Cultivation Workshop with DJ Short


A unique opportunity and special retreat!
Relax, Relearn, and Resource!
Start your weekend off right this Saturday April 9th. at 10.30 am, on a private 2 acre botanical garden that is Willow Creek Springs. Enjoy coffee or tea, and learn from the foremost authority on aquaponics, JP Poseidon. Gather gardening tips from expert organic gardener, Joe Grumbine. Enjoy an hour with the renowned feminized seeds breeder, and author of Modern Chemistry, Clark Metcalfe!
With JP Poseidon’s 3 hour Introduction to Aquaponics you’ll learn basic concepts and ideas of the different types of aquaponic systems, and the 3 main components; fish, plants, and bacterias. Learn water quality, stocking densities, setup and design, irrigation, drainage, water cycle times, what pumps to use and not to use. Learn how to use organic fertilizers, worms and compostings, what grow containers to use, what to use to combat pests, IPM, and much more.
A $75 donation covers all of Saturday’s events!
Come back Sunday, April 10th. for DJ Short, cultivater and breeder extraordinare!
Winner of the 2000 Cannabis Cup with his Blueberry strain placing 1st.
End your weekend right this Sunday April 10th. with the all days events for $130 starting with DJ Short! The winner of the 2000 Cannabis Cup for his famous Blueberry strain. DJ Short is one of the most important breeders of our time. This is a rare opportunity to spend an entire day with a legendary breeder that raises the bar for all cannabis breeders with his orginal mix of new and old world genetics.
Enjoy “Methods of Ingestion” with Sarah Diesel. A lady that gives whole new meaning to High Society. Her lifestyle magazine for cannabis connossiuers is bringing a more sophisticated perspective on the once taboo plant. Sarah is also well known for her “Pin Up’s for Patients” Calendar, which a little bird told us she just might have with her!
Enjoy the casual atmosphere around the fire, stay for Dinner with Don Duncan, cofounder of Americans For Safe Access. Chat, relax, have dessert while sipping coffee or tea, and enjoy the live entertainment by Hunters and Gatherers, and Hula Hoopers on fire! The after party, fireside dinner is $100. Special guests are sure to arrive, and the festivities are expected to last all night. Help raise funds while enjoying the day, the evening, food and friendship. Learn a new trick or two, and help keep innocent patients out of jail!
Special Discounts!
Saturday $75 All Day
Sunday w/ DJ Short, Sarah Diesel and Don Duncan $130
Sunday Dinner Party only, starting @ 7 pm $100
Sunday All Day and Night, including Fireside Dinner w/ Live Entertainment $190
A very special discount for both days and ALL events, including the after party, $225
Please call #951-436-6312 for more information.
http://the-human-solution.org/cultivation-workshop-dj-short

“Mom, have you ever smoked marijuana?”

I panicked when my daughter asked the question. So I did something bold: I told the truth

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“Mom, did you ever smoke marijuana?” my 11-year-old daughter, Lizzie, asked as we pulled up in our driveway, gravel crunching under the car’s wheels. Her question wasn’t totally out of the blue — we’d just passed a passel of teenagers hanging out on our town’s main street, a smoky cloud hovering over them like a mass Schleprock, and my husband and I had commented about the local drug problem — but I was still caught off guard. My husband muttered something unintelligible and darted from the car to let the dog out of the house. I sat, frozen with panic. Do I answer honestly? Or lie? Spinning possible answers like a roulette wheel in my mind, I opted for truth.
“Yes, I did. A long time ago, in high school.” I unclasped my seat belt and turned around to face her.
Lizzie actually gasped. “Why?” she asked. She’s the type of kid who likes rules, the more of them the better. There are hints of the adolescent rebel lurking inside her. But for now, she uses words like “marijuana” instead of “pot.”
And why indeed? I’d been curious, of course, but I also wanted, desperately, to escape my social awkwardness, the discomfort of living in a small Southern city. That town fit me as well as the Chic jeans I wore back then, so tight and claustrophobic that I had to lie down on my bed, exhale, close my eyes and will myself smaller to zip them up. I guess I also wanted to see what I could get away with. (Quite a lot, it turned out.) Pot was forbidden and illegal — and sure to horrify my straight-laced parents. But mostly, it was a social lubricant that greased my rusty social skills: The ritual of rolling a joint and passing it around a room of kids my own age was something I could spend hours doing. Plus, it made my eight-track tapes sound great.
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http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/03/29/mom_smoking_pot/

Hemp food restaurant opens on the Avenue

By Joan Rampersad

 
Professional and certified chef, Nneka Daniel, officially opened what she termed Trinidad’s most unique restaurant at Crowbar’s Courtyard on Ariapita Avenue in Woodbrook last Thursday.
Unique in the sense that her establishment named Nick & 2J’s offers a full THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol)-free hemp menu that provides nutritional benefits with a tasty twist. Asked why hemp? She claimed, “First of all, I don’t ever think inside the box – nine years ago I started barbecue pigtail.
I have always been the type of person to go out and do something totally different. I started provision chips and now a number of people have capitalised on my ideas. So now hemp.”
She continued, “Over the years as a caterer, I have come across many persons who have had many problems, such as health and allergy problems and other issues. Hemp is a very good product in that there are actually no side effects from it.
And even though it is somewhat related to marijuana, it has nothing like that.
It is extremely high in protein, it completes many nutritional aspects and I see as a protein and healthier alternative.” Daniel added that there is so much information out there but people don’t know anything about hemp.
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http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,138074.html

Rick Simpson – (Still) Running From The Cure

By Joe Klare

Cancer is a devastating disease that affects tens of millions of people in the United States alone. It consumes lives and destroys families. It causes many to seek alternative treatments, and to try things they may not have considered under less dire circumstances.
Many of these alternative treatment seekers have gone down a road that has led them to a man named Rick Simpson. Formerly of Nova Scotia in Canada, Rick now lives in an undisclosed location in Europe due to legal entanglements with the Canadian government.
Many of you may have heard of Rick Simpson; his documentary, Run From The Cure, has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on the internet. Dozens attest to the healing power of the cannabis oil he taught them how to make. And untold numbers around the globe consider him a visionary and cannabis freedom fighter of the highest caliber.
The 420 Times was fortunate enough to get into contact with Mr. Simpson, and our conversation was as interesting as it was informative. He was very forthcoming, up to and including sending us the latest instructions on making hemp oil, which are printed at the end of this article.
A “late bloomer” in terms of cannabis use, Rick preferred alcohol to weed. “My parents never really said much about cannabis and since I didn’t use the substance at the time no one tried to preach to me. When I was young a great number of my friends were smoking cannabis, but me in all my wisdom stuck to alcohol as my drug of choice. From all the propaganda we had been fed by our trusted government, I thought the use of cannabis must be harmful in some way. But watching the effect it had on all my friends that were smoking it seemed to go against all I had been told. After smoking cannabis in the evening they all awoke the next morning feeling fine and unharmed, while myself after drinking awoke with a nasty hangover. When I was young I tried to smoke it with friends a couple of times, but I didn’t like its effects at the time so I stuck with booze. They say hindsight is 20/20 and I wish I had known then what I do today, for if I had I would have smoked cannabis and drank a whole lot less alcohol.”
As happens with many, Rick didn’t discover the medical benefits of cannabis until after he had been using it recreationally. “I was a late starter when it comes to the use of cannabis and I was in my mid thirties before I started to use it recreationally. Like most other people I had no idea of this plants potential as a medicine and I remained that way until about a year after I had suffered the head injury that ended my working career.”
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http://the420times.com/2011/03/rick-simpson-still-running-from-the-cure/

Story on mom jailed for marijuana prompts wide support

By GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer

ADAM WISNESKI / Tulsa World
An Oklahoma inmate profiled in a Tulsa World story examining the state’s high female incarceration rate has prompted a groundswell of support ranging from attorney services to an online petition circulating across the globe.
Patricia M. Spottedcrow of Kingfisher was featured in a Tulsa World article on Feb. 20 and published in media across the state through the nonprofit journalism group Oklahoma Watch.
The 25-year-old received a 12-year prison sentence in October after selling a total of $31 in marijuana to a police informant in December 2009 and January 2010. Her mother, Delita Starr, was also charged.
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=487&articleid=20110322_11_A1_CUTLIN198513

Willie Nelson must sing for judge to avoid jail on drugs charge

by Adrian Shaw, Daily Mirror
Willie Nelson (pic: Getty)

COUNTRY music legend Willie Nelson has been spared jail on a drugs charge – as it turns out he really does have friends in high places.

The star must perform for a judge as part of a bizarre plea-bargaining deal dreamt up by prosecuting lawyer Kit Bramblett.
The attorney said: “I’m gonna let him plead, pay a small fine and he’s gotta sing Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain with his guitar right there in the courtroom.”
He added: “You bet your ass I ain’t gonna be mean to Willie Nelson.”
The singer was arrested in November as his tour bus crossed the border from Mexico into Texas and police smelt marijuana coming from inside. Officers found a 6oz package containing the drug and Nelson was ordered to post £1,500 in bail before being allowed to carry on with his tour.
Under Texan law, possession of less than 3oz merits a fine and court costs – but anything more can result in a prison sentence. The court was told that although Nelson was originally charged with possessing 6oz, the weight was less when the packaging was removed.

Mr Bramblett joked: “Between me and the sheriff, we threw out enough of it or smoked enough so there’s only 3oz, which is within my jurisdiction.”

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Hemp removed from noxious weed list

By LINDSY ARROWOOD
Princeton Union-Eagle
The new changes have been finalized on Minnesota’s Noxious Weed List, according to Susan Shaw, the District Manager for Mille Lacs County SWCD. The weeds are divided prohibited noxious weeds, restricted noxious weeds and specially regulated plants.
Prohibited noxious weeds has been split into two subcategories: eradicate and control.
Those weeds on the eradicate list are weeds that are not native to Minnesota and are not rampant in the state. The goal is to keep them out of the state and eradicate any instances of the weed before it becomes a larger problem and spreads.
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http://millelacscountytimes.com/2011/03/24/hemp-removed-from-noxious-weed-list/

Beyond THC – What you need to know about cannabinoids

By Larry Gabriel
 
Gersh Avery has a thing for hemp. He’s not one of the folks trying to get industrial hemp legalized so we can enjoy the economic benefits of producing and selling the hundreds of items that can be made from the fibrous substance. They want to create clothing, biofuels, skin creams and more from the hemp plant. There are plenty of those kinds of hemp advocates around.
On the other hand Avery’s hemp focus is strictly for its medicinal value. Avery calls himself a medical marijuana specialist, because he is a registered patient, grower, activist and student of what he calls the archaeology of marijuana.
“I’m a drug law reform advocate,” he says. “I was working toward that, but when the medical marijuana petition drive came up, I shifted focus from the war against drugs to medical marijuana. The more that I saw in these various medical reports, the more I became excited about the plant’s potential to do incredible good. If a medical condition can go away, that’s a beautiful thing. It’s living a miracle being able to watch things happen from one day to the next that doctors don’t believe can happen.”
Avery, who lives in Washtenaw County, has a long list of ailments that he treats in part with medical marijuana — bladder cancer, diabetes, scoliosis, arthritis, bone spurs and more. The problem for Avery is that while using medical marijuana, he’s not interested in the high. He wants to be clearheaded, which is why he’s fascinated with hemp. We all know you can’t smoke rope for the buzz, but hemp is believed to be high in cannabidiol (CBD) a cannabinoid that has shown potential in treating some cancers (particularly in inhibiting the spread of breast cancer), inflammation, nerve diseases such as Crohn’s and multiple sclerosis, and indeed as an anti-diabetic.
There are up to 100 cannabinoids in marijuana, THC (the substance that creates the high) and CBD are but two of them. Cannabinoids, which are also produced naturally by our bodies, attach to receptors in our bodies and help regulate such things as body temperature, blood pressure, mood and more.
“Diabetes isn’t a listed condition for medical marijuana in Michigan, but I’m using cannabis for working my diabetes,” Avery says. “Cannabis drops blood sugar. There are quite a few conditions that a lot of people are very unaware of that can be treated with cannabis.”
Avery gets much of his information through Granny Storm Crow’s List, a currently 429-page PDF document listing scientific studies of marijuana and links to websites where the results are published. In the introduction to her list, Granny writes: “When I began using cannabis medically over 40 years ago, there was no such thing as ‘medical use’ — not even the concept existed! Education has made the difference. Somewhere along the line, every one of the people who have voted to legalize
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http://metrotimes.com/mmj/beyond-thc-1.1122152