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Lastly, it must be said: wear a dang mask, wash your dang hands, and get the dang vaccine (when it becomes available). That is not politics, only common sense. We’ve lost staff, family and friends to Covid this year. It ain’t no joke. It is not playing around, and you will not win. Even if you do not get sick, you could give it to someone you love. Burying two of my brothers this year was some of the hardest and worst times of my life.
Due to the uptick in Coronavirus cases these past months, we have decided to go online only for a few months to protect the health of our staff and contractors. We have every intention to return to print in the spring. We are doing all we can to keep you informed by posting new information on our website and social media, but no man is an island. PLEASE help us - Like and share our Facebook page, visit us often on our website and be sure to tell your local dispensary that we are running a special on internet ads through the winter - $100 per ad per month, with a link to their website or Facebook page from TCB’s page. Things are literally changing daily on the marijuana landscape and we will all be impacted as these things happen. Let’s make Oklahoma smarter than ever about marijuana! UNTIL THEN, if you are looking for work, WE ARE HIRING.
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Wishing you and yours a safe, happy, and healthy Holiday Season and a much improved 2021. Love, Safety, Health, and a Great Buzz to you, Darrell Briggs Publisher, The Current Buzz Magazine
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lessons learned from a postal fiasco by: TCB Staff
With the holidays here and the pandemic in full swing, you might be using the post office a lot more. It’s a very useful and safe service, but there are inherent dangers to what is considered by the government to be “misuse” of our national parcel system. Mailing marijuana is nothing new, people have been doing it for longer than most of us have been alive and that probably isn’t going to change any time soon. There are certain facts that everyone should be aware of before they ever consider sending (or receiving) any buds
If you’re mailing to another state, further complications may arise. Currently there are 35 states which have legalized for medical purposes, including 4 of 5 US territories and Washington DC. Fifteen of these have obtained full legalization (recreational), and there are 13 other states which have “semilegalized”, with laws that limit the THC content. Considering these wildly different policies, the things that are okay in OK may not be so elsewhere and the laws of these states can get involved. This is another thing to their buds, even if you have that we do not want, so let’s your medical card. continue to see what else might The most critical thing to know is be a problem here. that the US government hasn’t Some of you may remember legalized pot on a federal level (YET). This is important to note, the Silk Road, The online black because the US Postal Service market site that specialized in is an agency of, you guessed it, the sale of illegal drugs. After the US government. Therefore, the site was seized by the FBI using their service to transport a in 2013, the government went substance that they still consider on high alert when they found out how their own services to be illegal is unfortunately were being used to transport punishable by federal law. This substances they found to be is something that we obviously do not want, but let’s continue to illegal. Not only the US Postal Service, but also private look at another aspect of this. carriers, were offered a reward
of up to $50,000 for information leading to the conviction of any and all drug traffickers. Pretty serious stuff, right? Through the use of drug-sniffing dogs, postal inspectors seized over 34,000 pounds of marijuana in 2015 alone. So, what are the consequences to getting caught? Well, not only the sender but the receiving party are held responsible when this happens. Federal law decrees that even the most minimal offenders can get up to five years of jail time with a fine of $250,000. Things get substantially worse when you send in bulk, and there are also state laws to account for, so be very careful with this. All of this points to the notion that it isn’t in your best interests to do this (for now). Until we have legalization on a federal level, they will continue to bring down the hammer on us. Keep your MMJ card handy, but know that it isn’t always bulletproof. Maybe bringing grandma those CBD brownies in person is the safer thing to do here.
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this bud’s for you by: TCB Staff
If you’ve ever accidentally gotten a big gulp of ‘water pipe’ water while taking a hit, you know how awful it can be. And if you aren’t much of a fan of the taste of the edibles out there (gotta say, some just taste like candy that’s been dropped in the dirt), then this story may not be for you.
also things like beers, wines and mixed drinks too. Adding CBD and THC to non-alcoholic beer could have value but adding them to alcoholic beers is considered by some to be a recipe for disaster. Hops and cannabis are closely related agricultural products; both have terpenes and terpenoids (THC is a terpenoid), but hops lack The next new thing the cannabis an enzyme (protein) that could industry is infusing with weed is change one of its chemicals to beverages. And not just things THC or CBD. Pretty cool, huh? like iced teas and coffees, but
This hasn’t stopped the beer barons from putting weed in beer (or putting beer in weed), because, well, think of the dollars! The game plan arose from the consumer who wants to get wasted but hates hangovers as well as the market where we need to put weed in everything to see what works. Makers of Busch, Corona and Modelo have partnered with cannabis companies to develop a perfect partnership
of marijuana-infused beer, but there have been many stumbles along the way. A bad grow year, management turnovers, flavor issues, market fickleness, Coronavirus (and the economy) all have made cannabeer a bit slower to catch on than expected. One noticeable change to the alcohol market has been that the introduction of marijuana has dropped alcohol use considerable. In Canada, the
conversing cannabis legalization of cannabis has led to a decrease in alcohol sales by over 30 percent. This has been a crushing blow to an industry that needs Canada to drink. Infusing beer with weed is the perfect answer. Further, the U.S. has yet to legalize marijuana, so the biggest beer drinking market is holding up Busch and Budweiser from making more money (we wonder if they
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got money from the Cares Act, hmm?), post Covid19. Canada and countries that have fully legalized cannabis are embracing cannabeer, so don’t cry for them just yet. As a matter of fact, Constellation Beverage Company doubled its investment in Canopy Growth to ramp up their production for 2021. We bet they’ll be just fine, even if they did lose $300 million in 2018-19.
Heck, even Pabst Blue Ribbon is in on the green beer, having just created a PBR Cannabis Infused Seltzer in California. The big Canna Company extracting the right stuff from cannabis and replacing the alcohol with the THC and CBD we all crave is BevZero. You may want to start your stock portfolio with this
Page 9 company. Their sister company Conetech is another to watch. The big issues the U.S. still face are that we are still far behind where we should be in legalizing MJ/MMJ, and marijuana and alcohol are NOT allowed to comingle, so you will be waiting a while to go to your neighborhood pub and have a real “Bud” beer. Then there’s the taste thing…
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marijuana. it’s not for 20-somethings anymore by TCB Staff questions and get clarification of anything concerning you, so your budtender or doctor can better assist you. This is a fairly new industry with a long history behind it, no matter how trivial the question may seem, if it concerns your wellbeing, it may not be trivial at all. These people are here to help, and you’re paying them so it’s important to get your money’s worth.
In a recent study by the University of California San Diego, it was determined that roughly 15% of senior citizens have used cannabis for medical purposes. Pain management, insomnia and anxiety were at the top of the list for why our esteemed elders have decided to go green. It is interesting to note that approximately three out of five of first-time MMJ users are older adults. Most of these people are using out of medical necessity rather than recreation and with proper guidance from a doctor, they have discovered that marijuana does not hold the same stigma that was depicted in “Reefer Madness”. There are a lot of people turning to MMJ for the medical benefits as societal acceptance of nature’s favorite medicine increases. People are realizing that the effects are not as
An even better solution is to use the buddy system, preferably with someone who understands the intricacies of MMJ and its various components. These dramatic as the media had once People have concerns about people love to share their senior citizens using MMJ, and perpetuated (and occasionally knowledge and help others rightfully so. This is Grandma still does). While the dangers we’re talking about, and the understand what it’s all about. of prescription medications Remember that the MMJ importance of Grandma can are becoming more and more community is all about helping never be diminished. It is a prevalent, the potential sideeach other, whether it’s on the universal constant. That being effects of cannabis are being said, is it right that we negatively internet, with friends or as a mitigated to become the safer stigmatize the proper medicine? customer. Keeping Grandma or option and in some cases Grandpa happy is a huge part of On the other hand, is it right are being shown to be more that we give her a card and this. effective. wish her the best without proper guidance? There has to be a The active ingredients do not better way... have the potential for addiction that many prescription meds Some people are afraid to ask are renowned for, nor do they for help with things they don’t cause the same long-term understand, concerned for a organ damage that can result plethora of reasons that include from sustained use of certain fear of being exploited or prescriptions. As with any form of medicine, moderation of further confused. This isn’t the case with the MMJ community, dosage and frequency are an though. Many of these places integral factor in the proper usage of any substance to allow will take the time with you to its curative properties to function make sure you are getting the proper care that you are while minimizing any other paying for. At the same time, undesirable effects. it is important that you ask
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What is meant by a “Full Spectrum” product, and is there research that proves it’s better somehow? Great question! There are a few parts to the product you buy in the dispensary. One part is CBD, which is famous in the news for helping lots of conditions, and not giving people a “high”. Another part is THC, which has side-effect, like the traditional “high”. A third part is the Terpenes with are responsible for the aroma and have different properties that make them helpful for different diseases. Most of the Terpenes are found in tiny amounts when compared to the CBD and THC, bu this doesn’t mean they aren’t important. Some people come into the dispensary thinking that the higher THC they can get
the better. But several studies have shown that use of a product containing CBD/THC/Terpenes is actually stronger and more beneficial for getting rid of disease than just CBD or just THC. This is one of the reasons its always better to use real cannabis flowers, and other whole plant products because you get all three - known as the “full-spectrum” product. It’s sort of like the full-spectrum of light. When you go out into the sunshine, without clouds interfering, you are getting the full-
spectrum of light. If you want to separate the light into parts, you can get purple or blue light, reds, etc. Blue light is cheap and easy for computer companies to make, so that’w what they use. But your eyes can be hurt, including the risk for macular degeneration - which we are seeing in young people now. But going into the fullspectrum sunshine is not harmful to your eyes, as long as it’s not too bright for too long. It is “full-spectrum”, it contains all the colors. A patient will still want to experiment to find the best possible strain for their condition - which is a very complex topic - because everyone’s endocannabinoid system is different. But combining the CBD and THC gives what is called the “entourage effect”. Entourage is a French word that means all-together, surrounded, escorted. So the entourage effect means the THC.CBD/ and Terpenes are escorting each other, surrounding each other, playing off each other which maximizes their impact.
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are you allergic? yep, it’s a thing by: TCB Staff treated. All in all, allergies can be debilitating if no measures are taken against them, but we do have a few options here.
or they can develop them over time, so sometimes you may get over one only to pick up another. Mild symptoms typically include runny nose, itchy eyes and sneezing. This can become more severe if your particular allergies are worse, resulting in nasal congestion, eye inflammation, coughing, wheezing and/or sneezing. These are common with seasonal allergies and can usually be mitigated with antihistamines in most cases. Some of the more serious symptoms can consist of hives, swelling and anaphylaxis (allergic shock). Less common An allergy is defined as a substance allergies will trigger damaging immune response by the body to a substance. intense reactions such as these People can grow out of allergies and they can be fatal if not When allergies are involved, life becomes complicated. Yes, it’s bad when it’s “allergy season”, but I’m talking about something more complex. People who suffer from substance allergies can have it a little worse than those with environmental ones. When MMJ is involved, there is the potential for a little of both of these factors. For those who have been prescribed MMJ to medicate a condition, this can be detrimental. Let’s diagnose the symptoms of an allergy and discuss what we can do to control a reaction.
Marijuana allergies can range from mild to dangerous, not only depending on the severity of one’s allergies, but also the way it is administered. Some The previously mentioned people are allergic to chemicals antihistamines can be the best only activated when MMJ is way to knock the mild symptoms burned, but others are allergic out. They work by blocking the to even physical contact with histamines created by the body the substance itself. Even hemp to stop the allergic reaction. clothing can cause skin irritation Decongestants can help clear in certain individuals and there up an excessively runny nose is the problem of pollen being a and these can be sometimes prevalent factor. Mold is also an combined with antihistamine allergy effect worth considering, medications. Hives and as some dispensaries leave swelling can be addressed with their plants in less-than-ideal cortisol (usually administered storage conditions, allowing as a skin cream), these have them to mold. When in doubt, varying strengths and can be ask your dispensary or your extremely effective, though doctor. Marijuana allergy cases higher doses would require the remain uncommon for now, recommendation of a doctor. but it’s likely they will rise as Anaphylactic shock is an the legality of this medicine extremely dangerous condition increases. If you find yourself and should be handled with having an allergic reaction, haste and care. During this make sure to wash the affected condition, your blood pressure area and seek the proper care. drops and airways narrow. It can It’s always best to have a plan in be helped using an epinephrine place in case this happens, stay shot or epi-pen and should educated and ask questions be used immediately to avoid when you have any doubts. permanent damage or death.
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