Connecting the Medical Cannabis Community Across Oregon
FR EE Dec/Jan 2014-15 Vol. 5 Issue 6
Oregon Legalizes!
In This Issue: "Rad i cal Ru ss" Wri tes Letter To Legi sl ators J i m Kl ah r Passes Away Why M ed i cal M ari j u an a M u st Stay! N ew C o l u m n : a t C h u rc h & S t a te U pd ates From Th e Capi tol Recipes: Egg N og M u ffi n s Baked Sh ri m p Scam pi M ore on Page 2 I n si d e!
Anthony Johnson, Chief Petitioner of Measure 91 in Oregon, addresses supporters and the media after victory was realized! Image: Š 201 4 Sam Chapman
In This Issue
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Industrial Hemp
Oregon News Oregon Legalizes Cannabis! - An Exclusive Message From
Cannabis Connection
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Anthony Johnson, Chief Petitioner of Measure 91
Three Is The Magic Number
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Tell Oregon Reps To Support Will Of The Voters On Measure 91
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At Church & State: Updates From The Capitol
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Live Jim Strong! - A Farwell To Jim Klahr
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Oregon News Nugs - News From Around The Beaver State
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National News
Ready, Get Set, Grow!
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Where Oh Where Has All The Hemp Gone?
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Recipes Crunchy Peanut Butter Puppy Chow Baked Shrimp Scampi Egg Nog Cupcakes - From Coma Treats
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Cultivation Growing With Good Earth:
- Cover Cropping
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From Alaska: Keep The Good Times Rollin'
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Winter Care In The Garden
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Washington D.C. Legalizes & Moves Closer To Allowing Recreational Marijuana Stores
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What Are Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds?
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Big Marijuana Conference Coming To San Francisco In February
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Cash For Cannabis
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National News Nugs - News From Around The Nation
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Court Block's Florida Governor's Bid To Drug Test Welfare Applicants
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Medical News Cheryl's Clinical Corner - Cannabis & Child Safety
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Why Medical Marijuana Must Stay
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HIJACKED: US Healthcare - A special essay from Dr. Ronald
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Stallings MD.
Classifieds A Listing of Oregon Clinics, Dispensaries, Organizations, and Canna-Friendly Businesses
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OREGON CANNABIS CONNECTION is a bi-monthly publication for the medical cannabis community in Oregon. Published by K2 Publishing Co. in Southern Oregon, we strive to inform the public on the value of medical marijuana, as well as provide news, information, and opinions concerning marijuana laws, legalization, and medicine. All information in our publication is intended for legal use by adults only. Our publication is advertiser supported and 20,000 copies are available FREE at over 240 locations throughout Oregon. Subscriptions are available within the U.S.A for 18.00 per year. Please visit www. oregoncannabi sconnecti on. com to subscribe. Correspondences to: K2 Publishing P.O. Box 5552, Gants Pass, OR 97527 Email: keith@oregoncannabisconnection.com To advertise or distribute, please contact Kei th at 541 -621 -1 723. Next issue is Feb/Mar, advertising deadl i ne i s J an 23rd, 201 5!
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Oregon Legalizes Cannabis! An exclusive message from Anthony Johnson, Chief Petitioner and coauthor of Measure 91 and the Director of New Approach Oregon Measure 91 was truly an historic victory for the Oregon cannabis community for many, many reasons and I am just so pleased to have played my part in this important achievement. Since our electoral victory on November 4th, I have been bombarded with messages of congratulations and thanks, and my response is, “Thank you! Congratulations to all of us!” I congratulate all of us, because many, many people had to play a part in the decades-long fight to end cannabis prohibition in Oregon. The fight to end the harmful and discriminatory policy of prohibition took the collective efforts of literally thousands of people, some of whom who are no longer with us. Of course, no legalization measure would be even considered without the advocacy of Jack Herer, who passed away in Eugene, Oregon, in 2010. The wisdom of Oregon legislators to become the first state to legalize cannabis in 1973 brought future marijuana legalization activists to Oregon and set the stage of Oregon as a trailblazer on the issue. Beaver State activists continued the tradition of being ahead of the times by placing a marijuana legalization measure on the ballot in 1986 and then joining California as a medical marijuana state in 1998. While measures to legalize medical marijuana dispensaries didn’t garner majority support in 2004 or 2010, the Oregon Legislature legalized medical facilities finally in 2013. Measure 80 while not ultimately successful at the ballot box (or mail box, since this is Oregon after all) garnered 47% of the vote in support of legalization in 2012, giving us a glimpse of what was possible in 2014. The effort to legalize cannabis in 2014 started immediately following Election Day in 2012. Oregon activists weighed moving forward in 2014 versus waiting until 2016. Many national and local activists urged us to wait until 2016, utilizing the bigger electorate to carry us to victory. I was initially in the “wait until 2016” camp myself, but was willing to help a 2014 effort if polling could show that victory was possible in 2014. Drafting a marijuana legalization measure that sufficiently legalized marijuana while satisfying activists and national funders with a realistic chance of winning a majority of the votes in a midterm election proved to be a touch task. While not perfect by any means, I am very proud
that Measure 91 managed to keep the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program untouched, allow for home cultivation and should set the state’s cannabis industry to follow in the footsteps of Oregon’s microbrewery and winery industries. Also, importantly, the measure didn’t institute an unscientific DUI standard or make any criminal penalties worse. Measure 91’s deliberate, approach was one of the reasons we were able to earn more votes than incumbent state officials. One of the deliberate measures taken was to wait until July 1, 2015, to legalize personal use and cultivation. However, four county district attorneys have already declared that they will treat marijuana as if Measure 91 were implemented. All of the counties (Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington and Curry) were counties that Measure 91 passed, so it is great that elected district attorneys are following the will of the voters. Four more counties are taking a case-bycase review of marijuana charges; a few remain undecided, while the rest of the counties have
Three Is The Magic Number By Keith Mansur
Oregon voted November 4th to become the 3rd state to legalize marijuana for adults. Joining Washington D.C. (technically not a state) and Alaska (who's polls closed 2 hours after ours did), Oregon sent a clear message to the nation and the world, enough is enough!
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declared that they will needlessly keep prosecuting people until July 1st. Another deliberate approach of Measure 91 was waiting until January 2016 until the state has to start accepting license applications for licensed producers, processors, wholesalers and retailers. In the meantime, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission will hold rule-making hearings and we must brave through a legislative session where some legislators may be looking to pass additional rules and regulations. New Approach Oregon, the political action committee responsible for Measure 91, will Cont. on Page 4
Three seems to be the magic number: Two states and Washington D.C. voted to legalize marijuana for adult use. Oregon passed Measure 91 55.9% to 44.1%, showing that our vote by mail system brings out the largest possible vote, achieving a 69.5% registered voter turnout in a Midterm election, a veritable deluge of voters compared to many states (Florida only had a 48.7% turnout and their medical marijuana initiative failed by only 2.4%!) . In Alaska they voted yes on Ballot Measure 2 with a 4.3% margin of 52.15% to 47.85%. In Washington D.C., with only a 32.4 % voter turnout, the citizens resoundingly passed their Initiative 71 with a yes
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Deschutes was the only county east of the Cascades to vote yes. Josephine County came up just 3 votes shy of a majority. Every county along the coast voted yes except Douglas.
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Cont from Pg. 3 vote of 64.69%! Their vote sent a sharp message to Capital Hill, the ultimate executor of the disenfranchised city/state, who has the power to overrule their new law.
Cont from Pg. 3 remain active during rule-making hearings and the legislative session to ensure that the will of the voters is met. The Measure 91 campaign clearly campaigned on two things: 1) marijuana should be regulated similar to beer and wine; and 2) the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program should not be detrimentally impacted. We will be working hard to remind legislators and policy makers about the fact that more than 56% of voters supported New Approach’s message and will do our best to ensure that regulations are in line with the rules governing the beer and wine industry and that the rights of patients aren’t infringed upon. While we have already heard troubling rhetoric from some legislators about the medical program, folks should keep in mind that the medical program has been under attack every legislative session. It is imperative that we remain vigilant, contact our representatives and attend important hearings to continually remind our elected officials that the will of the voters should be met or there will be political consequences. The Oregon cannabis community has been mostly successful stopping bad legislation and we will need to remain active to protect the gains that we have made.
Anthony Johnson with Oregon Representative Peter Buckley and Sen. Floyd Prozanski. Image: ICBC implement cannabis regulations, it is imperative that we remember that the world is watching and that Oregon’s legalization regime will greatly impact the legalization efforts of other states in 2016 and beyond. While it is a great accomplishment to end the unnecessary arrests and citations of more than 10,000 people every year in Oregon, we must remember that we need to legalize cannabis state by state until the cannabis community is free across the country. Here’s to more freedom, equality and prosperity in Oregon and beyond! Anthony Johnson is the Director of New Approach Oregon, the political action committee responsible for the successful 2014 ballot measure that legalized marijuana in Oregon. Anthony was the Chief Petitioner and coauthor of Measure 91, helping formulate campaign strategy and serving as the campaign's primary spokesperson. He is also Content Director of the International Cannabis Business Conference to help further mainstream and professionalize the cannabis industry. You can stay uptodate with Anthony’s work at www.newapproachoregon.com, also at www.internationalcbc.com, and his Facebook page and by following@anthonyj1977 on Twitter.
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Anthony Johnson, an attorney himself, taking part in a panel discussion during September's ICBC comnference. He is joined by attorneys Leland Berger and Amy Margolis. Prohibitionists will be looking towards implementing burdensome taxes and allowing localities to easily outlaw retail establishments. Measure 91 explicitly declares that only the state can tax marijuana and lays out the mechanism for outlawing licensed establishments through an electoral vote. Allowing arbitrary taxation and opt-out mechanisms that don’t call for a vote of the people goes against the will of the voters and the priorities of both the state and federal governments as they will only encourage unlicensed sales. As we work to protect our gains and sensibly
In Oregon, it was the third straight voter initiative in the general election dealing with either legalizing or increasing access to cannabis. In 2010, Measure 74 lost 44.21% to 55.79% and would have created state licensed dispensaries under the current medical marijuana system, something the legislature did last year. In 2012, Measure 80 lost 46.75% to 53.25% and would have legalized marijuana for adult use and also created a system to regulate cannabis sales. M 80 would have provided larger possession amounts than Measure 91, though the system that it detailed was arguably more complicated. It was Oregon's third initiative to legalize for adults. In 1986, 26 years before Measure 80 and 28 years before Measure 91, Oregon was the first state to have an initiative to legalize marijuana for adults. Measure 5 would have allowed personal possession and growing of marijuana solely for personal use and allowed a person a criminal defense if charged. The initiative lost miserably 26.33% to 73.67%, but the movement was started and many of our activist leaders today had a hand in the original Measure. Three of Oregon's major marijuana leaders backed the initiative. John Sajo, founder and director of Voter Power, Paul Stanford, the author of Measure 80 and founder of THCF Clinics, and Madeline Martinez, founder of Oregon NORML, and current owner of the World Famous Cannabis Cafe in Portland all eventually publicly backed the measure. Three high profile raids and prosecutions on medical dispensaries swayed the vote. The raids and prosecution of Bill Esbensen and the 45th Parallel in Ontario, Sarah Bennett and the Human Collective in Tigard, and Lori and Lee Duckworth of So NORML in Medford were distasteful and overreaching, and voters showed that at the polls. The police and District Attorneys across Oregon that oppose marijuana legislation inadvertently drove voters to our side with their para-military terrorist style raids, cliché arguments and reefer madness lies. Yes, it seems that, “Three is a magic number, yes it is, its a magic number”... just as the classic Schoolhouse Rock song!
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Tell Your Oregon Reps To Support Will Of The Voters On Measure 91
By Russ Belville
After reading this story in the StatesmanJournal, Lawmakers take first look at implementing marijuana law (Nov 19, 2014), I think it is vitally important for supporters of Oregon’s Measure 91 to contact their state representative and senator and urge them to respect the will of the voters on Measure 91. You can find your legislators at https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/FindYourLeg islator/ leg-districts.html and then send them an email or letter. There are four basic areas the League of Oregon Cities and other lobbyists are fighting us over: Right of cities to establish local marijuana taxes; Right of cities to establish bans on marijuana licenses without a vote of the people; Establishment of a blood-draw ng/ml THC DUID limit (like Washington); Abolishing or severely curtailing the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program. One Democratic Senator is already claiming the people just wanted legalization and they don’t care too much about Measure 91’s “fine print”. A Republican Senator is already asking about abolishing the medical marijuana program. Don’t let legalization get twisted by lobbyists, law enforcement, and the legislature – speak up NOW! My letter to Senator Dembrow & Representative Smith Warner:
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My name is Russ Belville and I am a constituent of yours who worked very hard to see that Measure 91, our initiative to legalize marijuana, passed statewide. Now I am very troubled by reports that the Cont. on Page 6
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Oregon News Much of their work will revolve around implementing Measure 91. Some of their work will focus on modifications and a broadening of the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Program, to allow for licensing growers producing exclusively for the dispensary market, and finally some attention will be given to changes to strengthen and expand the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP).
The Oregon Cannabis Connection is pround to have Anthony Taylor on board as a contributing columnist. Anthony has been working for many years with the legislature and to help defend an Oregon medical marijuana patient's right to safe access to cannabis. Currently the Executive Director of Compassionate Oregon, Taylor has unique access and insights into Oregon's lawmaking process, much of which takes place in the Capitol building at the corner of Church and State streets in Salem.
Oregonians voted to allow adult recreational use of marijuana on November 4, 2014, and in some precincts in Multnomah County it passed by nearly 90%.
What the OMMP will look like when all is said and done is yet to be determined, but if the questions asked at the recent Interim Committee on OLCC are any indication, legislators will look at legalization as a way to rid the state of a program they have long considered problematic and advocates of the program will have a lot of work ahead.
Sen Fred Girod (R) of Oregon
So what’s next for activists, businesses, the State and the citizens who will be able to possess and grow marijuana starting in July of 2015 and legally buy marijuana in Oregon stores sometime in July of 2016? Businesses, activists and trade organizations have already hired lobbyists and begun working on legislation for the 2015 session. The State is beginning to put things in motion as well trying to manage both medical and recreational as efficiently as possible. Meanwhile the Oregon Liquor Control Commission is gearing up and anticipates adding over 40 staff positions to administer the State’s retail marijuana market. According to sources in Salem, over fifty legislative concepts relating to marijuana are being considered for pre-session filing. These are proposed legislative concepts from members, committees, agencies and commissions, law enforcement and the cannabis community at large, which are ready to be introduced as bills when session starts. While many will never become bills and even fewer will become law, legislators have their work cut out for them when it comes to marijuana legislation.
Rob Patridge, Chair of the OLCC and also the Klamath County D.A. In that capacity, Patridge openly opposed Measure 91 . Image OLCC
the market as they can and the State will try to regulate both while attempting to streamline the process to minimize fiscal impact and maximize revenue and public safety. Authors Note: The Department of Agriculture has issued a “notice of proposed rulemaking and proposed rulemaking hearing” to finally getting the ball rolling on the “Production and Handling of Industrial Hemp,” in Oregon including the regulation of hemp seed. This is the third leg of the stool for marijuana policy reform and it remains to be seen how the regulation of hemp will impact medical and recreational use of marijuana in Oregon. The first hearing on these rules will be held January 6, 2015 at the Dept. of Agriculture Bldg. in Salem.
Sen. Girod (R): “…can we do away with Oregon Medical Marijuana Program if we’re going to legalize marijuana? It only makes sense from an economic perspective to do this and does the act prohibit us from doing that?”
Anthony Taylor is a long-time activist and in 1984, became Oregon’s first paid lobbyist for marijuana reform. He is currently a co-founder of Compassionate Oregon and serves as its legislative liaison. His work in the last two sessions resulted in adding PTSD to the medical program and sentencing reform for recreational users. He continues to work in Salem and is working this session on legislation to help strengthen the program.
OLCC: “It is a policy question that is going to be on the forefront of many minds…. [I]tis a policy issue that many agencies, that I’m sure the legislature will be looking at for the reasons you just described.” They went on to say, “We’re aware of many, many conversations going on about efficiencies potentially to be gained by some regulatory consolidation at every level.”
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How these programs will all fit together remains to be seen. The OLCC will begin a statewide “listening” tour in late January to get a sense of what the public—pro and con—thinks retail sale of marijuana to adults should look like and whether it should exist along with the medical marijuana program or absorb it over the long term. Proponents of the OMMP and patient advocates will have to work hard to remain independent from recreational use, while at the same time trying to improve the program. Proponents of recreational use will try to carve out as much of
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By Lori Duckworth James Lee “Jim Madfingers” Klahr, died November 9th, 2014 at 1 a. m. Sunday in Portland, after battling liver failure. He had been awaiting a liver donor at Oregon Health Science University. Jim was born November 5th, 1951 in the small town of Beeville, Texas and grew up in Caldwell, Idaho. Jim leaves behind a wife, Marilyn, 2 sons, Dallas and Alfred and many friends. Jim, celebrated his 63rd birthday just days before his death & after seeing one of his Dreams come true. Oregon had become the 3rd state in the Nation to Legalize Marijuana. He was best known for his advocacy on the marijuana front, but he was also an accomplished musician, small-business owner and politician. Above all, Jim was a better friend & teacher than another one could ever ask to walk onto their path of life and into your hearts. He had a love for good music and an even bigger love to teach others. Abstaining from the use of marijuana while being one of the strongest advocates in Oregon for the long over due changes. Running for political office multiple times in Curry county, Oregon. Jim Klahr was a contender for the state representative seat on the November general election ballot — he was on the ballot two years ago — and fought for decades in California and Oregon to change Cont. on Page 6
Jim Klahr Nov 5, 1951 - Nov 9, 2014 Goodbye friend, you will be missed! OCC Staff
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legislature is being lobbied by the League of Oregon Cities and others to subvert the will of the voters by making changes to Measure 91 that are completely inconsistent with Measure 91. In particular, Senator Lee Beyer is quoted in the Statesman-Journal saying that November’s vote in favor of marijuana meant Oregonians support recreational usage and not that they support the specific details of Measure 91. His assumption is that most voters “didn’t pay a heck of a lot of attention” to or read all the fine print in the proposal. I assure you, the fine print in the proposal is exactly what Oregonians supported, for it is within that fine print that Oregon learned the lessons from the process of legalization taking place in Washington and Colorado. At least 70 Oregon cities passed local taxes on marijuana prior to Measure 91’s passage. As you know, Measure 91 vests sole taxation authority over marijuana to the state and repeals and supersedes all previously passed local taxes. This is how we tax alcohol in Oregon, yet cities believe they should be able to tack on an extra tax for alleged “costs of regulation” that are already covered by Measure 91 and are never quantified by the cities. The low $35/ounce state taxation is a lesson learned from the high taxation at multiple levels of production, processing, and retail and among multiple city, county, and state jurisdictions. In Washington and Colorado, the price of black market and medical marijuana is far lower than the overtaxed recreational price, leading to pot dealers in the parking lots of legal pot shops, undercutting the legal sellers. That’s exactly what we don’t want at our Oregon pot shops. The right of localities to ban pot shops and other licensees is also enshrined in Measure 91, but only through a vote of the people. This was the lesson learned from the other two legalization states where city councils and county commissions banned pot shops of their own accord, ignoring the will of the voters in those locales that overwhelmingly supported legalization. Such bans also undercut the point of legalization by leaving the illegal pot dealers and the medical marijuana dispensaries as the only source for marijuana that all Oregon adults may legally possess and use. The lack of a per se THC DUID limit, such as Washington and Colorado, is also a major reason I and others supported Measure 91. It’s not that we don’t want police stopping impaired drivers, regardless of reason for that impairment. It’s that there is no reliable
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testing for marijuana impairment through saliva, urine, or blood screening that is scientifically valid. Any limit the legislature would add would certainly convict innocent drivers of impairment for merely having high tolerances to marijuana. Most importantly, Measure 91 explicitly mentioned three times that it changed the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act in no way. Tens of thousands of patients and their caregivers would not have supported Measure 91 if it did change OMMA. Yet Sen. Fred. Girod is already asking “Can we do away with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program if we are going to legalize marijuana?” There can be positive changes to streamline the production, processing, and retailing of marijuana to avoid two redundant supply chains. However, the right of patients to possess and cultivate more usable marijuana must be protected; there are some who absolutely cannot make do on the recreational limits of Measure 91. Furthermore, patients rights to home manufacture of edibles and concentrates should be preserved, as they often need those higherpotency items for proper medicinal effect. I would warn you both not to assume the voters will be satisfied with any changes you make to Measure 91 because we’re simply happy with legalization. Please pledge to me your support of the will and intent of 71% of Multnomah County voters who understood that Measure 91 was crafted to avoid the pitfalls of Colorado and Washington. Please do not support any local marijuana taxes, allowing city councils / county commissions to ban without a vote of the people, creating any unscientific per se DUID standard, or major changes to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act. Thank you, Russ Belville. © 2014 Russ Belville. Source: www.theweedblog.com. Reprinted by permission.
legislation to legalize first,medical marijuana programs and later, recreational use. One of his strongest beliefs and I too agree and will carry on his work to quote his Lovely wife, “Jim never believed a political seat should be won because someone ran unopposed”, Marilyn Klahr. Jim helped to start Oregon Green Free, a social and political organization aimed at educating medical marijuana patients. He also sat on The Advisory Committee to Medical Marijuana Program for The State of Oregon. Let’s not forget about his influence on other great organizations, MAMA’s, Oregon NORML, Voter Power, Southern Oregon NORML, and THCF, just to name a few. Image: Keith Mansur, OCC
Marijuana eased the pain of Jim’s liver problems, but he hadn’t used it for more than 12 years, as doing so would have disqualified him for a liver transplant. The list required the recipients to be drug free. Jim qualified to be on the federal list for a transplant in 2002. During our little chats which sometimes lead to long discussions over the years of our friendship, Jim had shared his past with me of his walk down a dark reckless road of alcohol use and a wild life. Lots of memories! Cannabis had been the ‘gateway drug’ to keep Jimmy off alcohol. Until he had to go onto ‘the list’. A list that his name remained on until his death. The man that could roar like a lion, using his soft voice as gentle and so comforting and true as a lamb. The impacts he made in Oregon and many other places….the endurance that he seemed to always sustenance were incredible. The life lessons that he taught so many of us will be passed on to other generations, including my own Grandchildren. Take pause, make plan, be patient, if your fall, replan, NEVER LOSE HOPE, WIN!! Oregon had a Huge win this year~NO DOUBT! But we also lost 2 Freedom Fighters & I challenge all of you to live as they both did daily #JimStrong. RIP Jim Klahr and Jim Grieg Here are just a few words from some of our friends that Jim touched… ~Jim Klahr inspired many to stay involved politically in the marijuana normalization movement, stressing the importance of voting, running for office, speaking with legislators, and using the power of politics to spur change. He lived it himself. Keith Mansur, Publisher of Oregon Cannabis Connection ~I met Jim during the campaign for Ellen (Rosenblum), and during several later meetings to decide whether to try again in
2014. He seemed to know everybody I was just meeting, but treated me like one of his oldest friends at the same time. I never heard him complain about anything, not his health or politics or oppression. He just was happy to see and feel progress and felt that he was helping little by little to get to the big day. Losing him was a terrible shock and I don't see how we will replace him. Ann Witte ~He was a tireless advocate for patients and the legalization of cannabis. He was a friend, colleague and peaceful warrior. He was a kind, generous, intelligent, fair, compassionate and talented man who also led with his heart. Trista Okel, Owner/aromatic alchemist at Empower Oil ~ He was a sweet, gentle man, such a hero among advocates for the patients and for medical cannabis generally. Leland Berger, Veteran marijuana activist and Lawyer ~I learned a lot from Jim and was very inspired by him. He touched so many people and care for medical cannabis patients even though he wasn't able to use cannabis himself. Anthony Johnson, Executive Director of Vote Yes on 91, Executive Director Oregon Cannabis Industry Association Lori Duckworth is an Oregon Cannabis Activists, founder of Southern Oregon NORML (or SO NORML) and the Southern Oregon Cannabis Community Center in Medford, OR. She and her organization are the 2011 recipient of the Freedom Fighter of the Year Award from the Oregon Medical Cannabis Awards in Portland, OR. She is currently the Co-host of Rogue Cannabis Radio on KSKQ 89.5 FM and www.kskq.org in Ashland, OR.
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Oregon News they will start accepting applications. I don’t anticipate any delays in Oregon, like there were in Washington. Unlike Washington, Oregon already had a framework in place for medical marijuana businesses, and can build off of that for recreational marijuana businesses, similar to how Colorado did things.
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High Times Brings Their “CUP” to Portland
The process has begun on the bureaucratic side of things in Oregon in regards to implementing marijuana legalization. Oregon voters on Election Day 2014 passed a marijuana legalization initiative that regulates marijuana like alcohol.
By Keith Mansur - OCC Johnny Green plead with High Times® to bring their famous Cannabis Cup© to Portland, and they seem to have listened. Earlier this year, way back in July, Johnny posted on his popular online blog, The Weed Blog, a plea for them to bring it to Portland. Per Johnny's post:
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) is tasked with overseeing the recreational marijuana industry in Oregon, and has asked for more money for its budget to do so.
This is a public plea to High Times to consider bringing the Cup to Portland, Oregon. Oregon is one of the most cannabis friendly states in America. We were the first to decriminalize, the second to pass a medical marijuana law, and in November we will likely legalize marijuana. There is a reason that Jack Herer lived here for so long – Oregon LOVES cannabis. Please, please, PLEASE bring the Cup to Oregon. High Times fans in Oregon, cannabis fans in Oregon, and specifically this weed
Per the Oregon Legislative Emergency Board proposal: Request: Increase the Other Funds expenditure limitation for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission by $333,000 and establish four limited duration positions (1.08 FTE) to begin implementation of Ballot Measure 91, which regulates the production, sale, and possession of recreational marijuana. Recommendation: Increase the Other Funds expenditure limitation for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission by $583,000 and authorize the establishment of four limited duration positions (1.08 FTE) to begin implementation of Ballot Measure 91. The OLCC has a deadline of January 1, 2016 to issue Administrative Rules that will govern marijuana businesses in Oregon. Two days later
blogger would love you for it. Well Smoke a Doobie...for you cup lovers! They are bringing it to Portland, and Johnny's pleas were heard, I guess...I do give Johnny a lot of credit for his activism, and I do believe he had at least a modicum of influence over the decision. His blog is one of the best. Portland has been added to the mix, along with a group of other cups, There are cups in So. Cal, Denver, and San Francisco before the PDX event. What the second half of the year will provide? Who knows? The date? Well, that seems undetermined yet (as of Dec 8th). But, if you are interested, no matter
what... you can get tickets at http://cannabiscup.com/portland#tickets.
Multnomah D.A. Drops Marijuana Cases By Keith Mansur - OCC I was having a conversation on the phone with my daughter just after the election on Nov 5th and she wondered what would happen to her friend's marijuana case in Portland. I told her that I believed the Portland D.A. likely would not pursue cases on people that would be legal under the new law, even if the “crime” occurred before the law passed. Why waste the resources? Right? Well the Multnomah County District Attorney did just that, releasing a statement to the Oregonian on November 10th announcing their policy going forward. I knew it was only a matter of time, myself. I just wondered, honestly, what took them so long... From the Oregonian: “Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill's office released a statement to The Oregonian on Monday afternoon, saying prosecutors will dismiss a total of 50 pending marijuana cases. All involve marijuanarelated activities that will be legal when the new law becomes effective for possession and cultivation July 1, 2015.” "Because it is clear that a significant majority of voters in Multnomah County support the legalization of marijuana in certain amounts, this office will dismiss the pending charges related to conduct which will otherwise become legal July 1, 2015," The Oregonian said the statement reads. "Any remaining charges not impacted by Ballot Measure 91 will be prosecuted." Congratulations to people in Multnomah County! Unfortunately, many other jurisdictions have chosen to continue their persecution of cannabis users until the very last possible opportunity. What a waste of energy!
Winters Loses, Jackson County Gets New Sheriff
Page 7 By Keith Mansur - OCC As was expected, the long awaited exit of Sheriff Mike Winters from the Sheriff's office in Jackson County is days away. On Jan 5th, Ashland Deputy Police Chief Corey Falls, who grew up in the Applegate, takes over. Fals thoroughly trounced the incumbent Sheriff by receiving over 75% of the vote, which was no surprise after Winters announced that he would “retire” after the election and actually threw his support behind his opponent, an odd and surprisingly humble move by the usually hardened, egotistical, and dismissive Sheriff. Falls told the Medford Mail Tribune, “"We're excited by those results...I had an incredible team that helped support me and moved me forward. I think it's also people hearing our message that we're going to be open and transparent." Winters was under attack for excessive spending, unsolved murders, preoccupation with marijuana, and an overall bad attitude. He received a 4% job approval rating from his own employees, and had little respect from many deputies. Local attitudes are changing, too. Not only are people more accepting of marijuana and local hippies, they are shedding their racist fears. This once racially divided county, one that had sundown laws for African-Americans until the 60's, has elected it's first African-American Sheriff. Way to go Jackson County, its not all ignorant rednecks down here!
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From Alaska: Keep the Good Times Rollin’ Alaska Cannabis Institute Just a month ago Alaska made history by becoming the fourth state to legalize recreational use of marijuana by adults 21-andolder in age. By mid-February, ballot measure 2 – the initiative to legalize marijuana – will become law, and Alaskan’s will be allowed to transport and/or possess one ounce of marijuana. The marijuana industry is coming together quickly in Alaska. Excited entrepreneurs are moving quickly too. Since Nov. 4 – election day – 15 business licenses have been issued that contained the words cannabis or marijuana in their business name, which is double from the 15 licenses that were registered prior to November 4. Keep in mind, this does not include the businesses with the words “weed” or “pot,” in their name, which are difficult to filter through because of Fireweed Lane in Anchorage, and “pot” being in words like “pottery” and “spot,” etc. This count also does not include businesses that are in the cannabis industry but do not have the word “cannabis” or “marijuana” in their business name. An example of this would be High North Organic. This business operates in the cannabis industry, but does not have “cannabis” or “marijuana” in their corporation name or business name. The reason I’m writing about cannabis business license activity today is because it is a good leading indicator as to what is happening in the cannabis industry. A 100% increase in licensing activity shows you there is a lot going on. It tells us prudent entrepreneurs are already setting up their businesses, which is step-one if you are serious about operating in the cannabis industry. You have to have a business license
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Washington DC Legalizes & Moves Closer To Allowing Recreational Marijuana Stores From Drug Policy Alliance D.C. lawmakers voted Nov 25th in favor of legislation that would legally regulate and license the production, distribution and sale of marijuana in the District of Columbia during a meeting of the Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, which is chaired by D.C. Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large).
If you want to own and operate a business in the cannabis industry, you have to act now. As James Lathrop – owner of Cannabis City, Washington State’s first LICENSED recreational marijuana dispensary, and Alaska Cannabis Institute lecturer – says… “you can only be first forever.” If you want to get your business license but do not know how to or you want to get started in the cannabis industry but do not know where to begin, check out our website at www.alaskacannabisinsitute.com. We have a ton of great resources to help you get started. If you have any additional question, call the Alaska Cannabis Institute at 907-331-0506 and ask for Cory. © Alaska Cannabis Institute 2014. Reprinted by permission.
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The action by D.C. lawmakers on a tax and regulate bill comes just three weeks after nearly 70 percent of voters in the District of Columbia approved Initiative 71, a ballot initiative that legalizes possession of up to two ounces of marijuana for adults over the age of 21 and allows individuals to grow up to six marijuana plants in their home. However, due to D.C. law, the initiative was not allowed to address the taxation and regulation of marijuana sales. The panel of Councilmembers voted to approve sections six through eight of the “Marijuana Legalization and Regulation Act of 2013 (Council Bill #20-466), which was introduced in 2013 by Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large). Today’s vote followed a hearing on Council Bill 20-466 that was jointly held by the Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and the Committee on Finance and Revenue. The remaining ten sections of Council Bill 20-466 must first be approved by the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety and the Committee on Finance and Revenue before the entire tax and regulate bill (Council Bill 20-466) can proceed to all thirteen Councilmembers for a vote. Advocates do not expect further action on this legislation before the Council adjourns next month, however. Procedurally, the Council would be unable to complete work on the bill in December. Advocates anticipate that
Councilmembers will resume consideration of a similar tax and regulate bill in January. “Today’s vote in support of regulating marijuana like alcohol in the nation’s capital is a validation of the overwhelming support among District residents for an end to the racial disparities and harm caused by marijuana prohibition,” Grant Smith, deputy director of national affairs with the Drug Policy Alliance. “D.C. lawmakers have a clear mandate from the community they serve to pass a bill that regulates marijuana and restores those communities that have been harmed the most by decades of marijuana prohibition,” said Smith. In recent months, a diverse group of community organizations, policy reform advocates and faith leaders has called for an end to marijuana prohibition in the nation’s capital, which has resulted in gross racial disparities in the arrests of marijuana users. They are emphasizing the need to repair the damage done to many African-American communities as a result of this policy by reinvesting resources from taxation and regulation of marijuana into the communities that have suffered the most from its criminalization. Advocates also urge the Council to eliminate collateral consequences of a marijuana arrest and plan for the release of people who are currently incarcerated for marijuana law violations. Advocates have urged the Council to use the proceeds from legalization towards rebuilding the communities harmed by the war on drugs. Initiative 71 was endorsed by the Washington, D.C. chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the D.C. Branch of the National Organization for Women, D.C. Working Families and the local chapters of Service Employees International Union and United Commercial Food Workers. Since D.C. laws prevented Initiative 71 from addressing the taxation and sale of marijuana, the D.C. Council is actively considering Council Cont. on Page 11
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Big Marijuana Conference Coming to San Francisco In February
From Northwest Cannabis Coalition There is an incredible amount of interest and activity in the industry today. Nearly half of the United States has legalized the use of marijuana for a variety of medicinal conditions and a growing number have recreational forms as well. There are approximately 3000 dispensaries in the United States now and many more on the planning board.
By David Downs Smell The Truth Travel writer Rick Steves, Dr. Carl Hart, Phd, the folks who legalized cannabis in Oregon, and many other renowned cannabis leaders are slated to speak at the International Cannabis Business Conference Feb. 15 and 16 in downtown San Francisco.
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will perform at a free party for badge-holders the night of Feb. 15. Cannabis is federally illegal, but 23 states and Washington D.C. have passed medical marijuana laws. Fifty-one percent of Americans support ending prohibition, Gallup reports, and four states and the District have done so for adults 21 and over.
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The event will be the first major 2015 gathering of business leaders, investors, as well as activists planning legalization initiatives in California, Nevada, Arizona, Maine and more in 2016, said Alex Rogers, ICBC producer and CEO of Oregon’s Northwest Alternative Health.
California is the country’s largest domestic producer of pot, and pioneered medical marijuana law in 1996 with Prop 215. About one in 20 California adults are estimated to have used medical cannabis to treat a serious condition, with an astounding 92 percent of them thought to believe cannabis was helpful for their symptoms. Image: ICBC
“Colorado and Washington State have already demonstrated the economic benefits of legalizing cannabis and Oregon and Alaska will soon benefit from new jobs and new revenue brought into the states’ coffers too,” stated Rogers. “California, with its economic power, will clearly be the worldwide leader in cannabis commerce if the state passes full legalization in 2016.” Unlike High Times’ Cannabis Cups or other consumer-focused events, ICBC producers run a tightly curated, one-track conference packed with insights and influencers. Blogger and news personality Andrew Sullivan keynoted ICBC’s successful Oregon conference earlier this year. Rick Steves, who isa headliner at the San Francisco event, assisted the Yes on 91 campaign in Oregon with a statewide information tour he hosted. Early bird tickets are $499 and the mediumsized event is likely to sell out, Rogers said. Legendary underground hip-hop icon and Richmond resident Del the Funky Homosapien
The medical marijuana industry currently employs roughly 1.7 million people nationally and has grown a little over 16 percent every year since 2009, with annual revenues of around $2 billion, *figures from the research firm IBIS World.
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dispensary and talks to a “Bud-Tender” which is much like flare bartender in this arena and has an astounding amount of knowledge of the products in the dispensary, which in some cases have over 300 different items in house. After the client speaks with the Bud-Tender and the products are selected, a total dollar amount needed to purchase is reached and payment is made. The thing that was missing was a way to track the purchases, to track the money. We created a kiosk, or rather, greeniosk to complete these transactions. Now, the client walks over to the greeniosk and puts the necessary amount of cash into the unit and gets an encrypted barcode numbered voucher back to complete the transaction. This allows the money to be
The US Department of Agriculture has been working with many other agencies to develop structure and guideline that allow for product consistency and accountability. The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) released its long-awaited medical marijuana manufacturing guidelines a couple months back on July 22nd 2014, completing its compilation of industry standards which include regulatory recommendations for cannabis from seed to sale. The new nationwide (PFC) Patient Focused Certification program uses the recently completed AHPA guidelines in combination with standards set by American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP) for the plant's identity, purity, quality and botanical properties. All of which allow some structure to be in place and have guideline established for the cultivation, processing, testing and transport to dispensary in order to protect consumers. Now for the Cash
About 609,000 Americans were arrested for pot possession in 2013, the FBI reports, at a cost of $3.6 billion in taxpayer dollars. Pot arrests are the largest police activity, by volume, in the U.S. Meanwhile, 60 percent of reported rapes and 37 percent of reported murders were not cleared in 2013.
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You see, cannabis is legalized on a state level, meaning each state is regulating it in whatever manner they deem necessary and this is where it gets interesting. The banks are federally insured (FDIC) and this demands an auditable trail for all funds deposited. Bankers have been racking their brains trying to come up with a method of taking those deposits. A lot of patrons still like to make their transactions in cash. The challenge is what to do with all it all! You’ve heard the stories of owners with $500,000.00 in hundred dollar bills sitting in their house. That would make me pretty nervous, I don’t know about you. Robbery is not uncommon amongst these dispensaries. The responsibility then falls on the employees and the shear amounts of “cash on hand” which is a real issue. What happens is a client heads into the
tracked by the dispensary, by the bank and the by the Federal Reserve so it can be deposited and a credit can be issued by the bank the dispensary. Check points and double check points have been put in place to insure this runs smoothly. Debit cards and Credit cards work in much the same way. Now the dispensary can rest easy knowing that they won’t be robbed and that they can now make regular auditable deposits just like any other legitimate business. For additional information please contact us at: Phone: 888.415.6609 or Address: 9510 W. Sahara Ave. Suite 120 Las Vegas Nevada 89117
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National News Nugs Washington School District Refuses Charitable Donation From Local Cannabis Farmer By Keith Mansur – OCC As Oregon cities embrace taxes on marijuana and enact bans on state licensing, one Washington state school district also shunned the industry by refusing to accept a $14,000 dollar donation from a local cannabis grower, Randy Williams, who has one of the few licensed marijuana farms in the Yakima Valley. His farm, called Fireweed Farms, held a historic auction for their cannabis on November 15th. They had previously announced they would donate all of the proceeds from one low grade strain of cannabis that was sold to the local schools, a sizable $13,500. The total was capped off by Williams himself to a round number of $14,000. “We’re not taking it; end of story,” said Ray Tolcacher, the Prosser School District Superintendent. Tolcacher has been a vocal opponent of adult marijuana sales, being staunchly opposed to a local marijuana dispensary the town already allowed to open. The school board met and discussed the potential donation and agreed they would not accept it. According to Tolcacher, they want to send a clear message to students. “I never thought it’d be a problem to give money away,” Williams said. Fireweed Farms is now looking to the local Boys and Girls Club, who has yet to decide on acceptance of the donation, or possibly the local VFW. Source of information for article: Yakima HeraldRepublic
Marijuana Breathalyzer Coming Soon By Keith Mansur – OCC WSU chemistry professor Herbert Hill said that existing technologies — including those already used by airport security and customs agents to
detect drugs and explosives — can be re-purposed to test breath for THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana.
Graph below: When looking at murders, aggravated assaults, robberies, and burglaries, Miron concludes that "no measure indicates a significant change in crime after medical marijuana commercialization, legalization adoption, or full legalization implementation."
A Washington State University scientific team is working on a functional marijuana breathalyzer for police to use in the field. Professor Herbert Hill, a WSU chemistry professor, explained that technology already in use can be modified to create an effective breathalyzer to help law enforcement determine if a person has active THC in their system. The News Tribune in Tacoma WA reports: “Initially, the marijuana breath test under development at WSU probably won’t be able to pinpoint the level of THC in the body; it will only tell officers that some active THC is present, Hill said. Still, Hill said such a tool could prove helpful to officers as they decide whether to arrest a suspected impaired driver.
Miron concludes in the report, "Strong claims about Colorado's legalization, whether by advocates or opponents, are so far devoid of empirical support."
“We believe at least initially that it would lower the false positives that an officer would have,” Hill said. “They would have a higher level of confidence in making an arrest.”
Nevada to Honor Out-of-state Medical Marijuana Patient Access & Pssession
Law enforcement agencies still would have to obtain follow-up test results to use as evidence in court, just as they do following a positive preliminary breath test for alcohol impairment.”
In a landmark move, the state of Nevada lawmakers decided to allow medical marijuana patients that have received authorization to use the medicine to legally access it in their state beginning early next year. With legendary Las Vegas their largest city, and many activities and behaviors long illegal in other states deemed permissible in the Silver State, Nevada is poised to make a tidy boom in the marijuana tourism market.
A prototype device is hoped to be finished by years end with human testing to begin between January and June of 2015. See the entire News Tribune article: Breath test to detect pot is being developed at WSU at http://www.thenewstribune.com/
Cato Report on Colorado Legalization: No Big Deal StopTheDrugWar.org For all the sturm und drang surrounding the consequences of marijuana legalization in Colorado, a new report by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron for the Cato Institute finds it just wasn't that big a deal. Miron found little impact on crime, traffic accidents, or teen drug use -the banes of the anti-legalization folks -- but neither did he find a big impact on the state's economy. And he found that tax revenues were lower than estimated. Miron said in a statement, “The conclusion from this initial evaluation is that changes in Colorado's marijuana policy have had minimal impact on marijuana use and the outcomes sometimes associated with use. “
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From USA Today: "It is a city of recreation, the city that invented the $5,000 bottle of vodka," said Derek Peterson, CEO of Terra Tech, which has secured eight Nevada dispensary licenses. "It's the adult playground in the United States. That's Las Vegas' model." "I think it's going to be fantastic for the industry and the visitors," said Leslie Bocskor, a marijuana investor and founding chairman of the Nevada Cannabis Industry Association. "It's a step to treat this just a little more reasonably, to deal with it in a way that makes common sense."
Colorado: Health Officials Recommend $7.5 Million In Grant Funding For Clinical Cannabis Trials by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Cannabis Connection State Public Health Department officials have recommended over $7 million dollars in grant funding to pay for a series of state-sponsored clinical trials to assess the safety and efficacy of cannabis and cannabinoids. The proposed studies include a pair of clinical trials to evaluate the use of cannabidiol (CBD), a nonpsychotropic plant cannabinoid, for patients with pediatric epilepsy. Two additional trials will assess the use of cannabis for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress. Other studies will assess the efficacy of either cannabis or CBD in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, brain tumors, ulcerative colitis, and pain management. (More specific summaries of all eight proposed studies are available online here.) Grant funding for the proposed studies requires final approval by the state Board of Health in December. Following funding approval, researchers will still be required to gain additional federal approval in order to obtain access to research-grade cannabis or CBD. The state of California previously sponsored a similar series of clinical trials assessing the safety and efficacy of marijuana. Those studies evaluated the use of whole-plant cannabis in patients with neuropathy, multiple sclerosis, and autoimmune deficiencies. A summary of those trials, published in 2012, concluded, “Based on evidence currently available the Schedule I classification is not tenable; it is not accurate that cannabis has no medical value, or that information on safety is lacking.” Related: Arizona Professor Vindicated By CO. Research Grant By Keith Mansur – OCC Fired University of Arizona professor Dr. Sue Sisley, featured previously in OCC and on CNN, is awaiting final approval from the Colorado Board of Health for a $2 million dollar grant to continue her marijuana and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) research. Approval is expected sometime in December. With research possible beginning early next year if approved, Dr. Sisley would be splitting her time between an Arizona veterans hospital and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Sisley was “let go” last June when UA officials terminated her contract, stating the reason was due to her work being completed, even though she had recently been awarded a federal grant to study marijuana related to PTSD treatment and its effectiveness, a very unusual grant for Washington D.C..
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Court Blocks Florida Governor’s Bid To Drug Test Welfare Applicants By Philip Smith StopTheDrugWar.org
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s (R) drug testing crusade hit yet another roadblock December 3rd as a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that his plan to make welfare applicants submit to mandatory, suspicionless drug tests was unconstitutional. As other Republican governors — most notably Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Paul LePage in Maine — did in this year’s election campaign, Rick Scott made drug testing a key campaign promise in his 2010 election campaign. The following year, the Republican-dominated state legislature acceded to Scott’s request and passed a welfare drug testing law. Welfare applicants weren’t the only target of Scott’s drug testing push. He also sought to impose random, suspicionless drug testing on state employees through an executive order. But that was struck down by the federal courts as violating the Fourth Amendment’s proscription against unreasonable searches and seizures. The US Supreme Court denied his appeal of that ruling in August. And now, the second prong of Scott’s drug testing thrust has been struck down. The decision came in Lebron v. Florida Department of Children and Families, in which Navy veteran, college student, and single father Luis Lebron filed for food stamp assistance, but was denied after he refused to undergo a drug test. Supported by the ACLU of Florida and the Florida Justice Institute, Lebron sued to have the law overturned. Citing a lengthy history of federal court precedents, Lebron’s legal team argued that like the random, suspicionless drug testing of state workers, the mandatory, suspicionless drug testing of welfare applicants violated the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. US District Court Judge Mary Scriven agreed, ruling in 2011 that the policy was unconstitutional. The never-say-die Scott appealed that decision. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta held a hearing on the case on November 20. It then took less than two weeks to reach its decision. The bipartisan panel of federal judges ruled unanimously that the state of Florida had failed to provide any evidence that there was a strong government need to strip welfare applicants of constitutional protections. “We have no reason to think impoverished individuals are necessarily and inherently prone to drug use, or, for that matter, are more prone to drug use than the general population,” Judge Stanley Marcus wrote for the court. “The State has presented no evidence demonstrating that drug testing saves a significant portion of TANF funds that could otherwise be spent on drugs,” he added, pointing to a 2000 state study that found welfare applicants were less likely to use drugs than the general population and noting that in the three months the drug testing program was in effect, only 2.76% of applicants tested positive. “In the final analysis, the warrantless, suspicionless urinalysis drug testing of every Florida TANF applicant as a mandatory requirement for receiving Temporary Cash Assistance offends the Fourth Amendment. On this record, the State has not demonstrated a substantial special need to carry out the suspicionless search — we see no concrete danger, only generalized public interests,” Marcus wrote. Marcus also noted that “citizens do not abandon all hope of privacy by applying for government assistance” and that “by virtue of poverty, TANF applicants are not stripped of their legitimate expectations of privacy.” Having to urinate in a cup in front of another person “intrudes upon expectations of privacy that society has long recognized as reasonable,” he added.
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Nor were the judges buying the state’s argument that welfare applicants effectively waived their constitutional rights by consenting to drug tests as a condition of receiving benefits or that the state had a “special need” to protect the children of drug-using welfare applicants. “[T]he State cannot use consent of the kind exacted here — where it is made a condition of receiving government benefits — to wholly replace the special needs balancing analysis,” the court held. “We respect the State’s overarching and laudable desire to promote work, protect families, and conserve resources. But, above all else, we must enforce the Constitution and the limits it places on government. If we are to give meaning to the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on blanket government searches, we must — and we do — hold that [the welfare drug testing law] crosses the constitutional line.” While, given a solid line of federal court setbacks for the law, the 11th Circuit’s decision was not exactly a surprise, advocates pronounced themselves well-pleased. “The 11th Circuit has affirmed that the 4th Amendment applies to everyone, even those applying for government assistance, said Florida Justice Institute executive director Randall Berg. “The same rationale for requiring suspicionless drug tests of TANF recipients could be used to require suspicionless searches for any kind of government benefit, whether it is social security, farm subsidies, or student scholarships. Today, the court has rejected that rationale, drawing a clear line that will keep us from going down that slippery slope.” “We are very pleased by the Court’s opinion, which once again makes clear that the US Constitution forbids the State of Florida from subjecting ordinary private citizens to invasive and unwarranted searches,” said ACLU of Florida associate legal director Maria Kayanan. “This is a resounding affirmation of the values that the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects — that none of us can be forced to submit to invasive and humiliating searches at the whim of the government, and that the Constitution protects the poor and the wealthy alike,” she continued. “The Court has once again confirmed what we argued all along: that the state of Florida cannot treat an entire class of people like suspected criminals simply because they’ve asked the State for temporary assistance.” While the federal courts have been clear that, with limited exceptions, mandatory, suspicionless drug testing violates the Constitution, Republican governors and legislators in other states have responded by passing public benefits drug testing laws that can pass constitutional muster by first establishing some sort of “reasonable suspicion” before requiring drug testing. According to the National Council of State Legislatures, at least 11 states have done so. The results have not been particularly impressive. In Kansas, only 20 people have been tested in the first four months the law has been in effect; four failed the drug test. Next door in Missouri, the state is spending $336,000 a year on its welfare drug testing. It has tested 655 people; 69 failed the drug test. But 711 others refused to take it. In Utah, a year after it passed a 2012 welfare drug testing law, the state had spent $30,000 to drug test applicants, but only came up with 12 who tested positive. In Tennessee, where a similar law went into effect this year, the state has tested 800 applicants, with only one person testing positive. But whether public benefits drug testing programs actually either save states money by reducing welfare rolls or help families by encouraging recipients to go straight is probably not as important to politicians as the political calculus behind them. With its coded appeal to racial and class hostilities wrapped in a guise of caring and fiscal responsibility, it’s a red meat issue for the Republican base. © 2014 StopTheDrugWar.org. Reprinted under Creative Commons License.
Bill 20-466. “On election day, District of Columbia voters threw their support behind legalizing marijuana, and polls consistently show that local residents are ready for taxation and regulation of marijuana,” said Grant Smith, deputy director of national affairs with the Drug Policy Alliance. “D.C. lawmakers must act quickly to end decades of failed marijuana prohibition laws that have criminalized tens of thousands and devastated communities of color,” said Smith. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights and Urban Affairs released groundbreaking reports documenting enormous racial disparities in arrests for marijuana possession in D.C. These reports found that Washington D.C. leads the country in per capita marijuana arrests, doubling that of any other U.S. state, the majority of all drug arrests in the District are for simple possession of marijuana and ninety-one percent of all marijuana arrests are of black people. The possession of one ounce of marijuana is currently decriminalized in the
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District of Columbia, and persons found with more than this amount face a $25 civil infraction. However, data from the Metropolitan Police Department reveals that 77 percent of tickets written during decriminalization have been in communities of color. © 2014 Drug Policy Alliance. Reprinted by permission. "To live in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others don't share those views." - Uruguay President José "Pepe" Mujica commenting on the secret to happiness.
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Why Medical Marijuana Must Stay Our recurring column from Cheryl Smith, Former Executive Director of Compassion Center in Eugene, Oregon. Cheryl is also ViceChair of the State Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana.
Cannabis and Child Safety At a panel discussion held by Compassionate Oregon in McMinnville, individuals both in favor of and opposing medical marijuana facilities expressed concern regarding “medibles” that will appeal to children. These include not only the traditional marijuana brownies, but candies usually considered to be for kids, like gummy bears. Over the years there have been rare case reports of children who had been hospitalized after exposure to or ingestion of cannabis products or derivatives. These include: a 1989 report of six children in British Columbia, three of whom arrived in the emergency room with varying degrees of altered mental status—from drowsiness to coma requiring assistance in breathing, as well as dilated pupils and decreased muscle tone. a 2005 case in which a two-year-old girl arrived at the hospital with shaking arms, lethargy, ataxia (loss of bodily movements)—in what was believed to be a seizure. She vomited once and then fell asleep. She had a CT scan, blood tests and EKG, before a toxicology scan showed positive for marijuana. The little girl was discharged after 24 hours. a 2006 report of an 11 month old presenting to the emergency room in a coma due to marijuana ingestion. a one-and-a-half-year-old hospitalized in a coma, who tested positive for marijuana in 2010. the ingestion of hashish by a 14-month-old child who was comatose for two days in 2011. a 2012 case in Egypt, where a 16-month-old infant presented to the emergency department with a seizure, followed by unresponsiveness after sleeping in a room where his father had been heavily smoking cannabis. He was admitted to intensive care where he received oxygen and IV fluids, and recovered in 24 hours. We all know that cannabis does not cause fatal
by Keith Mansur Oregon Cannabis Connection poisoning. But in infants and children, it can cause adverse effects. I have heard people say, “They just go to sleep and eventually wake up, so it’s not big deal.” But it can be a big deal, particularly if a parent is unaware of what is causing the altered mental status. It can also lead to invasive tests. (If you have ever had to sit by while your baby is having multiple needle sticks and other tests, and been unable to help them, you will know what I am talking about.) Medical marijuana patients who choose to make their own edibles or purchase them in a medical marijuana facility should make sure to keep them out of reach of children (and even other adults) who might inadvertently consume them. The recently promulgated Oregon Administrative Rules require that the following notice be placed on these items: Warning: Medicinal Product. Keep out of reach of children. The lettering must be larger than the other lettering on the product, as well. At Compassion Center, we have long recommended that parents make sure their medicine is kept in a locked cabinet or a lockbox to prevent children from obtaining access. Not only will protect your child, but it will also go a long way to showing Child Protective Services (CPS) that you are a responsible parent. Article originally appeared in Feb/Mar 2014 edition of OCC. Cheryl K Smith is an Attorney and Executive Director of the nonprofit Compassion Center in Eugene. She is also an editor and author of books on raising goats and death with dignity.
There has been a lot of crazy talk coming from legislators and others about the future of Oregon's medical marijuana program (OMMP). One legislator thinks there may be no need for the OMMP any longer since adult sales and use is now going to be legal. Sen. Fred Girod, (RStayton) asked, "Can we do away with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program if we are going to legalize marijuana?" Another legislator, Sen. Lee Beyer, (DSpringfield) believes voters "didn't pay a heck of a lot of attention" to the fine print in Measure 91. “Keep in mind this is a statute, and statutes can be changed," he said, in reference to Measure 91, it's rules, and it's relationship to the OMMA. Still others have argued there is no need for patients to be allowed more plants in their garden than allowed under measure 91, which is a scant 4 plants “per household”. The argument is that recreatinal stores will provide everything they need. Currently, the OMMP allows for 6 plants “per patient”. There are a number of reasons we must keep the OMMP as it currently exists, and here are a few: 1. The medicinal aspects of cannabis cannot be denied, only the lack of significantly large double blind studies are missing. Oregon rescheduled cannabis already. Let us pioneer the development of a system that pushes medical research and helps to broaden the scope of study so we can better understand cannabis. 2. Cannabis is not typical, and should not be treated exactly like alcohol and tobacco, precisely because of the undeniable medicinal effectiveness cannabis offers.
Having a system that actually protects the medical value, and even embraces it, is critical. In fact, Oregon should create a system that incentivizes participation in medical research, data collection, and more. 3. Medical cannabis users have special needs, have higher tolerances, and usage rates that far exceed that of the recreational user, so a medical system is very necessary. Allowing 6 plants per patient is important. Also, high THC concentrates, edibles, and other items may not be available in recreational stores, but medical users need them regularly. 4. The medical system could and should be subsidized by the recreational sales, reducing the burdensome fees associated with registering as a patient, registering a grower, etc. The recreational market should protect the medical system, not threaten it. 5. The legislature should consider extending protections to patients in medical marijuana grows which go beyond what is currently offered. Agreements between growers and patients should be enforceable by the courts and police. Far too many unscrupulous growers take advantage of patients, and the state should help remedy that issue. I'm not the only one who thinks the OMMP and research are important. Anthony Taylor of Compassionate Oregon, a group dedicated to patients, told OCC, “Most therapeutic cannabis patients are low income and cannot afford the high costs typically associated with recreational prices for cannabis.” “In addition, and as you have pointed out, patients typically titrate at much higher levels than say, the weekend smoker, and thus the reason 91 directed research to be done regarding what constitutes legal impairment for the average cannabis user, especially when driving,” Taylor added.
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Medical Must Stay Cont. from Pg 12 “The state should also require therapeutic cannabis education for all health care professionals, and it should also be in curriculums and as continuing education,” said Taylor regarding training and research. “They should also initiate Cannabis research at all our colleges and universities.” Colorado, in the meantime, is moving ahead on medical research. They are considering 8 grants totaling 7.5 million dollars towards research of marijuana in areas like: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Parkinson’s disease tremors, inflammatory bowel disease, complex pediatric epilepsy, palliative care for pediatric brain tumors and chronic pain. “Colorado is leading the way in devoting significant resources to study medical marijuana,” said Dr. Larry Wolk, executive director and chief medical officer at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, in a statement. “We hope the studies will contribute to the scientific research available about the use of marijuana in effectively treating various medical conditions.” Oregon could go even further, and offer incentives in a number of areas. They can encourage dispensaries and clinics to collect massive amounts of data on patients, to work with state researchers, and to help universities obtain a reliable supply of the medicines they need. The number of areas that the industry and researchers can work together is expansive, and it needs to be fostered. Legislators and leaders that express a willingness and intent to roll back the provisions of the OMMP are absolutely wrong, and should reconsider their place in elected office. Oregon voters spoke at the polls on November 4th, loudly. Legislators that believe voters didn't know what they were voting for should be considered an enemy of all Oregonians. These elected officials have no respect for our democracy and should be thrown out of office. There is no room for arrogant, self-absorbed, politicians that bloviate about cannabis in our state. We need leaders that can see the future and act effectively, not react ignorantly. © 2014 Oregon Cannabis Connection. All Rights Reserved.
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Care in Crisis, Physicians at the Center
By Dr. Ronald Stallings M.D.
A Babe in the Woods My patients that night, a group of young accident victims with head and neck fractures, had made my 24 hour ER shift especially exhausting. The early morning drive east along the Columbia River from the Oregon coast was lulling me to sleep. It is a beautiful drive, but the beauty is repetitive, and that morning it was blurring in and out of focus. My eyelids lifted and fell like lead. The endless forms that I’d had to fill out that night on each of the patients had taken their toll, too. The forms are designed to facilitate patient evaluation, but I think they are really designed to squeeze the maximum billing out of each patient visit. As I drove along, the next choice I made changed my life forever. I decided to fight off sleep by listening to a medical education tape series that I subscribe to. Barely able to focus, I snapped the tape into the player. The voice said... "The former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine states that it is no longer possible to believe most of clinical research published, or rely upon the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. The FDA, as of twelve years ago, is entirely funded by the pharmaceutical companies." My eyes popped wide open! The speaker had my full attention. I suddenly knew that what he was telling me was the real reason behind my sabbatical leave the year before. And I thought about my present work place. The one and only meeting that I was ever asked to attend at that hospital was a marketing session. How could this be? How could the field of medicine I had dedicated 25 years of my life to have taken such a drastic wrong turn? How had the forces of self interest turned a once ethical institution into an establishment that places profits over people? Like a raging flood down the Columbia River, I felt a rush of memories—the irritants, the contradictions, the corruption I’d seen first-hand-it all poured over me.
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American Medical Care has been hijacked by a variety of corporate, financial and pharmaceutical interests in a way that few fully understand. For the most part, American Medical Care no longer serves the patient. And, most sickening of all, physicians are often the willing instruments of that system. - Ronald Stallings, MD. That day I also wondered if the medical use of marijuana, which I had been ambivalent about, could possibly be part of the solution for medical care in the U.S. And, I wondered if it also might save me from the guilt and outrage I was feeling. Two years have passed since that pivotal day. I have read books and articles, talked with people here and in other countries. In the U.S., it seems that the hijacking is just about complete. It will take persistent hard work over a long period of time to turn this situation around and I want to begin by telling you about what I have learned.
Many of the wonder drugs that transformed human health during the last hundred years are natural substances that have been in use for centuries. Penicillin, for example, was used by South American indigenous physicians some 800 years ago. Greenwald, Blackman, Dowell, Pascual, and Woodbury in their 1998 Time article, “Herbal Healing,” reviewed some history. Ephedra, the main ingredient of some over-thecounter asthma treatments, has relieved breathing problems in China for 5,000 years. An estimated 25% of all modern pharmaceutical drugs are derived from herbs, including aspirin (from white willow bark), the heart medication digitalis (foxglove), and the cancer treatment Taxol (Pacific yew tree). There might have been no sexual revolution without the birth-control pill, derived from a Mexican yam.
part, because they are usually cheaper than prescription medications (Yan, 2009). Linda Marsa, in her book Prescription for Profits notes that most of the reasons for the improved health of the world, in developed countries where infections had not been a major factor in morbidity and mortality, can be attributed to better sanitation of water and food as well as improved safety conditions at work and elsewhere. It is, she says, “…impossible to overstate the importance of the discovery of penicillin…Common potentially deadly illnesses, after penicillin came on the scene, became relatively minor ailments. And the unprecedented collaboration between government and industry to mass-produce penicillin was a spectacular demonstration of what a well-financed, cooperative research effort could accomplish.” (Marsa, 1997, p. 22). Bacterial and parasitic diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide. According to a report on antibiotic research released in 2009 by the London School of Economics and Political Science, 175,000 deaths are attributed to hospital-acquired infections each year in Europe alone (Harrell, 2009).
Studies have shown that wine, which has been available to many cultures throughout the centuries, is a major factor in the reduction of cardiovascular disease and longevity. U.S. Doctors more commonly prescribed medicinal herbs before World War II and before the advent of wonder drugs like penicillin (Greenwald, et. al., 1998).
Despite the importance of effective antibiotics, the number of different antibiotics available to treat infections when they do occur is dwindling because pharmaceutical companies have neglected to invest in the development of new types of drugs (Harrell, 2009).
Also, less parochial minded individuals are turning to cannabis, which has been shown to be scientifically effective and has been used for thousands of years for a myriad of illnesses All of the alternative medications are popular, in
It is true in general that the development of any new drugs is declining sharply because the big money is to be made in lifestyle drugs and making small changes in existing drugs to seek approval to market them for treatment of other conditions. Cont. on Page 18
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To get a sense of the incredible changes and dynamic movement taking place in the what is to become the next "gold" rush of our lifetime just turn back the clock a few years and look at the staggering number of new business startups that have occured in the Cannabis industry. The cannabis Industry as a whole is composed of everything from Industrial hemp production, through medical and recreational use of cannabis which has spured an incredible surge in new products and processes being developed to serve a fast growing industry. Every year additional states have passed various forms of legislation regarding the use of cannabis which have all contributed to the industry as whole getting big enough to achieve it's own critical mass. This "critical mass" has drawn the attention of new entrepenures as well as larger more established business who are looking at the amount of money and opportunity that this new industry is producing.
Industrial Hemp have grown to the point where they have considered becoming a publically traded company themselves or have merged with or been acquired by a publicly traded company to bolster their financial position and awareness to the general public. With the newly found success in Colorado or wherever they may have started they are now eyeing opportunities in other states. These opportunities take the form of moving into an area and directly competing with existing businesses or trying to grow by establishing strategic partnerships with these same businesses. These strategic partnerships are an amazing opportunity for smaller private "mom & pop" businesses to grow and survive and most importantly profit from their hard work and not get pushed out of the way as is the case with most small businesess who get overrun by larger more established companies with deeper pockets and more established well funded marketing plans. Moving from being a startup to an established and operational small business is one thing, but moving into the unfamiliar and " big and scary" world of Wall Street is definitely scary and intimadating to the uninitiated. That "scary" unknown is enough to make many small business owners shy away and not even consider the huge opportunity which is staring them in the face. Besides the basic fact that many in the small private business world see
All current estimates show that that the growth potential in this exploding new industry is off the scale. Most estimates hover around the 60% to 70% annual growth projection, but most everyone admits that things are changing so fast that an accurate estimate is difficult at best. Many believe that in 3-5 years the annual revenue from this industry could be over $10 Billion dollars...that's right....billion with a B. Looking further out we are talking about a thriving nationwide industry doing a $100 Billion dollars in 10 plus years. If you are a business person / entrepreneur and that doesn't get your attention...nothing will. Many are reffering to this new opportunity as the "green" rush of the 21st century. As with all past "gold rushes" there are first movers who see the writing on the wall and jump right in and establish a foothold in the beginning and many others who see the excitement and hype and are willing to take a chance and establish a new business model hoping to capatilize on the new opportunity. As with all industries there are private companies both large and small and publicly traded companies which trade on a stock exchange under a ticker or stock symbol. At first most if not all businesses or companies starting up or moving into this new arena were small new private companies. As things have progressed we are seeing the natural evolution of smaller private businesses either trying to become a publicly traded company which is both costly and time consuming. But....many would say just go the bank and get a loan or find private funding to make things happen. Sounds good right? Not so easy...Banks are not loaning much money to Cannabis related businesses and private investors often want their money out at the most inoportune times. Both of these circumstances are the main reasons many are now even considering this "going public"option in order to continually fund and control the growth of their business in this extremely fast paced industry. To survive they need the liquidity offered by being a publically traded company. This ability to have access to funding capital and liquidity of the public markets is going to be critical to not only their growth but most importantly to be able to survive long enough to become a solid viable success in the "dog eat dog" real world of business. Take the state of Colorado for example, many head start or "first mover" businesses there
In the end this method of forming these partnerships between public and private companies provides a catalyst for growth and solidity that neither could acquire alone. Once completed and in the public market arena the value of the sum of their combined revenues becomes 5-10 times larger because of the liquidity provided to the sharholders who will buy and sell the company stock on whatever exchange it is traded on. This coming together of public and private is the way of the future for many involved in this "green" rush who are wanting to become solid and profitable performers for the long run and not get run over or run out when the "big" money shows up to the party....which is going to happen. Count on it. For further information please contact: JJMJ Consulting LLC at web: jjmjconsulting.com email: jjmj@jjmjconsulting.com or call 844-347-5565
Hop in your time machine and jump back to the year 1791 on our former President George Washington's plantation. What you would find growing there among other crops would have been a significant portion of Hemp. At that time in our history hemp farming was not only politicaly correct but a necessary and profitable crop to produce. If you had mentioned to Mr. Washington back then that in the year 2014 growing hemp in the United States of America could land you in jail because it is illegal to grow or possess, he I am sure would have given you a very strange look and said, really....it's illegal? You have got to be kidding me!
Wall Street as the "Big and powerfull OZ", or "the Man" an unapproachable and dominant force which has been viewed by many as the "imoveable object" that has suppressed small business growth in favor of huge corporate profits. In reality though...now is the time for these new emerging small businesses to use the "force" of Wall Street to launch them and their business to the stratosphere. But, they don't have go it alone anymore. There have been very few options for these smaller businesses even considering this "public" option. Where even to begin and who will guide them safely through this new and unfamiliar process? Fortunately there are "specialty" consulting firms who specialize in forming strategic partnerships between public and private companies whose synergies and business models compliment each other. These firms will guide the parties involved through the entire process from first introductions to the final signing of the new entity created. They take the "scary" out of the whole process while providing the "mom and pop" or smaller company a way to grow while not giving up the "blood sweat and tears" and control of their "baby" which they have slaved over night and day for a long time. Structured correctly this new partnership provides the original owners / management of the company being merged or acquired majority control over their everyday business operation. Adhering to the "KISS" (keep it simple) principle, that is really the preffered method of establishing these partnerships because you keep in place the system that made the whole company a success in the first place. Using the "if it isn't broke don't fix it" principle is the way to go for the most seamless transitions from private to public.
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From 1776 to 1937, hemp was a major American crop and textiles made from hemp were commonplace. Fast forward to present day and ask the same question of someone who is familiar with the value and versatility of the hemp plant and they will still ask the question, we still can't grow this legally? You have got to be kidding me! Fortunately in this great country of ours things are changing slowly but surely in regards to the mindset pertaining to growing hemp again on a large scale. Federally as we all know the Hemp / Cannabis plant is still registered as a class 1 substance which still keeps it the shadows of the mainstream. But, as we speak certain individual states have allowed limited hemp production and are working to expand and develop hemp production into a viable business. Many still would ask the question...hemp, a viable business? What is it really good for? That question should be asked today and if answered factually would reveal a miriad of possibilities. With todays technology and the ability to grow to maturity quickly, extract, refine and process hemp and cannabis into specific components it's varied uses become more apparent every day. No other natural resource offers the potential of hemp. Hemp is an easily renewable rescource capable of very efficiently producing significant quantities of paper, textiles, fiber based building materials, plastics and composite
materials, healthy and nutricious food, drinks, medicine, body care products, paint, detergent, varnish, oil, ink, and fuel. Unlike other crops, hemp can grow in most climates and on most farmland throughout the world with moderate water and fertilizer requirements, and no pesticides or herbicides. Cannabis Hemp (also known as Indian Hemp) has enormous potential to again become a major natural resource that can benefit both the economy and the environment. As it stands today there is growing number of people taking a serious stand on the redevelopment of a thriving Industrial Hemp and Cannabis industry. But, due to the fact that they are essentialy starting from scratch here in North America and do not have an established business model or network to work with they can feel overwhelmed and unconnected. Thankfully, there is an organization that is helping unite various parties involved in the cannabis and industrial hemp industries in the entire United States. This growing coalition operates five separate membership based chapters that are organized based upon their specific geographic area and location. They are striving to bring together existing and potential hemp or cannabis cultivators, landowners, processors and handlers, facility owners, investors, as well as end-use producers and retailers and provide them with a growing resource for networking, communicating and ultimately interacting. Besides setting up a central "exchange" for all of the above, another important focus and objective on behalf of their members is to work with all relevant state agencies to ensure 2015 is a viable industrial hemp and cannabis cultivation season in the United States, with a long term goal of bringing to market hemp and cannabis products grown and produced locally in each area chapter. As this new and vibrant industry moves forward members can expect an ever expanding list of benefits for both individual and corporate members including job postings, business to business networking, industry news, discounts at all levels for trade shows, advertising / marketing, and retail products from our corporate member sponsors. In addition members have access to a network of industry experts, consultants and potential investors all with a passion for this industry and the amazing opportunity that lies before us. For more information please contact: USA Cannabis Coalition at www.usacannabiscoalition.com www.northwestcannabiscoalition.com
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Recipes
Medical cannabis consumption can be Baked Shrimp Scampi unpredictable, always start with a quarter serving and give it time. Effects can take up By Kristi Anderson to an hour and sometimes longer. If you have doubts, you should contact a cannabis Ingredients: 2 pounds (1 2 to 1 5 per pound) shrimp in the shell clinician about dosage.
Crunchy Peanut Butter Puppy Chow By Gloria H.
Ingredients: 1 1 8 oz. jar crunchy peanut butter 1 2 oz. chocolate chips ½ cup canna butter 1 large box Crispix cereal 1 box powdered sugar Directions: In medium microwave-safe bowl, combine canna butter, peanut butter and chocolate chips and microwave on high for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring once during cooking, until mixture is melted and smooth. Place the cereal in another large bowl and pour the melted mixture over the cereal.
3 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons dry white wine Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 1 /2 sticks unsalted canna butter, at room temperature 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 /4 cup minced shallots 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley leaves 1 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary leaves 1 /4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 extra-large egg yolk 2/3 cup panko bread crumbs Lemon wedges, for serving
Directions: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Peel, devein, and butterfly the shrimp, leaving the tails on. Place the shrimp in a mixing bowl and toss gently with the olive oil, wine, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper. Allow to sit at room temperature while you make the butter and garlic mixture. In a small bowl, mash the softened canna butter with the garlic, shallots, parsley, rosemary, red pepper flakes, lemon zest, lemon juice, egg yolk, panko, 1 /2 teaspoon salt, and 1 /4 teaspoon of pepper until combined.
Starting from the outer edge of a 1 4-inch oval baking dish, arrange the shrimp in a single layer Stir until the cereal is thoroughly coated. Pour the cut side down with the tails curling up and powdered sugar into a large plastic food bag. Pour towards the center of the dish. Pour the remaining the coated cereal into the powdered sugar and marinade over the shrimp. Spread the butter shake until it is well covered with the sugar. mixture evenly over the shrimp. Bake for 1 0 to 1 2 minutes until hot and bubbly. If you like the top Pour the cereal onto wax paper to cool and dry. browned, place under a broiler for 1 minute. Serve Store in tightly covered containers at room with lemon wedges. temperature.
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Egg Nog Cupcakes By Heather Williams
Head Chef at Coma Treats Comatreats.com This is a popular Christmas time recipe that you can find many variations of. We do not make muffins for retail sale as the airy texture creates too high of a risk of mold if not stored correctly. For cupcakes to last more than a week they must be frozen or have extra preservatives which takes away moisture and taste. That is why you should be very careful to inspect any muffin products you purchase, not just cannabis muffins. Muffins are a perfect and easy make it yourself medible. You will need to know how much of your oil or butter infused with cannabis to use to dose these treats for your level of need. This recipe makes 10 muffins so use as much of your cannabis oil or butter as you need to make your dosage. If you are a beginner shoot for a 100 MG’s of THC dosages or the equivalent of ½ a gram in each piece. This is also 10 grams of cannabis for the whole recipe. Multiply to your needed dosage or email us for help at david@comatreats.com If you used 20 22 grams of bud (at 2022 %THC) per finished cup of oil/butter the recipe as it is written below you should have around 80 120 MG‘s of THC per muffin. This is not exact so be careful and try small amounts if you are unsure.
Ingredients: For the Streusel: 1 /2 cup all-purpose flour 1 /2 cup brown sugar 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 /8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 tablespoons unsalted butter, 3 tablespoon canna butter or canna oil For the muffins: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 /2 cup granulated sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 /8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 /2 teaspoon salt 1 cup eggnog
1 large egg 5 tablespoons canna butter or canna oil, melted and cooled 1 teaspoon vanilla extract For the eggnog glaze: 1 cup powdered sugar 3 tablespoons eggnog Pinch of nutmeg Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin pan with good quality muffin tins, don’t skim here! Put aside. Make the streusel topping. In a small bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add the butter and rub all together with your fingers until mixture looks like crumbs. Put aside. In a large bowl, whisk together dry ingredientsflour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Put aside. In a medium bowl, combine wet ingredientseggnog, egg, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Whisk till smooth. Pour the liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Careful to not over mix. Place 1 tablespoon of muffin batter in each prepared muffin cup. Top with 1 teaspoon of streusel. Add more batter to cover the streusel, about a heaping teaspoon. Top muffins with remaining streusel. Bake muffins for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and let muffins cool to room temperature on cooling rack or counter, open not covered. While the muffins are cooking, make the eggnog glaze. In a medium bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, eggnog, and pinch of nutmeg. Whisk until smooth. Drizzle glaze over the muffins. Keep muffins in dry cool area for optimal taste. Please keep away from children and label that they are medicated to avoid accidental eating.
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Cover Cropping By Roach The Good Earth Organics
This time of year gardeners should start thinking about giving a jump start to their spring gardens. There are many things one should start thinking about now such as taking clones from mother plants or starting their seeds but one thing I recommend, that isn't on everyone's radar, 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.
being a great compost crop, Clovers will actually fix Nitrogen from the atmosphere making them a 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.
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 pre-till that will break up clumpy ground and many growers prefer them because they can easily be up-rooted and kept from growing back. 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
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 Roach at The Good Earth Organics in Cave Junction, Oregon. Call him at 541-450-3341 or visit www.thegoodearthorganics.com.
The wet season that starts in late Fall and goes through to Spring is a very important nutrient recovery period for the Southern Oregon gardener. It is a time of biological breakdown that replaces the essential soil nutrients that have been used up during the previous growing season._ The energy that has left the soil is now in medicine being consumed by patients and needs to be replenished for the coming season! Winter is a time of abundant life and soil activity due to the presence of ample atmospheric moisture and the relatively mild temperatures of Southwestern Oregon. Due to this biological explosion that occurs in winter, we must be aware of the importance in supporting that life by feeding it in the form of mulch. Think of mulch as a spongy winter blanket for your growing area. It retains moisture and acts as a reservoir of food for the soil to continually work on breaking down. The longer an area of ground has been mulched, the more stable and consistent the fertility becomes for that spot. As the soil life increases in mass it consumes more mulch and therefore is able to produce higher rates of fertility. This is what leads to bigger plant production in the No-Till world. Mulching in winter also insulates the ground which stabilized temperatures and promotes more habitat and food for the soil's biological life. Heavy mulch also suppresses winter and spring grass growth which makes planting in spring easier. We make our mulch from our animal wastes. We manage a diverse herd of goats, sheep, chickens, lamas and donkeys. The animal bedding from coups and the barns provide a healthy supply of mulch for our gardens. Our animal bedding mulch is essentially the wasted hay they did not eat layered with manure. This mulch, coupled with wood chips of all sorts from tree trimming companies, is applied heavily after harvest in the fall. The wood chips support fungal life and the animal bedding supports more bacteria. As long as we care for the soil by keeping it mulched we can trust in nature to do the rest, for it is nature that grows the plants, not us. We believe our role is to steward the soil, so that it thrives and continually provides us with our foods and medicines.
Page 17 Here at GSG we believe that there is no need to source amendments from stores in order to achieve high quality medicine. We actually believe that the highest quality medicines are those growing in a biologically and ecologically intact soil habitat that is NOT dependent on concentrated amendments for productivity but rather depend on a functioning system of life in the soil. Plants with their roots in the earth, not pots, are more capable of being connected with the earth’s soil ecology and earthly healing vibrations. Š 2014 Green Source Gardens. Printed by permission.
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What Are Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds?
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By Johnny Green The Weed Blog My cousin recently asked me what ‘autoflowering cannabis seeds’ are and how are they different than ‘regular’ cannabis seeds. To be honest, I wasn’t exactly sure since I have always used the cloning method for my gardens in the past. I haven’t researched seeds all that much as a result, but figured this would be a good time to do so.
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change their light cycle. People that have used autoflowering cannabis seeds have reported that their harvest comes sooner, which is significant. Something that was pointed out to me from a friend on Facebook who lives in a non-medical marijuana state was that the plants that come from autoflowering cannabis seeds are shorter in size, which is better for ninja gardens that need to be kept secret. This isn’t as big of a deal for a legal garden, but definitely has it’s benefits for some recreational gardens in many parts of the country. It seems to me like the biggest benefits would come from using autoflowering cannabis seeds in a sun grown garden setting (outdoor). So many sun grown harvests that I have seen over the years look like they were in the veg stage for too long and therefore didn’t get enough time in the flowering stage. The finished nugs are airy and ‘larfy’ as I always describe them. This is largely due to cold climates and short summers, which would be mitigated with plants that originate from autoflowering cannabis seeds. Many people have reported that they were able to do two harvests in the same summer using autoflowering cannabis seeds, which should sound good to any grower out there!
Based on my research, autoflowering cannabis seeds are ones that automatically switch from the vegetative phase to the flowering phase as time goes by (usually two to four weeks). This is different from ‘regular’ cannabis seeds which require changing the amount of light the plant gets in a given day to trigger the change in phase (photoperiod). At the end of the day, the real question is ‘why are autoflowering cannabis seeds better than regular cannabis seeds?’ There seems to be many benefits according to what I’ve read. The obvious benefit is that the plant will change to flowering automatically, which can be a good thing for a newbie grower that doesn’t really know when to
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Have you used autoflowering cannabis seeds? If so, would you recommend them to someone else? Is there anything that you would like to add that I didn’t find in my research? Please post your comments in the comments section so that others can benefit from your knowledge and experience! If you are looking to purchase some autoflowering cannabis seeds, make sure to check out Gorilla Seeds, they have an amazing selection!
My own trips to Central and South America have helped me understand the reasons that microbes have mutated and why we are losing the battle against them, with little help from the pharmaceutical industry. In many countries a person does not need a physician’s prescription to buy an antibiotic. Patients who are experiencing flu-like symptoms will, at the encouragement of their pharmacist, selfmedicate for a viral or other illness for which antibiotics are completely ineffective. This, of course, ruins the effectiveness of an antibiotic when it is needed to treat an infection. I contend that doctors and pharmacists, almost single handedly, are responsible for an infection epidemic that is Image CDC sweeping the nation: MRSA [Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus]. MRSA is a potentially lethal disease caused by an over prescription of antibiotics, usually for viral illnesses for which there is no cure. Laura Blue, in an October 17, 2008 Time Magazine article discussing MRSA, noted that, “The last two decades of the 20th century saw nearly zero progress, and in those years several disease-causing bacteria evolved resistance to commonly used drugs. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than 40% of staph infections in the U.S in 2006 were MRSA-- a bug that now kills more Americans a year than AIDS.” There are several reasons why it's not costeffective for pharmaceutical companies to invest in antibiotic research, according to a London School of Economics report cited by Eben Harrell’s 2009 article in Time, “The Desperate Need for New Antibiotics.” Here are the reasons. “The course of antibiotic treatment is typically short because the drug helps patients get better quickly.
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“Doctors tend to write fewer prescriptions for an effective antibiotic so that their patients will be less likely to develop resistance to the drug.
“And then, when resistance to a certain antibiotic inevitably develops, the drug becomes obsolete.” And, as we know, if it is not profitable, industry won’t invest research dollars. Underlying the criticisms is the understanding that products like Clarinex, Crestor, and Botox waste resources, keep drug spending high, and distract the industry from doing really important work....all the brainpower that is devoted to tweaking Claritin (to keep the patent going) or developing Botox and other “Lifestyle drugs” could have been used to cure cancer (and AIDS) (Hawthorne, 2005, p. 277). Or, of course, developing new antibiotics. How did we get to a point where drug companies are manipulating our healthcare system for their own profits? How did we get to a point where government agencies support the interests of Wall Street and Big Pharma and leave the rest of us with the world’s most costly (2.3 trillion dollar a year) sick-care system that rewards us with a of life expectancy that ranks 42nd in the world and is, by all accounts, broken? In the next issue, I will relay to you what I have found. Dr Ronald Stallings, MD, Board Cert. Emergency Medicine, Director Research and Developement, Emerald Leaf Institute, Read the entire article (after the last installment) at :www._ Emerald Leaf Institute.com. © Copyright 2010. Dr. Ronald Stallings. Reprinted by permission. Originally appearing in Treating Yourself magazine in 2010.
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