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HEALTH Med With Love Chai
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FEATURE Adam Dunn
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MMJ NEWS Donation Declined
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FEATURE RETAIL Top Shelf
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FEATURE CO-OP Left Coast Cannabis
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January 2015 The DOPEST Issue
STRAIN OF THE MONTH Thin Mint Girls Scout Cookie
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GENETICS While the exact sativa to indica ratio of this hybrid strain is unknown, “Thin Mints” Girl Scout Cookies is the result of the cross breading OG Kush with F1 Durban (Durban Poison x F1). This is a phenotype of the widely popular Girl Scout Cookies strain.
MEDICAL BENEFITS This indicadominate hybrid powerhouse produces a heavy body and cerebral high. Not overly stimulating or sedating, this “onestop shop” of a strain will address most mental and physical ailments. It has become widely popular among patients suffering anxiety, anorexia, cancer, depression, insomnia and more.
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The appearance of Thin Mint GSC is a kaleidoscope of dark green shades, contrasted against a dark purple calyx and fiery red pistils. The flower sample I had the privilege of testing was filled with “icky-sticky” trichome goodness, harvested, trimmed, and cured to perfection. The spectrum of colors found on this strain is quite unique, and should be expected from a top-shelf strain like this.
Monthly, I pick up a sample of the “Strain of the Month” from my editor to review in bags specifically designed not to let smell permeate. The earthy, sweet, dank skunk smell still pervaded my entire car and office. This is one of the most pungent strains I have laid my nose on. You get the point.
Vaporized it is immediately clear why this strain is named “Thin Mints” and the vapor has a lovely mouth feel that tastes minty and sweet like cotton candy. It was also apparent that this plant was grown in a soilless medium (coco according to the grower) and very well flushed to ensure the upmost quality.
Neither overly stimulating nor sedative, this strain could be used during the daytime or at night. Following a short vaporizing session, I felt creative, energetic, and euphoric combined with an appropriately well-balanced body high. Thirty minutes later, some serious munchies set in and I was on the phone with the pizza deliveryman. Stock up on the snacks, you will need them!
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As I sat across from David Bundren, the owner of Med With Love, a local Portland Company, at nearby Portland cafÊ, I couldn’t help but think I was sitting across from some of the best energy I had been around in a while. Quick to smile with his answers to my questions, and with laughter in his voice, I almost instantly understood how the beverages this company
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makes, are infused with love. The conversation flowed easily, like with an old friend, except I had only met David once, briefly at that. As I learned about Med With Love, I fell in love with the process in which these beverages are made, almost as much as I am with the fine products themselves.
EDIBLES Q&A WITH DAVID BUNDREN DOPE: Please tell us about the products that Med With Love makes. What products does your company produce? David: Our flagship product is our Chai, both the Oh Ji and the Chocolate. Soon after that came our Kombuchas, slightly by accident, first the Chai Bouch, and then the Green Bouch - that’s the one made with fresh cannabis juice that we currently offer in an activated as well as a non-activated form. DOPE: How long have you been an established business, and where are you based? David: I have been brewing Chai for over a decade, ever since I started practicing and teaching Kundalini Yoga. I have been passionately making food that is tasty, as well as beautiful and nutritious for longer than that. We have an operations center in both Portland, Oregon, where I live, and in my native hometown of Seattle, Washington. DOPE: I noticed on the labels of your products that you listed many organic ingredients. What other types of ingredients are used in your products? David: We use whole foods, superfoods, and plant materials that are organic, sourced locally, and grown and produced ethically. This is an easy place for our core values (Sacred Local Organic Wellness) to come in. We would also like to be part of the solution for helping people have less sugar and other allergens in their diet. Our Chai, for example, is lightly sweetened and contains no milk (dairy or otherwise), giving you the freedom to drink it as is or to make it into your own blend of sweet and creamy. DOPE: I know that some of your beverages have raw cannabis juice in them, yet still taste delicious! Can you please explain how much activated THC vs non activated THC is in each of your beverages? David: We generally aim for an 85-15 activated to non-activated THC content in our cannabis extracts for our psycho-active products. For our non-psycho-active the numbers are of course much different, with about 95% of the THC remaining in its acidic form. DOPE: Your company name says it all, how do you infuse love into the meds? David: I make myself part of the process from the beginning to the end. From knowing the growers, to having my hands on the plants from which the oil is extracted, into the kitchen - which I absolutely treat as a temple and sacred space - personally meeting all of our vendors and hand-picking the ingredients. My day starts with my yoga practice. Then, once my family has transitioned out to work and school, I get to work in my kitchen. Production is a wonderful opportunity for my Bhakti Yoga - my devotional practice. I sing sacred chants and songs while brewing and bottling, really infusing love into a tangible product that then goes out into the world and delivers its magic as much as the recipient allows it to.
there, they asked me if I wanted to help them with some gardening. And so for about the next year I worked with them - I especially enjoy working with the plants while they are still alive and growing - and one day, we’re talking about my Chai business that I was starting to bring out into the conventional marketplace and they suggested that it would make an awesome medicated beverage. That was definitely an early milestone in the genesis of Med With Love and I have a lot of gratitude for that series of events that has led me here. DOPE: Any products coming up that our audience should watch for? David: Be on the lookout for a Mandarin-Ginger Soda that we plan to release by spring of 2015! Also on our radar are a few more beverages that mix and match well with our Chai. DOPE: What strains do you use in your products? What extraction methods? David: We are constantly searching for the best strains and methods of extraction. We are currently working with some private suppliers that make us some really excellent extracts made through both CO2 Compression as well as Proprietary forms of Ethanol Extraction. We strive for sources of Sustainable, Organic Farmers and we develop longterm, strategic relationships with our growers, just as with our other vendors. In terms of strains, we have a really solid Blueberry-dominant that translates really well into our extracts. Blackberry Kush, OG Kush, Sour Diesel, and Girl Scout Cookies are a few others that we have been working with. In 2015 we are looking at bringing out an expanded line to include some special formulations for Specific Medical Conditions. ACDC, for example is a 1:20 THC-CBD ratio that we are looking at to help people address Epilepsy, Autism, and a few other major complaints - without the mind-altering effects. We are also working on standardizing a formula with White Widow for an everyday, more head-space experience, and something like a Diesel Tonic for a more body-based experience, still with the other health benefits of a high-CBD strain. DOPE: What kind of effects should patients expect when they consume your products? David: Before I even add cannabis we expect better health, better digestion, better circulation, and improved vitality. Post adding cannabis I expect a happier, more energetic, more creative, more loving, less depressed, less stressed, pain relieved person. DOPE: Is there anything else that you would like us to know? David: I really encourage people to slow down at least once a day, even just for a minute. Take a breath, unplug, think of what you’re grateful for, and send some love to yourself and out to the world. Remember one of the laws of alchemy - it takes love to make love.
DOPE: What inspired your company’s beginnings? David: A few years ago I went up to Seattle to do a weekend of Balinese Monkey Chanting with a teacher and a small group of friends. Some long-time friends invited me to stay over with them and, while I was
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ADAM DUNN A H E A D O F T H E C LO U D
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ne could say that Adam Dunn has a knack for cannabusiness. He followed his pipe dream to Amsterdam at 19 years old, arriving well before the Red Light District became an official stop on college euro-trips. Armed with a grounded sense of
humor and youthful ambition, he started several companies, resulting in his multi-million dollar enterprise today. His seed company, THSeeds and his store, Hempworks, are doing well back in Amsterdam, and his clothing company, Hoodlamb, is advancing hemp fashion far beyond rasta colored loungewear with chic, modern styles and textiles. However, as 2010 approached, Dunn took notice of the changes in the Netherland’s drug laws. Rules were tightening up in Europe, while the United States began to beckon with possibility from across the pond. He made his way back to the States five years ago, ventured around to check out the progress within the industry, and eventually settled in Colorado. Ever the entrepreneur, he hasn’t ignored the increasing buzz around the Northwest cannabis industry. During a visit to Portland,
we could do better than the stuff we were seeing. We started making
Oregon last month, DOPE got the chance to sit down with him and
baseball jerseys, of course, as Americans in Holland, and put a little
hear his story first hand.
paper dispenser in a secret pocket as an attractive detail.” American
“When I arrived in Amsterdam, I had one phone number, a friend of
tourists were thrilled, and would immediately buy their team’s jersey,
my mom who’d been living there for about fifteen years. She had this
but it didn’t catch on as they’d imagined with the locals. They needed a
great apartment and offered to let me stay for $90 a month. I ended up
bolder declaration of American ingenuity in order to turn heads.
going home, selling everything I had, then came back with the means
“There was a particular Dutch grower who spoke poorly of any of us
to build my first grow room upstairs in the same building. It was like a
Americans when our backs were turned-- I was always out to beat him
junkyard - a mess of scrap bike parts and other crap, but I was literally
at the Cup. One year, he’d done colored seeds. It’s an old practice, you
able to build my grow room out of things I found up in the attic. I called
take fungicide and colored powder, and coat the seeds for identification
it ‘Scrapoponics’ at the time, because it was a bunch of sink parts and
purposes, so that the different colors show each strain. Well, they ended
dishwasher hoses.”
up looking a lot like Trix cereal. I called up a friend in the States, had
After four years, he’d found a few like-minded individuals with
him mail me a box of cereal, poured them into a bowl, and snapped
a passion for growing and was able to start his first business, C.I.A,
a photo.” Dunn then placed a text above the image that read, “Silly
“Cannabis in Amsterdam.” The familiar acronym is no accident: Integrity
Growers, Tricks are for Kids.” On the other side of the flyer, he placed
is something Dunn takes very seriously. His ideas are embedded in a
images of his seeds: natural seeds, free of any chemicals or dyes, and
desire for transparency and truth. “CIA was sort of about counter-
let the seeds speak for themselves. It gave him an edge, and showed
information, we wanted to tell the truth about cannabis. We were
that he’s having fun with his craft, while reminding customers how out
going to try to figure it all out. We were young guys who knew this was
of touch his contemporaries were. Dunn was able to make playful, eye-
going to go somewhere and didn’t know where to start.” They ended
catching ad campaigns without much more than a subtle comparison
up trying the retail route first, buying a lot of hemp clothing to sell, but
between traditional methods and his own.
the uncomfortable, ill-fitting designs weren’t very popular. “We knew
Though such enduring prosperity usually signals a shrewd
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Dunn now hosts a show on iCannabis Radio, “The Adam Dunn Show,” which covers marijuana happenings as they merge with mainstream culture. “One of the things I do on my show is work to unravel the origins of the really great strains, and bring those people back into the fold, because they’ve been disenfranchised by a lot of infighting. Every great strain has massive infighting built into it, that’s how it all works. If it doesn’t, it’s not a great strain. Why would you fight over a shitty strain?” His current project is to get to the bottom of one of the most disputed legendary strains: OG Kush. “This one guy who’d been listening to my show, he got in touch and talked about how we’ve been lied to about wars, we’ve been lied to for hundreds of years. There’s so much disinformation going around that in just 19 years with this one plant, we’re already at the point where only a few people remain on the planet who know the true story behind OG Kush. So we started the O-Genome project. We’re going to collect every base strain we know, and we’ve got the foundation of OG or the Ogre, then we have Bubba, Chem, and Sour; businessman, Dunn set out from the start to foster connections and
basically everybody from the original crew. Start with
work cooperatively. That doesn’t mean he isn’t careful. “With cannabis,
them, then take everybody else’s and figure out where they fit on the
there are always going to be more partners and more breakups. Many
map. We’re going to make some people stars, and we’re going to call
times it comes down to one person having the brains, and the other
some people out. A little bit like Maury Povich, you know? ‘You are not
having the money, and the money tends to win. I have people who
the father!’ We want to dispel the myths, and certify the real deals.” So
consider themselves my ‘partners’ all over the world, and I like to make
yes -- you’ll finally be able to tell that one friend who claims his ex-
people feel like that. In most industries I’m about two degrees apart
roommate created Headband that he’s full of it.
from someone I needed to work with on my next project, but very few
Adam Dunn’s career trajectory is much more than the Stoner Dream.
people have gotten me to sign a contract. On the other hand, cannabis
This is both the high-fi entrepreneurial pursuit of building empires
in general is about collaborations, especially from a seed point of view,
abroad, and the tale of success by pure creativity and intuition. Dunn
every strain is a collaboration.”
didn’t have a blue blood’s inheritance, a network of helpful connections
Amidst the hubbub of recreational legalization, he hasn’t lost focus
in Europe, or a formal education in international agricultural business.
on the industrial hemp game -- and that focus far exceeds retail
He had to prove himself to skeptical Dutch growers, dismissing the
clothing. “I’ve worked a lot with Rocky Mountain Hemp, we harvested
American growers with amusement, and he persevered setting a
six acres this past year by hand. It’s still in the infantile stages, which
professional example for a man of this industry, by any country’s
is where I want to be before everything happens. I like to say that this
standards. We all benefit from his work providing real information about
industry is like a big spear: the tip of it is cannabis, as far as medical and
cannabis and the business of agriculture. Tune in to The Adam Dunn
recreational goes, and everybody’s focused on the tip. No one’s looking
Show and learn more about his progress with the O-Genome Project,
at the rest of the spear coming up. Things are going to get so real...
and don’t forget to listen on 4/20 when they announce the results live
we’re going to have tons of hemp. Building houses out of it, plastic and
in Denver. Until then, Dunn has 96 samples and a wide range of origin
compounds, not to mention research.” He went on to mention how
stories to review. Ssshh, quiet...genius at work.
big of a breakthrough it will be when legislation surrounding industrial
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hemp is streamlined, and how the United States’ climate will allow us to
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be the world’s leader in industrial hemp production.
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Welcome to Washington State’s first official recreational cannabis store! With the first official sale of flowers and edibles, their receipts are now in the Seattle Museum of History and Industry, and things have only been looking up since. In an industry driven by passionate people, the team at Top Shelf stands out as a group of hard-working go-getters. They were able to put together an entire storefront – floors, ceilings, walls, electricity, plumbing, you name it- themselves in under thirty days to prepare for the July 8th opening date. Their ingenuity is visible in their office design, as part of their space has been fashioned out of a ConEx shipping container, a nice touch in the bustling port town of Bellingham. On top of everything, they have an amazing selection of flower, edibles, even some BHO, a rarity in most recreational shops. Salish Sativas is their highest selling flower and I was told that they can hardly keep it in stock; generally selling out on the day it arrives. Many of the producers that supply Top Shelf are local growers from Whatcom County, which allows them to offer an assortment of strains and brands not found in the Seattle area. One main philosophy of Top Shelf is to keep prices low, so that people can have affordable, reliable recreational pot. They offer many of their strains for $10 per gram plus tax, and clearly display the price to include sales tax, eliminating customer confusion. Whether you are looking for some unique grass, a vaporizer, or just some really smart service with a smile, do yourself a favor and check out Top Shelf Cannabis.
ADDRESS: 3863 Hannegan Rd, Ste 107, Bellingham WA, 98226 PHONE: (360) 733-9000 WEB: www.TopShelfCannabisBellingham.com
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LEFT COAST CANNABIS Re-Grand Opening of a Marijuana Super Store
WRITTEN BY R.Z. HUGHES PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT
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In South Tacoma, one of the largest collectives in Pierce County is making a name for itself as a trusted, highquality retailer. Left Coast Cannabis has the largest selection of products I’ve seen in a dispensary and was told that they would consider themselves simliar to a WalMart of weed. I would highly recommend this place for any Seahawks fan. The lobby, otherwise known as the 12th Man Zone, is covered floor to ceiling in larger than life Fathead pictures of the Hawks. Stand next to Sherman after the infamous interception or stand by a facing wall and look as if you’re in the huddle! Decor aside, this place has some serious medicine. With only a few strains over $10/gram, and a couple as low as $6, Left Coast is the place to be if you want good deals and top-notch smoke. With nearly forty strains to choose from I saw all of the classics; three different cuts of Girl Scout Cookies, Sour D, Durban Poison, and others. My enjoyable visit was topped off with a comfortable dab bar featuring a big screen TV. Left Coast Cannabis celebrates their Re-Grand Opening on January 11th so stop by and check out the festivities, it’s sure to be a good time! Established for four years, the new remodel is set to continue Left Coast Cannabis’ success of providing the best medicinal cannabis to patients in need.
ADDRESS: 7604 South Tacoma Way Ste. B, Tacoma WA, 98409 PHONE: (253) 327-1855 WEB: www.facebook.com/left-coast-cannabis
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DEA Go Away! Congress has just voted in favor of a new spending bill for the next fiscal year that includes an amendment disallowing the use of Justice Department funds to be used against medical marijuana or industrial hemp in states that have deemed them legal. This is a major victory against the War-on-Drugs as there will
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now be no risk of being prosecuted or raided for breaking a federal prohibition in a state where you have a legal right to do so. It is great to see the national mindset changing and patients being given the protections they deserve.
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Big Time Breeding American technology developer BreedIT has joined forces with lisenced Israeli grower Seach Ltd to create a new program called KanaboSeed. KanaboSeed hopes to create new strains of cannabis specifically tailored to certain ailments with precise effects. BreedIT has had success in creating a new strain of cherry tomato and believes they can transfer their process of trait selection and crop modification to the world of weed.
Federal Legalization on Native American Reservations The U.S. Justice Department will no longer consider it illegal for Native Americans to cultivate and sell cannabis on their sovereign lands. The laws of the state that the reservation is located in will play no part and it sounds as if the federal government is letting the individual tribes decide what they’d like the rules to be. However, while this might seem like a positive, it turns out the decision was in response to a request from tribes in states where marijuana is legal, asking the federal government to enforce bans on legal pot on their reservations, which the justice department flatly declined.
A Not-So-Merry-Christmas A woman in San Bernardo, Chile, has been arrested after it turned out that her 6-foot tall christmas tree was, in fact, a large, flowering weed plant. With presents scattered about the bottom of the stalk, police raided her home and arrested her after finding 20 other cannabis plants to go along with the festive Kushmas tree. While Chile has seen recent steps forward for medical cannabis, producing and selling it is still clearly highly discouraged – even if you dress it up with the cheeriest decorations around.
Legal? “I don’t know, and I don’t care” Boston man, Bill Downing, has opened up a shop called CBD Please that offers patients nonpsychoactive, hemp-derived products to help with their medical issues. The murky medical laws and slow-moving bureaucratic licensing process in Massachusetts have made it difficult for business owners to open their doors and start serving patients. Downing, however, doesn’t care to wait, and the patients of Boston are increasingly thankful for his brave activism and continued fight to bring them Cannabidiol.
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Patient Profile: Leonard Ochs WRITTEN & PHOTOGRAPHED BY SHARON LETTS
Port Arena is a tiny town of about 450 residents located just south of Albion and Mendocino proper, with Highway 1 converging onto its Main Street, and dotted with motels and charming bungalows from the 1920s. Leonard Ochs arrived in Port Arena ten years ago with his life partner, Nancy, ironically for her health issues. Ten months ago Lenard Ochs was given two to four months to live, when he was diagnosed with Stage4 Sickle Cell Carcinoma. The tumors protruding several inches from his neck were threatening his life support, hindering the work of arteries carrying blood from his heart. Today, the mass is one-third smaller thanks to a daily dose of strong cannabis oil. “We actually came back to California from Alaska for Nancy’s health care,” explained Ochs. “She’s a stage four breast cancer survivor, and has been through chemo, radiation, surgeries – you name it. It’s been twelve years now that she’s been in remission.” Nancy sits by Ochs’ side in a sunny spot in the couple’s back yard, her head resting on his shoulder. She is waft-like from continued illness and complications from myriad surgeries, including organ removal. The aftermath of traditional therapies have created a seemingly domino effect of illness to treatment, causing further complications and a need for a lifetime of prescription meds.
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Nancy is just beginning to think about ingesting Cannabis, as the traditional options provided to her only failed and disappointed, and part of her inspiration comes from Leonard’s success with his treatment. Leonard sports a large, white bandage on the left side of his neck, crediting Nancy to his care in changing them daily, as he shares how he came to use Cannabis oil as his only treatment. Tumors associated with this type of cancer are typically located on the ears, lower lip, and the back of hands – areas most likely to be burned by the sun or exposed to “chemicals and radiation” as detailed in the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute’s site, cancer.org. Ochs tumor was pronounced and growing rapidly, making surgery precarious, and decisions regarding treatment difficult, to say the least. “I was not sure I was going to let them do chemo and radiation,” he admitted. “Something about them wanting me to sign a form allowing them to poison me didn’t sit right. It was too much for my brain to take. Hippocrates said, ‘first do no harm.’ I told my oncologist every time I come here someone hurts me.” Depending on the size and placement of tumors associated with Sickle Cell Carcinoma, treatment can include surgery,
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chemotherapy and/or radiation, and therein lay the challenges. As tumors wrap around vital organs, nerves, and arteries, traditional treatments damage the good and the bad cells, as they do not discriminate. “The treatments are big business,” Leonard said, “when Nancy was going to the UCSF (University of California at San Francisco) oncology department twelve years ago it was four buildings – now it’s eight buildings. More people are sick. In the 1900s it was one in twenty people with cancer. Now they keep saying one in three people get cancer, but now it seems it’s nearly one in one.” While undergoing what seemed like endless testing combined with lots of crying and worrying about Nancy’s future without him, Leonard said he watched ‘Run From the Cure’, Rick Simpson’s testimony to the strong oil otherwise known as “Rick Simpson Oil” or “RSO”, which he re-invented more than thirteen years ago for his own terminal squamous cell carcinoma. “I have a problem in that I’m an engineer with a scientific background,” Ochs explained. “After about three weeks of looking at all this stuff I found there are many alternative therapies, but there was something about Rick Simpson that came across as real to me. Something told me he wasn’t lying to me.” Simpson’s survival and subsequent sharing of the specific recipe for the strong oil has saved thousands of lives to date, with many testimonials shared of putting the most invasive cancers into remission in weeks to months – depending on the strength of the oil made, namely the
percentage of THC in the mix. “I’m not saying these things work for everyone like it’s a magic bullet,” Ochs continued. “I’m just saying we need to study this plant more. We need to study the positive aspects and I will say this, if there are any negative aspects of this treatment, I haven’t found them.” Ochs continues his daily dose; first by ingesting the strong oil, and more recently, by using the oil in a suppository, allowing medicine to skip his digestive tract entirely for direct healing. This delivery method is also said to lessen the “loopiness” associated with the elevated THC count in the oil. “My social worker told me I had a team at the hospital” Ochs said. “We are your team,” she told me. “Who is that?” I asked. She answered that my team “included her, the oncologist, the nurses, and one nutritionist.” I have the dietary list, and it’s the worst nutrition ever - disgusting food full of sugar and salt – really terrible stuff. I told her “There’s no team spirit at this hospital” and he laughed. For more information on Rick Simpson Oil or RSO, visit www.phoenixtears.ca
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or the past thirty years Ed Rosenthal has been known as the “Guru of Ganja,” penning more than a dozen books on the subject of cultivating the world’s favorite and most illicit herb. His “Ask Ed” column ran in High Times for nearly twenty years, allowing him inside Amsterdam’s grow scene via its Cups, giving him access to greenhouse secrets. That access became our benefit as he shared European horticultural skills on U.S. soil, via his how-to books self-published through his own Quick Trading Co. with wife Jane Klein, that still continue to stay ahead of the Cannabis curve. His stint teaching at Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California gave us the, “Marijuana Grower’s Handbook,” now the official handbook of Oak U, and considered the “Bible” of the one room grow. I last reviewed Ed’s pest book, “Marijuana Pest & Disease Control” aimed at helping all gardeners with common bug and disease issues. It was considered a crossover book, as all gardeners share the same garden problems and pests and dealing with them is relatively the same. As a professional gardener who has never grown Cannabis, yet lives
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in and around it, this has been a bone of contention as I’ve watch “growers” ignore basic gardening techniques I learned from my mom, who learned from her grandmother. BEYOND GARDENING Medicine is my area – making medicinal products from various plant materials and delivery methods is what I do, what I help others with, and a common theme in my writing. While I’m no dabber, I can hold my own with the best of them, and I want to know my medicine is made safely, with the best materials, in the best way possible - and that’s what this book is all about. With “Beyond Buds”, Ed teams up with fellow Bay area weed writer David Downs with great results, as Downs has been covering the Cannabis movement in California consistently now for several years, starting up blogs and writing for many magazines. Back in 2002 Rosenthal penned “Ask Ed: Marijuana Gold – Trash to Stash,” opening everyone’s eyes to the many uses of the leaf and stem
MEDIA REVIEW we had been tossing out for decades. The methods have since been refined, with an added focus on safety, a big priority for the home chemist who may attempt their own concentrates. Concentrates are key in delivering good medicine into our system, for this plant is complex in its uses, and we just need to access the goodness within. Understanding what and where that goodness is in the plant is everything. “Glands” with “resin” are detailed early on, leaving a discussion on “terpenes” and “cannabinoids” at the back of the book. This perplexed me as we all know now that terpenes are where the essential oils of the plant are, and where the medicine is stored within the glands. That being said, this book leans towards recreation, so the terpene and CBD placement as an afterthought appears appropriate. ASK ED The “Ask Ed” faction is incorporated early in each chapter where, addressing questions from a readers, he further explains the “what and why” of each process. I especially liked the bit on “shoe hash,” which I learned from a man in Paris who was making hash in his shoe as we sat curbside at a café – and had been since he left London the day prior. This little antidote alone educates and enlightens as to just how easy it is to make medicine with cannabis and other plants. The mantra “It’s just a plant,” shines through in this book, demonstrating its versatility in delivery methods. The vaporizing section seems to be more of a showcase for the myriad types of vapes out there on the market, as does the overview of various medicine making machines throughout the book. It’s nice to see so many ancillary producers of machines represented alongside tips on how to use them. The vaping section is an excellent beginners guide to this newly popular method of delivery, which is now allowing more patients to medicate easily, quickly and covertly. This traveling patient has benefitted from vaping on the road. Be it a plane, train or boat, medicating isn’t a problem with a vape. My Vapor Bros. box is a must-have for hotel room stays, doing away with the towel at the door routine or the blowing smoke into the ceiling fan while standing on the toilet trick. Come on, I know you’ve done it.
A LITTLE DAB WILL DO YA Even the most ardent stoner unwilling to admit that Cannabis is medicine is getting benefits just from smoking it. Partake in a dab and the effects are more pronounced, and therefore the medicinal effects for those suffering under the ever-widening Autistic Spectrum and other emotional disorders. I met a man at a Tacoma, Washington Cannabis farmer’s market who witnessed a man recover from a severe stroke by smoking wax. The man had been in a wheel chair and wearing a helmet after the trauma, but he is now up, walking around, and improving daily. It was nice to see cannabis medicine suggested for Multiple Sclerosis at the top of the dabbing chapter, and the hint to MS patients that a hit of strong concentrated oil or wax may help them receive the same healing effects as an entire joint. I’ll go one step further and suggest that when MS patients ingest stronger oil or juice the raw leaf, their MS may be put into remission – but that’s another story. BUTANE: THE BAD BOY OF BASE Chapter 7 is important as it’s devoted to the at times dreaded butane - the black sheep of the concentrate family. A shocker to some, the message at the top of the chapter sites how much healthier it is to smoke a concentrate than to burn a bud and ingest carbon – and I must agree, happily. This is the kind of education we need, as for too long now word of mouth has only imparted its own misinformation about the process, leading to all those explosions we hear about, butane included. Ed wants you to look at the smoking of concentrates in this way; regular smoking gives you only roughly 15% of the THC from the plant material. When smoking concentrates, the count is as high as 80% THC. For recreation alone, concentrates are said to offer a superior high, and for medicinal delivery, there’s no comparison. Any questions? Ask Ed. It’s not all fun, games and healing though, as Ed also expounds on the dangers of butane, and the environmental impact of using such a toxic substance. Ventilation is key, but other rules aren’t as obvious, like don’t smoke around your mix, don’t wear synthetic fabrics, and don’t use your cell phone. It’s the little things that can make a difference and with butane, understanding the potential hazards is everything. CO² deservingly gets its own chapter, and it reads like chemisty 101, detailing the ins and outs of the highly technical process. Stainless steel machines are commonly used for this favorite smoking liquid. Found in just about every vape pen out there, CO² extracted oil can effectively utilize the stem as well as the green, and it’s as economical as leaf.
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MEDIA REVIEW While in Denver I visited Organalabs, a high-tech extraction company using the same stainless steel organic cold press system that the tea company Celestial Seasonings uses in the nearby city of Boulder. I’m happy to see this process come out of the home kitchen and into a more mainstream production environment, because it will mean more accountability to do things safely in a clean and professional way. HISTORICALLY HEALTHY Chapter nine is my chapter. Tinctures made with alcohol or glycerin are the most common delivery methods a patient can use for a plethora of ailments and can be made easily and safely at home. As the chapter states, prior to prohibition, tinctures were the most common cannabis delivery method in America. In fact, prior to Dupont’s patenting of nylon in 1942 and subsiquent production of synthetic pharmaceuticals, herbal tinctures were the norm for treating most of our ailments and disease prevention.
Cannabis was just another helpful herb listed on the US list of botanical medicinal herbs up until that time. The good news is cannabis was just added back to the list this year, allowing herbalists to come out of the closet on weed. The chapter on capsules is sadly a short one, but it’s a good, well-written chapter giving patients an idea of how to make them, although the main focus seems to be on the THC delivery instead of the whole medicine. For those suffering from serious ailments, canna caps are essential. I personally make them with Rick Simpson Oil or RSO, adding coconut oil to the mix for delivery. It’s the only way this menopausal woman sleeps at night, and oftentimes caps are the only way patients can take such strong oil. What isn’t mentioned in this chapter are suppositories – touted as the best delivery option for RSO in treating cancer and other serious ailments, it bypasses the digestive system, getting the medicine right into the blood stream and organs for healing. Patients report no “head high” in using suppositories, allowing them to be more functional during treatment. Again, the edibles section opens with points regarding
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discreet recreational use, but those who need to keep the medicine in their system rely on this smoke free, longer lasting option. When I first began ingesting cannabis, some medibles at night were the only way I could get any sleep at all. Now all of my cooking oils, butter, honey, and drinking alcohols are infused, giving me added daily doses that keep me off of the eight prescription meds I needed prior to becoming a full-time patient. The topical section goes into the how and whys of topical use, as well as explaining the uses for the root of the plant, which is a medicinal compound too often discarded. Topical lotions and salves are easy for the first time herbalist to make, and a good introductory product for patients to try, as there are no psychoactive effects in using topical lotions for pain. This chapter also touches upon poultices – an ancient practice of making a paste from the plant using alcohol, glycerin or water. Since the skin acts like a sponge, absorbing the vital medicine readily, these packs work well against swelling, inflammation and ultimately, pain. I’ve
even heard of poultices being used on small tumors below the skin to draw them out. Lastly, Ed gives us recipes for medibles, including a handy conversion table every good cook needs, given that cooking is really science at its very base level. Although effective for decades, the sharing of information regarding good medicine has also left room for misinformation and unhealthy practices to surface, and there is no room for continued mistakes in this everchanging controversial cannabis climate. It’s time to do things right. “Beyond Buds” will surely be another one of Rosenthal’s dog-eared go-to books for making good medicine safely and cleanly, and this patient is eternally grateful for Ed’s continued good work. For more information on “Beyond Buds” visit Quick Trading Company www.quicktrading.com or order from Amazon, www.amazon.com/Beyond-Buds-Marijuana-Extracts-Medicines
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WRITTEN BY R.Z. HUGHES PHOTO BY ALLIE BECKETT The first thing that stands out upon opening The Cooked Book are the striking colors and contrasts. Each piece seems to be leaping off the page; so frantic with action and prolific detail that there is a feeling that there is not enough canvas in the world for Trog and his neopsychadelic posters. Many of the artworks in the book are posters for weed related events such as Seattle Hempfest, HempCon, and the Hash Bash, along with many others. Hailing from Australia, Trog does a lot of work for bands like The Offspring, Kottonmouth Kings, and Slightly Stoopid, grounding him strongly in the West Coast cannabis scene. The art has an anti-authoritarian, counter-culture bend to it,
reminiscent of classic psychedelia of the 1960’s, with a modern twist. There is enough going on in every page that you can come back and look through it time and again, finding new pieces that you may not have appreciated fully the first time. There is very little text in this book, other than a tongue-in-cheek reminder on page 63 to load another bowl before you finish the rest of it. A great coffee-table book for anyone who wants to zone out, relax, and check out some groovy art, the mind of Trog abounds with creatures, characters, and many assorted substances (a perfect present for your friends who hate the man and drink a lot of 40’s). For more info visit www.artoftrog.com
Q&A WITH TROG DOPE: Who are your biggest influences? Trog:Underground comix — all things Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, Robert Crumb, Stanley Mouse, Ed Roth... DOPE: Does cannabis help you work? Trog: It sure does! DOPE: What’s your favorite strain? Trog: I’d have to say ATF would be the one... I get stoned real easily and get to rate a whole heap of strains but I really enjoy ATF.
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DOPE: Any exciting new pieces? Trog: Hell yeah! I just finished up some pieces for Cavi Gold and Hedpe. Just finished up some artwork for the Hash Bash and Bong-A-Thon 2015. And last night actually, I finished up a killer new tour poster for an Australian band known for smoking a whole lot of weed — The Bennies!! DOPE: How long does it usually take for you to finish a canvas? Trog: I can’t really answer that correctly... It depends what I’m on, where I’m at, and what I’m doing. But a good one might take me about thirty hours
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Mold, the grimy nasty rotting mess that has cost thousands of growers a lot more than thousands of dollars, yet all of the products on the market do little to slow it down or stop it. You would think that topping the discussion board charts and being listed as one of the biggest garden foes ever encountered would inspire a modern cure, but it hasn’t. So what could I have to tell you? While I would like to proclaim a genius cure that can be bottled and sold worldwide, I learned these dirty little tricks from some dirty old hippies and it’s not as easy as reading the back of a bottle. Most importantly, know thy enemy! Predatory fungi, molds and mildews, have a unique way of reproducing and decomposing organic matter rapidly that makes it so difficult to combat. Even more difficult, most of the fungi in your soil and even on your leaves is the good stuff, so the genocide approach will only bring about more disease. I like to look at plants the same way I look at every other living thing, crawling in bacteria and fungi! Just as our stomachs use a huge variety of probiotics to break down food and every inch of our skin and hair is covered in bacteria, so are plants. Above ground and below, just as predatory molds and mildews need a food source to survive, so do the beneficial bacteria and fungi that live there too. While starvation of this nasty enemy sounds wonderful, again, it would also starve the good guys. So how do we combat it? Overwhelm it. Ever show up at a bar with a friend or two, enjoy some nice conversation and then…the whole frat house arrives and completely changes the atmosphere? That’s exactly what you have to do, by saturating every inch of the
plant regularly with a concentrated dose of the good guys. There are some good bacterial products out there (eg. Actinovate, Mycostop), but they are only one bacteria. Ever heard of compost teas? Compost teas have been used in gardening for hundreds of years, but the ability to make aerated compost teas is completely changing the game. Aerated compost teas breed millions of different types of beneficial bacteria and fungi in hours, at a highly concentrated level. Most gardeners use compost teas to increase nutrient uptake, battle soil-born diseases, and improve soil quality, but unfortunately foliar applications are almost unheard of. Somewhere we forgot that plants can absorb as much as 50% of their nutrients through the leaves! By spraying the leaves, some swear daily, these beneficial bacteria and fungi create a protective web that out competes the bad guys. When you double this by giving the soil the correct bacteria and fungi, as well as food sources to keep them alive, there is little to no space left for an invasion. It’s like building the Great Wall of China for your plants. If it can’t get in, it can’t attack! While molds and mildews will never disappear, there are ways to effectively battle it, the most important being prevention. While I wish I could say compost teas cure all, room cleanliness, climate, strains, geographical location, and especially your abilities as a gardener play a crucial role in success. Happy growing!
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WRITTEN BY R.Z. HUGHES PHOTOS BY ALLIE BECKETT Nestled amongst the trees on the sleepy Isle of Bainbridge, one of the most sought after producers is working tirelessly to bring the highest quality medicine to patients throughout the Puget Sound. While they are strictly medical for now, there have been whispers that they’ve got some I-502 plans in the works and will be producing for the masses soon! The group at TKO Reserve are dedicated to an organic lifestyle and that transfers over entirely to their cannabis. Everything they do is organic (even keeping a couple pigs for mobile composting), and this total care and respect for the plant shines through in their finished product. They grow more strains than I can count, each of them looking better than the last with some amazing stand outs. They do an amazing Gorilla Glue #4 to go along with the best tasting, smelling, and looking high-CBD Harlequin I’ve ever seen. As CBD is in such high demand, they produce as much Harlequin as they can. The people behind the scenes of TKO are veterans in the medical marijuana industry and have seen, first-hand, the miraculous effects that CBD has
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Marijuana is awesome. For all intensive purposes it is a magical wonder-drug that treats almost anything you can think of. If you are reading this, you probably already know it to be true. It is in my belief that the other people who make up this thing we call society are beginning to come to the same conclusion. Whether it be a cosmic shift in perception, or the result of pioneering research and activism; the chauvinistic portrayal of ‘stoner’ has begun to burn out. For years marijuana users have been surrounded by stigma that forced us to pretend that our sodium vapor lights were for hydroponic tomatoes, or that we were really going to use a bong for only tobacco. Our competence was constantly downplayed by the media, thus lending a flawed and incorrect image of a marijuana user to members of society. Lack of proper education surrounding marijuana, tends to warp the portrayal of the user into a disillusioned facade of social pathology. In other words, the Man is trying to keep us down, man, and it makes other people like, not get us, man. The severity of this disillusioned portrayal of marijuana users is dependent on time, space and culture. Here in Eugene Oregon the stigma of a marijuana user has been fading away for some time. I went around to some local Eugene dispensaries to see all the different assortments of people inside. I found a man in a suit, with short hair even! I found a wife getting medicine for her husband, too sick to leave home. I also found Lisa, a 63 year old OMMP member from Eugene. I asked her if
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