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editor’s note Thank you for checking out the 49th issue of northwest leaf!

This is our third annual Tannins & Terpenes feature and one of my favorite annual issues

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hile we can all admit that Cannabis is safer than alcohol, pairing the two responsibly can result in fun and unique taste and sensory experiences.

It is also a great tool for teaching nonpatients about Cannabis. Everyone knows that there are thousands of types of wine in the world, but many still think that all pot is the same pot. Not true!

The symbolic pairing teaches people about the intricacies of Cannabis, and allows for a fun and festive tasting. Try out our pairings, or make up a few of your own! They sky is the limit for what you can create and enjoy.

This month also features coverage from the Secret Cup and the MMJ Concentrates Cup, and I interviewed the crew at Analytical 360 about their new solvent testing. There has been a lot of confusion about the new test results, and I hope that the information can

help processors make better, safer medicine.

We have a sweet feature on rapper TimMe, who is a true beast on the mic and one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Check out his debut album Still Growin: Cuts of Cannabis and pick up a copy for a friend!

We also take an inside look this issue at The Amsterdam Exchange farmers market, a hash seminar on Vashon Island and review 221 RX, and have an interview with the founder of Cannacon, Bob Smart.

Bob Montoya shares another great Micro Strains column, this time taking us to meet a grower from Kent with an AK47 cross that helps sooth pain and other stressors out there.

Don’t miss the new Dr. Rose, new growtech, a tasty strain of the month and more!

As always, thanks for reading, and sharing the truth about our wonderful medicine!

~ Wes Abney

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NO OREGON EDIBLE BAN BUT PLENTY OF CHANGE Products must be in child-proof containers, with no cartoons or bright colors allowed

M STOP AND BLOW Why are Washington drivers being paid to take roadside blood & saliva tests for marijuana?

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you’re driving around the Evergreen galization, according to commission spokeswoman State this summer, something odd Jonna VanDyk. The findings might be used to help might happen. While you’re at a stoplocal law enforcement decide how much time to light, you might encounter people spend on marijuana DUI patrols, VanDyk said. wearing orange vests with signs saying Washington’s threshold for driving under the “Paid Voluntary Survey,” and they might ask you influence of alcohol is 0.08 percent, and for mariwhether you want to take blood, saliva and breath juana it is 5 nanograms per milliliter. tests for marijuana. They’ll give you 60 bucks if you The teams will “urge” the driver to give the keys to say yes. a sober person or accept a cab or motel The surveys are a These government-hired survey room, if they deem the driver to be imfederally funded teams have already begun asking hunpaired, VanDyk said. project to give dreds of Washington motorists to proPolice officers will be on the scene, police and safety vide breath, saliva and blood samples, allegedly to serve in a secondary role, agencies a better idea of how many and they’ll be asking questions, too. to protect the survey teams, “which will Washingtonians The voluntary roadside surveys are sometimes work at night or in tough are driving high. a federally funded project to give poneighborhoods,” VanDyk said. lice and safety agencies a better idea of The effects of pot are considhow many Washingtonians drive high, according ered more difficult to predict than those caused to officials. National agencies are working with the by alcohol use. The survey is meant to check Washington Traffic Safety Commission, which is for about 75 substances besides marijuana. in hurry-up mode to get the data before retail mar“Traces of marijuana can be detected in blood ijuana stores open in Washington on July 1st. samples several weeks after chronic users stop inThat way, officials say they’ll have a baseline from gestion,” according to a National Highway Traffic which to measure any safety effects of Cannabis leSafety Administration report.

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arijuana-infused edible treats just came within a gnat’s whisker of getting banned by Oregon health officials in April, but seem to have dodged the bullet, at least for now.

Officials at the Oregon Health Authority got hundreds of emails opposing the ban, and the new set of rules seeks only to ban marijuana-laced products that are made or packaged in ways that might appeal to children.

The new rules ban Cannabis-infused edibles that are brightly colored or formed in the shapes of animals, toys or candies. They require Cannabis products to be sold in child-proof containers, with no cartoons or bright colors.

“Marijuana isn’t candy, and it shouldn’t look like candy,” said Tom Burns, director of Pharmacy Programs for the Oregon Health Authority, announcing the rules.

SB 1531, passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber earlier this month, required the health authority to set the rules.

The bill also allows cities and counties to ban dispensaries within their borders, until May 2015 anyway.

The new law calls for the Oregon Health Authority to implement rules intended to keep pot away from children.

An earlier draft of the proposed rules would have instituted a blanket ban on all cakes, cookies, candy and gum that contain Cannabis, but Burns said the agency had gotten “a couple hundred” emails from patients upset about that.

The rules went too far and would have harmed patients who can’t smoke or need to ingest marijuana to benefit from its longer-lasting effects. The products are 15 percent to 20 percent of dispensary sales, according to owners, but they reported pulling “medibles” from their shelves in expectation of a ban.

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People who have become patients in New Jersey under the state’s extremely restrictive program. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has called MMJ “a front for legalization.”

‘COMPROMISE’ BILL PASSES IN NEW YORK Patients won’t be able to choose how they want to medicate

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he new law will provide relief to thousands of New Yorkers suffering from debilitating illnesses such as cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis, as well as children struggling with seizure disorders. It is the 23rd state in the country to legalize medicinal use of Cannabis.

But there are drawbacks to the deal announced June 18 by members of the New York Assembly, Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Information available about the bill suggests that New York’s MMJ program has some serious limitations and restrictions. For example, patients would be prohibited from smoking. They’ll have to vaporize or consume their marijuana in edibles, and they will not be allowed to grow for their own use.

The number of producers and dispensaries is reportedly also extremely limited, raising questions about whether the system will be able to meet the needs of patients in New York.

“New York has finally done something signif-

icant for thousands of patients who are suffering and need relief now,” said Gabriel Sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance.

“They will benefit from this compromise.

That said, this is not the bill we wanted,” Sayegh said.

“We are disappointed to learn that eligible conditions have been limited, and despite strong medical evidence about the benefits of smoked and raw cannabis, leaders decided to exclude this as an option for doctors and patients in New York.

“We strongly believe that the decision about the mode of administration for any medication should be left up to doctor and their patients,” Sayegh said.

“The cost of purchasing a vaporizer and the extract products will likely leave many low-income patients behind, and there is little research on the long-term health effects of using extracts.

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Attendees at the Florida Cannabis Coalition biz conference in June. The Cannabis industry in Florida is worth an estimated $758 million.

Bricks of Cannabis that were seized by Houston Police from an 18-wheeler carrying quite a bit more than just a backhoe on its way to a job site.

Millions of dollars Colorado has collected in taxes on marijuana in 2014, which could be in jeopardy due to a activist’s lawsuit filed on constitutional grounds.

A similar lawsuit is currently pending in Washington as well.

Grams of marijuana that residents in Alabama would be allowed to possess under a proposed bill.

A study found blacks were 3.2x more likely to be arrested for Cannabis possession than whites in Alabama.

Number of murders that a drug cartel hitman admitted to in a recent Mexico trial. Uruguay hopes to undercut cartels with $1/g pot prices.

Millions of dollars in pot found in a rental truck stopped in Ohio en route to California. More than two tons of pot were seized in the bust.

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I STRAINED TO REMEMBER WHERE I WAS OR EVEN WHAT I WAS WEARING. Maureen Dowd, Columnist at The New York Times, in a widely criticized column about the experience of eating too many edibles while reporting on legalization in Colorado in June. She later admitted to just two nibbles (she said there was no serving size).

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Politics

A LONG, SORDID HISTORY OF OBSTRUCTING SCIENCE

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he Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and the Drug Policy Alliance have released a new report, “The DEA: Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting Science.” The report documents a decades-long pattern of systematically obstructing medical research and ignoring scientific evidence.

In a series of historic votes in May, the U.S. House approved a bipartisan measure prohibiting the Drug Enforcement Administration from undermining state medical marijuana laws, and OK’d two amendments prohibiting the DEA from interfering with state hemp laws. The votes were seen as a rebuke to the DEA and DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart.

“The DEA is a police and propaganda agency,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

“It makes no sense for it to be in charge of federal decisions involving scientific research and medical practice, especially

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The time is long past for a top-to-bottom review of this rogue agency. ­Ethan Nadelmann Executive Director Drug Policy Alliance.

when its successive directors have systematically abused their discretionary powers in this area.

“The time is long past for a top-to-bottom review of this rogue agency,” Nadelmann said.

Despite substantial evidence confirming marijuana’s medical benefits, the DEA has opposed efforts to reform federal policy to acknowledge marijuana’s medical value and made it very difficult for researchers to obtain marijuana to study its medical efficacy.

Researchers who want to conduct clinical trials of its therapeutic value are typically frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles.

In 2007, a DEA administrative law judge ruled the DEA’s stance on marijuana’s medicinal benefits was harmful to the public interest and should end, but Leonhart rejected the ruling.

State legislators and voters have taken matters into their own hands by making marijuana available for medical use at the state level.

Nearly half of all Americans now live in a state where medical marijuana is legal and allowed.

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A HUGE VICTORY FOR HELPING VETERANS Judge rules Post Traumatic Stress Disorder must be added to list of approved conditions warranting MMJ use

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ollowing years of hard-fought efforts, a coalition of patients, medical workers and advocates succeeded in demonstrating the medical safety and efficacy of marijuana for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to an administrative law judge who heard the case.

Judge Thomas Shedden stated “a preponderance of evidence shows medical marijuana provides palliative benefit to those suffering from PTSD,” in his June 4 ruling. The decision is now in the hands of the Arizona Department of Health Services, which has until July 9 to accept or appeal the decision. The Arizona Department of Health has denied all petitions submitted previously.

The Drug Policy Alliance’s Freedom to Choose campaign, which advocates for veterans’ access to medical marijuana, contributed a compilation of published studies and testimony from psychiatrists in New Mexico and veterans who use marijuana to alleviate symptoms of PTSD. “The pioneering effort to add post-traumatic stress to New Mexico’s medical Cannabis program in

2009, and the work that veterans and advocates did to protect PTSD as part of the program in 2012, has led to this swell of support around the nation,” said Jessica Gelay, policy coordinator, in the New Mexico office of the Drug Policy Alliance.

“Veterans and all people who have suffered from serious trauma and violence deserve the freedom to choose the safest treatment for their debilitating conditions,” Gelay said. “When our veterans come home they deserve access to the medicine that works for them.”

Arizona’s veteran population is 530,693, ranking it 13th among states with the largest population of veterans. Emerging evidence from on-going studies in Israel, supported by the Israeli government, show that marijuana is effective for combat veterans experiencing symptoms of PTSD that are treatment-resistant.

Many veterans, including Ricardo Pereyda of Tucson, who saw combat in Iraq and testified at the hearing, are elated.

“Being able to treat multiple symptoms from

post-traumatic stress with Cannabis has been instrumental in my ability to lead a full and productive life,” said Pereyda. “Judge Shedden showed that politics does not have to trump science, and doing so showed his compassion for combat veterans and others who have suffered from traumatic events.”

“Cannabis medicine is natural, gentle, nontoxic and should be available to PTSD sufferers in Arizona,” said Heather Manus, president of the Arizona Cannabis Nurses Association. “Many PTSD patients in neighboring states are successfully finding relief of symptoms through the use of Cannabis.”

“This ruling could help a lot of Arizonans,” Manus said. “Not just combat veterans, but people with chronic illness and pain who can’t find relief from other medications.”

The judicial ruling in Arizona puts it on the road to becoming the 12th state to permit people suffering from PTSD to legally access medical marijuana. In fewer than 12 months, four states (Oregon, Maine, Michigan and Nevada) added PSTD to their medical marijuana programs.

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Colorado

IF ONLY A THIRD OF REPUBLICANS WANT LEGAL, WHY PICK DENVER?

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enver would just love to host the 2016 Republican National Convention. The Mile High City’s scenic vistas and tourist attractions make it an enjoyable place to visit, but that “high” thing is the hang: Denver is also the poster child for legal recreational marijuana since Colorado voters approved Amendment 64.

“Well, big deal,” you might think. “The voters expressed their will at the ballot box; isn’t that how American democracy works?”

While a majority of Americans now approve of Cannabis legalization, just 36 percent of Republicans agree with that position.

Denver, undeterred, is still trying to sell itself as the perfect site for the RNC. But when RNC staffers visited the Mile High City in April – a precursor to a larger scouting mission later – the lunch topic turned to marijuana. GOP visitors had plenty of questions.

“They’re more curious about how this is going to play out in other places around the country,” said beer fortune heir Pete Coors, chairman of the Denver convention bidding committee. “We’re the first state, and we’re learning how to do it.”

Angela Lieurance, the bid committee’s executive director, plays down the effect of Cannabis on the GOP’s decision. “You can’t run from it, and we haven’t,” Lieurance said. “You cannot pretend that it’s not an issue or challenge for us.”

She says Denver’s message is, it’s the will of the people, and “we have very thoughtful, smart people dealing with this.”

By the time the 2016 RNC rolls around, at least two other states could have legal Cannabis, and the campaign could be on in a couple more states. “In 2014, it’ll probably be on the ballot in Oregon again and in Alaska,” said Sam Kumin, law professor at the University of Denver who has followed the marijuana legal debate for years.

“In 2016, it’ll probably be on the ballot in California and Nevada, and possibly other states,” Kumin predicted.

National polls, including, for the first time, Gallup, have put overall support for pot legalization at more than 50 percent. But Republicans lag far behind national progress when it comes to weed. Just 36 percent supported legalization in a January CNN poll, compared with 62 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of independents.

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Colorado new lawsuit says ‘self-incrim’ at heart of marijuana tax issue

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ctivist attorney Robert J. Corry Jr. is seeking to end Colorado’s marijuana taxes on the grounds that paying them violates a citizen’s Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination because of marijuana’s status under federal law.

The complaint was filed in June in Denver District Court on behalf of an unnamed licensed medical and recreational marijuana store, and the No Over Taxation committee, which worked against Proposition AA, a marijuana tax issue approved by Colorado voters last year.

Corry is seeking a refund of all marijuana tax money collected by Colorado and unspecified damages.

As long as marijuana remains illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act, states can’t require people to give any information about themselves in order to buy or distribute it, Corry claims.

Corry cited the 1973 Colorado Supreme Court case, People v. Duleff.

The case overturned a man’s conviction for “selling marijuana without a license” because complying with the licensing requirement would have required him to violate his constitutional right against self-incrimination, thus exposing his violation of federal law.

“The Colorado Supreme Court held specifically that the Fifth Amendment prohibits state licensing requirements that force a person to reveal a violation of federal law,” Corry wrote in the complaint.

Corry also cited a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Timothy Leary v. United States, in which the nation’s highest court overturned Leary’s marAs long as pot is still federally illegal, ijuana possession conviction and ruled states cannot require the federal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 people to give any was illegal because a person seeking a tax information about stamp would be forced to incriminate themselves in order himself. to distribute or buy it.

“Marijuana-specific taxes require plaintiffs and any other person paying said taxes to incriminate themselves as committing multiple violations of federal law, including but not limited to, participating in, aiding and abetting, or conspiring to commit a ‘continuing criminal enterprise’ and ‘money laundering,’ ” Corry wrote in the complaint.

“These illegally collected taxes are ultimately laundered by the State of Colorado through J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, which also participates knowingly in the continuing criminal enterprise.

“It is illegal for government to retain tax monies illegally collected in violation of the Constitution, so all amounts must be returned, and all records related to previous tax payments, destroyed,” Corry wrote.

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THE DEALMAKER

BOB SMART The founder of CannaCon will transform the Tacoma Dome into the Northwest’s largest Cannabis business & networking expo August 14-17th — but look elsewhere if you just want to smoke.

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More info at cannacon.org Day/Weekend Tickets ($30-60)

I started growing exactly 40 years ago for personal use and as a patient in Washington for the last five years. I’ve worked hard to provide real medicine for patients, and I’ve been vending at farmers markets and supporting local jobs.

We are going to have all types of vendors, from growing supplies companies to Cannabis testing companies, general contractors and electricians, distribution and logistics companies, greenhouse manufacturers, air conditioning companies, merchant services, banking, investment/venture capital firms, extraction products, packaging companies, event companies, edible companies, trimming solutions and topical producers...

#2 What gave you the idea for cannacon, and the courage to try and pull off something so ambitious?

#6 That’s quite a list. What is the schedule like for attendees? we’ve heard rumors of shuttles to and from Seattle Hempfest.

I worked for Cal Spas for a decade and would manage its booths at different trade shows. These weren’t little displays, either. Our booth at the LA County Fair was the size of a football field, with dozens of hot tubs and spas on display. I went on to run my own home and garden show called the Central Washington Super Show for five years, before settling down and growing. But I still had the desire to do a big show, and one day the name CannaCon popped into my head. Within a couple of months I had the Tacoma Dome booked, and really starting rolling.

We have buses running back and forth from Seattle Hempfest to CannaCon, but parking at the Tacoma Dome is free with a ticket to CannaCon! For attendees, Thursday and Friday are free for any business owner and a guest. All they have to bring is proof of owning a business and they can come in for a true Cannabis business-to-business experience.

Saturday and Sunday are open to the public, with tickets online for $30 through Ticketmaster or at the door.

#1 how did you become involved in the cannabis movement?

#3 CannaCon is also going to be a lot different than your average pot festival. Why make it about business, and not just about smoking pot?

I’ve bought a VIP ticket at Cannabis Cups and Hempfests and never felt satisfied by the experience. I have also tried to sell products like nutrients at those events, and realized that the demographic of attendees is there just to get high. It is impossible to do business at those types of events, and they shouldn’t be called trade shows. CannaCon is going to be the first professional Cannabis trade show.

#7 You also have seminars going on throughout the weekend.

What will be some of the highlights?

One of the coolest things we are doing is a Cannabis version of the “Shark Tank” game show, where people can pitch investment ideas to real investors. We also will have growing classes, legal seminars, MMJ seminars, recreational/502 seminars, explaining terpenes and other cannabinoids, and more. A full list is available online, with 65 available in all. The seminars are free for any attendee, and bring big value to the tickets. We are also going to have a budtender certification program that weekend, where over three days of classes and passing a test you can become certified to provide medicine.

#4 How do you feel your event can change the industry?

#8 what can you tell us about the vip experience?

What we are really trying to do, our end goal, is to change the scheduling of Cannabis. That can only happen if we are seen as a legitimate industry, with legitimate businesses and practices. We need the public behind us, and if all they see is our industry partying it will never happen. We need the public to see us as a normal industry, a suit and tie industry, a professional industry that is going to change the world.

The best part of being VIP is eating and drinking free all weekend, plus the social events. Friday night will include a special performance at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, with dinner and drinks provided.

VIPs will also have access to special beer/wine and snack areas, and private meeting rooms for business meetings. Saturday will include a trip out to MMJ Universe in Black Diamond for a private pot party and barbecue with live music. There will also be VIP perks on-site, and more to be listed and coming!

#5 the event will be at the historic wooden Tacoma Dome. What kind of booths and vendors can people expect?

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takes a little more than 45 minutes to get from Seattle to Black Diamond, but if you’ve ever made the drive, you know that’s a plus. You’ll see some gorgeous countryside, especially as you get closer to Black Diamond. And once you’ve arrived at the MMJ Universe compound – a place of stunning natural beauty – you’ll likely agree that it would be hard to find a better setting for a Cannabis concentrate competition and community party.

The second annual Concentrate Cup – the return of an event that was the first concentrates-only Cannabis competition anywhere – drew a big crowd to the bucolic setting at Deidre Finley’s well-kept grounds. Some estimates of the crowd ran to 1,000 people.

A bus that shuttled attendees from a nearby parking lot to the event stayed busy from morning until night, according to the driver, who estimated she’d made about 35 trips by 8 p.m. – with a couple hours still to go.

The place was hopping when I arrived at 10:30 a.m., a half-hour after opening time. A friendly crowd thronged the grounds and happy attendees were exploring the many vendor booths – concentrates and flowers for sale in one section, accessories and fashions in another, and a variety of food booths in a third.

I had been at the Cup all of 10 minutes when I was offered (and, of course, accepted) my first free dab of the day. It was the first of many.

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stage and roomy performance space was the focus 2ND ANNUAL CONCENTRATES CUP ing to hear this year, including “#CSL (Cannabis Saves of the day’s musical entertainment and schwag MMJ Universe Black Diamond Lives)” and “Northwest Party.” giveaways. Early in the day, the relaxed vibe and Several informational classes were taught during the JUNE 21, 2014 rural setting were amusingly highlighted by a day, including an informative session on making bubble chicken calmly walking across in front of the stage, unconcernedly scratching hash led by A Greener Today. I learned a few useful facts, including if you’re and pecking. An adorable family of pygmy goats, including a baby, and Hamgoing to dab bubble hash, you should do it at a lower temperature than with let the Pig were also popular.

BHO – around 550 degrees is ideal.

Crowd favorite Jonah Tacoma of Dab Stars emceed, with excitement reachThe festivities were capped off at 7:30 p.m. with the presentation of the ing a fever point at and just after 4:20 p.m., when thousands of dollars in awards by Northwest Leaf publisher Wes Abney, with a record 95 entries. merchandise was thrown to an enthusiastic crowd.

“Farmer” Tom Lauerman, who drove up from Olympia to attend the Cup, Seattle-based outfit Positive Rising’s looping reggae rhythms provided the said just getting together with like-minded members of the community to day’s first musical highlights. PR will, as one of their songs aptly says, “put celebrate the herb is reason enough to show up. “The relaxed atmosphere you in a good, good mood.” The band gave away a free, four-song EP. You reand the friendly people here make me want to stay all day,” Lauerman said. ally should check out their songs “No Harm” and “One Man Army.” It’s hard Three members of the Ferguson family – uncle Casey and 20-something to beat good reggae in the outdoors, surrounded by towering trees, a gentle nephews Jim and Tom – came from Auburn to the Cup, their first event of breeze and sunshine. Yes, even the Northwest’s notoriously fickle weather cothe kind. “Seeing all the fantastic glass pipes is great.” Tom said. operated all day long.

“The fact that we can just come here and relax like this is the best thing Tim Me (Timothy Edwards), a rapper from Enumclaw, wowed the crowd in the world,” Jim, who lived in Idaho before moving to Auburn, told me. with his talent. Tim’s skills, brainy, clever lyrics, and infectious grooves are “It’s such a good mellow vibe here.” no doubt soon to be heard by many more people. Check out his new CD, “The openness here is really nice,” agreed his Uncle Casey. “We’ll come “Still Growin’: Cuts of Cannabis,” for some of the best weed songs you’re goagain for sure if they have one next year.”

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A TASTE OF AMSTERDAM There are plenty of restaurants in Seattle’s Canna-friendly Lake City area but only one of them serves up medicated dishes inside a new MMJ farmers market

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take a double medicated chicken salad wrap, a regular medicated pulled pork sandwich and a non-medicated fruit cup please.”

There’s only one place in the world where you will hear that order: north Seattle’s Amsterdam Exchange. The Exchange features a full-service medicated cafe, with medicated menu items including grilled cheese with bacon and a variety of healthful salads. But the food isn’t the only draw to this easy location. The farmers market has 30 collectives under one roof.

The big red building off Lake City Way has drawn a lot of attention since opening in May, and it continues to surprise and delight. The medicated cafe is constantly adding to the menu, and the upstairs MMJ market brings top-quality medicine at discount prices to patients in an easy and convenient way.

“The environment for this market is perfect; you won’t find 30 better vendors anywhere,” said Sean Hajny of Reign City Concentrates, a regular vendor at the market. “A lot of north-end patients have never seen a farmers market before.

To see the type of variety, a patient would have to visit dozens of locations in the city. Instead they can come here and get the experience that is unforgettable.”

The restaurant has people thinking twice about how MMJ is viewed, and how they can exercise their rights as patients.

“This is such a fun and unique experience where you can sit down with a friend and order a meal, medicated,” said David Brown, co-chef and husband of Dee Dee Baker, the founder of Canna Chef. Her medicated butters have been reviewed in NW Leaf, and she offers a whole new selection at the market.

“We’ve been daily experimenting with different recipes. It started with the medicated baked potato, and now our new chef Bonya is pushing the limits. He just developed a medicated pulled pork, and we want to keep adding to the menu.”

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Bonya, the market’s new chef, takes an order for a medicated chicken wrap from patient Marie Ferguson in June. Ferguson said she enjoys the opportunity to get away and use her medicine privately since she does not want to smoke it in her home while raising children.

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msterdam Exchange has on-site parking, with ADA-approved access to both floors and a main patient entrance on the bottom floor. Downstairs is the check-in area and cafe, which gives people space to medicate and relax. Upstairs, patients are greeted by a full-service dab bar before heading into the market area. Brightly lit booths and custom displays full of medicine greet the patients, with friendly faces offering samples and new specials at every angle.

“I love this atmosphere, it has made us push even harder to have the best medicine available for patients,” said Robert Manyon, who operates a table at the market. The quality of medicine in this place is phenomenal. You can find anything you want here.”

Walking around the market with eyes wide open makes it hard to imagine a product missing. From hundreds of flower strains to every type of medible, including AMSTERDAM EXCHANGE delicious cooking oils and even medicated TheAmsterdamExchange.com flour, you can get ready to get baking. VaOpen daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. por cartridges aplenty are available from 13524 Lake City Way NE booth to booth, and FECO/RSO, and the Seattle, WA 98125 scent of sweet CO2 vaping, brings some206-787-9008 thing for all tastes.

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“I have never sold as much CBD medicine as I have at this market,” said Sean. “It really lets you know what the patients and vendors are here for when you look at the medicine available.”

The market is also open late every other Friday, blending a social hour with top-quality medicine.

“Every other Friday from 6 to 12 we have live music or entertainment and a fun schedule with giveaways and promotions,” said market manager Jessica Mills. “No alcohol, but lots of Cannabis and love, and a ton of fun.”

The market is undergoing renovations, and has big plans for the future.

“We are turning the downstairs into a full cafe/sports bar, with TVs going and games available for patients to play. Upstairs we are running an torch-free market, with all vendors using electronic nails.”

By creating a safe and friendly environment, the Amsterdam Exchange hopes to break down stereotypes while serving patient needs in as many ways as possible. And they’re doing this all while taking care of the vendors who make the market special and worth traveling to the neighborhood for.

“I like vending here because of the unity amongst vendors,” said Brian Smith of 206 Top Shelf Meds.

“The new patient reaction here is awesome, too. Patients come once and they keep coming back because of the positive experience.”

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When did you start writing and rapping?

What made you want to share your voice?

I started playing around with writing as a kid, wanting to do something big, but just jamming at home. I’ve been writing music my whole life really, starting with poetry and then song lyrics around age 10. When I first heard hip-hop it inspired me, and I started writing raps at 11.

What inspires you about creating hip-hop and spoken word poetry?

It’s a way for me to freely tell my story. Hip-hop is a way to be yourself. It’s a way that I can get out my struggle. Honestly, it gets my anger out. That 15 minutes on stage where I can be myself is a good way for me to vent and express myself. There are so many stereotypes with hip-hop, and I kind of want to break those down. Hip-hop is where I can start with a beat and go from there, and where I can show up at a show and it’s just me. I compare it to like a fighter stepping into the ring ... when I step on stage it just feels natural, like I’m doing what I was supposed to do.

You have been through a lot in your life, starting when you were born. How has that affected you?

I just turned 30, was born in 1984 and raised in Washington, spending summers in Humboldt

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County. I was born with arthrogryposis, a disease that for me affects the joints and my arms. There are 150 different types of the disease, and only one type is nonhereditary, and it’s my type.

The doctors had no clue, it isn’t in my family and there were no early warning signs. I was born with my arms growing backward, and my intestines out of my stomach.

The first month of my life was spent at Children’s Hospital, with the first two years of my life consisting of multiple surgeries to shift my arms forward. I can’t use my left arm very well, and I’ve suffered nerve damage and other issues.

Does your condition cause you a lot of pain?

It does. I have a lot of pain in my arms and my back, and my shoulders and back have to overcompensate for my arms, so I have a lot of strength in the upper body, but it comes at a price.

How does medical Cannabis help with the pain, and when did you start using medicinally?

I was introduced to weed in college, and the cops who treat it like any other drug. People these days who just now start smoking don’t know about the problems we struggled through or what it was like before legalization. Weed is the only thing that makes me not hurt.

I used to be prescribed a lot of pills, but they

didn’t work. Cannabis is the only thing that truly helps and hasn’t screwed up my life. I got authorized in 2009, and I remember walking out the door of the clinic and I didn’t stop laughing for five blocks. I never thought I could get it, even though I was a good case for it.

What brought you into the world of broadcasting and emceeing?

I was home-schooled and went to an alternative high school, and then went to Running Start.

I went to Green River Community College originally, and I worked on the college radio station KGRG 89.9. Radio was something fun to learn, I was young. I went from being a sheltered kid in small town to being around all types of people. I got my degree there, a general AA, after that I was screwing around, being a youngster. Made bad decisions, got in trouble, went back to college and got BA in communications.

Do you get nervous when you’re out performing? What keeps you pushing for more?

Yeah, I get nervous. I think the more shows you play you build that confidence. I’ve been booed.

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I don’t want to say that it doesn’t faze me cause it doesn’t sound human, but I don’t let it bother me.

I’ve had shows where I’m not ready to perform, but they’re like “you’re on in five” so I got to get out and give it 110 percent.

I also got my degree with a focus on broadcasting, but the thing that really motivates me to keep working and gives me confidence to make music is Cannabis. I feel like I don’t fit in a lot of traditional workplace environments, but using Cannabis gives me confidence to get on stage. That was the turning point to do an album centered on Cannabis.

Did this album come together quickly?

This project came into fruition at the end of 2011, debuted on Feb. 25, 2012, opening for Coolio after winning a freestyle rap battle contest. Some of those songs are from way back; one I wrote at 14 called “1984.” I decided to start last December as an idea for an LP, and I kept getting more songs together, and it became a full album. This is my first major release.

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We have to address the fact that I have a disability. I think

What’s your process like for making a track?

people want to know, and I’m

I started making beats on GarageBand, and that’s when I joined up with Lucian, and we make beats together or independently … Some songs I’ll write the lyrics in an hour, some I will sit on for a year.

I still have beats from five years ago that I haven’t found what I want to say yet.

Overall, I’m more into the art of hip-hop, and while I want to freestyle rap and battle to start my career, I am ultimately a writer and I want to prepare what I want to say.

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OK with questions. Sometimes I think people are unsure, but if anything, them staring and not saying anything creeps me out more than

It’s titled “Still Growin: Cuts of Cannabis” featuring 18 tracks, four of which are skit tracks.

It features Rappin 4tay and 2 Piece and other local artists, with shout-outs to Lucian Influx of Influx Creative Ventures for producing and co-writing beats and album artwork. My music company is True Entertainment, and you can find us online.

asking about my life. I love Cannabis as medicine too, and try to share that in every song.

How does your life shape you as an artist?

We have to address the fact I have a disability.

I think people want to know, and I’m OK with questions. Sometimes I think people are unsure, but if anything, them staring and not saying anything creeps me out more than asking about my life. I love Cannabis as medicine too, and try to share that in every song.

It’s like a shifting of stress. I compare it to school, one project done and on to the next. It’s definitely

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What track means the most to you?

My favorite new track is “#Cannabis Saves Lives,” which is also my first single release, and that really sums up the whole album being “Still Growin.”

You have to listen to the whole album from end to end to get the full picture, though, and I am telling the story of my life, with different small pieces scattered on tracks where you can take the sum of everything and find me.

What can you tell us about the new album?

How does it feel to have your album out?

a big weight off your chest, but now I have three more projects to work on.

You’re also part of Green Stream Radio on NWCZ radio. How has that changed you?

I was there since the first episode, and started as intern. I remember “OnOne” asked if I was ready to be on a show about weed, and I asked, “Is it OK if I’m stoned right now?” It’s been a really great experience and I am excited to see where that show is going to and where the Cannabis movement goes. People are still being put in prison and to death for a plant that saved my life and many others. It ain’t right.

Any last words or shout-outs?

Find Tim-Me’s debut album

“Still Growin: Cuts of Cannabis” on CDbaby.com or on iTunes or Amazon.com later this month.

I love my family, and my mother. My parents are the biggest supporters in my life. They might not like all the content I share, but they know I have a talent and that I’m doing something good with my life. And at the end of all, my biggest strength is my faith in God. I want that to be known.

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THE BIG APPLE (MANHATTAN) 2 oz Four Roses bourbon 1 oz Swede Hill Apple Pie Moonshine Dash Orange Bitters

Pour bourbon, Apple Pie & bitters into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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S T RAIN :FIERC E OG KUSH & SW EDE HIL L AP P L E P IE MOONS HINE $35.99 ]The Fierce OG Kush from Goldleaf Gardens is a special strain. Its signature jars keep the flower fresh and allow the smell to jump out when the container is opened. The smell of apples and cinnamon is the first to hit the nose, with undertones of earthy caramel and nutmeg finishing the flavor profile. This is a heavy high that matches the impact of apple moonshine, which tastes just like apple pie, if you serve your apple pie over ice with a spritz of club soda.

A cross between White Fire OG and Chemdog, this strain has a heady smell that will fill up a room fast. The White Fire OG brings earthy and sweet smells of caramel and citrus, which meets the Chemdog diesel flavor to make a truly distinctive combination. This strain pairs well with the bourbon straight or shared with the mixed drink recipe. This is a nice bourbon with notes of vanilla, caramel, maple, cinnamon and a nice oaky scent. It’s sweet on the lips, has an oak note, lasts long and has a slightly dry finish. Smooth.

ST RAIN : PURPLE KUSH & p. loui s marti n grand c r u b r u t c ham pag ne nv $2 9 . 9 9 The buttery brioche flavor of the champagne pairs wonderfully with the nutty pine flavor of the Purple Kush, which finishes with earthy tones when smoked. Our phenotype had a strong fruity flavor when snapped open and a powerful flavor of resin that tastes like heaven when smoked. We matched it up with this full-bodied champagne from the village of Bouzy.

The nose is a buttery and grilled brioche with a yeasty edge to balance the textured apple and fresh apricot. It melts in the mouth with a slight effervescence; it’s a good balance between power and freshness.

This ripe style makes an easy drinking champagne.

S T RAI N : CHO CO L O PE & FU L L SA IL BO U RBO N BA RRE L AGE D I M PE RIAL STOUT $12.99 The name here says it all. Dark musky notes of chocolate and espresso in the strain match this stout beer like they were made for each other. This beer was aged for a year in Makers Mark, Heaven Hill and Four Roses casks. This stout is dark and rich, picking up flavors of wood, smoke and vanilla during the barrel aging. Add a scoop of ice cream and you’ll have one heck of a float.

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ST R AI N: P LUS H BERRY & ravens w o o d zen o f zi n cal i fo r ni a 2 0 1 2 $4 . 9 9 This delicious cross between Black Cherry Soda and Space Queen from TGA Seeds goes well with the Zen of Zin. Strong notes of berry and fruit go with the wine, and the relaxing indica effects will make any evening a pleasure.

Slow down with this pair and get ready for a stress-free tasting.

The fruit-forward plush Zinfandel takes the finer characteristics of Zinfandel and puts it in an affordable package.

One of the better bargain wines, it’s a crowd-pleaser. You cannot go wrong choosing Zen for your next party or backyard barbecue cookout.

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recipes

By Pam TwiceBakedInWa for Northwest Leaf

PHOTO by daniel berman

Summer Berry StoveTop Cobbler Fueled by a healthy case of the munchies,

I suddenly needed to figure out how to have a cake-like dessert in five minutes without using sugar, gluten, dairy, or eggs? Stove-top cobbler was invented. While you can totally use plain coconut oil in this recipe, being able to create a fresh medicated edible in a couple of minutes is a good skill to know. Serves 2.

Cannabis Infused Coc onut Oil 1-2 Tsp. Mixed Berries 1 Cup 1 Ripe Banana Cinnamon ½ Tsp. Vanilla 1/2 Tsp. Hemp Seeds ¼ Cup Coconut Flour 2-3 Tbs. Chopped Nuts ¼ Cup

MELT coconut oil in a pot.

ADD berries, banana, cinnamon and bring to a simmer for a few minutes minutes.

MIX in vanilla, coconut flour, and hemp seeds. Mixture will become thick and “cakey”.

SPRINKLE with chopped nuts and serve with a spoonful of thick coconut milk.

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Check out more of Pam’s recipes at Twicebakedinwashington.com

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STORY AND STRAIN PHOTOS by BOB MONTOYA for NORTHWEST LEAF

Micro Strains Up Close Each month we’ll highlight growers crafting strains with the goal of helping specific needs, not necessarily obtaining the highest yields

J

ULY BRINGS ME TO KENT where a very industrious

woman has found a balance of strains that help her maintain her fast-paced life. Having the need to deal with pain and still being on the go is something we all share at one time or another.

Finding flowers crafted for this purpose, from common strains is special. Zanae has knocked these two strains out of the park.

ZD47 is different. It looks unlike its ancestor AK47 in

ZD47 strain Dense buds Purple hues

form and has a much mustier note than I have known in previous encounters.

Zanae notes that “Her dense buds ooze with glistening trichomes. She flashes her nugs with hues of purple, evergreen, and amber. She kisses you with a skunky flavor combing a hint of pine with a full floral finish. Get ready to pucker up with this beautiful heavy hitter. This particular strain is used for chronic pain and for very ill patients.”

I couldn’t have said it better.

Caboose is a lesser-known bud. A cross of Big Bud

(Salmon Creek) crossed with Train Wreck, it fills the gap that comes when its time to feed and rest the body.

A 70/30 Indica-dominant plant produces a medicine good for stimulating appetite, easing pain and sleeping.

Sometimes you just have to regroup, and this is a good rally point bud. It has an airy skunk start with a nice earthy finish. The buds and sugar leaves are so densely covered in trichomes it looks like it was dipped in hundreds of little diamonds.

Both strains are available in whatever amounts she has left over to donate.

AVAILABLE FROM: Zanae Denaxas “Zgirl” zgirlgardens@gmail.com

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Caboose STRAIN 70/30 Indica

The white crystal-like trichomes are about half the width of a human hair — Seen in this 500x close-up.

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THE SECRET POWER of stevia Medicinal uses:

Stevia has been widely used for diabetes in South America and animal studies have had promising results. Stevioside has demonstrated blood-pressure-lowering effects.

Historical uses:

For centuries, the natives of Paraguay used Stevia, which they called ka’a he’ê (“sweet herb”) as a sweetener in yerba mate and other foods, and as a medicinal agent. Extracts of leaves from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni have been used for many years in traditional treatment of diabetes in South America. Paraguay’s rural and indigenous populations have used Stevia for the control of fertility. Stevioside, a natural plant glycoside isolated from the plant Stevia rebaudiana, has been commercialized as a noncaloric sweetener in Japan for more than 20 years.

BY NORTHWEST LEAF SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR SCOTT D. ROSE

Drug interactions: Drug-herb interactions are very rare.

Description:

Stevia Rebaudiana is a perennial shrub growing to 80 cm., native to South America, especially Paraguay.

Side effects & toxicity:

No major contraindications, warnings or side effects have been documented. Stevioside was found to be nontoxic in acute toxicity studies in a variety of laboratory animals.

Dosage:

5 to 15 milliliters per week (1:2 tincture) as a flavoring agent. Higher doses might be necessary for therapeutic effect. Many Stevia products are on the shelves at grocery stores. Products include Truvia and PureVia.

Try using stevia at home: www.truvia.com/recipes

Parts used:

Just the leaves of the Stevia plant

Active constituents:

The leaf of the Stevia plant contains sweet components, called steviol and steviol glycosides, which include stevioside, dulcoside A, rebaudioside A, B, C, D, F and others. These compounds possess up to 250 times the sweetness intensity of sucrose.

Contraindications:

Contraindications have not been identified. Information regarding safety and efficacy in pregnancy and lactation is lacking. Powdered Stevia products and liquid should have a slight hint of green. If they don’t have a hint of green, they might be overly processed, which is not ideal.

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NOT SO SWEET W HY LARGE CO RPO RA TI O N S WA N T TO K E E P Y O U E A TI N G AN D D R I N K I N G H F CS

H

igh fructose corn syrup is a highly processed, corn-derived sweetener that’s a cheap alternative to old fashioned sugar. It is the principal sweetener used in processed foods and beverages in the U.S., having replaced sucrose (table sugar) in the food industry.

Due to some politics, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) emerged in the early to mid-1970s. From 1970 to 2000, a 25 percent increase in “added sugars” occurred in the average U.S. resident’s diet.

Health concerns centered on the consumption of HFCS include obesity, diabetes, and liver and heart disease.

Most research has been “inconclusive,” conveniently backing the corporations and lobbying groups that contend HFCS is no more harmful than sweeteners such as sugar and honey.

HFCS was rapidly introduced into many processed foods and soft drinks in the U.S. from about 1975 to 1985. Soda makers such as Co-

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ca-Cola and Pepsi use sugar in other nations, The United States has the highest consumption but switched to HFCS in the U.S. in 1984. of high-fructose corn syrup at 42 pounds per perHFCS is also commonly used in breads, cereson per year. HCFS is the primary sweetener that als, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soft has primarily replaced sucrose in the food indusdrinks, soups and condiments. try. Again, sucrose from natural sources has been Before the development of the global sugar ina part of the human diet for thousands of years, dustry, fructose in the diet was limbut HFCS has only been used for ited to a few items. Milk, meats and about 40 years in the human diet. most vegetables, the staples of many A system of sugar tariffs and early diets, have no fructose, and sugar quotas imposed in 1977 in the

BY NORTHWEST LEAF then fruits such as apples, grapes, or U.S. significantly increased the cost SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR strawberries are only 5 percent to 10 of imported sugar, and U.S. producSCOTT D. ROSE percent fructose by weight. ers sought cheaper sources. HFCS Between the years 1970 and 2000, derived from corn is more economia 25 percent increase in “added sugcal because the domestic U.S. prices ars” occurred in the U.S. The average of sugar are twice the global price dietary intake of calories in America in 1970 was and the price of corn is kept low through govern2,076, in 2010 it was 2,534 calories. That is an inment subsidies paid to farmers. crease of 458 calories, much of which is coming HFCS is produced by processing “dent” corn from HFCS. ( a breed that is highly genetically modified and

not consumable until the HCFS process is complete) into cornstarch, and processing that starch to yield corn syrup, which is almost entirely glucose.

Then, by adding some enzymes, some of the glucose is changed into fructose. The most common method of commercial production is microbial fermentation, using bacteria or fungi to create the enzymes.

HFCS has been classified generally recognized as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1976, but health concerns have been raised. The growth of fructose consumption in many developed nations coincides with the large increase in the prevalence of obesity — along with cardiovascular disease, diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Large corporations and lobbying groups with vested interests in the global sugar industry support research projects and nutritionists who support their positions, and some food and beverage industry experts have said they’ve concluded that HFCS is no different from any other sugar in relationship to these diseases.

Most independent medical and nutritional experts do not support the use of HFCS in food.

Fructose consumption does not hit the satiety centers in the brain that tell someone they are full.

HFCS and cane sugar are not biochemically identical or processed the same way in the body.

When large amounts of fructose are ingested, the fructose and glucose units are absorbed and the fructose goes to the liver to make fats such as triglycerides and cholesterol, and the glucose raises

The growth of fructose consumption in many developed nations coincides with the large increase in the prevalence of obesity,

insulin levels in the blood stream. Sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beets has been a part of some human diets for thousands of years, and sucrose from fruit or honey has been in the human diet for thousands of years.

HFCS contains contaminants, including mercury, that are not regulated or measured by the Food and Drug Administration. A 2009 study found that out of 20 samples of HFCS collected from three separate manufacturers, 11 did not contain detectable levels of mercury, but nine of the samples did contain mercury.

The potential amount of contaminated food product makes up to 15 percent to 20 percent of the average American’s daily calorie intake. Mercury is a known neurotoxin to the human body and should be avoided.

HFCS producers are waging a branding war, attempting to label HCFS as “natural,” and suggesting a name change to “corn sugar.” See through the deception of the American Corn Association’s concerted attempt to dispel the “myth” that HCFS is harmful and uses the opinion of “medical and nutrition experts” that it is no different than cane sugar. It is not a “healthful” part of our diets when used in moderation.

HFCS is not a sweet deal.

cardiovascular disease, diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Dr. Scott D. Rose is a naturopathic

physician, acupuncturist specialized in combining naturopathic medicine and Chinese medicine to treat a variety of complaints. www.msih.biz

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STORY & PHOTOS by KYU HAN for NORTHWEST LEAF

Pam Haley smells a sample of Cannabis concentrate before a Q & A session.

While hash and hash oils made from dried flower might lose a little of its potency and flavor over the course of several years, many products made from fresh frozen flowers need to be refrigerated or they can mold and quickly degrade, sometimes in just a few days.

Regarding the tricky nature of extraction using solvents, the Reverend shared a simple philosophy: “If it’s dangerous [to] drink it, I would not want to use it for my extractions,” he said. He went on to talk about the rise in the popularity of CO2 as a solvent for extraction, which the Reverend said he uses because it avoids harmful and potentially toxic solvents.

“Hopefully we’ll have more studies to prove or disprove the dangers of butane and propane.”

The audience ranged from self-proclaimed Cannabis “neophyte” Ed Stewart of Renton to more established figures in the extraction community.

“He covered the full range of things ... I found everything was accurate, completely” said Sam Smith, who has been making hash Relaxing in the easygoing island vibes of Reverend Cannabis and the Vashon Island oil through butane extraction for more than Marijuana Entrepreneurs Alliance to learn the craft of hashmaking June 21, 2014.

20 years. “Actually, he didn’t say a single thing I could take objection to,” Smith added later, bout 20 people congregated on a drawing a laugh from the Reverend.

Coalition. This time, he joined with Shango Los sunny afternoon at Vashon Island’s The attendees, who paid $20 to participate, of the Vashon Island Marijuana Entrepreneurs Grange Hall to hear the Reverend were also given raffle tickets for door prizes Alliance to put on Saturday’s event.

Cannabis speak. The hall, just off the donated by Vüber Vaporizer Oil Pens, Vashon The Reverend provided expert opinion and advice Fauntleroy-Vashon ferry terminal, Seed & Mercantile, Vashon on his preferred methods of extraction, has a homey and lodge-like vibe, which paired well The Reverend Botanical Society and Colibri. which tended to favor methods that shared a simple with the casual and laid-back feel of the event.

Prizes included vape pens, plant preserved the plant’s terpenes, which philosophy: “If The Reverend, aka “Jeff,” spoke to attendees starters and assorted Cannabis are responsible for the plant’s pleasing it’s dangerous [to] at the Hash Oil Seminar for about an hour on a seeds. aromatic qualities. drink it, I would not variety of subjects. The topics ranged from the Pam Haley, an extractor from The “flavor profile ... is king for want to use it for history of Cannabis concentrates to the many Maple Valley, appreciates the me. I’m all about the terpenes,” he my extractions.” methods by which hash and hash oils are produced. “great camaraderie” in sharing said, addressing the audience. He After a short intermission, the group regathered for information and encouraging also tended to favor using dry flower a question-and-answer session. others to experiment, and says it’s possible instead of fresh frozen plant, even though the use An established expert in the field of Cannabis because of “kind hearts like Jeff.” of fresh frozen plant has been gaining popularity. extraction, the Reverend had previously taught Ultimately, the day was a success for mostly a The Reverend said he favors dry plant material classes for the Cannabis College, an educational singular reason. “It’s about getting information for several reasons, the chief of which is that it course sponsored by the Cannabis Defense out to the people,” the Reverend Cannabis said. produces a product that is stable on the shelf.

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FEELING THE HEAT H ig h he at c a u s e s s t r e s s, s l o w e r g r o w t h , l o w e r syst e m i c i m m u n i t y d e f e n s e , s l o we r n u t r i e n t abs or ption , a n d l o o s e, a i ry f l o w e r s. L e t ’s l o o k at h o w a f e w o f t h o s e c o n d i t i o n s c a n s e t o ff a d o m i n o ef f e c t i n yo u r ga r d e n t h at c a n l e ad t o t h e a n n i h i l at i o n o f yo u r c r o p.

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uring the three to four days that temperatures escalate and desperate Seattleites seek refuge, conditions in your garden might need some tweaking as well.

Indoor gardening in the Northwest usually exists in an ideal environment for 10 to 11 months.

With temperatures rarely exceeding 65 during the day and cool temperatures prevailing at night, ambient heat exchange works in favor for most indoor Northwest gardens.

This month’s Grow Tech offers a look at heat and how it plays a role in indoor gardening. I’ve included some tips to improve or complement the way you manage heat in your garden.

Indoor gardening allows growers to create an artificial environment suited to the specifications most beneficial for cultivating a crop. People have found ways to meet, and in some cases exceed, the factors that most dramatically affect the outcome of a crop. But one way we will always fall short is when it comes to the light source. No matter how many watts and combinations of HID and LED spectrums an indoor garden provides, it will always

At the first signs of excess heat, plants will slow their biological functions to preserve energy and shift their priorities to cooling.

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pale in comparison to the best light exposure to the light, usually by source: the sun. curling the leaves up.

In an effort to get as close as possible As plant functions slow and

BY NORTHWEST LEAF to the sun’s rays, HID (high intensity temperatures rise, the hotter air SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR discharge) lighting systems create a holds less moisture in the air, DR. SCANDERSON broad and powerful spectrum of light. thereby decreasing humidity Even with the advent of LED (light while the slower plant functions emitting diode) panels, high amounts mean lower rates of transpiraof heat are generated. Herein lies pertion. haps the first limiting factor in your garden: how The combination of those factors can send much heat can your system manage? humidity plummeting. The combination of The more light you can apply to the surface of the low humidity and high heat will close the leaf, the more you are feeding them and stimulating plants’ stomata as their priority shifts to surtheir growth. Assuming all other factors are in line, vival. With the higher temperatures and the the more energy from light, the better your results lower rates of function, the plant doesn’t need will be. Depending on the variety you are growing, to take up as much nutrients, even though the lighting application for indoor Cannabis producdemand for water uptake increases in higher, tion ranges from 40 watts per square foot for pure drier temperatures. indica to 70 to 80 watts for pure sativa. With a lot Consequently, the nutrient reservoir or soil of square footage, you can create quite a heat load. can fall out of balance, becoming too rich in Excess heat is detrimental to production. High fertilizers. PH swings, combined with nutriheat causes stress, slower growth, lower systemic ent concentration issues, can cause lock-out, immunity defense, slower nutrient absorption, and which to an already heat-stressed plant can loose, airy flowers. Let’s look at how a few produce permanent damage. of those conditions can set off a domino effect in your garden that can lead to the void suffering that fate by being annihilation of your crop. constantly aware of the heat in your At the first signs of excess heat, plants will garden. The obvious choice for a cirslow their biological functions to preserve cumstance like the one described is energy and shift their priorities to cooling. to lower the wattage output. Turn off one or One way it will do that is by minimizing more of the lights in the garden. Nowadays,

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Proper insulating is a key component of cutting excess heat in a grow... many ballasts have dimmers, which allows you to Duct up and cool down more effectively decrease the wattage output while maintaining a light source. It’s far more effective to light a garden with lower watts, but provide proper If you are running air-cooled lights, you are ustemperature and humidity, then it is to have more ing fans and ducts to push air over the light bulbs, watts with the attendant environmental control issending the hot air from the hoods out of the room. sues. The plants won’t be able to use This design is an effective way to any of the watts you provide if othremove a large amount of heat er factors are out of line. generated by the bulbs. If you are Drop me a line Heat in your garden is generated thegreengardengroup@gmail.com using multiple hoods, or certainly by the heat exchange that goes on if you use a C02 burner, you might Watch a video between the equipment you have find that even with an intake and Youtube.com/DrScandersonGt inside the garden space and the exhaust, you have too much heat ambient air around that equipment. building up in your room too Most of today’s cooling equipment is designed to quickly. If this is the case, look at the efficiency of take those items that generate heat and trap it for your ducting runs. removal (air-cooled lights) while others deal with ambient heat in the air itself (air conditioning). By understanding how each of those elements work and combining it with some basic tips and tricks, it is my hope that during the long week of Seattle’s ARTICLE CONTINUES NEXT PAGE summer, you can beat the heat.

d r . s c a n d e r s o n s ay s . . .

An easy way to improve your conditions is to insulate. You can insulate your hoods using specially designed hood covers made out of heat-resistant, reflexive material that will insulate the hoods from the outside, decreasing heat exchange in your garden.

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FEELING THE HEAT Continued from previous page

BY NORTHWEST LEAF SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR DR. SCANDERSON

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tandard fans used for cooling lights are rated to push 400 to 700 cubic feet per minute of air. Most of the lights use 6-inch or 8-inch duct size. Combine that with the use of flexible ducting, multiple hoods per run and all kinds of other bends and curves prior to evacuating the room, it becomes apparent that the fan is beating a lot of air. It’s more efficient to decrease the resistance of the area(s) the air moves through than to increase the power source of the fan.

Simply stated, duct up. You can use 6- to 8-inch transition pieces to apply smaller fans with smaller CFM ratings to more appropriately sized ducting to increase the volume of air pushed over the lights.

Leave the flexible ducting for tiny short spaces and use hard metal for longer runs. Keep 90-degree bends out of your runs. Turn corners gradually or wherever possible, plan runs without bends. The increased cooling efficiency you will gain by using sealed hard ducting will allow much closer placement of the light to the canopy.

Somewhere along the line it became hip to get the hoods as close to the canopy as possible. That’s all fine and good, provided the hood efficiently scrubs the heat signature from below its lens. Several of the larger hoods do this, but many of the smaller hoods don’t.

Use the back of your palm as a measure of how close is too close when placing your lights over a canopy. Place the back of your hand directly underneath the light and you will feel the heat signature emitting below the lens. When you can no longer feel the heat on the back of your hand, you’ve reached an appropriate height for your plants to finish their stretch at.

Air conditioning I usually recommend not installing any sort of portable air conditioning unit in your garden. It’s al-

It’s almost always better to use air cooling, open intake/exhaust or convection currents to cool your room than bring in a portable AC.

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most always better to use air cooling, open intake/ exhaust or convection currents to cool your room than to bring in a portable air conditioner. Unlike mini splits, they are not regulated for efficiency. It takes lots more BTUs to cool the same load with a portable air conditioner, a lot more power to run it and the units themselves frequently create heat.

If you’re looking to make a small change in temperature to your garden and you have a separate room to dump the heat load into, or you’re using it to cool the intake air, then they can work for a reasonably low acquisition cost, although running them is still costly.

If you are considering air conditioning as a primary solution, go directly to a residential mini split air conditioner. If you are considering higher BTU portable units, you are already considering spending some money. But really, dollar for dollar, it’s far more expensive to purchase and use portables. Not only are mini splits so much less expensive to run but they are far more efficient at cooling. I’d rather have a mini split rated for 12,000 BTU than two portables with a total BTU rating of 20,000. Portables are that inefficient.

However, if a mini split is too small for your garden, don’t go to a commercial HVAC company and drop $100,000 on a system designed to cool large office buildings. Many companies provide commercial-grade equipment, but design it exclusively for indoor garden and greenhouse applications. This means features that commercial units would never employ, like air filters for mold and scent, integrated dehumidifiers, night time heat for full day control, easily mounted and washable air manifolds for clean, even air distribution, flip box technology to run multiple rooms on one unit, external compressors to eliminate compressors clicking on and off in the dead of winter and perhaps most importantly, they deliver it BTU to BTU at a cost of about 60 percent less than commercial HVAC applications.

INSULATION Heat enters and leaves due to inefficient insulation and heat exchange. If the hood for your light were perfectly insulated, all the heat generated by your bulb would just bounce around inside the perfectly insulated hood and the

air would in turn eventually evacuate it. In your root zone, regardless of your medium, desirable cooler temperatures increase in favor of thermal equilibrium in the same way.

An easy way to improve your conditions is to insulate. You can insulate your hoods using specially designed hood covers made out of heat-resistant, reflexive material that will insulate the hoods from the outside, decreasing heat exchange in your garden.

If you are skeptical of the efficacy of these covers, simply touch the top of your hoods at the end of your light cycle.

If the hoods are cool or barely warm to the touch, then skip this suggestion. If you find that your hoods are miniature heaters floating above your canopy, it could help you out a lot. Your plants will rely largely on their root zone to provide the resources necessary to cool themselves. Keeping the root zone cool by insulating the outside of your containers can help your plants deal with heat.

making adjustments

If

you are really experiencing higher-than-normal temperatures in your garden but not high enough to make significant changes, then make small adjustments.

Your plants likely will need more water in hotter conditions and less fertilizer.

In addition, anaerobic and other harmful pathogenic root infestations tend to thrive in higher temperatures so decreasing the total amount of inoculum you are applying to the root zone can help prevent anaerobic blooms and disease. At the very least, decreasing enzyme application in favor of microbes can be helpful.

In sterile environments, increasing the application frequency of the sterilizing agent is helpful at higher temperatures as products such as H202, hydrochloric acid and chlorine bleach will become less effective over time in higher temperatures.

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BAG REPORT & SMOKE APPEAL

iT’S NO SURPRISE the bag appeal of this gear is off the charts.

Golf ball-shaped nuggets boast copious layers of trichome coverage, giving that dipped in white sand appearance. The immaculate blend of deep purple tones, rich oranges and mint green leaf tips seem to exist only to display the frosting. The smell is a powerful, but not overwhelming, blue melon fruit that quickly transitions into the danky, earthy, oak and lemon notes of the Capt. Krypt OG. The potent OG flavor almost completely saturates the palate of the smoke, bringing with it hashy, spicy, Kushy lemon flavors with just a small hint of blueberry to ensure a smile is left on the face of the partakers.

HOW IT GROWS i had the pleasure of finding two dominant phenos, and I picked

The plant is shockingly beautiful in grow, turning a dark purple first from the underside of the leaves...

LINEAGE

Don and Aaron continue dropping seeds, not bombs, by using one of Seattle’s most popular patientpreferred strains, Blue Dream.

Combined with the “Captain Krypt” OG Kush, another winner from DNA is born.

the OG Kush dominant pheno for the review. The Blue Dream dominant pheno is outstanding on many levels, too.

A fast rooter and a bit of a slow starter, this plant is easy to grow.

She shows just a little bit of her OG lineage in early veg, taking a touch longer than her Blue Dream dominant counterpart to develop a robust root system, but nothing exceptionally slow.

Once she takes hold, watch out. The hybrid combination comes through in full force, throwing massive root balls and thick chaotic shoots. Kush Dreams stretches by about 100 percent in flower, responding well to training to shorten the internodal spacing and encourage lateral branching.

An easy-going feeder, she responds well to high levels of magnesium in bulking phases. Perhaps the biggest drawback is having some familiarity with pruning and thinning OG’s to maximize this plant’s potential. The OG stretch and cumbersome side branching, paired with the Blue Dream vigor, can make an intimidating combination.

Feel free to to go heavy and groom high and she will reward you with thick heavy blooms absolutely coated in a sandy resin. The plant is shockingly beautiful in grow, turning a dark purple first from the underside of the leaves and spreading to the leaf surface and onto the calyxes toward the end.

EFFECTS FAST AND FURIOUS, this medication is like a sledgehammer to the

GENETICS: BLUE DREAM X CAPT. KRYPT OG BREEDER: DNA GENETICS LIMITED FLOWER TIME: 60-65 DAYS

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third eye. It’s one of those extraordinarily potent smokes that left me consciously dumbfounded. Clear, present and alert to the fact that I’m slowly growing roots into this chair is about as complex a thought as I care to process, which is quite an accomplishment considering the loud ringing in my ears. Not for the casual smoker, the Capt.

Krypt OG dominant pheno of Kush Dreams is a true connoisseur smoke that I’m certain I’ll be keeping around for some time.

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