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Thanks go out to Dominic Holden of Seattle Weekly for briefly supporting medical marijuana patients last month.

Holden bought then donned a No on I-502 shirt at the Cannabis Defense March despite rallying for the “legalization” initiative constantly.

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wE HAVE GOTTEN TO TELL SOME AMAZING PEOPLE’S STORIES OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. We’ve traveled all

over the state to bring the best medicine, information and access to our loyal readers, for whom we would do anything. We’ve always stood with patient’s for all our rights! To that end, please enjoy this heartfelt 24-pg. retrospective featuring content from the past 23 issues!

faulty dui science 14 i-502’s Automatic arrests unchallengeable in court

of the month 44 strain Another beautiful bud close-up.

FOR KENT ACCESS 12 RALLYING Protesting possible citywide moratorium

reviews 80 tasty High-potency hot sauce

repeats its self 22 history MMJ rights & gay rights go hand-in-hand

seeds to sprout 82 getting A fool-proof method for starting off right

that gets the point 30 aOnfilm the road of life, they’re taking the wheel

THE STRAIN 86 BEHIND Dr. Scanderson talks Sour Diesel

opinion ............9 news...........10 no i-502.........14 ccpa...........24 rights........28 dr. rose.........36 blueberry.....80 recipes......85 sour diesel...86 COVER & CONTENTS PHOTOs Daniel Berman/Northwest Leaf

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editor's note

For advertising CONTACT founder Wes Abney at 206.235.6721 or email nwleaf@gmail.com

>> Oh how things have changed For the better, but not without a handful of risks, too.

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would like to take a moment to thank all the patients, activists and potprepreneurs who have spent years making the medical cannabis industry a reality in Washington. Without your efforts, none of this would be possible.

When the Leaf first started as a 16-page newspaper in June of 2010, our passion belied our humble roots and diminutive stature. In my opinion, the same can be said of this wonderful industry. Two years ago, most collectives were underground or extremely nervous about running day-to-day businesses and were certainly not interested in reinvesting or being publicly visible. Newly authorized patients were forced to troll craigslist forums for hidden and underground storefronts and visit garden stores asking advice for growing tomatoes. My how things have changed.

Today, patients in Washington enjoy arguably the world’s best access to medical cannabis. But the road, this path, hasn’t been easy.

We cannot forget the countless victims of the ongoing drug war, nor the threat of faulty legislature and initiatives. We must also remember that as safe and secure as today’s MMJ access appears, our state law provides only an affirmative defense. Many qualified patients are still fighting in court to

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clear their names and have their medicine recognized.

As this industry continues to mature, it is important to remember our roots, and take the occasional reality check to remember that we are still on the front lines. Every day, this medicine saves lives and opens minds around the world. It also makes some very angry.

Through the summer and the coming year our industry faces many challenges. A potentially new president, a terrible “legalization” measure (Say no to I-502) and a pharmaceutical industry that would replace our homegrown medicine with a synthetic drug.

Despite all the challenges, I have great faith in our ability to grow together in numbers, maturity, and strength. Through continued self governance and the American spirit that burns in us all, medical cannabis has a bright and strong future.

Here at Northwest Leaf, we are dedicated to this medicine’s future, and empowering patients through information and access. As always, thanks for reading — and please enjoy our 2nd Anniversary Edition!

-Wes Abney, editor & founder

OPINION

TRUTH, LIES AND BULLSHIT: DISPELLING CANNABIS MYTHS — A COLUMN By Mike Allison for Northwest Leaf

granny’s treasure trove of cannabis research Her work on the exhaustive internet datatabase, greenpassion.org, contains hundreds of pages humbly compiled for years

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omewhere in the hills of Northern California there lives a mild-mannered, semiretired school teacher who scares the hell out of your government. She’s not a political radical or a crazed jihadi.

She won’t blow up any buildings or hijack any airliners. In fact, she spends most of her spare daylight hours tending her vegetable garden.

But, she has made available a huge trove of evidence to anyone with an internet connection, pointing to a massive conspiracy at the highest levels of business and government. A conspiracy which has been going on for the better part of the last century. One which, when revealed to the general public, could have devastating effects on current political and economic models.

On the web, most folks know her as “Granny Storm Crow.” For years, she has labored over a subversive little internet document she calls

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“Granny’s List.” The latest version from January 2012 contains almost 700 pages of entries of individual links to research on cannabis from around the globe! It is truly a massive hoard of factual evidence.

Most of the links contained in Granny’s List are for peer review science, stuff way over my head. I didn’t go to medical school. But, it’s easy enough to see it’s all about cannabis and how it benefits mankind in so many ways. It’s not all doctorate-level reading, though.

There are plenty of well-reported news stories and lots of other anecdotal evidence, as well. Mostly, though, it’s the perfect document to show your doctor. It’s written in the language they all understand and believe – the

language of science. Just try not to say “In your face, doc!” when you shove forward a printout in the exam room. They don’t like that very much.

It might be fair to think of this as a sort of “Weed Wikileaks.” But this 60-ish-age school teacher is no Julian Assange. Of course, she’s just plain “Granny” to her friends, and I feel truly blessed to count myself among them.

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er work has been collected and dispersed over the space of years, without a shred of drama or hype. She shuns personal glory and adulation. She just wants to teach. Because, my friends, she is an educator first and an educator last. It’s her mission in life to teach, guide and inspire. She

It might be fair to think of this as a sort of “Weed Wikileaks.”

But this 60-ish age school teacher is no Julian Assange. She shuns personal glory and adulation. She just wants to teach.

Most of the links on Granny’s List are to peer-reviewed science, stuff way over my head.

I didn’t go to medical school But there’s plenty of news stories and anecdotal evidence, too. is, simply put, an amazing woman.

For the latest updates to the cannabis research database, visit the website, GreenPassion.org.

You just might meet Granny, herself, there – and that’s a blessing anyone would want.

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National landlord charged >> Gets prison time for tenant’s pot garden

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landlord in Montana with no criminal background received a year sentence for a medical marijuana garden on his property. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy sentenced Jonathan Janetski, 38, to the year and one day in prison. In short, this is another wasted sentence and thousands of dollars spent incarcerating a non-violent land owner and citizen. Prosecutors say agents recovered 718 marijuana plants from the Kalispell building that Janetski owned and that he helped transform into a grow facility.

This is the first of such convictions following letters to landlords from federal prosecutors sent out last year. With the new conservative Republican legislature in Montana, the state’s MMJ laws have been gutted completely. Janetski’s tenants have already been federally sentenced in the cultivating of the marijuana plants seized at the garden.

4 tons ditched off ca coast >> No suspects in waterlogged case without motive

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recreational boater was surprised this month to find 4 tons of pot floating off the California coast. The $3 million dollar haul was floating aimlessly with no owner or pickup in sight. To put 4 tons into perspective, the load consisted of 180 plastic wrapped bales weighing around 44 pounds each. Shortly after the most honest (and square) boater ever called the report in, Coast Guard boats were dispatched along with the Orange County Sheriffs Department to recover the 8,068 pounds of pot.

The pot was then turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol, who says the whole situation is a mystery. It is a well known fact that drug smugglers will toss a shipment when being pursued, but with no patrol or boat in sight the usual motive for dumping the weight is missing.

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Kentucky State police get nailed >> Nation’s highest court rules pot inadmissble in GPS tracking case

In a major win for civil rights and mairjuana activists alike, a federal judge has ruled that law enforcement cannot use the 150 pounds discovered in a car as evidence due to illegal GPS monitoring.

• The DEA and Kentucky State Police thought that they could play above the rules. Of the constitution. In September 2011 were following 49 year old Robert Dale’s car on suspicion of drug smuggling, and to avoid pesky warrants they dropped a GPS sensor on his car. When he later went to pick up the 150 pound load, he was caught in part by the GPS. Thanks to a major Supreme Court ruling stating that police cannot monitor citizens with GPS without a warrant, case law existed for Judge Thapar to bar the pot from being used as evidence.

This is a huge win for Dale, who is facing distribution charges.

Without pot in evidence, the burden of proof is unreachable.

Seattle fire yields 400+ plants >> Another case of electrical wiring gone bad ends in a big bust for law enforcement

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eattle police say that the illegal pirating of electricity led to the small fire at 8 am on May 14th. The fire occurred outside the restaurant, but a search for other electrical issues led the firemen inside. Police soon found a 481-plant marijuana grow operation in the Vietnamese restaurant’s basement. As with most illegal grows, stealing electricity tends to be a major downfall. In this case, it wasn’t the electric company crying wolf- it was faulty wiring. The owner of the business where the garden was kept has said that he didn’t know it was used for illegal purposes. The fire news comes on the heels of news that a medical marijuana grower was shot in North Seattle during a robbery at his home garden.

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Quick Hits!

In the Honolulu of Barry's teenage years, marijuana was flourishing up in the hills, out in the countryside, AND in covert greenhouses everywhere.

party at 1600 pennsylvania ave? >> New book on Obama reveals his extensive marijuana use as a high school and college student

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eenage Barack Obama was quite the toker. As a college and highschool student at private schools in Hawaii, Obama was known to intercept joints and take an extra hit as they rounded the room. He was even a fan of sucking down the weed-soaked air hovering in his hotboxed car, a move he called, ceiling hits. • In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham, wrote clever ABC journo Jonathan Karl. As a high school kid, Karl wrote, Obama would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.” He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.

A new hardcover reveals even more on president 44. Author David Maraniss penned “Barack Obama: The Story.” Maraniss notes that Obama spent a lot of time at the Punahou School in Hawaii with a “self-selected group of boys who loved basketball and good times and called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning “to smoke marijuana.” • “As a member of the Choom Gang,” Maraniss writes, “Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.”

One of those was: “Total Absorption” or “TA”. “TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,” explains Maraniss. If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, “you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.” • Obama helped popularized the concept of “roof hits,” as well, writes Maraniss. “All the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from

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number of bales of marijuana recovered 13 miles off the Southern California coast after a tip led authorities to the unsupervised haul.

cost in dollars of a proposed fine for firsttime possession of marijuana in New Jersey, as long as it’s under 15 grams of cannabis.

Subsequent offenses can yield $500 fines, and drug ed.

number of children under age 18 in Michigan with authorizations to use medical marijuana.

The youngest kid is 7 years-old, whose seizures, his parents say, are helped by regular cannabis vaporizing. percentage of drug arrests solely for possession of marijuana every year. 850,000 people were arrested for marijuana in 2010, alone. About 2x as many people are arrested today for pot than in the 1980s. number of hrs Connecticut senators debated legalizing medical marijuana before majority voted to approve the bill. CT becomes the 17th MMJ state.

people out of 30 were able to determine they were using cannabis and not a placebo in a University of California San Diego study. The study found positive benefits for treating those with Multiple Sclerosis for spasticity, a painful side-effect of the condition where legs and arms lock-up, and stiffen, think charlie horse.

a bad week for.... >> People wanting to become patients in North Dakota An editorial in the Minot Daily News calls for voters to reject an initiative that would legalize medical marijuana in the state. The editorial states that “North Dakota does not need the problems associated with medical marijuana. We have more important things to do. We hope this initiative never makes it to the ballot.” How sad that these people don’t realize the positive benefits of medical marijuana...

Nobody’s life is at risk here. We will prioritize this appropriately. But ultimately, if they are in violation of the law, they will be shut down.

-Ashland, Oregon Police Chief, on the arrival of a cannabis restaurant based on a Mongolian Grill theme. The restaurant will serve medicated teriyaki, tofu and other stirfry items in three strength levels. Patients may donate medicine to other patients legally at the restaurant, as well.

northwest GETTING INVOLVED What> Kent City Council votes on ban and we highly suggest patients show up to protest and make their views known!

WHEN> Tuesday, June 5th at 7 p.m.

WHERE> Kent City Hall, Chambers

220 4th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032

kent concerns >> A proposed citywide moratorium on new and existing medical marijuana access points could send patients to the streets

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ore than 100 patients and activists flooded a hearing at the Kent City Hall on May 14 to protest a proposed ban on collective gardens and access points. Kent currently has two medical marijuana access points serving more than a thousand patients every month.

Since most of Kent’s neighbors have moratoriums in place already, much of the area could come to lack access. Two of the three members on the City Council’s Economic and Community Development committee voted to move the ban before the full council who will have the power to implement.

Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke, known since taking office for her active opposition to MMJ patient rights, has lead the latest offensive.

“I’m in an uncomfortable position if I determine what laws we en-

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force,” Cooke said at the hearing. “I encourage people who want medical marijuana to change the federal law.

As mayor, I need to uphold the laws and the laws do not allow medical marijuana from a point of distribution,” she said unemotionally.

The truth of the matter is that she is directly violating state law, an act likely to leave the city with a major lawsuit on the horizon.

Denying patient’s access to their

If the Council passes the ban, we will immediately file an injunction and take this to court. The city does not have the right to change or dictate state law.

-Charles Lambert, Evergreen Association of Collective Gardens

medicine could very well drive them to the streets of a city already familiar with illicit street drug problems and gang-related activity.

This isn’t the first time Kent has threatened to shutter the access points. Charles Lambert of Evergreen Association of Collective Gardens was raided and shut down June 6, 2011. He reopened under the same name on the 25th, he said.

There’s no chance he’s planning on backing down from this fight.

“If the council passes the ban we will immediately file an injunction and take this to court,” Lambert said.

“The city does not have the right to change or dictate state law.”

Despite the second round of attacks by the city, Lambert hopes things will be different this year.

“We have two council members coming to do a walkthrough in the next week, and they are more

receptive to being educated on the issue,” he said positively.

“We want to show that this is about real patients and safe access.” Ultimately, patients and business owners alike are asking a simple question. “Why does the city feel that this fight needs to be fought?” asked Chris Barten, director of First Step, a medical marijuana authorization clinic in Kent. “I don’t understand the issue with these businesses. You don’t see mainstream protests of big pharma. So why MMJ? The bottom line is that patients need their safe access and the city should not take that away,” Barten said.

Outraged and discouraged patients mulled over what a ban would mean for them.

“The reason I come to Kent for medicine is because its a safe and easy way for me to find access,” explained Michael Ranetta, a patient since 2004. He said he travels regularly from Des Moines to Kent to obtain what he needs.

“I use medical marijuana to combat my multiple sclerosis symptoms, sarcatosis, and the aftereffects of two tumors.”

For patients like Michael, the lack of professional and safe access would force them onto the streets.

It’s an uncomfortable position the law-abiding citizens are facing.

“I witnessed the problems of drugs growing up. It’s not cool to be in the streets,” said Koli P. Bolden, a disabled veteran and patient since 2010. “The streets are a dead end for patients.”

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For almost 50 years, the National Institute of Drug Abuse has systematically blocked all research into cannabis for medical or recreational purposes. NIDA has been described by many as the biggest enemy to medical cannabis in the country. This makes there recently released study about the nanogram limit quite a shocker.

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you cannot challenge the charges in court. This automatic presumption of

guilt applies to all citizens, patients or not, with over 5 nanograms of active THC in their blood at the time of the arrest.

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in the bloodstream may not indicate recent usage or actual impairment. The study involved 30 chronic daily

cannabis smokers who provided a total of 553 plasma (blood) specimens while residing in a closed unit for up to 33 days. All but one study participant was positive on admission for THC, and the group had a median THC concentration of 4.2ng/mL. Participants were tested on days 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. After 10 days of abstinence, every participant still had active THC in their blood. After 30 days of abstinence, 4 participants still had active THC in their blood. Upon release at 33 days, 1 participant was found to still have active THC in his/her blood.

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The zero nanogram limit for those under 21 y/o is more than unacceptable.

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>> On May 12, about 100 patients and activists chanted their support for medical marijuana access and opposition to I-502 in a boisterous rally-march stretching two-miles from Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park to Westlake Park in downtown Seattle.

The entire time, Seattle Police kept the protestors surrounded on all sides. Photographer Daniel Berman tried to keep up.

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1...2...3...4...WE DON’T NEED NO DRUG WAR! 5...6...7...8...SMOKE A JOINT AND FEEL GREAT! >> Patients chanted a handful of rally cries as they marched through Seattle’s sun-soaked streets

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Patients listened to hip-hop artists like Keyboard Kid, Codebreakers and Rebel, while area access points competed to be crowned best medicine and other feats. Our favorite part was the complimentary Dream Creamers and nicely rolled joint provided to us at the door. We weren’t even missing that margarita!

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ca supreme court makes right decision >> Justices side with patients and caregivers in denouncing attorney general’s attempt to limit safe access

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atients will not be required to participate in the physical production of medical marijuana by a dispensary in order to obtain their medicine there, in what has been dubbed a landmark ruling by the California State Supreme Court in late May. The ruling ensures that safe access remains in the Sunshine State. Also specifically protected was that “collectives and cooperatives may cultivate and transport marijuana in aggregate amounts tied to its membership numbers,” a move vital to having medicine on-hand.

• “This landmark case also affirms the right of patients to purchase extracted or concentrated forms of medical marijuana and the right to transport medication from an off-site cultivation site,” said Joe Elford, chief counsel with Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a medical marijuana advocacy organization. • “The Colvin decision has far-reaching, positive implications for medical marijuana patients and providers,” Elford said, noting that the attorney general may lose its case against a San Diego dispensary operator denied a medical marijuana defense, and cities across the state that have enacted access point moratoriums of their own.

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NFL RUNNING BACK faces felony drug charge >> Will have to attend drug treatment program sponsored by NFL after second drug offense in a single month

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etroit Lions running back Mikel Leshoure pleaded guilty in mid-May to a misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession, paying a $575 fine from a St. Joseph-area district court. The most recent trouble came police located a small amount of marijuana on his person after the care he was in was pulled over.

Problem is, this was actually the second time Leshoure has been charged. Earlier in the same month, Leshoure was popped driving 92 MPH in a 70 zone at 6:00 in the morning. The Detroit Free Press reports police observed Leshoure trying to eat a small amount of marijuana as the officer approached the driver’s door. That incident became a felony when he committed a second drug offense later in the month. • In order to return to the NFL, Leshoure will be required to complete a 24-month treatment program provided by the league. He’ll have to attend classes, speak with counselors, and receive 2-3 random drug screenings, weekly.

• The league treatment program is actually stricter than the district court’s, the DFP reports.

Leshoure said he acknowledged his mistakes and is committed to moving forward.

They took an evenhanded approach ... and treated him with an appropriate amount of seriousness, but also recognized the context of the case.

I’d like to think that they also recognized a lot of the positive steps that Mr. Leshoure has made.

-Joseph A. Lavigne, attorney for Leshoure, who said he was pleased with Judge Sterling Shrock’s ruling.

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CANNABIS CHILD PROTECTION ACT >> Reasons to support the initiative that won’t hurt patients, unlike I-502

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nitiative 502 touts itself as “the next legalization initiative,” but it doesn’t carry any provision for home growing, it institutes a prohibitively high tax and has an intoxicated driving provision that is not based on science. I-502 was immediately opposed by many in the medical Cannabis and Cannabis reform community. Playing off the gains in public support won by previous Sensible Washington initiatives 1068 and 1149, voters were told by signature gatherers that I-502 would legalize Cannabis.

But real legalization would mean so much more than what’s envisioned in I-502:

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BY DON SKAKIE FOR NORTHWEST LEAF

The CCPA would give the right to provide for yourself, family and friends in the manner producers have done forever.

-The right to grow a crop for yourself or community that benefits people as a whole, not a small consumer segment.

-The right to benefit from tourism in the manner that winemakers and others maintaining bed and breakfasts do, which would happen with full reform.

-The right of workers to build processing facilities and work in them to support themselves and their families.

-The right to have their products in the

These are our reasonable expectations of legalization. The benefits not only outweigh the costs, they reduce them

marketplace, taxed at the same rate as other goods & services.

-The right to honest information and legitimate research to make the best use of this valuable resource.

-The right to shape the course of our own lives and guide our children to responsible adulthood.

-The right to remain free from incarceration and be a productive member of society, supporting our families, paying our fair share of taxes and being involved with our communities rather than becoming a drain on our common resources.

-The right to determine the laws we live under in our state w/o interference from the fed. government in matters reserved to the states.

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-No felony Cannabis charges for minors.

-Medical and religious use as well as under parental guidance.

-Washington’s attorney general must defend act against all challenges.

-The right of our children to grow up and be educated without having the highest paying job they can get be “drug dealer” or to face dealers in school or other settings particular to our young people.

When adults can obtain Cannabis from whichever adult they desire, there will be no reason to involve youths in the Cannabis economy.

These are our reasonable expectations of legalization. The benefits not only outweigh the costs, they reduce them and benefit our children. Read Initiatives 1223 and 514 (CCPA) and consider the future they present compared to what I-502 would do and how each would affect you, your family and

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By Kirk Ericson for Northwest Leaf

How support for gay marriage across the country echoes increasing support for medical marijuana

Parallel Tra “At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that -- for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that -- I think marijuana should be legalized. Now -- I have to tell you that part of my hesitation on this has also been I didn’t want to nationalize the issue. There’s a tendency when I weigh in to think suddenly it becomes political and it becomes polarized.

“And what you’re seeing is, I think, states working through this issue -- in fits and starts, all across the country. Different communities are arriving at different conclusions, at different times. And I think that’s a healthy process and a healthy debate. And I continue to believe that this is an issue that is gonna be worked out at the local level …”

-President Barack Obama, May 2016 We could end up reading this:

“The incident is similar to the aftermath of Obama’s announcement in May 2012 that he supported same-sex marriage. Samesex marriage eventually failed to become an issue in the 2012 presidential election.

Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage was largely ignored by Republicans, who tried to focus on the moribund economy …”

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hen 50 percent of Americans support anything, as they do today with legalizing same-sex marriage and marijuana, politicians will notice because they know they must win by at least half to keep their jobs. It’s easy math.

Any politician who claims to ignore polls is only saying that because a focus group said it would make them more appealing.

Polls can force a politician into a fullon, public evolution, especially when those polls show that support doesn’t appear to be leveling off. This is true of both marriage equality and marijuana. The lines showing approval for gay marriage and marijuana

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legalization over the past 25 years look like the profile of an alpine mountain.

And we might not be close to the summit yet.

The numbers make you think the same people who support legalizing marijuana might be the same people who support same-sex marriage: In October 2011, 50 percent of respondents in a nationwide Gallup poll favored legalizing marijuana. That was the first time support for legalizing marijuana hit the 50 percent mark. In May 2012, 50 percent of respondents favored legalizing same-sex marriage. In 1988, only 12 percent of people in the United States supported same sex marriage, according to the Pew Research Center. In 1988, only 23 percent of respondents favored legalizing marijuana, according to Gallup.

That’s a staggering increase in the pace of support. In contrast, support for legal abortion, another issue that’s caused a lot of yelling over the years, has traded in a narrow range of 48 percent to 55 percent

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% of respondents said they would be in favoring of legalizing marijuana in nationwide October 2011 Gallup poll, the highest results ever.

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for the past four decades.

Politicians recognize this. Obama’s thinking about same-sex marriage didn’t “evolve;” he probably favored same-sex marriage all along. What “evolved” was his ability to appreciate the political calculus and willingness to make public statements favoring same-sex marriage.

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any of the same forces for that cause are also working on campaigns to legalize marijuana. Marijuana legalization efforts are showing up on state ballots around the country, a candidate’s position on marijuana is now a factor in attracting donations and votes (just look at the outcome of Oregon’s attorney general primary race in May), and fabulously rich guys such as Peter Lewis and George Soros are donating to marijuana campaigns.

Lewis, the former chief of Progressive Insurance, has donated $250,000 to Washington’s I-502 campaign.

If it’s not Obama, it could be the next

acks president. You don’t have to be a complete goof to expect that a U.S. president will, one day, stare earnestly into the camera, swallow hard, and tell his fellow citizens that “… personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that -- I think marijuana should be legalized.

Why are people in the U.S. growing increasingly comfortable with homosexuals and weed?

In 2012, more Americans know more people who identify as gay or lesbian.

They also know more people who admit to smoking weed. It could even be your mother -- on both counts. Guess what?

We’ve discovered that homosexuals and marijuana users are not the depraved sub-humans they were once made out to be. Homosexuals and pot smokers once had to keep their pursuits within a group of the similarly inclined -- few proclaimed their passions for fear of being busted or beat up. That’s changed, not completely, but significantly. Now we realize they’ve been our relatives, coworkers and neighbors all along.

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oug Honig, communications director for the ACLU of Washington – an organization that’s been on the front line of both these efforts for decades – said he expects same-sex marriage and marijuana to be legal eventually, though he sees separate forces driving them.

“The way people think about the two issues are not all connected,” Honig said.

“Independently, the public has come to the recognition that the war on drugs, and especially our policies toward marijuana, don’t work and are unfair to people. And

GAYS and pot smokers WERE ONCE FORCED TO KEEP their pursuits to the similarly inclined -- few proclaimed their passions for fear of being busted or beat up. That’s changed, not completely, but significantly. Now we realize they’ve been our relatives, co-workers & neighbors all along. separately the public has come to realize that gay people should be treated equally under the law. …

“What they have in common are that both policies are unfair,” Honig said.

“There’s been totally separate organized movements locally and nationally opposing those policies, and gradually there’s been a public change.

Certainly with marijuana, a lot of people know someone who’s been arrested and they’ve come to see that it is unfair. With marriage equality, a lot more people than 30 years ago are personally aware of people in their lives who are gay … there’s no sense in treating them unequally.”

Here’s perhaps the most compelling factor playing into legalization of marijuana and gay marriage: The opposition is dying. People 65 years of age and older are more likely to oppose legalization than any other age group.

However, people entering that age group are now more likely to support legalization than the folks who entered before them.

In March 1999, only 11 percent of people 65 years of age and older favored legalizing marijuana, but by 2011, that number had increased to 31 percent, according to Gallup. We see similar increases in support with same-sex marriage. As opponents check out, supporters are more likely to check in.

Legalizing marijuana and same-sex marriage now seems as inevitable as the movement of a tectonic plate; it’s a jarring, earth-rattling, grinding process, but eventually it will end up where the forces of nature and democracy demand.

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a film about OPENING YOUR MIND Director & composer Peter McEvilley, left, & Exec. Producer Ryan Perlman in a seattle hotel room before a screening

‘on falling’ explores life’s twists IN A CHALLENGING, BEAUTIFUL MOVIE

BY WES ABNEY | PHOTOS BY DANIEL BERMAN

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arijuana is an integral part of the process known simply as “growing up,” for many American Teenagers. While some overly concerned parents (forgetful of their own use) worry that smoking pot will lead their teen down a bad path, it has the possibility to act as a positive influence, encouraging mental questioning and changing one’s perspective.

The movie “On Falling” explores this theme, along with questions on young love, sexuality, drug use, and searching one’s sense of self. For director Peter McEvilley and producer Ryan Perlman, the film draws on personal experiences.

The opening scene of the film involves an attorney and two teenagers weighing and bagging cannabis for medical patients across the country. The premise is that of a class action MMJ lawsuit, with our protagonists mailing meds to those without access. Believe it or not, it’s all based on a true story.

“At the very start of our first record label, Ryan and I shared a downtown Philly office with attorney Larry Hirsch, who dedicated his entire practice to a class action federal lawsuit of medical marijuana,” Peter explained. “The law-

Each scene builds with greater anticipation and a sense of potential for what is coming next. The scenes where drug use is portrayed are especially VIBRANT, realistic.

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suit had at least one claim from every state, and mailed meds to about as many.”

In the movie, it’s main character George Wesley [GW] and a friend doing the mailing. The two young men are both looking for guidance and direction, which fuels the films development as a central theme. “I remember sitting in the office when Larry told me ‘I just trust my instincts,” Peter said. “As a 23-year-old that sounded really cool, and it’s mirrored in the same situation through George Wesley.”

GW’s character is a young boy in a man’s world — one of an adolescent mindset extended a little beyond the norm. He’s graduated from college, moved back in with his parents, and is stuck with no real purpose. It’s this move that draws him back to an old female friend, Mildred. She’s mired in a string of meaningless sexual flings, one of which left her upset and wanting revenge. She convinces GW to take a road trip, and their fates intertwine.

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he morning of the trip, GW shows up in his parents car expecting Mildred to be alone. Instead, she has a male stranger who comes along for a ride and is the catalyst for a sensational trip. “GW doesn’t have the confidence to even consider being with her. She’s sending him the signals that she is into him, but wants him to man up,” explained Peter. “Adding in Brendan, he becomes a sort of spirtual guide for the two.”

Through the artfully shot scenes, GW secretly pines for her but lacks the con-

Watch the trailer at tinyurl.com/onfallingtrailer

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The fateful road trip down the California coast progresses as they find their unique personalities merging into one through drug use, drinking, and pushing their boundaries. fidence to even approach the subject until one joint sparks a love triangle.

Awkwardness fades for urges of adolescence, and the three lay as one.

As the fateful road trip down California coast progresses, they find their unique personalities merging into one through drug use, drinking, and pushing the boundaries of sexuality.

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ne of the most notable attributes of this film was the pacing. It has a very natural flow that pulls the viewer in deeper throughout the film.

Each scene builds with greater anticipation and a sense of potential for what is coming next. The scenes where drug use is portrayed are especially vibrant and realistic through the use of a specific lens.

“One of the main things we used subtlely was a tilt-shift lens,” explained Ryan, executive producer.

“It allows you to adjust the focal plane left to right [and everything else goes blurry]. It was a stroke

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of luck that we even got to use it.”

The film also features an original score by Peter, who is an accomplished pianist and composer.

He toured playing Reggae for 13 years, he says, before transitioning to producing music and film.

The change from studio to film festivals is nice, but he called every first screening “terrifying.” His movie has already been submitted to several festivals, and accepted to Sonoma, Litch Fields Hills, and local STIFF, the Seattle True Independent Film Festival.

But beyond the festivals, Peter gets reflective when asked to describe the meaning and essence of “On Falling. “Perception,” he says slowly.

“It could be left open to interpretation. Its on falling in love, on growing up... when you’re in the early 20’s you can take risks, learn and grow and try to find yourself,” he said.

“You try to find yourself and keep falling down...and you get back up.On the subject of falling we get back up.”

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BY NORTHWEST LEAF SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR DR. SCOTT D. ROSE

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oday, “phytocannabinoid therapeutics” is one of the newest, fastest growing field in medical research. Cannabis, or Medical Marijuana contains active medicinal compounds called cannabinoids (ex. THC, CBD). These plant derived, phytochemicals are hot targets in medical research. Keeping up on the most current research in the phytocannabinoid field can be a daunting task both in the volume and technicality of the information. The internet has replaced much of the requirement of visiting stuffy medical libraries with comprehensive data bases and user friendly

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search engines. One comprehensive compilation of past & current research on a multitude of medical research subjects including Cannabis is Pubmed. It’s worth investigating.

PubMed (pubmed.gov) is a free resource at the National Library of Medicine (NLM, est. 1956) through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature.

All peer reviewed research, with buzz words like double blind cross over placebo controled.... standard stuff that drives the wheels of modern day science, and more importantly the reseach

and development of pharmaceutical drugs.

Simply typing the word “Cannabis” into the search function of Pubmed comes up with 11,218 references on the topic (as of 5/19/12). Article titles appear in reverse chronological order from present day back to 1843! Most current articles have an abstract, or brief summary of the article - some even display the whole article online or they can be ordered. Lets look at just the first 20 article titles that come up, pull out a few, and go through some of the most current cannbis research to date.

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A REVIEW OF CURRENT RESEARCH Cannabis inhibits Prostate Cancer Cannabis benefits MS patients

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moked cannabis was superior to placebo in symptom and pain reduction in participants with treatment-resistant spasticity....... Future studies should examine whether different doses can result in similar beneficial effects with less cognitive impact.”

Corey-Bloom J, et. al. Smoked cannabis for spasticity in multiple sclerosis: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.

Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2012 May 14.

ver recent years, experimental data on the role of cannabinoids in physiological processes has revealed that there are few areas of physiology where the actions of cannabinoids do not exert some influence, from the control of neuronal signaling to the regulation of bone formation and homeostasis (balance in the body)...... Experimental and clinical studies have resulted in the first cannabis-based medicine, Sativex®, being licensed for the treatment of MS spasticity in a number of countries, including the UK.” Pryce G, Baker D. Potential Control of Multiple Sclerosis

by Cannabis and the Endocannabinoid System. CNS & Neurological Disorders Drug Targets. 2012 May 11.

IN CONCLUSION:

De Petrocellis L, et. al. Non-THC cannabinoids counteract prostate carcinoma growth in vitro and in vivo: pro-apoptotic effects and underlying mechanisms. British Journal of Pharmacology. 2012 May 18.

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annabinoid receptor activation induces prostate carcinoma cell apoptosis (cell death), but plant cannabinoids other than THC, which lack strong activity at cannabinoid receptors, have not been investigated....... the data supports the clinical testing of CBD against prostate carcinoma.”

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e observed a lower mortality risk in cannabis-using psychotic disorder patients compared to cannabis non-users despite subjects having similar symptoms and treatments...... Future research is warranted to replicate these findings and to shed light on the anti-inflammatory properties of the endocannabinoid system and its role in decreased mortality in people with psychotic disorders.”

Koola MM, et. al. Alcohol and cannabis use and mortality in people with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. J Psychiatr Res. 2012 May 15.

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review article that probes into the scientific knowledge of the clinical use of cannabis and the development of drugs base on cannabis. The Author suggests the “clinical use of cannabinoid drugs is not backed just by the anecdote of the medicinal use of cannabis since ancient times, but instead the boost it has been given by scientific research, which has made it possible to identify the target molecules that are activated or inhibited by these substances”

Fernandez-Ruiz J.Cannabinoid drugs for neurological diseases: what is behind? Rev Neurol 2012 May 16.

Cannabis continues to be upheld as a schedule 1 narcotic by the Federal Government in the U.S. This means, by definition, that cannabis has “no accepted medical use”. There are now 16 states (and DC) with Medical Cannabis laws on the books, 12 more with pending legislation, and much research pointing to many medicinal uses of cannabis. As current research continues to shed light on the Endocannabinoid System and a better understanding of the science behind phytocannabinoid therapeutics is gained, more appropriately targeted, specific therapies can be developed. And as a Medical Cannabis patient one should keep themselves educated on the use of their medicine. Perhaps not to the level of keeping up on all the current research, but working with a qualified health care practitioner who does - is well advised.

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It is hard to describe the feeling of printing our 24th issue of Northwest Leaf. When we first started in June of 2010, we had no idea if we would be able to print a first issue — or even a second.

Two years later, the medical cannabis industry

has grown and matured in ways we could not have imagined. So have we. Above all, we value

the opportunity to bring the best information,

medicine & access to the patients of the Northwest.

We would like to thank our amazing advertisers, the 100s of locations displaying Northwest Leaf, and, of course, our dedicated readers — without

which none of this would be possible, or so meaningful for our staff and contributors.

Please enjoy our look-back on the last two years

in this industry, with a page covering each issue, except for #5, for which we unfortunately don’t have an archive. Even so, enjoy our hard work!

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The D.E.A had no business going into a foreign country. The audacity of the U.S. government is astounding.

-Activist Dawn Darrington, on Marc Emery’s case, where feds charged him over outspoken views and activities related to selling seeds to the public.

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Transplanting

Green guide

I-1068

After your plant grows too large for its planter, it ’s important to spring for a larger pot. Make sure to not rip at the base of the stem, and to spread your new soil mixture evenly around the sides of the plant.

Now, it ’s time to water!

We let patients know how to stay safe with their recommendation by never having more than a 60 day supply of medicine, not to use cannabis in public, and to remember employers don’t have to accomodate your medicating.

Marijuana would no longer be a controlled substance under this initiative of yesteryear. Those over 18 would not face criminal or civil penalties for cultivation, possession, transport or using of marijuana, in any way.

The initiative did not pass.

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Our first issue looked at The Green Door, back when they were located in Shoreline.

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We also rallied with patients for the urgent release of Marc Emery, jailed in Missouri.

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Also discussed was how hemp is a great natural resource for fiber, textiles and more.

a volunteer at the green door transfers cannabis to a scale after a patient requested the strain.

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I HONESTLY BELIEVE my GETTING SHOT IN THE FACE WAS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN SEVERAL YEARS. -Steve Sarich, on how the armed robbery of his home garden brought attention to the risks of cultivation and the need for stricter regulation.

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The cover stor y on Steve Sarich delves into his history of activism & self-defense.

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Synthetic marijuana substances like K2 and spice get attention for their danger.

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First-ever Tacoma Hempfest elevates medical marijuana in historic Wright Park.

STEVE SARICH DECLARED “A BAD SEED” ON JULY SEATTLE WEEKLY COVER, BUT WE SHOWED THAT WASN’T THE CASE.

Oakland laws

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The city across the bridge from San Francisco creates a law allowing large-scale cultivation of up to 58 pounds daily for a few commercial grows.

Permits retailed for close to $200k and the law still stands today.

A story about patient Dan the Lotion Man reveals how this biker turned topical maker has been helping the medical marijuana community. Says Dan, “I don’t mess with that foo-foo crap, my stuff just works.”

Ranging in size from 10x20 feet to roomsized, growtents allow patients to cultivate in their home and , with the use of exhaust fans and careful considerations, prevent that familiar scent from drifting on over to the neighbor’s house.

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i was brought behind a black curtain into an area big enough for me, a small table, and a doctor to sit.

-Our reporter describing the process by which he obtained a medical marijuana authorization at Hempcon 2010, a San Jose, CA convention.

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Our Hempfest issue featured an illustrated map of Myrtle Edwards Park for our readers

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Marijuana in pro sports doesn’t get the coverage deserved. Michael Phelps, anyone?

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Online seed banks are risky for patients as customs can seize the packages at the border.

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Our strain of the month was headband, which, we noted then, would be a shock to anyone judging meds on sight alone. It looked good! A mix of OG kush, Master Kush & Sour Diesel, both smooth and relaxing for the frontal lobe.

This was one of the first conventions we covered.

We were struck by all of the commercial products available by vendors, the constant raffles, and the freedom that can only come with having manydispensaries in one room.

When’s our next Cali trip?

TSA took a step to protect MMJ patients, saying state laws supersede aviation rules inside of the airport. They did say that it is up to local police to enforce drug laws in their jurisdiction. Patients should be cautious traveling to non-MMJ states.

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treating all people who use drugs as criminals diverts attention from more serious issues. we need new drug laws.

-An ACLU representative at a Seattle Town Hall event dubbed “Marijuana: It’s Time for a Conversation,” in which several hundred packed the room.

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Conscious Care Collective was one of the first access points with a professional vibe.

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Recapping Seattle Hempfest gave us the chance to remember this always fun event

3

Misinformation on marijuana got taken down a notch with a handy history review

yes, someone walked around hempfest 2010 with what he billed as the event’s largest working pipe

Holy strain

misinformation

BUD ROT

Our strain of the month was Jesus, a 60-40 sativa-indica hybrid with dominant Afgoo genes that made it great for helping migrains, depression, muscle pain, spasms and nausea.

It yields a slow settling sense of euphoria.

In the 1930s and into the 1960s, federal law enforcement in charge of drug laws passed policies that demonized cannabis and made it a racial issue by trying to turn white communities against Mexicans, blacks and others.

An early growtech column helped readers understand bud rot, which hurts plants and results from high humidity, stagnant air, standing water on plants, and can lead to development of mold spores, and unsurprisingly, the death of your plants.

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-A patient, who requested to remain anonymous, discussing the role that access points such as Tacoma Cross have in allowing healthcare alternatives.

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Tacoma Cross risked the city shutting them down even as they helped patients.

2

We introduced the world to Seattle glass artist Chris Drags and his beautiful work.

3

An Okanogan County raid revealed how police killed plants & took growing equip.

staff at tacoma cross had to contend with legal challenges & the specter of shutting it all down.

legal 101

hey, doctor

grow up

We went over the three basic guidelines for a solid medical marijuana authorization: ensure that you have valid & current medical records, get it for one year and the proper 60-day limit, and get it on tamper-proof paper, and never, ever make a copy.

Dr. Rose starts his prolific writings on cannabis for Northwest Leaf with a sophisticated take on the Endocannabinoid system, notably, how receptors in the body respond to cannabis in a variety of ways, from body highs to cell signal inhibition.

That month’s growtech column first discussed how patients should stop adding all their nutrients approximately seven to 10 days prior to harvest, making sure to completely flush using purified water. Trim the buds of excess matter.

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the bad part is that everything they find gets confiscated. it’s a little game of hide and seek with the staff.

-Cancer patient Nicholas Karr, who uses medical marijuana to help treat his pain, but must contend with doctors who do not recognize its benefits.

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Patient profile

ARIZONA LAW

drip systems

We met Nicholas Karr, a 19-year-old medical marijuana patient dealing with stage-4 neuroblastoma cancer. He used cannabis for nausea and “excruciating pain.”

Karr said he visits access points after relying on street dealers for a while.

The Grand Canyon State became then, the 15th state to recognize medical marijuana . Patients were allowed to purchase up to 2.5 oz . weekly, but may not grow their own if they live within 25 miles of a dispensary.

Our growtech column features a great guide to starting a hydroponic drip system, which allows patients to grow more efficently, quicker and using fewer costly growing mediums. We used a 4x4 growing tray with a set of drip spikes installed.

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We featured six medible recipes: including Super-baked Apples and tasty Pasta Farian.

2

Reviews for the ADHD Generation debuts with no-holds-barred pop culture critiques.

3

California’s Prop 19, the legalization bill, doesn’t pass, would have hurt MMJ patients.

DIANE, A VOLUNTEER AT the now-defunct G.A.M.E. COLLECTIVE IN WHITE CENTER, SNIFFS some DUTCH TREAT.

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sadly, Most healthcare professionals are still stuck in the mindset of marijuana as a highly addictive drug.

-Dr. Scott D. Rose, Northwest Leaf contributor, who urged patients to take initiative and educate their doctors on how medical marijuana helps them.

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One of our all-time favorite covers shows how to roll out the perfect joint.

2

Strain of the Month stretches two pages for the first, but surely not the last time.

3

We profiled Bizzeebee, a now-defunct access point run by father and daughter.

sophia and her father, jeff, tried to run an access point in north lynnwood, but soon faced problems

taxing it

bubble hash

getting fired

A 2005 Harvard study

by Jeff Miron estimated that taxing marijuana, the country’s largest cash crop, would add $13.9 billion to our economy annually. That figure emerges after eliminating drug enforcement law and making a tax rate for pot.

Our first-ever guide to making bubble hash gave patients a powerful way to medicate using their own trim and plant matter that would normally go to waste. The key is using bubble bags, 5-gallonones are easiest to use. We revisit the topic Jan. 2012.

The state supreme court rules that employers can fire employees that are qualified medical marijuana patients for failing a mandatory drug test, even when they only medicate offsite & in their home.

This is so very, very sad.

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Patients need to know how a sativa will affect them, versus an indica.

I call vortex my ‘cup of coffee’ strain.

-Wes Abney, describing how in his capacity at West Coast Wellness, he did his best to help patients understand their array of options for medicating.

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february 2011 HIGHLIGHTS

POT CATAPULTS

Canna cola

quest for hemp

National guard troops caught drug smugglers using an ancient invention to move marijuana across the border from Mexico to arizona: a catapult! Stationed 20 yards from the border, the ‘pults could launch 4.4 lbs. at a time.

Officials found 45 pounds .

Back when cannabisinfused sodas were not only rare but also difficult to create, we reported on one California man who made a whole line of Colas, from lemon-lime Sour Diesel to orangeflavored Orange Kush.

Leaf contributor John Novak wrote about visiting the state’s Eastside, where one can find such curios as non-dairy hemp milk made from the seeds, hemp oil, organic granola made with hemp and even rolling papers made from 100-percent hemp.

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Our cover stor y focused on a Seattle access point then-run by Leaf founder Wes Abney.

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Northwest Leaf staff, in an op-ed, urged all patients to stand up for new MMJ laws.

3

Talkshow host Montell Williams fined $484 for bringing pot pipe through airport security.

Williams, who has multiple sclerosis, is a public advocate for using medical marijuana for his pain.

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MEDICAL MARIJUANA HAS CHANGED MY LIFE. IT TAKES MY MIND OFF THE PAIN AND ALLOWS ME TO LIVE A NORMAL LIFE. -Nick Ericson, then 22 years old, who medicates in order to quell back spasms and chronic pain related to spina bifida, a neurological defect.

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march 2011 HIGHLIGHTS

1

We came out against SB-5073, a bill that would ban dispensaries & create a registry.

2

Homegrown Helpers in downtown Seattle got a positive review for their great meds

3

Los Angeles moved to close more than 100 dispensaries operating without biz permits.

James lathrop worked with homegrown helpers to assist their patients in choosing MMJ options.

KILL BILL

doctor talk

patient profile

All marijuana advertising would be summarily banned under SB-5073, in addition to eliminating recommendation clinics, and dispensaries. It’d also create a patient registry while not allowing for any patient protection.

Luckily, it did not pass.

Dr. Scott Rose advised patients that in order to avoid stigma and shaming related to using medical cannabis, they should be upfront and honest advocates for why it works for them. Doctor not onboard?? Try a new one!

We interviewed Nick Ericson, who was born with spinabifida and uses medical marijuana to help with what he described as constant pain and frequent back spasms.

An avid skier and golfer, Nick is doing better now thanks to MMJ, he said.

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any doctor that says smoking is healthy for you is a chump.

-Former DEA agent Robert Stutman, taking the mic at the Heads vs. Feds marijuana debate, after hearing the other side argue for cannabis usage.

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CANNABIS OASIS

WHEN BONGS BREAKS

HEADS VS. FEDS

Founders Wally and Jeff were one of our first access point reviews and for good reason, they had a new area to serve patients, and innovative strains.

We liked their medibles, at a time when many medibles were not worth eating, cause of potency.

Writer Liza Weeks takes a creative approach to a patient ’s bad time: when their bong breaks.

No matter how it broke, repair is possible at times, or, turn it into an art project like making the shards into beach rocks for your vase.

Robert Stutman said it will make you dependent, it’s not medicine, and America isn’t ready to legalize.

High Times editor Steve Hager said marijuana is good medicine, the drug war isn’t working, and mmj patients deserve protection.

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The people at Cannabis Oasis get a nod for their medicine and tasty medibles

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Heads vs. Feds pitted High Times editor in vitriolic debate of former DEA agent.

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Governor Chris Gregoire asks the feds to weigh in on whether local MMJ violates laws

GLASS ARTIST DAVE CONTRERAS GRACED OUR COVER, DISCUSSED HIS WORK AND SALES IN DOWNTOWN SEATTLE.

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we call this our little amsterdam. a place where patients can access meds they could only dream about.

-Northern Cross Collective owner Martin Nickerson, discussing how he offers exclusive strains. Plus, there’s no drive to Seattle, either.

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JUNE 2011 HIGHLIGHTS

1

Northwest Leaf turns 1 year old! Thanks to our readers, advertisers for avid support!

2

The Joint, based in the U-District, get a nod for their great access point & staff.

3

Martin Nickerson opens Bellingham’s first access point: Northern Cross Collective:

we reviewed the soft, crumbly, potent goodness of the 7-layer bar from a green cure in shoreline.

patient profile

VAPORIZE IT

sweet device

The bespectacled founder of Tacoma Hempfest, Justin Prince, was also behind Tacoma’s Initiative 1, which would have made possession of marijuana the lowest law enforcement priority as it is in Seattle today. The measure didn’t pass by a very slim margin.

Dr. Rose reports on how vaporizers provide rapid on-set, keep the flavor of the product, and are easier on the lungs than simply smoking cannabis buds.

Vapes range in price from $100 for handheld units to $600 at the high-end for the Volcano machines.

That month’s Device of the Month was a double percolating oil bubbler from Seattle artist Chris Dragovich. The piece featured a glass-onglass oil rig assembly, and a beautiful color mix of blues and greens.

Too bad we never hit it!

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WE DON’T BELIEVE PATIENTS SHOULD HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN BASIC LIVING COSTS AND THEIR MEDICINE. -Have A Heart founder Ryan Kunkel, describing how every strain in the shop is $12/gram donation or less, to show compassion for patients.

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1

We met Dali, the home medible chef who crafts pot pies, ice cream & hmm...cornbread.

2 3

Dali’s pot pies

Molokai Frost

before you garden

As the joke goes, chicken pot pie? My three favorite things!

But this pie, flaky, savory & loaded with cannabis (there’s a drizzle of canna-oil on top too), made us crave seconds through thirds. Thanks for the good eats, Dali.

This insane pure sativa strain from Columbia City Holistic Health by way of Hawaiian roots got a nod for its intense cure process: almost three months!

The effect is a hightened potency, dark, almost petrol-like flavor and a buzz that just doesn’t quit.

A how-to guide asks patients considering making their own garden to first factor in their budget, security measures, their medical needs (sativa vs. indicas), their experience level, and the growing system they intend to use. All great points!

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Our cover stor y focused on how Tacoma Police basically quashed Tacoma Hempfest

Have A Heart, on Aurora, got a nice review for their Happy Train strain & unique vibe.

Your eyes don’t deceive: we tried a medicated bacon maple cupcake from hashford compassion club

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indicas may be higher in cbd’s than thc, but sativas have more thc, the only psychoactive compound found in cannabis.

-Northwest Leaf Special Contributor Dr. Rose on the differences between indicas and sativas, which is a distinction patients realize for their own medical needs.

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AUGUST 2011 HIGHLIGHTS

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We reviewed Pot Corn, the only snack on the market where we craved another bowl.

2

Sativas versus Indicas was discussed by Dr. Rose. Sativas for the mind, indicas for body.

3

Mr. Kief Box showed off the Seattle Hempfest giveaway chest that took 100+ hours.

Yes there is such a thing as potcorn. WE WANTED TO KEEP LOADING BOWLS, OF THE TASTY SNACK, THAT IS!

TRIPLEtS & TOPICALS

book review

4/20 problems

We introduced readers to Kathleen, a single mom raising triplets while she made a line of topical ointments, lotions & soaps, shaped like flipflops, so patients could hold them easier. The lotions, she said, saved her house and livelihood.

This book is a collection of ancedotes, historical reports and interesting little tidbits about cannabis and the industry that has developed. At 562 pages, it is a pretty extensive read, but worth it for the mix of humor & serious factoids.

No home complete w/o it.

University of ColoradoBoulder officials get in a hizzyfit after years of crowds with 10k or more lighting up to celebrate 4/20 on its famed tree-lined quad.

About a year later, officials formally ban the event all together.

Read it online at: issuu.com/nwleaf/docs/august2011

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We want to protect the rights of legitimate medical marijuana users to safe access to medicine. That’s not happening in every city, but it’s happening in ours.”

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-Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, addressing enormous Seattle Hempfest crowd

SEPTEMBER 2011

HIGHLIGHTS

Choices to make

Toothpicks

BEST PRACTICES

Being careful of overmedicating was discussed by contributor Dr. Rose.

Patients should consume small portions of any edibles, and wait 90 min. to feel the effects before eating further. Smoking will affect quicker, while vapes are easier on the lungs.

Find Kush Creams and their line of medicated products at almost every access point. The picks are soaked in cannatincture, have a numbing effect and offer a light mintiness. Pick up these picks tested at 78% THC and .58% CBD!

Seattle businesses can do their best to stay legal by keeping patients safe.

Our article suggested staying minimum 500 feet from schools, using a commercial kitchen space for medibles, and having your biz licenses.

Self-regulate for success!

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Ed Rosenthal, the indisputed Guru of Ganja, gave us his know-how and opinions.

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Another Seattle Hempfest gave us the chance to meet thousands of new patients.

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Columbia City Holistic Health reviewed for abundant selection of oils, in-house medibles.

columbia city has earned a reputation as a place patients can turn to for exotic, tantalizing strains.

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aT THIS POINT, THINGS WERE VERY HECTIC. ALL I REMEMBER YELLING WAS DON’T KICK IN THE DOOR OR THROW A FLASHBANG, MY TWO-YEAR OLD IS JUST INSIDE. -Chelan patient Joe Amendolare, describing raid on his home in which drug task force agents swarmed his home and pointed guns at his wife, child.

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OCTOBER 2011

HIGHLIGHTS

1

A field trip to Portland for Hempstock was a great time for patients from across the area.

2

Our cover was a custom commission piece from Seattle pumpkin artist Austin Leno.

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We wrote a powerful stor y of what the Amendolare family experienced in a raid.

We reported on a texas officer accused of stealing cannabis brownies, then eating them on the job...

MMJ 101 Terminology & access point etiquette

Cannabis field trip

Cannabis is always called medicine , it’s not dope.

You’re medicated, not baked, high or stoned. You have a recommendation, not a green card. You visit an access point, or collective garden, not a dispensary. Ask for an amount of medicine in grams, not in slang terms.

And when you visit an an access point , be patient, polite, and always have your recommendation and state ID. Don’t talk on your phone or take pictures without permission. Respect patient privacy and medical status.

Don’t display your medicine in public. Happy toking!

Northwest Leaf traveled down to Portland for a few hours in the sun at the Hempstock festival. Patients packed treelined vistas and took in music, new industry products and the sight of the nearby river. We plan to return next year!

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i WAS GETTING SICKER AND SICKER UNTIL I REALIZED THE TRUE POTENTIAL OF THE MEDICINE. nOW I EAT A BROWNIE INSTEAD OF TAKING AMBIEN. -S.A.M. Collective co-founder Lonnie, who says cannabis has really alleviated many symptoms related to a hip replacement performed last year.

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NovEMBER 2011

HIGHLIGHTS

numbers game

pizza man snitches

THE COFFEE POT

100,000 people have signed online petitions asking for Pres.Obama to formally address marijuana during his weekly web addresses.

Obama has remained mum. Half of those polled across the nation approve of marijuana.

Papa Johns said they stand by the delivery driver who turned in Frederick Smith, a Colorado patient, after smelling cannabis.

The driver said he worried for Smith’s daughter in the other room. Police responded that day without charging him.

Joe Ganje makes a heck of a cup of coffee, the medicated kind. It has a rich, full flavor, and a potency worth a closer look. Just a cup left us with a warm gut and slight body buzz, another cup was just right.

He relies on heavy indicas for the coffeebeans.

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We reviewed Happy Buds, a book by Ed Rosenthal picking a strain for any situation.

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S.A.M Collective, on Aurora, has a family approach to serving their dedicated patients.

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Making butter is a seven-step process that starts with good trim and ends with buddah.

Check out the online edition (link below) for steps on making butter! it’s easy, tasty and super potent!

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aT THIS POINT, THINGS WERE VERY HECTIC. ALL I REMEMBER YELLING WAS DON’T KICK IN THE DOOR OR THROW A FLASHBANG, MY TWO-YEAR OLD IS JUST INSIDE. -Chelan patient Joe Amendolare, describing raid on his home in which drug task force agents swarmed his home and pointed guns at his wife, child.

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decemBER 2011

HIGHLIGHTS

1

The Medicine Connection offers super high quality organic medicine & edibles.

2

New York Police arrest 50k annually for simple marijuana possession (1:7 all cases).

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The best medibles from breakfast til dinner let us sample a truly diverse, extensive menu.

JUST 1/2 OF A SIMPSON OIL-INFUSED HEMPERMINT PATTY FROM Chcc IN cHELAN medicated us for a few hours.

Amsterdamned

SUBCOOL SAYS

GANGS OF NEW YORK

Bonnie Fong wrote about the High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam.

Things were going well (hotboxed busses for attendees, anyone?) until locals busted the event and told them to smoke up because they were going to take it all anyway.

We interviewed Subcool, the noted seed maker and grower after he lead an informative two-day growing seminar at a SoDo warehouse. Visit the online edition (link below) to read about the Jinxproof-Subcool event and his epic cannabis life.

NYPD arrest 50k annually for marijuana possession, about 1 in 7 of all the cases brought to court, in a drug war that mostly targets racial minorities and low-income residents.

These “stop-and-frisk” tactics are under review.

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I’m sleeping next to people WHo’VE KILLED PEOPLE, AND THEY HAVE LESS TIME THAN ME. There are days i can’t believe i’m in prison.

-Patricia Spottedcrow, 26, mother of 4, who faces 11 more years in an Oklahoma prison after being convicted of selling $31 of cannabis.

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HIGHLIGHTS

SURVIVING PTSD

THE JOINT BHAM

Coco tabs

The Oregon patient Matthew Lee Morgan wrote a very compelling story we ran about how PTSD has robbed him of so many things, but that cannabis is helping many of his symptoms.

It is worth reading online at the link below.

Bellingham got a new access point with The Joint’s arrival in the Fairhaven neighborhood of town. It’s a luxurious, relaxing access point that never really got the chance to flourish after the city cracked down in unexpected ways only a few months after opening.

Greenlink Collective in the SoDo area of Seattle offer up these potent, great-value Coco tabs, which patients can use for back pain in a gentle, easy-to-ingest method of medicating. Just one was enough for us, and we used them regularly!

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Making hash is easy with the right bubble bag setup and our 11-step illustrated guide.

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We came up with 12 New Year’s resolutions for patients that are pretty fun to keep up!

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Veterans are coming home with PTSD and cannabis, some say, has really helped them.

CHECK OUT THE LINK BELOW TO SEE HOW CANNABIS COFFEE CREAMER CAN HELP YOU START YOUR DAY OFF EVEN BETTER!

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Most MUST walk it twice to take it all in. iT CAN VERGE ON THE OVERWHELMING, BUT ONLY IN A HAPPY AND PLEASANT WAY. -Describing the NW Cannabis Market, a farmer’s market in south Seattle where patients can meet other patients, medicate and try new and exciting strains.

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Our cover features a crazy octopus-like glass bubbler by artist Scoz Tribble.

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NW Cannabis Market in White Center is a great destination for patients, and vendors.

3

Bluntman is a cartoon created by a Seattle patient with an incredible story. Read online!

WHILE STILL IN HIGHSCHOOL, PATIENT JASON MCKINNEY CREATED THE CHARACTER BLUNTMAN FOR A RANGE OF USES.

Forget pike place

B.O.T.H. COLLECTIVE

sCOZ tRIBBLE

The NW Cannabis Market was founded by Michael Keysor, runs daily, features a comfy, separate medicating area, has great restaurants in walking distance, and a bevy of vendors, medicine, medibles and yes, hemp products. Visit them soon!

We covered the BO.T.H. Collective’s Cannabis Crown which was a fun opportunity for patients and growers to connect and judge the best they had to offer. It was a good time, one made all the better by a vaporizer bar & beautiful strain selection.

The noted Seattlebased glass aficionado created “Wings of Fire,” our device of the month, which we published across two pages. The piece retails for $5k and took 40 hours of work to create the working bubbler and water disk.

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I DON’T WANT THEM TO TAKE THIS AWAY. IT’S A GOOD, FAIR, SAFE THING. IT REALLY, REALLY HELPS. -Bellingham patient Lorrie Ireson, who says medical marijuana helps with her symptoms of PTSD. The city threatened to close access points.

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HIGHLIGHTS

Whidbey island

west seattle access

medicated pulled pork

Iraq War Vet Lucas Jushinski has worked to bring access to Whidbey Island. He has challenged the city council, above, who ultimately renegged on their own approval. He said he will do whatever it takes to help patients.

West Seattle Holistic Health has great strains and a friendly staff. We were impressed by the UW Purple, their medicated marinara and their attention to patient’s experiences — like serving one person at a time. Have a cup of coffee while you wait!

Imagine the best pulled pork you’ve had. Does it get you medicated? This is the reality of the pork from Mad Scientists Meds

by Fish. It’s available for a $15 donation from Urban Medicinals in Olympia.

Comes w/ two generous portions. Oh so, yummy!

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Our cover featured three gorgeous vertical paintings by the talented local artist, Teddy.

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Lucas Jushinski tried to open the first access point on Whidbey, now trying for Freeland.

3

Candidates on Cannabis showed how the Republican field really felt about marijuana.

teddy’s cannabis portraits capture the distinct character of beautiful strains the artist loves.

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all we are asking for is to be treated like any other business in america. they’re trying to tax us out of existence.

-Harborside’s Steve DeAngelo, addressing a crowd at the 280e tax seminar in Seattle, which focused on IRS efforts to tax medical access points 40% of profits.

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HIGHLIGHTS

1

Cliff Maynard’s Roach Art graced our custom cover, was made from dozens of used joints.

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Rainier Wellness in Tacoma gets a nod for an enormous med room, and friendly service.

3

Purple Diesel from T.H.C.O in Seattle is definitely a favorite Strain of the Months!

medicated cannabis sugar from the substitute wellness center in puyallup was worth a hefty spoonful.

farmer’s market

10-pg. glass special

hydroponics pt. 2

Surely, Sonshine Organics Washington Farmer’s Market in Oly has created a great home for patients from around the area to connect w/ vendors and build a highly supportive MMJ community. Thanks to Sarena, Kris & their many caring volunteers!

Our April issue featured six great glass artists and their best works. They rely on different styles & methods for getting their unique vision across.

We were lucky to not get burnt during all our time around the flames! Read it online @ the link below!

Dr. Scanderson writes in about two different hydro systems: ebb and flow system, and recirculated deepwater culture. Both offer benefits and the chance for higher yields and healthier, bigger buds.

Definitely check it out!

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at some point for almost everyone in life, Cannabis has been considered a bad thing.

AN EVENT LIKE THIS LETS PEOPLE KNOW IT ISN’T. -Apothecary Seattle founder Cass Stewart, describing how his access point’s cannabis art gallery helps people feel comfortable as patients.

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tacoma’s triple c

fighting i-502

oreo cupcakes

Cannabis Collective CoOp is helping patients in a bustling urban area near restaurants and close to shopping.

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It can be tough to stop yourself from eating the whole pack of 4 small but delectable OREO cupcakes, but be aware: they are as potent as they are delicious. Find them at the Sacred Plant Farmers Market in Tacoma, and enjoy!

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Our Extracts Issue tried to help patients get a better grasp on all the types of concentrates.

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Beautiful Cannabis art was shown all month at Apothecary Seattle’ in Cap Hill.

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The Medicine Jar’s Cannabis Expo was a chance to try new meds and tatsy medibles!

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IT ALL STARTS WITH SEEDS C T

>> a FOOL-PROOF METHOD FOR GETTING SEEDS TO GERMINATE AND START THEIR NEW LIFE

By Dr. Scanderson for Northwest Leaf | photos by daniel berman

annabis may be a non-addictive medication but the same can not be said for its seeds.

For strain hounds like me, each individual cannabis seed represents a unique genetic blue print that, if unlocked properly, could reveal the best medication on earth.

The potential that a seed holds is tempting enough that I often find myself on a quest to acquire just one of the three last earthly packets, from the second re-released, original private reserve stock selection of the super sativa seed club catalog’s _______(fill in your grail plant here). The habit of obsessively acquiring seeds has left me with two very distinct understandings.

First, there are many more people talented at marketing and enticing growers to give their genes a try than there are stable, quality genetics out there. Secondly, a firm group of methods for germination I’ve used to maintain a 95-percent success rate.

Let’s assume for a moment you crawl over broken glass to obtain the previously mentioned pack of impos-

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sible to obtain seeds, and then follow a buddy’s advice for germination.

After 10 days with not so much of a tap root emerging you begin to get the sinking feeling that you have destroyed what was absolutely going to be the world’s best cannabis.

Well if you were me and that happened, you’d feverishly research every known method of germination from every source imaginable.

Then start working on trying all of them using that secret stash of seeds I had been hanging onto since high school, starting when I de-seeded my first eighth. What I’ve found are two methods of germination I use one of which will be reviewing this special month. The technique I want

to cover provides for the least room for error, & follows Jorge Cervantes’ K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stoner) principle. o start, place each seed in a container you have filled with distilled or RO water, place it in complete darkness and allow it to soak for 12-24 hours. After you have allowed the seed to soak you’re ready for the next step. Combine 1ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution (H2o2) available at any drug store with 32 ml of reverse osmosis or distilled water and mix.

Next take a full size paper towel and fold it in quarters. Dip the paper towel into your mixture ensuring it gets completely saturated. Then wring

A watched pot never boils and THE same holds true for your new, self-contained genetic treasures. Check them once per day to ensure that the paper towels remain moist.

the towel out so it’s still moist but not dripping with any solution.

Place each seed on one half of your quartered paper towel and fold the other half over onto the seed so that the seed is lightly sandwiched in the paper towel.

Repeat the process for each seed then place all the “towel seed sandwiches” on a large dinner plate, giving space for each one so as not to overlap, cover with plastic wrap and place in complete darkness at a temperature between 70-80 degrees.

A watched pot never boils and same holds true for your new, little, self contained genetic treasures. Check them once per day to ensure that the paper towels remain moist. If they are starting to dry out, mist them lightly with the h2o and h2o2 mixture you already made up. They may not need misting; mine usually don’t for at least 3-4 days if at all.

Delicately open the packets and check the seeds. The first thing

PERMAFROST SEEDS

THINGS TO REMEMBER: -Your seeds are very delicate and susceptible to pathogenic infection

to happen in germination is that the seed will split open on one side and a small white root called the tap root emerges. This should happen in the first 1-3 days after placing the seed into the paper towel. The tap root is a sign that the seed is out of dormancy and actively germinating; yahoo! This is half the battle.

Once the tap root appears to be a millimeter or so long (about the size of an eraser head), it’s time to move the germinated seed into its rooting medium. I like using root plugs for this and recommend the hydrofarm plugs, as I prefer the water to air ratio they maintain over rapid rooter or root riot. You also need a tray with a humidity dome.

Turn the plug upside down so the pre-formed hole is on the bottom.

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hen use a sterilized ¼ drill bit or the shell of a pen and make a new hole on the new top by poking the utensil into the plug until it hits the bottom. This provides a much tighter and more stable area for your seed to root and I prefer it to the larger pre formed holes for this method. Take the germinated seed and with the tap root pointing

down, ever so gently and delicately “place and push” the seed down into the new hole to about 1mm millimeters deep (just below the opening so you can barely see it if at all).

Then place the loaded plug into the tray, cover with the humidity dome and place into complete darkness. I like to pour a very small amount of tap water into the tray so that it just comes in contact with the plugs and ensures they stay moist (my tap water comes out at about 25 ppm at 6.85 pH). Check them daily.

As soon as the majority of the seeds have pushed through the top of the plug, it’s time to put them under a very mild light source (i.e. a 4 foot 1-2 bulb t5 florescent). Keep the temperature on the warmer side, 80-85 degrees and be sure that the humidity in the room is not unusually low, which it may be at that temperature. Although the humidity dome does the majority of the work for maintaining moisture levels in the air around your germinating seedlings, I have found the best results when humidity level high outside the

dome as well. Either way I’ve always seen the fastest results when humidity in the dome is between 65 and 75 percent.

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recommend feeding the seedlings nothing but tap water (assuming yours doesn’t go above 100-125 PPM) until they are at their second true set of leaves.

I always like to leave my seedlings in their plugs for as long as it takes until rooting has extended up the sides of the plug before transitioning them into their vegetative environment.

I also recommend you take practice runs if possible before attempting to germinate what you may believe to be the next holy grail of cannabis.

If you are interested in learning about a more advanced germination method, need help dealing with seed stretch or would like to know of a technique I’ve discovered to get roots blasting through your root plugs from the bottom to the collar you can e-mail me and as always, happy gardening!

-Always work with your seeds in freshly cleaned and disinfected areas.

-Wear gloves when handling anything that comes in contact with your in seeds -Place unused seeds you don’t plan to germinate soon in an air tight, light proof container with several grains of dried rice inside the container, then place in freezer.

-Keep your seeds in the dark until they start pushing through their plugs.

-Place germination tray on an elevated platform, such as a milk crate -Keeping it off the cold floor avoids the need for a heat mat -Use a humidity dome to keep germinated seedlings moist

Got a growing question?

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Reviews cannafire oil Review by Northwest Leaf Staff Photo by Daniel Berman

a life-size photo of the oil, which has a spicy warmth to it that some how gets you very medicated by meal’s end.

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We topped our hamburgers with a bit on Memorial Day weekend & devoured ‘em, then anointed a pair of tasty breakfast tacos the next day. move over, tabasco. tHE KIND OF HEAT THAT YOU GET from a few drops of the Cannafire Cayenne Oil is enough to electrify tastebuds —not with solely with heat — but also with a wonderful flavor of red pepper, a robust warming, gently climbing sort of heat.

One must be careful not to add too much heat (Sriracha fans, beware) because the Cannafire will catch up. •We added the oil to some chicken pho and enjoyed it; topped our hamburger with a bit on Memorial Day weekend and devoured it — then anointed a pair of tasty breakfast tacos the next day. The Cannafire added complexity the way Tabasco just can’t. • Even after adding it to many meals over a few days, several servings remained in the slender, nicely designed bottle. This makes it an excellent deal for patients, who can use it on regular food, or turn their next medicated meal into something worth really remembering.

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Recipes photo by Flickr/Ekonon

Slow- Cooker Chicken Tetrazzini This meal is great served over freshly boiled egg noodles - like a beef stroganoff but healthier and of course, highly medicated! prep Time: 20 minutes cook time: 4 hours Servings: 6 hefty portions

Ingredients 6 skinless - boneless chicken breast halves 4 tbs - melted medicated butter 1 package - dry Italian-style salad dressing mix 2 tbs - regular butter (for searing) 1 small - onion, sliced and separated into rings 3 cloves - garlic, minced 1 can - condensed cream of chicken soup 1/2 cup - chicken broth 1 (8 oz.) - package cream cheese, softened

Instructions 1) Place chicken in the slow cooker crock. Top with 4 tablespoons melted cannabutter and sprinkle over it the Italian dressing mix.

2) Cover and cook on High for 3 hours.

3) Heat the remaining 2 tbs of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Stir in onion and garlic; cook and stir until onion is soft, about 5 minutes. Mix in the cream of chicken soup, chicken broth, & cream cheese. Pour mixture over cooked chicken in the slow cooker.

4) Cover, and continue to cook on Low until chicken in fork tender and the sauce has thickened, about 1 additional hour. Enjoy this meal as you might a nice beef stroganoff.

Medicated Tomato Arugula Bruschetta prep Time: 10 minutes cook time: 20 minutes Servings: 10+ servings

Ingredients -20 roma (plum) tomatoes -1/4 cup Medicated olive oil -1/2 tsp salt -1 tsp ground black pepper -8 cloves garlic, minced -1 bunch arugula - rinsed, dried and chopped -20 sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, drained and chopped -3 tbs grated Parmesan cheese

Instructions -Bring 4 qts. of water to boil in a large saucepan.

-Place roma tomatoes in boiling water for 1 min. to loosen the skins. Drain, and rinse with cold water.

-Peel, core, seed, and coarsely chop.

-Heat olive oil in large skillet over med. heat. Slowly cook & stir tomatoes with salt & pepper for 15 min.

-Stir in garlic and cook 5 minutes. Stir the arugula into the mixture, then remove skillet from heat.

-Transfer mixture to a large bowl.

-Gently fold the sun-dried tomatoes and Parmesan cheese into the mixture. Cover and chill in the refrigerator approximately 4 hours before serving.

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Sour Diesel flowers for 68-80 days

smoke report: Sour Diesel’s coveted features are expressed most notably in her smell and taste. It’s scents of meaty, fuely, diesely, kerosene funk is evident everywhere during the drying and curing stages. Sour diesel grows large, stacked, frosted kolas loaded with swollen pods and high calyx to leaf ratios. Ed Rosenthal, perhaps, has the best description of its taste: “Beyond the citrus end of the pot palate spectrum, lies a sour lemon tang tending toward the heavy pungency of an open drum of diesel.” I would perhaps add only, “…who’s flavor lasts and lasts. Far after the user exhales, coughs profusely, drinks much water, wipes the tears from their eyes — ingests a french fry or two — the taste lingers.

SOUR DIESEL

northwest leaf contributor dr. scanderson on THE 40/60 INDICA/SATIVA HYBRID

STRAIN ORIGINS Welcome to my world of genetics related to and descending from Chemdog’s original ounce.

Rich in lore, the origins of Sour Diesel and sister OG Kush tells the legendary tale of pioneer growers, mystical strains and travels the The strain enchanting paths of the Grateful traces back Dead and Phish tours. As the shows by the story goes, Chemdog obtained grateful dead several ounces of very high quality cannabis from a friend and phish. of his, Wonkanobe aka Joebrand that he linked up with at a Deer Creek Amphitheatre Grateful Dead show (thank you Jerry!) containing 13 magic seeds. From these original 13 magic seeds, it’s believed Chemdog germinated four initially. Three were female, and became known as ’91 Chemdawg, Chemdawg’s Sister, and Chemdawg B. Chemdog made several crosses from the original ’91, still held closely by a small group of friends. One of the crosses was (Chem ’91 x Mass Superskunk x Sensi NL), becaming known as Diesel or Original Diesel.

In 2001, Chemdog germinated three more seeds (C, D and E) of which he selected “D” and is now known as Chem D. Five years later, Chemdog and Wonkanobe met again at a Phish show, where Chemdog gave him four of the last six beans.

Wonkanobe germinated them and selected the number 4 seed as the best representation of the original smoke.

It became known as Chem 4, A.K,A the reunion pheno. Sour Diesel is thought to have been born when a U-Mass Amherst student growing Original Diesel accidentally pollinated the plant with a DNL growing in the same room and viola! Sour Diesel.

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HOW IT GROWS: It’s a difficult and unruly strain to grow.

It demonstrates extraordinary vigor throughout her life cycle, requiring low stress training and super cropping.

Sour Diesel generally throws a large number of growth shoots and finger-like, light green leaves. You can expect 200-300% stretch in the first 20-30 days from transition into flower. Be prepared to implement many, many height training techniques. I’ve always found the wild vigor of the strain to require 3-4 serious pruning/ thinning sessions throughout her life for adequate light penetration and high production. She loves the light and prefers an even, warm and dry environment (80-85 F at 40%-45% humidity seems to be the mark in my C02 enriched garden). It’s extremely sensitive to hot spots and high nutrients levels. She needs lots and lots of nitrogen all the way through week six of flower.

Although a definite nitrogen be prepared to hog, it’s important to tailor the implement many nutrient schedule to provide height training higher levels of nitrogen, longer into the bloom cycle, than most techniques. manufacture’s recommend.

Just don’t exceed 1100 ppm levels at any time of the life cycle! Sour Diesel also responds well in hydro to lower pH than is typically recommended. I like to keep them between 5.35-5.8 during the majority of their life cycle, starting in the lower range and moving slowly and steadily towards the upper range as flower progresses. The reputation of impossibly penetrating odor is not without merit. Expect to change your carbon filters every round if growing this strain frequently or you may just find that all outside areas within 100 feet of your grow will absolutely reek.

behind the strain The Genetics: Original Diesel [Chemdawg x {MassSuperSkunk x Sensi NL}] x DNL [{RFK Skunk x Hawaiian} x Northern Lights)]

The Effect: a bit of creeper, whose deceptively powerful medicating impacts can take 10-15 minutes for full effect. It’s extremely effective at treating nausea, migraines and anxiety. Again turning to Ed; “Sour Diesel’s taste combined with its effects may be considered an “extreme sport” version of cannabis.” A creative, uplifting, clear and energizing feeling takes hold immediately. The combination of intoxicating taste and instant euphoria makes passing on second or thirds impossible for so many.

Be warned however: allow the plant 15 minutes for a complete consultation before making the decision to return for more. Failure to do so may result in finding yourself enthusiastically, and in a clear and cerebral instant euphoria manner, staring makes passing up at your computer screen paralyzed by 2nds or thirds brilliance of all just impossible. the things in existence, unable to complete the rest of your strain review with a lip smacking smile and a really cool taste in your mouth. the bottom line: Sour Diesel may not be for patients with less experience with cannabis, both from a cultivating and a medicating standpoint. The long flower times and precision required for quality results make properly cultivated Sour Diesel a rare and treasured find. For patients preferring impossibly strong tasting medication, which consistently produces combined THC test results exceeding 20%, reliable access to Sour Diesel can be a life changing experience.

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