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hile we can all admit that Cannabis is safer than alcohol, pairing the two responsibly can result in fun and unique taste

and sensory experiences. It is also a great tool for teaching non-patients about Cannabis. Everyone knows that there are thousands of types of wine in the world, but many still think that all pot is the same pot. Not true! The symbolic pairing teaches people about the intricacies of Cannabis, and allows for a fun and festive tasting. Try out our pairings, or make up a few of your own! They sky is the limit for what you can create and enjoy. This month also features coverage from the Secret Cup and the MMJ Concentrates Cup, and I interviewed the crew at Analytical 360 about their new solvent testing. There has been a lot of confusion about the new test results, and I hope that the information can

help processors make better, safer medicine. We have a sweet feature on rapper Tim-Me, who is a true beast on the mic and one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Check out his debut album Still Growin: Cuts of Cannabis and pick up a copy for a friend! We also take an inside look this issue at The Amsterdam Exchange farmers market, a hash seminar on Vashon Island and review 221 RX, and have an interview with the founder of Cannacon, Bob Smart. Bob Montoya shares another great Micro Strains column, this time taking us to meet a grower from Kent with an AK47 cross that helps sooth pain and other stressors out there. Don’t miss the new Dr. Rose, new growtech, a tasty strain of the month and more! As always, thanks for reading, and sharing the truth about our wonderful medicine!

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STOP AND BLOW

you’re driving around the Evergreen State this summer, something odd might happen. While you’re at a stop-light, you might encounter people wearing orange vests with signs saying

“Paid Voluntary Survey,” and they might ask you whether you want to take blood, saliva and breath tests for marijuana. They’ll give you 60 bucks if you say yes. These government-hired survey teams have already begun asking hun-dreds of Washington motorists to pro-vide breath, saliva and blood samples, and they’ll be asking questions, too. The voluntary roadside surveys are a federally funded project to give po-lice and safety agencies a better idea of how many Washingtonians drive high, according to officials. National agencies are working with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, which is in hurry-up mode to get the data before retail mar-ijuana stores open in Washington on July 1st. That way, officials say they’ll have a baseline from which to measure any safety effects of Cannabis le-

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The surveys are a federally funded project to give police and safetyagencies a betteridea of how manyWashingtoniansare driving high.

galization, according to commission spokeswoman Jonna VanDyk. The findings might be used to help local law enforcement decide how much time to spend on marijuana DUI patrols, VanDyk said. Washington’s threshold for driving under the influence of alcohol is 0.08 percent, and for mari-juana it is 5 nanograms per milliliter. The teams will “urge” the driver to give the keys to

a sober person or accept a cab or motel room, if they deem the driver to be im-paired, VanDyk said. Police officers will be on the scene, allegedly to serve in a secondary role, to protect the survey teams, “which will sometimes work at night or in tough neighborhoods,” VanDyk said. The effects of pot are consid-

ered more difficult to predict than those caused by alcohol use. The survey is meant to check for about 75 substances besides marijuana. “Traces of marijuana can be detected in blood samples several weeks after chronic users stop in-gestion,” according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report.

STEVE ELLIOTT is the editor behind tokesignals.com, an independent blog of Cannabis news and opinion

Why are Washington drivers being paid to take roadside blood & saliva tests for marijuana?

Products must be in child-proof containers,with no cartoons or bright colors allowed

NO OREGON EDIBLE BANBUT PLENTY OF CHANGE

Marijuana-infused edible treats just came within a gnat’s whisker of getting banned by Oregon health officials in

April, but seem to have dodged the bullet, at least for now. Officials at the Oregon Health Authority got hundreds of emails opposing the ban, and the new set of rules seeks only to ban marijua-na-laced products that are made or packaged in ways that might appeal to children. The new rules ban Cannabis-infused edi-bles that are brightly colored or formed in the shapes of animals, toys or candies. They require Cannabis products to be sold in child-proof containers, with no cartoons or bright colors. “Marijuana isn’t candy, and it shouldn’t look like candy,” said Tom Burns, direc-tor of Pharmacy Programs for the Oregon Health Authority, announcing the rules. SB 1531, passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber earlier this month, required the health authority to set the rules. The bill also allows cities and counties to ban dispensaries within their borders, until May 2015 anyway. The new law calls for the Oregon Health Authority to implement rules intended to keep pot away from children. An earlier draft of the proposed rules would have instituted a blanket ban on all cakes, cookies, candy and gum that contain Canna-bis, but Burns said the agency had gotten “a couple hundred” emails from patients upset about that. The rules went too far and would have harmed patients who can’t smoke or need to ingest marijuana to benefit from its lon-ger-lasting effects. The products are 15 percent to 20 percent of dispensary sales, according to owners, but they reported pulling “medibles” from their shelves in expectation of a ban.

QuotedI STRAINED TO REMEMBER WHERE I WAS OR EVEN WHAT I WAS WEARING.Maureen Dowd, Columnist at The New York Times, in a widely criticized column about the experience of eating too many edibles while reporting on legalization in Colorado in June. She later admitted to just two nibbles (she said there was no serving size).

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Quick Hits!

Millions of dollars in pot found in a rental truck stopped in Ohio en route to California. More than two tons of pot were seized in the bust.11.6

Number of murders that a drug cartel hitman admitted to in a recent Mexico trial. Uruguay hopes to undercut cartels with $1/g pot prices.800

Grams of marijuana that residents in Alabama would be allowed to possess under a proposed bill.A study found blacks were 3.2x more likely to be

arrested for Cannabis possession than whites in Alabama.10

Millions of dollars Colorado has collected in taxes on marijuana in 2014, which could be in jeopardy due to a activist’s lawsuit filed on constitutional grounds.

A similar lawsuit is currently pending in Washington as well.11

150 Attendees at the Florida Cannabis Coalition biz conference in June. The Cannabis industry in Florida is worth an estimated $758 million.

60 Bricks of Cannabis that were seized by Houston Police from an 18-wheeler carrying quite a bit more than just a backhoe on its way to a job site.

2, 342 People who have become patients in New Jersey under the state’s extremely restrictive program. New Jersey Gov.

Chris Christie has called MMJ “a front for legalization.”

Signatures needed by 7/3 for New Approach Oregon to qualify for the ballot, they have 100,000 currently.87,213

he new law will provide relief to thousands of New Yorkers suffering from debilitating illnesses such as cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and

multiple sclerosis, as well as children struggling with seizure disorders. It is the 23rd state in the country to legalize medicinal use of Cannabis. But there are drawbacks to the deal announced June 18 by members of the New York Assembly, Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo. Information available about the bill suggests that New York’s MMJ program has some seri-ous limitations and restrictions. For example, pa-tients would be prohibited from smoking. They’ll have to vaporize or consume their marijuana in edibles, and they will not be allowed to grow for their own use. The number of producers and dispensaries is reportedly also extremely limited, raising ques-tions about whether the system will be able to meet the needs of patients in New York. “New York has finally done something signif-

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‘COMPROMISE’ BILL PASSES IN NEW YORKPatients won’t be able to choose how they want to medicate

icant for thousands of patients who are suffer-ing and need relief now,” said Gabriel Sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance. “They will benefit from this compromise. That said, this is not the bill we wanted,” Sayegh said. “We are disappointed to learn that eligi-ble conditions have been limited, and despite strong medical evidence about the benefits of smoked and raw cannabis, leaders decided to exclude this as an option for doctors and pa-tients in New York. “We strongly believe that the decision about the mode of administration for any medica-tion should be left up to doctor and their pa-tients,” Sayegh said. “The cost of purchasing a vaporizer and the extract products will likely leave many low-income patients behind, and there is lit-tle research on the long-term health effects of using extracts.

national STEVE ELLIOTT is the editor behind tokesignals.com, an independent blog of Cannabis news and opinion


PoliticsA LONG, SORDID HISTORYOF OBSTRUCTING SCIENCE

he Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedel-ic Studies and the Drug Policy Alliance have re-leased a new report, “The DEA: Four Decades of

Impeding and Rejecting Science.” The report documents a decades-long pattern of systematically obstructing medical research and ignoring scientific evidence. In a series of historic votes in May, the U.S. House approved a bipartisan measure prohibiting the Drug En-forcement Administration from undermining state medical marijuana laws, and OK’d two amendments prohibiting the DEA from interfering with state hemp laws. The votes were seen as a rebuke to the DEA and DEA Administrator Mi-chele Leonhart. “The DEA is a police and propaganda agency,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “It makes no sense for it to be in charge of federal decisions involving scientific research and medical practice, especially

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when its successive directors have systematically abused their discretionary powers in this area. “The time is long past for a top-to-bottom review of this rogue agency,” Nadelmann said. Despite substantial evidence confirming mar-ijuana’s medical benefits, the DEA has opposed efforts to reform federal policy to acknowledge marijuana’s medical value and made it very diffi-cult for researchers to obtain marijuana to study its medical efficacy. Researchers who want to conduct clinical tri-als of its therapeutic value are typically frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles. In 2007, a DEA administrative law judge ruled the DEA’s stance on marijuana’s medicinal benefits was harmful to the public interest and should end, but Leonhart rejected the ruling. State legislators and voters have taken matters into their own hands by making marijuana avail-able for medical use at the state level. Nearly half of all Americans now live in a state where medical marijuana is legal and allowed.

The time is long past for a top-to-bottom review of

this rogue agency. Ethan Nadelmann

Executive Director Drug Policy Alliance.

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A HUGE VICTORY FOR HELPING VETERANS

ollowing years of hard-fought efforts, a coalition of patients, medical workers and advocates succeeded in demonstrating

the medical safety and efficacy of marijuana for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to an ad-ministrative law judge who heard the case. Judge Thomas Shedden stated “a preponderance of evidence shows medical marijuana provides pal-liative benefit to those suffering from PTSD,” in his June 4 ruling. The decision is now in the hands of the Arizona Department of Health Services, which has until July 9 to accept or appeal the decision. The Arizona Department of Health has denied all peti-tions submitted previously. The Drug Policy Alliance’s Freedom to Choose campaign, which advocates for veterans’ access to medical marijuana, contributed a compilation of published studies and testimony from psychiatrists in New Mexico and veterans who use marijuana to alleviate symptoms of PTSD. “The pioneering effort to add post-traumatic stress to New Mexico’s medical Cannabis program in

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2009, and the work that veterans and advocates did to protect PTSD as part of the program in 2012, has led to this swell of support around the nation,” said Jessica Gelay, policy coordinator, in the New Mexico office of the Drug Policy Alliance. “Veterans and all people who have suffered from serious trauma and violence deserve the freedom to choose the safest treatment for their debilitating conditions,” Gelay said. “When our veterans come home they deserve access to the medicine that works for them.” Arizona’s veteran population is 530,693, ranking it 13th among states with the largest population of veterans. Emerging evidence from on-going stud-ies in Israel, supported by the Israeli government, show that marijuana is effective for combat veterans experiencing symptoms of PTSD that are treat-ment-resistant. Many veterans, including Ricardo Pereyda of Tucson, who saw combat in Iraq and testified at the hearing, are elated. “Being able to treat multiple symptoms from

post-traumatic stress with Cannabis has been in-strumental in my ability to lead a full and produc-tive life,” said Pereyda. “Judge Shedden showed that politics does not have to trump science, and doing so showed his compassion for combat veterans and others who have suffered from traumatic events.” “Cannabis medicine is natural, gentle, nontoxic and should be available to PTSD sufferers in Ari-zona,” said Heather Manus, president of the Arizo-na Cannabis Nurses Association. “Many PTSD pa-tients in neighboring states are successfully finding relief of symptoms through the use of Cannabis.” “This ruling could help a lot of Arizonans,” Ma-nus said. “Not just combat veterans, but people with chronic illness and pain who can’t find relief from other medications.” The judicial ruling in Arizona puts it on the road to becoming the 12th state to permit people suffer-ing from PTSD to legally access medical marijua-na. In fewer than 12 months, four states (Oregon, Maine, Michigan and Nevada) added PSTD to their medical marijuana programs.

Judge rules Post Traumatic Stress Disorder must be added to list of approved conditions warranting MMJ use

national STEVE ELLIOTT is the editor behind tokesignals.com, an independent blog of Cannabis news and opinion

new lawsuit says ‘self-incrim’at heart of marijuana tax issue

ctivist attorney Robert J. Corry Jr. is seeking to end Colorado’s marijuana taxes on the grounds that paying them violates a citizen’s Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination

because of marijuana’s status under federal law. The complaint was filed in June in Denver District Court on behalf of an unnamed licensed medical and recreational marijuana store, and the No Over Taxation committee, which worked against Proposition AA, a marijuana tax issue approved by Colorado voters last year. Corry is seeking a refund of all marijuana tax money collected by Colorado and unspecified damages. As long as marijuana remains illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act, states can’t require people to give any information about themselves in order to buy or distribute it, Corry claims. Corry cited the 1973 Colorado Supreme Court case, People v. Duleff. The case overturned a man’s conviction for “selling marijuana without a license” because complying with the licensing requirement would have required him to violate his constitutional right against self-incrimina-tion, thus exposing his violation of federal law. “The Colorado Supreme Court held specifically that the Fifth Amend-ment prohibits state licensing requirements that force a person to reveal a violation of federal law,” Corry wrote in the complaint. Corry also cited a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Timothy Leary

v. United States, in which the nation’s highest court overturned Leary’s mar-ijuana possession conviction and ruled the federal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was illegal because a person seeking a tax stamp would be forced to incriminate himself. “Marijuana-specific taxes require plaintiffs and any other person paying

said taxes to incriminate themselves as committing multiple violations of federal law, including but not limited to, participating in, aiding and abetting, or conspiring to commit a ‘continuing criminal enterprise’ and ‘money laundering,’ ” Corry wrote in the complaint. “These illegally collected taxes are ultimately laundered by the State of Colorado through J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, which also participates knowingly in the continuing criminal enterprise. “It is illegal for government to retain tax monies illegally collected in violation of the Constitution, so all amounts must be returned, and all records related to previous tax payments, destroyed,” Corry wrote.

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As long as pot is stillfederally illegal, states cannot require people to give any information about themselves in orderto distribute or buy it.

enver would just love to host the 2016 Republican National Convention. The Mile High City’s scenic vistas and tourist attractions make it an enjoyable place to visit, but that “high”

thing is the hang: Denver is also the poster child for legal recreational marijuana since Colorado voters approved Amendment 64. “Well, big deal,” you might think. “The voters expressed their will at the ballot box; isn’t that how American democracy works?” While a majority of Americans now approve of Cannabis legalization, just 36 percent of Republicans agree with that position. Denver, undeterred, is still trying to sell itself as the perfect site for the RNC. But when RNC staffers visited the Mile High City in April – a precursor to a larger scouting mission later – the lunch topic turned to marijuana. GOP visitors had plenty of questions. “They’re more curious about how this is going to play out in other places around the country,” said beer fortune heir Pete Coors, chairman of the Denver convention bidding committee. “We’re the first state, and we’re learning how to do it.” Angela Lieurance, the bid committee’s executive director, plays down the effect of Cannabis on the GOP’s decision. “You can’t run from it, and we haven’t,” Lieurance said. “You cannot pretend that it’s not an issue or challenge for us.” She says Denver’s message is, it’s the will of the people, and “we have very thoughtful, smart people dealing with this.” By the time the 2016 RNC rolls around, at least two other states could have legal Cannabis, and the campaign could be on in a couple more states. “In 2014, it’ll probably be on the ballot in Oregon again and in Alaska,” said Sam Kumin, law professor at the University of Denver who has followed the marijuana legal debate for years. “In 2016, it’ll probably be on the ballot in California and Nevada, and possibly other states,” Kumin predicted. National polls, including, for the first time, Gallup, have put overall support for pot legalization at more than 50 percent. But Republicans lag far behind national progress when it comes to weed. Just 36 percent supported legalization in a January CNN poll, compared with 62 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of independents.

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By WES ABNEY | PHOTO by DANIEL BERMAN 8 QUESTIONS

BOB SMARTThe founder of CannaCon will transform the Tacoma Dome into the Northwest’s largest Cannabis business & networking expo August 14-17th — but look elsewhere if you just want to smoke.

THE DEALMAKER


#1 how did you become involved in the cannabis movement? I started growing exactly 40 years ago for personal use and as a patient in Washington for the last five years. I’ve worked hard to provide real medicine for patients, and I’ve been vending at farmers markets and supporting local jobs.

#2 What gave you the idea for cannacon, and the courage to try and pull off something so ambitious? I worked for Cal Spas for a decade and would manage its booths at different trade shows. These weren’t little displays, either. Our booth at the LA County Fair was the size of a football field, with dozens of hot tubs and spas on display. I went on to run my own home and garden show called the Central Washington Super Show for five years, before settling down and growing. But I still had the desire to do a big show, and one day the name CannaCon popped into my head. Within a couple of months I had the Tacoma Dome booked, and really starting rolling.

#3 CannaCon is also going to be a lot different than your average pot festival. Why make it about business, and not just about smoking pot?

I’ve bought a VIP ticket at Cannabis Cups and Hempfests and never felt satisfied by the experience. I have also tried to sell products like nutrients at those events, and realized that the demographic of attendees is there just to get high. It is impossible to do business at those types of events, and they shouldn’t be called trade shows. CannaCon is going to be the first professional Cannabis trade show. #4 How do you feel your event can change the industry? What we are really trying to do, our end goal, is to change the scheduling of Cannabis. That can only happen if we are seen as a legitimate industry, with legitimate businesses and practices. We need the public behind us, and if all they see is our industry partying it will never happen. We need the public to see us as a normal industry, a suit and tie industry, a professional industry that is going to change the world.

#5 the event will be at the historic wooden Tacoma Dome. What kind of booths and vendors can people expect?

For attendees, Thursday and Friday are free for any business owner

and a guest. All they have to bring is proof of owning a business and

they can come in for a true Cannabis business-to-business experience. ‘‘

We are going to have all types of vendors, from growing supplies companies to Cannabis testing companies, general contractors and electricians, distribution and logistics companies, greenhouse manufacturers, air conditioning companies, merchant services, banking, investment/venture capital firms, extraction products, packaging companies, event companies, edible companies, trimming solutions and topical producers...

#6 That’s quite a list. What is the schedule like for attendees? we’ve heard rumors of shuttles to and from Seattle Hempfest.

We have buses running back and forth from Seattle Hempfest to CannaCon, but parking at the Tacoma Dome is free with a ticket to CannaCon! For attendees, Thursday and Friday are free for any business owner and a guest. All they have to bring is proof of owning a business and they can come in for a true Cannabis business-to-business experience. Saturday and Sunday are open to the public, with tickets online for $30 through Ticketmaster or at the door.

#7 You also have seminars going on throughout the weekend. What will be some of the highlights?

One of the coolest things we are doing is a Cannabis version of the “Shark Tank” game show, where people can pitch investment ideas to real investors. We also will have growing classes, legal seminars, MMJ seminars, recreational/502 seminars, explaining terpenes and other cannabinoids, and more. A full list is available online, with 65 available in all. The seminars are free for any attendee, and bring big value to the tickets. We are also going to have a budtender certification program that weekend, where over three days of classes and passing a test you can become certified to provide medicine. #8 what can you tell us about the vip experience?

The best part of being VIP is eating and drinking free all weekend, plus the social events. Friday night will include a special performance at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, with dinner and drinks provided. VIPs will also have access to special beer/wine and snack areas, and private meeting rooms for business meetings. Saturday will include a trip out to MMJ Universe in Black Diamond for a private pot party and barbecue with live music. There will also be VIP perks on-site, and more to be listed and coming!

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THE 2ND ANNUAL CONCENTRATES CUPtakes a little more than 45 minutes to get from Seattle to Black Diamond, but if you’ve ever made the drive, you know that’s a plus. You’ll see some gorgeous countryside, especially as you get closer to Black Diamond. And once

you’ve arrived at the MMJ Universe compound – a place of stunning natu-ral beauty – you’ll likely agree that it would be hard to find a better setting for a Cannabis concentrate competition and community party. The second annual Concentrate Cup – the return of an event that was the first concentrates-only Cannabis competition anywhere – drew a big crowd to the bucolic setting at Deidre Finley’s well-kept grounds. Some estimates of the crowd ran to 1,000 people.

IT A bus that shuttled attendees from a nearby parking lot to the event stayed busy from morning until night, according to the driver, who estimated she’d made about 35 trips by 8 p.m. – with a couple hours still to go. The place was hopping when I arrived at 10:30 a.m., a half-hour after opening time. A friendly crowd thronged the grounds and happy attendees were exploring the many vendor booths – concentrates and flowers for sale in one section, accessories and fashions in another, and a variety of food booths in a third. I had been at the Cup all of 10 minutes when I was offered (and, of course, accepted) my first free dab of the day. It was the first of many.

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stage and roomy performance space was the focus of the day’s musical entertainment and schwag giveaways. Early in the day, the relaxed vibe and rural setting were amusingly highlighted by a

chicken calmly walking across in front of the stage, unconcernedly scratching and pecking. An adorable family of pygmy goats, including a baby, and Ham-let the Pig were also popular. Crowd favorite Jonah Tacoma of Dab Stars emceed, with excitement reach-ing a fever point at and just after 4:20 p.m., when thousands of dollars in merchandise was thrown to an enthusiastic crowd. Seattle-based outfit Positive Rising’s looping reggae rhythms provided the day’s first musical highlights. PR will, as one of their songs aptly says, “put you in a good, good mood.” The band gave away a free, four-song EP. You re-ally should check out their songs “No Harm” and “One Man Army.” It’s hard to beat good reggae in the outdoors, surrounded by towering trees, a gentle breeze and sunshine. Yes, even the Northwest’s notoriously fickle weather co-operated all day long. Tim Me (Timothy Edwards), a rapper from Enumclaw, wowed the crowd with his talent. Tim’s skills, brainy, clever lyrics, and infectious grooves are no doubt soon to be heard by many more people. Check out his new CD, “Still Growin’: Cuts of Cannabis,” for some of the best weed songs you’re go-

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ing to hear this year, including “#CSL (Cannabis Saves Lives)” and “Northwest Party.” Several informational classes were taught during the day, including an informative session on making bubble

hash led by A Greener Today. I learned a few useful facts, including if you’re going to dab bubble hash, you should do it at a lower temperature than with BHO – around 550 degrees is ideal. The festivities were capped off at 7:30 p.m. with the presentation of the awards by Northwest Leaf publisher Wes Abney, with a record 95 entries. “Farmer” Tom Lauerman, who drove up from Olympia to attend the Cup, said just getting together with like-minded members of the community to celebrate the herb is reason enough to show up. “The relaxed atmosphere and the friendly people here make me want to stay all day,” Lauerman said. Three members of the Ferguson family – uncle Casey and 20-something nephews Jim and Tom – came from Auburn to the Cup, their first event of the kind. “Seeing all the fantastic glass pipes is great.” Tom said. “The fact that we can just come here and relax like this is the best thing in the world,” Jim, who lived in Idaho before moving to Auburn, told me. “It’s such a good mellow vibe here.” “The openness here is really nice,” agreed his Uncle Casey. “We’ll come again for sure if they have one next year.”


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take a double medicated chicken salad wrap, a regular med-icated pulled pork sandwich and a non-medicated fruit cup please.” There’s only one place in the world where you will hear that

order: north Seattle’s Amsterdam Exchange. The Exchange features a full-ser-vice medicated cafe, with medicated menu items including grilled cheese with bacon and a variety of healthful salads. But the food isn’t the only draw to this easy location. The farmers market has 30 collectives under one roof. The big red building off Lake City Way has drawn a lot of attention since opening in May, and it continues to surprise and delight. The medicated cafe is constantly adding to the menu, and the upstairs MMJ market brings top-quali-ty medicine at discount prices to patients in an easy and convenient way. “The environment for this market is perfect; you won’t find 30 better vendors anywhere,” said Sean Hajny of Reign City Concentrates, a regular vendor at the market. “A lot of north-end patients have never seen a farmers market before. To see the type of variety, a patient would have to visit dozens of locations in the city. Instead they can come here and get the experience that is unforgettable.” The restaurant has people thinking twice about how MMJ is viewed, and how they can exercise their rights as patients. “This is such a fun and unique experience where you can sit down with a friend and order a meal, medicated,” said David Brown, co-chef and husband of Dee Dee Baker, the founder of Canna Chef. Her medicated butters have been reviewed in NW Leaf, and she offers a whole new selection at the market. “We’ve been daily experimenting with different recipes. It started with the med-icated baked potato, and now our new chef Bonya is pushing the limits. He just developed a medicated pulled pork, and we want to keep adding to the menu.”

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When did you start writing and rapping? What made you want to share your voice?

I started playing around with writing as a kid, wanting to do something big, but just jamming at home. I’ve been writing music my whole life really, starting with poetry and then song lyrics around age 10. When I first heard hip-hop it inspired me, and I started writing raps at 11.

What inspires you about creating hip-hop and spoken word poetry?

It’s a way for me to freely tell my story. Hip-hop is a way to be yourself. It’s a way that I can get out my struggle. Honestly, it gets my anger out. That 15 minutes on stage where I can be myself is a good way for me to vent and express myself. There are so many stereotypes with hip-hop, and I kind of want to break those down. Hip-hop is where I can start with a beat and go from there, and where I can show up at a show and it’s just me. I compare it to like a fighter stepping into the ring ... when I step on stage it just feels natural, like I’m doing what I was supposed to do.

You have been through a lot in your life, starting when you were born. How has that affected you?

I just turned 30, was born in 1984 and raised in Washington, spending summers in Humboldt

County. I was born with arthrogryposis, a disease that for me affects the joints and my arms. There are 150 different types of the disease, and only one type is nonhereditary, and it’s my type. The doctors had no clue, it isn’t in my family and there were no early warning signs. I was born with my arms growing backward, and my intestines out of my stomach. The first month of my life was spent at Children’s Hospital, with the first two years of my life consisting of multiple surgeries to shift my arms forward. I can’t use my left arm very well, and I’ve suffered nerve damage and other issues.

Does your condition cause you a lot of pain?

It does. I have a lot of pain in my arms and my back, and my shoulders and back have to overcompensate for my arms, so I have a lot of strength in the upper body, but it comes at a price.

How does medical Cannabis help with the pain, and when did you start using medicinally?

I was introduced to weed in college, and the cops who treat it like any other drug. People these days who just now start smoking don’t know about the problems we struggled through or what it was like before legalization. Weed is the only thing that makes me not hurt. I used to be prescribed a lot of pills, but they

didn’t work. Cannabis is the only thing that truly helps and hasn’t screwed up my life. I got authorized in 2009, and I remember walking out the door of the clinic and I didn’t stop laughing for five blocks. I never thought I could get it, even though I was a good case for it.

What brought you into the world of broadcasting and emceeing?

I was home-schooled and went to an alternative high school, and then went to Running Start. I went to Green River Community College originally, and I worked on the college radio station KGRG 89.9. Radio was something fun to learn, I was young. I went from being a sheltered kid in small town to being around all types of people. I got my degree there, a general AA, after that I was screwing around, being a youngster. Made bad decisions, got in trouble, went back to college and got BA in communications.

Do you get nervous when you’re out performing? What keeps you pushing for more?

Yeah, I get nervous. I think the more shows you play you build that confidence. I’ve been booed.

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I don’t want to say that it doesn’t faze me cause it doesn’t sound human, but I don’t let it bother me. I’ve had shows where I’m not ready to perform, but they’re like “you’re on in five” so I got to get out and give it 110 percent. I also got my degree with a focus on broadcasting, but the thing that really motivates me to keep working and gives me confidence to make music is Cannabis. I feel like I don’t fit in a lot of traditional workplace environments, but using Cannabis gives me confidence to get on stage. That was the turning point to do an album centered on Cannabis.

Did this album come together quickly?This project came into fruition at the end of 2011, debuted on Feb. 25, 2012, opening for Coolio after winning a freestyle rap battle contest. Some of those songs are from way back; one I wrote at 14 called “1984.” I decided to start last December as an idea for an LP, and I kept getting more songs together, and it became a full album. This is my first major release.

What can you tell us about the new album?

It’s titled “Still Growin: Cuts of Cannabis” featuring 18 tracks, four of which are skit tracks. It features Rappin 4tay and 2 Piece and other local artists, with shout-outs to Lucian Influx of Influx Creative Ventures for producing and co-writing beats and album artwork. My music company is True Entertainment, and you can find us online.

How does your life shape you as an artist?

We have to address the fact I have a disability. I think people want to know, and I’m OK with questions. Sometimes I think people are unsure, but if anything, them staring and not saying anything creeps me out more than asking about my life. I love Cannabis as medicine too, and try to share that in every song.

How does it feel to have your album out?

It’s like a shifting of stress. I compare it to school, one project done and on to the next. It’s definitely

a big weight off your chest, but now I have three more projects to work on.

What track means the most to you?

My favorite new track is “#Cannabis Saves Lives,” which is also my first single release, and that really sums up the whole album being “Still Growin.” You have to listen to the whole album from end to end to get the full picture, though, and I am telling the story of my life, with different small pieces scattered on tracks where you can take the sum of everything and find me.

What’s your process like for making a track?

I started making beats on GarageBand, and that’s when I joined up with Lucian, and we make beats together or independently … Some songs I’ll write the lyrics in an hour, some I will sit on for a year. I still have beats from five years ago that I haven’t found what I want to say yet. Overall, I’m more into the art of hip-hop, and while I want to freestyle rap and battle to start my career, I am ultimately a writer and I want to prepare what I want to say.

You’re also part of Green Stream Radio on NWCZ radio. How has that changed you?

I was there since the first episode, and started as intern. I remember “OnOne” asked if I was ready to be on a show about weed, and I asked, “Is it OK if I’m stoned right now?” It’s been a really great experience and I am excited to see where that show is going to and where the Cannabis movement goes. People are still being put in prison and to death for a plant that saved my life and many others. It ain’t right.

Any last words or shout-outs?

I love my family, and my mother. My parents are the biggest supporters in my life. They might not like all the content I share, but they know I have a talent and that I’m doing something good with my life. And at the end of all, my biggest strength is my faith in God. I want that to be known.

We have to address the fact

that I have a disability. I think

people want to know, and I’m

OK with questions. Sometimes

I think people are unsure,

but if anything, them staring

and not saying anything

creeps me out more than

asking about my life. I love

Cannabis as medicine too, and

try to share that in every song.

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Find Tim-Me’s debut album “Still Growin: Cuts of Cannabis” on CDbaby.com or on iTunes or Amazon.com later this month.

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Summer BerryStoveTop CobblerFueled by a healthy case of the munchies, I suddenly needed to figure out how to have a cake-like dessert in five minutes without using sugar, gluten, dairy, or eggs? Stove-top cobbler was invented. While you can totally use plain coconut oil in this recipe, being able to create a fresh medicated edible in a couple of minutes is a good skill to know. Serves 2.

MELT coconut oil in a pot. ADD berries, banana, cinnamon and bring to a simmer for a few minutes minutes. MIX in vanilla, coconut flour, and hemp seeds. Mixture will become thick and “cakey”.SPRINKLE with chopped nuts and serve with a spoonful of thick coconut milk.

Cannabis Infused Co c onut Oil 1-2 Tsp. Mixed Berries 1 Cup1 Ripe BananaCinnamon ½ Tsp. Vanilla 1/2 Tsp. Hemp Seeds ¼ CupCoconut Flour 2-3 Tbs. Chopped Nuts ¼ Cup

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Micro Strains Up CloseEach month we’ll highlight growers crafting strains with the goal of helping specific needs, not necessarily obtaining the highest yields

ULY BRINGS ME TO KENT where a very industrious woman has found a balance of strains that help her maintain her fast-paced life. Having the need to deal with pain and still being on the go is something we

all share at one time or another. Finding flowers crafted for this purpose, from com-mon strains is special. Zanae has knocked these two strains out of the park. ZD47 is different. It looks unlike its ancestor AK47 in form and has a much mustier note than I have known in previous encounters. Zanae notes that “Her dense buds ooze with glisten-ing trichomes. She flashes her nugs with hues of purple, evergreen, and amber. She kisses you with a skunky flavor combing a hint of pine with a full floral finish. Get ready to pucker up with this beautiful heavy hitter. This particu-lar strain is used for chronic pain and for very ill patients.” I couldn’t have said it better.

Caboose is a lesser-known bud. A cross of Big Bud (Salmon Creek) crossed with Train Wreck, it fills the gap that comes when its time to feed and rest the body. A 70/30 Indica-dominant plant produces a medicine good for stimulating appetite, easing pain and sleeping. Sometimes you just have to regroup, and this is a good rally point bud. It has an airy skunk start with a nice earthy finish. The buds and sugar leaves are so densely covered in trichomes it looks like it was dipped in hun-dreds of little diamonds. Both strains are available in whatever amounts she has left over to donate.

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BY NORTHWEST LEAF SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR

SCOTT D. ROSE

Historical uses: For centuries, the natives of Paraguay used Stevia, which they called ka’a he’ê (“sweet herb”) as a sweetener in yerba mate and other foods, and as a medicinal agent. Extracts of leaves from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni have been used for many years in traditional treatment of diabetes in South America. Paraguay’s rural and indige-nous populations have used Stevia for the control of fertility. Stevioside, a natural plant glycoside isolated from the plant Stevia rebaudiana, has been commercialized as a noncaloric sweetener in Japan for more than 20 years.

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Drug interactions: Drug-herb interactions are very rare.

Contraindications: Contraindications have not been identified. Infor-mation regarding safety and efficacy in pregnancy and lactation is lacking. Powdered Stevia products and liquid should have a slight hint of green. If they don’t have a hint of green, they might be overly processed, which is not ideal.

Stevia Rebaudiana is a perennial shrub growing to 80 cm., native to South America, especially Paraguay.Description:

Parts used: Just the leaves of the Stevia plant

Active constituents: The leaf of the Stevia plant contains sweet components, called steviol and steviol glycosides, which include stevioside, dulcoside A, rebaudio-side A, B, C, D, F and others. These compounds possess up to 250 times the sweetness intensity of sucrose.

Medicinal uses: Stevia has been widely used for diabetes in South America and animal studies have had promising results. Stevioside has demonstrated blood-pres-sure-lowering effects.

Side effects & toxicity: No major contraindications, warnings or side effects have been documented. Stevioside was found to be nontoxic in acute toxicity studies in a variety of laboratory animals.

Dosage: 5 to 15 milliliters per week (1:2 tincture) as a flavoring agent. Higher doses might be necessary for therapeutic effect. Many Stevia products are on the shelves at grocery stores. Products include Truvia and PureVia.

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igh fructose corn syrup is a highly pro-cessed, corn-derived sweetener that’s a cheap alternative to old fashioned

sugar. It is the principal sweetener used in pro-cessed foods and beverages in the U.S., having re-placed sucrose (table sugar) in the food industry. Due to some politics, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) emerged in the early to mid-1970s. From 1970 to 2000, a 25 percent increase in “added sug-ars” occurred in the average U.S. resident’s diet. Health concerns centered on the consumption of HFCS include obesity, diabetes, and liver and heart disease. Most research has been “inconclusive,” conve-niently backing the corporations and lobbying groups that contend HFCS is no more harmful than sweeteners such as sugar and honey. HFCS was rapidly introduced into many pro-cessed foods and soft drinks in the U.S. from about 1975 to 1985. Soda makers such as Co-

ca-Cola and Pepsi use sugar in other nations, but switched to HFCS in the U.S. in 1984. HFCS is also commonly used in breads, cere-als, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soft drinks, soups and condiments. Before the development of the global sugar in-dustry, fructose in the diet was lim-ited to a few items. Milk, meats and most vegetables, the staples of many early diets, have no fructose, and then fruits such as apples, grapes, or strawberries are only 5 percent to 10 percent fructose by weight. Between the years 1970 and 2000, a 25 percent increase in “added sug-ars” occurred in the U.S. The average dietary intake of calories in America in 1970 was 2,076, in 2010 it was 2,534 calories. That is an in-crease of 458 calories, much of which is coming from HFCS.

The United States has the highest consumption of high-fructose corn syrup at 42 pounds per per-son per year. HCFS is the primary sweetener that has primarily replaced sucrose in the food indus-try. Again, sucrose from natural sources has been a part of the human diet for thousands of years,

but HFCS has only been used for about 40 years in the human diet. A system of sugar tariffs and sugar quotas imposed in 1977 in the U.S. significantly increased the cost of imported sugar, and U.S. produc-ers sought cheaper sources. HFCS derived from corn is more economi-cal because the domestic U.S. prices of sugar are twice the global price

and the price of corn is kept low through govern-ment subsidies paid to farmers. HFCS is produced by processing “dent” corn ( a breed that is highly genetically modified and

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not consumable until the HCFS process is com-plete) into cornstarch, and processing that starch to yield corn syrup, which is almost entirely glucose. Then, by adding some enzymes, some of the glu-cose is changed into fructose. The most common method of commercial production is microbial fermentation, using bacteria or fungi to create the enzymes. HFCS has been classified generally recog-nized as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Admin-istration since 1976, but health concerns have been raised. The growth of fructose consumption in many developed nations coincides with the large increase in the prevalence of obesity — along with cardio-vascular disease, diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Large corporations and lobbying groups with vested interests in the global sugar industry support research projects and nutritionists who support their positions, and some food and beverage indus-try experts have said they’ve concluded that HFCS is no different from any other sugar in relationship to these diseases. Most independent medical and nutritional ex-perts do not support the use of HFCS in food. Fructose consumption does not hit the satiety centers in the brain that tell someone they are full. HFCS and cane sugar are not biochemically iden-tical or processed the same way in the body. When large amounts of fructose are ingested, the fructose and glucose units are absorbed and the fructose goes to the liver to make fats such as triglycerides and cholesterol, and the glucose raises

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insulin levels in the blood stream. Sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beets has been a part of some human diets for thousands of years, and sucrose from fruit or honey has been in the human diet for thousands of years. HFCS contains contaminants, including mercu-ry, that are not regulated or measured by the Food and Drug Administration. A 2009 study found that out of 20 samples of HFCS collected from three separate manufacturers, 11 did not contain detectable levels of mercury, but nine of the samples did contain mercury. The potential amount of contaminated food product makes up to 15 percent to 20 percent of the average American’s daily calorie intake. Mercury is a known neurotoxin to the human body and should be avoided. HFCS producers are waging a branding war, at-tempting to label HCFS as “natural,” and suggesting a name change to “corn sugar.” See through the decep-tion of the American Corn Association’s concerted attempt to dispel the “myth” that HCFS is harmful and uses the opinion of “medical and nutrition ex-perts” that it is no different than cane sugar. It is not a “healthful” part of our diets when used in moderation. HFCS is not a sweet deal.

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MAKING HASH ON THE ISLANDRelaxing in the easygoing island vibes of Reverend Cannabis and the Vashon Island Marijuana Entrepreneurs Alliance to learn the craft of hashmaking June 21, 2014.

bout 20 people congregated on a sunny afternoon at Vashon Island’s Grange Hall to hear the Reverend Cannabis speak. The hall, just off the Fauntleroy-Vashon ferry terminal,

has a homey and lodge-like vibe, which paired well with the casual and laid-back feel of the event. The Reverend, aka “Jeff,” spoke to attendees at the Hash Oil Seminar for about an hour on a variety of subjects. The topics ranged from the history of Cannabis concentrates to the many methods by which hash and hash oils are produced. After a short intermission, the group regathered for a question-and-answer session. An established expert in the field of Cannabis extraction, the Reverend had previously taught classes for the Cannabis College, an educational course sponsored by the Cannabis Defense

A Coalition. This time, he joined with Shango Los of the Vashon Island Marijuana Entrepreneurs Alliance to put on Saturday’s event. The Reverend provided expert opinion and advice on his preferred methods of extraction, which tended to favor methods that preserved the plant’s terpenes, which are responsible for the plant’s pleasing aromatic qualities. The “flavor profile ... is king for me. I’m all about the terpenes,” he said, addressing the audience. He also tended to favor using dry flower instead of fresh frozen plant, even though the use of fresh frozen plant has been gaining popularity. The Reverend said he favors dry plant material for several reasons, the chief of which is that it produces a product that is stable on the shelf.

While hash and hash oils made from dried flower might lose a little of its potency and flavor over the course of several years, many products made from fresh frozen flowers need to be refrigerated or they can mold and quickly degrade, sometimes in just a few days. Regarding the tricky nature of extraction using solvents, the Reverend shared a simple philosophy: “If it’s dangerous [to] drink it, I would not want to use it for my extractions,” he said. He went on to talk about the rise in the popularity of CO2 as a solvent for extraction, which the Reverend said he uses because it avoids harmful and potentially toxic solvents. “Hopefully we’ll have more studies to prove or disprove the dangers of butane and propane.” The audience ranged from self-proclaimed Cannabis “neophyte” Ed Stewart of Renton to more established figures in the extraction community. “He covered the full range of things ... I found everything was accurate, completely” said Sam Smith, who has been making hash oil through butane extraction for more than 20 years. “Actually, he didn’t say a single thing I could take objection to,” Smith added later, drawing a laugh from the Reverend. The attendees, who paid $20 to participate, were also given raffle tickets for door prizes donated by Vüber Vaporizer Oil Pens, Vashon

Seed & Mercantile, Vashon Botanical Society and Colibri. Prizes included vape pens, plant starters and assorted Cannabis seeds. Pam Haley, an extractor from Maple Valley, appreciates the “great camaraderie” in sharing information and encouraging

others to experiment, and says it’s possible because of “kind hearts like Jeff.” Ultimately, the day was a success for mostly a singular reason. “It’s about getting information out to the people,” the Reverend Cannabis said.

The Reverend shared a simple philosophy: “If it’s dangerous [to] drink it, I would not want to use it for my extractions.”

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At the first signs of excess heat, plants will slow their biological functions to preserve energy and shift their priorities to cooling.

uring the three to four days that tempera-tures escalate and desperate Seattleites seek refuge, conditions in your garden might need some tweaking as well.

Indoor gardening in the Northwest usually ex-ists in an ideal environment for 10 to 11 months. With temperatures rarely exceeding 65 during the day and cool temperatures prevailing at night, am-bient heat exchange works in favor for most indoor Northwest gardens. This month’s Grow Tech offers a look at heat and how it plays a role in indoor gardening. I’ve included some tips to improve or complement the way you manage heat in your garden. Indoor gardening allows growers to create an artificial environment suited to the specifications most beneficial for cultivating a crop. People have found ways to meet, and in some cases exceed, the factors that most dramatically affect the outcome of a crop. But one way we will always fall short is when it comes to the light source. No matter how many watts and combinations of HID and LED spectrums an indoor garden provides, it will always

pale in comparison to the best light source: the sun. In an effort to get as close as possible to the sun’s rays, HID (high intensity discharge) lighting systems create a broad and powerful spectrum of light. Even with the advent of LED (light emitting diode) panels, high amounts of heat are generated. Herein lies per-haps the first limiting factor in your garden: how much heat can your system manage? The more light you can apply to the surface of the leaf, the more you are feeding them and stimulating their growth. Assuming all other factors are in line, the more energy from light, the better your results will be. Depending on the variety you are growing, lighting application for indoor Cannabis produc-tion ranges from 40 watts per square foot for pure indica to 70 to 80 watts for pure sativa. With a lot of square footage, you can create quite a heat load. Excess heat is detrimental to production. High heat causes stress, slower growth, lower systemic immunity defense, slower nutrient absorption, and

loose, airy flowers. Let’s look at how a few of those conditions can set off a domino effect in your garden that can lead to the annihilation of your crop. At the first signs of excess heat, plants will slow their biological functions to preserve energy and shift their priorities to cooling. One way it will do that is by minimizing

exposure to the light, usually by curling the leaves up. As plant functions slow and temperatures rise, the hotter air holds less moisture in the air, thereby decreasing humidity while the slower plant functions mean lower rates of transpira-tion.

The combination of those factors can send humidity plummeting. The combination of low humidity and high heat will close the plants’ stomata as their priority shifts to sur-vival. With the higher temperatures and the lower rates of function, the plant doesn’t need to take up as much nutrients, even though the demand for water uptake increases in higher, drier temperatures. Consequently, the nutrient reservoir or soil can fall out of balance, becoming too rich in fertilizers. PH swings, combined with nutri-ent concentration issues, can cause lock-out, which to an already heat-stressed plant can produce permanent damage.

void suffering that fate by being constantly aware of the heat in your garden. The obvious choice for a cir-cumstance like the one described is

to lower the wattage output. Turn off one or more of the lights in the garden. Nowadays,


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many ballasts have dimmers, which allows you to more effectively decrease the wattage output while maintaining a light source. It’s far more effective to light a garden with lower watts, but provide proper temperature and humidity, then it is to have more watts with the attendant environmental control is-sues. The plants won’t be able to use any of the watts you provide if oth-er factors are out of line. Heat in your garden is generated by the heat exchange that goes on between the equipment you have inside the garden space and the ambient air around that equipment. Most of today’s cooling equipment is designed to take those items that generate heat and trap it for removal (air-cooled lights) while others deal with ambient heat in the air itself (air conditioning). By understanding how each of those elements work and combining it with some basic tips and tricks, it is my hope that during the long week of Seattle’s summer, you can beat the heat.

Duct up and cool down

If you are running air-cooled lights, you are us-ing fans and ducts to push air over the light bulbs, sending the hot air from the hoods out of the room.

This design is an effective way to remove a large amount of heat generated by the bulbs. If you are using multiple hoods, or certainly if you use a C02 burner, you might find that even with an intake and exhaust, you have too much heat building up in your room too

quickly. If this is the case, look at the efficiency of your ducting runs.

Proper insulating is a key component of cutting excess heat in a grow...

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An easy way to improve your conditions is to insulate. You can insulate your hoods using specially designed hood covers made out of heat-resistant, reflexive material that will insulate the hoods from the outside, decreasing heat exchange in your garden.

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FEELING THE HEATContinued from previous page

tandard fans used for cooling lights are rat-ed to push 400 to 700 cubic feet per min-ute of air. Most of the lights use 6-inch or 8-inch duct size. Combine that with the use

of flexible ducting, multiple hoods per run and all kinds of other bends and curves prior to evacuating the room, it becomes apparent that the fan is beat-ing a lot of air. It’s more efficient to decrease the resistance of the area(s) the air moves through than to increase the power source of the fan. Simply stated, duct up. You can use 6- to 8-inch transition pieces to apply smaller fans with smaller CFM ratings to more appropriately sized ducting to increase the volume of air pushed over the lights. Leave the flexible ducting for tiny short spaces and use hard metal for longer runs. Keep 90-degree bends out of your runs. Turn corners gradually or wherever possible, plan runs without bends. The increased cooling efficiency you will gain by using sealed hard ducting will allow much closer place-ment of the light to the canopy. Somewhere along the line it became hip to get the hoods as close to the canopy as possible. That’s all fine and good, provided the hood efficiently scrubs the heat signature from below its lens. Sev-eral of the larger hoods do this, but many of the smaller hoods don’t. Use the back of your palm as a measure of how close is too close when placing your lights over a canopy. Place the back of your hand directly un-derneath the light and you will feel the heat sig-nature emitting below the lens. When you can no longer feel the heat on the back of your hand, you’ve reached an appropriate height for your plants to finish their stretch at.

Air conditioning

I usually recommend not installing any sort of por-table air conditioning unit in your garden. It’s al-

It’s almost always better to use air cooling, open intake/exhaust or convection currents to cool your room than bring in a portable AC.

most always better to use air cooling, open intake/exhaust or convection currents to cool your room than to bring in a portable air conditioner. Unlike mini splits, they are not regulated for efficiency. It takes lots more BTUs to cool the same load with a portable air conditioner, a lot more power to run it and the units themselves frequently create heat. If you’re looking to make a small change in tem-perature to your garden and you have a separate room to dump the heat load into, or you’re using it to cool the intake air, then they can work for a reasonably low acquisition cost, although running them is still costly. If you are considering air conditioning as a pri-mary solution, go directly to a residential mini split air conditioner. If you are considering higher BTU portable units, you are already considering spend-ing some money. But really, dollar for dollar, it’s far more expensive to purchase and use portables. Not only are mini splits so much less expensive to run but they are far more efficient at cooling. I’d rather have a mini split rated for 12,000 BTU than two portables with a total BTU rating of 20,000. Porta-bles are that inefficient. However, if a mini split is too small for your gar-den, don’t go to a commercial HVAC company and drop $100,000 on a system designed to cool large office buildings. Many companies provide commer-cial-grade equipment, but design it exclusively for indoor garden and greenhouse applications. This means features that commercial units would never employ, like air filters for mold and scent, integrat-ed dehumidifiers, night time heat for full day con-trol, easily mounted and washable air manifolds for clean, even air distribution, flip box technology to run multiple rooms on one unit, external compres-sors to eliminate compressors clicking on and off in the dead of winter and perhaps most importantly, they deliver it BTU to BTU at a cost of about 60 percent less than commercial HVAC applications.

INSULATION

Heat enters and leaves due to inefficient insu-lation and heat exchange. If the hood for your light were perfectly insulated, all the heat gen-erated by your bulb would just bounce around inside the perfectly insulated hood and the

air would in turn eventually evacuate it. In your root zone, regardless of your medium, desirable cooler temperatures increase in favor of thermal equilibrium in the same way. An easy way to improve your conditions is to insulate. You can insulate your hoods using specially designed hood covers made out of heat-resistant, reflexive material that will insulate the hoods from the outside, decreasing heat exchange in your garden. If you are skeptical of the efficacy of these covers, simply touch the top of your hoods at the end of your light cycle. If the hoods are cool or barely warm to the touch, then skip this suggestion. If you find that your hoods are miniature heaters floating above your canopy, it could help you out a lot. Your plants will rely largely on their root zone to provide the resources necessary to cool themselves. Keeping the root zone cool by insulating the outside of your containers can help your plants deal with heat.

making adjustments

you are really experiencing higher-than-normal tempera-tures in your garden but not high enough to make signifi-

cant changes, then make small adjustments. Your plants likely will need more water in hotter conditions and less fertilizer. In addition, anaerobic and other harmful pathogenic root infestations tend to thrive in higher temperatures so decreasing the total amount of inoculum you are applying to the root zone can help prevent anaero-bic blooms and disease. At the very least, decreasing enzyme application in favor of microbes can be helpful. In sterile environments, increasing the application frequency of the sterilizing agent is helpful at higher temperatures as products such as H202, hydrochloric acid and chlorine bleach will become less effec-tive over time in higher temperatures.


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EFFECTSFAST AND FURIOUS, this medication is like a sledgehammer to the third eye. It’s one of those extraordinarily potent smokes that left me consciously dumbfounded. Clear, present and alert to the fact that I’m slowly growing roots into this chair is about as complex a thought as I care to process, which is quite an accomplishment considering the loud ringing in my ears. Not for the casual smoker, the Capt. Krypt OG dominant pheno of Kush Dreams is a true connoisseur smoke that I’m certain I’ll be keeping around for some time.

The plant is shockingly beautiful in grow, turning a dark purple first from the underside of the leaves...

kush dreams

HOW IT GROWSi had the pleasure of finding two dominant phenos, and I picked the OG Kush dominant pheno for the review. The Blue Dream dominant pheno is outstanding on many levels, too. A fast rooter and a bit of a slow starter, this plant is easy to grow. She shows just a little bit of her OG lineage in early veg, taking a touch longer than her Blue Dream dominant counterpart to develop a robust root system, but nothing exceptionally slow. Once she takes hold, watch out. The hybrid combination comes through in full force, throwing massive root balls and thick chaotic shoots. Kush Dreams stretches by about 100 percent in flower, responding well to training to shorten the internodal spacing and encourage lateral branching. An easy-going feeder, she responds well to high levels of magnesium in bulking phases. Perhaps the biggest drawback is having some familiarity with pruning and thinning OG’s to maximize this plant’s potential. The OG stretch and cumbersome side branching, paired with the Blue Dream vigor, can make an intimidating combination. Feel free to to go heavy and groom high and she will reward you with thick heavy blooms absolutely coated in a sandy resin. The plant is shockingly beautiful in grow, turning a dark purple first from the underside of the leaves and spreading to the leaf surface and onto the calyxes toward the end.

GENETICS: BLUE DREAM X CAPT. KRYPT OG

BREEDER: DNA GENETICS LIMITED

FLOWER TIME: 60-65 DAYS

LINEAGEDon and Aaron continue dropping seeds, not bombs, by using one of Seattle’s most popular patient-preferred strains, Blue Dream. Combined with the “Captain Krypt” OG Kush, another winner from DNA is born.

iT’S NO SURPRISE the bag appeal of this gear is off the charts. Golf ball-shaped nuggets boast copious layers of trichome coverage, giving that dipped in white sand appearance. The immaculate blend of deep purple tones, rich oranges and mint green leaf tips seem to exist only to display the frosting. The smell is a powerful, but not overwhelming, blue melon fruit that quickly transitions into the danky, earthy, oak and lemon notes of the Capt. Krypt OG. The potent OG flavor almost completely saturates the palate of the smoke, bringing with it hashy, spicy, Kushy lemon flavors with just a small hint of blueberry to ensure a smile is left on the face of the partakers.

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july 2014 — issue #49

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