on D
sary
C on n
e c ti o
n
In This Issue:
i s pen
Oct/Nov 2014 Vol. 5 Issue 5
More on Page 2
Pe s t o P i z z a C a n d y Ap p l e s G l azed -over Carrots!
Recipes:
Oregon Raci al J u sti ce G rou ps S u p p o r t M e a s u re 91 S h e r i f f Wi n t e r s Q u i t s ! "Rad i cal " Ru ss Exposes Kevi n Sabet's "Oregon Reefer M ad n ess Tou r" Reform i n g M ari j u an a Laws
Oreg
FR E E
Check the cultivation section for harvest tips from Growing WthGood Earth Image: Š 201 4 Keith Mansur, Oregon Cannabis Connection.
Oregon Decides On Legalization!
Connecting the Medical Cannabis Community Across Oregon
In This Issue
Page 2
Cannabis Connection
Industrial Hemp
Oregon News 9.1 Reasons Why Your Oregon Parents Should Vote Yes On Measure 91
Page 3
Oregon Racial Justice Groups: End Marijuana Prohibition
Page 3
Green Leaf Labs Talks With OCC
Page 4
Hempstalk Held In Downtown Portland
Page 4
Winters Quits - Endorses Corey Falls For Sheriff
Page 5
Russ Belville Exposes Sabets "Oregon Reefer Madness Tour"
Page 6
Oregon News Nugs - News From Around The Beaver State
Page 7
Growing With Good Earth: Harvest Basics
Page 17
I-Five O - Oregon Marijuana Log
Page 9
White Flies: Identification and Controls
Page 18
How To Recognize Zinc Deficiencies In Marijuana
Page 18
National News Reforming marijuana laws: Which approach best reduces
Page 10
Oregon's Hemp Hurd-les
Page 14
Hemp Shield Is Going Global
Page 14
Recipes Glazed-over Carrots Good Karma Dipped Apples Take and Baked Brie and Pesto Pizza - From Coma Treats
All On Page 16
Cultivation
Classifieds
the harms of criminalization?
Cuomo Asks Feds To Allow New York To Get Medical Marijuana From Other States
Page 10
An Updated Look at Medical Marijuana in the United States
Page 11
DPA Responds to New Global Commission Report
Page 11
Bipartisan Bill introduced to Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement
Page 11
National News Nugs - News From Around The Nation
Page 12
Medical News Cheryl's Clinical Corner - Study: Women and Cannabis
Page 13
JAMA: Medical Cannabis States Possess Lower Rates Of Opiate-Induced Fatalities
Page 13
A Listing of Oregon Clinics, Dispensaries, Organizations, and Canna-Friendly Businesses
Page 19
OREGON CANNABIS CONNECTION is a bi-monthly publication for the medical cannabis community in Oregon. Published by K2 Publishing Co. in Southern Oregon, we strive to inform the public on the value of medical marijuana, as well as provide news, information, and opinions concerning marijuana laws, legalization, and medicine. All information in our publication is intended for legal use by adults only. Our publication is advertiser supported and 20,000 copies are available FREE at over 240 locations throughout Oregon. Subscriptions are available within the U.S.A for 18.00 per year. Please visit www. oregoncannabi sconnecti on. com to subscribe. Correspondences to: K2 Publishing P.O. Box 5552, Gants Pass, OR 97527 Email: keith@oregoncannabisconnection.com To advertise or distribute, please contact Kei th at 541 -621 -1 723. Next issue is Dec/Jan, advertising deadl i ne i s N ov 21 st!
Online at www.oregoncannabisconnection.com! Like us on Facebook
Oregon News
Cannabis Connection
9.1 Reasons Why Your Oregon Parents Should Vote Yes On Measure 91 By "Radical" Russ Belville Oregon’s plan to legalize recreational marijuana has now been formally named Measure 91 by the Secretary of State’s office. It is well known that Millennials support marijuana legalization in greater numbers than do Baby Boomers. To build awareness for Oregon’s M-91 among the generation that remembers what an encyclopedia is we present these 9.1 reasons M91 will be a good thing for your parents.
1) M-91 recognizes the reality that marijuana cultivation, sales, and use are not going anywhere. Your parents are old enough to remember President Nixon declaring “all-out war on Public Enemy #1 [drugs]“, President Reagan promising a drug-free America, and the first President Bush promising to “make room” in prisons for all the drug pushers. How’d that work out, folks? M-91 is a responsible public policy that moves a neverending supply of and demand for marijuana into a legal, regulated marketplace.
2) M-91 is good for the environment. Marijuana growers don’t convert residences to indoor grow houses because they want to. Prohibition means they can’t farm marijuana under the sun; you don’t find many indoor vineyards or tobacco plantations. It’s estimated that 9% of all California household electricity is dedicated to indoor marijuana growing; it’s a good bet that Oregon’s rate is close to that. M-91 helps move marijuana cultivation outdoors, reducing our carbon footprint.
3) M-91 finally exerts control over marijuana cultivation. Marijuana growers don’t plant crops in remote state forest locations because they enjoy the
hiking. Again, prohibition forces growers into places we don’t want them, where they can do significant damage to wildlife habitat. Under M91, people who want to make money growing lots of marijuana can do so in an inspected, regulated, secure manner like any other farmer, protecting Oregon’s beautiful outdoors.
4) M-91 finally exerts control over marijuana sales. Drug dealers don’t check ID, especially when many of the drug dealers are under-aged as well. M-91 takes marijuana sales off the streets and into secure, adults-only stores that card kids – like the 100% ID compliance found in recent under age stings in Colorado. M-91 also reduces price, increases selection, and guarantees quality in a way that most drug dealers won’t be able to compete with.
5) M-91 raises money for the state without raising your taxes. If your parents don’t use cannabis, then M91 is a perfect way to raise money for the state. 11.1 percent of Oregon adults 21 and older use cannabis monthly and we spend your parents’ tax dollars futilely writing tickets and arresting people to try to stop them from doing so. Under M-91, the state makes $35 on every ounce sold and $5 on every marijuana seedling sold, which is far more than the current zero dollars the state makes on marijuana.
6) M-91 directs tax revenues to cops and frees them up to fight real crime. Maybe your parents remember that tragic story last May in Southern Oregon where a woman calls 911 to report her ex-boyfriend attempting break into her home. Thanks to police budget cuts, the 911 operator was forced to tell her, “I don’t have anybody to send out there. You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away?” The woman ended up being choked and raped by the exboyfriend that night. Under M-91, state and local police get more than a third (35%) of the marijuana tax revenue and they don’t have to waste any more time investigating and busting legal marijuana growers, sellers, and users.
7) M-91 treats marijuana as a personal adult choice, not a crime. Nobody thinks we’re encouraging cigarette smoking or irresponsible drinking just because those are legal. Most smokers want to
quit and we provide them many ways to do so. Most drinkers enjoy their buzz without descending into alcoholism and we provide medical help for those few who do. Under M91, we finally trust adults to handle responsibly a substance far safer than the two legal drugs. Also, we end criminal stigma for the few who have a unhealthy dependence on marijuana and wish to seek medical help, to which M-91 directs a quarter of marijuana tax revenues.
8) M-91 provides a safer recreational alternative to alcohol. Many people enjoy a good beer or wine, maybe even a cocktail to relax and unwind. But as we age, our body’s ability to recover from the effects of alcohol begins to decline and hangovers become more debilitating. Marijuana isn’t just smoking joints anymore. From infused edibles to vaporizers, there are clean, classy ways for older adults to enjoy cannabis and avoid hangovers.
9) M-91 doesn’t alter the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act. Perhaps your parents already benefit from the medical use of cannabis. M-91’s not going to change that – if your parents have a serious medical condition, they can still visit a doctor, get a recommendation, register with the state, grow and possess the same amounts of marijuana they do now, and shop at statelicensed dispensaries free from M-91’s taxes and limitations. However…
9.1) M-91 makes medical marijuana available without hassle. Maybe your parents don’t have a serious condition, but you find them popping acetaminophen like candy for their aches and pains, using sleeping pills to get some rest, or taking prescriptions for depression. Under M-91, your parents can try a medicinal salve, infused edible, or vapor pen without registering with the state and spending a lot of money. Belville is the executive director of 420RADIO.org and host / producer of The Russ Belville Show The Independent Voice of the Marijuana Nation at http://radicalruss.com - live from Portland.
Page 3
Oregon Racial Justice Groups: End Marijuana Prohibition By Johnny Green People of color in Oregon are 100 percent more likely to face legal punishments for marijuana than white people, despite equal rates of use. The current system is failing, and the following groups endorsed Measure 91 because it removes unfairly harsh punishments that disrupt lives. The new groups to endorse Measure 91 are: Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO), which has worked for social justice for more than 15 years and continues to evolve as Oregon’s leading Asian and Pacific Islander grassroots advocacy organization. Partnership for Safety and Justice, which works to reform the criminal justice system and achieve a more balanced approach to public safety. They join the ACLU of Oregon and the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association as other criminal justice organizations endorsing Measure 91. Western States Center, which has worked for 27 years on community organization to challenge and transform individuals, organizations and systems to achieve racial, gender and economic justice. The Rural Oregon Project, which represents tens of thousands of Oregonians in small towns and rural communities in all 36 of Oregon’s counties. “Too many people have been punished, and too many of them have been youth and people of color,” said the Partnership for Safety and Justice in a statement. “Too many tax dollars have been wasted without increasing public safety. Too many public resources have been diverted that could have been used to help crime victims and address unmet community needs across Oregon…. We believe that it is time to start addressing marijuana realistically as a health, education and economic issue. Measure 91 would do just that.” Every day the encompassing list of groups embracing Measure 91 as a better approach to marijuana regulation is growing. They represent hundreds of thousands of Oregonians with a wide range of concerns. Measure 91 will regulate, legalize and tax marijuana for adults 21 and over in Oregon. Revenue raised from a regulated market will fund schools, state and local law enforcement and drug treatment and prevention programs. © 2014 the Weed Blog. Printed by permission.
Oregon News
Page 4
enthusiasm for the increased knowledge of cannabis.
Green Leaf Labs Talks To OCC
Rowshan Reordan-Loney, owner and founder of Green Leaf Labs in Portland was able to chat with OCC about her company and the services they offer. Green Leaf Labs is one of the premier analytical labs in Oregon, if not the country, and we thought she can provide excellent insight to her lab and testing, in general. OCC: What does Green Leaf Labs do and why did you start the company?
RR:
We are an analytical laboratory serving Oregon’s cannabis community. We test all forms of cannabis from flower to food items and everything in between. We serve any Oregon Medical Marijuana Program card holder. Rowshan Reordan-Loney, Owner of I was inspired to start Green Leaf Labs. Image: Paul Loney the company when a Law friend of mine, who is terminally ill, told me about getting some medicine that made him sick. I felt the need for more legitimacy and transparency in the cannabis industry. Science and hard facts seemed the most logical method to protect those who are under-protected and bring light to that which has been underground for far too long.
Cannabis Connection
OCC: What kind of equipment does your lab employ in its analysis of cannabis?
RR: We have multiple types of equipment that
we use depending on what we are testing, how the cannabis was produced and its intended end use. We utilize GC-MS, GC-FID, GC-Headspace Analyzer, and HPLC. Our goal is to give results that are the most accurate for the end user, the patient.
Proper testing requires sophisticated equipment. Image: Green Leaf labs
options that are currently not required by Oregon State Law. We have multiple pieces of different instrumentation to ensure that we can give our customers and patients accurate information for the specific type of item they will consume.
OCC: The law in Oregon requires that a
cannabis testing lab's practices and procedures follow either ISO 17025 standards or NELAC TNI standards, does your lab meet either of those? Image: Green Leaf Labs
RR: Being a pioneer takes many hours of
dedication and hard work. Our Laboratory Director had extensive experience in analytical testing and was able to apply his skill set to create new methods and validate them for cannabis testing. It was a long process and we went through many hurdles. It is difficult to start a new business where there are no predecessors to learn from. However, going through that process has allowed us to give our customers superior service.
RR: We are in the process of meeting those
standards. For example, they require a Quality Assurance program. We always have a minimum of two chemists on staff. This allows us to have a quality control chemist who can verify results and catch any possible mistakes.
OCC: What have been some of the biggest hurdles you faced?
RR:
While the intent of the testing rules requirement is to protect the health and safety of OMMP patients, the rules failed to address enforcement mechanisms for laboratories. This
in Oregon had even heard about testing cannabis. We were one of the first cannabis testing laboratories established in the nation.
Image: Green Leaf Labs
OCC: Why should dispensaries be required to test their cannabis?
Image: Green Leaf Labs
and to comply with Oregon State Law.
Portland, do you have any other locations?
RR: Yes, we have another location in
Roseburg. You can find our contact information for both locations at www.greenleaflab.org.
OCC: What testing services do you offer? RR: We offer Oregon compliant testing, which
include potency, mold, and pesticide screens. We also offer a myriad of other cannabis testing
The 10th annual Hempstalk was held a Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. The event, which had been held at Kelly Point Park for the past few years, was free to the public with a 10 dollar suggested donation accepted.
equipment, how did you know where to begin when you started the company?
RR: We were established in 2011, before many
OCC: So, I know you have an office in
By Oregon Cannabis Connection
OCC: A testing lab uses a lot of complicated
OCC: When was that?
RR: To protect patient’s health and well-being,
Hempstalk Held in Downtown Portland
OCC: So, you have teamed up with the
The Green Leaf Lab main facility in Portland at 1 2025 NE Marx St. Image: Green Leaf labs
RR: Having properly trained personnel with
has created a “wild west” for testing, where anyone can open a laboratory without any minimum standards or basic requirements. It has been frustrating to watch the unfolding of Oregon’s unregulated laboratory system, since we have always been committed to the highest standards and others are not. We hope that this legislative cycle will be able Cont. on Page 5
personnel necessary to effectively run and operate this type of lab? the skills required to run an analytical laboratory is imperative to success, validity and accuracy. We have nine employees at the laboratory that have a multitude of skill sets and educational backgrounds, as well as
Having the event downtown was an exciting thought, with hopes of a Seattle Hempfest type event, but the reality was much different. The venue was small, though very picturesque, and separated into two separate sections where the public walkway runs through the park. Security guards confiscated lighters, cigarettes, and searched bags and purses (but if you had loaded up pockets, you got right in...go figure) The intent was to have a “sober” Hempstalk, which did not go over well at all with the crowd. Since it was a free event, nobody felt too slighted by the harsh rules, and plenty of people sneaked a toke when security was not around. Projecting a responsible image was the chatter amongst some, but disappointment with the rules was the norm. The music was good, as usual, with Mack and Dub and the Smoking Section Image: Keith Mansur, OCC performing Sunday night. Mad Dabber also was around, playing his marijuana tunes, and then the alter-ego, Justin James Bridges, made an appearance on the Green Goddess stage to play his flavor of blues. The vendors were passing out plenty of swag, and dispensary booths dotted the perimeter of Cont. on Page 6
Cannabis Connection
Oregon News
Page 5
-An OCC Correctionto address these issues and remedy them, as everyone in this industry only wants what is best for OMMP patient’s safety and well-being. OCC: What kind of costs are involved in outfitting a lab properly, say just in equipment costs alone, which I assume is one of your biggest investments? RR: One piece of equipment can range from tens of thousands of dollars up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is a large financial investment to open a legitimate cannabis testing laboratory that has multiple pieces of testing equipment and properly trained staff.
OCC:
The poorly operated labs and their low rates must make operating your lab difficult?
RR: We have a strong customer base who believes in supporting a laboratory, such as ours, that has a high standard for testing. They want real numbers and real results. That being said, the current price for testing is not realistic for a regulated and legitimate testing market. I am concerned that the cannabis industry will become accustomed to expecting the current prices, which are not reflective of a legitimate and regulated testing industry.
for everyone involved.
OCC: Is there anything else about Green Leaf
In the Aug/Sep 2014 issue of OCC we ended our article "Problems With Oregon Cannabis Testing" with questions to ask potential testing labs, and also included a few quick reference points with each question.
Labs that you want our readers to know?
RR: We are committed to the safety and wellbeing of patients. The existence of Green Leaf Lab came from patient inspiration. We are dedicated to serving our community and assisting in any way we can. We always have staff to assist in answering questions and clarifying information whether it is regarding testing processes or current legislative issues. We are proud and happy to announce that we recently submitted 3 samples for a national proficiency test and passed all three tests. It is exciting to see that our standard of excellence has been confirmed on a national level. I would like to thank our amazing staff for their dedication and commitment to quality. Learn more about Green Leaf Labs at www.greenleaflab.org.
In the fourth question, "What type of equipment do you use for pesticide screening?", we mentioned "(A Gas Chromatograph is needed for accurate measurement at the levels required)". We were incorrect and should have printed, "A Mass Spectrometer is needed for accurate measurements at the levels required."
What do you think can be done to fix the problem, and who do you see doing the fixing? RR: The problem of unregulated laboratories is being addressed and can only be fixed through the legislative system.
OCC: How do you think Measure 91 will affect the testing labs if it passes in November?
RR: There will be a new set of rules that laboratories will have to follow. Hopefully, the issue of regulation and standardization for OMMP testing will be solidified in this legislative cycle. If this is the case, it will surely make the transition to a regulated market easier
Great news from the Low O! The long serving, anti-marijuana, loud mouthed, canna-bigoted, money wasting, lawsuit prone, arrogant, narcissistic, employee hating, over-zealous, blow hard Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters announced on October 2nd his retirement amidst a pitiful losing campaign to be re-elected to his
It is a bit more complicated than that, and the chemists at Oregon Growers Analytical offered a better explanation, which we provide below. Also, in the Oregon Dispensary Connection, we provide readers with a list of questions to ask a lab about testing, and pesticide testing specifically.
From OG Analytics: A validated testing method has not yet been published for the determination of trace levels of pesticides in cannabis. However, a method known as the AOAC 2007.01 method has been developed and validated for thousands of agricultural products. It seems reasonable that this method is an appropriate starting point for the determination of pesticides in cannabis. The AOAC 2007.01 method involves using an organic solvent to extract pesticides from the sample. This crude extract is then subject to various wellestablished steps to remove plant co extractives such as chlorophyll, plant fatty acids, and plant waxes. It is important to remove these compounds since they interfere with the downstream detection methods. The cleaned extract is then analyzed using both gaschromatographic (GC) and liquid chromatographic (LC) separation followed by massspectrometric detection. It is important to realize that both GC and LC are necessary because neither technique is capable of chromatographing and detecting all pesticides.
OCC:
By Keith Mansur Oregon Cannabis Connection
For instance, most carbamates and fungicides cannot be chromatographed on a GC because they breakdown in the heated inlet. In contrast, although theoretically all pesticides can be chromatographed using LC, some types of compounds (e.g. organochlorines) cannot be detected using LC technologies. Equally important is the realization that GCs and LCs can be configured to use different types of detectors. It has been universally realized that the only detectors capable of conferring the accuracy of identification of pesticides are mass spectrometers. Massspectrometers allow one to identify low levels of pesticides even in very complex extracts that are typical of agricultural products. This is very important in minimizing false positive and false negative results.
fourth term. Winters said to KDRV News in Medford, “I’m confident that the transition to my successor will be straightforward because of the systems that are currently in place. Therefore I fully endorse and support our new Sheriff, Corey Falls, and will be at his disposal for any guidance if necessary.” Winters recently made news, once again, by firing deputy Sheriff Bob Sergi, one of two opponents who ran against him in the Jackson County primary election last May, The announcement came as a surprise to everyone, including his opponent Corey Falls, Ashland's Deputy Police Chief. Falls, who is heavily favored to win in November, intends to continue his campaign as planned. “What I’ve campaigned on and what we’ll continue to do is getting out in the community, being open and responsive to our citizens, identifying problems collectively to solve problems, and working within our organization to have open lines of communications to do a great job,” Falls said in a interview with KDRV News.
Page 6
Oregon News smokers lose an average of 8 points in IQ over a 20 year period. But, their conclusion was immediately challenged by Ole Rogeberg of the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research in Oslo, Norway, exactly because they did NOT account for Socioeconomic factors. Even NIDA's own Dr. Nora Volkow admits that Rogeberg’s findings “look sound”. Dr. Volkow is an outspoken opponent of ending marijuana prohibition, herself.
Russ Belville Exposes Sabets "Oregon Reefer Madness Tour" By Oregon Cannabis Connection
The newest incarnation of reefer madness propaganda swept through Oregon the week before ballots were mailed for the Nov 4th general election. Funded in large part by the Oregon State Sheriff's Association, the information packed uber mobile seminar began with a day-long kickoff event in Madras on October 1st and then sprinted from one city to the next, seven in all, and many cities on the same day, to catch local media outlets and spew their lies and distortion across the state. Cities included Madras, Ontario, Roseburg, Grants Pass, La Grande, Keizer, and Hood River. Called the “Oregon Marijuana Education Tour”, the series of seminars was lead by Smart Approach Marijuana's Kevin Sabet. a former official in Bush and Obama's Office Of National Drug Control Policy, Sabet has become the nationwide “drug control” expert on marijuana. The “Ask Ed” of drug control, if you will, he travels the nation and speaks about the perils of using marijuana, with an extensive focus on children.
Cannabis Connection
Image: Keith Mansur, OCC
“driving force” behind the 0.3% increase in overall illicit drug use, and at the same time Heroin and Cocaine either stayed the same or dropped, I think you are looking at the numbers all wrong. Seems like people are choosing a safer alternative. Even the studies he references are chosen carefully to fit his subjective and one-sided point of view. He even goes so far as to downright lie
“That's the point of using marijuana, to get high,” said Sabet to the crowd of mostly indulgent listeners at the Parkway Christian Center, Grants Pass's largest Megachurch. “The increase in overall illicit drug use in the nation is driven by marijuana.” Adding graphs and charts to help overwhelm the crowd with his “evidence”, Sabet mixed in numerous opinions with his supposed facts, Image: Keith Mansur, OCC completely annihilating any semblance of about the methods of his favorite study, one by unbiased information. He carefully created his Duke that shows an average IQ drop of 8 points own charts from government provided data to in marijuana users over decades. Sabet said it support his own opinions and beliefs. accounted for Socio-economic factors, but it did not. One chart he had supported his claim that overall illicit drug use (which includes marijuana) is up in this country due to increased The Duke study from 2012 used data from a New Zealand longitudinal research study. Their marijuana use. The numbers just don't add up. analysis of the data concluded that marijuana And, if a 0.3% increase in marijuana was the
At one point, Sabet indicated that it is one thing for a sixty year old to sit and smoke a joint in the evening, but it's “another thing” for a 12th grader to smoke weed all day long. What is his point? Does either one need to go to jail for weed? Does he think that marijuana activists believe 12th graders should smoke weed all day long? What is his point? He is simply rabble-rousing. And, one other comment that really bothered me was casually referring to AIDS as the “gay man's disease”, later trying to explain how it became known as HIV/AIDS, as if that excused his homophobic comment. I guess he was trying to impress us with his historical “knowledge”, but he just made an ass of himself and exposed his homophobic side. There was NO NEED to refer to AIDS as the “gay man's disease” at any point during a MARIJUANA seminar! I found it hard to remain silent and not yell at this homophobic, canna-bigoted, idiot! Luckily “Radical” Russ Belville of 420Radio followed Sabet all over the state, and approached the events with a more calm demeanor than I. Everywhere Sabet spoke, Belville was there, passing out fliers that exposed Kevin Sabet's lies. He hung a “Yes on 91” banner on his car at every stop, and submitted questions to the “experts”, which got read on occasion, but were seldom answered. He was harassed at numerous stops, once being threatened with a tow if he did not remove his Yes On 91 banner from his vehicle. “Sabet’s presentation was ninety minutes of all the recycled Reefer Madness / Kinder, Gentler Drug War pablum he’s been Cont. on Page 7
Hempstalk the venue, but no one was openly smoking. Kind of a sad sight, considering that legal dispensaries are final open in Oregon. A descent crowd came through over the weekend, but not the size crowd that I had expected in downtown Portland. Part of that could be the uncertainty around the events venue, with the city making it difficult Image: Keith Mansur, OCC for Paul Stanford, the event organizer, to obtain the required permit for the event. In fact, they did not secure the license until just hours before the event. The date of the event was also changed from the weekend after Labor Day, as it had been in past years, to the last weekend in September. Next year will hopefully be a little less strict, as Portland leaders realize stoners are pretty harmless, especially when there is good music, and copious marijuana available. If they wont let up, I say move it back to Kelly Point Park!
Cannabis Connection
Oregon News Nugs First Oregon Cannabis Convention and Oregon Medical Marijuana Cup
Oregon News Oregon Cannabis Classic Charity Golf Tournament a Huge Success! The Greener Side held Oregon's first cannabis golf tournament, an event that benefited The Multiple Sclerosis Society. With nearly 60 participants, golfers enjoyed the day at Springfield Country Club, the host course for the event.
The Oregon Cannabis Convention raised 2 1/2 tons of food for The Oregon Food bank. They also had over 60 exhibitors! A free event, the Oregon Cannabis Convention wanted to bring a cannabis event to the public without any strings attached, and Jerry Norton, the event director, pulled it off. Many people came through during the Sept 5h and 6th event, which was held at the Portland Expo Center.
WINNER! - Wee Farms - Platinum Girl Scout Cookies SECOND PLACE - Health Awareness Group - Pineapple Kush THIRD PLACE - Humming Bird Farms - Dawg Walker OG INDICA FLOWER WINNER! - Forever Dank Farms - Multnomah Coma SECOND PLACE - PDX High Standards - Grape Crush THIRD PLACE - Nug Run Farms - White Super Skunk SATIVA FLOWER WINNER! - Nug Run Farms - Tangie SECOND PLACE - Club Sky High - Green Crack THIRD PLACE - Glen Davidson - Green Crack CONCENTRATE WINNER! - Sirius Extracts - Oregon Royal SECOND PLACE - Hopville Hash THIRD PLACE - Allen Lindquist - Jack Herer EDIBLE WINNER! - Oregon Medical Cannabis University - Jack Herer Chocolate SECOND PLACE - Rich White - Chocolate Truffles THIRD PLACE - Collective Awakenings - Magical Mint Krispies NON SOLVENT WINNER! - Collective Awakenings - Optimus Diesel Ice Hash
So, they need 3 more employees, which is really short sighted, since they are going to get HAMMERED next May when the moratoriums are lifted (A preemptive... DUH!). The incompetence and shortsightedness is amazing! Burns presented his letter to the State Emergency Board, who is the body tasked with making adjustments to the state budget between legislative sessions. He wants the board to approve a nearly $500,000 increase in the program's budget for three new, full-time, positions.
2014 OREGON MEDICAL MARIJUANA CUP RESULTS HYBRID FLOWER
and a longer than expected inspection process (Duh, again!) has put the Oregon Health Authority's dispensary program in a bind. Originally, the health authorities thought they would have 200 applications (WTF...DUH!), instead, they are on pace for 500 applications in a year.
Participants were provided carts and an hours driving range practice before the event. The shotgun tee time for the scramble style tournament was 9:00 am, supposedly early for stoners, but they arrived awake, excited, and ready to play. The tournament winners were Team Terpene, the team from Terpene Station in Eugene, a licensed dispensary, with a 59! Second place was a close 60 and third place was a score of 62. They also had a number of challenges, including closest to the pin and longest drive. From The Greener Side: “The 1st Annual Cannabis Classic was a huge success, and we want to send out a huge thank you to our sponsors: OpenVape, Eugene Weekly, Oregon Microgrowery Guild, Gummiez, Oregon Growers Analytical, Oregon Cannabis Industry Association, Oregon Cannabis Connection and DR. Vape!!! And thank you to all who participated in this game-changing event that benefited the Oregon Multiple Sclerosis Society! When we come together as a community, we can make anything happen. Hope to see you all next year!”
The health authority collects a 4,000 dollar fee for every dispensary application, but it can't spent more than $800,000 on the program annually, due to the language of the law. Burns said the OHA has the money, so it just needs the authorization to spend it.
Premiere International Cannabis Business Conference A Success The 1st ever International Cannabis Business Conference held in Portland on September 13th and 14th was a successful event, according to many who attended. Up to 500 people went, and were provided two days of important and useful information on the cannabis industry.
Page 7 Alex Rogers, the organizer of the conference, said they are planning future conferences, which may include locations like New York, San Francisco, or even Berlin, Germany. Rogers was excited by the reception the conference received and said, “I hope to continue offering entrepreneurs and professionals solid information and networking opportunities at future events that will help this emerging industry thrive.”
Plew's Brews Supports Marijuana Legalization Plew's Brews, a St. Johns landmark tavern, has long supported the marijuana legalization movement. Randy Plew, the owner, has carried my newspaper since the early days of our existence in 2010. He recently stepped up and had a fundraiser for the Yes on 91 campaign, spearheaded by Randy's good friend, Anna Diaz. With Mack & Dub and the Smokin Section providing entertainment, Plew's donated part of the evening proceeds to the campaign, which, with a raffle and generous guests, netted the Yes campaign over 1,700.00 dollars. Plew's also serves as the meeting place for Oregon NORML's regular meetings. Check them out on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/oregon.norml for more information, or contact 710MadDabber through Facebook.
The event, which attracted people from Europe, the East Coast, and Canada, offered attendees many opportunities and plenty of information relating to the cannabis industry. With dozens of
Oregon's Dispensary Program Needs More Employees "We are in desperate need of the staff and the expenditure authority," Tom Burns, director of OHA's pharmacy programs, told lawmakers September 15th.
exhibitors and plenty of knowledgeable speakers, the event offered a lot of networking time for cannabis professionals, one of the best aspects of the conference.
An unexpected number of applications (Duh!),
I am getting a lot from this event,” said John, an attendee from Arkansas. He came to the conference, “to see what all the hubbub was about.” Another attendee was disappointed that Steven DeAngelo did not make it to the event, but was satisfied with many of the other speakers. She also met many professionals and networked with many new businesses and entrepreneurs. "I was interested in the emerging opportunities in the marijuana industry and this conference seemed like a good event to get that information,” she said. “I learned a lot and met a lot of good people.”
Image, Keith mansur, OCC
Randy Plew is a treasure to Portland, and a true friend to the marijuana community. If you have a chance, stop by Plew's Brews at 8409 N. Lombard St. in the St. Johns neighborhood. They have a great selection of local brews on tap at amazingly low prices (growlers too). Try to get by on Medical Mondays, when Mack & Dub play, and they park a dab BUS (Yes, an old school bus converted into a dab bar!) outside Plew's, on the street, for medical patients to medicate! Gotta LOVE PORTLAND!
Check out the Cultivation section on page 17!
Cannabis Connection
Oregon News from Forest Ranch, California.
IFiveO Oregon Marijuana Police Log
Subsequent investigation during the traffic stop led the trooper to discover approximately 20 pounds of marijuana in suitcases inside the vehicle. Estimated value of the seized marijuana is $50,000. The suspect was taken into custody and lodged in the Lake County Jail for Unlawful Possession, Distribution and Manufacture of a Controlled Substance - Marijuana.
Sept 14 – Medford (OSP) Photograph - Oregon State Police Two Washington men were arrested during an Oregon State Police (OSP) traffic stop when a trooper found over 5 pounds of marijuana concealed in their vehicle on Interstate 5 north of Medford. OSP Drug Enforcement Section is continuing the investigation. On September 14, 2014 at approximately 12:44 a.m., an OSP trooper stopped a 2004 Honda Accord displaying Washington license plates northbound on Interstate 5 near milepost 38 for a speed violation. Upon contacting the car's two occupants, they were identified as residents of Washington. Subsequent investigation during the traffic stop led the trooper to find over 5 pounds of marijuana concealed inside the vehicle. Estimated value of the seized marijuana is $12,000. The two suspects were arrested without incident and lodged in the Jackson County Jail for Unlawful Possession and Delivery of a Controlled Substance - Marijuana.
Lakeview District Sept 19 – Lakeview (OSP) A California man was arrested during an Oregon State Police (OSP) traffic stop north of Lakeview when an OSP trooper found approximately 20 pounds of marijuana in the vehicle. On September 19, 2014 at approximately 2:13 p.m., an OSP senior trooper stopped a Ford Expedition displaying Minnesota license plates for failure to maintain a lane of travel at Highway 395 at the Highway 140E junction. The driver was identified during the stop as a 23 year old male
Aug 30 – Lakeview (OSP) Oregon State Police (OSP) arrested a 24-year old New Hampshire man when a traffic stop led to the discovery of approximately 33 pounds of marijuana concealed inside a motorhome along Highway 140 about two miles west of Lakeview in Lake County. The OSP Drug Enforcement Section is continuing the investigation. On August 30, 2014 at approximately 4:20 p.m., an OSP trooper stopped a 1993 Ford motorhome displaying New Hampshire license plates for a traffic violation on Highway 140 near milepost 93. Durng the traffic stop the driver was identified as being from Barrington, New Hampshire. Subsequent investigation during the traffic stop, with the assistance of an OSP drug detection canine, led to the discovery of 33 individually wrapped one-pound packages of marijuana concealed inside the motorhome. Estimated value of the seized marijuana is $80,000. The suspect was arrested without incident and lodged in the Lake County Jail for Unlawful Possession, Distribution and Manufacture of a Controlled Substance - Marijuana.
Sept 24 – Coos Bay (OSP) A year-long investigation by a Coos Bay Fish & Wildlife Division trooper, in conjunction with the South Coast Interagency Narcotics Team (SCINT), led to a Bandon-area resident being cited for wildlife crimes and being a felon in possession of a firearm. On September 24, 2014, at approximately 9:15 a.m., search warrants were served at three Bandon-area properties. OSP Fish & Wildlife troopers from the Coos Bay, Gold Beach and Roseburg offices were assisted by officers from the Bandon Police Department and SCINT detectives. The investigation revealed that on or about August 29th, 2013, DALE J. GILBERT STONE BARKER, age 32, killed a spike elk while archery hunting in the Floras Creek area of Curry County. About two weeks later, BARKER killed a 7x7 elk while archery hunting in the same area of Floras Creek in Curry County. Both elk were retained by BARKER. During the search of the properties, items seized related to the investigation included the following: * One set of spike elk antlers * Taxidermy mounted 7x7 elk shoulder mount * Elk meat from 2013 and 2014 * Compound bow * Two shotguns Based on the investigation, BARKER was cited by OSP to appear in Curry County Circuit Court for Exceeding the Bag Limit for Big Game - Elk, and in Coos County Circuit Court for Unlawful Possession of Big Game - Elk and Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
Photograph - Oregon State Police
Oregon Coast Precinct Marijuana and Wildlife Crime – Special report. (Due to the nature of this crime, we left the suspects name in the news release because poachers definitely should go to jail!)
Over 25 pounds of marijuana and edible marijuana products were also seized. SCINT detectives are referring charges of Unlawful Possession, Manufacture and Delivery of Marijuana to the Coos County District Attorney. Photograph - Oregon State Police
Page 9
"Radical" Russ Cont. From Pg. 6 puking forth for years.” Belville said in an article in High Times. “One highlight: he directly quoted a line of mine from an article I wrote about dabs.” The seminars, which were originally, in part, funded by federal grants, amount to a No on 91 campaign. This may well have been a misappropriation of drug treatment grant funds. The original backers of the seminars, BestCare Prevention Services, backed out at the 11th hour after light was shed on the federal funding of their program and the possible inappropriate use of money for the supposedly “educational” event. Since then, the funding sources for the event have been attributed to the Oregon State Sheriff's Association and private donors. Belville has been making Freedom of Information requests on expenses related to the tour by Sabet and No on 91 crusader Josh Marquis, the Clatsop County D.A.. Marquis actually filed a complaint with the Oregon Elections Board about the requests from Belville. With help from Jennifer Alexander, the FOI requests revealed an email from Mandi Pucket, a former employer of BestCare who has taken a leave of absence to run the No on 91 campaign, which shows Sabet receiving 3,000 dollars per citizen forum, plus hotel, meals and travel. That amounts to 21,000 dollars plus at least three airplane flights, rental cars, hotels, meals, fuel, and more, just for Sabet, and likely funded in part with federal drug prevention grant money. Also, the email reveals that BestCare is Oregon's SAM Affiliate, an organization that works to lobby against marijuana legalization that was founded by Sabet. “It is an event meant to depress support for Measure 91 and sell Kevin Sabet's book,” said Belville. “Project SAM is Kevin Sabet's national anti-legalization think-tank that uses brochures from CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) to teach local drug educators how they can best lobby against legalization without running afoul of the laws prohibiting lobbying with government money.” This story will continue after the election, I hope, as Belville and Alexander dive deeper into this misuse of federal money.
Page 10
National News
Cannabis Connection
From CJCJ Report.
As policymakers and the American public grow increasingly weary of the War on Drugs, marijuana reforms are gaining traction across the nation. A new analysis by CJCJ sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of two approaches to marijuana law reform: decriminalization for all ages, versus legalization for people 21 and over. The analysis compares five states that implemented major marijuana reforms over the last five years, evaluating the reforms' impacts on marijuana arrests, racial disparities, and various health and safety outcomes. California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts have decriminalized small quantities of marijuana for all ages, while Colorado and Washington have legalized small quantities of the substance for people 21 and older. Key findings: All five states experienced substantial declines in marijuana possession arrests. The four states with available data also showed unexpected drops in marijuana felony arrests. States that decriminalized marijuana for all ages experienced the largest decreases in marijuana arrests or cases, led by drops among young people and for lowlevel possession.
Staggering racial disparities remain — and in some cases are exacerbated — following marijuana reforms. African Americans are still more likely to be arrested for marijuana offenses after reform than all other races and ethnicities were before reform. Marijuana decriminalization in California has not resulted in harmful consequences for teenagers, such as increased crime, drug overdose, driving under the influence, or school dropout. In fact, California teenagers showed improvements in all risk areas after reform. Given the consequences of marijuana arrest, including fines, jail time, a criminal record, loss of student loans and other federal aid, and court costs, getting arrested for marijuana use may be more harmful than the drug itself — at any age. The report recommends adopting the best of both approaches and moving toward full legalization. Further reforms, beyond marijuana policies, will be necessary to address egregious and persistent racial disparities. © 2014 CJCJ. Reprinted by permission.
September 26th the Cuomo Administration sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Cole following up on an earlier letter to U.S. Attorney General Holder sent on August 13, 2014. Both letters asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to extend a narrow, time-limited exception to federal law to allow the importation of certain strains of medical marijuana from other states for use by children in New York with severe forms of epilepsy. The letters follow the deaths of several children and a sustained campaign by advocates pressuring the Cuomo Administration to create an interim emergency access program for patients who may not survive the eighteen months or longer that the governor has said he needs to get the full medical marijuana program up and running. New York passed a medical marijuana bill that Governor Cuomo signed into law in July, but the Administration has said the program won’t be up and running until at least January of 2016. To establish emergency access for patients in need, medical marijuana can either be produced within New York state, or, with appropriate federal clearances, acquired from a different jurisdiction. The Cuomo Administration’s letters address one of those two options. “We are glad to see that the governor has engaged DOJ about the need to establish an interim, emergency access program for those who cannot afford to wait for full implementation to occur. Now, we need the governor to move forward on other avenues that might also help get medicine to those who need it. The governor has a moral obligation to try absolutely everything in his power to prevent New Yorkers from needlessly suffering,” said Kate Hintz from Westchester, parent of a child who has a severe seizure disorder. The Administration is asking the Department of Justice to allow the state to identify one or more producers from a jurisdiction that allows for the legal production of a strain of medical marijuana that is high in cannabidiol (CBD), which has shown promise in reducing seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy. Once a producer is identified, the state would import the medicine into New York and make it available to a small group of patients until New York’s program is fully operational. Federal law prohibits the transport of marijuana across state lines, and, thus, the Cuomo Administration is seeking permission from the DOJ. “In many ways, this issue points out the absurdity of our federal marijuana laws,” said Christine Emerson of Rochester, a nurse practitioner and mother of a child with severe epilepsy. “I hope DOJ allows New York to import medicine from other jurisdictions, but the Cuomo Administration also must move quickly to get a producer up and running in New York.” Advocates noted that action on the federal level
Image US Custom is a long shot, and that there are things that the governor has the authority to do himself to create an emergency access program right away. For instance, he could fast track one or more producers in New York to begin growing medicine as soon as possible. Some private companies have submitted proposals to the Administration saying that they could make medicine available to New Yorkers within 90 days. Advocates also noted that, if the governor believes the law doesn’t allow for emergency access, he should call a special session of the legislature immediately to amend the bill, reinserting language that he removed during the final bill negotiations last June. Missy Miller of Atlantic Beach said, “My son, Oliver, who has severe seizures from a brain stem injury, cannot wait much longer to get the medicine he needs. We asked Governor Cuomo to try a number of things to create an emergency access program after he removed language from the bill that would do just that. While reaching out to the DOJ is a meaningful first step, there are other additional steps he can and should take to get Oliver and other critically ill children the medicine they need ASAP. He needs to realize that every day that passes we lose more of Oliver to these seizures.” Additionally, were DOJ to grant the waiver, state legislative action will still likely be required. In June, during the final negotiations around New York’s medical marijuana law, the governor explicitly removed a provision to allow for emergency access to medical marijuana. In its place, the final bill included a provision requiring that only those marijuana products produced in New York would be legal for patient use, and marijuana products from other states would be illegal. Thus, legislative action to fix the medical marijuana law may be needed should DOJ grant the waiver so that patients can legally use the marijuana under state law. Over the last four years, numerous governors around the country have petitioned the Department of Justice on a range of issues related to the medical use of marijuana, including a request to reschedule marijuana and requests to protect workers in state medical marijuana programs from federal prosecution. Such inquiries led to the two memos from Deputy Attorney General Cole in 2012 and 2013, which clarified the stance of the Department of Justice on state medical marijuana programs. The letter by the Cuomo Administration appears to be the first public request seeking a federal waiver for medical marijuana to be acquired from another U.S. state. The federal government, including the Obama Administration, has not done enough to fix federal marijuana policy, although it has been widely acknowledged that marijuana Cont. on Page 18
Fall 2014 Edition
Oregon Dispensary Connection
Oregon Dispensary
Connection
supposed to do with the batch of contaminated cannabis after it is returned.)
Oregon medical cannabis patients are likely aware that current state regulations require dispensaries to test their medicine for pesticide residues. Testing requirements can help protect patients from pesticide contaminants and discourages growers from using pesticides. However, Oregon’s cannabis pesticide residue testing is perhaps less useful and more complicated than patients might think. Here’s why. According to Oregon’s Administrative Rules for Medical Marijuana, every batch of cannabis received at a dispensary is supposed to be tested for pesticide residues in four categories of pesticides— chlorinated hydrocarbons, organophosphates, carbamates, and pyrethroids. If test results come back above 0.1 parts per million (ppm) in the any of these four categories of pesticides, the dispensary must return the entire batch to the grower. (The regulation doesn’t specify what the grower is
What medical cannabis patients might not realize is that Oregon’s rules don’t require screens for pesticides in other categories such as fungicides, biopesticides, neonicotinoids, and insect growth regulators. Examples of the types of pesticides not covered under required cannabis pesticide screens include toxic synthetic chemicals that some growers might be tempted to use to knock down mite infestations such as Avid (abamectin), Hexygon (hexythiazox), Forbid (spiromesifen), and Floramite (Bifenazate). (By the way, these four pesticides are prohibited in organic farming.) Cannabis patients might find it strange that Avid, a neurotoxin that is used by some cannabis growers to control spider mites and is registered for use on ornamental plants and Christmas trees but not food crops, is not part of the State’s required pesticide residue testing. The point is, that just because a cannabis sample passes a state compliant pesticide residue test doesn’t necessarily mean it is pesticide free.
Of course nothing in the state regulations prohibit dispensaries from conducting more comprehensive screens for chemicals like those found in Avid, yet the regulation doesn’t require it either. The regulation also doesn’t specify which chlorinated hydrocarbons, organophosphates, carbamates, or pyrethroids pesticides should be tested for.
Oregon. Smith said he first offered dispensaries a comprehensive pesticide residue screen that included chemicals within the mandatory testing groups plus residue screens for other common pesticides used in cannabis production from other groups like insect growth regulators, neonicotinoids, and biopesticides. But dispensaries didn’t want it.
But a solution to this problem is not as simple as increasing the number of pesticide categories that are being tested. For example, if you expand the testing dragnet to include fungicides and biopesticides, without specifying exactly which pesticide residues to test for, you could get positive test results for less toxic pesticides that are approved for use in organic farming systems.
“I first came to the market with the long list. Honestly, I didn't realize I was in competition with labs who were offering ‘state compliant’ testing for less than half the price of my panel and giving no specific information about what they were testing for. So I came out with the short list—which is still technically considered to be ‘state compliant’ as it touches a number of compounds from each of the OAR listed classes. Dispensaries and patients typically only see the difference in price, assuming any ‘state compliant’ testing must be essentially the same.”
Another interesting point with Oregon’s mandatory pesticide residue testing is the limit of 0.1 ppm. The EPA residue tolerances for pesticides on food crops is often set well above 0.1 ppm, so limiting pesticide residue on cannabis to below 0.1 ppm could mean Oregon’s medical cannabis, even with loose testing guidelines, might still be cleaner than some food crops. Executive scientist for Kenevir Research, Dr. Anthony Smith, runs a cannabis testing lab in southern
But they aren’t the same. At some labs, state compliant residue testing for cannabis can cost as little as $100 per test, and may only test for 30 pesticides. Some of the pesticides tested for in the cheap screen are often uncommon or include chemicals that were banned in the US more than 40 years ago,
In This Edition Are there Pesticides in your medicine? Pg 1 Organic Gardening and Labeling
Pg 3
20 Questions For Testing Labs
Pg 4
Consume Marijuana Responsibly: Don't Be Maureen Dowd
Pg 5
Canna-Food Safety
Pg 6
like DDT. More comprehensive pesticide tests are available but they are more expensive and dispensaries might not want to pay more for costly screens when the cheaper tests meet state requirements. Of course, some dispensaries do pay more for comprehensive screens. Chelsea Hopkins, director of The Greener Side in Eugene says she contracts with a cannabis lab that offers a comprehensive residue screen. Ms. Hopkins says her dispensary has developed systems for managing the cost of residue testing and sees it playing an essential role. “Cannabis is people’s medicine, so testing isn’t a burden for us. It is really important,” said Hopkins. But she also
Oregon Dispensary Connection thinks that there should be better oversight and guidance for cannabis labs. Hopkins said, “There is a lack of regulation for laboratories in Oregon since basically the lab chooses what they are going to test for, and they may or may not have appropriate instrumentation to detect and confirm if pesticide is present.” Of the 18 synthetic pesticides that The American Herbal Pharmacopoeia cites as commonly used in cannabis production, only four would be caught on a less expensive pesticide screen—three are synthetic pyrethroids, one is a carbamate. The remaining 14 pesticides are either neonicotiniods, ketol-enols, fungicides, plant growth regulators, or unclassified pesticides that fall within categories that are not required to be included in state compliant pesticide residue tests for cannabis. Policy makers interested in fixing Oregon’s cannabis pesticide residue testing requirements may benefit from
studying how the USDA National Organic Program approaches pesticide testing for organic fruits and vegetables. In that system, organic producers receive third-party inspections annually and can be subject to unannounced inspection any time during the year. The organic certification is process based, meaning that through inspection and careful review of a producer’s farming practices, certifiers verify that crops are grown according to accepted organic standards. A key piece to the inspection is ensuring only pest control materials approved for organic farming are used. To deter producers from using prohibited pesticides, the USDA also
and costs around $350 per test. Testing must occur at labs accredited to ISO 17025:2005 which is an international quality standards for lab competency and instrument calibration. Until pesticide residue testing requirements are strengthened, medical cannabis patients that don’t want pesticide residues on their medicine may want to work directly with a grower they trust or with dispensaries that do more than just state compliant testing. Pesticide residue testing is a complicated issue, but at least one thing is clear—growers, patients, dispensary owners and lawmakers will have some tough questions to answer and much to learn before the thorny issue of pesticides and cannabis can be adequately addressed.
requires certifying agencies to conduct random pesticide residue sampling on 5% of the operations they certify per year. Although only a small percentage of organic product is tested for pesticide
residues annually, the grower never knows when his product will be screened for residues and the residue screens are comprehensive. For example, the pesticide residue screen used by several well-known organic certifiers includes about 200 pesticides
Andrew Black works as an organic farm and food processing inspector for Oregon Tilth. He also runs Certified Kind, a new certification program for sustainably grown cannabis. See their ad in this issue of the OCC.
Oregon Dispensary Connection
There is a lot of talk going on about organic standards in the Cannabis world. As there should be! Â When it comes to wanting to find the cleanest and best quality cannabis in the dispensaries, we need proper labeling and transparency of growing practices so we can make educated decision about what kind of cannabis we want to consume. Â Due to the fact that the USDA will not certify organic cannabis, because of its schedule 1 status, other certifications have come to exist to acknowledge responsible growing practices. In the industry today, these organizations are very important. The only way to be assured truly clean medicine is to know how and with what it was grown. Unfortunately, in the weed world, growing practices tend to be kept behind closed doors. It is our opinion this information should be fully
digesting and delivering nutrients to their roots.
disclosed to the consumer, so they make informed decisions. The more growers that share this information the better we all can become in creating healthy medicine. One style, in which our garden is grown, is based in soiling building techniques that aim to enrich ecology and minimize and ultimately illuminate the need for store-bought nutrients. In our opinion, the most significant component in growing healthy plants has everything to do with biologically rich, living soils. Nature is our truest guide to creating healthy plants. There are many myths and secrets in the cannabis world about how to grow the best plants with the highest yields. One very common and prevalent myth is that of tilling. Everyone at some point on their path as a grower has been told that to start you must turn and till the soil into productivity. This is not true, and in fact is a very backwards foundation to
To support the life force in the soil always keep a thick layer of mulch covering the soil as habitat for all the communities of life to thrive in. Think of it like having a blanket on the surface of your garden, by insulating the soil with carbon based organic matter we mimic a forest ecosystem and any science will assuredly find that forest loams are the richest and healthiest soils on earth. Image: Green Source Gardens
begin trying to grow healthy thriving plants with. Disturbing the topsoil’s living biomass is the cause of most sickness and problems into your grow space. Without the complex biology of the topsoil intact, the life force is destroyed and you effectively loose all of your soil building power. The life in the soil takes care of the plants by buffering PH to productive levels and
Image: Green Source Gardens
There is always going to be debate on how to grow properly. And there are always going to be certain people who care more than others about the differences in growing practices. However, there should always be an expectation and standard that growers share their methods with the public as a way to offer them information to base their decisions on in choosing what kind of cannabis they want to purchase and put in their bodies.
The most reliable way to know you are getting the best medicine possible is to ask about how and who grew it. Certifications are a new and important step in the cannabis industry, because they are a sign that the grower is open to inspection, and they provide the information you need in order to be well informed in your choices!
Oregon Dispensary Connection 7. What is your analytical methodology for testing cannabis (HPLC [liquid chromatograph], GC [gas chromatograph], TLC, other)? What are the limitations of your selected method?
10 Questions To Ask Your Cannabis Scientist * Guest blog by Samantha Miller - The current cannabis laboratory environment is unregulated so consumers have to be savvy. Knowing what questions to ask a prospective cannabis lab is key. To help the process a group of laboratory service providers* from various states along with an international advisor compiled a list of 10 questions to ask a cannabis scientist. This can act as a quick reference guide for those looking for a qualified laboratory partner. 1. What training or expertise do you have to be able to perform cannabis analysis? 2. Which cannabinoids do you test for? Do you have reliable reference standards for all of them? 3. How is CBN related to THC, and why is it important to test for it?
8. What is the average THC/CBD content your lab has measured? 9. Did your lab ever test the same cannabis twice, with very different results? What was the explanation for that, and what has been changed to prevent it from happening again?
4. What kind of samples do you test (flowers, edibles, tincture)? Have you optimized your extraction and analysis protocol for each kind of sample? 5. What do you do with left-over samples? 6. Are you aware of acidic cannabinoids? In samples such as edibles, concentrates, and tincture they can be present at high levels. How do you deal with that?
10. Analytical methods need to be ‘validated’ before you can be sure they are fully reliable. Have you done this already, and how did you do this. Did it include a third party? If you didn’t do it yet, how can I be sure my results will be accurate? * Contributors: Arno Hazekamp (Netherlands), Samantha Miller (Pure Analytics), Paula Morris (Medea Labs), Noel Palmer (Montana Botanical Analytics), Jeff Raber (The Werc Shop) and Eric Taylor (California Botanicals). Collectively the ACS, Alliance for Cannabis Science. Reprinted by permission.
10 Questions To Ask Your Cannabis Scientist About Pesticide Testing ** Oregon is the first State to require pesticides testing on cannabis. No other State or Nation in the World currently requires this level of consumer safety screening on this commodity. As such, there are no validated methods for testing pesticides on cannabis. The analytical process for testing pesticides is complicated; it’s even more complicated on a complex matrix like cannabis. What qualifies your cannabis scientist to perform this rigorous test? Ask these questions to gain insight on their abilities. 1. Do you have a clear understanding of the State compliance requirements for testing pesticides? Do you have any concerns about these requirements? 2. What instrument (e.g. GC/MS, GC/FID, LC/MS/MS) or instruments do you use to test for pesticides in cannabis? What are the limitations of that instrument? 3. What pesticide analytes do you screen for, and why did you choose those compounds?
4. How many pesticides have you found, and what are they? What were the levels of detection? 5. What is your Limit of Quantitation (LOQ) on each of the pesticides you screen for? 6. Do you have traceable reference standards for the compounds you’re screening for? 7. Are you able to screen for pesticides on concentrates? Have you ever found any pesticides on concentrates? 8. If you find pesticides, how do you validate the quantitation (ie. do you do a confirmatory run)? 9. How do you handle pesticides that are present under the State limit? 10. Have you validated and verified your methods? * * Contributors: Bethany Sherman and Rodger Voelker, PhD, OG Analytical © 2014.
Oregon Dispensary Connection me. “But they needed some better warnings and portion control for edibles, with all the neophytes rushing to Denver.”
Maureen Dowd’s experience with a marijuana-infused edible in Colorado will certainly live in infamy and the Marijuana Policy Project is using her tale for good, by helping educate people about the use of cannabis products. The cannabis community is certainly tired of seeing stoner stereotypes portrayed in the media as cannabis consumers tend to be a diverse community just like the rest of the population. It is both great and truthful that Leafly used ordinary people in a recent ad in the New York Times and that MPP uses a women who could certainly pass for Maureen Dowd, one of the top columnists in the nation, in a billboard urging people to “start low and go slow.” For her part, Ms. Dowd, a supporter of legalization, is taking the billboard in stride, telling
If her likeness on the billboard makes waves, why stop there? “They could just run Bill Maher’s funny and great instructions to me on his show at dispensaries in a continuous loop,” she writes. Reassured by Colorado and Washington’ s “fine-tuning” of marijuana laws, Dowd is ready to take her image elsewhere.
the Daily Beast that she loves the billboard and even plans to use it on her Christmas card. More from the Daily Beast: Whether or not Dowd meant to cast herself into the spotlight, Tvert sees it as a good thing. “Quite frankly she strikes me as a sensible person. This is the type of thing where people like this should want to talk about it—and she did. The mistake she made is very
common and while she made a few comments that were off-base in her column, the overarching message of it was very important,” says Tvert. “There are certain people who have the ability to have a significant impact on how people think about an issue like this one, and Dowd is one of those people.” Dowd doesn’t take this role lightly. “I’m in favor of legalization,” she tells
Education programs, funded either by the government or various groups, will certainly be needed to help educate the public and alleviate the concerns of voters. Over time, more and more people will understand that marijuana, even more so than alcohol, can be used responsibly. As the experiences of Colorado and Washington demonstrate that regulated cannabis commerce is a much better policy than prohibition, better prioritizing police resources and generating revenue, legalization will spread from state to state and the
.Image wikimedia
lives of millions of people will be improved. This is a campaign worth supporting and can very well be a model for other states to follow. For more info on this important campaign, check out www.consumeresponsibly.org
Oregon Dispensary Connection hours after effects start, again depending on the dosing. With dosing you should choose 50 MG if you are new to cannabis, 100 MG if use occasionally, 150 MG if you use often, and 200 + MG if you are in severe medicinal need. Always try small amounts first and wait 4 hours to do anymore.
1. How strong are they? Certification’ company. The inspection was last week, and in our opinion these people are on the right track when it comes to guidance for growers and providing information to consumers. Clean Green certifies farms and growers who are prioritizing responsible growing methods and should be a label to look for in order to know you are getting well cared for medicine. Green Source Gardens produces high quality organic medicine in Southern Oregon. Their products are available at licensed Oregon dispensaries.
The most common question we get at Coma Treats is “how safe are medibles”. It’s a great question, especially considering in Oregon edible forms of cannabis are not considered food and are not subject to food laws as other foods are. The Director of Pharmacy Programs for the Oregon Health Authority, Tom Burns, informed me that dispensaries are more like private clubs and at the time we spoke the decision had been made to not put them under normal kitchen rules. We do know this is likely change, at least for recreational marijuana, but as one Agriculture department worker said, legally they aren’t food but a “medicinal delivery device”. So are they safe? I believe medibles are the safest way to medicate especially for people with serious health conditions but you need to know a couple of things to see what works best for you. Let’s split this into two equally important categories.
You need to know how the medible is made to gauge if it’s safe for you. There are several ways but the most common is to do what one candy medible company here in Oregon does. They purchase bulk candy from out of the country usually and either inject it with BHO or sprinkle hash on it. Those types of medible makers usually don’t decarboxylize or add anything helpful to digestion so you usually get a stomach ache alongside a quick high that subsides in 2 hours. You are really just eating marijuana whole. Decarboxylizing or activating the cannabis, is just simply converting the molecules from their acidic forms of THCA (into THC) or CBDA (into CBD). The acids forms are in marijuana naturally until you add time, or heat, like when you smoke. The other common way to make medibles is to use oil, butter, other fats or some type of tincture to make foods. These companies. of which Coma Treats is one. usually do take the time to decarboxylize the cannabis. The
It should go without saying but assume you have a child in your house where you store medibles. Children should not have access to medibles at any time.
THC and other cannabinoids release much slower as they are trapped in fats and the body processes them more slowly. You can start feeling effects later than smoking, but usually around 30 minutes depending on your metabolism. Plus, you don’t get a stomach ache or get too high too quickly, and then loose the effect in 2 hours. A well-cooked medible should last about 4
2. Are they food safe? Will it make me sick? Most medibles I see do not have much a chance of spoiling quickly. We ask all dispensaries to refrigerate our product to keep it longer, up to 3 months. Even though we don’t have but one product that can go rancid we think it’s safest. You can usually look at the ingredients and see if a medible has the possibility of going bad, if it’s not refrigerated don’t take a chance. If you aren’t going to eat it right away you should avoid spongy cakes, cupcakes or heavy dairy products such as milks, creams or cheeses. As I explained above there are no health department inspections on medible kitchens yet, so it’s on you to check. Look into where your medibles are made and who makes them. We are not the only medible maker that has food experience so check out the company’s website. We hope there are more companies in the future with professionally trained chefs showing off their kitchens on social media sites, and promoting safe use of medibles, but until then, talk to your dispensary and ask them what each one does. We give out free samples for bud-tenders to help them educate the customer on effects, strength and of course taste. One side note I will share with you is to be very wary of people claiming to have gluten free or other allergy free medibles. The food safety laws around these are very strict and you have no way to know if they really cook in a kitchen that has never had peanuts or wheat in them. In fact most medible makers have to rent a kitchen. If you have food allergies I would say you should avoid eating cannabis. Come Treats is a contributor to the OCC. Find a recipe each issue in the Recipes section of the paper!
Oregon Dispensary Connection NOTICE: As of Sept 19th, the Oregon Health Authority reports just over 500 applications were received, 193 were approved and of those, 161 (appearing here) released their information to OHA. This list was obtained
from OHA's website. Of the applications that have been processed, 167 were rejected and 25 had received provisional licenses, and may not open for business until a security system is in place that is approved by the Oregon Health Authority. Those with provisional licenses do not appear here . Under HB 3460 passed earlier this year, many cities and counties have enacted bans, some completely ban them and others have increased regulations. Some communities are changing their policies to allow dispensaries before May 1, 2015, when the moratorium period ends, so check with your local licensed center to see if they are open. Visit http://www.oregon.gov/oha/mmj/Pages/directory for the most up to date information.
5LMNT, LLC 63552 N Hwy 97 Bend, OR 97701 (828) 4990299 lic # MMD83554 Bloom Well, Inc. 1814 NE Division St Bend, OR 97701 (541) 3171814 http://www.bloomwellbend.com lic # MMD78761 Cannabend LLC. 3312 N HWY 97 Bend, OR 97701 (541) 6170420 lic # MMD43092 CannaCopia 923 SE 3rd St Bend, OR 97702 (541) 8767500 lic # MMD84680 DiamondTREE Inc 2715 NE Hwy 20 Bend, OR 97701 (541) 7069340 diamondtreeclub.com lic # MMD01429 Dr. Jolly's 415 SE 3rd St Bend, OR 97702 (701) 7293310 lic # MMD48279 Garden Kings 325 NE Franklin Ave Bend, OR 97701 (541) 6103667 lic # MMD49140 Good Leaf Organic Collect. 20360 Empire Ave #B8 Bend, Oregon 97701 (541) 3829420 www.facebook.com/TheGoodLeaf lic # MMD67703
Green Apothecary - 1 709 Adams Ave. La Grande, OR 97850 (541 ) 605-01 04 www.facebook.com/greenapothecary97850 lic# MMD47994 High Grade Organics 224 SE Davis Ave Bend, OR 97702 (541) 6472785 thehighgradeorganics.com lic # MMD06098 Oregrown 1199 NW Wall St Bend, OR 97701 (844) 6734769 www.Oregrown.com lic # MMD12491 The Herb Center 2205 NE Division St Bend, OR 97701 (541) 5507325 lic # MMD97215 The Medication Station Inc. 817 NW Hill St Bend, OR 97701 (541) 5507777 lic # MMD50923
The Releaf Center 2372 N First St, Ste B Hermiston, OR 97838 (541) 2896337 lic # MMD54844 Scott Inc. 432 N Oregon St Ontario, Oregon 97914 (541) 2351165 lic # MMD09761
Farmacy LLC 2911 Marine Dr Ste B Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 3253276 lic # MMD85344
Sweet Relief Natural Medicine 1444 Commercial St Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 7416024 lic # MMD69714 Pipe Dreams 1745 SW Highway 101 Ste C Lincoln City, Oregon 97367 (541) 9928821 lic # MMD00671
Allied Patient Care, Inc. 729 SE Powell Blvd Portland, Oregon 97214 (800) 7621452 lic # MMD24438 Alternative Solutions 13560 SE Powell Blvd Portland, OR 97236 (503) 7611635 lic # MMD39253
buds4u 10692 Hwy 126 Ste 2 Mapleton, OR 97453 (541) 2681076 lic # MMD00212
AmeriCanna Rx 8654 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, OR 97220 (971) 2544581 www.americannarx.com lic # MMD06679
Central Coast ReLeaf 1164 SW Coast Hwy, Ste B Newport, OR 97365 (541) 2648526 lic # MMD71383
Botanical Evolution LLC 1979 NW Vaughn St Ste B Portland, Oregon 97209 (971) 4074817 lic # MMD21437
This That & Other Things II 320 SW Coast Hwy Newport, OR 97365 (541) 2725001 www.cannabisnewport.com lic # MMD64272
Bridge City Collective 215 SE Grand Ave Portland, Oregon 97232 (503) 8637575 lic # MMD86421
Positive Vibrations 2001 Union Ave North Bend, Oregon 97459 (541) 6990009 www.positivevibrations1.com lic # MMD92572 Highway420 1803 S Roosevelt Dr Seaside, Oregon 97138 (503) 7175045 www.highway420store.com lic # MMD86889 Going Green West Coast Inc 41 Olalla Rd Toledo, OR 97391 (541) 6350078 lic # MMD99415 Coastal Cannabinoids 1466 SW Pacific Coast Hwy Waldport, Oregon 97394 (541) 5634206 www.coastalcannabinoids.com lic # MMD92458 Waldport Cannabis DLLC 250 SW Hwy 101 Waldport, Oregon 97394 (541) 2705505 lic # MMD94373
Maritime Cafe, Inc. 17415 SE McLoughlin Blvd Gladstone, OR 97267 (503) 3058307 http://maritimecafe.net lic # MMD25691 Mountain View Naturals LLC 1020 Wasco St Hood River, OR 97031 (541) 4363333 lic # MMD96171 The Gorge Green Cross 602 Oak St Hood River, Oregon 97031 (541) 4905441 www.thegorgegreencross.com lic # MMD59685 Little Amsterdam Wellness Center 18819 SE McLoughlin Blvd Milwaukie, OR 97267 (503) 3037489 www.littleamsterdampdx.com lic # MMD70259 Mary Janes 704 E Main St #B Molalla, OR 97038 (503) 5198155 lic # MMD82655 Abuv 6033 NE Win Sivers Dr Portland, Oregon 97220 (971) 2795526 lic # MMD50224 Abuv 8056 SE Harold St Portland, Oregon 97206 (503) 7600178 lic # MMD21116
Bridge City Collective 4312 N Williams Ave Portland, Oregon 97217 (503) 8637575 lic # MMD60610 CannaDaddy's Wellness Cntr. 16955 SE Division St Portland, OR 97236 (971) 2794932 lic # MMD10505 Cannabliss And Co 1917 SE 7th Ave Portland, Oregon 97214 (503) 7194338 www.cannablissandco.com lic # MMD91718 Cascade Alternative Resources 6430 NE MLK Blvd Portland, Oregon 97211 (503) 2846714 lic # MMD77320 Club Sky High 8957 N Lombard St Portland, OR 97203 (503) 7195801 lic # MMD79323 Collective Awakenings 2823 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, OR 97232 (503) 2067090 www.collectiveawakenings.org lic # MMD30480 Divine Kind Inc 8601 SW Terwilliger Blvd Portland, OR 97219 (503) 8890929 lic # MMD07445 Exodus Wellness Center 16211 SE Powell Blvd Portland, OR 97236 (971) 2428079 http://www.exoduswellnesscenter.com lic # MMD23473 Family Philanthropic Enterprises 6712 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, OR 97213 (503) 8665061 lic # MMD44663 Farma On Hawthorne 916 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, Oregon 97214 (503) 8105260 lic # MMD43487 Five Zero Trees 10209 SE Division St Bldg B, Ste 100 Portland, OR 97266 (971) 2428492 www.fivezerotrees.com lic # MMD84171 Flora Portland 110 SE Main St, Ste C Portland, OR 97214 (503) 4774261 lic # MMD62014
Grateful Meds LLC. - 7050 NE MLK Blvd Portland, OR 97211 (541 ) 324-6850 www.gratefulmeds.com lic # MMD50079 Greeley Gallery LLC 6512 N Greeley Ave Portland, OR 97217 (503) 8890729 lic # MMD97524 Green Goddess Remedies 5435 SW Taylors Ferry Rd Portland, OR 97219 (360) 9011264 lic # MMD53450 Green Oasis 1035 SE Tacoma Portland, OR 97202 (503) 4107676 http://www.portlandgreenoasis.com lic # MMD63392 Health Awareness Group 2312 NW Kearney St Portland, OR 97210 (503) 7064904 www.healthawarenessgroup.com lic # MMD29982
Make sure to visit the OCC preferred dispensaries highlighted in GREEN! Nature's Alternative, Inc. 15350 NE Sandy Blvd # C & D Portland, Oregon 97230 (503) 2529905 www.naturesalternativepdx.com lic # MMD05224 Nectar Medicinal Herbs LLC 1019 NE 122nd St Portland, Oregon 97230 (503) 8057523 lic # MMD86223 Nectar Medicinal Herbs, LLC 3350 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, OR 97232 (503) 8057523 info@nectarpdx.com lic # MMD55358
Herbal Wonders LLC 6230 NE Halsey Portland, Oregon 97213 (503) 2820399 lic # MMD96719
Northwest Releaf 6126 SE Duke St Unit A Portland, Oregon 97206 (971) 2428873 http://www.nwhealthpdx.com lic # MMD96439
Herbalist Farmer, Inc. 45 NE 122nd Ave Portland, OR 97220 (503) 2529088 www.herbalistfarmer.com lic # MMD12485
OMCC Oregon 10055 NE Glisan St Portland, OR 97220 (503) 7166042 lic # MMD89848
Home Grown Apothecary 1937 NE Pacific St Portland, OR 97232 (503) 2321716 www.homegrownapothecary.com lic # MMD11561
One Draw Two LLC 11711 NE Halsey St Portland, Oregon 97220 (971) 7034511 lic # MMD22655
J.C. Hawthorne's 1133 SE 82nd Ave Portland, Oregon 97215 (503) 9987351 lic # MMD31498
Oregon Grown Gift Shop 332 SE 82nd Ave Portland, OR 97216 (503) 3328423 www.oregongrowngiftshop.com lic # MMD47966
Kaleafa 5232 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, Oregon 97206 (503) 9391286 lic # MMD38245
Oregon's Alternative Medical Center 6300 NE 42nd Ave Portland, Oregon 97218 (971) 3026277 lic # MMD97408
Kaya Shack 1719 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, Oregon 97214 (503) 9542348 lic # MMD48152
Oregon's Finest 1327 NW Kearney St Portland, OR 97209 (971) 2544765 www.ofmeds.com lic # MMD16217
Kind Heart Collective 8217 N Denver Ave Portland, Oregon 97217 (503) 5126136 www.kindheartcollective.com lic # MMD41043
Portland Canna Connection 1515 SE 46th Ave Portland, OR 97215 (503) 4779247 lic # MMD93626
La Mota 7435 SE 52nd Ave Portland, Oregon 97206 (541) 3243052 lic # MMD87114
Portland Compassionate Caregivers 4020 SE Cesar Chavez Blvd Portland, Oregon 97202 (503) 9542275 lic # MMD90584
Local Herb Collective 15948 SE Division Portland, OR 97236 (503) 4338030 lic # MMD73311 Marijuana Dispensaries LLC 4612 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, Oregon 97213 (971) 2551456 lic # MMD34008 Mt Hood Wellness Center, LLC 11121 SE Division St Portland, Oregon 97266 (971) 2794116 www.mthoodwellness.com lic # MMD42052 Mt Hood Wellness Center, LLC 2532 NE Broadway St Portland, Oregon 97232 (503) 5040894 www.mthoodwellness.com lic # MMD27102
Powell House Cannabis Club 5311 SE Powell Blvd Portland, Oregon 97206 (503) 7889999 lic # MMD18544 Puddletown Organics 8201 SE Powell Blvd Ste F Portland, Oregon 97266 (503) 3338773 lic # MMD10144 Pure Green 3738 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, OR 97232 (971) 2428561 http://puregreenpdx.com/ lic # MMD76798 ReLeaf MM 1034 SE 122nd Ave Portland, OR 97233 (503) 2789237 http://www.releafmm.com lic # MMD24134
Oregon Dispensary Connection South Coast Compassion Coalition - 93705 Newport Ln. Coos Bay, OR 97420 (541 ) 267 0707 lic # MMD84054 South Coast Dispensaries - 1 025 Chetco Ave #4 Brookings, Oregon 9741 5 (541 ) 81 3-21 33 lic # MMD27623 River City Holistic Health LLC 1761 NE Dekum St Portland, OR 97211 (503) 2062113 http://rivercityholistichealth.com lic # MMD49498
Club Sockeye 94253 North Bank Rogue River Rd Gold Beach, Oregon 97444 (541) 2479080 lic # MMD79563
Rooted Northwest LLC 7817 NE Halsey St Portland, OR 97213 (503) 7804834 lic # MMD18797
Blue Moon Dispensary 39092 Dexter Rd Dexter, Oregon 97431 (541) 9372993 lic # MMD09776
Stateside Green 4844 NE 103rd Ave Portland, OR 97220 (503) 8665490 lic # MMD14017
Going Organic LLC 10546 Hwy 62 Ste C Eagle Point, Oregon 97524 (541) 8262476 www.goingorganicore.com lic # MMD81442
The Coin Cottage, Inc 3675 SW Troy St Portland, OR 97219 (503) 2939400 www.thecoincottage.com lic # MMD80607 The Green Door on Hawthorne 3135 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, Oregon 97214 (503) 2065476 www.thegreendooronhawthorne.com lic # MMD86878
Breeze Botanicals - 31 5 Second Ave Gold Hill, Oregon 97525 (541 ) 855-8797 www.breezebotanicals.com lic # MMD56580 Mainstreaming Our Medicine LLC 24394 Redwood Hwy Kerby, Oregon 97531 (541) 4151550 lic # MMD86125
Westside Wellness 18918 SW Shaw St Aloha, Oregon 97007 (503) 6492999 www.westsidewellness.com lic # MMD10896 Green Cross Dispensary 333 North Main St Brownsville, Oregon 97327 (541) 4669110 lic # MMD49625 Green Room 2521 NW 9th St Corvallis, OR 97330 (503) 7087154 lic # MMD08300
Natures Better Health Center 220 NW 2nd St Corvallis, Oregon 97330 (541) 2078136 www.nbhtoday.com lic # MMD44776
Twenty After Four Wellness Center 420 Blair Blvd, Ste A Eugene, Oregon 97401 (514) 7019768 twentyafterfourwc.com lic # MMD95952
The Agrestic LLC 1665 SE 3rd St Corvallis, OR 97333 (541) 7534182 www.theagrestic.com lic # MMD28067
Healing Green LLC 769 N Main Ste C Independence, Oregon 97351 (503) 9914263 www.healinggreen.org lic # MMD35100
Apothecaria LLC 700 Row River Rd Cottage Grove, Oregon 97424 (541) 5216728 lic # MMD92208
Medicine Tree LLC 2046 OR 99W #A McMinnville, OR 97128 (503) 4746464 lic # MMD55773
Mandy's Med Club 335 Hwy 99 S Cottage Grove, OR 97424 (541) 9425047 www.mandysmedclub.com lic # MMD70653
1st Choice Cannabis Farmacy 4142 Liberty Rd S Salem, OR 97302 (971) 3010744 www.1stchoicecannabis.com lic # MMD23052
Amazon Organics 3443 Hilyard St Eugene, OR 97405 (541) 5140271 lic # MMD05545
2nd Step Dispensary 1295 Oxford St SE Salem, OR 97302 (503) 3918214 http://naturequestllc.com lic # MMD73294
The Green Planet 10022 SW Canyon Rd Portland, OR 97225 (503) 3181855 lic # MMD41893
Lime Green 17 S Riverside Ave Medford, Oregon 97501 (541) 3243052 lic # MMD03081
The Green Remedy 12447 SE Powell Blvd Portland, Oregon 97236 (503) 9542991 lic # MMD03643
Maryjanes Basement 259 E Barnett Rd Medford, Oregon 97501 (541) 6901542 lic # MMD09568
The Human Collective II - 9220 SW Barbur Blvd, Ste 107 Portland, OR 9721 9 (503) 208-3042 www.humancollective.org lic # MMD4201 8
The Greenery 310 N Main St Ste G Phoenix, OR 97535 (541) 5355100 ashlandgreenery.org lic # MMD87685
Today's Herbal Choice, Inc. 2606 SE Gladstone Ste 101 Portland, OR 97202 (971) 2355626 lic # MMD56933
Top Shelf Wellness Center 205 Fern Valley Rd Ste C Phoenix, Oregon 97535 (541) 8970716 lic # MMD01049
Tree House Collective, LLC 2419 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, OR 97232 (503) 8948774 lic # MMD50833
420 Club LLC 2574 & 2576 NE Stephens St Roseburg, Oregon 97470 (541) 6438208 lic # MMD36565
Uplift Botanicals LLC 5421 NE 33rd Ave Portland, OR 97211 (503) 3515196 lic # MMD69585
THC 21901 Hwy 62 Shady Cove, Oregon 97539 (323) 6327277 lic # MMD70854
Urban Farmacy, LLC 420 NE 60th Ave Portland, OR 97213 (503) 9577832 urbanfarmacyprc.com lic # MMD45028
Green Valley Wellness LLC - 103 N Pacific Hwy # B & C Talent, Oregon 97540 (541 ) 535-3022 lic # MMD671 66
L.J.'s Medication Destination 3131 W 11th Ave Eugene, Oregon 97403 (541) 8444180 lic # MMD42549
Yer Best Bud 4012 NE Cully Blvd Portland, OR 97213 (541) 8806687 lic # MMD55912
Talent Health Club LLC 1007 S Pacific Hwy Unit E Talent, Oregon 97540 (541) 8974111 www.talenthealthclub.com lic # MMD32984
Next Level Wellness 145 E 29th Ave Eugene, OR 97405 (541) 5156514 lic # MMD68959
Albany Alt. Health Solutions 820 Pacific Blvd SE, Ste B Albany, Oregon 97321 (541) 9812527 www.althealthsol.com lic # MMD75541
Oregon Medicinal Alternatives 388 Pearl St Eugene, Oregon 97401 (541) 7353398 www.oregonmedicinalalternati ves.com lic # MMD91177
High Tide Wellness Center LLC 15957 S Hwy 101 Brookings, OR 97415 (541) 8131976 lic # MMD69138
Going Green Albany 1225 Commercial Wy SE Albany, Oregon 97322 (541) 4058856 lic # MMD62518 The Medmar Clinic LLC 20595 SW TV Hwy Aloha, Oregon 97006 (971) 2551456 lic # MMD30736
The Herbal Centre, LLC 463 River Ave Eugene, OR 97404 (458) 2018164 lic # MMD69040 The People's Wellness Center 71 Centennial Loop SteB Eugene, OR 97401 (458) 2017642 www.thepeopleswellnesscenter.com lic # MMD27243
A Better Way Medicinal Alt, LLC - 3255 Washburn Wy Ste #5 Klamath Falls, OR 97603 (541 ) 887-2335 www.klamathdispensary.com lic # MMD1 0745
Banana Belt Safe Access Center - 1 6399 Lower Harbor Rd Brookings, Oregon 9741 5 (541 ) 81 3-2503 www.bananabeltmmf.com lic # MMD62984
The Greener Side - 1 553 Oak St Eugene, Oregon 97401 (541 ) 345-8904 lic # MMD24868
High Quality Compassion 1300 NW 9th St Corvallis, OR 97330 (541) 2864771 lic # MMD23829
The Green Front 6814 NE Glisan St Portland, OR 97213 (503) 2520036 www.thegreenfront.org lic # MMD61083
Emerald Rose City Cannabis Club 17030 SE McLoughlin Blvd Milwaukie, OR 97267 (503) 6547104 lic # MMD07875
Terpene Station - 645 River Rd Eugene, OR 97404 (541 ) 288-6300 lic # MMD07441
Cannabliss And Co 588 E 11th Ave Eugene, Oregon 97401 (541) 2836334 lic # MMD45800
Emerald City Medicinal Delivery Serv - 1474 W 6th Ave Eugene, OR 97402 (541 ) 505-9065 www.emeraldcitymeds.org lic # MMD21 244 Eugene Compassionate Caregivers 439 W 1st St Eugene, OR 97401 (503) 8393544 lic # MMD66457 Eugene OG 2045 Franklin Blvd Eugene, OR 97403 (541) 5057575 lic # MMD02701 Kush MMD 221 W 10th Ave Eugene, OR 97401 (541) 6538801 lic # MMD06989
Oregon Medigreen 570 Lawrence St #112 Eugene, OR 97401 (541) 6364029 www.oregonmedigreen.com lic # MMD19162 Oregon Microgrowers Guild 1395 Cross St Eugene, Oregon 97402 (541) 2468972 www.oregonmicrogrowery.com lic # MMD52763
Ancient Remedies 2350 State St Salem, Oregon 97301 (503) 9906723 lic # MMD40586
CannaMedicine - 1 460 State St Salem, OR 97301 (503) 585-2697 http://www.cannamedicine.org lic # MMD63031
Cherry City Compassion 2025 25th St SE Salem, OR 97302 (971) 2737607 http://www.cherrycitycompassion.net lic # MMD37512 Club Pitbull 4088 State St Salem, OR 97317 (503) 4098192 http://www.clubpitbull.org lic # MMD11153 Herbal Grasslands, LLC 1130 RoyvonneAve SE, Ste 104 Salem, OR 97302 (503) 3649522 lic # MMD92797 Oregon Chronic Solutions 1695 Fairgrounds Rd NE Salem, OR 97301 (503) 3858101 facebook.com/oregon.chronic.solutions lic # MMD64815 Piper's Holistic Essentials 1729 Center St NE #170 Salem, OR 97301 (503) 5863349 lic # MMD07184 The Holistic Choice 1045 Commercial St SE Salem, Oregon 97302 (503) 9907312 lic # MMD01850 TLC Medical LLC 1895 Liberty St NE Salem, Oregon 97301 (503) 9308891 lic # MMD69319 TLC Medical LLC 4550 Commercial Street S Salem, Oregon 97302 (503) 9308891 lic # MMD16750 Cannabis LLC 1936 Main St Springfield, OR 97477 (541) 9545871 lic # MMD14136
Grateful Meds LLC - 1 401 Market St Springfield, OR 97477 (541 ) 324-6850 lic # MMD07796 Wickit Weedery 2600 Main St, Ste E Springfield, OR 97477 (503) 8942555 www.wickitweedery.com lic # MMD84634 Oregon's Herbal Remedies LLC 88344 Territorial Rd Veneta, Oregon 97487 (541) 6534887 lic # MMD38051
Cannabis Connection
An Updated Look at Medical Marijuana in the United States By Allen St. Pierre Director of NORML NORML has updated its homepage’s medical cannabis section, including a newly designed national map of medical marijuana states to reflect the recent surge in states that have passed so-called ‘CBD-only’ legislation. Currently in the United States, 35 states have reformed their laws via legislation or binding voter ballot initiative to allow qualified patients medical access to cannabis products. This time last year, 21 states and the District of Columbia had medical cannabis laws on the books–a sixty percent increase in a single year. The laws today governing medical cannabis at the state level breakdown to three basic categories: Self-preservation (patient has medical necessity defense for possessing or growing cannabis); Retail access (patient can access cannabis in retail store; home cultivation is often prohibited) and CBD-only (patients are
National News allowed to possess and use cannabis strains and other products high in cannabidiol [CBD], although generally there is no legal source for the patients to obtain those strains; no home cultivation allowed). A few states have hybrid medical cannabis programs where patients can both cultivate a personal amount of cannabis and also have retail access to cannabis products (notably Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Maine). Minnesota’s law only allows for “oils and concentrates to be ‘vaporized'”. NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre stated, “Major media news outlets have recently published inaccurate maps regarding medical cannabis and we want to make sure the public, notably cannabis consumers and patients, have an accurate understanding of America’s everchanging ganja geography. What makes NORML’s medical cannabis map up-to-date is that it accurately reflects which states are yet to implement their law reforms to allow legal access.” Allen St. Pierre is the Executive Director of the National Organization of the Reform of Marijuana Laws. © 2014 NORML. Reprinted by permission.
DPA Responds to New Global Commission Report From Drug Policy Alliance On September 9th the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a new, groundbreaking report at a press conference in New York City. The event was live-streamed and speakers included Richard Branson, former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, former Colombian President César Gaviria, former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss and others. The report reflects a new evolution in the thinking of the Commissioners, who reiterate their demands for decriminalization, alternatives to incarceration, and greater emphasis on public health approaches – and now also call for permitting the legal regulation of psychoactive substances. The Commission is the most distinguished group of high-level leaders to ever call for such far-reaching changes. Below is a statement from DPA Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann: “When the Commission released its initial report just three years ago, few expected its recommendations to be embraced anytime soon by current presidents. But that’s exactly what happened, with Colombian President Santos and Guatemala President Perez-Molina speaking out boldly, former Mexican President Calderon calling on the United Nations to reassess the prohibitionist approach to drugs, and Uruguayan President Mujica approving the first national law to legally regulate cannabis. Meanwhile, one Commission member, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, has opened up the drug policy debate in West Africa, recruiting some of the region’s most distinguished figures. “The import of the Commission’s report lies in both the distinction of its members and the boldness of their recommendations. The former presidents and other Commission members pull no punches in insisting that national and global drug control policies reject the failed prohibitionist policies of the 20th century in favor of new policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.
Operational-States that have passed laws to remove state-level criminal penalties on the use of medical marijuana by patients who are diagnosed with a debilitating illness. The programs in these states are up and running. Not Yet Operational-States that have passed medical marijuana laws, but programs are not yet up and running. CBD-Specific-States that have passed laws allowing for the use of cannabis extracts that are high in the nonpsychoactive cannabinoid CBD, and low in THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana, to treat severe, debilitating epileptic conditions.
“There’s no question now that the genie of reform has escaped the prohibitionist bottle. I’m grateful to the Commission for the pivotal role it has played in taking drug policy reform from the fringes of international politics to the mainstream.”
Page 11
From Drug Policy Alliance On September 16th, Reps. Hank Johnson (DGA) and Raul Labrador (R-ID) introduced legislation to reform the Pentagon program, which transfers military equipment to law enforcement. The program has come under increased scrutiny from lawmakers after images from Ferguson, Missouri, showed law enforcement dressed like combat soldiers, using military equipment to deal with protestors. The Pentagon program has its roots in the drug war, coming to fruition in the early 90s as the U.S. government militarized its approach to drug policy. Just last week, Senators held a hearing on the issue of militarization in our law enforcement, where they critical of the Pentagon program. Johnson and Labrador’s bill, the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act has already received support from numerous legislators on both sides of the aisle. This rare bipartisan moment is a recognition that the increased militarization of law enforcement has to stop. “In light of what we all saw in Ferguson, Missouri, the American people are clamoring for law enforcement to become less militarized. Grenades, drones, and tanks may belong on the battlefield; they certainly don’t have a place on U.S. streets,” said Michael Collins, Policy Manager at Drug Policy Alliance’s Office of National Affairs. “Such militarization is inextricably linked to the drug war, where swat teams and no-knock raids have become a routine part of drug arrests, even in the case of nonviolent offenders.” The bill tackles the militarization of law enforcement in the following ways: Inclusion of better oversight and management of the Pentagon’s 1033 program, which allows the free transfer of certain military equipment to law enforcement Removal of any reference to counterdrug operations from the program, thus ensuring that law enforcement is not incentivized to use the equipment to perform arrests of those suspected of being low-level, non-violent drug offenders Lists equipment that is not suitable for law enforcement use, such as: drones, grenades, and mine-resistant tanks.
The huge problem of police militarization has received increased attention because of the events in Ferguson, but many have been sounding the alarm for years. Journalist Radley Balko has noted the nexus between the drug war and police militarization in his writing, while the ACLU’s June 2014 report on this issue noted that from 2011-2012, 62% of swat teams were deployed for for drug searches. “This legislation is a thoughtful attempt at tackling a very worrying problem – the militarization of law enforcement,” Collins continued. “The Pentagon program is highly problematic because preferential treatment is given to those police forces that use their equipment to fight the drug war. This bill would end that, and move us away from a heavy-handed approach to drug policy,” stated Collins.
National News
Page 12 the site.
National News Nugs Marijuana Helps, Says Almost Everyone Medical marijuana patients are in agreement, it works. A new study from the Public Health Institute found that 92% of Californians who use medical marijuana say it helps them deal with their ailments. This study exposes a myth believed by many opposed to legalization: that legalization of medical marijuana leads to widespread pot use and is a ruse for recreational smoking. One of those is former Mayor of NYC and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who called it "one of the great hoaxes of all time." "Our study contradicts commonly held beliefs that medical marijuana is being overused by healthy individuals," the authors wrote, noting that patients suffer from a variety of conditions, including arthritis, migraines and cancer. "[The] results lend support to the idea that medical marijuana is used equally by many groups of people and is not exclusively used by any one specific group."
Vote For Marijuana’s goal (and ours) is to enable any voter to see all the local politicians running for (and holding) office, and what each politician has said and done about ending or continuing marijuana prohibition and its parts. For that we need activists from each state to help. Visit: http://www.voteformarijuana.net/getinvolved to learn how to become a Vote For Marijuana moderator in your home state, or just check out the front end and see what the system already knows about your local politicians!
© 29014 The Weed Blog. Reprinted By Permission Reprinted by permission.
Marijuana Blamed For NASCAR Driver’s Death
Help Track Candidates’ Positions On ‘Vote For Marijuana’ Web Site By David Borden, StopTheDrugWar.org
StoptheDrugWar.org has teamed up with VoteForMarijuana.net, a new web site that’s building a database of all state and federal politicians and their public statements/votes/pledges related to marijuana policy. We hope you’ll join the team by submitting information from your local races on
Workers’ Compensation to Cover Medical Marijuana in New Mexico from Marijuana Policy Project
By Johnny Green, The Weed Blog
A very tragic thing happened in NASCAR recently when driver Kevin Ward Jr. was killed after he was hit by a car driven by another driver, Tony Stewart. The facts are that Kevin Ward Jr. got out of his car in the middle of a race to confront Tony Stewart, and Tony Stewart’s car struck Kevin Ward Jr., killing him in the process. After an investigation was conducted, a grand jury decided to not press charges against Tony Stewart. Mainstream media, and the district attorney overseeing the investigation, used the tragedy as an opportunity to blame marijuana.
Medical marijuana recommended by a physician for an injured patient’s pain must be paid for by the patient’s employer and insurer, the New Mexico Court of Appeals has ruled. Despite marijuana’s federal classification as a controlled substance, the court concluded that New Mexico law grants Gregory Vialpando reimbursement for medical marijuana to treat the high-intensity pain that followed failed spinal surgeries caused by a workplace back injury. As the ruling states, Vialpando met the required threshold for payments under New Mexico’s workers’ compensation laws when his physician diagnosed medical marijuana as reasonable and necessary for his treatment.
Per USA Today: “Toxicology reports revealed Kevin Ward Jr., was under the influence of marijuana on the night he was struck and killed by a sprint car driven by Tony Stewart, Ontario County (N.Y.) District Attorney Michael Tantillo said Wednesday.
The August 29 decision is based on a lower court finding that Vialpando’s participation in the New Mexico Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Program constitutes reasonable and necessary medical care, the requirement set for reimbursement by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act. Vialpando’s employer at the time of the incident, Ben’s Automotive Services, and health care provider, Redwood Fire & Casualty, argued that medical marijuana should be treated as a prescription drug. If it were, it would require a pharmacist or health care provider to dispense, which New Mexico’s medical marijuana program does not have, and thus, could not be paid for by worker’s compensation.
At a news conference to announce that a grand jury had declined to indict Stewart in Ward’s death, Tantillo said the level of marijuana in Ward’s system was high enough to impair judgment.”
However, the appeals court found that “Indeed, medical marijuana is a controlled substance and is a drug. Instead of a written order from a health care provider, it requires the functional equivalent of a prescription – certification to the
According to the study, about 5% of California adults are medical marijuana users. While white adults and adults ages 18 to 24 were the most common users, every age and racial group had at least a 2% usage rate. Support for medical pot's positive effects cuts across demographic lines. Chronic pain was the most common condition reported among users, at about 31%. Arthritis and cancer were next at 11%, with migraines following at 8%.
The exact level of marijuana in Ward’s system is not known, and never may be known. But regardless, I think it’s safe to say that marijuana was not to blame for this tragedy. I have consumed A LOT of marijuana in my time on this earth, and have been VERY high many, many times. However, not once have I jumped out in front of a car moving over 100 MPH in an aggressive fashion. According to reports, Tony Stewart revved his engine while other cars were breaking. But is he to blame? Of course not, because Mr. Ward had marijuana in his system, and despite no proof of when that marijuana entered his system, marijuana is to blame. What a sad, sad scenario on so many levels. My heart goes out to Kevin Ward Jr.’s family, who has to deal with the fact that their family member’s death is being ruled as being his own fault for consuming marijuana.
Where Will You Find: Local Oregon News, National News, Medical Information, Recipes, Cultivation Tips, Local 420 Friendly Businesses
OREGON CANNABIS
CONNECTION Visit us Online at
www.oregoncannabisconnection.com
Cannabis Connection program.” the court wrote. In terms of the next steps for New Mexico’s medical marijuana policies, the state is heading in the right direction considering legalization.
Reporter Quits Job Live On TV To Focus On Marijuana Legalization By Johnny Green, The Weed Blog
Local Anchorage reporter Charlo Greene made headlines yesterday when she quit, live on air, and dropped an F-bomb in the process. She has since stated that she quit on air to bring attention to marijuana legalization, which she plans on fighting for in Alaska. Alaska is set to vote on marijuana legalization this November, along with Oregon and Washington D.C.. I tip my hat to Ms. Greene. Passing up a good paying job to be a marijuana activist is not an easy thing to do. Ms. Greene did what many Americans dream of doing. It reminds me of the movie Half Baked where Scarface quits after a series of F-bombs. During a marijuana segment, Ms. Greene stated the following: “Everything you’ve heard is why I, the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, will be dedicating all of my energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska. And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but, fuck it, I quit.” That led to the following statement by the news station: Dear Viewers, We sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter during her live presentation on the air tonight. The employee has been terminated. Bert Rudman - KTVA 11 News – Anchorage Dear KTVA, the news anchor quit, you didn’t fire her, but nice try. If you live in Alaska, make sure to vote yes on marijuana legalization this November and tell everyone else to do the same. The last poll out of Alaska showed the initiative losing, which would be a shame to see Ms. Greene quit her job for a failed initiative. Let’s make sure that’s not the case! 2014 The Weed Blog. Reprinted By Permission
Cannabis Connection
Our recurring column from Cheryl Smith, Former Executive Director of Compassion Center in Eugene, Oregon. Cheryl is also ViceChair of the State Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana.
Medical News JAMA: Medical Cannabis States Possess Lower Rates Of Opiate-Induced Fatalities by Paul Armentano NORML Deputy Director
Study: Women and Cannabis
the researchers, “…you get a very clear spike in drug sensitivity right when the females are ovulating…when their estrogen levels have peaked and are coming down.”
I have often wondered why more men are fascinated by, and even obsessed with cannabis and its characteristics, and more likely to use it, than women. While they exist, it is the rare woman who can spend hours marveling at trichomes, bud size, color, THC content, and sativa versus indica. The number of women with this particular fetish seems to be increasing, as cannabis moves into the mainstream, but they are still a minority. (This is also borne out by NIH statistics on use of marijuana in 2011 and 2012.)
This study, and others looking at the differences in effects on women versus men, is a long time coming, and only came about because recreational marijuana was legalized in Washington. Previous studies on how easily people develop tolerance to cannabis have been focused on men only.
I believe that some of the difference can be explained by the fact that women are the childbearers and are usually the gender that is responsible for caring for children. They need to have their wits about them, and to not model this behavior for their kids. Women also were much less likely to smoke cigarettes, until recently. A recent study from Washington State University, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, might have another answer. Women are more sensitive to the THC in cannabis because of their estrogen. The study was done on rats, rather than humans, which are similar. This could point to another reason that women are less interested in cannabis—a lower tolerance for THC may mean more likelihood of anxiety and paranoia when using it. The study found that after 10 days of giving THC to rats for pain-relief, tolerance was found to be 30% greater in female than in male rats. That is, the females needed more THC for the same pain relief, even when they started with lower doses than the males. (On an unrelated note, they also found that the rats’ reproductive cycles were not affected.) According to the Rebecca Craft, one of
Page 13
This is good information for employees of medical marijuana clinics and dispensaries, who are in the best position to advise and educate their consumers. Women should start with smaller doses and only gradually increase the dose, as needed. Ultimately, we may arrive at one standard dosage for women and one for men. Washington State University. "Estrogen increases cannabis sensitivity, study shows." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140903092153.htm (accessed October 1, 2014).
Cheryl K. Smith is a medical marijuana advocate and activist. She is a director for Compassionate Oregon, a freelance writer and a goat farmer in the coast range of Oregon.
The enactment of medicinal marijuana laws is associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose mortality rates, according to data published online August 26th in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. A team of investigators from the University of Pennsylvania, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore conducted a time-series analysis of medical cannabis
laws and state-level death certificate data in the United States from 1999 to 2010 — a period during which 13 states instituted laws allowing for cannabis therapy. Researchers reported, “States with medical cannabis laws had a 24.8% lower mean annual opioid overdose mortality rate compared with states without medical cannabis laws.” Specifically, overdose deaths from opioids decreased by an average of 20 percent one year after the law’s implementation, 25 percent by two years, and up to 33 percent by years five and six. They concluded, “In an analysis of death certificate data from 1999 to 2010, we found that states with medical cannabis laws had lower mean opioid analgesic overdose mortality rates compared with states without such laws. This finding persisted when excluding intentional overdose deaths (ie, suicide), suggesting that medical cannabis laws are associated with lower opioid analgesic overdose
mortality among individuals using opioid analgesics for medical indications. Similarly, the association between medical cannabis laws and lower opioid analgesic overdose mortality rates persisted when including all deaths related to heroin, even if no opioid analgesic was present, indicating that lower rates of opioid analgesic overdose mortality were not offset by higher rates of heroin overdose mortality. Although the exact mechanism is unclear, our results suggest a link between medical cannabis laws and lower opioid analgesic overdose mortality.” In a written statement to Reuters Health, lead author Dr. Marcus Bachhuber said: “Most of the discussion on medical marijuana has been about its effect on individuals in terms of reducing pain or other symptoms. The unique contribution of our study is the finding that medical marijuana laws and policies may have a broader impact on public health.” Added co-author Colleen L. Barry in USA Today: “[The study's findings] suggest the potential for many lives to be saved. … We can speculate … that people are completely switching or perhaps supplementing, which allows them to lower the dosage of their prescription opioid.” Nationwide, overdose deaths involving opioid analgesics have increased dramatically over the past decade. While fewer than 4,100 opiate-induced fatalities were reported for the year 1999, by 2010 this figure rose to over 16,600 according to an analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control. An abstract of the JAMA study, “Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Analgesic Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1999-2010,” appears at http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?arti cleid=1898878
Page 14
Industrial Hemp
Cannabis Connection Seber priced the product competatively, at around $50.00 per gallon, hoping to penetrate the wood sealer market. The eco-friendly aspect should be a big selling point. Once successful, he hopes more hemp based companies will emerge, bringing jobs to the EugeneSpringfield area. Hemp shields uses go beyond decking and include wood patios, wood screening, porches, outdoor furniture, steps, railings, fencing and almost anything that needs protection from the elements. They have launched a Log Home sealer. Too, that has had amazing results. It's available in 5 colors and a true clear, which has no yellow tinge like many clear wood sealers.
Oregon tends to do what it wants, as a state goes. We seem to have an independent spirit and will foray into uncharted territory with our enterprises and attitudes and also laws and statutes. Oregon was the first to implement a “green” initiative which encouraged recycling. We have strict controls and the nations highest taxes on liquor. But, we were also the first to decriminalize marijuana possession and the second to legalize it for medical use. We like our forests, oceans, and prairies, and tend to be more responsible guardians than other states. We have tremendous agriculture, with incredible growing regions for grapes, lawn and ornamental grasses, medical marijuana, blueberries, blackberries, and hazelnuts, my favorite nut!
Visit them online at www.hempshield.net for more information.
What a few customers have said:
Image: Wikipedia.org
Rutherford is also a member of the ODA panel that has convened a number of times to develop the rules to implement the hemp farming program. The process has been arduous for Rutherford, who said the panel is putting the entire cost of the program on the farmers by charging excessive fees.
Image: Youtube
So, when we finally have the opportunity to grow the most productive and useful crop known to mankind in a place that can readily grow it, what would possibly stop us? It's because of the genus and species name of the plant. Cannabis sativa, otherwise known as hemp, is also known as marijuana. The United States federal prohibition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act defines the plant as “cannabis sativa L.”, effectively prohibiting hemp growing in the United States. In truth, the plants are the same, but due to decades of research by hemp farmers in other nations, the development of strains that are extremely low in delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, occurred. Many of these strains are under 0.3% THC. These low THC strains, called industrial hemp, are the new normal in worldwide hemp production allowing the non-medical value of cannabis sativa to be utilized.
A Five Year Wait In 2009 Oregon's legislature passed Senate Bill 676, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, which "Permits production and possession of industrial hemp and trade in industrial hemp commodities and products." The catch was, the IHFA also requires hemp farmers be licensed by the state, and the Oregon Dept. of Agriculture would not allow licenses to be issued until the conflicting federal rules changed.
Yet, Oregon still has hurdles they have found,or created, to lumber over. Hefty fees, seed supplies, processes, and more seem to have Oregon's Department of Agriculture (ODA) in a lurch. Although the Farm Bill passed Congress last spring, little progress has been made, which frustrates farmers looking to grow the valuable crop. “I don't understand why Oregon's not doing it,” said Rick Rutherford, a Oregon farmer that is very interested in hemp farming.
For more information, visit www.northwestcannabiscoalition.com
“They're still treating it the same way as they do its intoxicating cousin,” explained Rutherford. “We should have the ability to do research licenses in the state of Oregon...they're doing it in Kentucky they're doing it in Colorado, they're doing it in Washington, and the state of Illinois has started to issue research licenses.”
Research Based Yet Funded To Farmers Some of the regulations included fees, with figures at times reaching as high as $5,000 or more. The fees would be used to pay for the programs expenses, which would include testing of crops, inspections, and other administrative costs. The final fees and licenses will likely cost a farmer $1,000 to $1,500 annually, according to Rutherford. “The head of the Ag department wants to fund the program off of the fees paid by farmers, handlers, and processors,” said Rutherford. “The proposed fees went down (during panel discussion) from $7,000 every three years to about $1,000 a year.”
“They're working on these rules to implement the program and until these rules are in place, they won't be issuing licenses,” Said Courtney Moran, an attorney specializing in Hemp in Oregon and a member of the Northwest Cannabis Coalition. Moran also filed an application with the state this summer so Rutherford could begin growing hemp, which they denied. “They denied the application and would not issue him a license because they didn't have rules in place,” Moran explained. “We are at a place where we are waiting for these rules to be drafted, go out for public comment, and get finalized...then they can start issuing public licenses.” Will they have the rules in place in time for next years crop? It is definitely possible, according to Moran and Rutherford. “They're going to try to push it through so we can get the rules before the growing season next year,” Rutherford said. “I think they are moving forward and I think the goal for everyone is to get licenses out for
- Chris Duncan
"Telemark Resort in Northern Wisconsin recently started a renovation of our main lodge building. We researched wood finishes and sealers that would provide a lasting and economical solution for our cedar interior and exterior surfaces. We also wanted a product that was chemical-free and easy to apply.
Lindsay Eng, director of market access and certification program area for the Department of Agriculture, told the Oregonian, “We don’t have regulations in place to issue a license,we can’t do that yet.”
The research aspect of the federal law creates the need for a university, research institution or the states own Department of Image: Keith Mansur, Agriculture to OCC become involved. Unfortunately, Oregon's best agricultural school, Oregon State University, needs to have the rules in place by the committee in order to proceed.
So, for five years Oregon farmers hav not been allowed to grow hemp. But, early this year, Congress did something. Without much fanfare, Oregon's own Senator Ron Wyden, and others, added an amendment to the Agricultural Act of 2014, or the federal Farm Bill, in Congress. The amendment allowed states that have legalized hemp growing and production to move forward, with one caveat...the hemp production must be done by research institutions and state agriculture departments. Good news for the sixteen states that have had the forethought to act before the federal government.
the 2015 production season,” explained Moran.
"The Hemp Shield was just what I wanted in water protection and safety of use, and the color and satin finish transformed that plain Jane doug fir into a glowing wood surface."
"We ordered 200 gallons of Hemp Shield™. We found the application to be easy and the coverage to be greater than expected. In 2010, in our 4th issue of the OCC, we featured our first product review on Hemp Shield wood sealer. Well, after a few years of further development, Hemp Shield is now reaching the market at a number of locations, and the product is receiving great reviews. Dave Seber of Fibre Alternatives, a Eugene Oregon based company specializing in the development of hemp products, developed Hemp Shield. Seber teamed with Forrest Paint Co., also in Eugene, to help him develope the product. Having experience producing niche paint products, Forrest Paint was a perfect match.
"All of our expectations were exceeded. We will continue to use Hemp Shield™ as we refinish the exterior of the lodge and look forward to working with Hemp Shield™." - Telemark Resort's Managing General Partner, Ric Ahern "I was hired to carve a 17 foot pine tree with a hawk, 4 raccoons, and 2 bears. In Colorado the weather is dry and it is typical of pine to crack as I am working, which is what occurred while carving this particular commissioned piece.
Mark Forrest, president of Forrest Paint, said the product "outperforms all other deck stains on the market" in an article from The Register Guard in 2010. He also added that Hemp Shield "tends to hold up better to foot traffic, standing water, and other stresses on a deck coating." It is a remaerkably green product, especially compared to current sealers. hemp is a sustainable crop, lessening the environmental impact. Hemp Shield is made from 100% pure hemp seed oil. It also has zero hazardous air pollutants and is very low in Volatile Organic Compounds, or VOC's, which can be a health hazzard and contribute to smog. Finally, to help protect the wood, it contains Formaldehyde free Mildewcide, Algicide, and Fungicide. It also contains no THC, as is the case with all industrial hemp products. Although marijuana and hemp both come from Cannabis Sativa, industrial strains contain almost no THC. The hemp oil is derived from the seeds of female plants, which can produce hundreds of gallons of hemp oil per acre. "We want Hemp Shield to be the tipping point in the marketplace for hemp and its possible uses", Seber said. "We have closed this year with two mega distributors." Seber explained further, "One of them has ten active manufacturing operations and supplies about 3,500 lumber yards and hardware stores." That distributor, Modern Builders Supply, headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, has already completed a year long test market of the sealer. "They declared the whole program a total success," said Seber, "They're talking about buying part of a million dollar order next year." But, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Along with a couple of other retail partnerships, they have struck a deal with Val-Test, a true megadistributor, with over 100 distributor/members that distribute to over 22,000 retailers throughout North America.
"Hoping to find a product that would penetrate the wood deeply and curb the cracking,I decided that I would go out on a limb and try something new — Hemp Shield™. After I painted the carving, there were numerous cracks throughout the piece. I began to apply the Hemp Shield™ and noticed that the cracks began to close up. I have never seen a wood sealer work in this way and I have tried many that are on the market today." - David Gonzales, an artist/sculptor in Manitou Springs, Colorado,
Recipes
Page 16
Oregon Cannabis Connection
By Capt. Jack Shaw
Good Karma Dipped Apples
Take and Baked Brie and Pesto Pizza
Ingredients:
By Kristi Anderson
By Heather Williams
Glazedover Carrots
Ingredients: 2 cups carrots (sliced ¼ inch thick) 1/4 to 1/2 cup canna butter 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon Directions: Boil carrots in water until they just start to become tender. Drain. Add carrots, butter and cinnamon to saute pan. Start browning on medium to medium high heat. Careful not to burn. Start adding brown sugar and continue to brown for approximately 20-25 minutes, stirring frequently.
8 apples, any variety 1 cup chopped peanuts or other nut of your choice 1 cup heavy cream, divided 3/4 cup light corn syrup 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted canna butter 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions: Wash and completely dry the apples. Insert a stick into the stem end of each apple. Line a 9x9 inch baking pan with foil and put the chopped nuts into the lined pan. Fit a heavy-bottomed saucepan with a candy thermometer. Over high heat, cook 3/4 cup of the heavy cream, the corn syrup, canna butter, and sugar to 246° F (firm ball); at this point the syrup will be golden. Remove from the heat and carefully swirl in the remaining 1/4 cup of cream and the vanilla. Caution; this is very hot and it may splatter. While the caramel is hot, dip and turn the apples into the caramel to coat and let the excess drip off. Dip the bottoms into the chopped nuts. Arrange the apples on a nonstick or waxed paper-lined cookie sheet and let cool.
Head Chef at Coma Treats Comatreats.com Here is the recipe for our new pizza available in store mid-October. This is a very affordable recipe and ours will retail between $1 0- $1 5. You can use cannabis infused butter or olive oil. We won’t go into dough making as there are plenty of good shells you can purchase and even dough in box recipes but you will want to use good water. Water is the secret to great pizza dough. I also use tortillas sometimes or even flat bread. Try a twist and put this on slices of French bread.
Medical cannabis consumption can be unpredictable, always start with a quarter serving and give it time. Effects can take up to an hour and sometimes longer. If you have doubts, you should contact a cannabis clinician about dosage. Prepare the pesto: 2 cups of fresh basil ½ cup of parmesan cheese ½ cup of extra virgin olive oil 1 – 2 tablespoons per pizza being made (depends on how strong you want it, shoot for 150 MG’s of THC a piece) 2 cloves of minced garlic Dash of kosher salt Pinch of freshly ground pepper Mix all of these ingredients in a mixing bowl with a whisk. Transfer to a sauce pan, heat on low for 5 minutes or until sauce thickens. Remove from heat and let cool while prepping the shell. Once you have your pizza dough laid out brush on 2 tablespoons of pesto. Take thinly sliced Brie cheese and lay desired amount on top of pesto. Bake pizza in the oven at 350 F or until cheese starts bubbling Keep the medicated pesto safe from children. It also makes a great dip, be careful and stay lifted!
Cannabis Connection
Growing with Good Earth
Cultivation Image skunkman
Harvest Basics
Page 17
at 50%-60% humidity and around 50-60 degrees. Some light airflow by a couple circulating fans on low is advised. Once your Cannabis stems crack that's generally the best time to start "burping" it. This is a lengthy and tedious process where you repeatedly seal then open a preferably air tight container in which your Cannabis is stored for possibly up to a month until you draw out all of the moisture and get your Cannabis ultimately to the moisture content in which it will be stored permanently. 62% humidity is the ideal moisture for finished Cannabis.
By Roach The Good Earth Organics Can you believe it's harvest time already? Seems like we were just prepping our soil for transplant and now here we are getting ready to pull our ladies down. I genuinely hope everyone has had a great growing season and is prepared for a bountiful harvest! We're almost ready for vacation and I expect to be seeing each of you at Mt.Bachelor this year for shots of Fireball and extra unsafe skiing but before that let the roach give you a few tips for harvest season that will ensure all your hard work wasn't for nothing.
or purple our hairs are. I try to pull based crystal appearance. The crystals of your Cannabis will go through 4 distinct phases. First they'll look like gooey little spikes, then they grow a clear head like a little mushroom, the heads then fill and get milky opaque, and finally they start turning amber and dying. No matter how fat your buds are or what color the hairs are you have to start pulling your plant once too many of the amber crystals start dying off. Your plant has maximum THC levels when the heads are full and milky, the only problem is they never get full and milky at the same time. Once crystals start turning amber your Cannabis begins to lose potency and conversely if crystals are clear then they haven't yet grown to full potency. Generally speaking about 15%-20% amber crystals is when you will have the most milky crystals as well and your plant be at full potency before it starts to lose potency again. I pull in many phases, often referred to as grazing. You'll find some buds show 15% amber before others and so I will pull the buds that are ready and leave the ones that aren't. Sounds simple, right? It is. This also helps me manage my space through harvest which can be a huge issue for some growers. There can come a time late each season that I can't seem to stay ahead of the mold in which case it's better to pull than get nothing, but until that day comes I find myself watching the weather and grazing from late September often until the middle of November. Spraying Actinovate every couple of days through out harvest season will greatly decrease your chances of getting ravaged by Powdery Mildew or Botrytis, so don't start slacking after your first graze. Next comes trimming. Will you trim wet or dry?
Image Keith Mansur, OCC.
When we harvest, our trim technique, how we dry, and the manner in which we store our material plays a major roll in the quality and longevity of our Cannabis. You and your patients will be consuming this for the next year so lets be sure to treat it properly so we aren't all smoking brown hay by next September. A big mistake I see a lot of my customers make is not pulling at the right time. Most pull far too early rather than late although I do see a bit of late pulling too, waiting for some kind of weight to come that just isn't going to happen. The first hint of danger comes when a customer has some kind of set finish time in their head about a strain they have. "I'm growing Willy's Wonder and it's done on September 25th every year." Unless you have a an exact phenotype you've been growing for many seasons from clone off the same mother then you never really know if that Willy's is the same as the Willy's you read about on the internet or the Willy's you grew 3 seasons ago or the Willy's your bro grows over in Williams. Even if you do have the very same phenotype from a mother you've been keeping and growing season after season the weather can shorten or postpone your finish date, but if you're an experienced enough grower to keep a mother for years and dial in a strain then you already know all this. Planning a set pull date based on your strain regardless of weather or other conditions is shooting yourself in the foot. We'll never be able to get out of reading the plant and pulling at the right time. So, when is the right time? Some pull based on the color of the hairs which can be deceptive. Different strains have different colored hairs, I don't think we can pull based on how red
Most commercial growers trim wet because they don't have the space or time to wait for a dry trim. A large plant hanging or even bucked down to individual stems takes up far more space than trimmed buds on racks. Trimmed buds will also dry much faster. For some of you efficiency will override quality and so wet trimming with a machine will probably be the route for you. Barrel trimmers such as the Twister and table trimmers such as the TrimPro provide the speedy trim you're looking for but one unfortunate consequence of these machines is that the trim is considered to be almost completely unusable by processors. With the advance of the butane hash oil market, as well as other extracts, trim has become very valuable compared to years past
Image, Ebay
where one could consider it trash. Aside from getting many pounds of valuable trim; bud that slow dries with a lot of the sugar leaf on it cures better and usually has more oils, crystals and a more attractive odor than wet trimmed material that's dried faster. Whether trimming wet or dry, dry your material
Cannabis keeps its freshness far better than storing alone or with orange peels or tortilla shells or whatever else people use. I'm told over and over again how fresh my Cannabis seems like it was just taken down last week and we're talking about stuff that's getting cracked open in May! So for long term storage I definitely recommend these little gems. The final and possibly most important step of taking care of a harvest is how we store our finished Cannabis. Humidity fluctuations, temperature, and light are a few factors that could completely ruin your material in the months following your harvest. If possible we want to try to keep a constant temperature. Under 80 degrees is advised so most of your homes in a closet should be fine as most of us keep our homes temperature in the low 70's. Also try to keep your Cannabis out of the light as UV rays can break down crystals and change color.
Image Keith Mansur, OCC.
A product I've found that greatly reduces my time and effort in curing is called Boveda Humidipaks. Originally formulated for the boutique cigar market, this product is a 2-way humidity pack that can add or release moisture as needed and they make a 62% version just for Cannabis. I've found that I can completely eliminate the burping process by letting my Cannabis dry just a little more than I normally would if I was going to burp, then seal a pound in a turkey bag with a large Humidipak. The curing process will take much longer this way so it may not be a viable option for Cannabis that is to be immediately consumed. Early on there will be a fresh grassy odor from the Humidipak sealed material which is pretty unattractive but, like a fine wine, over time is when the Humidipak material shows its value. Many months after being stored if left sealed in the proper conditions the Humidipak sealed
Not letting your material get too dry then moist again is also very important. Try to get it at that 62% range then keep it there constantly if possible. Once again for the price of the Humidipaks at around $4.00 per large pack I think one can get a lot of value compared to the effort of monitoring your stored Cannabis continually. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next issue where we make use of the fact that we have cards all year round and not just in the Spring and Summer months. I'll talk about a few nice enclosed hydroponic closet systems and self contained cabinet systems we can use to get some nice added value out of our cards and some premium material to boot. Until then see you on the mountain and as always stay safe and happy growing!
Page 18
Cultivation
Cannabis Connection
White Flies: Identification and Control
How To Recognize Zinc Cuomo Wants Weed Cont. from Pg. 10 Deficiencies On Marijuana Plants
By Robert Bergman ILoveGrowingMarijuana.com
By Robert Bergman ILoveGrowingMarijuana.com
Whiteflies will hide underneath your cannabis leaves much as the spider mite and can be just as detrimental. They are teeny tiny and spread diseases as they munch on one plant then move to another. Worse, they traverse afar and spread plant diseases in exponential proportions. To check for whiteflies, all you need do is shake your plant. If you see a swarm of what looks like white dust with wings once disturbed, you have discovered one of the most damaging bugs to your cannabis crop.
A lack of zinc can occur from time to time and the hallmark of a zinc deficiency is a collection of gnarled and twisted leaf blades. Chlorosis and the yellowing of older leaves in between the veins can also indicate a zinc deficiency. This is frequently coupled with a general pale feel to the marijuana plant.
Zinnias are colorful and attract natural predators of the whitefly when incorporated into your garden or Mary Jane plantation. They attract hummingbirds (majestic tiny little miracles!), predatory wasps and flies, all of which feast on whiteflies. Minty scented plants such as hummingbird bush, pineapple sage and bee balm serve the same purpose as they naturally disguise the scent of surrounding plants that attract whiteflies.
Buds may also end up contorted or gnarled. Zinc deficiencies resemble iron or manganese deficiencies, but they affect new growth instead (making them immobile). Surplus zinc is very rare, but will create wilting and sometimes death.
Whiteflies feed on the leaves and stems of plants, including cannabis. They excrete honeydew, much as the aphid and also spread diseases. They are one of the most damaging pests to food crops. Since marijuana is consumed or used by humans, it falls under this category when considering harmful pests. Whiteflies are immune to pesticides which makes them an even formidable foe. They appear in masses making them hard to control. The best most effective control method for repelling the whitefly is prevention. Download my free ebook for an overview of all marijuana pests and diseases. A natural way to prevent the onslaught of whiteflies is via companion planting. By planting zinnia within your cannabis plants, in addition to the aforementioned marigolds, you will send whiteflies to someone else’s yard of whom may not be as bug conscious as you. (And that might be a good thing, actually!)
If these preventative measures still result in the appearance of whiteflies, all is not lost! There are other ways to fight the whitefly. Spraying your plants with the same garlic oil concoction used to combat aphids works on these nasty little insects also. Another natural solution to ridding your cannabis of whiteflies is to make a simple oil spray by mixing two tablespoons vegetable oil with one gallon water. Pour into a spray bottle and spray the plants thoroughly, paying attention to the undersides of the leaves. Spray your plants twice per week until you no longer see them. Or just ask your local gardening centre for a spray to get rid of white flies. Visit ILoveGrowingMarijuana.com for more information on growing! Reprinted from Ilovegrowingmarijuana.com. Reprinted by permission.
Zinc is vital for the sturdiness and maturation level of the marijuana plant. The leaves, branches, stalks, and stems are all strengthened by the presence of zinc. Zinc can also be found as a vital factor in several enzymes and in auxin, a growth hormone. Without a solid amount of auxin, leaves and shoots can be stunted. Additionally, zinc plays a part in the production of chlorophyll. One way to solve a zinc deficiency is by using a micro mix composed of iron, zinc, and manganese. Other options include zinc sulfate, chelated zinc, or zinc oxide. It may be worth your while to check out a commercial product like Marijuana Booster, which can provide you with ample nutrient values for everything from boron to zinc.
prohibition has hurt patients across the country and been a primary driver of the failed war on drugs. Advocates, who have asked the governor to take action around creating an emergency access program, have also reached out to Senators Gillibrand and Schumer asking them to do everything within their power to move the issue forward on behalf of critically ill New Yorkers. “Many patients who face life-threatening or terminal illnesses need access to this medicine immediately. The eighteen month implementation timeline is not realistic for patients, like myself, who do not have the luxury of time,” said Beverly McClain, a stage four metastatic cancer patient, “I’ve already passed the median survival time so I’m living on borrowed time now.” “Lives are literally hanging in the balance, so we appreciate the Cuomo Adminstration reaching out to the Department of Justice,” said gabriel sayegh, Managing Director of Policy and Campaigns at the Drug Policy Alliance. “Federal action represents one of two pathways to provide emergency access to medical marijuana products for those patients who cannot wait another day for relief. The other path for emergency use is for the state to license a company to produce marijuana in New York on an interim basis until the full system comes online. Governor Cuomo should be moving forward on both options. To save lives, every option must be explored, and we cannot allow bureaucracy and politics to impede getting medicine into the hands of those who need it.” © 2014 Drug Policy Alliance. Printed by permission.
Visit ILoveGrowingMarijuana.com for more information on growing! Reprinted from Ilovegrowingmarijuana.com. Reprinted by permission.
The Good Earth Organics!
Classifieds & Events
Cannabis Connection
A BETTER WAY MEDICAL ALTERNATIVES, LLC 3255 Washburn Way Suite #5 Klamath Falls, OR 97603 www.klamathdispensary.com BANANA BELT SAFE ACCESS CENTER 1 6399 Lower Harbor Rd. Harbor, OR 9741 5 (541 ) 81 3-2503 www.bananabeltmmf.com BREEZE BOTANICALS 31 5 2nd Avenue Gold Hill, OR 97525 (541 ) 855-8797 www.breezebotanicals.com CANNA MEDICINE A Grower And Patient Co-op Serving The Salem/ Corvallis Area (971 ) 240-1 777 www.cannamedicine.org COMPASSION CENTER 2055 W. 1 2th Ave. Eugene, OR 97402 (541 ) 484-6558 COOS COUNTY CO-OP 3682 Tremont Ave. North Bend, OR 97459 (541 ) 751 -0005 EMERALD CITY MEDS 1 474 W. 6th Avenue Eugene, OR 97402 Clinic(541 ) 505-9065 Del.(541 ) 870-3970 www.emeraldcitymeds.org GRATEFUL MEDS OREGON www.gratefulmedsoregon.com 3 Locations: PORTLAND, OR 7050 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. (503) 774-3699 SPRINGFIELD, OR 1 401 Market St. (541 ) 636-3489 TALENT, OR Coming Soon! GREEN APOTHECARY 1 709 Adams Ave. La Grande, OR 97850 (541 ) 605-01 04 Facebook.com/greenapothecary97850 GREEN EARTH MEDICINE CLINIC Dr. Owned and Operated Clinics Statewide Locations! Appointments: (503) 303-8456 green.earth.clinic@gmail.com GREEN SOURCE GARDENS Providing Quality Medicinal Cannabis. No Till Grown Artisan Cannabis! Available at OR Dispensaries GreenSourceGardens.com GREEN VALLEY WELLNESS 1 03 N. Pacific Hwy. Talent, OR 97540 www.greenvalleywellness.net HUMAN COLLECTIVE II 9220 SW Barbur Blvd. Suite 1 06 Portland, OR 9721 9 (503) 208-3042 MAMA MOTHERS AGAINST MISUSE AND ABUSE www.mamas.org 3 Locations: PORTLAND, OR 521 7 SE 28th Ave. (Steele & 28th) (503) 233-4202 Fax (503) 233-8266 THE DALLES, OR 31 9 E. 7th. St. (541 ) 298-4202 Fax (541 ) 296-2983
BEND, OR 454 NE Revere St. (503) 233-4202 MERCY CENTERS 1 745 Capital St. NE Salem, OR 97301 (503) 363-4588 www.mercycenters.or NORTHWEST CANNABIS COALITION Helping Make Industrial Hemp A Growing Success! Follow on Facebook! www.northwestcannabiscoalition.com OREGON CHRONIC SOLUTIONS ALTERNATIVE HEALING CENTER 1 695 Fairgrounds Rd. Salem, OR 97301 (503) 385-81 01 Visit Online @ Facebook & Leafly ORGANIC CANNABIS GROWERS SOCIETY Promoting Organic Growers & Businesses That Support Them (541 ) 357-8407 www.ogcannabisgrowers.com SUN GOD MEDICINALS Blending the Right Herbs, for the Right Symptoms, for the Right Patient! (541 ) 855-8797 www.sungodmeds.com SOUTH COAST COMPASSION COALITION 93705 Newport Coos Bay, OR 97420 (541 ) 267-0707 Fax (541 ) 267-0744 www.southcoastcompassion.com SOUTHCOAST DISPENSARIES LLC 1 025 Chetco Ave. Brookings, OR 9741 5 (541 ) 81 3-21 33 SOUTHERN OREGON ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 836 E. Main St. #3, Medford, OR 97504 (541 ) 779-5235 Fax (541 ) 779-0479 www.southernoregon alternativemedicine.com SO. OR PATIENT AWARENESS CENTER 227 NE Hillcrest, Suite A Grants Pass, OR 97526 (541 ) 955-5070 Lowest Price Guaranteed! TERPENE STATION 645 River Rd. Ste 3 Eugene, OR Open 7 Days a Week! www.terpenestationeugene.com THE GREENER SIDE 1 553 Oak St. Eugene, OR 97401 (541 ) 345-8904 e-mail: info@keepeugenegreen.org VOTER POWER COLLECTIVE 6701 SE Foster, Suite D Portland, OR 97206 (503) 224-3051 Mon-Sun 2-6 pm
A2LA American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (301 ) 644-3248 www.A2LA.org CANNABIS LAWYERS NW, LLC Real Business Lawyers for Real Businesses. (503) 828-3031 | (360) 334-6288 www.cannabislawyersnw.com CERTIFIED KIND™ Third Party Certification Kind To Life Kind To Earth (844) GRO-KIND www.certified-kind.com
CLEAN GREEN CERTIFIED™ Nationally Recognized Third Party Cert Programs for Medical Cannabis (541 ) 288-8211 www.cleangreencert.com
GRASSHOPPER EXTRACTOR Fully Automated Dry Ice Pollen Extractor! Shaking Things Up! www.grasshopperextractor.com
SKY HIGH SO. O'S PREMIER PIPE SHOP 91 2 S. CENTRAL MEDFORD, OR (541 ) 622-81 81
GREEN BUSINESS LAW, LLC Law Office of Bradley Steinman (847) 91 7-9673 Be Advised! bradley@greenbusinesslaw.us www.greenbusinesslaw.us
GROBOTS INTERNATIONAL, INC. "The Green Lamp" Mobile, Modular and Automatic Light Deprivation System! Outperforms Any Other Light Source www.grobots.com or (800) 547-6268
SMOKEY'S NOVELTIES & GIFT SHOP 2080 Lancaster Dr. NE Suite 11 0 SALEM, OR 97305 (503) 339-7320
GREEN LEAF LAB The Northwest's Premier Cannalysis™ Laboratory OR (503) 250-291 2 & WA (253) 772-8771 www.greenleaflab.org
I'D HIT THAT SMOKIN' GLASS Roseburg's Best Glass Shop 1 502 SE Stephens St. Roseburg, OR (541 ) 677-TOKE (8653) The Only Glass You'd Wanna Hit!
OREGON CANNABUSINESS COMPLIANCE COUNSEL, LLC Leland R. Berger, Attorney at Law 261 3 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. Suite 200 Portland, OR 9721 2 (503) 432-8775 / fax(503) 287-6938 www.oregonc3.com
MAGIC MAN COSTUME & FUN SHOP www.magicmanshop.com 3 Locations: GRANTS PASS, OR 1 448 Williams Hwy. At Hwy 1 99 (541 ) 956-4420
OREGON ANALYTICAL SERVICES Quality Cannabis Analysis Put us to the test! (541 ) 505-91 93 www.oregonanalyticalservices.com
GRANTS PASS, OR 234 6th St. At Listen Here Downtown (541 ) 507-1 485
PAUL LONEY, ATTORNEY Practicing Medical Marijuana Law Portland (503) 234-2694 Southern OR (541 ) 787-0733 paultloney@gmail.com
MEDFORD, OR 880 Biddle Rd. In Bear Creek Plaza (541 )776-581 8 MAGIC MUSHROOM / OREGON GIFTS "Look For The Giant Mushrooms" Next to I-5, Exit 1 36 Sutherlin, OR 97479 (541 ) 459-7481
NORML AND THE NORML FOUNDATION 1 600 K Street, NW Suite 501 Washington, DC 20006-2832 (888) 67-NORML (888-676-6765) (202) 483-5500 www.norml.org
NEW WORLD DISTRIBUTION Wholesale Butane! Quality Butane at Great Prices! Delivery Available (541 ) 450-3341
AMERICANS FOR SAFE ACCESS 1 322 Webster Street, Suite 402 Oakland, CA 9461 2 (51 0) 251 -1 856 www.americansforsafeaccess.org
PANDORA'S BOX www.pandoraspipes.com 6 Locations: UMATILLA, OR 1 300 6th St. #E (541 ) 922-9237
DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE 925 1 5th Street NW, 2nd Floor Washington, DC 20005 (202) 21 6-0035 www.drugpolicy.org
EUGENE, OR 1 42 East 1 3th Ave. (541 ) 485-7375
MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT P.O. Box 77492 Capitol Hill Washington, DC 2001 3 (202) 462-5747 www.mpp.org
ROSEBURG, OR 1 425 SE Stephens (541 ) 672-7473 KENNEWICK, WA 5300 W. Clearwater (509) 396-9700
TOKE SIGNALS WITH STEVE ELLIOT Your Source for Uncut, Uncensored, No-Holds-Barred, Non-CorporateControlled Cannabis News! www.tokesignals.com
PASCO, WA 1 935 W. Court St. (509) 41 2-1 595
JACK HERER WEBSITE www.jackherer.com
RICHLAND, WA 960 George Washington Way (509) 943-7473
THE GOOD EARTH ORGANICS 30088 Redwood Hwy. Cave Junction, OR 97523 Roach (541 ) 450-3341 Roy (541 ) 840-9352 www.thegoodearthorganics.com VAPE OR Locally Vaped in Oregon More Taste to Your Buds Like us on Facebook! www.vapeoregon.com VAPED, INC. Introducing the New Vaped Titan Oil and Herb Vaporizer! Get Your Vaped Titan at www.ruvaped.com VICTORIA'S STATION THE STATION , LLC 1 20 Galice Rd. Merlin, OR 97532 (541 ) 471 -1 396
MADE BY HIPPIES Hand-Made Tie Dye Clothing P.O. Box 988 Sandy, OR 97055 (503) 757-8558 www.MadeByHippies.com www.MadeByHippies.Etsy.com
COMA TREATS Put Your Pain Into A Coma! Guaranteed Best Tasting Medibles Available at OR Dispensaries See Their Recipe in OCC! www.comatreats.com DUB'S ST. JOHNS Home of Mack n Dub's Excellent Chicken and Waffles! 9520 N. Lombard St. John's Portland, OR (503) 998-8230 PLEW'S BREWS 8409 N. Lombard St. Portland, OR 97203 (503) 283-2243 www.plewsbrews.com THE GYPSY The BEST Bar in Meddy! 205 W. 8th St. Medford, OR 97501 (541 ) 770-1 21 2
KSKQ COMMUNITY RADIO 89.5 FM "Home Grown" Radio Streaming Live at KSKQ.com 330 East Hersey St, Ste #2 Ashland, OR 97520 (541 ) 482-3999
42 DEGREES Clothes - Fine Glass 61 3 E. Main St. Medford, OR 97504 (541 ) 973-2311 42Degrees.info@gmail.com
PIRATE GLASS SMOKE SHOP 865 W. Central Suite E Sutherlin, OR 97479 (541 ) 767-8846 thebigbear1 3@gmail.com
BEST BUD BAGS Quality Dispensary Supplies for Oregon The Best Bags for Your Best Buds! (908) 800-2247 www.bestbudbags.com
SILVER SPOON 8521 S.W. Barbur Blvd. Portland, OR 9721 9 (503) 245-0489 www.silverspoonpdx.com
DRAGON HERBARIUM 4638 S.W. Beaverton- Hillsdale Hwy Portland, OR 97221 (503) 244-7049 www.dragonherbarium Advertise .com
in Oregon's Only Cannabis Newspaper
Get a listing for ON LY $ 35 OR WI TH AN Y D I S P LAY AD ! Next Deadline Nov 21st.
Page 19
email us at: keith@oregoncannabisconnection.com
MACK & DUB AND THE SMOKIN' SECTION Medicated Hip Hop/R&B Incorporating Live Instrumentation and Harmonies for that Mack & Dub Sound www.mackanddub.com
Ad rates starting as low as $119.00 per issue! (1/16th page ad with 3 issue agreement)
All ads FULL color, design available Over 240 distribution locations Over 20,000 copies statewide