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June 2013

Also in this issue | Grower’s Corner - Decrease Transplant Shock | The Hash Man | Summertime ChecklistMarijuana Legalization and Gay Marriage | Bud-O-Scopes | Edible Review & Recipe | News of the Weird

Up In SmokeLawmakers fail to halt recreational marijuana

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See the list of repeal supporters

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Cooking With Cannabis Page 4Sudoku Page 4Summertime Checklist Page 5Grower’s Corner Page 6 Decrease Transplant Shock

The Hash Man Page 7Edibles in Review Page 10Bud-O-Scopes Page 11WonderWord Page 11MJ Legalization andGay Marriage Page 12Marijuana Repeal Fails Page 14 News of The Weird Page 14

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As we all know, Col-orado is one quarter summer, one half win-ter, and one quarter random weather days that are totally unpre-dictable. Given that shaky math, we need to take advantage of the summer weather while we can. It can be hard to fig-ure out what to do day to day, so we’ve provid-ed this handy checklist of potential activities to inspire you during these sunny months. Some of these activi-ties are completely re-alistic, and some are bit outlandish, so feel free to pick and choose what is really applica-ble for your lifestyle. • Go camping. Be it down at the sand dunes or on the high-est peak, there are a wide variety of great options for parking the ol’ RV or setting up that tent that’s been hiding in the attic for the past five years. It is highly recommended that you take the road less travelled, get off the beaten path, and head for a site visited more by bears than human beings. • Drive through sprinklers with the windows open. That cooling mist can be such a relief on a hot day. • Go horseback rid-ing. Estes Park is a great location for this, but there are a surpris-ing number of places that offer this fantastic

experience. Horses are majestic creatures and will teach you a thing or two about balance and muscles you had no idea you had. • Get a very slight sunburn. This one is tricky as there is a fine line to walk where sun-burns are concerned. We’d like to be very clear in that we are not endorsing skin cancer in any way. Being able to complain about a sunburn is just some-thing that needs to be done. • Attend/crash a neighborhood pool par-ty. If you’re fortunate enough to live in one of those fancy neigh-borhoods where pools are available, consider yourself lucky. If not, however, make the ef-fort and sneak through the gate in one of those neighborhoods and just blend… • Take your dog for a walk anywhere that has a sign that says “No Dogs.” Of all the rebellious behav-iors open to you, this seems like the least harmful. Your dog will thank you. • Go to a water park. But only go to a water park that has a decent wave pool and a slide more than a mile in length. Anything less does not deserve to be called a water park. • Check out Film on the Rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Classic films at the best possible location of all time. Serious-ly, who doesn’t want to watch ‘Die Hard’ at Red Rocks?

• If air condition-ing is more your style, go to a museum. As the centers of really cool exhibits featur-ing pop culture from thousands of years ago, museums are a brilliant combination of refreshing environ-ment and education. • Start a wa-ter balloon fight with friends (or random

passing strangers). This is possibly the cheapest and best form of summer en-tertainment known to man. • Find someone who has access to a hot tub and befriend that person. Then chill in said hot tub—con-tradictory in terms, but oh so accurate. • Put on some

sneakers and head for the hills (could also be phrased as “take a hike” or “exercise”). Walk, bike, hike, what-ever you want, just don’t be that couch potato we Coloradoans disdain so much. Get your friends and family involved, stay hydrated, and keep cool. Have a safe sum-mer!

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When growing can-nabis, one of the most consistent re-sponsibilities re-quired of us is a reg-ular transplanting of our plants from small pots they start in up to the larger pots they will eventually spend their final days before harvest in. This pro-cess can induce a re-sponse from the plant known as transplant shock, which is when the plant responds negatively to damage caused during the transplant process, and as a result, redi-rects its energy to the recovery of damage, and away from de-veloping new healthy growth in its new home. These four steps will help you re-duce the likelihood of shock occurring, as well as improve your plants immediate development of new growth regardless of your goal of trans-planting into a new container or directly into the ground. • Beneficial bacte-ria and fungi are a huge benefit to the gardener attempt-ing to transplant. A healthy soil food web provides a num-

ber of benefits to the freshly transplanted plant. Some benefi-cial bacteria break down organic matter into rich organic nu-trients, while others are protecting your newly transplanted, potentially damaged, roots from attack by pathogens intent on infecting your plant in its weakened state. Fungi work symbioti-cally with the plant to help it find and uptake nutrients. Beneficial fungi also crowd pathogen-ic fungi out of root pores, protecting them from a potential infection source. And fungal hyphae aerate the soil as they push through, giving it a lighter structure that is easier for new roots to push into. • Developing a con-sistent media and sticking to it is also crucial to transplant success. If we grow healthy baby clones in a bed of perlite, the success rate and responsiveness of our clones will be markedly higher if we transplant into the same media (per-lite) then if we trans-planted into a media that was substantial-ly denser, like clay. This is due to the fact that these soft tissue

roots have developed in a soil structure that requires very lit-tle strength to push through the media, while roots develop-ing in clay would have to be much stranger and more developed to find purchase and grow in a similar sit-uation. • Evenly moisten-ing the soil you in-tend to transplant into does a number of things that are ad-vantageous to you when transplant-ing. As a gardener, slightly moistening soil hugely reduces the amount of dust kicked up into the air during the transplant process, something your lungs will thank you for later. In re-gards to your plant, evenly moistening soil does a couple of things. It prevents the soil from becom-ing hydrophobic, which, in our con-text, is when the soil becomes resistant to the uptake of wa-ter because it is very dry. This even and consistent soil mois-ture content also al-lows for the plant to be watered evenly. • Watering in our new transplant with nothing other than fresh water for the first week is anoth-

er beneficial step of-ten overlooked when transplanting our cannabis plants. This fresh watering in ac-tually accomplishes a number of goals. The first is that an initial heavy watering in will provide all the soil packing necessary to put existing roots in good contact with the surrounding soil without doing any damage to said roots or over packing your media. It also forces out any additional air pockets from the soil, which would act as no grow zones for any new root hairs looking for some-where to grow. In ad-dition, adding water helps dilute any pre-

charged nutrients that may be in your soil, as well as allow-ing the plants natu-ral internal hormone balance to indicate where it should fo-cus its energy. Add-ing nutrients, even mild ones, can sig-nal the plant as to where it should be distributing its ener-gy, instead of letting it focus on immediate repair. I hope this helps all the transplanters out there this season and we will see you next month. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me at [email protected]!

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Basic Principles of Making Hashish

First, I would like to congratulate last month’s winner! She asked for Strawber-ry Cough and Golden Goat and she named it Cos-Cough! You can name yours, too, but you have to play to win. Just drop your name and the strands you would like made into hash into the jars at either store. Good luck! Now let’s look at the basic principles of Hash making. Hash-ish is a psycho-active drug, prepared from the resin glands of the female (pistillette) cannabis plant. One misconception is that

Hashish is made by grinding dry cannabis flowers into a powder and pressing the pow-der into solid pieces. This fallacy is the re-sult of uninformed observers trying to de-scribe the sieving pro-cess. Sieving is when you take the cannabis and rub it through different size screens to get the most con-centrated resin con-taining the THC. This process results in a much more potent product than crude marijuana. Cannabis res-in glands are high-ly specialized plant cells that hold and secrete resins and es-sential oils consisting mostly of tertenoid compounds. These

resin glands are the primary souce of THC. These glands are the most well developed and numerous on mature female floral eracts. Resin glands can be rubbed off liv-ing plants by hand, or collected by siev-ing after the plant has been harvested. The labor intensive hand rubbing requires no tools and was, doubt-less, the first method in making Hash. To-day, there are several ways to collect these resin glands, or tri-chomes. Besides dry sieving, most collec-tions use some form of cold to freeze these glands, then they can be taken off the plant. There are several ways to do this. Prob-

ably the easiest way is using dry ice and 220 micron screen in a jar or can, then shake off the trichomes into a fine powder, known as Keef. Then there is wa-ter extraction, using ice, water and a way to agitate the plant material so that the trichomes fall off into the water. The water is drained into several different size micron bags or screens. This form is called Bubble Hash. Then there is CO2 butane, which is forced through tubes

filled with plant mate-rial. This is called Ear-wax or Peanut Butter, because of the way it looks. Most generally today, we like to freeze off the trichomes; this is less labor intensive. Hopefully this gives you a more informed understanding of how Hashish is made. Don’t forget to enter the contest, you could be the next winner! Next time we will dis-cuss how to press and store your Hash. Until then, keep your stash full of Hash!

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Hello everyone, I am back for another review of a great product. I am sure everyone is enjoying the warmer weather. It really feels like spring time going into summer. Do any of you have big plans for the summer? I will be visiting friends in the Caribbean. They go to school out there and this is my excuse to visit them and sip on some sort of a fruit concoction and relax! After three years of working every summer, I deserve some time off! Now, after hopefully making you jealous of my summer plans, on with the show… I am very pleased to review a company that I have always liked. They are the recent winners of the Denver High Times “Best Edible” award, and I heard they had an amazing display at the convention on 4/20. My friends who got the chance to go said they had an awesome medicated chocolate fountain and everyone got to enjoy fondue style medication. If you already didn’t know, the company is Incredible’s out of Denver. I love the different varieties they offer and I believe they have one that will fit anyone’s needs. I have reviewed this company many times and the most recent review was on the Mile Higher bar. This new flavor they came out with is a product that I have been fighting all of you (patients at Nature’s Herbs and Wellness) for the last month to get a hold of. Incredible’s does not rush any products out because of demand. Which is why Nature’s might run out of some before

getting more in. I truly believe this company takes pride in their products and makes sure every batch is consistent. I also have read they test their products at “CannaLabs” out of Denver. I can see now why they were awarded the “Best Edible” from High Times this year. The product I finally got a hold of was the Peanut Budda Buddha bar. Like the Mile Higher bar, the Peanut Budda Buddha (PBB for short) comes in three pieces with 200mgs of active THC. (Stay away from this product if you are allergic to peanuts! They have other flavors for you to try, so let’s try not to get sick, ambulance rides are expensive.) I took this on my recent outing of disc golf with some friends and our dogs. I took the first piece before my bike ride out to the course. It was a short ride so I knew the medication hadn’t kicked in yet. I took the second piece before the first tee box. It was a great day to be outside with my dogs and good company. I was looking for my disc around the 6th hole when I noticed I was moving a little slower and I knew the medication was working. I took the last piece after we made the turn, and by the time we finished, I was very happy with my score and the way I was feeling. I forget that edibles last so much longer compared to smoking and the feeling is more spread out over time. Next month, I’ll be changing things up a bit by tackling a hash product. This will be a new experience for me, so I can’t wait to do the research so we can all learn! I will also be creating a social network site for any of you

that might have any comments or questions for me, or questions about any edibles I have written about. I have lots of information from many of the companies I have done reviews on and I would love to pass on my knowledge to the readers of the Ganja Gazette. Until next time readers, always medicate with care and have a grateful month of June.

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AriesMar. 21 - Apr. 19Your brain is in a block. No new ideas

seem to be coming your way. Just keep trying, the universe will provide for you at some point!

TaurusApr. 20-May 20You ought to buy new sheets, something with stripes or perhaps some pais-ley. New sheets will totally change your sleeping experi-ence.

GeminiMay 21- June 20Your obsession with IMDB.com is starting

to get out of control. Imagine how much you could get done during the day if you weren’t constantly watching old mov-ie trailers.

CancerJune 21-July 22Sign up for every contest you hear about this month. You are going to win something this time, honestly!

LeoJuly 23 - Aug. 22Try spending more time outdoors. Indoor

lighting can be very bad for you, emotionally speaking, and a little wind in your hair could only do you good.

VirgoAug. 23 - Sep. 22Don’t think, just do.

LibraSep. 23 - Oct. 22If you hadn’t heard it

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ScorpioOct. 23 - Nov. 21Even though fake plants are generally much easier to care for than living plants, it is totally worth the struggle to keep the thing alive!

SagittariusNov.22 -Dec.21This month, don’t take no for an an-

swer! (Although, it is recom-mended that you not push beyond the “hell no.”)

CapricornDec. 22 -Jan. 19Have you gone to see the new ‘Star Trek’ yet? Seriously, it is a must-see. It will change your perspective on life as you know it.

AquariusJan. 20 - Feb. 18Your energy is conta-gious, so make sure to keep it up! You

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If you are losing hope that marijua-na will ever be legal-ized in your state, just take a look at gay marriage and see how rules have progressed on that thinking. On May 7, 2013, Delaware became the 11th state to allow gay marriage. Barely a week earlier, Rhode Island also legalized same sex marriage. The change of heart has been quite fast, with most state efforts to legalize gay mar-riage only succeeding in the 2010s. Massachusetts be-came the first state to allow and perform gay marriage in 2004. Obviously, times are changing and what used to be mar-ginalized views are now becoming main-stream. A recent Pew Internet study citing statistics from Gallup showed that 53% of Americans think that same-sex marriage should be valid. This is a big jump from only 50% in 2012 and around 40% just ten years ago. Marijuana legal-ization is taking the same route. In 2003, an overwhelming 64% of Americans were opposed to legalizing marijuana, while only 34% said that it was

okay. Fast forward 10 years and the majori-ty has shifted towards allowing patients to have access to mar-ijuana, with 52% of Americans agreeing to it. What’s more, ac-cording to the study, Americans want the Feds to stay away from the states where marijuana has been legalized. Around 64% of those polled indicated that feder-al prohibition should not be imposed in Colorado and Wash-ington State. One of the most poignant campaigns in the fight to make gay marriage legal is the slogan “You are on the wrong side of history.” The message was simple: gay mar-riage, like interracial marriage and equality rights for women and African Americans, is a natural progression. And people who op-pose it will soon find themselves in history books being likened to the Ku Klux Klan. We would like to think that marijuana legalization could be likened to that. That those who are making it difficult for those who are sick and suf-fering to get unfet-tered access to mari-juana would somehow be vilified in history. It is, after all, about basic rights. The move to legal-

ize same sex marriage is a call for equali-ty. Marijuana legal-ization, on the other hand, harkens to the constitutional right to life. We cannot see how anybody in his or her right mind would want to keep people from accessing what they need! A lot of alarmists are saying that allow-ing gay marriage or marijuana to be legal-ized is a sign that we are living in a degen-erate society where kids will be smoking pot because they have been raised by homo-sexual parents. It is over-simplis-tic to think that when gay marriage became legal, every gay and lesbian couple al-ready wanted to head off to the city hall and ask to get married. It is like saying every heterosexual person alive in the United States is married by the time they turn 18 years old just because that’s the legal age to get married. We all know that is not true. We also know that having marijuana le-galized does not mean that everyone would start smoking it. Nor would it be accessi-ble to kids and people who have no business using it in the first place. In fact, even with the most liberal marijuana laws that are now being debat-

ed in different states, marijuana legaliza-tion comes with a lot of caveats, precau-tions and restrictions. To say that it would flood the streets is not just an exaggeration, but a downright lie. Political America has always been di-vided. Take one is-sue and Republicans would most likely fight it out with Dem-ocrats. The American public is not any dif-ferent. We are a na-tion of differing opin-ions. But that is not necessarily the case with marijuana legal-ization. Among those polled, a majority vot-ed for marijuana le-galization. As a last word, we never thought that the day would come when we would thank the dirty world of poli-tics. Now that marijua-na legalization, like gay marriage, is a popular issue, it will not be long before we

see politicians vowing support for legaliza-tion. To be honest, it has been frustrating how very few of our esteemed senators have come out in sup-port of marijuana over the years. But as the major-ity clamors for it, we could expect them to do just that. In fact, it has already started. Remember last year when Massachusetts Representative Bar-ney Frank and Texas Rep. Ron Paul wrote a bill against the feder-al ban on marijuana? And remember how there were more than a dozen congressmen who signed on? We must never for-get that to succeed in politics, it will all boil down to the popular vote. As marijuana legalization becomes more and more main-stream, we will see more politicians sing-ing a different tune.

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Leaders of the ice-fish-ing community, aim-ing for official Olympics recognition as a sport, have begun the process by asking the World An-ti-Doping Agency to ran-domly test its “athletes” for performance-enhanc-ing drugs, according to a February New York Times report. However, said the chairman of the U.S. Freshwater Fishing Association, “We do not test for beer,” because, he added, “Everyone would fail.” Ice-fishing is a lone-ly, frigid endeavor rarely employing strength but mostly requiring guile and strategy, as compet-itors who discover ad-vantageous spots in the lake must surreptitious-

ly upload the hauls lest competitors rush over to drill their own holes. Urine tests have also been run in recent years on competitors in darts, miniature golf, chess and tug-of-war, and in 2011, one chess player, two minigolfers and one tugger tested positive.

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Sneaky Marijuana Repeal Move Is Now Dead

If you remember, last November, Colora-do made history by be-ing the first state, along with Washington State, to make the possession, growing and use of recre-ational marijuana legal. Under the amendment, adults 21 years and old-er could now carry with them up to an ounce of marijuana, while they can grow up to six can-nabis plants at their own homes. These plants may be consumed for person-al use but must not be sold to other people. On the other hand, Amend-ment 64 also allowed people to give and receive marijuana as gifts, pro-vided that it does not go over an ounce. In short, the voters

of Colorado opted to use their common sense in using marijuana. But it seems that some senators are not happy with that. With 24 senators backing it, a last-ditch attempt was made to stop the sale of recreational marijuana in the state. Fortunately, the issue died an almost instant death. The motion, offi-cially called the Senate Concurrent Resolution 13-003, aimed to put two measures on this year’s state ballot. The first would let vot-ers decide on the 10% special tax and the 15% excise tax rates. The second would be to ask the voters to de-

cide on whether recre-ational marijuana should continue to be sold in Colorado. It was introduced on the senate floor at 6 pm on May 6, roughly six hours before a necessary midnight deadline for it to be successful. It was cleared by a Senate Com-mittee within an hour af-ter it was introduced, but time ran out. Senate President John Morse, who also backed the resolution, finally gave up at around 9:30 pm.What these senators did was so reprehensible and laughable that we did just that.

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Continued from page 14 We laughed out loud at their failure! We all need some ma-jor stupidity some time. You just have to applaud the gall and thick-head-edness of these pol-iticians. Launching a last-minute, super sneaky assault to sub-vert the will of their con-stituents. If the resolution had been successful, it would have provided an avenue for the repeal of Amendment 64. But the Hon. John Morse went on record that the move to repeal was not real-ly a serious one. It was to ensure that they get the marijuana industry and the proponents of Amendment 64’s atten-tion. It seems that the marijuana industry is not keen on keeping its promise of increasing taxes from the sales of legalized marijuana. And Morse, et. al., did not like to be ignored. And so, in a colossal show of wasting taxpayers’ mon-ey, they put on the dra-ma of moving to repeal Amendment 64. That is if Morse is to be believed. We really do not know which is worse: to be seen as sneaky and un-derhanded, or just plain idiotic. What we do know is that the proponents of Amendment 64 are in-deed in favor of increas-ing taxes from marijua-na sales. They have even inserted the provision for the 15% excise tax in the bill. Now who is Morse pouring the cow manure on? Mason Tvert, who had

supported Amendment 64, explains that the Amendment clearly pro-vided for a tax scheme that would help pay for the regulatory costs of legal marijuana. Tvert is currently working for the Marijuana Policy Project as its communications director. What’s more, a Heizer Paul Grueskin LLP law-yer named Ed Ramey has written that the move was unconstitutional in the first place, saying that amendments to the constitution can never be inserted in ballots for odd number years, un-less it concerns spend-ing, taxation and financ-ing. Meaning, the move to repeal would not have prospered even if it was miraculously passed by the senate. Colorado is such an awesome state filled with awesome people. In a recent poll from Pub-lic Policy Polling, results showed that an over-whelming majority of 77 %of voters in the state will say yes to the 15% excise tax. The excise tax would be going to the construction of new and the improvement of existing public schools. The poll also showed that a majority will agree to the additional 10% sales tax. The sales tax will help cover the costs of regu-lating marijuana. So, in the lame excuse that Morse offered, their unconstitutional move to repeal Amendment 64 came because they were afraid that there would not be enough moolah to go around. Another lie. A recent report from Harvard economist Jef-

frey Miron said that the US government stands to save close to $8 bil-lion a year if it legalizes marijuana. The report also reveals that anoth-er $6 billion is all for our taking if the government decides to tax marijuana at the levels that tobacco and alcohol are current-ly taxed. In the same manner, the State would not have to rely on taxes to cover regulatory costs. They can get the money from the savings they are get-ting from not enforcing an outdate prohibition. As to why Morse and his cohorts would want more money from mari-juana, your guess is as good as ours! If you are from Col-orado, you might want to know who supported this motion, along with John Morse. Beware of supporting these per-son in th eir future en-deavors: •BillCadman •DavidBalmer •RandyBaumgardner •LarryCrowder •AngelaGiron •KevinGrantham •LuciaGuzman •TedHarvey •RollieHeath •MaryHodge •MichaelJohnston •JohnKefalas •AndyKerr •SteveKing •KentLambert •KevinLundberg •LindaNewell •JeanneNicholson •ScottRenfroe •MarkScheffel •GailSchwartz •LoisTochtrop •NancyTod

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