COLORADO’S PREMIER GUIDE TO CANNABIS
IN THIS ISSUE: Interviews with Rebelution Frontman Eric Rachmany and Artist Amanda Sage *This magazine is intended for individuals over 21 years of age.
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A LETTER TO OUR READERS “The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.” ~Julius Erving This month marks four years since the idea of The Hemp Connoisseur was born. And what an amazing four years it has been. We have been privileged to be covering the Colorado cannabis industry during its most exciting times. As the pace of legalization has gained momentum so has our growth as a magazine. I find it fitting that after four years, much like a high school student after graduation, it is time for us to expand our horizons and leave the relative safety of our home base. It is with this in mind that I am proud to announce that THC Magazine will be publishing a national version in addition to our local issues starting October of this year. In addition to this exciting development we have even bigger news. We have just partnered with Cannabis Network Radio to create Cannabis Media Source. We are truly honored to be forming this partnership. Cannabis Network Radio has consistently been rated in the top ten worldwide for cannabis podcasts. CNR also owns SiriusXM420 and is streamed live 24/7 on siriusxm420.com. We believe this partnership is the first of its kind, bringing two cannabis media veterans with over a decade of combined experience together. So what can you expect from Cannabis Media Source? For starters we will be increasing programming on Cannabis Network Radio. We are already signing some amazing talent to host new shows. The cannabis industry, especially when talking about hemp and marijuana, is so vast and multifaceted. We think the programming we are planning for CNR will reflect the full spectrum required to represent every demographic of cannabis enthusiast. We will also be implementing a video broadcast division, which will include talk shows and regular news reports in the coming months. To celebrate the formation of CMS and the launch of the national issue, this September we will be holding our first annual hemp fashion show “Victory for Hemp.” There are of course a lot more projects in the works for Cannabis Media Source and we will be making more announcements over the next few months. So stay tuned. Four years ago a vision was born. The first stage of the vision was a magazine, but that was never the complete scope of it. Becoming a multimedia company was always what we wanted. When I met Dave Kowalsky, CEO of Cannabis Network Radio, we realized that we both had the same vision. We both wanted a media company that would present cannabis culture in a mature and informative manner. Now, here we are at the cusp of something truly momentous in an already momentous industry.
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A Letter to Our Readers
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The Green Scene Colorado’s hottest events and a book printed on hemp paper!
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In the Spotlight A 420 multi-tool, men’s 100% hemp shirt, hemp oil shampoo bar and more!
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Featured Artist Colorado native, Amanda Sage
Tasty Meds
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Colorado’s best medicated products
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Hemp Eats How to make hemp milk to go along with the hemp milk ice cream recipe!
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Cannabis News Stuff you should know about
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The Sky is the Limit
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Cannabis and Cancer
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Bike to Work
Have the Libertarians pioneered this?
Building Your Grow Part II Bubba Kush’s DIY guide; ventilation part I
Northern Lights hosts annual program
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Legalization of Drugs
How CBDs really do affect tumor growth
THC writer sits down with Rebelution frontman Eric Rachmany
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The Seeds of Change
Pot-litically Incorrect Ganja gripes
Are they still hard to come by?
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Hemp Phoenix: Hemp Cabin A creation of hope from tragedy
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MJNA vs. Project CBD and Others Breaking down the $100 million lawsuit
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NORTHERN COLORADO 66 Infinite Wellness
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The GREEN Scene
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June 6th - 10th Hemp Farmers’ Market @ The Greenhouse 6565 E Evans Ave Denver, CO info email jeff@advcannabis.com June 13th Hemp Building Workshop @ Vern’s Place Laporte, CO 12 people maximum To register go to: www.facebook.com/lovelandhemp June 11th-13th CannaCon @ The Colorado Convention Center 700 14th Street Denver, CO www.cannacon.org July 17th-19th Cannabis World Congress & Business Expo @ New York City - Javits Center New York City, NY 201-580-2050 www.cwcbexpo.com June 29th - July 1st Cannabis Business Summit & Expo @ Colorado Convention Center 700 14th Street Denver, CO www.cannabisbusinesssummit.com July 11th-12th INDO Expo’s Hosts Jobfair @ Denver Mart 451 E 58th Ave Denver, CO www.indoexpoco.com July 11th-12th The 710 Cup @ Denver Mart 451 E 58th Ave Denver, CO www.the710cup.com August 1st Bong-a-Thon 720-432-6188 www.bong-a-thon.com August 15th The Clinic Charity Golf Classic @ City Park Golf Course 2500 York Street Denver, CO thecliniccolorado.com/cccs
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Good Reads
First Legal Harvest
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Hemp Returns to Humanity review by Christianna Lewis-Brown
In the spirit of Hemp History Week we are featuring First Legal Harvest: Hemp Returns to Humanity, written by Doug Fine. We chose this book because it celebrates the first year since cannabis prohibition that any states in the USA could grow and harvest hemp, and it is printed on USA harvested and processed hemp and post-consumer paper. The very first book we have ever reviewed that is printed on hemp paper.
legislation and the history of hemp farming.
This 25-page book is a quick read. It covers the 2014 hemp harvests of Kentucky, Vermont, and Colorado. My favorite quote from the book came early on and drew me in, right on page 1.
Industrial hemp has a very exciting and lucrative future for the U.S., it also has a remarkable past. There is a ton of interesting information packed into this short book. Doug Fine even interviewed an octogenarian Kentucky hemp farmer, she told him what she remembered about “harvest time” as a child. With prohibition spanning several generations, it is hard to believe that there are people still alive that remember what hemp farming was like in the “good old days” before this amazing plant was demonized and outlawed.
“...even while the First Legal Harvest was still underway, I was not alone in sensing that the subtle decrease in seismic activity suddenly puzzling Virginia geologists could be traced to Thomas Jefferson ceasing to spin in his grave for the first time in 77 years.”
We have made huge strides for hemp with this latest harvest materializing into reality but we do still have a long road ahead in the areas of hemp legislation and processing infrastructure. The progress sure is exciting though!
Jefferson was a big fan of the hemp plant and with good reason. First Legal Harvest touches on many uses for hemp, both new and exciting applications and the tried and true variety. It also discusses hemp
If you are interested in learning more about how far we have come in regards to hemp farming and how far we still need to go, check out First Legal Harvest at dougfine.com.
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In the Spotlight Products ProductsWe WeLove Love
Hemp 420 Multi-Tool by Swine Army reviewed by Monocle Man
Swine Army is the creation of the Legalize Pot Belly Pigs company. Combined, they create a wide variety of products from apparel to smoking accessories. I tried out their Hemp 420 Multi-Tool. This thing has everything needed for your smoking adventures. It comes equipped with a glass one hitter, Pure Hemp 1.25 rolling papers, three feet of hemp wick, a full sized Bic lighter, a grinder, a poker,
and a roach clip (the last three are all stainless steel.) The whole thing is very compact, about the size of the palm of your hand. The hemp housing of the multitool is expertly hand crafted with quality materials, is very sturdy, and comes in a variety of colors. This handy 420 all-in-one delivers what it promises, everything in one place for your smoking convenience.www.etsy/shop/ legalizepotbellypigs
Organic Hemp Wick by Hemplit reviewed by Monocle Man
Hemplit Organic Hemp Wick is made in America and is a 100 percent natural alternative to a butane lighter. It is made with organic hemp and beeswax. It comes in a variety of different sized packages, so whether you use hemp wick sometimes or everyday, they have you covered. If you are new to hemp wicks,
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using one of this caliber will provide a clean natural flame for your smoking needs, free of butane and other toxins. Hemplit’s company philosophy is “Keep it Natural,” judging from their product ingredients and functionality, they are doing just that. www.hemplit.com
100% Hemp Shirt by RECREATOR reviewed by Monocle Man
RECREATOR out of California makes very functional clothing that you will want to wear again and again. While they make several t-shirts that are blends of organic cotton and hemp, I was lucky enough to test their 100 percent hemp fiber tee. When some people think of hemp clothing they might think a shirt that is 100 percent hemp maybe isn’t soft enough, those people would be 100 percent wrong. This shirt is possibly one of the softest I have ever felt with the tags still on it, and it got even softer after it was washed. The construction is
excellent with sturdy stitching and a perfect fit very true to size. It is so lightweight and breathable this plain black hemp shirt will be a wardrobe staple from here on out. RECREATOR is putting out some of the nicest hemp t-shirts on the market, all of that and when you plant the tags from their clothing in the earth, stuff grows. You can also use the hemp wick that the tags are tied on with to smoke a bowl. Could it get any cooler than that? Check them out www.recreator.org
Hemp Seed Oil Shampoo Bar by Nederland Naturals reviewed by Monocle Man
I love to support local companies working with hemp. Nederland Naturals of course fits this bill perfectly. For this review I tried the Wild Indian Hemp Shampoo Bar. I was skeptical of getting a good lather for my hair with a bar of soap. It has actually been a bit of a pet peeve of mine when it comes to hemp shampoo that they don’t usually lather up that well, but not in this case. After working the bar in my hands for a moment a wonderful lush lather was present. The shampoo felt great in my hair and left it squeaky clean. I wasn’t sure if a conditioner was
necessary so I went without to see how my hair would feel all day. Honestly I didn’t notice a difference in how it felt after three days. I don’t have them myself but on their blog it is mentioned that this is a great product for those with dread locks. Whether you are sporting the rasta-do or not, I highly recommend the shampoo bar. A local company using hemp and it’s a great product? Yes please! You can find out more about Nederland Naturals by visiting their Facebook page or checking out their blog at www. nederlandnaturals.com/ blog/
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Rolling Papers by Curved Papers reviewed by DJ Reetz
How many times have you been rolling a joint only to think, “I could do this so much better if it wasn’t for these damn corners”? Well, if this is a consistent problem for you the folks at Curved Papers have a solution: papers that are lacking bottom corners. The design is simple enough, gummed strip along the top with a luxurious arc along the bottom. The papers come in a pack that folds open, allowing you to pull out as many papers as you need, avoiding the Kleenex
box-style design of most rolling papers that can lead you to pulling out more papers than you need. With just a little bit of practice I found myself rolling well-crafted cones in no time, and the lack of corners did in fact help with this. If you’re looking for something new and different to roll with, or just cant seem to finish your j’s without a bothersome paper point sticking out of the mouthpiece, these papers will do just fine. www.curvedpapers.com
Paragon Flower Vape Pen by Cloud Pen reviewed by Monocle Man
I know that concentrates are all the rage nowadays but I’ve always been more of a flower guy. Because of this I have felt rather left out when it came to portable flower vaporizers. There are plenty of flower vapes on the market but they tend to be much bulkier than your typical concentrate pens. The Paragon from Cloud Pen parts from the norm with a super sleek portable design. The key to the Paragon is its simplicity. There is no temperature gauge to mess with, just a ceramic chamber to put your freshly ground flower into. With its slim design you are sacrificing how much flower you can load making this more of a four-hitter per load. I also noticed that after a couple pulls I had
to give the flower a stir to get an even vape off the remainder. The vape experience was very smooth and the taste was very dependent on how flavorful the strain itself was. With a subtle flavored strain there was a generic vape taste, with a pungent strain the terpenes tended to come through much better. One of the things I love about Cloud Pen is that they always give you all of the tools necessary. The Paragon comes equipped with a grinder, cleaning brush, charger and a stirring spoon. This vape is great on the go for a discreet and smooth flower vaping experience. You can order the Paragon and any of the other great Cloud Pen vapes at cloudpenz.com
CBD Pen by Mary’s Nutritionals Mary’s Medicinals has always been a pioneering company in the field of trans-dermal medicating. My experience has always been with the company’s excellent selection of cannabinoid specific patches, and their latest line rebranded as Mary’s Nutritionals seems to be continuing the trend of reliable, consistent and discreet dosing. The Nutritionals line is now pushing the bounds of legality by offering products online, outside of dispensaries, available for shipping all over the country. Anyone familiar with Mary’s Medicinals may have come across a product virtually identical
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to this one. The pen is easy to use and transport, providing a discreet way to get small doses of CBD by rubbing a glob on a venous area of the skin; generally with a roughly 45-minute activation time. Mary’s has been a trusted name in Colorado’s medical marijuana game for several years now, and hopefully they will continue to live up to their name as they step outside the clearly defined legal framework of that market. www.marysnutritionals.com
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This practical and stylish piece of smokeware balances nicely between the no-nonsense efficiency of scientific glass and the organic flourishes of more traditional styles. The bottom half of this bong is all business, straight lines and clean edges; a three-holed percolator feeds the chamber underneath the honeycomb diffuser. The bottom half of this bong is clean and effective scientific glass designed to give you the smoothest hits possible. Higher up the tube, the ice catcher marks the bong’s transformation into more artistic glass, where a swirling, whimsical pattern satisfies the need for form more than function. It’s an interesting hybrid, too kooky to be scientific glass, but with all the practical functionality. The bowl even has a glass honeycomb screen, so you won’t be sucking down unburned nugs and won’t have to rely on aftermarket screens. The glass-on-glass fitting ensures you’ll be clearing bowls for years to come without having to worry about your rubber gasket breaking down. I can anticipate that this piece will need a little bit more regular cleaning than some of my old standards, but with its jarring mix effectiveness and artistry, I think it will be well worth it. Check them out on Instagram @blaze1glass.
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FEATURED ARTIST
Amanda Sage by Caroline Hayes
The definition of an artist is “a person who creates art, a person who is skilled at drawing, painting, etc” (Merriam-Webster). When it comes to Amanda Sage, that definition seems to leave out a whole list of qualities. One would argue that words just couldn’t define a human and her actions, but what about descriptors such as world traveler, teacher, and one who feels the breath of the universe? Can one begin to get a better idea with these? This month’s featured artist is helping to create a higher vibration worldwide with her meaningful artwork and way of life. I was just lucky enough to catch her in between journeys, on her way back from Cuba to the States. THC: How was Cuba? AS: Cuba is incredible, so close but worlds away. There’s a special kind of magic alive there, an enthusiasm for life, music and art and there’s this feeling that everything is happening in the moment for the moment. Since there is still no or very little Internet there people look you in the eye more often, they are not as distracted. I felt more human and at the same time like I wanted to protect and help preserve this quality. I didn’t realize how much I missed it. Also riding around in these 1950s time machine cars that are all hybrids of the nation’s embargos mixed into a cocktail of need and creativity. I felt like crying often just to feel all of it. As much of a terrible thing it is to suppress people, greed is just as bad, if not worse. Greed is innately rotten. When you are suppressed you get creative with what you have. Humanity is not evolved enough to find self control so we seem to try and control each other, perpetuating pain. Why? I ask myself and how can we stop this vicious cycle. THC: What was your mission over there? AS: My mission was to experience, to absorb, and observe. It was the opening of the 12th Cuban Biennale while I was there, and I was blessed to be invited to different openings and meet many artists and beautiful people. I would like to participate in the next Biennale in two years and was checking out how things were done. It was a great learning experience on a multitude of levels, and am incredibly inspired. THC: From a Denver native to traveling overseas to live works at Burning Man, you’ve had quite an adventurous career so far. What are some of the highlights that really stick out in your mind and have helped shape you? AS: Going to Bali, Indonesia when I was 18 made a big impression on me. I continued studying batik there and illustrated an herbal book focused on traditional uses of Balinese herbs and plants in their uses with natural birth. Also working together with the legendary painter Ernst Fuchs for over 10 years left me with incredible stories and content. Having and creating the opportunity to travel the world and meet such a variety of fascinating people has continued to influence and affirm my desire to help there be a more compassionate approach to world affairs rather then the old systems that are based on defense. THC: Tell us about teaching at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. AS: VAVA began out of a natural progression of years of summer workshops becoming more and more popular. There were many artists that studied with Ernst Fuchs starting in the ‘60s till now, and a nice handful of them have gone
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on to teach workshops all over the world. Some of these students, assistants and myself came together and decided it was time to start an Academy. The puzzle pieces came together, as they do, and VAVA opened its doors in 2013. I see it as a long time dream coming into fruition and providing a platform for artists to discover, learn and work in a group atmosphere year round. With a strong emphasis on sacred contemporary art, the exploration and focus in bringing together a rich and diverse program is the goal. I enjoyed immensely the five weeks I just spent in Vienna teaching during the spring semester, as well as focusing on expanding the academy and I look forward to returning next year. THC: I read that you started painting on clothing about 20 years ago. What did the first ever Amanda Sage designs look like? AS: I began painting on clothing to make gifts for people. There were often organic forms and basic symbolism involved. Tribal influence with attempts at realism all mixed together to create aesthetic shapes on clothing, not far from what I am doing now. THC: What medium do you use to paint with? AS: I use anything available. Preferably oil and casein in layers, which is based on an early renaissance painting technique. Although most of my paintings begin in washes of acrylic especially if they have been started as live paintings on stage or at a festival. Then I finish most paintings in oil. THC: Where can your works be found around Denver? AS: I’ve exhibited in quite a few group shows with CAVA around Denver & Boulder in the past years, and had a big solo exhibition at Knew Conscious in 2012. It’s high time to have another show in the area, so stay tuned there is much to come. THC: I see that all the clothing in the Amanda Sage Collection is made from recycled plastic bottles, which is awesome. Do you have any plans to incorporate hemp into your clothing line? AS: Yes, I am very interested in exploring the printing possibilities with hemp and invite any of the readers to get in touch if they have ideas and leads to expand the epicness. I would love to find a Colorado company to work with, as this is an amazing emerging market. We also just opened our collection to wholesale and brand ambassadors, so please check it out: shop. amandasage.com. Our second edition is in production now and we are more then excited to share it with the Colorado community and beyond. The fabric we are using is also perfect for layering and active wear. We are looking for shops that dig the cross pollination of art, consciousness and quality made with love. THC: You’re a busy girl, what are your Summer 2015 plans? AS: Next month I will be attending the Sonic Bloom festival in Colorado for the first time, exhibiting, painting and giving a workshop. This is one of the only festivals I am planning on attending this summer as it is time for me to hibernate and focus on finishing some paintings as well as working towards an online workshop series and publishing the first book of my work. In September I will be teaching a five-day painting Intensive again at CoSM (cosm.org), Alex & Allyson Grey’s cultural center in New York. This will be
the third year that I am teaching there, which I have to say is one of the most magical and special spots to explore and paint the dream. THC: You’ve collaborated with some big names, such as Alex and Allyson Grey. Tell us about what collaborations mean to you. AS: I have been collaborating with other painters and artists for a long time. It inspires me to dance with someone. I feel as though a part of me is inspired to come out when evoked by the right chemistry in a group or another individual. I love to explore and rethink what my approach may be and see how it may harmonize with another’s vision. I feel like when we come together we create even grander visions, calibrating a similar song into resonate harmonies. It is different than the solo vision, it is different than a conductor directing a group. The true collaboration is a dance, where one would not exist without the other in the same way, where love and tension dances and the result is a unique kind of magic. THC: Please note anything you would like our readers to know about you, art, the world, etc. AS: Through my work and life I aim to inspire people to live a more active role in walking their talk, changing habits by example and creating reference that can be measured. It’s not about just the great ideas, it’s about the things that are produced by them. Not to wait, but to be a pioneer. To be diligent and dedicated, passionate and focused. So easily we are distracted by all the possibilities in the first world countries, now we have the challenge to focus and make conscious choices. What we wear, what we do and how we present ourselves is a reflection of who we are. Make a statement and be ready to make a statement about it. Be weary of fashion, of what is popular. Being yourself and finding things that you say yes to are your statement. As we discover ourselves lets remember we also have the responsibility of the planet and it is high time we get our heads out of the clouds and continue creating ever better ways to work together. We are connected; there is no going back. The future is our collective creation. Lets’ wake up and be visionaries, be more compassionate and honorable as every little thing counts.
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THC: An artist can walk through life just being “a person who creates art, a person who is skilled at drawing, painting, etc,” or they can focus on making a bigger impact on the world and using their voice to softly guide and teach others. I can only begin to wonder what we will see from Amanda Sage in the future. As for the present moment, thank you for your time and light Amanda! Check out her paintings and clothing at www. amandasage.com.
Pictured on model: Sacred Garden Scarf
“Limbic Resonance”
Pictured on model: Sacred Garden Leggings
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“Regeneration”
Pictured on model: Energy Gloves
Pictured on model: Multiuniverse Scarf and Multiuniverse Unisex Pants Pictured on model: Journey Scarf
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“Arise”
Pictured on model: Multiuniverse Scarf and Multiuniverse Unisex Pants
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Tasty Meds
Reviews of Colorado’s finest medicated products Terp Pen 250mg by The Refinery reviewed by Monocle Man The Refinery is a new company on the scene out of Colorado Springs. Their feature product right now is their Terp Pen. These strain-specific hash oil cartridges are 250mg and you can get the matching battery to go with it. The Terp Pen offers sativa, hybrid, and indica strainspecific hash oil in their cartridges. Each one is color-coded and comes in eye-catching packaging. For this review we tried the Strawberry Cough, Bordello, and Blue God. I am a big fan of the hash oil cartridges because of the discreetness that they bring. On one of the few dry days we had in May I brought these with me to the golf course. The sativa pen, Strawberry Cough was perfect to help me stay focused and motivated during the front nine. We had a walk on join our group and he couldn’t tell I was smoking hash while we were playing. I found the hybrid was nice for finishing up the course to help relax with the struggles of my game. Later that night the indica Blue God was the nightcap I needed after a day in the sun. Each one had tasty smooth draws, and hit like a champ. It didn’t take much of a pull to get a huge vapor cloud. You can find The Refinery’s Terp Pen right now at dispensaries in Colorado Springs and soon coming up to Denver and the surrounding areas. https://www.facebook.com/therefinerydenver Rescue Tonic by Mary’s Nutritionals reviewed by Caroline Hayes Disclaimer: This is not a medicated product but we figured you should know about it. This product is the first of its kind. Introducing Mary’s Nutritionals Rescue Tonic. A blend of “clinical-grade nutrients” and calming plant-based ingredients to create a soothing restorative effect to reduce the feelings of paranoia and anxiety that can come with over consuming cannabis. The ingredient list is small, which as a label-reader of everything, I appreciate greatly the minimal components that make up this tonic. It comes in a cute little Alice In Wonderland-type 2 ounce bottle. The instructions say that one is to drink the whole thing upon “feelings of marijuana overindulgence.” I decided to guinea pig myself with a large dosage of edibles (Note: I am extremely sensitive to most edibles. I usually consume 10-20mg comfortably. For this experiment I ate somewhere between 40 and 50mg.) I could feel the high coming on. There was this anticipation period that was driving me crazy because I didn’t quite know what to expect, of course. I’ve been way too high on edibles before and then there’s the not quite high enough. Once I realized that my living room had morphed a little into what looked like a fun house and I had the urge to peek out the windows like a weirdo, I downed the bottle of the tonic. It tasted tart like cherries and felt thick. I laid down, as the bottle instructed, and flipped on some television. I can’t say I noticed a night and day effect. It wasn’t like the shot of adrenaline Mia Wallace takes in Pulp Fiction, but I can say that it worked. I didn’t feel paranoid-like anymore and my living room restored itself as a normal room with 90-degree angles and flat walls. This is a product that every single cannabis user should have in the medicine cabinet at all times. Overindulgence is not (usually) fun. As always, consume responsibly, this is not an alternative to getting too high. It’s more of a “just in case” kind of product. www.marysnutritionals.com Bubba Kush Root Beer 10mg by Keef Cola reviewed by Caroline Hayes Found in a dispensary in Denver, on the adult use side, I discovered Keef Cola’s Bubba Kush Root Beer. I couldn’t believe it – my favorite strain and favorite soda combined?! I didn’t even think twice, paid for it and left, excited to get home. Now, this may only be 10mg but I just couldn’t resist and like I’ve said before, I can be a lightweight so this was perfect for a Saturday afternoon. The sleek looking aluminum bottle was cool to the touch. First sip…ahhhh. Tasted just like root beer, with just a slight, barely noticeable weed aftertaste. Since the drink was only 10mg, I drank it quickly. This was not an overwhelming high by any means but it was absolutely a warm buzz that helped to relax my back, which had been aching after hours of computer work, while allowing me to keep plugging along, and for the most part, only part of my motivation was lost. About 30 minutes after I thought I drank the whole bottle, I realized that there was a coupe sips left so I threw it back. NOTE: Don’t forget to drink all of the soda. I think all the meds were at the bottom because this is when it really started to kick in. This 10mg drink really packs punch as much punch as it can. The Bubba Kush Root Beer 10mg drink would be excellent for a beginner or a parent, especially since it’s made from an indica strain, there’s not any paranoia to accompany. Good news for you heavy weights, the Bubba Kush Root Beer comes also comes in 100mg, which happens to be High Times First Place winner for Best Edible! Don’t pass this one up, your taste buds and body will thank you. www.keefcola.com
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Hemp Eats
Hemp Milk Makes 2.5 cups Ingredients: 1 cup hemp seeds 3 cups water 3 Medjool dates 1 teaspoon vanilla bourbon extract cinnamon or other sweeteners, optional Directions: Add all the ingredients to a blender and blend on high for 60 seconds or until smooth. Taste for sweetness. Once desired consistency has been reached and sweetness is achieved, transfer milk to a jar. For pulp free milk, strain through a cheesecloth or mesh nut bag. Note: the pulp contains much of the nutrients. Store in an airtight container and keep for up to three days.
Mango Hemp Milk Ice Cream Makes 1 quart Ingredients: 1 can full fat coconut milk 1 1/2 cups hemp milk 3 mangoes, peeled and cubed 1 cup coconut sugar pinch of Himalayan Sea Salt optional: thickener such as guar gum or gelatin Directions: Pour all of the ingredients in a high-powered blender and puree until smooth. Now, this can be made in an ice cream maker (see your maker’s instructions), but if you don’t have one of those on hand it can be made the old fashioned way by adding blended ingredients to a cold pan (stainless steel or Pyrex works great). Place in freezer for 30 minutes, remove and beat with electric mixer for one minute. Repeat this process a few times unitl desired consitency is reached. Store in an airtight freezer container. Serve in a cone on a hot, sunny day.
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Cannabis News by DJ Reetz
Colorado Cracking Marijuana
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Medical Nevada Approves Restricted Hemp Growing
The recent signing of Senate Bill 15-014 by Governor John Hickenlooper may signal serious changes to Colorado’s medical marijuana landscape. The law attempts to push caregivers into a state registry and limits plant counts for those caregivers in addition to requiring the Colorado medical board to adopt rules relating to physicians who write marijuana referrals for severe pain. The law also requires primary caregivers to advise the patients they serve as to the potential for contaminants and unverified THC levels in their marijuana, and allows for the exchange of information between the caregiver licensing authority and the Colorado Department of Health and Environment to ensure patients aren’t registered with both a caregiver and a dispensary, among other things Some see the law as an attempt to drive recreational marijuana users out of the medical marijuana marketplace and into the more highly taxed adultuse marketplace, while others see it as a way to crack down on black market grows hidden in the caregiver system.
Medical Marijuana Now Allowed in Colorado Schools Perhaps the best news out of the recent signing of SB 15-014 is an amendment that means children in Colorado can now use medicinal marijuana while at achool. Nicknamed “Jack’s Amendment” for 14-year-old Jack Splitt, who suffers from spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and distonia and whose personal nurse was reprimanded for administering him a cannabis patch, the amendment allows for the parents and designated caregivers of children with a medical marijuana referral to apply cannabinoid patches to the child while at school. The amendment was sponsored by consistent cannabis supporter Rep. Jonathan Singer (D- Longmont). “Jack’s Amendment will assure that children don’t have to choose between going to school and taking their medicine,” said Singer, according to Fox News
Questionably Limited Medical Marijuana Bill Passes Texas Legislature Both the Texas Senate and House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would allow doctors in the state to prescribe low-THC cannabis to patients suffering from certain conditions such as intractable epilepsy. With wide support in both the Texas House of Representatives and Senate, the bill awaits a signature from Governor Greg Abbott as of this writing. The bill mandates that dispensing entities licensed to produce the low-THC cannabis operate on a non-profit model and allow access only to patients with a valid prescription from a physician. Troublesome to some marijuana advocates is the use of the word “prescribe” in the text of the bill, as doctors are generally barred from prescribing cannabis due to its federally illegal status, which most state medical marijuana programs get around by allowing doctor “referrals”.
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A bill that would allow colleges and the state agriculture department in Nevada to grow hemp has cleared the state legislature. The bill does not allow for private growth of hemp but would allow government and academic bodies to grow the plant for research and agricultural purposes. Explicitly barred in the bill is the use of hemp as a drug, which would seemingly indicate that hemp could never be grown for high-CBD flowers. As of this writing the bill was awaiting signature from Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval.
Missouri Governor Commutes Life Sentence of Man Convicted on Pot Charge Last month, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon commuted the sentence of a man serving life without parole for marijuana crimes. Jeff Mizanskey, a 61-yearold grandfather, had been sentenced to life in prison following his third non-violent marijuana conviction under the state’s Prior and Persistent Drug Offender statute, which was repealed last year. Under the statute a third drug-related arrest was punishable by life in prison, and Mizanskey had had two relatively minor arrests for non-violent marijuana crimes prior to his 1993 arrest for involvement in the sale of six to seven pounds of the plant according to the River Front Times, who originally reported on the tragic situation in 2013. Mizanskey is now eligible for parole and will likely have a hearing this summer, according to RFT.
Users of Medical Marijuana and Opioids Not More Likely to Abuse Drugs, Study Finds A study published in the May issue of Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs concluded that patients using medical marijuana in conjunction with prescription painkillers were not at a greater risk of abusing alcohol or other drugs than those who used medical marijuana alone. The study focused on a group of 273 patients at a Michigan marijuana clinic and found that opioid use did not correlate to a higher likelihood of abusing alcohol or drugs. “In states where medical marijuana is legal, physicians should be aware that medical marijuana is a potentially safer and more effective treatment approach than opioids,” said lead study author Brian Perron, according to Forbes.
Adult-Use Stores in Washington Caught Selling to Underage Shoppers Four adult-use marijuana stores in Washington State were caught selling to customers under the age of 21 during a recent sting operation carried out by the state liquor control board. The four shops that sold product to the 18 to 20-year-olds used in the sting represent 18 percent of the 22 shops targeted. Shops caught selling to minors in Washington face up to a $2,500 fine and potential license suspension, while shops caught selling to underage clientele three times in as many years may have their licensed revoked. A similar operation carried out in Colorado last year showed a 100 percent compliance rate amongst the 20 adult-use shops tested.
Across the Globe Arrests Made at Hempcon in Las Vegas Ten people were arrested at Hempcon in Las Vegas last month. The threeday convention centering on medical cannabis was marred by the arrests after undercover police officers were allegedly able to purchase marijuana from five different vendors at the convention. Undercover officers were also able to obtain psychedelic mushrooms from vendors at the convention, according to police. The busts, an apparent joint action of metro police and the DEA, was seen as persecution by Hempcon organizers and attendees who reported seeing police officers and agents on the event’s roof trying to spot public consumers, according to thenug.com. Nevada is slated to open its first medical marijuana dispensaries soon, but the state has allowed medical marijuana use since the approval of Ballot Question 9 in 2000. Nevada is also one of the few states that recognizes marijuana referrals made in other states.
Israel’s Top Cop Wants Cannabis Reform Israeli Police Inspector General Yohanan Danino said in a speech to a group of high school students in Beit Shemesh that Israel should reexamine policies surrounding the continued prohibition of cannabis and study the policies being undertaken in other parts of the world. “I think the time has come for the Israel Police, together with the state, to reexamine their stance on cannabis. I think we must sit and study what’s happening around the world,” said Danino, according to The Jerusalem Post. Israel has long been at the forefront of cannabis research for medical purposes, and according to a 2003 directive from the country’s attorney general, first time offenders caught with small amounts for personal use are not to be prosecuted, with subsequent offenses being left to the discretion of arresting officers.
Coloradans on Probation Get the Right to Medicinal Marijuana A bill signed into law last month by Governor Hickenlooper gave Coloradans on probation the right to use medicinal marijuana. The bill was surprisingly unopposed in both the Senate and House, receiving a vote of 34-1 and 61-3 in favor in the chambers respectively. Prior to the passage of the law those on probation faced potential incarceration if they were to fail a drug test, though figures on the number of people likely to be affected by the measure were unavailable.
Kansas House of Representatives Passes Cannabis Bill A bill to reduce penalties for the possession of marijuana has cleared the Kansas House of Representatives. If the bill were to pass, a first time offender would face a class B misdemeanor, a second offense would be a class A misdemeanor and any subsequent offenses would be considered a
level 5 felony that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 months in jail. Previously, first time possession offenders were hit with a class A misdemeanor with second time offenders facing a felony charge. The bill also includes the legalization of low-THC oil derived from cannabis plants for the treatment of seizures, provided it remains below 3 percent THC. Another hopeful inclusion in the bill is the legalization of hemp cultivation for research purposes by either the state department of agriculture or a registered state educational institution, so long as registered seed is used. The bill is currently stalled in the Senate, where it likely won’t see a vote until next year’s legislative session begins.
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The first large-scale hemp processing facility in Colorado commenced operations last month in Ft. Lupton. PureVision Technologies has previously been a refiner of plant matter resulting from other, more traditionally legal crops, but are now turning their attention Colorado’s domestic hemp crop. The company’s Ft. Lupton facility is now refining hemp into pulp for myriad applications; hopefully marking the long-awaited emergence of domestic hemp processing that has so far lagged behind the limited domestic production. Be sure to check future issues of THC for a more in-depth examination of the process.
Hawaii to Get Medical Marijuana Dispensaries A measure approving the creation of medical marijuana dispensaries has passed the Hawaii legislature and has likely been signed into law by the governor. The measure allows for the creation of up to 16 dispensaries, though some islands are left out and inter island transport is prohibited. Hawaii, the originating location of the term “kine bud,” has allowed medical marijuana since 2000, but patients have lacked access to dispensaries. Also included in the measure was the expansion of qualifying conditions to include PTSD.
VA Doctors May Soon be Able to Discuss Marijuana A Senate panel has given preliminary approval to the idea of doctors in the Department of Veterans Affairs openly discussing the pros and cons of medicinal marijuana. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the amendment as part of the $77.6 billion spending bill. Previously, VA doctors were banned from discussing the potential benefits of marijuana as a treatment option. While the development is good news for advocates, a similar amendment failed to make it past the U.S. House of Representatives, and as of this writing the spending bill had yet to see a full Senate vote.
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The Sky is the Limit THC sits down with Rebelution frontman Eric Rachmany by Sam Ruderman
Marley Williams, Wesley Finley, Eric Rachmany, Rory Carey
Rebelution is a reggae rock band from Santa Barbara, California. Founded in 2004, the band has grown from playing the local UCSB college bars to selling out large venues and touring internationally. Their breakthrough album, Courage to Grow, became the iTunes Editor’s Choice for Best Reggae Album of 2007 and peaked in the Billboard Reggae Albums chart at #4. Rebelution’s next three albums, The Bright Side of Life (2009), Peace of Mind (2012), and Count Me In (2014), have all topped the Billboard Reggae Albums chart in the #1 spot. They have their own record label, 87 Music, and continue to collaborate with other producers and musicians to become the face of SoCal reggae. Eric Rachmany is the guitar/vocals frontman of Rebelution. For a young man who has seen great success, Eric is about as humble as they come. His music conveys powerful messages of love, social consciousness, and “bringin’ only good vibes.” These reoccurring themes in his music show through in his personality, and after spending some time with Eric away from the bright lights and tour-life, you learn that he is a regular, down-toearth guy; however, he just happens to be headlining Red Rocks on June 20. THC: Can you tell us a little about the early days of Reb? How did you meet the guys and decide to form the band? Eric: We all met in Santa Barbara, either in school or on the streets of Isla Vista. A few of us found a commonality in our love for reggae music. At first we were a cover band and then slowly incorporated our own compositions.
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For the first year or so, we would only play in Isla Vista on the weekends. Back then there were fewer regulations, which was great for us. We got shut down a few times but for the most part we had the pleasure of playing in front of a built in crowd. At first hundreds, then thousands of people. THC: In college you majored in religious studies. Are you a religious person? Why did you choose that major and how has it affected your music? Eric: At first I was intent on studying music. At one point I became bored with the curriculum and decided to switch to religious studies. Sometimes I wish I had followed through with a music degree but when I think about all the knowledge I attained studying several religions of the world, I remain content with my decision. I decided to study religion because I DON’T consider myself a religious person. I’m continually fascinated why people believe what they believe, the cultural practices within religion and the music and arts within those cultural and religious practices. Most people can hear the Middle Eastern influence in my vocals. It comes from listening to it as a child and being exposed to cultural and religious practices that incorporate music and dance. THC: What was the inspiration behind your first album, Courage to Grow? What is it like to hear your own music on the radio for the first time?
Eric: I’m not sure if we’ve ever really had an overall concept for any album that we have made. Every song is its own concept in my eyes, but the overall goal is to make a positive impact on the people listening. Our lyrics are also a reminder to all of us in the band to stay positive. I suppose the inspiration came from playing shows and the amazing fun times we had performing in Isla Vista. After that energy we certainly wanted to continue what we had going! We never expected Courage to Grow to be as recognized as it was and still to this day. I remember selling that album out of our small apartment in Isla Vista. It’s always a little weird hearing yourself sing. If you think you have a good voice when hearing yourself out of some speakers then something is very wrong with you. But, I’m honored people like it.
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THC: You play about 120 shows a year and continue to write and produce music, no easy feat. Is it hard to find a balance in order to stay motivated and creative as the popularity of Red Rocks, Morrison, CO 8/24/13 the band continues to grow?
THC: In your music, you reference the glorious herb that is marijuana fairly often. How has cannabis played a role throughout your musical career, and how has that role changed as you’ve matured as a musician and as a person?
Eric: Considering I do most of the songwriting for Rebelution, there is certainly a lot of pressure to produce quality music or at least what I believe is quality music. On top of writing, recording and producing about 99 percent of our music, we constantly tour to make a living. There are times when it all adds up and it gets tough. What keeps us going is the live performances. Feeling that energy from the crowd reenergizes us.
THC: You have played all over the world, where have some of your favorite tour stops been? Eric: Red Rocks is certainly up there. I always encourage my friends all around the country to see a show at Red Rocks at least once in their lifetime. Colorado in general has a special music scene. Hawaii is also very special to me. It was one of the first places people started listening to Rebelution. Any time we play there I’m reminded of our journey getting to where we are now. Most of all, Santa Barbara, CA is where we had the craziest shows of all time. The shows we put on in Isla Vista were pretty historic.
Eric: I’m not even sure where to start when talking about cannabis. Let me first start by saying I’m so incredibly proud of the advocates at the forefront of this movement for legalization. Again, I see Rebelution as educators in this movement. I want people to understand more about cannabis instead of classifying it as a forbidden substance. The first time it really clicked for me was when I heard people talking about herb in reggae music. When I was a kid I thought getting high was fun but I never appreciated it until I saw the bigger picture. To many people around the world, getting high is getting to a higher level of consciousness. You don’t need cannabis to get on this higher level but it certainly is a helpful way to get there. I’ve found that cannabis helps me get in touch with my body a bit more, allows for deep meditation and better yet a spark for creativity. To many Rastafarians, herb is considered the “healing of the nation.” We now know about the countless medicinal properties of cannabis. It’s fascinating to me that Rastas were already talking about this for decades. Legalizing it in California would be huge. Big props to the advocates in Colorado that made it happen.
Again, I see Rebelution as educators in this movement. I want people to understand more about cannabis instead of classifying it as a forbidden substance
THC: Reggae music is rooted in a tradition of social and political activism. You seem to carry this tradition on in many of your songs. Why do you think music has the ability to bring people together and get a message across? As a musician, how do you utilize this to incite change?
Eric: I’ve always believed one can get a message across through the arts in a more productive way than simply expressing themselves through speech. This has definitely been the case for me. I feel more comfortable singing and expressing my thoughts through song. I don’t necessarily believe reggae is any more of a platform for social change and political expression than other types of music, but historically it has been that way. I believe this is because reggae hasn’t been as commercialized as much as other types of mainstream music. Reggae music comes from the people and not the “industry.” I’ve never considered myself a leader but by all means I consider myself an activist for social change. I hope our music has encouraged the listener to look deeper into social issues that we bring up. I consider myself an educator most of all. I’ve found that it isn’t just music that can get the listener to think rationally, but many different art forms. Many of us are stuck in our own ways, stubborn at times. The arts open people up a bit more and allow us to relate to each other on a more conscious, spiritual and
THC: What’s in store for the future of Rebelution? Anything in particular for fans to get excited about? Eric: We are currently writing new music for our next album. We are also looking to release an acoustic version of our last album Count Me In at some point in the near future. Eric Rachmany and Rebelution will take the stage June 20 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. BIG THANKS, Eric.
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Northern Lights Cannabis Company kicks off Summer 2015 with June bike parties In June 2014, Northern Lights Cannabis Company became the first dispensary in the U.S. to host a Bike to Work Day Breakfast Station. Cyclists came from near and far to check out the healthy eats, cool giveaways and prizes. Now they have done it again, but bigger and better for 2015! Northern Lights Cannabis Company will host two bike stations this year on Bike to Work Day, which is Wednesday, June 24. Both stations will be located at 2045 Sheridan Blvd. (easily accessible from nearby bike trails) The breakfast station will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and will feature healthy eats and tasty breakfast burritos from our friends at Rupert’s on the Edge. There will also be prizes, discount cards, giveaways, and fun. Look for the tent in front of Northern Lights and make a morning stop there on Bike to Work Day. The afternoon Bike Party is being co-hosted by the Cooler Bar and will be open from 5p.m. to 7p.m.. Look for the Northern Lights tent in the west parking lot adjacent to the Cooler Bar and join us for snacks, food and drink specials, fun, prizes, and cool giveaways. Northern Lights smashes the stoner stereotype! Their 420-active lifestyle includes the following milestones.
They recently provided a custom Cannabis Cruiser bike to each employee that has been with the company for a year. They will ride these bikes with some of their customers and friends to the weekly downtown Denver Cruisers bike event, as they have done for years. Northern Lights is sponsoring the Circle of Death at the Cruisers events this summer. They are also looking forward to the Tour de Fat, which they participate in yearly. The dispensary formed a June bike month team, the Northern Lights Cannabis Cruisers, which is made up of customers and employees/owners. The team will log trips by alternative transportation in June to enter a contest for fun prizes. This team provided a bike parking plan for installation of eight bike parking spaces in their strip mall. These new bike parking spaces are slated for early summer installation. Each year, the company closes the store for a couple days to take the employees and their spouses on a camping and whitewater rafting trip. As you can imagine, the Cannabis Camp is an awesome experience for all, while the whitewater rafting offers both fun and teamwork. The company also enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, mountain biking, and skiing as a group. They are 420-active.
Mitch Woolhiser (on right) unveiling the Northern Lights team bikes to their employees
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When it comes to hemp the seeds of change are still hard to come by by DJ Reetz
A year and a half into Colorado’s legal adult-use marijuana sales and the market is rolling along. With shops open and tax dollars pouring in, the marijuana market seems to be living up to the promises made by Amendment 64. But while the psychoactive and medicinal aspects of marijuana are being seen as a success by nearly everyone involved, the promise of domestically produced industrial hemp remains largely unfulfilled. With no definitive source of seed, farmers in Colorado are still lacking the essential jumping off point to truly get the domestic hemp industry started. With the legal framework already laid out by Colorado’s Amendment 64 and codified federally by the recent passage of the Farm Bill, hemp farming on an agricultural scale remains on the cusp of realization in the state, yet the crucial issue of seed remains tantalizingly out of reach. “Right now hemp is in the baby stages of certification,” says Rick Novak, Director of Seed Programs at Colorado State University. Currently, CSU is the designated recipient of hemp seed bound for Colorado from recognized foreign sources, where the university’s highly acclaimed agricultural department will begin the process of certifying seed for farmers to use. For most crops, certified seed is an important facet of commercial farming. Certification means seed is recognized as safe to plant by the Department of Agriculture, indicating the seed has gone through the rigorous testing necessary to ensure it is free of disease and is not carrying any noxious weeds that would potentially overtake a farmer’s crop, and currently no such certification exists for hemp within the United States. This poses a problem for many farmers, who may be years away from being able to purchase and
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grow such seeds. For certified seed to become a reality, the first step is importation of seed from recognized sources, such as Canadian and European seed breeders. If ownership and genetic lineage can be tracked, the imported seed begins life in the CSU Foundation Seed Lab, where plants can be tested to ensure they are under the legally mandated .3 percent THC threshold and for any genetic aberrations. Once the seed has been demonstrated to be safe for planting, the foundation level seeds can then be sold to farmers as registered seed, which will then be shipped to farmers all over the state. After successful harvest and inspection, the registered seed will be designated as certified, and can be sold as such, giving farmers access to seed that is demonstrated as viable and safe to plant. The process is the same for all agricultural crops, the only real difference with hemp being the added regulation of THC levels, says Novak. “It doesn’t happen overnight as some people may think, and hemp won’t be much different,” he says. For seed to be certified it must have a clearly identified genetic lineage and ownership. The seed must also have a clear variety detail, meaning plants grown from it must be botanically identifiable and unique beyond the simple fiber or seed variations that most people think of when it comes to industrial hemp. “This is really the issue that the hemp industry has,” says Novak. “The problem going on right now is people have acquired seed from all over the world, we don’t know who owns what variety.”
Without this clearly mapped out source, there is no path to certification, so farmers who have already planted and harvested hemp crops from smuggled or wild seed would not ever be able to have their seed certified, says Novak. “A lot of people think, ‘Well I can go out to Kansas or Nebraska and I can harvest a plant and I can plant that,’” says Novak, but wild hemp will never be certified for this reason, and any seeds generated will never be marketable as such. If these stringent requirements of ownership and lineage are established, the next step in the certification process is demonstrating to state officials that the seed in question will never yield plants with a THC level above .3 percent by weight when dry. For this, the seed will have to be tested in multiple environments throughout the state, as differing environmental factors can lead to different levels of THC. Test crops will need to be planted at different latitudes and elevations to ensure that the seeds will yield legal plants in any environment, a consequence of the extreme genetic variation within the cannabis species and the varying climate of the state. When all these factors are considered, the timeline for certified seed to be available to farmers stretches years into the future. “We know nothing in this state because we haven’t done the testing. Everything is what someone believes,” says Duane Sinning, Assistant Director of Plant Industries and Program Manager for Industrial Hemp
hemp. Currently, Abeyta is growing uncertified seed, which carries a certain risk. “It’s a gamble it won’t grow,” he says, and it’s also a gamble that what’s being grown will have an acceptably low level of THC. “Right now, what we’re growing we’re testing on a monthly basis,” he says. The continual testing of THC levels is something farmers wouldn’t have to deal with if they were to grow certified seed, says Sinning. Certified seed would provide not just an assurance of quality, but also allow regulators the assurance of acceptable levels of THC. But without certified seed, farmers are left to contend with regular testing and the possibility of planting a field of unusable and possibly diseased hemp. “That’s a really scary part for farmers currently,” says Novak. In this regard, having access to certified seed would function as a form of crop insurance, guaranteeing that farmers would be able to grow a crop that they wouldn’t have to cut down prematurely due to rising THC levels as the plants develop. It would also mean a lesser burden on regulators, who wouldn’t be compelled to inspect crops, according to Sinning. “If you’re growing certified seed you don’t have to worry about that,” says Sinning. “On a whole different level it means that the seed is free of noxious weeds and disease. It’s really to provide some safety for all other agriculture in the state […] Nothing would be worse than hemp having a pest and moving that around the state,” he says. “That would be a huge black eye for the industry.”
For seed to be certified it must have a clearly identified genetic lineage and ownership. The seed must also have a clear variety detail, meaning plants grown from it must be botanically identifiable and unique beyond the simple fiber or seed variations that most people think of when it comes to industrial hemp. with the Colorado Department of Agriculture. “Until we trial it here we really don’t know what’s best.” “The earliest we could do inspections is minimum two, probably three years,” says Novak. However, Novak and Sinning both agree that if a foreign source could bring their established genetics to Colorado the certification process could be shaved down to two years, provided they are the recognized owners of the seed variety. “Three years is what I would of told you two weeks ago,” says Sinning. “It could be sooner if somebody can take the risk.” “In order to get up to speed you’re going to have to attract companies that are willing to do research and development into varieties,” says Novak. “The industry won’t be sustainable for a long period of time if it’s just a bunch of wild plant material.” “In the mean time there’s nothing stopping [farmers] from growing or selling their crop,” says Novak. “It doesn’t mean the industry stops, it just means it continues with some testing constraints,” says Sinning. Some farmers in Colorado are already licensed and growing hemp, albeit without certified seed. “I think it’s overemphasized,” Alfonso Abeyta, a fourth-generation farmer in the San Luis Valley who sits on the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Hemp Rules and Regulations Board and currently holds a license to grow
While farmers and agricultural scientists may view hemp as just another potential crop, the newly legal status of hemp poses some obvious challenges. “It is a slow process, and really it’s because the DEA are used to drugs and they view this as a drug,” says Sinning. Problems with the importation of hemp seed have delayed the process, says Sinning, and that could push back large-scale industrial hemp farming. As of this writing there were no imported seeds held by the Colorado Department of Agriculture according to Sinning, which means nothing that would be headed to CSU to be used as foundation seed and nothing to be sold to farmers for registration and eventual certification. However, the chokepoint of DEA oversight has been cleared, according to Sinning, and It’s just a matter of the routine inspection by Customs and Border Control officials for pests, disease and other potential biological contaminants. “It’s going through the same checks as any other seed would,” says Sinning. With any luck, the seed will have cleared these checks and already be in the ground by the time this article is in newsstands and the arduous process of crating reliable, certified hemp seed will have begun. “There are still many hurdles to clear,” says Sinning. Hopefully the largest of these hurdles has been cleared, and domestically produced hemp on a truly agricultural scale will be possible in the next several years.
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Libertarians Have Pioneered the Legalization of Drugs by Ron Bain
Since 1971, the Libertarian Party has been a leader in the movement to legalize drugs. Founded that year in Westminster by David Nolan, other Young Republicans, and Peace and Freedom Party members, the Libertarian Party has held drug legalization as a platform plank over the past four-and-a-half decades. Libertarians have led the drive to legalize all drugs, not just cannabis, for 44 years. Libertarians believe in a fundamental triad of self-evident principles: Self Defense (Libertarians advocate that no one has the right to initiate force or violence, but that everyone has the right to defend themselves against force and violence); Biological Autonomy (self-ownership of body, mind and soul, which no church or government can deny); and the Right to Retain the Fruits of Your Labor (leading to an opposition to taxation in any form). At the state convention of the Libertarian Party of Colorado in late May, Judge Jim Gray, former running mate of 2012 Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson (former governor of New Mexico), was the keynote speaker and delivered his boilerplate speech in opposition to the drug war. Gray, a former presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, Calif. who has served on many drug and alcohol councils and advisory boards, has been advocating an end to the drug war since 1992. In 2011, he was a co-sponsor of the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine initiative in California. “We could tax the silly stuff,” he said at the time. He is the author of Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It – A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs, which was published in 2001. “The government has as much of a right to control what I, as an adult, put into my body as it does what I put into my mind,” Gray said. “It’s none of their business.” Gray is a former drug warrior and during his time as a federal prosecutor he prosecuted many possession and distribution charges. He has also served as a criminal defense attorney who defended those accused of drug crimes. “And I came to the realization at that time, and that realization has to be understood by others, the tougher we get with regard to drug crime, the softer we get to the prosecution of everything else,” he said. “The Reagan
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administration once again had ratcheted up the War on Drugs, so we were using all of these prosecutorial resources to prosecute non-violent drug offenders, such that robbers, rapists and murderers were being able to escape with regard to their charges.” Gray points at six groups that benefit from the War on Drugs: the drug lords themselves; juvenile gangs, which finance themselves by dealing drugs; law enforcement, which gets funding to fight drugs; politicians, who get votes by appearing to be “tough on drugs” even though their own children get a pass; prisons, prison builders and prison guards; and terrorist organizations who, like the juvenile gangs, finance their violent efforts with drug money. He failed to point out another group which benefits from the War on Drugs: lawyers. “Someone else sees that as an employment opportunity,” Gray said. “Drug prohibition is the golden goose of terrorism. If our government wanted to do something damaging to terrorist groups around the world, they would take the one step that would do that: Repeal drug prohibition. Who is losing? Everybody else.” In ancient Greece, Gray pointed out, the word “canvas” was the same as the word “cannabis.” “We simply have thwarted that entire really industrial purpose,” he said. “Hemp is just the stalk of the marijuana plant – it has no mind-altering properties whatsoever. So now our merchants import the raw materials from those radical countries like Canada and England, for heaven’s sake. The Canadian hemp field is pretty much a billion dollars per year.” Holland was also a pioneer in drug legalization, and Gray acknowledged the lessons taught by the European nation. “The Minister of Health of Holland held a press conference not all that long ago and said, ‘we in our country have only half the marijuana consumption per capita as you do in America, both for adults and teenagers’,” Gray said. “’We have succeeded in making pot boring,’” he quoted the Minister of Health as saying. Drug legalization is inevitable in the future, according to Gray. “Everybody will join arms, look back astonished and aghast that we could have perpetuated such a failed system for so long,” he said. “The best thing I can do for my country is help us repeal drug prohibition. It’s the most patriotic thing I’m able to do, and we’re going to be successful.”
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Marijuana and its products are complex polypharmaceuticals consisting of the major cannabinoids [Delta (9) Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD)], several minor cannabinoids, terpenoids, flavonoids, and other compounds. In the 1970s, researchers first explored the anticancer properties of components of cannabis—the major cannabinoids. For more than a decade, research in animal models has suggested that THC and CBD have anti-tumor properties. Other studies have shown that the anti-tumor properties are selective for tumor cells and do not affect the normal cells. In 2006, Dr. Manual Guzman and his colleagues from Spain published the results of the first human clinical trial of the effect of THC on tumors. The patients in this study had an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiformae. They had failed standard surgery and radiotherapy treatments, with clear signs that the cancer was progressing. The study, where THC was injected through catheters into the brain tumors, showed that THC was safe to administer in humans and did not increase tumor growth or decrease patient survival, apart from showing beneficial effects of the treatment on the patients in terms of shrinking of the tumors in two patients. Although this is a seminal study in human subjects that showed some effect of THC on cancer, it should be noted that THC was injected directly into the tumor and that the lifespan of the patients was not increased beyond the lifespan expected for terminal patients of this type of aggressive brain cancer. This was a small study of nine patients, and there was no control group. In 2009, researchers from the same group in Spain published another study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation which showed that the tumor biopsies from two of the patients in the clinical trial study had shrunk due to a process called “autophagy” which was induced by THC. Autophagy is a normal process in the body that destroys cells and unwanted cellular components, and in this study it became apparent that THC accelerated this process. In a study published in 2013 in Anticancer Research, Dr. Wai Liu’s team from University of London explored the ability of cannabinoids in treating leukemia. The study was carried out in leukemia cells. They tested the anticancer activity of each cannabinoid, for example, cannabigerol (CBG), cannabidiol (CBD), and cannabigevarin (CBGV). They found that the cannabinoids were able to interfere with the development of cancer cells by stopping their growth. In some cases, they found that by using a specific dosage pattern (where the treatment is given with no-treatment/ recovery phase in between the treatment phases), cannabinoids could also destroy the cancer cells. Interestingly, it was also found that lower doses of the compounds were needed to achieve the same anti-cancer effect when these compounds were used in combination with each other. by Dr Nicola Davies
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In 2014, the same group from University of London published another piece of research
in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics where they studied the effects of THC and CBD (in their pure and less refined form) alone and in combination with radiotherapy on glioma cell lines. They found a dose-dependent and duration-dependent increase in cell-killing ability when each cannabinoid was given alone. While the less refined form of THC seemed to be more efficacious than the pure form, CBD seemed to be more efficacious in the pure form than in the less refined form. A combination of THC and CBD could be seen to enhance the effects of radiation on cells as they increased the number of cancer cells that were killed by the treatment. The researchers then repeated the experiment on mice that had implanted glioma. They found that the tumors were treated the best when low doses of a combination of THC and CBD were used together with radiation. There was a dramatic response in that the tumor growth slowed down, and the tumor size reduced significantly. Different mechanisms could explain the anti-tumor effects of cannabinoids, for example, causing cell death through a mechanism called apoptosis, stopping the cells from dividing, preventing the formation of blood-vessels in tumors, reducing the chance of cancer cells spreading through the body, or speeding up autophagy as described earlier. Different studies done on cancer cells show that some of the anti-tumor effects of cannabinoids are due to the cancer cells binding to the cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2. Other research shows that cannabinoids like CBD exert anti-tumor activity without the involvement of these receptors. In addition to the effects that stop cancer from growing, CBD was found to have a chemo-preventive effect in mouse model of colon cancer as was demonstrated by Dr. Aviello and colleagues from Italy. The results were published in 2012 in the Journal of Molecular Medicine. Chemicallyinduced pre-cancerous and cancerous lesion formation was prevented when the cancer-causing chemical was given concurrently with CBD to the mice. Using cancer cells, the researchers found that CBD protected DNA from damage by oxidation, increased the levels of endocannabinoids (cannabinoids that are produced naturally in very tiny amounts by the body), and reduced cell growth. A later study by the same research group, published in Phytochemistry, showed that these effects were mediated via the CB1 receptor. However, the picture so far about cancer and cannabis is not all rosy, as some research has also shown that, under some circumstances, the components of cannabis can actually encourage the growth of cancer cells. In 2000, a research study was published in Journal of Immunology by Dr. Zhu and colleagues from UCLA that showed in mouse models of cancer that THC has the ability to suppress immunity against tumors and can thus actually promote the growth of tumors. Data from studies carried out on cancer cell lines by Dr. Hart and colleagues from Germany, published in Cancer Research in 2004, showed that concentrations of THC comparable to those found in the serum of patients after THC administration accelerates the growth of cancer cells. Another study published in Journal of Immunology in 2005 by Dr. McKallip and colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University in USA, again showed that THC can enhance cancer growth and spread by suppressing anti-tumor immune response. The study was carried out on cancer cell lines and mouse models of cancer.
It is important to be aware that there is absolutely no evidence that smoking marijuana can cure cancer: all the research carried out so far uses purified components of marijuana and uses doses that exceed way beyond what smoking can provide. Of course, there is also some evidence described above that lower doses of the active compounds can actually lead to cancer growth, hence, smoking marijuana by cancer patients will likely be more harmful than useful. Also, there are no robust studies so far in humans with a large number of patients and a control group where the cannabinoids are given in a non-invasive manner.
In addition to the effects that stop cancer from growing, CBD was found to have a chemo-preventive effect in mouse model of colon cancer as was demonstrated by Dr. Aviello and colleagues from Italy. Overall, the research on cannabinoids so far gives us a hope that they may be effective in treating cancer one day. However, there is still a long way to go before the exact compounds, combinations of compounds, purity of these compounds, and the exact dose and dosage pattern that may be effective in preventing/curing cancer are established, and more large scale and robust human clinical trials are carried out.
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That cannabinoids can have different effects (stopping or promoting tumor growth) depending on the cannabinoid dosage and levels of cannabinoid receptors present on the cancer cells was demonstrated by Dr. Cudabeck and colleagues from USA and was published in PloS One in 2010. Higher dosage was found to have anti-tumor activity than lower doses that actually promoted tumor growth. Yet, another study by Dr. Lorente and colleagues from Spain published in Cell Death and Differentiation in 2011, described how cancer cells can develop resistance to cannabinoids and suggested that blocking a certain molecular pathway in the cells could actually prevent the cells from becoming resistant. However, robust studies on how this pathway can be blocked are needed.
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BUILDING YOUR GROW PART II BUBBA KUSH BRAND BURNING SINCE 1997
Ventilation Part 1
Wattup wattup! This issue is when we actually get building your rooms mechanics and get a little physical. Remember, this is a liquid world and the room accommodates us, we do not accommodate the room. I have pulled old pictures of grows and attempted to set up a temporary system at the Grow Gen store in Pueblo. So I managed to get some good shots for you that should help tremendously. I’d like to thank Calvin at Grow Gen for helping me set up some basic shots and the use of their equipment. The other shots are old shots from a true pro who can really build a room. So this will be an exciting issue when we get a little dirty and have some fun building! So far we have discussed setting up one of two basic setups: Setting up in an open room or using a tent. I will focus more on building the tent setup since it is easier to just imagine the tent to be a room instead of the room being a tent. Did that make sense? Your light is now safely hung centered over the table. Make sure you hang the light in line with how you are going to ventilate it. You will have to ventilate the light if you are growing in a tent. As you can see (picture A) the tents are well constructed and have holes for all your electric cords and ventilation ducting. They zipper up to total darkness for sleep mode and have large windows for quick cool down or as an option for more open ventilation. I would still vent your lights in a tent, even though I hate venting, but these are the compromises we have to make. This means you’ll have to maintain cleaning the lens for optimal light operation. With that said, we are going to build your ventilation system. I am going to explain two systems to ventilate your lights and your room, the super simple system and the one-step-beyond system. This will also depend on whether you are venting directly outside or into another part of the house. Ducting always sucks and it is no fun to work with either way you go. Whether you use flexible duct or regular hard aluminum duct it still sucks. The light in (picture A) is ducted using flexible ducting. It is hard to mount and keep from sagging without strapping it almost everywhere. It is also not very durable and punctures easily whether it is vinyl or foil flexible duct. The light in (picture B) is ducted to the fans using hard ducting that is much cleaner and efficient. This is where you will want to be handy with a measuring tape, drill and a good pair of metal snips. Also on the hardware store list is foil duct tape, metal strapping, and good ladder. Don’t do anything risky like standing on chairs or buckets. The hoods you are using will dictate the size of duct to use. I suggest at least eight-inch ducting and ventilation parts and pieces. You can always attach connector pieces to go to a larger duct size if you expand to more than one light, but your hood will always be the same. Try to stay away from too many duct size changes throughout your system. A lot of growers will tell you to raise and lower your lights but I find it unnecessary and an easy way to light shock your plants if you are a novice. It is also a reason to hard duct everything. So not to stray… depending what your limiting factor is — whether it is the placement of your light or where your exhaust is going — will determine your starting point for measuring and laying your duct
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work. Always think ahead and try to foresee obstacles when laying duct and drilling through walls. You want to design your system so that the air is pulled over your lights and not pushed. This means you want to mount your fan at the exhaust end of the room. Which brings up the issue of where we are going to exhaust. Hopefully, you have a garage or a nice back yard to ventilate your outbound air. This will determine some of your limitations. I have had to dump my exhaust straight into the walls before as a last resort. Remember that this is part of the creative process. Outside or close to outside is the goal. There are many pros and cons to where you dump your exhaust. I always prefer using ionizers for the last stage of filtration but you cannot have them exhausting indoors around humans, animals, or plants. We will set up an ionizer in the one-step-beyond system next issue. Let’s now go through the two different ways to scrub and ventilate your room. I will go through the simple quick way first. After you learn that you love to grow, you will want to upgrade to the silent, more stealth system that will cover next issue, which is not too difficult to add on to this simple system. The simple system involves your basic can filter and can fan (picture C) located centrally in the room preferably on the ceiling. I used to hang them on hooks with heavy-duty ratchet straps so I did not need any help hanging them. They are heavy and you have to change the filters regularly. I like them off the floor because they are out of the way and don’t suck up floor dust that will force you to change your filters prematurely. Make sure they go in your ceiling studs. The filters come in many sizes and you need to make sure all the pieces and parts match. I believe in overkill and always get one or two sizes more than what you really need. You want to create negative pressure in the room but you don’t want the doors to whistle. Gauge the size of the room appropriately to the size of your room and the specs on the filter and fan and then go one size bigger. The Can 100 is a nice size filter, and that will usually do the job in most rooms provided proper maintenance. Always change the filters more than the recommended time. Better safe than sorry, right? Also make sure the duct size you are working with is the same size as the fan to avoid messy ductwork with lots of adjusters and connectors. Once the filter is in a good central out-of-the-way place (or wherever the hell you can put it). Lets run the duct from the light to the filter. You want to run your duct lines as strait and clean as possible with as few bends, couplings, connectors, and reducers as possible. Again, I suggest using hard duct over flexible. It may be a bitch to cut, but you will thank me for it the future. I’m not a fan of flexible duct. It is a messy constant maintenance project and just not clean. Now run the duct through the tent and attach to the flange on the hood. Make sure it is properly attached tightly with a ring clamp. You will want self-tapping screws to affix all your hard aluminum duct pieces to the flanges and lots of foil tape, metal strapping ring clamps, hex bits for your drill, and patience. Look at (pictures A and
B) for hard and flexible hood attachment. Measure your duct line carefully twice, lay out all the pieces, double check nothing is in your path, and then start cutting and hanging the duct with metal strapping. You should probably buy a box of ¼ inch anchors just in case you have a weird spot in the ceiling where you can’t find a stud.
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Now let’s run the exhaust line from the light to the exhaust fan. The exhaust fan is the same kind on can fan you are using on your filter (picture C) Mount the exhaust fan in a manageable space where you can change it out easy. You also don’t want the fan to vibrate the ceiling or resonate too close to a wall. This is where we can get creative with muffling devices that I will cover in the one-step-beyond ventilation system next issue. For now, mount the fan to a piece of wood and put rubber plates between the fan and the wood. This will dampen some of the vibration. Also make note to which direction of the airflow the fan is positioned before you mount it. There is usually an arrow on the fan indicating the direction so you don’t have to ask the sales guy which way the wind blows. Remember that you want to pull air over the bulbs and not push air through the hood. This prevents hot spots in the line, so hang the fan accordingly. Now pull together the duct and parts and pieces and measure twice and repeat hanging and cutting. With this simple can filter system you can exhaust in obscure places you find throughout the house, like into walls, without going directly outside and drawing attention if that is an issue. Even if you are legally allowed to grow it is still best to keep it to yourself as much as possible, especially if your neighbors smoke! They will be over everyday bumming weed off you. With this set up, it never hurts to have a stand-alone scrubber in the room as well. Set up another can filter out of the way in the room. Put a can fan on top of the filter and have it just running constantly to help scrub the room. This setup is basically the can filter in (picture C) without the ducting will just circulate and constantly scrubbing the room. This really acts as a prescrub before the air is pulled out of the room by your main scrub/ ventilation system. It does not need to be as large as your main filter but I would still go big. Just another precautionary measure.
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Hopefully, we have a good idea now of how we set up a basic ventilation system. The can filter is fixed. You have run the duct from the filter to the light and the light out to the exhaust fan. It is a very easy system and is really effective for one to two-light grows. And all the fans pulling air out of the room will create a negative pressure in you room that will alleviate the need to pull in outdoor air. Always try to use intake air that is buffered from the outdoors by pulling buffered air from other parts of the house into the room with negative pressure. Oppositely, it will prevent smelly air from leaking out of the room into the rest of the house. I hope this was relatively easy to follow, next time we will build the super stealth system. I will now leave you with a good story about ventilation. This is a tale of an old grow that was really cool but had one of my worst ventilation jobs ever. I had a friend who owned an apartment building in Beverly Hills just blocks from Rodeo. Not a very seclude spot to say the least. Another friend and I basically took over the whole second floor and had plans on the rest of the building as tenants moved out. The cool thing was, I would go in to two bedroom apartments and dry wall one bedroom shut. We would then put secret entrances to the rooms through the master bedroom closets. I would have my friends, girlfriends, and even parents come in my apartment and they never knew it was a two bedroom. Again, stupid to grow on the second floor, but we do what we do for the passion of growing our own herb. Well the ventilation blew right in between my building and the one next door that was probably at most ten feet away. I still cannot believe no one other than my friends ever realized that it totally stunk walking anywhere near the space between the two buildings. I was always waiting to meet someone from the building next door who would ask if there was a family of skunks between the buildings. Saving grace… there are a lot of skunks in LA! Love you guys and thanks for listening.
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Pot-litically Incorrect
Ganja Gripes by DJ Reetz
In the past I’ve used this forum as a platform to poke fun at some of the idiotic ideas held by prohibitionists. And while it is fun (and easy) to lampoon the deft attempts by prohibitionists to avoid logic and fact, it lacks a certain satisfaction. Generally, people who believe firmly in the criminalization of a plant don’t seek out opposing viewpoints. They’re usually more of the confirmation bias types, who will cling to “evidence” that supports their beliefs no matter how little scrutiny it takes to dismiss the evidence as invalid. These are usually people who will use broad generalizations, like “All pot smokers are lazy,” or “I knew someone who smoked pot and went on to harder drugs, so it’s a gateway for everybody” while completely ignoring the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. While I do thoroughly enjoy making fun of the people that cling to these poorly constructed notions, they sure as fuck don’t ever pick up this magazine.
No, the people I’ve aimed my criticisms at in the past probably don’t ever get a chance to fully understand just how stupid we all think they are, and that is truly unfortunate. So now I turn my critical eye to a group that I hold much dearer, people that may actually be reading this very magazine. Now, the following passages may apply to you, or they may not. Everything I’m writing here is done so with love. I love cannabis, and I’ve made more friends through the shared love of the plant than through just about anything else I do. I also have a great deal of respect for the people who have made the legal cannabis industry possible and the people that continue to keep it operating. Legal cannabis draws people who are passionate and progressive, who think that change for the better is possible and want to be a part of that. These are people who would rather let reason and logic govern policy than sit on established dogma that is based in neither. I really do love cannabis, and if you do too there’s a fairly good possibility that we will get along. But that doesn’t mean everybody who likes cannabis is always a fantastic person, and what follows is a list of gripes I’ve built up over not just my time reporting on the legal industry, but over half a lifetime of partaking of the plant. If you read something that makes you uncomfortable, just know I probably don’t know you personally, and it probably isn’t aimed at you as an individual. If you are part of the small group of people who do know me personally and you read something that sounds like it is aimed at you, feel free to get mad, then go ahead and fuck yourself.
Vote
Oh my fucking god. Why do I have to bitch about this? Amendment 64 passed in 2012 because the people of Colorado voted for it. If you moved here because of 64, or you just voted for it 2012, you owe it to the community to see that it is enacted properly, and that means voting for elected officials who support the intelligent enactment of marijuana policy. Amendment 64 was an amendment to the state constitution voted on directly by the citizens of the state, not a bill that became law through the drawn out posturing of elected officials in the legislature who are mostly too cowardly to take a stand on an issue such as this that would potentially alienate voters. Legal cannabis, whether it’s sold at a dispensary as marijuana or used to revitalize rural economies as hemp, happened because the people of the state voted for it.
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Which is why it’s so incredibly disheartening to see the apathy towards voting that seems so present in the discussion on social media. It’s super cool that you post dab videos every day, very interesting stuff that, but if you’re flaunting the progress that’s been made and aren’t engaged in ensuring that it continues unabated you are fucking up.
The consistent message that I’ve seen is in one of two areas: either 1. Legal weed already happened, we won, no need to do anything further, or 2. Voting doesn’t matter. If you believe either of these things, you’re just fucking wrong. That’s it. Wrong. If the recent municipal election in Denver demonstrates anything, it’s that voting does matter, and the cannabis vote basically doesn’t exist. Denver, the capital of the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana sales, still has a sitting mayor that vehemently opposes legal marijuana and anything resembling of its public consumption. What’s worse, he was all but unopposed in the recent election. So while the city objectively benefits from the will of the people to treat cannabis sensibly, the mayor is stuck in some kind of backwards Reagan-era dip-shitery that is reflected by the efforts of law enforcement in the city to shut down cannabis clubs and threaten the liquor licenses of 21-and-over establishments that look the other way when people smoke marijuana alongside tobacco smokers in their designated smoking areas. Are there enough people who enjoy responsibly using marijuana to make up the 67,741-vote difference between Hancock and his nearest challenger? Possibly. What’s definitely true, though, is that you all could have voted for a city council member with a better attitude toward marijuana than the one who currently represents you. The difference between a cannabisfriendly candidate and a backwards cannabis bigot representing you in your city government is usually no more than a few thousand votes, and these are generally people you will have an opportunity to talk to, whether at City Council hearings or just via email or phone calls. Hell, these people probably live in your neighborhood, so maybe you can scream invective at them while they walk their dog. Or you could just do the bare minimum to be a responsible member of a functioning democracy by getting informed and voting. But until you can do this you’d better shut the fuck up about how you’re responsible for pushing the consciousness forward.
Fucking Own It
So, you are a regular marijuana user and it’s not glaringly apparent in the first ten seconds of meeting you. Way to go, you’re doing it right. What you may not be doing right is letting people around you know in more direct ways that you like the marijuana. I’m not advocating that you start blowing hits in people’s faces at the next family gathering, but you should feel comfortable in casually acknowledging that you enjoy a more healthy method of relaxation and inebriation than drinking. Maybe you’re afraid of the stigmas attached to marijuana use. Well, those
stigmas exist because a bunch of ignorant bigots think they can pigeonhole all marijuana users based on a carefully constructed stereotype that mostly comes from comedic movies. If you’re not a part of that stereotype, you don’t have to worry, and a public acknowledgement of your own enjoyment of marijuana actually helps to erode those tired tropes. At this point most Americans are actually in favor of marijuana legalization, not because they personally use it, but because they can understand that it’s just objectively the right thing to do. You’re not even taking a risk anymore you’re just self-identifying as someone who’s thoughtful enough to break free from decades of misinformation. You should be proud of that, not ashamed. So delete those alternate social media profiles and start engaging your parents, grand parents, relatives, coworkers and acquaintances. The stigma only exists if you let it. Or just drop them a copy of this fine magazine and let us do it for you.
Lose the Know-It-All Bullshit
I’ve met my share of master growers, extractors and cannabis scientists, and you know what all these experts share? They are all open to new information. But there’s a certain segment of cannabis enthusiasts who feel they are the absolute ultimate definitive cache of cannabis knowledge.
every potential downside of cannabis use is completely false. Most recently I saw this demonstrated in a discussion about the potential health risks of concentrates in which a seeming majority of cannabis users outrightly refused to acknowledge there was any potential for harm. I know that most concentrate manufacturers do everything in their power to ensure their product is free of potentially harmful solvents (and yes, inhaling butane and propane is bad for you) but outside of a highly regulated legal market, there really is no guarantee that what you’re getting is free of solvents. I’m not accusing anybody, just saying the potential for consuming potentially detrimental chemicals exists, and that refusing to acknowledge that isn’t good for the industry as a whole. Certainly here in Colorado your likelihood of consuming a dangerous product is greatly diminished thanks to the regulation of the market (bemoaning any kind of regulation could have also made this list) but in other parts of the country, where solvent extractions remain illegal and unregulated, the potential for contaminated concentrates remains. Nothing would be more detrimental for the cause of legalization and more beneficial to the cause of prohibition than a generation of marijuana users with demonstrable health issues caused by unhealthy consumption practices. The point is, there are things that are not yet known, and refusing to even consider anything that challenges your own beliefs is exactly what I usually use this space to make fun of prohibitionists for. So there, that’s my list of gripes that have been left simmering as I navigate the cannabis community. If you find yourself so incised by anything I’ve written, feel free to take to your favorite social media service and really get your rage on. I’m always looking for more asshole behavior to write about. Or you could just smoke some weed, relax, and try to figure out how to be less of a prick. That’s probably what I’ll be doing.
It’s cool that you’ve grown your own marijuana for a couple years, it’s cool that you can produce some quality bud. But there’s always new information to be acquired and there sure as fuck are always people that know more than you. I can’t count the number of people I’ve run across both on the internet and in real life who seem to have some sort of undue self-assurance that they are the best to ever sprout a seed or blast a tube. These people always have a condescending attitude and are quick to talk shit on the work of others, whether it be a struggling newbie or a master grower at an established business. You know how I can tell you’re full of shit? Because a master doesn’t have to shit talk. A master lets their work speak for itself, a master doesn’t need input from others but is still open to new ideas, a master will encourage others, rather than lording some kind of secret knowledge over the plebeians trying to find their own way. A real master knows they got there through hard work and dedication, and they don’t have to be threatened by someone who is doing something different. So chill, after all this is marijuana we’re talking about, not the holy scriptures.
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Invariably, if you gather a bunch of cannabis enthusiasts together there is some amount of group-think that will occur. It’s not unique to cannabis, and it’s made worse by the decades of demonization and persecution that cannabis has faced. I understand the need to dismiss information that is contradictory to one’s own personal understanding; after all, the prohibitionist team is full of this kind of shit.
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But what is absolutely unhelpful is the outright dismissal of anything that would seem to go against the miracle that is cannabis. There has no doubt been an effort to malign cannabis over the years, but that doesn’t mean that
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Hemp Phoenix
Rising from the ashes of tragedy is a herald of hope
by DJ Reetz
52 June 2015
Up a winding mountain road, hidden amongst the charred pines left behind by the High Park fire, an otherwise innocuous construction site surrounds a cabin being built. Here, in the foothills outside of Ft. Collins, this particular cabin carries a distinction from the others in the area that share its sweeping views over the small town of Laporte and out to the plains, this one is being made using hemp. “It’s practically impervious to everything,” says Melissa Rabe, CEO of the Loveland Hemp Company that’s providing the materials and one of the small group of people on site, as she pounds on the rough, grey material that makes up the cabin walls. The modest cabin is constructed from a wooden frame, using the fire-cured standing timber from the surrounding area that gives even the interior space an exterior feel, but the truly noteworthy aspect of the cabin is the otherwise unremarkable grey material that is packed into the frame forming the building’s walls. It’s hemp, mixed with lime to form a sturdy, insulative, stucco-like wall.
Melissa and Josh Rabe of Loveland Hemp Company
“This whole thing will become like one piece of stone,” says Rabe. As the hemp and lime cures, it will absorb the CO2 from the atmosphere, creating a strong, and fire-resistant insulating wall. All it will need is a coat of stucco. The project began after the landowner made the hard decision to rebuild the cabin he had lost in 2012 during the High Park fire. At the time, the fire was the second largest the state had seen, and homes in this densely forested area stood little chance to withstand the quickly spreading fire driven by high winds. The cabin’s owner, a longtime friend of Rabe’s, had owned the land since 1975, and the loss of his mountain retreat was heart breaking. “We were able to do stuff up here and enjoy the land before it burned,” says Rabe. “He was very disheartened when it burned.” Fortunately, Rabe, a hemp advocate and entrepreneur, was in a position to help. While not a strictly charitable endeavor, building the house out of hemp would be an opportunity not just to help a friend, but also to demonstrate the power and applications of hemp. “On the one hand we’re helping a buddy out,” says Rabe. “On the other hand, it’s to show people what hemp can do. This is really our proof of concept.” In March of last year construction began and a foundation was set. After some of the nearby dried timbers were lugged over by hand and set in place creating the natural frame, the process of creating the walls began. For this, roughly 8,000 pounds of processed hemp hurd is needed. The hurd is made up of processed hemp stalk and fiber, and looks a bit like wood chips, though it is much softer to the touch and less likely to give you splinters when handled. The hurd is mixed with lime and water in a ratio that is dependant on environmental factors of the area, and up here in the Colorado foothills, extreme cold can give way to blaring sun in a matter of days or even hours. It makes the process tricky, but Rabe says experimentation is key. The hurd lime mixture is then poured into molds secured between the supports of the house and packed down to ensure it is dense enough. This is also made more difficult by the natural shape of the adjacently sourced wood, which requires the molds to be carefully trimmed to ensure the finished walls will be a uniform nine inches thick. After it has been allowed to cure the hemp is coated in a plaster stucco mix that the team incorporates hemp hurd into as well. The end result is a sturdy wall that naturally dampens sound, is easily
“It’s one of those things that’s just really hard to screw up, like an oatmeal cookie...it’s a natural building process, you really just have to try it.” repaired, provides exceptional climate control due to its breathability, and is even resistant to fire. “It’s a lot like sculpting a house,” says Rabe. “It’s fun, it’s creative.” “It’s one of those things that’s just really hard to screw up, like an oatmeal cookie,” says Josh Rabe, husband, business partner and construction assistant to Melissa. “It’s a natural building process, you really just have to try it.” Because of the variable and climate dependant nature of the hemp walls, a lot of builders will be intimidated by the process as there really is no definitive formula to follow, says Josh. But with a bit of experimentation and a willingness to let the process play out organically it really isn’t too hard to figure out, though he says he does recommend retaining an engineer as they have. For now, the hemp being used comes from foreign sources, which for the time being is about half the cost of the limited amounts of domestic hemp. But Rabe says she foresees a time when the hemp used in these projects is sourced from Kentucky or Colorado. The process is also more costly than some traditional construction methods due to the increased labor necessary to prepare the hemp walls, and the cost of the lime needed also plays a factor. But so far, the project is shaping up to be quite a success, and if all goes as planned the cabin should be ready for occupancy this summer. If you’re interested in learning about hemp construction be sure to check out the upcoming workshop Loveland Hemp Company is putting on June 13. Check out their Facebook page for details.
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Mixing of hempcrete
view from the cabin
Hempcrete Block
Interior of hemp cabin
Application of plaster over hempcrete
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View of cabin from the drive up
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MJNA vs. Project CBD and Others
Breaking down the 100 million dollar lawsuit by DJ Reetz A recent settlement in the $100 million lawsuit filed by Medical Marijuana Inc. is being touted as a vindication of the company. In January, Medical Marijuana Inc., a publicly traded cannabis company that trades on the over the counter market under ticker symbol MJNA, filed a lawsuit aimed at a scathing report published by the non-profit advocacy group Project CBD that outlined some of the less than savory business practices that were involved in the formation of the company and notably contained several stark accusations about potentially harmful contaminants in Medical Marijuana Inc.’s flagship product, Real Scientific Hemp Oil. The lawsuit, filed in California’s Superior Court, targets several Colorado residents and business who contributed to the Project CBD report, as well as naming the report’s author, Project CBD’s founder, and the non-profit itself, all accused of libel, defamation and painting the company in a false light. The recent settlement in the case centers on Stewart Environmental, an environmental testing lab that released a report to local cannabis activist Jason Cranford seeming to show a high amount of heavy metal contamination in a sample of RSHO submitted by Cranford. As part of the settlement Stewart CEO Dr. David Stewart released a video statement clarifying that the report issued to Cranford was preliminary, and that a follow up report showing acceptable levels of heavy metals was in fact the correct one. While the secondary report was noted in Project CBD’s critique, it is treated with skepticism, questioning as to whether it is authentic due to lack of a corrective action report, which is generally standard procedure when lab work is corrected. But the settlement with Stewart seems to be the definitive legal answer to the issue. “It’s very unusual what happened,” concedes MMJ Inc. spokesperson Andrew Hard. Also settling in the case is Jason Cranford, the Colorado grower and activist whose high-CBD strain Haleigh’s Hope gained national attention when it donated its name to a medical marijuana law passed in Georgia. Cranford played an integral part in the Stewart saga after he was approached by the parent of a child apparently sickened by a dose of RSHO. Cranford had previously left KannaLife
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shortly after the company had been acquired by MMJ Inc. and shortly thereafter began searching for problems with the products of the new parent corporation, according to the Project CBD report. In his search Cranford was contacted by a Colorado woman whose daughter had allegedly suffered gastrointestinal distress after ingesting RSHO. According to Project CBD, it was this syringe of RSHO that Cranford took to Stewart Environmental, where he received a report showing high amounts of lead among other potential contaminants and he then set out to make the findings known. For his role in the situation Cranford was named as a defendant in MMJ Inc.’s lawsuit, and according to Hard, he has now recorded a video statement attesting to the validity of the statement from Stewart. Cranford’s statement has yet to be released however, so its content remains unknown. Cranford himself seems defiant. Though barred from discussing the nature of the settlement, Cranford maintains that he believed the sample he was given to be genuine, and is adamant that the settlement was not the
The lawsuit, filed in California’s Superior Court, targets several Colorado residents and business who contributed to the Project CBD report, as well as naming the report’s author, Project CBD’s founder, and the non-profit itself, all accused of libel, defamation and painting the company in a false light.
In addition to supplying the bulk material that went into the MMJ Inc.’s RSHO, CannaVest also shares origins with the company. Investment capital for both companies was secured by MMJ Inc.’s current CEO, Stuart Titus, according to Hard, and several of the central figures in CannaVest are mentioned by name in Project CBD’s report.
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Despite owning 11.25 percent of CannaVest, MMJ Inc. and its subsidiaries are currently involved in several lawsuits against the company, one of which concerns the ownership of the RSHO trademark.
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“At the time this Project CBD report references, CannaVest was the sole exclusive supplier, it’s an important fact to note,” says Hard.
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The Project CBD report also contains some insight into a short-lived venture between MMJ Inc. and Colorado-based Dixie Elixirs, a venture that contributed to the departure of Dixie’s chief scientist as well as the company’s head of production and extraction, allegedly over the potentially unsafe hemp paste Dixie was receiving from MMJ Inc. At the time, the hemp paste supplied to Dixie and used in the creation of MMJ Inc.’s own product was sourced by CannaVest, a company that is still partially owned by MMJ Inc.
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However, MMJ Inc. did see fit to include Cannlabs in its suit, as well as the company’s CEO Gennifer Murray. The Denver-based lab was responsible for an early test of Cranford’s sample that seemed to indicate a THC content above the .3 percent threshold set by the DEA as legally allowable for hemp products. Murray was also one of the first to pick up on Cranford’s accusations, and a Facebook post she made is the central exhibit in the case against her in MMJ Inc.’s lawsuit.
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But while MMJ Inc. is claiming a victory, some of the claims in the Project CBD report remain unchallenged. Project CBD’s report also includes an accusation that a sample of RSHO tested by PhytaTech, a lab operating in Denver, contained hexane, an industrial solvent. According to Project CBD, this sample originated from Brandon Krenzler, an Oregon man whose daughter had allegedly been sickened by it, and while the provable chain of custody of the sample is nonexistent, neither PhytaTek nor Krenzler was included in MMJ Inc.’s lawsuit.
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The settlement with Cranford and Stewart Environmental was quickly hyped by MMJ Inc., who spared no time in issuing press releases proclaiming victory. One story ran on the website cashinbis.com titled “Project CBD Report Confirmed False: Clearing the Air Around RSHO” touted MMJ Inc.’s settlement with Stewart and alluded to Cranford’s settlement and the video concession that a month later has still not materialized.
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While the settlement in MMJ Inc.’s lawsuit may provide some closure, Project CBD isn’t backing down. The group has filed a motion to strike down the suit on the grounds that it is protected as free speech under the First Amendment. Project CBD Founder Martin Lee wouldn’t comment for this article due to the pending litigation beyond the following statement: “Project CBD stands by its report 100 percent and we’re very proud of it.” Whatever the outcome, the drawn out fight is sure to leave all sides bloodied, and definitive answers to the claims made against those involved may not come at all.
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The Giving Tree of Denver
The Health Center
NOW SERVING MEDICAL PATIENTS AND RECREATIONAL ADULTS!
The Health Center is a top notch cannabis dispensary with two convenient locations in the heart of Denver.
2707 W. 38th Ave. Denver, CO 80211 www.tgtree.com
Infinite Wellness Center 2 Locations www.infinitewellness8.com
We believe in the infinite possibility of total wellness and in the infinite modalities to achieving this wellness within and without. We offer our patients a dignified environment with friendly compassionate staff here to facilitate the needs of our patients. It is one of our goals to help dispel the negative press, thoughts and attitudes toward utilizing marijuana as a multi-beneficial medicine. We have set a standard to provide quality medical marijuana and edibles in a wonderful variety while upholding the laws set forth by both state and local governments. We plan to participate in fund raisers and charity events to engage in the needs of our community. It is our intention to bring light and awareness to a fresh view of well being and peace.
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Established in 2009, The Giving Tree of Denver continually strives to be a leader in the Colorado Medical Marijuana Center industry. Today we boast the largest edible selection in the city. We serve the particular needs of licensed medical marijuana patients in our comfortable, safe and friendly atmosphere. In addition to our generous membership program, we offer a 10% discount on every purchase for Veterans, HIV/AIDS, cancer patients, students and ***MMJ industry staff.
Boasting upwards of 70 varieties of award winning strains at any given time, the individuals who comprise the THC team pride ourselves on offering the best variety, potency and effectiveness of any cannabis in the region. Not only is The Health Center focused on cultivating the finest quality medicine, but also employing the finest quality staff. Each time you visit, you will be greeted with knowledgeable, friendly associates who take pride in working with you to find the best available options to meet your medical needs.
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Grown and raised right here in Colorado...We are locally owned and operated by Colorado natives, and all of our medicine is meticulously cared for locally. Here at KPM, we appreciate our patients and can relate to many of the conditions from which they suffer. As patients and caregivers, we remediate and manage pain. We understand that sometimes any relief is welcome, and we are here to help. We are committed to compassion for our patients and quality of our medicine. We offer very high quality medicine to our patients at very kind prices. You’ll find our selection of strains, tinctures, hash, edibles (even ice cream), to be quite impressive. Whatever your needs, our friendly and knowledgeable staff is here to help.
2304 Platte Ave. Colorado Springs, CO 80909 coloradospringsmmj.com We pride ourselves on caring for our patients first! Your concerns are our top priority! Your needs as a patient are highly valued by the team at Organic Seed and by our highly trained Bud tenders. They will assist you with all of your medication needs and help come up with a personal plan to help manage your condition. Organic Seed has a wide variety of Indica, Sativa and Hybrid strains along with some shop favorites such as our own Blue Dream and Ghost OG. Our top strains are grown in house in all organic soil. We also carry a variety of Concentrates including earwax, shatter and hash oils mostly processed by R & R and Mahatma Concentrates.
Original Cannabis Growers 2625 E St Vrain St Colorado Springs, CO 80909 www.OCGhome.com
Simply the best cannabis for less. We’re the first and oldest Center in our Platte Ave. neighborhood in Colorado Springs. Call for mature guidance for your personal needs from growers with over 15 years experience. We offer Happy Hour 4p.m. to 6p.m. Every day. Our friendly staff will be happy to assist you with all your medical cannabis needs.
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.
Preferred Organic
1569 South Colorado Boulevard Denver, CO 80222 www.preferredorganictherapy.com Preferred Organic Therapy & Wellness is a medical marijuana center that empowers quality-minded patients with a revolutionary approach for treating the mind and the body. Together, the staff ensures that their patients are the most well-informed in the state of Colorado. They do this by combining patient-driven strain testing that breaks down the distinct properties of each strain, as well as its unique effects, with visual educational aids and enhanced strain titles. Their second-to-none selection of additional treatment products are made even more valuable given that they are combined with the ability to browse detailed information at a leisurely pace. Come see why Preferred Organic Therapy & Wellness patients are raving about them.
URBA at MMD of Colorado 2609 Walnut St. Denver, CO 80205 www.mmdofcolorado.com
A recreational store and a medical marijuana center serving individuals 21 and up. Located in the River North Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. In compliance with Amendment 20, Amendment 64 and all subsequent rules and regulations. Our goal is to provide excellent marijuana in a comfortable, inviting environment. Our staff is dedicated to aiding in the best health and wellness possible for our customers. Our marijuana is grown in an environment that produces the best product, in the healthiest manner knowing our customers only want the best. We know you will find we have the best prices. Best quality. Best staff.
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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www.thecliniccolorado.com The Clinic is an award winning marijuana center with five 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.
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Kosher Kush 2012 High Times Cannabis Cup (Denver) Patient’s Choice Winner Stardawg Guava 2012 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup (Denver) 1st Place Best Sativa Grape God Bud 2010 CO Caregiver’s Cup Triple Crown-winner and 2nd place 2011 Aspen Cannabis Crown, this is the hottest indica in town. Raskal OG One of the most visually appealing and potent OG kushes around with a distinct diesel fuel aroma. 2012 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup (Denver) 3rd Place Best Hybrid Ghost OG THC Champions Cup 3rd Place Overall Hybrid & Patients’ Choice Hybrid. 2013
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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 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
Beverages CannaPunch, Dixie Elixirs, Keef Cola, Green Dragon, and MarQaha
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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. Phishhead Kush This strong indica was named 2nd best strain of 2014 by famed cannabis connoisseur William Breathes. Jack Flash A classic strain that was recently awarded Connoisseurs’ Choice Adult Use Hybrid at the 2014 THC Championship.
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Budder, Shatter, & Live Resin The Clinic carries the full line of concentrates, including Live Resin Batter, produced by 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 The Hemp Connoisseur Championship 2012 2nd Place Indica and Connoisseur’s Choice Kosher Kush 1st Place Sativa and Patient’s Choice - Stardawg Guava 3rd Place Hybrid and Patient’s Choice - Ghost OG 1st Place Concentrate and Connoisseur’s Choice - Earth OG Nectar The Hemp Connoisseur Championship 2013 1st Place Indica, Connoisseur’s Choice and Best Tested - Kosher Kush Patient’s Choice Hybrid - Grunk 2nd Place Shatter and Patient’s Choice- Tangie The Hemp Connoisseur Championship 2014 1st Place - Concentrate - BHO Extracts - Live Resin Badder Kosher Kush Connoiseur’s Choice - Concentrate - BHO Extracts - Live Resin Badder Bubba Kush People’s Choice - Adult-Use Sativa - Cherry Pie Connoisseur’s Choice - Adult-Use Hybrid - Jack Flash
Baked Goods/Candies Sweet Grass Kitchen, Julie & Kate Baked Goods, Mountain High Suckers, The Growing Kitchen, Mile Hi, Incredibles, and Cheeba Chews.
The Clinic offers the full line of cannabis seeds from The Bank Cannabis Genetics (formerly Reserva Privada Colorado), including the recently released Phishhead Kush series.
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thedocsapothecary.com Doc’s Apothecary, formerly Physician Preferred Products, is proud and honored to continue providing the highest quality products and customer service to the North Metro community! We are extremely excited to be a part of this historical time for the Marijuana industry and want to thank our loyal customers for their devotion throughout the years. It is this customer support that drives us here at Doc’s to create a comfortable, friendly environment for your MJ needs.
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Up front, our Budtenders strive to continually update their knowledge of strains and products in order to provide you with the most educated MMJ shopping experience around. In the back, our growers work tirelessly to bring only top quality strains into our garden. These strains have been, for the most part, grown from seed and hand selected from many phenotypes to ensure top quality, award winning genetics. We feel this combination of customer service and absolute dedication to quality amounts to a superior cannabis experience!
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