Cannabis Farmers Markets

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Dec 262011
 

http://cannabisfarmersmarkets.com/

A Cannabis Farmers Market is a market where growers can sell product to individuals, rather than at a dispensary or a delivery service.

Patients have safe, convenient access to a wide variety suppliers/growers and have a chance to learn more about the product/medicine directly from the caregivers/growers.

In Washington State, the first cannabis farmers market has been in operation for years.  It is highly successful and a  premier source of medical cannabis, attracting thousands of patients from all around the state. This event is held on a monthly basis in the Seattle and Tacoma areas and presents the best in medicine and medible vendors. CFM’s are FREE and open to all legal Washington State medical marijuana patients.  Pretty cool right!

From CNN:

Posted by Green Ninja at 9:27 pm  

Petition the Feds to reschedule marijuana as a useful drug

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Dec 102011
 

Our friends at Firedoglake are petitioning the FDA to reschedule marijuana from a drug with “no medical benefit” to a drug that has acceptable medical uses. This tactic would eliminate the need for medipot states to come up with creative ways for doctors to give the go ahead to their patients who could benefit from medicinal marijuana. Currently, doctors can’t actually prescribe marijuana (because the FDA says it has no benefit); instead, they can only “recommend” certain patients use the drug. As it stands now, each medipot state has its own rules governing the sale of marijuana to needy patients.

Firedoglake and its subsidiary, JustSayNow, want to get state governors and legislators to pressure the FDA to reschedule marijuana. In order to get your governor to put pressure on the Feds, you (yes, YOU, too) need to put pressure on your governor and representatives. The first basic step to take is to add your name to the following petition:

http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/reschedule-mmj

Although we all know the obvious benefits that would occur in the realms of healthcare and economics (state tax revenues increase, drug enforcement costs decline), this is going to be a tough fight.

Because marijuana is a naturally occurring drug that patients can grow themselves, the FDA, which is heavily influenced by the giants of the pharmaceutical industry, will not be easy to convince. When they do agree to budge on this issue, it will probably be to approve a compound derived from marijuana like THC that a drug company wants to market as relieving nausea in chemotherapy patients. We can’t be satisfied with that outcome because such a drug would likely cost much more and work no better than medical marijuana does currently. Therefore, they would have to give full approval to the entire whole foods version of cannabis on humanitarian grounds.

I rest my case.

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HIGH TIMES Medical Marijuana – Winter 2011 – 2012

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Dec 052011
 

High Times has “changed” its name to High Times Medical Marijuana…talk about going from stoner to professional!

 

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How Much Does it Cost to Grow Medical Marijuana?

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Nov 252011
 

Growing high quality marijuana can be a very involved undertaking, you have to check the plants regularly, keep them watered, correct lighting sequence, regulation of nutrients, etc.  ….   one who has grown good marijuana knows that it takes quite a bit of love and care to get your strain to output at it’s highest level.   The timing of when to flower, when to grow. Continue reading »

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Michigan Dispensary Laws

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Nov 232011
 

The fact was realized in Michigan that marijuana is an essential element in the treatment of many chronic diseases and illnesses; so it’s legal cultivation and distribution was taken into consideration.   On November 4th 2008, through a referendum it was decided to allow qualified patients to legally possess, cultivate and use medical marijuana. The related law was passed on December 4th 2008 and was named as “Michigan Medical Marijuana Act”.

The said, the  act has a principal defect that it doesn’t specifically deal with matters relating to marijuana dispensaries.  The law confirms that specific patients can possess, grow and use medical marijuana but doesn’t layout any system about how to acquire medical marijuana, seeds or plants- where as the laws of other states do address this issue.

The limitations of this act can be pointed out as:

  • It doesn’t specify say how marijuana can be obtained for medical purposes.
  • It doesn’t specify say how marijuana can be dispensed.

This program is supervised by the Michigan department of health. The MDCH issues identification cards for the patients or their registered caregivers who are legally permitted to grow marijuana for patients.  This program doesn’t allow doctors to prescribe marijuana as a medicine.  The doctors can only certify that the mentioned person suffers from the illness that needs to be treated by the marijuana.  The Act actually lays out a system  in which specific patients or their registered caregivers use of medical marijuana are allowed a limited quantity only for personal use and in a locked facility.

The Michigan Dispensary Laws seem to be very much like California’s were several years ago until SB420 was passed. SB420 realized the formation of collectives that could dispense medication within a closed circuit model- meaning that medicine could only be acquired and dispensed to members of the collective.

The MMMA provides for a system of designated caregivers. The caregiver can acquire 2.5 ounces of usable marijuana and grow up to 12 marijuana plants for a qualifying patient. The caregiver may assist up to 5 patients. The caregiver must sign a statement agreeing to provide marijuana only to the qualifying patients who have named the individual as their caregiver.

The caregiver’s name, address, birth date and social security number must be provided to the state at the time of a patient’s registration. The Department will issue a registry identification card to the caregiver who is named by a qualifying patient on his/her application. The Department may not issue a registry identification card to a proposed caregiver who has previously been convicted of a felony drug offense. The Department will verify through a background check with the Michigan State Police that the designated caregiver has no disqualifying felony drug conviction. A caregiver may receive reasonable compensation for services provided to assist with a qualifying patient’s medical use of marijuana.

 

republished with permission from Start-a-dispensary.com

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WEED Dispensary Tours

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Nov 142011
 

Wonder what’s it like to visit  Medical Marijuana Dispensary?  Well remember you have to have a card and ID to get it.  You can check out this interesting youtube channel of weedmaps (http://www.youtube.com/user/MMJDispensaryTours)

Tri City Holistic Dispensary Tour

Pacific Island Care Dispensary Tour

So-Cal Co-Op of Tarzana

Organic Amsterdam Mart Dispensary Tour

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Mexican Drug Cartels Recruiting Children

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Oct 182011
 

It’s no shocker that Mexican drug cartels are operating within the U.S., but parents probably have no idea that their children are being targeted to aid the cartels in evading law enforcement. The cartels are paying children to do minor tasks for a small reward of maybe $50 – not the kind of first employer that parents may have envisioned. Here are the deets:

http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-drug-cartels-recruiting-texas-children-173402030.html

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WEED Money

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Oct 132011
 

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Prohibition still doesn’t work

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Oct 032011
 

It’s time to legalize marijuana, duh. Here’s a good video for those who need convincing.

Now, legalization requires altering current U.S. laws, so we need to put pressure on legislators. Here are some applicable links:

White House petition site has many dealing with the weed business; this is the one with the most support so far.
We the People

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The 12-1 Method: Photoperiodic Control—short night duration

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Sep 092011
 
Vegetative and Flowering Cycle

So there is a new growing method out there that is getting talked about, its called the “12-1″ method.  Its a way to grow plants with less light, and less electricity, saving you money and creating a more affordable or profitable product.

 12 hours ON, 5.5 hours OFF, 1 hour ON, and 5.5 hours OFF for each 24 hour period.

There it is people, you can’t really do better than that.  24 hours works, but its overkill…and so is  18-6 lighting cycles.  I have used 18-6  before and it worked, so did 24 hours for vegetative and flowering 12 on 12 off, to trick the plant into thinking its fall or harvest season (shorter days, less light).

Cannabis  from the Greek word kalamos which means reed or cane,  and sativa means “useful”… you figure it out. its a weed and it grows like one, pretty much no matter what, unless you water it too much.

12-1 application, if you want to reduce your power bill further 75-80%.   Then follow the new schedule for 12-1. Switch your timers to 1/2 hour on 1/2 hour off, 12 times, then put 1hr on middle of night period, you have just cut your veg power consumption to 7 hrs, plants stay in veg, in fact you can reduce even further to 15 minutes on 45 minutes off 12 times, 1 hr on in the mid night period plants stay in veg.

Vegetative and Flowering Cycle, Source: Harry Hydro on Facebook

 

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