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Publication Editor Lovelle Harris

Patient Profile

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AltNotes

Editor’sNote by Lovelle Harris

Do you actually know what you’re putting in your body? Several years ago my aunt gave me an internal organ

fruits and vegetables—organic ones, preferably. After the

cleansing kit for Christmas. I opened the package, adorned

process was completed I felt rejuvenated, both in body and

in all of the usual holiday regalia, to find what looked like

mind. I was hooked, and although I strayed from the rigid

a laboratory set for a budding chemist. The box was a

diet soon after because, as we know, all bad habits die hard,

menagerie of jars and vials filled with an assortment of

I faithfully re-engaged in the program year after year. But

capsules and liquids, respectively—the combination of which

after news broke of Monsanto’s questionable relationship

promised complete organ detoxification in a mere 21 days.

with food, I began to wonder if the produce I once thought

I know what you’re thinking, what a lame gift, right? But it

healthy was possibly tainted by the chemical and agricultural

wasn’t. My aunt is an alternative healthcare practitioner with

biotechnology corporation’s questionable practices. Had I

over 18 years of experience as a certified colon therapist and

unknowingly reintroduced toxins back into my system while

organ detoxification specialist. As they say, she knows her

thinking I was ridding my body of those same toxic elements?

shit. More importantly, I trust her completely. The process

I realized that the only way to be certain of what I was putting

of ridding my body of the all of the toxins it had absorbed

into my body was to develop a relationship with the many

over the decades was not an easy task—it demanded

local farmers’ markets in and around Sacramento. And while

planning and early mornings, neither of which I’m especially

it’s difficult to force myself out of bed Sunday mornings to

accustomed to.

forage about the weekly market under the freeway, I can rest

While the program also involved giving up meat and dairy products, a main component of it included juicing fresh 6

easy at night knowing that the food I’ve fueled my body with for the next day’s challenges doesn’t require a disclaimer.

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the

Top10 Sac

cannabis community

Leaders in

On July 4, 2012 Lucero’s home and business, The Farmer’s Daughter on El Camino, were raided by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. Law enforcement didn’t find a huge dispensing operation, but only enough medicine for two patients. According to Lucero, while the reports that 80 pounds of marijuana was recovered from her home and business were completely false, she and her husband Gus both served jail time. Lucero has refused to back down or go into hiding. She has denied multiple plea-bargaining deals and is fighting the case all the way to trial. Lucero became the vice president of Safe Access Sacramento in 2012 and in 2013 organized the Sacramento NORML Women’s Alliance, working to bring a contemporary approach to the public policy conversation, and is proudly representing the interests of modern, mainstream like-minded women everywhere. In November 2013, SNWA hosted a women’s conference fundraiser hosting Ellen Komp of Cal NORML and Cheri Cicard aka “Cannabis Cheri” author of multiple cannabis related books and an advocate for education and patients rights.

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Joy Cole

If you asked the other 9 most influential people on our list for the names of those who had most influenced them, the odds are they would all mention Joy Cole, local activist and founder of SacPatients, a Sacramento-based patient advocacy group that hosted many of the rallies and educational events held in the early days of the local cannabis movement. Cole passed away on April 29, 2012. She was a cancer survivor living in Del Paso Heights; she spent her time visiting dispensaries in Sacramento City and County on a daily basis despite being disabled. Her goal was to keep people informed of the latest developments in cannabis news, no easy task in a time when not many were blogging or Facebooking about medical marijuana and how the cannabis community’s rights were constantly being violated by local governments. Dispensaries were not allowed to exist simply because they were ineligible to apply for a business license. Government officials freely and shamelessly expressed bigoted cannaphobic views in public. In October 2009, the city of Sacramento decided to write its cannabis ordinance and Cole organized the first of many informational

rallies at Cesar Chavez Park, which is where I met her and began my journey as an activist. When the Sacramento ordinance was finalized last year, Steve Hansen, Sacramento city council member, and others gave credit to Cole and her lobbying efforts for helping them understand that patients’ rights must be considered by lawmakers when drafting legislation that impacts people with medical conditions. In the end, Sacramento acquired one of the more functional and workable ordinances in the state because Cole successfully opposed the harsh limitations initially under consideration by the City Council.

Working together with local cannabis groups, Crusaders For Patients’ Rights, Americans for Safe Access, and others, Cole devoted her energies to activating the community’s voice and inspiring many people to join the movement. Her passing just after 4/20 was a sad day for all of us, and we will sorely miss her voice in times to come. (RM)

Shelby Lucero

Shelby Lucero has been working to educate women’s communities about the benefits of cannabis as medicine while fighting for her own freedom.

Moving forward Lucero plans to continue educating politicians and the community on safe alternative medicinal use through cannabis topicals and vaporizers to dispel old views of patients being merely “pot heads.” Her case goes to trial on April 23, 2014 and she is fighting for full exoneration. (RM)

Photo courtesy of Jasmine Ontario

Richard Miller

While Richard Miller works with medicinal cannabis patients at A Therapeutic Alternative, it’s his three decades of volunteerism and activism for medicinal cannabis patients that earn him a spot in our Top 10. Miller’s involvement in the cannabis industry dates back to his childhood. Part of his family’s lifestyle centered on marijuana. He remembers his Great Uncle lecturing about the uses of medicinal cannabis and talking about cultivating strains for better medicinal use. In 1992 Miller served the Bay Area community as a volunteer and employee, working with AIDS patients at the original San Francisco Buyers

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Club. Realizing that education was needed to explore the healing aspects of medicinal marijuana, he spent decades collecting data, talking to patients and finding out firsthand how to advise patients on what may work for them. This knowledge makes him a sought after spokesperson and expert on the uses and benefits of medicinal marijuana. After starting a collective and seeing it disappear; through no part of his own and under questionable county regulations, Miller found that his advocacy is better served helping others understand the importance of the plant and the quality of life it offers those that suffer from a variety of ailments. Miller himself was affected with a series of medical issues and was prescribed hundreds of pharmaceutical painkillers that kept him lethargic and bedridden. His firsthand knowledge of the plant helps him function with his conditions effortlessly and stay active, and his boundless energy and positive outlook keep him constantly motivated and always moving forward. Today he’s more active than ever. Miller spends the majority of his week working at A Therapeutic Alternative and volunteering with local non-profits. Most of what Miller makes from his “day job” is allocated to nonprofit groups that are in need of time and funds. He is a volunteer and past president of SAFE Access Sacramento, also the advocacy director for Crusaders for Patients’ Rights, Sacramento. He is a also member of SacNORML and regularly attends meetings of different organizations to lend a hand to the growing medicinal marijuana movement. Miller also advocates for Health Education and Legal Patients’ Rights, a group he founded in the foothills. (TR)

attacks upon the cannabis community from the federal government and work to build robust and effective coalitions for medical cannabis at the state level. As co-founder of one of the oldest medical cannabis dispensing collectives in California, Duncan has also helped open legal facilities in cities all over the state, including Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Considered a leading consultant in the field of medical cannabis, he has been featured on “60 Minutes, Dan Rather Reports,” “Retirement Living TV,” and in the Los Angeles Times. Through education and ASA’s extensive communications network, Duncan has been and continues to be an important figure in encouraging local protests against raids by the federal government, at the same time promoting local self-regulation of medical cannabis dispensaries throughout the state. Working closely with local politicians, police and sheriffs’ organizations, the operators and staffs of dispensaries, and the cannabis community, Duncan has been instrumental in the writing and implementation of local laws in cities throughout California. Duncan works so regularly in the capital city that he recently took up residence in Sacramento with his wife and son. He is currently lobbying state Senators and Assembly Members to write legislation that would expand rights for medical cannabis patients. He also is battling against legislation that would take away patients’ rights, such as SB1262, introduced by Sen. Correa in March, which severely limits patients’ access to cannabis.

Don Duncan

Don Duncan, co-founder of Americans for Safe Access in 2002 and a member of the Board of Directors who also serves as its California Director, is highly skilled at organizing grassroots campaigns in the struggle for the full implementation of California’s medical cannabis laws. He and his staff at ASA respond to

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Ngaio Bealum

“The King” is not just a funny man. His comedy is intended to educate and consequently often blends information seamlessly with hilarity, as in this bit he did a few years ago: “You guys know weed used to be legal, right? Until 1937, the founding fathers, Jefferson, Washington, and all those guys, used to roll it and smoke it. The Declaration of Independence was originally written on hemp paper, which is marijuana. It makes better paper than trees, better fabric than cotton, and you can smoke it and at the same time talk about shit like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Bealum then pantomimes a founding father hitting a joint and says, “Oooh, write that down.” A multi-dimensional figure who’s not satisfied just to talk about cannabis, Bealum fought hard for legalization in 2010. He used all his resources on behalf of Proposition 19, including his act and a magazine he ran at the time called West Coast Cannabis. A budding marijuana magazine, WCC spoke truth to power during a time when the federal government was directly threatening companies that advertised marijuana businesses. The only one of our Top Ten that also merits his own IMDB page, Bealum has some prestigious credits to his name: appearances on Comedy Central’s “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Comic Justice,” “MTV’s Half-Hour Comedy Hour,” BET’s “Comic View,” A&E’s “Evening at The Improv,” and more.

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A true believer in medical cannabis, Duncan has made it his life’s work to assist patients in gaining access to cannabis in a safe and sane environment befitting a medical process. His efforts have been instrumental in the community success in shaping state marijuana policies. (RM)

California Cannabis Comedy, Bealum presents his special brand of stoner humor wherever weed is welcomed.

If you’ve been active in the local cannabis community this century or have been to any fests or fundraisers, you have probably been in the presence of Ngaio Bealum. The King of

Now, Bealum writes about cannabis issues for the Sacramento News & Review in a “Dear Abby”-style advice column to which enthusiasts can write in for answers to their questions about cannabis issues. He also continues to travel the world, telling jokes and educating minds with his fundraising comedy shows at hemp/ cannabis/marijuana fests in the United States and abroad. (RM)

Kimberly Cargile

Friends describe Kimberly Cargile as educated, sincere, professional, compassionate, and giving. They also describe her as busy, someone accustomed to juggling a full schedule. As a cannabis activist, she fills her

day with meetings and telephone calls, often working into the night to satisfy other peoples’ needs. While advocating for medicinal cannabis and the legalization of marijuana, Cargile

A move to Sacramento allowed her to work at

manages the busy collective, A Therapeutic

stayed busy organizing patients for meetings,

Alternative. Most days she meets with political

making calls, getting people to and from city

opponents and advocates, attends meetings

council and Board of Supervisor meetings,

and functions for several activist groups

and sending testimonials from patients to city

including ASA and NORML, and speaks

council members to get the word out about the

often with leaders of both local and state

medicinal properties of cannabis.

Capitol Wellness, one of the first dispensaries in the city. Soon afterward, she found herself volunteering at ASA as a peer counselor. She

administrations. She is often found talking and strategizing with administrators of the California Cannabis Industry Association. The list goes on.

Cargile openly opposed politicians whose purpose was to shut down collectives. Often on

Her rise as a voice in the industry came about

the other side of medicinal cannabis collectives

in the early days of her advocacy. A pre-med

were Sacramento County 4th District Supervisor

student studying cellular and molecular biology

Roberta MacGlashan and Sacramento County

at Humboldt State University, she also taught

CEO Brad Hudson, both of whom continually

yoga. Through her classes, she discovered

sought for and eventually brought about the

that yoga is a useful tool for patients seeking

closing of dozens of collectives in Sacramento

healthy alternatives to conventional ways

County. Cargile pointed out that, “If you can

of bettering their minds and bodies. Cargile

point to two people that singlehandedly

found out firsthand how natural medicine and

helped shut down most of the collectives in

naturopathic medicine was either downplayed

Sacramento County, it was MacGlashan and

or discarded by the medical establishment and

Hudson.” Undaunted, she regrouped and

generally not covered by insurance. Motivated

gathered signatures and letters that paved the

to make a difference, she changed her major to

way for more sensible dispensary regulations.

liberal studies with a minor in psychology and a

Many collectives managed to stay open or even

focus on social justice.

re-open thanks to her efforts. (TR)

Nate Bradley

Number three on our list is Nate Bradley, the executive director of the California Cannabis Industry Association. He is also a father, husband and activist. Passionately advocating for full adult marijuana legalization, his popularity resonates from a strong personality and a willingness to listen to all sides of an issue. He is widely regarded in the cannabis community and with the mainstream masses. His strong law enforcement background makes him a uniquely qualified representative for the cannabis industry. Recently SacAlt set down with Bradley and asked him a few questions.

Ron Mullins

Ron Mullins is a friend of mine, a smart, funny, and interesting guy. We have worked together at SacAlt Magazine for over a year now and his contributions to making this magazine relevant are immeasurable. He was one of the first people we sought counsel from when the idea of publishing a magazine initially came up. He steered us in the right directions, gave us contacts to help us navigate the choppy waters of magazine publishing, and, even more than guidance and suggestions, he gifted us with his friendship. When we asked him to write a column dedicated to the cannabis industry, he came through for each and every issue of SacAlt that hit the newsstands. Looking back, I can see why so many people told us to contact him. He simply has the answers you are looking for or advice on how to find them. No wonder Mullins

How did you get your start in advocacy for the cannabis industry? I became a patient after getting laid off from law enforcement and it opened my eyes to the entire world of the marijuana policy reform movement. All of a sudden I saw it all for the first time. After three years of advocacy work, I realized that, although I could open up a lot of doors as a former law enforcement officer, I couldn’t really affect a lot of change; actually change votes and things like that. I looked around the capital and I realized that what I saw was an industry without a voice. I spent the last year organizing the CCIA (California Cannabis Industry Association).

related organizations are coming to the table right now to talk about regulation, not just about medical [cannabis] but because they see full adult use in the future. They are concerned that we lay the groundwork properly for that right now. We are now talking about creating policy from a position of “when it is legalized” not “if it will be legalized.”

How does the CCIA get funding? It’s funded by association dues from members. We are just formed our PAC (political action committee); The Cannabis Action PAC.

Is the Sacramento area a leader in the cannabis industry and if so, why? Yes. Actually, Sacramento is known as a conservative town. So the fact that we are listed in a few magazines as one of the most cannabis friendly cities in the country only helps. A somewhat conservative town has a liberal ordinance towards cannabis. (TR)

How will legalization affect the industry? Will it be positive? It will be a positive thing. The people I work with now from the none cannabis

So some of these people are really talking about how they will divvy up the funds? That’s exactly right. They want to make sure that everyone gets there cut. We are talking about rules and regulations and distribution of funds once it’s legal.

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Mullins is a strong presence throughout Sacramento. When he became a medical cannabis patient in 1996 and found the medicine life-changing, he decided to get involved and raised his voice on behalf of the industry, petitioning the state Assembly and fighting tirelessly to overturn antiquated cannabis regulations. He also became an influential cannabis provider, working in or consulting for many local collectives. In addition, he has committed himself to the LGBT equality movement. He marches, photographs rallies, writes for LGBT newspapers, and hosts “Being Gay Today” on public access television. He fights tirelessly for the rights of LGBT people, including their rights to serve in the military and to enjoy the same marriage status as everyone else. In 2009 he opened J Street Wellness, a dispensary specializing in the unique needs of LGBT patients while providing compassionate access to all. He served as the vice president of Safe Access Sacramento from 2011 to 2012, was voted Best Dispensary Manager on a Mission by the Sacramento News & Review in 2011, and is currently general manager and director of SacNorml, the Sacramento chapter of the National Organization for the reform of Marijuana Law. In addition to his monthly contribution to SacAlt Magazine, he is a frequent contributor to SacPress and other local, statewide, and industry publications. (TR, JO)

Ryan Landers

Ryan Landers, the California State Director for American Alliance for Medical Cannabis and a very active lobbyist in Sacramento, has fought for patients’ rights most of his adult life. He has educated city officials to consider patients’ needs when creating local laws that regulate medical cannabis and in 2009 was famously dubbed “Mr. Compassion” by the Sacramento News & Review, upon whose cover he appeared smoking a joint.

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Landers was present the day Proposition 215 was filed in 1996 and was subsequently named Sacramento County Director for Californians for Compassionate Use. He soon became a leader in the movement by gathering the signatures necessary to make Proposition 215 the law in the state capital region. Before passage, Landers was the local poster boy for medicinal marijuana and afterward became a media spokesperson for the cannabis community. Landers has been a cannabis pioneer in several ways. Hoping to show why present laws needed to be changed, he was the first to allow a news crew to film an illegal cannabis growing operation in the United States. Arrested and taken into custody in August 1997, Landers was charged with smoking cannabis in public in downtown Sacramento, the first medical marijuana patient charged for public consumption. The case was subsequently dropped by Sacramento officials. Landers also attempted to open his own dispensary, the Capital City Cannabis Buyers Club, but encountered political obstacles and financial hardships that doomed the project. Although he never did open his own dispensary, he has fought his way through the licensing process in order to monitor the application of our local ordinance. Landers continues to serve the community as an expert witness, giving advice and testimony all over northern California in spite of suffering from several debilitating illnesses, including complications from AIDS that require several injections in his neck every week. Without the influence of Ryan Landers and other cannabis pioneers, Proposition 215 would have remained just another obscure law, and law enforcement agents and local government officials would still be locking up patients and banning dispensaries. (RM)

Lanette Davies

Lanette Davies was a typical mother and wife, an employee of the Sacramento Bee until 2005, when she left her job to get involved in medical cannabis upon discovering her

daughter had a serious illness that benefitted from the use of THC. Rather than shy away from a controversial treatment and continue using ineffective pharmaceuticals as so many parents do, she kept an open mind, researched the plant, and subsequently fought to make it available to her daughter and other patients. She did all this while continuing to live a staunch Christian lifestyle. When Davis researched marijuana, she even found that the Bible doesn’t reject marijuana at all; on the contrary, it arguably has passages that favor cannabis.

anette Davie

was the expert answering questions on behalf of the Sacramento cannabis industry when a Sacramento television news station recently ran a story about a cannabis-related issue.

Davies has been active in the cannabis movement ever since, serving as treasurer and public relations director of the Compassionate Coalition from 2006 until 2008. She became the Americans for Safe Access Sacramento representative for 2006 and is still very active with ASA. Davis has held seminars on how to be in compliance with state law when opening a dispensing collective and testified in both the State of California Assembly and Senate on bills that affect patient rights. As a byproduct of all her research and work, in 2006 Davies founded Crusaders for Patients Rights, a Christian-based patients’ rights organization for medical marijuana. CPR is still fighting for patients today, working on local, statewide, and federal education as well as politics. Davies also founded Cannacare, the oldest dispensary in Sacramento, and now the first to complete the city’s lengthy licensing process. CPR has worked with others like Joy Cole and Ryan Landers to successfully lobby the city of Sacramento to write a far less restrictive ordinance regulating the dispensing of medical cannabis in the city than the version that was originally drafted. Without her efforts, and those of the community she helped to lead, Sacramento would probably have fewer than three dispensaries today.

Recently, Davies tackled the Internal Revenue Service. When attacked with a little known law, technically known as 280e, created to prevent drug dealers from writing off guns from their tax returns, she chose to tackle the IRS head on in federal court. If her case prevails, it has the potential to overturn one of the most vicious weapons that the federal government uses against medical marijuana. The contributions of Davies, her family, and the people she has organized have been immeasurable; the education she has helped provide to state and community lawmakers has made all the difference in patients’ access to their medicine. (RM)

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allowing her to finally, after years of suffering, function more normally during the day with much less pain. In April 2013, she heard a radio ad for the Sacramento chapter of The National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws. The call to action lead her to begin her path as a proponent for social and political cannabis policy change. She attended the Sacramento NORML meeting and was pleasantly surprised to find so many like-minded people, who also believe in cannabis as a safe medicine. After that, she joined Sacramento NORML and the activist community in trying to fully legalize marijuana, helping the cause with her skills as a speaker, writer, and organizer.

by Ron Mullins Meet Marcia Blount. If you were to hear her speak at a Democratic fundraiser, or get a facial from her you would never guess cannabis is her medicine of choice. She is a stylish gal, just over 60 years old, but you couldn’t tell. She’s also a mother and wife, who operates her own esthetics business—Marcia is a true renaissance woman.

In 2011 a wheelchair-bound paraplegic friend of Marcia’s, who grows her own medical marijuana in a collective, suggested that she try cannabis for her sleep and pain issues. Marcia took a few medicated cookies home to try. She found it significantly helped her symptoms, like nothing before. Marcia spoke to her doctor and got the necessary recommendation for legal medical use, she then continued getting cannabis from her friend’s collective as a licensed patient.

I caught up with Marcia at a political event and had a chance to hear about her relationship with medical cannabis. Like many of us, in her late teens Marcia used marijuana when she socialized, it was fun for her. Eventually Marcia became a mother, and embarked upon a career with the state and federal government. This made the use of medicinal cannabis impractical, and she stopped.

“I love that cannabis treats many of my medical needs,” she says. “So I don’t have to take so many pharmaceuticals. But I really became an activist because of the terribly unjust prohibition laws. Some people go to jail for life, and people are having their children taken from them; all over an herb that has never killed anyone. And if you are dark-skinned or poor, your chances of going to jail are even greater.”

Years later, a diagnosis of fibromyalgia left Marcia in excruciating pain and in need of treatment. In the early ’90s, after years of suffering, she began taking a cocktail of prescription medications and supplements to treat the muscle pain and insomnia—the debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia. For insomnia alone, she was prescribed three different antidepressant tablets typically used to help fibromyalgia patients sleep, in addition there were three herbal sleeping tablets. If she still couldn’t fall asleep, she would take up to three types of muscle relaxers. Some nights, she even had to add prescription sleeping pills that produced harsh hangover-like side effects. For twenty years or so, she continued using these medications—even though they caused her to sleep 10 to 12 hours a night, waking up groggy, without feeling rested and with muscle pain that limited her mobility for hours every morning.

Later, Marcia decided to visit a medical marijuana dispensary, which is where she met some of the amazing folks in Sacramento’s cannabis community. She began using cannabis daily, and has stopped many of her prescription medications completely. She vaporizes a heavy Indica strain of cannabis just before bedtime to be able to get to sleep, and she also takes Indica hash oil capsules to stay asleep throughout the night; it works. She also found that using cannabis keeps her muscles more relaxed, alleviating the need for prescription muscle relaxers.

Due to her new routine, which includes medical marijuana as a major component, she has also been able to seriously cut back on her pain prescriptions of both Vicodin and Motrin. Waking up easily after a good night’s sleep, with her muscles relaxed, has been life changing,

In September 2013, Marcia founded the Brownie Mary Democratic Club of Sacramento County, filling a void in the political landscape. As a long-time activist in local Democratic politics, she felt it was time to get the Democrats on board with marijuana legalization. “People who choose cannabis for their medical needs, or for their recreational enjoyment, should not go to jail just because they don’t want to use pharmaceutical medications or they don’t like to drink alcohol,” she says. “Marijuana is a safer alternative than either of these.” In 2014, Brownie Mary Democrats of Sacramento County, and other Brownie Mary Clubs in California, submitted a Plank to the California Democratic Party platform. It was voted on by the delegates, and was passed at the recent March 2014 California Democratic Convention. As a result of the clubs’ efforts, the California Democratic Plank addition reads, “Support the legalization, regulation and taxation of Marijuana, in a manner similar to that of tobacco or alcohol.” Marcia also participated in the combined Brownie Mary Club booth at the California Democratic Convention, helping to educate the delegates and guests about the positive attributes of Marijuana. The booth was quite successful, many folks stopping by to learn about, discuss, and support the cause. The Sacramento County Brownie Mary Democratic Club meets the first Thursday of every other month. To contact them you can email browniemarydemsofsacramento@gmail. com, or look them up on Facebook or on the web at http://www.bmdcofsaccounty.org/. If you need a good Facial or Chemical Peel from someone who won’t judge you for the roach burns on your nails, Marcia’s business, located in Rancho Cordova, is called Marcia’s Esthetics and can be contacted by calling 916-534-0121.

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This Month’s Alternative BudTender by Ty Rivers Who: Ian Boas // Over/Under 25: Under Dispensary: Safe Capitol Compassion Cooperative Vitals: Single, but attached. Favorite Strain? San Fernando Valley OG Kush How long have you worked at Safe Capitol Compassion? Three years. How long have you been in the cannabis industry? Three years. Is Safe Capitol Compassion the first place you worked? Yes. How did you get the job? I actually was a patient, a frequent patient, and got to know the management and some of the people who would later be my co-workers. One of the budtenders that doesn’t work here any more was also a tattoo artist, and one day while finishing a couple of tattoos on me he mentioned how much he liked working at Safe and that I should try it. So I talked to the boss and he hired me. You enjoy the work environment at Safe? Yes. I mean, three years, you’ve got to like a place. You can’t stay somewhere three years and not like it. So what do you like most about Safe Capitol Compassion? Mostly, I just like dealing with patients, the interaction. I don’t like being stuck in a cubicle or having the day-to-day grind. I like talking and I feel I’m very good at communicating with the patients. How is that important to your patients? They come back. For example, first-time patients, I try to get to know them on a personal basis to really understand what their symptoms are and what they need. Usually when they come in I’ll ask them what they have used previously. If they know or have a preference for indicas or setiva hybrids we can talk about it and I can assist them in finding the right medicine. But if they don’t know, if they’re not knowledgeable, because we do have patients that come in that don’t smoke, that are just trying cannabis for the first time, I guide them through the process and make them feel at ease, at the same time finding what works for them. It’s very personalized. (Crystal Schmidt, Manager of Safe Capitol Compassion, walks in and asks Ian a question about a product that he answers instantly.) I think that’s cool that Crystal came in during the interview and asked you what that was. Yeah. What was the product you were looking at? It was actually a form of wax. I think it’s interesting that your staff really looks to you for answers on products and have a lot of faith in you. Yeah, I feel I’m pretty knowledgeable. What sets your business apart from other businesses? I was a patient for three years before I was a budtender or ever worked at a collective. What I’ve noticed about Safe is that we take more time with our patients.

BudTender of the Month, Ian Boas Photo: Ty Rivers We talk to them and figure out what is wrong with them instead of just trying to push them “in and out.” We really try to get to know our patients on a first name basis. And do you think you do know most of them? Yeah. We’ve had patients that say, “I’m going to come back for sure.” I’ve had patients call me when I’m at home and say, “Hey, what you said about it [the strain] is right on.” They’ve called on my days off and it’s been like, “Hey, is Ian working today?” So obviously you’re a medical patient. Can I ask what you use it for? I was actually diagnosed with PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? A little bit. My mom passed away about four years ago and I actually ended up finding her. That’s one of those things that people don’t understand about our particular industry, that this incredible plant can help on so many levels and that’s one of them, right? The doctors wanted to hook me up with a variety of pills, but to help me move forward I used cannabis. It helped me function and deal with the pain and stress of the situation. Do people follow budtenders? Oh yeah. We were at a different location and my patients went out of their way to find out where we moved. But more than that, I have a lot of patients that keep coming back to me because we listen and respond. I think we’re definitely more professional. I’ve been in other shops where it’s very laid back. We try to stay professional and always remember why we’re here, and that’s for the patients. What do you like most about your job? What I like most is the interaction with the patients. Being able to talk with them and understand what they need. I learn a lot, too. I learn what the plant can actually do for people. You know what I’m saying? What do you mean by that? Well, for me it was the emotions I was dealing with because of the loss of someone very important to me. It helped me get through the day. I felt like I wasn’t alone in that situation, in my situation at least. I know other people are finding the same results. If you weren’t a budtender, what would you be doing? I’d probably go back to school and study culinary arts. What do you do in your free time? Work around the house. Spend time with my girlfriend, snowboard, [and] relax.

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CannabisCommunityCorner It would seem California’s governor is not only out of step with the national and local polling, but with his own party, that only a week after his misguided statement, added legalization of cannabis for adult recreational use to their list of causes. A vote to add the legalization of cannabis to the California state party’s official platform won an almost unanimous verbal vote at the California Democratic Convention in Los Angeles on March 9. The platform stated: “Support the legalization, regulation and taxation of marijuana, in a manner similar to that of tobacco or alcohol.”

Democratic Party’s shift on Marijuana Legalization Governor Brown Behind the Learning Curve by Ron Mullins Gov. Jerry Brown appeared on Meet the Press, March 3rd, where he was questioned about cannabis legalization. His response mirrored simple and antiquated “Reefer Madness” rhetoric. “Well, we have medical marijuana, which gets very close to what they have in Colorado and Washington; I’d really like those two states to show us how it’s going to work. The problem with anything, a certain amount is OK. But there is a tendency to go to extremes, and all of a sudden, if there’s advertising and legitimacy, how many people can get stoned and still have a great state or a great nation? The world’s pretty dangerous, very competitive. I think we need to stay alert, if not 24 hours a day, more than some of the potheads might be able to put together.” Like many who would be included in the broad term “pothead,” I was offended. To the governor and others who still believe we’re all a bunch of slacker stereotypes, I say this: In spite of federal attacks, local bans, frightened landlords, the sheriff, code enforcement, Child Protective Services, thieves, Mother Nature, and the like; the people in the cannabis community continue to plant, nurture, protect, hide, harvest, manicure, and market millions of pounds of cannabis every year in your state. Cannabis is the largest cash crop in California; this is the miracle of the “potheads” in the cannabis community.

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom addressed the conference with a speech that sounded much like something you would hear given by a member of the cannabis community. He denounced the failed drug war and listed the exploding prison numbers that have accumulated since its inception. “1977, when we did away with indeterminate sentencing our prison population in California was roughly 20,000 people, by 2007 our prison population exploded to 173,000”. According to Newsom, “Our nation with just 5 percent of the world’s population incarcerates roughly 2.4 million people, 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.” Newsom points out that “It was 1971, when Richard Nixon, a Californian, declared the war on drugs as a backlash to massive shifts in cultural values.” Newsom explained that Att. Gen. Eric Holder, “Was Right” when he recognized the adverse fiscal, moral and social impact that the war on drugs, and minimum mandatory sentences are having on our society. “Since the 1970s, our learning curve on the war on drugs has cost the tax payers an excess of one trillion dollars and counting.” During that same time period “The USA has spent over 120 billion dollars to arrest some 37 million people for non violent drug offenses, nearly the equivalent of the entire population of our great state; 1.5 million people were arrested in this country in 2012 alone for non violent drug offences, over half for marijuana.” Newsom described the learning curve as “Too slow and too costly.” “It’s time to legalize, it’s time to tax, and it’s time to regulate marijuana for adults in California.”

Think about this: the people you are writing off as low-functioning, unintelligent “potheads” accomplish what many Fortune 500 corporations cannot replicate without the addition of harmful chemicals, preservatives, pesticides, or some other type of industrial complex. They meet a huge demand and deliver a quality product throughout the state, year after year. I don’t know another conglomerate able crank out a perfectly manicured flower that tastes like a blueberry muffin, and is 22.5 percent THC, do you?

“We have to start with a serious dialogue, this issue cannot get caught up in the ‘Nixonian trap’ of calling people names with values we do not share” He said. “This is a serious debate for serious people; this is not a debate about hippies. This is not a debate about stoners. We can’t diminish this issue, or the people involved in this debate by belittling them and trivializing them.” This is very new language and will hopefully set the new tone for the debate on marijuana legalization moving forward.

The cannabis community is a productive, vibrant, compassionate community. And I believe, given the opportunity, like Colorado and Washington, we could produce millions in tax revenues for our state’s failing economy. Toke on that, Gov. Brown!

There are few things that have been causing this shift in the California Democrat’s political landscape. Not the least of which

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AltBrews

From the Bottle, From the Tap by Megan Lee Our little cow town, Sacramento, is getting into craft beer in a big way.

malts and “sour mashed” them for 16 hours then paired with a touch of

While we’re not on par with Portland (yet), in the past 10 years the number

aged saaz in the kettle. It’s barrel aged for six months, which imparts a

of breweries and brew pubs has exploded. Beers that you once had

Brettanomyces—a yeast associated with and named after, the Senne

to travel far and wide to try are now just around the corner at your local

valley near Brussels, Belgium—sour flavor to the wheat beer. This was not

tavern or bottle shop. Even the more divey establishments are carrying

rated well by most tasters on various beer rating sites, but I really enjoyed

great selections of kind brew. It seems no matter where I go now I can

it. It’s a great spring beer and the ABV makes it a perfect session beer.

satisfy my craving for something more substantial than your typical North American lager. Let me take you on a tour of the beers that I have tasted

Deschutes Brewery, Chain Breaker White IPA—Bend, OR

in the past week and let you know where you can acquire these fine,

5.6 percent ABV / Beer Advocate score 82/100 (good)

frothy fermented beverages, the alcohol by volume (ABV), the hops and

Hops / Bravo / Citra / Centennial / Cascade

malts in each recipe as well as my take on the drinkability of each—but

Malts: Wheat / Pilsner / Unmalted Wheat

take all of my opinions with a grain of salt because, honestly, I can find

Locations: Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar, Elixir Bar & Grill, Total Wine &

something to love about almost any beer.

More, Der Biergarten, KBAR, Tokyo Fro’s Rockin’ Sushi

Strand Brewing, 24th Street Pale Ale—Torrence, CA

An odd IPA that uses a Belgium yeast which makes it a Belgium IPA (duh).

6.1 percent ABV / Beer Advocate score 86/100 (very good)

Completely different from your normal IPA, this beer is much less hoppy

HOPS: Summit / Cascade / Amarillo

and way more yeasty. It’s very light in color and has a sweeter nose. It’s

MALTS: Pale / Crystal / German Munich

avery light tasting for a 5.6 percent beer. There is a very slight hoppy

Locations: Pangaea Two Brew Cafe, Total Wine & More, Harlow’s

taste, but that doesn’t mean this isn’t an IPA you shouldn’t try. The lemon,

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orange and coriander flavors remind me more of an unfiltered wheat beer.

This was my first introduction to Strand Brewing and I was not

Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan, Weihenstephaer Hefe

disappointed. Their flagship beer is a gorgeous unfiltered copper color

Weissbier—Bavaria, Germany

and the nose is mild. There is a nice floral taste to this Pale and a slight

5.4 percent ABV / Beer Advocate score 98 / 100 (world-class)

bitterness at the end. This is a great example of a well-balanced American

Malts: Dark Barley / Light Barly / Wheat

Pale that falls on the higher end of the ABV scale for this type of beer. I felt

Hops: Hallertauer Perle / Magnum

it was a very simple Pale Ale that didn’t have too much of a hoppy flavor,

Locations: Hideaway, LowBrau (DRAFT!!), BevMo, Total Wine & More,

so it might not scare those who don’t prefer the taste of hops away.

Firestone Public House

Ale Industries, East Bayliner Weisse—Concord, CA and Oakland, CA

The oldest brewery in the world produces this amazing beer. Nothing

4.5 percent ABV / Beer Advocate score 78/100 (okay) Hops: Saaz Malts: Wheat / Pilsen Location: Pangaea, Total Wine & More

more needs to be said about this beer, but considering I’m supposed to review this I probably should say a little more. Hands down this is the best Hefeweizen beer I have ever tasted. Not only is it awesome, but it is also widely distributed and inexpensive. My go-to beer, if there is one. Traditional Hefe at its best with all the banana, clove, and a slight citrus

A bit odd for a Berliner Weiss beer, but I loved it. I’ve been trying to like

flavor that one would expect from a brewery that follows the legendary

more sour beers and this is good for someone who might not like sours

Bavarian Purity Law of 1516, which states that beer may only contain

that much (read: me). According to the brewery they use Wheat and Pilsen

three ingredients: barley, hops, and water.

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Hemp in the Heartland by Steph Rodriguez

After a lengthy, more than 75 year timeout in the United

Since the federal government granted the cane-like weed with

States, hemp is now free to sprout in nine states, thanks to an

its own definition, hemp is now excluded from the definition of

amendment tucked inside the Agriculture Act of 2014, otherwise

“marijuana” in the CSA where it was previously shackled. This

known as the Farm Bill.

action also leaves the sole responsibility of hemp regulation up to

Signed by President Barack Obama in early February, the Farm

the qualified state and its respective laws.

Bill allows state agriculture departments, colleges and universities

Still, one issue medical and recreational marijuana farmers worry

to cultivate the non-psychoactive crop for both academic and

about is the proximity of hemp farms in regards to their crops

research purposes. For now, the bill only applies to states where

and the high possibility of cross-contamination. “You have to

industrial hemp farming is already legal and recognized under

look at cross-contamination issues in the state of California, both

state law. The amendment also defines industrial hemp, ‘‘… the

for medical and recreational marijuana,” Carrera said. “This is

plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether

an issue that the Small Farmer’s Association is working on, but

growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration

[hemp] would cross-contaminate fields.”

of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.” Translation: hemp is A-OK to cultivate just as long as the THC content

Hemp is an industry that earns an estimated half-billion dollars

is no more than 0.3 percent.

annually in retail sales and is mainly imported from places like Canada and China. Now, the nine U.S. states set to grow the

For Julia Carrera, a medical marijuana farm inspector and

fibrous crop include California, Colorado, Kentucky and Maine.

consultant in Mendocino County, the Farm Bill opens the flood

Under the Farm Bill, eligible states will be able to participate in

gates to hemp’s myriad benefits for both the environment and

agricultural pilot programs outlined under the “Legitimacy of

the economy. “What’s good about the Farm Bill allowing hemp

Industrial Hemp Research” portion of the document.

is that it’s the first step toward federal legalization,” Carrera said. “The plant itself is one of the most unique because of its multiple

These pilot programs will study “the growth, cultivation, or

uses as a fiber, to its spiritual rituals, and everything in between.”

marketing of industrial hemp” according to the bill and also

From rope and paper, to clothing, animal food, and even cleaner

requires that grow sites be registered with the state’s department

burning biofuels, the possibilities of hemp are boundless

of agriculture.

according to Carrera.

Although concerns of cross-contamination are still being ironed

Representative Jared Polis, Democrat of Colorado, Kentucky

out within the Small Farmer’s Association, experts like Carrera

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Oregon Democratic Rep.

feel the plant is ripe for cultivation in California. “Hemp was our

Earl Blumenauer introduced the amendment, which overrides

number one growing crop in the U.S. centuries ago. It’s easy to

the Controlled Substances Act and other federal laws against

grow [and] it doesn’t require a lot of water, which is important for

hemp production.

our state’s drought situation,” Carrera said.

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SAC by Steph Rodriguez Sac Alternative magazine reaches out to dispensaries, smoke shops and even combs the region for fun happenings in our first-ever 420 guide. Find the best deals and discounts on new water pipes, dab sets or vaporizer pens. Decide who has the best raffle prizes, giveaways and entertainment between all featured businesses. For starters, one dispensary’s grand prize is valued at more than $200, while another collective chose to counter fancy winnings with the return of its “420 Bus,” complimentary edible samples and also an in-house glass blowing demo. Celebrate cannabis culture all weekend long with Sac Alt’s event suggestions that include comedian Ngaio Bealum’s 4/20 Comedy Festival and the third annual Sacramento Beer & Chili Festival to take care of those inevitable, 420-inspired hunger pangs.

Dispensary Deals THE GIVING TREE When patients stop by Abatin Wellness Center (2100 29th St.) on Sunday, April 20, budtenders will automatically gift an edible and a pre-rolled cone joint. Food platters up for grabs will counter any case of munchies and a raffle with an over $200 value is at stake. One lottery ticket is issued per purchase, but spend over $50 and receive two. The winner will be announced at 4:20 p.m. and the grand prize includes a vaporizer pen, wax or “budder,” flowers and edibles. www.abatinsacramento.com 30

WEEKEND WARRIORS Some dispensaries celebrate 420 for just one day, but that’s not the case for the folks at A Therapeutic Alternative (3015 H St.) because their specials go all weekend. On Friday, April 18 patients receive 15 percent off all edibles, followed by Saturday’s free pipe with any $50 purchase. Still, Sunday tops all with complimentary edible bites. There is also a raffle for a Nurse Good-brand body healing kit that includes an eye mask, lip balm, body scrubs and more. Tickets are issued at the register and the winner will be announced on Monday, April 21. (916) 822-4717 PUFF, PUFF, PASS All aboard the “420 Bus” at Two Rivers Wellness (315 North 10th St.), which allows patients to relax and medicate inside its comfy quarters with wrap-around seating. Live music, complimentary eats and an in-house glass blowing demo by @ jawsglass are just a few more features in honor of the holiday. This dispensary also welcomes several vendors specializing in edibles like Heavenly Sweets, Bhang and Korova samples. Sweet tooth required. www.tworiverssac.com

One-stop shops WHACKY TOBACKY Hook up with Blow & Tell (1914 Fulton Ave.) and receive 30 percent off purchases over $100 and a free pipe or grinder for first 100 customers. The owners of the smoke shop also operate The Shisha Lounge next door (1912 Fulton Ave.). In honor of 420, the lounge SacAlternative | April 2014

offers their signature fruit bowls for only 20 bucks (regular $35 to $45). Choose between pineapple, apple, or pear to be carved into a bowl and stuffed with tobacco flavors like white gummy bear, orange cream or watermelon blast. See website for additional locations and store hours. www.blowandtellsmoke.com GOODY TWO-SHOES The employees at Smoke City (6745 Watt Ave. Ste. B) say it’s a “420 Extravaganza” at their store. The first 40 customers will receive goodie bags filled with a combination of papers, pipes, grinders, lanyards and T-shirts. Purchase $1 raffle tickets for a chance to win a new water pipe or spend $25 or more to draw random prizes out of a hat. Last year, one lucky customer went home with a new vaporizer pen. www.smokecityshop.com PREMIUM STASHES Customers who visit the staff at Habits Cigars & Smoke Shop (8391 Folsom Blvd. Ste. 7) on Sunday, April 20 receive 25 percent off all glass, which includes pipes, steamrollers, water pipes, dab sets and even oil rigs. What’s more, the shop also carries portable vaporizer pens, e-cigarettes and premium cigars. So, if fancy hand-rolled tobacco is more your bag, the store offers 10 percent off its San Lotano, Cohiba and Rocky Patel brands. (916) 383-1185

Out and about LAUGH OUT LOUD Ngaio Bealum not only writes the “420” column for the Sacramento News & Review, he’s also an activist, marijuana advocate and a comedian. So, it’s only fitting that Bealum hosts and organizes the 4/20 Comedy Festival each year at the Punch Line Comedy Club (2100 Arden Way, Ste. 225). Tickets are on sale now for $15 and all shows are 18 and over with a two-drink minimum. This event also doubles as a DVD release party for the “420 Friendly Comedy Special” filmed last fall at Momo Lounge. An Easter egg hunt is set to occur right inside the club, too because why not? Join Bealum with comedians Keith Lowell Jensen and Caitlin Gill at 7 p.m. for laughs and jokes all centered on cannabis culture. www.punchlinesac.com HEARTBURN FOR A CAUSE Start a Saturday afternoon off right with beer and chili. In fact, lots and lots of chili. Yes, vegetarians are invited, too. The third annual Sacramento Beer & Chili Festival in Fremont Park (1515 Q St.) features four categories: individual, industry, vegetarian and people’s choice. Endless beer tastings provided by Speakeasy Ales & Lagers, Two Rivers Cider and more. Bring the whole family and peddle down to the park with its complimentary bike valet, kids’ zone and live music provided by Twilight Drifters, Hans Eberbach and URDOM. Twelve restaurants will compete for the tastiest industry chili title like 58 Degrees & Holding Co., Blackbird Kitchen + Beer Gallery and Tank House BBQ & Bar. The cook-off begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 19. Tickets start at $35 and include a 5-ounce beer mug and1-ounce chili bowl both good for endless tastes. All proceeds benefit the Sacramento Artists Council, an organization that supports art programs for homeless children and Sacramento regional schools. www.sacramentobeerandchilifestival.com SacAlternative | April 2014

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AltOpinion

The Real Radicals of Sacramento Closing Monsanto’s Door by Andy Conn

About 4:30 a.m. on a chilly May morning Little Chris and I pulled across from Monsanto Corporation, Davis and parked in front of the community garden. Turns out Little Chris with his anarchist fashion sense and expertise on major issues turned out to be an agent provocateur working with the government, but I’ll save that for another story.

demanded that this gift from paid off politicians was not to be renewed. Those of us in the Monsanto wars took credit for the victory. Hooray for us. It is easy to see how Monsanto can pull off these bits of nasty. They have politicians in their back pockets, former employees in positions of authority within the government and more lobbyists than one could shake a terminator seed at.

The vegetable stalks in the community garden started swaying and crunching then parting and out of the garden appeared Kim, Ryan, Sarah and Autumn bikes and supplies in tow. They had biked over from Sacramento the night before to get an early start. They began to line up the bikes in the driveways as I began to string the bio hazard tape over the front two driveways. Ant and his crew showed up by 5 p.m. and began to make barricades in the back driveways out of discarded pallets. Ant is a barrel-chested activist with a hard edge commitment to ending Monsanto’s deadly practices and a sense of humor that can disarm and charm even the toughest security guard. The driveways were now blocked and the employees were not going to get in. Headlights glare was cresting the ridge line through the early morning mist as more of our troops were arriving. By 10 a.m. there would be over 100 of us lining the Monsanto campus making noise and waving at passing cars.

By about 6 a.m. Cass and the Aztec dancers have arrived to dance the sunrise ceremony. The parking lot is still empty but we have gotten word from Ant and his partner Taylor that cops were trying to escort the employees through the very back driveway. I raced over and I found my son Kahlen and his best friend Colin from Chicken Foot Ranch and Activist Center, standing on top of the barricade waving red and black flags. Fellow activist Paul and his crew from Reno were effectively forming a chain. Only one employee got through. He was going to be very lonely today. The scene looked like a tableau from the revolutionary play “Les Misérables.” I have never been so proud of my son.

This was our fourth shut down of Monsanto Davis. Most of them had been successful. Our one attempt at shutting down Monsanto Woodland was not successful. They had hired a massive amount of second tier mercenaries to shut us down. The shut downs were the brain child of Bobby Payan. The first one took place in May of 2012. Since then others have picked up the mantel and spearheaded the events. We shut down Monsanto to raise awareness. Monsanto’s business practices are deadly. This is the corporation that brought you Saccharin and Aspartame, genetically modified crops, PCB’s, Round up, terminator seeds and DDT. Almost everything Monsanto is involved in is at its core is toxic. Just consider their handling of the PCB fiasco. Turns out PCB’s cause a ravenous cancer in humans. Monsanto knew this and waited eight years to inform the public. A real mind blower was the Monsanto Protection Act, a nasty rider attached to the farm bill holding Monsanto harmless from any law suits that may arise from their malfeasance. A first of its kind corporate rider that was dropped when public awareness 32

As social justice street activists all of us are dedicated to bring corporations who are bad corporate neighbors to their knees and Monsanto is one bad corporate neighbor. By 10 a.m. the Fresh Juice Party was setting up their sound system to get us all rocking. Jenn Rogar was off on the side tuning her guitar and conspiring with a few activists. Ryan had begun the arduous task of cooking a vegan meal for a hundred or so people. Al Rojas, who battled along side of Cesar Chavez, was our keynote speaker and he tore it up, firing us up, connecting the dots between Monsanto and the deaths of farm workers. Quanah from the American Indian Movement gave a fiery speech on indigenous peoples and Monsanto’s destruction of the Earth. As the day concluded, our thoughts drifted toward our friend and fellow justice warrior Andrea Mrotz, who was organizing for the “No on GMO” battle and preparing our seed exchange. Mrotz was found dead less than six months later, hit by a train at the Davis Amtrak station. No one knows how she got on the tracks. We do this Monsanto closure every six months for ourselves but also for the press. We are the canaries in the mine shaft. Street activists always play a major role in shaping public opinion. We will continue to shout and jump about from the front line because our tactics work. Join us on May 23 as we close Monsanto Davis for the fifth time. For more information, look for us on Facebook or on the streets. SacAlternative | April 2014

AltMusic

Kill the Precedent www.facebook.com/killtheprecedent

by Steph Rodriguez Prepare the acceptance speech The guys in Kill the Precedent are nominated for two Independent Music Awards for its album “Dialogues with the Dead” and song, “Free Reign (Everybody’s Dead),” in the metal/hardcore categories. KTP’s 12-track album released through Minus Head Records last August was quickly followed by a music video for its song, “Goodbye Lullaby,” which captures the theatrical antics the band often showcases during live performances. So, just imagine blood, ninjas and pillow fights that end in decapitation. Forged from members of longtime Sacramento hardcore bands like Hoods, Red Tape and Pipedown, KTP’s seven-member army is equipped with decades of musical experience. What’s more is the guys draw influence from myriad genres, like the dark and gloomy attitude of gothic rock band Bauhaus, to the more thrash-metal years of Agnostic Front. All these sounds put through a KTP-approved meat grinder, encapsulate the band’s complexity with its heavy, electro-rock moments. Want to help KTP bring home two music awards? Fans are encouraged to log onto the Independent Music Awards’ website to SacAlternative | April 2014

cast their votes. Also, see KTP live on Friday, April 18 with Armed for Apocalypse, Horseneck and Solanum at Midtown Barfly (1119 21st St.); $8, 8 p.m., 18 and over. www.independentmusicawards.com; www.facebook.com/killtheprecedent. Punks on a big screen—local sister-duo Dog Party were contacted by the filmmakers and creative minds behind the movie “SLC Punk” to audition for the sequel currently in production titled, “SLC Punk 2 Punk’s Dead.” Producers asked Lucy and Gwendolyn Giles to tryout by recording two of their favorite scenes from the ’90s flick. So, they did and sent them away. Shortly after, the young musicians’ audition videos appeared on the SLC Punk Facebook page and the movie’s cult fans continue to “like” each one. I messaged Lucy (drummer) to ask her about the videos and she’s quite excited about the possibility of a Dog Party cameo, but the only news safe for public release is negotiations are afoot. www.facebook.com/dogpartylive; www.facebook.com/slcpunk2.

and slow-burning candelabras give Witch Room (1815 19th St.) a real “Interview with the Vampire”-like vibe. The new music venue hosted a five-band lineup on its first night Tuesday, March 25, which included So Stressed, Darlingchemicalia and Wax Idols. As the house photo booth flashed, So Stressed demonstrated what the new feng shui of the room does for sound—a huge improvement and cannier use of space. Witch Room inhabits the same building as former venue, clothing store and art gallery Bows and Arrows, which had an awkward, designated area for live music. Now, the stage occupies a nicely sized corner of the space allowing music to naturally fill the room and reach the back patio at a decent volume. Sangria, cheap, and craft beers filled the hands of many and the space’s lascivious décor seemed to inspire tons of black lace, combat boots and flowing dark clothing. Despite this tone, Witch Room is open to all genres according to its website. Three days after its debut event, hip-hop groups Tel Cairo and DLRN performed. www.witchroomsac.com.

Which room?—Deep purple walls, velvet red curtains, intimate cushioned booths, 33

AltFood

Bees: Nature’s Provider by Joey Cline Honey, one of the most delectable natural foods on earth, is becoming scarcer as the creatures that produce it mysteriously disappear.

neo-nicotinoid pesticides to suppress harmful insects and increase crop yields is the cause. Farming is, after all, about profits.

A common source of food for many species other than our own, including bears, possums, skunks, badgers, birds and insects of many types, honey is vanishing along with the bees that produce it.

It is widely believed that not just one of these factors is to blame, but a combination of all. However, most researchers place a heavy emphasis on pesticides and their resultant effect on the immune systems of bees. However, the chemical industry, in defense of its products, rejects the influence of pesticides and attributes colony collapse disorder primarily to mite infestation.

In addition to honey, bees are also responsible for the production of many different crops. Not only do they pollinate the plants that we eat, but also those that are the sources of feed for the animals that we consume. The list is long and varied, but bees are central to the systems that support food production for human beings throughout the world. According to the Royal Society of London, an international study of 115 food crops grown in over 200 countries showed that 75 percent of the crops were pollinated by animals, especially bees. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, and feed stocks require pollination either to produce fruit or to allow plants to produce seeds for the next crop. According to the Department of Agriculture, 20 different genera of fruit trees, 10 varieties of berries and vines, over 26 different vegetables and beans, six different species of nut trees, many sources of animal feed, vegetable oil crops, cocoa, vanilla and coffee are all dependent on bee pollination in order to thrive. In addition to their role as agricultural pollinators, bees are often keystone species and play a crucial role in maintaining the structure of their entire ecological community. An ecosystem may experience a dramatic impact if a keystone species is eliminated and a reduction in bee populations has the potential to produce a ripple effect throughout the global ecosystem, which is why the plight of the bee is being investigated by scientists and organizations all over the world. George Meindl, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, said that pollinator declines can greatly impact species diversity within communities. “The vast majority of wild plant species, roughly 80 percent, rely directly on insect pollination for fruit and seed production,” Meindl said. “Generalist pollinators, such as honeybees and bumblebees, provide pollination services for many species of plants and thus are particularly important for maintaining community structure and function.” Renée Johnson, a specialist in agricultural policy, cites an infestation of hives by Varroa and Acarapis mites. Dr. Sainuddin Pattazhy, a researcher from India, suggests electromagnetism from microwaves and power lines cripples the “navigational skills” of worker bees when they leave their colonies to collect nectar. Tim Lovett, director of public affairs at the British Beekeepers’ Association, claims erratic climate change is to blame and academics at Washington State University say the increasing use of

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“The idea that it all started in 2006 and coincided with the introduction of neo-nicotinoid insecticides is a myth,” said David L. Fischer, director of Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment at Bayer Cropscience. Recent findings in Europe are proving otherwise. Recognizing the importance of restoring bee populations, the European Union (EU) banned systemic neo-nicotinoid pesticides from all 28 member nations on April 29, 2013. While supported by 15 nations in the EU member states, the ban did not reach the required majority under voting rules. The hung vote accordingly handed the final decision to the European Commission, which implemented the ban for two years effective Dec. 1, 2013. Tony Borg, European Union health and consumer commissioner, remarked at the time: “Our proposal is based on a number of risks to bee health identified by the European Food Safety Authority, [so] the European Commission will go ahead with its plan.” The EU’s conclusion that the ecological effect of heavy pesticides could be causative of Colony Collapse Disorder will allow scientists an opportunity to evaluate the removal of neo-nicotinoids from the bees’ habitat. The Environmental Protection Agency is in agreement with the EFSA findings regarding the impact of neo-nicotinoid nerve agents on bees and is currently reviewing three of them: clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam. After further assessment and in accordance with Department of Agriculture policy for risk management, the EPA will determine the next course of action to be taken in the United States. What does the future hold? If honeybees continue to die off at the present rate, will we see a ripple effect throughout the global ecosystem? The answer, according to Madhu Roye of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Trond Larsen of Princeton University, is most likely yes. “On a broader scale, loss of pollinators or disruption of pollination systems may cause reduced seed and fruit production and ultimately plant extinction,” Roye said. Are we really willing to trade food for profits?

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AltFood

In the Raw Health benefits of Raw Apple Cider Vinegar by Reverend Dane Over 25 million Americans suffer from diabetes,

to: toothache, weight loss, rheumatism and

establishment remains unavailable. However,

according to data from a 2011 report from the

arthritis, gout, allergies, high cholesterol, high

the lack of scientific evidence proving its validity

American Diabetes Association—that’s over 8

blood pressure joint pain, dandruff, chronic

does not necessarily indicate an ineffectual

percent of the population, costing over $245

fatigue, acne, sore throat, acid reflux, gum

result in its use.

billion in direct and indirect medical expenses.

infection, sinus infection, flu, ear infections, leg

Treatment can be invasive, painful and

cramps, and the list goes on.

Since science allows us to deconstruct things to their individual components in order to

expensive, but a 2007 study exploring the

There’s even relief for Fido: As a topical, it has

understand how they work, I believe too often

therapeutic benefits of one of the most

also been used as a treatment for flea, tick,

scientists only see things as their component

universal elixirs known to mankind, raw apple

and mite problems in pets—all through the

parts; missing the synergy found as a result

cider vinegar may provide those suffering from

power of alkalinity.

of their interactions together. Composites have

diabetes a natural and pharmaceutical-free treatment regimen.

Most question that since vinegar is acidic, how can it have an alkaline effect on the human

the potential to be much more than the sum of components

According to the study conducted by Andrea M.

body? Raw ACV causes pH levels to become

The health benefits of raw ACV are dependent

White, Ph.D. and Carol S. Johnston, Ph.D, the

more alkaline via a chemical reaction in the

on the organic construction of its composition.

data collected suggested that “vinegar ingestion

digestive system known as oxidation.

In this hurry up world of profitability, the original

at bedtime may favorably impact waking glucose concentrations in Type 2 diabetes.”

When the digestive process breaks down the ACV, the resultant “ash” is alkaline in nature

nature of many products is adapted to make money first, compromising the product just to get the item to market.

As someone who has suffered from high

and this counteracts the tendency of the typical

blood pressure, acid reflux, arthritis, and an

American diet to create an acidic pH in our

You’ll see the greatest health benefits derived

occasional toothache, I’ve experienced the

bodies. Many health issues are attributed to

from raw ACV that is made properly from

healing power of this medicine of the ages.

this, according to “Folk Medicine: A Vermont

organic apples, using traditional fermentation,

Doctor’s Guide to Good Health” by D.C. Jarvis.

raw (unpasteurized) and unfiltered. A simple

Raw ACV has been purported to be a natural remedy for many maladies throughout history.

Consuming a tonic made with apple cider

In 400 B.C. the father of modern medicine,

vinegar can help restore alkalinity, and therefore

Hippocrates, discovered apple cider vinegar’s

assist the body in combating the health issues I

antibiotic properties and prescribed it to his

mentioned above.

patients for its therapeutic benefits. It had been used for centuries since then, but forgotten in most current times by modern medicine in favor of costly prescription drugs and over the counter remedies.

In over 25 years of studying herbalism and folk remedies, and researching the health benefits of raw ACV, I’ve found a lot of anecdotal evidence but not much scientific evidence to back up all of these claims. Since there is an absence

Raw ACV has anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and

of clinical studies regarding the efficacy of

anti-fungal properties. Described as a panacea

using raw ACV to obtain an alkaline status

for many issues that include, but are not limited

of the body, definitive proof by the medical

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tonic can be made from 1-2 teaspoons raw ACV, and 1 teaspoon of honey in a cup of warm water. There are two major brands on the market, but it can be difficult to find locally. Fortunately, it’s easy and very inexpensive to make. It just takes some time to ferment; I will be happy to supply you with my recipe for making it at home just by emailing me at reverend.dane@sacalternative.com. Good health to you!

[contiuned from page 17] was caused by current polling of millennials showing massive support for liberal causes like marijuana legalization and gay marriage. Also the efforts of people in the marijuana community to educate and guide the Democrats down the right path are starting to bear fruit. Lanny Swerdlow, a registered nurse, founded a political club of marijuana activists named after Mary Jane Rathbun or “Brownie Mary” as she is commonly known, a medical cannabis activist in San Francisco famous for illegally providing cannabis brownies to patients with AIDS. Rathbun and activist Dennis Peron lobbied for the legalization of cannabis for medical use, and were instrumental in the passage San Francisco Prop P (1991) and Ca Prop 215 (1996). In addition, Rathbun helped establish the first medical cannabis dispensary in the United States, The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club. Since its inception in early 2013, Brownie Mary chapters have cropped up around California including Sacramento. These clubs have reached out to local Democratic politicians giving endorsements in races sending out letters and filing motions with various groups to move the marijuana legalization agenda forward. Swerdlow was instrumental in preparing language about cannabis legalization to the 26-page document that was submitted for the California Democratic Party platform. Marcia Blount, president and founder of the local Sacramento County Brownie Mary Democratic Club, spoke to me after attending the convention in Los Angeles. “The Brownie Mary Democratic Club was well-represented at the [convention],” she said. “Lanny Swerdlow, Susan O’Leary, Loren Brauner, Yamileth Bolanos from their respective Brownie Mary Clubs, Cheri Sicard (Cannabis Cheri), and Diane Goldstein from Law Enforcement against Prohibition, were there at the Brownie Mary booth talking to lots of folks. We spoke about the waste of lives with so many young people being incarcerated for minor drug offenses. We spoke about the financial cost of incarceration versus the cost of education. And we spoke of the incredible medical uses of marijuana. All in all, there were a few people who had negative views of marijuana; but, for the most part, most people were quite supportive of our cause.” Marcia Blount said that anyone who wants to get involved in helping the cause should contact their local Brownie Mary Club, National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), Americans for Safe Access (ASA), Drug Policy Alliance, and/or the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) groups. I’m not inclined declare the drug war over, or believe that the Democrats will be able to shift the country to full legalization; but here in California, they essentially rule. Having people like Newsom, Sen. Mark Leno and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano in our state government will help move progress and mainstream acceptance forward. Local politicians like Steve Cohn, Rosalyn Van Buren, and Ali Cooper are now seeking endorsements, wanting to champion our cause. In the case of Cohn, we saw real progress in keeping our medical dispensaries open in the city. Party politics move slowly, it takes time to shift consciousness, and though many of us would rather this change in 2014 rather than 2016, we are grateful for any progress.■ 40

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AltMusic Sunday Brunch at the Shady Lady With Dance Gavin Dance’s own Matthew Mingus by Sarah Sinclair As Sacramento’s own post-hardcore heroes embark on a national tour, SacAlt sat down with one of its band members to get the lowdown on the new album and his take on the local music scene. What instrument do you play? I play the drums in Dance Gavin Dance You’re currently on tour promoting your fifth studio album. Tell me a bit about the process of recording “Acceptance Speech?” The process of recording “Acceptance Speech” was pretty much the same as all the other process for our previous records before that. We wrote it here in Sacramento, all the music, this time we were able to travel to Atlanta to record with Matt Malpass. I went to Atlanta to record drums the first couple of weeks, and then we did the guitars, base and vocals. Vocals were actually written back home and in the studio, a mixture of the two. Your music typically incorporates many different genres; does “Acceptance Speech” follow that recipe? Yes, “Acceptance Speech” definitely incorporates lots of different genres, that has sort of has been the style for DGD through the years. It’s kind of just throwing in different parts and aspects of different genres of music, such as, R&B and hard core, some punk rock; So It makes for an interesting sound. The band is known for switching up its members quite frequently. Does it work in favor of this formula for mixing it up genre-wise? [Laughs] Now, yes the band is known for switching up the members throughout the years. But, that definitely has worked in our favor in a way, as far as mixing up the genres. All three of the singers that we have had, all have like a slightly different style of singing; Johnny Craig was more R&B and Kurt Travis was kind of more rock ‘n’ roll, and Tilian is more like a pop singer, so it definitely has helped us up mix up our genres. But as far as like writing the music goes, it has been Will Swan, the guitar player, and I over the past nine years, so definitely all the records will always have that similar DGD sound. I’ve seen quite a bit of your fans in Europe begging for a European leg of this tour. Any plans to jump across the pond

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Dance Gavin Dance www.facebook.com/DanceGavinDance

to perform any gigs over there? As far as going back to Europe this year, I’m not too sure. We just did a headlining tour over there last summer which was very successful for us, but this year I think that we are just staying in the states. Something might pop up, you know it would have to be a good tour for us to take on since we just headlined. I know a few of you are also in Secret Band. Tell me a little bit about how Secret Band differs from Dance Gavin Dance, and why there was a need to form this additional musical outlet? Secret Band is a project that we have with myself playing drums, Will Swan on guitar, and then Jon Mess on vocal. And then our buddy Jordan McCoy who was actually a touring bass player for DGD and my friend Martin, who played guitar in the band I was in before DGD. On this newer full length record that we just finished writing for secret band, myself and my buddy Martin were the main writers for it, It definitely differs from DGD; it is a lot heavier, it has more aspects of metal; Its fun, and we are really excited about it. The full length should be out by the end of this summer, August. Hopefully we will do a tour on it. What are your post-tour plans? Our plans after this headlining show are to come home and record the secret band project. DGD will be playing at CIP [Concerts in the Park] on June 6 and following that, an after party show at Assembly featuring all of our side projects. It should be a very good night. Having been formed in Sacramento, how has the River City influenced your sound and what do you think about how the music scene as evolved here? Being from Sacramento, and being in the music scene here since I was a kid, I have seen lots of transformation and lots of evolution. Right now I think our music scene in Sacramento is strong. With more and more newer venues going in downtown and obviously Ace of spades, Assembly and Luigi’s, any given night you can go to a show or an open mic, you can definitely see a live show within walking distance wherever you live downtown. I would say the music scene is very good here. Catch Dance Gavin Dance at Assembly with Capture The Crown, Palisades, Bleach Blonde, Defy the Odds and Our Native Tongue on

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Canna Care

AltShop

Smoke City by Josh Burke

A longtime player in the smoke shop game, Smoke City is a one-stop shop for all of the requisite gear required for a righteous smoke sesh. SacAlt sat down with E. Jweinat, owner and operator of the joint, to talk trends, longevity and the haps on 4/20.

like this. It’s also a plus when your brothers have shops of their

There are a lot of smoke shops in Sacramento and

I’d give a big “yes” to both those questions.

competition seems pretty tough. Why have you been able to thrive in this economy and what sets you apart? To begin with, this shop has been here for over 13 years and so we’re well established. During that time we’ve found that the most important key to success is putting our customers first. We pride ourselves on providing the best customer service we can. We take our time and educate our customers about the items we sell and try to answer all of their questions before they make any purchases. We carry the latest merchandise and top shelf glass.

own. You should see us when we get together. We’re like little kids always trying to outdo each other and that’s what makes us strive to be the best. Do you enjoy cannabis and do you think it should be legal?

What’s happening in the store on 4/20? We’re planning a lot of things. We will be open from 10 a.m. until midnight. We will be giving away goodie bags filled with every smoker’s need you can think of. We will be raffling off some glass and vaporizers. We will also be giving away gift cards and other items from the shop. We are also working on something big, but it’s a surprise so you will just have to come in that day to find out what it is.

We also take custom orders on glass and offer glass repair, which

What is your favorite part of running your own smoke shop?

I think gives us that extra edge.

It’s got to be our customers and of course getting to play with

What is the hottest thing on the market right now? That would definitely be vaporizers. We’ve always had them, but

all the new products that are out there. It’s like being a kid in a candy store.

with the addition of liquid and herb attachments we’ve seen a

What is your least favorite, if anything?

huge jump in the market for vape-pens. Dab rigs and the extra

To be honest I don’t think there’s anything I don’t like about the

accessories that go along with them, like the domeless Titanium

smoke shop business.

nails and dabbers from Highly Educated, are also hot right now. Is there anything consumers should be wary of when You mentioned that you have a lot of repeat customers. Why

shopping for smoke products and accessories?

do you think they keep coming back?

Always go into a reputable shop and make sure that the person

We pay attention to customer service and keep our shelves

behind the counter helping you knows his products and can

stocked with the newest products on the market. We listen to

explain everything about the product you’re interested in.

what our customers want and do whatever it takes to get it to them. We try to get to know our customers and are on a first

I heard a rumor you pulled a baby from a burning vehicle on

name basis with a lot of them.

Watt Avenue recently. Is there any truth to that? It’s not a rumor. What you heard is correct. That baby is now safe

How and why did you get into the business? Was it a family

and living in the shop. He’s the smoke shop baby..

thing or did you strike out on your own? I got into the business because I love the art of glass, the culture,

Disclaimer: this last question is an inside joke. No babies

and people. There’s no other place to get all that than at a shop

were harmed in the making of this interview.

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Jacobo’s Smoke Shop 2017 I Street Sacramento, CA 95811 916.440.0331

Illusion Smoke Shop 5514 Pacific St., Suite 160 Rocklin, CA 916.415.1750

1914 Fulton Ave. Sacramento, CA 95825 916.485.5205

Smoke City 6745 Watt Ave., Ste. B North Highlands, CA 95660 916.334.2067 www.smokecityshop.com

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Doctor’s Orders 1704 Main Avenue Sacramento, CA 95838

Smoke Shops

Habits Cigars and Smoke Shop 8391 Folsom Blvd., Ste. #7 Sacramento, CA 95826 916.383.1185

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