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A LETTER TO OUR READERS “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” ― Brad Paisley It never fails. When the New Year is upon us we inevitably have that moment of reflection on the accomplishments of the last twelve months, which is then of course followed by a list of goals for the next twelve. 2014 was such a momentous year for cannabis freedom. I’m not going to get into all of the amazing progress we had last year as Rick Macey did a great job of summarizing it all in our Year in Review piece on page 43. Instead, I want to talk about the future, more specifically the future of hemp. It can sometimes be overlooked that we are a publication that covers the entire cannabis plant and not just the social and medical use side of the herb. Marijuana is a relatively easy plant to turn into profits when you compare it to industrial hemp. You grow it, cure it and sell it. Of course this is an oversimplification of the process but it is much easier to go from seed to sale than with hemp. While we have gained great progress with the acceptance of industrial hemp across the country, there is still so much that needs to be done before we can begin to really start reaping the amazing benefits it can provide. For starters, we as consumers must increase the demand for hemp-made products. When the demand increases we will begin to spur more investors to come in and help build the infrastructure needed to refine the plant into textiles, construction materials, plastics and fuel. It is going to take investors with relatively deep pockets and patience to help get the hemp industry to a place where it can surpass the revenues that marijuana is providing. That is why I challenge the existing cannabis industry to start doing its part to help increase the demand for hemp production. Think of it as an industry New Year’s resolution. The easiest way to accomplish this is to support as many local hemp companies as possible. When you look to purchase promotional materials like t-shirts and hats with your logo on them, spend the extra money on hemp. This will go a long way to help drive the price down and increase the demand. For the average consumer, look for hemp products to replace your existing purchases whenever possible. Also make sure it is part of the conversation when you talk to the uninitiated. The time is now for all of us to become missionaries of hemp. We have more power as consumers than you can imagine. Let’s make 2015 the “Year of Hemp.”
Editor-in-Chief David Maddalena Art Director Christianna Lewis Associate Editor DJ Reetz Layout Designers Caroline Hayes Christianna Lewis Director of Sales and Marketing Christianna Lewis sales@thcmag.com Sales Managers Amalia Janisch Sam Ruderman Contributing Writers Samuel Aaron Hazy Cakes Dr. Nicola Davies Josh Davis Caroline Hayes Christie Lunsford Monocle Man DJ Reetz Sam Ruderman Lee Weiner Contributing Photographers Christianna Lewis DJ Reetz Cover Photography/Art Christianna Lewis Stacey Ross Cannabis Camera Graphic Design Christianna Lewis Printer Publication Printers Corp. 2001 South Platte River Drive Denver, CO 80223 PH: 303.936.0303 www.publicationprinters.com
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Contents 6
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A Letter to Our Readers The Green Scene
Colorado’s Hottest Events and Ed Rosenthal’s book
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In the Spotlight
18
Featured Artist
22
It’s a Wrap!
26
The Universal Beat
29
Colorado Glass Artist
30
Tasty Meds
33
Hemp Eats
34
Step Inside Your Mind
Anti-aging hemp salve and old fashioned hemp shampoo
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Denver’s Mariano
The results of the 3rd Annual Hemp Connoisseur Championship
A Colorado clothing company is raising the vibration
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The works of Brandon P
Healthy recipes to kick off 2015!
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The High Price of Cannabis
46
The History of Hemp Part IV
51
Marketing Cannabis
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How marijuana use is costing cops their lives
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How Does Cannabis Affect Glaucoma? An interview with Chicago’s Dr. Jon Ruderman
How the use of cannabis can affect the way you think
Legal hemp grows in Nebraska
2014: A Year in Review
How it will drive long term success for the industry
How the use of pychedelics has influenced the art world
Your Mental Health
How to deal with law enforcement A look at the cannabis movement and it’s highlights across Colorado
Cannabis infused godies
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Advice From the ACLU...
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Dispensary Guide Coupons Index
Dispensary Guide DENVER
62 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 Original Cannabis Growers 58 The Organic Seed
NORTHERN COLORADO 58 Infinite Wellness
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The GREEN Scene
E V E N T S
January 8th First Thursday Reggae Organics Education Night featuring DJ Bloodpresshah @ Grow Big Supply 2620 Walnut St Denver, CO 80205 www.eventbrite.com January 17th - 19th Cannabis Business Conference Colorado Convention Center Denver, CO www.cloverleafuniversity.com January 20th Colorado Legal Cannabis Industry Impact on the Centennial State’s Design and Construction Community Denver Athletic Club 1325 Glenarm Place 80204 Denver, CO 80202 www.cannabusinessaccelerator.com February 21st Westword Artopia City Hall 1144 Broadway Denver, CO 80203 http://microapp.westword.com/artopia/2015 March 13th - 14th CannaGrow Expo EXDO Event Center 1399 35th Street Denver, CO 80205 www.cannagrowexpo.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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Good Reads Ed Rosenthal’s Marijuana Grower’s Handbook by DJ Reetz
For those looking to break into growing, Ed Rosenthal’s Marijuana Grower’s Handbook is as good a place as any to start. The book is proudly touted as the official course book of Oaksterdam University, one of the longest standing marijuana growing programs in the country, and has a very similar feel to a college textbook. The handbook covers nearly every aspect of marijuana. Beginning with a brief historical overview, the book moves on to cover the basics of plant physiology, plant genealogy, strain variation, gardening techniques, security strategies, curing techniques and everything in between. While some grow manuals are simply step-bystep instructions for growing, Ed’s will teach why you are doing what you are doing. For those curious about a slightly deeper understanding of this wonderful plant, the book has hundreds of pages explaining the specifics of growing outstanding marijuana, all written in an accessible way that would fit right in to a college curriculum. Accompanying the text is a wealth of graphics and images to help explain the occasionally abstract ideas, making for a guide that is slightly less dry than others. There’s plenty of information to take in here. At over 450 pages, the wealth of information contained in this book is astounding, but offers a genuine opportunity to know everything — or at least everything you would ever need — about marijuana. From which strain to grow, to what type of light to use, to what type of nutrient blend will yield the desired effect, reading this book will not only give you these answers, but a passable understanding of why such answers exist. Ed Rosenthal has been offering growing tips for decades, and his Marijuana Grower’s Handbook is a culmination of all of this. Pick it up if you are looking to start growing, or just looking for a better understanding of the plants you already have experience with. You’re sure to learn something.
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In the Spotlight Products ProductsWe WeLove Love
Cannabis Beauty Defined - Anti-Aging Hemp Salve
Cannabis Beauty Defined is an anti-aging skin care line that includes a myriad of products ranging from supplement capsules to Anti-Aging Salve with several products in between. The Anti-Aging Salve is a moisturizing compound that is meant to sooth and nourish your skin. It is made with natural hemp ^CBD oil and a unique bi-bong™ herbal formulation that they say work together to obtain optimal results. Cannabis Beauty Defined boasts their proprietary East Asian botanicals and ^CBD oil combination will nourish and moisturize all skin types. After receiving this Hemp Salve for review, I read the ingredients list thoroughly and began researching the application benefits of this product. I read several testimonials claiming benefits for a variety of different skin issues. So I decided I would try to use this Hemp Salve in several different ways. I will say it is a versatile product. I used this salve for everything from dry skin to eczema to muscle soreness to joint pain. First I applied the salve to a patch of dry skin a couple times a day, after the second day the dry area of my skin was the same color and texture as the surrounding skin. So does the salve moisturize dry skin? Check. Next I applied the salve to my son’s eczema on his wrist and forearm, again I did this twice a day and after the first day we started to see an improvement. After the third day there was minimal evidence of eczema remaining on his wrist. We continued application for another two days and the eczema was gone. It should also be said that my son and I are prone to allergic reactions to skin care products and we did not have a reaction to the salve. So far, Salve 2 - Skin issues 0. I also tried the salve as a muscle rub on my sore arms after a workout. I rubbed the salve into my bicep area and it did have a soothing effect, if nothing else it felt very nice and helped me relax. I also felt like the duration of muscle soreness was possibly shortened by using the salve but it might have been the extra twice a day massage my sore muscles got as a result of using the salve. Lastly I used the salve on my sore joints. I massaged it into the knee and wrist joints after a long day. The scent of the salve has a soothing effect all by itself but I did notice that my joint pain was diminished after a few applications and as a result of using it regularly my skin is looking pretty amazing as well. I am enjoying using this product and will continue to do so especially for my problem dry skin areas. This was the perfect time to try this skin salve, the middle of the dry Colorado winter. You can get your own at www.livehemplife.net.
J.R.Liggett’s Old-Fashioned Shampoo Bar
This product is truly old-fashioned. It is handmade and comes in a variety of recipes. We tried the Tea Tree & Hemp Oil Shampoo Bar for our purposes. Tee Tree is added to this shampoo for it’s antiseptic and anti-bacterial properties, it helps with flaky-itchy scalp conditions and hemp oil is full of essential fatty acids that moisturize your hair. This shampoo also contains almond, olive, coconut and castor oils as well. New Hampshire spring water, and sodium hydroxide (a binding agent) and is fragrance free. I had never used a shampoo bar before but I was excited to give it a whirl. You take the bar in your hands, run it under the water in the shower and work it into a lather in your hands. Then you massage the soap that is on your hands into your hair and scalp. If you don’t have short hair you will most likely need to repeat the lather step a few times until you feel like your hair is clean. Once you have thoroughly worked the shampoo into your hair, rinse it out like liquid shampoo and condition like you normally would. I really liked that this bar had no added fragrance and it made my hair feel very clean. Check them out for yourself. www.jrligget.com
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FEATURED ARTIST
Mariano of
Be Free Artistry
M: I was born in Watertown, NY.
M: I’ve lived all over the country and Denver is the best city to live and work in, out of all. The art scene in Denver is ready to explode into something much larger than ourselves and much better than Philly or San Francisco because it’s new and fresh, not set in it’s ways. Denver wants to grow with the new branch of consciousness sprouting from the city, and I want to grow with it! Colorado is amazing and this is where I want to raise a family, this is my home!
THC: Tell me about Be Free Artistry
THC: Favorite artist?
M: Be Free Artistry was formed in Denver, CO back in 2005. My first mural, in Denver was painted on the Gypsy House Cafe, located on 13th and Marion St. Ever since then, I have been working all across the country designing businesses, as well as painting murals both commercially and residentially. I have extensive works in the Asheville, NC, New York, California, and Colorado, including the largest hand painted mural in all of Colorado. It is located at Grow Big Supply on Wnykoop St. In Denver, measures over 350 feet in length and stands 25 feet tall. All of my works of art are painted completely freehand, no measurements, grids, straight edges, or projectors.
M: Gamma Acosta
As THC continues our celebration of local artists, we honor Denver’s Mariano and his massive, beautiful public works of art. THC: Mariano, where are you from originally?
Based and rooted in Denver, Be Free Artistry offers business makeovers, custom paintings, murals, business designs or logos, hand carved sculptures, artistic landscapes/gardens and color consultations with over 30 years (a lifetime) of experience. THC: What or who is your biggest inspiration? M: The Expressionist Movement and the words and music of Bob Marley THC: Where do you see Denver’s art scene going?
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THC: I can tell you put a great deal of thought into your works; tell our readers more about your vision. M: I use a combination of education in fine arts and psychology to enhance the look and prosperity of a place of business. By utilizing the right color combinations, subject matter, and spatial awareness I attract more people into your store. Moreover, Be Free Artistry specializes in turning a passer-by into a smiling customer. For example, When a person drives by your building they can not necessarily see what you have for sale on the inside, which is why the outside appearance of your building, is almost more important than the inside. Basic psychology gives validity to the statement, “A smiling customer will buy more product and then go home and tell their friends about where they bought it from.” As a mater of fact, restaurant owners have even reported that customers who regularly eat at places where Mariano has painted, report that “for some reason” their food tastes better than it did before. Thank you for the interview Mariano.
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It’s A Wrap! The Third Annual Hemp Connoisseur Championship Goes Off Without A Hitch by DJ Reetz
For the third year, The Hemp Connoisseur Championship once again celebrated the best in Colorado cannabis. With the all frills due, some of the finest marijuana growers, extractors, aficionados and edible makers gathered to celebrate the best legal cannabis one is likely to find anywhere the world over. This year, the venue was the Oriental Theater in the historic Berkley neighborhood of northwest Denver. One of the last marijuana-friendly venues in the city, the theater was packed with industry big wigs and eager connoisseurs, a blanket of fine-smelling smoke mixing with the excitement hanging in the air. Hosting the event was comedian Andy Juett, frequent THC contributor and mastermind of the 420-friendly Sexpot Comedy show. Andy stirred the crowd in anticipation of the award announcements as messages from a smart aleck friend backstage flashed across the screen behind him, drawing laughs from the crowd and hilarious bemusement from Andy. Special guest comedian Ben Kronberg was also on hand to goad out some laughs, though he too was not beyond the mockery of the faceless projector operator. But the night wasn’t about the comedy. The stars of the show where the stylish green trophies that Andy fairly accurately described as “ Superman crystals” and the outstanding cannabis producers those trophies celebrated. All in attendance were eager to see who would take home the prestigious trophies, and in what categories, especially since this year was the first to have adult-use contenders. Green Man Cannabis swept the medical flower entries, taking first in indica, sativa and hybrid. But the biggest award of the night went to River Rock, who took home the Grand Champion trophy for their full-melt Bruce Banner ice hash crafted by Trichome Heavy Extracts.
“I’m very proud of my team,” says T.H.E. co-owner Ken Connaughton, whose partner Jibs was on hand to give the acceptance speech for the award. With over sixty entries from some of the finest dispensaries in the cannabis capitol, pride is a well-deserved sentiment. “It starts with premium organic flower, the best medicine we can find,” he says of T.H.E.’s process. But the outstanding bud from River Rock is only part of the winning formula, it also requires pure reverse osmosis water and ice, and a 72-hour drying process to make a product fine enough to beat out all the other amazing entries. “What definitely sets us apart is our drying process,” he says. “We strive to have the best dried hash possible.” Connaughton says the goal at T.H.E is to create the cleanest, healthiest extract possible, free of any potential contaminants that can come from solvents like butane. “We strive to make the industry safer and cleaner,” he says. “We have a lot of people who are switching over. It’s really cool to see the trend changing.” T.H.E., once a subsidiary of River Rock is now available at an array of dispensaries around the state, with plans to start having products on shelves in Washington, Nevada, Arizona and California over the next two years. But if you want the award winning Bruce Banner full melt that wowed judges and connoisseurs at the THC Championship, the only place to get it is River Rock. Thanks to all the contestants and judges who made the THC Championship the premier showing of Colorado’s marijuana muscle for the third year in a row.
Big shout out to J2G Live for organizing an amazing party at the Oriental for us. Thanks to all of our performers last night, Lil’ Scoops (our awesome band) and Andy Juett, Ben Kronberg and Jim Hickox for providing comic relief. Special thanks to our product sponsors Pürr Glass, Jetter Systems and Anonymous Bags. Finally thanks to our host dispensary BotanaCare and Cannlabs for providing testing.
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2014 WINNERS
Medical Sativa
1st Place, Best Tested Green Man Cannabis - Ghost Train Haze 2nd Place Kind Pain Management - Sour Diesel 3rd Place, Patient’s Choice, Connoisseur’s Choice River Rock - Jack Frost
Medical Indica 1st Place, Patient’s Choice, Best Tested Green Man Cannabis -Hell’s OG Kush
2nd Place, Patient’s Choice Mahatma Concentrates - Trainwreck Shatter
3rd Place River Rock - Lemon Haze Live Resin by Emotek Connoisseur’s Choice The Clinic - Bubba Kush Live Resin Batter Best Tested Nectar Bee - Blueberry Wax
Concentrates-H2O Hash
2nd Place Rezen8 Genetics - Phaser
1st Place, Patient’s Choice, Connoisseur’s Choice River Rock - Bruce Banner Full Melt by Tricome Heavy Extracts
3rd Place, Connoisseur’s Choice Southwest Alternative Care - White Lightening
2nd Place Canna Caregivers - Blue Diesel Dark Star
Medical Hybrid
3rd Place, Best Tested Nectar Bee - Boss Ice Wax
1st Place, Patient’s Choice Green Man Cannabis - Star Killer
Edibles
Northern Lights Cannabis Company - Kaboom 2nd Place The Green Solution - Twista
3rd Place, Connoisseur’s Choice Walking Raven Dispensary - Durban Poison People’s Choice The Clinic - Cherry Pie
Adult Use Indica 1st Place, Best Tested The Green Solution - Presidential Kush 2nd Place Northern Lights Cannabis Company Skywalker Kush 3rd Place The Green Solution - Bubba Kush People’s Choice, Connoisseur’s Choice L’Eagle Services - LA Confidential
Adult-Use Hybrid
2nd Place, Connoisseur’s Choice Kind Pain Management - Hell’s OG
1st Place, Best Tested Canna Creations - Canna Bomb
1st Place, People’s Choice Walking Raven Dispensary - Hong Kong Diesel
3rd Place, Best Tested Canna Caregivers - Super Lemon Haze Dark Star
2nd Place, Patient’s Choice, Connoisseur’s Choice Incredibles - Affogato
2nd Place Walking Raven Dispensary - Lemon Skunk
Concentrates-BHO Extract
3rd Place Nectar Bee- Infuzionz Doughnuts
3rd Place, Best Tested The Green Solution - Cindy White
Adult-Use Sativa
Connoisseur’s Choice The Clinic - Jack Flash
1st Place The Clinic - Kosher Kush Live Resin Batter
1st Place, Best Tested
GRAND CHAMPION
RIVER ROCK, BRUCE BANNER FULL MELT
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The Clinic Colorado Staff
River Rock Team Accepting an Award
THC Staffers - DJ and Ashley
24 January 2015
Andy Juett - MC
THCC Sponsor Purr Glass
Canna Caregivers/Canna Creations
Walking Raven Staff
River Rock Team
Green Man Cannabis - 3 first place wins
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The Universal Beat
A Colorado company is setting the bar when it comes to raising the vibration by Caroline Hayes
The Universal Beat’s school bus
26 January 2015
The world needs more companies run by people who set out to do the right thing for other people, conducting acts of kindness from the heart with pure intentions. Universal Beat is an example of this type of positive behavior. What started as two guys living together in Brazil evolved into an independent clothing company intended to spread light, love and overall consciousness. This is the first of what could be many interviews with Trevor Pirtle of Universal Beat. THC: So Universal Beat runs out of a bus, which is pretty awesome. Any plans for a storefront in the future? TP: At the moment, our shirts are currently stocked in a few stores, including Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, The Fitter in Boulder, the Headed West in Denver and FX-18 in Taos. We do have plans for the future for a brick-and-mortar store that would also be part health food restaurant, cafe, and gathering center for yoga, meditation, and other events. THC: Please explain the vision of Universal Beat. TP: We find land that is super affordable solely because there is no one around. We buy tons of land in the area and start growing using permaculture techniques. We build affordable, sustainable shelters. We get our electricity from the power of the sun. We invite lots of smart, conscious people to come live in community and love and support each other while we work on our projects to help spread love and light throughout the cosmos. The ‘60s was all about free love. There’s another revolution that’s happening right now, and it’s all about using that love to support one another. It’s about community, the gathering of the tribes. We like to live, work, and be surrounded with loving and supportive people. We like to live in nature and enjoy a beautiful view 24/7. We want to grow our own food and our own cannabis. We want build our own shelters, locally sourced earth homes. We want to live as sustainably as possible. We want our work to be intrinsically rewarding and allow us the freedom to travel and work when we want to. We sell T-shirts, because it’s the path of least resistance right now. It just happened to start that way. We have other apparel, books, and music all in the works. The Universal Beat is a vessel for spreading love in whatever form it takes. We support and collaborate with people we like that are doing good for the world. Collaboration and synergy over competition. There is so much abundance in the world, and the more we share, the more it grows. If we just took the money spent every year on the U.S. military budget, we could provide free healthy food and clean drinking water for the entire world. We are creating the space for consciousness to flourish. And we want brilliant people to join us. THC: I read that you all just bought some land. Where and what’s the vision for this? TP: We bought five acres in October in the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado. Our intention is to turn the entire area into a 23rd century hippy village. We’ll have a recording studio, permaculture garden and earth homes. We are creating a retreat space for people to come and heal, dance, play, and work with other conscious people. Land is so affordable (because it’s in the middle of nowhere) and we want people who want to help the world to buy land and join us in making a village from scratch and see what it turns into. THC: What do you see for the future of sustainable clothing in Colorado?
Cannablis T-shirt in green
TP: People who are into sustainable living generally understand that we’re all in this together. Everything is connected, we are all human. Because of this, there will be much more collaboration and energy from different sustainable clothing companies than in other industries.
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Generally, we understand that helping each other is so much better than competing. If you make awesome clothing and you’re a cool person, I would love to promote you on our platform. Do I expect people’s entire wardrobe to be Universal Beat apparel? No.
This book will be self-published and my intention is that it’ll be released in January/February.
If you are helping the world, a good person, and make good products, how could I not want to be friends with you? And how could I not want to help my friends succeed?
TP: The world needs you to act on things you are most passionate about.
THC: Who else is involved in the movement of Universal Beat? TP: Currently, there are two of us leading the charge, Kevin Lane and Trevor Pirtle (me). To easily convey our roles, Kevin is the right brain of the operation; I’m the left-brain. The movement is still in its infant stage and we currently do not have enough money to pay other people to work and live with us. But we’re growing. THC: I see that you wrote an e-book on meditation. What’s that called and where can interested readers find that? TP: The minibook is called How Meditation is Helping to Usher in the Next Revolution in Human Society. The book briefly describes the different stages of consciousness that humans go through, both individually and collectively, and how important meditation is for the evolution of consciousness. If you’re interested in reading this, you can download it for free at TheUniversalBeat.org/Manifest I’m also currently writing another book called The Grounded Spiritual Guide to Life. The book is 37 chapters, each one page, about a variety of topics. I’m writing the book with the pretext of it being everything I would tell my kids about how to live in as few words as possible.
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THC: What else would you like our readers to know?
You are everything, everything is you. When you are good to everything, everything is good to you. What’s best for you is best for everyone. I love you. You are perfect as you are. No need to prove yourself or do anything. Just be. Everything is okay. Thank you for reading! THC: Thank you Trevor! We look forward to hearing more about what you guys are up to. The Silent Owl Purple T
Colorado Glass Artist
Brandon Patton
by Sam Ruderman
Brandon Patton is a talented scientific glass blower working in Boulder, Colorado. He let the fine people of THC sample one of his lathe-worked masterpieces, and we were quite literally blown away. We asked Brandon some questions to find out more about his glass career, scientific glass, and how people can get in touch. Q. When did you start blowing glass? How did your glass evolve into the complex scientific pieces you make now? A. I started blowing glass with some friends I met on Phish and Dead tour in 2001 in Gold Hill Colorado. It was in a freezing cold shed with no heat when I first touched glass and was hooked ever since. I learned how to make basic chillums, spoons, and bubblers. Four years later I moved back to Illinois to help my friend Brett Hoerr open up his studio Unbroken Glass. We taught beginner bead and pendant classes through Illinois Central College and were primarily focused on the art side of blowing glass. I made pipes on the side to pay the bills but it was a controversial time for pipe makers. With “Operation Pipedreams”, Bush’s government declared a war on glass pipe makers arresting people for selling functional glass art. After a few years, I was back to pipe making full time again. Brett got his first lathe and we started teaching ourselves scientific techniques. I saw my future going more towards scientific water pipes. I’ve been working on a lathe for about 6 years. Q. Can you explain how glass recyclers work? A. It’s a very complex and effective design. You can fill it up with more water without the risk of drinking it, making the smoke much smoother on your lungs. The smoke goes through the water to the percolator, bubbling and moving up to the arm on the side, bringing the water into the top chamber, and finally funneling back down into the lower chamber, causing a vortex affect that refills your percolator. The function of the whole thing is really cool to watch. Q. How can people get their hands on some of your glass? A. You can follow me on instagram @ Brandon_P_Glass. Like me on Facebook or email me at illglassartist@gmail.com for custom orders or wholesale inquiry. You can find my products in Boulder at The Fitter, Colorado Glass Galleries, Green Piece, The Farm, Buddha’s Goudas. In Longmont at High Society and in Fort Collins at The Joint. Also, On the East Coast at Green Side Up Galleries. Thanks for all the support!
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Tasty Meds
Reviews of Colorado’s finest medicated products L.A. OG Batter Nectar by TerpX Denver Relief
reviewed by Monocle Man Denver Relief has been a patient favorite in Denver for years and is now offering adult-use cannabis for those over 21. Denver Relief has a friendly staff and some of Denver’s finest cannabis, including their well known Bio-Diesel. They have won awards in our Hemp Connoisseur Championship and the High Times Cannabis Cup, so you know that they have the quality that you are looking for. With a wide selection to choose from we wanted to check out their concentrates. We picked up a gram of L.A. OG Butter Nectar that was processed by TerpX. Their name is fitting because as soon as you open the child resistant packaging the smell of terpenes jumps out at you. It had an earthy pine aroma and tasted just like it smelled but a little sweeter. If you aren’t familiar with Butter/Budder it’s another form of concentrate that looks like ear wax. It can be a little easier to work with than shatter and oils if you are new to dabbing. After doing a couple dabs on my e-nail I was heavy eyed and couch locked. If you are looking for a pain or stress reliever and want to melt in your chair, this batch of L.A. OG Butter Nectar is what you need. Make sure you get all your honey do’s and work done before because you will want to do nothing but relax after you dab this nectar from the gods. If you haven’t been to Denver Relief before, visit their website and check them out on Broadway. www.denverrelief.com
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Edipure CBD Trokie Quick Tabs 100mg
Reviewed by Monocle Man Another slam dunk for Edipure! These CBD Tabs are quick dissolving, sublingual squares and are 20mgs per tab. Each piece has cross marks on it and could be easily divided into four pieces each. I placed one full piece under my tongue and WOW! I felt like I was in an ice storm. The frosty breath these will give you can be smelled from 20 feet away. Very refreshing! The tab feels smooth in your mouth and tastes extremely minty, no cannabis flavor. It took about three minutes to fully dissolve and leave your mouth feeling fresh. After about thirty minutes I felt a light relaxing feeling and my persistent lower back pain faded away to a muted whisper. I love the Trokie because it wasn’t a heavy hitter for me. I was able to function normally without a major head high. This is a product that is perfect for anyone that is treating a chronic issue with a daily low-dose edible. I will be adding it to my nightly edible rotation for sure. edipure.com
Cherry Bomb Cola 100mg by Keef Cola
reviewed by Monocle Man Those who have had a red card for years are likely already familiar with Keef Cola. They are one of the original edible companies and have been around since the beginning of this wonderful industry. Keef Cola offers a full line of CO2 infused sodas with flavors like Orange Kush, Cherry Bomb Cola, Bubba Kush Root Beer, Blue Dream, and their Flo Energy Drink. With all those delicious choices we went with the 100mg Cherry Bomb Cola. All of their drinks come in a 12oz glass bottle with eye catching label artwork. These drinks can have a faster onset of effects, so if you are new to edibles start slow. This was the first time I’ve had a Keef Cola since they changed to CO2 infusion and I could definitely taste a difference. There was a slight cannabis aftertaste but it was balanced well with the delicious cherry cola flavor. After drinking two thirds of the bottle and waiting thirty minutes my eyes began to feel heavy. I turned on some music and was in the zone as I finished up some work for the magazine. Before I knew it, I had finished the rest of the bottle and was riding the cherry bomb. It was a smooth ride of euphoric, relaxed edible bliss on a snowy Colorado night. If you like soda, pop, cola, whatever you call it and cannabis you have to try Keef Cola. www.keefcola.com
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Hemp Eats
Step into a New Year the right way with these healthful recipes
Hempseed Granola Bars Green Tea Antioxidant Waffles Recipe courtesy of Ashely Ebert Yields 4 large waffles
Ingredients:
1 ¼ cup unsweetened vanilla hemp milk 1 tsp apple cider vinegar ¼ cup coconut oil 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 Tbs raw unrefined honey 1 cup white rice flour ½ cup tapioca flour ¼ cup hemp protein powder 2 Tbs matcha powder 2 Tbs acai powder 2 Tbs maca powder 1 tsp baking powder
Directions:
Preheat waffle iron. Combine the hemp milk and vinegar, set aside. In a separate bowl combine all dry ingredients. Then add the vanilla extract, coconut oil, and honey to the hemp milk mixture.
Makes a 8.5” by 12.5” pan Ingredients: 2 large mashed ripe banana 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 2 cups rolled oats, coarsely chopped in food processor. 2/3 cup dried cranberries (any dried fruit will work), chopped 1/2 cup almonds, chopped 1/2 cup Chia seeds 1/2 cup sunflower seeds (shelled pumpkin seeds) 1/2 cup sliced pecans 1 cup hulled hemp seeds A couple pinches of pink sea salt Directions: Preheat your oven to 350°F. Spray a 8.5 X 12.5 pan with cooking spray, topped with a piece of parchment paper. In a large bowl, combine the mashed banana and vanilla extract. Add the oats to the banana and vanilla mixture. Then add the chopped dried cranberries and almonds. Mix until combined with previous ingredients. Add the remaining ingredients and mix until combined.
Mix the wet mixture into the dry mix.
Place the mixture onto the parchment paper in your pan. Spread around the pan with a spoon until it’s evenly spread about.
Spoon about 3 scoops of waffle mix onto the iron, close and let it cook for approximately 4-6 minutes.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until the edges are golden. Allow to cool for 20 minutes or so before cutting into bars.
Top with powdered sugar, raspberries, blueberries, and maple syrup!
Smoothie Tips!
Did you get a new blender for a holiday gift? Here’s a list of things to always have on hand to make creating healthy morning drink a breeze. -Hulled hemp seeds -Bananas -Dark leafy, organic greens (kale, spinach, chard, etc) -A bag of frozen berries -Unsweetend almond milk -Chia seeds -Honey for sweetner
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Step Inside Your Mind
How using pyschedelics has inspired and influenced the art world by Erin HIatt
When you open the door to the Red Bull art gallery in New York City, you are immediately greeted by bright yellow walls and a rainbow-colored zigzagging pattern that covers the entirety of the studio floor. It’s a bit of sensory overload and is intended to, as the Red Bull Studio press release informs us, “confound the senses and shape alternative viewing experiences.” This first impression gives the studio a funhouse feel, a little tilted and warped. The art exhibit is called “Spaced Out, Migration to the Interior” and they are displaying artists who have had their work influenced by the use of psychedelics.
Why people create art and even more broadly, the purpose of art and what makes art good is extremely subjective. Two people observing the exact same piece of work can come to two completely different conclusions. Art academia strives to give definition and shape criteria for artistic endeavor and effectiveness. But psychedelic art, with its moving patterns, grids, and effects like curving or diminishing objects, vibrating colors, and the sense that things are moving or melting defies traditional explanations and sends itself even further down the rabbit hole of subjectivity.
Staging the exhibit is the “Brooklyn Rail,” a publication focusing on art, culture and politics. They have gathered a group of featured artists on a cold and windy Saturday for a question-and-answer panel on their work. Artists Fred Tomaselli, Chris Martin, Deborah Kass, and Bruce Pearson are perched on their tall, backless chairs, sipping from small bottles of water and watching the crowd fill the gallery space to the neon-colored back wall. They are joined by art critic Ken Johnson, who wrote “Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art.” This is a panel of baby-boomers, essentially the people you’d expect to be talking about psychedelics; people who got introduced to magic mushrooms or LSD in the ‘60s and tripped while listening to “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” But what becomes clear very quickly is that no one can really agree about how exactly psychedelics have contributed to their work, or even how to contemplate the art that is covering the walls and even the floor of the gallery.
Artist Fred Tomaselli describes psychedelic art and experiences as “totally subjective. People seek an objective experience to describe, and academics describe art but try to bring a rationalist perspective to art, which is ambiguous and subjective and weird. There’s this fiction that one can engage in poststructural theory or ambiguous ways to discuss art, but they all fail, but the subjectivity of the psychedelic experience is too weird to talk about rationally.”
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The word “psychedelic” means “mind manifesting” and is used to describe states of consciousness experienced by using LSD, mushrooms, mescaline, cannabis, ayahuasca, iboga, and salvia, among others. There is a lot of back and forth at the panel between the artists and audience about what exactly a psychedelic is. A couple of the artists say that their drug of choice is caffeine and nicotine, others argue for cannabis, still others think alcohol can bring about a mind-bending stroke to their work.
Art critic Ken Johnson says that in his mind, “what psychedelics do is make you more aware of how consciousness is shaping and constructing the real world. A trip to the store under psychedelics seems like an epic journey because threedimensionality gets enhanced.” Psychedelics don’t create a trick of the eye, there is no visual enhancement that makes it seem as if those walls are breathing or that your skin has turned lizard-like. The psychedelic creates ways of seeing and processing that are not normal compared to your everyday experience. Many great artists and thinkers have used some sort of drug to enhance (or perhaps mute) their genius: Francis Crick, one half of the team who discovered the double helix of DNA, reportedly did so under the influence of LSD. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates also used LSD recreationally. Thomas Edison and Sigmund Freud were users of cocaine, while Carl Sagan imagined the cosmos while using cannabis. Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles all used some sort of mind-altering substance to intensify or calm their artistic processes and temperaments. Panel moderator Hamilton Morris suggests that part of the reason that the use of psychedelics simmer on the back burner of creative conversation is because “people generally don’t want to contribute their artistic contribution to a mind altering substance of any kind. Artists feel that this robs them of their artistic integrity, that they are a drug artist, that they didn’t come up with these experiences on their own.” Artist and panelist Deborah Kass disagrees. “I don’t feel that there’s any stigma attached whatsoever.” Kass, who said she took a lot of LSD coming up as an artist in the 70s and 80s, says LSD “makes me feel very connected to my past. Consciousness was in the air. We did the cave thing and every lump of the ceiling becomes like a bison, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I know what’s going on in this place, there were like three or four people, they chew some berries, and they created this. They were expanding consciousness and creating art.’”
were present at the panel to hear Johnson ask, ”Is this really belonging to a religious studies department?” Cornell.edu explains, “probably the oldest purpose of art is as a vehicle for religious ritual. From the prehistoric cave paintings in France to the Sistine Chapel, art has served religion.” Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof has written, “religious and mystical experiences observed during LSD sessions appear to be phenomenologically indistinguishable from similar descriptions in the sacred scriptures of the great religions of the world and the secret mystical texts of ancient civilizations.”
Religious iconography is easy to spot because it depicts repetitive and similar imagery. A halo is used to denote a saint, the holy spirit is a dove. The Egyptians drew the ankh, Buddhists the lotus. Is it possible that the first sacred iconography of those ancient shamanic communities could be represented by the bison, humanoids, geometric ladder-like images found in damp and darkened Many artists seek out and caves around the world and rendered some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago? psychedelics to not
only enhance their art but to elevate their lives, and many practice religion for the same reasons. We are all looking for the penultimate experience that will make us lose our current identity and be reborn into something new, that our ego will fade and that there will be no barrier between ourselves and the outside world
Kass is not alone in that idea. In fact Graham Hancock, a British writer, journalist, and well-traveled psychedelic voyager posits in his book “Supernatural” the exact same thing. Hancock deeply investigates the prehistoric cave paintings found in Chauvet, Lascaux and Pech Merle in France, Alta Mira in Spain, and Fumane Cave in Northern Italy, among others around the world. Hancock explains that “there is a an anthropological and archeological theory that prehistoric rock and cave art around the world expresses mankind’s first and oldest notions of the ‘soul’ and of realms of existence beyond death - notions that took shape in altered states of consciousness most likely brought on by the consumption of psychoactive plants.” Mushroom cult authority R. Gordon Wasson has proposed that “religious impulse itself originated with drugs, as a confused reaction to intense experiences provided by the accidental ingestion of psychoactive plants.”
American philosopher and psychologist William James is widely credited as being the “Father of Modern Psychology.” He wrote an article in 1898 called “Consciousness Under Nitrous Oxide” after experiencing revelations while using the mind-altering nitrous. He described his insights as mystical and religious but disappearing when the drug wore off. James wrote that what he learned by using nitrous oxide is “our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.” If only Hancock, James and Wasson
A shaman is believed to have access — through altered states of consciousness brought about by plant medicines — to the world of good and evil spirits, much as one may think of a priest. During rituals they would enter into a trance, which Christianity may compare to prayer. Shamans took terrifying and enlightening journeys into the underworld, bringing back knowledge, wisdom, and healing. In these harrowing travels, they would encounter then depict much of the same imagery that hangs on the walls in the studio here in NYC; half-animal, half-human beings, alien-like beings, geometric and ladderlike structures, iridescent eyes, snakes twisting in a helix, spinning spiral galaxies, immovable structures seemingly breathing, and radiant colors. Robert Bednarik, author of the critique “Current Anthropology” suggests that the imagery on display here in the gallery is part of a shared symbolism, that everyone throughout time has been hallucinating the same thing and is part of “the existence of a collective unconscious of iconic form constants.”
Tomaselli, whose work has been called somewhat religious and iconic, says “there’s this cosmic thing inside my head but it’s completely secular. It’s the shape of art history and the shape that comes out in all these other cultures. So much art history comes out of deep religious art.” So, as Johnson suggests, should we be looking at art in religious terms? Artist Chris Martin doesn’t think so. “There’s a huge difference between religion and spirituality. In religion there are all these different believers and they have wars with each other.” Martin adds, “We are talking about consciousness and there are many ways to access this consciousness. William Blake saw through alternate reality, Sufi’s who are dancing until they get visions, fasting until they see visions, different practices to break the shackles of reality for a minute or 6 hours. We’re talking about consciousness in our cultural moment right now, and that involves mushrooms or whatever, to see what they are, to have a good time.” Many artists seek out psychedelics to not only enhance their art but to elevate their lives, and many practice religion for the same reasons. We are all looking for the penultimate experience that will make us lose our current identity and be reborn into something new, that our ego will fade and that there will be no barrier between ourselves and the outside world. We seek the sublime. Tomaselli says one of the major reasons why psychedelics were valid or interesting is “that it’s been hard to find the sublime in life. When I’m like surfing a wave or having an amazing sexual experience, that can be the beautiful sublime, bigger than you are. The terrible sublime.” If we think of religion as supporting spiritual development and connecting with divinity and the sublime as greatness beyond all comparison, a good place to start the journey is by looking at a piece of art, all conclusions accepted.
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How medical marijuana can affect your mental health by Dr Nicola Davies
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ue to burgeoning interest in medical marijuana and its applications, studies are being conducted on the possible use of marijuana in treating mental disorders. Favourable results have been seen with certain strains of medical marijuana for the treatment of anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other mood disorders, although negative results have emerged for paranoid schizophrenia and certain psychoses. Tests have also shown that medical marijuana may exacerbate the side-effects of some prescription antipsychotics, but enhance the benefits of others.
marijuana acts as a mood elevator and can alleviate the symptoms of long-term sufferers and prevent escalation to other disorders.
It appears that researchers in the U.S. are politically inhibited from conducting the extensive further testing required to clarify these contradictory findings. However, medical marijuana is being recommended to some people who suffer from mental health issues on a case by case basis.
Psychotic disorders affect cognition and emotion. Schizophrenia falls into this category with its effects on thought, perception, language, and sense of self. Those with schizophrenia can experience delusions, psychotic manifestations, and hallucinations. Symptoms of schizophrenia are categorized into “positive” and “negative” - positive symptoms are delusions, confusion, and hallucinations of varying severity, while negative symptoms include an inability to feel or show feelings, lack of motivation, and minimal flow of thought. The aforementioned study in Germany found CBD phytocannabinoids particularly helpful with control of the negative symptoms, which are harder to medicate.
First, the good news: There are several common myths about marijuana: one of the biggest assumptions is that all medical marijuana is the same. This is not the case. Different strains that focus on specific phytocannabinoids have been produced to stimulate different responses to an individual’s particular needs. For instance, a prescription for Alzheimer’s disease wouldn’t be recommended for anxiety. The high concentration of the phytocannabinoid Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) for an Alzheimer’s patient could promote an elevated heart rate in a sufferer of anxiety, where the phytocannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) would more likely be recommended for mood disorders. CBD phytocannabinoids activate the neurotransmitters that promote a sense of calm and temper the elevated psychotic levels THC can sometimes stimulate. THC in medical marijuana is beneficial for an Alzheimer’s patient, as it has been found to prevent progression of the disease. THC has been the focus of many studies, with conflicting results that imply the need for further research. A double-blind study conducted at the University of Cologne in Germany assessed 39 patients who were hospitalized for psychotic episodes due to diagnosed schizophrenia. Nineteen of the patients were treated with amisulpride (not yet approved in the U.S.); the other 20 were given extracted CBD without the THC phytocannabinoid. It was found that, “Not only was [CBD] as effective as standard antipsychotics, but it was also essentially free of the typical side-effects seen with antipsychotic drugs.” Often, antipsychotic drugs can have devastating side-effects such as permanent movement disorders, lack of motivation, and inability to find pleasure in life. Weight gain and higher risks for diabetes are also drawbacks to the newer generation of antipsychotics. In the University of Cologne study, movement problems and weight gain were observed in the patients taking amisulpride, but not CBD. Of course, more research needs to be conducted and there are some problems with using CBD. For instance, it is expensive to extract from the marijuana plant itself, marijuana is still considered an illegal substance in the U.S., and as CBD is a natural compound, it is difficult for the Food and Drug Administration to regulate. There is a clear need for further research on medical marijuana. Indeed, there are over 80 cannabinoids that can affect the neurotransmitters in the human endocannabinoid system, and THC and CBD comprise only two of them. Mental Illness There are five categories of mental illness: anxiety disorders, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, dementias, and eating disorders - and all can have varying levels of severity. Anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental disorders, as well as one of the most commonly untreated. Children, adolescents and adults can suffer from anxiety and, if left untreated (or undetected), can result in other mental and physical illnesses, including drug abuse and high blood pressure. The main benefit of medical marijuana in treating anxiety disorders is that it offers an alternative to prescription pharmaceuticals. Medical
Mood disorders affect between 19 and 20 million adults in the U.S, and includes major depression and bipolar disorders. Between 10 percent and 15 percent of patients hospitalized with mood disorders have attempted or will succeed in committing suicide. Medical marijuana has been shown to reduce depressive episodes and break the cycle of the downward spiral those suffering from mood disorders often feel helpless to avoid.
Dementia is a decline of consciousness and an altered state of cognition. This includes changes in memory, as well as intellectual and physical functioning. Causes of dementia are vast, but most Americans associate dementia with Alzheimer’s disease - a progressive, incurable condition generally affecting people over the age of 65 years. The disease slowly destroys brain cells by triggering protein deposits in the brain that impact neural function. Studies have shown that a high THC strain of medical marijuana decreases the production of acetylcholinesterase – the neural enzyme that causes the formation of the protein deposits in the brain. This makes it one of the most effective treatments found for Alzheimer’s disease. Eating disorders are divided into three main groups: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. These disorders are generally chronic and can be life-threatening. Those with anorexia deprive themselves of food, while those with bulimia eat large amounts of food and purge it from their systems, causing damage to their oesophagus and teeth. Binge eaters have periods of uncontrolled food consumption without purging – usually as an emotional response – and are often obese. Medical marijuana is shown to be effective in treating eating disorders by stimulating appetite and reducing the detrimental emotional responses people with the condition experience in relation to food. And now, the bad news… Since marijuana is one of the easier to acquire illicit drugs in the U.S., many people believe in self-medicating without consulting their physician about their reasons for doing so. As always, being honest with doctors is the best course of action. Unless the patient lives in a state where medical marijuana is legal, doctors would rather patients were on a tested, FDA-approved pharmaceutical than medical marijuana. Indeed, it is extremely unlikely (not to mention illegal) that any doctor would recommend self-medication with non-medical marijuana. Should a doctor prescribe an antidepressant or antipsychotic, concurrent selfmedication with any marijuana is dangerous. If medical marijuana is an available option, the particular strain of marijuana matters with regard to the individual, hence the need for medical input. One of the largest deterrents to the widespread support of medical marijuana is its legality – or, rather illegality. This inhibits further research by reducing funding, making the issues surrounding medical marijuana less scientific and more political. However, the number of states in the U.S. supporting the legalization of medical marijuana is growing. Soon, more researchers will be able to study the full uses of cannabinoids, which could lead to new breakthroughs in treatments for a variety mental disorders.
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The High Price of Cannabis How Marijuana Use Is Costing Cops Their Lives By DJ Reetz
In October, the death of a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police added another tragic point to the debate over the use of marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Ron Francis had served as a mountie in New Brunswick for 21 years when he was relieved of his duties following an appearance on Canadian television in which he was seen smoking marijuana while in uniform to treat the PTSD he developed during his law enforcement tenure. According to reports, Francis’ symptoms were so sever that the act of cleaning his boots on a black mat was enough to trigger flashbacks of wiping brain matter off of his boots. In November 2013, shortly after being prescribed medical marijuana to help with these symptoms, Francis appeared in an interview with CBC News intended to draw attention to the issue of PTSD in the RCMP and its treatment through the use of medicinal marijuana. In the interview he could be seen smoking marijuana while wearing the distinctive red uniform of a Canadian mountie. His appearance drew the ire of higher-ups, who claimed it sent the wrong message about marijuana and stripped Francis of his uniform. “I bled for that uniform. I cried for that uniform for 21 years... They ordered me to give the only thing that I’ve lived and identified with for 21 years,” Francis said in a follow-up interview with CBC. The ordeal also began a series of legal troubles for Francis, eventually resulting in a violent confrontation between himself and fellow officers attempting to place him into a treatment program. The incident resulted in six criminal charges for Francis, three of which he eventual pleaded guilty to in September, shortly before he was set to stand trial. Then, on October 6, less than a month before his sentencing, Francis took his own life. The incident made international headlines and shed some light on the predicament faced by law enforcement officers who choose to medicate using medicinal marijuana, and a little over a month later the point was once again driven home when a Michigan sheriff ’s sergeant took his own life. On November 16, Sgt. Tim Bernhardt of the Kent County Sheriff Department was found dead of an apparent suicide. Bernhardt, a 22-year veteran of the sheriff department, was caught up in an operation carried out by the Kent Area Narcotics Enforcement Team, which targeted a local medical marijuana caregiver. As part of the sweep Bernhardt, a medical marijuana patient served by the targeted caregivers, was found to be in possession of marijuana infused butter, which is not defined as “usable marihuana” under Michigan’s medical marijuana law as per a decision by the state Court of Appeals in 2013. Bernhardt was charged along with three other members of the sheriff department, all of them having 20 plus year service records. The charges alleged various drug crimes, from manufacturing and distributing drugs, to possession and maintaining a drug house. After the initial reports were made, it was revealed that all four of the men were in possession of a medical marijuana referral, but that wasn’t enough to mitigate the charges due to the dubious definition of “usable marihuana.”
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Bernhardt eventually pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of maintaining a drug house, a crime that potentially carried up to two years in prison and a $25,000 fine. As part of the agreement, he was forced to resign from the sheriff department and testify against the patients involved who were not compliant with prosecutors. For Bernhardt, the incident came to an abrupt end when rather than face the realties of a life destroyed by a drug arrest he took his own life, leaving behind a wife and four children. For law enforcement officers the consequences of using medical marijuana can be well beyond those in other fields. While civilians can no doubt face termination, for those in law enforcement it can end lives. The loss of identity as a law enforcement officer, that is so crucial to some who serve and protect, comes along with a permanent blemish that is likely to keep them out of law enforcement forever. Add to that the elevated stress that accompanies the profession and it creates a serious problem for these public servants. It’s something that retired Detective Lieutenant Jack Cole witnessed first-hand during his 27-year career with the New Jersey State Police, 14 of which was spent doing undercover work. His experience pushed him to become one of the founding members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a nonprofit group that advocates against the continued war on drugs, but it also left him with a clear understanding of the pressures and pitfalls that face law enforcement officials. “I think being police is a really, really hard job if you try and do it right. It’s a really stressful job if you try and do it right,” he says. The stress can lead many officers to self medicate, and for most, he says, that means alcohol. Although Cole never used marijuana, he recalls a fellow officer’s unceremonious departure following a failed drug test. “Everybody loved him, and it was just like, he’s gone,” recalls Cole. “I keep thinking back about that and I think, ‘ what would they have done if he would have come to work drunk?’” It’s a rhetorical question, obviously, as he recounts the story of a former lieutenant who had an alcohol problem that reached a crescendo when he crashed his cruiser while drunk, only to be sent to rehab and later reinstated.
“But this guy, this wonderful, wonderful guy, failed one drug test and he’s gone.” “We have a great support system for alcohol,” says Cole. ”All we want is for users of other drugs to be treated the same.” But for officers using marijuana, medicinally or otherwise, recourse is basically nonexistent. “You’re not given a chance to say it’s a false positive,” he says. “It’s like the hammer of Zeus, you’re just gone.” There is another part of this equation, a job that is high stress and more likely to lead to traumatic events that result in PTSD. Cole says the dangers of police work are often intentionally exaggerated to drum up public support, but that doesn’t mean the risk isn’t there. Traumas take a toll on all who experience them and police are no different, but the avenues available to deal with these traumas are limited. “It’s hard to say too much about that because when they’re suffering they tend to suffer alone,” says Cole. “There was no help for us. If you went for help and it was found out … when that gets back to the bosses it’s very problematic for the officer.”
For law enforcement officers the consequences of using medical marijuana can be well beyond those in other fields.
With the added stigma, it seems only natural that police would seek out a more private course of treatment, and in the case of PTSD, marijuana can be a viable option. “I never thought of it as PTSD, but I know that people that worked as I worked had deep problems,” says Cole of his time as an undercover. “Every one of us was really traumatized by it.” “Every deep-cover officer that I’ve ever talked to has had this same kind of situation; we just felt lost.” But that just brings about the earlier problem; the one demonstrated by the recent suicides, self-medicating in the safest possible manner has its own destructive consequences for law enforcement officers. “In this culture losing your job because you’re labeled a drug user is the worst thing that can happen to you. There is no support whatsoever for the drug using cop, unless that drug is alcohol,” says Cole. “The only thing that might be worse is if you’re found out to be a pedophile. You’d have to do something that horrible in order to be treated like someone who smokes a little bit of pot.”
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With a ruined reputation and a permanent disbarment from the fraternity of law enforcement, officers who find themselves on the other side of a drug arrest can face a bleak future. Although Cole says he personally never wrapped his sense of identity around being a cop, many still do, and that’s why suicide rates among retired officers are so high. “They live for police work and once that’s over, the camaraderie, this us versus them mentality, once you retire it’s very hard for them.” The same can be true of officers who are forced out due to their use of marijuana. For these men and women, there is no going back, there is only the shameful future of living the rest of their days as victims in the war on drugs, a war they themselves once helped wage. It means good cops whose only sin is using a harmless plant to help alleviate their stress will be forced into this situation, while the ones who deal with these stresses through more destructive avenues — such as alcohol and lashing out at others — will be welcomed back into the fold. The end result is bad for everyone, police and civilians alike.
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Advice From The American Civil Liberties Union ...
How To Deal With Law Enforcement by Glen Greuling
At a recent seminar in Grand Junction, the American Civil Liberties Union offered a brief outline of how to deal with contact with the police. Rule No. 1: Always remain calm, cool and collected; never talk back, raise your voice, or use profanity; always control your words, tone of voice, and body language. Rule No. 2: Tell the police, “I’m going to exercise my right to remain silent,” then shut up. You must verbalize this right; simply remaining silent could be perceived as obstinacy. If you’re being interrogated or arrested, ask for a lawyer then remain silent. Rule No. 3: You have the right to refuse a search by saying, “I don’t consent to being searched.” Refusing a search is not evidence of guilt, but never aggressively assert, “I know my rights.” Rule No. 4: Do not allow the police to trick you; judges have ruled that the police do not have to tell you the truth, they can legally lie to you; never let false threats or promises trick you into waiving your rights. Rule No. 5: Determine if you’re free to go. The law says you can terminate the encounter at any time unless you have been formally arrested or detained. Ask the officer, “Are you detaining me or am I free to go?” Rule No. 6: Don’t give an officer probable cause to search you or your car by being in flagrant or obvious violation of some law; this is called probable cause
and cops need probable cause to search or arrest you. Rule No. 7: Don’t run or resist. If police have a reasonable suspicion that you’re involved in a crime, they are legally allowed to detain you for a short period of time. Reasonable suspicion requires less evidence than probable cause. Rule No. 8: Never touch a police officer; only refuse searches verbally; do not fight or resist an officer. Rule No. 9: Report any police misconduct after the encounter; never tell an officer that you plan to file a complaint against him or her; argue your case in front of the judge, not in front of the officer. Memorize the officer’s name and badge number, but don’t ask for them. If an officer injures you, seek medical attention and obtain photos of the injured part of your body as soon as possible. Identify any witnesses. Rule No. 10: You do not have to let police into your home without a search warrant. The Fourth Amendment requires them to get a signed search warrant from a judge that identifies what they expect to find. If there is a serious emergency such as a fire or gunshots, police may enter your home without a search warrant. However, if you invite the police into your home, then they do not need a search warrant. Stay calm and follow these rules, it could mean the difference between going free, arrest, or worse.
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et’s celebrate! 2014 was historic for America’s cannabis community. Let’s party knowing that the end of cannabis prohibition is almost in sight.
According to the latest from Hemp Industries Association (HIA), hemp market in North America is nearly $600 million for 2014.
Here’s a High Five:
1) Adult sales were introduced smoothly in Colorado and Washington state. Tourism increased in Colorado.
Congressional Research Office reports, “Given the absence since the 1950s of any commercial and unrestricted hemp production in the United States, it is not possible to predict the potential market and employment effects of relaxing current restrictions on U.S. hemp production.”
2) Oregon, Alaska, and D.C. voted for legalization.
How about “immense market and increased employment.”
3) Cannabis startups sprouted across North America and shrewd investors pricked the bubble of sky-high speculation in stocks.
And legalization gained a powerful and influential ally as The New York Times called for an end to marijuana prohibition.
4) Country music joined the marijuana mainstream, led by two openly gay female artists.
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5) Congress forbid federal law enforcement from interfering in states with regulated medical marijuana and industrial hemp. As a sports fan, I relished the Super Bowl, which featured the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, representing the only two states to legalize marijuana. Sweet symbolism.
In January 2014, many in Colorado were warily watching the reaction of the federal government as adult-use sales of state-regulated marijuana rolled out. Drug warriors shrilly predicted a zombie apocalypse. Since adult-use sales would not start in Washington State until July, all eyes were on us. Within a few months of legal sales, the following milestones became apparent:
It was a joy seeing conservatives like Sen. Rand Paul become indignant when the DEA impounded hemp seeds destined for Kentucky. Sen. Mitch McConnell jumped on the bandwagon and Kentucky filed suit in federal court. Three days later, the seeds were released.
Colorado’s crime rate went down. Lawlessness dipped in practically every misdemeanor and felony category. Yes, this could be correlation and not causation, so it’s evidence, not proof, that legalization has a role. I find it hard to believe it’s a coincidence.
The budding industry in the 19 states with legal hemp is a bridge between the political and cultural climate of the 23 states (and D.C.) with legal medical marijuana.
Tax revenue went up. Media stories sprouted up everywhere about cannabis connoisseurs from around the world. By April, Internet searches for “vacation in Colorado” outnumbered all other searches for vacation destinations combined. After an initial surge, the market settled down and the average 27 percent recreational levy - along with the paltry 2.9 percent medical tax - is bringing in more than $7 million a month in public revenue.
Wall Street took notice when debate on the Farm Bill, which protected state legal hemp and marijuana, featured McConnell saying, “I am proud to introduce legislation with my friend Rand Paul that will allow Kentucky farmers to harness the economic potential that industrial hemp can provide.”
Eric Holder stayed even. In a 2013 policy statement known as the “Cole memo”
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after the assistant AG who wrote it, the Department of Justice emphasized enforcement priorities relating to legal marijuana that could result in federal intervention. By spring, Holder reiterated that where states regulated cannabis, the DOJ would stand back, if not stand down. These three momentous developments made for a smokin’ 420 celebration in Colorado and around the country. Activists who had been circulating petitions for months were getting legalization on the ballot in more states, including the nation’s capital. Here at home, dispensaries prepared for adult-use sales saw business boom and profits soar, since recreational marijuana — even removing the higher taxes — sold at higher prices than medicinal. Connoisseurs from around the world converged in Colorado, month after month. CNN reported in August that 3D Cannabis Center’s owner Toni Fox estimated that 70 percent of her 200 daily customers were from out of state. Several startups competed for cannabis tourism. Out of state players also booked 420-friendly vacation packages. The 2013 -2014 ski season was the best ever. Coincidence? As 2014 progressed, more municipalities embraced adult-use sales, notably Aurora, which skipped past medical altogether in favor of 21+ adult-use shops. Uphill Both Ways Colorado issued licenses for hemp farming in March, becoming the first state to do so. Our state’s place in modern cannabis is secure, first in adult use, first in hemp. Resistance from Uncle Scam’s law enforcement was still apparent. As mentioned, the DEA picked a fight with Kentucky over imported hemp seeds, and near year’s end, Congress gutted the funding for D.C.’s legal initiative despite 70 percent of voters in the nation’s capitol in favor. That nonsense spurred action by Congress, which tucked provisions into the Farm bill that prohibited federal funding from being used to interfere with states where medical marijuana and industrial hemp were legal. And there were two disturbing fatalities involving marijuana edibles. A Wyoming college student jumped to his death, and a husband with no prior history of violence shot his wife in the head. There were extenuating circumstances and the role of edibles in both deaths is open for debate. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said she overdosed on infused chocolate, even though Colorado law limits milligram totals and recommends 10mg portions on edibles labels. Growing pains, for sure. Banking is another thorn in the rosy picture of legalization. Colorado Congressman Jared Polis and several Capitol Hill allies have been pushing for removing - or at least easing - restrictions that deny cannabis companies access to everyday financial services. The Washington Post reported that more than 100 banks and credit unions were openly doing business with cannabis businesses by mid-year. Yet uncertainty persists. As the banking debate simmered, the DEA warned armored car and security firms: Do not provide services. Whether in words or deeds, the DEA never fails to inflict harm. In December, Republican attorneys general in Oklahoma and Nebraska filed suit against Colorado, claiming that legal marijuana flooding across the border subverted federal laws. Clearly, there are still hurdles to overcome.
Cultural Shift People are now talking about cannabis. Social media is buzzing. Marijuana is in mainstream media more than ever before. CNN’s Sanjay Gupta played a big role with his first “Weed” documentary in late 2013 about how cannabis cures epileptic seizures. As the story of Charlotte’s Web
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penetrated the national consciousness in 2014, Gupta followed up with “Weed 2: Cannabis Madness,” an even stronger indictment of anti-marijuana politics and prejudice. From Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” to Bill O’Reilly and Megan Kelly, from Comedy Central to Fox News, cannabis made media waves. On the music scene, a breakthrough as country music joined jazz, rock, and rap in embracing marijuana. Country musicians shunned songs about mary jane for decades. In 2014, that changed dramatically with two openly gay female artists. Kacey Musgraves and Brandy Clark delivered memorable tunes. Kacey’s “Merry Go ‘Round” and “Follow Your Arrow,” which was co-written by Brandy, have gone gold. Brandy’s poignant “Get High,” about a lonely housewife enjoying a toke after her chores are done, is one of the best songs you’ve probably not heard. Country star Ashley Monroe’s “Weed Instead Of Roses” is also a 2014 hit. And it’s not just American country. There are musical stirrings around the globe, including Sweden. Tove Lo’s “Habits (Stay High)” reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100. It’s been 20 years since a Swedish artist charted, and then not as high — literally. Closer to home, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra wanted to perform to cannabis-friendly audiences and met resistance from bureaucrats. And amid all the media brouhaha, one simple act — Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant handing a real joint to Stephen Colbert — epitomized the cultural shift. Into 2015 Of the 23 states with legal medical marijuana, only six accept other state registry cards: Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island. The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) should encourage all states to accept each other’s registry cards. Recent studies have projected that the legal U.S. marijuana industry may reach $10 billion in sales by 2018. Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron estimated more than $8 billion in annual savings in law enforcement costs if marijuana were legalized on the national level. Nerdwire, a financial website for high-tech geeks with money, estimates that if all 50 states had legal marijuana, initial taxes would be $3.1 billion annually. This is on a 15 percent tax assumption. This is only marijuana. Hemp is another story. As noted, the Congressional Research Office is avoiding the obvious. Hemp was America’s staple crop for 150 years, and once back in the mainstream, will become a multi-billion dollar cash crop and fertile economic engine. Hemp clothing, especially footwear and outerwear, will become the darlings of textile manufacturers. Bet on it. Colorado will continue to prove that its free-market system works, especially as legal marijuana boosts tourism and arts. California, the behemoth that started it all in 1996, will finally set the stage for legalize. So will New York, the fourth most populous state and arguably the nation’s most influential east of the Rockies. Colorado will spend more than $8 million researching marijuana’s medical potential – a new frontier because government-funded marijuana research traditionally focuses on the drug’s negative health effects. The grants awarded by the Colorado Board of Health will go to studies on whether marijuana helps treat epilepsy, brain tumors, Parkinson’s disease and posttraumatic stress disorder. Yes, 2014 was historic for cannabis. Now let’s turn the page.
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The History of Hemp Part IV by Christie Lunsford
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From the dawn of mankind to the Industrial Age, cannabis was regarded as a global commodity. A creator of trade routes and an agent of civilization, cannabis was cultivated as a medicine, food source, for textiles, and prized as oil used for heating and lighting homes, churches and factories. Almost every aspect of daily life was entwined with the cannabis plant. The birth of global colonialism was supported as tall ships robed in hemp sails and rigging allow colonial powers to claim ownership of the farthest reaches of the globe. The British, Spanish and French settled the new world, claiming sovereignty over indigenous peoples and fighting wars to divvy up the new land. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and spread to Western Europe and the United States within a few decades during the late 1800s. The Industrial Age was an exciting time in the United States as the country transitioned to new manufacturing processes. Hemp was challenged by new fuels in the form of coal and petroleum. Innovation gave way to capitalism and generations of robber barons and captains of industry were born.
1892 Publishing magnate, William Randolph Hearst loses 800,000 acres of timberland to Pancho Villa in the Spanish American War. Hearst manufactures a yellow journalism campaign against Mexicans and Blacks. For over thirty years cannabis is rebranded “marihuana” and is blamed for a majority of rape, murder and alcohol related crime of the time. Also in 1898, Inventor Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an internal combustion engine, known as the Diesel engine. This engine is designed to be fueled by bio-fuel made from plants, specifically hemp seed oil.
1904 In 1904 the American Medical Association created the Council on Medical Education to reform medical education in the United States. The study was funded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Abraham Flexner was hired to visit and vet each medical school. Flexner was a scholar and an entrepreneur, not a physician, scientist, or a medical educator, and would be characterized as an efficiency expert in today’s terms. Flexner surveyed over 155 medical schools across the US.
Agricultural Experiment Station as industry steward. Wright recognizes the necessity of large-scale manufacturing bast production, manufacturing of hemp into useable fiber. He also positions hemp mills close to railways to further the technological and economic progress of hemp fiber. Botanist, Lyster Dewey, joins the USDA’s Office of Fiber Investigations. Dewey collects, evaluates and cultivates hemp strains from around the world. In 1912 Dewey begins to actively breed hemp from seeds obtained through the agency of American missionaries in China. Dewey introduces a unique hemp variety developed for a hollow core and production ease, which was known as “Kentucky hemp”. Sadly this cultivar was lost to the prohibition of the 1940s. Dewey’s yearly reports are greatly valued as some of the most extensive writings on hemp ever produced. Industrialists saw the value of the seemingly inexhaustible supply of coal during the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuels seemed to be the ideal energy source fueling steam engines, the quintessential machines of the Industrial Revolution. Hemp oil and bio-fuel now had serious competition and the world would never be the same. This move toward coal and wood based fuel was noted by industrialist Henry Ford who said: “Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”
The Flexner Report found that medical schools were overcrowded and lacking in scientific method. Recommendations for basic prior education requirements and training in physiology and clinical work were made. The sweeping effects of the Flexner Report closed inadequate schools and also recommended funding to herbal schools because they lacked the proper laboratories or texts. In addition women were no longer allowed to attend medical schools as a method to ease overcrowding. Standardization of medicine and pharmacology was born in 1906 when the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act comes into effect and cannabis herbal remedies become commodities of the nascent pharma industry.
1908 The United States Department of Agriculture institutes the Office of Fiber Investigations, appoints Dr. Andrew Wright of the University of Wisconsin
In 1908, Henry Ford made his first Model T with hemp and flax fiber plastic, fueled by hemp ethanol. Research on bio-fuel was of interest due to the demand of the industrial age. In 1925, Henry Ford told a New York Times reporter that ethyl alcohol was
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“the fuel of the future”. “The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that tree out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything,” he said. “There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years. Later in 1941, Popular Mechanics, profiled Ford’s bio-plastic car made from hemp and flax. The car, “grown from the soil” had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel.
1913 Henry Ford opened his first auto assembly line featuring cars built with the Rudolph Diesel Engine which was designed to run off of vegetable and seed oils, especially hemp seed oil, which was at that time superior to petroleum. The same year Gulf Oil owned by Andrew Mellon of Mellon Bank opened its first drive-in petroleum-based gas station. Gulf Oil eventually became Texaco-Chevron 1985.
1914 As the First World War begins in Europe, Pierre S. du Pont purchases stock in the fledgling automobile industry, seeking to further his fortune with General Motors. In 1915, du Pont was invited to sit on GM’s board of di-
rectors and several years later was appointed the company’s chairman. Du Pont would later assist the struggling automobile company further with a $25 million purchase of GM stock. In 1920, du Pont was elected president of General Motors. Under his guidance, GM became the number one automobile company in the world, surpassing The Ford Company in sales. Eventually du Pont had to divest his shares of GM to avoid the antitrust laws of the time. Du Pont then turned his interest to developing new synthetic materials made of petroleum.
1916 USDA Bulletin No. 404 shows that hemp produces four times more paper per acre than do trees. The U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and forestry production would cease.
1917 The Wisconsin Hemp Order was inaugurated by Dr. Wright “To promote the general welfare of the hemp industry in the state.” Textiles, primarily hemp, flax and cotton were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output, and capital invested. The textile industry was also the first to use modern production methods during the second industrial revolution.
George Schlichten designs the hemp “decorticator.” The decorticator separates the long hemp fibers from the center of the hemp stalks, dramatically reducing the exorbitant labor and workforce costs associated with hand retting hemp. McCormick’s and John Deere further mechanized hemp bast fiber produc tion. Machines were built to address the various stages of fiber processing: harvesting (cutting and retting), breaking, and hackling. This allowed hemp to compete with cheaper fibers. Dr. Wright was able to boast that Wisconsin had more hemp mills than all other states combined, with hemp mills operating on both the east and west of Wisconsin in the late 1920’s.
1919 The Burning Question, an early film was produced by the Catholic Art Association in 1919. A seductive mix of dark Catholic guilt and earnest prohibitionist’s sincerity, the film was riddled with cliché drug use, much of which has nothing to do with modern medicinal and euphoric cannabis use. Prohibitionists continue to
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embrace the film as a media tour well into the late 1940s and beyond. Oddly, the anti-marihuana campaign also spawns an outlet for salacious films highlighting the euphoric effects of cannabis. The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution made alcoholic beverages illegal to produce, transport or sell (although possession for medicinal or religious use were unaffected). Law enforcement, courts and prisons were unprepared for the onslaught of new cases, organized crime and corruption bled into law enforcement and politics. The 18th Amendment was repealed in its entirety by ratification of the 21st Amendment in 1933.
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Ford Motor Company operated a successful biomass fuel conversion plant using cellulose at Iron Mountain, Michigan. Ford engineers extracted methanol, charcoal fuel, tar, pitch ethyl-acetate and creosote from hemp. Simultaneously, the DuPont chemical company developed new synthetic materials such as cellophane, nylon, and Dacron from fossil fuels. DuPont became a leader in the development of paint, rayon, synthetic rubber, plastics, chemicals, photographic film, insecticides and agricultural chemicals, many of the same items hemp was used for. The US began to struggle under the depression and hemp fiber products were losing to the cheaper-to-produce sisal and jute in addition to the exciting synthetics produced by companies such as DuPont. Though a century has passed since the heyday of the great industrialists like Ford and du Pont and financiers such as Hearst, Mellon and Carnegie, debate continues around both cannabis for medical use and industrial hemp production. The emergence of the modern capitalist economy and government influence (or manipulation) of technology, farming and medicinal practices of the era steered the world toward the culmination of full prohibition of cannabis medicines and industrial hemp products. Next month’s History of Hemp will outline the manipulation of government as Andrew Mellon becomes the Secretary of Treasury under President Hoover and secretly drafts a cannabis prohibition law. Stay tuned for the next installment of the History of Hemp
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MARKETING WILL DRIVE LONG TERM SUCCESS FOR THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY by Lee Weiner
The only question left to answer is why consumers choose your store over the next one. of marketing and learn the rules they have to follow. Building their brand, staying in constant communication and differentiating themselves from the competition are three very important keys to stability and long-term success.
Marketing is an essential function o f all businesses that are successful and profitable. This is no different for the emerging cannabis industry. Today, most business owners don’t have marketing strategies in place due to this simple fact: The demand for their product often outpaces their inventory. This is changing rapidly! Like alcohol and tobacco, there will be major competition as the industry matures, and you can bet the major players in those industries will eventually get involved. This won’t likely happen until the federal prohibition is lifted, but when it does you can guarantee their money and influence will be difficult to combat. As a professional marketer, I have repeatedly heard similar rationale for all the reasons why a given business is not in the position to market. Excuses are easy to come up with and certainly easier than developing & implementing a marketing strategy. Similar to alcohol and tobacco, there is little doubt the cannabis customer will always be there. But you have to develop systems and tools that will drive a loyal customer base. The business owners in the cannabis industry who take the time to learn about marketing and invest in it now will have a major advantage over those who continue to live off their existing customers and think: “It’s weed, I don’t have to market.” Many of the current cannabis business owners have had experience with cannabis growing or selling prior to opening their business. Upon starting their business, they quickly learned there is a lot more to being successful than just growing high quality cannabis. We have already seen many shops closed for various reasons (not including the ones shut down by federal government) and as the competition continues to increase we will see more of the same.
This marketing mix is a tool to help develop a marketing strategy in every industry and the cannabis industry is no different. At this time we know what the products are, how they are priced (dependent on medicinal purchase or adult-use purchase), and where to get them. The only question left to answer is why consumers choose your store over the next one. And here is where 99 percent of the current owners are missing the final piece: Consistent promotion. Example: E-cigarettes
Hundreds of companies, high demand, blu eCigs uses Stephen Dorf (actor) as a face of the company with national commercials. They have become the top brand through marketing & advertising, paving the way for a $135 million sale. I have yet to see any strong and regular marketing coming from any cannabis businesses in Colorado. Developing, implementing & managing an allencompassing marketing strategy will determine who will succeed in the long haul. As a recommendation, learn the rules for marketing, collect as much data as possible from your customer base, determine your online and offline marketing strategies and start testing! “Marketing is a contest in the game?” – Seth Godin
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Lee Weiner is a Direct Marketing Consultant, with a results focused approach. As a trusted advisor Lee helps his clients obtain marketing success with cutting edge technology, interruptive graphic design & copy writing throughout. Lee is a Best-Selling author, Addy award winner & Gold Ink award winner. Lee has worked with over a 1000 clients (U.S., Canada, Europe & Australia), from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies focused on increasing marketing ROI. Lee’s unique ability to understand a given industry’s strengths, leverage points and what will resonate with a particular target market are at the core of his success. Lee and his team customize each project to the needs of the client while introducing new concepts, techniques and strategies that are relevant and practical to the ever changing marketing environment. Prior to Lee Weiner Consulting, Lee owned a successful boutique marketing and print shop, which helped clients improve the quality of their inbound/outbound marketing, digital printing best practices and, most importantly, their ROI. All of this, combined with an entrepreneurial upbringing, has laid the groundwork for Lee to be one of the few direct marketers with the strongest client ROI in the country.
It is imperative that cannabis business owners start to become students
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So how does cannabis really affect glaucoma? An interview with Chicago’s Dr. Jon Ruderman by Samuel Aaron
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Dr. Jon Ruderman is a well-respected Ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma and practicing medicine in Chicago, Illinois. I sat down with him to discuss the practical applications for using cannabis to treat glaucoma, cannabis legislation in Illinois, and medical cannabis in general.
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Dr. Ruderman, for those who are unfamiliar, what is glaucoma?
All eye drops are pharmacologically active agents that get into the bloodstream through the nasal mucosa via the tear ducts. Some of the more common side effects include exacerbation of asthma, slowing of the heart rate, drying of the oral mucosa and conjunctiva.
Glaucoma is a disorder of the optic nerve. It occurs when there is death of the ganglion cells that make up the optic nerve due to a variety of causes. The most important risk factor for optic nerve damage is elevated intraocular pressure. Optic nerve fibers that serve the peripheral vision are the most susceptible in glaucoma. That means that the clear central vision is spared until the final stage of the disease. For that reason glaucoma is often called the “silent thief of vision” because it is generally asymptomatic until patients are almost blind. How can cannabis help? The active ingredients in cannabis can lower eye pressure by up to 30% in as many as 60% of patients. The problem is the duration of action is only about three hours, which would leave patients without treatment for portions of the day when they are unable to take the drug.
Most of us are familiar with the “side effects” of cannabis treatment, what are the side effects of other treatments used to lower inter-ocular eye pressure?
You claim that there are not enough government-sanctioned studies involving cannabis use for medicine. If a doctor wants to do medical research involving new drugs, what is the process? Almost all of the drugs that approved today have been tested by pharmacologic companies. Approval of a new drug is a process that usually takes many years and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of research. Unfortunately, THC has been poorly studied because of legal restrictions. How do you know if a study is unbiased? Do you believe that, in the past, the government funded studies that would support their drug policy instead of seeking fair scientific results?
Do you believe cannabis is a viable treatment for glaucoma? At this point, the problem with cannabis is that there have never been any headto-head scientific trials, which shows that it offers an improvement over the drugs that we already have. Some of our current eye drops have effects that last for 24 hours and have effective intraocular pressure lowering without significant complications. Perhaps one of the biggest problems is patients see cannabis as an alternative to standard medication or as an alternative to going to their doctor to have the disease properly monitored. Taking care of glaucoma patients includes following the intraocular pressure, but also following their visual fields and optic
It’s very difficult to tell whether a study is truly non-biased. A lot goes into the study design, which has to be reviewed by an institutional review board. Often studies will look at a number of statistical correlations and if you look at enough statistics you’ll often find positive associations that may not be real. Most pharmacologic studies are not government funded, but rather are supported by companies that are trying to find useful drugs. Of course the pharma business is for-profit so all results must be taken with a grain of salt. Do you agree with Illinois’ approach to medical cannabis? If you were a policy
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maker instead of a doctor, what changes would you make? I have trouble with a policy that legalizes cannabis for medical use when very few studies have been done that support it. It seems obvious that there are a number of conditions including seizures and the nausea and side effects that occur with cancer chemotherapy where cannabis has some true benefit. There are hundreds of active compounds in marijuana and it seems logical that the government should support scientific research into their possible benefits. On the other hand, it is also true that as a recreational drug marijuana is considerably safer than alcohol or nicotine. If I were designing a policy that recognized the realities of our society, I would forget about legalizing marijuana for medical use until scientific studies prove its value, but I would legalize it for recreational use and try to maximize the benefits that taxes on it could provide. I think Colorado has done a good job in seeing that those taxes are put towards education. I would also insist on tight controls so that it does not fall into the hands of minors and that it could not be used when people are operating automobiles or heavy machinery. Have any of your patients requested cannabis treatment yet? What do you say to them? Many of my patients have requested cannabis for treatment of glaucoma. So far my response has been easy in that it is not possible to write a prescription for it in Illinois. When the medical dispensaries in Illinois open, will you write prescriptions for cannabis to treat glaucoma? I have had a long time to think about this and as former president of the Chicago Ophthalmologic Society we discussed this during some meetings. At this point it seems that most doctors would not want to take their valuable time discussing
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the use of marijuana with glaucoma patients. I think that there is a subset of patients who will simply go from physician to physician until they find someone who will prescribe it. That creates a potentially dangerous situation in that many prescribers may not be fully qualified to treat this disease. So if a patient came to me wanting to use it, we would have a discussion about how glaucoma is followed up. That means frequent tracking of the eye pressure, use of other medications when necessary, and monitoring visual fields and optic nerve status. If a person was willing to go along with the prescribed regimen of treatment and follow-up I might be inclined to provide it. There is a very small subset of patients who are at extremely high risk for surgery who have used every conventional medication where marijuana may provide some relief. Do you support full legalization of marijuana for recreational and medicinal uses nationwide? I think the legalization of marijuana should proceed in the states first. This gives the government the opportunity to study a number of different models for its eventual legalization nationwide. There are obviously going to be some policies that work better than others. It is also essential to roll it out in a controlled fashion in order to track the social implications of its use. This includes tracking its use by minors, making sure that it does not increase motor vehicle accidents, and coming up with policies to protect both workers and employers who may have different opinions about cannabis use. At the same time, I believe the government should fund scientific controlled studies that help identify medical conditions where cannabis can offer a better alternative than our current treatment. Thanks Dr. Ruderman.
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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.
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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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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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D E N V E R
www.thecliniccolorado.com 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 Capitol Hill 745 East 6th Avenue Denver, CO 80203 720-536-5229 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
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.
9:00am - 7:00pm Daily
Concentrates
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
Grape God Bud
Spring 2010 Colorado Caregiver’s Cup Winner: Patient’s Choice, Best Aroma, 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
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 The Hemp Connoisseur Cup Triple Crown-winChampionship 2012 ner and 2nd place 2011 2nd Place Indica and Connoisseur’s Aspen Cannabis Crown, Choice - Kosher Kush 1st Place Sativa and Patient’s Choice - this is the hottest indica in town. Stardawg Guava 3rd Place Hybrid and Patient’s Choice Ghost OG 1st Place Concentrate and Connoisseur’s Choice - Earth OG Nectar
Raskal OG
One of the most visually appealing and potent OG kushes around with The Hemp Connoisseur a distinct diesel fuel aroChampionship 2013 1st Place Indica, Connoisseur’s Choice ma. 2012 High Times and Best Tested - Kosher Kush Medical Cannabis Cup Patient’s Choice Hybrid - Grunk (Denver) 3rd Place Best 2nd Place Shatter and Patient’s ChoiceHybrid Tangie
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
Edibles Beverages
CannaPunch, Dixie Elixirs, Keef Cola, Green Dragon, and MarQaha
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Tangie
2013 High Times US Cannabis Cup 1st place best sativa winner
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.
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
DENVER - EAST The Clinic on Colfax Medical Only 4625 E. Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80220 303-333-3644 www.thecliniccolorado.com
DENVER - HIGHLANDS The Clinic Highlands Medical & Adult Use 21+ 3460 W. 32nd Ave. Denver, CO 80211 303-997-7130 www.thecliniccolorado.com The Giving Tree of Denver Medical & Adult Use 21+ 2707 W. 38th Ave. Denver, CO 80211 303-477-8888 www.tgtree.com 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 Walking Raven Adult Use 21+ 2001 S Broadway Denver, CO 80210 (720) 327-5613 thewalkingraven.com
DENVER - WEST Southwest Alternative Care Medical Only 3937 W. Colfax Avenue Denver,CO 720-287-3934 southwestalternativecare.com
DURANGO Sante Alternative Wellness Medical Only 742 陆 Main Avenue Durango, Colorado 81301 970-375-2837 www.santecolorado.com
EDGEWATER Northern Lights Cannabis Co. Medical & Adult Use 21+ 2045 Sheridan Blvd. Edgewater, CO 80214 303-274-6495 www.nlcannabis.com
FORT COLLINS Infinite Wellness Medical & Adult Use 21+ 900 N College Ave. Ft. Collins, CO 80524 (970) 484-8380 infinitewellness8.com
GOLDEN 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 Infinite Wellness Medical & Adult Use 21+ 1701 Kipling St. #104 Lakewood, CO 80215 720-458-0277 infinitewellness8.com Kind Pain Management Medical Only 2636 Youngfield St Lakewood CO 303-237-5463 kindpainmanagement.com
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
OTHER:
GLASS BLOWING Glasscraft Glasscraftinc.com
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INFUSED PRODUCTS Bhang Chocolate www.bhangchocolate.com Canna Creations 720-483-8228 Canyon Cultivation canyoncultivation.com Dr. J’s Hash Infusion www.drjshashinfusion.com Edipure edipure.com Incredibles incrediblescolorado.com Mahatma mahatmaconcentrates.com Medically Correct medicallycorrect.com
LEGAL SERVICES Legal Shield www.legalshield.com
MMJ EVALUATION
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 - CO Springs 503 Avocado Street Pueblo, CO 81005 719-354-5445 www.relaxedclarity.com
OTHER Cannaflage Designs 530-426-5213 www.cannaflagedesigns.com Yeden LLC 3707 Parkmoor Village Road Suite 103 Colorado Springs, CO 80917 719-375-5165 www.yeden.co
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 Canna Cabins 719-289-1015 www.cannacabins.com
TRIMMING SERVICES
The Trimmer Store CannaQual 800-429-6034 6795 E. Tennessee Ave., Ste #175 thetrimmerstore.com
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