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SO THAT NOW THE HOBBY GROWER CAN ALSO HIT A HOLE IN ONE 4HE TECHNIQUES USED FOR KEEPING A GREEN OR FOOTBALL FIELD IN TOP SPORTING CONDITION DO NOT DIFFER SO VERY MUCH FROM THE GROWING TECHNIQUES THAT ARE USED IN OUR BRANCH OF AGRICULTURE 4HAT IS WHY 0LAGRON MAKES GREAT EFFORT TO ENSURE THAT THE EXPERTISE OF ITS SPECIALISTS IS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE HOBBY GROWER 7ITH 'REEN 3ENSATION YOU WILL HAVE THE VERY BEST 4/0 02/$5#4 FOR THE INDOOR GROWER AT YOUR DISPOSAL !FTER MANY YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING 0LAGRON NOW HAS A PRODUCT THAT MAKES FOUR OTHER PRODUCTS REDUNDANT AND WORKS BETTER THAN EVERYTHING THAT HAS COME BEFORE IT 4HE 'REEN 3ENSATION REPLACES THE ENZYMES 0+

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BY PLANTING SEEDS WE HAVE BEEN MANIPULATING PLANT ENVIRONMENTS )RRIGATION FERTILIZATION PRUNING AND BREEDING HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN OUR BAG OF AGRICULTURAL TRICKS FOR SEVERAL MILLENNIA 4HE USE OF LIGHT AND LIGHTING TO MANIPULATE PLANT GROWTH BEGAN IN THE EARLY TH CENTURY WITH THE ADVENT OF THE MODERN FLORAL INDUSTRY !T THAT TIME CHRYSANTHEMUMS WERE AVAILABLE ONLY SEASONALLY IN THE FALL 2ESEARCHERS LEARNED THAT THEIR FLOWERING COULD BE DELAYED OR INDUCED BY A LIGHTING REGIMEN #HRYSANTHEMUMS WERE DISCOVERED TO BE A SHORT DAY PLANT 3$0 REFERS TO THE PLANT S SENSITIVITY TO AND MEASURE OF THE LENGTH OF THE DARK PERIOD NOT TO THE LIT PERIOD 3ECONDLY THEY REQUIRE A CERTAIN CRITICAL PERIOD OF DARKNESS

THE NUMBER OF HOURS OF UNINTERRUPTED DARKNESS TO BE INDUCED TO FLOWER 4HE NUMBER OF HOURS VARIES BY VARIETY -ARIJUANA GROWERS USE THE SAME TECHNIQUES AS CHRYSANTHEMUM FARMERS

BECAUSE CANNABIS IS ALSO AN 3$0 )NDOOR GROWERS USUALLY PLACE THE PLANTS IN FLOWERING BY REDUCING THE NUMBER OF LIT HOURS TO RESULTING IN HOURS OF UNINTERRUPTED DARKNESS

À Ì V> Ê } ÌÊ«iÀ ` 4HE FORMULA HAS BEEN ACCEPTED WITHOUT QUESTION BY GROWERS ALL OVER THE WORLD 0ROBABLY ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THIS WAS MY DISCUSSION OF THE TECHNIQUE IN SOME OF MY EARLY BOOKS 4HE REGIMEN WAS SELECTED BECAUSE MY CO AUTHOR AND ) REASONED THAT NO MATTER WHAT CRITICAL PERIOD A VARIETY MIGHT HAVE GIVEN HOURS OF DARKNESS IT WOULD FLOWER (OWEVER

MOST MARIJUANA VARIETIES NEED FEWER THAN HOURS OF DARKNESS TO FLOWER )F MARIJUANA PLANTS GROWN OUTDOORS REQUIRED A HOUR DARK PERIOD TO FLOWER THEY WOULD NOT BE INDUCED TO START FLOWERING UNTIL 3EPTEMBER

THE FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN WHEN DAY AND NIGHT ARE EQUAL LENGTH 4HEY WOULD RIPEN WEEKS LATER )N REAL LIFE

MOST MODERN VARIETIES RIPEN BETWEEN EARLY 3EPTEMBER AND LATE /CTOBER "UDDING WAS TRIGGERED WEEKS EARLIER &OR INSTANCE AN EIGHT WEEK VARIETY THAT REQUIRES DAYS FROM FORCING TO MATURITY WHICH WOULD NORMALLY RIPEN ON /CTOBER ST WOULD START FLOWERING !UGUST !T THAT DATE IN 3AN &RANCISCO SUNRISE OCCURS AT AND SUNSET AT A TOTAL OF HOURS MINUTES $AWN AND DUSK ADD ANOTHER MINUTES OF RED LIGHT 0LANTS USE THE ABSENCE OF THIS SPECTRUM TO MEASURE THE DARK PERIOD 4HE TOTAL LIT PERIOD CAME TO ABOUT LEAVING MINUTES OF DARKNESS 4HE CRITICAL PERIOD FOR THIS PLANT WAS HOURS MINUTES )F IT WERE GIVEN JUST HOURS OF DARK PERIOD DAILY INDOORS RATHER THAN HOURS IT WOULD STILL FLOWER 'ARDENERS GROWING OUTDOORS WHO DISCOVER THE CRITICAL TIME NEEDED TO INDUCE FLOWERING CAN USE THIS INFORMATION TO GET MORE EFFICIENT USE OF THEIR INDOOR GARDEN #URRENTLY

PLANTS GROWN UNDER A CYCLE SPEND HALF THEIR TIME IN THE DARK )F THE PLANTS HAVE A CRITICAL FLOWERING TIME

OF FOR INSTANCE HOURS OF DARKNESS DAILY THEY CAN BE PROVIDED RATHER THAN HOURS OF LIGHT EACH DAY SO THAT THEY RECEIVE ALMOST MORE ENERGY WHICH THEY USE TO PRODUCE SUGARS USED FOR MORE AND FASTER GROWTH

> Õ« >Ì }Ê } ÌÊ ÕÌ` ÀÃ 3OMETIMES ) THINK NATURE DIDN T GET IT RIGHT AS FAR AS MARIJUANA RIPENING IS CONCERNED )F IT WERE DETERMINED BY HUMAN NEEDS THE BUDS WOULD BE READY IN LATE SPRING SO THEY D BE READILY AVAILABLE IN EARLY SUMMER THE PARTY SEASON )F THEY RIPENED AT THE BEST TIME FOR THE FARMER IT WOULD BE IN HIGH SUMMER WHEN THE WEATHER WAS WARM AND THE SUN STRONG !LAS NATURE HAS CHOSEN THE FALL 4HE HARVEST CAN BE GOOD IF THE WEATHER DOESN T ATTACK FIRST 7ITH A BIT OF EFFORT YOU CAN MANIPULATE THE OUTDOOR LIGHT CYCLE TO GROW AND FLOWER THE PLANTS AT YOUR CONVENIENCE ) THINK THAT THE BEST AND MOST CONVENIENT TIME TO HARVEST IS DURING THE SUMMER RATHER THAN THE FALL "UDS

4HE PLANTS WERE PLACED OUTSIDE EARLY IN THE SEASON AND WOULD HAVE STARTED FLOWERING UNDER NATURAL LIGHT WHICH INCLUDED A DARK PERIOD OF SLIGHTLY LESS THAN HOURS 4O KEEP THE PLANTS GROWING VEGETATIVELY AND PREVENT FLOWERING THE PLANTS WERE hSPRAY EDv WITH LIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF EACH DARK PERIOD 4HE BRIEF LIGHTING RESET THE PLANTS CHEMICAL COUNTDOWN OF THE CRITICAL DARK PERIOD 4HE FRAME WAS MADE FROM 06# PIPE 4HE GARDENER TOLD ME THAT IF HE WERE TO DO IT AGAIN AT LEAST PART OF THE FRAMING WOULD BE MADE FROM STEEL AND ALUMINUM TUBING TO MAKE IT MORE STABLE

!N AUTOMATED (03 LIGHT MADE BY 0!2 ,IGHTING FOR REGULATING FLOWERING 4HIS LAMP HELD OVER THE GARDEN USING WIRES OSCILLATES BACK AND FORTH COVERING AN AREA OF ABOUT SQUARE FEET ! TIMER WAS USED TO TURN THE LAMP ON FOR MINUTES EVERY HOURS OF THE DARK PERIOD

4HE PLANTS LINED UP NEATLY IN ROWS WERE COVERED EACH DAY USING WHITE BLACK PLASTIC TO LIMIT THE LIGHTED PERIOD TO ONLY HOURS !T THIS POINT THE SUN WAS RISING AT ABOUT !- 4HE PLANTS WERE COVERED AT 0- AND THEN THE CURTAIN WAS REMOVED AT 0- AFTER DUSK 4HIS LIMITED THE HUMIDITY AND DEW ON THE BUDS 4HE WHITE PART OF THE PLASTIC PLACED ON THE OUTSIDE REFLECTED LIGHT TO KEEP THE INTERIOR COOL 4HE OPAQUE BLACK INTERIOR ABSORBED ANY LIGHT THAT MIGHT PENETRATE

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THAT RIPEN MIDSUMMER EXPERIENCE MUCH MORE INTENSE LIGHT AND MUCH MORE 56 SPECTRUM THAN FALL RIPENED BUDS 4HE INTENSE LIGHT GIVES THE PLANT ENERGY TO GROW A BIGGER BUD 4HE 56 LIGHT INCREASES ITS POTENCY 4O FORCE THE PLANTS TO FLOWER DURING THE SUMMER THEY NEED TO RECEIVE THE CRITICAL DARK PERIOD EACH DAY #OVERING THE PLANTS WITH A BLACKOUT CLOTH EACH DAY SO THEY RECEIVE HOURS OF DARKNESS PUSHES THE PLANTS INTO FLOWERING MODE $ECIDE WHETHER YOU ARE GOING TO RESTRICT LIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OR END OF EACH DAY )F YOU RESTRICT LIGHT DURING IN THE MORNING

PLACE THE BLACKOUT CLOTH OVER THE PLANTS JUST BEFORE DAWN THEN REMOVE IT PROMPTLY AT THE APPOINTED TIME &OR INSTANCE IF THE SUN SETS AT THE CURTAIN WHICH WAS PLACED ON THE GARDEN AT RIGHT BEFORE DAWN

IS REMOVED AT )F YOU KNOW THE PLANTS CRITICAL TIME PERIOD FOR FLOWERING YOU CAN ADJUST THE CURTAIN TIMES ACCORDINGLY )F THE PLANTS ARE TO BE COVERED IN THE AFTERNOON THEN COUNT FORWARD HOURS FROM SUNRISE )F THE SUN RISES AT

THE CURTAINS SHOULD GO ON AT 2EMOVE THE COVER AT THE END OF DUSK 4HE COVER IS REMOVED BECAUSE MOISTURE BUILDS UP ON IT FROM DEW AND PLANT TRANSPIRATION 2EMOVING THE COVER LIMITS THE TIME THE PLANT EXPERIENCES A HIGH HUMIDITY ENVIRONMENT )N LATE STAGES MOLD PREVENTION MEASURES SHOULD BE TAKEN 4HE PLANTS CAN BE SPRAYED WITH 3ERENADE BIOLOGICAL FUNGICIDE :ERO 4OLERANCE HERBAL FUNGICIDE POTASSIUM BICARBONATE OR OTHER FUNGICIDES )N SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY SUCH AS THE GULF COAST AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN #ALIFORNIA THE TEMPERATURE NEVER DIPS BELOW # AND PLANTS CAN BE GROWN ALL YEAR ROUND )N AREAS THAT ARE SLIGHTLY COOLER BUT NEVER FREEZE A COLD FRAME OR UNHEATED GREENHOUSE IS ALL THAT IS REQUIRED TO KEEP THE PLANTS GROWING "ESIDES TEMPERATURE THE PROBLEM WITH GROWING PLANTS OUTDOORS DURING THE WINTER IS THAT THE DARK PERIOD IS MORE THAN HOURS AND THE PLANTS ARE TRIGGERED TO FLOWER 4HIS IS A GOOD TIME TO GROW A SATIVA DOMINANT HYBRID BECAUSE THESE VARIETIES CONTINUE TO GROW EVEN AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN TRIGGERED TO FLOWER !NOTHER TECHNIQUE IS TO INTERRUPT THE DARK CYCLE WITH LIGHT 4HE LIGHT DOESN T NEED TO LIGHT THE PLANT FOR LONG JUST A FEW SECONDS 4HINK OF IT AS A WATER SPRAY 9OU WANT TO GET ALL THE LEAVES hWETv WITH LIGHT BUT ONCE THEY HAVE BEEN SPRAYED THEY NEED NO MORE LIGHT 4HIS SHORT INTERRUPTION OF THE DARK CYCLE IS ENOUGH TO RESET THE TIME COUNT OF UNINTERRUPTED DARKNESS "Y LIGHTING THE PLANTS EVERY FEW HOURS DURING THE DARK PERIOD THE PLANTS CONTINUE TO GROW VEGETATIVELY AND NOT FLOWER

4HIS LIGHTWEIGHT PORTABLE CARPORT WAS USED AS A GREENHOUSE 4HE TRANSLUCENT TOP DISPERSED THE LIGHT SO THERE WAS LESS SHA DING 4HE OPEN SIDES KEPT AIR CIRCULATING DURING HOT PERIODS 7ITH THE THREAT OF INCLEMENT WEATHER CLEAR PLASTIC WAS ATTA CHED USING 6ELCRO TO KEEP THE PLANTS DRY

7HEN THE LIGHT INTERRUPTION STOPS THE PLANTS IMMEDIATELY START TO FLOWER 0LANTS CAN BE STARTED IN !UGUST AND PLANTING CAN CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WINTER 4O INCREASE GROWTH NATURAL LIGHT CAN BE ENHANCED USING REFLECTIVE MATERIAL AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS 3PRING STARTS ON -ARCH

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THEY WILL RIPEN IN MID !UGUST

4HESE BLUE ,%$ LIGHTS CAN BE USED TO SUPPLEMENT (03 LAMPS 0LANTS REGULATE FLO WERING USING RED LIGHT SO THESE PURE BLUE LIGHTS DO NOT AFFECT IT 4HE DO USE BLUE LIGHT FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND THE SPECTRUM ALSO PROMOTES STOCKY STEM GROWTH

4HIS HEADBAND LIGHT WITH GREEN ,%$S CAN BE USED TO WORK AROUND THE GARDEN DURING THE DARK PERIOD 0LANTS ARE INSENSITIVE TO GREEN LIGHT SO IT WON T AFFECT PLANT FLOWERING

SPECTRUM USUALLY COMPRISES ABOUT PERCENT OF THEIR OUTPUT )F YOU WANT TO TRY TANNING LAMPS THEY ARE AVAILABLE ON THE )NTERNET 5SE BETWEEN PERCENT OF YOUR TOTAL WATTAGE TO THESE LAMPS &OR A WATT GARDEN USE WATTS OF SPECIAL LIGHTING !DDING 56 " LIGHT TO YOUR GARDEN WILL ENHANCE YOUR MARIJUANA NATURALLY WITHOUT hSPECIAL FORMULASv AND CHEMICALS

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!S PLANTS EVOLVED FOR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS THEY NEVER ACTUALLY HAD TO DEAL WITH SEPARATION OF LIGHT SPECTRUMS OR UNUSUAL LIGHTING REGIMES 7HEN THEY RECEIVED LIGHT IT CAME FROM THE SUN IN A MIXTURE OF SPECTRUMS AND THEY COULD PICK AND CHOOSE WHICH TO USE )T WAS ONLY WITH THE ADVENT FIRST OF GAS AND THEN ELECTRIC LIGHTING THAT PLANTS ENCOUNTERED UNUSUAL REGIMENS AND SPLINTERED SPECTRUMS

56" LIGHT ALSO AFFECTS MARIJUANA POTENCY 4HE POTENCY OF HIGH QUALITY MARIJUANA INCREASES IN DIRECT RATIO TO THE AMOUNT OF 56" LIGHT IT RECEIVES 4HIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT )N #ALIFORNIA

WHERE THE MEDICAL DISPENSARIES OPERATE IN AN UNRESTRICTED MARKET MANY DISPENSARIES REJECT FALL HARVESTED OUTDOOR MATERIAL AS INFERIOR 4HEY HAVE FOUND IT LACKS THE POTENCY OF INDOOR CROPS AND IS A HARSH SMOKE (OWEVER

WHEN THEY WERE PRESENTED WITH MARIJUANA GROWN OUTDOORS BUT FORCED TO RIPEN !UGUST THEY ACCEPTED IT AS IF IT WERE INDOOR BECAUSE OF ITS HIGH POTENCY AND LACK OF HARSHNESS ) THINK THE HARSHNESS RESULTS FROM COOL NIGHTS

)NDOORS UNDER FLUORESCENT AND (03 LAMPS GARDENS RECEIVE LITTLE 56 " LIGHT -ETAL HALIDES EMIT A BIT MORE (OWEVER THERE ARE WAYS OF SUPPLYING YOUR GARDEN WITH 56 " LIGHT 4ANNING LAMPS WORK THAT IS LAMPS THAT TAN PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE 56 " LIGHT THEY EMIT 5SING TANNING LAMPS WILL INCREASE THE 4(# CONTENT OF THE CROP 2EPTILES AND LIZARDS REQUIRE THE SPECTRUM TO STAY HEALTHY 3O THE

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THEY ARE NOT SENSITIVE TO THEM AS FAR AS FLOWERING IS CONCERNED 4HEY ARE ALMOST TOTALLY INSENSITIVE TO GREEN LIGHT AND FOR THIS REASON REFLECT IT BACK TO US WHILE ABSORBING MOST OTHER SPECTRUMS 0LANTS INSENSITIVITY TO GREEN LIGHT CAN BE USED TO A GARDENER S ADVANTAGE 9OU KNOW THAT TURNING THE LIGHT ON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DARK CYCLE DISTURBS THE PLANTS FLOWERING PARADIGM 4HE LIGHT

(03 FLUORESCENT AND -( LAMPS ALL EMIT RED LIGHT 'REEN FLUORESCENT AND ,%$ LIGHTS CONTAIN NO RED LIGHT AND WILL NOT DISTURB THE DARK PERIOD 9OU CAN GO IN THE GARDEN UNDER ADEQUATE LIGHT TO WORK AS LONG AS IT IS GREEN 0LANTS USE BLUE LIGHT FOR CERTAIN REGULATORY PROCESSES AND ALSO FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS #HLOROPHYLL ABSORBS BOTH BLUE AND RED LIGHT AND USES THE LIGHT S ENERGY TO POWER THE COMPLEX PROCESS IN WHICH WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ARE CONVERTED TO SUGAR AND OXYGEN GAS "LUE LIGHT DOES NOT AFFECT THE REGULATION OF FLOWERING 7HEN BLUE LIGHT IS TURNED ON DURING THE DARK PERIOD PLANTS PHOTOSYNTHESIZE BUT THEIR FLOWERING ISN T AFFECTED 4HIS RESULTS IN MORE GROWTH AS THE PLANTS PRODUCE MORE SUGARS "EFORE ,%$ LIGHTS IT WAS DIFFICULT TO CREATE A PURE BLUE LIGHT )NSTEAD MOST OF THE TIME OTHER SPECTRUMS WERE FILTERED OUT

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AND THEY GO ABOUT THEIR WORK WITH THE SORT OF RECKLESS ABANDON WHICH HAS SEEN THEM THROWING HIGHLY DANGEROUS CHEMICALS OUT OF THE WINDOWS OF HIGH RISE APARTMENTS hLIKE *EAN #LAUDE 6AN $AMMEv AS 0ADDY )RISHMAN PUTS IT 3%/. S EXUBERANCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANNABIS HAS LED TO COURT BATTLES OVER HUMAN RIGHTS INFRINGEMENTS AND THE MEANS TO WHICH THE SINISTER SOUNDING 3%/. WILL GO TO DETECT FARMS IS DOWNRIGHT DYSTOPIAN 'EORGE /RWELL HASN T A PATCH ON THE MODERN DAY VICE POLICE WHO DEPLOY THERMAL GUNS

HELICOPTERS AND SNIFFING MACHINES AGAINST PLANTS POTS AND SOIL h4HE NEW DEVICE IS THE ELECTRONIC SNIFFER IT S LIKE SOMETHING STRAIGHT OUT OF SCI FI v 0ADDY !MERICAN EXCLAIMS h!ND THEY HAVE A TINY HELICOPTER DEVICE WITH ONE IN BUILT BLADE

WHICH CAN HOVER OVER A BUILDING OR NEIGHBORHOOD v h5NFORTUNATELY THE EQUIPMENT WE USE FOR SMELL SUPPRESSION IN GROW ROOMS ONLY MAKES IT SMELL PROOF TO A HUMAN NOSE !N ELECTRONIC DEVICE WOULD BE ABLE TO DETECT IT AND THEY ARE STICKING THESE THINGS THROUGH LETTERBOXES v h4HERE S NO REAL WAY AROUND ITv 0ADDY !MERICAN CONCLUDES PESSIMISTICALLY "ESIDES THE NEW MINI CHOPPERS

THERE ARE REGULAR THERMAL IMAGING HELICOPTER FLIGHTS OVER !MSTERDAM S NEIGHBORHOODS h4UESDAY NIGHTS ARE CHOPPER NIGHT v 0ADDY !MERICAN SAYS WITH AN AIR OF DREAD THAT S ONLY SLIGHTLY THEATRICAL (OW DO THEY COPE WITH THE CHOPPER h0RAYv SAYS 0ADDY !MERICAN SIMPLY (E EXPANDS SLIGHTLY h9OU GOTTA PREP YOUR SHIT LIGHTS OUT MAXIMUM DISCRETION v )T GETS WORSE -OBILE THERMAL IMAGING DEVICES ARE BEING USED TO SPOT INDOOR FARMS h%VERY 3%/. VAN HAS A THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA ON THE ROOF WHICH CAN DO A DEGREE TURN AND GET AN IMAGE OF ALL THE BUILDINGS ON THAT STREET v 0ADDY )RISHMAN EXPLAINS 4HERE ARE THANKFULLY SOME CHECKS ON THIS NIGHTMARISH POWER h!T THE MOMENT ALL THEY CAN DO IS VIEW THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING WHICH FACES THE STREET !ND A $UTCH JUDGE HAS SAID THAT THEY CAN T JUST INDISCRIMINATELY TAKE THERMAL READINGS OF ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS BUT THIS TECHNOLOGICAL KNOW HOW IS BEING EXPORTED ALL OVER THE WORLDv HE SAYS NOTING THAT .ORWEGIAN POLICE ARE THE LATEST FORCE TO AVAIL OF THESE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS 4HIS INCREASED LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY IS THE CHIEF REASON FOR THE DRAMATIC PRICE HIKES IN !MSTERDAM S COFFEE SHOPS THOUGH THERE ARE SOMETIMES MORE LOCAL REASONS

'EORGE /RWELL HASN T A PATCH ON THE MODERN DAY VICE POLICE WHO DEPLOY THERMAL GUNS

HELICOPTERS AND SNIFFING MACHINES AGAINST PLANTS POTS AND SOIL h)N ONE PLACE ) KNOW THE PRICES HAVE GONE UP BECAUSE THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH -OROCCAN YOUTHS HANGING AROUND

AND UNFORTUNATELY THE EASIEST WAY TO GET RID OF THEM AND TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM WAS TO PUT THE PRICES UP v .EEDLESS TO SAY NONE OF THE GROWERS AGREED THAT PRICES HAD GONE UP TOO MUCH INDEED THERE S A GOOD CHANCE THAT PRICES WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB UNTIL A MORE LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION IN 4HE (AGUE DECIDES TO DECOMMISSION THE WAR ON WEED LAUNCHED BY THE CURRENT #HRISTIAN GOVERNMENT /F COURSE THE INFLATION IS NOT ENTIRELY DOWN TO THE GROWERS 0ADDY )RISHMAN EXPLAINS THAT THE GROWER RECEIVES LESS THAN HALF OF THE FEE COMMANDED BY THE COFFEE SHOP 4HERE ARE ALSO MASSIVE FINANCIAL PITFALLS TO THE CULTIVATION

INDUSTRY CHIEFLY THE RISK OF MASSIVE FINANCIAL LOSS IF A GROW OP IS UNCOVERED AND DISMANTLED h! FRIEND OF MINE LOST GRANDv

0ADDY )RISHMAN RECALLS h) WAS INVOLVED IN THAT PROJECT AND IN FACT ) WAS DUE TO BE SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HOUSE TRIMMING IN HOURS SO IN ONE SENSE IT WAS LUCKY THAT IT WAS BUSTED WHEN IT WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS NOBODY THERE v h.ONETHELESS ) TOOK A BIG LOSS ON THAT

BECAUSE ) HAD AGREED TO A PROFIT SHARE 3O ) LOST SIX MONTHS OF HARD WORK AND ) HAD INITIALLY AGREED TO A EURO PER HOUR FEE BUT HAVING CLOCKED UP SO MANY HOURS ) WAS GIVEN THE OPTION OF A SHARE OF THE PROFITS WHICH ) STUPIDLY ACCEPTED v HE SAYS RUEFULLY 4HE ONLY THINGS HE CAME OUT WITH WERE HIS FREEDOM AND AN INVIGORATED SENSE OF CAUTION !S A SELF CONFESSED @HIPPY GARDENER 0ADDY )RISHMAN SOMETIMES FEELS A LITTLE OUT OF PLACE IN THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE CANNABIS INDUSTRY WHERE HE SAYS hA LOT OF HARDCORE CRIMINALS ARE INVOLVED

BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE MADE )N (OLLAND VERY FEW COMMERCIAL GARDENERS ARE IN IT FOR THE WEED THEY ARE IN IT FOR THE CASHv /BVIOUSLY THERE S A GREAT DEAL OF CASH IN THE EXPORT MARKET AND WITH COUNTRIES LIKE )RELAND CRYING OUT FOR CANNABIS SOME ENTERPRISING EX PATS HAVE GOTTEN INVOLVED IN THE EXPORT BUSINESS 5NFORTUNATELY THE QUALITY OF PRODUCT FOR EXPORT IS GENERALLY A LOT LOWER THAN THE PRODUCT FOR INTERNAL CONSUMPTION 7HEN YOU RE DEALING WITH A BACKWARD CANNABIS MARKET LIKE )RELAND THE SCOPE FOR PROFIT AND EXPLOITATION IS ALMOST BOUNDLESS !S 0ADDY )RISHMAN TELLS ME h) KNEW ONE COFFEE SHOP WORKER WHO BOASTED TO ME THAT THE HASH HE WAS SENDING TO )RELAND WAS CAMEL SHIT v 4HE SAD THING IS EVEN CAMEL SHIT WAS PROBABLY AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE LOCALLY POPULAR SOAP BAR 5NSURPRISINGLY

ESCAPE FROM POOR QUALITY PRODUCT WAS A MAJOR MOTIVATING FACTOR FOR 0ADDYS )RISHMAN AND %NGLISHMAN h) LEFT )RELAND BECAUSE OF THE SHIT STATE OF CANNABISv 0ADDY )RISHMAN RECALLS

THOUGH NOT BEFORE MAKING HIS FIRST FORAYS INTO ILLICIT GARDENING h) GREW MY FIRST CROP WITH A WATT LIGHT AND !LL -IX SOIL WHICH ) HAD TO BRING OVER FROM %NGLAND ON THE PLANE BECAUSE ) COULDN T GET IT IN )RELANDv

HE SAYS 3INCE THEN HE HAS RISEN TO THE TOP OF THE CANNABIS TREE h7HEN ) CAME TO !MSTERDAM ) SPENT THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS BUYING WEED IN THE COFFEE SHOPS

BUT ) SLOWLY GOT TO KNOW PEOPLE IN THE INDUSTRY v h) MET THIS GUY WHO WAS LOOKING AFTER

AN IMPORTANT MOTHER ROOM AND HE NEEDED SOMEONE TO TAKE OVER THE JOB 3O OVER THE COURSE OF SIX MONTHS

HE GAVE ME LITTLE JOBS TO TEST MY ABILITIES (E GAVE ME TWO SEEDS TOLD ME TO GROW THEM OUT AND TO SELECT THE BETTER ONE 7ELL AFTER A LOT OF CAREFUL CONSIDERATION ) CHOSE THE ONE ) THOUGHT WAS BEST AND WHEN ) WENT BACK TO TELL HIM IT WAS THE SAME CHOICE HE HAD MADE v h(E ALSO GAVE ME PLANTS AND THEN ASKED FOR CUTTINGS LATER TO CHECK EVERYTHING WAS STILL AS IT SHOULD BE 4HERE WERE SOME TEETHING PROBLEMS WHEN ) TOOK OVER INITIALLY AND ) COULD DO WITH AT LEAST TIMES AS MUCH SPACE BUT WE VE LOST NO STRAINS AND WE VE ADDED ABOUT THIRTY v HE SAYS WITH A NOTE OF JUSTIFIED PRIDE (E LISTS SOME OF THESE THIRTY STRAINS

AND MANY OF THEM ARE PRETTY FAMOUS IN THE POT WORLD -ODESTY AND A KEEN SENSE OF SELF PRESERVATION PREVENTS THE DISCLOSURE OF FURTHER DETAILS BUT 0ADDY )RISHMAN HAS GOOD REASON TO BE PROUD OF HIS EFFORTS IN THE FIELD OF CANNABIS CONSERVATION 4HERE ARE OTHER BENEFITS BESIDES CAREER SATISFACTION )T MIGHTN T SOUND LIKE THE SORT OF JOB TITLE WHICH WOULD ENTAIL MASSIVE POPULARITY BUT HERBAL MOTHER ROOM KEEPER IS A LICENSE TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE h0UT IT THIS WAY v 0ADDY )RISHMAN EXPLAINS hNOBODY CAN EVER FALL OUT WITH ME v 4HAT S NOT TO SAY THAT HE WOULD RIP OFF SOMEBODY S GENETICS WHICH IS A COMMON FALL OUT FROM FALLING OUTS AMONG INDUSTRY FIGURES 4HAT S BECAUSE CLONES ARE BIG BUSINESS AND STRAINS ARE OFTEN FIERCELY PROTECTED BY THEIR @OWNERS h-OST SEED COMPANIES HAVE THEIR OWN PRIVATE STASH THERE ARE THE CLONES THAT THEY ALLOW OUT AND THERE ARE THE OTHERS THEY KEEP VERY CLOSE TO THEIR CHESTSv

0ADDY )RISHMAN EXPLAINS h5SUALLY THE REASON FOR THIS IS BECAUSE

IN THE OLD DAYS CLONES WERE SELECTED IN MASSIVE GROW OUTS WHICH COST A LOT OF TIME AND MONEY (AVING SPENT SO MUCH AND GONE TO SO MUCH EFFORT TO IDENTIFY THE BEST GENETICS IT S UNDERSTANDABLE THAT SEED COMPANIES WILL WANT TO KEEP THEM IN HOUSE v HE SAYS /F COURSE WHEN THEY DO GET OUT THEY ARE SNAPPED UP BY RIVALS WHO PRODUCE IMITATIONS AND NEW GENETIC OFFSPRING %VEN STILL THERE MAY NOT BE MUCH WORTH STEALING ANYMORE -ASSIVE GROW OUTS ARE A THING OF THE PAST h%VEN THOUGH THE SEED COMPANIES ARE NOT GROWING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PLANTS FOR SELECTION ANYMORE THEY STILL WANT TO KEEP THEIR BEST GENETICS IN HOUSE 4HE MAIN REASON STRAINS GET OUT IS THAT PEOPLE HAVE ARGUMENTS AND END UP SELLING THE GENETICS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER v %VEN THOUGH HE TELLS ME HE COULD EASILY SELL SOME OF THE STRAINS IN HIS

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MOTHER ROOM FOR %URO HE SAYS THAT NO FALLING OUT COULD BE SEVERE ENOUGH TO PROVOKE SUCH A SALE h4HE WORST ) WOULD DO IS RETURN THE KEYS AND TELL THEM TO WATER THEIR OWN PLANTSv HE FINISHES )N HIS CASE THIS WOULD BE MEANT QUITE LITERALLY SINCE HE WORKS EXCLUSIVELY WITH SOIL !LL THREE GROWERS SHARE A PREFERENCE FOR ORGANIC PRODUCE THOUGH THEY AREN T ALL AS FUNDAMENTALIST AS 0ADDY )RISHMAN ON THE ISSUE 0ADDY !MERICAN EXPLAINS THAT SPACE CONSTRAINTS AND COMMERCIAL FACTORS MEAN THAT hIDEALLY EVERY GROW WOULD BE BIO ORGANIC BUT SOMETIMES THERE S NO OPTION BUT TO GO FOR HYDRO v 0ADDY %NGLISHMAN SAYS THAT HE hONLY SMOKES ORGANIC BUT ) HAVE PARTICIPATED IN HYDRO GARDENS ) USED TO BELIEVE THAT A GROWER BEGAN HIS CAREER GROWING IN DIRT AND THEN GRADUATED TO HYDROPONICS WHEN HE DEVELOPED HIS SKILLS BUT ) ENDED UP GOING BACK TO BIO ORGANIC IN THE ENDv 0ADDY )RISHMAN SAYS THAT WHILE HYDRO GROWING WILL DELIVER THE SORT OF hDONKEY DICK BUDSv THE MARKET DESIRES HIS PERSONAL ETHIC IS THOROUGHLY ORGANIC h)T S STILL DIRT BATSHIT

WORMSHIT IN A POTv AS HE PUTS IT (E TAKES A FAIRLY STRICT APPROACH EVEN TOWARDS THE SAMPLES HE IS GIVEN BY FELLOW GROWERS h7HEN FRIENDS GIVE ME HYDRO WEED IT GOES IN ITS OWN ISOLATION PILE ) MIGHT SMOKE A LITTLE BIT OF IT TO BE POLITE BUT ) WON T MIX IT UP WITH THE ORGANIC STUFF v 4HIS IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE EVEN WITH THE COFFEE SHOPS WHO 0ADDY %NGLISHMAN SAYS ARE SOMETIMES TOO QUICK TO BELIEVE SELLERS CLAIMS FOR THEIR WEED h#OFFEE SHOPS HAVE TO OPERATE ON A TRUST BASIS WITH THEIR SUPPLIERS )F THEY SAY IT S BIO ORGANIC THE COFFEE SHOP WOULDN T NECESSARILY KNOW DIFFERENTLY v HE SAYS TELLING ME THAT SOME COFFEE SHOPS SELL HYDROPONICALLY GROWN WEED AS ORGANIC /F COURSE THERE S NO ONE TO STOP THEM 4HE UNREGULATED NATURE OF THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY MEANS THAT COFFEE SHOP OPERATORS ARE CONSTANTLY WIGGLING AROUND THE CONTRADICTORY CANNABIS LAWS

OPERATING IN THE JUDICIAL 'REY !REA WHICH INSPIRED THE !MERICAN COFFEE SHOP OF THE SAME NAME AND THIS IS BECOMING MORE DIFFICULT #OFFEE SHOP ARE ONLY LEGALLY ALLOWED TO HAVE HALF A KILO ON THE PREMISES AT ANY TIME )F THEY EXCEED THE G LIMIT

THEY FACE IMMEDIATE CLOSURE 4HEY ARE ALSO NOT SUPPOSED TO BUY WEED IN BULK

BECAUSE THAT WOULD ENTAIL BREAKING THE LAW 4HIS SITUATION IS SO ABSURD THAT

WHEN ASKED WHERE THE COFFEE SHOPS SOURCED THEIR WEED ONE SHOP OWNER SIMPLE GESTURED SKYWARDS INDICATING THAT IT FELL FROM HEAVEN h4HERE ARE A LOT OF RULESv 0ADDY !MERICAN EXPLAINS h7HEN IT COMES TO THE GRAM LIMIT FOR EXAMPLE A COFFEE SHOP CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERYTHING ON THE PREMISES 4HAT MEANS

TECHNICALLY EVERYTHING IN THE CUSTOMERS POCKETS COUNTS AS BEING ON THE PREMISES THE POLICE NEED EXTRA PERMISSION TO SEARCH THE CUSTOMERS BUT IF A CUSTOMER SEES THE POLICE COMING AND THEY HAVE SOME COKE OR A PILL IN THEIR POCKET THEY ARE LIKELY TO DROP IT ON THE GROUND AND THAT COULD END UP GETTING THE COFFEE SHOP CLOSEDv HE SAYS 5NFORTUNATELY THE AUTHORITIES ARE FAIRLY ZEALOUS ABOUT HITTING THE COFFEE SHOPS )NDEED THEY EVEN HAVE DEDICATED @HIT TEAMS WHOSE JOB IS TO RAID COFFEE SHOPS AT RANDOM TO ENSURE ALL OF THE REGULATIONS ARE BEING ADHERED TO ,IKE 3%/.

THE HIT TEAMS HAVE A REPUTATION FOR FANATICISM IN THEIR ANTI WEED CRUSADE 0ADDY )RISHMAN TAKES UP THE TOPIC h$URING ONE RAID ON THE $AMPKRING

THE POLICE INSISTED THAT THE CAMERAS WERE TURNED OFF 4HIS WAS THE SOURCE OF A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE AND THE COFFEE SHOP MANAGER ARGUED THAT THE CAMERAS SHOULD BE LEFT ON DURING THE RAID )T WOULD BE EASY FOR THE POLICE TO PLANT SOMETHING AND SHUT THE PLACE DOWN v HE SAYS )N RECENT YEARS THE POLICE HAVE BEGUN MORE SOPHISTICATED SEARCHES h4HEY RE NOW TAKING SNIFFER DOGS IN WITH THEM TO LOOK FOR SECRET STASHES WHICH WOULD USUALLY BE HIDDEN BETWEEN THE LAYERS OF WALLS IN A COFFEE SHOP 4HESE OLD $UTCH BUILDINGS HAVE THREE OR FOUR LAYERS OF

WALLS SO THEY CAN BE VERY HANDY FOR HIDING THINGS v 4HESE EVER ESCALATING EFFORTS HAVE BORNE SOME FRUIT !S 0ADDY !MERICAN RUEFULLY REMEMBERS h7HEN ) MOVED OVER HERE THERE WERE JUST UNDER COFFEE SHOPS IN !MSTERDAM .OW THERE ARE AROUND v 7HEN ) PUT THIS TO 0ADDY %NGLISHMAN

HE OFFERS A SOMEWHAT MORE OPTIMISTIC INTERPRETATION h4HERE WERE VERY FEW REALLY GOOD COFFEE SHOPS WHICH WENT OUT OF BUSINESS ) CAN ONLY REALLY THINK OF ONE OR TWO DECENT COFFEE SHOPS WHICH WERE SHUT DOWN -OST OF THEM WOULDN T PARTICULARLY BE MISSEDv HE CONCLUDES

h%VERY 3%/. VAN HAS A THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA ON THE ROOF

WHICH CAN DO A DEGREE TURN AND GET AN IMAGE OF ALL THE BUILDINGS ON THAT STREETv 5NFORTUNATELY IT S PRETTY EASY FOR THE AUTHORITIES TO CATCH THE COFFEE SHOPS OUT 4HAT S BECAUSE THE COFFEE SHOPS HAVE TO REPEATEDLY BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO STAY IN BUSINESS h#OFFEE SHOPS HAVE TO OPERATE WEED STASHES WHICH ARE COMPLETELY ILLEGALv

0ADDY %NGLISHMAN EXPLAINS h4HESE CAN BE IN A HOUSE OR ON A COMMERCIAL PREMISES AND THERE WOULD BE A NUMBER OF KILOS STORED IN EACH SITE 3OME OF THEM WILL ALSO BE WEED PREPARATION AREAS FOR BAGGING UP EITHER INTO SMALL BAGS FOR SALE IN THE COFFEE SHOPS OR INTO G BAGS FOR BULK CUSTOMERS v h4HE LOGISTICS ARE PHENOMENALv

HE CONTINUES h/N A BUSY 3ATURDAY AFTERNOON IN THE SUMMER TIME A POPULAR !MSTERDAM COFFEE SHOP CAN EXPECT TO SELL KILOS 4HAT S DELIVERIES OF GRAMS WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH A FULL TIME GUY ON A BIKE )F YOUR COFFEE SHOP HAS A NUMBER OF VARIETIES THE $AMPKRING HAS UP TO THAT MIGHT MEAN MORE THAN TEN STASHES AND CONSTANT DELIVERIES

7HEN IT COMES TO RECOMMENDING COFFEE SHOPS TO THE PUNTERS THE THREE ARE UNANIMOUS IN THEIR ENDORSEMENT OF THE $AMPKRING !MSTERDAM S BEST STOCKED BIO COFFEE SHOP ) CAN T MENTION THE MANY COFFEE SHOPS THEY DIDN T ENDORSE BUT OTHER RECOMMENDED OUTLETS INCLUDED (OMEGROWN &ANTASY AND THE -EDIA COFFEE SHOP NEAR (EINEKENPLEIN &OR THEIR PERSONAL SMOKE THE THREE 0ADDYS ALL PREFER STRONG SATIVAS WITH 0ADDY )RISHMAN NAMING #HAMPAGNE (AZE AS ONE OF HIS ALL TIME FAVORITES 0ADDY %NGLISHMAN RECKONS IT S HARD TO GO WRONG WITH 3UPER 3ILVER (AZE

WHILE 0ADDY !MERICAN SAYS ANY OF .EVILLE S FAMOUS HAZES WILL DO THE JOB FOR HIM 4HEY VE ALL BEEN CONTINUOUSLY HIGH FOR NIGH ON TWO DECADES WITH THE DAILY SMOKING TALLY RANGING FROM GRAMS FOR 0ADDY )RISHMAN TO GRAMS FOR HIS !MERICAN COUNTERPART 0ADDY )RISHMAN SAYS HE S TOO BUSY TO SMOKE MORE

WHILE 0ADDY !MERICAN SAYS HE SMOKES FAT SPLIFFS ALL DAY WHETHER HE S BUSY OR NOT AND HE ALMOST ALWAYS IS )N THE FACE OF A GLOBAL RECESSION THE WEED INDUSTRY REMAINS BUOYANT !S 0ADDY !MERICAN DELICATELY PUTS IT WHEN ) ASK IF HE S BEEN HIT BY THE RECESSION h/UR CUSTOMERS ARE BUYING ON A DIFFERENT SCALE TO THE AVERAGE PERSONv )N OTHER WORDS THE DEALER S NEVER BROKE 4HAT MEANS ONCE THE GROWER IS NEVER BUSTED 0ADDY )RISHMAN 0ADDY %NGLISHMAN AND 0ADDY !MERICAN ARE LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK

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%DWIN 3TRATTON IS A HOME GROWER AND ACTIVIST FROM ,ONDON %DWIN WAS RECENTLY ARRESTED FOR GROWING MEDICAL CANNABIS IN THE SPARE ROOM OF HIS HOME (E REFUSED THE POLICE CAUTION ON PRINCIPLE BECAUSE IN HIS OPINION HE HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG AND THUS REFUSES TO CO OPERATE IN HIS OWN PERSECUTION FOR WHAT %DWIN PERCEIVES IS A hNON CRIMEv 7HILE CAMPAIGNING ALONGSIDE THE @$RUG %QUALITY !LLIANCE AND IN RESPONSE TO HIS OWN PROSECUTION %DWIN HAS REFUSED TO PLEAD GUILTY )NSTEAD HE HAS TURNED THE TABLES ROUND BY LAUNCHING HIS OWN BID TO TAKE ON THE 5+ 'OVERNMENT AT THE (IGH #OURT (IS GROUNDS BEING THAT THE 5+ 'OVERNMENT ARE GUILTY OF AN UNLAWFUL MISAPPLICATION OF DRUGS LEGISLATION WHICH RESULTS IN DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DECENT

RESPONSIBLE DRUG USERS SUCH AS %DWIN %DWIN IS CLAIMING DISCRIMINATION BASED UPON THE NON PROSECUTION OF PEOPLE WHO BREW THEIR OWN BEER

BECAUSE BEER IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE DANGEROUS TO THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY THAN CANNABIS 4HIS IS CLEAR BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT MUST PROCEED ON THE BASIS OF EVIDENCE OF HARM )T MUST EVOLVE DRUGS POLICY ALONG THE LINES OF EVIDENCE %DWIN ARGUES THAT IF TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL USERS HAVE THE FREEDOM TO USE AND ABUSE THEIR DRUGS OF CHOICE

WITHOUT THE FEAR OF HARASSMENT ARREST

PROSECUTION OR IMPRISONMENT THEN WHY CAN USERS OF THE LESS HARMFUL DRUG CANNABIS NOT BE AFFORDED THE SAME FREEDOMS WITHIN SOCIETY #ONSIDERING THAT SUCH DISCRIMINATION CLEARLY INFRINGES THE (UMAN 2IGHTS !CT

THE RAMIFICATIONS OF %DWIN S OWN CASE WERE JUST TOO INTERESTING TO MISS 3OFT 3ECRETS THEN ARRANGED AN INFORMAL INTERVIEW WITH %DWIN 3TRATTON AND HIS SOLICITING TEAM TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH OLD CANNABIS LAWS IN THE 5+

335+ %DWIN WHY DO YOU USE CANNABIS %DWIN )T FEELS GOOD ) SMOKE MAINLY FOR THE MEDICINAL EFFECTS BUT ) LOVE THE PSYCHOACTIVE SENSATIONS n ) CONSIDER THAT IT IS NOT TRULY POSSIBLE TO ISOLATE THE MEDICINAL EFFECTS FROM THE PSYCHOACTIVE ONES n IN MY EXPERIENCE THE DRUG WORKS HOLISTICALLY WITH MIND AND BODY 0RIOR TO MY DISABILITY ) SMOKED WHEN ) WAS A TOURING MUSICIAN PLAYING MUSIC IS A MORE EMOTIVE EXPERIENCE WITH THE USE OF CANNABIS GROOVES FEEL MORE INTUITIVE AND ONE FEELS @IMMERSED IN THE MUSIC RATHER THAN SEPARATE FROM IT )T ALSO HEIGHTENS EMPATHY HELPING TO DIFFUSE CONFLICTS

WHICH IS VITAL IF SEVERAL BAND MEMBERS ARE LIVING IN A VEHICLE SHARING LESS SPACE THAN A QUARTER OF A SMALL APARTMENT !MSTERDAM WAS USUALLY THE FIRST STOP ON %UROPEAN TOURS OBVIOUSLY

7HEN DID YOU FIRST DISCOVER THE MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF CANNABIS -Y MUSIC CAREER HAD TO END SIX YEARS

AGO DUE TO ACUTE #ELIAC $ISEASE WHICH MEANS THAT IF WHEN ) INGEST MICROSCOPIC AMOUNTS OF GLUTEN WHICH IS IN WHEAT AND OTHER CEREALS ) AM EXTREMELY SICK FOR SEVERAL DAYS &OR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF SUFFERING FROM THIS EXTREME CONDITION ) RELIED ON PRESCRIPTION MEDICINES THAT WERE LARGELY INEFFECTIVE IN COMBATING THE DAILY PAIN AND NAUSEA 5LTIMATELY THE DISCOMFORT GREW INTOLERABLE

EVEN WHEN ) MAXED OUT ON OPIATE PAINKILLERS &INALLY ) RETURNED TO CANNABIS AND AS SOON AS ) SMOKED THE RELIEF WAS INSTANT ) FELT AS IF A MIRACLE HAD TAKEN PLACE ) COULD ACTUALLY CONCENTRATE ON THINGS OTHER THAN MY PHYSICAL CONDITION AND THE NAUSEA VANISHED &OR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS ) FOUND ) HAD AN APPETITE ) AM ALSO ABLE TO DRASTICALLY CUT MY INTAKE OF PRESCRIBED PHARMACEUTICALS MUCH OF WHICH CARRY THE MOST UNPLEASANT SIDE EFFECTS AND REPRESENT LONG TERM HEALTH DANGERS 7ITH CANNABIS MY SYMPTOMS BECOME MERE BACKGROUND SENSATIONS AND ) AM ABLE TO DO THINGS OTHERS TAKE FOR GRANTED IT REALLY DOES OPEN THE DOOR TO A LIFE WORTH LIVING

)S GROWING YOUR OWN CANNABIS THE BEST OPTION 9ES CERTAINLY FOR ME -UCH OF THE BLACK MARKET CANNABIS IS CONTAMINATED WITH POISONS TO INCREASE WEIGHT AND BOOST PROFITS TO DEALERS WHICH DEFEATS THE OBJECT ) NEED CANNABIS TO BENEFIT MY HEALTH NOT TO DAMAGE IT

7HAT MOST PEOPLE DON T REALISE IS THAT THE -ISUSE OF $RUGS !CT IS NOT A LAW WHICH MANDATES BLANKET PROHIBITION )T IS

BY DESIGN EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE IN ALLOWING ITS PURPOSES TO BE MET )N FACT THE !CT IS SO FLEXIBLE THAT ONE COULD EVEN INCLUDE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO IN THE SCHEDULES TODAY AND YET NOT HAVE TO CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT THEIR AVAILABILITY "UT INSTEAD OF IMPLEMENTING THE LAW AND SEEMINGLY NOT EVEN UNDERSTANDING IT THE 5+ 'OVERNMENT ENACTS AN UNSCIENTIFIC AND ARBITRARY POLICY OF DISCRIMINATION THROUGH SELECTIVE PROHIBITION 3O WE DO NOT HAVE DRUG PROHIBITION

WE HAVE SELECTIVE PROHIBITION WHICH IS NOT REFLECTED BY THE LAW 4HE PEOPLE WHO PROHIBIT THE USE OF SO CALLED @ILLEGAL DRUGS ARE GENERALLY USERS OF THE DANGEROUS DRUGS OF THE MAJORITY ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO 3INCE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO ARE UNDENIABLY @DANGEROUS OR OTHERWISE HARMFUL DRUGS THEY FALL ABSOLUTELY WITHIN THE REMIT OF THE -ISUSE OF $RUGS !CT n AN !CT WHICH DOES ./4 GRANT THE 5+ 'OVERNMENT POWER TO EXCLUDE CERTAIN @DANGEROUS OR OTHERWISE HARMFUL DRUGS FROM ITS REMIT 5SERS OF THE DRUGS ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO ARE THEREFORE UNDER PROTECTED

BY BEING LULLED INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY AS REGARDS THE RELATIVE HARMFULNESS OF THEIR DRUGS DUE TO

THEIR OMISSION FROM THE !CT !NOTHER CRUCIAL POINT ABOUT THE !CT S RESPONSIVENESS DRUGS POLICY IS REQUIRED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE LINES OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THIS IS THE REASON FOR THE STATUTORY BODY CALLED THE !DVISORY #OUNCIL ON THE -ISUSE OF $RUGS WHICH IS MADE UP OF SCIENTIFIC MINDS NECESSARY TO ENSURE DRUGS POLICY IS EVIDENCE BASED /NLY EVIDENCE BASED MEASURES WHICH ARE TARGETED TO THE PURPOSE OF THE !CT THE MINIMIZATION OR ELIMINATION OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS n MUST BE IMPLEMENTED 3O FLEXIBLE IS THE !CT THAT THESE MEASURES CAN EVEN INVOLVE CHANGING THE !CT ITSELF OR OTHER LAWS IF NECESSARY "UT UNDER THE CURRENT IRRATIONAL ARBITRARY

HARM MAXIMIZING PROHIBITION REGIME

NOT ONLY DO USERS OF MINORITY INTEREST DRUGS HAVE ./ RIGHT TO CHOOSE MANY LESS HARMFUL DRUGS THAN THESE OFTEN LETHAL DRUGS THAT ARE LEGALLY AVAILABLE BUT ALSO

USERS OF @CONTROLLED DRUGS ACTUALLY HAVE ./ CIVIL RIGHTS AT ALL 4HEREFORE ) AM DEMANDING THAT THE 'OVERNMENT RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF ALL DRUG USERS AND OBSERVE THE LAW RATHER THAN FLOUTING ITS PURPOSES BY DISTORTING ITS ADMINISTRATION IN ORDER TO CRIMINALIZE RESPONSIBLE DRUG USERS

(OW DID YOU GET BUSTED FOR CULTIVATION BY THE POLICE

@)LLICIT CANNABIS IS OFTEN HARVESTED TOO EARLY WHICH MAKES FOR A LESS WELL BALANCED PRODUCT WITH A MUCH LESS EFFECTIVE MEDICINAL EFFECT !FTER BUYING TWO CONTAMINATED LOTS OF CANNABIS THAT ) HAD TO THROW AWAY ) FELT ) HAD NO CHOICE n IF MY LIFE WERE TO BECOME BEARABLE ) NEEDED TO GROW MY OWN CLEAN SUPPLY 4HIS WOULD ALSO CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMAN STREET PRICES ARE PROHIBITIVE FOR SOMEONE ON DISABILITY BENEFITS AND SOME DEALERS CAN BE UNSCRUPULOUS )T WOULD ALSO KEEP ME OFF THE STREETS WHICH IS A MUCH SAFER OPTION 3O IN &EBRUARY LAST YEAR ) PLANTED SOME SEEDS IN MY SPARE ROOM 4HANKS TO *ORGE #ERVANTES 5+ :ANDOR AT THE 'ROW 2EPORT THE $OPEFIEND .ETWORK AND OF COURSE TO 3OFT 3ECRETS ) WAS ARMED WITH THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE INSTRUCTION IN GROWING MY OWN CANNABIS

$O YOU THINK THAT THE PRESENT hPROHIBITION REGIMEv IN THE 5+ IS EFFECTIVE 5NDER THE -ISUSE OF $RUGS !CT THE LEGAL PURPOSE OF DRUGS POLICY MUST BE TO MINIMISE OR ELIMINATE THE HARMFUL EFFECTS TO SOCIETY CAUSED BY THE MISUSE OF DRUGS "UT IF THE PURPOSE OF DRUGS POLICY WERE TO MAXIMISE THE HARMS CAUSED TO SOCIETY

BY DRUGS n THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE PURPOSE OF CURRENT LAW n THEN PROHIBITION IS SUPREMELY EFFECTIVE

%DWIN 3TRATTON h4HE -ISUSE OF $RUGS !CT IS NOT A LAW WHICH MANDATES BLANKET PRO HIBITION )T IS

BY DESIGN EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE IN ALLOWING ITS PURPOSES TO BE MET v

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7E CANNOT CHANGE THE SYSTEM UNLESS WE CHALLENGE IT AND SINCE THE 5+ 'OVERNMENT AND THE MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE STATUTORY ADVISORY BODY CHARGED WITH ADVISING THEM ON THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE OF DRUGS THERE CAN BE NO DEMOCRATIC WAY TO CHANGE THIS POLICY VIA THE BALLOT BOX 4HE ONLY WAY TO CHALLENGE IT IS THEREFORE THROUGH THE COURTS 2EFUSING A POLICE CAUTION IS THE FIRST STEP IN THIS PROCESS OF SEEKING LEGAL REDRESS

&REAKISH BAD LUCK ) HAD SECURED MY GROW ROOM WITH ANTI DETECTION FILM A DECENT CARBON FILTER AND AN OZONE GENERATOR TO MOP UP SMELLS "UT THEN IN -AY BEFORE ) HAD ASCERTAINED THE GENDERS OF MY PLANTS

LET ALONE HARVESTED A CROP SOMEONE ARSON ATTACKED A WINE BAR CLOSE TO MY HOME !FTER THE POLICE EVACUATED MY HOUSE THEY INFORMED ME THAT IT HAD BEEN NECESSARY FOR THE &IRE "RIGADE TO BREAK IN TO PREVENT THE FIRE SPREADING

AND IN THE PROCESS OF SECURING THE PROPERTY THEY BROKE INTO MY GROW ROOM HMM

7HY DID YOU REFUSE TO ACCEPT A POLICE CAUTION FOR THE CULTIVATION OF CANNABIS ) REFUSE TO COOPERATE WITH THE VIOLATION OF MY HUMAN RIGHTS )N THE SAME WAY THAT HOMOSEXUALS AND BLACK PEOPLE OPPOSED THEIR LEGAL PERSECUTION ) OPPOSE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MY PREFERENCE OF DRUG

!CCEPTING THE CAUTION WOULD BE AN ADMISSION THAT ) DID SOMETHING WRONG AND HAVE LEGITIMIZED THE SEIZURE OF MY PROPERTY INCLUDING MY PLANTS AND THE EQUIPMENT ) BOUGHT TO GROW THEM AND IT WOULD HAVE LEGITIMIZED THE LIE THAT CANNABIS CANNOT BE OF ANY BENEFIT TO THE INDIVIDUAL

7HAT WAS THE OUTCOME !FTER REFUSING THE CAUTION THREE TIMES

) WAS CHARGED WITH THE PRODUCTION OF A DRUG OF CLASS # AND COMMITTED TO THE -AGISTRATES #OURT 2ATHER THAN ENTER A PLEA ) MADE A SUBMISSION TO PROHIBIT ANY TRIAL AS AN !BUSE OF 0ROCESS ) SUBMITTED THAT THE -AGISTRATES MUST ALLOW ME THE LATITUDE TO SEEK A *UDICIAL 2EVIEW OF THE DECISION TO STAND ME FOR TRIAL BECAUSE ) PRESENTED A PRIMA FACIE CASE THAT THE 'OVERNMENT S POLICY IS UNLAWFUL

IRRATIONAL AND DENIES DUE PROCESS

*UDICIAL 2EVIEW AT THE (IGH #OURT IN ORDER TO CHALLENGE THE DECISION TO STAND ME FOR TRIAL

$O YOU THINK YOU HAVE A GOOD CASE FOR DISCRIMINATION USING THE (UMAN 2IGHTS !CT ) THINK SO !RTICLE PROTECTION FROM DISCRIMINATION IS A NOVEL APPROACH 4HERE ARE TWO INEQUALITIES OF TREATMENT A FAILURE TO TREAT LIKE CASES ALIKE VIZ THE UNEQUAL APPLICATION OF THE -ISUSE OF $RUGS !CT TO THOSE CONCERNED WITH EQUALLY HARMFUL DRUGS WITHOUT A RATIONAL AND OBJECTIVE BASIS AND A FAILURE TO TREAT UNLIKE CASES DIFFERENTLY VIZ THE FAILURE TO TREAT THOSE WHO USE CONTROLLED DRUGS PEACEFULLY AS A DIFFERENT CLASS FROM THOSE WHO DO NOT 0ROTOCOL !RTICLE GUARANTEES MY PROPERTY RIGHTS "UT THE 'OVERNMENT HAS DEPRIVED ME OF MY PROPERTY GROWING EQUIPMENT AND PLANTS WITHOUT AN OBJECTIVE OR CONSISTENT JUSTIFICATION )NDEED THE JUSTIFICATION GIVEN BY THE 'OVERNMENT FOR THIS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST @CONTROLLED DRUG USERS AS OPPOSED TO USERS OF THE EQUALLY OR LESS HARMFUL DRUGS ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO WAS @HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PRECEDENTS .OTABLY THIS IS THE SAME JUSTIFICATION FOR HOMOPHOBIA OR RACISM 4HIS CANNOT BE A LAWFUL BASIS FOR DENYING OUR RIGHTS

n PUT SIMPLY IF GOVERNMENTS WILL NOT LISTEN THEN WE MUST DEMAND THAT THE COURTS HOLD THEM TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR UNFAIR ADMINISTRATION OF LAW 7E ARE THROWING A SPANNER IN THE WORKS OF THE POINTLESS LEGAL GRAVY TRAIN PRODUCTION LINE OF DRUGS CASES 7HILST MANY CONSIDER THIS TO BE AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK WE BELIEVE THAT THE LAW IF APPLIED PROPERLY WOULD CREATE A RADICAL AND URGENTLY NEEDED REFORM 7E SEEK PROPORTIONATE RESTRICTIONS AND REGULATIONS TO BE PUT IN PLACE TO ENSURE THAT DRUGS ARE CONTROLLED FAIRLY ACCORDING TO THEIR DANGERS AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OBJECTS AND PRINCIPLES OF 5+ LEGISLATION 7E ALSO DEMAND AMNESTY FOR PERSONS UNFAIRLY TREATED BY LAW WHO ARE INCARCERATED AND COMPENSATION WHERE APPROPRIATE 7E ACCEPT DONATIONS BY 0AY0AL OR BANK TRANSFER ON OUR WEBSITE WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO FUNDING OUR LEGAL CHALLENGES 7E NEED AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO GET INVOLVED EVEN IF IT S JUST TELLING OTHER PEOPLE ABOUT US 5LTIMATELY WE ARE ABOUT ENDING DISCRIMINATION SAVING LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS AND STANDING UP FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNFAIRLY CRIMINALIZED AND DEPRIVED OF THEIR LIBERTY 0LEASE EDUCATE YOURSELVES ON THE ISSUE OF @DRUG EQUALITY BY CHECKING OUT WWW DRUGEQUALITY ORG AND THEN ASK HOW YOU CAN ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO SOLVING ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SOCIAL CHALLENGES OF OUR TIMES

&OR THE #OURT TO THEN APPLY THE 3TATE S DISTORTION OF THE LAW TO ME VIA A TRIAL

WOULD BE AN ABUSE OF THE #OURT S PROCESS

0LEASE TELL US ABOUT THE @$RUG %QUALITY !LLIANCE AND HOW CAN OTHERS GET INVOLVED

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4HE -AGISTRATE DULY DECLINED JURISDICTION AND GAVE PERMISSION FOR ME TO APPLY FOR

7E AIM TO STOP THE 7AR ON SOME PEOPLE WHO USE SOME $RUGS BY BRINGING THESE MATTERS TO THE ATTENTION OF THE COURTS

0LEASE VISIT WWW DRUGEQUALITY ORG

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!ND SO THE h3KUNK CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGEv ROW RUMBLES ON ALTHOUGH IT S ALL BEEN SOMEWHAT OVERSHADOWED BY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WORLDS OF FINANCE AND MARKETS LATELY ) VE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON THE 3KUNK STORY IT S MY JOB AS IT S DEVELOPED OVER THE MONTHS AND YEARS AND TO BE HONEST ) THINK THERE S ALMOST CERTAINLY SOMETHING IN IT .OW ) UNDERSTAND THAT THIS REALLY ISN T GOING TO WIN ME ANY POPULARITY CONTESTS BUT THAT S REALLY NEITHER HERE NOR THERE 4HE EVIDENCE IS ACTUALLY QUITE OVERWHELMING AND ONLY THE MOST DELUDED USER COULD ACTUALLY DENY THIS FACT AND IT IS ON THE WAY TO BECOMING A FACT ! FEW ITEMS HAVE APPEARED IN THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE RECENTLY MAKING CLAIMS BASED ON A LOT OF HARD RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE 4O KEEP IT SIMPLE THE BASICS ARE THESE THE MAJOR PROBLEM IS THAT THE CANNABIS PLANT IN ITS NATURAL STATE CONTAINS A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COMPOUNDS %VERYONE KNOWS ABOUT 4(# THE BIT THAT GETS YOU STONED AND MOST PEOPLE PROBABLY AT LEAST RECOGNISE #"$ AS ONE OF THE OTHER COMPOUNDS "UT NOT EVERYONE WILL BE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT IT APPEARS AS THOUGH #"$ IS AN INBUILT ANTIPSYCHOTIC 9ES THAT S RIGHT IN THE WILD THE CANNABIS PLANT NATURALLY MAINTAINS A SYNERGISTIC BALANCE THAT TO SOME DEGREE PROTECTS USERS FROM THE PERILS OF MENTAL ILL HEALTH )N FACT #"$ IS CURRENTLY BEING INVESTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE TREATMENT FOR PSYCHOSIS AND PSYCHOTIC ILLNESS )SN T NATURE WONDERFUL .OW THE BIG PROBLEM WITH 3KUNK HIGH POTENCY MARIJUANA IS THAT THERE IS A VERY STRONG ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EARLY AGE OF FIRST USE AND TEENAGE PSYCHOSIS MENTAL ILLNESS ) M AFRAID THERE S NO REAL GETTING AWAY FROM THIS BASIC FACT )RONICALLY THE CAUSE OF THIS IS ACTUALLY MARKET FORCES AND THE DEMAND FOR EVER STRONGER WEED "ASICALLY THE AMOUNT OF SPACE IN A PLANT IS FINITE SO MORE 4(# MEANS LESS OF SOMETHING ELSE NAMELY #"$ 4HIS MEANS THE BUILT IN PROTECTION THAT S NATURALLY

PROVIDED BY THE PLANT IS BEING REMOVED !ND THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEMS START 4HIS PROCESS IS CALLED hDENATURINGv AND IS SOMETHING WE VE ALL SEEN BEFORE IT S NOT AS THOUGH THE PROCESS IS NEW IN THE WORLD OF DRUGS 4HERE S A HISTORY OF DENATURISATION WHERE FAIRLY BENIGN SUBSTANCES HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO SOMETHING ELSE COMPLETELY ! FEW OBVIOUS EXAMPLES OF THIS WOULD BE !LCOHOL WHERE IN THE OLD DAYS BOOZE WAS AS MUCH A FOOD SUPPLEMENT AS A MEANS OF GETTING HAMMERED .OT TO SAY PEOPLE DIDN T GET HAMMERED BUT THE BEVERAGES AVAILABLE TENDED TO BE FAIRLY MILD 4HEN DISTILLATION CAME ALONG AND BANG /PIUM IN THE OLD DAYS WAS A PANACEA FOR ALL SORTS AS WELL AS BEING A PRETTY EFFECTIVE AND LOW RISK WAY OF GETTING HAMMERED #UE ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL EXTRACTION OPIUM BECOMES CODEINE BECOMES MORPHINE BECOMES HEROIN INITIALLY PROPOSED AS A hCUREv FOR MORPHINE ADDICTION

#OCA A TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AND MILD hNERVE STIMULANTv USED FOR CENTURIES IN THE !NDES TO COMBAT ALTITUDE SICKNESS AND FATIGUE %NTER &RIEDRICH 'AEDCKE A 'ERMAN CHEMIST WHO ISOLATED COCAINE AND THEN !LBERT .IEMANN WHO hIMPROVEDv THE PURIFICATION PROCESS A FEW YEARS LATER *UMP FORWARD A CENTURY OR SO AND WE VE GOT SOME BRIGHT SPARK IN A KITCHEN hWASHINGv IT AND MIXING IT WITH BICARBONATE PRIOR TO PUTTING IT IN A MICROWAVE OR WHATEVER h(EY ) WONDER WHAT LL HAPPEN IF ) DO THIS v )T WOULD BE FOOLISH OF ME TO SUGGEST THAT IN THE CASES OF THE ABOVE THREE EXAMPLES THE REFINING PROCESS DIDN T HAVE SOME VERY CLEAR AND OBVIOUS ADVANTAGES BUT THERE ARE VERY CLEAR AND OBVIOUS DISADVANTAGES ALSO !ND IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOME GENIUS DECIDED TO TURN THEIR TALENTS TO CANNABIS )T STRIKES ME THAT CANNABIS IS ACTUALLY JUST FINE THE WAY IT IS THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING CAN BE DONE ISN T IN ITSELF A GOOD REASON FOR DOING IT 'EORGE 3ANTAYANA WROTE hTHOSE WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT ITv )T SEEMS TO ME THAT SOME OF OUR CHEMISTS AND PHARMACOLOGISTS HAVE PRETTY SHORT MEMORIES DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE HOTMAIL COM

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-IXED OUTDOOR GREENHOUSE CULTIVATION SYSTEM

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4HE USE OF SEMI PORTABLE GREENHOUSES MAKES FOR A CULTIVATION SYSTEM THAT YIELDS EXCELLENT RESULTS 0LANTS CAN BENEFIT FROM ALL THE NATURAL STRENGTH OF THE SOIL DURING GROWTH AND AS FLOWERING STARTS AS RAIN ENCOURAGES VIGOROUS GROWTH WITHOUT PLANTS NEEDING CONTINUOUS ATTENTION !ND ONCE THE MARIJUANA BEGINS TO BE WELL FORMED APPROACHING THE END OF THE FLOWERING PERIOD NATURAL INFLUENCE MAY PROVE NEGATIVE AND THE TIME HAS COME TO PROTECT THE MARIJUANA AND TRICHOMES WITH A SEMI PORTABLE GREENHOUSE !FTER TRYING OUT DIFFERENT MATERIALS AND LAYOUTS OUR BEST RESULTS WERE OBTAINED WITH STRUCTURES BUILT FROM BAMBOO A MATERIAL THAT CAN GIVE YOU EFFECTIVE RESULTS WITH VERY LITTLE INVESTMENT

>À>VÌiÀ ÃÌ VÃÊ vÊL> L "AMBOO IS ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING NATURAL PLANTS THERE IS )T DEVELOPS A GREAT QUANTITY OF MASS IN VERY LITTLE TIME A CHARACTERISTIC IT SHARES WITH HEMP SO IF YOU HAVE THE SPACE AVAILABLE IT MAY WELL BE WORTH YOUR WHILE ADDING A SMALL CROP OF BAMBOO TO YOUR ALLOTMENT )T IS EASY TO GROW

AND CAN BE USED IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT WAYS FROM BUILDING STRUCTURES TO FOOD "EFORE CULTIVATING IT THOUGH DO CONSIDER THAT IT IS A POTENTIALLY INVASIVE PLANT AND AS SUCH WILL NEED TO BE CLEARED ONCE A YEAR 4HIS SHOULD NOT REALLY POSE A PROBLEM HOWEVER AS THE POLES CAN BE USED FOR ALL SORTS OF TASKS

AND THE YOUNG SHOOTS ARE DELICIOUS 4HERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BAMBOO

SO TRY TO FIND OUT WHICH TYPES WILL THRIVE BEST IN YOUR AREA AND ARE MOST SUITABLE FOR YOUR INTENDED USE 4HERE ARE ALSO VARIETIES THAT ARE MORE RESISTANT TO INSECT AND FUNGUS ATTACKS 4HE 'UADUA !NGUSTIFOLIA VARIETY

FOR EXAMPLE IS VERY POPULAR 7HEN IN THE BAMBOO FIELD LOOK FOR DARKER COLOUR POLES AS A MORE INTENSE SHADE MEANS THAT IT IS OLDER AND THEREFORE MORE CONSISTENT !NOTHER INDICATION OF MATURITY IS THE PRESENCE OF ESTABLISHED MOSSES OR LICHENS &OR EXAMPLE IN 'UADUA !NGUSTIFOLIA BRIGHT GREEN TURNS GRADUALLY TO A DARKER GREEN )T IS IMPORTANT TO CHOOSE A MATURE BAMBOO BECAUSE THIS PLANT USES ITS ENERGY TO GROW AND WITH AGE THIS GROWTH BECOMES DENSER AND MORE RESISTANT WITHOUT LOSING ANY OF ITS FLEXIBILITY 7HEN CUTTING BAMBOO YOU ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE NO IRREGULARITIES THAT WOULD MAKE IT UNSUITABLE FOR USE IN CONSTRUCTION FOR EXAMPLE THERE MUST BE NO HOLES LEFT FROM PEST INVASIONS 3OME OWNERS GRANT FREE ACCESS TO THEIR BAMBOO PLANTATIONS ALLOWING THOSE SO WISHING TO TAKE AWAY THE QUANTITIES THEY NEED

AS A SORT OF LIMITATION TO THE BAMBOO GROWTH 'OOD MANNERS DICTATE THAT WE MUST ALWAYS ASK PERMISSION BEFORE ENTERING HOWEVER AND TELL THE OWNER ABOUT OUR KITCHEN GARDEN 7HEN IT IS TIME TO CUT THE BAMBOO

YOU WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT IT CONTAINS THE MINIMUM LIQUID POSSIBLE 4HIS IS WHY THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING ARE BEST BEFORE PHOTOSYNTHESIS BEGINS

IN PERIODS OF LOW TIDE AND A WAXING MOON TIMES WHEN THE SAP IS IN THE ROOTS &OR THE SAME REASON WANING MOONS ARE ALSO GOOD ! GOOD MOON CALENDAR WILL EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WAXING AND WANING MOON 'ENERALLY SPEAKING YOU SHOULD AVOIDING CUTTING BAMBOO DURING THE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER 4RADITIONALLY AFTER CUTTING THE BAMBOO SHOULD BE LEFT AT AN ANGLE AND AS VERTICAL AS POSSIBLE RESTING ON A FEW BRICKS FOR EXAMPLE AS THIS ALLOWS THE FLUIDS TO DRAIN OUT .OW PRUNE AWAY ALL VEGETABLE MATTER TO PROTECT AGAINST THE RISK OF INFECTION 'OOD NATURAL VENTILATION IS ESSENTIAL THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS )N ADDITION TO DRYING

SUBSEQUENT SMOKING CAN ALSO HELP INCREASE CONSERVATION "AMBOO IS A RENEWABLE SUSTAINABLE

CHEAP AND LONG LASTING RESOURCE )TS EXCELLENT VALUE FOR MONEY MEANS THAT IT IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE PLANT EQUIVALENT OF STEEL )F APPROPRIATELY CUT AND DRIED BAMBOO IS INCREDIBLY RESISTANT IN RELATION TO ITS WEIGHT )T IS EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE AS ITS INNER STRUCTURE ALLOW IT TO BEND WITHOUT BREAKING

PLACES LIKE AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES OR WAREHOUSE PARKS "EST IF GOOD QUALITY

AS IT WILL WITHSTAND WEATHER AND LET LIGHT THROUGH -EASURE THE SIZES YOU NEED AND ALWAYS BUY WITH A MARGIN FOR ERROR

0LASTIC CLAMPS THESE ARE VERY USEFUL FOR HOLDING DOWN POLES AND ALL TYPES OF AGRICULTURAL WORKS 9OU WILL NEED TO LOOK FOR A TYPE SUITABLE FOR USE OUTDOORS )DEALLY YOU SHOULD HAVE TWO OR MORE DIFFERENT MEANS THAT YOU CAN THEN ALTERNATE AS REQUIRED &ASTENING CLIPS IF CORDS ARE USED DIRECTLY WITH PLASTIC THEY WILL CRACK AND BREAK 4O AVOID THIS WE USE FASTENING CLIPS THAT CLOSE OVER LARGE PLASTIC SURFACES

ALLOWING YOU TO THREAD THE CORD THROUGH THE CLIP CENTRE LATER !FTER MUCH SEARCHING

THE PARTS USED FOR THE GREENHOUSES IN THIS ARTICLE WERE BOUGHT FROM ,EROY -ERLIN AS FASTENING CLIPS FOR SHADE MESH

'UY ROPES TO HOLD PLASTIC OR POLES TAUT

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'UY ROPES LIKE THE ONES USED FOR TENTS CAN PROVE VERY USEFUL AND ARE AVAILABLE CHEAP FROM WAREHOUSES !LTERNATIVELY WHY NOT MAKE THEM YOURSELF TO CUT COSTS FURTHER 4HEY ARE VERY SIMPLE STRUCTURES CONSISTING OF A ROPE AND A PEG THAT CAN BE EASILY CREATED FROM WOOD 4HE GUY ROPES ALLOW YOU TO ADJUST THE PLASTIC TENSION FINELY

WITHOUT THE RISK OF TEARING IT

"AMBOO THIS WILL FORM THE MAIN STRUCTURE 9OU WILL NEED TO MEASURE THE LENGTHS REQUIRED 7HEN CUTTING ALWAYS TAKE MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU WILL NEED

ASSUMING YOU CAN CARRY IT AS YOU CAN ALWAYS CUT IT DOWN TO SIZE LATER

0EGS VERY USEFUL FOR HOLDING ROPES DOWN TO THE GROUND FASTENING GUY ROPES AND OTHER FIXING WORKS #HOOSE APPROPRIATE VERSIONS ACCORDING TO THE GROUND AND DRIVE THEM IN AT A SLIGHT ANGLE TO ENSURE THEY STAY FIRMLY IN PLACE

0LASTIC LOOK FOR AGRICULTURAL PLASTIC IN

2OPE IN ADDITION TO THE GUY ROPES YOU

3IMPLE MATERIALS BAMBOO PLASTIC FASTENING CLIPS AND CLAMPS

(OLES ARE MADE WITH AN IRON PUNCH

)T IS VERY EFFECTIVE

$RIVING THE BAMBOO POLE IN WITH THE MALLET

&ASTENING CLIP OVER THE PLASTIC FOLD

4HE ROPE GOES THROUGH THE FASTENING CLIP

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CONDENSATION ENCOURAGING MOULD 4O AVOID EXCESS HEAT OR HUMIDITY WHEN DESIGNING YOUR GREENHOUSE REMEMBER TO LEAVE ROOM FOR VENTILATION )N BAMBOO DESIGNS LIKE THE ONE DESCRIBED HERE THE SIMPLEST AND EASIEST SOLUTION IS SIMPLY NOT TO TAKE THE PLASTIC ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE GROUND 4O HELP ENCOURAGE GOOD VENTILATION BETWEEN THE PLANTS IN THE GREENHOUSE LEAVE PLENTY OF ROOM AND PRUNE WELL AT THE BASE 7HEN THE TIME HAS COME TO PREPARE THE STRUCTURE YOU WILL NEED TO ADAPT TO YOUR PARTICULAR LOCATION AND CHOOSE THE BEST DESIGN )N SOME CASES FOR LARGE PLANTS IN AN INDEPENDENT POSITION A COMPLETE STRUCTURE WILL BE NEEDED )F ON THE OTHER HAND THERE IS A WALL OR SIMILAR SUCH ELEMENT NEARBY WE CAN PREPARE A SLOPING ROOF ! SIMILAR OPTION CAN ALSO BE USED WITH LOW PLANTS AND MESH TO THE OUTSIDE WHICH THEN MERELY NEEDS COVERING WITH A CANOPY 7HEN DESIGNING YOUR GREENHOUSE

REMEMBER THAT LARGE FLAT OR ONLY VERY GENTLY SLOPING AREAS WILL TEND TO COLLECT POOLS OF WATER WHICH AS IT IS CONCENTRATED IN SINGLE POINTS WILL EVENTUALLY TEAR THE PLASTIC SUDDENLY DRENCHING THE PLANTS #REATE A FAIRLY STEEPLY SLOPING COVER AND USE REINFORCEMENT CHECKING IT REGULARLY TO REMOVE ANY POOLS OF WATER THAT MAY HAVE FORMED /NCE YOU HAVE THE MEASUREMENTS AND A SKETCH OF YOUR FUTURE DESIGN YOU CAN NOW MOVE ONTO THE NEXT STAGE OF ACTUALLY BUILDING IT 4AKE YOUR TAPE MEASURE AND MARK OUT THE POINTS

#LOSE UP OF THE FASTENING CLIP

(OW THE PLASTIC SHOULD LOOK WHEN PULLED TAUT WILL NEED A COUPLE OF ROLLS OF STRONG ROPE TO HELP WITH FASTENING

PEGS AND FIXINGS IRON MALLET TO DRIVE THE POLES INTO THE GROUND AND AN IRON PUNCH TO MAKE THE HOLES IN THE GROUND

2AGS USE IN THE CORNERS AND IRREGULAR PLACES TO PAD THE WOOD AND PREVENT THE PLASTIC FROM TEARING

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.ORMAL AND HELICOPTER TAPE NORMAL TAPE CAN BE USED TO FASTEN THE RAGS (ELICOPTER TAPE IS USEFUL TO STOP ANY SMALL TEARS FROM SPREADING

4OOLS TAPE MEASURE TO TAKE MEASUREMENTS LADDERS MANUAL OR ELECTRIC SAWS TO CUT THE BAMBOO

EXTENSION LEAD FOR THE ELECTRIC SAW

KNIFE TO BREAK KNOTS AND CLAMPS AND OPEN FASTENINGS RUBBER MALLET FOR

4HE ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN STORMS AND RAIN CAN DAMAGE YOUR MARIJUANA BY WASHING AWAY TRICHOMES AND LEADING TO MOULD INFECTIONS 'REENHOUSES PROTECT THE PLANT FROM DIRECT RAIN ALTHOUGH YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO MANAGE THEM AS THE LOW HUMIDITY AND HIGH TEMPERATURES PRODUCED ON HOT DAYS IN GREENHOUSES ARE IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR PESTS WHILST RAINSTORMS CAN LEAD TO

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WHERE THE PILLARS ARE GOING AFTER WHICH WE MAKE USE THE IRON PUNCH TO MAKE THE CORRESPONDING HOLES AND POSITION THE BAMBOO CANES !N IRON MALLET WILL HELP SECURE THEM PROPERLY 4HESE PILLARS FORM THE BASIS ON WHICH TO ADD THE REST OF THE STRUCTURE 4HE PLASTIC CLAMPS CAN BE USED TO HOLD THE CANES TO EACH OTHER /NCE YOU HAVE FIXED THE JOINTS YOU CAN CUT TO SIZE WITH THE ELECTRIC SAW 4HE NEXT STEP IS TO PUT THE RAGS IN PLACE AND TAPE IN THE CORNERS OVER WHICH THE PLASTIC IS GOING TO GO IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE POINTS OF CONTACT FROM TEARING 4HE STRUCTURE MUST BE WELL FASTENED AT VARIOUS POINTS PULLING IT TAUT )T MUST BE STABLE BUT SLIGHTLY FLEXIBLE SO THAT IF A STORM RISES IT WILL NOT RESIST IT AND TEAR /NCE THE STRUCTURE HAS BEEN BUILT AND PROPERLY SECURED TO THE GROUND WE PROCEED BY PULLING THE PLASTIC OVER THE STRUCTURE &INAL ASSEMBLY SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO THAT OF A TENT 4HE BASE IS FIXED ON ONE SIDE AND TO THE GROUND

WHILST ON THE OTHER THE SHEET IS PULLED TAUT OVER THIS BASE &IRST OF ALL WE NEED TO UNROLL THE ROLL OF PLASTIC JOINED TO THE STRUCTURE AND CHECK THAT IT IS THE RIGHT SIZE 7E MUST BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN OF THE MEASUREMENTS BEFORE CUTTING IT AS THERE IS NO GOING BACK )T IS ALWAYS BEST TO LEAVE A SMALL MARGIN FOR ERROR IN THE PLASTIC TO ENSURE YOU WILL NOT RUN SHORT 4HE TRICK FOR PERFECTLY TAUT PLASTIC IS TO FIRST BUILD THE STRUCTURE AND THEN PULL THE PLASTIC TIGHT OVER IT DIRECTLY TO THE GROUND 4HE STRUCTURE IS NOT

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$OUBLE JOINT WITH CLAMPS

4HE GUY ROPE PEGS SHOULD BE DRIVEN IN AT AN ANGLE FOR A BETTER HOLD

&RONT VIEW OF THE ASSEMBLY

3TIFFENING BEAM TO PREVENT WATER FROM FORMING IN BAGS

)NSIDE THE ASSEMBLY WITH PLANT CULTIVATED IN FLOWERPOTS

#OMPLETED GREENHOUSE STRUCTURE

4OP OF THE STRUCTURE

3IDE VIEW OF THE ASSEMBLY

)NSIDE THE ASSEMBLY WITH PLANT CULTIVATED IN MESH

3IDE VIEW OF THE GREENHOUSE STRUCTURE

"AMBOO THAT HAS BEEN POSITIONED PRIOR TO TRIMMING OFF THE EXCESS

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!N ELECTRIC SAW IS FINE FOR CUTTING TO SIZE

!DJUST WITH THE SAW

0AD THE CORNERS WITH RAGS

4APE THE RAGS

&ASTENING THE STRUCTURE

#LOSE UP OF THE STRUCTURE FASTENING

,ADDERS CAN BE USEFUL FOR THIS KIND OF WORK

4HE PLASTIC IS CUT WHEN JOINED TO THE STRUCTURE

)T IS EASIER TO PLACE THE PLASTIC BETWEEN SEVERAL

RESPONSIBLE FOR FASTENING IT BUT RATHER SERVES AS A BALANCING POINT TO HOLD IT IN TENSION 7E USE THE FASTENING CLIPS TO FIX THE ROPES TO THE PLASTIC "EFORE USING THESE CLIPS FOLD THE PLASTIC EDGE OVER ITSELF IN ORDER THAT IT IS WELL FIXED ONCE THE PLASTIC IS CLOSED 4HREAD THE ROPE THROUGH THE FASTENING CLIPS AND PULL THE PLASTIC COVER TIGHT 4HIS IS A DELICATE OPERATION AND IDEALLY YOU SHOULD USE CAMPING TYPE GUY ROPES IN ORDER TO PULL THE ROPE TAUT SMOOTHLY MEANING THAT THERE IS LESS CHANCE OF THE PLASTIC TEARING )F WE MAKE A MISTAKE IN POSITIONING THE FASTENING CLIP AND NEED TO TAKE IT OUT AGAIN DO SO VERY GENTLY AS ITS INTERNAL TEETH ARE DESIGNED TO AVOID ACCIDENTAL OPENING 9OU WILL NEED TO SEPARATE BOTH SIDES OF THE CLIP A LITTLE AT A TIME USING THE KNIFE BLADE FOR LEVERAGE )T IS VERY TEMPTING TO USE A LOT OF ROPES TO PULL THE PLASTIC TAUT ASSUMING THAT THIS WILL SECURE IT BETTER )N ACTUAL FACT THIS SORT OF SYSTEM WILL MERELY PRODUCE EXCESS DIFFERENT STRESSES ON

THE PLASTIC MEANING THAT WRINKLES AND FOLDS MAY FORM /NLY USE THE AMOUNT OF ROPES STRICTLY NECESSARY WITHOUT OVERDOING IT 0ROCEED AS THOUGH PUTTING A TENT UP SIMULTANEOUSLY TENSING ONE FASTENING AGAINST THE OPPOSITE EACH TIME /NE WAY OF FASTENING THE PLASTIC AT THE CORNERS IS TO ROLL IT UP AND FOLD IT OVER ITSELF 4HE FOLD IS THEN FASTENED WITH A COUPLE OF CLAMPS AND THE FASTENING ROPE CAN BE THREADED THROUGH THE FOLD $O THIS WITH ALL FOUR CORNERS TO OBTAIN A PERFECTLY TAUT FINISH AFTER WHICH YOU WILL JUST NEED A FEW EXTRA ROPES TO FINISH FIXING THE PLASTIC COVER !NOTHER IMPORTANT ASPECT TO WATCH OUT FOR IS THAT THE KNOTS OF THE BAMBOO ITSELF CAN TEAR THE PLASTIC )RREGULAR AREAS CAN BE PULLED INTO CONTACT WITH THE PLASTIC AS THE WIND PICKS UP CAUSING DAMAGE AND TEARS 4O AVOID THIS KEEP KNOTS WELL TRIMMED AND PERFECTLY SMOOTH ! WOOD PLANE MAKES THIS AN EASY TASK !NOTHER ALTERNATIVE IS TO USE RAGS IN THESE AREAS 4HIS TYPE OF INSTALLATION NEEDS CHECKING ALMOST EVERY DAY TO ENSURE THAT NO

4IME TO PUT THE COVER ON

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DAMAGE HAS BEEN SUFFERED )N THE MORNING

CHECK IF CONDENSATION FORMS INSIDE )F SO

REMOVE WITH A MOP AS OTHERWISE IT WILL DRIP ONTO THE MARIJUANA AND MAY LEAD TO MOULD )F THE PLASTIC COVER IS LOCATED ON WET GROUND AS THE SUN RISES THIS HUMIDITY WILL EVAPORATE OFF AND CONDENSE ON THE COVER +EEP IT READY BEFORE A STORM AFTER A FEW DAYS OF SUNSHINE

#ORNER ROLLED OVER ITSELF

(ARVEST IS MUCH EASIER

/NCE INSTALLED THESE STRUCTURES ARE VERY USEFUL AND EASY TO MAINTAIN )N ADDITION TO FACILITATING THE PLANTS LIFE THEY ALSO HELP THE GROWER AS EVERYTHING IS MUCH SIMPLER FROM PRUNING TO HARVEST %VERYTHING REALLY IS SO MUCH EASIER WHEN IT CAN BE DONE SHELTERED RATHER THAN WITH RAIN POURING DOWN YOUR NECK !NOTHER

GREAT ADVANTAGE IS THAT IT ALLOWS FOR APPROPRIATE FERTILISATION AT THE END OF FLOWERING AS IF PLANTS ARE NOT COVERED

AND IT RAINS PUDDLES REMAIN MAKING WATERING AND FERTILISATION IMPOSSIBLE 7ITH THE COVER ON THE OTHER HAND THE GROUND DOES NOT GET WET AND AS THE TEMPERATURE RISES THE PLANTS REQUIRE MORE NOURISHMENT

&INAL VIEW OF THE COVER IN POSITION

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-EDI !CTIVIST #ONTAMINATED #ANNABIS #AMPAIGNER AND THE ,ADY THAT ADVISES -EDI #ANNABIS 5SERS IN THE 5+ TO hNOT BE AFRAIDv 3ARAH -ARTIN HAS SET OUT SINGLE HANDEDLY ON A MISSION TO HELP IMPLEMENT DRAMATIC CHANGES TO MEDICAL CANNABIS LAWS ACROSS THE LAND

(AVING LAUNCHED THE 5+ S FIRST -EDICAL #ANNABIS 4ESTIMONIAL SITE ONLINE 3ARAH HAS REACHED A GROWING AUDIENCE OF CANNABIS USERS AND NON USERS BY BROADCASTING HER VERY OWN VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE COM AND OTHER FILE SHARING SITES !S A #HARITY &UND 2AISER 3ARAH -ARTIN ALSO TAKES PART IN SPONSORED RUNS WALKING THEM AS SHE CAN NO LONGER RUN UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY DRESSED AS A COUPLE CANNABIS LEAVES SOME OF WHICH ARE KILOMETERS LONG 4HE 'REAT .ORTH 2UN WAS CLEARLY TOO LONG FOR 3ARAH AT MORE THAN MILES

ALTHOUGH SHE COMPLETED IT IN JUST OVER HOURS $ESPITE THIS IMMENSE TASK SHE GOT LOADS OF POSITIVE SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE WHO ANNOUNCED THEMSELVES AS h'ROWERSv AS SHE PASSED THEM IN THE STREET %VEN A FEMALE POLICE OFFICER LOOKED 3ARAH -ARTIN IN THE EYE AND SAID h9OU ARE RIGHT )T SHOULD BE LEGALv #ONSIDERING 3ARAH S OWN MEDICAL CONDITION AS A -ULTIPLE 3CLEROSES SUFFERER HER ENTHUSIASM TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGE FROM NEGATIVE SITUATIONS TRULY REFLECTS HER OWN GRIT AND DETERMINATION -ANY FEMALE CANNABIS CAMPAIGNERS IN THE 5+ HAVE ALREADY BEEN LIKENED TO THE 3UFFRAGETTES )N THIS RESPECT 3ARAH -ARTIN IS NO DIFFERENT "ESIDES BEING FULL OF ADMIRATION FOR THE WORK THAT 3ARAH PERSONALLY DOES ON THE 5+ -EDI FRONT 3OFT 3ECRETS WERE ALSO KEEN TO HIGHLIGHT THE EFFECTS THAT #ANNABIS LAWS IN THE 5+ HOLD OVER HER LIFESTYLE

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335+ 7HEN DID YOU FIRST START USING CANNABIS 3ARAH ) WENT TO BOARDING SCHOOL AND EVERYTHING WAS MIDDLE CLASS AND SANITIZED 4O BE HONEST ) WAS QUITE AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER AND BEGAN TO REJECT THE MIDDLE CLASS VALUES THAT WERE BEING PREACHED 3O ) STARTED SOCIALIZING WITH PEOPLE FROM THE @REAL WORLD ) FOUND THAT WORKING CLASS PEOPLE FROM THE LOCAL TOWN WERE MORE INTERESTING OPEN AND DIVERSE !T ) WAS PASSED A JOINT IN A LOCAL PARK AND ) LIKED IT ) LIKED IT A LOT )

LOVED !RT AND 7OODWORK AND ) LOVED THE WAY IT INFLUENCED MY IDEAS

$OES @FEAR OF ARREST BY THE POLICE PREVENT YOU FROM MEDICATING THE WAY YOU D LIKE TO

7ERE YOU AWARE OF THE MEDICINAL BENEFITS OF CANNABIS BEFORE THIS

/F COURSE IT DOES ) DREAM OF THE DAY WHEN ) CAN JUST POP DOWN TO THE CHEMIST SHOP FOR MY MEDICINE INSTEAD OF DRIVING THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF "RITAIN TO FIND @CLEAN WEED %VERYDAY ) GO THROUGH ANXIETY CAUSED BY THE POSSIBILITY OF A VISIT FROM THE POLICE 4HIS DOES MY ALREADY BATTERED NERVOUS SYSTEM NO GOOD AT ALL 4HE ONLY SMALL COMFORT ) GET IS IN KNOWING THAT ) M NOT ALONE IN MY STRUGGLES

,IKE THE MAJORITY ) HAD ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA OF MEDICINAL VALUE UNTIL ) WAS DIAGNOSED WITH -ULTIPLE 3CLEROSES AT THE AGE OF ) D HEARD OF ELDERLY PEOPLE USING IT FOR ARTHRITIS BUT DID NOT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE TO DIFFERENTIATE IT FROM THE PAIN DULLING EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ) WAS VERY AWARE OF HOW DIFFERENTLY IT AFFECTED MY EMOTIONAL STATE BUT WAS SURPRISED WHEN A FRIEND SUGGESTED ) COULD USE IT AS A MEDICINE 7HEN ) WAS DIAGNOSED ) WASN T SURE IF THE CANNABIS WAS MAKING MY SYMPTOMS WORSE OR NOT SO ) GAVE IT UP 4HEN ) DID SOME RESEARCH ON THE SUBJECT AND MY LIFE WAS INSTANTLY TRANSFORMED AND ) VE NEVER LOOKED BACK -3 STRIPS THE -YELIN LAYER FROM THE NERVES ALMOST AS IF THEY HAVE BEEN ATTACKED WITH A CHEESE GRATER 4HIS LAYER IS THE ESSENTIAL INSULATION THAT STOPS SIGNALS FROM LEAKING INTO OR OUT OF THE NERVES 4HE 4(# IN CANNABIS SEEMS TO SIMULATE SOME OF THIS INSULATION ) VE BEEN PERMANENTLY MEDICATED NOW FOR OVER A YEAR AND IT HAS CLEARLY ALLOWED MY BODY TO REST AND HEAL ) CAN T REMEMBER FEELING THIS GOOD ) WAS FIT BEFORE ) WAS DIAGNOSED AND WAS EVEN A SNOWBOARDER ) THINK ) MAY HAVE TO GET THE BOARD WAX OUT AGAIN AND STRAP THE OLD BOARD ON 4AMWORTH SNOW DOME IS ONLY MINUTES AWAY ) M DEFINITELY GOING TO START CLIMBING AGAIN THIS SUMMER TOO

(OW DOES CANNABIS HELP WITH THE SYMPTOMS OF YOUR MEDICAL CONDITION 4HERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT SYMPTOMS THAT NOT ONE -ULTIPLE 3CLEROSES PATIENT SHARES THE SAME COMBINATION AS ANOTHER -Y MAIN SYMPTOM IS FATIGUE AND CANNABIS CERTAINLY HELPS ME WITH THAT 4HEN YOU HAVE NUMBNESS STIFF LIMBS JOINTS LOSS OF BALANCE NAUSEA IMPAIRED VISION PINS AND NEEDLES CRAMPS SHOOTING PAINS AND MOOD SWINGS TO NAME A FEW &OR ME CANNABIS REMOVES ABOUT OF THE DISCOMFORT OF EACH SYMPTOM 4HAT S ENOUGH FOR SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE ME TO RISK ARREST AS OPPOSED TO USING HARMFUL AND EXPENSIVE PHARMACEUTICALS AT AN EXPENSE OF OUR HEALTH AND THE TAX PAYER #ANNABIS HELPS ME RETAIN MY DIGNITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE %VERY CHRONICALLY SICK PERSON IN "RITAIN DESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE CANNABIS AS MEDICINE 7HEN ) WAS OFFICIALLY DIAGNOSED MY NEUROLOGIST TOLD ME TO AVOID PHARMACEUTICALS AND INVESTIGATE EVERY OTHER OPTION AVAILABLE TO ME ) FOLLOWED $OCTORS /RDERS )S THAT REALLY SO CRIMINAL

7HICH VARIETIES OF CANNABIS DO YOU FIND HELP BEST WITH YOUR -ULTIPLE SCLEROSIS "ECAUSE MY -3 SYMPTOMS AFFECT ME EMOTIONALLY AS WELL AS PHYSICALLY ) FIND THE (AZES TO BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE (OWEVER WHEN PHYSICAL PAIN IS AT ITS WORST ) PREFER SOME NICE !FGHAN RESIN 7HEN ) NEED TO ESCAPE INTO A DEEP SLEEP ) USE AN INDICA STRAIN LIKE 4RAIN 7RECK -T #OOK OR SIMILAR

7HAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT BEING FORCED TO USE CONTAMINATED CANNABIS 4HE CONTAMINATION CAUSED BY PROHIBITION HAS BEEN HORRIFIC FOR MANY -EDI USERS ) MYSELF HAVE SUFFERED SINUS INFECTIONS AND MOOD SWINGS TOO HORRENDOUS TO BE SEEN AS NORMAL TO MY -3 ) HAD TO USE 'RIT 7EED TO RECOVER FROM THE 'REAT .ORTH 2UN

BUT FORTUNATELY IT WAS ONLY SAND THAT WAS ADDED .ONE OF THE MEDICINAL VALUE WAS MASKED OR LOST AND SO IT HELPED GREATLY ) RESENT PAYING FOR SAND AS WELL AS MEDICINE 'RIT 7EED IS LIKE A TAX THAT LEAVES A BAD TASTE IN YOUR MOUTH AND MAKES YOU FEEL SICK ) CAN T WORK ANYMORE SO MY MEDICINE IS PAID FOR WITH BENEFIT PAYMENTS 4HIS IS FAR FROM AN IDEAL SITUATION

(OW HAS THE CHARITY RUNS HELPED TO GET THE MESSAGE ABOUT -EDICINAL #ANNABIS OUT )T HAS INSPIRED MANY ALTHOUGH THAT WASN T MY INITIAL INTENTION ) WANTED TO MOTIVATE RECREATIONAL AND MEDICINAL USERS TO THE ACTIVIST LEVEL THEY ARE AT IN

THE 5NITED 3TATES #LEARLY THIS WAS A FUTILE ATTEMPT AND NOW ) FIND ENJOYMENT INSPIRING SICK PEOPLE TO EXERCISE THEIR WAY TO AN IMPROVED LEVEL OF HEALTH ) ALSO OFFER ADVICE ON HOW TO BEST MEDICATE WITH #ANNABIS FROM COOKING TO MAKING BODY CREAMS 0EOPLE ARE AMAZED WITH HOW MUCH THEIR HEALTH IMPROVES AND THEIR PAIN IS RELIEVED WITH CANNABIS USE !LSO ALL THE MONEY ) RAISED WALKING THESE EVENTS GOES TO GOOD CAUSES INCLUDING A CHILDREN S CHARITY

7HICH WAYS CAN FELLOW ACTIVISTS GET INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE TO DECRIMINALIZE CANNABIS FOR MEDICINAL USE IN THE 5+ ) MAKE AN EFFORT TO SHOW CANNABIS BEING USED AS A FORCE FOR GOOD ) SUGGEST OTHERS DO THE SAME /PINION IS CHANGING

ESPECIALLY WITHIN THE MEDIA /UT OF THE BLUE THE ""# RECENTLY INTERVIEWED ME 3O DID A LEADING MIDDLE CLASS LADIES MAGAZINE BECAUSE OF THE MESSAGE ) M BROADCASTING ) HAVE A CHANNEL AT WWW YOUTUBE COM USER 3ARAH3OUL&OOD WHERE ) KEEP A TESTIMONIAL AND ACTIVIST VIDEOS /N &ACE"OOK AT WWW FACEBOOK COM GROUP PHP GID

AND ) ALSO HAVE A TESTIMONIAL GROUP ON -Y3PACE !FTER TWO YEARS ) M STILL THE ONLY MEMBER )N THE 53 THERE ARE AN ABUNDANCE OF ONLINE MEDICAL TESTIMONIALS AND THIS HAS RESULTED IN MANY STATES DECRIMINALIZING MEDICAL CANNABIS USE 7HY DON T WE HAVE THIS DEDICATION IN "RITAIN 9OU TELL ME 9OU CAN DONATE AT WWW JUSTGIVING COM SARAH?MARTIN MEDICAL?CANNABIS

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+ÕiÃÌ Ã Ì Ê À}i Ê Ã ) READ THE CHAPTER ON IN -ARIJUANA (ORTICULTURE ON h,IGHTS AND %LECTRICITYv AND THERE IS NO MENTION OF ,%$ GROW LIGHTS $O YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH THESE DEVICES 7HAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS $ "O !LTHOUGH ) ANSWERED A SIMILAR QUESTION LAST MONTH ,%$ LIQUID EMITTING DIODE LAMPS ARE SUCH A COOL SUBJECT THEY DEMAND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND A MORE COMPLETE ANSWER THIS MONTH ,%$S ARE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE 'ROW CLONES

SEEDLINGS VEGETATIVE AND FLOWERING PLANTS WITH ,%$ LAMPS !LTHOUGH THE PLANTS IN THE GARDENS ) SAW DID NOT YIELD HEAVY DUTY TIGHT COMPACT BUDS THE BUDS WERE RESPECTABLE !ND FOR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT PER WATT OF USEABLE LIGHT ,%$S ARE BY FAR THE MOST EFFICIENT LIGHTS ) HAVE SEEN 4HE INHERENTLY EFFICIENT LAMPS USE SOLID STATE LIGHTING TO ILLUMINATE RATHER THAN FILAMENTS LIKE INCANDESCENT AND TUNGSTEN HALOGEN BULBS OR GAS WHICH IS USED IN ()$ FLUORESCENT AND COMPACT FLUORESCENT BULBS ,%$ LAMPS CONSUME A FRACTION OF THE ELECTRICITY OF ()$ AND FLUORESCENT #&, LAMPS AND GENERATE VERY LITTLE HEAT ,%$ FIXTURES ARE RATED FOR REGULAR HOUSEHOLD CURRENT n V AND V "UT ALL ,%$S ARE NOT CREATED EQUALLY ,%$ LIGHT OUTPUT CONTINUES TO INCREASE WITH IMPROVED MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES WHILE MAINTAINING EFFICIEN CY AND RELIABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH SOLID STATE EQUIPMENT $O NOT BE FOOLED BY OLD ,%$ LAMPS THAT ARE NOT AS BRIGHT AS NEW MODELS $O NOT PURCHASE ,%$ LAMPS WITH A RATING LOWER THAN ONE WATT PER BULB ,%$ LAMPS ARE RATED IN MILI WATTS M7 AND CONSUME MUCH LESS ELECTRICITY THAN FLUORESCENT #&, AND ()$ LAMPS TO GENERATE MUCH MORE LIGHT #URRENTLY THE MOST COMMON ,%$S USED FOR PLANT GROWTH CONSUME ONE WATT PER BULB 4YPICALLY CLUSTERS OF BULBS CONSUMING WATTS RESPECTIVELY ARE PLACED IN A SINGLE FIXTURE 4HE COLOR SPECTRUM OF EACH BULB IS DICTATED BY THE SEMI CONDUC TING MATERIAL COMPOSITION AND CONDITION 4HE SPECTRUM CAN RANGE FROM INFRARED TO ULTRAVIOLET AND MANY COLORS IN BETWEEN 4HE NEW ,%$ hGROWv LAMPS COMBINE BLUE AND RED BULBS TO FORM THE EXACT SPECTRUM NECESSARY FOR CANNABIS GROWTH $IRECTIONAL ,%$S ENSURE THAT ALL OF THE LIGHT PRODUCED IS POINTED DOWNWARD SO THAT NO LIGHT FRAGMENTS OFF TO THE SIDE ,%$S FROM 0HILIPS ,UMILEDS ,IGHTING #O PRODUCE LUMENS PER WATT 4HE EXACT SPECTRUM PRODUCED IS SO EFFICIENT LIGHT TO GROW PLANTS THAT PREVIOUS RULES OF THUMB ABOUT LUMENS PER WATT DO NOT APPLY &OR EXAMPLE A W ,%$ FIXTURE WITH THE PROPER SPECTRUM WILL ILLUMI NATE A X FOOT GROW ROOM ,%$ FIXTURES HAVE AN PERCENT EFFICIENT LIFE EXPECTANCY OF HOURS

ABOUT YEARS WHEN OPERATED HOURS A DAY AND YEARS WHEN OPERATED HOURS A DAY "EYOND HOURS BRILLIANCE FADES APPROXIMATELY PERCENT DURING THE FOLLOWING HOURS

) ALWAYS ADVISE TO GROW SEVERAL PLANTS INSTEAD OF ONE OR TWO 4HINK ABOUT IT 0LANTS FACE MANY OBSTACLES n PESTS DISEASES POOR CULTURE TECHNIQUES n ETC 'ROWING SEVERAL PLANTS INCREASES ODDS OF A SUCCESSFUL HARVEST

3IMILAR TO A BALLAST THE POWER SUPPLY THAT DRIVES ,%$S PRECISELY REGULATES THE FLOW OF ELECTRICITY IN MILI WATTS TO THE LAMPS 4HE SOLID STATE LOW WATTAGE DEVICE GENERATES VERY LITTLE HEAT BECAUSE THE FLOW IS NOT IMPAIRED 3EVERAL FIXTURES AVAI LABLE TODAY INCLUDE A FAN S TO DISSIPATE HEAT QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY

(ARVEST TIME IS HERE 4HIS ABUNDANT HARVEST FROM A 4RICHOME 4ECHNOLOGIES GARDEN IS JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED FOR #HRISTMAS

(ARVEST TIME IS HERE 4HIS ABUNDANT HARVEST FROM A 4RICHOME 4ECHNOLOGIES GARDEN IS JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED FOR #HRISTMAS

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4HIS PHOTO OF A 2OMULAN (AZE BUD FROM .EXT 'ENERATION WAS TAKEN WITH SHADE LEA VES INTACT ) GENERALLY REMOVE THE BIG LEAVES SO THE BUD IS IN TIGHTER FOCUS

À Ü }Ê>Ê- } iÊ* > ÌÊÊ 7HAT IF ) WANT TO GROW ONE PLANT JUST AS A PROJECT TO EXPERIMENT JUST GET A PER SONAL CROP EVERY TIME IT BUDS 7HAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS A SHORT RELATIVELY POTENT AND FAST GROWING PLANT $EVIN 4HE POPULAR AUTO FLOWERING PLANT IS ,OWRYDER 4HE PLANT FLOWERS REGARDLESS OF THE HOURS OF LIGHT IT RECEIVES IN ABOUT DAYS FROM SEED 4HE HIGH IS NOT EXCEP TIONAL AND THE YIELD IS LOW AN OUNCE OR LESS PER PLANT 9OU CAN ALSO BUY FEMINI SED SEED 4HESE PLANTS TAKE LONGER TO FLOWER ABOUT DAYS BUT ARE GUARANTEED TO BE FEMALE -OST FEMINIZED SEEDS WILL PRODUCE FROM ONE TO OUNCES PER PLANT DEPENDING UPON STRAIN AND YOUR EXPERTISE AS A GROWER

&LUSH ALL GROWING MEDIUMS REGULARLY #OCO PEAT FROM #ANNA IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GROWING MEDIUMS BECAUSE IT IS EASY TO USE AND CONTROL !LWAYS FOLLOW MANUFACTU RERS INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

9OU CAN GROW AUTO FLOWERING ,OWRYDER OR ANY STRAIN OF FEMINISED SEED EITHER INDOORS OR OUTDOORS -Y ADVICE IS TO BUY ONLY HIGH QUALITY FEMINISED SEED !LSO REMEMBER TO HARVEST FEMINISED SEED WHEN AT PEAK RIPENESS )F THEY ARE ALLOWED TO GO TOO LONG

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