The Hemp Connoisseur, February 2015 - Issue #26

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A LETTER TO OUR READERS

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

Napoleon Hill

I was recently speaking with a friend of mine about cannabis consumption and the phrase “I use weed occasionally” was said. This brought about the conversation of how we should refer to consumption of cannabis properly. Anyone who knows me well has probably heard me speak about the power of words (at one point or another) and my take on how they should be utilized in reference to cannabis.

First off, I absolutely abhor the usage of the word “use” when referring to cannabis consumption.

For me, a heroin addict “uses,” not a cannabis consumer. When we refer to smoking cannabis as using, we are automatically slowing down the progress of widespread cannabis acceptance, whether we realize it or not. To put it another way, have you ever heard someone say that they use alcohol? I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess you never have. The reason being is it sounds ridiculous. If I heard someone say they used alcohol, I would probably think they had a drinking problem.

Of course there is also the “Good to Know” campaign funded by almost six million dollars from the Colorado Health Department, advising us on how to “use responsibly.” The usage of the word “use” is so widespread that it most likely isn’t even noticed by most of us, or if it is, the connotations that can accompany the the word can go over our heads. Nevertheless the connotations are there and can creep into the public’s subconscious.

But it is not just the usage of the word “use” that I take issue with when it comes to cannabis.

There is another word I hear all too often in the media that drives me crazy, the word “overdose.”

If someone has an overdose it brings up images of Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction getting a shot of adrenaline in her heart, or a person being rushed to the hospital to get their stomach pumped in order to save their life. Seeing as no one has ever died from consuming too much cannabis, can we start to replace the usage of overdose with over consume? It is much more accurate without creating the scary imagery.

Finally, there is the slang we all use. I actually love the vernacular when it comes to cannabis, it is fun and pays homage to the black market days when we all felt like we were sticking it to the man, ducking into the alley to get high with our friends. But when we are trying to professionally represent this nascent industry in the public eye, my opinion is we should predominantly refer to it as cannabis because it is the proper word. There is no other substance out there (legal or illegal) that is referred to by its vernacular as much as cannabis is in the media. For kicks sometime, check out any media coverage of cannabis and replace every occurrence of “weed” or “pot” with the words “hooch, booze or swill” and you will notice how utterly ridiculous these reporters sound.

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Contents 6

14

A Letter to Our Readers The Green Scene

Colorado’s Hottest Events

16

In the Spotlight

24

Featured Artist

38

26

Tasty Meds

45

Member vs. Non Member

46

10th Amendment Travesty

49

Asset Forfeiture

50

The History of Hemp Part V

57

Dispensary Guide

63

Coupons

65

Index

28

Too many amazing products to list them all!

Glass artist Jeremiah Kern

Colorado’s best medicated products

Hemp Eats

Hemp seed crusted tilapia and hemp heart truffles

30

Cannabis News

32

Pregnancy and Cannabis

34

Sin City of Sativa

36

HEMP

38

Aligning the 2nd Amendment with A64

42

Getting Deep With...

You Heard It Here First

Dr. Nicola Davis explains the moral dilemma

The state of Nevada and their cannabis legalization The Anti-Antibiotic

Two activists are fighting for the gun rights of cannabis users

Comedian Dave Ross

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The GREEN Scene

E V E N T S

February 21st - PRIVATE EVENT CANNACADETS ONLY! Cannapages 5th Birthday Spectacular with 40oz to Freedom The Roxy Theatre 2549 Welton St Denver, CO 80205 TO RSVP: Go to birthday.cannapages.com and follow instructions!

February 21st Westword Artopia City Hall 1144 Broadway Denver, CO 80203 http://microapp.westword.com/artopia/2015 March 4th-6th Cannabis Business Conference Colorado Convention Center 700 14th St, Denver, CO 80202 www.eventbrite.com March 13th - 14th CannaGrow Expo EXDO Event Center 1399 35th Street Denver, CO 80205 www.cannagrowexpo.com March 15 Glass & Vape Show EXDO Event Center 1399 35th St Denver, CO 80205 www.glassandvapeshow.com April 4th 2nd Annual NoCo Hemp Expo @ The Ranch Events Complex in the Thomas M. McKee Building 5620 Arena Circle Loveland, CO 80538 www.nocohempexpo.com Every Friday - 10:00a.m.

River Rock South Sessions 990 W. 6th Ave. Denver, CO 80204 www.riverrockcolorado.com

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2015 Saturday April 4th, 2015

at The Ranch Events Complex, Loveland, CO 10am - 6pm

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Presented by: The Rocky Mountain Hemp Association Find out what's up with industrial and medicinal hemp and why it really can save the planet.

SPEAKERS 30+ Speakers and Panelists including:

Craig Lee - Hemp Activist, Hempsters Plant the Seed Anndrea Hermann - President of Hemp Technologies Global Ryan Loflin - Hemp Farmer, Loflin Farms/Rocky Mountain Hemp Agua Das - Hemp I Scream, Activist and Innovator Michael Bowman - 5th Generation Farmer, Activist

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VENDORS 50+ Hemp Vendors sharing the wares including: Food, Textiles, Paper, Soaps, Lotions, CBD Oils & Creams, Jewelry, Hempcrete, Apparel, Bags, Hats, Guitars, Ice Cream, Coffee, Tea, Books, Beer & More.

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In the Spotlight Products ProductsWe WeLove Love

Platform High Heels by Kush Kouture

So you are a female cannabis enthusiast that likes to look as fabulous as you feel? We have found you the perfect “going out” heels. Kush Kouture platform heels have sass for days! They come in a wide range of prints and styles, of course our favorite is their line of Herbal Leaf print in various colors and levels of spikey-ness. Some have a smooth closed toe upper and matching platform, with a silver spiked heel that says “I am confident and beautiful but I also have an attitude.” We also like the double spike shoe that has spikes on the heel and the platform, statement shoes that say “I live life with reckless abandon, #badbitch.” Any of these high-profile platform heels will make you feel like the goddess you are. www.kushkoutureapparel.com

CBD Skin Salve by Hempco

I am so happy that I got to try this CBD Skin Salve during these harsh, dry winter months. My hands and feet get so dry and are prone to cracks in my lizard like skin. Hempco’s CBD Salve was just what I needed to mend my poor, neglected extremities. This salve contains a unique combination of active CBD, CBDA and a wonderful mixture of medicinal herbs and essential oils. Upon first application this salve almost immediately improves the look and texture of your skin. It melts a bit from the heat of your hands, which makes it super easy to apply and it absorbs very quickly without leaving an ultra-greasy film. I couldn’t stop petting the skin on the top of my hand where the salve had been applied, it was so soft! The scent is light and natural, I didn’t even notice the scent until I put my nose right in the container. My dry skin was healed up in a matter of days, even the few small cracks on my sad winter feet. While I was only able to try this CBD Salve on severely dry skin, Hempco says the salve is great for use on cold sores, eczema, yeast, skin irritation and psoriasis. CBD Skin Salve is made with Colorado grown natural ingredients, some of which are organic, and is chemical free. Since there is no THC in this hemp product, you can purchase it online at aprilshowersco.weebly.com

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KannaKick Energy Chews by KannaWay Imagine this: it’s Friday afternoon and you are exhausted after a long work week, but it’s your best friend’s birthday and you have to muster up the strength to A) finish the work day B) drive home and C) actually go out. You could grab that 10th cup of coffee for the day or you could enjoy a KannaKick! At 100mg of caffeine in each piece, these chewy energy-filled KannaKicks provide quite the punch, and offer a healthy dose of hemp CBD oil for an added bonus. The caffeine buzz is sustainable, no intense surge or crash, just a steady streamline of energy that lasts for a few hours.

KannaKick chews are made with organic and natural ingredients. They not only provide the body with sustained energy but also B-vitamins

and non-GMO hemp oil high in CBD. There’s no THC or CBD from the marijuana plant, just hemp, so you won’t feel high, just pleasantly energized, yet not jittery like the feeling most energy drinks leave behind.

These handy little treats to help you manage those long days and late nights come in five flavor varieties, four chews to a pack and each chew is equivalent to one and a half cups of coffee.

Grab a pack of KannaKicks to keep in your desk drawer for when you need that muchneeded afternoon boost. www.kannaway.com www.livehemplife.com

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Launch Box by Magic Flight puts out quality products. THC featured the Maud-Dib concentrate vaporizer this past December. We love the Maud-Dib and we love the Launch Box too! Our staff was lucky enough to try The Premium Cherry Launch Box Kit, which comes with one Cherry Launch Box, two rechargeable NiMH batteries with protective caps, battery charger, felt-lined decorative tin, glass draw stem, a cleaning brush, Flight Guide, and a lifetime functional warranty. Magic Flight also sent a Finishing Grinder to use with the Launch Box. After trying this vaporizer for the first time, we were hooked. It is so easy to use and has such a nice look. The first thing that needs to be done is to charge the batteries fully. Once that is taken care of, open the top of the box by swinging the clear lid to the side. Then place the pre-filled finishing grinder in the perfectly fitted opening on the top of the box and grind up some your favorite strain for vaporizing. The grinder pulverizes the herb into an ultra-fine blend and drops it right into the vape trench. Next, close up the top, place the mouthpiece in the hole in the front of the box, and insert the battery into the hole in the back. This is when something truly

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magical happens. You will notice the orangey glow as the heating element begins to vaporize your herb inside this awesome little box. Inhale from the mouthpiece and enjoy.

The vaporizer can be used about 10-15 times before it has to be reloaded.

This might vary from person to person, but once the flower is brownish it is time to swap it out. Vaporizing with the Launch Box is awesome for several reasons, not the least of which is that it makes your favorite strains taste even better, and it is compact and portable with its own carrying tin. The Launch box is also wind proof, has super-fast vaporizing capability, is absolutely silent, doesn’t get hot in your hand and uses AA batteries. Not to mention it is tough and durable (no glass), made in the USA, it looks cool and makes you feel like a vaporizing genius. We could go on and on.

The Launch Box is available in maple, cherry and walnut woods. It comes plain or with laser etched patterns on the lid. They even have a hybrid that looks like the Maud-Dib. See for yourself at www.magic-flight.com

Finishing Grinder

by Magic Flight This grinder creates the finest grind we have ever seen. It is custom made and hand crafted to be used in tandem with the Launch Box. It fits perfectly on top of the bowl for a seamless transfer of flower from grinder to box. The end result is a light and fluffy grind that works really well with the launch box. It also comes in three wood varieties to match your vaporizer. www.magic-flight.com

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by Caroline Hayes

Disappointed with the lack of female attire and women presence all together at the 2013 Cannabis Cup in Denver, Madison Alvarez got the idea for Miss Mary Jane CO. “At that time, I knew I wanted to create a brand that females could identify with, within the cannabis community,” she said. Together with her boyfriend, Daniel, they started Miss Mary Jane Co.

Madison creates her designs in-house with her design team. The rest of Miss Mary Jane Co’s products, such as the glasswares, are American made and mostly by women.

Madison says of the mini fruit rigs (pictured below): “The fruit rigs are made by Gina Gaffner from Austin, TX. We have been carrying her glass art for over a year now.

We love carrying cute and fun products, especially ones made by females.”

“We also noticed the growing popularity of cannabis culture on Instagram. That inspired me to create a marijuana personality on Instagram: @missmaryjaneco. Interesting enough, before we started selling products, Miss Mary Jane CO was actually meant to be known as Miss Mary Jane CO as in Colorado, not company,” Madison explained.

“At first I didn’t have all the kinks worked out, and actually viewed my business to be going in a different direction than fashion. With the rise of dabbing culture and not much, if any, dab related apparel; we put out the first dab hat (to the best of my knowledge). I really enjoyed seeing something come to life and actually selling well online. Then we made our weed leaf leggings and that’s when we really started to grow in popularity,” she said. “I love the feel and the fit of the leggings. I’ve had the opportunity to create 11 different designs including three artist series collabs so far and they only seem to get better each time! I am proud of what my company has put out and it’s great to see so many ladies enjoying my original products as much as I do!”

Future plans for Miss Mary Jane Co involve a storefront as well as getting the clothing line and products in more dispensaries around the area and eventually moving into mainstream. For now, interested buyers can purchase items online or at Medical Oasis where they carry the entire clothing line.

A few last words from the lovely Madison: “We truly appreciate all the support from our fans. I love fashion, cannabis and I love glass art. I am very thankful to be a part of this growing industry and to be able to make a career from what I am passionate about. Keep your eyes peeled for all the new stuff we have planned for 2015. It’s going to be a big year for us!”

Mini Kiwi Slice dab rig

Tie Dye Weed Print Leggings Madison Alvarez

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SLOW DOWN. BREATHE. INHALE. THERE IS TIME FOR BEAUTY. THERE IS TIME FOR REFLECTION. BREATHE. INHALE. THIS IS INDICA.

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A single charge for a singular experience. The enhanced battery on the Indica vaporizer now provides up to 90 minutes ™

of continuous use when fully charged. Giving you ample time to breathe, inhale, and slow down. · indicavapor.com ©2015 Indica, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Patent pending.

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Cannabis Spotlight Klear Solutions Is Raising The Bar On Glass Cleaners

by DJ Reetz

Keeping clean in the cannabis industry is of the utmost importance, whether it’s metaphorically or literally. Klean Solutions can help you with at least part of that equation. Founded by a handful of former executives and engineers from information technology giant Cicsco Systems, the company is now striving to bring earth-friendly cleaning solutions to the cannabis industry.

“The reason we chose the cannabis industry is quite frankly because of legalization,” says CEO of Klean Solutions Ray Cutler. The Company coalesced four years ago around the idea that a developing legal industry based around cannabis would have needs that were not currently being met by the products that were lingering in the shadow of the old way of doing things.

Klear Solutions broke onto the scene with their Klear Kryptonite, an environmentally friendly cleaning solution for smoke ware developed by licensed chemists in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Unlike other products, Klear’s didn’t work through abrasion or harsh chemicals. Instead Klear Kryptonite works by bonding with the resin that builds up in smoking pieces. It means that using Klear Kryptonite is as simple as filling your bong, letting it sit for 30 minutes and rinsing it out with hot water, no spastic shaking of your fragile glass piece necessary. It also means that you won’t be violating environmental standards when you dump your sludge down the drain, as you would be when using some of the other competing cleaners available at your local headshop.

“We believe in the need to build products that will come out of the gate satisfying the [health and safety] standards of companies like Home Depot,” says Cutler. This means Klear Kryptonite is completely legal and up to EPA standards in all 50 states, and can be shipped without issue. And while Cutler is proud of the safety of his product, he also has

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the humility not to attack the competition that has been established in the quasi-legal world of prelegalization pipe cleaning.

“We didn’t want to go at it and say, ‘the other guys are bad, try us.’ We didn’t think it was our place,” says Cutler.

Still, Cutler does see Klear as a different sort of endeavor. “Many of [the existing cleaners] were developed the way the industry was, which is kind of a shadowy thing,” he says. So Klear was conceived with the idea of always being ahead of the regulation that is already dogging legal cannabis.

For now, Culter is happy to be involved in an industry that is making progressive headway across the nation.

“We’re very happy doing what we’re doing,” he says.

Watching the industry grow and effect change across the country is a wild ride, and the team at Klear are having a blast being a part of it, especially attending all of the marijuana trade shows. “Half of that’s just for fun,” says Cutler.

While Cutler says he doesn’t currently use cannabis, many of the other employees are avid enjoyers of the plant, and the company as a whole is respectful of its use both recreationally and medically.

“I can tell you if you had been in college with me in the ‘70s I definitely did do it,” laughs Cutler.

While Klear Kryptonite is the mainstay of the company’s product line for the time being, a line of vape pen cleaners and grow cleaners are in the works.

In the meantime, check out one of their bong-shaped bottles of Klear Krytponite, which will function quite handily in the place of your favorite smoking apparatus while you let it soak.

by Caroline Hayes

HempBox. Such a simple, sweet, delicious concept.

One of the newest trends in the past couple of years is having themed goodiefilled boxes sent right to the consumer’s doorstep. Whether it’s beauty products or items for your dog, there’s something so exciting about receiving a box treats delivered right to you.

Based out of Denver, HempBox offers treats for the hemp connoisseur, which are hand picked by co-owner Samantha Sandt, while her fiancé and co-owner Jake Browne helps with day-to-day activities, as well as handles the social media and website development.

With backgrounds in the cannabis industry, Jake and Samantha kept their eyes on the changing legislation regarding hemp and cannabis laws. Once A64 went into effect, allowing the cultivation of hemp in Colorado, the two saw an opportunity and that’s when HempBox went into action.

As a subscriber of Birch Box, Samantha was familiar with the excitement that came along with receiving a monthly box of goodies in the mail. Together, Sam and Jake put together a campaign to raise money for the HempBox concept on IndieGogo in April 2014. The first boxes came out shortly after that in June 2014.

With having subscribers from Alaska to Florida, Samantha and Jake are “working on a consumer market research survey to help our partners really hone in on specific market segments that are more apt to purchase hemp products. It’s imperative that we understand this growing market and we feel HempBox is poised to gather that data,” Samantha informed.

Samantha sources products by reaching out to companies, but at the same time hemp companies are now coming to her asking to have their products promoted in HempBox (interested companies can go to www.hempbox.com/productpartners for more information). What a great way to get the word out about awesome hemp products.

What really get Samantha and Jake excited is sharing the amazing hemp infused goods with their subscribers, calling them ‘sinful treats’.

So what can we expect to see from them in the future? Samantha says they are “proud sponsors” of the Second Annual NoCo Hemp Expo, which takes place on April 4th in Colorado.

HempBox is offered as a one time, three or six month subscription and first time subscribers can receive 50 percent off their first box with the coupon code HempBox50.

Keep your eyes out for things to come from this Colorado Proud company. www.hempbox.com

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FEATURED ARTIST

Jeremiah Kern

by Sam Ruderman

Jeremiah Kern is a Colorado born and bred glassblower who runs Hand of Man Studios in Denver, Colorado. In a decade long career in glass, Jeremiah has won competitions, established a studio space and taught glass to multiple budding artists. I sat down to talk with him about his work and the Denver glassblowing scene.

THC: Jeremiah, when and where did you start blowing glass?

JK: I started blowing glass in the spring of 2005 in North Boulder, at a shop called Stardust Glass Studio.

THC: I understand that you have won a couple glass blowing competitions.

How do glass blowing competitions work? Which events have you placed in?

JK: Glassblowing competitions, called flame-offs, happen all over the country throughout the year. Some serve almost as entertainment at glass trade shows and others are strictly glass competitions. We compete for prizes and mostly for fun. Entering is usually as easy as contacting the school or organization holding the competition and asking to get in. Sometimes you have to pay an entry fee, but I have noticed this becoming less common. Depending on the competition you are in, the rules vary. Sometimes I have up to six months or more to figure out my project, other times I don’t know what I am doing until I get there. My first flame-off was at the old Eugene Glass School. They had a flame-off every year and I attended the last three or four before the school changed. I probably won two or three events there; maybe more I don’t really keep those numbers in the front of my head. I’ve competed also at the Sonoran Flame off in Tucson. I didn’t win there, but ultimately had way too good of a time (Thanks Andy Ray for letting me try to burn down your house that night…)! The competition I have participated in the most though is the CHAMPS Glass Games and Master’s Competitions. This flame off is a multi-stage yearly competition where you have three chances to compete in the glass games in order to qualify for the Masters, held in Vegas every year around the last week of January. There are usually about five qualifying competitions, each with a different set of rules. Some are team and some are individual competitions. The winners of these go on to compete in the masters competition, where artists have fifteen hours to make the headiest piece they can based on a theme. I have competed in 8 qualifiers and 3 finals. I placed in five of the qualifiers; my best so far at masters is third place for a glass record player I made that actually plays music (still for sale!).

THC: Hand Of Man has become a Denver staple for glassblowers across the state and nation. Can you explain how the community of glass artists and pipe makers might be different than workers in other industries?

JK: Well here at HOM we treat all our apprentices and renters as family. I think that can be said in most every glass shop across the country. I guess I would say that glass is thicker than water and glass is thicker than blood. Not that there isn’t any competition in the industry, but I think that we are still small enough to be somewhat of a cottage industry, and usually within these industries, there are very tight knit groups working together to make everyone succeed. That is really how I feel about glass and our part of the glass industry as a whole.

THC: You make your own line of glass tubing called “Kerntech” that you make right in the studio. Can you explain the process of making it?

JK: Well, Sam, that would be giving up a recipe that I am not quite ready to share with the whole world. I can give you the basic story of how glass is made from a crucible, though. It starts with LOTS of help from friends and family. Glass production on this level cannot be a one man job. Basically, and there is a lot more to it than this, but the gist of any colored glass is melting clear glass and adding the right amounts of the right chemicals to change the color of the glass.

There is actually plenty of literature out there about the process if you are willing to hunt it down.

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THC: Last summer you were invited to assistant teach at Corning, a renowned glass art facility in the northeast. What was the experience like?

JK: I think that every glass artist who has been there would say that Corning, no matter what the purpose of the visit, is always an amazing place for a visit, even if you are not an artist yourself. The inspiration that surrounds that place is magic, and maybe more. The class was great, and I hope that I left some inspiration with the students in the class. I think my favorite part of teaching, and this goes for my apprenticeship program especially, has to be the moment when someone whose mind is fresh and unhindered by the ideas and techniques of others, unknowingly teaches ME something. The most important thing to understand as a teacher is that your students also may be able to teach you something, and to take that for the greatness it is.

THC: How has the glassblowing scene in Denver changed over the course of your career? Where do you think it is heading in the future?

JK: When I started blowing glass, the only glass “scene” in Denver I knew of was two or three scientific shops and I remember having this feeling like nobody was around to help me succeed. The glass suppliers looked at the pipe artists as more of a burden than a dinner source. When I visited Oregon and Washington, first of all there were lots more glassblowers, and then everyone was openly showing me all these tricks. I learned so much at those events, on that scene, that I just kept attending more of them and meeting all these great artists. Then, one day, I don’t really know when, but there was a sudden, big influx of skilled artists joining our forces and coming to my town. That has changed the game so much; the glass suppliers know us by name and enjoy what we do; we have trade shows here, and more shops than I would have imagined, ideas are being shared and expanded everywhere I look. There is actually now this SCENE in Denver. And it’s big. So big that Denver, as I see it, has the potential to be as great as Seattle, Corning, or dare I mention Murano or Vienna is for glass.

THC: Thanks, Maya.

To find out more about Jeremiah Kern and Hand of Man Studios, visit www. handofmanstudio.com

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Tasty Meds

Reviews of Colorado’s finest medicated products Cheeba Chews Caramel Indica 100mg

reviewed by Monocle Man By now most of our readers have had a Cheeba Chew product at some point.

If you haven’t you are missing out on a staple of Colorado edibles. They are two-time winners in the High Times Cannabis Cup taking first place in 2011 in Denver and second place in Los Angles in 2012. Cheeba Chews makes more than just their Quad (70mg) and Deca Dose (175mg) chocolate taffies that have made them a patient favorite. We stopped by Urban Dispensary in Denver and picked up their 100mg Indica Caramel. This chewy creamy goodness melts in your mouth and will leave you wanting another one or two. If you are a lightweight with edibles you will want to try your best not to eat the whole thing because it packs a punch. I wish they had a lower mg option with these so I could eat a few of them in a single sitting. After eating half the caramel it took about an hour for the warm body high to take over.

With the initial effects starting to take hold, I grabbed the other half and chewed away. It wasn’t much longer after that and I was in full-blown edible mode. There wasn’t much to do but throw on a movie and relax. Chew wisely and pick up a Cheeba Chew Carmel at Urban DIspensary and other medical marijuana centers across the state. Check out their website for more information on where you can you find Cheeba Chews near you. www.cheebachews.com

Preferred Organic Therapy Nightmare OG Nectar

by Terpx reviewed by Monocle Man

The name may sound intimidating but the Nightmare OG Nectar from Preferred Organic Therapy is pure joy. This beautiful shatter was processed by the talented extractors at Terpx from flower grown by Preferred Organic Therapy. Their medical dispensary is located in Denver and offers a wide selection of flower, edibles, concentrates, and topicals. Once again Terpx has done a phenomenal job with their extractions with this OG18 and Whitenightmare cross. Its terpene profile had a mixture of subtle earthy tones with a lemon twist. When the light catches the chunks of golden goodness you can see it is completely translucent.

A tremendous looking product that I couldn’t wait to dab. The ominous strain name made me go with a small dab to start. It was an adrenaline rush as soon as I exhaled, but mellowed into a relaxing mind and body high. With one dab under my belt and not summoning the boogie man it was time for round two. This time around my dab tool had quite the glob ready to be melted away. Nightmare OG is an Indica dominate strain but it’s not to overpowering and can still have a functional high. It made for a good stress reliever after work when you need to unwind a little. Do yourself a favor and head over to Preferred Organic Therapy and check out their selection of Terpx runs. www.preferredorganictherapy.com

Dr. J’s RXtraction CO2 Oil

reviewed by Monocle Man Dr J’s edibles have always been a staff favorite here at THC. Now they offer CO2 hash oil available in indica, sativa, and hybrid. If you don’t have a medical card don’t you fret because Dr. J’s RXtraction is also available to purchase at adult-use shops across the state. You get a half gram of CO2 extracted hash oil ready to go in a syringe. Having oil in a syringe can be an easier delivery method than having it in a glass container. You can press down and put a dollop of oil on your dab tool or as a bowl topper. Dr. J’s even has a small paper with instructions and some information on RXtraction if you weren’t familiar with CO2 oil. They also provide a rubber tip you can put on the syringe to add the oil to a refillable vapor cartridge. The Hybrid oil was first up to bat and I grabbed my rig for a dab for my first sample. The Hybrid oil had a sweet smell and was dark amber in color. The effects leaned indica at first with a strong body high but shifted to a cerebral creative high. The indica oil was a lighter amber color with a faint pine scent. For the indica oil I wanted to switch things up and top off a bowl of indica flower. It made for the perfect nightcap and added a pleasant flavor and kick to my bowl. We didn’t try out the sativa this time but after trying the hybrid and indica RXtraction CO2 oil we will be picking that up next. www.drjsllc.com

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Hemp Eats Eat Your Heart Out

Hemp and Almond Crusted Halibut Serves 4

Ingredients: 1 cup sliced almonds + ½ cup ½ teaspoon parsley 1 cup hulled hempseeds ¼ cup flour 1 egg, beaten 4-6 oz. Halibut filets salt and pepper to taste ½ Tablespoon butter Directions: Preheat oven to 350°F and spray a baking dish with cooking spray.

Place the almonds and parsley in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped.

In a shallow bowl, combine almonds mixture with flour and hemp seeds.

Place the beaten egg in another shallow bowl.

Salt and pepper each side of fish then dredge both sides of fish in beaten egg and then the almond/hemp/parsley seed mixture, making sure to coat both sides evenly.

As you finish the filets, place in your greased baking dish.

Bake all four at 350°F for 25-30 minutes, depending on the thickness of the filets.

While the filets are baking, melt the butter in a skillet over medium. Add the remaining ½ cup of almonds and cook stirring often for 3 to 5 minutes. Let cool before serving.

Serve with homemade tartar sauce, sliced avocado or hot sauce.

Hemp Heart Truffles Makes 16 truffles Ingredients: ½ cup + 2 tbsp hemp protein powder 1/2 cup raw cacao 4 heaping tbsp, almond butter 4 tbsp melted coconut oil 6 tbsp maple syrup hemp seeds airtight container parchment paper

Directions: Combine first 5 ingredients in a medium mixing bowl.

With clean hands, use the mixture to roll 16 truffles.

Place the hemp seeds in a shallow dish and roll the truffles around in them, coating evenly.

Line your airtight container with parchment paper and place the truffles in. Allow to set in the fridge for at least 3 hours.

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Cannabis News

by DJ Reetz

Marijuana Legalization Confirmed to be a 2Chainz Teaches Very Good Thing by Politifact Marijuana

Nancy

Grace

About

What happens when a bombastically fabricated public persona that In a commentary for The Providence Journal, James Aubin, founder of

espouses repetitive ignorance for the sake of mass appeal goes toe-to-toe

pro-legalization group Common Sense Citizen, made the bold claim that

with a rapper? Rapper 2Chainz gave us the answer when he appeared on

Colorado had not only raked in some $60 million in taxes and fees from

Nancy Grace’s HLN show to argue the merits of marijuana legalization.

legal marijuana sales, but saved an additional $145 million by not arresting

Topics included children being forced to smoke pot by parents in states

and prosecuting marijuana offenders. The Pulitzer Prize winning team

where consumption by adults is illegal, which Grace seemed to view

at Politifact analyzed this claim, coming to the conclusion that the $60

as evidence of the dangers of legalization. Mr. Chainz wasn’t having it

million figure was spot-on and deeming his statement as true, though the

however, and was quick to point out the benefits of marijuana use and the

analysis did not touch on the savings amount, which Aubin took from a

harms of continued prohibition, drawing the obvious analogy of alcohol

2010 Harvard report.

prohibition. The college-educated rapper showed that a career of talking

Doctors Conclude Data Inconclusive A panel of health experts convening in Colorado to discuss the need for further health regulations on commercially sold marijuana reached the

about hoes, drugs and money still makes you more qualified to debate drug policy than Grace’s farcical time as a prosecutor.

Law Enforcement Summit in Colorado Discusses Impact of Legalization

conclusion that there was not enough reliable research done on the topic currently to make a recommendation. The panel, led by Mike Van Dyke

The Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police held a three-day summit to

of the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, was made up of

discuss the impacts of legalization on law enforcement. The event drew

pediatricians, toxicologists and addiction psychiatrists and called for more

attendees from all over the country, eager to learn about the additional

research to be done on topics such as the effects of marijuana on unborn

challenges faced by cops in the first state to legalize marijuana. A central

fetuses and on people aged 18 to 25 before concrete recommendations can

topic was the issue of stoned driving, which speakers highlighted the

be made. “We’re a year into it. We don’t have the answers yet,” Van Dyke

dangers of despite a lack of scientific data.

told the AP.

Supply Catches Up With Demand in Cato Institute Finds Medical Marijuana Washington Lowers Suicide Rates After half a year of legal adult-use sales in Washington State, supply may After analyzing myriad studies on the subject, libertarian think-tank the

finally have outpaced demand for marijuana. Following the fall harvest of

Cato Institute concluded that medical marijuana use may lower rates of

outdoor crops, the AP found that less than one-fifth of the marijuana grown

suicide, stating:

in the state had been sold, according to state records. This creates a serious problem for growers, who are finding the value of their crops tanking and

“We conclude that the legalization of medical marijuana leads to fewer

their livelihoods at risk. The limited number of retail outlets seems partially

suicides among young adult males. This result is consistent with the oft-

to blame for the surplus, with fewer than 100 shops currently open and

voiced, but controversial, claim that marijuana can be used to cope with

around 270 licensed growers, though more shops will be opening in coming

depression and anxiety caused by stressful life events. However, the result

months. For the time being, the glut of marijuana doesn’t seem to be having

may, at least in part, be attributable to the reduction in alcohol consumption

the pro-consumer effect of lowering prices, which are hovering around $25

among young adults that appears to accompany the legalization of medical

per gram in adult-use shops.

marijuana.”

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Across the Globe Vermont Could Stand to Make $50 Million Annually From Legalization

Chairman Phil Mendelson submitted the District’s legalization initiative

A study carried out by the Rand Corporation estimated that state revenues

Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) who represents a congressional district

resulting from legalizing and taxing marijuana in Vermont could reach somewhere between $35 million and $50 million annually. The number is contingent upon equivalent tax rates to those here in Colorado and an estimated annual usage of between 15 and 25 metric tons of marijuana in the state, though usage figures can be hard to pin down due to the illegal status of marijuana. The figure is roughly in line with the amount of revenue generated for the state seen here in Colorado.

However, the report also warns of potential downsides to legalization as well, such as increased costs to law enforcement to enforce the new laws, increased cost for marijuana treatment, and an upswing in problem use and underage use that “could create social, educational, and health damage that would outweigh all the revenue collected from even the most ambitious tax plan. The dangers of such an upsurge ought to dominate decisions about the level and form of taxation.”

DU Adds Marijuana Law to Curriculum The University of Denver has begun offering classes that will allow students to work in the complex and ever-evolving field of legal marijuana. The class, Representing the Marijuana Client, is in its inaugural year, and the waiting list for students is already rather lengthy. Unlike other marijuanacentered law classes, the DU class will focus on meeting the needs of legal entrepreneurs, rather than criminal defense and broader policy issues that

for approval, giving Congress 30 days to review it.

neighboring D.C. and has consistently opposed efforts in the nation’s capitol previously attached a rider to the federal spending bill that prohibits the allocation of funds to enforce the act, which was supported by 70 percent of D.C. voters. However, advocates say that the measure has already been enacted, allowing residents 21 and up to posses up to two ounces of marijuana and grow up to six plants, no enactment dollars needed.

“The District’s examination agrees with our analysis that the initiative was enacted when voters approved it and will take effect at the end of the 30-day congressional review period,” Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s non-voting congressional representative, told the Huffington Post. What this means for enacting legal sales is another matter, as such an endeavor would likely require a clever work around from city officials.

DEA Ignores Important Laws to Enforce the Stupid Ones As part of a broader practice by the US Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration is alleged to have kept a record of phone calls made in the US dating back to the 1990s. The Wall Street Journal uncovered the existence of a searchable database of phone records through a court filling. According to the report, the DEA was using administrative subpoenas to obtain the records, which unlike a court order or warrant do not require oversight from a judge. The DOJ has claimed that the program

are central to other marijuana related classes.

is no longer active and was shut down as recently as 2013.

“To have a class about what the law is, the pitfalls of running that type of

Bill Introduced to End Federal Ban on Hemp

business and what it is for lawyers to have such a client are critical questions across the board,” DU law professor Sam Kamin told The Denver Post.

A stalwart advocate for all things cannabis, Rep. Jared Polis (D-Co.) has

DC City Council Moves Forward With Regulatory Talks

remove hemp from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled

Despite efforts by members of Congress to squelch marijuana legalization

the way for hemp farming in every state in the nation, regardless of the

by stripping the city of any funds to create a regulatory framework, the Washington D.C. City Council is moving ahead with efforts to enact

introduced a measure to the U.S. House of Representatives that would Substances Act. The Industrial Hemp Farming Act is being supported by representatives from Kentucky, Oregon and California, and would pave legal status of marijuana. According to the Denver Business Journal, a companion bill has been introduced in the Senate.

measure 71 in the nation’s capital. On January 13, D.C. City Council

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Cannabis and Pregnancy

by Erin Hiatt

32 February 2015

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reat Britain’s Princess Kate is a perfect example of the dichotomies of pregnancy. On one hand, she seems to have a golden glow and her hair stays silky and luscious thanks to pregnancy hormones and her likely regimen of proper prenatal care and vitamins. She wears beautiful designer clothes that continue to look amazing on her thin frame long into her pregnancy. On the other hand, when she is not attending official events and presenting the flawless face of royalty, there is a good chance that she is in one of the palace bathrooms, throwing up with stunning regularity. Kate suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum, a very severe type of “morning sickness” (which can actually happen at any time of day). The University of Maryland Medical Center describes hyperemesis gravidarum as being characterized by “losing more than 5 percent of your body weight, intractable vomiting, retinal hemorrhage, and potential renal and liver damage.” Cannabis is known to help alleviate symptoms of nausea and increase appetite, but would it be a wise idea for Kate, or any other expectant mother, to use cannabis to alleviate her pregnancy sickness?

Understanding the effects of cannabis (or any kind of drug) on pregnant mothers and their neonates has been difficult in the United States because there is a strong reluctance to fund the proper longitudinal studies. They are time consuming, take years, and are very costly. Dr. Melanie Dreher holds several degrees, including a Ph.D. in Anthropology and a Masters of Philosophy, both from Columbia University, an MA in Anthropology from Columbia, and last but not least, a BS in nursing. Dr. Dreher’s anthropological eye had her interested in cross-cultural studies investigating substance abuse and use on the health, development and task performance in adults and their exposed children. She looked to Jamaica to find populations of pregnant women that specifically used cannabis in the hopes that the results would not be confounded by the use of nicotine, alcohol, or hard drugs (typical in most study participants, especially in industrialized countries). Her study, funded by Patients Out of Time (POT) is titled “Prenatal Marijuana Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica” and it had some very unexpected results.

But Dr. Peter Fried, who did a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1978, had quite different conclusions. He wrote that, “beyond the age of three, there are suggestive findings indicating a putative association between prenatal marihuana exposure and aspects of cognitive behavior that fall under the rubric of executive function. Particularly, the facets of this construct which appear impacted are the domains of attention/impulsivity and problem solving situations requiring integration and manipulation of basic visuoperceptual skills.”

The differences between the outcomes of the studies come down to several factors. One is, of course, who’s paying for it. Dale Sky Jones, the Executive Chancellor of Oaksterdam University in San Francisco, suggests that NIDA is “more interested in finding harm instead of benefit” when it comes to cannabis.

The other factors are socioeconomic status, education, prenatal care, nutrition and whether the mothers used other substances while pregnant. The Jamaican study was unique because the subjects were only using cannabis and other substances could be completely factored out of neonatal outcomes.

Socioeconomic factors in particular may have a startling effect on neonatal outcomes. Women that struggle with poverty have many obstacles to a healthy pregnancy. Poverty can greatly impact childhood outcomes because of less parental availability, lack of parental attention, or having to work multiple jobs. Impoverished women may not have health insurance and as a result may not get the proper prenatal screenings or be able to afford the food for proper nutrition and prenatal vitamins.

In fact, research shows that low socioeconomic status can lead to low birth weight, higher levels of emotional and behavioral difficulties, higher aggression, and higher likelihood of health problems later in life.

Understanding the effects of cannabis (or any kind of drug) on pregnant mothers and their neonates has been Jones points out, “Once you factor out difficult in the United States socioeconomic deficiencies, the research doesn’t show that there is an effect from because there is a strong cannabis. In fact, growing up in foster care is way more developmentally damaging than the reluctance to fund the occasional use of any hard drug.” An intriguing aspect of the Jamaican study belongs to the roots proper longitudinal daughters. They were more educated than the others Dr. Dreher chose Jamaica to launch her 1989 study in the group, were less likely to have a father in the home because the community used cannabis for very specific but had more adult members in the household. Dreher studies. reasons. She wrote that they “viewed marijuana as a sacred substance and may use ritually on a daily basis. Marijuana also is known for its therapeutic and health-promoting functions. It is consumed as a tea by family members of all ages for a variety of illnesses and to maintain and promote health.” Women smoking marijuana (as opposed to drinking it as a tea) are discouraged in Jamaica, but a group of Rastafarian women called the “Roots Daughters” were said to “think, reason, and smoke like a man. They smoke marijuana on a daily basis in a manner not unlike that of their male counterparts and continue to smoke during pregnancy and the breastfeeding period.”

To conduct the study, Dreher recruited local midwives to find 30 women who were pregnant and were light, moderate, or heavy cannabis users. She then matched a sample of 30 women who were non-users with comparable age, parity, and socioeconomic status, then took into account medical and obstetrical histories.

Three days after the mothers in the study gave birth, the infants were assessed using the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale. The NBAS takes into account some 14 different behaviors from reflexes to general irritability and is typically used until an infant is about three months old. The study found that on day one, between the using and non-using mothers that there were no significant differences. This also applied on day three. There was also no significant difference in birth weight, length, or head circumference. At one month, however, study results started to get really interesting. Dreher wrote that “ the heavily exposed neonates were more socially responsive and were more autonomically stable at 30 days than their matched counterparts. The quality of their alertness was higher; their motor and autonomic systems were more robust; they were less irritable; they were less likely to demonstrate any imbalance of tone; they needed less examiner facilitation to become organized; they had better self-regulation; and were judged to be more rewarding for caregivers than the neonates of nonusing mothers at one month of age.” Dreher revisited the same children at ages four and five and found that there were no differences between the children who were exposed and non-exposed in utero.

wrote, “conventional wisdom would suggest that mothers who are long-term users are less likely to create optimal caregiving environments for their neonates. In this area of Jamaica, where the heavy use of the substance by women is associated with a higher level of education and greater financial independence, it seems that roots daughters have the capacity to create a postnatal environment that is supportive of neonatal development.”

She continues to say that “It is possible that with more adults present to assist the mother and respond to the neonate and with fewer children to compete for attention, the mother is better equipped to facilitate the neonate’s interaction with his/her environment.” This, in turn, gives rise to better future outcomes in all areas of child development, regardless of cannabis use.

Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director of NORML and points out that the adverse effects of cigarette smoking and alcohol on babies in utero have been well-studied and documented and those substances still remain legal. They have been definitively linked to fetal alcohol syndrome, low birth weight and longterm negative effects on behavior, cognition, language, and achievement. The research on cannabis during pregnancy is essentially ambivalent because there have been no longitudinal clinical studies on pregnant women who are regular users of only cannabis.

For a woman seeking relief from the aches, pains, and nausea that accompany pregnancy, it’s difficult to know where to turn for relief. Armentano notes, “Any maternal use of substances, even pharmaceuticals, are never tested on pregnant women because it’s unethical. Drugs are not tested in clinical settings on a pregnant population. The potential for great adverse effects depends on the size of the dose.”

How a woman chooses to treat pregnancy symptoms is a deeply personal choice and one that should not be taken lightly. Both legal pharmaceuticals and illegal substances have never been tested vigorously on pregnant populations, and should you test positive for an illegal substance during pregnancy, Dale Sky Jones strongly cautions, “At worst, you will lose your child after giving birth in shackles in prison while serving your 12 year mandatory minimum sentence.

Do you want me to say it again?”

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Sin City of Sativa The state of Las Vegas and Cannabis Legalization

by DJ Reetz

The city of Las Vegas conjures images of brightly lit casinos, flashy shows filled with quasi-celebrities, magic acts, heavy drinking, strippers, bad decisions and general debauchery. It’s a destination for those with too much money and too few ideas about how to spend it, often playing host to confused tourists who find enjoyment in watching their funds quickly dwindle and purposeful maniacs who revel in the city’s excess.

If you’ve been to Vegas you know of the causal criminality that seeps from every facet of a city built by mobsters and capitalized upon by the even more ruthless gambling corporations. Walking down the street, cocktail in hand, you are likely to be solicited by the migrant card flippers passing out business cards with naked women on them who in no way represent the escorts and strippers you will reach if you dial the phone numbers that are listed on those cards. On the right dimly lit section of the strip, or maybe just off of it, you will find the purveyors of other vices, who will slide up with the sleaze and confidence of the city’s true denizens and offer you “that good nose candy” or any other substance that you would ever need to fulfill your fantasy of overindulgence, or string out your spiraling nightmare.

With a reputation such as Vegas’, one might wonder where responsible marijuana use figures in. In 2001, Nevada enacted medical marijuana legislation known as Question 9, allowing people suffering from AIDS, cachexia, cancer, glaucoma, PTSD, muscle spasms, seizures, severe nausea or pain to legally grow and consume marijuana. Unfortunately, the measure did not establish a dispensary system by which patients could purchase their medicine, leaving the cultivation to home growers, caregivers and co-ops. In 2013, the state moved to rectify this issue, creating a licensure system that would allow 66 dispensaries to operate legally in the state, and at the end of last year the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health began issuing permits to qualifying candidates. As of the

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writing of this article, no dispensaries were currently in operation.

This doesn’t mean that patients without access to their own grow are left wanting.

Myriad delivery services continue to operate in the legal gray areas of Nevada’s law. This means that while patients can’t walk into a dispensary and choose from a selection of buds from behind a counter, they can call one of these services and have home grown marijuana delivered directly to them, provided they offer a suitable donation.

Readers here in Colorado will want to note an interesting caveat to Nevada’s law, the acceptance of medical marijuana referrals coming from other states, provided the requirements for attaining a referral in those states are similar to Nevada’s. This means holders of a Colorado red card can have access to these marijuana delivery services, it’s as easy as pulling up Weedmaps or a similar service and placing a phone call. In no time an eager representative will be at your hotel room with a selection of strains. Assumedly this also means that when the dispensaries in the state do finally open for business, out of state referrals will allow you access.

While Las Vegas won’t likely draw your tourist dollars on the basis of marijuana, medical patients will find they still have some options when visiting. However, it is important to note that harsh drug laws are still in place in Nevada, so don’t think that just because some drunk buffoon can stumble down the street with a four-foot tall beer and gamblers can poison themselves with cigarettes on the casino floor that you will be able to light up wherever you please. For the time being, it would seem that tourists are confined to shamefully blowing their hits into their hotel bathroom’s exhaust fan. But what is Vegas if not a place to roll the dice.

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Hemp:

The Anti-Antibiotic

By Dr Nicola Davies

36 February 2015

B

acteria are becoming increasingly antibiotic resistant, giving rise to superbugs and making antibiotics obsolete. How can hemp and hemp derivatives (oil, milk, seeds) take over from the failing antibiotic industry?

Antibiotic Resistance The World Health Organization has called antibiotic resistance “one of the biggest threats to human health today.” Bacteria that were once affected by antibiotics have grown resistant to the substances that were so efficient in stopping their growth in the past. This resistance has created ‘superbugs’ — strains of bacteria that are particularly resistant to both broad and narrow-spectrum antibiotics.

Resistance develops when bacteria come into contact with antibiotics or other bacteria that have been exposed to antibiotics and mutate into stronger genetic strains. Overexposure to antibiotics is largely due to misdiagnosis and overuse of common antibiotics, from a global right down to an individual level. However, new studies are showing that hemp, or cannabis sativa, can offset the danger of antibiotic resistance on many levels.

From the Farm to the Table On a global scale, bacteria in food production, much like the bacteria in our bodies, are evolving to become increasingly resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Medium to large-scale farms producing meat and vegetables sometimes use antibiotics to compensate for crowded and unclean living conditions, even in the absence of infection. This is one reason for the rise in organic food awareness. Organic foods tend to cost more, as high standards of hygiene are required for the livestock and the soil for produce. As a result, farmers are looking for inexpensive organic alternatives for livestock and crops.

Hemp oil can also be used to replace antibiotics used on produce; helping to curtail the resistant strains by keeping antibiotics from spreading plant to plant via water and soil.

In a case in Denmark, the addition of hemp oil to piglet feed dramatically reduced the incidence of gastrointestinal infection. Gastrointestinal infection is the highest cause of mortality in piglets, and a key reason why farmers give antibiotics prophylactically. However, this builds resistance among bacteria, which may then be passed on to the consumer. This has spawned an academic study exploring the outcome of adding cold-pressed hemp oil and hemp protein to the diets of livestock throughout their lives. The project is part of a threeyear ongoing study, targeted for completion in July 2017. The data is extremely promising for organic farms across the globe.

Hemp oil can also be used to replace antibiotics used on produce; helping to curtail the resistant strains by keeping antibiotics from spreading plant to plant via water and soil. The danger of antibiotics in produce is that if plants infected with a resistant strain of bacteria are sprayed with an antibiotic, only the susceptible bacteria will die, leaving the stronger, more resistant bacteria to multiply. Resistant genes exist for tetracycline and streptomycin, two common antibiotics used in agriculture. In addition, the antibiotic chemicals seep into the soil and create resistance in the bacteria on other plants. As part of a systematic investigation of central European plants, hemp oil was found to be more effective than streptomycin and penicillin in terms of anti-bacterial traits and natural antibodies, but without the danger of creating antibiotic resistance.

with antibiotics. Rather than overusing antibiotics, it has been suggested that adding hemp seeds to a person’s diet increases the body’s natural production of antibodies.

Like flax seeds, hemp seeds have all of the essential amino acids that the body needs to resist illness. They also have the highest content of edestin, a type of globulin, in the entire plant family. Globulins are one of the top three most abundant proteins in the human body and are responsible for acquired and natural immunity against harmful outside organisms. The body uses globulins to make antibodies, which attack infectious agents via their antigens. A person’s ability to resist and recover from infections and illness is directly proportionate to how quickly their body can generate large quantities of antibodies to defend against the initial onslaught of antigens. If globulins are in low supply, there is a higher chance of antigens overcoming the body’s immune response. As 65 percent of hemp seed protein is the globulin edestin, it is obvious how it can be used in place of antibiotics in many cases of infection.

The Destruction of Superbugs Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a strain of bacteria that has become non-responsive to most antibiotics. Often carried on the skin and in the nose, Staphylococcus aureus is profoundly problematic when it has an opportunity to invade the bloodstream to cause “Staph” infections. When antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus infect someone with a weakened immune system, such as the ill or elderly, the infection can quickly become life-threatening. As resistance to antibiotics increases, some strains of bacteria are becoming immune to vancomycin, the “last resort” antibiotic that is currently used when all others fail.

Recently, Simon Gibbons of the School of Pharmacy at the University of London and Giovanni Appendino of the Piemonte Orientale University in Italy tested five different cannabinoids with regard to their ability to kill MRSA. The results were impressive. Of the five cannabinoids tested, the two with the highest effectiveness in killing the resistant bacteria were extracted from industrial hemp with low THC content and non-psychoactive properties; meaning they would not produce a “high.” This is encouraging, as most protests against the use of hemp products stem from the stigma around the plant’s cousin, marijuana. During their study, Gibbons and Appendino discovered that hemp extracts were as effective in treating infection as many known antibiotics, including vancomycin. More recent studies have shown that hemp extracts are effective in treating Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

Hope on the Horizon The future of hemp products in the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections is hopeful. With a growing number of U.S. states legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes, the allocation of funds to researching hemp extracts is likely to rise. Hemp seeds and oil are available for purchase online or at some health food stores, and given their ability to boost the immune system and resist bacteria, their inclusion in daily diet should, arguably, be recommended - not only for personal health, but to reduce the need for antibiotics moving forward.

On a Personal Level Resistant bacteria are not only being served to us via our food, but also via our personal choices. Simple decisions such as not taking a prescribed antibiotic for its full course can leave lingering live bacteria that grow stronger. Other times, antibiotics are prescribed when they aren’t needed. Colds and flu, for example, are caused by viruses that aren’t affected by antibiotics and shouldn’t be treated

graphic by Stacey Roland

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Aligning the Second Amendment with Amendment 64 Two Activists are Fighting for the Gun Rights of Cannabis Consumers

by DJ Reetz

Coloradans love guns. It’s a part of the western mindset, stand your ground and defend yourself, hunt your food, whatever it may be. It’s an independent spirit that seems to be interwoven in the fabric of the state, at times not always for the best, but it’s a part of the collective culture nonetheless. It’s the same spirit that led Colorado to be the first in the nation to legalize adult-use marijuana, a sort of “make-my-day” to the foolish prohibitionist attitudes of the past.

But the overlap of these two identities creates its own problems.

The gray area that legal cannabis creates includes restrictions on firearms, forcing those who believe themselves to now be adhering to the law back into the realm of illegality.

It’s a problem that may have finally found a champion in the form of the Campaign for Equal Gun Rights. The group consists of only two men, Isaac Chase and Edgar Antillon, but together they are pushing to enact legislation that would strip the federal standard of illegal drug use from the state’s concealed weapons permit application. The push started late last year, after the two found that a year of legal marijuana sales was still leaving many gun enthusiasts in Colorado outside of the law. Despite Amendment 64’s overwhelming passage, marijuana use remains a caveat that is grounds for denying a concealed weapons permit under state law, an issue the pair of gun-rights activists are seeking to rectify.

“That’s not regulating marijuana like alcohol, that’s separating it as a federally controlled substance and making it impossible for users to tell the truth on the form and get their concealed carry permit,” says Chase. “So we decided we were going to form an organization and [create] the initiative to get that part of the law changed so it only references state law and not federal law.”

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The pair started their activist careers in 2011, when they began fighting against a measure that would ban the carrying of concealed weapons on public college campuses. As a form of protest they created the group Guns For Everyone and began offering the certification classes required for a concealed weapons permit free to college students.

Looking at the two of them, it would be easier to assume they are gun enthusiasts than cannabis enthusiasts. Both have the clean-cut appearance of people who respect law and order, only the safety pin Chase wears in his ear hints at the slightly more punk-rock attitude hiding under his orderly appearance. As for the open admission of marijuana use, they both stop short, but the advocacy and ideals kind of speak for themselves.

“We want to keep the issue about regulating marijuana like alcohol, because we feel like we would be distracting from the issue if we were to answer that question,” says Chase. “Basically it’s more about keeping the legitimacy with the pro-firearms community than keeping legitimacy with the cannabis industry or community. Because a lot of [the pro-firearms community] would automatically associate [marijuana use] with ‘well if you’re a marijuana user that means you’re all the other things that come with that.’ We’re trying to keep that legitimacy with the firearms community, at the same time being able to speak intelligently to the cannabis community.”

But the apprehension about acceptance of cannabis use in the pro-gun community may not be entirely founded with so much overlapping ideology. So far, says Chase, the backlash has been largely insignificant.

“We anticipated a lot of pushback from the firearms [community] about [this issue], we expected more resistance from people in the shooting community because generally speaking they tend to be more conservative, older, you know,” says Chase. “But we’re finding a lot more support than we thought we would, definitely that pro-libertarian mindset, ‘I don’t care what you do as long as you don’t hurt me.’ So we’re definitely feeling more support than we thought we would.”

Support here in Colorado seems to reflect not just a fondness for firearms amongst the populace, but a general consensus among the purple-leaning voters that making criminals out of law-abiding citizens is a bad idea, as was the case when voters enacted legal adult-use marijuana.

“Amendment 64 passed something like 55 percent to 45 percent. Fifty-five percent of the state are not cannabis users. So we have a lot of people in the state who feel weed should be regulated like alcohol who are not cannabis users, and so we feel like there’s a lot of overlap,” says Chase. “It seems to kind of fit into the Colorado mindset, in our opinion.”

However, that doesn’t mean that laws in the state are always reflective of this mindset. The promises of treating cannabis like alcohol made during the 2012 election are still falling short in many regards, notably in this instance in the state’s continued reliance on federal standards of illegal drug use for concealed weapons permits. While some would be satisfied to just omit their cannabis use when applying for a permit, Chase and Antillon don’t think that should have to be the case.

“A lot of people will say to us, ‘Why don’t you just lie on the form? Nobody’s going to know if you answer that truthfully or not.’ There’s two problems with that, one is a moral problem that you shouldn’t have to lie about something, and two, maybe you don’t want to lie, you’re not a liar,” says Chase. “In Colorado lying on the concealed carry permit application is perjury and is grounds for denying you a permit for life. So you’re taking that risk and you are having to make the decision as to whether or not to lie to somebody.”

Even if the measure the two are pushing does collect enough signatures to make it on the ballot and enough votes to become law, it does nothing to change the definition of unlawful drug use remaining in the federal background check forms that are required to purchase a firearm.

“It does say, ‘Marijuana or any other narcotics,’ it’s like it separates it out, I think because [the ATF] must figure that a lot of people don’t think that marijuana is a drug, they have to specifically say it,” Chase laughs. But it’s an issue that will have to rely on the gradual shift in attitudes toward marijuana nationally, so for

now the Campaign for Equal Gun Rights is focused solely on replacing federal standards in the state’s concealed carry laws with those more in line with state law.

“One thing that we’ve learned during our time doing anything political is that you’ve got to start small. Because if you try to tackle the bear on the first try you’re not going to get there,” says Chase.

“The whole state is in violation of federal law already,” he says. “We’re just bringing this small part of the concealed carry law in line with the rest of the state.”

“We want pot smokers to be able to carry guns,” says Chase. “But what we really want is to finish what 64 started.”

But on the issue of preserving the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens here in Colorado, the usual voices for gun rights are notably silent, leaving Chase and Antillon as the sole voices for the issue in the activist and lobbying community. While groups like the National Rifle Association are more than happy to defend gun rights following one of the horrific mass shootings that have occurred in the past, when it comes to treating cannabis users with the same respect as alcohol users such groups are notably absent from the debate.

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“It’s not that we can and they can’t, it’s that we did and they didn’t,” says Antillon.

“We had the balls to actually keep everything aside and not worry about what people are going to think about us. That’s for high schoolers, I’m not in a clique, I’m not worried about that, I’m worried about freedom, plain and simple. If the NRA’s worried about membership, we’re not, we’re not a membership [based] group.”

“We don’t have any problem framing that message that way,” says Chase. “Saying ‘what we want to do is tell the government to go fuck themselves, that’s what we want to do.’ And that gets those kind of people thinking.”

“The NRA, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Gun Owners of America, they benefit off of these so-called controversies … because that’s how they make money. We don’t care about money,” says Antillon. “That’s not our focus, our focus is freedom.”

The pair hopes to be able to start collecting signatures for their measure sometime this spring, with plans to bring the issue to voters in the 2016 election.

They say they are optimistic about their chances, but it will be interesting to see if liberals and conservatives can once again come together on a slightly more controversial facet of marijuana legalization.

“I think we have a much greater chance because of Amendment 64,” says Antillon. With the foundation already set, it’s would seem to be more of an issue of smoothing out the bumps left by the belabored legalization progress thus far.

“It grabs headlines to say ‘We want pot smokers to be able to carry guns,’” says Chase. “But what we really want is to finish what 64 started.”

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Getting Deep With.. .

Comedian Dave Ross on Getting Dumber, Achieving More and Horny Hot Dogs

by Andy Juett

Dave Ross is widely considered the argyle socks of comedy in the sense that his diamonds (comedic and emotionally intelligent gifts) are certainly a repeating pattern of comfort. He’s hysterical and hearty. Funny and familiar. Dave’s 2014 was stacked with appearances on Drunk History, WTF with Marc Maron and his sketch group WOMEN pops up on Tosh.0 when they’re not crushing stages in LA and around the country. You can also find WOMEN’s videos regularly released on IFC’s ifc.com showcase ‹Comedy Crob› on the Internet. I have been lucky enough to be a guest on his terrific podcast Terrified with Dave Ross on the Nerdist network. It was an emotional catharsis to say the least. You should go listen to it. Let’s talk to Dave and see if he’s as kind, insightful and silly as he usually is. A small lobe was taken out of his brain recently so he could pierce his central nervous system. Dave has over 150* piercings. (*None of that is true, but who doesn’t love non sequitur brain talk?)

Andy Juett: Comedy is a desolate landscape of backbiting, competition and out-of-order urinals. It’s a hardscrabble life where pessimism reigns yet everyone in this business loves you. Why are so many in comedy saying, ‘Dave Ross. I want to listen to his horse knicker. I want to listen to his bray?’

Dave Ross: You tell me, man! I have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on.

AJ: In the movies, aliens sure seem to be getting smarter. You can’t just upload a virus from your Mac into a mothership and decimate an entire star fleet of onslaughting intergalactic goblins anymore. Do you think you’re getting smarter? What evidence is there of this?

DR: I do NOT think I’m getting smarter. I think I am getting much, much dumber. I think that with each passing day, my ability to process information dwindles exponentially more. Today I was g-chatting with my girlfriend and we were talking about hot dogs, because we read this funny article about hot dogs (I’m serious), and so I googled a photo of a smiling, excited hot dog, and sent it to her, and I wrote, “This is my impression of me and you!” And I meant it sincerely. The problem was that the photo was of a very excited hot dog who was nose-diving into a bun, and the bun was wearing high heels, and it had no face. So I sent a drawing of a horny hot dog diving into a bun that had no face and said, “This is my impression of me and you!” Here’s the problem: I wasn’t being funny. I literally did not see the photo as sexual when I found it. I saw it, and thought, “I’m happy around her and this is hot-dog-related and thus, I will choose this to express my love for her in this moment.” She›s hilarious and didn›t give a shit and I laughed hard for a good 20 minutes, but the point is that

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I didn’t pick up on anything. I also can’t do math anymore and I forget everyone’s name and I never open my mail really and I eat soup just about every day.

AJ: You love punk music and the freedom of the open road. You rage against so much, David. Are you still pleasuring yourself in the Hampton Inns of America or have you moved away from sticking your dick in a simulated hand vagina in favor of more societal dissonance?

DR: Okay well, first of all, see above. Secondly, I am taking a break from the road. I was on the road almost six months in 2014 and I really, truly loved it.

Best thing I’ve ever done. Good things are happening in Los Angeles, though, both in my personal life and career, and I need to be here for them. My sketch group, WOMEN, is getting a lot of attention, and so we’re writing all the time.

Writing lots of things, and then we’re making those things or sending them to people and seeing if they will make those things. There’s also my girlfriend, with whom I’d like to spend a lot of time, and the Los Angeles comedy scene, which I’d like to be grounded in again for a little while. I love L.A. and I started here, and I want to be present here as well as on the road. I’m excited to be home and doing comedy in my city. I love it here.

So! In 2015, I’ll be doing the road less. I’ll still be doing it, but I won’t be going out for epic, month-long drives. I’ll be flying and driving here and there for a weekend or week or so, but mostly staying home. I’m excited for it. And then, probably, in 2016, I will go on tour for seven years.

AJ: Weed. Talk about that.

happy. It’s the absolute most creative comedy show ever to have been made. OR if I could’ve been in a band, and not a successful band, but a band just successful enough to have one video on 120 Minutes on MTV, that would’ve been dope.

AJ: How much of your sketch group WOMEN’s writing is created under the influence of cannabis?

DR: Everything written by Allen, Pat or Jake.

AJ: Let’s face it, parkour is TRENDING. Will you ever get the acceptance you need from your father?

DR: I actually do think I will!

AJ: Dave Ross is a ventriloquist dummy. Who has their hand up your ass?

DR: I like it! It makes me feel good. And so... That is why I like it. I am much less of a smoker than I was as a younger man, but it’ll never leave my life completely, I don’t think. A good hit of chronic after a stressful week is the absolute best. However, two hits of chronic is a nightmare for me and I will become afraid of my own hands or if there are people there, I will become afraid of those people. I love to eat one eighth of a weed cookie, though, or smoke a joint with some friends and then just cruise through the day. I listen to a lot of Poolside and Vacationer and Washed Out when I’m stoned now. Turns your day into a light breeze. It’s amazing.

AJ: Hover boards. Shakespeare. The Military Industrial Complex. Why are people so afraid to be vulnerable?

DR: My father.

AJ: Sun tanning. What an incredible feeling. You’ve never done it. If we gave you a small tube of grease, would you slather, lather and blather over some boysenberry margs at my cousin’s Bellagio Sweet 16 party? There are teen girls that need to hear from you. Agree or agree?

DR: The military is legitimately scary and hover boards aren’t real and neither are books.

AJ: Fonts. Boy. There sure are a lot of choices.

DR: I would absolutely jerk off to this idea because of my huge ego. I would want it to be a photo of my open mouth with food in it.

AJ: Hollywood is all about canoodling. Everyone knows that. You have to put in the time. Get in the reps. Constructive criticism from a friend, I’m just going to say it: You’re doing 20 percent of the canoodling at an Orange Julius with celebs from shows like One Tree Hill and You Can’t Do That On Television. Do you even want this anymore?

DR: YES. I LOVE FONTS. That cotton candy font we use for text on the GOOD HEROIN flyers is my favorite font right now. Probably because I love Burger Records and other beach-adjacent kid punk. I’m also crushing on that Cubano font everyone’s been using, and Interstate, and any number of throwback, art house ‘30s or ‘40s-style lettering I find when I’m looking to make a weird flyer or graphic.

AJ: January Jones. Nothing to do with January at all. Pretty upsetting.

DR: She’s very pretty and January sucks.

AJ: Texting. You certainly have done your share. Why do you think you’re alone?

DR: I am alone because of a nagging psychosis that keeps me from accepting people’s affection. I find texting to be fun, fulfilling, and a good way to keep in contact with my loved ones.

AJ: Bigger celeb: Dave Ross or Sonny Bono’s dead body?

DR: Anything dead is more interesting than me.

AJ: If you could be a guest on any defunct show, which one would you like to be on? Why? DR: If I could’ve just been in one sketch on Wondershowzen, I would be so

DR: This is a difficult interview.

AJ: You’re 65. Your career is winding down. How would you react to a Dave Ross stamp being released by the U.S. postal service? What would you hope the image was?

DR: I know exactly what you mean by this question.

AJ: Teeth. What a drag. Sure, molars make sense. But bicuspids? WTF. What was that like?

DR: I mean, I think it’s been fine? I’ve had all my teeth for a while and they’re working fine. Sometimes they hurt!

AJ: Drunk History. You did it. High History. What are your favorite drugs besides love and cannabis?

DR: Ah jeez, well, jeez, buddy, I don’t know. I like MDMA. I never take it anymore, but I love it. It’s a scary one — you really gotta watch yourself. Stay hydrated, be around people you know, be safe... But it’s the best. MDMA is so good that I liked trance music for a year.

AJ: How are you getting better? Worse?

DR: I am getting worse in that my anxiety is getting worse. I’m trying to get a handle on it. I think I’m overworked or under-slept or over-critiqued (selfcritiqued) or under-loved. All work and no play, you know.

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I’m getting better in that I’m achieving things I want to achieve, though. I’m getting better at comedy and at writing and at being a good friend and at believing in myself and at keeping my head down and doing my work, away from the distractions of negative emotions like jealousy or feeling left out. It really does feel like I’m improving at both being a comedian and being a person, and it’s taken shitloads of work, but it’s paying off in a bunch of ways. It feels good.

AJ: If you could get stoned and collaborate with ONE artist for the rest of your life, who would it be? WOMEN comedy doesn’t count.

where to buy, where to stay, things to do

DR: This is hard to answer. I really don’t know. Right now, I think the answer is Will Weldon. I have a whole lot of fun writing with Will Weldon. He is the opposite of weed, though.

AJ: Final thoughts? (Assumes you’re dying.)

DR: I love you, Andy.

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10th Amendment travesty?

Nebraska and Oklahoma sue Colorado Over Legal Marijuana

by Rick Macey

It could be a stoner joke, except it’s not a laughing matter.

The attorneys general of Nebraska and Oklahoma filed suit in U.S. Supreme Court against Colorado alleging that marijuana transported across state lines is causing “irreparable injury.”

They say that “criminal enterprises, gangs and cartels” are buying directly from Colorado’s retail stores to cash in on the black market in their states, putting an unfair burden on law enforcement.

They want U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to enforce federal anti-marijuana laws.

This lawsuit smells like cow town stench.

Nebraska and Oklahoma have been profiting from Colorado’s legal marijuana. If their police agencies have been working harder, it’s to cash in on the bonanza of marijuana money.

In Nebraska, Douglas County Sheriff Tim Dunning was one of the first police officials nationwide to complain about Holder’s action in January to reign in abuse of asset forfeiture. It will now be a tad tougher for Dunning and his deputies to pad their budget with quick-and-easy cash seizures along Interstate 80.

Attorney General John Suthers said Colorado will “vigorously defend” its sovereignty against a lawsuit without merit.

“Because neighboring states have expressed concern about Colorado-grown marijuana coming into their states, we are not entirely surprised by this action,” he said. “However, it appears the plaintiffs’ primary grievance stems from nonenforcement of federal laws regarding marijuana, as opposed to choices made by the voters of Colorado.”

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper told The Denver Post he spoke with Nebraska and Oklahoma officials about their concerns. “I’m not sure filing a lawsuit is the most constructive way to find a solution to whatever issues they are,” he said.

Let’s take a look at the issues.

Reefer Madness Lawsuit There is nothing inherently criminal about possessing, consuming, and selling marijuana. State-regulated marijuana crossing state borders is supply and demand - free enterprise made into “criminal enterprise” by prohibition.

Most Americans now believe that criminalizing this trade is a bad idea.

Prohibition has failed. Federal non-enforcement is an overdue acknowledgement of public opinion.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and Oklahoma’s Scott Pruitt must be at least dimly aware that persecution of people possessing cannabis is destroying lives, not the marijuana itself.

They must know that by insisting on federal intervention in Colorado, they risk undermining states’ rights throughout the country.

Last year, the Department of Justice sensibly announced a hands-off approach to cannabis legalization, and outlined eight priorities. Keeping marijuana in states where it was purchased legally was one of those priorities.

Now let’s be real - marijuana bought legally in one state has been exported across state lines for years. The DOJ trigger was obviously conditional upon a drastic increase.

“This contraband has been heavily trafficked into our state,” Bruning asserted at

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a news conference in Lincoln. “While Colorado reaps millions from the sale of pot, Nebraska taxpayers have to bear the cost.”

The lawsuit alleges that Nebraska and Oklahoma must divert law enforcement resources from more worthy tasks to take on the drastic rise in marijuana trafficking.

It’s a dishonest argument made more deceptive by the lawsuit’s lack of evidence to support the allegations. There isn’t a comparative analysis of marijuana arrests and budget overruns, before and after Colorado legalization. There’s nothing about asset forfeitures and drug seizures.

Not a single statistic. Not one anecdotal story.

Perhaps the truth is that it’s regular folks - not gangs - who are being arrested, their cars, cash, and houses confiscated.

Police agencies of Nebraska and Oklahoma are addicted to the proceeds from marijuana-related confiscations. A burden? Diversion of police resources? Those allegations are a smokescreen to justify their addiction.

They do not claim that serious crimes are following in the wake of the alleged trafficking. Muggings to get cash for dime bags are unheard of.

The strain on law enforcement resources - where it actually exists - must be rather modest, perhaps a bit of overtime.

The Washington Post reported that during 2014, some local law enforcement officers along Colorado’s borders said that they had not seen an increase in marijuana coming from Colorado.

Nebraska TV station KHAS reported more marijuana-related asset seizures in 2014 and an increase in marijuana citations, although the overall number of arrests remained at 2013 levels. So it’s unclear who is being harmed, except people possessing cannabis.

It is Orwellian to blame Colorado for making cops and prosecutors in neighboring states do what they’d prefer to do anyway - marijuana-related cash seizures, drug arrests and asset forfeitures.

I can almost hear the applause of lobbyists, lawyers, and shareholders of private prisons.

‘Wrong Side of History’ Bruning and Pruitt think they’re clever actors prancing on the political stage, but they’re reckless and short-sighted. Current events are exposing their buffoonery.

Four states now regulate production and sale of cannabis to adults. Twenty-three states allow medicinal applications, including to minors. Several more states are moving toward regulated sales for adults. All are learning what to do and what not to do when implementing marijuana reform.

Colorado attorney Brian Vicente, who had a major role in crafting Amendment 64, said, “I think it shows they are on the wrong side of history.”

The lawsuit is a distraction from more important practical problems awaiting solutions, including banking services and seed-to-sale accountability.

The question remains: Will the U.S. Supreme Court order enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, which classifies cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug with no medicinal benefit?

Don’t bet on it. And … so what if it does.

The mood in Congress has changed in favor of cannabis reform. And even if the

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justices side with Nebraska and Oklahoma, nothing of consequence is likely to happen, since enforcement would be up to the Executive Branch.

This is less a test of our Constitution’s Supremacy Clause - federal law trumps state law when they conflict - and more of a test of our collective common sense as a nation.

It’s time to eliminate the profit motive from anti-marijuana policing. The malevolent influence of civil asset forfeiture needs to be drastically reduced.

As for the excremental lawsuit against Colorado, it’s hard to see how it serves the Supreme Court to touch that pile of shit.

Bruning and Pruitt claim to be federalists - people who want to limit federal authority and empower states. Both led their states’ fight against Obamacare on the premise that Congress and the President can not coerce states to accept a federal mandate. The Supreme Court agreed. It was a victory for states’ rights and strengthened the 10th Amendment.

Yet now these attorneys general insist that when it comes to legal marijuana, the federal government has a responsibility to enforce an onerous and destructive policy on individual states.

But let’s say the justices leave their better judgment in their chambers. A ruling is handed down against Colorado. That decision could seriously weaken states’ rights in the coming years, even though it is unlikely to affect the progress of legalization.

As of this writing, the madness hasn’t spread, although The Washington Post reported that Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican, has not

ruled out joining the lawsuit.

“Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana and the federal government’s subsequent decision to limit enforcement of federal law in Colorado have combined to cause harm in Kansas,” he said, “and we are assessing our options.”

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said his state has “no plans to sue Colorado.” As of this writing, Wyoming and New Mexico are sitting on the fence.

In January, seven Oklahoma Republicans sent a letter to Pruitt, arguing that his actions were in historically bad taste and could subvert the 10th Amendment.

The letter states that “… this lawsuit against Colorado is the wrong way to deal with the issue, for a number of reasons.”

If the suit succeeds, it could “undermine all of those efforts to protect our own state’s right to govern itself.”

“We think the best move at this point would be to quietly drop the action against Colorado, and if necessary, defend the state’s right to set its own policies, as we would hope other states would defend our rights to govern ourselves within constitutional confines. We also do not feel that attempting to undermine the sovereignty of a neighboring state using the federal courts, even if inadvertently, is a wise use of Oklahoma’s limited state resources,” the letter reads.

It was signed by state senators Ralph Shortey and Nathan Dahm, as well as representatives Mike Ritze, Lewis Moore, John Bennet, Mike Christian, and Dan Fisher.

Colorado attorney Brian Vicente, who had a major role in crafting Amendment 64, said, “I think it shows they are on the wrong side of history.”

With just a bit of tweaking, a famous quote from William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” says it nicely: “Bruning and Scott are but walking shadows, poor players who strut and fret their hour upon the stage, and then are heard no more: Theirs is a lawsuit, filed by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

When States Sue States It is unusual for states to drag other states into federal court. When it happens, jurisdiction belongs to the Supreme Court, which refuses to hear one of out every two lawsuits.

Most of the two dozen cases in the last 10 years have been between states involved in disputes over natural resources such as shared water and mineral rights.

For example, Montana sued Wyoming in 2007 and again in 2011 for overuse of tributaries feeding the Yellowstone River.

It’s typical for each case to be first examined by a “special master,” a courtappointed official. In late December 2014, Special Master Barton Thompson Jr. recommended the Supreme Court find that Wyoming shorted Montana much less water than claimed. If the court agrees, he will propose further proceedings to calculate damages. Then the justices sign off. That’s usually how it ends up, with a rubber stamp.

Note the time lag in that decision, that it’s not yet resolved after seven years.

Some unresolved state vs. state lawsuits go back decades.

So it doesn’t matter whether the special master for Colorado’s case is the ghost of Harry Anslinger or the spirit of Jack Herer - the Supremes are sure to avoid, to dither, and let this storm pass by.

And that’s chill. It’d be nifty to see the Supreme Court punt this political football downfield and let the clock run out. In a few short years, this sort of illogical lawsuit will be relegated to the Dark Ages, overtaken by marijuana’s growing acceptance.

Why would the justices risk their place in history by getting in the way of what Americans want?

The sensible answer is: They wouldn’t.

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Asset Forfeiture Coming to an End?

by Rick Macey

Civil asset forfeiture is a perversion of the U.S. Constitution ushered in by President Richard Nixon in 1971, at the same time that cannabis was included as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act. It means that property associated with drug activity is guilty until proven innocent. Owners of the property do not have to be convicted or even charged with a crime to lose it.

Administered by the Department of Justice in cooperation with state and local law enforcement, asset forfeiture was expanded in the 1980s. President Ronald Reagan was hostile to cannabis civil rights, and his wife’s “Just Say No” campaign set the stage for further corruption.

By the mid-1990s, with incentives for law enforcement to grab as much as they could get away with, civil asset forfeiture evolved into what we know it as today: A license for cops to steal.

In January, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder withdrew federal support for seizures of cash, cars, and other property unless there is evidence of a crime.

For many years, the feds rubber-stamped state arrests, providing nominal support for 20 percent of the proceeds. Called the “Equitable Sharing” program, Holder has now taken a decisive step in effectively dismantling it.

This reform is long overdue. In the last six years, local and state police have seized cash and property worth $3 billion.

“With this new policy, effective immediately, the Justice Department is taking an important step to prohibit federal agency adoptions of state and local seizures, except for safety reasons,” Holder said in a statement.

States often have stricter standards for asset forfeiture than the Department of Justice. Holder’s action forces local and state police to weigh the costs and benefits of seizures without federal support.

Joint task forces are exempt from the new policy, which could be a loophole exploited in the future. Task forces are multi-jurisdictional, so a future federal intervention in legal marijuana states could re-energize the practice. It’s not likely, merely possible.

Holder’s action has left certain local police departments looking for guidance, especially those addicted to easy marijuana money.

In Nebraska, the concerns of the State Patrol and the Lancaster County Attorney’s Office have filtered down to Seward County, where Sheriff Joe Yocum told the Journal Star, “We want some clear guidelines about how to proceed.”

How about: Don’t proceed.

Make no mistake: This check on police power is a direct result of state-legal marijuana. Having cash and cannabis in your car will no longer mean you lose both.

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History of Hemp Part V

by Christie Lunsford

50 February 2015

From the Roaring ‘20s to the devastation of the Great Depression to World War II, the impact of industrial hemp and its maligned cousin “cannabis marihuana” can be seen in medical, political and economic stressors of the era. On January 16, 1920, the Volstead Act closes every bar, saloon and tavern in the United States, driving the manufacturing and consumption of alcohol underground and creating a lucrative black market for organized crime to thrive. Yellow journalism, linking crime to cannabis, continues to be used as a tool to defame African Americans and Mexicans. Hemp and cannabis begin to lose ground as companion plants supporting modern society.

1920 AD

The U.S. enjoys a healthy economy.

Bobbed hair and short skirts of flapper fashion take hold in the speakeasy era of alcohol prohibition in the 1920s. For the first time, more people live in cities rather than pastoral farm communities. The first U.S. middle class grew and were subject to nationwide advertising, national radios shows, music, dances, and slang. Almost every home had a radio and the women of the 1920s were empowered in a different way than any other of previous time with the 19th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing their right to vote in 1920.

1924 AD

Social tensions are reflected in the passing of the National Origins Act, restricting immigration from places like Asia and Eastern Europe in favor of Northern Europe and England. In addition, African Americans migrating from the southern countryside to northern cities and the rise in popularity of jazz and blues music creates unease among the new white middle class. A rough estimate of 4.5 million Americans belong to the Ku Klux Klan.

1925 AD

Egypt and Turkey resolve that cannabis be added to the International Convention on Narcotic Control. Cannabis prohibition is based upon an interpretation of Islamic law and fear of addiction. The U.S. representatives were not present at the hearing. They walked out of the convention earlier due to opium not being outlawed internationally.

The Yarkand region of Chinese Turkestan exports 200,000 pounds of hashish legally into India. Legal taxed import of hashish continues into India from Central Asia.

1930 AD

After showing promise in international law enforcement in the late 1920s, Harry Jacob Anslinger was appointed as first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics on Harry Anslinger August 12, 1930, by Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew W. Mellon. Alcohol prohibition was in full force and narcotics agencies and law enforcement of the time were subject to scandal and corruption. Anslinger had a reputation of honesty and was to clean house.

1932 AD

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected as president and uses the Federal government as a platform to launch the New Deal. Roosevelt’s New Deal creates sweeping social benefit programs to ease the financial tribulations of the Great Depression.

1933 AD

The U.S. Congress repeals the 21st Amendment, ending alcohol prohibition, Budweiser delivers a wagon load of beer to the White House drawn by Clydesdale horses.

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Anslinger, now the head of the newly formed Federal Bureau of Narcotics, was focused on outlawing all recreational drugs. After receiving reports of an increase in marijuana usage migrating from the Mexican border up to the population centers of the mid-eastern U.S., the Federal Bureau of Narcotics then begins work with members of Congress to mandate the distribution of marijuana be placed under its control. Anslinger also starts an anti-marijuana campaign on radio and in the media.

Yellow journalism was a staple of American newspapers. Highly sensational, anti-marijuana stories featuring crime, rape, and murder were published daily. Many modern critics allege that the anti-marijuana campaign had a hidden agenda to eliminate hemp as an industrial competitor in the form of William Randolph Hearst benefiting from timber sales for paper to be used in publishing and DuPont benefiting from a lack of competition from hemp oil and hemp based fiber.

1927 AD

The 1927 USDA Yearbook of Agriculture is published with a report from botanist, Lyster H. Dewey of the U.S. Office of Fiber Plants, Bureau of Plant Industry. This four-page report outlines the current state of hemp cultivation in the US, highlighting various strains, most of which have been lost.

1928 AD

Recreational use of Cannabis is banned in Britain.

1929 AD

October 29, 1929 the stock exchange crashes. Fifteen million Americans lose their ability to earn a living and spending comes to a halt. Over 9,000 banks closed between 1929 and 1931 and deposits totaling 2.5 billion dollars are lost. President Herbert Hoover does little to deal with the crisis asking states to bear the burden of job creation and economic stimulus. The Great Depression begins.

1930 AD

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Anslinger personally wrote graphic crime-based marijuana stories for The American Magazine. He became famous for his use of unsubstantiated quotes taken from police reports. The “Gore File” was a collection of narratives based on police reports linking marijuana use to graphically depicted crime with racially biased themes.

support the tax act.

Also, present at the debate are Ralph Loziers of the National Oil Seed Institute and Dr. William C. Woodard of the American Medical Association.

Loziers testified that hemp oils were useful and an essential commodity to industry. Most importantly, Dr. William C. Woodward, testifying on behalf of the American Medical Association, told Congress that: “The American Medical Association knows of no evidence that marijuana is a dangerous drug,” and warned that a prohibition “loses sight of the fact that future investigation may show that there are substantial medical uses for Cannabis.”

Dr. Woodward also protested the way the bill had been written in secret, replacing the word cannabis known to doctors and farmers with the new and unfamiliar word “marihuana.” Dr. Woodward defended cannabis medicines and testified that there was no certain data that marijuana use had increased. He is quoted as stating that the “newspaper exploitation of the habit had done more to increase it than anything else,” noting the yellow journalism impact of possibly increasing recreational use. When asked if regulation of medical cannabis was needed, Dr. Woodward is further quoted as stating, “I do not .. it is not a medical addiction that is involved.”

1934 AD

The Dust Bowl begins as massive drought affects the midwestern states of the U.S. Due to mechanized farming, poor soil stewardship, and high winds, the unanchored soil is churned to dust creating choking black dust storms that last for days. One dust storm expanded from Oklahoma to Chicago. A mass migration to California starts.

1936 AD

Reefer Madness, is released at the box-office. The movie, a morality tale about the dangers of smoking marijuana, is considered among movie critics to be one of the worst movies ever made.

1937 AD

October 2, The U.S. Congress passes The Marihuana Tax Act without a roll call.

The Marihuana Tax act took two years to write, and only a brief unpublicized hearing lasting two hours occurred.

During the poorly attended debate, Anslinger called for a total ban on marihuana.

He stated under oath “This drug is entirely the monster Hyde, the harmful effects of which cannot be measured.” Anslinger uses articles he wrote from the “Gore Files” to

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The Marihuana Tax of 1937 taxed farmers producing hemp and cannabis and textile companies and doctors prescribing cannabis remedies. It was assumed that no one would incriminate himself by buying a tax stamp. Eventually, ruled to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, the law was used to stifle and then completely halt the cultivation of hemp in the U.S. by making it a crime.

Four days later on October 6, Samuel R. Caldwell of Denver, Colorado, was arrested for marijuana after the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937.

Henry J. Anslinger personally came to the trial to see Samuel Caldwell tried and convicted. Samuel R. Caldwell was America’s first drug war victim. He served a sentence of four years hard time in Leavenworth prison for less than a few grams of cannabis.

1938 AD

Due to the moderate gains of President Roosevelt’s New Deal and technological advances in chemistry and industry, U.S. companies start to patent and manufacture new consumer products. Du Pont starts manufacturing synthetic fibers like cellophane, nylon, and Dacron made from fossil fuels that displace natural hemp products. General Motors corners the American automotive market, securing a market for DuPont’s paints, varnishes, plastics, and rubber, all which could have been made from hemp. With competition from hemp, now outlawed, the market is open for synthetics to replace everything from tires, photographic film, insecticides, and agricultural chemicals.

Popular Mechanics publishes an article touting hemp as the “New Billion Dollar Crop.” With new advances in hemp harvesting and processing, hemp would have replaced cotton as a superior material. The article explains the mechanization of hemp harvesting using a new machine called a decorticatior to manufacture over 25,000 different products, “from cellophane to dynamite.” Sadly, the editors of Popular Mechanics did not realize that cannabis and marijuana had already been outlawed one year prior when they published the article.

By the end of the 1930s, the New Deal had come to an end. With slight gains in the economy, President Roosevelt had little support from Congress to introduce new programs. Alcohol is legal again and bars, taverns and nightclubs reopen to serve demand. New synthetic materials replace hemp fiber, bio fuel, oil and cannabis medicines. The Great Depression begins to ease as Harry Anslinger continues his mission of international cannabis prohibition. For the first time in history, cannabis and hemp are no longer companion plants to mankind.

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A Brief History of Marijuana Education in America

If you use marijuana... ...you will fry your brain.

...you will hurt your children.

...your body will deflate.

...you will support terrorists.

...you will spend your life on the sofa.

...you will disappoint your dog.

...you will disappoint your cartoon dog.

...you will lose your girlfriend to an alien.

...please be informed and responsible.

Finally. . . Marijuana education that makes sense.

Decades of fear mongering and derisive anti-marijuana ad campaigns have failed to make anyone safer or better informed about the actual effects of consuming marijuana. Now that marijuana is a legal product for adults in some states — and on its way in others — it needs to be treated like one. That’s where the Consume Responsibly campaign comes in. and Find out what real marijuana education looks like at: with support from

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DISPENSARY GUIDE

by DJ Reetz

DENVER

61 The Clinic 58 The Giving Tree of Denver 58 Infinite Wellness 58 Kind Pain Management 58 MMD of Colorado 60 Northern Lights Natural Rx 59 Preferred Organic Therapy 59 River Rock 59 Rocky Mountain Organic Medicine 59 Southwest Alternative Care 58 URBA 59 Walking Raven

COLORADO SPRINGS 58 The Organic Seed 58 Original Cannabis Growers

NORTHERN COLORADO 58 Infinite Wellness

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The Giving Tree of Denver

Infinite Wellness Center

NOW SERVING MEDICAL PATIENTS AND RECREATIONAL ADULTS!

We believe in the infinite possibility of total wellness and in the infinite modalities to achieving this wellness within and without.

2707 W. 38th Ave. Denver, CO 80211 www.tgtree.com

Established in 2009, The Giving Tree of Denver continually strives to be a leader in the Colorado Medical Marijuana Center industry. Today we boast the largest edible selection in the city.

We serve the particular needs of licensed medical marijuana patients in our comfortable, safe and friendly atmosphere. In addition to our generous membership program, we offer a 10% discount on every purchase for Veterans, HIV/ AIDS, cancer patients, students and ***MMJ industry staff.

2 Locations www.infinitewellness8.com

We offer our patients a dignified environment with friendly compassionate staff here to facilitate the needs of our patients. It is one of our goals to help dispel the negative press, thoughts and attitudes toward utilizing marijuana as a multi-beneficial medicine. We have set a standard to provide quality medical marijuana and edibles in a wonderful variety while upholding the laws set forth by both state and local governments. We plan to participate in fund raisers and charity events to engage in the needs of our community. It is our intention to bring light and awareness to a fresh view of well being and peace.

$129 $99

Kind Pain Management 2636 Youngfield St Lakewood CO kindpainmanagement.com

Grown and raised right here in Colorado...We are locally owned and operated by Colorado natives, and all of our medicine is meticulously cared for locally.

Here at KPM, we appreciate our patients and can relate to many of the conditions from which they suffer. As patients and caregivers, we remediate and manage pain. We understand that sometimes any relief is welcome, and we are here to help. We are committed to compassion for our patients and quality of our medicine.

We offer very high quality medicine to our patients at very kind prices. You’ll find our selection of strains, tinctures, hash, edibles (even ice cream), to be quite impressive. Whatever your needs, our friendly and knowledgeable staff is here to help.

STOCKING (SELECT OUNCES)

URBA at MMD of Colorado

The Organic Seed

2609 Walnut St. Denver, CO 80205 www.mmdofcolorado.com

2304 Platte Ave. Colorado Springs, CO 80909 coloradospringsmmj.com

A recreational store and a medical marijuana center serving individuals 21 and up.

We pride ourselves on caring for our patients first! Your concerns are our top priority! Your needs as a patient are highly valued by the team at Organic Seed and by our highly trained Bud tenders. They will assist you with all of your medication needs and help come up with a personal plan to help manage your condition.

Located in the River North Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. In compliance with Amendment 20, Amendment 64 and all subsequent rules and regulations. Our goal is to provide excellent marijuana in a comfortable, inviting environment. Our staff is dedicated to aiding in the best health and wellness possible for our customers.

Our marijuana is grown in an environment that produces the best product, in the healthiest manner knowing our customers only want the best.

We know you will find we have the best prices.

Best quality. Best staff.

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Organic Seed has a wide variety of Indica, Sativa and Hybrid strains along with some shop favorites such as our own Blue Dream and Ghost OG. Our top strains are grown in house in all organic soil.

We also carry a variety of Concentrates including earwax, shatter and hash oils mostly processed by R & R and Mahatma Concentrates.

Original Cannabis Growers 2625 E St Vrain St Colorado Springs, CO 80909 www.OCGhome.com

Simply the best cannabis for less.

We’re the first and oldest Center in our Platte Ave. neighborhood in Colorado Springs.

Call for mature guidance for your personal needs from growers with over 15 years experience.

We offer Happy Hour 4p.m. to 6p.m. Every day.

Our friendly staff will be happy to assist you with all your medical cannabis needs.

Preferred Organic

1569 South Colorado Boulevard Denver, CO 80222 www.preferredorganictherapy.com Preferred Organic Therapy & Wellness is a medical marijuana center that empowers quality-minded patients with a revolutionary approach for treating the mind and the body.

Together, the staff ensures that their patients are the most well-informed in the state of Colorado.

They do this by combining patient-driven strain testing that breaks down the distinct properties of each strain, as well as its unique effects, with visual educational aids and enhanced strain titles. Their second-to-none selection of additional treatment products are made even more valuable given that they are combined with the ability to browse detailed information at a leisurely pace.

Come see why Preferred Organic Therapy & Wellness patients are raving about them.

Southwest Alternative Care

2 locations www.southwestalternativecare.com Southwest Alternative Care, your neighborhood medical marijuana center. Their mission is to provide Colorado patients with the best alternative medicine and services at the lowest possible prices. At Southwest you’ll find a large selection of top shelf medicines and edibles, all at affordable prices.

With an award-winning grow team, legendary genetics, and perhaps the cleanest facility in the state, Southwest Alternative Care has redefined what it means to produce top shelf medicine.

Southwest Alternative Care has over 25 top shelf strains, all hand trimmed, including Glass Slipper, Kool Aid Kush, OGre 99, Bubba Kush, Golden Goat, Moonshine Haze, Tangerine Haze, Dairy Queen and many more. The extracts they cull from these highgrade selections set a new standard in terms of quality. Find them on Facebook for a current menu.

River Rock

2 Locations www.riverrockcolorado.com RiverRock’s proprietary organic growing techniques deliver award winning medical cannabis - free of harsh chemicals - that is safer for our patients and the environment.

RiverRock’s professional staff is dedicated to developing effective cannabis treatments that address the particular needs of our patients. We offer daily incentives to our patients with discounts of 15 to 25 percent, loyalty points, complimentary wellness services, weekly patient appreciation parties with monthly giveaways including glass, concert venues, restaurant deals, and merchandise.

We sponsor a range of patients including; SSDI, SSI, Veterans, and patients with terminal illnesses to ensure the most affordable access to all of our medical cannabis products.

Rocky Mountain Organic Medicine 511 Orchard Street Golden, CO 80401 www.rockymountainorganicmedicine.com

RMOM offers an extremely professional atmosphere, knowledgable staff and always top quality, organically grown medical cannabis. If you are ready for a better dispensary experience, come visit our facility at the base of the Rockies in Golden.

Meet John, the owner of Rocky Mountain Organic Medicine. The road that lead him to start RMOM was an unfortunate one. In February of 2009 John’s wife was diagnosed with colon cancer. She went through surgery followed by eight months of aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. As an alternative to the anti-nausea medication, she used cannabis to ease her discomfort. When John visited many of the dispensaries open at the time, he didn’t find one that he would feel comfortable sending his wife to by herself. They were all seedy in some form or another, and he knew there had to be a better way. In September 2009 he opened RMOM and brought a new level of professionalism to this industry.

Walking Raven

2001 S. Broadway Denver, CO www.mmjmenu.com/walkingraven NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 21+, NO MEDICAL CARD REQUIRED. Walking Raven Retail and Medical Marijuana Center is one of the first dispensaries in Denver. Our mission is to provide high quality products and care at an affordable price. All prices are out the door and we have different tier levels of bud quality. We also offer a range of edibles, concentrates, and novelty items.

We take pride in our organic and meticulous cultivation process; we do not cut any corners and give our cultivators access to the best nutrients and equipment for their hand trimmed buds. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff is trained to assist you in finding a specific products for your desires. Walking Raven MMC is home to the Hong Kong Diesel, our top selling hybrid. Never settle, only shop PREMIUM QUALITY!

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E D G E W A T E R

www.NLCannabis.com January 1 2014, at 8 AM the first legal cannabis sale took place here at Northern Lights Cannabis Co, one of only 24 retail stores to open that day for recreational sales!

The history made that day continues to resonate with every legal cannabis transaction, including yours. Shop with us and make history!

2045 Sheridan Blvd.

Suite B Edgewater, CO 80214 303-274-6495 9:00am-9:00pm Daily

Our staff is friendly and our knowledgeable budtenders will guide you to the perfect product. No pre-packaged here. Your purchase comes from the jar you sampled.

Our shop has provided the finest Medical Cannabis since March 2010. Today we provide that same quality Medical and Recreational Cannabis to adults 21 and over from around the world.

Coco grown, our frosty genetics are provided by TGA Sub Cool Seeds, DNA Genetics, Paradise Seeds and other reputable producers.

Stop by and discover “Where Your Buds Are�!

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www.thecliniccolorado.com The Clinic is an award winning medical marijuana center with six Denver metro locations!

The Clinic is Denver’s premier medical marijuana center having won over 20 awards for both it’s high quality cannabis, concentrates and charitable contributions! The Clinic’s staff is extremely knowledgeable and friendly while the atmosphere at their locations reflect the immense amount of care that they provide to their patients as well as their medicine.

The Clinic is also a long time supporter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, as it’s a cause that directly affects their patients, friends and family. As such, The Clinic has raised more than $100,000 for the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter of the National MS Society since they first opened their doors in 2009.

The Clinic has remained at the forefront of the medical marijuana movement by raising the standard for medical marijuana centers everywhere, not only through their patient driven mission but through their dedication to the community! Make sure to stop by The Clinic and see why their mantra holds true: Our Patients Live Better.

Strains Kosher Kush

2012 High Times Cannabis Cup (Denver) Patient’s Choice Winner

Stardawg Guava

2012 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup (Denver) 1st Place Best Sativa

Grape God Bud

2010 CO Caregiver’s Cup Triple Crown-winner and 2nd place 2011 Aspen Cannabis Crown, this is the hottest indica in town.

Raskal OG

One of the most visually appealing and potent OG kushes around with a distinct diesel fuel aroma. 2012 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup (Denver) 3rd Place Best Hybrid

Ghost OG

THC Champions Cup 3rd Place Overall Hybrid & Patients’ Choice Hybrid. 2013 High Times US Cannabis Cup 3rd place best hybrid winner

Fall ‘97

This indica-dominant strain is a sweet tasting cross between OG Kush and Purple Urkle.

Skywalker OG

This clone only pheno of OG Kush has quickly become a patient and staff favorite.

Super Lemon Haze

Winner of the 2008 and 2009 Sativa High Times Cannabis Cup

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Pre ‘98 Bubba Kush

2011 High Times Denver Medical Cannabis Cup highest CBD strain winner

Cherry Pie

GDP and F1 Durban cross that won 3rd Place Medical Sativa at the 2014 US Cannabis Cup

Durban Poison

A classic landrace sativa from Africa that is mouth watering and known for it’s soaring cerebral effects.

Budder & Shatter The Clinic offers both budder and shatter, which are butane extracted concentrates, from our award winning marijuana infused products division, The Lab.

Awards

2014 High Times Cannabis Cup

1st Place US Cup Concentrate - 303 OG Nugrun Live Resin Budder 3rd Place Medical Sativa - Cherry Pie

2013 High Times Cannabis Cup 1st Place Sativa - Tangie 3rd Place Sativa - Stardawg Guava 3rd Place Hybrid - Ghost OG

2012 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup

1st Place Best Sativa - Stardawg Guava 1st Place Patient’s Choice - Kosher Kush 2nd Place Best Concentrate - Strawberry Cough Nectar 3rd Place Best Hybrid - Raskal OG

Pre ‘98 Bubba Kush

High Times Cannabis Cup: Highest CBD Strain Spring 2010 Colorado Caregiver’s Cup Winner: Patient’s Choice, Best Aroma,

CannaPunch, Dixie Elixirs, Keef Cola, Green Dragon, and MarQaha

Seeds

2013 High Times US Cannabis Cup 1st place best sativa winner

9:00am - 7:00pm Daily

Concentrates

Grape God Bud

Edibles Beverages

Tangie

The Clinic Colorado 3888 East Mexico Ave., Ste. 110 Denver, CO 80210 303-758-9114 The Clinic Highlands 3460 West 32nd Avenue Denver, CO 80211 303-997-7130 The Clinic on Wadsworth 3600 South Wadsworth Blvd.

Lakewood, CO 80235 303-484-8853 The Clinic on Colfax 4625 East Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80220 303-333-3644 The Clinic On Jewell 12018 W Jewell Ave Lakewood, CO 80228 303-997-9171

D E N V E R

Most Photogenic 2011 Aspen Cannabis Crown, 2nd Place Overall

2013 The 710 Cup

2nd Place Best Sativa Shatter - Tangie 1st Place Best Sativa Shatter Terps Tangie

The Hemp Connoisseur Championship 2012

2nd Place Indica and Connoisseur’s Choice - Kosher Kush 1st Place Sativa and Patient’s Choice Stardawg Guava 3rd Place Hybrid and Patient’s Choice Ghost OG 1st Place Concentrate and Connoisseur’s Choice - Earth OG Nectar

The Hemp Connoisseur Championship 2013

1st Place Indica, Connoisseur’s Choice and Best Tested - Kosher Kush Patient’s Choice Hybrid - Grunk 2nd Place Shatter and Patient’s ChoiceTangie

Baked Goods/Candies

Sweet Grass Kitchen, Julie & Kate Baked Goods, Mountain High Suckers, The Growing Kitchen, Mile Hi, Incredibles, and Cheeba Chews.

Reserva Privada Colorado: The Clinic carries the full line of Reserva Privada Colorado’s Confidential Collection and Sour Series.

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DIRECTORY DISPENSERIES: COLORADO SPRINGS The 710 Club Medical Only 1605 South Tejon Colorado Springs, CO 80905 719-358-7708 the710clubcolorado@gmail.com Canna Caregivers Medical Only 3220 No. Academy Blvd., Ste #4 Colorado Springs, CO 719-597-6685 Canna Caregivers - West Medical Only 1914 W. Uintah St Colorado Springs, CO 80904 (719) 637-0420 The Canna Center Medical Only 2306 N. Powers Blvd., #100 Colorado Springs, CO 719-597-9333 The Organic Seed 2304 E Platte Colorado Springs, CO. 80909 719-465-1845 coloradospringsmmj.com Original Cannabis Growers Medical Only 2625 E Saint Vrain St Ste A Colorado Springs, CO 80909 路 719-475-9333 www.ocghome.com

DENVER - CENTRAL The Clinic Capitol Hill Medical & Adult Use 21+ 745 E. 6th Ave. Denver, CO 80203 720-536-5229 www.thecliniccolorado.com Den-Rec Adult Use 21+ 2117 Larimer Street Denver, CO 80205 720-407-8112 denversbestdispensary.com Natural Remedies 1620 Market St., Suite 5W Denver, CO 80202 303-953-0884 lodosdispensary.com Sante Denver 2070 South Huron Street Denver, CO 844-874-2837 www.santecolorado.com

URBA @ MMD of Colorado Medical & Adult Use 21+ 2609 Walnut Street Denver, CO 80205 720-328-2227 www.mmdofcolorado.com

Walking Raven Adult Use 21+ 2001 S Broadway Denver, CO 80210 (720) 327-5613 thewalkingraven.com

Infinite Wellness Medical & Adult Use 21+ 1701 Kipling St. #104 Lakewood, CO 80215 720-458-0277 infinitewellness8.com

DENVER - EAST

DENVER - WEST

The Clinic on Colfax Medical Only 4625 E. Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80220 303-333-3644 www.thecliniccolorado.com

Southwest Alternative Care Medical Only 3937 W. Colfax Avenue Denver,CO 720-287-3934 southwestalternativecare.com

Kind Pain Management Medical Only 2636 Youngfield St Lakewood CO 303-237-5463 kindpainmanagement.com

DENVER - HIGHLANDS

DURANGO

The Clinic Highlands Medical & Adult Use 21+ 3460 W. 32nd Ave. Denver, CO 80211 303-997-7130 www.thecliniccolorado.com

Sante Alternative Wellness Medical Only 742 陆 Main Avenue Durango, Colorado 81301 970-375-2837 www.santecolorado.com

The Giving Tree of Denver Medical & Adult Use 21+ 2707 W. 38th Ave. Denver, CO 80211 303-477-8888 www.tgtree.com

EDGEWATER

URBA @ MMD of Colorado Medical & Adult Use 21+ 2647 W. 38th Ave. Denver, CO 80211 720-389-7911 www.mmdofcolorado.com

DENVER - NORTH River Rock Medical & Adult Use 21+ 4935 York St Denver, CO 303-474-4136 www.riverrockcolorado.com

DENVER - SOUTH The Clinic Colorado Medical & Adult Use 21+ 3888 E. Mexico Ave Denver, CO 80210 303.758.9114 www.thecliniccolorado.com Preferred Organic Therapy Medical Only 1569 S Colorado Blvd Denver, CO 80222 303-867-4768 preferredorganictherapy.com River Rock Medical & Adult Use 21+ 990 West 6th Ave Denver, CO 303-825-3314 www.riverrockcolorado.com Southwest Alternative Care Medical Only 1075 S. Fox st.

Denver,CO 80223 303-593-2931 southwestalternativecare.com

Northern Lights Cannabis Co. Medical & Adult Use 21+ 2045 Sheridan Blvd.

Edgewater, CO 80214 303-274-6495 www.nlcannabis.com

FORT COLLINS

LOUISVILLE Compassionate Pain Management 1116-7 W. Dillon Rd. Louisville CO, 80027 303-665-5596 compassionatepm.com

NORTHGLENN Botanacare Medical & Adult Use 21+ 11450 Cherokee St. Unit a7 Northglenn CO 80234 303-254-4200 www.botanacare.com Physician Preferred Products Medical Only 2100 E 112th Ave Northglenn, CO 80233 (303) 974-5966 pppmeds.com

Infinite Wellness Medical & Adult Use 21+ 900 N College Ave. Ft. Collins, CO 80524 (970) 484-8380 infinitewellness8.com

OTHER:

GOLDEN

Glasscraft Glasscraftinc.com

Rocky Mtn. Organic Medicine Medical Only 511 Orchard Street Golden, CO 80401 720-230-9111

rockymountainorganicmedicine.com

LAKEWOOD The Clinic on Jewell Medical Only 12018 W Jewell Ave Lakewood, CO 80228 303-997-9171 www.thecliniccolorado.com The Clinic on Wadsworth Medical Only 3600 S Wadsworth Blvd.

Lakewood, CO 80235 303-484-8853 www.thecliniccolorado.com Compassionate Pain Management 11950 West Colfax Lakewood CO, 80215 303-232-3620 compassionatepm.com

GLASS BLOWING INDUSTRY GROUPS Cannabis Business Alliance cannabisalliance.org Colorado NORML www.coloradonorml.org NCIA www.thecannabisindustry.org Marijuana Policy Project www.mpp.org consumeresponsibly.org

INDUSTRY SERVICES Cannabase cannabase.io Cannabis Camera www.cannabiscamera.com Cannabis Tube cannabistube.net Colorado Pot Guide coloradopotguide.com

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THANK YOU TO OUR ADVERTISERS 05 BIG Industry Show 19 Bhang Chocolate 56 Canna Cabins 12 Canna Caregivers 12 The Canna Center 12 Canna Creations 55 Cannabase 60 Cannabis Network Radio 40 Cannaflage Designs 63 CannaQual 07,61 The Clinic 63 Club History Vape Lounge 44 Colorado Pot Guide 46,47 Compassionate Pain Management 35 Concentrated Art 54 ConsumeResponsibly.org 17 Dr. J’s 13 Edipure 58 The Giving Tree of Denver 53 Glasscraft 55 Healthy Choices Unlimited 56 iCannabis Radio 05 Horticulture 360 56 Incredibles 21 Indica Vape 10,58 Infinite Wellness 09,58 Kind Pain Management 56 Legal Shield 54 Marijuana Policy Project 56 Medically Correct 09 Minipack America 29,58 MMD of Colorado 62 NCIA 15 NOCO Hemp Expo 60,68 Northern Lights Natural Rx 53,58 Original Cannabis Growers 27,59 Preferred Organic Therapy 44 PURR 63 Relaxed Clarity 59 River Rock 04,59 Rocky Mountain Organic Medicine 49 Scientific Inhalations 42 Sexpot Comedy 48 SI Pipes 11,59 Southwest Alternative Care 40,58 The Organic Seed 03 The Trimmer Store 29,58 URBA 02,59 Walking Raven

iCannabis Radio www.icannabisradio.com Minipack America www.minipack.us

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SMOKING ACCESSORIES Indica Vape www.indica2.com Nectar Collector www.nectarcollector.org PURR purrsmoking.com RipStic www.ripsticvape.com Scientific Inhalations sipipes.com SI Pipes sipipes.com

TOURISM

Medically Correct medicallycorrect.com

Canna Cabins 719-289-1015 www.cannacabins.com

LEGAL SERVICES

TRIMMING SERVICES

Legal Shield www.legalshield.com

The Trimmer Store 800-429-6034 thetrimmerstore.com

MMJ EVALUATION CannaQual 6795 E. Tennessee Ave., Ste #175 Denver, Colorado 80224 303-690-4882 www.cannaqual.com Healthy Choices Unltd.

5101 E Colfax Ave Denver, CO 80220 720-443-2420 www.healthychoicesunltd.com Relaxed Clarity - Broomfield 1006 Depot Hill Rd. Suite 100 Broomfield, CO 80020 970-412-5955 www.relaxedclarity.com Relaxed Clarity - CO Springs 3133 North El Paso Street Colorado Springs CO 80907 719-645-5955 www.relaxedclarity.com Relaxed Clarity - Pueblo 503 Avocado Street Pueblo, CO 81005 719-354-5445 www.relaxedclarity.com

OTHER Cannaflage Designs 530-426-5213 www.cannaflagedesigns.com Yeden LLC

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3707 Parkmoor Village Road Suite 103 Colorado Springs, CO 80917 719-375-5165 www.yeden.co

VAPE LOUNGE Club History Vape Lounge 2308 E Platte Ave Colorado Springs CO 80909 719-321-1651

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Medical and Recreational 21+

Kaboom!

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Skywalker Kush 2045 Sheridan Blvd

Cannatonic 303-274-6495