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mari, mari quite contrary how did that happen (lessons from some 2019 disasters) By: Amy Addams
“Welp, THAT wasn’t what we expected, but 2020 will be better.” We heard that a lot in October of 2019. And November, December, etc. What happened since is a 50/50 split of people taking their own advice and applying their life lessons and others who are sure that if they just try harder, they aren’t doomed to the same fate. Let’s review some 2019 disasters, shall we? 1. Wind spore contamination from hemp grows pollinated MMJ crops. Yeah, it happened. Some major losses happened Oklahoma-wide when outdoor MMJ grows were hit with hemp goo. Big losses resulted. Suggestion: move your precious crops undercover or know who is upwind. 2. Soil contamination ruined crops. There was a time when Okie soils and our brutal hot summers were everything MARIJUANA could ever hope for. MEDICAL marijuana needs more than throwing seeds down
from lower soils and bedrock up to the surface. It’s enough to have you sitting outside with an Iron Man umbrella, protecting your precious babies while the kids walk to the bus stop getting wet cursing your parenting skills. 4. Indoor growers, we’re coming for you too; like you love to hyper nutrient your plants, “if a little is good, a lot is great, right?” WRONG. Micronutrients can be blocked by things like iron if you give your babies an overdose of too much good stuff. Like a human with too much vitamin B, plants do not do well with too much good. Pay attention, read all the directions, measure twice and pour once. 5. Lighting can make or break your plants’ lives. if you want to sell to the market. Okie soil will not remove metals. Photoperiodism is when lighting is overdone too early Marijuana and hemp are used Do not believe the stories. in your grow process (usually to leach metals from soil and decontaminate it. Those plants 3. Any water will work. WRONG. outside lighting leaks into your contained grow operation), are usually destroyed. Don’t cry, Even ground water can trash causing your plants to flower too they sacrificed for a good cause. your crops (see #2, above). If early (or too late). Your buds will Yours will not pass testing if you you trust ground water from go this route as well. Baking rains, they can bring metals up continued on page 6
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continued from cover... be crap and you wasted a lot of money and time. 6. Additional environmental considerations such as carbon dioxide, temperature and humidity need to be part of your grow plan as does the container method. Learn as much as you can from as many sources as you can, then look at your operation and see how their lessons pertain to your grow specifically. One person’s advice is not enough.
phone to document progress. This can help if you need to cry to the local grow supplier about your problems. They are much friendlier with real data as opposed to vague descriptions drawn on receipt paper while you are blubbering.
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seeking alternative care for adhd by Micah Rodriguez With legalization of medical marijuana sweeping the nation, more and more patients are looking for alternative ways to treat their problems. Many of these problems include chronic pain, loss of appetite, insomnia, or depression and anxiety. Weed has been an answer to many patients, but what else could some medical mary jane help with? Around five percent of adults live with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. In recent years, doctors and clinicians have merged Attention Deficit Disorder with ADHD and now list three subtypes of ADHD. The first is Inattentive ADHD, commonly ADD, and this may include trouble focusing on tasks, frequently forgetting things, or often making careless mistakes. Hyperactive ADHD is characterized as restlessness and fidgeting, risk-taking behavior, and impulsive decision making. The third category of ADHD is a combination of the previous two.
This mental disorder is suggested to be caused by a deficiency in neurotransmitters, predominately dopamine, and a structural change in the brain. Medications have been manufactured to remedy these causes, like the amphetamine stimulants Adderall and Ritalin. These drugs work to increase production and slow the breakdown of dopamine in the brains receptors. Although these drugs are prescribed and are proven to help improve conditions, many users reports unwanted and ill-effecting side effects. These side effects include emotional blunting, fatigue, loss of appetite, and mood swings. These medications can also cause addiction due to the active ingredient amphetamine. Many who start these medications eventually end up quitting due to one or a combination of side effects. Marijuana has also been shown to have an effect on dopamine levels in the brain. THC, everyone’s favorite cannabinoid,
increases dopamine production, leading researchers to search for ways cannabis can help. Along a slew of anecdotal evidence and increasing legality, researchers are looking further into the medical applications of ADHD and cannabis. Due to these circumstances, using medical marijuana is a personal journey full of trial and error in finding the right strains to use. To help that journey, here are a few strains to try and reign in the focus or slow down and mellow out a little. Is there a giant, totally boring, mind numbing report breathing down your neck? Does Reddit inevitably end up on the screen right after opening the
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how long does mmj stay in your system? by Amy Addams genetics and how often you use it. Depending on the test, you’ll need different amounts of time: Urine test: if you are a heavy MJ user, you’ll need to stop for 21-30 days to be on the safe side. Moderate users should stop for 10-12 days. If you are an occasional user, five to eight days is a pretty safe bet. 1. If you are asked to take a saliva test, see urine tests.
answers to go either way. THC can be detected for up to 90 days, but there are so many external factors, like others who use corrupting your hair (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) with their dirty air, you have a good argument against. Make sure your other test is clean. 3. Blood tests can show positive for only a few days. If they want your blood, don’t fret, roll up your sleeves. At worst, you must stop for five days for a clean test.
2. If you have to take a hair follicle test, you may have an Prepping for the test: out. There is plenty of • The old wives’ tales of drinking evidence that hair follicle vinegar or orange juice aren’t tests are full of inaccuracies. You can get all kinds of wrong useful. Water is just as good.
Yes, MMJ is legal in Oklahoma. That does not give us all carte blanche to use as we see fit when and where we see fit, not does that mean that every employer will accept your need to medicate. They may even make a clean test a contingency for employment. So, what are your options?
description. Let’s keep the roads safe, okay? Things to know: • Medical MJ is more potent than your everyday MJ. It’s a comparison of 2-3 percent to up to 30 percent potency. If you are using MMJ, we have it from a good source that you’ll need more time than you think to cleanse your body.
You must pass of course. If you want a driving job, we’re going • MJ can stay in your system to stop right here and suggest for several weeks after using it, that you consider another form but that depends on how much of employment if you plan to return to MMJ after you get your you use, your level of physical activity, how much fat you ‘A’, OR you just stay MMJ/MJ free if driving is part of your job carry, your metabolism, your
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and prostitution, which was spreading HIV and AIDS. Is it perfect?
It’s never our policy to tell you what to do, only show you something new and let you decide on your own. Since Oklahoma has legalized cannabis for medical use, law enforcement has stepped up canna arrests as well. Arrests for other drugs are not on the decline and pain patients are committing suicide nationwide at an alarming rate. Have we won the ‘war on drugs’? Was there a war in the first place? Or is this an effort to keep the privatizing prison system profitable?
2. Reduce crime by offering addicts treatment programs instead of jail time and costs of parole programs. It was costly to the general public to use law enforcement to chase addicts down.
No, of course not. But it has helped many people get help if they want it. The number of people in drug treatment went from 6,000 in 2000 to almost 26,000 by 2008. It has put heroin users onto methadone or buprenorphine, it has helped people to get off drugs entirely and reduced crime. It has radically reduced the number of new HIV/AIDS cases in Portugal, especially those who unwittingly engage in sexual activity with someone who uses dirty needles.
• Removal of offender’s personal possessions, loss of right to carry a gun • Loss of public assistance if the person receives it • If addiction is suspected, the offender will be required to attend rehab or perform community service, but rehab cannot be forced. Will these efforts work in the U.S.?
We don’t know. What we do know is that there are prison 3. Portugal put all treatment systems that are growing bigger programs into one to accommodate people who comprehensive unit overseeing are ‘not learning their lesson’ via the units that would help the criminal justice system, yet addiction recovery as well as For those who are caught we keep returning to it. Addiction follow-up. violating drug laws, they appear is a psychological problem. We treat alcohol addiction with 4. New laws allowed for ticketing before a social worker, a psychiatrist and an attorney. A compassion, why are drug for anyone caught with a 10set of sanctions are created to addicts treated with contempt? One country decided to take a day supply of drugs (or less) punish the drug offender based The legality of it should have big risk against their own drug with little punishment, but big on the user’s income, number of no bearing on how we treat the problem by reversing direction problems for anyone thought addicts who fight their demons entirely. Portugal had a tough to be a dealer. This keeps drug offenses and other factors: every day. criminal stance against drugs dealing to a minimum. • Fines, can be community until 2000. They decided that on service or financial fines But, maybe we should learn July 1, 2001 they would legalize 5. Portugal expanded their drug about the drugs we have such everything, not only cannabis. treatment instead of expanding • Bans on right to practice their contempt for before we start The new policies: their prison system. profession such a program. You can’t fire a gun if you can’t take the safety 1. Reduce HIV/AIDS cases What all of this did was change • Bans to visit certain places off. by giving out clean needles, perceptions among non-users (like clubs, certain people educate public on the and it offered an alternative to a spread of HIV through open tough stint in the prison system • Foreign travel bans communication and offer (where drugs were available treatment if wanted instead of with a high risk of becoming incarceration. well-acclimated) and it reduced • Requirement to report back to the committee regularly crimes like theft, pickpocketing
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women’s health month: how women are different than men
where marijuana is concerned by Amy Addams
• New studies in 2018 showed that women with debilitating endometriosis, menstrual pain and PMS have found that consuming cannabis with high amounts of CBD and THC were 70-80% better than 4060mg of morphine equivalents of opioid pain medications.
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called ‘a magnifying glass for THC’ but that dies off pretty quick.
• Scientists believe that cannabis has many other benefits for women, but without proper funding, they can’t do much else here in the U.S.. Countries like Canada, • Women are much less likely to Denmark and Portugal develop the munchies from are going to look into ways MJ/MMJ than men. It’s to address many women’s health issues by extracting unknown why that is. some specific terpenes • Women are helped with stress, and cannabinoids. Some impulsiveness and memory lubricants, tampons, sexual by using cannabis, where men and premenstrual aids could are not. We think that women evolve women’s health by 100 tend to stress more than men years or more.
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Historically, most studies of medical marijuana have been done with men’s health and impacts in mind. It’s only been in the past 20 years that women have been part of the marijuana discussion, but when women were factored in, big results were found in no time.
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marijuana in the raw, should you or shouldn’t you by Amy Addams (heat process that converts the THCA to THC that will make you high), there are psychoactive effects from consuming raw marijuana.
There is a new edible school of thought and we don’t know what to make of it really. It’s the lettuce-eating types who think eating raw flower (mostly the leaves) of marijuana has many amazing health benefits. It’s become a salad staple in high-end salad bars where recreational marijuana has gone legal and folks are looking to justify marijuana’s eternal usefulness and beauty.
teeth as well), but still, a salad is a salad and if we go rec, we can do this too, right? Maybe? Do we WANT to? Is this like drinking bong water?
The benefits from consuming raw marijuana are claimed to be pretty big; like it’s fiber-rich, loaded with vitamins C and K, calcium, folate and iron as well as natural probiotics. What it also does is help your body get a good night’s sleep through all those terpenes everyone is always talking about.
There is also anthocyanin in raw marijuana, which is also found in purple cabbage and eggplant. We are apparently If you want to get high, fuggetaboutit. You’ll want to eat all deficient in it (why is no one your bunk or junkier stuff. Do not ever deficient in RED MEAT or French fries, hmmm?), it helps experiment with salad making with the $250/ounce stuff. BUT, with immunity and is fabulous for better eyesight. marijuana in its raw form has a lot of nutrients, like as much A REALLY big deal comes as kale, supposedly. Last I Many anti-marijuana advocates checked, kale was still cheaper from all the antioxidants in raw MJ. Antioxidants do all kinds and they BOTH taste like crap, are a little peeved about this of things to keep you from movement, they think this whole so no, raw marijuana does not looking old before your time, taste like Ben & Jerry Chunky legal thing is at a tipping point keep sickness away and they (we’re sure the Pork Board and Monkey. At all. It will still have do all kinds of things to keep Beef Council are gnashing their THCA and until you decarb it
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joining the club: alabama by Amiea Eleban Alabama Medical Cannabis Study Commission, a commission tasked with developing legislation and regulations for a medical cannabis market in the state. Melson, an anesthesiologist, and medical researcher said the research and experiences in other states support allowing medical cannabis products as an option for patients suffering from chronic pain, seizures, nausea, muscle spasms, and other debilitating symptoms of about 16 medical conditions listed in the bill.
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Alabama has been known to be one of the most conservative states. Smoking or possessing any amount of recreational marijuana will land anyone in jail. First-time offenders are receptive to a misdemeanor charge punishable to 1-year of jail time and a fine of $6,000. In some cases, the jail term can be suspended with probation. Repeated offenders are charged with a Class C felony that is punishable to up to 1 to 10 years of jail time and a $15,000 fine. The sale of recreational marijuana, even in trace amounts, is a Class B felony and punishable to a 2 to 20 years prison sentence with a $30,000 fine. Selling marijuana to minors can lead to life imprisonment. In 2019 the Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved SB 98, a decriminalization bill that would have reduced the penalty for possession of up to an ounce
this would really help crime rates and overcrowded prisons. People shouldn’t have to go to jail over a plant!
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march medical awareness:
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New month, new medical condition to be aware of! March is Multiple Sclerosis awareness month, and this debilitating disease is a big one. What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)? MS is a disease that targets and damages the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord, which make up the central nervous system. The cause is still unknown, but body’s immune system begins to target these areas causing inflammation and breaking down myelin, the insulating material wrapped around our nerve fibers. This damage causes disruptions along the nerves which in turn causes many issues. Common symptoms can range in severity and can include chronic fatigue, walking problems, muscle spasticity, and
vision loss. Some less common symptoms can include speech problems, hearing loss, and seizures. While these symptoms are scary enough on their own, there are also secondary symptoms like loss of muscle tone, and shallow breathing. The symptoms don’t stop there either, with tertiary symptoms like the social, psychological and job aspects of life that are being affected by the primary symptoms of MS. There are four documented types of MS: relapse-remitting (RRMS), secondary-progressive (SPMS), primary-progressive (PPMS), and progressiverelapsing (PRMS). RRMS is the most common form of MS and is characterized by a flare-up,
or relapse, of MS symptoms. Afterwards, there is a period of remission where the symptoms can practically disappear, but the CNS is still being damaged. In SPMS, symptoms gradually get worse over time with or without remission stages. PPMS includes worsening symptoms over time, without
any relapse or remissions. PRMS is rare is patients with MS, and is characterized as worsening symptoms from the start with acute relapses and no remissions. While there has yet to be a cure found for MS, many years of research and studies have
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provided and broad range of treatments centered on the recovery of MS attacks and the prevention thereof. Medications can include prescriptions for: disease modification therapy, which are designed to delay progression, relapse management, and symptom management. Recently, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has taken a favorable stance on medical marijuana usage for MS patients. With evidence from studies showing cannabis and its components having positive effects on MS patients, cannabis is becoming a more accepted drug for patients. Benefits from consuming cannabis include reduced inflammation, reduced pain, and increased mood. As research continues, using
medical marijuana to help treat symptoms of MS may be highly beneficial for patients. Here are a couple of strains that may help with MS symptoms.
Rocking higher levels of CBD with comparable THC levels, the pain washes away leaving users in a comfortable and functioning state thanks to the lower THC levels.
If fatigue is the symptom in For a two birds, one stone question, a super energizing scenario, Blue Dream might be sativa like Durban Poison may the dream you’ve been chasing. be the answer. This Sativa dominant strain hails from Africa and the “poison” is more like a double shot of espresso in the morning! Durban Poison can brighten and energize the mind, making many tasks seem like a breeze. Let that breeze blow the fog and dreary clouds away, offering relief instead.
Popular for both its pain relieving and antidepressant properties, this strain can be found most anywhere. The high associated with it is definitely true to its namesake, with a dreamy wave of comfort washing over the mind and body.
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Ramblings from the old lady Uncle Fudge snuck out the back door with a big bag of beef jerky, some nails, a hammer and his trusty weed, mumbling something about how he was “goin’ Squatchin’. “ If you see him nailing beef jerky to trees, just leave him alone. He’s in the zone. It’s better that way.
Kevin was also an amazing artist. He was funny, smart, and a little weird, but weed brought out his gifts. Weed had a bad rep back in then (but cocaine was more acceptable for some reason). He also developed a taste for alcohol, just like his daddy. And because alcohol was so easy to get, he took to This month, I want to talk about it like Sasquatch takes to beef we feel extra stupider. All I can wore clothes that were Goodwill- jerky. He got into many car all the namin’. Yeah, it’s part of think is, “I look like a confused ready but he also bought Polo the fun of the weed world, but accidents. BIG ones. Alcohol aftershave to cover the smell of and Kevin replaced bong water some of y’all are a little touched old broad anyway. That’s just weed coming out of his pores in the head. I’m talking about the great. I’m gonna go with what I and Kevin. Kevin turned into a (barely worked). Of all the crap whole ‘White Widow Trainwreck know and go home.” I feel like jerk. He was going to marry a the whole long name thing is I learned in high school, (isn’t on Green Crack with Meat good friend of mine, but he got done to trip me up on purpose. that a Paul Simon song?), the Breath’ people, the ones that abusive and they split up. I saw And I ain’t down with that. I can biggest thing that stays with can’t put your feet in one camp him a few times and he wasn’t look stupid without any help me is ‘Kevin’ gagging his ‘root or another. Y’all are like them the Kevin I knew, not even from others. I end up with my beer’ down at lunch every day, fancy people who hyphenate close. He was a mean drunk. grape ‘cough syrup’ every time. I then trying to kiss all the girls at Kevin died in a car accident in their last names because you just need a teaspoon and it’s so the lunch table with his dragon don’t want to leave anyone out 1996. easy. No special names, extra breath. Of course, there were of your family tree, then you many days where he almost ask your bank if the checks can tools or knowledge required. No one can tell me that lost his lunch because his bong marijuana is more dangerous make the signature line longer. Okay, enough of the lecture. I water was so disgusting. Stop the madness. than any other ‘drug’ out there. also want to talk about my friend Anybody that’s ever been One day, his bong water spilled beaten by an alcoholic will agree I don’t care what you call it. Call from high school, I’ll call him ‘’Kevin”. Kevin thought that bong in his locker and the entire it whatever, but for old broads with me. The myths need to be water had mystical properties hallway smelled horrible for like me who use the key fob to sorted out and put to bed. Then, and would pour it into a soda days. It became a legend at locate our cars at the Walmart, let’s get some cafeteria pizza. bottle before school every day my alma mater that grew into these names are super hard to drink at lunch. This was a a much bigger story over the to remember. We walk into Be good to each other and if guy who couldn’t find his ass years involving a fire, an M-80, a dispensary and stand there Uncle Fudge bags a ‘Squatch, with both hands but knew to use an explosion of some sort, the looking even stupider than we help him tie onto his roof, would po-po, and other things I can’t expected to. If there are a bunch a root beer bottle for his bong ya? Much abliged! water to color match. He also remember right now. of young bucks working there,
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the misinformation highway by Amy Addams folks tell us they don’t need to advertise, the word of mouth will do it for them (to those of you who think that, you’ll want to try a new approach), we hear some say they are going to undercut their competitors for business (but if no one knows you did this, then ??), and still more think that badmouthing their neighbors will buy them love (you guys are &$%^s. Yeah, I said it). We live in an age where anything you want to know is out there at the tap of a button, everything you want is on a machine in your pocket. Many of our readers don’t remember when encyclopedias were a thing. It’s a great time in our human history to have seen what we have become (it’s also a tough time when there are folks who wish you ill, moving on…). But with great data comes great responsibility. Just because someone took the time to type something up and put it on the web doesn’t make it factual. Gathering data for a magazine like this one is a battle like none we could have imagined. There are many who want their agendas put forth – both for, and against, cannabis – and some will go to great lengths to get those agendas in your head. We here at TCB want ONLY FACTS in your head. We do
There is only one path to our best to stay clear of political success in any industry. HARD WORK and ETHICS. No man agendas, dangerous drugs posing as natural ones, tell you has gotten through the long haul by stealing, lying and all we know about cannabis, being &$%^s. Sure, you know kratom, the vaping scares (which ended with little fanfare), a few, but they didn’t succeed, not really. People hate them, what legislators are doing only do the bare minimum (without letting our opinions begrudgingly, but others avoid sway you, UNLESS they got into their seat by false promises, these charlatans just as the rest grr), and we always look out for of us do. Don’t sell your own soul to make a dollar. quality in this industry. These things we refuse to compromise Recap: on. What we go through to get a true story is a journey of 1,000 steps: the first 100 steps are covered in broken glass, the second 100 are made of redhot coals, the third are covered with angry cobras…you get the message. If we don’t get all the data spot-on, show a little compassion; everyone has a ‘way’ of doing things. We try to make room for everyone. It’s even tougher with advertising. We hear some
If you are wondering where things went wrong, let’s take a moment. FACTS: 2019 was not a great year for cannabis. It is a crop, we have growing pains, it is legal in some states, but not federally, if you planned to make a buck then cut and run, you will lose (get out now), and if you are a jerk, get out of customer service. If you want to make it in the cannabiz, but need help, we want to help you. The Current Buzz can help you get there. TCB has pros with degrees and years of proven experience with marketing and sales, professional graphics experts and writers, and we can partner with you to push your biz to a new demographic, a bigger geography, or a change of scenery. But we can’t help you if you don’t want to help yourself. You have to want it too.
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med news youze can use: there’s a new thc in town, and it can mess you up good. meet thcp by Amy Addams
THCP
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Hey, y’all, we don’t feed you words you need to hear. We’ve told you that we aren’t fans of fake flowers of any kind, spices are only for cooking, kratom is helping many people get away from opioids, heroin but big pharma hates that, so the FDA is slow to play nice, and mushrooms are finding their place in PTSD. Just recently, we learned that there is a new competitor in the market; THCP – it is 30 times stronger than THC. Researchers tasked with studying THCP gave some to lab mice and found that the mice were pretty dang stoned on really low doses, but there is a theory that it can act as something new, giving the user a whole new experience, complete with hallucinations like psychedelics, but without the
MMJ of any kind. It’s not going to move forward under the current administration. Bad drug. BAD. Despite the money earmarked for future research, plenty of universities have taken up the mantle to help their fellow man with or without federal grants. There are classes of drugs that have already been shown to interact badly with your MJ. If you are using these drugs, talk to your doctor BEFORE selfmedicating. Your health comes first.
other drugs try to get in there too. Drugs that are processed through the liver will be blocked or at least hampered greatly. Don’t play with them. Here’s the drugs you need to know about: • Benzodiazepines – muscle relaxers, anxiety drugs, Valium all fall in this class, as can barbiturates and codeine. While they may not kill you, stay off the roads. PLEASE.
• Blood thinners – things like Warfarin (the biggest) are inhibited by MJ and can hyperactivity. Some are going so have other issues. Reports Overwhelming evidence shows far to call it a gamechanger. of stomach bleeding, strange that MMJ/MJ can, and will interfere with liver function when bruising, nosebleeds and A CBD look-alike (cannabidiphorol or CBDP) was also found while researchers were digging around for THCP. Hopes were dashed when CBDP didn’t live up to the hopes that it would be the next big thing to replace CBD for inflammation, pain, seizures and anti-oxidants. But back to THCP. There are folks looking into a strain that will produce larger quantities of THCP (no, we don’t know where they are, don’t ask), but, as with everything MJ/MMJ related, lack of federal interest, lack of federal funding (funding has been cut to $500,000 for 2021, about two months of research, tops) is clearly anti-
• Sexual aids – Viagra is the best thing to get a guy going but mix it with MJ and it’s not going to get you there. Like you could have a heart attack even if you have no history of heart problems. • Anti-depressants – Not all, but many anti-depressants, like Prozac, have a pretty bad interaction with MJ. Prozac slows the metabolism of THC in your body and increases its concentration. There are reports of people going a bit crazy from this drug cocktail. Pass.
partake, have an open, honest conversation with your doc about your MMJ use. Your sugar could be less resistant insulin’s effects and you are headed for a head-on. • Antibiotics – not ALL antibiotics, but one biggun, rifampin (treats tuberculosis and Legionnaire’s) is also a THC-racist. They do not play well together and just like the rest of these meds, THC builds up, and WHAM, you have issues. Of course, if you have TB or Legionnaire’s, using MJ is not advised anyway. You might need round-theclock adult supervision.
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These are only a smattering of the KINDS of meds that can • Antifungals – Ketoconazole is interact poorly with MJ/MMJ. As the one to be aware of. So with ALL meds, tell your doctor many people use this all the everything you take; over-thetime. MJ and antifungals can counter medications, street conspire against you. They drugs, MJ/MMJ, and if you are get together in your liver, plan doctor shopping for drugs—get a party, it turns into a rager, the help. If your doc treats you like cops have to break things up… a dog, grab your files and go not good. elsewhere. Stop playing with your health and your life. People • Diabetes – This is tough care about you, WE care about one, as MJ/MMJ affects many you. folks’ blood sugar levels. If you
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THE SHAKEDOWN - march Nyuh-HUH! U.S. politicians are doing a collective butt pucker these days, as the World Health Organization, a medical group of leading researchers, doctors and scientists, otherwise known as WHO, and who answer to no one, have found that the whole ‘Schedule 1’ thing is a load of BUNK. The latest report due out any day now, will have many new things to say, namely that everything for the last 100 or so years is crap. They are expected to say things like:
We really don’t know. If you’ll recall, on the campaign trail, he said he would support the Senate and State’s Rights, but he has put many cabinet members in place who saw “Reefer Madness” and thought it was a documentary (seriously), and after telling Senator Corey Gardener it was safe, but then admitted privately to many associates that he was NOT in favor of legalizing. So we don’t know. Trump’s essentially cut most funding to $500,000 for medical benefit to humans in 2021, yet $17 million has been set aside to fund a national hemp program, clarifying regulation and government assistance to the industry. So far, cattle are likely to see the hemp payout. You, however, may not be so lucky, unless you can find a way to make that $500,000 work.
• Cannabis is not addictive • Cannabis has numerous medical benefits, many of which have yet to be discovered • Cannabis has many other psychological benefits and to dismiss them would be a mistake of the worst kind. • Labelling Cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug (very dangerous, no medical Don’t post your opinions all value) is not only incorrect, it is over Twitter. YOU are not the damaging to the people it could president. be benefitting. There’s a kind of KUSH all This report would be the over the WORLD proverbial “Sir, I challenge you to a duel” to anyone who says What happens here when a bad different. These guys can beat thing happens in another part up your guys, so to speak. We of the world? Nothing, right? are jittering with excitement to WRONG. The Coronavirus (or see what happens. We’ll call if 2019-nCoV) is likely to impact the duel is happening. the U.S., Canadian and global MJ/MMJ market in significant Where is the Prez on MJ? ways. If you think we’re wrong,
think again. Here’s how it works: Let’s say you start a professional grow. You need equipment. Lights, HVAC systems, a sealing room or greenhouse, pots, ventilation system, the list is long, right? Guess where 75-90 percent of the equipment is manufactured. Yep. CHINA. And with last year’s trade war, things were kinda strained, but with the Coronavirus? OHHELLNO. Even IF the Coronavirus does not go pandemic, China has shut down many trade routes WITHIN, slowing down production and supply chains. Other countries (the U.S. included) have taken aggressive measures to test products at entry ports to see if the virus is on products at ports. All that costs money. Someone has to pay for the swabbing, testing, clean-up, re-routing to India, Thailand, other ports (some countries are taking up the mantle already, but this takes time). What industries will be most impacted? LED, HPS bulbs, vaporizers and accessories, and some of the smaller parts used in production will be the biggest mark-ups, no matter what happens. It could be a short-term thing if Corona
gets it’s lime, or it could go crazy and we may have to go old school and (gulp) grow outside like the old days. I know, I know. It’ll be okay. We can do this. Now, for the local news It’s funny how we are interconnected. If your neighbor builds an ugly AF shed that you see from your back porch, you’re going to be cranky. It’s going to annoy you every time you fire up the grill. We are all interconnected, like it or not. Same goes for everything in life. If we allow our waterways to be contaminated with crap from Monsanto, Dupont, big manufacturers with no regard for what they do, not only does it impact your drinking water, it impacts everything. If a farm overuses chemical fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides, it impacts your grow. Weed is called weed for a reason. Same thing can be said for soil contamination, air pollution and damn near everything around us. We are a web of interconnected, but no one wants to be a fly stuck in someone else’s web either. Your vote DOES matter! Super TUESDAY is upon us, people! Stop being a lazy ass and do your part. We are tired of thinking for you, telling you what
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