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THE HARVEST ISSUEGrandaddy Purple grows at Earth Rising Farm, a recreational cannabis producer-processor in Washington’s Columbia River Gorge area with an enviable view of Mount Hood to the south.

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THE HARVEST ISSUE4th annual 14-page specialexplores outdoor Cannabis farms across Washington and Southern Oregon —with unprecedented access.

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this month marks a victory for many outdoor farmers as they finally get a break from the seven-month-long outdoor growing cycle. Whew! Even as I type this, thousands of farm hands are forcing cramped fingers into resin-covered scissors and trimming the bud that will become medicine and recreation many across the Northwest.

Soon, thousands of pounds of Cannabis will be sold and smoked, generating tax revenue and supporting local jobs and an industry that is once again making farming cool. These are incredible times, and we are proud to be able to share a glimpse into the harvest this year with our annual special issue of the Leaf.

This year features gardens from Washington and Oregon, including our first ever hemp farm! Our writers and dogged photographers lugged gear for two weeks to make sure that we had the best shots (and buds) to share with you.

This issue also features an interview with Julian Marley, who continues the legend of his father by teaming with a Cannabis brand while writing songs about legalization. Check out my exclusive interview with Marley, and learn what his favorite strain is to smoke before getting on stage.

We also have a new growtech section and information from Dr. Rose, as well as coverage of a trip to Israel by writer Simone Fischer. Bob Montoya delivers his first Oregon Micro Strain, and Steve Elliott informs with updated news and a new book to check out. I hope you enjoy this issue of the Leaf, and share it with friends and family!

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Presidential candidate addresses federal cannabis policy

Hillary Clinton is feeling the heat when it comes to federal marijuana policy. Just after her first primary debate with fellow Democrats who want to be President, Clinton finally gave some answers about how she’d handle states that have legalized Cannabis.

Clinton declined to take a position on marijuana legalization in the first CNN debate, but she wasn’t asked at the debate how she’d

handle legalization by states as President, reports Brandon Rittiman at KUSA. In stark contrast to GOP candidate Chris Christie, who

said he’d use federal power to stop legalized sales of marijuana in states like Colorado and Washington, Clinton said, “I want to give you the space” to experiment with Cannabis policy.

“I really believe it’s important that states like Colorado lead the way so we can learn what works and what doesn’t work,” Clinton told Rittiman. “I would certainly not want the federal government to interfere with the legal decision made by the people of Colorado.”

Clinton previously expressed support for state-level medical marijuana laws, but this appears to be the first time she’s supported recreational legalization at the state level. According to many political analysts, the latest evolution of Clinton’s marijuana position is probably due to fellow Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders staking out a position to her left on the issue. At the Oct. 13 debate, Sanders said he probably would vote for legalization in Nevada if he had that chance.

Nevadans will decide on recreational marijuana legalization at the polls in November 2016.

Hillary Clinton Says Feds Shouldn’t Interfere With Legal Marijuana

“I would certainly not want the federal government to interfere with the legal decision made by the people of Colorado”

Ohio man reports he “couldn’t feel his hands”

FILE THIS ONE under, “I’ll have some of what he had, but without the stupidity, please.”Police said a 22-year-old Ohio man in October called 9-1-1 from amidst a pile of munchies to report he was “too high” on marijuana, reports Kaily Cunningham at Fox 8 Cleveland.When officers arrived, they were directed to an upstairs bedroom by the caller’s grandfather. As they went up the stairs, they could hear “groaning from the room at the end of the hall.”When officers opened the door, they found the 22-year-old laying in a fetal position amidst “a plethora of Doritos, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish and Chips Ahoy! cookies,” according to the police report.The stoned suspect reported that he “couldn’t feel his hands.” Inside his car, cops found a glass pipe with Cannabis residue, two packs of rolling papers, two marijuana roaches and a glass jar filled with Cannabis.The man refused medical attention; his name hasn’t been released. He faces marijuana possession and drug paraphernalia charges.

Ohio MAN Calls Cops to Complain He’s Too High

After decades of smuggling, man pleads guilty in federal court

THE DRAMATIC EXPLOITS of a lifetime of smuggling came to an end on Thursday when 80-year-old Marshall Herbert Dion entered his guilty plea in federal court to running a huge marijuana-dealing and money-laundering operation.

Dion, who owned houses in Massachusetts, Colorado and Arizona, had $11 million hidden in a North Reading, Mass., storage facility, and once crawled away from a Wisconsin plane crash as thousands of dollars in cash — suspected drug profits — floated through the air around him, reports Milton J. Valencia at The Boston Globe.

Under his plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Dion could serve five to seven years in a federal penitentiary, ending a lucrative career that spanned decades until a chance traffic stop in Kansas. “Over the course of the conspiracy… he had sold approximately 3,000 to 10,000 kilograms of marijuana,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Leah Foley claimed during a brief court hearing.

“Mr. Dion has embraced his responsibility and is looking forward to the next chapter in his life,” said Dion’s lawyer, Hank Brennan.

The end of Dion’s smuggling career began with a June 2013 traffic stop in Junction City, Kan., when a police officer pulled him over for driving 80 mph in a 75 mph zone. During the stop, the officer searched Dion’s old pickup and found nearly $850,000 in cash. That sparked a federal investigation that led to the discovery of $2 million in a bank account, another $880,000 in an Arizona building, and the North Reading storage facility where authorities found 395 pounds of Cannabis and $11 million in cash.

Foley told U.S. District Judge Denise Casper that authorities discovered travel logs indicating Dion sold more than 3,000 kilograms of marijuana, and possibly as much as 10,000 kilograms since 1992. Dion was convicted in Massachusetts in the late 1980s of drug trafficking after police in Boston found roughly 180 pounds of weed in a 1986 Chrysler sedan. Police later found 101 pounds of Cannabis stashed in a storage building in Lynnfield, Mass.

After a plane crash in Wisconsin in 1985, Dion was found crawling through a muddy field; he denied that the $112,000 in cash found inside the plane and floating through the air was his. He could get 60 to 87 months for conspiracy to deal marijuana, possession with intent to sell, and money laundering under the deal he reached with prosecutors. He faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years if he is convicted in a trial.

His sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 11.

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80-Year-Old Marijuana Dealer Pleads Guilty

When officers opened the door, they found the 22-year-old laying in a fetal position amidst a plethora of Doritos, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish and Chips Ahoy! cookies.

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QuotedWE’RE SEEING A YOUNG CROWD BUT WE’RE ALSO SEEING PEOPLE IN THEIR 50S AND 60S THAT WOULD NEVER HAVE BOUGHT THE PRODUCT IF IT WASN’T LEGAL - Jeff Johnson, owner of Nectar, on the

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Quick Hits!

Number of defendants in police custody after Indiana officials raided a grow-op with 400 large marijuana plants, 60 pounds of flower ready to go — not to mention 2 pounds of BHO.4

Number of grams of Cannabis that Bernard Noble, a 49-year-old father of seven children, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for selling and possessing.2.8

Age of a North Carolina man, Jeremiah White, who police said had 110 grams of marijuana on him — and now faces charges of possession with intent to sell and

deliver marijuana, felony possession of marijuana, maintaining a vehicle for the purpose of sale and delivery of marijuana, posses-sion of drug paraphernalia, and even resist, delay, obstruction.

20Oregon Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Struggle While Recreational Marijuana SkyrocketsA gold rush mentality is part of what’s leading medical Cannabis dispensaries in Oregon to close faster than ever after recre-ational marijuana legalization.

Some medical dispensary owners had hoped that Oct. 1, the day recre-ational marijuana sales became legal in Oregon, would be a saving grace for struggling businesses, reports Kristyna Wentz-Graff at The Oregonian.

“Most people are hanging on un-til the climate gets better,” said Sam Heywood, co-owner of the Portland dispensary Farma, a few days before recreational sales went into effect. “If it didn’t have that horizon where the regulato-ry climate is expected to improve, I suspect a lot of people would have given up by now.”

“The medical market will go away within a year,” Morse predicts

Cost in dollars of an immediate authorization to use medical marijuana by Cannabis doctors set up right outside of the San Francisco Cannabis Cup.40

Number of dispensaries in California selling an infused tea called Jane’s Blend, offered in 5-, 10- and 20-milligram dosages with a variety of flavors.100

Billions of dollars in estimated market value of the medical Cannabis industry in 2020 as more and more countries move to recognize the plant’s many benefits.40

Medical dispensary owners skeptical about recreational sales saveing poor business

But Donald Morse, director of the Ore-gon Cannabis Business Council, is skeptical Cannabis will change the fortunes of strug-

gling dispensaries. Morse said there seems to be a widespread expectation of making millions off Oregon’s recreational marijuana market, but insiders say factors including over-saturation, bad locations, amateurish business practices and the difficulty and expenses of running cash-only businesses are leading shops to close.

Outside companies are increas-ingly venturing into the recreational

marijuana business as well, putting more pressure on the existing medical dispensaries with competition. “The medical market will go away within a year,” Morse predicted.Ph

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washington state troopers crack down on marijuana open containersYou can’t legally drive in Washington state with an open container of marijuana. The state, thanks to a law passed by the legislature last summer, now bans open Cannabis containers in vehicles.

The law, which went into effect Sept. 26, means that using marijuana in vehicles or driving with open containers of cannabis or infused products is illegal, repots Brooks Johnson at The Longview Daily News.

Washington State Patrol troopers said they are trying to get the word out, since they’ve encountered many motorists who had no idea that what they’ve been doing for years is suddenly against the law.

“One trooper reports contacting a motorist on a recent traffic stop who was carrying a quart-size plastic Ziploc full of ‘pungent’ marijuana

buds in the console of his vehicle,” according to a WSP press release. “The driver told the trooper he didn’t know it was illegal to do so.”

Marijuana and infused products, sealed in the original packaging, can be kept anywhere. But opened packages (jars or bags) must be kept in the trunk, or in a locked box out of reach of the driver and passengers.

Packages shouldn’t be stored in the glove compartment, according to the law, though it’s

okay to stash the weed behind the last row of seats.

Breaking the open-container law is considered a traffic infraction, and comes with a $136 fine.

The Washington Traffic Safety Commission lobbied for the change, supposedly so that the state’s rules around marijuana would more closely

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washington state troopers crack down on marijuana open containersresemble those for alcohol. Of course, that perpetuates the absurd idea that Cannabis is just as dangerous as alcohol when it comes to driving, which simply isn’t true.

But things get more serious if law enforcement thinks you are impaired, at which point they can order a blood test. You can refuse the test, but will be charged as if impaired when you do.

The law allows the Washington Department of Transportation to immediately suspend the licenses of supposedly “marijuana-impaired drivers.” But in reality, the five-nanogram-per-milliliter blood level of THC instituted under

I-502 — the law approved by Washington voters in 2012 — has no correlation at all with actual impairment, according to most studies and experts.

Five ng/ml represents an imaginary “bright line,” beyond which people will be charged with marijuana DUI, despite the fact that they probably won’t be

impaired. If you are at all accustomed to the effects of Cannabis, rather than a rank novice, five nanograms doesn’t represent any diminution of driving abilities.

This is especially true of medical marijuana patients, many of who must use large doses of Cannabis 24/7 and who are already above the five ng/ml threshold when they wake up, unimpaired, in the morning.

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[NOV. 2015 PRISONER UPDATE

Our next prisoner of the failed drug war is Richard DeLisi, a man who has lost 27 years of his life and the ability to be a father to his now -grown children. DeLisi showcases how the drug war splits families. All children deserve access to their parents or guardians. DeLisi’s daughter, Ashley, is expecting another child soon.

Finally, we’d like to bring to your attention the case of Ferrell Damon Scott, convicted

for possession with intent to distribute 1,000kg of pot in Texas. In 23 medical states he would be called a caregiver, while in our four recreational states, he would be praised as a business-man. Scott’s charges are just another horrible represen-tation of our inept, imbal-anced judicial system.

Releasing these men won’t return the years they have lost, but it ’s not too late. Their families, friends and advocates from across the nation pray daily for their return to society.

One way we let the prisoners and the gov-ernment know they are not forgotten is by writing letters to them. If you would like to help free these men, please email us at [email protected] and we will let you know what you can do to be the most effective. This month, we ask you write to Richard DeLisi, Inmate #87624, South Bay Correctional Facility, 600 U.S. Highway 27 S., South Bay, Florida 33493

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a special welcome home, after 32 years of in-carceration, to George Martorano, one of the lon-gest-serving Cannabis prisoners in the U.S. We continue to hold you and your family in our hearts as you transition into civilian life. This holi-day season will be especially wonderful for Marto-rano, his family and supporters.

Thanksgiving is the holiday you either love or hate. But when you’re spending the rest of your life in prison, you have no choice but to yearn for a chance to love or hate; in prison, you have no choic-es. People serving life in prison for pot include Tom Geers, Michael Thompson, Richard DeLisi and Ferrell Damon Scott.

Geers has already served more than 20 years and faces the pos-sibility of dying in prison because of his declining health. During his stay in prison, Geers has lost the use of one of his arms, likely due to the lack of sufficient health care. He is locked up for traffick-ing 3,000 pounds of marijuana, or as it’s known in Washington and the other legal states: transporting retail goods. It is urgent that Geers be released now so he can get proper medical treatment.

Thompson’s misfortune also began more than 20 years ago when he was arrested and sentenced for selling three pounds of marijuana, an amount the average recreational shop dishes out daily in Wash-ington, Colorado and Oregon. His punishment has been cruel, but unfortunately, not unusual. Prior to his incarceration, Michael worked with troubled youths in his neighborhood.

dispatch By KRISTIN FLOR, MINDI GRIFFITHS, MIGGY 420 AND DANIELLE VITALE – O’ BRIEN

According to recent reports, Oregon is lead-ing the way in righting the wrongs created by the war on Cannabis consumers. People with low-lev-el felonies or misdemeanors might be able to have their records wiped clean if the offense is at least 10 years old and if they have not reoffended. Plans to expand the expungement of more serious Cannabis crimes are in the works for 2016. Many Cannabis offenders do reoffend, primarily because the nature of the prison and probation system renders success difficult. One must wonder how many people this new policy will actually help. Is this another smoke and mirrors game played by the government to maintain the appearance of complying with pub-lic opinion about Cannabis laws? Either way, the momentum of Cannabis reform is in the air and the people of Oregon are loving it. On the flip side, as headlines in Oregon proclaim the end of prohibition, a television station quietly noted that the Drug Enforcement Administration is spending more than $750,000 this year to hunt down Can-nabis growing operations. Prohibition is far from over, even in the legal state of Oregon.

Tim Hembree: On Apr. 16, Tim Hembree was entrapped by an undercover police officer masquer-ading as an Oregon Medical Marijuana cardholder and arrested. Hembree’s friend, whom he had just met, identified himself as Tyler and said he had been texting with a man named Brian Ashcroft, who claimed to be an OMMP patient seeking medicine. Ashcroft turned out to be officer Kelley Bertrand with the Hillsboro Police Department. Bertrand asked to meet Tyler and Hembree at a Thriftway that was within 1,000 feet of a school. Upon meet-ing, Tyler completed the transaction and accept-ed $140 in exchange for what police say was 13.2 grams of BHO (weight includes packaging).

At no point during this interaction did Hembree directly accept money or handle the BHO. Hem-bree was arrested, held on $50,000 bail and charged

GEORGE MARTORANOreturns home in time for the holidays, after 32 years of

incarceration

NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINESOREGON NEWSPRISON OUTREACH

RELEASING THESE MEN WON’T RETURN ALL OF THE YEARS THEY HAVE LOST. HOWEVER, IT ISN’T TOO LATE.

to [email protected]. Every letter will help show the judge that the community no longer wants to spend taxpayer money to incarcerate non-violent Cannabis consumers and producers. Sen-tencing is scheduled Jan. 9 at the federal courthouse in Seattle. They are requesting your attendance in the courtroom to help show support.

Kettle Falls Family: The remaining members of the Kettle Falls Five were sentenced Oct. 2. At their trial in March, the jury returned not guilty verdicts on four of the five charges. Ironically, they were found guilty of manufacturing Cannabis of more than 50 plants and under 100 plants, which falls under the legal guidelines of Washington’s medi-cal marijuana program. Rolland Gregg received a sentence of 33 months in prison and three years probation. Gregg’s mother and wife — Michelle Gregg and Rhonda Firestack Harvey — received one-year sentences and three years probation. All three remain free pending appeals. See their Face-book page at facebook.com/KettleFallsFive or go to their website at kettlefallsfive.com to find out what you can do to help.

Martin Nickerson: At the expense of the tax-payers and all involved, the case against the Bell-ingham Three has continued — again. Nickerson and his co-defendants have been in the hands of the government for over four years now. Early in October, Nickerson’s property was once again raid-ed by the local sheriff ’s office. No arrests were made at the time. Nickerson has publicly stated he is de-termined to go to trial. He believes in the power of jury nullification and cannot fathom that the peo-ple in his community will find him guilty.

Bernardo Fumo Martinez: Rest in peace, Ber-nardo Fumo Martinez. Many of you know him as “Fumo” or have one of his Fumo Pipes, but his fa-mous pipes are not the only thing that Fumo is known for. Fumo will be remembered as a friend to our prisoners. He wanted to help end the prohibition on an international level because he believed that no one should go to prison for a plant. The videos Fumo took from around the world will be his special contri-bution to the movement. Fumo died in late Septem-ber from cancer. If you would like to donate in honor of Fumo, go to lafumofoundation.org/donate-online.


NO VICTIM = NO CRIME = NOT GUILTYNo one should be caged for Cannabis.

with three felonies: unlawful delivery, unlawful de-livery within 1,000 feet of a school and unlawful possession. While Hembree was out on bail, he missed a court appearance, resulting in his re-ar-rest. He now sits in jail unable to post bail because he is considered a flight risk. His next court ap-pearance is Oct. 30 in Hillsboro, Ore.

PORTLAND HEMPSTALK: Hempstalk 2015 was a huge success. Voices of the Cannabis War was present in full force with the help of other support-ers of Cannabis prison-ers. Attendees were able to sign letters request-

ing clemency to President Barack Obama, educate themselves about jury nullification and learn about our heroes serving time for our plant. Portland’s Hempstalk hosted a space for a memorial wall ded-icated to Cannabis prisoners. Thank you to Cheri Sicard and the CAN-DO Foundation for the poster designs. We also want to thank the financial donors who made our poster efforts possible. To make your own POW posters or to find out more about Can-Do, go to www.candoclemency.com. Jason Endicott is still waiting for lawyers and prosecutors to decide how to proceed with his case. He faces up to 40 years for having his med-ical Cannabis with him as he drove through Texas in 2013. Since Endicott’s initial arrest, he has ex-pressed a deep fear of being sentenced to time in prison. He’s an insulin-dependent diabetic and has a wife and disabled daughter in Oregon. The district attorney in Endicott’s case offered probation that can be served in Oregon and deferment. Although this deal means he would be free from jail time, his lawyer is still pursuing a complete dismissal.

Josh Mauk and Debbie Brechler: Jail time ap-pears inevitable for Mauk and Brechler. On Oct. 9, the pair changed their plea to guilty. The pros-ecution has offered the couple a sentence of one year and a day in federal prison. The couple has been advised to take the deal with the hope that the judge shows compassion and gives them either staggered sentences or electronic home monitoring so they can continue to parent their two small chil-dren. They fear going to trial because statistics show the chances of conviction at trial are overwhelm-ing. Josh and Debbie are asking for as many letters on their behalf from friends, family, peers and the community. Please address your letters to the Hon-orable Judge John C. Coughenour and email them

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NATIONAL NEWS Kansas: Shona Banda, mother, author of “Live Free Or Die” and a longtime Cannabis activist, faces the risk of 30 years in prison for invoking one of her most important human rights: the right to live. Shona’s preliminary hearing is scheduled Nov. 16. Some of her supporters are engaged in intensive outreach, hoping to fill the courtroom with support-ers and have a large rally outside the courthouse.

Kyler Carriker of Wichita, Kansas, beat a 20-year sentence for a murder he did not commit when a jury acquitted him in July, but he was found guilty of possession with intent to distribute Cannabis. Al-though Kyler was initially told he would receive a sentence of three years probation without jail time, the judge added a 60-day sentence. Kyler had re-quested work release, which the judge denied. As a result, Kyler lost his job.

FLORIDA: A Florida couple was rendered home-less and jobless after being raided in February. Scott and Marsha Yandell each have the medical recommendations required by the state, but they still are facing substantial prison time. They are charged with trafficking, possession with intent to distribute, production of a controlled substance and possession of drug equipment. Their house was ransacked and they were not allowed to return for any belongings or their pets, all based on a 911 call made by a disgruntled “friend” claiming to have heard screams and gunshots coming from the cou-ple’s garage. On Nov. 2, the Yandells will attend a hearing in attempt to have some of their belong-ings returned. Prosecution intends to bring the couple to trial by December. Their story has many twists and turns riddled with government corrup-tion and misuse of power. For more details and to read the full story, go to tinyurl.com/otflorida.

To find out how you can help end prohibition, join hosts Kristin Flor and Eugene Fischer, and the volunteers who helped with this article, for “The Voices of the Cannabis War Radio Show” Sunday mornings at 9 a.m.

Visit us online at facebook.com/voicesofwar1. Each week, we discuss the latest news from the front lines of the drug war and bring updates on our Cannabis prisoners. Fnd us by searching CCHI2016 BlogTalkRadio and i-Tunes!


PHOTOS by DANIEL BERMANREHASHED Oct. 16-24, 7 Point Studios, Seattle

Pipemasters CollabExpert glass artists work together for a week in Seattle

Seattle PipeMasters Collab began in October of 2014 as a one-of-a-kind event where the featured glassblowing wasn’t about competition — it was all about collaboration. Twenty or more pipe masters from around the world gather once a year for 10 days to collaborate on some of the sickest pipe-making in the industry. The event all goes down at Seattle’s newest and freshest flameworking studio, The Boro School, inside 7 Point Studios, an alternative art space and Cannabis-friendly venue.

A major success again this year, the 10 days of live glassblowing, cocktail parties, a closing day celebration and the best pipe gallery in the Northwest drew consistent crowds and a fun atmosphere for collectors and the curious alike.

One major draw to the event was the press your own Rosin station by Raw Zen, who brought a commercial-grade press and dabbing station to the event. Nugs squirted all week long as the crew from Raw Zen and HypeHerbally educated people about the newest way to turn flowers into dabs.

Walking through the facility was a majestic artistic experience, watching renowned lampworkers working together and having a fun time. The vibe was one of love and support, where artists supported each other to push boundaries and make one-of-a-kind collaborations.

This unique event captures the changing scene of the industry, and we hope to see it continue for years to come.

Walking through the facility was a majestic artistic experience as you watched renowned lampworkers working together and having a fun time.

Domer blowing air


2015 Participating Artists2Ba, Amber Pellegrini, Blue, Bob Snodgrass, Brock Marvel, C. Martin, Cameron Tower, Darby Holm, Domer, Ease, Eli, Emily Marie, Forge, Gasp, GlassHole, J-RED, JD Maplesden, Jeff Melitz, Keisuke Yoshida, Kevin Nail, Mike Philpot, MNP, Mr. Gray, Nate Dizzle, Scoz, W.C. Stearns, Whitney Harmon and Next Gen Artists: Ben David, Erin Bourguignon and Stormin’ Norman.

“Wook Store” $15k collab made during event2BA X Bob Snodgrass X Darby x Erin B. x Glasshole x Jeff Melitz x Keisuke x Mr. Gray x Nate Dizzle

Glass artist Mr. Gray gets some inspiration

Free dabsat Raw Zen

Emily Marieworks on a piece


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JAY BERNEBURGTacoma attorney defends medical Cannabis

in a city that has not always respected it

Since 2009, Jay Burneburg has worked numerous medical marijuana cases and always relayed the same message: his clients are not guilty. During the last six years, he has defended and represented dozens of collective garden operators, set up the first and largest association of collective gardens in the state and made time to tirelessly advocate to protect patients’ access to medicine.

“The Greener Business Bureau has worked to set policies for procedures and protocals for collective gardens as a way for clients to separate themselves from unregulated dispensaries, which are considered a nuisance under Tacoma law. If a business is part of the GBB, you know the facility is well-lit, secure, follows all rules and has quality medicine.”

Because Tacoma has a nuisance ordinance against unregulated dispensaries, Berneburg’s clients have followed collective garden laws explicitly. Given the legal quandary of the last few years, he has had his work cut out for him.

“A collective garden isn’t a business. It isn’t a dispensary. It’s an arrangement between qualifying patients sharing responsibility for acquiring and applying resources to grow, process and deliver MMJ. Not a place where people buy Cannabis, recreational or otherwise. It’s an agreement by patients to help each other. That’s what the law says.”

Tacoma was once heralded as having one of the most progressive approaches toward medical Cannabis in the state, reducing the restricted buffer zone to 600 feet from schools and parks and using code enforcement instead of law enforcement to deal with issues. Initially, that helped develop a robust and self-regulated market, but over time the positive attributes were eclipsed by bad actors.

At one point, the city estimated between 60 and 80 businesses sold Cannabis in the city, including a 24-hour drive-thru that was patently illegal, selling Cannabis to anyone over the age of 21. At the time of print, that location is still operating, which frustrates the collective gardens that have worked hard to remain in compliance with state and local law. It also makes it difficult for the city to figure out who is a good actor and who is not.

“What happened after [Initiative] 502 is, people started opening marijuana stores everywhere in Tacoma. Some were pretending to be medical, some just sold pot and some were quality medical collectives. Since [Senate Bill] 5052 passed, the city said that they would begin enforcement on every unlicensed marijuana business beginning Oct. 1. I told Tacoma, ‘what are you thinking? This issue resolves itself in July 2016 when the legislature takes effect.’”

Tacoma identified three levels of enforcement, all proposed to be dealt with over the next nine months. But they made a mistake. They pushed 18 collectives that were compliant into a first-priority enforcement category based on a misinterpretation of tax law and

began shutting collectives down on Oct. 5. Immediately, Berneburg’s clients pushed to sue for injunctive relief, and a judge granted it. Days later, the city approached the collective gardens to work out a settlement that would allow compliant locations to stay open until July 2016, as long as they have applied for the new medical retail licenses under 5052.

“What this judge did showed a lot of integrity and class. He said, ‘I don’t know about these lawsuits, not clear on city’s intentions, so I want more briefing, but in the interim I want patients to access medicine. The legislative intent is very clear for patients to have safe access to MMJ, and I want that to happen,’” Berneburg said, smiling.

“This is where Tacoma gets cool; the city came to me and said, ‘lets find a way to settle this. They came to my office, said our city council and government wants patients to access MMJ safely and legally and organized, and we think we want tsame thing you do. How do we settle in way that benefits patients?”

While Tacoma still needs to deal with the entities that are out of compliance, they will respect the collectives that do things right. It’s a smart move fiscally and socially. The city does not need to waste money and manpower trying to shut down good businesses that would be able to fight and stay until May or June, costing the city tens of thousands of dollars and gaining only weeks before the legislative action shuts down collective gardens regardless on July 1, 2016.

For Berneburg, it’s all in a day’s work, fighting to make sure his clients get equal protection under the law.

“I will go to the mat for MMJ patients. I will not argue you have a right to break the law; that’s not what lawyers are supposed to do. My keyword is always integrity, for my clients and myself.” But he does want to be clear about one thing.

“I don’t want to be called a canna lawyer. I’m a lawyer. Clients hire me for aggressive representation to get things done. I’m not a phony-baloney bandwagon canna lawyer. I’m not about the hype,” he said.

“I care about helping the people who are involved in MMJ and helping others and those in recreational that are honest, trying to follow law and be good neighbors.”

I’M NOT A PHONY-BALONEY BANDWAGON CANNA LAWYER. I’M NOT ABOUT THE HYPE.


PROFILE By WES ABNEY | PHOTO by CULTURED EVENTS

The legendary musician and vocal proponent for Cannabis chats with editor Wes Abney about legalization, using herb on the road, spending time in Jamaica, his new music and famous father.

#1 What is your personal relationship with Cannabis? Do you use cANNABIS medicinally, spiritually or recreationally?

My personal relationship with herb is that being a Rastafarian, we smoke herb as our sacrament, like giving graces, smoke and meditate. It’s a more spiritual concept for me; a more godly connection. Herb builds the bridge between the spiritual and the physical.

#2 How does being a Rastafarian change how you view the plant? Well you see, when you smoke herb, you think deeper than how the world wants you to see. It’s easier to talk about Rastafari in that sense because Rasta people have been around from creation, maybe with a different name, a Nazirite before, now Rasta because of the new coming of Christ. We are from the lineage of David, and herb was always a part of life. Herb is coming from the Bible. Even on King Solomon’s grave was herb. That connection in the universe all channeled into one. When you smoke the herb, you realize what’s right, you get a moment to think deeper, then you talk about Rasta; that’s the entrance right there. It grows in no other way than a tree or plant grows. That alone shows that Jah made it, Jah gave Man a way to use it. It should rest upon what Man really wants. Jah provides so many things; select what you want. So many good things that Jah provided just from the natural Earth. So many blessings.

#3 What is the biggest goal you want to accomplish with your music? What is the one thing you want to get across to people?

The thing I try to do is open up eyes of the people: bring awareness of this time we are living in. Spread more in love than war. There are so many things going on, good and bad, but we see on the news there’s always less good on the news. My mission is to open your eyes to one another. It’s all about love, really. Pushing pure love to people through music, without any negativity, not saying anything of self-glory. It’s about the people, no matter what color or where you come from. The mission is always about bringing love, no matter what the song is. If it sounds hardcore, with a jazz or hip-hop rhythm, that is the message that is always there. Forgiveness, equality, love, there are many ways to say it. [As an artist] it is very interesting to have to spread love in different ways. Twenty songs all speak different ways of love.

#4 Your whole family is incredibly talented musically, and vocal on issues of social justice. Has it been hard being in the spotlight? Spotlight, there’s spotlights everywhere. Depends on if you want to be in a good spotlight or not. For me they’re always there, before and after, it’s about doing what you come to do, being natural, being real, being true. If I’m a baker, I’m gonna be the best baker around ‘cause I’ll be loving baking, so I’ll make the best pastries and bread. I just be myself. I’m Julian, so I remember that every day.

#5 What do you think your dad would say about legalization today?

For legalization, we’ve been speaking about legalization from creation, from 1976 Peter Tosh, “Legalize it.” We knew the herb is to be free, and we already knew from creation. They know the truth of herb, if you stop the herb you can’t make no more rope. And rope is made of hemp. Herb is there for the benefit of every

man, and can be used in millions of different forms. Of course it should be legal, not something made in a lab; who can trust that? I can’t, but I can trust what God made. Every time I eat an orange, I’m ok. Jah’s creation is always on point.

#6 Reggae has always had an element of protest in the genre. What do you think people should be working to change in this modern world?

I think we should start listening to what the people were saying from a long time ago. I listen to songs from my father’s era of time, and today and the last couple years, things are happening from what was said. We need to get back to listening to what these people were saying. They weren’t just talking because they could rhyme. The things they were saying takes a lot of energy, takes a lot of consciousness and skill. They made great works for us to say, “hey, lets listen to that and take a lesson from that song or artist.” Listening to these great ones is important

because nothing is new under the sun, we are fighting the same struggle. Everything rests on the brain. You must free yourself of mental slavery.

#7 You grew up spending a lot of time in both Europe and Jamaica. What is the biggest difference between the two cultures, and how have your travels influenced your music and worldview?

I find myself being a fully rounded person that is open. You live everywhere so your mind is open. A culture of England to a culture of Jamaica, obviously they are two different cultures. To be able to live like that makes me appreciate the creation. I’ve experienced culture from England, and culture from Jamaica, but

THE MISSION IS ALWAYS ABOUT BRINGING LOVE, NO MATTER WHAT THE SONG IS. IF IT SOUNDS HARDCORE, WITH A JAZZ OR HIP-HOP RHYTHM, THAT IS THE MESSAGE THAT IS ALWAYS THERE. FORGIVENESS, EQUALITY, LOVE, THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SAY IT.

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guess what? Everyone is human; we want and need the same things. For me, traveling so much, everything is mixed up. So I stay open-minded to diversity, the music, everything, it comes out in the music and whatever it is to make me to be that, to be Julian, all the ingredients, a part of here a part of there is within me. Growing up in England, I listened to a lot of different music. A variety of sound. In the 80s and 90s there was a lot of great music coming out of the UK. Now, we have lots of great music too but more computer music, not as much live music. It’s a transition of experience.

#8 You released a song this summer called “Lemme Go,” in support of worldwide legalization. What pushed you to write this powerful song?

You know what? That song, I would say, almost came like a prophecy. It was written before knowledge that herb would be more legal in Jamaica. When it was being written, we didn’t think about that. Then the next couple days, I heard it was gonna be legal and thought “whoa, look at that.” It’s like the earlys were thinking certain things from the 70s. You say something and then it happened, in a natural mystic way. It is a nice reggae tune; I like it.

#9 In the music video, your hookup is paranoid about getting in trouble. Have things changed since Jamaica decriminalized?

It’s gotten better, a good law now. So obviously legally become lighter.

There’s a difference now. You don’t have to go around thinking about it; you can travel now. You know that you don’t have to be looking around anymore; you are free somewhat. Herb is free but you can’t grow it, but it’s a tree. Can you tell me ‘don’t grow a flower?’ I can grow any flower I want, but because you can make money off it, okay, it’s a money thing. That’s why we say herb is so powerful and brings millions and the world needs it. Now you want to make a biz of the herb, where for us, herb is something we give. Originally, Rasta give herb, you don’t buy. You sit down and have a nice reasoning within the congregation, four to five trees, and have a helpful positive reasoning: a social experience. So the difference is, we know that it is free [where it is legalized] just because it is good business,

but Rasta been using it as spiritual from the beginning. It goes to show how some people view it.

#10 “Stress reliever, natural healer.” These are powerful lyrics.

Well you see, for those who smoke herb, we know that’s a reality, those lyrics. So you couldn’t have any more perfect words. That phrase, which is describing why instead of war we should smoke and mellow down the stress, get natural healing made by the almighty. Those are the best words I could pick right there; they couldn’t get any better.

WE NEED TO GET BACK TO LISTENING TO WHAT THESE PEOPLE WERE SAYING. THEY WEREN’T JUST TALKING BECAUSE THEY COULD RHYME. THE THINGS THEY WERE SAYING TAKES A LOT OF ENERGY, TAKES A LOT OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND SKILL.


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of my day off. The weed always had an intense and immediate effect. Before the cigarette was smoked down to roach length, I had to smother my giggles. Just to see the falling folds of the curtains or the sway of a chair was enough to bring me to audible laughter. After an hour the hysteria of the high would abate and I could trust myself in public.”

To be sure, a heavy public stigma still remained regarding Cannabis use at the time. In fact, it was more equated to the use of cocaine or heroin back then. While we know that Cannabis and these drugs have very little in common today, it is interesting to note that a truly successful person like Angelou chose to moderate her intake, which is admirable to this author.

Was Angelou’s creative genius directly influenced by Cannabis? More likely, Cannabis (like it does for so many of us) was one of the many experiences and gateways that lead to a greater appreciation for life’s simple pleasures, and a different outlook on the world. For that, we can all be thankful Maya An-gelou found this sacred herb.

in her 86 years with us, there was little Maya Angelou did not do. The author, poet, playwright, actress, director, dancer, professor and civil rights activist was conferred more than 50 honorary degrees throughout her lifetime. She also used Cannabis.

In the second installment of her autobiography, (the first being the famous “I know Why The Caged Bird Sings”) “Gather Together in My Name,” Angelou speaks freely about her use of Cannabis in her late teens and early 20s. What’s interesting about her first accounts of using Cannabis (which would have been in the mid-late 1940s) is how positive a light she paints her experience, which would have been quite taboo at the date of publication (1974), especially for such a respected author and poet.

“Smoking grass,” Angelou wrote, “eased the strain for me. I made a connection at a restaurant nearby. People called it Mary Jane, hash, grass, gauge, weed, pot, and I had absolutely no fear of using it.” But there’s more; Angelou goes on to describe her experi-ence, which sounds familiar to any of us who have a special bond with this medicine: “From a natural stiffness I melted into a grinning tolerance. Walking on the streets became high adventure, eating my mother’s huge dinners an opulent entertainment, and playing with my son was side-cracking hilarity. For the first time, life amused me.”

If you’re one of the millions of people who have looked up to Maya Angelou’s life and work over the years, this admission may come as a bit of a surprise. However, Angelou was truly a responsible user of Cannabis — something we can all look up to. Later on in the chapter she notes: “…I disciplined myself. One joint on Sunday and one on the morning

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GREENLIGHT GARDENSGrants Pass, Oregon


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14-PG.-SPECIALINTERVIEWS by Will Ferguson & Wes Abney

PHOTOS by Daniel Bermanand contributors


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LOCATION: Grants Pass, OregonGROWERS: Antonio and Sarah SandovalSTRAINS: Cotton Candy Kush, Northern Lights, Girl Scout Cookies, Rocklock and Red Dragon.

GreenLight Gardens

greenlight gardens is a farm in Southern Oregon that fuels all of the JollyBee products that are in many Oregon dispensaries. Antonio and Sarah Sandoval operate this garden with the help of some close friends on a property near Grants Pass. When we pulled up, the first thing that caught my eye was the sheer size of these plants; these were definitely the biggest plants I have ever seen, towering at about 13 feet from their raised beds. GreenLight grows a number of potent THC strains such as Northern Lights, Girl Scout Cook-

ies and Cotton Candy Kush that are all grown with Nectar for the Gods nutri-ents, making them more than safe for extraction and patient consumption.

The garden is located on a hill so the plants could

be grown in the ideal microclimate and grow to their genetic potential. We also took a peek inside GreenLight’s drying room where they had four huge walls of drying Cannabis from the first cut. Many farms in Southern Oregon will harvest the top colas first in order to give the lower buds sun-light that may have been blocked by the larger co-las, and to break up some of the manual labor.

GreenLight Gardens’ dedication to clean, sun-grown medicine is admirable as they aim to pro-vide some of the highest-quality Cannabis prod-ucts to Oregon dispensaries

The biggest plants I have ever seen, towering at about 13 feet from their raised beds.

By WILL FERGUSON | PHOTOS by DANIEL BERMAN


LOCATION: Cheshire, Oregonowner: John Bayes farmhand: IschaSTRAINS: All CBD strains | ACDC & Cannatonic

Green Bodhi Gardens

the green bodhi cbd garden is found just outside Cheshire, Ore. where John Bayes and his fellow farmers of the Green Bodhi collective are donating this CBD garden to children with severe epilepsy, cancer and other illnesses.

The Green Bodhi collective consists of about six farmers that are all dedicated to clean, sustainable and intentional horticulture that produces some of the best medicine on the market. I set off for a walk through the garden. The CBD-rich ACDC gave off an incredibly pungent smell of myrcene; walking through this garden is some serious aro-ma therapy. The plants stood about four feet tall as they were grown outdoor rather late in the sea-

son, however, these are some of the most resinous glands we have seen on a sun-grown plant. The small hill where the garden is located creates its own microclimate — too high of an elevation for fog and at the perfect angle for max sun exposure.

They cultivate high-CBD ACDC and Canna-tonic, which have hefty CBD-to-THC ratios, ideal for children with epilepsy as such strains drastical-ly reduce seizures with its non-psychoactive effects. This high-CBD medicine will be available to parents (21+) free of cost via Calyx-es in Southwest Portland.

The small hill where the garden is located creates its own microclimate.

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LOCATION: Applegate Valley, OregonGROWERS: The CO2 Company STRAINS: CBD Diesel, CBD Shark Shock,Girl Scout Cookies, Harley Tsu, Hurkle, Critical Mass

The CO2 Company

THE CO2 COMPANY’S SWEDEN FARMS has to be one of the most picturesque farms we visited. The garden is located on a sloping hill with maximum sun exposure and the perfect elevation. A beautiful view of the Siskiyou Mountains acts as the backdrop when looking down the hill at the farm. Guard dogs Roy and Ralphie make sure the perimeter of the farm stays free of intruders and other animals.

It was amazing to see CBD plants tower over me knowing who and what they are destined for. When we visited, Mama Lou and crew were taking the first cuts of high-CBD strains that will be available to patients and those 21+ in flower form. The smaller buds and trim will all go to the production of super crucial high-CBD CO2 oil available to OMMP patients only.

The CO2 Company’s dedication to providing patients with a discreet way to medicate with

CBDs is incredibly admirable as many people need to discretely medicate with CBD throughout the day. While we visited, the Sweden Farms crew worked to take down the first cuts by carrying them in bucketfuls up to a de-

leafing machine where they would be cleaned up a bit before being hung to dry. The CO2 Company provides high-CBD medicine in different forms to encompass those who benefit from the cannabinoid with different consumption preferences.

A beautiful view of the Siskiyou Mountains acts as the backdrop when looking down the hill at the farm.

Maria Dimich and Nic Fowler trim up

Morning on theplants and farm

Head CBD GrowerCindy Mama Lou

Company founders David, Karen, Ryan and Kevin



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LOCATION: Eagle Point, OregonOWNEr: Brent Kenyon STRAINS: Jager, Green Crack

Oregon Cannabis Farms

oregon cannabis farm’s beautiful grow is located near Eagle Point, Ore. on a large parcel of land. The friendly owner, Brent Kenyon, operates a Can-nabis clinic that has more than 15 locations around Oregon, Southern Oregon Alternative Medicine. Kenyon has been farming for more than 15 years and has been involved in the Cannabis industry for more than 25.

Kenyon only medicates with outdoor-grown flowers as he feels it is a smoother smoke. “I pre-fer to smoke sun-grown flowers as I feel the arti-ficial light from indoors makes the plant a harsher smoke,” he said.

The garden is located at the bottom of a hillside, which gives an incredible aerial view of the plants. Southern Oregon staple strains, Jäger, Green Crack, and Grape grew in Kenyon’s garden. The Jäger has a beautiful deep purple color to it and smells like black licorice. Walking through the garden made me feel minuscule as these plants towered over me at eight to 10 feet.

The plants receive a clean and sustainable nutri-ent regimen that allows for maximum resin pro-duction and growth. Brent has helped patients for more than 25 years, and he doesn’t plan on stop-ping any time soon.

dirty arm farm is a light deprivation greenhouse nestled among the hills west of Jacksonville, where owner Jamie is dedicated to producing clean, qual-ity organic Cannabis products.

Dirty Arm Farm is vertically integrated as they produce their own flower, concentrates and edibles for patients and Oregon dispensaries. Jamie’s prod-ucts are consistently some of the best out there, always made with high-quality ingredients and starting material.

Once we stepped inside the greenhouse (admire the interior photo across from editor note pg. 9.), we were greeted by a wind tunnel that continually channeled fresh air to the plants. All of the strains

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LOCATION: West of Jacksonville, Oregongrowers: Jamie (owner), Dave (assistant grower)STRAINS: Obama Kush, Key Lime Pie, Tangie,Super Lemon Haze, Gorilla Glue #4

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Jamie takes a smoke break

towered over us, with the biggest being a dense Su-per Lemon Haze plant that touched the top of the greenhouse. All the strains have incredible terpene profiles from Tangie to Super Lemon Haze.

“I’m trying to grow craft strains that discerning connoisseurs will come back for,” Jamie said. Ev-erything is grown in a no-till soil system with three rows of large soil beds.

Lights hang from the top of the greenhouse ready to kick on just long enough to keep the plants in 12/12. Jamie grows ultra clean flowers by using wild plant ferment teas and other locally sourced nutrients.

Everything that feeds his plants is gathered from the surrounding land. Dirty Arm Farm’s concen-trates are consistently some of the most flavorful on the market as Jamie utilizes a closed-loop sys-tem and his clean, pesticide-free starting material. Dirty Arm also makes a potent medicated syrup called Sizzurp that is created from excellent dabba-ble BHO and is available in Oregon dispensaries.

“I ’m trying to grow craft strains

that discerning connoisseurs will come back for.”

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LOCATION: Outside Jacksonville, OregonGROWERS: Owners Nick & Elizabeth Luca-Mahmood and General Manager Daniel Richardson STRAINS: Purple ETV, Pinkleberry Kush, Black Jack,Fat Stacks, Blackberry Romulan

Green Source Gardens

green source gardens is a no-till farm nestled in the hills outside Jacksonville, Ore. The owners Nick and Elizabeth are dedicated to clean, sustainable farming that involves a recycled soil system. The soil at Green Source Gardens already contains all the nutrients necessary to grow high-grade Cannabis with a “feed the soil, not the plant” philosophy. In fact, Nick and Elizabeth have managed to replace one of their core organic nutrients by planting comfrey around the plants, which is a natural source of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Green Source grows a wide variety of exotic strains that we have never seen in any other garden. Purple ETV, Black Jack, and Fat Stacks are just a few of the strains grown at Green Source with new crosses made every year.

When we visited, most of the strains were just finishing up with their leaves fading out beautifully into fall colors. The smells coming off these plants

were unexplainable with unique terpene profiles from strains like Divine Wine x Black Goo, Pinkleberry Kush and Purple ETV.

Three small gardens are located on the property, each with different varieties of strains. My favorite strain I saw growing was

the Divine Wine, which was so purple that it almost looked black. Nick, Elizabeth and Daniel’s commitment to sustainable, high-quality Cannabis farming is admirable in an industry that’s growing.

Most of the strains were just finishing up with their leaves fading beautifully into fall colors.

By WILL FERGUSON PHOTOS by DANIEL BERMAN

NOV. 2015 FACEBOOK.COM/NWLEAF /39Divine Wine x Black Goo

Nick in the drying room


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#1 When did you first get involved with Hemp?

I tried opening a hemp store 10 years ago at the Lancaster mall in Salem. Within a month I had to shut it down. There was no demand. I was way ahead of my time. More recently I got involved with hemp 18 months ago when I realized there were licenses available in Oregon. They had a licensing period where it was basically a license available to be hemp handler and grower, and I applied for both.

#2 What was the learning curve OR HARDEST PART OF growing hemp?

Getting the seeds was the hardest part. I know a grower whose seeds are stuck in customs at the Port of Portland and he doesn’t think he’ll ever get them back. I worked with Oregon State University in the beginning, but they couldn’t source seeds either. Eventually we found a source in Eastern Europe.

#3 did the state make it hard to navigate the politics of legal hemp?

The Department of Agriculture came out four different times to test our crop and make sure it wasn’t over the .3%percent THC limit. Our product came in at .0035 percent THC, so it’s no different than hemp products from Whole Foods, except this had almost 9 percent CBD. The only weird regulation was that the DOA wanted a 14-day notice of when we were going to harvest. You can’t do that as farmer, when hemp is ready to harvest you need a couple or three days to harvest, you can’t predict weather. It’s mother nature man. #4 When did you plant your seeds, how does it compare to Cannabis? We ran a sea of green on two and a half acres and 500 plants from seed in a greenhouse and got them outside in July. This was the first viable hemp farm in Oregon in 100 years. It was more natural farming practices than Cannabis.

JERRY NORTONFOUNDER, American Hemp Seed Genetics

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#5 What is your end use for the hemp that you grow out there? We are doing what is called quad-cropping, using the entire plant for many purposes. The seeds become food or oil or are used to plant for the next year, the stalks are ground up to make hempcrete for building, and the colas are ran with super critical CO2 to extract CBD for patients. I started a company called American Hemp Seed Genetics and my goal is to supply farmers with seed the way my family distributed grass seed generations ago.

#6 What do you see as the future of hemp in Oregon? I think we have a real bright future because we have a lot of vertical integration from other states wondering what and how we are doing and how we write laws. That’s exciting for me because Oregon can maybe set the tone here. I have over 100 articles from Oregon archives news that show that you had to grow and

pay taxes with hemp. 1800s- tugboats came through PDX and took seed out of the valley. Shiploads — tons upon tons. And we need to be doing that again. We need to switch from importing 80 percent of our hemp to making our own and exporting.

#7 any closing thoughts about hemp? Why are you so passionate? This is one of humanity’s longest utilized plants, poised to revitalize the United States. Thomas Jefferson composed the declaration of independence on it, colonists paid taxes with it, Betsy Ross made the first flag out of it. We can use it for food, fiber, industrial use, and to make medicine for patients. It is the ultimate cash crop and the best source of food, fiber and oil on the planet. Isn’t that beautiful? I am really excited to keep growing this plant and work to help other farmers start growing as well!

This was the first viable hemp farm in Oregon in 100 years.


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LOCATION: Columbia Gorge area, Washington GROWERS: Jerry and crewSTRAINS: 32 recreational varieties

Emerald Twist

emerald twist sits on 20 acres of prime Southeast Washington savanna producing 800 pounds of Cannabis for recreational outlets from Bellingham to Vancouver, Wash. The operation is a state-licensed grow facility near Goldendale, Wash., a certified organic and certified Kind farm.

Jerry and his crew are former medical growers and thus have strains that will be of use to medicinal patients who have to use recreational outlets when the state monopoly closes their safe access points this summer. The drive out to this facility follows the Columbia River that separates Washington and Oregon. Spectacular vistas on state highway 14 and the climb up out of the gorge to Goldendale is a pleasure in itself; you will see firsthand the area’s rich energy resources with hydroelectric and wind-generated energy.

The crew are expert grower/producers. I drove up to the farm for 4:20 the day before the shoot. I wanted to get a good start at sunrise as the garden came into view. My hosts had a bunk for me and a seat at their table. Conversation went far into the night as we discussed the new schedule of

harvesting compared to last year when my son and I shot all 32 of their strains. The staff is more mature than last year. The art of curing and burping the crop has become much less

tedious and labor-intensive, with no heavy pre-trim by machines; it is all done by hand now.

As patients, we’re in good hands with this operation’s eye on what is really important in the new Cannabis marketplace. This true medicine is available at the two Bellingham locations of 2020 Solutions, at 420 West and 420 Carpenter in Olympia and New Vansterdam in Vancouver, WA.

I drove up to the farm for 4:20 the day before the shoot.


Earth Rising Farm sits due north of Mount Hood, with rows of Cannabis plants and greenhouses full of organic vegetables on a south-facing hillside in beautiful Southern Washington, at 2,000 feet in elevation. Their soil starts out with natural tea blends and worm castings from Microbial Solutions, and the farm is 100 percent sustainable for Cannabis, turning leftover leaves and stems into compost for vegetables. This is a Cannabis naturalist's dream, one that owners and growers Carey and Miranda Bray have grown to love.

“Hands-on, being out under the sun is my passion. Prior to 502, we ran our CSA organic farm for providing veggies to 20-25 families. Recently we decided to take on this venture [502 Cannabis growing],” Carey explained.

“I just love working with plants. That's my zen every day: thinking of nothing except plants.” The family farm got their final license last

August, growing a shortened but successful crop that fall. The 2015 season was more promising, with plants put in the ground in early May.

Carey chose mostly faster-flowering strains like Deadhead OG, Blue City Diesel and Alaskan Thunder Fuck. Those strains were cut down in early

September, but at the time of our shoot, one strain was still standing proud.

“The Granddaddy Purple is one of our favorite strains and she is still going strong, with big chunky colas,” Carey said proudly.

“We take our time on everything, hand-trimming and watering, even hand-rolling all our joints. We’re kinda old school.”

The estimated 100-pound crop will round out the Tier 1’s outdoor production, and be sold to two shops in Southern Washington.

“Amy at Green Head in Vancouver and Margies Pot Shop nearby take a different approach with a main focus to support small-scale farms and

people that do unique things. That store, the product goes to a good place, not just turn burn, focus on quality and people. A different approach. We went into this together; there’s not a lot of product being sold but building relationships with people, selling your product and working with them as a team is the most beneficial thing any farm can do.”

Many would say that the Bray's are living the dream. And in many ways they represent the future of Cannabis as legalization spreads across the country: more family-owned farms taking on their economic, food and medical needs independently.

“Being one with the plants hands down is my favorite part. It feels right to either make really good food for people to eat and keep family healthy as well as this herb that is very powerful and has a lot of medicinal benefits. It's the right thing to do.”

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The smell lingers in the tip of the nose and on the tongue, with lemon fuel flavor that leaves with a rich, earthy finish. The smoke is mellow and sweet, leaving a green taste in the mouth and zero harshness or cough. Large tokes bring an intense and quick high that settles down in the first 20 minutes to a long lasting euphoria.

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Concentrates 4/5

THOSE WHO prefer concentrates will fit right in at this store. Options range from $35 grams of keif and half-grams of BHO to the top-shelf oil at $60-80 per gram, with an average gram price of $60. Top-shelf BHO options from Omega Concentrates and CO2 by Avitas rounded out the dabbable flavors. Other options like a waffles-flavored cartridge by Dopen left us confused, but impressed with the selection. People deserve options, and Evergreen Market delivers.

Strains 5/5

EVERGREEN MARKET has a focus on flower, with high-quality options that top out on ounces at $300, tax included. The bud stations are spread out, making it easy to deal with lines and a breeze to grab a gram, or an ounce. Prices range from $10-20 per gram, with an average being $15 for super high-quality flower choices. There is also a solid selection of prerolls, giving users the choice to grab a strain and try before buying a larger amount.

Edibles 5/5

ALL KINDS of medibles were on the shelves at The Evergreen Market. They have a wide selection of edible options compared to most recreational dispensaries. Options include 100 mg cooking oil for only $45 and coffee-flavored syrups at various dosages and prices. They have the standard chocolate bars and cookies too, and high-CBD tincture options as well. For the discrete user, they have Oakor breath strips, Mary’s Medicinal transdermal patches and wintergreen breath mints.


BY MASTER GROWN > Harvested this June, White Rhino has a fruity and sweet smell that expands heavily when a nug is snapped. There is a light creamy taste that is easy on the palate, and the flower is very smooth and clean when smoked. The indica effects are heavy and long-lasting, with a couch lock high that makes even the thought of moving a challenge. The buds were a little squished in the package, but shined bright with visible trichomes when taken out of the package. Overall, this is a great choice for flower, and is most impressive 15 minutes after smoking when the true effects hit. Bam!

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THIS RECREATIONAL STORE has an evolved and sophisticated environment. On most days, an outside door is open, letting fresh air in to the open bud room. Walking inside feels inviting, with friendly smiles and a no-pressure display layout. There’s no pushy salespeople; only happy budtenders to help users find the Cannabis products that fit their needs best.

Overall 19/20

THERE IS a reason The Evergreen Market has been the top-rated rec store on Leafly for months. This is a quality shop, and the location at the south end of Lake Washington makes it easy for people from Seattle, the Eastside or Renton and beyond to get easy access and great Cannabis products.

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PSHA HAS a quality selection of concentrates at a fair price. Patients will find cartridges and dabbable CO2 from CO2 Organics as well as Dama Oil-brand cartridges and the company’s impressive FECO (full extract Cannabis oil), plus rosin and CO2 cartridges from Thinc Pure and more. The best part of the selection is the solventless option, with two rosin companies and a quality bubble hash selection. Since BHO has disappeared, rosin has become a viable alternative, especially when priced at the $45 per gram offering at PSHA.

Strains 5/5

SINCE DAY ONE, the collective has always taken a simple approach to flower. If it isn’t high-quality, they don’t sell it. It might surprise new patients who see their expansive $25 per eighth menu, thinking it will all be bargain bud. Don’t be fooled. Their menu is high-quality and features locally cultivated and unique strains that bring true value to patients medicinally and financially.

Edibles 5/5

THE COLLECTIVE has a tried and true menu of quality edibles ranging from Sativa Valley dry THC and CBD tablets to delicious chocolates. Green Light Edibles, Forbidden Flower, 420 Bars, Canna Vita Bites and even brownie mix make up the tasty options for patients with a sweet tooth. For those being pragmatic about calories or discretion, the Mary’s Medicinals Capsules or Oakor breath strips are great options, along with Sativa Valley tincture or Dama Oil Capsules.

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NESTLED SOUTH of the Ballard Bridge in Seattle, this cozy medical shop is easy to access from a wide variety of Seattle neighborhoods. It has a hip and friendly vibe that feels exclusive and safe, without being high-pressure. The focus inside the medicine room is clearly on quality and patient needs, and it is refreshing to be treated as a one-on-one patient whose needs truly matter.

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THIS EXPERIENCE is becoming harder and harder to find in Seattle and Washington as laws continue to cramp a thriving and quality collective garden system. The staff are friendly and happy to help patients that need time in making choices, and their daily specials are always worth checking out, like top-shelf flower for $25 an 1/8 and solid discounts on edibles.

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GROWN BY PSHA > This representation of The White could be considered textbook perfect. Thick and dense nuggets covered in frosty white trichomes lock in a smell that is guaranteed to blow minds. Deep earthy smells mix with diesel to deliver a pungent aroma that will make any headie smoker start to drool. This bud is cured perfectly, with the dense buds snapping off into smokable or rollable pieces with ease. Smoking is a sweet pleasure, with a light but powerful smoke that has little to no cough but heavy and quick effects on the cerebral cortex. Patients should appreciate having access to this at $25 per eighth, which would easily run $70-100 at most recreational shops without the same medicinal quality.

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The Forbidden Flower Café’s line of chocolates wouldn’t be complete without this tasty 57 percent Cocoa Espresso Chocolate. The petite label is deserved; a piece fits easily in the palm of the hand but packs a serious punch. With 75 mg of active THC per piece, this can easily be two to four servings for patients with lighter tolerances, or a nice snack for those with a heavy dosage to pull through a day. The chocolate is wonderful and not overly bitter with Cannabis flavor, and the coffee notes help balance the overall flavor to a palatable level. We recommend trying a piece (or the whole thing) with a fresh espresso and good company.

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It’s hard to ignore Thanksgiving when thinking about infused recipes for the month of November. So many opportunities and only one day. I have chosen hors’ d’oeuvres, which all serve eight guests, with the thought that if you indulge at the start of the meal, the benefits will come in around dessert: maybe during your first bite of pumpkin pie. Don’t do what I did and forget to put the sugar in the pie; ‘twas brutal. Happy Thanksgiving from Laurie & Mary Jane!

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2. Heat oils in a medium skillet. Add onion and cook 4-5 min. Add pepper and cook 5 more min.

3. Add the breadcrumbs and cook until well-mixed. If too dry, add more regular olive oil. Place the ingre-dients in a bowl. Add in the cream cheese, sage, salt and pepper and mix well.

4. Stuff the mushrooms and bake about 12-15 minutes until dark golden brown.

These appetizers are savory and a perfect way to begin a medicated Thanksgiving!

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“marihuana” or marijuana. Most people did not know “marijuana” was Cannabis.

Anslinger asserted a bogus relationship between marijuana (never using the word Cannabis) with murder, mayhem, Mexicans, Negroes and jazz. An-slinger worked hard to associate the word “mari-juana” with depraved behavior and heinous acts.

He was a great publicist, but also an unprincipled liar and racist.

The alleged acts were trumpeted in lurid magazine articles he authored, includ-ing “Youth Gone Loco” and “Sex-Crazing Drug Menace.”

His most well-known arti-cle was probably “Marijuana — Assassin of Youth”, which appeared in the America Magazine in 1937. In it, An-slinger wrote: “No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become philosopher, a joyous reveler in a musical

heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer.” This racist propaganda assault culminat-ed in the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.

Dr. Bearman reveals that from the Marihuana Tax Act in 1937, to Nixon’s War on Drugs, to the present, those behind the promotion and passage of U.S. drug laws often had a vested interest, usually financial or political or both.

“Drugs are NOT the Devil’s Tools” is a well-re-searched look into the origin of United States drug laws. Dr. Bearman shows how, through intertwin-ing motives of discrimination and greed, often

he origins of drug laws in the United States are fascinating, and marijuana’s prohibition had very little to with its medicinal and stress-relieving properties, ac-

cording to Dr. David Bearman, author of “Drugs are NOT the Devil’s Tools,” a comprehensive two-volume work. “History,” Dr. Bearman writes, “indicates it was economics and greed.” Bearman’s chronology details the events leading up to the development of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. The legislation, which prohibited the consump-tion of Cannabis and heavily taxed the sale of hemp, was driv-en by certain business interests and was promoted with rhetoric fueled by racial prejudice.

“The laws were clearly aimed at demonizing and controlling minorities and other ‘undesir-ables,’” Bearman writes. Former alcohol “revenuer” and prohibi-tionist Henry J. Anslinger was appointed direc-tor of the newly formed Federal Bureau of Nar-cotics and Dangerous Drugs agency in 1930. The FBN was responsible for enforcing federal drug laws against heroin, opium and cocaine, but not Cannabis because it was not considered a dan-gerous drug.

In 1933, Anslinger launched a national propa-ganda campaign, speaking across the country and writing many commentaries in newspapers and magazines — with assistance from the Hearst syndicate — against what he called the evils of

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under the guise of morality, the government has created a drug policy that is completely dysfunc-tional. As he points out, our drug laws have been very effective in further marginalizing already dis-criminated-against groups and a total failure in every other respect.

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“Drugs are NOT the Devil’s Tools” is a well-researched look into the origin of United States drug laws. Dr. Bearman shows how, through intertwining motives of discrimination and greed, often under the guise of morality, the government has created a drug policy that is completely dysfunctional.

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September 2015, Jeremy Plumb and East Coast medical Cannabis ally Lauren Silberman made the journey to Tel Aviv to meet with distinguished Cannabis researchers and “explore connections and build bridges between the medical Cannabis

research communities between Oregon and Israel.” Cannabis research is legal in Israel and has been conducted since the early 1960s. Plumb and Silberman wanted to further the dialogue on medical Cannabis after Oregon’s recent legalization.

I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Plumb on his experience abroad furthering medical Cannabis research. Plumb is currently the president of Farma and Newcleus Nurseries in Portland.

Despite the recent monetary success numerous Oregon dispensaries have experienced since rec sales began Oct. 1, remaining medical marijuana dispensaries instead struggle to find the funds to sustain medical marijuana in Oregon. Eighty-five percent of Oregon dispensaries (including Farma) have opted into recreational sales. The masses rejoice, but many fear for the longevity of the medical program and its community. Knowingly, Plumb flew to Israel to better understand and legitimize the medical benefit of whole-plant Cannabis in the United States.

Plumb met with Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, a revered organic chemist and professor of medicinal chemistry at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Dr. Mechoulam is credited with discovering the

active compound in Cannabis: Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. He synthesized THC and did the same with cannabidiol,

commonly known as CBD. Dr. Mechoulam helped coixn the term “endocannabinoid system,” which describes the relationship between Cannabis and the receptors (CB1, CB2) within the human body. Dr. Mechoulam has been

titled as “the Grandfather of Cannabis research” for his work on Cannabis, dating all the way back to early 1962.Dr. Mechoulam is one of the leading champions of single-

metabolite Cannabis research, or understanding how THC or CBD work alone without additional minor cannabinoids like CBC or CBG. Plumb ventured to Israel in order to study the clinical way Cannabis research is conducted, to eventually apply to multi metabolite (whole-plant) medicine, which includes minor cannabinoids mentioned above.

In Oregon, medical marijuana is drastically underfunded and in need of a major overhaul in terms of leadership and overall direction. Plumb believes that by doing more research and applying an evidence-based approach, we will be able to illustrate a far more detailed and useful array of therapeutic effects than we find now. Further, there are business models by which research facilities can compassionately provide low- to no-cost medicine to those the most in need. The medical community can redeem and fund itself, while co-existing with the rapidly emerging legal adult market.

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In order to optimize whole-plant medicine (or multi-metabolite research), a scientific evidence-based model must be applied in the same way single-metabolite Cannabis is studied. The entourage effect is a term used to describe the way major and minor cannabinoids interact with each other. When isolated, most minor cannabinoids like CBG (or cannabigerol) do not have much impact in comparison to THC. Greater effect is found when all cannabinoids work together synergistically, providing extra benefits when combined.

Basically, Plumb is calling for the need of scientifically validated multi-metabolite Cannabis research to show potential medicinal benefits. Portland hosts a science university home to some of the best family medicine in the nation. Doernbecher is one of the top children’s hospitals in the country to boot. Creating dialogue between the medical marijuana community and Oregon Health and Science University would be a great start.

The documentary “The Scientist,” starring Dr. Mechoulam, shows a scene where he solemnly jokes that if he was a lab rat, he could be virtually cured of anything. Rats are tested, and treated for epilepsy, ALS, MS and cases of cancer with Cannabis, yet humans cannot reap these benefits at this point in time in Israel and much of the United States. Dr. Mechoulam says with a heavy heart, despite his groundbreaking research, “I guess, I do not have much influence on oncologists.”

Legalization came through patient-activist efforts, on the backs of sick people looking for relief from long-term, autoimmune or terminal illnesses without risking jail time.

Before Cannabis research was available, many patients used certain strains to treat their problems. Sativas for cerebral, mood-elevating

highs, and indicas for relaxing, sedative highs used to treat physical pain. Plumb and many researchers agree this practice is an archaic way of understanding the therapeutic effects of Cannabis.

Instead, research suggests looking at the cannabinoid levels of strains when looking to treat health conditions with Cannabis. Meaning understanding how cannabinoids help mitigate certain diseases will be key to successfully treating problems. Rather than seeking out strains based on anecdotal evidence, patients would instead learn what cannabinoids help their specific issues and look for strains high in those cannabinoids.

The bridge between medical research and Cannabis is already beginning to materialize. I spoke with John Hicks, a medical doctor in Oregon with more than thirty years of experience in integrated holistic health. Hicks is also the author of “The Medicinal Power of Cannabis: Using a Natural

Herb to Heal Arthritis, Nausea, Pain, and Other Ailments.”

His book provides examples of how medical research needs to desperately catch up to this widespread cultural shift in perception of using Cannabis as medicine.

When speaking with Dr. Hicks on the topic of medical marijuana, he believes physician education on Cannabis is a central issue. “Pushing for physician-by-physician education, and understanding how Cannabis interacts with other medications will be vital to the medical community,” Hicks said.

“Many M.D.s don’t realize the spectrum and value of medicinal marijuana. Mental anxiety is a number-one diagnosis today. Trying to find a way to intrude these issues without side effects or addiction is key. Patients with cancer are treated with THC,

and patients with neurological disease like multiple sclerosis (MS) are treated with CBD. THC has antidote-like qualities we have yet to understand. Medicinal marijuana has a lot of value in helping to control pain without opioid use.”

On the topic of single versus multi-metabolite Cannabis research, Dr. Hick believes single metabolite research was needed to map out how everything (THC) worked. As more research is conducted, multi-metabolite research will be needed to show what cannabinoid interactions help specific health issues, or diseases. Understanding and potentially harnessing the entourage effect might lead to the best Cannabis treatment in the future.

In Israel, only eight Cannabis license holders exist. Knowledge on single metabolite Cannabis research is extensive, but knowledge and nuance is left unknown in regards to multi-metabolite Cannabis research. Oregon is currently poised to be the next world leader to tackle full-spectrum cannabinoid studies. Human consumption for adults is now legal. Many longtime OMMP patients feel bittersweet about the direction of the newly legal movement. Some fear medicine shortages, price increases and extended wait times, or the complete dissolution of OMMA itself. Plumb’s response was sensitive to the new anxiety and fear existing within the OMMP community. His caveat was this:

“I think a lot of the world views medical marijuana as a Trojan horse to achieve adult use. But we can use adult use to be the Trojan horse in ensuring that Cannabis becomes well-established as a reliable and fundamentally important source of wellness and self care in the world.”

Plumb discovered a silver lining many have yet to realize: Oregon is ready to pioneer Cannaresearch for years to come.

Simone Fischer is a Portland OMMP patient and Cannabis advocate. She is a contributing editor at Ladybud Magazine and a graduate of women’s and gender studies from Portland State University.

Jeremy Plumb

In Israel, there are only eight Cannabis licenses. Oregon is poised to be the next world

leader to tackle full-spectrum cannabinoid studies.

Legalization came through patient-activist efforts, on the backs of sick people looking for relief from long-term, autoimmune or terminal illnesses without risking jail time.

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DR. SCOTT D. ROSE

Every year, Americans gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday for giving thanks to the good things in life and cel-ebrating friends, family and connection. But such feelings need not be limited to just one day or event. One can cultivate grat-itude and directly experience the interconnectedness of all life.

There are remarkable findings for just how powerful having an attitude of gratitude can be. Gratitude is an emotion express-ing appreciation for what one has, as opposed to an emphasis on what one wants or doesn’t have.

As author Eckhart Tolle says, “Acknowledging the good that you al-ready have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” The practice of gratitude is not in any way a denial of life’s difficulties. We live in troubling times, and no doubt, many challenges, uncertainties and disappointments are experienced.

Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which

he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.” “First,” he writes, “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve re-ceived.” In the second part of gratitude, he explains, “we recog-nize that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves…

We acknowledge that other people — or even higher powers, if you’re of a spiritual mindset — gave us many gifts, big and small, to

help us achieve the goodness in our lives.” Emmons and other researchers see the social dimension as being especial-

ly important to gratitude. “I see it as a relationship-strengthening emotion,” writes Emmons, “because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.” Because gratitude encourages us not only to

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Dr. Scott D. Rose has written about Cannabis and health for years in the pages of Northwest Leaf and Oregon Leaf. He is an acupuncturist with a pain resolution clinic in the Crown Hill area of Seattle.

appreciate gifts but to repay them (or pay them forward), the sociologist Georg Simmel called it “the moral memory of mankind.”

A large body of literature is mounting that suggests that people who are more grateful have higher levels of subjective well-being. Grateful people are happier, less depressed, less stressed and happier with their lives and relationships with other people. Gratitude may serve as a buffer by enhancing the coding and retrievability of positive experiences. Gratitude is getting a great deal of attention as a facet of a new branch of psychology called positive psychology.

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and com-munities to thrive. The field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work and play. This field uses the scientific understanding and effective intervention to aid in the achievement of a satisfactory life, rather than treating mental illness.

Positive psychology focuses on growth rather than on pathology, as is common among other frameworks within the field of psychology. It is a call for psychological science and practice to be as concerned with strength as with weak-ness; as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst; and as concerned with making the lives of normal people fulfill-ing as with healing pathology.

Gratitude has been said to have one of the strongest links with mental health of any other character trait. Numerous studies suggest that grateful people are more likely to have high-er levels of happiness and lower levels of stress and depression. Studies have shown that we can deliberately cultivate gratitude, and can in-crease our well-being and happiness by doing so. Grateful people have more positive ways of coping with the difficulties they experience in life. Grateful people are less likely to try to avoid the problem, rely on negative coping mechanicms, deny there is a problem, blame themselves or dive into substance use.

Grateful people sleep better, and this seems to be because they think fewer negative and more positive thoughts before going to sleep. In addition, gratefulness — and especially ex-pression of it to others — is associated with increased energy, optimism and empathy. While many emotions and person-ality traits are important to well-being, good evidence suggests gratitude may be uniquely important.

Gratitude is viewed as a desired human propensity in the Christian, Bud-dhist, Muslim, Jewish, Baha’i and Hindu traditions. Worship with gratitude to a god, higher power, or something outside of self is a common theme in

such religions and therefore, the concept of gratitude permeates religious texts, teachings and traditions. For this reason, it is one of the most common emo-tions that religions aim to provoke and maintain in followers and is regarded as a universal religious sentiment. Spirituality and gratitude recently became popular subjects of study. While these two characteristics are certainly not dependent on each other, studies have found that spirituality is capable of increasing a person’s ability to be grateful and therefore, those who regularly attend religious services or engage in religious activities are more likely to have a greater sense of gratitude in all areas of life.

The Buddhist practice of cultivating gratitude is said to lead to the direct experience of the interconnectedness of all of life. Practicing mindfulness of gratitude consistently leads to an experience of being connected to life and the realization that your personal story is unfolding in a larger context. Being re-lieved of the endless wants and worries of your life’s drama, even temporarily, is liberating. It also elicits feelings of generosity, which create further joy. Hav-ing access to the joy and wonderment of life is the antidote to feelings of scar-city and loss. The understanding you gain from practicing gratitude frees you from being lost or identified with either the negative or the positive aspects of life, letting you simply meet life in each moment as it rises.

In some Buddhist traditions, there’s a prayer in which one makes a rather unusual request of the universe: Bring me challenges and obstacles. “In certain temples that I’ve been to, there’s actually a prayer that you make asking for difficulties,” Western Buddhist master Jack Kornfield said during an interview with the Huffington Post. “May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.”

Trained in monasteries in India, Thailand and Burma, Kornfield has studied and taught meditation for more than 40 years, pio-neering and transmitting ancient Buddhist spiritu-al teachings to a modern Western audience.

So what’s one of Korn-field’s secrets to abundant gratitude? Don’t take life so seriously, or get so wrapped up in your own everyday dramas that you forgot to see the beauty that surrounds you.

“This life is a test — it is only a test,” Kornfield wrote in “A Path With Heart.” “If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instruc-tions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.”

Cultivating an opening to gratitude helps us become more mindful of life all around us and the circumstance we’re in.

Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that “gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues but the parent of all others.” Multiple studies show a correlation between gratitude and increased well-being for individuals as well as recip-ients of gratitude. Once neglected by psychology, much progress has been made in recent years in studying gratitude and its positive effects.

So this year, when gathering for your Thanksgiving celebration by sitting at the table giving thanks, counting blessings or how ever it is done where you are; remember it is all about gratitude. And gratitude is about receiving and giving back. Gratitude is a process and a practice, not just an event. With practice, gratitude can be cultivated within and can change your attitude to gratitude where the benefits are limitless.

Notice your day-to-day world from a point of gratitude and be amazed at all the good-ness we take for granted.

Keep a gratitude journal. All it requires is noting one or more things you are grateful for on a daily basis.

Write a gratitude letter to someone in your life you’ve never properly thanked.

Savor the good in your life — don’t just gloss over the beauty and pleasures that come your way.

Share at least one good thing that happened to you recently or your favorite part of the day at the next lunch or meal.

Give at least one compliment daily. It can be to a person or it can be asking someone to share your appreciation of something else.

When you find yourself in a bad situation ask: What can I learn? When I look back on this, without emotion, what will I be grateful for?

Vow to not complain, criticize or gossip for 10 days. If you slip, rally your willpower and keep going for 10 more days.

Notice the amount of energy you were spending on nega-tive thoughts and actions.

Become involved in a cause that is important to you.

HOW TO BEGRATEFUL:

Grateful people sleep better,have higher levels of happinessand report less stress at work.

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Creating effective systems in the garden requires managing two limiting factors or characteristics about the grow that are intrinsically permanent and unalterable. In the indoor environment, available height is one of those factors that are most difficult to work around when farming Cannabis. Many new gardeners are working in tents, closets, cabinets and oth-er self-contained environments, which can be ideal for cultivating a small amount of medicine while still allowing for a large amount of concealment. One of the few deficits with these environments is that ceiling height is often limited. Either due to the physical restric-tions of the environment itself or the priority of creating efficiency by stacking two separate grow environments on top of one another, it ’s often the case that after hanging the light and running any necessary ducting, the overhead canopy space available to the plant is limited in a meaningful way.

Many varieties of Cannabis thrive under high amounts of light but are badly damaged when exposed to the high levels of heat that of-ten gather under the lights in the “hot spots.” As a result, without assistance from the gardener, many plants will stretch right into the hottest, brightest part of the light and then proceed to burn for the remaining 6+ weeks left in the flower cycle.

The first 2-4 weeks after the plant ’s light cycle has been transi-tioned to increase the dark period for long enough to initiate a bloom response, the plant ’s first priority is to grow as full and tall as possible to ensure the best chance for pollination. Our goal as gardeners is to prevent any pollination and direct the plant ’s growth patterns to

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maximize the size and amount of essential oil production of the flowers, which is, from many perspectives, counterintuitive to

the plant ’s “natural” or genetically imprinted goals.For these and as well as many other reasons, learning to

manage the vertical growth and mitigate as well as redirect the height of the plant can be one of the most valuable skills

in a grower’s arsenal.

1) CULTIVAR SELECTION One of the easiest ways to ensure your plants have enough height in your garden is to simply select plants that are known to grow only to the height that you have avail-able. Many varieties of Cannabis, especially those in the indica and indica-dominant family have very little stretch to them when transi-tioning to flower. Look for those strains with Bubba Kush, Cinderella 99 and Blueberry as well as many, many others. Breeders are aware of the value of producing seed variety dominated by plants with an easy-to-manage growth structure so that very little training or interference by the gardener is neces-sary. As anyone continues to work with a particular plant and learn its habits, it ’s possible to achieve an even higher lev-el of genetic potential through pruning, thinning and modest training.

2) VEG TIME Another easy way to ac-commodate those types of Cannabis that are known to have a massive stretch is to dramatically decrease the vegetation time by placing very small plants into bloom. Some of the tallest and stretchiest plants are also very vigorous in veg. One can take advantage of these two unique char-

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acteristics with varieties like Sour Diesel by placing the plants into bloom after only a week or two after transplant from hardened clone. By transitioning the plant to bloom at what may seem like a very early point, you are able to take advantage of the wildly vigor-ous stretch. What starts as very small 4- and 5-node plants will stretch into a manageable medium-height plant after reaching its full stretch without significant interference.

3) SUPER CROPPING Very often, the tall-est, stretchiest plants are also some of the most vigorous, with the exception of many of the OGs. For plants like Sour Diesel, Go-rilla Glue, Blue Dream crosses and the like, super cropping is a technique that allows the gardener to redirect the plant ’s energy to suit the environment it ’s growing in. Super crop-ping is the technique of bending, smashing, or breaking the upper bloom sites on the plant in order to redirect the hormones from the apical growing tips to lower bloom sites on the plant. Super cropping creates a phys-ical trauma for the plant, which essentially redirects the plant ’s energy from stretching out each node as much as possible, to simply repairing the broken parts of the bloom site. Those plants that are most often the tallest, stretchiest and most unruly in the garden very often respond best to this type of tech-nique, repairing full 180 degree stem breaks in 24 hours or fewer.This provides the benefit of di-recting the plant ’s energy towards repair-ing the super cropped area, which it does in place of stretching up to another 2-3 inches. Crushing the apical growing tip and creating a bend so other top sites in the canopy can receive equal lighting, directs growth toward lower sections of the plant, encouraging a bushier growth pattern.

Much like the way a broken bone in a hu-man will repair itself stronger and harder with large deposits of thick calcium in and around the break to ensure it ’s properly pro-tected, many Cannabis plants respond in a similar way to damaged and broken stems. The damaged site will usually heal into a thicker, harder knuckle-like bulge in the plant that supports larger flowers and may open up zylem and phloem tissues for more efficient nutrient uptake.

For varieties that have the same stretchy

and unruly characteristics but also have much more sensitive growth characteristics and are significantly slower to repair super cropped sites or may even go into a state of shock, (read: just about all yer favorite cuts of OG Kush) it can be very helpful to do the majority of the train-ing and structure building during the vegeta-tive state. Upon transition, the plant ’s structure will already be more established, allowing less physical manipulation during the all-important flowering period where, should you super crop too aggressively, you may create setbacks in the plant ’s development that cannot be made up af-ter transition is initiated.

4) LOW-STRESS TRAINING (LST) If you consider super cropping a way of imparting high amounts of stress to the plant in order to work with its intrinsic growth char-acteristics to achieve an ideal struc-ture, the opposite of super cropping would be low-stress training. In this technique, you begin shaping and manipulating the plant from a very young age in veg by tying or anchor-ing each and every branch when it becomes appropriate to encourage a lateral growing pattern rather than

a vertical one. As mentioned, grow-ing a bush is very much in contrast with the programed genetic growth patterns of many

Cannabis plants. Consequently, LST requires much diligence and time on the gardener’s part as daily or every other day training is most helpful to ensure that new growth sites are being properly directed to the intended space in the canopy and that older sites are staying on a level plane.

The advantage to LST is that the plant is never in shock or a recovering state, as all the imparted stress is done so at such low levels that the plant has no adverse reaction. LST is simply done with a high degree of frequency, in very small increments. Over a long enough period of time, each of those small adjustments begin to exceed the sum total of each of their impacts and exponential leverage is reached. By continuing to tie and/or anchor plant branches and growth sites straight through the end of stretch, you can train a plant to grow into an almost perfectly symmetrical structure that al-

lows equal and adequate light to each of the evenly spaced and leveled flower sites within the depth range of the canopy that light is effectively penetrating. Also, by training the plant without creating stress, transitions often happen faster, allowing for longer periods of bud swelling and ripening, which allows us to more effec-tively assist the plant in creating more desirable results to enjoy.

While each of these techniques are ef-fective, the amount of skill and experi-ence needed to master each increases as you add more plants. For this reason, I recommend running your gardens using the earlier suggestions and employing the later two on a very small number of plants. That way, you can have the free-

dom to learn where the thresholds for too much and too little stress ex-ist and how to manage both without having your learning affect your supply of medication to a major degree.

Lastly, the sculpting of the trees is by far some of my favorite and most personally reward-ing work. I find it ’s one of the few areas where the gardener and the plant are able to create a strong bond through the massive amount of com-munication between the two during the training periods. There are few

areas where one can learn a plant ’s ten-dencies with greater ease than during the training and pruning. The time frame to accomplish the training is limited and its nature is final. The results of your efforts might not be fully revealed for a month or more after the training is complete.

From there, you can make adjustments, try again and wait another few months to see if you improved or moved backward and then try again. Said another way, “bliss for those of us whom the garden has chosen as their calling.”

While each of these techniques are effective, the amount of skill and experience needed to master each increases as you add more plants.


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