C h u rc h & S t a te : U pd ates From Th e Capi tol Oregon Rad i cal , Ou r Col u m n from "Rad i cal " Ru ss Bel vi l l e Con gressi on al Fu n d rai ser I n M a ri j u a n a G a rd e n ! C a l i fo r n i a P a s s e s H i stori c Legi sl ati on Kettl e Fal l s Defen d an ts G et Fed eral Pri son ! N ews N u ggets from Oregon an d th e N ati on R e ci p e s : G oo Ba l l s Baked Acorn Sq u ash & More
Another image OCC took while visiting Green Source Gardens. This is Pinkleberry, with a beautiful magenta hue. See their column on page 1 7. Image: Keith Mansur, Oregon Cannabis Connection
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What's Next For Marijuana In Oregon
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OMMBC Returns To Southern Oregon
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Oregon Radical - How Oregon Is Beating Washington,
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Cheryl's Clinical Corner - Study: Cannabis Reduces Pain and At Church & State: Updates From The Capitol
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Oregon Hemp Growers Using Industrial Hemp Program to Grow Medicine
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Research On Medical Marijuana: Is The Cart Before The Horse?
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Oregon News Nugs - News From Around The Beaver State
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2nd Annual Oregon Cannabis Classic Golf Tournament
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Cultivation Caring For The Spaces "In-between" - By Green Source
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Fall 2015 Oregon Dispensary Connection
Business Classifieds A Listing of Canna-Friendly Businesses
National News California Legislature Passes Historic Medical Marijuana Regulation Package
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National News Nugs - News From Around The Nation
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All 3 Defendants In Kettle Falls Medical Marijuana Case Get Federal Prison
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Congressional Fundraiser in Marijuana Garden
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Albuquerque Mayor Living In Stone Age
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Campaign Update From New Approach Idaho
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Marijuana Law Changes Not Associated With Increased Teen Use
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Ronda Rousey: "I'm against them testing for any weed at all"
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Oregon News “I'm glad to be doing what we are doing,” said Chris Byers, the operator of River City and the PRF, or Person Responsible for the Facility. “I have been waiting a long time and some of the people walking through that door have been waiting 40 or 50 years to buy legal marijuana from a store front so we are just happy to have this opportunity.”
Finally the day is here! Legal adult sales of cannabis in Oregon! I can finally say, Marijuana is legal in my state. This is a day I have looked forward to for many years, and actively worked to achieve over the past seven. I know dedicated and casual readers of our publication appreciate what has been achieved, and we like to think the Oregon Cannabis Connection served as a conduit for change by providing a resource for those who love the plant and those just curious about it. Thanks for reading our publication! Although we can look forward to the many new rights, there are still unreasonable restriction that are being placed on this wonderful plant which go well beyond the scope of Measure 91, and its intent. The Legislature in Salem took it upon themselves to make massive changes to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act (OMMA), something Measure 91 strictly prohibited. The Legislature also felt the state can have separate rules for cities or counties depending on their vote, and the process for that should depend on just how much support a community showed for the measure. The result is a perforated state with different rules and regulations depending on the level of bigotry...cannabigotry... in a community! So now, in one county adult sales are legal, and in the next it is not. In one city a dispensary is not allowed near an inhome preschool, yet in the county a few feet away, those rules don't necessarily apply. In one community commercial production is allowed, in another, it is not. In one city, no one can grow outdoors, yet in the county that city sits in a person can. All this because the lawmakers thought a county that came out 54.9 % opposed to Measure 91 instead of 55% opposed were less enthusiastic about their opposition? That
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Merlin is a small town about 10 miles from Grants Pass, Oregon. It is in the middle of the premier growing region of the entire nation, and cannabis is everywhere, especially in October during harvest. You might expect the sales to be a little slower in this region, but sales were very brisk.
Today, the first day of legal sales of marijuana in Oregon is a good time to reflect on where we came from and where we are going.
“Everyone wants selection and variety, and that's why we're here,” Byers told us. One of the more youthful consumers, Brian Seagoe, a 25 year old Merlin resident who has never had a medical marijuana recommendation but is an Image: Allan Erickson
is an arbitrary number that makes little sense, and allowing different laws to exist community by community is ridiculous. On top of these restrictions, the OMMA is under serious assault. Diligence must be sustained to defend our medical program, and even help it thrive. Growers under the OMMA need recognition and the ability to get their excess to the medical market, and medical growers numbers should be maintained, and not diminished by attrition, as the current rules dictate. Some of the positives are the early sales which are being allowed and easing of regulations at the beginning. Both were unexpected development late in the legislative session this Summer. We stopped by a few Southern Oregon dispensaries on October 1st, including River City Dispensary in Merlin, Oregon. Only open a few months, River City was very excited to see recreational sales begin.
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admitted recreational smoker, told us, “It's kinda weird. As a kid you talked about this, but now it's actually happening...It's really a harmless thing so I don't really see why it's illegal at all.” There are restrictions during the early sales period that many would consider extreme. Only 7 grams of flower is allowed to be sold by a dispensary to a customer each day. Most will require your driver's license and record its number to keep track of that small tid bit. There is no Cont. on Page 8
I have often thought that the prohibition of cannabis, probably the most useful plant on earth, is a crime against humanity. I remember when the USA passed the mark for 10,000,000 arrests for marijuana. I remember when we hit 20,000,000. Now we are headed for 30,000,000. Jeff Mizanskey, a Missouri man, was just freed after 21 years of a life sentence for an amount of marijuana now legal in Oregon. Fortunately Oregon has stepped off this train of injustice. I see a direct line between marijuana prohibition and the militarization and alienation of our police. Marijuana prohibition has allowed racism to burn like a slow fire in the roots of our society. Here's what I plan to work on going forward: Cont. on Page 8
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The OMMBC Returns To Southern Oregon The Oregon Marijuana Business Conference in Ashland on November 21st is occurring at a great time for those in the cannabis industry and those thinking of joining the industry. The OMBC is organized by the same group of advocates that put on the International Cannabis Business Conference and the Oregon Medical Marijuana Business Conference. I am honored to work with great advocates in putting together a conference that mixes advocacy, industry information and networking. The OMBC won't be any different, except it will focus mainly on the new recreational marijuana laws, while still providing an update on changes to the medical system. Unlike some, the OMBC hasn't forgotten about medical patients and the need to further end the War on Marijuana; always keeping in mind the need to end criminal penalties for cannabis and ensuring that patients have safe access to medicine. The OMBC will feature legislators, advocates, lawyers and industry participants to provide the latest information and on-the-ground
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experiences. While everyone needs to know the regulations set out by the OLCC, local rules and regulations are also extremely important. Whether you are a breeder, wholesaler, retailer, processor or grower (or hope to be), the OMBC will have the information that you need. OMBC speakers aren't presenting because they paid for a sponsorship, they are presenting because they are experts in their field and they will save time to take your questions so you can get the answers that you need. The state will start accepting applications for recreational marijuana business licenses on January 4th, 2016; the OMBC will have you prepared.
Oregon Radical Our recurring column from "Radical" Russ Belville of 420Radio.org and host of The Russ Belville Show 3:00pm PST.
How Oregon Is Beating Washington, Colorado, & Alaska Legalization October 1 was a great day to be an Oregonian! That was the day all adults were able to visit participating medical marijuana dispensaries and legally purchase a personal amount of marijuana.
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The OMBC is a one day event, with early-bird tickets selling for $149. We know that times are tough and we don't take charging $149 lightly; however, we are confident that the information provided and the connections made, make the OMBC THE Oregon cannabis industry event to attend. Throw in an exclusive performance by hip-hop legend Del the Funky Homosapien at the Brickroom, and the OMBC is an industry event like no other. Hope to see you there. The conference is being held at the Ashland Hills Hotel and Suites. For more info, check out: www.oregonmbc.com or call 888.920.6076 .
I was covering the historic event at the grand opening of Cannacea, a dispensary at NE 107th & Halsey. It’s a former MBank location, complete with the massive vault now storing a different kind of green. Most of the 300 or so people in line were native Oregonians, but I met people from Texas, Utah, and even Vermont who were here to buy pot legally. But I have to observe that the impact of the day was not felt as greatly as it was when it happened in Denver and Seattle not too long ago. I was there at Cannabis City in Seattle last July for their ribbon cutting. The place was packed with news media and the crowd spilled out into the boulevard and blocked a whole lane of traffic. I wasn’t in Denver for their first legal sales, but news media reported on a massive lines and huge turnout as they covered the story of the first purchaser, a veteran who could finally legally purchase marijuana to treat his PTSD, as Colorado stubbornly refuses to expand their medical marijuana program to recognize treatment for the severe mental health condition. It’s not that the impact in Portland was any less meaningful. The people at the events shared the same feelings of joy at being out of the cannabis closet and treated as a customer, not a criminal. The news media were out in force gathering footage and interviews. The difference was that Oregon’s first legal sales event was dispersed among a far greater set of locations. When Washington experienced their first legal sales day, there were four outlets statewide. In Colorado, there were twenty dispensaries that were ready to
Oregon Cannabis Connection devote segregated space to recreational sales. But in Oregon, there are 249 medical marijuana dispensaries listed on the state’s health authority website as participating in retail sales. There are 179 retail marijuana licensees today in Washington State and 385 in Colorado. Portland alone has 104 dispensaries, with another 14 in the surrounding suburbs, compared to just 22 retail shops in Seattle and 156 in Denver. So in terms of access, Oregon is crushing Washington right out of the gate, and competing with Colorado, which has the advantage of a year-and-a-half head start and a far more regulated medical marijuana system upon which to build a recreational marijuana system. And Alaska hasn’t even begun to have medical marijuana sales, much less recreational ones. But Oregon is crushing its green state competitors in other ways. Our initiative had the greatest support at the polls at 56 percent. Our marijuana is being sold tax-free for the remainder of 2015, and even the 25 percent temporary tax and eventual 17 percent plus up to 3 percent local tax will still be lower than Washington’s 37 percent and Colorado’s 10 percent plus 15 percent plus sales taxes. Our licensing will permit most people with no drug felony in the past two years to apply for any kind of license, unlike Washington’s artificially capped
limits on license numbers and Colorado’s more stringent restrictions of five years with no drug felony. Speaking of felonies, Oregon is the only one of the four legal states in which there exists no felony possession amount. Forty grams in Washington, four ounces in Alaska, and twelve ounces in Colorado will get you felony charges, but the greatest charge for any amount of marijuana possession in Oregon is a class A misdemeanor. And Oregon may remain the nation’s legalization leader in the years to come. Ohio’s proposal for 2015 would be more restrictive, as would Nevada’s for 2016; both have secured a spot on the ballot. There are more liberal proposals from grassroots activists in California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Maine, and Michigan, but all face competition from well-funded nationally-backed proposals that approach but don’t exceed Oregon’s statutes. Oregon has their legislature to thank for some of our superior legalization. They killed all the class C possession felonies; redefined extracts in such a way that we can now legally possess a pound of bubble hash, rosin press hash, alcohol extractions; and gave us these tax-free early sales in medical marijuana dispensaries. They passed laws enabling those formerly convicted of marijuana crimes to appeal for record sealing and expungement, even sentence reduction and eventual release, based on today’s penalties (or lack thereof) for yesteryear’s crimes. And we haven’t even begun to consider the superior tourism, food, beer, wine, art, music, and lifestyle Oregon has to offer the cannabis consumer. It truly is living in a stoner’s paradise; I’m so happy to call Oregon home.
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Anthony Taylor is the Executive Director of Compassionate Oregon and has unique access and insights into Oregon's lawmaking process, much of which takes place in the Capitol building, near the corners of Church and State streets in Salem.
October 1, 2015 and recreational marijuana sales are brisk. No one knew what to expect but most dispensaries added extra staff for the first few days of recreational sales and began stocking up on flower over the last several weeks. Most were pleasantly surprised that sales were not crazy but steady with lines out the door and down the street that lasted from open to close. Don Morse, owner of The Human Collective in Portland, cited 400 recreational sales on Thursday while The Greener Side’s Joseph Hopkins reported nearly 250 recreational sales for the same day with many purchasing the maximum amount at both dispensaries. But are recreational sales going to leave patients without the medicine they need? Senate Bill 460 passed by the Oregon Legislature and effective October 1st, allowed for sales of cannabis flower, immature plants and seeds to the general public over 21 years of age. Adult Oregonians were allowed to purchase up to seven grams of cannabis flower, up to four immature plants and up to four units of seeds. All recreational purchases remain tax free until January 1, when a 25% tax kicks in on all recreational purchases and remains in effect until December 31, 2016. It is unclear how sales will be affected when the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) begins their retail sales scheduled to come on line about this time next year. Many dispensary owners are hoping they will be able to continue recreational sales long after OLCC stores begin operations.
While the Legislature adopted restrictions on more than one purchase in the same day from the same dispensary, SB 460 placed no restrictions on how many dispensaries Oregonians could make purchases from in the same day. This created an opportunity to “dispensary hop” going from dispensary to dispensary purchasing their seven grams at each one. With nearly 200 dispensaries in Portland alone, this could result in anyone with enough money to do so to purchase1400 grams (3 lbs.) of flower. In fact I was in a Eugene dispensary where a couple was purchasing flower only to see the same couple at another dispensary about thirty minutes later. The primary focus for dispensaries up to now has been patients but the Legislature failed to adopt any requirement in SB 460 for dispensaries to maintain a certain level of inventory for their patients. Some of the smaller and newly opened dispensaries do not have the same access to product as the larger dispensaries and could very well find themselves making the choice to suspend recreational sales in order to continue meeting the needs of the patients they serve. Or, to continue recreational sales until everything is gone and they have no flower for patients. We hope they opt for their patients. Whatever the outcome, the up side to all this may be that recreational sales to adults through dispensaries become so successful that the legislature forces the OLCC, who up to this point has not been supportive of co-located stores, to adopt this model as the future for all marijuana and marijuana product sales for both the recreational and medical markets at the same store. In the end, it is exciting to see Oregonians patiently waiting for their turn at the counter to legally purchase marijuana and the boon it has been for dispensaries. We hope the trend continues and as the outdoor harvest becomes available we hope dispensaries will be able to meet the demand of both patients and recreational costumers without disruption in the availability of cannabis for patients.
After all the hubbub over hemp pollen contaminating marijuana farms last spring, it turns out there was little to fear after all. Almost every one of those hemp farmers, including the one in Murphy, Oregon, were growing female plants for CBD, likely with few if any males in their gardens producing pollen. In all, thirteen 3 year industrial hemp producer licenses were issued to growers that were each supposed to cultivate a minimum of 2.5 acres of industrial hemp. Of those licensed, only a few met the requirement of 2.5 acres. The hemp, to be considered industrial, must have a THC level of 0.3% or less near the time of harvest, otherwise it is considered illegal and cannot be sold. This meant Ag department monitoring, inspecting and sampling. But, going a bit beyond the usual scope of their inspection, they discovered something else during their visits...big plants. Not only were nearly all of the farms out of compliance on the minimum acreage that was to be grown, they were almost all growing large, resinous plants, just like a medical cannabis grow would. Instead of a close row planted crop or a crop that was broadcast spread by seed, these farms had transplanted the cultivars one at a time and quite far apart...6 or 8 feet apart in some cases. This is not how industrial hemp is usually farmed, but rather how medical cannabis is almost always propagated.
“What we meant with Jerry Norton was that the field looked like what we had studied and were prepared for when we wrote the administrative rules,” Lindsay Eng explained to Image: Keith Mansur OCC OCC.“That was what we were expecting with our sampling protocol, is a high density crop, but we have seen every type of growing imaginable.” Why grow hemp like medical marijuana? The answer is one single cannabinoid...CBD. The cultivars being grown are very high in CBD, or Cannabidiol. Cannabidiol is a useful and very therapeutic cannabinoid found in cannabis, along with over 90 other cannabinoids, some still undiscovered and not yet studied. Some more commonly known, and better understood cannabinoids include: Delta 9 THC (the most commonly known one
“Things on the ground looked a little different than we thought they would,” explained Lindsay Eng, Director of Market Access & Certification for the Oregon Department of Agriculture. “We've seen some high CBD low THC varieties that have flowers all around, like a bush.” The department stopped issuing hemp licenses this past summer, as Eng further explained, “The biggest reason we quit issuing licenses was because there was a lot of confusion about what fit within the rules, and it was the end of the growing season as well, and we are changing to a one year license period.” Jerry Norton's industrial hemp planting, unlike almost every other in the state, looked like an agricultural hemp crop. His family has been growing grass seed in the Willamette Valley for generations, and he sees hemp as a viable agricultural crop and is growing it the traditional way. His new company, American Hemp Seed Genetics, intends to be Oregon's leader in industrial hemp seed production. “We're in our first year of research and development, so we're navigating through it, but we planted the minimum 2.5 acres and densely planted the field,” explained Norton. “When the ODA came out to our place they said “Now this looks like a hemp crop” We spoke to the ODA, and they
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that also gives a euphoric feeling), CBN, CBG, THCA, THCV, and many, many more. But why is CBD so special? Many studies have shown CBD to be very effective when used to treat patients with seizures. In fact, when no other medicine seems to work, CBD has stopped seizures in the most severe patients that have shown little hope for relief from their affliction. Due to this, and the fact that CBD extracts do not make a person “high”, the majority of states have adopted “legal CBD” laws that allow for the regulated use of CBD on certain patients. Cont. on Page 10
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from Portland NORML October 1st is the date when all adults can purchase limited marijuana legally from medical marijuana dispensaries, in localities where it is allowed. If you have a marijuana dispensary in your locality, take a moment to visit them and check out what legal marijuana looks like!
Portland: Portland tabled a 1000-foot buffer between marijuana shops after many testified against them at a recent City Council meeting, according to an article written by our Executive Director, Russ Belville, for Marijuana Politics.
Hermiston: Hermiston is proposing a ban on all marijuana businesses, although existing ordinances already ban any activity that is not in compliance with federal law. Two public hearings will be held in October: one on October 14 at 7pm and another on October 26 at 7pm. A letter regarding the ordinance is being mailed to approximately 1700 property owners. Milton-Freewater: According to the East Oregonian, Milton-Freewater is putting a proposed ban on the ballot in November 2016. Only one of the five City Councilors opposed the ban, Brad Humbert, who felt that it was “akin to banning prescription drugs and liquor”, according to the East Oregonian, and Humbert “didn’t want to force residents to break the law by crossing the state line into Walla Wall” where cannabis can be legally purchased in Washington.
Wallowa County: Wallowa County will consider a ban on marijuana business at its Oct. 20th meeting, according to the Wallowa County Chieftain. Woodburn: The Woodburn City Council voted down an ordinance to ban recreation sales from medical dispensaries on October 1st, according to the Woodburn Independent. Currently, Woodburn doesn’t have any medical marijuana dispensaries, but it is possible one could be opened between now and December 31, 2016 when the early sales clause sunsets. However,
strict zoning effectively has made it extremely unlikely, since only one possible location is allowed and feasible and the property owners won’t allow a marijuana business to operate there.
Lake Oswego: Lake Oswego has banned marijuana sales through May 2016, and expects to revisit the issue in October when a new City Councilor, Charles Collins, joins the panel after a recent 3-3 impasse vote, according to the Lake Oswego Review.
Wasco County: Wasco County citizens overwhelmingly supported allowing marijuana businesses at a recent town hall, according to The Dalles Chronicle. The county has not made a decision yet, but is holding its next meeting on October 7.
Klamath County: Klamath County Commissioners voted to ban marijuana sales from both medical and recreational facilities, according to KDRV.com ABC 12 News.
Albany: Albany voted against allowing medical marijuana dispensaries to sell marijuana to adults on October 1st. The Albany Democrat-Herald has an editorial discussing the broader implications of this vote. Clackamas County: Clackamas County is still weighing their options for marijuana and received mixed feedback at a recent meeting regarding proposed regulations for marijuana businesses, according to the Portland Tribune. Clackamas County currently has 10 dispensaries and is located in close proximity to Portland, where the majority of dispensaries are currently located in Oregon. The cities of Grants Pass and Klamath Falls have added their names to the OLCC ban list, along with Klamath County.
purchase allowed of edibles or concentrates either, which will likely disappoint many that want those choices. Of course, all this changes when the OLCC gets their rules together. Even then, only 28 grams will be allowed to be purchased in one day, which is the maximum you are allowed to carry with you when away from your residence, where you can have up to 8 ounces of flower, and other limited amounts of edibles and concentrates. “We have had nothing but positive comments, and there was a wait for a while when we opened up,” Byers explained. “Everybody was so patient and just happy to be able to buy some flower and I'm excited for the future .” Though a few complaints of highly priced flower were heard, most of the dispensaries had plenty of 8 dollar grams, or cheaper. The “top shelf” flower was more, of course, but there are few buyers that would complain about $7 to $10 dollar grams, which works out to a $200 to $280 dollar ounce...a bargain price just 20 years ago in Oregon for that quality ganja! And, I think it will get cheaper and the quality will stay just as good. The future looks bright if we can get some things right in the coming years. I hope everyone that was engaged in this fight over the past 17 years, and longer, continue to focus on the rules and lawmaking ahead. Supporting your associations and patient advocacy groups remain a priority, so those in the industry, please continue to pump some of your profits into the political fight. And consumers, both patients and simple “enjoyers”, help when you can with money, volunteering, and hammering Salem with influence of sheer numbers when needed. We have had an enormous affect, and will continue to with a combined effort! We still have many unknowns ahead, but we at the OCC will continue to bring you the real news and information you need to stay connected!
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1) I think each legal state should adopt a prohibition state to help out. I nominate Idaho for Oregon. It can't be good for anyone to have Idaho police waiting at the border to arrest the potato people who want a taste of freedom. I plan to donate to New Approach Idaho, a group petitioning for marijuana reform. I will be asking every Oregon business and reform organization to follow my lead and help our neighbors to the east. 2) We must overturn the local bans. I am sad that my county was the first county in Oregon to ban commercial regulated marijuana farms that will bring great prosperity to the Umpqua region which desperately needs it. My new organization, the Umpqua Cannabis Association, will be working hard to overturn this ban on November 8, 2016. I will also be working with people around Oregon to beat all the bans and to vote out the prohibitionists. 3) Medical marijuana must be accepted by our health care system, It will save lives and it will save money. Step one is fund the research that will guide this.This will take a lot of work but we can do it. 4) Make the newly forming marijuana industry into a shining example of responsibility, compassion and philanthropy. GIve family farms and small business a fair playing field against the big corporations who now smell the money. There are many ways this will play out in laws, rules and private decisions and I will be doing what I can. We need to seriously look at progressive fees or taxes so that big business pays its fair share. I may have once thought that this day would mark the end. Turns out, it is just the beginning...
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Oregon News Nugs A "cute" little cart popped up in Portland called “The Smoke Buddy” where the owners give away marijuana to adults, a legal act now in Oregon. They simply ask for a donation if you can manage. But, on September 10th there was an attempted robbery, sort of...and, this is one of the reasons dispensaries are licensed and require a modicum of security, so stupid things like this don't happen. From Oregonlive.com: “A female suspect jumped on the owner's back, and once the owner shook her off, she picked up a stick and started swinging it at him, according to police. He grabbed his own stick and tried to fight her off. The robbery was reported at 10:20 a.m. at North Alma Avenue and Willamette Boulevard, as the cart was opening for the day. A man and a women were seen walking toward the trailer. The man tried to open the trailer door and got into a physical struggle with the owner inside. The suspect pulled out a knife and ran over to the owner's vehicle nearby, where his wife was seated inside. The male suspect grabbed items from the trunk of that vehicle, while his female accomplice jumped on the owner's back. The owner shook her off, but the woman grabbed a stick and began swinging it at him, police said.”
According to the police, the man beat her off with his own stick! One problem, the cart is not legal. Jonathan Modie, a spokesman for the Oregon Health Authority, the agency which oversees the state's dispensary system, said mobile marijuana operations and delivery services are illegal under Oregon's rules. But, the police say if he continues to “give away” amounts allowable under the law, they will not bother him.
Harborside Health Center opened a new cannabis dispensary at 5816 NE Portland Hwy, near Portland International Airport, on October 1st—Oregon’s first official day of adult-use sales. Harborside Health Center is the nation’s largest model cannabis dispensary, with locations in Oakland and San Jose, Calif., and was recently awarded the first and only cannabis dispensary license in San Leandro, California. Harborside Portland features executive team members from Harborside Health Center, including Executive Director Steve DeAngelo, along with locally hired staff led by General Manager Chris Helton, a former clinician at Oregon Health & Science
Oregon News University, who grew up in Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley. Widely considered the nation’s model medical cannabis dispensary, Harborside is pleased to enter Oregon’s adult-use Steve DeAngelo Image: Keith market on its Mansur, OCC historic debut, with some of the country’s most sensibly written cannabis regulations. Harborside’s proven track record in community stewardship, innovation and social responsibility aligns with the progressive ideals of Portland and will only strengthen its existing cannabis community. Harborside Portland will be proud to offer top-quality products and extremely well-trained staff in a welcoming environment, with nearly a decade of experience in providing service to patients—and now, Oregon’s adult-use consumers. For more information about Harborside Portland, visit http://www.harborsideportland.com.
Sandra Diesel, founder of Diesel Insurance Group, has formed a new company at the behest of her former employers. We asked Sandra to explain what happened after our report last issue. “It came at a huge surprise to me that soon after I met with the 3 owners of Ashland Insurance to discuss terminating my position with their agency, that they made me an offer that I could not refuse...Hence the merger of Diesel Insurance Group & Ashland Insurance and together we developed 420 Insurance Associates,” she explained. “Ashland Insurance, has been in business since 1981, we have two fully staffed offices in Medford and Ashland, and numerous companies to serve our clients needs so it was a smart business decision on all parts…..for me, it was all about helping people, about legalization, about change, and about what's best for the client and the cannabis community...” 420 Insurance Assoc. is currently licensed in 11 states and approved in 50 states. They have two fully staffed offices in Ashland & Medford, and Sandra works out of the Applegate. For those states not yet legalized, they write "non cannabis" products, but as soon as they legalize, they said they're ready. “This time of year- growers are worried about their harvest getting stolen, and many people had Lloyds of London whom is non renewing all of their cannabis accounts,” Diesel explained. “I provide the peace of mind that keeps most of us up at night during this time of year!” Their slogan..."Whether you medicate, recreate or cultivate, we got you covered". Contact Sandra Diesel at: 420 Insurance Associates 801 O'Hare Parkway, Suite 101 Medford, OR 97504 844-YOUR 420
Portland NORML was founded in 2015 with the goal of moving the city and state through the marijuana legalization phase and onto true equality for cannabis consumers with beer drinkers and cigar smokers. The organization meets on the 4th Saturday of the month and participates in the Marijuana Mondays at The Analog on Hawthorne. Portland NORML’s activism includes government action, such as testimony to the Oregon legislature and Portland city council; educational presentations, such as the Oregon Business Summit, Oregon Hemp Convention, and Oregon Medical Marijuana Business Conference; and cannabis community events, such as the historic “Burnside Burn” on the day marijuana became legal and the annual Portland Hempstalk. “People may wonder why there’s a need for Portland NORML when Oregon boasts the best marijuana legalization laws in the world,” explains executive director Russ Belville. “I tell them we have gotten our form of the Emancipation Proclamation, but we’re still living under our form of Jim Crow. Cannabis consumers can still lose their jobs, their children, and their healthcare opportunities due to legalized discriminations against us. We are not allowed to possess guns and ammunition because we are federally considered ‘drug addicts’, but drinkers are under no such prohibition. We are allowed to use our marijuana only on our private property, if we own it; otherwise we are banned from consumption in all public places, even places where smokers can now legally enjoy a Cuban cigar.” Portland NORML is an Oregon non-profit and is the city chapter for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the nation’s oldest marijuana lobby for cannabis consumers. Voting membership comes with an identification card and exclusive full-color lapel pin for just $35 per year, available online at portlandnorml.org/donate. Sign up for Portland NORML’s weekly newsletter online at http://portlandnorml.org/join.
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The Greener Side and Southern Oregon Alternative Medicine sponsored the 2nd Annual Oregon Cannabis Classic Golf Tournament. The event was a fundraiser for the Oregon Multiple Sclerosis Society and saw a better turnout than last year, and raised even more money. The Greener Side coordinated the event, which took place at Mallard Creek Golf Course in Lebanon Oregon. Unfortunately, a few days before the event was to be held, the clubhouse at the golf course burned to the ground! Ashes!
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Luckily, they we're still able to host the event, though the dinner which followed was held on the driving range! It was a good thing the weather cooperated. The food was catered by a Mucho Gusto last minute, which was understandable since the clubhouse and kitchen burned down. There was sponsors on most of the holes, and some even had cannabis samples freely available. On the 14th hole, where Primasing Motors Inc put up a car for anyone able to make a hole in one, there was a dab bar set up, to the chagrin of the course officials. The swag bags had free dabs, a big joint, and other goodies, including a handy OCC Newspaper golf towel! Everyone had a great time, needless to say. OG Analytical brought a dunk tank and charged participants a “fee” for a toss, the more you donated, the closer you got to the target! All the proceeds went to the Oregon MS Society. Unfortunately for Bethany Sherman, I was the first to toss, and nailed the target! She was a great sport, and they easily raised the most money with their tank! They raised over $300 bucks. The format was a four person scramble, playing best ball, so the scores were really, really low, at least for most of the groups. The winners shot a 14 under par. Our group, not so much...we shot an 84! At one point, Joe Cruz on the OCC team had the longest drive on the long drive hole, but somebody out-did him by a dozen yards. Overall, over 3,500 dollars was raised for the Multiple Sclerosis Society...3X last year. Brent Kenyon of SOAM was glad to cosponsor this year, and chatter about the next venue has already begun. Southern Oregon, Central Oregon, and even Portland are under consideration. Read the OCC to find out all about the next Oregon Cannabis Classic.
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Why grow hemp like medical marijuana? The answer is one single cannabinoid...CBD. Cannabidiol molecule The cultivars being grown are very high in CBD, or Cannabidiol. Cannabidiol is a useful and very therapeutic cannabinoid found in cannabis, along with over 90 other cannabinoids, some still undiscovered and not yet studied. Some more commonly known, and better understood cannabinoids include: Delta 9 THC (the most commonly known one that also gives a euphoric feeling), CBN, CBG, THCA, THCV, and many, many more. But why is CBD so special? Many studies have shown CBD to be very effective when used to treat patients with seizures. In fact, when no other medicine seems to work, CBD has stopped seizures in the most severe patients that have shown little hope for relief from their affliction. Due to this, and the fact that CBD extracts do not make a person “high”, the majority of states have adopted “legal CBD” laws that allow for the regulated use of CBD on certain patients.
“It's going to position ourselves in a very good way,” he later added.
What about the “medical” aspect of future crops? We asked if Doyle intends to receive it in his dispensary and he explained, “It hasn't been realized yet, but we are working with the Oregon Dept. of Agriculture working on rules writing and all the other programs.” We also asked if he thought the current medical growers had legitimate concerns about using the Hemp license to grow medical cannabis, and he explained, “There is a huge lack of high quality CBD medicine, why would it be a problem to grow a volume of it...if you grow a volume of it, it brings the price down.”
In Oregon, it's no different, with dispensaries paying top dollar for high CBD extracts and concentrates.
“I've got investors sitting on the sideline just waiting for the bureaucrats to get their stuff together,” he explained, frustrated by the slow promulgation of rules on industrial hemp. OrHempCo hopes to be a hemp leader in the state.
All this CBD fever has happened in the past couple of years, and high CBD industrial hemp was developed almost immediately to try and create a supply for the emerging medical market. In Colorado and Europe, hemp strains have been reportedly developed very recently that are 20% CBD and under 0.2% THC. Considering the famous “Charlottes Web” strain was a 20:1 ratio of CBD to THC already, getting to 0.2% THC in a very short time is very realistic.
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“We have a seed variety for this next year that rates at a minimum 25% CBD and still within the 0.3% THC level and we will be growing purely for that [in Murphy], you know, female plants, and clones only,” explained Cliff Thomason, a partner in Orhempco, a new hemp company with a farm in Scio and in Murphy. There is a way, apparently, to grow a highly valuable medical crop, a crop that is regulated by the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Marijuana Program, and soon the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, but grow it, and “handle” it, under the industrial hemp program controlled and regulated by the Oregon Department of Agriculture...a program with much fewer costs, regulations, and less restrictions on plants or size of grow. In fact, hemp producers are required to grow 2.5 acres, minimum, and that has many medical growers upset. “I think they should have to register with the OHA or OLCC and jump through the same hoops we have to jump through,” said Brent Kenyon, owner of Oregon Cannabis Farms and Grateful Meds dispensaries. “I think the med growers, and rightfully so, are [upset] that they are limited to 48
She also expressed her concerns to us about the medical marijuana market in Oregon, including what and how horticultural hemp grows, under current rules, have been allowed to grow their crops.
One of the Orhempco business partners, Kit Doyle, also owns Natures Script, a medical marijuana dispensary in Murphy, Oregon, just a couple of miles from the hemp crop that was destroyed. Due to the potential value of a high CBD crop this apparently uncommon “deer attack” naturally raised the question of diversion. If not deer, then what?
Since CBD is derived from cannabis, a Federally illegal crop, supply is woefully inadequate across the country. Even the legal hemp market is just now starting to develop strains, but the supply falls well short of demand, which has driven up the price. In fact, dispensaries in legal states can't get enough CBD flowers, extracts, and tinctures for their customers.
“We sometimes pay two times more for high CBD extracts due to the high demand,” explained Joe Hopkins of The Greener Side dispensary in Eugene. “We can't keep it on the shelf.”
I prefer to call it “therapeutic”, or “horticultural” hemp. Historically, what the hemp industry has understood was that if you look at a field of hemp it would be visually distinguishable from marijuana.” Hermann explained. “Now, that's not the case anymore because you have the horticultural garden, female only, flowering only plants going in that look like a marijuana grow operation.”
plants and I have to grow a minimum of almost 1,000 plants to even qualify under ODA,” explained Thomason of Orhempco. “If you can imagine an 8 foot by 8 foot grid on 2.5 acres is almost 800 plants, so on a 12 acre farm like we have [in Murphy], that's 4,200 plants we're going to grow next year!”
“The intent of the crop in Murphy was basically to get it in the ground, to establish ourselves as leading in hemp farming, and that intent is different than the overall business intent., Doyle said. “We have a broad scope of projects we're working on...were not limiting it to what any cannabis cultivars can do, from medical to industrial.”
We asked Doyle if he thought it was fair that the medical growers have much more strict rules, limits, fees, and other reporting requirements and regulations, and he snapped, “Did you ever find anything on this planet that is fair? Fair is an unrealistic goal, there's opportunity, there's persistence, there's no such thing...fair means nothing to me.” “I see no moral issue about growing large amounts of medicine at all, just that you should be sensitive to the emerging market,” Richard Reames of Moon Flower Gardens in Williams, Oregon explained. “[With hemp grows] the yield limits go out the window, the plant limits go out the window...it could create a pretty messy situation.” “Hemp farmers do not have batch sizes limited, hemp farmers do not have monthly reporting, hemp farmers do not have tracking, and hemp farmers do not have to verify that everyone they employ is over 21,” explained Peter Gendron, a board member of the Oregon Sungrown Growers Guild and a medical marijuana grower himself. “Saying they have a different playing field is an understatement.” The Orhempco crop did pass its official ODA test for THC, coming in under the 0.3% limit, but the department does not test for CBD. However, Orhempco tested the crop for CBD at multiple labs, and all the results indicated very low levels of both CBD and THC. They also had a large variance in results using a number of different medical marijuana labs for testing the crop...something medical marijuana growers are all too familiar with. Mr. Thomason and Orhempco were recently in the news after their industrial hemp crop was destroyed in August, apparently by a herd of deer. “Oh, it was deer,” explained Cherryl Walker, one of two partners in the company that is also a Josephine County Commissioner. “I came out one morning and there were five of them standing by the gate.”
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“I don't think it was deer, based on the damage, I thought it was Elk,” said Thomason. “If it was deer, it was a hell of a lot of them.” “It was about five or six hundred plants,” Thomason explained further. “There's probably 8 to 12 that they didn't touch in the two fields, but one field was 100 percent gone...I mean every leaf, flower, I mean everything.”
“I do feel that it's unfair, the infrastructure that a marijuana grower has to [deal with], compared to a hemp grower,” Hermann explained. “It's unfair that our colleagues in the marijuana industry have to do so much more, and hop through so many more hoops...” Hermann, who has testified before the Oregon legislature multiple times about hemp, has been trying to clarify the difference between the cultivation of industrial hemp and the propagation of medical cannabis. I m a g e : T h e Ri d g e
The story broke across the nation about the “hemp farm destroyed by deer”. This story was preceded by another that went viral this summer from The Daily Show about a deer nick-named “Sugar Bob” that liked to nibble the medical marijuana plants at a local resort, Applegate Lodge. Needless to say, most cannabis industry people did not buy their story. One longtime Southern Oregon grower, Richard Reames told OCC, “We all laughed, I have deer in my garden every night, and they never, ever, ever took a bite of my flowers.” Jerry Norton of American Hemp Seed Genetics agrees, telling OCC, “Supposedly you had deer there [in Southern Oregon] that ate those hemp plants? That's not very likely.” “I also think the actions taken by our Josephine county commissioners who are trying to personally profit from an loophole created by the Department of Ag is, at best, disingenuous and certainly creates the appearance of impropriety,” Reames also added. Many medical marijuana growers have expressed their concern over Industrial Hemp, whether its from the pollen threat, or more recently from the threat of “creative” business practices of hemp farmers. It's an unfair advantage which could impact the emerging marijuana industry in Oregon negatively, and create difficulties with the ODA, who appear unmotivated about hemp to begin with. “There's currently no way to intake medicine from a hemp farm at a dispensary,” Kenyon explained to OCC. “All the cannabis that comes in must be from a registered medical grower or patient, not a hemp farm. And, unless the legislature allows for it in the coming short session in Salem, I don't see it being allowed in the rules.” “Under the current rules, Ag licensees are only allowed to preserve their own seed for next year's crop,” explained Peter Gendron, a board member of the Oregon Sungrown Growers Guild and a medical marijuana grower himself. “Any other use of the plant outside of research is not allowed, which means that if anyone were making a fiber product, pressing the seeds for oil, or growing only females to process the tops into a CBD rich medication, they would be in clear violation of the law.” The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), North Americas preeminent hemp association, has addressed issues between marijuana and hemp before, including pollen contamination and also hemp seed oil scams where the oil is being marketed as medicinal “CBD” oil when it has almost no CBD content. Now the difference in the new high CBD hemp and true industrial hemp is getting their attention. We spoke with Anndrea Herman of The Ridge International Cannabis Consulting, and the Board elected President of the HIA, to get her personal impression of the new trend of high CBD hemp cultivation. “I don't really have a name for it yet, but
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“You're maintaining these plants on a regular basis and we're not doing that in what I consider the industrial hemp world,” explained Hermann. “That is employing the skill and expertise of those growing in the medical marijuana world because we know that's the best way to grow outdoors and that's the best way to get cannabinoids.” What is the Oregon Department of Agriculture going to do? Not much, at this point. They stopped issuing licenses, but since they simply implement the rules that the legislature develops, their hands are tied to a degree. The current rules do not address this problem, but the ODA is hoping to get help from Salem. “We have asked for guidance on some of the most unclear parts of the statute,” explaind Eng, “We hope that by the time we re-open licenses for one year we have some clarification.” Horticulture explained: Horticulture, as defined by the US Dept. of Agriculture: “That branch of agriculture concerned with growing plants that are used by people for food, for medicinal purposes, and for aesthetic gratification.”
And, the International Society for Horticultural Sciences explains the difference between Horticulture and Agriculture this way: “In essence, the difference between agriculture and horticulture lies in scale and scope. Agriculture usually occurs on a very large scale and deals with edible plants and animals, while horticulture deals only with plants and is done on a smaller scale... The domain of horticulture includes cultivation, plant propagation, breeding of plants, production of crops, plant physiology as well as biochemistry and genetic engineering. The plants looked at are mainly vegetables, trees, flowers, turf, shrubs, fruits and nuts.” Image: OSU Extension Service
Fall 2015 Edition
Please enjoy our 3rd Oregon Dispensary Connection, a special section of the OCC newspaper. The Oregon Dispensary Connection is your go to source for information on and locations of Oregon's state licensed cannabis dispensaries. Know where to go in all corners of the Beaver State!
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Oregon Dispensary Connection Keith Mansur Oregon Cannabis Connection Congratulations to all the dispensaries getting a early crack at legal adult cannabis transactions...what the hell...recreational marijuana sales! I know a lot of folks, especially old timers, are even saying, “I just bought legal weed!” However you say it, we have entered a new age, even with the draconian limits in place.
Washington state is also taxing their marijuana sales...heavily. Their official data estimates that marijuana-specific taxes generated $90 million in the past 15 months.
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Yet, in Oregon, communities have banned, and continue to restrict, marijuana-related businesses at every turn. Hopefully they will see the reports on these revenues that have been generated, along with the additional economic impact in the communities.
I was visiting a friend a few months ago and ran across a new product called “Rosin”. It was an expensive shatter type material, not quite a “shatter”, but a had gorgeous color and the taste....WOW! It was AMAZING! It turns out, it is really easy to make yourself!
If you are enjoying the new “open to the public” dispensaries in the communities that
After much research through the internet forums, Youtube videos, and other sources of all things marijuana, I found an amazing site dedicated to Rosin technology...its called www.HowToRosinTech.com. The site is a great starting place for anyone interested in making their own incredible dab extracts safely and at home!
Dang, there's no tax being imposed till next year, either! Things will change on the tax front Jan 4, 2016, however, when a 25% tax will be imposed on sales. Measure 91 called for a tax on the producers, but the legislature thought a sales tax would be, well...better? Not sure their thinking, but there is a new report out from Colorado that can shed some light on what Oregon might expect from a sales tax on cannabis. Paul Armentano of NORML reported: “Financial data released by the Colorado Department of Revenue reports that state regulators collected $69,898,059 from marijuana-specific taxes from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. This total includes the collection of $43,938,721 from the imposition of a 10 percent special sales tax on retail sales to adults, and $25,959,338 collected from the imposition of a 15 percent excise tax on wholesale transfers of marijuana intended for commercial sales. In comparison, the state raised just under $41,837,647 from alcohol-specific taxes during this same period, including $27,309,606 from excise taxes collected on spirited liquors, $8,881,349 from excise taxes on beer, and $5,646,692 from excise taxes collected on vinous liquors.” 70 million collected in Colorado! That's $10 for every person in the state!
From www.HowToRosinTech.com: “Now anyone can easily create quality solvent-less hash with Rosin Tech. Need to dab, but don’t have any concentrates to vaporize? Rosin can be made in less than 10 minutes and you don’t have to worry about harmful chemicals in your product. All you need is a hair straightener, some parchment paper, some marijuana and you are on your way.”
are cooperative and engaged, good for you! If you are struggling against reefer madness in your community, tell them how much revenue Colorado and Washington have raised, and how few problems existed, maybe they will change their minds.
They explain the process, provide video links, and sell equipment to get the job done. They also have a FAQ section to answer peoples questions, like: Is Rosin harmful to smoke?, Is Rosin safe to make?, Can rosin turn to budder?, and who the original “Bud Squisher” is (It's apparently a person known as “Soilgrown” on instagram).
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"Rosin" made using heat and pressure only.
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They explain on the site: “Many people are aware of Rosin Tech, but the one who launched this new way to extract oil is known as SoilGrown. In February of 2015, Rosin Tech exploded in the cannabis
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community...his method of extracting oils from plants has been done in the past, but SoilGrown perfected the skill for marijuana.”
Why call it rosin? They explain that “rosin” is the solid form of “resin”, a liquid material commonly found in some plants like pine trees and marijuana. When the water is removed, you have rosin. Once heat is applied, the rosin becomes liquid, and if enough heat is used, it is vaporized. Unlike BHO (Butane Honey Oil) or PHO (Propane Honey Oil), no solvent is used, only heat and pressure. The return, by weight, from the flower pressed is between 10% and 20%. That is comparable to all but the most advanced BHO extraction systems, and done without chemicals or solvents. We got a 10% return using 9 month old, but well cured, cannabis from last years harvest....and it was the small popcorn buds from the bottom of the jar. You can press bubble hash, as well, using small screens of under 25 microns. The result is amazing, and the small amount of plant material that was left in the hash is pretty much contained in the screen pouch. The return is much better, of course, since you are starting with 40 or 50% THC bubble hash. The terpene spectrum is different than BHO
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will want to get an ample supply (they're only $1.95 for 100). The instructions explain that after each bowl smoked, you should replace the filter. You only have to cut one apart to see the effectiveness and why another filter is recommended. Plus, your next bowl will taste much better!
By Keith Mansur Oregon Cannabis Connection We occasionally do product reviews in the OCC, and I thought this would be appropriate for the Dispensary Connection section since you will likely find the PerfectPipe at your local cannabis dispensary.
The overall cost is low. The pipe itself is usually sold as a five pack for $24.95. The kit includes 5 PerfectPipes with Courtesy Caps, 1 PerfectPipe Tool, extra screens & Filters. Additional filters are only 1.95 for 100, or you can get a smaller kit with 1 Pipe, screens, filters, and tool for under 10 dollars. They also their large package deal, the Cleaning Kit set, which also includes a Box w/5 Pipes & Filters, 20 Courtesy Caps & 25 Stainless Steel Screens, all for only $34.95.
A bold name, you might say, for little chillum to claim. Most cannabis smoking aficionados do not consider a chillum to be perfect, by any means. They are small, they hold a small amount, and they aren't shaped like a pipe...more like a cigarette. But, this is not your average chillum, that's for sure. What Randal Barrett and his company R&D Innovations LLC, has created is a small, portable, effective smoking pipe that holds a small filter, like a cigarette filter. Barrett explained that the PerfectPipe was scientifically designed to eliminate the hot ash and decrease the hot tar and particulates from getting into your mouth and throat. We were intrigued and wanted to try their product. We got a couple of pipe kits from PerfectPipe and a package of filters to try out. At first glance, they seem a bit unimpressive. That was just the packaging, which is the only poorly designed element of the PerfectPipe. It could be more exciting and up-to-date. The rest of the system worked effectively and simply.
instructions are clear on using the technique of a slow, gentle draw to reduce the heat. It worked great! The hit was much cooler than my usual pipe hit, and much less harsh. As a former cigarette smoker, the filter was a refreshing addition since it did help with the heat and sparks. I thought it worked as Barrett claimed. It was simple and effective. There is an occasion... or two...a week...when I smoke my old trusty glass pipe, that a HUGE spark will ignite and go
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Following the instructions that come with the pipe, we loaded a small amount of ground cannabis flower into the receptacle end, which holds a small stainless steel screen as a layer of first protection. We lit the pipe with a Bic lighter, not a torch lighter which, according to PerfectPipe, can be more harmful than a simple flame due to the intense heat they produce. (Tip: Remove flame quickly, fire destroys desired elements instantly!) We drew on it slowly so not to unduly increase the heat and make more sparks than necessary. Their
straight down the pipe, through the mouthpiece, strategically miss my teeth, tongue, and roof of my mouth to travel part way down my throat, making me gag and cough unbearably. After hitting the PerfectPipe, I pondered how many much smaller ashy particles were making it much further into my respiratory system than just past my tonsils, and with every single drag on my pipe, not just the occasional break-free spark! The pipe comes with some filters, but you
There is another reason I found the idea of filtered cannabis smoke interesting. I have been a hard core pipe smoker for many years. 30 years ago I used small metal pipes, often brass, and made a few from plumbing parts I got at the local hardware store. 15 years ago I switched to hard glass pipes when I was exposed to amazing Oregon glass, which is still my preferred method of using cannabis. However, this past April I had a heart attack at 49 years old and it has made me reconsider my marijuana consumption method of choice, smoking a pipe. After all, my cigarette smoking is the driving force behind the heart attack in the first place. We all know marijuana is medicinal, but smoking anything is not a very good idea, not even medical cannabis, and especially if you have suffered a heart attack! Smoke is not good for your arteries, and I was told by my cardiologist that cannabis could be harmful as well, so the PerfectPipe may help me prevent a little of the irritation and harmful effects of the smoke. Edibles are probably what I should be doing, but smoking a little weed from time to time is something I can still enjoy with this product. They provide information online at www.theperfectpipe.com explaining pipe smoking problems, risks, and studies on smoking and cancer. They acknowledge that more research needs to be done to determine the effectiveness of filtered smoke, but believe the filtered method is an appreciably better way to smoke cannabis, and more enjoyable!
cannabis, like me, but are interested in reducing the heat and particulates that smoking cannabis flower entails, there is now a simple solution for you...the PerfectPipe! Oh, and importantly for us, they are an Oregon based company! Look for PerfectPipe at your local dispensary or go online to www.theperfectpipe.com to order yours today and for more information. Š 2015 Oregon Cannabis Connection.
and PHO products, but since NO chemicals are used, I think it is possibly a more true and pure flavor profile of the parent material. I know I like the flavor every bit as much, and maybe more, than traditional BHO's. Another great article and thread is at: www.stuffstonerslike.com/2015/03/what-isrosin/. They indicate one guy claimed to yield .45 grams of DANK rosin from only 2 grams of nice bud...WOW...a 22% return! So, with this super easy way to turn your ounce of really good sticky flower you bought for $180 an ounce into 5 or 6 grams of amazing rosin shatter, is BHO dead? That's as low as $30.00 a gram, a BARGAIN for rosin at a dispensary, and the same cost as some BHO. Š 2015 Oregon Cannabis Connection
See our FAQ's on Recreational Sales from Paul Loney, next page!
So, for those of you who love to smoke your
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Oregon Dispensary Connection WHERE CAN ONE PURCHASE LIMITED MARIJUANA PRODUCT: At medical marijuana dispensaries in jurisdictions that did not choose to opt out of the early sales program. The dispensaries have to notify the Oregon Health Authority that they are participating in the early sales program.
What everyone should know before shopping for legal cannabis in OregonOCC was lucky enough to have noted Oregon cannabis attorney Paul Loney explain a few of the more important points for consumers before they go make a purchase. Of course, your local dispensary should also be able to answer your questions, and give you advice on specific strains and their effects. SB460 - its passage allows sales of “limited marijuana retail product” through the current medical marijuana facility system.
WILL THE DISPENSARY RECORD MY NAME: Recording the name of a purchaser is not required, but the dispensary must record your date of birth.
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EFECTIVE DATES: October 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016.
seeds of marijuana, dried leaves or flowers of marijuana, and a plant that is not flowering.
WHAT IS LIMITED MARIJAUNA PRODUCT: The
WHO CAN PURCHASE: Only adults age 21 and older who prove
their age with government-issued identification, verified by a dispensary employee, can purchase recreational marijuana products from a dispensary.
LIMITS ON LIMITED MARIJUANA PRODUCT: Quarter ounce of dried leaves or flowers per day. Adults are also limited to purchasing four nonflowering plants during the early sales period. (SB460 does not set a limit, but the OLCC created one) There is no limit on the number of seeds an adult over 21 can purchase.
REQUIRED SIGNAGE: Signs at entry to dispensary stating whether they sell to all adults over 21 or just to medical program, poison information, pregnancy warning and the “Educate Before you Recreate poster. TAXES ON LIMITED MARIJAUNA PRODUCT: Between October 1, 2015 and January 4, 2016, all early tax free. Between January 5, 2016 and December 31, 2016, all sales must include a 25% tax. WHAT CAN NOT BE PURCHASED: Edibles, concentrates, extracts, topicals and other marijuana products. Information provided by the Law Offices of Paul Loney. Visit online www.Oregonmarijuanalaw.com
Oregon Dispensary Connection NOTICE: As of Oct 1st 2015, adults over 21 can purchase cannabis at participating dispensaries in participating communities. Also on Oct 1st, there were 294 licensed dispensaries in the state which made their information available through the Oregon Health Authority. There are restrictions for non-medical purchases and daily limits at each dispensary. Further rules will be finalized soon to start registering commercial recreational dispensaries through the OLCC. Until then, the medical dispensaries are the only option for recreational purchases. Also, many dispensarie have closed or never opened, and are still listed, so call ahead if you are unsure about their status.
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National News California,” said Dale Gieringer, longtime director of California NORML. “There was a pretty broad coalition of groups that contributed to the process of drafting the bills and who managed to more or less concur on the final thing, despite some reservations,” he said in something of an understatement.
After nearly 20 years of wrangling over what is and is not legal under California’s 1996 Proposition 215 medical marijuana law, the state legislature has passed a set of bills designed to bring order to the chaos. Fresh from working with the office of Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on acceptable language, the Assembly and the Senate Friday passed Assembly Bill 243, Assembly Bill 266, and Senate Bill 643 just hours before the session ended. If, as expected, Gov. Brown signs the bills into law, the medical marijuana status quo, rife with ambiguities, contradictions, and grey areas, will be transformed into a robust, strictly regulated medical marijuana industry. It won’t always be painless, and there will be winners and losers. The general consensus — although not universal — is that patients will benefit from the package of bills. They will gain access to quality-controlled medical marijuana through unambiguously legal means, and even though localities will retain the ability to ban dispensaries, patients will now be able to have their medicine delivered anywhere in the state. Growers who seek the security of legality also stand to benefit. They will be able to come out from the shadows, pay their fees, get their licenses, and go about their business. But growers using the ambiguity of the state’s current lack of regulation as a cover for grey or black market production will probably find their wiggle-room decreased. A similar dynamic will be at play in other sectors of the industry, including some that have operated in the open throughout the years. “Big Marijuana,” that favorite bogey-man of prohibitionists, doesn’t fare so well. There are constraints on vertical integration within the industry, and the licensing scheme foreseen is tilted toward small and medium producers. The bills will once and for all clarify to law enforcement that licensed medical marijuana producers and activities “are not unlawful under state law and shall not be an offense subject to arrest, prosecution, or sanction under state law, or be subject to a civil fine or be a basis for seizure or forfeiture of assets under state law.” The bills also clarify that medical marijuana can be a profit-making and -taking industry. Some local law enforcement and prosecutors have used making a profit as a basis for charging medical marijuana operators. Now, no more. Patients and caregivers maintain their Prop 215 rights to possess and grow their own medicine, but collectives will be phased out, and anyone who wants to grow more than a personal amount will need a license. The bills provide for 12 different types of licenses, for “specialty,” small, and medium indoor, outdoor, and mixed-light commercial grows; manufacturers, testers, transporters, distributors, and dispensaries. “This is an important and inevitable step forward. It finally lays the groundwork for a legally regulated medical cannabis distribution and production system in
Getting the package passed required the juggling of many moving parts, not only in the state legislature and executive branch, but in balancing the interests of groups ranging from state law enforcement and local government associations to the various interest groups within the medical marijuana industry — patients, growers, dispensary operators, manufacturers, distributors — as well as groups, such as those concerned with environmental degradation, who see themselves impacted by the medical marijuana industry. Making sure the proper balance was reached is going to require careful scrutiny and ongoing monitoring of rulemaking and implementation, Gieringer said. “This is a really complicated piece of legislation, and we’re combing through it carefully, looking for possible glitches,” he said. “There are some problematic details, but most of the potential glitches are in the future. It’s going to take at least a year for this to ramp up, and there’s a new agency that has to be up by January, and we’re now also going to have all these local governments starting to take a look at this and deciding what they want to do. There are hardly any jurisdictions in the state that recognize commercial cultivation, but there are probably 40,000 people doing that now. How many cities and counties are going to act to recognize and ally themselves with the growers they’re already harboring?” That’s something Hezekiah Allen is wondering, too. The son of Mendocino County pot farmers, he’s followed in their footsteps, but has now traded farm apparel for suit and tie as chair and executive director of the Emerald Growers Association, and was deeply involved in the sausage-making around the bills. They were overdue, he said. “Regulation is never an easy thing to transition to, but there has been a decades long crisis due first to prohibition and then to the unregulated nature of this industry, and at the end of the day, we took a monumental and historic step toward bringing some order to this industry and creating stronger communities,” he said. “It’s a pretty amazing thing.” Not only does the legislation treat marijuana growing as an agricultural issue and address questions of direct relevance to producers, it also seems to support small and medium producers, Allen pointed out. “We only ever wanted to be farmers — that’s how we should be regulated — and cultivation is pretty firmly in the agriculture category,” he said. “We also really believe in decentralized economies and small, sustainable agriculture moving forward. This legislation outlines specific policy tools to license small and medium producers, but not large ones. That’s a real bias toward small and medium producers.” Allen also pronounced himself pleased that the legislation allowed for addressing things like standards for what can be called organic and standards for pesticides. “There is a mish-mash of state-federal policy challenges, one example being organic standards,” he said. “It’s really challenging for us to label anything as organic given that the FDA ‘owns’ the term, but the state already has the Organic Produce Act, which created provisions that
gives us authority to Image: Google+ Profile develop organic standards, and this legislation takes that another step forward.” It’s a similar issue with pesticides, Allen said. There are no guidelines for pesticides with medical marijuana because the federal government hasn’t established them, but the legislation encourages state regulators to develop guidelines. “We called for this,” he said. Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the country’s largest medical marijuana advocacy group, was also deeply involved in the work in Sacramento. “We think the regulatory bills are mostly good,” said ASA press secretary Chris Brown. “We’ve researched licensing and regulation in the past and found it perfectly compatible with patient access. We also think it’s very important to have a system in place for medical marijuana before adult use comes in, so it won’t be seen as the unregulated part of a broader market.” ASA wasn’t happy with everything, though. “There was a late provision added that sets a maximum 100 square feet of cultivation space per patient,” Brown noted. “We didn’t know about that and we don’t like it.” And there will be ongoing concerns as the regulatory rulemaking process takes shape. “There are a lot of issues around vertical integration, and there are things we’re going to have to monitor closely to see if they create problems moving forward,” Brown said. “We will monitor things as they move forward, and we’ll be very active in rulemaking and implementation. We have a lot of experience with that in other states, and our activists are great in terms of getting their voices heard.” Some other voices from the medical marijuana community are even less happy. At Harborside Health Center in Oakland, the state’s largest dispensary, executive director and cofounder Steve DeAngelo “welcomed” the legislation, but had some “concerns.”
Page 11 “Harborside welcomes the long overdue enactment of statewide medical cannabis regulations — almost two decades after Proposition 215 called for them,” said DeAngelo. “However, we are concerned that time pressures made it impossible for legislators to adequately consider the impact of the new regulations on medical cannabis patients and the organizations that serve them. In addition, some of the language in the bill is unclear or may be in conflict with prior legislation. Harborside looks forward to working with lawmakers next session to address and resolve these outstanding issues.” And Steven Kubby of the American Medical Marijuana Association is threatening to sue over what he calls the “hijacking” of Proposition 215. “Our medical cannabis rights, protected for nearly 20 years by Prop. 215, have been hijacked and Prop. 215 is under attack like never before. The new law is an unacceptable and illegal infringement on our rights under Prop. 215,” said Kubby. “I’m getting calls from frightened patients who fear their own state government is planning on going after cannabis doctors as if they are some sort of dangerous threat that must be carefully supervised. Sick people cannot handle this kind of stress. Thousands of patients will die because of this calculated attempt to thwart the will of the people and deprive them of medical cannabis and the doctors who write recommendations to use the healing herb,” he added. Kubby cited the 100 square foot patient garden limit, provisions that allow localities to ban medical marijuana activitiies, and new restrictions on medical marijuana-recommending doctors. Clearly, there remains work to be done. Potency and purity standards haven’t been set yet, the dual licensing structure with both state and local permits hasn’t been settled, and lots of issues remain to be hashed out by state officials charged with writing regulations to implement the bills. And the critics need to be addressed, assuaged, or proven wrong. But California’s billion dollar medical marijuana industry is about to come in from the cold. © 2015 StoptheDrugWar.org – Creative Commons Licensing
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National News Nugs The highly restricted and regulated system of the recently launched Minnesota medical marijuana program is turning out to be very costly for most of the patients. Many of them have explained that they have gone back to the illegal method of buying the drug because of the high costs. Companies hired to make marijuana products did a lot of campaigning for the program after its launch in July. But, many patients have argued that they cannot afford the hundreds or even thousands of dollars they have to spend every month. Nevertheless, many Company executives have come out in defense of their prices citing that costs will fall over time that will be a benefit for lower-income patients.
National News The native people in the Congo Basin are using medical cannabis, and don't even know it. Washington State University anthropologists, led by Casey Roulette and Edward Hagen, published new research relating to “medical” marijuana used there, and why it should be considered medical. Brenden Kiley of The Stranger in Seattle reported August 5th: “According to their report, the huntergatherer Aka people 'are characterized by a preference for forest life, polyphonic music… and are generally peaceful and egalitarian with marked gender equity.' They also smoke. A lot. The research, led by Casey Roulette, Edward Hagen, and others found that roughly 95 percent of Aka men smoke tobacco (compared to around 17 percent in sub-Saharan Africa and 31 percent around the globe) and 68 percent smoke cannabis—both of which, the anthropologists found, are correlated with lower rates of helminths, or parasitic worms.”
One patient, Patrick McClellan, told The Associated Press, he can get a month’s supply of marijuana buds on the street for $80. As such, he does not have to use oil for vaporizer pens, the legal statesanctioned treatments costing $264. McClellan is not alone in his predicament as many more patients are turning back to the black market. Minnesota’s prices are higher than most other states. And Dr. Kyle Kingsley, chief executive at innesota Medical Solutions sympathizes with the number of patients who cannot afford these prices. Meanwhile, the State officials are still are still in a dilemma as to whether they should permit those with chronic pain to register for medical cards next year. This could introduce a wave of patients that could completely overwhelm the system.
The native Aka people use the cannabis did to “increase their courage on a hunt, dance better, increase their vital force, or to increase their work capacity when working for Europeans or village people.” They, of course, did not tell researchers they smoke to prevent helminths. They also told researchers that women prefer husbands who smoke. This may explain why so many more of the men smoke cannabis, and tobacco, than the women.
The Weed Blog Marijuana arrests are down significantly in Philadelphia for the first half of this year. Per Philly.Com: Marijuana arrests in Philly are down 73 percent in the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period last year. This is thanks to the decriminalization policy that went into place last fall. From January to June there were just 465 adults and juveniles put into handcuffs for a small amount of cannabis. The same period in 2014 saw 1,681 pot arrests. This has contributed to one of the biggest declines in overall arrests the city has seen in the last six years. According to an article in the Inquirer this week even PPD spokesman Lt. John Stanford gave some credit to the decrim policy. Unfortunately racial disparities still exist with Philadelphia marijuana enforcement, even after decriminalization. African Americans are still five times as likely to be cited for marijuana in Philadelphia. This is proof that the work is not done yet in Philadelphia. We all must keep fighting until cannabis is fully legalized in Philadelphia. However, decriminalization is helping move towards that direct, and is a great intermediary step.
The Weed Blog - John Knetemann Since I live in South Dakota, this is incredibly exciting! I recently wrote that South Dakota has some of the worst drug policy laws in the United States, but we also have something that only a few states have: sovereign entities within our state borders. Marijuana is clearly not legal in the state of South Dakota, but that doesn’t matter! The Native American tribal lands are recognized as sovereign areas, free of federal and state jurisdiction, and the Santee Sioux tribe will be taking advantage of that. The Santee Sioux tribe is a 400 member tribe, and plans to open a resort on New Year’s Eve dedicated to marijuana use. Their resort will grow marijuana, have a smoke lounge, arcade games, and other adult oriented entertainment. The tribal president, Anthony Reider, describes it as an “adult playground,” and projects it to make 2 million dollars per month. For a 400 member community, 2 million dollars a month is an incredible amount a revenue! I also think this is exciting because I think that it will create a shift in drug policy for the state of South Dakota. Drug policy change, especially in terms of marijuana, is all about exposure. Maybe not direct use, but exposure to someone else using marijuana. This humanizes
Oregon Cannabis Connection the issue of the Drug War and gives its victims a face. South Dakotans will be able to see marijuana use right near their very own communities, and they will be able to see that the fuss was nothing to fuss about to begin with.
The Weed Blog It’s sad times for safe access in Washington State. After the passage of Senate Bill 5052, more and more medical marijuana dispensaries are getting letters demanding that they cease operations. The latest round of letters have been going out this month in Tacoma, Washington where the city is demanding that almost all of the medical marijuana dispensaries in city limits close down. Per Marijuana Business Daily: The Tacoma City Council made the decision this week to shut down most of the area’s 60-plus unregulated dispensaries, with officials expressing concern about the proliferation of such businesses, according to the News Tribune. The council previously planned to crack down on dispensaries but delayed action against them to see how the state would decide to handle medical marijuana businesses now that recreational cannabis is legal. The state ended up passing a bill in April that effectively will kill Washington’s MMJ program by rolling it into its heavily regulated recreational market. Under that law, dispensaries and collective gardens will be required to get licenses from the state by July 1, 2016, or shut their doors. The medical marijuana dispensaries have 45 days from when the letter was sent to close down shop, or else. Washington State is trying very hard to push these dispensaries into the recreational system. All the while patients suffer and are having a harder and harder time accessing medicine at an affordable price. I have to assume that once recreational stores open in Oregon, where prices are expected to be half of what they are at Washington recreational stores, that more and more patients will be driving down to Oregon so that they can afford to buy meds.
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public have unambiguously rejected federal interference in state medical cannabis programs.
Patient Advocates Call On President Obama to Pardon All Defendants and Fully End Federal Prosecution of Medical Cannabis Patients Kettle Falls medical marijuana defendants Rhonda Firestack-Harvey and Michelle Gregg on Friday were sentenced to one year and a day in connection to federal cannabis cultivation charges. Fellow defendant Rolland Gregg received a sentence of 33 months. All three were released pending appeal. In March the trio was acquitted of all crimes they were initially charged with, except for the “lesser included” charge of cannabis cultivation. The defendants were arrested in August of 2012 after the Drug Enforcement Agency seized cannabis plants on their property, which had been grown for medical purposes.
"It’s long past time to end to the federal prosecution of medical cannabis cases and instead focus limited prosecutorial resources towards fighting harmful criminal activity in our communities,” Brown said.
Earlier this year the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reauthorize the Rohrabacher-Farr medical cannabis amendment by an overwhelming margin of 242 to 186. The amendment was also passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee by a margin of 22-8. Amendment authors Representatives Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Sam Farr (D-CA) cited “criminal prosecutions, like the recent Kettle Falls case in Washington” as a motivation for the medical cannabis amendment in an April 8th, 2015 letter to then Attorney General Eric Holder. Rohrbacher and Farr have also called on the Inspector General's Office to launch an investigation into violations of the Anti-Deficiency Act for raids and prosecutions of state-legal medical cannabis activities protected under the medical cannabis amendment.
Zucker pleaded guilty and received a 16 month sentence earlier this year after cooperating with the prosecution, although he remains free pending an appeal of his sentence. “This case is exactly the type of wasteful and misguided use of the federal government’s prosecutorial powers that Congress has moved rein in with the Rohrabacher-Farr Medical Cannabis Amendment,” said ASA Press Secretary Christopher Brown. “Congress and the
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mingled, walked through the tree sized plants, sipped wine, and enjoyed their own cannabis, which everyone readily shared with one another. The crowd ranged in size, with a total of nearly 100 people over the course of the 3 hour (plus) event. Rep. Blumenauer spoke before the meal and touched on the successes in Washington this past year, and the hopeful future. “I recently made a friendly dinner wager during a New Hampshire radio interview on The Exchange, betting the host that there would be full states rights concerning cannabis within 5 years,” Blumenauer said. “And I fully expect them to have to eat crow for that dinner.” Brent Kenyon, organizer of the event and owner of S.O.A.M. And Grateful Meds, said, “It's a historic moment and it shows how far we have come, but we still have a lot of work to do.” “Congressman Blumenauer has been the most important ally our movement has in Washington and it's important we show him our support,” Kenyon added. “The next few years will be pivotal on the Federal level and leaders like Earl Blumenauer are making a difference.”
They were barred from raising a medical necessity defense, despite Washington State law allowing for the cultivation of medical cannabis.
Following the DEA raid charges were brought against Rhonda FirestackHarvey, Rolland Gregg and Michelle Gregg as well as Larry Harvey and Jason Zucker. Charges were dropped against Larry Harvey who had been diagnosed with Stage IV terminal pancreatic cancer, but only a matter of days before the case went to trial, several months after his cancer diagnosis.
The Mayor of Albuquerque did what he said he would do. He vetoed a marijuana decriminalization measure that was overwhelmingly supported by the residents. Mayor Richard Berry's chief of staff explained in September, “Right now, state and federal law maintains this is a criminal act and it should stay that way.”
Last year the Rohrabacher-Farr medical cannabis amendment was signed into law by President Obama. The amendment bans the Department of Justice from spending money to prevent the implementation of state-level medical cannabis programs, removing funding for federal medical cannabis raids, arrests and prosecutions in states where medical cannabis is legal.
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“Jail time for the Kettle Falls defendants is an embarrassment to the judicial system,” said Americans for Safe Access (ASA) Executive Director Steph Sherer. “We’re calling on President Obama to pardon all three defendants immediately.”
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A truly historic event happened on August 31st in Southern Oregon. A United States Congressman held a fundraiser, and accepted donations for his campaign, at a marijuana farm! Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon's 3rd congressional district in Portland was treated to a “Garden Party” in the heart on Oregon's prestigious outdoor marijuana growing region. The event was arranged by Brent Kenyon who owns Southern Oregon Alternative Medicine and Grateful Meds dispensaries, and Anthony Taylor of Compassionate Oregon. The fundraiser coincided with Congressman Blumenauer's roundtable discussion held earlier that day in Williams, Oregon, where he heard from an wide array of farmers, not just cannabis, on a number of issues. Beginning at 6:30 pm, the event provided food and refreshments along with unadulterated access to the large marijuana garden. Frankie Hernandez provided music with his Tex-Mex/One Love sound. People
On September 21st the Albuquerque City Council passed a measure that would decriminalize marijuana, essentially, by removing possession of an ounce or less of marijuana or paraphernalia from the city's criminal code. They also passed a provision that would direct police to make possession the police department's lowest priority and would lower penalties for possession of cannabis. The vote was closely split 5 to 4. Council members Rey Garduño and Isaac Benton filed the measure on September 4th. This follows a similar measure passed by the council last year which was also vetoed by the Mayor. Bernalillo County residents then voted on a ballot question last November on decriminalization in the county. 60 percent of voters approved the measure. “This reasoning lags behind history and the public’s will. Over 115 million people, or one-third of the U.S. population, live in jurisdictions where marijuana has been decriminalized, Oregon decriminalized marijuana more than 40 years ago,” said Emily Kaltenbach of Drug Policy Alliance in a statement. “Voters in Bernalillo County voted overwhelmingly in favor of reducing marijuana penalties in the November election. Nearly 91 percent of the precincts in Bernalillo County said “yes” to reducing penalties.” Mayor Berry said before vetoing the measure, "I just have a hard time signing any new legislation that preempts state and federal law – whether it's marijuana or any other issue."
With marijuana still considered a schedule one substance, and penalties still a felony for simple possession, it is at least curious that a U.S. Congressman could have a fundraiser in a marijuana garden. But once you realize the support behind marijuana, the changing attitudes nationwide, and the economic impact legalization could have, it's easy to see why more and more politicians are actually embracing the marijuana movement. And, although Blumenauer is a very liberal Democrat, even conservative Republicans like California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and U.S. Presidential candidate and current Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky also support legalization and regulation.
The tactic has been used before, and in many different locations across the country. Local leadership disregarding local voters using the “Federal law trumps local laws” argument, which is becoming a much harder to justify as the electorate is deciding marijuana is not as bad as many other legal substances.
I hope Congressman Blumenauer is right and we have no more federal prohibition in under five years. If that happens, we will have achieved one of the most important goals in the movement, the end of Federal prohibition! Keep on pushing, Earl! #ILoveEarl
The city council has the option to override his veto, but it is unlikely. The decriminalization measure passed one vote short of a veto proof majority, and getting that one vote would prove unlikely. A surprising move for a legal medical marijuana state since 2007.
“Do we want to be the kind of society that arrests and jails nonviolent adults – who are disproportionately people of color and low-income – for possessing a substance that’s unequivocally been shown to be far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco?,” asked Kaltenbach in her statement. "The people of Bernalillo County have clearly demonstrated that they want a more just society. Unfortunately, their mayor did not take note."
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New Approach Idaho spokesman, Bill Esbensen, will be speaking to an expected large crowd of attendees during this year’s Oregon Hempstalk festival and will be soliciting donations from Oregon stakeholders to help further NAI’s goal of turning its three-pronged cannabis initiative into a bill to place it on the November 2016 election ballot for Idaho residents to decide on the issue.
Changes in marijuana laws are not associated with increased use of the substance by teens, according to data compiled by Washington’s Healthy Youth Survey and published by the Washington State Institute of Public Policy. Image: Keith Mansur, OCC
Bill explained: “This organization is growing fast. Our volunteer base is hitting record numbers, more and more volunteers are showing up to our weekly meetings, donations are starting to flow in, and our social media outlets have virtually exploded with over 27,000 supporters in recent months. This has been an uphill battle in the past, but we’re beginning to see the tide change in people’s attitudes towards the issue – thanks to physicians like CNN’s Sanjay Gupta and his Weed documentaries, the Veteran’s Administration approving cannabis medicine for veterans with PTSD and the national group, LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) publicly supporting the issue and calling for an end to the colossal failure known as Nixon’s 1972 War On Drugs. We’ve gained enough support during this campaign that our group has been able to move out of its former donated broom closet-sized office and into a larger official location with its name on the door. We wouldn’t have been able to accomplish so many things in such a short amount of time if it weren’t for all the overwhelming support we’ve received from the general public. I’m proud of my fellow Idahoans for taking off their blindfolds and researching things for themselves. The information is out there, and is far more valuable to someone who has done their own investigation on the subject instead of investing any credence in the parroted 80-year propaganda that continues to stubbornly persist. It’s a beautiful thing, to see the light go on in someone’s eyes when they have that particular Ah Ha Moment.”
Esbensen also reported that the large group of volunteers in the New Approach Idaho booth collected over 4,000 signatures during this year’s Hyde Park Street Fair, as well as handed out thousands of highly informational pamphlets – with the provided reputable website links to the peer reviewed scientific studies and archived congressional records – encouraging people to do their own research on the subject. “For every scowling individual who scoffs at what we’re trying to accomplish," Esbensen revealed, “there’s a thousand more giving Thumbs Up and their support. We’ve learned to shrug off the opposers’ negativity and to not take it personally, we are acutely aware they don’t know the same things about cannabis that we know, but hopefully one day they will. The world has been duped since the 1930s on the subject, initially devised by greedy industrialists and carried out by their corrupt political shills; it’s long overdue for people living in the 21st century to know the truth. That’s why we’re here.” New Approach Idaho, Inc. is the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is successfully circulating statewide the three-pronged petition to place 1) medical marijuana, 2) decriminalize three ounces or less, and 3) an industrial hemp program on the November 2016 election ballot in Idaho. For more information, make a donation, or volunteer, contact NAI at (208) 407-7317, newapproachidaho@gmail.com or their snail mail PO Box 7684, Boise, Idaho 83707. Follow NAI at www.facebook.com/New ApproachIdaho and Twitter@NAI420
State survey results from the years 2002 to 2014 show little change in cannabis consumption by Washington teens despite the passage of laws permitting and expanding the use of marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes during this time.
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Dominating UFC Champion Ronda Rousey, who we previously noted eats hemp seeds when she is training and has stood up for a fighter punished for testing positive for marijuana in the past, has lashed out against the 5-year suspension of fellow fighter Nick Diaz (which Marijuana Politics blogger Russ Belville just covered.) The outspoken women’s bantamweight champion, who has become the highestpaid mixed martial artist in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, spoke out at a press conference in Melbourne, Australia, promoting her next championship bout against the former boxing champion Holly Holm. From MSN:
Self-reported marijuana use fell slightly among 8th graders, 10th graders, and 12th graders during this period. Young people’ self-reported access to cannabis also remained largely unchanged during this time period, although more 8th graders now report that marijuana is “hard to get.” The passage of voter-initiated legislation legalizing the adult use of cannabis in 2012 is also not to associated with any increase in consumption by youth. Between 2012 and 2014, self-reported lifetime marijuana use and/or use within the past 30 days either stayed stable or fell among all of the age groups surveyed. The report concluded, “[C]annabis use and access among students in 6th through 12th grades have changed little from 2002 through the most recent survey in 2014.” The findings are consistent with those of previous assessments acknowledging that liberalizing state marijuana laws does not stimulate increased use among young people.
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“I’m sorry, I know no one asked me anything but I have to say something,” Rousey said. “It’s so not right for (Diaz) to be suspended five years for marijuana. I’m against them testing for any weed at all. It’s not a performance-enhancing drug. It has nothing to do with athletic competition, and it’s only tested for political reasons so they say, ‘Oh, it’s only for your safety so you’re not hurting yourself when you’re out there.’ So why don’t they test for all the other things that could possibly hurt us that we could be under the influence of while we’re out there? “There’s no reason for them to be testing for weed. In athletics, the beautiful thing about it is it separates everything from politics. It shouldn’t be involved at all.”
Rousey expressed frustration in the fact Diaz’s UFC 183 opponent Silva, who failed multiple drug tests around the event for anabolic steroids, was only handed a one-year suspension for his violation. Diaz’s repeat offender status played a role in the outcome of his case, but regardless of that, Rousey said the difference in punishments shows an obvious problem.
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As MSN reported, Rousey went on to state: “I don’t think marijuana should be part of the conversation at all. I think it’s an invasion of privacy for them to test for it, and they have no right.” While Rousey thinks that “they should free Nick Diaz” she noted that it was the Nevada State Athletic Commission who levied the unfair suspension and not the UFC. Diaz, a longtime fan favorite and former Strikeforce champion, only has a few major fights left in him. While other fighters have spoken out against this draconian suspension, which really amounts to a lifetime ban, as MMA is primarily a young person’s sport that doesn’t see many fighters competing at the top levels beyond the age of 35 or so, Rousey’s star power has certainly elevated the discussion. Rousey, who has feuded with boxer, and convicted domestic abuser, Floyd Mayweather, has seen her star soar as she has gone mainstream into Hollywood movies and the public consciousness. The conventional wisdom would be that “Rowdy” is taking a risk speaking out on the issue, but with a majority of Americans now supporting cannabis legalization, she is staking out a place on the right side of history and in a comfortable place with the Marijuana Majority. Some have argued that Rousey may go down as the greatest mixed martial artist in history and her fame doesn’t seem to be slowing down at all. I sincerely thank Ronda Rousey for speaking out so strongly as her position on cannabis will only add to the momentum for true freedom and equality for the cannabis community.
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Medical News to be related to the cannabis use; the exception was convulsion in one patient. Interestingly, the two patients who died during the trial—one of suicide and one in the operating room—were in the control group. The non-serious adverse events were considered significantly higher in the cannabis group, with 4.61 AEs/person year versus 581 AEs/person year in the control group. Looking at the list of AEs shows that many of them are unrelated to cannabis use. My personal favorite adverse event was “euphoric mood,” which afflicted nine of the cannabis users, but none of the controls. I had not realized until reading this article that euphoria (literally meaning “good feeling”) was adverse.
A recent Canadian study in the Journal of Pain looked at safety issues in chronic pain. Cannabis with 12.5% THC was dispensed to patients over a year; controls did not use cannabis. The researchers were looking at serious adverse events (SAE) and adverse events (AE), as well as pulmonary, neurocognitive and other physiological functions, and pain, other symptoms, mood and quality of life. It is likely no surprise to readers of this publication that the researchers concluded that “[q]ualitycontrolled herbal cannabis, when used by cannabis-experienced patients as part of a monitored treatment program over one year, appears to have a reasonable safety profile.” Study participants were recruited from 2004-2008—with an initial group of 215 cannabis users and 216 controls. Cannabis users included three groups: current users, ex-users and cannabis naïve patients. Controls were mostly cannabis-naïve. The cannabis group was generally younger, male, disabled and used tobacco or alcohol. The cannabis group also had significantly higher pain scores at the beginning. Approximately a 10% higher percentage of the control group used opioids, antidepressants or anticonvulsants. The median dose of cannabis was 2.5g per day. More than half used a combination of smoking, oral and vaporization; about a quarter only smoked and 8% used only orally. The control group was found to have a slightly higher incidence of SAEs, but it was not considered a statistically significant difference. Most of those in the cannabis group were not considered likely
The authors noted that increasing the daily cannabis dose did not lead to higher risk of adverse events. They also found no difference in the memory and attention span at the end of the study between cannabis users and controls. After adjusting for tobacco use, a small amount of decreased lung volume and minor respiratory problems was found in the cannabis users, but no change in liver, renal or endocrine function. Here is the best news: They found a significant reduction in average pain intensity and in improvement of physical function—which was greater than that exhibited in the controls. The same was true for distress scores, meaning that cannabis patients had greater improvement in mood and symptom distress. The researchers concluded that the adverse event profile found with cannabis users was comparable to that caused by dronabinol, or pharmaceutical THC. They also noted that the new cannabis users were more likely to report adverse events, suggesting that people get used to it. While memory or attention of the subjects improved in this study, they recommend longer followup of neurocognitive effects of cannabis use. To read the whole article and learn more about adverse events reported, see www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(15)008378/addons?mobileUi=0 Cheryl K Smith is a recovering attorney, freelance writer and medical marijuana advocate. She is currently chair of the ACMM, and a director of Compassionate Oregon (www.compassionateoregon.com).
Oregon Cannabis Connection analysis of evidence for the effectiveness of marijuana for treating several medical conditions. Both reviews focused on experimental studies and they reached similar conclusions about strengths and weaknesses of evidence for effectiveness of marijuana for treating various conditions.
I describe two studies of medicinal uses of marijuana in Chapter 4 of Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology to illustrate why experiments are considered the gold standard for research. In June 2015, two months after the book appeared, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published two reviews and an editorial about research on medicinal uses of marijuana. In their editorial, Medical MarijuanaIs the Cart Before the Horse?, D’Souza and Ranganathan concluded that: “Since medical marijuana is not a life-saving intervention, it may be prudent to wait before widely adopting its use until highquality evidence is available to guide the development of a rational approval process. Perhaps it is time to place the horse back in front of the cart.” Before explaining why D’Souza and Ranganathan think the cart is before the horse in marijuana research, I want to tell you what the reviews in JAMA have to say about the two studies I discussed in detail in my book. In one of the studies I discussed, a group of researchers in San Francisco studied the effects of smoking marijuana on a type of pain called peripheral neuropathy experienced by HIV/AIDS patients; in the other, a group of researchers in San Diego studied effects of marijuana on experimentally induced pain in healthy volunteers. Both studies were randomized controlled trials: subjects were randomly assigned to treatments and one of the treatments was a placebo, or control, in which THC, one of the main active ingredients of marijuana, had been removed from cigarettes used by the volunteers. In addition, the experiments were double-blind trials: the subjects were ostensibly unaware of the treatment they received in each phase of the experiments, as were the researchers until the experiments were completed and the researchers started analyzing the data. Neither set of reviewers for JAMA mentioned the San Diego study, presumably because these researchers worked with healthy volunteers rather than testing marijuana for treating a specific disease. I included the San Diego study in my book because it illustrated some important considerations in designing experiments. For example, the researchers asked whether there was a relationship between the dose of THC received by subjects and alleviation of pain. They found that an intermediate dose of THC was more effective than either a lower or higher dose; patients actually felt the most pain with the highest dose. These results are clearly relevant to using marijuana for treating pain caused by a disease such as HIV/AIDS, even though the JAMA reviewers didn’t see fit to mention this study in their papers. One of the JAMA reviews (1) was couched as a response to a patient who had been treated for chronic back pain for 18 years with only modest success. The patient began using marijuana shortly after it was legalized for medical use in his state. The second review (2) was a quantitative
Penny Whiting and her colleagues considered 79 randomized controlled experiments in their quantitative analysis. In 28 of these experiments, including the San Francisco study that I described in my book, marijuana was used in an attempt to alleviate chronic pain. Most of these experiments used an oral spray containing purified forms of two active ingredients extracted from marijuana, but the San Francisco volunteers smoked marijuana cigarettes. Subjects in the treated groups felt less pain than subjects in the control groups in most of these experiments, with the greatest reduction in pain for the San Francisco experiment. I used the San Francisco study in my book because it was a good example of how to design a randomized controlled experiment. With Whiting’s review, I can go further and say that the results of this experiment are consistent with those of other recent experiments addressing similar questions; if anything, the results of the California study are even more persuasive than those of similar experiments. In addition to finding credible evidence that marijuana can benefit patients with Image: Hempbeach.com
chronic pain, the JAMA reviewers found moderate support from experimental studies that marijuana can reduce spasticity in patients with multiple sclerosis but only weak evidence that it can reduce nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy. The reviewers found essentially no evidence that it helps patients with depression, anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, psychoses, Tourette syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, inflammatory bowel syndrome, or glaucoma. Whiting’s group also found evidence for many adverse side effects, at least in the short term. Why did the editorial accompanying these reviews in Journal of the American Medical Association conclude we should put the horse back in front of the cart in marijuana research? About half of the US states allow residents to use marijuana for medical purposes, but each state lists a specific set of allowable conditions and these lists are very diverse. In most cases, support for including a medical condition on a state list is not based on randomized, controlled experiments – the gold standard for research – but on weak evidence at best: “anecdotal reports, individual testimonials, legislative initiatives, and public opinion.” Marijuana contains at least 400 secondary compounds, including 70 related to THC, the best known active ingredient. There is great variation in the chemical composition of different samples of marijuana, leading to unpredictable effects on the body. Interactions of marijuana with other drugs that may be taken concurrently are uncertain. There are numerous short-term side effects and potential long-term risks, especially for children and young adults whose brains are still developing, since brain development depends on a natural compound in the brain that is similar to THC and binds to the same receptor molecule on the membranes of brain cells. For these and other reasons, D’Souza and Ranganathan argue in JAMA that we need to gather more and better evidence to justify or discredit use of marijuana for specific medical conditions. (1) Medical Marijuana for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Other Medical and Psychiatric Problems: A Clinical Review - Kevin P. Hill, MD JAMA June 23/30, 2015, Vol 313, No. 24 (2) Cannabinoids for Medical Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Penny F. Whiting, PhD - JAMA June 23/30, 2015, Vol 313, No. 24
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Stephen Jenkins is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. His book, Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology, shows how biologists use observations, experiments, comparisons, correlations, models, and other methods to address important and interesting questions in biology.
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Caring for the Spaces "In-Between"
Naturally, a grower's focus is on the cannabis plants being grown. Thus, it is easy to neglect the margins between plants, leaving this area vulnerable to nutrient deficiencies, exposure to the
Cultivation approach results in minimal problems with pests, and therefore negligible pest intervention. When we assess a garden for quality and care, we evaluate how the overall space is being cared for. The garden creates a habitat shared by many species: birds scratching around the base of the plants, spiders spreading their webs from branch to trellis (and beyond), to a wide range of soil insects and fungi. Rodent holes are also abundant under the mulch, and under the plants. However, we have never lost a cannabis plant to a rodent! By cultivating the spaces in between our commercial crop we can increase the overall crop health and minimize the risk posed by many common horticultural problems. Life thrives around, under, and between all our plants bringing vitality to the entire garden space. Dynamic Accumulators
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elements, and compaction by frequent foot traffic. Almost all of the gardens we see are obviously in a commercial pursuit and give very little attention and care of the spaces in-between the plants. Failing to nurture the spaces between plants isolates the plants and puts them at a much higher risk of infestations by disease and pests. Our focus at Green Source Gardens is on nurturing biological communities and a habitat that supports diversity. This
recommend harvesting the Comfrey biweekly and throwing the leaves around the base of the plant you'd like to feed. Another notable benefit of Comfrey is the habitat that it provides for a variety of life forms. Patches of large-leaved vegetation create zones that are conducive to many soil creatures. Birds, rodents, bugs and fungus all thrive in these moist and shady zones. There are also strategic ways to recover and maintain highly fertile soil through shallow-rooted annual grains like wheat and barley. Wheat and barley roots act as a nutrient retainer by absorbing available nutrients in the winter and spring when moisture levels are higher and the soil is more vulnerable to leaching. Once early summer arrives, the skeletons of these grasses can simply be mulched over and left undisturbed to feed the summer crop.
We all want our plants Other crops that are great to grow to their full to add to the mix, around or potential. In order to even within the garden maximize fertility space, are hedge-like Image: Green Source Gardens retention and recycling thickets such as Jerusalem systems, it is essential to Artichokes. These provide create a steady and consistent nutrient opportunities for habitat variation and resource for plants. One helpful analogy therefore increased biodiversity. They is to imagine a garden space as an are also easy to grow, a great screen, a absorbent carbon sponge, capable of tuber "carbohydrate bank" that returns retaining energy so that it can be utilized each year, and they feed gophers and by living forces and then made available other rodents. In addition, areas of mint to plant roots and rootlets. An and other herbs planted in patches are understanding of plant root profiles and great ways of attracting a diverse array their abilities to "scavenge" for nutrients of pollinators and insect life. in the soil is helpful when determining what plants to encourage in your garden Moving forward, this industry should space. champion cannabis cultivation that's rooted in holistic and environmentallyDeep-rooted and dynamic accumulators, conscious cultivation styles. If not, we like Comfrey, recover excess nutrients face repeating the same polluting and from the subsoil and return it to the land-degrading errors that other surface in their foliage. That makes it industries have accepted as unfortunate perfect to incorporate in-between your byproducts of production. Adopting the cannabis plants. Comfrey is our primary mantra of taking care of the spaces inmulch crop and we grow it in abundance between is a big step in the right in-between each of our cannabis plants. direction. It is a reminder that the spaces It provides a diverse micro-utrient between the cannabis plants are as supply in its foliage that we harvest and essential as the plants themselves to the lay on the cannabis root zone to be eaten overall health of the by the soil biology, making it readily environment we care for. available to the plant roots. We
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Something to think about this time of year is cover cropping. It's a fun, easy and inexpensive way to get many different benefits throughout the year. I'm going to give everyone a few tips on cover crops and how they can help you have a better outdoor season. Cover crops provide a multitude of benefits to the outdoor Cannabis gardener ranging from preparation of the ground to being a substitute food source for livestock and humans. How about some fresh stone ground wheat bread? That's right. Crops such as Winter Wheat and Barley serve as great cover crops because they have shallow roots that will prevent leaching of nutrients and erosion of soil. They're planted in winter and pulled a short time later allowing for other cover crops still to be planted. They also serve as a sort of pretill that will break up clumpy ground and many growers prefer them because they can easily be up-rooted and kept from growing back.
perfect companion plant that all your grazing animals will find yummy as well. Braco Mustard has been shown to prevent harmful nematodes in the soils in which it's tilled, almost like a natural fumigant in the ground. Food and forage crops such as Dundale Peas, Fava beans, Vetch and various oat varieties can be rotated with other cover crops serving as a very efficient way to get extra food for yourself and your critters. Try to avoid a crop that won't finish by early May unless you plan on it being companion planted with your Cannabis. The first couple weeks in May is a great time to just throw whatever dry organic nutrients with which you're planning on amending right on your cover crop and till it all together then pile it to cook for a month with an eye on early June planting. I'll discuss amending, tilling, and planting more in later columns. I recommend finding organic heirloom varieties of all the cover crops I've mentioned online so you can save your seeds from year to year. Permaculturist leaning Cannabis gardeners should get a real kick out of discovering how efficiently they can use their prime soil in the off season; in some cases being able to rotate and companion plant many different crops before they plant in early June. So if you have an itch to get out in the garden early this year and cover cropping sounds like it might be up your alley then hop online and do some research into the benefits of a few different cover crops to see if they might be for you. You'll be surprised at the extra value gained from your garden and the perks you get throughout the year by employing one ore more of these economical and fun cover crop techniques. For more information on cover cropping, or to ask any other questions you might have, contact The Good Earth Organics in Cave Junction, Oregon. 541-450-3341 or visit www.thegoodearthorganics.com.
Or, maybe instead you want a crop like Clover that is resilient and self seeds and can be tilled in year after year as a green manure. Aside from being a great compost crop, Clovers will actually fix Nitrogen from the atmosphere making them a
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