure what full spectrum is if we do not know what the full spectrum is? Perhaps we will choose some different language going forward like ‘undisrupted’ or ‘true whole plant’. Every strain no matter the profile does have a whole and complete starting form and that should be the differentiator.

We will have to see what the community decides as all of these theories and concepts are still so new.

If you walk away with anything from this article, walk away with this: nature is divinely perfect and cannabis is an extreme example of that. Rarely do humans improve nature, if ever, even though we seem to think we do. Why disrupt what is already whole and complete? The more we process and interfere with this sacred plant the more of the valuable and volatile gifts we lose.

More processing means less spectrum. Broad-spectrum will always be better than an isolate and full spectrum will always be better than broad-spectrum, but ALL are better than none! Such is the miracle of cannabis. Whether it’s isolated or full spectrum she still brings relief. Should you be lucky enough to have the luxury to choose then do some research for yourself and see what your mind and body decide. Cheers to your health.

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ELUSIVE AND RARE, palatable edibles can be a real nightmare to find, forget ones that taste delicious and make you excited at the prospect of medicating with ganja-filled treats. Coloradobased Jessica Catalano, author of Ganja Kitchen Revolution and former SKUNK Tokin’ Female, is on a mission to change all that, however.

Serving up some of the best medicated food in the country, Catalano uses fresh bud to create mouthwatering dishes and is best known for her revolutionary strain specific cooking methods. In other words, she doesn’t just use whatever strains are available and throw a bunch of stuff together.

No, she takes the time to choose the appropriate strain for the appropriate flavoring to create an enhanced gastronomic experience.

We recommend everyone pick up her book and check out her new recipe column for us every month to get plenty of yummy ideas from the Queen of Cannabis Cooking herself.

GLUTEN-FREE VEGAN BLUE DREAM CBD BROWNIES BROWNIES were originally introduced into the dessert world in the United States in the late 19th century. They rose to popularity because of they were a tasty hybrid between a cake and a cookie. Nothing is more quintessential then medicating with brownies. They are rich, luxurious in chocolate taste and can please a multitude of people. And sometimes we are just in need of a delicious warm from the oven chewy ooey-gooey brownie - to comfort the sou. A dessert that spans all seasons and times of day – this treat can be whipped up and baked in a jiffy.

The goal of this recipe is to create an edible that reflects the popularity of the plant-based movement in the United States that tastes like a brownie but is a healthier option. This time around I decided to swap out sugar for monks fruit, flour for gluten-free flour, and add in some Blue Dream terpenes and CBD oil. So, sit back and relax while enjoying these brownies with either a big glass of coconut milk, coffee or even tea.

What are terpenes? They are the essential oils that give certain strains their distinctive smell and flavor profiles. They are what sent me down the rabbit hole back in late 2009 when I started experimenting with strain-specific cuisine and in 2010 when I launched strain specific recipes on The Ganja Kitchen Revolution.

These essential oils influence our mood in a variety of pleasant ways. Blue Dream terpenes, for example, have an uplifting euphoria that helps make things come to fruition through brainstorming. It also lends a fruity and earthy sunkissed blueberry flavor that marries well with chocolate. Paired with the medicinal benefits of CBD oil such as a reduction in inflammation and wholesome ingredients – this is one brownie that will help you feel amazing from the inside and out.

SERVINGS 4 servings MISE EN PLACE FOR THE BROWNIES: 1 cup earth balance butter or coconut oil 2 cups monk fruit (cup for cup) or vegan sugar 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract 4 ener-G egg replacers 1 1/2 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour (cup for cup) 1 cup cocoa powder 1 teaspoon pink Himalayan sea salt MISE EN PLACE FOR THE FROSTING: 6 tablespoons earth balance butter or coconut oil (coconut melts around 76 degrees F° FYI) 6-12 drops of Blue Dream Terpenes (to your taste preference) Desired CBD dosage, follow package dosing 1/2 cup cocoa powder 2 2/3 cups powdered sugar 1/4 cup coconut or other plant-based milk 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS FOR BROWNIES: STEP 1: Preheat oven to 350 and grease a glass pyrex container for brownies. A 8 x 8 or 8-inch variety will work.

STEP 2: Melt the butter and add to a bowl.

STEP 3: Now add the vanilla and sugar.

STEP 4: Beat with a stand mixer or hand mixer.

STEP 5: Now add in the egg replacers and beat again.

STEP 6: Add in all of the brownie dry ingredients and blend until fully incorporated.

STEP 7: Pour and scrape the batter into a glass pan and bake for 30-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

After baking, remove from oven and completely cool before frosting.

DIRECTIONS FOR FROSTING: *Before making the frosting you need to infuse the butter or coconut oil with the terpenes and CBD oil.

STEP 1: Simply melt the butter or coconut oil in the microwave and let it cool down a bit to a warm liquid. Add the terpenes and CBD oil, stir until incorporated and then place into the fridge to solidify. When it is solid again, pull from the fridge and set on the counter to come to room temperature before making the frosting. Depending on how much CBD oil you add, you might need to add more powdered sugar and cocoa to thicken up the frosting. Do this in increments of tablespoons to get it to the right consistency.

STEP 2: Add the room temperature butter and cocoa powder to a bowl and beat with a mixer.

STEP 3: Add powdered sugar and milk in increments. Then add the vanilla extract.

STEP 4: Using a spatula spoon out the frosting into the desired thickness.

STEP 5: Cool in the fridge to get pictureperfect brownies before slicing into squares or eat immediately with a refreshing glass of plant-based milk.

Enjoy! *Adapted from: The Ganja Kitchen Revolution: The Bible of Cannabis Cuisine by Jessica Catalano Photo Credit: Tyler Kittock

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by Deanna Jean Ryther BOD Member and Minnesota Team Leader 2019 left us all with a lot of hope for better times to come with 2020 quickly approaching.

We know that with working together over the past 6 years now, the end of prohibition is nearer than ever and even still there are a lot of needs that need to be meet and even more work to be done.

Parents 4 Pot was able to be part of some amazing adventures in 2019, including The AIDS Walk and The Pride Parade where we gave lots of Free Hugs with our Oregon Team! We are also thankful to have the opportunity to provide, for the second year, 2 families Scholarships in Honor and Memory of our founder, Mickey Martin. Another Drug War POW we’ve helped over the years has been released,

and with everyone’s generous support we were able to help him also as he returns to his rightful freedom. You can read more about these events on our website at Parents4Pot.com We were also able to create some really awesome Parents 4 Pot Hats to help benefit our missions, only made possible with your support.

We encourage you to be part of helping end prohibition in the ways that you can. From sharing your personal story to educating your family and community. Consider volunteering and making contributions to your favorite non-profit organizations.

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A FOUR-PART STORY

Circular Whispers

A Plant’s Tale

I was weak, confused, delirious. I think I was in shock. Wounds marked where my young branches had been only a few moments earlier. Around me, green leaves and bootprints pressed into the soil. Why was it so cold? The youngest parts of me were missing. I had lost my most vibrant and vigorous new growth. It’s difficult to explain this feeling.

Father Sun had moved 15 degrees. I began to notice his rays vibrating through my being again. I felt the wind and the sounds dancing through my leaves. I remembered that I am an important part of everything.

Under Mother Earth’s surface, I could feel whispers from my sisters flowing up my taproot, being sent and received across the silken network of mycelium. We were all tapped into it. Like me, my sisters grasped for answers.

A few moons passed. I was starting to feel better. Mother Nature slowly nurtured me back to health. I helped, too. I am lucky to have a strong immune system, stemming from a lineage of ancient landraces.

My ancestors and family members are known for our rusticity, our genetic variability, and our mystical powers. Our life’s purpose is to create, to share, and to preserve the most medicine possible for healing. Like my ancestors, I can connect with the endocannabinoid systems of other beings. I learn how to provide the right balancing frequencies. This means I can

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sense ailments and adapt myself to help that being achieve homeostasis.

More moons passed and we started to taste the excitement in the air. We prepared for our next phase of growth.

Whispers abounded of the forthcoming flowers and seeds that we would soon share with Mother Earth. The energies of our sun, our ground, our community had healed most of us by now. I myself was flourishing with life, sharing frequencies and nutrients with my companion plants, our underground networks of life and minerals, as well as Father Sun. Still, many questions remained about what had happened to my cuttings. Were they still alive and healthy?

Were they able to regenerate the uniqueness of my being without all of my genes? Will they support future generations of much needed healing as complete as my own seeds would?

And, the most important question we all wondered was: Were they surrounded by love?

I remember all of it. I will tell you our story and try to give you answers.

I will share with you the circular whispers of our symbiotic community. This is a story of regeneration, abundance, and love! We will discover the power of yesterday, and how to bring our descendants back to the future. There is so much we want to share with you. So much we have to give.

Follow along to unravel the scientific mysteries of Mother Nature and Father Sun. We will create abundance that exceeds even our wildest needs.

You can share in this abundance, too, and together we will provide even more healing.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS | This is the first of a four-part series to chronical the life cycle of a landrace cannabis plant in her own words. Authors of this installment are: Dr. Kat A. Donnelly, Founder and Co-CEO at AZENTIVE; Sundarajan Mutialu, CTO and Co-CEO at AZENTIVE, David Younan-Montgomery, Customer Engagement Manager at AZENTIVE. AZENTIVE integrates wellness, sustainability and emerging technologies based on biomimicry approaches for healthy profits, people, planet and plants. Through our flagship fusion lighting technology - The Sun On-Demand™ - AZENTIVE brings the only true sunlight indoors, replicating the exact ratios of photons of the sun’s electromagnetic spectrum (UVB to Far IR).

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THE CANNABIS MURALS OF SAN FRANCISCO

Mural artist, Kim Haueter

Dennis Peron section of the mural

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he late Dennis Peron is the recognized father of medical marijuana.

The Castro Castle is his iconic commune-style San Francisco home. Located in the heart of the Castro district, the Castle has been the heart and headquarters for the cannabis movement since the 1970s. Today, the Castle serves as a shared home, a museum of social movements, an activist house and art

exhibit all in one. In the backyard, next to the psychedelic garden you will come across the secret cannabis murals of San Francisco. The cannabis murals of San Francisco tell the story of cannabis from the 1970s to the 1990s, the journey from prohibited plant to legalized medicine with patient access. As you take in each section of the mural, you learn about benchmark moments in the movement and the people quantifiably brought about important change.

Inside the castle

It is an artistic tribute, honoring northern California cannabis history and the people who mobilized the fight for patient access. The cannabis murals of San Francisco are earning their place as an iconic point of interest, rightfully so. For this instalment of The Cannabis Trail column, we spent time with cannabis murals artist Kim Haueter.

We discover the magic behind the cannabis murals and how it came to be.

ALL FOR LOVE

In 2005, Kim had just returned to San Francisco, reconnecting with old friends and making new ones fast. San Francisco is an easy city to make new friends, especially if you have a shared passion. Filled with artists, activists, and entrepreneurs, you are hard-pressed to not identify with a community of like-minded people.

One afternoon, while visiting with friends in a local cafe, Haueter was casually introduced to Dennis Peron, an iconic Castro activist. Hauter’s first impression of Peron was that he seemed too kind. Was this guy for real? He made an immediate connection with people that was genuine and caring. Haueter quickly found that her passion for cannabis was shared by Peron, but his passion was driven by compassion above all else. His husband, John West, had passed away from AIDS in 1990. Peron and West were living in what is now known as the Castle Castro, working with hundreds of others to organize campaigns for various local causes and initiatives. Peron had been a long-time advocate of medical cannabis, selling it from various storefronts in the Castro. The death of his partner drove Peron to organize for the passage of Proposition P, a resolution calling on the state government to permit medical cannabis, which passed in 1991.

Peron was a man with focus and conviction, who was known for “getting things done”, as Haueter recalls. His compassion for rights and equality was readily apparent in his ability to engage with anyone that was willing to lend a hand to help others.

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The Castro Castle is a co-op living community filled with multi-purpose activists. Established in the 1970s, Castro Castle serves as a local incubator for social justice and equality, A bohemian vibe runs deep and strong throughout, each living unit connected by a series of wooden stairs lined with hundreds of plants and trees. Entering the main area of the house you are immediately struck by the history of posters on the walls.

Years of protests and campaigns line the walls. The house vibrates with the history of the people that have lived and worked there, sharing a passion for human rights and equality.

The impetus for the Castro Castle mural came in 2005 from Peron who asked Haueter to create a mural dedicated to the history of cannabis in the United States, in particular the fight and victories achieved in California. The design utilizes Victorian window frames, a nod to San Francisco aesthetic, to encapsulate segments of cannabis history, as if you are peeking into the past. The windows are connected by a series of beautiful vines that are reminiscent of the cannabis plant, signifying the connection of events that grew as a movement for cannabis legalization. Some moments depicted in the mural include:

The election of Harvey Milk as Supervisor (a supporter of cannabis for medical use) and Proposition W, a San Francisco policy to cease the arrest and prosecution of individuals involved in the cultivation, transfer, or possession of marijuana.

Mary “Brownie Mary” Rathburn and Proposition 215, a California law allowing the use of medical cannabis.

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