BY ABOVE AVERAGE

 
Before making her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lily Tomlin set up shop in her dressing room… a medicinal marijuana shop that is.
 
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BY RAMANI VENKATESH

 
Centuries ago, societies all over the world used Marijuana as a go-to drug for various kind of medical treatments. Marijuana also known as cannabis or hashish was banned in the 1930s, due to the fear of addiction and growing awareness, despite the fact of it being able to cure various diseases. Recent investigation on this drug has revealed that the intake of marijuana has significantly known to decrease symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, cancer and multiple sclerosis.
 
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By Josh Harkinson

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In the fruit and veggie cornucopia that is California, local farmers markets sell everything from brandywine tomatoes and lemon cucumbers to hedgehog mushrooms and fresh medjool dates. But no farmers market can match the selection of the one in the Mendocino County town of Laytonville, which offers, among other things, an ample supply of heirloom cannabis.
 
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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/08/california-farmers-market-sells-marijuana

By Shelbi Jay

 
Sierra Wellness Connection will be serving its first medical marijuana patients on Wednesday August 26th.
Sierra Wellness will be the first medical marijuana dispensary to open in Reno and the second to open in all of Nevada. Additionally, they are the only fully licensed seed-to-sale medical cannabis provider in Reno. This means they hold licenses for cultivation, processing, and dispensing medical marijuana.
 
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http://www.ktvn.com/story/29790173/medical-marijuana-dispensary-opening-in-reno

By Lisa Rough
 

 
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all of the days of your life” — a fitting quote from Bob Marley to describe a happy day for cannabis supporters.

Jeff Mizanskey is a nonviolent prisoner who has been jailed in Missouri for the last 20 years, from when he was 41 years old until his present age of 62. His crime? Cannabis offenses.

BY C.R. ROBERTS Staff writer

 
Previous cannabis-related conventions and trade shows in Washington have lacked only one thing: cannabis.
That is about to change.
Given what he’s about to bring to Tacoma, the “M” in Cory Wray’s MBA might well stand for marijuana, a substance of which he claims to be a longtime consumer.
The Bethel High School and University of Washington Tacoma graduate, 32, has inked an agreement and begun promotion for the Northwest Cannabis Classic, a three-day event featuring speakers, seminars, a trade show with vendors and, again, cannabis itself.
Previous organizers have discovered that state law prohibits actual marijuana being present or being consumed at venues that hold a license allowing the consumption of alcohol.
The historic century-old Tacoma Armory — where Wray will hold the NWCC on Aug. 28-30 — has no such license.
So vendors who sell grinders will be grinding true bud rather than oregano, and lighting specialists will be showing their wares as they illuminate actual pot sprouts, and the winners of the NWCC Classic trophies will be able to display the actual winning products. Given state licensing laws, no cannabis will be offered for sale.
 

BY JONATHAN KAUFFMAN

RUSSELL YIP, THE CHRONICLE
 
There are millions of recipes for granola, but few involve a gram scale.
The scale is one of the first things that Stephany Gocobachi and Akhil Khadse bring out when they start a batch of medicated granola for Flour Child, their new enterprise. As the oven in their sunny Tendernob studio preheats, Gocobachi, a bright-eyed, voluble 25-year-old, weighs a minuscule amount of powdery green hashish, then tips it into a small saute pan of oil, raw sugar and maple syrup. Slowly, gently, she heats it up to convert the THCA in the cannabis resin into the psychoactive molecule THC.
 
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By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

 Credit Golden Cosmos

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Eva Silva

 
When Jeannie met Jack Herer— a longtime activist known as the ‘Emperor of Hemp’—in 1994, she never imagined the path her life would take. Now, over 20 years later, she carries on her own work in the industry and plans to establish the Jack Herer Museum to carry on Jack’s work and his legacy posthumously.

Cannabis has been a part of my life since the 70’s, but I was just a kid then. It’s just what we did. We hung out, partied a little. It was all about having fun with like-minded people. I could never have guessed how my life would evolve, how central the plant and the movement would be in my life, personally and professionally. Now, I’m involved with like-minded people in a bigger way. It continues to be a challenging but rewarding path.
It has been five years since Jack passed away. To say it’s been a roller coaster ride since, is a huge understatement. The bottom line, however, is that I’m in this industry to stay.
 
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