The Emerald Cup 2016 Official Program Guide

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TAHOE WELLNESS CO-OP TINCTURES | MEDICINAL CANNABIS | EDIBLES Tahoe Wellness Cooperative was founded in 2009 to create a safe space for anyone in the community to express positive and creative ideas. We do this through the support of medical cannabis.

Our first priority is to provide high quality, pure and safe medicine to cannabis patients in our community. We also provide a variety of classes, support groups, and holistic services to the entire community.

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PROGRAM GUIDE

CONTENTS

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2016 HIGHLIGHTS & INFO

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WELCOME TO THE CUP

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SPONSORS

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OUR PAST, PRESENT & THE FUTURE

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REGENERATIVE CANNABIS

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2016 AWARDS

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GLASS AWARDS & ARTISTS

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MUSIC SCHEDULE

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SATURDAY SPEAKERS

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SUNDAY SPEAKERS

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FOOD VENDORS

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MAPS & VENDORS

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SPEAKER BIOS

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ARTIST BIOS

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THANK YOU

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2016 HIGHLIGHTS awards ceremony will take place Sunday in the FlavRx Music Hall from 3:30-5:00. Come see who will take home this year’s most coveted cannabis awards.

absolut extracts care by design pavilion — this

is where you will find all our amazing 215 vendors. Everything from seeds, flowers and concentrates. As well as other souvenirs.

open vape tent will host all of our edible makers as well as seed, flower and concentrate vendors.

alex & allyson grey will be joining us this year. There will be a chance to meet and greet as well as watching them create their amazing visionary art.

lockers — A very exciting new addition to the show this year. A safe place to stash all your goodies, every locker is equipped with a cell phone charging station as well. They are located on the side of Finley Hall. A great place to stash all your personal items that you don’t want to carry

festival merchandise will on

— We have various water bottle filling stations around the venue. 1 is located in Shade Park, the other 2 are along Linwood. We will also be selling custom Emerald Cup water bottles at all of the festivals merch booths.

pedi-cab — Hop on our environmentally-friendly pedicab this year an easily get from one side of the venue to the next with ease.

live glass blowing demo — Hitman Glass will be hosting live demos of the master craftsmanship in glass blowing from world renowned artists.

located just inside the main gates. Sol Solutions, Grass Roots Fabric pots, Dragonfly earth meds, Hansen Bros soil mix with GreenGro amendments have helped to create an amazing demo.

eden’s hall of flowers — Is our non 215 vending section, filled with all natural and organic nutrients. We have no chemical based fertilizer companies in there this year. As well as an amazing selection of glass pipes and clothing.

water bottle refill stations

Our 215 vip this year is provided

by Forever Flowering Greenhouses as well as Tahoe Wellness will be hosting a Hash Bar. Our Non-215 VIP area located next to FlavRX Music Pavilion will host a cash bar and will have beer from Lagunitas Brewing Company. Both will be live streaming the music, have comfy couches and a great place to chill. Coffee and tea will be provided in both.

sale at all 3 of our merch booths.

Come by and get your official Emerald Cup t-shirt, as well as some new shirt designs. We will also have our collaborations with Grassroots Hats and Satori Movement

forever flowering demo greenhouse —

greening of the venue. We try to make as little waste as possible.

Please recycle as much as you can Waste Busters is helping to make this happen.

GENERAL INFORMATION Venue gates open at 11 am each day Box office opens at 10 am each day Show ends at 12:30 am on Saturday and 8:30 pm on Sunday Wristbands must be worn at all times Wristbands void if tampered with or removed

Attention All Emerald Cup Attendees: The passing of Proposition 64 will NOT impact our event this year and it is still required to possess a 215 card to access all medicated areas. Recreational public smoking (unless in a private residence or enclosed business), as well as retail sales of cannabis, is not valid until January 1, 2018.

Lineup and set times are subject to change Everyone is subject to search upon entry

in & out policy:

There is NO camping

Single-Day Ticket Holders: NO ins-and-outs.

Anyone over the age of 18 may attend The Emerald Cup

Full Weekend Ticket Holders (including VIPs): Ins-and-outs Saturday from 11 am to 10:30 pm and Sunday from 11 am to 7:30 pm ONLY.

NO BABIES IN ARMS OR STROLLERS The 215 medical marijuana area at The Emerald Cup is only accessible to medical marijuana patients with valid California ID and 215 recommendations

Please plan ahead for your comfort and enjoyment.

We’re grateful for your support and cooperation.

The Emerald Cup 2016 Sonoma County Fairgrounds 1350 Bennett Valley Road Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Healing Harvest Farms Home of The Emerald Cup PO Box 1899 Laytonville, CA 95454

The Emerald Cup prohibits the following: Audio Recording Devices, Video Recorders, Professional Cameras, Selfie Sticks/Narcissists, Blankets, Bota Bags, Chains/Chain Wallets, Chairs, Drones, Remote Control Aircraft, Toys/Cars, Fireworks/Explosives, Flags, Hula Hoops, In & Outs, unless all weekend ticket has been purchased, Instruments, Knives/Weapons Etc., Laser Pointers, Outside Food & Beverages, Pets, Sharpies/Markers, Stuffed Animals, Refunds/ Exchanges/Cancellations, Tents, Tailgating in Parking Lots, Totems The following items are allowed: Backpacks (medium), Camelpacks (EMPTY), Cell Phones & chargers, Cigarettes, Dancing Shoes, Cameras (Non-Pro), GoPros (no poles or extenders), Fanny Packs, Hats, Lighters, Small Beach Towel, Smiles, Sun Block, Sunglasses, Service Pets

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WELCOME by the time this article is published, California’s Prop 64 adult use cannabis initiative will have passed. California passed a state medicinal cannabis legislation bill already, which is coming into affect in 2018. Between the two pieces of legislation, California will never be the same again. This initiative has deeply divided our community. Whether you were for or against Prop 64, everyone agrees that we’ve entered new, uncharted waters. I know we’re going to have to deal with big business coming after our industry, but heck, they’re already here to stay. Everyone needs to dedicate themselves to creating the finest flowers and products we could hope for. Do that and you’ll be fine. As it is, we’ll still have a thriving black market for the next few years while the legal adult use market takes over. This will give cannabis farmers a chance to survive either way for years to come. But with the traditional agriculture communities lining up to come on board, we will see one acre farms throughout California sprout up seemingly overnight. At some point there will be a glut of production on the market.

Small cannabis farmers are going to be in for a fight for their lives over the next decade and beyond. On the other hand, there will be an abundance of opportunities to seize upon in this newly regulated playground. I can only imagine how large the cannabis economy will become. Fifty billion a year? A hundred? Five hundred? A trillion? The skies the limit! After waiting over forty years of my adult life for this to become a reality, the dream of seeing California proclaim itself a truly legal cannabis state is here to stay.

What’s that mean for The Emerald Cup? What started out as a bunch of outlaws demanding their right to celebrate the fall cannabis harvest with a small friendly competition will have evolved by next year to the point where no one will even need a medical license and people from all over the world will be welcome to join us and have a toke. We’ll have even more of an opportunity to inspire, teach, and guide cannabis farmers, spreading our vast knowledge and wealth of information across the globe.

And it means that this years Emerald Cup will be the first event following the voter approval of Prop 64. We plan on doing things right and putting on a party that no one in our community will ever forget.

Each year, I wonder how we’re going to top the last year’s Emerald Cup. I truly understand the anxiety that event producers go through in trying to add more bang for the buck every time they fire up their events. They know they will be judged by every attendee on the merits of the show. Its like waiting for a new CD by your favorite band and hoping you won’t » 14

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WELCOME continued be disappointed. Or going to an amusement park and running through the gate to be the first in line for the latest ride. Everyone wants to be dazzled, blown away, and nothing short of satisfying those high bars will suffice.

With that in mind, we’ve gone out of our way to ensure that, once again, no one will be disappointed. With the Emerald Cup growing so quickly the past three years, it was all we could do to keep up with the basics. I’m the first one to admit my background isn’t in producing events that draw over twenty thousand people for the weekend. I’m extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished over the years, but I knew we could soar even higher in regards to providing everyone with a memorable weekend. Dan Sheehan, partners with Thomas Cousins in Ineffable Live, has booked the event for the past couple of years. This year we’ve entered into a long term partnership with Dan and Thomas to ensure the Cup continues to set the pace in delivering you the experience you dream of having. With Dan and Thomas on board, my co-producer and daughter Taylor and I can focus on the contest, the speakers and panels, and the various aspects of the event that need our attention. We can actually host the event throughout the weekend, mingle with the crowd and even take in a panel or two, rather than race around the fairgrounds dealing with all the inevitable challenges of overseeing an event this size.

In the past the only way I got a chance to take in the Cup was through the videos taken of the panels, workshops, interviews, and the fairgrounds. I feel like I’ve barely been able to attend my own show. With so many changes in our industry unfolding at break neck speed, its going to be a blast be able to catch up on the most up to date happenings in our industry. We’re also excited about the long range possibilities for co-producing other events together around the state and country.

The first move we made this year was to sign Damian Marley to be our headliner. Damian was one of the few artists that was still on my bucket wish list! He’s just compiled a new record, titled “Stony Hill.” This is his first new release in years; and from what we’ve heard, its an amazing cache of roots, rock, and reggae!

Concurrently, Damian, his manager Dan Dalton, and Dan’s family were inquiring into the purchase of the Coalinga State prison, intending to transform it into a fully-functioning cannabis complex. Our partnership with each other was destined to be.

In order to introduce and celebrate their new company Ocean Grown, The Emerald Cup and Ocean Grown will be hosting a Friday night pre-party!

We then signed Dirty Heads, another act we’d all been wanting to see. Add Stick Figure, Tribal Seeds, Hirie, and many other fine artists, to the mix, and somehow we came up with our best lineup yet! Two days of top notch music and exciting challenges for everyone just trying to figure out what to do and see.

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cally. It’ s a friendly competition that continues to elevate industry standards because we’re always striving to inspire cannabis farmers to farm organically and to create quality, integrity based products for our families and the community at large.

With this in mind, we’re pleased to feature two additional titles to the Award Ceremony.

The competition started out solely as a flower contest and has expanded over time to include awards for concentrates, tinctures, salves, edibles, and CBDs. When we refused to allow concentrates that were extracted by Butane (BHO) from entering the competitions, it then catalyzed the development of a technique, which resulted in what is now known as “Rosin.” This natural way of extraction, which also inspires patients to transition from smoke to vapor, has riveted the marketplace since then. I foresee that one of these years we will have more rosin entries than flowers, as more and more folks are focusing on maximizing the level of their experience with this medicine.

Personally, I’m not against BHO oil. I recognize that many companies are indeed creating a quality product when it’s produced with pharmaceutical grade Butane and created in a permitted laboratory. As soon as the state deems extraction labs as permissible, and pharmaceutical grade BHO is readily available, The Emerald Cup will gladly welcome BHO into the competition.

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WELCOME continued come into question by the government anyway. With so many companies announcing new products that have been derived from CO₂, more and more folks are going to be getting their medicine from some form of this extraction.

With concentrates rapidly taking over, breeding for traits that bode well for strains that deliver optimum oil, along with the terpenes and flavors that the public is desiring, has become the latest great quest. The OG and the strains that have been long sought after and have dominated the gene pool over the past twenty years are giving way to the publics desire for a more distinct set of flavors and terps. OG still dominates the flowers market but isn’t the top choice of the concentrate crowd. And there are so many new flavors to fall in love with. Skittlz, Tanjie, Black-Lime, Durban-Sherbert, and many others are inspiring farmers and breeders across the board to constantly search for the next great strain!

In fact, we’re looking at an ever increasing move from the old smoking of flowers to the exciting new world of concentrated cannabis products that are vaporized rather than smoked. From six star full melt, to top of the line rosin, to cartridges that have been sourced from bud, the fickle public is demanding higher and higher quality levels for their discriminating palates. I agree with Steve D’Angelo of Harborside Wellness center when he says that flowers are going to be a small part of his shelf space in the years to come. Concentrates have and will make such an overwhelming impact on our marketplace that things are never going to be the same again. I miss my joints but my lungs love the vape pens and dabs. Smoking joints will soon be a thing of the past for most folks.

The second award which we have added is the “Regenerative Farm Award.” The idea behind this is that we are waking up to the reality that we are not living in harmony. We are taking more than giving back. We are depleting our soil and local resources due to our modern-day lifestyle of convenience. We need to ensure our soils are “Living soils”, we need to regenerate our farms, and make sustainable farms that are models for not just the cannabis industry, but for all types of farming across this country and the earth. Cannabis farmers can and should be the leader and inspiration for best farming practices globally. And so, we were inspired by Jesse Dodd of BioVortex and Jeremy Plumb of Farma to honor those farms that are demonstrating their devotion to mindfulness within their farming practices. The vetting of this award, spearheaded by Jesse Dodd of BioVortex, is essentially the union of Cannabis cultivation with Applied Permaculture. The practice of these principals is reflected in the health of the overall ecosystem on which the farm is located. Sure enough, this input is also evident on full spectrum lab tests performed on flowers grown in “living soil,” and is proven to be the purest. Jesse is backed by a great team of professionals representing organizations such as

Compliant Farms, Green Source Gardens, Farma, EnviroCann, and SoilScape Solutions just to mention a few! All Emerald Cup award winners will be added to the Phylos Galaxy, an online, opensource three dimensional map of the lineage of each known strain. (http://www.phylosbioscience.com/the-phylos-galaxy/) I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m constantly just trying to keep up with and not be left behind by all the latest updates in farming techniques, medical uses of cannabis, the latest concentrate extraction techniques, and, of course, all the legal issues we’re constantly chasing around. There are so many interesting fields of expertise developing in the cannabis world a person could spend their whole life just trying to stay on top of one aspect of it.

The Emerald Cup started out as a small act of rebellion, and it has risen up with the rest of the cream of the cannabis world to sit on top of the fastest growing segment of the agricultural and industrial world. Seemingly, overnight we’ve become the biggest thing since sliced bread. Only, way more valuable and of critical importance to every aspect of our health and well-being.

I couldn’t be more proud of us. We’re doing something that will be talked about and written about for centuries to come. Cannabis is being brought back to it’s rightful place at the head of the agricultural and business world!

And boy, do we and our sacred herb deserve it or what?

I look forward to seeing everyone at the Cup this year and celebrating our success!

— Tim Blake

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OUR PAST, PRESENT, & THE FUTURE in the fall of 2003, Tim Blake and a friend were discussing the fact that Mendocino had the best bud on the planet but no form of acknowledgment or celebration for it. That was when everyone was afraid of having a public competition. We put out no press – just some last minute posters and word of mouth – and 23 entries into the ganja contest came forward. The crowd was small, with very few even willing to be in the house with their faces seen, much less come forward for their prizes. Still, it was a wild night, everyone had a ball, and other than the inevitable undercover agents, it was pleasantly uneventful.

The next year, we took the event public, putting up more posters, talking to more people, pushing the envelope. Slowly we crept into the light. Forty-three entries were put up, and the bud was overall much better than the year before, because growers had begun cultivating their plants in the full sun as opposed to hiding them under the trees.

The show was headlined by the Avalon All-Stars with Vince Welnick (former keyboard player with The Grateful Dead and The Tubes) sitting in.

By the third now-annual Emerald Cup competition, we all had medical permits, and everyone was growing in the full sun. Marijuana was blooming right into mainstream America.

The fourth year we had 51 entries and in 2009 there were 99, all organic, grown in the sun as God intended. In 2010, we had our banner year of over 150 entries. In 2011, we started to incorporate more speaker panels throughout the day as educating our attendees became just as important as listening to music and celebrating.

Along with the competition, we also chose to

give out Lifetime Achievement Awards to some of our heroes in the cannabis industry who had dedicated their lives to this movement.

Over the 8 years we had The Emerald Cup at Area 101, legends including Eddy Lepp, Jack Herer, Valerie Corral, and Ed Rosenthal graced our stage. In 2012, we finally outgrew our property in Laytonville and moved The Emerald Cup to up to Humboldt County at The Mateel Center in Redway. We were blown away by the turnout as people came from all over the state for our solvent-less concentrate contest and to honor the sun-grown cannabis movement, gaining us a lot of attention.

The Emerald Cup again moved to a bigger venue in 2013, with hopes that the cannabis movement would grow with us. After we approached a few of the different fairgrounds across Northern California, the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa gracefully offered us a chance to bring our idea of a cannabis country fair to reality. It was a difficult choice for us to leave the Emerald Triangle, but serving our growing community with a bigger, better event made the move necessary.

Last year, we decided to expand our contests to include organic edibles and topicals.

Every year our entry numbers have steadily increased, but none of us could have predicted seeing 684 flower entries submitted in 2014. And this year we’ve top over a thousand entries! The new contests were also a huge success. This year we’ve added a CO₂ category, along with a Regenerative Farm Award. With Damian Marley and Dirty Heads set to headline, our musical acts have somehow gotten better once again.

Tim and his daughter Taylor have been joined by Dan Sheehan and Thomas Cousins of

Ineffable Live Music Group as Associate Producers and partners. The Emerald Cup family is continuing to expand to keep up with the demands of producing the largest and best cannabis competition and gathering in the world!

With the passage of Prop 64 and the state cannabis legislation (MRKSA), California has taken back her lead as far as cannabis legalization. Things will never be the same.

This years Emerald Cup is going to be the first cannabis gathering since Prop 64 was passed by the voters of our glorious state! Our discussion sessions and workshops are filled with nationally and internationally renowned experts. We’ve taken over even more of the fairgrounds and added dozens more vendors (both inside and outside the medical 215 area).

We’ve increased the number of great options for organic food; two stages, three lecture halls, and much more! Our 13 competition titles took in entries from across California – check them out on display at The Emerald Cup, and join us to honor the best of the best at The Emerald Cup Awards on Sunday.

A huge thanks goes out to the countless family, friends, neighbors, and community members whose love and support enables us to produce this event each year. We are honored to serve the cannabis community with The Emerald Cup, and the possibilities are limitless as we look forward to future years in the new era of cannabis legalization.

It is a brave new world and we’re going to guide the folks of California and the rest of the world towards a fully integrated cannabis nation.

Blessings, Tim Blake

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REGENERATIVE CANNABIS the open and legal age of cannabis, it becomes while it is in its legal infancy. When we show the increasingly important for farms and businesses cost decrease, the quality increase, and the poto grow and source clean, pure meds. Products tential for positive marketing that can be gained like concentrates and edibles are unforgiving from regenerative agriculture techniques, we when it comes to safety testing. believe the cannabis industry, Using certain chemicals for along with other agriculture, will “Now a farm comes nutrition, and poisons like fungihave to take note. closest to its own cides and pesticides at any When cannabis is grown unstage, will lead to worthless and der the sun in a relationship with essence when it can potentially dangerous products living soil, native biodiversity, be conceived of as a and medicines. Concentrates and our watersheds, it can have kind of independent concentrate. Flowers that might a healing, regenerative impact individuality, a self‐ pass testing can have concenon the environment. When contained entity. In trates that fail. cultivated in this way, cannabis reality, every farm ought Partially, the goal of the is able to reach its true potential. award is to educate people to aspire to this state of Plants evolved to work with soil about what regenerative cultibiology in mutualistic symbeing a self-‐contained vation techniques are and how biotic exchange of resources individuality.” they can be adopted to help us and nutrient cycling. When we — Rudolf Steiner, grow the highest-quality, pure embrace this fact in our farming Father of Biodynamics medicine that truly expresses practices, we tap into the power the terroir of farm. Regenerative of nature and her regenerative farming is cultivating in a way that has a healing systems instead of working against them. effect on the environment through developing Cannabis is a powerful medicine with many closed-loop systems. Examples regenerative regenerative properties for human health, but if practices are proper land management and it is grown with harmful products it becomes a stewardship, rainwater catchment, groundwater toxic shell of its true potential. As we move into recharge, living soil building, cover cropping, mulching, composting, polyculture, companion “The range of therapeutic effects cannabis can provide has to do with the different kinds planting, and promoting and preserving native of compounds the plant produces. These vary widely depending on how it was grown. biodiversity and wildlife habitat. Regenerative practices go beyond sustainability in that they Cannabis produced in a regenerative way, with maximum biological diversity in the heal, improve, and remediate. On the other rhizosphere will likely produce the most diverse and nuanced phytochemistry; at least hand, sustainable practices are ways to reduce that is what I’ve seen in many lab results after a few years of observational study.” negative impacts to the point of treading the waters of “do no harm”. Organic farming on its — Jeremy Plumb, Co-founder of Farma and Newcleus Nurseries the way we grow plants can have the power to help or hurt our environment. Sadly, the direction taken by modern agriculture has been devastating for the planet, destroying our topsoil, diverting and poisoning our water, while growing toxic and nutrient poor food that leads a host of health issues. The societal and environmental costs of bad agricultural practices are staggering and terrifying. Cannabis can be cultivated in way that is high-impact, resourceexcessive, and harmful to people, water and the land. However, with the right practices cannabis can also be grown in a way that can help heal the environment.

This year, the Emerald Cup is excited to give birth to a new paradigm in cannabis competition.

We created the Regenerative Cannabis Farm Award to honor those farms that are cultivating in a way that promotes environmental health while growing safe, pure, high-quality medicine.

In doing so, we hope to create a catalyst of positive competition filled with information sharing, land stewardship, ethical marketing, watershed consciousness, and love of nature, living soil and biodiversity. We want the cannabis industry to be excited about and influenced by permaculture, natural farming, and biodynamic principles

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2016 AWARDS The Awards Ceremony will be announced Sunday in the FlavRx Music Hall from 3:30-5:00 pm.

Come see who will take home this year’s most coveted cannabis awards.

The Emerald Cup is an outdoor, organic,

own is not necessarily regenerative or sustainable. Quite often there are huge environmental impacts associated with organic products and nutrients. Many organic amendments are unsustainably mined and transported. Other organic products for pest control might seem safe and environmentally friendly, but in reality are detrimental to native diversity, especially our incredibly important pollinating insects like “The only bees. It is time for us to take responsibility ethical decision for our impacts and is to take educate ourselves responsibility to the practices that for our own both heal the earth existence and and grow the highestthat of our quality cannabis.

At this moment children.” in human history, we — Bill Mollison, stand at a crossroads: The late, great father down one path is and co-creator of Permaculture the potential future of remediation and environmental health, down the other is our current course of finite resource extraction and environmental destruction. We are also standing at the crossroads of an open and legal world for canna business.

It is our hope that the way we grow, produce, manufacture and do business in this new world of legal cannabis can be a guiding light to the rest of the world.

The future, as was the past, is regenerative.

medical cannabis competition. All cannabis entered has been primarily sun-grown, (clones and seedlings started under artificial lights are acceptable). SC Labs has tested each entry for cannabinoid potency, terpene levels, residual pesticides, residual solvents, and molds, as applicable.

The following will be announced on stage:

FLOWERS

• The Top 20 entries • Breeders Cup Award • Best Terpene Profile Award

CONCENTRATES

• Icewater - Top 10 entries • Rosin - Top 10 entries • Dry Sieve - Top 5 entries

CO₂ EXTRACTS • The Top 5 entries

TOPICALS

• The Top 5 entries

EDIBLES

• The Top 5 entries

TINCTURES\ SUBLINGUALS • The Top 5 entries

CBD

• Flower - Top 3 entries • Concentrate - Top 3 entries • Sublingual - Top 3 entries • Edible - Top 3 entries

REGENERATIVE FARM AWARD

Awarded to the farm that demonstrates the most regenerative and sustainable farming practices.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Awards to be given to recognize people who have done exceptional work to advance our community, awareness, and industry.

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GLASS AWARDS & ARTISTS the emerald cup has evolved from being a flowers only competition to holding more and more space for the plethora of value added products. We spare no expense in creating unique one-of-a-kind, handblown glass prizes, created by some of the finest glass blowers in the world. We've been blessed to have luminaries like Banjo and Darby create pieces for our previous winners. Our long time friend and lead in the procurement of the prizes (Eric the glass guy) is back at the helm of the contest. This year we have the great fortune of having Ari, Don Rob, Steve Bates, Jared Delong, and Mr. Gray working their magic for our winners.

We would like to give the deepest thanks to all the artist’s and growers that participated in this year’s Emerald Cup. We want to give a special thanks to Tim Blake founder of this epic event. Last but definitely not least we would like to give thanks and praises to all the attendees of this years festivities. Remember folks: PLEASE STAY ON THE GRASS.

steve bates started his journey into glass in High School. He grew up in rural Maine.

In high school, Steve’s art teacher had a soft glass table with a hot head torch setups in the classroom. At the age of 15, he started by making beads. There were some local glassblowers in his area and he was able to hang out and watch them work. By 19, he was making pipes. He realized early in his college days that formal schooling was not his thing.

He then spent one summer paving driveways before he decided that he wanted to blow glass for a living. His style has evolved over the years.

He is constantly looking for the next thing that will inspire him and keep him motivated. While Steve is very well known for his clear functional pieces, he started out working with color. Then Steve spent 2 semesters at Salem Community College studying Scientific Glass Technology.

This scientific influence along with the fact that clear was becoming popular in the functional glass world changed Bates’ work significantly.

In 2010, Bates helped to start Hitman Glass. His scientific based designs were part of the original product line. Steve also participated in the 2010 Emerald Cup and we are glad to have him back this year. jared delong was born and raised in California, in the rural mountain community of Bonny Doon. His love for art was clear at an early age. Naturally talented, he drew and painted with a passion. Accomplished in two-dimensional art but seeking more of a challenge, Delong pursued work in a threedimensional medium. In 1996 he worked at LundbergnStudios as a finisher for other artists work. He then went on to apprentice at Steven Lundberg's Santa Cruz studio in 1998, where he learned to facet and create sculpted works in hot glass from torchwork artists, who had paid homage to the organic forms of the Art Nouveau glass designers since the 1970's. DeLong's own glass art exhibits these far reaching influences, yet proves his talents as an imaginative contemporary visual artist. Jared in on Instagram as: @delongglass. ari rom's been melting glass for about 10 years. He learned the ropes in the scientific glass field making custom apparatus for distillation and cryogenics. While working with Hitman Glass he was able to make the transition from being an east coast factory man to a west coast pipe maker. Currently based out of Humboldt County, Bluegrass Glass, A two man team, best known today for the WonderLamp series, Ari (Bluegrass Man) and Brian (Don Rob) seek to find the balance between scientific and artistic glassblowing. Feeling blessed to have the opportunity to make the awards for the greatest cannabis growers in California, and to be part of such an epic event!

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Pavilion - Set Times

5:00 - 6:00 pm 6:00 - 6:45 pm F R I DAY 6:45 - 7:00 pm A R T I S T S 7:00 - 8:00 pm 8:00 - 8:30 pm 8:30 - 9:40 pm 9:40 - 10:00 pm 10:00 - 11:15 pm

DEC 10

DJ WESTAFA KABAKA PYRAMID DJ WESTAFA BLACK AM I DJ WESTAFA KINGSTON 12 DJ WESTAFA COLLIE BUDDZ

Pavilion - Set Times

4:30 - 5:30 pm 6:00 - 7:00 pm SATURDAY 7:30 - 8:30 pm A R T I S T S 8:30 - 9:00 pm Live Painting 9:00 - 10:15 pm 10:15 - 11:00 pm 11:00 - 12:30 am

HIRIE THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS KABAKA PYRAMID DJ WESTAFA ALEX GREY AND ALLYSON GREY STICK FIGURE DJ WESTAFA DAMIAN “JR. GONG” MARLEY

Sonoma Stage - Set Times

12:00 - 1:00 pm 1:00 - 1:45 pm 1:45 - 2:45 pm 2:45 - 3:30 pm 3:30 - 4:30 pm

DEC 11 SUNDAY A R T I S T S

ARDEN PARK ROOTS DJ JACQUES THRIVE DJ JACQUES RAGING FYAH

Pavilion - Set Times

1:00 - 3:00 pm 5:00 - 6:15 pm 6:15 - 7:00 pm 7:00 - 8:30 pm

DJ JACQUES TRIBAL SEEDS DJ JACQUES DIRTY HEADS

Sonoma Stage - Set Times

12:45 - 1:45 pm VOKAB KOMPANY 2:15 - 3:15 pm NATTALI RIZE

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SATURDAY SPEAKERS

Kraft Stage - CULTIVATION - Set Times

11:30 am- 12:45 pm 1:00 - 2:15 pm 2:30 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 5:00 pm 5:15 - 6:30 pm 6:45 - 8:00 pm

Chemical Free Pest & Mold Management Certifying Your Farm: The Importance in 2017 Living Soil: Building Your Soil, Not Your Plants Adam Dunn Breeder Panel: Breeding for Concentrates The Three Amigos Appellation of Origin: Creating Terroir

Finely Stage - SCIENCE & COMPLIANCE - Set Times

12:00 - 1:00 pm 1:15 - 2:30 pm 2:45 - 4:00 pm 4:15 - 5:15 pm 5:30 - 6:45 pm 7:00 - 8:00 pm

Community Unifiers: County Organizations Making A Difference Government Agencies Panel Terpenes: Creating the New Nomenclature for Cannabis Testing Regulations & the Future Impacts on Extracts Exploring the Cannabis Genome The Latest Cannabis Therapeutic Treatments: from Neuroprotection to Crohn’s

Workshop Stage - GARDEN ANNEX BUILDING - Set Times

11:30 AM- 12:30 pm 1:15 - 2:15 pm 2:30 - 3:30 pm 3:45 - 4:45 pm 5:00 - 6:00 pm 6:15 - 7:15 pm 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Safe & Effective Use of Medical Cannabis in Dogs & Cats Hemp in 2020 Left Behind: The Future for Felons The Open Cannabis Project n/a Preparing for Certified Organic Cannabis Regenerative Farms

Seeds Here Now Stage - SARALEE AND RICHARD'S BARN - Set Times

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Kraft Stage - CULTIVATION - Set Times

11:30 am- 12:30 pm 12:45 - 1:45 pm 2:00 - 3:15 pm

Bottled Versus Brewed: Making the Right Choice for Your Farm Regenerative Farming: Becoming Stewards of Your Land Cultivating Your Maximum Terpene Profile: From Cultivation to Curing

Finely Stage - SCIENCE & COMPLIANCE - Set Times

11:30 am- 12:30 pm 12:45 - 1:45 pm 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Medical Cannabis Access for Veterans AUMA & MCRSA: Update Politically on Post 64 Marketing & Branding Tips for your Cannabis Business

Workshop Stage - GARDEN ANNEX BUILDING - Set Times

11:30 am- 12:15 pm 1:00 - 1:45 pm 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Important of Cannabis Genome Testing Cannabis Science & Therapeutics Teaming w/ Fungi

Seeds Here Now Stage - SARALEE AND RICHARD'S BARN - Set Times

11:15 am- 12:15 pm 5:00 - 8:30 pm

Connoisseur Genetics Live Radio w/ Adam

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FOOD VENDORS OLD MEXICO/BIG BOYS BAR-B-QUE Assorted street tacos, burritos, nachos, Aguas Fresca's (Mexican fruit drinks), Taco salad, Tortas Mexican sandwich and roasted corn. Mexican hot chocolate, bottled waters and assorted sodas.

MISSION HILL CREAMERY Ice Cream, Affogato (espresso over ice cream), Root Beer Float, Milkshake, Hot Fudge Sundae, ice cream sandwich, sorbet pops

yogurt with honey & walnuts.Drinks: Honey mint tea, and divine sparkling cherry.All our meats are hormone and antibiotic free, pasture raised, and humanely harvested from Marin & Sonoma.Our seafood selections are made using the Monterey Bay Aquarium's guidelines.Our veggies, walnuts and honey are all from our farmers markets.

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Big Boys MEXICAN

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Mission Hill Creamery

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Anna's Organic Churros

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Spiro's Gyros

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BNB Wings N Things

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Fresh+Jive

COMET CORN POPCORN

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Backyard --Coffee

Popcorn with Amazing Flavors

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ANNA'S

LATA'S INDIAN CUISINE

Organic and Plant Based Churros! Dipping Sauce (Chocolate Hemp & Coconut Caramel) Drinks: Coffee, Atole Chocolate, Coconut, Water

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PURIUM FOR YOU HEALTH, AND WEALTH Samples, shakes

SANKOFA African-Caribbean Cuisine Ginger fried plantains,Jollof rice,Stewed spinach,Stewed blackeye peas,Charcoal grilled chicken kebabs,Charcoal grilled salmon steaks

CHALK HILL COOKERY 100% plant-based, local, organic, glutenfree, seasonal and sustainable vegan cuisine.We will offer baked goods: cookies, brownies, cake and savory items: soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, raw vegan entrees, agua fresca, almond milk chai, limeade.

FALAFEL FIX

THE WURST RESTAURANT Sausage, Hot Dogs, Grass Fed Beef Burgers, French Fries, Sweet Potato Fries

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Prepared food including fish tacos, handcut fries, and breakfast burritos

SUNSHINE COFFEE ROASTERS Hot Coffee, Hot Tea, Cold Brew Coffee, Water, Cookies ULTIMATE SOUVLAKI We are the only organic Greek food vendor in California, caterers to the Greek consulate, and three time Emerald Cup favorite:)Main: Lamb, chicken, sheftalia, swordfish, baby octopus, & vegetarian souvlaki.Sides: Baklava, dolmas, & Greek

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Falafel sandwich, hummus, French fries, pita chips, shaksuka, Israeli salad, tahini sauce, water

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Dope Games

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The Wurst

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The Farmers Wife

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Real Cool Frozen Treats

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Sunshine Roasters

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Ultimate Souvlaki

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Commet Corn

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Back Yard Food

F18 Lata's F19

Lydia's Kitchen

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Chalk Hill Cookery

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Falafel Fix

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Al Forno Ferruza

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Goodman's Jewish

Delicatessen F25

Ice Of Paradise

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India Gourmet

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Magoos Munchies

GOODMAN'S JEWISH DELICATESSEN Jewish Deli

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Arleane Francis Center

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Smokey Mutts

INDIA GOURMET

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Smokey Mutts

Authentic delicious indian cuisine, vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, organic as well as freerange chicken and lamb curries, on site baked nan bread from our clay oven.

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MAPS ABSOLUTE XTRACTS / CARE BY DESIGN PAVILION P1 Emerald Cup Products P2 Emerald Cup Products P3 Emerald Cup Products P4 Emerald Cup Products P5 Ocean Grown P6 SClabs P7 Higher Vision P8 Higher Vision P9 Coastal Seeds/Grownwell/T.H.G. P10 Coastal Seeds/Grownwell/T.H.G. P11 exoticgentix P12 exoticgentix P13 Pacific Nothwest Roots P14 Southfork Seeds P15 TG Genetics P16 Talking Trees P17 Sonoma Cannibis Company P18 Green Fire Genetics P19 Madrone P20 TreatWell P21 Seed 2 Soul Farms P22 Dabbenport P23 Gage Green Genetics P24 Bhutan P25 Happy Chief/ Nor Star Genetics P26 MTG Seeds P27 Rare Dankness P28 Shine on Farms P29 Crystal Garden P30 Emerald Essecence P31 Cali Connection Seed Co. P32 Cali Connection Seed Co. P33 CherryKola P34 CherryKola P35 Emerald Orchards P36 Peak Oil Company P37 Peak Oil Company P38 Royal Budline P39 CSI:Humboldt P40 Sense Cultivators P41 Soul Evolution Enterprise P42 Honey Bear P43 True Humboldt P44 Candy Stripe P45 Rebel Grown P46 Rebel Grown P47 Humboldt Marijuana Comapany P48 Humboldt Marijuana Comapany P49 Sutra Sensuals P50 Emerald Pharms P51 Cannacraft Distribution P52 Sonoma Lab Works P53 bumblebee P54 Humboldt's Finest

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Big Sur Extracts Big Sur Extracts Peak Organics Maloha Gardens Sub-cool seeds / TGA Spire Ridge Farms Scarlet Fire Dark Heart Nursery Dark Heart Nursery Dark Heart Nursery Graves Farm DJ Short/Old World Genetics Swami Select/ Flow kana Graham's Brand Island Mountain Organics SnowHigh Seeds Mosca Seeds Mosca Seeds BOG Seeds Mendocino Generations Emerald Alchemy Auction Winner!!

Garden of Eden Garden of Eden Garden of Eden Emerald Exchange Garden of Eden Garden of Eden Garden of Eden

P84 Pez-Bro P85 Aficionado Estates P86 Brothers Grimm P87 Brothers Grimm P88 Seeds Here Now. com P89 Archive Seed Bank P90 Extracted Colorado P91 Magnolia Oakland P92 Emerald Family Farms P93 Emerald Family Farms P94 Monarch Distribuators P95 Harborside P96 Emerald Family Farms P97 Emerald Family Farms P98 Cannatech P99 Gold Drop Co P100 TERP HOGZ/3RD GEN FAMILY P101 Dying Breed P102 Cut Creek Farms P103 Emerald Grown/Flow Kana P104 FloraCal Farms P105 RVR P106 RVR P107 Farmer’s Reserve P108 Care By Design/Absolute Xtracts P109 Care By Design/Absolute Xtracts P110 Care By Design/Absolute Xtracts P111 Care By Design/Absolute Xtracts P112 Care By Design/Absolute Xtracts P113 Care By Design/Absolute Xtracts P114 Care By Design/Absolute Xtracts P115 Care By Design/Absolute Xtracts

215 AREA, OUTSIDE S1 J&J Farms S2 Utopia Farms S3 Utopia Farms S4 M&D Farms S5 Hitman S6 Lion's Pride S7 Biovortex S8 Loompa Farms S9 Humboldt Organic Gardens S10 Humboldt Seed Orginization S11 Guild Extracts S12 Guild Extracts S13 Medley Gardens S14 GanjaGirlScout S15 Mtn High Club S16 The Mendo Hide Out S17 Mattole Valley Farms S18 Mendocino Seed Company S19 Broken Arrow S20 Emerald Queen Farms S21 JuJu Royal & RxOil S22 Elicit Labs & King Extracts S23 Kurvana S24 FlavRx S25 FlavRx S26 FlavRx S-A Fancy Sugar Inc.

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SC LABORATORIES (FINLEY) HALL 1 Small Farmers Association 2 Restore CA 3 Eden Farms 3 Trans Tech Consultants 4 Veteran's Cannabis Group 5 State of CA/ Deprt Food and Ag/

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LINWOOD/DEMO LN L1 SolSolutions L2 Emerald Canine Services L3 GW2 Signs L4 Boveda L5 SPACE L6 Whoastark L7 Cannabis Now Magazine L8 Green Diamond Coco Fiber L26 nextgen light L9 Fool's Gold Enterprises L10 Dab-Tech L11 Science Cow L12 Cubbly Apparel L13 Custom Hat Pins

12 Med Vets 13 MCIA 14 Weed for Warriors 15 Patients Out Of Time 16 Synergy Doctors 17 Synergy Doctors 18 Wiilits Health Care 19 Presto Dr

L14 Dragonfly Earth Medicine L15 Forever Flowering L16 Cannabis Conservancy L17 Sasquatch Soil L18 Grassroots Fabric Pots L19 Malibu Compost L20 Pacific Bio Char L21 Trim Scene Soultion L22 King Weedy L23 Yianni L24 Synergy's Demonstration

Compost Tea Brewer L25 Vital Garden Supply L27 Emerald Kingdom

O.PEN VAPE EDIBLE AREA See page 40

TRIM SCENE SOLUTIONS DEMO BARN D 1 EZ Trim D 2 Tom's Tumble Trimmer D 3 Artifact Nursery D 4 Ultratrimmer D 5 Frenchy Cannoli Tech

by Delta Separations D 6 Dr.Dabber D 7 Critical Solutions D 8 GreenBroz D 9 Friendly Farms D 10 Support The Roots D 11 Sweetleaf Extractors D 12 The Triminator

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O.PEN VAPE EDIBLE AREA T1 Classic Extracts T2 Waska Farms T3 Nectar's Collective T4 Sonoma Nutraceutical T5 Giggle Theraputics T6 Xtractology T7 Sonoma Patients Group T8 Dieviant Dabs T9 Sunboldt T10 Sunboldt T11 Riverview Farms T12 Riverview Farms T13 Earthen Farms T14 Spyrock Farms T15 Equinox Growery

T16 Hepburns / Hashbury Extracts T17 A&A T18 Papa & Barkley T19 Korova Edibles T20 Big Pete's Treats T21 VapeXhale T22 Wolfdenwellness LLC T23 Swamp Boys T24 Hummingbird Lane T25 Nature Nurse T26 Women Cultivating Community Sponsored by Humboldt

Patient Resource Center T27 Women Cultivating Community T28 Meadow T29 Crocket Farms

T30 Xtractology T31 Sweetleaf T32 Mendocino Native Naturals T33 Sprig - The THC-Infused Soda T34 Sprig - The THC-Infused Soda T35 SoCal Seed Co. T36 Alta Supply T37 Alta Supply T38 Alta Supply T39 Alta Supply T40 O.Pen Vape T41 O.Pen Vape T42 O.Pen Vape T43 O.Pen Vape T44 Oak Tree Orchards T45 Oak Tree Orchards

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EDEN HALL OF FLOWERS 1 Toker Poker 2 Dirt M.D. 3 Emerald Triangle Organics 4 Natural Enemies 5 California Roots Cutting Edge Solutions 6 7 Air Pot USA 8 The Cannabis Trail 9 Biologic Crop Solutions 10 Second Octive 11 Synergy Ag 12 Synergy Ag. 13 SunGrown Packaging 14 Ras Boss 15 Bud Sisters 16 Growers Supply 17 Mighty Quinn 18 Mighty Quinn 19 Left Coast Wholesale 20 Left Coast Wholesale 21 Hybrid Creative 22 710 Snob Supplies 23 Third Eye Pinecones 24 Third Eye Pinecones 25 CannaSpirit Topicals & Terpenes 26 Bloom Yellow Bottles 27 Magnation Water Technologies 28 Hydro Organics 29 Next G3N Greenhouse 30 North County Bounty 31 Cali Vibes Clothing 32 Mighty Quinn 33 Left Coast Wholesale/Terpinator 34 CBD Guild ?

35 Project CBD 36 Certified Kind 37 Green's Bio Char Farm 38 phoenician engineering 39 Puff co 40 Forever Stoked 41 BHogart 42 Cultivation Sector 43 Mama P's Wholesome Grinding Co. 44 Auroa Innovations 45 Auroa Innovations 46 Bountea 47 Gavita 48 Sasquatch Soil 49 Grass Roots/ Tom's Tumble Trimmer 50 Spice Pharm 51 Ecogreen Industries

52 Xtractor Depot 53 LUXX Ceramics.

54 GreenBroz Trimmer 55 Stick Figure 56 Gro-Tech Systems 57 Peruvian Gold Organics 58 GreenGro 59 Humboldt Green Week 60 Char Choir 61 Gavita 62 Essenciere 63 Califari 64 Stanky Danky Farms 65 Amerivac 66 Natural Cannabis Company 67 Bloom Thinking Group 68 Greenhouse Megastore 69 Farmacueticals International 70 RHS Gas 71 MG Magazine 72 MG Magazine 73 EnviroCann 74 Sc laboratories, Inc. 75 Soil King 76 Xtreme Gardening

77 For The Collector 78 Revley Supply 79 TerraVesco 80 Mateel 81 Scavenger Art/ Marple 82 California Processing 83 Cover Cannabis 84 CR Glass 85 Primordial Solutions 86 CannaCentrix 87 hmbldt 88 Sc laboratories, Inc. 89 Soil King 90 DrZymes 91 Central Coast Garden Products 92 Central Coast Garden Products 93 Matole River Studios 94 Grass Roots Clothing 95 Grass Roots Clothing 96 SCGA 97 California Jade Carvings 98 Anasazi Gold 99 Probiotic Systems 100 Frenchy Cannoli Brand 101 Phylos BioScience

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First Class Concentrates First Class Concentrates Honeysuckle Lotus Honeysuckle Lotus Satori Chocolates Maya and Woopie Eden Farms Southern Humboldt Seed Collective/

Lost Coast Botanical Cooperative Legion of Bloom Legion of Bloom Beezel Creamery Beezel Creamery Redwood Roots Redwood Roots

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Bamboo is a heirloom and landrace preservationist with Coastal Seed Co. He is also the founder of The Highest Grade extractions and Clean Sprout Cannabis Pest Management services. His Virgin Cold Pressed Extracts took 1st place at the 2016 Chalice Festival for best vape cartridge. His work is guided by an ethos steeped in the tradition of organic, biodynamic and permaculture farming. He is currently enrolled in the UC Davis Plant Breeding academy, a two year program of the Seed Biotechnology Center, designed to increase the supply of professional breeders.

The Green Bodhi CBD Garden is found just outside Cheshire, Ore. where John Bayes

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and his fellow farmers of the Green Bodhi collective are donating this CBD garden to children with severe epilepsy, cancer and other illnesses. The Green Bodhi collective consists of about six farmers that are all dedicated to clean, sustainable and intentional horticulture that produces some of the best medicine on the market.

Certified Kind founder and Certification Director, Andrew Black, spent the past 10 years working for Oregon Tilth, one of the nation’s most trusted organic certifiers.

Andrew has worn many hats in certification, including Farm Program Manager, Inspector, Final Reviewer, Latin American Specialist, and Certification Officer.

Andrew has inspected hundreds of farms and food processing facilities in the United States and Latin America and is an expert compliance reviewer for products certified to the USDA National Organic program and the organic standards of the European Union, Canada, and Mexico. He also has hands on experience growing plants in greenhouses, and for several years grew vegetables for 15 families from his small urban farm.

NATE BRADLEY

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TOM ALEXANDER Hezekiah D. Allen was born at home and raised off the grid in Humboldt County.

Growing up on the frontline of the war on drugs instilled in Hezekiah a deep-rooted passion for cannabis policy reform and social justice. As the Executive Director of the California Growers Association he is now spearheading a historic community organizing effort to bring together cannabis growers and business owners throughout the state. In this role Allen is leading groundbreaking public policy and advocacy efforts focussed on building a healthy, sustainable, and prosperous cannabis future that honors and protects California’s multi-generational heritage of leadership in this industry.

John Anderson, founder of Xtreme Gardening, learned firsthand through gardening and working alongside his parents, Neil and Maria Anderson the founders of Reforestation Technologies International, that the key to unlocking plants full potential was to enhance the biology present in the rhizosphere with mycorrhizae. Neil had already developed a unique method of commercially producing Endo Mycorrhizae for use in restoration, agriculture, and forestry. John saw the potential of his father’s accomplishments and wanted introduce this product to the world of conscious gardeners, later becoming known as MYKOS. With Xtreme Gardening beneficial microbes, gardeners are no longer limited by chemical fertilizers and are able to unlock their plants’ true potential while reaching new levels of production.

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Lori Ajax was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation on February 4, 2016. She was previously Chief Deputy Director of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) where she had served in multiple positions since 1998, including Deputy Division Chief, District Administrator and Supervising Investigator. As Deputy Division Chief, assigned to the Department’s Headquarters Office, she oversaw several statewide programs. She began her career as an Investigator in ABC’s Santa Rosa District office in 1995 and then transferred to Sacramento to work in the Trade Enforcement Unit where she promoted to Supervising Investigator. In 2006, she was promoted to District Administrator assigned to the ABC Grant Assistance Program (GAP) and the TRACE Unit. She then served as the District Administrator for ABC’s Sacramento, Yuba City and Redding District offices from 2007 through 2011, overseeing the licensing and enforcement operations of 20 counties in Northern California. Ms. Ajax also served as an Investigator at the California Fair Political Practices Commission from 1997 to 1998. Ms. Ajax spent 10 years in private industry prior to her State government career.

Tom Alexander published Sinsemilla Tips in 1979 in Corvallis, Oregon after getting arrested with over 2,100 plants. Charges were dropped almost immediately but three sheriff deputies stole the evidence since it wasn’t needed in a court case and were arrested by the State Police.

Outraged at their light sentences of probation, Alexander wanted to write a book but local grower friends convinced him to publish an ongoing magazine.

Sinsemilla Tips was known around the world for introducing new and innovative indoor and outdoor techniques for cultivating Cannabis such as Sea of Green, Screen of Green, clones, advanced pruning, breeding strains, HID lighting, and organics using mycorrhizal fungi, guanos, humid and fulvic acid. When every issue came out, Alexander would take a road trip to Southern Oregon and Northern California to distribute the magazine and also touch base with growers in the region to find stories to publish. Sinsemilla Tips had numerous Humboldt and Mendocino growers writing articles under pen names.

Alexander published Sinsemilla Tips for ten years until the DEA went after all of its advertisers in Operation Green Merchant.

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LORI AJAX

The purpose of my life is to be a courageous leader of courageous humans like those in my Probiotic Farmers Alliance. To help avoid mass starvation and coming plagues due to today’s agricultural and nutritional ignorance. To freely share as much knowledge on probiotic microorganisms, competitive exclusion, and the wisdom behind sub irrigation as humanly possible. To physically distribute as much Gro-Kashi type solid state fermentations as possible while I’m here on this planet and have it continue after my passing. To enjoy my life’s work and have it empower me because it meets my own human needs during the process.

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Mr. Nate Bradley is the Executive Director and co-founder of the California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA). He is responsible for public policy advocacy and political strategy at the state and local levels. Mr. Bradley is highly skilled in creating campaign messaging, demographic targeting, and public policy development.

Before joining CCIA, Mr. Bradley was the President of BCI Solutions, a Medical Cannabis Strategic Consulting firm. He is considered an “outside the box” strategist whose hard-driving style has earned him a reputation as one of the leaders in California’s cannabis industry. He has represented his clients interests before government bodies, while developing numerous contacts in state and local govern»

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Frenchy Cannoli is a Consultant, Educator and Writer in the Cannabis industry with special focus on hash making using traditional methods. Using the precedent of the wine industry’s business model developed from the concept of “terroir” from his native France, Frenchy advocates on behalf of the Breeders & Growers of California’s Emerald Triangle.

Robert Connell Clarke is the author of “The Botany and Ecology of Cannabis”, “Marijuana Botany”, “HASHISH!”, and “Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany”.

Alex Cooley is the co-founder of the first brand in the first legal recreational state, Solstice. A cannabis production/processing company based in Seattle has led to many firsts and many opportunities to shape the industry locally and globally.

Through his diligent efforts Solstice created the first ever fully permitted cannabis production facility in Washington State.

From inception, Solstice’s goal has been to

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FRITZ CHESS ROBERT CLARKE

Emma Chasen has a mission to educate people on the science behind Cannabis so that they may take charge of their own healing. After graduating from Brown University in 2014 with a degree in Medicinal Plant Research, Emma went on to coordinate Clinical Oncology trials with the Brown University Oncology Research Group. When her supervisor refused a Cannabis trial in favor of another expensive pharmaceutical drug, Emma quit and headed across the country to Portland, OR. She found her way to Farma, the popular Portland dispensary that takes a more scientific approach to Cannabis; rejecting the Indica/Sativa binary and instead focusing on chemotypes to determine effect. There she has been able to study the plant and help patients reframe their relationship with Cannabis as medicine.

She now manages Farma and helps to train staff on Cannabis science, research and empathetic patient care. She was recently named Portland’s Best Budtender

In 1993, Fritz Chess read an article about a pharmaceutical company that sent researchers into remote locations to find indigenous people who used botanicals to cure illness. If these researchers found two separate groups who used the same botanical to cure the same illness, they brought it back to study and to find ways to make the medicine available worldwide. This ignited a spark in Fritz to work to unlock the secrets of multitude of botanicals using a variety of extraction and distillation processes for the pure science of it and to find more healthful and natural ways to produce products for human consumption. For more than 20 years, Fritz Chess has been an innovator of extraction technologies. His intellectual curiosity paired with a degree in science journalism has made him the leading expert in the extraction industry. Whether he is innovating new technologies for his Hi-Flo CO 2 systems or creating a new protocols for Eden Lab’s Coldfinger tm Units, Fritz continually sets the stage for the future of the extraction industry.

cultivate the highest quality, most beneficial varieties, including the award winning, CBD-rich Sour Tsunami #3. Acting locally he has helped to shape multiple City of Seattle ordinances and author the “collective garden model” of safe, legal access for medical cannabis patients. Standing on these successes Alex and Solstice have been very active at the state level and were key resources to the WA Liquor and Cannabis Board to develop the rules for the implementation of I-502, Washington’s cannabis legalization. In addition to working with multiple state agencies Alex has worked with the Washington State Legislature to craft better laws for patients and adult use consumers. In recent years Alex has been crisscrossing our country speaking at industry events helping to guide the industry in a positive direction and last year lobbying the US Congress to reform federal policy. Only very recently Alex has worked to shape international policy at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Global Drug Policy.

As President of Envirocann, April Crittenden brings a wealth of knowledge regarding environmental stewardship and organic regulations. April has worked in the organic industry for over a decade and is passionate about building healthy soil, increasing biodiversity, and preserving/improving the earth’s natural resources. She started her career in organic certification with California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) where she has held many different roles and is currently the Director of Farm Certification. April is also a member of the Organic and nonGMO Advisory Board, and is a contributor to the Accredited Certifiers Association’s GMO Working Group. Prior to her years devoted to organic farming, April studied at UC Santa Cruz where she received a BA in Environmental Studies and Anthropology. When April isn’t working to save the planet, and expand access to organically grown cannabis, she loves to snowboard, hike, and spend time in the garden.

ZACK DARLING

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Justin is a regenerative economist who believes in the creative genius and local sovereignty of Mendocino. Working to shift public perception of cannabis, honor Mendocino's unique cannabis heritage, and support farms, families and our community.

2016 and featured in Newsweek and MG Magazine for her work with Cannabis and patients.

ALEX COOLEY

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Heather was born in San Diego, California and, as a young adult, she saw many of her friends jailed for cannabis related crimes, their lives forever changed. From this young age, Heather decided to become a “marijuana lawyer,” so she went on to graduate from Humboldt State University in 2005 and then law school at California Western School of Law in 2009, earning high honors at both schools. trict of California. In 2014, Heather was awarded NORML’s John Mark Flowers Scholar.

The following year, she was named one of Skunk Magazine’s Women of Weed for 2015. In addition to her vibrant law practice in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Heather is a regular speaker and panelist at cannabis conferences throughout California. She also consistently blogs about legal issues affecting cannabis growers.

Jorge Cervantes is the nom de plume that George Van Patten took to conceal his identity from 1983 to 2010. Van Patten wore black dreadlocks and a beret to cloak his public identity. The disguise allowed him to enter illegal cultivation circles. Cervantes came “out of the closet” in a 2010 interview on National Public Radio (USA). Cervantes is a worldrenowned expert on indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse cannabis cultivation. He puts more than thirty years of expert cannabis growing knowledge and hands-on experience at your fingertips with his books, articles, photographs and Youtube videos.

His expert advice has guided millions of growers worldwide to apply simple, effective horticultural techniques to high-yield closet, basement, backyard, and guerrilla gardens. Cervantes traveled to five continents and lived British Colombia, Canada, California, Oregon, Washington State in the USA and the Netherlands and Spain while researching cannabis cultivation. He continues to research, publish, make videos, and draw a discussion about his favorite plant with an international community on his forum at www.marijuanagrowing.com.

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ment. Mr. Bradley is often sought out to provide policy advice to public officials from around the state. He has consulted with numerous CA lawmakers throughout the state and local levels and has testified on of behalf of legislation being introduced into the CA State Legislature.

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Sam founded Soilscape Solutions to provide farmers in the community with the highest quality organic amendments and sustainable soil management resources.

Since 2012, Soilscape Solutions has specialized in precision soil analysis, soil amendment formulation, amendment blending services, superior tea grade compost & inputs to build healthy soil habitats. Sam is a Certified Master Soil Consultant, with over 14 years experience in the field. He is widely versed in horticulture, arboriculture, irrigation systems, soil amending, composting and soil fertility

Jesse Dodd is a lifelong gardener with a keen interest in living soils. He specializes in multifaceted composting strategies, utilizing appropriate biology, based on location and materials in an attempt to optimize the process. By tailoring composting techniques, Jesse develops site specific plans to efficiently turn organic matter and agricultural waste into living soils while sequestering carbon and improving the quality of the medicine. Through protracted and thoughtful observation, Cannabis farms have the power to be a part of rebuilding biodiverse habitat and healthy watersheds. His hope is to instill in others how important living soils are to our life on this planet and the need to return our organic wastes back into the natural cycles.

He is the creator of Biovortex, a living conceptual art piece, utilizing the mediums of gardening, soil building, breeding, photography, writing, imagination, social media, conversations, and presentations, with the goal of influencing the cannabis

Born and raised on the Sonoma Coast, Sam Edwards can think of no place he would rather be living and working. In 2010, He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in engineering and returned home to work as a project manager in a civil engineering firm in the heart of wine country. Sam has been organically cultivating in several appellations of Sonoma County and passionately extracting cannabis from those areas since 2011.

Sam chose to pursue his passion full time in 2014 and jumped headfirst into the cannabis industry with a focus on intellectual property and brand management.

In 2015, He founded the Sonoma Cannabis Company alongside Affinity Brand Management. A former ski instructor and avid backpacker, Sam has experienced the offerings of all corners of California and remains passionate about his roots in beautiful Sonoma County, and leads Affinity Brand Management in sharing that passion with the world by bringing quality products to market for others to enjoy.

Omar Figueroa is as Northern California criminal defense lawyer with particular interest in cannabis cases. He co-founded the Cannabis Law Institute, where puts his focus towards cannabis, counter culture, and cyber crimes. Omar takes pride in the fact the he was “trained” by Tony Serra, legendary cannabis activist and attorney.

Further, he is on the Sonoma County ACLU Board.

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KELLY DUNN Dragonfly Earth Medicine (Josh, Kelly and Sky) is a family owned run business and farm. We started growing food and medicinal plants in 1994 in Oregon. We moved to the mountains of British Columbia in 1998. This is where our long-term dream of Dragonfly Farm was homesteaded by hand on a southwest facing slope using values, teachings and beliefs from permaculture, Eco building, natural farming, herbology for plants, mycology, soil building, seed saving, microbiology, homeschooling, self sustainability and closed loop systems. We grow huge medicinal cannabis plants using only plants to feed our crops because we do not have access to purchase nutrients because we are so isolated. This has led to a vast education in fermenting, juicing, burning, growing and wild-crafting our own nutrients.

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ALEC DIXON Alec Dixon is a US Navy veteran as well as Co-Founder and Director of Client Relations of SC Laboratories. Among Alecs’ work at SC Labs, include educational outreach and support, conducting educational training lectures with collectives and clients of SC Labs across the west coast. Alec also has the honor of serving on the Board of Directors of the Wo/Man’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM,) one of California’s original collective(s) whose focus is mainly around serving the terminally ill and the poor. Alec’s combined decade of experience in an around all aspects of Cannabis, from cultivation, to hydroponic retail sales/ consulting, to being inundated within the science of Cannabis and patient focused treatments has made him a leading expert in the field.

industry in the direction of a profitable and environmentally regenerative future.

It’s his belief that through the development of regenerative cannabis farms we can create tremendous economic growth and opportunity, while having a positive impact on the environment.

Fred Gardner edits O’Shaughnessy’s, a journal in which cannabis clinicians share their findings with patients and keep up on relevant scientific and political developments. He has been an editor at Scientific American, started coffeehouses near army bases to provide relief from militarism for GIs, broke the Paraquat story (poisoned marijuana reaching US consumers thanks to DEA); exposed the cult leader Werner Erhard; wrote the Ballad of Dennis Peron, and was public information officer for the district attorney of San Francisco. In 2008 he and Martin Lee created Project CBD to expedite production and distribution of CBD-rich cannabis in the U.S.

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Ian has dedicated his entire professional career to understanding organic agricultural production, marketing, and distribution systems. Over the past ten years Ian has become a leading authority regarding organic cannabis production, working with hundreds of growers across California, Colorado, and Oregon. In 2007 Ian Founded Biologic Systems LLC, an organic farm supply company serving the cannabis and viticulture industries in northern California and southern Oregon. From 2013 to 2016 Ian worked as the Agronomy Manager at the historic Hana Ranch in Hana Hawaii.

Ian currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Davidson Organics, LLC and Managing Partner at Biologic Crop Solutions, LLC.

management. Sam is a Soil Foodweb Advisor, trained by Dr. Elaine Ingham and has assisted her in teaching courses on building soil health. He is a member of the US Composting Council and holds a Compost Operations Certificate. Sam is continuously researching resourceful and effective techniques in soil remediation and applying them in the field.

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focused on cannabis, hydroponics and medical marijuana ventures. Zack grew up on Greenfield Ranch, a hippie commune in the hills of Mendocino County. He has been exposed to the cannabis culture his entire life and is truly “second generation.”

Throughout his 41 years, he’s been an active environmentalist, community activist, and event organizer. He was the lead producer of Harmony Festival’s Techno-Tribal night concerts for 13 years, the North Bay Burning Man representative for 7 years, two-time winner of the Bohemian’s “Best DJ in the North Bay” award, and the graphic designer behind many festivals and concerts in Northern California. Zack Darling and The Hybrid Creative agency have become widely known as the go-to team for entrepreneurs starting a new business in the cannabis industry.

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A native of New Jersey, Dr. Bonni Goldstein received her undergraduate education at Rutgers College and her medical degree at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Her post-doctoral education included internship and residency at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

Dr. Goldstein also served as Chief Resident at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

She was a Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics at USC School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Emergency Transport Attending Physician at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Emergency Medicine Attending Physician in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. » In 2008, Dr. Goldstein developed an

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Born and raised in Northern California’s farming culture, Hollie Hall is a natural resource management consultant that works with farmers to navigate the compliance process and build a sustainable future for their farms. She draws from two decades of experience in natural resources management, global studies of agricultural practices, and training in

Kevin co-founded The Ganjier and has been a commercial propagator of cannabis for decades, running his own operations and offering consulting services. He considers himself a steward of the plant and has long had a fascination with it. As an internationally respected cannabis expert and easily the most well-known Humboldt cultivator, he has spoken at universities, been a judge at the Emerald Cup, and consulted with TV networks on cannabis-related programming. He owns Wonderland Nursery in Humboldt County.

Sunshine Johnston grew up in backwood communities of Southern Humboldt in the early 80’s. She spent the summers growing in the brush next to her home hidden

Ellen Komp has been a hemp/marijuana activist since 1991. She began in Los Angeles where she helped plan quarterly hemp rallies and volunteered for LA NORML after being elected to the California NORML board of directors in 1992.

She edited the 9th edition of The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer and was a volunteer petitioner for the California Hemp Initiative (1993, 1994) and Proposition 215 (1995). She worked as an advertising salesperson and editor at HempWorld magazine, the first trade journal for the hemp industry. In 1997/98 Komp served on the San Luis Obispo County Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board, which advised the county Drug and Alcohol Services agency on community standards and practices.

She also co-founded The 215 Reporter, the first journal covering California’s medical marijuana law and its aftermath. In 1999, Komp became a Program Associate at The Lindesmith Center in San Francisco (now Drug Policy Alliance). As Deputy Director of Community Outreach & Communications she planned and promoted conferences and a forum series on drug war issues, and sat on various committees at the San Francisco public health department. In 2002, Komp moved to Humboldt County where she worked for the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project in Garberville.

She sat on the Humboldt County medical marijuana task force, resulting in a county ordinance to implement SB420.

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JAMIE KERR Jamie Garzot Kerr is the founder of Roots Consulting, an agency designed to bridge the gap between canna-businesses and governments, communities, and other industries. She draws from over seven years of boots-on-the-ground experience as a compliant dispensary operator, edible manufacturer and appointed city official Jamie understands complex cannabisrelated policies because she helped write many of them. Jamie has logged 1000+ hours with the California State Legislature working directly on policy analysis of the three bills that now make up the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act. Her successful dispensary and edibles line is proof of her successful cannabis strategy work at the local level.

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Mowgli Holmes is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Phylos Bioscience, a cannabis genomics company based in Portland, Oregon. He is a biologist trained in molecular genetics, microbiology, and evolutionary theory. He received his PhD from Columbia University. He is a founding board member of both the Cannabis Safety Institute and the Open Cannabis Project, and is Chair of the Governor-appointed Oregon State Cannabis Research Task Force.

from helicopters while her mother led a campaign to save oldgrowth redwoods.

Currently she lives on the banks of the Eel River where she owns and operates Sunboldt Grown and produces fresh raw cannabis infused food and drink and premium homegrown. She has worked for a wine distributor for ten years and traveled to wineries in Willamette Valley Oregon and Calaveras County. Sunshine is chair of the Southern Humboldt Community Alliance and a founder of International Cannabis Farmers Association. Her and her generation are working to protect the alternative culture created by the back to the land movement as cannabis goes main stream.

A disabled United States Air Force Veteran, Michael Krawitz served from 1981 to 1986 and was injured in an accident in Guam that was deemed “in the line of duty” although not in any way combat related. Mr. Krawitz had 13 surgeries to put him back together including some done in the Air Force and some done by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Since leaving college Mr. Krawitz tried to use his time well as an advocate and in 1997 he was part of a small team of activists that protected Virginia's long-standing medical marijuana law from being repealed. In 1998 he was able to be part of a United Nations drug summit. He gave testimony and presented information inside the UN General Assembly Hall on the basic right to access required medicine. In 1999 Mr. Krawitz presented testimony to the National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine and his story and that of a patient he advocated for were both chosen as reference patient stories and published in the reports written. Mr. Krawitz is on the board of advisers of Patients Out of Time, a leading medical cannabis patient advocacy organization offering continuing medical education credits to medical professionals and has the job of running all aspects of Veterans For Medical Cannabis Access.

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Bianca Green (f.k.a. Barnhill) is an Advocate, Entrepreneur, and the Executive Producer of the acclaimed documentary, “The Culture High.” For over two decades Bianca has connected celebrities, causes and brands as an executive in the film, fashion, media and music industries. The former fashion model shifted her focus after a cancer diagnosis in 2004 that created a journey toward embracing cannabis as an alternative to pharmaceuticals. A shift in focus to non-profit and the cannabis media space soon followed in an effort to explore the medical uses of cannabis.

Bianca realized she needed to help create change by erasing the stigma surrounding cannabis and the people who use it and set out to mainstream marijuana using her celebrity network to bring the counterculture out of the shadows. Bianca has become one of the most recognized executives in cannabis media. Thanks to her style and influence, she has been dubbed the “Anna Wintour of Weed” and continues to work towards positively impacting the social stigma of cannabis and cannabis users. Bianca’s mission is to bring peace for patients and help push the conversation into the post-prohibition era and to create brands that encourage wellness and elevate the cannabis industry.

adaptive water resource management when she designs and implements sustainable solutions for cannabis farms.

Working for farmers and with a team of environmental professionals, Hollie creates social, economic, and environmental sustainability by helping farmers establish watershed-friendly practices that exceed government regulations. She also serves as a board member of the Humboldt County Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, an industry organization intended to build bridges and bring people together in the Humboldt business community

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interest in the science of medical cannabis after witnessing its beneficial effects in an ill friend. Since then she has evaluated thousands of patients for use of medical cannabis. She has a special interest in treating children with intractable epilepsy, autism, and advanced cancers. She is the Medical Director of Canna-Centers, a California-based medical practice devoted to educating patients about the use of cannabis for serious and chronic medical conditions.

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Executive Director of Sonoma County Growers Aliance. Tawnie spends much of her time Traveling throughout California and the United States educating cultivators, large and small, on responsible and successful growing practices.

Jeff Lowenfels is co-author of “Teaming with Microbes, The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web” published

by Timber Press in August 2006 to great acclaim and revised in 2011. It is touted as the most important gardening book published in the past 25 years and won the prestigious Garden Writers of America Gold Award for gardening books. Its been translated into Korean and French and soon Slovenian. Jeff is also the author of “Teaming with Nutrients, The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition” published by Timber Press in May, 2013. The short hand title is “how plants eat and what to feed them” and it is sure

Fiona Ma is a Certified Public Tax Accountant and currently serves as the Chair of the California State Board of Equalization.

She was elected to the State Board of Equalization in 2014, and represents 9.5 million constituents.

As one of the two Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) to ever have served on the Board, Ma understands the challenges that businesses and taxpayers face today.

Prior to serving on the State Board of Equalization, Ma served as a California

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State Assemblywoman from 2006 to 2012. She was the 112th woman to ever be elected to the State Legislature and the first Asian American woman to serve as Speaker pro Tempore of the California State Assembly.

Husband and wife Eliza Luca-Mahmood and Nick Mahmood started growing legal cannabis in 2014 on their 80-acre Southern Oregon farm Green Source Gardens, which they call a reservation. Their motto?

This one won’t surprise you: “Trust in nature.” Their focus is to use biologically diverse soil, permaculture and dynamic accumulators, that is, plants that gather nutrients in their leaves and can be used as fertilizers. In 2015, they grew 10 different strains, plus medicinal mushrooms.

They also strive to help growers create their own diverse plants, writing a detailed blog about earth-conscious growing. Eliza and Nick met in Arizona, where they first got into natural farming as they pursued what they call “the Prescott food revolution,” where they incorporated backyard farming into people’s diets. In 2012, the Mahmoods moved to Oregon in 2012 to work at Hanley Farm, a 37-acre farm started in 1857. They started growing medicinal weed once they got to Oregon, finding it more financially beneficial than vegetable crops. “It makes sense to incorporate a crop that could allow you the opportunity to buy a farm and be able to make a living,” Nick says. “It definitely helps that it’s valued more in society than vegetables. I don’t think people value vegetables at all. Cannabis is priced by the gram; vegetables are priced by the pound.” Nick also says that if you want to farm vegetables, the amount you need to grow for the venture to be financially feasible is usually destructive to the earth.

“Even on a small scale, annual vegetable production on a couple acres, all of a sudden, you’re not taking care of the land anymore. You’re making sacrifices.

Land care gets put on the backburner for production sake,” he says.

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Dr. Lewis earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Purdue University in 2007 and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in 2001.

His interest in the science of cannabis spans decades and in 2011, Dr. Lewis founded NaPro Research and assembled a team of chemists and plant scientists to create analytical solutions and products across four key sectors: biotechnology, production, laboratory services and consumer education. Over the past five years, Lewis has additionally focused on cannabis breeding and the optimization of a broad range of secondary metabolic pathways within the plant.

to make you appreciate the beauty of how plants operate as well as make you a better gardener and steward of the earth.

Jeff is the Cal Ripken of North American Garden columnists. His weekly column has run in the Anchorage Daily News for over 36 years, never missing a single week even for vacations. One of the most humorous and entertaining lecturers on the circuit, Jeff is also a lawyer and the combination of garden writing and law have earned him the moniker of “America’s Dirtiest Lawyer.” Jeff grew up as an indentured servant on his parent’s hobby farm in Scarsdale, New York. There he was forced to plant, weed, mow, pick fruits, flowers and vegetables on 8 acres replete with acre vegetable gardens, a Versailles style formal flower garden, a 100 tree fruit orchard and enough rhubarb to have to have it every day, all year long until he went to college.

One day back in the early 70’s, he was held up and shot in Boston. As a result he ran as far away as he could go without a passport and ended up in Anchorage, Alaska where he has practiced law and been able to translate his work-filled childhood into a meaningful and enjoyable hobby. Jeff hosted one of Alaska public televisions most popular shows “Alaska Gardens with Jeff Lowenfels.” The show was so popular, at one point it ran four times a week and played in Barrow.

He is host of a weekly, two hour call in radio show. Jeff is an extremely respected and popular national garden writer. He is the former president of the Garden Writers of America, was made a GWA Fellow in 1999 and was inducted into the GWA Hall of Fame, the highest honor a garden writer can achieve, in 2005. Most important, Jeff is the founder of a now national program that started as “Plant a Row for Bean’s,” the soup kitchen in Anchorage, and is now “Plant A Row for The Hungry.” The program is active in 48 states and resulted in over a million pounds of produce being donated to feed the hungry every year.

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Martin A Lee is an activist, journalist, and author who has published a number of works, including Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational, and Scientific. He is Co-Founder & Director of Project CBD, a non-profit organization he started with Fred Gardner in 2010. Lee co-authored his first book, Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion, in 1985. It explored the use of LSD during the 1960’s, including mind control experiments conducted by the CIA. Lee went on to co-found Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) in 1986 in order to eliminate corporate and establishment media bias. He served as the first Editor of the organizations publication Extra! and later became its Publisher. Lee co-authored his second book, Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media, in 1990 as an expansion on his work with FAIR. Despite his work in non-fiction literature, Lee may be most recognized for his as an investigative journalist. He was awarded

the Pope Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism in 1994. Lee covered the medical cannabis movement for years in the pages of O’Shaughnessy’s, before founding Project CBD.

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Governor Brown. Prior to joining DPR, Mr. Leahy served as assistant director for the Division of Land Resource Protection in the California Department of Conservation for five years. His focus was the potential for maximizing the benefits from open space management, including farmland management, to improve public health, transportation, biodiversity, climate change adaptation and natural resources He has held many leadership roles in agriculture and has a strong history of working collaboratively with environmental organizations, agricultural groups, trade associations, local government officials and other stakeholders. Mr. Leahy served as executive director for the California Association of Resource Conservation Districts from 2004 to 2006 and executive director for the California Certified Organic Farmers from 2000 to 2004. In 1980, he became one of California’s pioneering organic and biodiversity farmers when he took over operations of Cherokee Ranch Inc., a 900-acre rice farm in Butte County that converted to organic farming practices.

He leased out the farm in 1992, but owned the property until 2003. From 1992 to 1994, he operated the 800-acre organic corn, soybean, alfalfa and cattle Ackerlund farm in Fremont, Neb. Mr. Leahy also assisted a small international fair trade company for sustainable agriculture, worked as a Legal Aid attorney and was the co-founder of an inner-city market garden educational nonprofit in Nebraska. A native Californian, Mr. Leahy grew up in Ontario.

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I have spent my career researching and developing various DNA sequencing technologies in both the research and clinical industries. In addition, I have a parallel interest in driving the tools used for personalized medicine into the world of cannabis medicine. In fact, the intersection of personalized medicine, genomics, and cannabis is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting growth opportunities in our lifetime. My experience spans the gamut of working with incredibly bright scientists at the Whitehead Institute to entrepreneurs and business professionals from the most successful and innovative life science companies in the world. When I am not decoding DNA and unraveling the mysteries of cannabis medicine, I enjoy boating, skiing, and gardening.

Randall Mrsny obtained a BS degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics and a PhD degree in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the University of California at Davis undergraduate and medical school

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DR. JAHAN MARCU Mary Lynn (ML) Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN has more than 40 years of experience as a nurse and has specialized in addictions nursing since 1987 and cannabis education since 1990. Ms. Mathre is a co-founder and President of Patients Out of Time (incorporated in 1995), a non-profit organization devoted to educating health care professionals and the public about the therapeutic uses of cannabis (www.medicalcananbis.com). ML is the editor of Cannabis in Medical Practice: A Legal, Historical and Pharmacological Overview of the Therapeutic Use of Marijuana (1997) and co-editor of Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science and Sociology (2002). Ms. Mathre has authored several

Manager at Sonoma Lab Works. Scientific fire fighter with a propensity for botany.

campuses, respectively. As an NIH postdoctoral fellowship he studies membrane lipid-protein interactions at the Institute of Molecular Biology located in the University of Oregon Eugene campus. Prior to taking Professors’ post in Cardiff University and now the University of Bath, Randy led research groups in two companies: ALZA and Genentech. He has been involved in starting two new biotech companies through the acquisition of venture capital funding. Randy has been elected president of an international society and organized international meeting. He currently serves as a reviewer or advisor for multiple international agencies and companies.

Kristin Nevedal is the Director of the Patient Focused Certification Program.

Before joining ASA she co-founded and served on the board of the Emerald Growers Association whose mission is to promote the medicinal, environmental, social, and economic benefits of lawfully cultivated sun-grown medical cannabis from California’s Emerald Triangle region by advocating for public policies that foster a healthy, sustainable medical cannabis industry.

As chair of the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Cannabis Committee’s Cultivation Working Group, Kristin assisted in the development of cannabis cultivation model regulations and best practices for agency consideration. Kristin is also an instructor at Oaksterdam University, teaching classes on environmental sustainability and Best Management Practices.

Kristin’s broad policy and advocacy experience also includes serving as a board member for the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform (CCPR), Californians to Regulate Medical Marijuana (CRMM), Americans for Safe Access’s Patient Focused Certification Program, and the 420 Archives.

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Dan Mar is the owner of High Tide Permaculture, a land stewardship company focused on passive-integrated-systems, alternative systems to compliancy and regenerative land use. As a certified permaculturalist he subscribes to the ethics of Earth Care – People Care – Fair Share in his approach to empowering his clients and community. He has visited over 200

Jahan Marcu, Ph.D. is the Vice-Chair of the Americans for Safe Access Multidisciplinary Scientific Advisory Board.

Dr. Marcu is currently investigating the pharmacology of cannabinoid receptors at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. for studying the structure and function of the CB1 receptor, and the role of the endocannabinoid system in bone. Before earning his Ph.D., Dr. Marcu worked at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute studying the anti-cancer properties of compounds from the cannabis plant. The findings were published in the Journal of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

He effectively translates complex scientific concepts to a lay audience and is developing international networks of key cannabis researchers. He has served as a volunteer for Americans for Safe Access (ASA) since 2003. He has been invited to speak on the subject of cannabinoid science at universities, medical cannabis cooperatives, libraries, and high schools.

chapters on the topic of medical cannabis, numerous peer-reviewed articles on the topic, and written resolutions for several professional organizations in support of patient access to medical marijuana, including those of the Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions, the Virginia Nurses Association, the National Nurses Society on Addictions, and the American Public Health Association. She has served on the planning committee for Patients Out of Time’s accredited biennial National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics conference series since it began in 2000.

Ms. Mathre is also a founding member and Past President of the American Cannabis Nurses Association.

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Nurse Heather is a native New Mexican and Registered Nurse specializing in all aspects of medical cannabis care. She currently holds a position on the Board of Directors for the American Cannabis Nurses Association, serves as the Chairwoman of the ACNA Conference Committee, and holds a certificate of completion in The Core Curriculum for Cannabis Nursing. Nurse Heather believes that the secret ingredient for all of her cannabis products is an abundance of “Love and Compassion!”

cannabis farms for which he has provided primary site assessments that help folks with the coordination of the scope of their operation based on agency requirements and permaculture principles. He also provides site design and the facilitation of agency permitting. Lastly, with a background in education he teaches property owners and communities the holistic management practices of being a watershed conscious land steward.

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and retail location in Nevada City, Ca. Vital Garden Supply also has distribution warehouses in Ukiah and Wheatland CA. Vital Garden Supply sells premium organic soils, fertilizers, amendments and greenhouses. The Vital product line, “Vital Garden Products” was developed exclusively by Brian. Vital Garden Supply has been servicing the conscious cannabis community for 10+ years. Brian is a pioneer in the organic compost tea and soil food web movement. The importance of soil health and soil biology are becoming industry standards for cannabis growers and producers. With 25 years of organic growing experience, Brian’s expertise helps his customers to succeed!

Brian is very knowledgeable about organic pest management, light deprivation greenhouses and organic nutrient programs. The Vital Garden Supply nutrient guide, compost tea recipe, and integrated pest management practices increase yields and improve the quality of medicinal crops. Also, these practices reduce pests and pathogens present in indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse gardens.

Reducing or eliminating the amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides used by growers is always a victory for Brian!

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Chrystal Ortiz is a permaculture gardener, cannabis medicine maker/educator and

Dr. Page is an internationally-recognized pioneer in cannabis plant biochemistry and genetics with extensive knowledge of cannabinoid biosynthesis. He co-led the team that first sequenced the cannabis genome and has published over 35 relevant papers. He’s a sought after industry speaker and continues to be an Adjunct Professor in the Botany Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Jeremy Plumb is an entrepreneur, ceo and founder of Newcleus Nurseries, a state of

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the art cannabis farm practicing leading edge ag tech in harmony with regenerative farming practices. His dispensary, Farma, is widely considered to be among Oregon’s best and Plumb, who has been called the “Wizard of Weed” is at the forefront of Oregon’s developing cannabis industry.

He has consulted with cannabis researchers in Israel, is a co-founder of the Cultivation Classic, Oregon’s leading craft cannabis competition, and has advised members of Congress on cannabis policy.

He is on the advisory board for Research Cannabis.org and the Resource Innovation Institute. He is also the communications director for the Open Cannabis Project. He is a long time Portlander, by way of the SF Bay Area.

Dr. Raber received his B.S. in biochemistry from Lebanon Valley College, PA and subsequently a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Southern California with an emphasis on developing new synthetic methodologies useful in pharmaceutical drug discovery and manufacturing efforts. Dr. Raber studied botanical phylogenetic relationships based on the RuBisCO enzyme’s evolution while in college and was named to the USA Today 1997 All-USA College Academic Team for his research accomplishments in this area.

While at USC he was awarded the Harold and Lillian Moulton Fellowship for his efforts on the construction of novel heterocycles and peptidomimetics utilizing a proprietary boron-based multicomponent condensation reaction.

Driven by a desire to find his own medicine and make a positive contribution to society while creating American jobs, Dr. Raber founded The Werc Shop in 2010 with a focus on botanical analysis, new product developments and sustainability.

The Werc Shop’s first goal was addressing unmet public health and safety needs within the medical cannabis community.

Dr. Raber’s detailed investigations into the chemistry of cannabis, including 5 peer reviewed publications to date, provide him with a unique perspective and knowledge base useful in assisting state and local regulators in the construction and implementation of effective regulatory solutions for the safe and sustainable delivery of medical cannabis to qualified patients and adult consumers. His technical insights and understanding of the complex regulatory scope continue to prove very helpful in assisting many entrepreneurs in their efforts within the cannabis arena.

Amanda Reiman is Manager of Marijuana Law and Policy at the Drug Policy Alliance, where she works to develop DPA’s marijuana reform work as it relates to litigation, legislative and initiative drafting, campaign strategy, policy advocacy, media relations, fundraising, and public education in the local, state, federal, and international jurisdictions in which DPA is active.

Reiman joined DPA in 2012 after working with Berkeley Patients Group, a renowned medical marijuana dispensary, as director of research and patient services.

Reiman has conducted numerous studies on medical marijuana dispensaries, patients and the use of marijuana as a treatment for addiction. Reiman regularly presents her research at the conferences of the American Public Health Association, American Psychiatric Association, International Cannabinoid Research Society and the Harm Reduction Coalition.

Reiman served as the first chairwoman of the Medical Cannabis Commission for the City of Berkeley, currently serves on the Cannabis Regulatory Commission for the city of Oakland, and has consulted with various cities, states, and nations on the development of medical marijuana policy. Reiman is currently a lecturer in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches Drug and Alcohol Policy, Substance Abuse Treatment, and Sexuality and Social Work.

Originally from Chicago, Reiman moved to Oakland in 2002 to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in Social Welfare in 2006. Reiman’s dissertation, “Cannabis Care,” was the first study focusing on how medical marijuana dispensaries operate as health service providers.

During her time at U.C. Berkeley, Reiman completed pre- and post-doctoral fellowships with the Alcohol Research Group through the National Institute of Health, where she conducted research on drug purchasing behaviors, alcohol control policies and medical marijuana use.

Reiman lives in West Oakland with her cats Mama Cass, Ringo and Grace Slick.

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Casey is a CSA farmer who runs a microdiversified farm in northern Mendocino County, California. His family raises approximately two acres of Clean Green Certified vegetables, poultry and medical cannabis in a small-farm setting while working towards sustainability. He is a self-described “weed geek” and is passionate about sharing food, medicine and cultivation techniques with others. He works to represent small farmers as Board Chair of the California Growers Association and as a voice in the legalization and functional regulation movement.

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Originally from The Bay Area, California, Nikka T now lives and works in Denver, CO as a leading cannabis industry consultant, public speaker, processor, activist and owner of the world renowned Solvent-less hash company, Essential Extracts.

He also spends the rest of his days DJing, throwing and hosting various MMJ related events including weekly and monthly Reggae parties, huge festivals and sold out shows, always with a spliff hanging out of his mouth.

When Nikka T is not processing solvent-less hash for patients through numerous Colorado Medical Marijuana Centers, innovating new ancillary products, or playing music, he is traveling the world seeking knowledge and teaching the art of Solvent-less extraction.

the Operations Manager at True Humboldt. Born in Mendocino in the seventies to “Back to Lander” parents, she shares the core values of environmental sustainability, community service and mindful cultivation that formed the foundation of this unique culture in the Emerald Triangle.

Leaving Mendocino as a young child, Chrystal spent her childhood years in an agricultural community on the border of Mexico in Southwestern Az where her mother worked in vegetable seed sales and production in large scale agriculture.

Immersed in corporate agriculture and unsustainable practices, the lifestyle and culture of the rural homesteads in Northern California seemed like a distant fairytale. In the late 90’s Chrystal returned to the hills of Humboldt County, determined to live the idyllic rural farm of the Emerald Triangle.

For the past 16 years, she and her husband raised their two children off the grid learning permaculture and farming techniques deep in the rural Humboldt mountains. They grow in raised beds and make nutrient rich teas using native soils and compost from the property. With the passage of Humboldt Countys recent land use ordinance, Chrystal has had the opportunity to move her farm from their Klamath mountain homestead to the fertile ag land of the Eel River valley.

Things have come full circle, where she can now bring her agriculture background to her permaculture roots and take her farm to the next level using alluvial soil, IPM and advanced dry farming techniques.

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honorably discharged in March of 2008. In 2013 he finished a degree in horticulture and began working with veterans and cannabis. His passion lies in the therapeutic value of growing cannabis and its medicinal ability to help reduce pharmaceutical dependence, specifically in veterans with service related ailments.

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Dr. Sue Sisley MD is an Arizona-based physician practicing Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. Sue serves as Principal Investigator for the only FDA-approved randomized controlled trial looking at use of marijuana in combat veterans with treatment-resistant post traumatic stress disorder PTSD.

Karl Witt is the director and founder of Eden Farms, a cooperative of cannabis farmers based in Humboldt County,

Protection Act (AB 243), which serves as the environmental cornerstone in California’s Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act.

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California. He is a cultivator of awardwinning, organic, and sustainably-grown cannabis. A passionate advocate for the plant, Karl entrenched himself in activism at an early age. At only eighteen years old he became the Associate Director of NORML in Milwaukee, WI. Working under freedom-fighter Ben Masel of the legendary Great Midwestern Harvest Festival, Karl ended up in a van with Jack Herer, Elvy Musikka and Debbie Goldsberry on the 1990 Hemp Tour.

Karl is an outspoken advocate for ecological stewardship of the Earth. He builds soil, practices no-till farming, and experiments with many practices such as biodynamic preparations and using probiotics. He does not use bottled or micronized nutrients, nor does he apply compost teas. Karl believes instead in the cycling of nutrients. Living in the Redwoods, he observed how the world’s largest trees are fed by layers of accumulated biomass strung together by miles and miles of anaerobic fungi and bacterial colonies. Karl noticed how the plants living in their own biomass suffer little to no susceptibility to pests and he has brought that concept into his farming techniques, mulching with decaying plant matter and leaving soil layers undisturbed. Worms, bugs, bacteria, and fungi flourish, nourishing the soil and the plants living within it. Karl believes the root of plant susceptibility to problems like pests is human intervention in Mother Nature’s design. This belief is reflected in Eden Farms motto, “Water, Soil, Love.”

Josh Wurzer is president and co-founder of SC Labs, one of the cannabis industry’s largest analytical laboratories. With seven years of cannabis testing experience, he was the laboratory director of the first cannabis testing lab in the United States and has overseen analysis of approximately 200,000 unique cannabis samples at SC Labs.

He serves on the Board of Directors of Envirocann, an organization providing compliance and quality certifications for cannabis producers and cannabis product manufacturers.

Josh received his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, where he studied analytical and synthetic chemistry, specializing in small molecule synthesis for drug discovery, silicon polymer research and development for pharmaceutical and electronic materials.

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Jonathan Valdman is an entrepreneur, farmer and educator of agricultural practices that are based in permaculture, sustainability and Best Management Practices. He has been farming organically for over 20 years, is a second generation Cannabis farmer and has been growing Cannabis since 1992. With a knowledge of land design, growing indoors, outdoors and in greenhouses via soil and hydroponics he has acquired a well rounded level of experience within the many modalities of Cannabis cultivation. In 2006 Jonathan founded Forever Flowering Greenhouses, FFG, in an effort to develop a commercial grade greenhouse company that could address the future needs of the Cannabis industry with an emphasis on reducing carbon footprints and production costs.

Through years of hands on experience and commitment to the highest quality products he and his staff have created the standard of the greenhouse light deprivation industry. Innovative solutions and products that were created over these years of trial and error can be seen as the standard within a vast majority of the Cannabis industry today. In 2015 Jonathan joined forces to help co-found The Cannabis Conservancy, TCC, a third party certification for sustainability and best management practices and serves as the Director of Industry Relations. Jonathan has spoken on these topics at National Cannabis Industry Association events, The Emerald Cup, Cannabis World Congress Business Expos, Elevated Compliance Conference, Golden Tarp Awards, Lift Expo, Women Grow, South Yuba River Citizens League events, California Growers Association events and numerous private panels and workshops. He has consulted with County officials in California for adoption of these practices and has been featured in articles in Inc., Mg, Cannabis Business Times, Marijuana Venture, Cannabis Now, Skunk, The Highway, Maximum Yield, Cannabis Now, The Cannabist, Marijuana Business Daily, Cannabis Enterprise, Textbook and other smaller publications.

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San Francisco Bay Area since 1998.

In addition to conventional veterinary medical training, Dr. Richter is certified in veterinary acupuncture as well as veterinary chiropractic.

As owner and Medical Director of Montclair Veterinary Hospital and Holistic Veterinary Care in Oakland, California, Dr. Richter understands the benefits of both conventional and holistic treatment methods for the preventative and therapeutic care of pets. Dr. Richter focuses on the integration of holistic and general practice veterinary medicine, regenerative medicine, as well as educating professionals and pet owners on the benefits of integrative care.

The safe and effective use of medical cannabis in dogs and cats is central to both Dr. Richter’s medical practice and educational outreach.

By integrating medical cannabis with other conventional and alternative therapies, Dr. Richter has been able to improve the quality and quantity of life of pets living with medical conditions ranging from arthritis to inflammatory bowel disease to cancer.

Dr. Richter has written numerous articles for web based and print publications on various topics including strategies to integrate the use of medical cannabis into conventional medical therapies for pets.

Dr. Richter and his two hospitals have been the recipients of over twenty local and national awards including “Best Veterinary Hospital”, “Best Veterinarian”, “Best Canine Therapy Facility” and “Best Alternative Medicine Provider”. Montclair Veterinary Hospital and its associated non-profit, The Pet and Wildlife Fund, was named a “Pillar” of Oakland for years of community service helping pets and wildlife in need. PetPlan named Dr. Richter as one of the top ten veterinarians in the United States for 2011 and Montclair Veterinary Hospital as one of the top ten veterinary hospitals in 2013. In 2015, Dr. Richter was awarded the title, “America’s Favorite Veterinarian” by the American Veterinary Medical Foundation.

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Jim Wood was elected in November 2014 to represent California’s 2nd Assembly District, which comprises all of Del Norte, Trinity, Humboldt, and Mendocino counties, plus northern and coastal Sonoma County, including the northern half of Santa Rosa.

Wood has lived in Northern California since 1987, when he opened his family dental practice in Cloverdale. He was elected to the Healdsburg City Council in 2006 and served two terms as Mayor.

Wood worked to make local government more effective through reorganizing city departments to increase efficiency, balancing the budget, and streamlining the building permit process. His priorities are health care, economic development, environmental protection, and fiscal reform.

In his first year in the Assembly, Wood authored 9 bills that were signed into law, including the Marijuana Watershed

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ARDEN PARK ROOTS 12:00 - 1:00 pm Arden Park Roots was built in a garage... like a classic car that you wrench on til it’s perfect. They have been busy in that garage; In 2013 and 2014, they set all-time attendance records of over 7000 headlining one of Sacramento’s annual Concerts in the Park series.

In 2014, they completed their first national tour and in late spring released their fourth album "BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL." The album was released to rave media and fan reviews and continues to grow in popularity with sales through iTunes, CD Baby and Amazon.

In 2013 they became the first and only local band to sell out tickets headlining for Sacramento’s largest downtown rock venue, the Ace of Spades (Capacity 1,000).

In 2012, after receiving three Sacramento News and Review “SAMMIES” for “Best Reggae/Rock/Funk band they were inducted into the Sacramento Music Hall of Fame alongside legends Papa Roach, the Deftones, Cake and Tesla.

In late 2011, they released their third full-length album “PIPE DREAMS.” The album released made huge waves as the herbal advocates mixed many styles to create a fresh new sound. It debuted at #2 on iTunes and remained in the top 100 for almost two years.

APR has established a commanding presence in the California music scene. Their sounds include surf, roots and rock. It ranges from classic to modern searing guitar solos that smooth out and give the ear what it needs; Sexy, crawling bass lines that warm the room; Beats that make you dance; Vocals that amplify to reach the ears, heart and soul. They have set sail and toured relentlessly over the past 7 years... from the west to the east, north to the south... playing over 150 shows a year and putting out 4 full-length albums. Their tours continue nationally and their fan base (Over 26,000 on FB) and venues keep getting larger.

“Our latest album, Burning the Midnight Oil is receiving reviews beyond what we thought possible... the people love it, we love it... we love them. We are truly humbled.

Thank you all.” - APR

THRIVE 1:45 - 2:45 pm Since 2008 Santa Cruz based pop/rock/reggae band Thrive has been paving their path in the music world.

In October 2010 the relatively unknown band put out their album Gratitude Attitude and would shock the scene. The album would reach number 4 on the iTunes Reggae Charts and would start the motor for the machine that is called Thrive. Thrive would build on their success with regional tours with front running reggae artists SOJA, Iration and Tribal Seeds, along with statewide headlining tours on their own and massive shows with other artists including Rebelution, JBoog, The Green and Katchafire.

In May 2013 Thrive released full-length record: "Relentless" which debuted #3 on iTunes Reggae Chart and #6 on Billboard Reggae Charts. Thrive's brand new EP dropped in July 2015 and they our now touring in support of the release.

RAGING FYAH 3:30 - 4:30 pm Regarded as one of Jamaica’s most promising young acts, the band Raging Fyah makes music that is tethered to their island’s enduring, much emulated roots rock reggae tradition yet is distinguished by an expansive vision that propels their musical journey forward. The band received critical acclaim for the intricate harmonies, nuanced musicianship and impressive songwriting skills showcased on their previous self-released albums, Judgement Day (2011) and Destiny (2014), while songs such as the redemptive “Nah Look Back” and the spiritually enriching “Jah Glory” earned comparisons to legendary reggae outfits including England’s Aswad and Steel Pulse, and Jamaica’s beloved Third World.

One of few self contained groups (as opposed an artist’s backing band) within contemporary Jamaican music, Raging Fyah is now poised for a significant impact upon America’s vast reggae landscape (dominated by homegrown bands) with the Spring 2016 release of Everlasting, their debut album for VP Records’ Dub Rockers imprint. Recorded live at Kingston’s legendary Tuff Gong Studios producer Llamar “Riff Raff” Brown (whose credits include Stephen and Damian Marley, Richie Spice, T.O.K and 2016 Grammy Award winners Morgan Heritage) incorporates broad based influences, various acoustic subtleties, and a few guest artists, all of which enhances as well as expands Raging Fyah’s established reggae identity.

“Working on this album was very exciting but challenging; we wanted to stay within the context of who Raging Fyah is, but we never want to box ourselves in either,” explains the band’s bassist/backing vocalist Delroy “Pele” Hamilton. “Being free spirited as musicians, we spend many hours jamming all kinds of music when we rehearse so we said why not use some of what we feel naturally on our record?”

Pele, Demar and Anthony Watson (drums, backing vocals) met while studying music at Kingston’s Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, under the tutelage of Ibo Cooper, former keyboardist with Third World. They joined forces with veteran guitarist Courtland “Gizmo” White and formed Inside Out in 2002 before changing their name to Raging Fyah in 2006. The band spent years backing artists at major stage shows in Jamaica; their long held ambition to perform original music became a reality when Kumar Bent signed on as lead singer in 2010. Kumar attended Edna Manley College a few years after his band mates, initially studying piano; at Cooper’s insistence he began writing and singing his own songs. Kumar’s supple expressive tone persuasively delivers Everlasting’s array of personas, including the playful suitor on the album’s first single “Dash Wata”, the Jamaican roots revolutionary on “RaggaMuffin” and the enlightened soldier in Jah Army on “Getting Dread” Each mood is ideally complemented by the band’s finely honed, faultlessly taut grooves.

Certain to be one of 2016’s most celebrated releases, Everlasting signifies a milestone in Raging Fyah’s career by raising the bar on their already lofty musical standards. “The challenging lyrics on Everlasting challenged what we were able to do as musicians,” says Demar.

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KABAKA PYRAMID 7:30 - 8:30 pm Keron "Kabaka Pyramid" Salmon is a multi-talented artist and producer hailing from the streets of Kingston, Jamaica with a unique musical style blending the power, energy and melody of Reggae with the lyricism of Hip hop. He is based out of the Bebble Rock Music camp and through his liquid and hypnotizing delivery spreads the positive messages of spirituality and conscious evolution that forces you to listen.

The name "Kabaka" is Ugandan for "King" and the long lasting survival of the Pyramids of ancient Africa represent his desire for longevity in the music and deep connection to Kemetic roots; leaving messages for generations to come.

He is an ever-evolving artist that has numerous ways of expressing his creativity.

Following the global success of his imapctful hit single "Well Done" in 2015; Kabaka has recently released his "Accurate" mixtape presented by music superpower Major Lazer and Walshy Fire to tremendous reception with the mixtape proving to be an instant classic amongst reggae/ hiphop fans.

In 2013 he was awarded breakthrough artist of the year by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association. He is also a three (3) time nominee for Song of the year 2013, 2014 and 2015 for the tracks “No Capitalist”, "Mi Alright" and "Well Done"respectively.

Locally; Pyramid has graced the stage of major local concerts such as Reggae Sumfest, Rebel Salute, Sting, Trench Town Rock and the Dennis Brown Tribute Concert as well as live national TV and radio performances to rave reviews.

With a mission to steer future generations towards harmony and unity Kabaka Pyramid is primed and focused on bringing a righteous and conscious way of thinking to the masses through Reggae Music.

“With a solid list of skills not only in the booth but on the mixing board, and an array of lyrics that preach a message of love, self-awareness and African pride, Kabaka Pyramid is well on his way to a career that should not only lead to greatness but also lead a lot of fans to righteousness” Aesthetics Now Mag.

HIRIE 4:30 - 5:30 pm Hirie — the frontwoman of the exhilarating reggae band HIRIE — grew up a global citizen. Her father worked for the United Nations and she was born in the Philippines, spent years in Italy, before her family settled in Hawaii, which became her spiritual home.

While in Hawaii, Hirie fell in love with reggae music, and took to the culture naturally. On the radio, and in conversation, she would hear the exclamation “irie.” The popular reggae term is derived from a Jamaican patois, and it encompasses warmth and positivity—it’s a greeting, an affectionate term of approval, and a mindset. In these painfully complex times, we could all use some irie in our life.

Hirie’s immersion into the reggae lifestyle came at a young age through growing up in Hawaii, after stints living in the Philippines and Italy. Reggae is the top music in Hawaii, and it was only natural when Hirie emerged a singer-songwriter she would be vocalizing over skank reggae rhythms. “It’s just how I write music,” she says. At 19, when she moved to San Diego, California she made the leap from open-mic intimacy to craving the power and majesty of a full band.In 2013, she issued her debut, but it would take three years of touring to produce the septet’s defining work, thus far, Wandering Soul. True to its title, the album explores spiritual searching, the life-changing experiences of meeting new people and sharing in the profound emotions that bond music fanatics. The album also celebrates the band’s solidification as a creative powerhouse. Working together nonstop for three years sharpened HIRIE’s chops, group musical interplay, and distinct pop-reggae vision.

“Living like a gypsy, I began to pose a lot of foundational questions, and being in touch with fans and people on the road enlightened me. So there is this soul searching quality to the music, it’s not religion, it’s just a general feeling of spirituality,” Hirie reveals.

Wandering Soul’s lush construct reflects this depth. The songs feature chord sequences that have a sophisticated, tension and release accessibility. The musicianship is high ¬level restraint, showcasing that point of mature virtuosity where laying back implies instrumental prowess. The album’s trippy production—the bulk of it courtesy of Danny Kalb (Beck, Ben Harper, Sia)—replete with adventurous textured passages, heady dub segues, and subtle psychedelic flourishes, make it a rare headphone experience for a pop oriented record.

Reflecting on the power of HIRIE, Hirie shares this story: “I met a fan who was suffering from of six tumors. He shared with me ‘Your music is the reason I get out of bed, you’re my medicine.’ That drives me to push this movement forward to share conscious music. I feel a responsibility and a duty to share a positive message.”

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The California Honeydrops don’t just play music—they throw parties. Led by dynamic vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Lech Wierzynski, and drawing on diverse musical influences from Bay Area R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues, and New Orleans second-line, the Honeydrops bring vibrant energy and infectious dance-party vibes to their shows.

They’ve taken the party all over the world: on 9 European tours, featured slots at such premiere festivals as Monterey Jazz, High Sierra, and Outside Lands, and recent performances supporting B.B. King, Dr. John, Buddy Guy, and Allen Toussaint. Whether in those high-profile performances or in more intimate venues where the band itself can leave the stage and get down on the dance floor, the California Honeydrops’ shared vision and purpose remain: to make the audience dance and sing. Listening to Lech sing, it can be a surprise that he was born in Warsaw, Poland, and raised by Polish political refugees. He learned his vocal stylings from contraband American recordings of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and Louis Armstrong, and later at Oberlin College and on the club circuit in Oakland, California. Bringing all those influences together with the rest of the band’s diverse experiences into a unified musical vision, the California Honeydrops expect to play parties for a long time. the emerald cup 2016 65

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STICK FIGURE 9:00 - 10:15 pm From the musical imagination of Scott Woodruff emerges a vibrant sonic soundscape, revealed in the newest Stick Figure release, Set in Stone. As with his previous releases, Set in Stone was written, produced and recorded by Woodruff, a self-taught musician. An intuitive and accomplished producer, Woodruff crafts authentic artistry from the foundation of roots-dub reggae. Cavernous grooves, sparkling electronic orchestration and thick rhythms; songs and sounds that have incubated in a studio cabin in the woods near Santa Cruz, CA, where Woodruff found solace excavating a foundation and constructing a studio, all in preparation for his most ambitious recording to date. When completed, a brotherhood of hard-jamming musicians delivers this widescreen soundtrack in concert performances of consciousness-altering emancipation.

The evolution of the artist most often portrayed as a one-man band has its genesis in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

An avid music fan who in high school traded bootleg CDs of his favorite artist’s unreleased demos, Scott began recording a series of albums under the moniker of Stick Figure, well before achieving worldwide acclaim or embracing the demand to play live shows.

With the release of Set in Stone, Stick Figure is preparing to inaugurate the band’s most ambitious tour ever. “When I was recording those first albums I never saw myself touring or singing live,” Woodruff remembers. “We were offered our first tour in 2012 and I was in a period in my life where I was ready to take on new experiences. The band was formed, we hit the road and it’s been a blast ever since.”

With Woodruff as the genial on-stage figurehead, Stick Figure concerts are gatherings distinguished by extended improvisational interludes, the mind-manifesting hues of a light show, and the much-anticipated entrance of the band’s canine mascot, a rescued Australian Shepherd, Cocoa The Tour Dog. The release of Set in Stone is a culmination of a journey that has seen the producer go from a mysterious figure to becoming a major player in the scene, virtually inventing a melodic subgenre, at a time reggae is reaching new heights of popularity.

ALEX GREY & ALLYSON GREY LIVE PAINTING 9:00 pm - 12:30 am Alex Grey's mystic paintings articulate realms of psychedelic visionary consciousness, revealing interwoven energies of body and soul, love and spirit, illuminating the anatomical core of each being. Alex Grey's visual meditations on the nature of life and consciousness, the subject of his art, have reached millions through his five books, the exhibition and extensive reproduction of his artwork, speaking appearances including a popular TED talk, stage sets for major rock bands, video animation, and Grammy award winning album art.

Allyson Grey is a painter, social sculptor and Alex's creative collaborator, life partner and studio mate since art school 1975. Allyson has committed her painting career to an essentialized world view consisting of three root symbol systems: chaos, order and secret writing. On the forefront of a movement in which painters join musicians on stage, the Grey's have painted together live before tens of thousands of dancing young people at Broadway theaters in New York City, at sold-out festivals and arenas in dozens of international cities across five continents. As long-time advocates of "cognitive liberty," a growing international “sacramental culture” has embraced the Grey's as important mapmakers and spokespersons for the visionary realm.

DAMIAN “JR. GONG” MARLEY 11:00 pm - 12:30 am

Damian Robert Nesta Marley, also known around the world as “Junior Gong” and more recently as “Gongzilla” was born in 1978 to parents Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976. As a young adult, he developed a passion and a gift to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. A self-proclaimed ‘Spiritual Revolutionary’, Damian has worked assiduously to carve his own niche in music history and to add a new perspective to the Marley legacy for the 21st century.

At the age of 13, Damian began performing in a group called “The Shepherds” which comprised of Shiah Coore (son of Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and currently a member of his band, and Yashema Beth McGreggor, daughter of reggae singers Freddie Mcgreggor and Judy Mowatt and then began touring with his brothers, Stephen, Ky-mani, Julian and Ziggy.

By 1996, Damian had already made his stamp as a different kind of Marley when he released his first solo album “Mr. Marley”, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley. His second album “Halfway Tree” was released in 2001 by a major record label and showcased Damian’s unique gift for blending dancehall, reggae and hip-hop styles. This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking. He is described as “rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist”.

Damian’s hit single “Welcome to Jamrock” was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the “best reggae song of the decade.”

Damian continues to tour with his band all over the world as a way of entertaining and healing as he continues to spread the message for those whose voices cannot be heard. He is working with his brothers Stephen and Julian under their Ghetto Youths International Label, to discover, develop and sign gifted artistes by applying their musical talent and vast experience to create new and different styles of music. Damian is currently in the studio working on his upcoming solo album. the emerald cup 2016 67

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12:45 - 1:45 pm Vokab Kompany is a genre-defying collection of sound comprised of vocalists Rob Hurt and Burke Baby. With live accompaniments by their five-piece band, they use heavy synths, guitars, saxophone, bass and drums to create an innovative sound that blankets audiences and leaves them in a musical stupor. While maintaining a rigorous touring schedule, the San Diego natives have also found themselves as hometown favorites, garnering recognition at the San Diego Music Awards and winning several awards including best Hip Hop album and best Hip Hop performance. An interesting feat for a band that could just as easily be called Electronic, Funk, Jam or Rap in the same breath.

In addition to their accolades at home and on the road, Vokab has released several studio albums to critical acclaim. Their unique mesh of style has led them to delicious collaborations and over a dozen national syncs, including two Kia commercials, a spot on STARZ movie channel, and music on TV shows like Franklin and Bash and the Today Show. Their song World Wide was the anthem for the trailers of the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie.

On the touring side, the duo is fresh off of a West Coast headline tour supporting their most recent album.

They’d previously embarked on a six-month tour fronting the Run DMC Remixed tribute for Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, with appearances everywhere from Brooklyn to San Francisco to New Orleans for Jazzfest. Along with their full band, they have played countless festivals including Snowglobe, Electric Forrest and Coachella and have toured with bands of all genres, from Umphrey’s McGee to Collie Buddz to Del The Funky Homosapien.

The spontaneity of the band’s live performance is what has allowed them to cross genres so effortlessly; dancers, performance artists, guest musicians and unique arrangements continue to surprise fans, and exemplify the defining aspects of a Vokab Kompany show.

“…Enuff corporate noise in the ears of the youth… Time to spread the Truth.”

Ask her where she comes from, she’ll tell you “All Directions”. In line with her philosophy she claims not to belong to any nation state but to the ever evolving community of conscious thinkers and creators anywhere & everywhere. Of mixed global heritage, with dominant Native American and Samoan roots, Nattali Rize has been known around the world for her work fronting epic roots band Blue King Brown as well as for her unwavering commitment to using her voice and music for the global struggle toward the realization of Full Freedom and the movement of Truth and Justice over the systemic exploitation of the people and our planet.

“Nattali is a bright light in the world with a vision that extends beyond the stage.”- Michael Franti (Spearhead) The ever evolving and dynamic front woman now leads out fresh as a solo artist, with a heavy Reggae influence she describes her universal sound as World Beat. Lyrical. New Era. Nattali is Known for her high energy, thought provoking and uplifting live performances, whether it be fronting her electric band, performing solo, unplugged, or accapella. Her new Jamaican / International band is a global mash up of raw energy and vibe that has been rocking stages since they burst onto the scene in 2015. An exciting evolution of this multi-dimensional Heartist!

“One of the nation’s most refreshing voices” – Rolling Stone.

After spending most of 2014 living, writing and recording, in Kingston Jamaica, 2015 has seen Nattali Rize drop some heavy hitting tracks. Including a collaborative project with cutting edge Jamaican production crew ‘Notis’, aka heavyweight rockaz. Dubbed “A HEAVY HITTER” and to high acclaim, Nattali’s collaborative EP with Notis dropped in August page 2 / 3 2015, entitled New Era Frequency, featuring singles/videos ‘Rebel Love ft Zuggu Dan’ and ‘Generations Will Rize ft Kabaka Pyramid’ with over a million views and rizing.

“Working with Nattali is fluid and natural. The connection was there from the first track, then to see her move to Jamaica and show us how passionate and strong her commitment is to the movement was inspiring. We’ve brought two cultures together to create one, naturally this has created something exciting and fresh.. Notis loves to be part of fresh innovation.” – Wayne ‘Unga Barunga’ Thompson, of Notis.

“This set contains heavy hitting tracks, both musically and lyrically, and brims with rebelliousness and emotion.” – Reggaemani “INFECTIOUS!”- NPR “The tracks will transport your Soul into another place, where everything is just right.”Top Shelf Reggae Nattali Rize launched her live project out of Jamaica into the US & beyond with a strong run of mesmerising festival performances & national club shows. Now with tours alongside the likes of SOJA, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Katchafire, Third World, J Boog, Julian Marley, Chronixx and more under her belt, 2016 is set to be a big year of worldwide movements!

“It’s about being part of a movement, shifting perception and helping to amplify pathways to higher consciousness. It’s also about chanting down outdated systems that keep us stuck in a paradigm of mental slavery and spiritual oppression, because they’re not going to chant down themselves..” – Nattali Rize the emerald cup 2016 69

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TRIBAL SEEDS

5:00 - 6:15 pm From San Diego, California, award-winning reggae group Tribal Seeds have become known for their spiritually driven, refreshing rock vibe they have infused with the roots style of reggae music. Originally started by two brothers, Steven Rene Jacobo (lyrics, vocals, guitar) and Tony-Ray Jacobo (producer, keyboards, vocals). Tribal Seeds now boasts six members, including: Carlos Verdugo (drums), Victor Navarro (bass), E.N Young (keyboards, vocals) & Ryan Gonzo (guitar, vocals).

Tribal Seeds’ unmatched musical talent and authentic sound has brought them to the forefront of the reggae rock genre, as their art form has reached people of all ages across the United States, and worldwide. The band’s debut, self titled album “Tribal Seeds” was released in 2008 with their second album “The Harvest” following, June of 2009. iTunes named both albums “Best Of” in the Reggae genre, for their respected years. Their debut album helped garner them the “Best World Music” title at the San Diego Music Awards in 2008, and “The Harvest,” which contained fourteen new and original songs, debuted at the number 5 spot on the Billboard Reggae Charts.

The tracks, written and produced by Tribal Seeds, were recorded and mixed

by Alan Sanderson at Signature Sound Studios in San Diego, and mastered

by Erik Lobson at Universal Mastering.

On July 19, 2011, Tribal Seeds gave listeners a brand new EP entitled “Soundwaves,” which peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Reggae Charts.

The band notes that the album was inspired by their life experiences, being on tour, and their desire to inspire youth to raise their voices and seek a higher consciousness. On May 13, 2014 Tribal Seeds released their highly anticipated fourth album, Representing. The new album debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Reggae Charts as well as the iTunes & Amazon charts. The new album is sure to not only reaffirm but solidify their pioneering classic blend of Roots and new era Rock-Reggae. The album brings you 12 original recordings and features some of the genres favorite stars: Don Carlos, Mykal Rose, Kyle McDonald (Slightly Stoopid), Vaughn Benjamin (Midnite), New Kingston and the band’s own, Maad T-Ray and lead guitarist Gonzo.

Tribal Seeds have toured throughout the United States, and have also performed in Mexico, Guam & Aruba. They have shared the stage with artists such as Dave Matthews Band, Jack White, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction, Skrillex, MGMT, Cee Lo Green, Jason Mraz, Matisyahu, Sublime with Rome, Taking Back Sunday, O.A.R., Pretty Lights, Steel Pulse, The Wailers, Pepper, Collie Buddz, Julian Marley, Stephen Marley, Gregory Isaacs, SOJA, Rebelution, and many more.

DIRTY HEADS

7:00 - 8:30 pm After two decades spent chiseling their unique, multi-genre infused sound, Dirty Heads have finally come into their own. Since the release of their 2008 debut ‘Any Port in a Storm,’ the five-piece band — Jared Watson (vocals), Dustin “Duddy B” Bushnell (vocals/guitar), Jon Olazabal (percussion), Matt Ochoa (drums) and David Foral (bass) — has consistently experimented with their sunny style, leaning heavily on reggae fused with hip-hop cornerstones and scaling back for more acoustic fare, darting between extremes.

But it’s with their fifth and self-titled album that the group has felt fully confident in a body of work, ready to bring their unique style to the masses.

“It’s the most core Dirty Heads album we’ve done,” explains Watson, who formed the collective with Bushnell in 1996. “One of the most important things about this album is the reason we self-titled it. This album has all of the elements that we’ve tried to play around with. We had to go through those other albums to really find out exactly who we are, where it was natural. Now, I just think our sound is better and more confident.”

Recorded in Los Angeles over a period of four months, ‘Dirty Heads’ marks a stylistic heel-turn for the Huntington Beach, Calif. natives, who enlisted a diverse team of hit-makers including: Da Internz (Rihanna, Nicki Minaj), Drew Pearson (Katy Perry, Zac Brown Band), David Kahne (Lana Del Rey, The Strokes), Jimmy Harry (Madonna, Diplo), Jonas Jeberg (Demi Lovato, Fifth Harmony), and a handful of others. The record spans lively tracks like reggae-bounced “Oxygen” to the instantly catchy sing-along “Too Cruel” and horn-blasted lead single “That’s All I Need,” the latter of which captures the nostalgia of carefree adolescence.

Produced by Justin Gray (Mariah Carey, Joss Stone), ‘That’s All I Need’ “just has a good feel to it, kind of hanging out with your friends in the neighborhood on a Sunday in the summer back when you were growing up,” says Duddy. “Everyone’s got that good memory, so that’s where we started aiming for. Let’s make this feel-good summer song that people can put on in the backyard with their friends and family.”

‘Dirty Heads’ comes in the wake of their most successful release to date, 2014’s ‘Sound of Change,’ which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums chart. This album is marked differently than its predecessors — 2008’s ‘Any Port in a Storm,’ 2012’s ‘Cabin by the Sea’ and 2013’s acoustic offering ‘Home – Phantoms of Summer,’ the former of which spawned the smash single “Lay Me Down” featuring Rome of Sublime with Rome that topped the Alternative Songs chart for 11 weeks.

“Nowadays, it’s so easy to just listen to one song,” he says. “Have a song on your iTunes playlist, you probably don’t even know who the artist is because it doesn’t matter, you just like that track. So we were trying to provide the order we think you should listen to these in and get people in front of what we think.” Watson adds, “When you do that and you’re doing it in our original way, I feel like it makes it timeless.”

With a solid fan-base already in place, Dirty Heads are focusing their sights on something they’ve been edging towards for years: breaking the mainstream. “We want our fans to love it, because we love what we do and we want to keep doing it,” says Watson. “But this album for me, I cannot poke a hole in any of it. From front to back, it’s really so phenomenal. I’m so confident in it that I want it to take Dirty Heads from the band that we are in America, worldwide.” the emerald cup 2016 71

THANK YOU! the emerald cup received well over one thousand entries this year.

The heart and soul of the event is the competition and the farmers that enter the value added products to the contest. Thank you for believing in and supporting The Emerald Cup! The sponsors and vendors are an integral part of the show. You fill the canvas we create with your stunning booths and displays. Your monetary contributions make it possible for our attendees with a one of a kind experience we work so hard on creating. Absolute Extracts, Eden Farms, FlavRX, SC Labs, Forever Flowering Greenhouses, Seeds Here Now, Mighty Quinn, Skunk Magazine and all our other amazing sponsors and vendors.

We work for months to seek out the best speakers possible. None of these brilliant presenters get paid big bucks to speak. They do it for the love and for the future success of our industry and community.

Thank You for all the contributions to the cause.

Our staff has gone through many personal changes over the years.

A huge shout out to all the former Emerald Cup staff members and a healthy Thank You to our current group. We’ve finally filled every position with qualified folks. Taylor, you’ve not only evolved into an amazing co-producer and partner, you stoically deal with my eccentric streaks. Thanks Miche, your the foundation that we build upon. Hazel, you took over during a difficult challenging moment and aced the test. We’re keeping you. Thanks Jordan for being an all star player. Thanks Chad. You and Cindy have done a miraculous job turning around The Emerald Cup product companies. Vikki you single handedly saved the contest (with a save from Christian, your brother Jeremy, Marixa, Sandra, Yanira and John). Thanks Dave and Nikki, you have become a yearly key contributors to the Cup! Thank you Eric Branstad and Jonathan Valdman you have been an amazing company to work with.

We’ve formed a partnership with Ineffable Live. Dan Sheehan, Thomas Cussins and the rest of the team have been an invaluable addition to the Cup. I don’t know where we’d be without you? In fact, how did we pull of the past several years without your guidance ? We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship. The rest of your team rocks too, a huge Thank You to Amy Sheehan, Crystal Jensen, Maria Tofalo, Dana Greer, Sam Webster & the Festival Merch Team, Maya Freedman, Mark Dailey, Marcel Menard, Jonathan Singer, ArtistZen Business Management, Press Junkies, Slogan Art & Design, Cole Lemke, Grassroots California, Toker Poker, Earthwell, TripZero, all of the amazing festival bands and their management and and all our official media sponsors.

The music gets better each year. You did an amazing job this year Dan! Thanks to Damian Marley, Dirty Heads, and all our other amazing bands for being the right feel and vibe to the event. Thanks for getting out into the crowd and partying with the community.

Thanks to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds and the local community for your outpouring of support and love! We love Sonoma County and are proud to call Sonoma County the home of The Emerald Cup! Thanks to our Creator for giving us so many blessings, gifts and lessons to learn. In these historic times it's vitally important to have gratitude and humility and grace in our lives. Thanks for giving each so many opportunities to practice forgiveness, compassion and loving one another.

Thanks for blessing the Emerald Cup with so much love and support from the community!

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EVENT STAFF tim blake earned his real estate license at the age of nineteen.

He was one of the founders and the CEO of several productions companies in the 1980’s. This included an audio/video production company, a music label, an original children’s program called “Eco, You, and Simon too”, and a line of “New Age” video releases.

Tim is blessed to have three daughters, six grandkids, and one great granddaughter. He has owned property in Mendocino County since the early eighties. In 1998 he bought an old campground ten miles north of Laytonville on highway 101 and renamed it “Area 101”.

Tim created The Emerald Cup, the world's largest outdoor cannabis competition thirteen years ago. Tim sponsored and helped produce the first gathering of law enforcement and cannabis farmers to openly discuss how they would work together. This helped lead to the creation of the original 9.31 program, whereby cannabis farmers could grow up to ninety nine plants legally with a permit from the county. Tim was one of the first cannabis farmers to join the program. He was the co-founder of the Mendocino Farmers Collective and also Healing Harvest Farms, both local cannabis dispensaries designed to help facilitate getting outdoor cannabis into the dispensaries across the state.

He was a founding member of California Cannabis Reform Policy (CCPR), which evolved in CA Reform, and was also a founding member of the Mendocino Cannabis Policy Council ( MCPC). Tim was on the steering committee for the Heritage Initiative ( Measure AF), which was on the Mendocino County ballot in November, and is on the board of directors of The Mendocino Cannabis Industry Association ( MCIA).

Tim's personal goal is to help the world integrate spirituality, cannabis, organic food and living into a holistic lifestyle.

taylor blake is the Associate Producer of The Emerald Cup, an all-organic, medical, cannabis cup held in northern California for the past 11 years. Taylor grew up in the cannabis industry and has been helping her dad, Tim Blake, produce The Emerald Cup for the past 7 years. She also has experience with cannabis cultivation on their family farm and currently sits on the boards of Healing Harvest Farms and the California Growers Association. Taylor graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Psychology, with Honors, and has worked with diverse organizations including the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

dan sheehan is the Co-Owner and Producer of the largest reggae festival in the United States, California Roots Music & Arts Festival, and a Partner at Ineffable Music, a full-service artist management company, and Ineffable Live, which serves as the talent buying, promotions, marketing, and operational partner for music venues and outdoor festivals throughout North America. Sheehan has been involved with The Emerald Cup since 2014 as Talent Buyer for the live music. In 2016 he became a partner, allowing him to infuse his event production experience into The Emerald Cup’s existing structure to help bring it to the next level.

michelle deem, Event Manager, owner of Deem Entertainment & Production Services Inc., grew up in Philadelphia and moved to the bay area in 1983 - she comes to the Emerald Cup with over 38 years of festival design and production experience. She started in the industry in 1978 as the main stage manager of the Philadelphia folk festival and has quietly been working behind the scenes at many large festivals for more then 3 Decades. Michelle joined the emerald cup team in Nov of 2014 and has been working hard to help them with their growth.

hazel bagwell-tyler is new to The Emerald Cup Team this year as Sponsor/ Vendor Coordinator. Hazel has a degree in Recreation Administration and Business Administration from Humboldt State University. Hazel is a 2nd generation cannabis farmer with a passion for organic and sustainable cultivation.

jordan caballero has been working in event production, music promotion, and tour management for almost a decade. He's been part of The Emerald Cup team since 2012 and now serves as a brand ambassador for the newly formed Emerald Cup Product line.

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