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Contents
Proposed Amendments
What they mean for the MM community...PG 12
Caregiver of the Month Peek inside the life of Jim D., a passionate caregiver for the RI MM Community......PG 7
Hemp & Humanity Helping hemp help humanity..........PG 4 Cannabis Re-Enculturation......pg 6 Cannabis Tourism..................... pg 5 Caregiver of the Month ...........pg 6 Letter to Rep........................... pg 12 Strain Review: Casey Jones ......................... pg 12 Proposed Amendments.......... pg 12 Mischief in Maine ................... pg 15 Cooking with Cannabis: Mediterranean Salad ........pg 16
Dispensary Raids ................... pg 17 Upcoming Events ................... pg 17 Cannabis Transdermals .........pg 19 Cannabis Tourism................... pg 20 1000 Watts DIY....................... pg 21 The Real Economic Drain.......pg 22 Editors’ Pick.............................pg 22 The GrassiďŹ eds ........................pg 25 A Word From Us......................pg 26
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CANNABIS RE-ENCULTURATION CREATIVE ARTISTS CAN HELP FUEL THE REVOLUTION by Carl Hedberg
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ing joints and bongs in a place that often looks more like a hippie den than a care facility. So even though cannabis is a proven safe and effective remedy that patients swear by for a staggeringly wide array of ailments, most Americans could never imagine using it themselves, unless maybe they were dying...
TRUTH IN FICTION Now that the Internet has obliterated the propaganda machine, like-minded screenwriters and film makers have an opportunity – nay, an obligation – to help dispel the mythology of the Great Prohibition. How? By working cannabis tincture into the storyline and into the lives of their characters. Cannabis tincture – particularly the Dionysian version made with grain alcohol, is so clearly medicinal in purpose that it blows away demonizing stereotypes. Slipping tincture into a scene would have a powerful impact on audience members whose view of cannabis has been shaped by the most successful and far-reaching propaganda campaign the world has ever known. That campaign to eliminate cannabis and promote – enculturate – the use of alcohol and tobacco continues to make savvy use of film. It’s time to fight back in kind. Tincture, in form and effect, demonstrates the medicinal reality of cannabis better than any other preparation. On screen it would deliver this most convenient truth to millions. Middle America needs to see and hear the truth about cannabis through the same channels they are watching their garbage on. And when they do see how cannabis can benefit their own health, family and finances, they’ll finally rise up and bring an end to our longest running war. ▀
or nearly a century, Americans have been bombarded with messages that have firmly established marijuana as a risky drug favored by hippies, burnouts, and the occasional tweedy professor. While Americans overwhelmingly support a patient’s right to choose cannabis, most still think of the herb as an alternative substance for alternative people. Californians may be leading the way toward restoring our right to choose this plant, but their love for sticky buds and a good toke has given Middle America the impression that cannabis is about joints, bongs and vapor bags filled with something that looks like smoke. In New England, weed is viewed as a drug of the lesser classes; fine for prep school and vacations at sea, but if you’re a 50-something professional with teens in the house, well, you’d better just keep quiet about it. This cultural and social separation is reinforced in the Carl Hedberg is a writer and tincture maker living in the Great Prohibition state media, where dispensary patrons are shown happily pass- of New Hampshire. To reach him, Email: hedbergce@gmail.com
Amazing army mom, Kristian Angel, is a painter; a jewlery maker, a calligrapher and a poet! She discovered her love of painting cannabis after making paintings for a dispensary in Colorado. One can clearly see why her cannabis arts are high in demand! To see more of her work check out her ETSY store!
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succeeds as a cottage industry, which requires individual caregivers and patients alike to cultivate. Please, for the sake of our ill, medical patient community, leave our cultivation rights alone. If you are absolutely set on making an amendment to the bill that we have here, in Rhode Island, amend something that is problematic. Amend the bill so that caregivers and patients can act as vendors to the Compassion Centers, so a Compassion Center doesn’t have to cultivate above 99 plants. That’s worth changing, and in that scenario there isn’t extra medicine floating around the community and into the black market. Make change for the better, not for the worse. D’Artagnon Patient, Providence RI
Dear Rep. John M. Carnevale, Before you propose a bill in Rhode Island that could affect all of the seriously ill patients who rely on medical cannabis, please do a little more research on your plan of attack. Removing caregivers from the medical cannabis equation here in Rhode Island would definitely prove to be detrimental; as it was in New Mexico. Caregivers help maintain privacy in the community, whereas a Compassion Center is a store-front business in which a patient can be seen entering. Caregivers work with their patients to effectively grow various strains of cannabis to cater to the direct needs of specific patients, a compassion Center does not necessar ily do this. However, don’t get me wrong, compassion centers are a valuable part of the medical cannabis supply trifecta; composed of Compas sion Centers, a patient’s garden, and caregivers. Not all patients use Compassion Centers or Dispensaries, not all patients grow their own medicine, and not all patients use caregivers. The choice of a patient’s supply of medicine is and always should be in the hands of the patient, and that patient alone. This industry, due to lack of Federal Regulations, only
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base with hints of Sweet Jasmine. The undertones ranged from a more Spicy, Spanish Cedar, to a Petroleum essence. These buds are some of the more beautiful ones that I have seen! The structure is definitely more toward the Thai father, producing long and dense buds, reminiscent of old school “Thai Stick.” I was almost sad to let this one hit the grinder, but with the medical effects it produced, Casey Jones will remain a valuable resource of mine for years to pass.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS WHAT THEY MEAN FOR THE COMMUNITY by Jade Greene
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ive years after the initial passing of The Edward O. Hawking and Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana Act in 2006, a number of amendments will address current issues that both patients and the state may be having with the current caregiver laws. What the Act did for Rhode Islanders was protect patients, prescribers, and cultivators for the medical use of marijuana and administer regulations. What is probably the most significant change made to the Act is found in an added line in Section 21-28.6-4, thirteenth paragraph, which reads: “Not withstanding any other provisions of this chapter, effective January 1, 2013, the cultivation and dispensing of medical marijuana shall only be authorized by compassion centers.” Patients will no longer be able to obtain medicine through their caregiver - they will now have to visit compassion centers. Some patients have voiced discomfort with this scenario - a scenario in which their anonymity is put at risk.
but mine, I don’t see why the current system has to change.” Other patients such as Anita, 40 of Warwick, would prefer to go to a compassion center rather than finding a caregiver. Anita uses medical cannabis in response to her radiation treatments and thinks that, “...if feels too much like I am going to a drug dealer, even though I know that’s not the case. I don’t want my children to feel as though I’m doing anything wrong, because I know that I am not.” One right that qualifying patients and registered primary caregivers will no longer enjoy is the right to exchange marijuana amongst each other (i.e., to other qualifying patients and registered primary caregivers). Might seem like a silly thing to ban, but they don’t let us swap our Percocet prescriptions either. Upon enactment of the amendments, obtaining a caregiver license will be more difficult for some. Prior to the amendments, if a caregiver applicant was a convicted drug felon, the department could waive the refusal of his caregiver status. Now, however, the department will no longer be able to waive the imposed restrictions. Also, added to the list of those who would be denied caregiver status:those convicted for a capital offense. Dan, 28 of Chepatchet, a regular user of medical canAnother major change made to the Act is the replacenabis to treat his PTSD, is not comfortable with the idea of ment of the Health Department with the State Police when anyone seeing him enter a compassion center: “What if a it comes down to who will do the honors of performing potential employer were to see that? They’d find a reason routine (and sometimes, not so routine) inspections. As is not to hire me, that’s what they’d do. It’s no one’s business easy to imagine, many licensed medicinal growers are not
“...effective Jan. 1, 2013 the cultivation and dispensing of medical marijuna shall only be authorized by compassion centers.”
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excited by the idea of inspections being performed by the RI State Policy. Nick, a 36-year-old grower from Jamestown, says, “The Health Department, those are the guys who do the inspections. Policemen perform raids.” Of course, for some cultivators, the opportunity to show their gardens to the police is welcomed. “I am not doing anything wrong. Let them in to see that. Let the world in, I don’t care. What I’m doing is perfectly legal,’ says Jody, a 42 year old grower from Smithfield.
centers have expressed a definite interest in offering meditation, yoga, informative and recreational libraries, relaxation and music rooms. The aim is to provide a completely rehabilitating environment for patients. Doctors and prospective founders of compassion centers alike understand that patients may not be immedialy comfortable with frequenting dispensaries. With libraries containing brochures and educational information on medical cannabis as well as today’s latest New York Times bestseller and music rooms offering a complimentary coffee, comfy furniture, and smooth tunes, I suspect that finding relaxation at compassion centers won’t be beyond reach. What lies in store for the RI community once January 1, 2013 hits us undoubtedly has its pros and cons. On one end, patients and doctors alike will feel an air of legitimacy to the nature of their activities. On the other, patients may lose anonymity and doctors and centers will likely become targets for theft. But, if you’re thinking about One service that you (probably) wont find through your robbing a compassion center, think again. With advanced caregiver is the availability of different relaxing and mind- security systems legally required in dispensaries, you might stimulating activities. A number of proposed RI compassion have more luck at the Federal Reserve. ▀
“Upon enactment of the amendments, obtaining a caregiver license will be more difficult for some.”
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RHODE ISLAND APPROVES DISPENSARIES
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No doubt by now you’ve all heard the great news!! Three of RI’s Compassion Center applicants were approved ved to open in three different locations throughout the state. While the RI Health Department declared that nine of the applicants were qualified to open, only three were approved in accordance with state law. The three approved CC’s are comprised of Summit Medical Compassion Center in Warwick, Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center in Providence, and Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth. Location played a key factor in determining which centers were to be approved. Interim Director of Health, Michael Fine, said in a prepared statement that he “determined that these three applicants were best able to offer safe, conveniently located options for patients currently enrolled in the medicalmarijuana program.” Hell yeah, Rhode Island, keep it up. ▀
DISPENSARY
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n October of 2009, the Justice Department stated that medical marijuana patients, growers, and dispensaries which distributed medical marijuana would not be prosecuted in states that have made them legal. California is the only state exempt from this rule due to a measure legalizing small quantities of Cannabis for recreational use. Although the ballot measure was defeated in the 2010 election, the Attorney General has not repealed his decision to continue prosecution in California. The Justice Department has kept their word about not prosecuting in other states that have legalized medical marijuana. Well… in a way. On March 12th of 2011, nearly a dozen grow-ops and dispensaries (all legal under state law) were raided in Montana by federal agents who confiscated medical marijuana and drug paraphernalia along with computers, cell-phones, vehicle titles, paperwork, firearms, and cash. As no arrests were made in connection with the raids and seizures in Montana, the only purpose which seems to have been served is to overturn and stamp out these operations. Unfortunately for medical marijuana patients in Montana the only service done for them by the Federal Agents was forcing them to take to the streets to get legal medicine from illegal suppliers. Medical growers and dispensaries in California have had less fortune when dealing with government agents, in recent months. In such an area, with a higher number and density of dispensaries and grow ops, two things seem to be prevalent. More medical marijuana STOPPING US operations will sometimes mean more STOPPING US attention f r o m STOPPING US
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law enforcement and government agencies. Also, more operations means more people involved that might possibly break local and state laws and bring unwanted, negative, attention on law abiding patients and legal suppliers. As an example, recent raids in California have been launched and supported due to illegal advertising of dispensaries in school zones, money transfers of illegal profits and keeping false profit records, and other infractions of state and local laws that, in hindsight, seem like terrible ideas for those involved by many if not most of other people involved in the medical marijuana community.
“...the State authorized three Compassion Centers to legally dispense medical marijuana.” Despite all this news, in early March, Rhode Island’s State Tax Administrator David Sullivan projected that the marijuana sales taxes (from a 6-percent sales tax applied to dispensary sales) would total approximately $800,000 in the 2012 fiscal year and that it was expected to jump to $1.3 million for 2013. On March 15th, in response to these projections, the State authorized three Compassion Centers to legally dispense medical marijuana to patients under state law. The three dispensaries named are Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center of Providence, Summit Medical Compassion Center of Warwick, and Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth. It may be some months, still, until they are open and operational, as these centers must pass state inspection and secure criminal background checks for employees before getting the final ‘green’ light. ▀
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MEDICAL USES OF
CANNABIS TRANSDERMALS by Charlie Johnson
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opical medicine is absorbed transdermally (through the skin) into the layer of subcutaneous fat beneath and has many benefits, over any other form of ingestion, for treatments of certain illnesses. When medicinal marijuana is applied to the skin of a patient (in any of its many forms) the drug very quickly starts to take effect as it is introduced to the blood almost immediately. It is not absorbed all at one time, though, so the effect of an exact dose will keep a constant but lessened effect for a longer period of time than by, say, inhaling the same dose of vaporized medicine (which will give an immediate and intense effect that would span less time). Because of this, when applied to people with a chronic pain or a wasting disease, topical medication is beneficial for these reasons (among others): 1.Transdermal application requires no smoking / inhalation / injection / or oral ingestion, reducing chance of rejection (coughing, pain, vomiting). 2. Topical medicine can be applied directly to the pain afflicted area, speeding up relief drastically. typ of application and strength of medi3. The type ca be adjusted to alter both effect length cine can int and intensity. There are quite a few options to choose from when decid which type of topical medicine would deciding bes suit the needs of you or your patient. best
As states broaden their uses of medical cannabis, patches like this one may become more popular as an alternative to traditional inhalation of marijuana.
OILS: Of the three options excluding patches, Oil generally has the longest effect time and longest time taken to reach maximum effect, as it is absorbed the slowest. This does not mean that the effect will be lessened, necessarily, as the dosage can be adjusted accordingly. Because of this factor, Oils are often made to have a stronger potency than the others to keep the same effect potency as the other applications, only lasting longer
GELS: Gel application is mainly a form of topical medicine mixed with another substance, making it more comfortable to apply and deal with in general. Skin creams can be much more pleasant to apply to afflicted areas and can be customized with scents (as opposed to the smell of alcohol infused with marijuana).
ALCOHOL TINCTURES: This application has the PATCHES: The most easily measured effect strength and ALC fas fastest maximum effect as it is absorbed the fas fastest into the blood stream. In turn, the eff effects will have the shortest duration of the ap applications listed here.
length of any application but some studies suggest that synthetic forms medicinal marijuana compounds simply do not have the exact and full effects as the chemical compounds made from naturally grown marijuana. ▀
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CANNABIS TOURISM
A POSSIBLE ECONOMIC SOLUTION FOR STRUGGLING NATIONS by Jade Greene
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hat do countries usually do in a time of economic despair? Go to the IMF or the World Bank for assistance, attempt to create new jobs, invest in education. One option that a few remote spots have opted for is the legalization of marijuana to boost tourism. In places such as Nepal and the Marianas Islands, with high unemployment, an impoverished countryside and declining investments, marijuana legalization seems to be the best option. The Marianas Islands consist of a group of islands at the top of Micronesia, between Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Here, black market cannabis trade has always been a problem for citizens, government and authorities alike. In an attempt to alleviate this problem as well as encourage tourists to visit, the islands have passed a bill through parliament to legalize cannabis. This is met with some opposition from the US, who provides millions of dollars in aid to the islands, since the islands fall under US jurisdiction.
(Below) Marijuana plant growing in Muktinath, Nepal. (Right) Patan Durbar Square, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Patan is one of the three royal cities in the Kathmandu Valley. It is known for its tradition of arts and crafts and cultural heritage.
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This move by the Marianas Islands has inspired activist groups to form in other Pacific nations such as New Zealand and Australia. In New Zealand, medical marijuana is already available. New Zealand’s medical marijuana is generally ingested by methods other than smoking. In Nepal, the wheels have been put into motion, but marijuana is not officially legal yet. In mid February, Nepalese celebrated the festival of Shivaratri, Shiva’s night. During this festival, worshipers and pilgrims alike wander the countryside visiting different holy sites and live on the beneficence of the reverent. The Nepalese government provides the pilgrims with food, shelter, and – weed! Pending legalization, tourism would boom in Nepal. Imagine going on a chopper ride over Mt. Everest after eating a couple of brownies... Offer extended stay and multipleentry visas, enjoy countless new businesses and record-low levels of unemployment. Spillover and service effects from those businesses would gain from others, and an upsurge in tourism overall would have a very broad effect. Taking into account monies accumulated through taxes, license auctions, and visa fees, the treasury could easily earn a few hundred million per year. Cannabis would become the ultimate cash crop, and sales taxes from to overall growth would be substantial. ▀
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Cloning is a highly efficient method of reproducing any plant type - creating an exact DNA replica of a plant. A cloner takes a trimming from a plant, and either soaks or saturates it with cloning solution. Water is rushed to the rooting of your plant. A female trim piece should be used with about four inches, and have three or more leaves. Trims can be taken up to week four of the ďŹ&#x201A;ower. This way of rooting happens over a ten day period, much shorter than other methods. Step one Fasten all three â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tâ&#x20AC;? connectors using the ďŹ ve inch tubes listed in the supplies so that the sections resemble an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hâ&#x20AC;?. Step two Install the elbow pieces into the four open ends of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hâ&#x20AC;?. Use the two twelve inch sections to complete the frame of the sprayer head by attaching them between the elbows. Attach one more ďŹ ve inch length of tubing to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tâ&#x20AC;? in the center. This will provide the feed. Step three Prepare the sprayer head to accept the misters by marking the locations you want them to be.
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THE REAL
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ith tax season quickly passing, the reality of yearly spending and savings is something we cannot avoid. A thought that might even arise for some is government savings, and what is being done to maximize the government’s effectiveness. While surfing the Internet, I came across an interesting story about where Americans hard earned money is being spent. I discovered that in an average year the US spends approximately $42 billion dollars fighting the War on Cannabis. There are currently 16 states which legally allow medical marijuana, and, since the new year, 22
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another 9 are in the process of legalization. How is the government possibly justified in spending so much on a war that the majority of the public so clearly opposes? 2009 was the biggest year for arrests involving cannabis, coming in at a whopping 855,408 arrests. Local attorney, Joshua Macktaz, is an accredited legal representative in Rhode Island, whose work exhibits publishes himself as an accredited legal representation in Rhode Island. Just some of his recent work exhibits case after case of the State arresting first time and repeat offenders of cannabis violations, some only in possession with as little as a cigarette and a small baggie. The government is spending absurd amounts of money fighting a war on a substance that has no recorded instance of use resulting in death, in comparison to the virtually nonexistent fight against tobacco and alcohol, two much bigger threats to public health. With the number of public needs that are not being met – strengthening our education system, broadening our health care plans, fixing our roads, or even reducing our cost of living – it seems the state could ease up on non-threatening ‘crimes’ and focus more on improving our public services, things that actually affect all of us, every day. ▀
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