The Emerald Cup 2015 Program Guide

EVENTS / CONTESTS / ARTISTS / SPEAKERS / MAPS

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CONTENTS

Tim Blake, Founder of the Emerald Cup, at the 2014 Awards Ceremony. KIM SALLAWAY

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2015 HIGHLIGHTS

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WELCOME TO THE EMERALD CUP

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OUR PAST, PRESENT & THE FUTURE

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EVENT STAFF

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SATURDAY SCHEDULE

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SUNDAY SCHEDULE

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GLASS AWARDS

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GLASSBLOWERS

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2015 CONTESTS

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FOOD VENDORS

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VENUE MAPS

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SPEAKERS

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ARTISTS

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GENERAL INFORMATION

VENUE GATES OPEN AT 11 am EACH DAY BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 10 am EACH DAY

IMPORTANT 2015 UPDATE: NEW IN & OUT POLICY Single-Day Ticket Holders: NO ins-and-outs.

SHOW ENDS AT 12:30 pm ON SATURDAY AND 8:30 pm ON SUNDAY

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.

WRISTBANDS MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES

Please plan ahead for your comfort and enjoyment. We’re grateful for your support and cooperation.

WRISTBANDS VOID IF TAMPERED WITH OR REMOVED LINEUP AND SET TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE EVERYONE IS SUBJECT TO SEARCH UPON ENTRY THERE IS NO CAMPING ANYONE OVER THE AGE OF 18 MAY ATTEND THE EMERALD CUP THE 215 MEDICAL MARIJUANA AREA AT THE EMERALD CUP IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS WITH VALID CALIFORNIA ID AND 215 RECOMMENDATIONS BOOTY SHAKING IS ENCOURAGED

The Emerald Cup 2015 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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2015 HIGHLIGHTS Healing Harvest Music Hall: Music all day and into the night. Also the KMUD booth, Art by Grace Slick, MAPS – Living Art area, and the Emerald Cup Merchandise Booth.

Eden Farms Lecture Hall: Located in the E.C. Kraft building, this hall is home to our Cultivation Stage (schedule on pages 19 & 21).

Weedmaps Hall: Also known as Finley Hall, Weedmaps Hall is home to our Science and Legal Stage and is also the place to get your doctor’s recommendation or consult with a lawyer (schedule on pages 19 & 21).

Garden Annex Building: Home to our Workshops (schedule on pages 19 & 21).

DEMONSTRATION LANE The Emerald Cup Merchandise Flagship Store: At the corner by Weedmaps Hall and across from Guest Services.

Forever Flowering Demonstration Greenhouse: Located behind the Guest Services Tent (booth 30).

Forever Flowering Greenhouses will be hosting demonstrations by various vendors throughout the weekend. See schedule in front of the Greenhouse.

Booth 31: SolMan SolSolutions Solar Cell Phone Charging Station.

Booth 38: Free Water Refilling Station. Bring your water bottles and drink fresh, filtered water all weekend for free.

215 MEDICATED AREA AND VENDORS Credential Check and WristBanding Station: Located on Demonstration Lane, this is where you bring your doctor’s recommendation and California ID to get the wristband that will allow you into the 215 medical marijuana area.

Medicated 215 Area: The Care by Design Palace is located at the end of Demonstration Lane at the far end of the carnival lot (Lyttle Cow Palace). You will find our new, outdoor, medicated edibles area and outdoor vending area. Don’t miss over 150 vendors, chill zones, music, VIP area and more.

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MUSIC, SPEAKERS, AND WORKSHOPS

VENDORS SC Labs Showcase: Home to over 125 vendors plus The Emerald Cup contest entries display cases. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite in the Photo Contest (located between booth 37 and booth 1), and you can’t miss the Hemp Museum located next to booth 10.

FOOD AND DRINK Food Faire: Visit our new and returning food vendors along Demonstration Lane and down to Shade Park for delicious fare throughout the day! Picnic tables are available in Shade Park – don’t miss the Hemp Car nearby!

Beer Gardens: Between the SC Labs Showcase and Garden Annex. Also behind Weedmaps Hall.

VIP AREAS 215 VIP area is located next to the Music Barn within the 215 area. There is also a VIP area in Shade Park.

Entertainment from Healing Harvest Music Hall will be broadcast to the VIP Areas.

First Aid: Between Eden Farms Lecture Hall and the Main Gate. Also behind Weedmaps Hall.

Guest Services: Home of all things The Emerald Cup, from VIP and Contestant credentials pickup, to general info, and lost and found, this is where you can come to get info about what’s happening at The Emerald Cup.

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WELCOME Swami and Tim Blake. KIM SALLAWAY

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he emerald cup is entering its twelfth year as the world’s largest outdoor, organic cannabis competition and celebration of the fall harvest. Each year we are reminded of how far we’ve come not only as an event, but also as an industry. Many were afraid to show up the first year of the competition out of fear that they might be arrested or filmed. This year we’re honored to have Fiona Ma, 2nd District Member of the California State Board of Equalization, who be joining us to talk about cannabis tax issues. Many of the world’s leading cannabis authors and researchers will be speaking on panels and workshops throughout the weekend. Folks like Jeffrey Lowenfels, Robert C. Clarke, Martin Lee, and Kevin McKernan will be on hand. And that’s only a small fraction of the speakers we have attending this year. After proving ourselves over the past two years with the fairgrounds, we’ve already been given our dates for next year’s 2016 Emerald Cup. It feels like we’ve arrived, and everyone wants to come to the party!

And talk about a party! We’ve taken over the whole fairgrounds, added well over a hundred booths and doubled the number of food vendors to provide a variety of organic cuisine for you to munch on.

We’ve also brought in some of the best musical acts money can buy, sparing no expense to provide you with the best possible experience a weekend cannabis event can offer.

I grew up in the cannabis industry as an outlaw, like everyone else in the cannabis business back then, and waited seemingly forever to see significant changes in our industry and culture. I now find myself trying hard to keep up with all the newly passed state legislation. The way we interact with cannabis and how it is viewed in California and the rest of the world has permanently changed, and there’s no going back. California, the most powerful state in our country and one of the most influential entities in the world, has finally given us their seal of approval.

Cannabis cultivation is agriculture, and cannabis growers are farmers. We’ve always been farmers, just like the folks growing apples, grapes, and other crops, and we’re finally being given our long overdue recognition. There have been compromises to obtain this victory. We’re going to be taxed unfairly, many will be left out of the new marketplace, and big money threatens to eventually dominate our industry as it does in agriculture and most other

industries. The good news is that cannabis will no longer be categorized as being a nuisance (it never was in the first place), law enforcement will no longer have carte blanche to terrorize us, and we’ll be able to pay our taxes and openly contribute to society. Most of the cannabis farmers I have spoken to are truly looking forward to this new era!

The way they’re setting up the new marketplace is along the alcohol distribution method, ensuring every last gram is tracked, taxed, and identified. Everyone has been selling their bud on the black market or begging for a local dispensary to carry their products, and that is going to change!

You will have to deal with one of the few major distributors that will be left standing after they fight it out with each other for market share over the next few years. Branding will be imperative, organic bud will rule, and everything will be tested. Many pesticides and fertilizers, which may not be too harmful when ingesting, become really toxic when burned (myclobutanil to name one).

Being a hardcore organic farmer, I see zero tolerance for any of the nasty chemicals being used on cannabis, or any agricultural product for that matter. Its time to stop poisoning ourselves and our planet, now! continued → the emerald cup 2015 9

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I thought small cannabis farmers would have a much longer time to adapt, but after being asked by a traditional farmer with almost thirty thousand acres of land how many acres I wanted to grow with him, I quickly realized that there are going to be some really good, large scale operations sprouting up quickly. The state initiative that will likely pass next year is proposing a policy that will open it up for very large commercial farms across our great state. Small farmers, from the Emerald Triangle all the way down to San Diego, are going to have to be on top of their game to ensure a spot for themselves in this new, legal marketplace.

The great thing about our newly legalized industry is that the number of people using some form of cannabis medicine will rapidly expand. The latest surveys report that the number of Americans using cannabis has risen from five percent to thirteen percent in just a few short years. It will reach twenty percent or more within a couple more years and continue to grow for years to come. As everyday folks realize how safe and effective it is to use, we’re all going to turn away from Big Pharma for many of our medical needs, and away from alcohol and hard drugs for our adult recreational use. There are new medical miracles being documented everyday from using cannabis therapy and it’s time for mainstream Americans to have reasonable and affordable access to safe, organic, and effective medicine!

We all get to see first-hand the evolution of the cannabis industry at The Emerald Cup each year. One rapidly growing technique is light deprivation farming, which cuts back the hours of sunlight the plants get by covering them part of each day to induce early flowering, just like turning back the timing of the lights in an indoor operation. Once growers realized that they could replace many of the electricity-gobbling indoor grows with much more efficient light depos, it’s been off to the races. Much of the available farmland, from Eureka to Monterey and all the way to San Diego, will soon be dotted with cannabis fields. I can only imagine how large our industry will be five years from now! We will dominate the agricultural landscape and will easily be California’s largest grossing crop.

For that matter it already is, we just haven’t been rightfully honored with the trophy.

In years past, dried flower buds were the preferred choice for imbibing cannabis. Now oils are taking over the market, with over half the sales in many places. And that number will only increase in the next few years. Young adults from all over this country are just now entering the marketplace and didn’t

There is so much to learn, so many new cannabis strains to check out, and so many new businesses sprouting up. I’m jazzed about getting the chance to see you all here and to check everything out for myself.

grow up smoking joints with their friends … they’re using solventless concentrates and vape pens with CO2 or butane extracted oil in them, and they’re doing dabs in high-end glass pipes. Bongs are quickly becoming a thing of the past.

You date yourself just by the way you use cannabis. I didn’t make up the rules, I just have to accept them and go with the flow.

In recognition of this, we’ve added a rosin and dry sieve contest to The Emerald Cup competition this year, and next year we’ll include a CO2 extraction contest, along with a category for clean, zero ppm-tested solvent oil. Oil is the way of the future for cannabis use, and the future came earlier than expected. Soon, most farmers will never see their flowers offered in a store. They’re going to bring them down to the local processing center and watch them get turned into oil of one form or another.

There are so many innovative products coming online that we’ve also created a New Products category this year at The Emerald Cup. There is so much to learn, so many new cannabis strains to check out, and so many new businesses sprouting up. I’m jazzed about getting the chance to see you all here and to check everything out for myself. You will find everything from the latest tips for growing organic cannabis, to the latest medical research and up-to-date news on the legal front, not to mention the finest food and best bands we could find.

I am honored by your attendance here at the celebration.

We want you to learn about cannabis with us, and we want to help you become comfortable with the many aspects of cannabis. And for you leaders and experts in the industry, we wish to further your knowledge and abilities.

I look forward to spending a joyous weekend with everyone!

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O U R P A S T , P R E S E N T & T H E F U T U R E 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.

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 solventless concentrate contest and to honor the sun-grown cannabis movement, gaining us a lot of attention.

2015 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

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. The new contests were also a huge success. We had the music acts, speakers, organic food, and vendors that we had always dreamed of back in our humble beginnings. With Tim’s daughter Taylor joining the team as Associate Producer, the Emerald Cup family had its most successful year ever!

It’s amazing to see how far we have come over the past 12 years, and this year’s Emerald Cup is going to be better than ever! Our DJs and music lineup are incredible, and our discussion sessions and workshops are filled with nationally and internationally renowned experts. We’ve taken over even more of the fairgrounds with hundreds of vendors (both inside and outside the medical 215 area), tons of great options for organic food, two stages, three lecture halls, and much more. Our 13 competitions 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.

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OUR HISTORY

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TIM BLAKE Tim Blake started using cannabis in 1971. He grew his first outdoor cannabis crop in 1975 and has been a part of the evolution of our industry and culture ever since, witnessing every aspect the incredible journey it’s taken us on.

That same year he also started doing transcendental meditation. Since then, cannabis and meditation have been an integral part of his daily life.

A realtor in the late seventies, Tim was one of the founders and the CEO of several production companies in the early 1980s including a “New Age” distribution and production company, a Rap music label, and a video and music production studio.

Tim is blessed to have three amazing daughters and six beautiful grandchildren. He has owned property in Mendocino County since the late seventies, finally moving up for good in 1992. In 1998 he bought an old campground and created “Area 101”, a spiritual sanctuary and event center for all faiths, devoted to personal growth and spiritual enlightenment. Over the years he’s produced a wide range of events, and created The Emerald Cup, the World’s Largest Organic, Outdoor Cannabis Competition.

TAYLOR BLAKE

Associate Producer 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 Mendocino County’s 9.31 program, the first of its kind in our country; whereby cannabis growers could get legal permits from the county to grow organic cannabis.

This, in turn, led to Tim and a partner creating the Mendocino Farmers Collective: the first collective that brought together outdoor, organic growers in Mendocino County, creating a way to get their products to dispensaries around California, which at that time were predominately featuring indoor grown cannabis. During this same time The Emerald Cup was growing into the event it is today.

Later, Tim co-founded Healing Harvest Farms (HHF) a cannabis collective dispensary that is located at Area 101. He was a founding member of California Cannabis Policy Reform (CCPR), which evolved into CA Reform, and he was also a founding member of the Mendocino Cannabis Policy Council (MCPC).

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.

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STAFF MICHELLE DEEM

MAX BOWEN

Event Manager

Healing Harvest Farms Operations Manager

Michelle Deem, 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.

Max Bowen is a medical cannabis professional from northern California. He has spent the last nine years honing his skill set and learning the ins and outs of the industry in the best way possible - by living it. Max has worked every position imaginable from gardener to quality control and purchasing. He has over eight years of experience working at a series of successful, model dispensaries with responsibility for understanding the needs and wants of patients.

Medical cannabis is his biggest passion, and he strives for perfection every time.

YVONNE HENDRIX

Marketing and Publicity

Yvonne is a seasoned festival publicist with more than 18 years experience. Over the years she has worked with some of the best festivals on the West Coast, including Harmony Festival, Earthdance, Santa Cruz Blues Festival, Kate Wolf Music Festival, Reggae on the River, and Reggae Rising.

She is passionate about medical cannabis and its many health benefits as well as the synergies between music and the emerging cannabis industry. This is her second year working with The Emerald Cup.

JOHN GREENE

JOSHUA GATES

(a.k.a. Foo Crew, VJ Foo) Video Production

Foo Crew has been supporting the Emerald Cup since 2009, providing photography, web development, video production and assisting with executive development. After experiencing The Emerald Cup for the first time in 2009 the crew fell in love with Northern California, Area 101 & The Emerald Cup. Foo Crew has since shot video as well as organized multi media in support of The Emerald Cup’s development.

JEB BERMAN

Vendor/Sponsor PRotocols & Networking

Emerald Cup Contest Coordinator

Advocate for Patients’ rights to access the therapeutic use of medical cannabis and its power to alleviate suffering, his passion for education regarding CBD and the endocannabinoid system came as the result of watching a family member struggle with cancer. John joined The Emerald Cup team several years ago, after witnessing first hand the potentially profound health benefits of cannabis, in an effort to expand and enrich educational opportunities for patients as well as the general public.

Jeb grew up in Northern California.

He spent a decade in Washington, D.C. working to improve ocean conservation policies, and later he helped start Nutrient Guru, to supply organic fertilizers to growers. He is passionate about sustainable solutions that serve both human beings and the planet and is excited about promoting the role of organic cultivation as the cannabis industry continues to mature. This is his second Emerald Cup, and he’s excited. the emerald cup 2015 17

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SATURDAY EVENTS

EDEN FARMS HALL PROBIOTICS AND BENEFICIAL RUNOFF Alan Adkisson (Moderator), Chris Van Hook, The Rev, Samantha Miller, Sarah Schuette

WEEDMAPS HALL 11:30 - 12:30 THE WAR ON DRUGS pm Mikki Norris (Moderator), Jeff Mizanskey, am Adela Falk, Cheri Sicard, Michael Cindrich

1:15 - 2:15 pm pm

STEPPING INTO THE LIGHT: BECOMING COMPLIANT Casey O’Neill (Moderator), Dan Mar, Kristin Nevedal, Mike Black, Hollie Hall

12:45 - 1:00 pm pm

2:30 - 3:45 pm pm

SEED BREEDERS Bam (Moderator), Aaron (DNA), Matt Gordon, John Bayes, Ryan Lee, Adam Dunn

4:00 - 5:15 pm pm

11:30 - 1:00 pm am

KEYNOTE Troy Dayton

1:00 - 2:00 pm pm

LOCAL COUNTY POLICIES: THE POWER OF LOCAL INITIATIVES Jamie Kerr (Moderator), Luke Bruner, Swami Chaitanya, Yami Bolanos

ORGANIC CULTIVATION: SUSTAINABLE METHODS AND BUILDING TO SCALE IN A REGULATED MARKETPLACE Kevin Jodrey (Moderator), The Rev, Alex Cooley, Dragonfly Earth Medicine, Karl Witt

2:30 - 3:30 pm pm

NEW MEDIA AND CANNABIS; TWO TRENDS CHANGING EVERYTHING James Slatic (Moderator), Dougie, Jazmin Hupp, Julianna Carella, Austin Heap

5:30 - 6:45 pm pm

ICE WATER, CO2, AND BUTANE CONCENTRATES; BEST PRACTICES FOR CREATING MEDICINAL GRADE PRODUCTS Alec Dixon (Moderator), Jeff Raber, Brandon Parker, James Yeary, Nikka T

3:45 - 5:00 pm pm

EXPLORING THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM Fred Gardner (Moderator), Michelle Sexton, Bonni Goldstein, Greg Gerdeman

7:00 - 8:00 pm pm

TERPENES Fred Gardner (Moderator), Jeremy Plumb, Michael Backes, Mark Lewis, Josh Wurzer

5:15 - 6:15 pm pm

CALIFORNIA CANNABIS LAWS Matt Kumin (Moderator), Omar Figueroa, Joe Rogoway, Gavin Kogan

6:30 - 8:00 pm pm

ADULT USE INITIATIVE DEBATE

WORKSHOPS 12:00 - 12:45 GREENING CORPORATE CANNABIS pm pm Jonathan Valdman 1:00 - 1:45 pm pm

THE CANNABIS EVOLUTION PROJECT Robert C. Clarke, Mowgli Holmes

2:00 - 2:45 pm pm

BEYOND APPETITE AND NAUSEA: THE CANCER QUESTION Mara Gordon

3:00 - 3:45 pm pm

RAHA KUDO; DESIGN FOR DYING Valerie Corral

4:00 - 4:45 pm pm

INTEGRATED PEST AND FUNGI MANAGEMENT (IPFM): HEALING DISEASE AND THE FOUR STEPS TO SUCCESS Dragonfly Earth Medicine

5:00 - 5:45 pm pm

THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF CBD Martin Lee

ARTISTS

DJS

1:00 - 2:10 pm pm

THE EXPANDERS

11:00 - 1:00 am pm

2:50 - 4:00 pm pm

JOHN BROWN’S BODY

2:15 - 2:50 pm pm

GUERRILLA TAKEOVER

4:45 - 6:00 pm pm

FORTUNATE YOUTH

4:00 - 4:45 pm pm

CHRISTAFARI

6:45 - 8:00 pm pm

PROTOJE

6:00 - 6:45 pm pm

GUERRILLA TAKEOVER

8:45 - 10:00 pm pm

COLLIE BUDDZ

8:00 - 8:45 pm pm

ZACK DARLING

10:00 - 11:00 pm pm

ZACK DARLING

11:00 - 12:30 pm am

REBELUTION

CHRISTAFARI

Venue for music: Healing Harvest Music Hall (Grace Pavilion) 6:00 - 6:45 pm pm

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SUNDAY EVENTS

SPEAKERS 11:15 - 12:15 am pm

12:30 - 1:30 pm pm

1:45 - 3:00 pm pm

11:15 - 12:15 am pm

EDEN FARMS HALL GREENHOUSE CULTIVATION Eric Brandstad (Moderator), Ari Seaman, Ned, Jesse Dodd, Sam (Soilscape Solutions) INTEGRATED PEST AND MOLD MANAGEMENT Alex Cooley (Moderator), Dragonfly Earth Medicine, Jeff Lowenfels, Ed Rosenthal GENETICS Michael Backes (Moderator), Kevin McKernan, Ryan Lee, Robert Connell Clarke, Mowgli Holmes, Jon Page WEEDMAPS HALL VETERANS AND CANNABIS; THE CRITICAL ROLE OF ACCESS AND TREATMENT Alec Dixon (Moderator), Jason Sweat, Darryl Hudson, Sue Sisley, Kevin Richardson

12:15 - 12:30 pm pm

KEYNOTE Kyle Turley

12:30 - 1:30 pm pm

CANNABIS THERAPEUTIC TREATMENTS Martin Lee (Moderator), Michelle Sexton, Dr. Jeff Hergenrather, Kyle Turley

1:45 - 3:00 pm pm

12:00 - 12:45 pm pm

THE AWARDS CEREMONY WILL BE FROM 3 pm - 4:30 pm on the Main Stage in Healing Harvest Music Hall (Grace Pavilion)

ARTISTS 11:30 - 12:30 am pm 1:30 - 2:45 pm pm

PAPADOSIO

5:00 - 6:15 pm pm

NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE

7:00 - 8:30 pm pm

BEATS ANTIQUE

MMRSA; EXPLORING THE DETAILS Hezekiah Allen (Moderator), California State Board of Equalization member Fiona Ma WORKSHOPS THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF TERPENES Josh Wurzer

1:00 - 1:45 pm pm

SOLVENTLESS HASH DEMONSTRATION Nikka T

2:00 - 2:45 pm pm

TEAMING WITH NUTRIENTS LECTURE Jeff Lowenfels

MARV ELLIS & WE TRIBE

DJS 12:30 - 1:30 pm pm

DJ DRAGONFLY

4:30 - 5:00 pm pm

G.A.M.M.A.

6:15 - 7:00 pm pm

G.A.M.M.A. Venue for music: Healing Harvest Music Hall (Grace Pavilion)

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his year, as in previous years, the awards at The Emerald Cup are an important and unique part of the ceremony. Since I started this project in 2010 I’ve networked with the top Glassblowers in the Emerald Triangle to make this happen and provide all the winners in the competition a work of art they will cherish for life.

This Journey started for me in 2009 when I met Tim Blake at Area 101. We were talking about getting top artists to create the awards and I said one of my friends, “Banjo” might be interested. It just blossomed from there. I just want to give some thanks to the artists that have been a pleasure to work with presently and the previous years. Banjo, Mr Gray, PER, Steve Bates, Mike Warren aka “Millie Mike” and Darby Holm. Also for this year’s new artists, Jared DeLong and Bluegrass Man. Peace, Everlasting Love from Eric, “The Awards Guy”

PHOTOS BY KIM SALLAWAY

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2015 CONTESTS Awards will be presented, and the winners named, on stage at The Emerald Cup Awards ceremony on Sunday from 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm in the Healing Harvest Music Hall (Grace Pavilion).

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AL FORNO FERRUZZA

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SUE’S ORGANICS

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Authentic homemade Indian cuisine, including: Chicken Tikka, Chicken Tandoori, Lamb Curry, Vegetable Korma, Saag Paneer, Pumpkin Curry, Samosas.

Delicious Organic Food. Hearty, Gluten Free and (mostly) Vegan.

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Authentic Sicilian cuisine featuring local sustainable and organic ingredients intended to nourish body and spirit.

EPICURIAN ESCAPES

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ULTIMATE SOUVLAKI

WE THE MINI’S

F5 SUNSHINE COFFEE ROASTERS

(707) 887-2323 www.sunshinecoffeeroasters.com Sunshine coffee roasters Organic coffees and teas, cold brew and cookies (non-medicinal).

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Local, sustainable, organic, authentic Greek cuisine. All our meats and vegetables are sourced locally from our farmers markets. Our seafood selections are sourced per the guidelines of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

ARLENE FRANCIS CENTER

THE FARMER’S WIFE

F7 SPIRO’S GYROS

(707) 468-8248 Greek food booth specializing in unique, authentic offerings! Lamb, chicken, falafel, eggplant, hummus pitas - mouth watering delights!

(707) 292-1303 Organic Grilled Cheese Sandwiches & Seasonal Farm Market Salads. Voted “Best Sandwich in SOCO” 2012, 2013 & 2014.

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Organic Salad, Apple Juice and Organic Sodas, Cookies.

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THE WURST RESTAURANT

(707) 395-0214 Gourmet Sausages and Burgers from Healdsburg, CA. Sausages (Bratwurst, Polish, Veggie, Chicken, Spicy), Grass Fed Beef Burgers, Fries, Garlic Fries.

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(707) 528-3009, arlenefranciscenter.org Organic coffee, pastries, cookies, fruit and hot chocolate. Criminal Bakery Organic muffins, cookies, scones, brownies and cakes (gluten free options).

F20 BACKYARD RESTAURANT

(707) 820-8445, backyardforestville.com Seasonal, organic, GMO-free restaurant.

F21 INDIA GOURMET

(831) 224-4753 Authentic Delicious Indian cuisine.

Offering organic, vegan, vegetarian, gluten free choices of vegetables, beans, lamb and chicken curries along with basmati rice and on site freshbaked nan breads.

Al Forno Ferruzza

F24 BISHMA

The Art Of Vegetarian Cooking

F25 LYDIA’S ORGANICS

(707) 765-9200, lydiasorganics.com Organic, Vegan, Gluten-Free, NonGMO, Raw and Cooked Food for the Mind, Body, and Soul!

F26 HERBAL JUNCTION

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F27 FUEL ORGANIC JUICE

(714) 716-4318, fueljuicedelivery.com Fuel Organic Juice and Coffee.

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EDIBLE ALLEY / 215 MMJ AREA 530 Edibles E4 Advanced Nutrients E19, E20 Attorneys Adams / Fietz N Bhang Infused Product EA

Big Pete’s Treats E10 C.A.D. Carter’s Aromatherapy Designs E15 California Growers Guild F

Cannaeye Chocowaska Dabstix Dungeons Vault Genetics

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Dutch Farms Organics E9 Emerald Edibles E7 Emerald Flower Farmacy coop / Humboldt Harvest Farms E14 Giggle Therapeutics E8 Grave Farms H Healing Tree Medicinals / Soilscape Solutions E5 Highnoon Collective with First Class Concentrates B Honey Bear Farms E12

Honeysuckle Lotus E2 Humboldt Oil Co and Emeralds-Farm K, L Jahnetics C Meadowlands E6 Nectars Collective D Reserved E1, O RX-C E16 Stanky Dank Farms E18 Swerve Confections & Leaflet E3 TG Genetics J Toker Poker E13 Utopia Farms M

Emerald Peak Farm 59 Emerald Triangle Genetics / Magic Potion 95, 96 Emerald Valley Growers Association 39 Fired Up Ranch 55 Flow Kana 73 Gage Green Genetics 106 Genex Labs 23 Good Seed Collective 21 Grand Daddy Genetics 115 GreenBroz Trimming Machines 48, 49 Grownwell Cooperative 3 HappyDay Farms Collective 53 Harborside Health Center 17, 18 Hawgs Breath Family Farms 62 Healing Harvest Farms S11 Honey Bear Hives 31 House Of Aficionado 38 Humboldt Emerald Harvest 60

Humboldt Marijuana Company 44 i-Tal Hempwick 37 J. & J. Farms E17 Jack’s Extracts 92 Jetty Extracts 93 Lost Coast Botanical Cooperative 32 Mendocino Seed Company 22 Mr Nice Seeds / CBD Crew 28, 29 MTG Seeds 97 Natural Cannabis Company 104, 105 OSA/28 69 O.penVAPE 122 123 Peace In Medicine 107 Peak Oil 51, 66 Pure Source Collective 2 Rare Dankness Mofeta Blanca Clothing 118 Rebel Grown 15 Remedy Delivery Service 58

Reserved 1, 13, 20, 26, 98 Royal Budline 54 RX-C 47 Satori Movement / Talking Trees Farms 83, 84 SC Labs S5 Seeds Here Now 40 Sense Cultivator’s Collective 61 SF Gate I Smell The Truth 14 Shine On Farm 36 Simply OG / DNA Genetics / Crockett Family Farms 50 Skunk Magazine 120, 121 SmartBee Controllers 71 SnowHigh Seeds 42 SoCal Seed Co. 9, 10 Sonoma Patient Group 11 Soul Evolution Enterprise 57 South Fork Seed Collective 6 Southern Humboldt Seed Collective 32

So Hum Extracts Collective 32 Spiffy Spray 25 Spirit Ridge Medicinals 64 Sprig - Smile More 19 Stagecoach Ranch 81 Swami Select 72 TGA genetics I Subcool Seeds 41 The Cali Connection Seed Company 116, 117 TreatWell 65 True Medicinals 67 Ultra Trimmer 119 VapeXhale 46 Veg + Bloom 68 Weedmaps 74, 75, 88,

89, 90 Women Grow 79 Zen Care Collective 30 vR Distributing Co. 109, 110,

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215 MMJ AREA 710 Productions 99 Absolut Organics 33 Absolute Xtracts S1, S2 Aptus Plant Tech & Franchise Genetics 63 Artifact Franchise 56 Aunt Zelda’s 87 B.O.G. Seeds 77 Bhutan / Dragonfly Wellness Center 78 Biobizz 7, 8 Calwax 34, 35 Cannabis Now Magazine 5 CannaSpirit Essentials 80 Care By Design S3, S4 Cayucos Natural / Topicanna 43 Chalice Cup 12 Char Coir 70 Coastal Seeds 4 Critical Solutions Extractors 114 Crystal Garden 24 CSI: Humboldt 82 Dark Heart Nursery & Dark Heart Alchemy 76, 91 DJ Short Seeds 16 Eden Farms 102, 103, S6 Emerald Alchemy 45 Emerald Cup Corner S10, S7,

S8, S9 Emerald Cup Merchandise 108 Emerald Essence Apothecary 27 Emerald Family Farms 85, 86,

100, 101 Emerald Farms 113 Emerald Grown Co-op 52 Emerald Orchards 94

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Spiro’s Gyros Strudel Guy Sue’s Organics Sunshine Coffee Roasters The Art Of Vegetarian Cooking The Farmer’s Wife The Wurst Restaurant Ultimate Souvlaki We The Mini’s

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Bookstore Bigger Than Yours Irrigation Company Biologic Systems Cell Phone Charging DragonFly Earth Medicine Forever Flowering Greenhouses Go Gro Cages

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JB Games Norcal Reggae Calendar Reserved S&S Promotions & Games SolSolutions Sonoma Biochar Initiative Water Filling Station

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SC LABS SHOWCASE (Hall of Flowers)

“The Puffin” 68 2Gather Together 52 420 Archive 90 Across International 84 Amercanex 71, 72 Anasazi Gold Organics 64 Blue Citadel Technologies 69 CA Poppy / Honeycomb Software 80 California Cannabis Industry Association 85 California Growers Association 61 California Jade Carvings 28 Cali-Roots 33

Cannabinique 93 Cannabis Buyer 4, 5 Central Coast Garden Products 75, 76 Certified Kind / Organic Cannabis Growers Society 94 Clean Green Certified 43 Cloud Pen 74 Cover Cannabis 104 CR Glassworks 41 Critical Solutions Extractors 101 Croptops Greenhouses, LLC 38 Eden Farms 117 Emerald Grower’s Association 63

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NORML Women’s Alliance

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Patients Out of Time

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Willits Medical Care

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Rain & Zepp: A Professional Law Corporation

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Emerald Grown Marketing Cooperative 39 Envirotech Greenhouses 23, 24 Everybody Is A Star Foundation 96 Fast Green Hand Clean 32 FatboL Clothing 15 Forever Stoked 51 Friendly Farms 126 From War to Peace 25 Gavita Holland 7 Grass Roots Hats 40 Grassroots Fabric Pots 48 Grean Bicycles 13 GreenBroz Trimming Machines 47

GreenGro LLC 26 Greenhouse Megastore 79 Gro-Kashi International 42 Gro-Tech Systems 65 Healing Tree Medicinals / Soilscape Solutions 116 Heavy Harvest Wholesale 125 Hempstead Project HEART 91 Humboldt Green 53 Hydro Depot 58, 44 iGROW 66, 67 KMUD 70 KPFA Radio 36 Leafly 30, 31 Leftcoast Wholesale 120, 121 Lightwave Science 14 Lost Coast Gallery 1, 2 ,3 Mama P’s Wholesome Grinding Co. 98 Mateel Community Center 78 Matt Jones Art 35 Mattole River Studios Golden Frog Press 114 MG Magazine 12 Mills / Garden Rebels Optimal Wholesale 88 MJ Wear 97 Mr. Fulvic 107 Natural Cannabis Company 86 OCO Labs 11 One Off Artworks 123 Organics Alive 81 Parents For Pot 95 Phoenician Engineering 102 Potent Growth 124

POW420 106 Project CBD 55 Pure Analytics Lab 113 Ras Boss 89 Reserved 8 Revelry Supply 37 Sasquatch Soil 92 SC Labs 45, 46, 59, 60 Skunk / Ed Rosenthal 9, 10 Small Farmers Association 105 Society of Cannabis Clinicians 54 Sonoma County Grower’s Alliance 62 Sweet Leaf Collective 103 Synergy Agricultural Systems 17 Tappin’Roots 16 The Amazing Doctor Zymes 122 The Bud Sisters 115 The Ganjier 50 The Human Solution 49 The Hybrid Creative 99 The Mighty Quinn 100, 118, 119 The Soil King / Big Rootz 73, 87 Third Eye Pinecones 21, 22 Thrive.N 77 Trim Scene Solutions 82, 83 True Humboldt 29 Veterans Pot Tour 57 Vital Garden Supply 18, 19, 20 Vital Hemp 34 Weedmaps 6 WindWalkers 27 Zen Care Collective / ET Genetics 56

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(DNA Genetics) DNA Genetics, one of the preeminent seed companies in the world, has been at the forefront of the global cannabis industry and culture for over a decade. DNA is an eight time winner of the illustrious High Times “Top 10 Strains of the Year” award, the only seed company to have received every award presented at the High Times Cannabis Cup events, and was inducted into the High Times Seed Bank Hall of Fame in 2009. DNA continues to grow and find new ways to permeate the market, both directly as well as indirectly through its partnerships, subsidiaries, and good ol’ fashion “monkey see-monkey do” influencing of those around them. As the cannabis movement gains increasing worldwide support, expect DNA Genetics to continue to be a leading force and carve out an even deeper foothold for itself as a global leader in cannabis genetic research and development.

Founder at Gro-Kashi International (Gro-Kashi. com) and Co-founder at the Probiotic Farmers Alliance on Facebook.

Emerald Triangle resident since close to 2000.

The probiotic farming community knows him worldwide as a trusted craftsman in large scale anaerobic solid state fermentations for both the US Dairy industry and cannabis community. Prodigy of Rev. Eddy Lepp, and is well known for the continuing R&D brought to light by Jack Herer, in the practical use of effective microorganisms to safeguard the MMJ industry and our right to farm.

Hezekiah D. Allen was born at home and raised off the grid in Humboldt County. He never finished his degree, but he did study politics and government, including studying abroad in Jordan, India, and China. With more than a decade of success in the cannabis industry he has trimmed, sold, driven, and grown a lot of cannabis.

Hezekiah has worked in watershed restoration. He has worked with local government and natural resource agencies. In 2014 he focused on cannabis policy full time.

Today he lives in West Sacramento and travels the state in his work as the Executive Director of the California Growers Association.

Michael Backes works with a Southern California consultancy that specializes in cannabis science and policy issues worldwide. He is the author of Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana, recently published by BDL/ Hachette with a foreword by Dr. Andrew Weil. Cannabis Pharmacy has been the bestselling pain medicine book on Amazon since its publication. In 2007, Backes founded Cornerstone Research Collective, the first evidencebased medical cannabis collective in California.

Bamboo is a landrace and heirloom preservationist at Coastal Seed Company, and head of extraction research at The Highest Grade Consulting. His focus on preservation has been to catalog and preserve as many landrace and heirloom varieties as possible with the goal of ensuring that he can leave behind all that he has been gifted and inherited for future generations. When he’s not on the ranch doing breeding and preservation work, he’s in a lab doing research into CO2 extractions with a focus on natural terpene preservation. The focus of his current breeding is to stabilize a high CBD (39:1 CBD:THC ratio) Afghani landrace varietal called The Last Laugh.

Mike Black: Is the Senior Ecologist at Envirocann. In the past, Mike worked for the US Forest Service and several private environmental consulting companies doing biological surveys, riparian restoration, and water quality work. In 2015 Envirocann was launched to help define the impacts Cannabis producers were having on the environment through a 3rd Party Certification.

Yamileth Bolanos is a 19-year liver transplant survivor and 30+ year cancer survivor. Her story of therapeutic cannabis use has been a cornerstone narrative not just for the opening of her dispensary, PureLife Alternative Wellness, a keystone dispensary in Los Angeles, but also the continuing expansion of state legislation to protect the rights of cannabis patients. Recently she has advocated for the Medical Cannabis Organ Transplant Act, AB 258, which was signed by Governor Jerry Brown in July of 2015 and will become California law January 1, 2016.

A 4th generation farmer, Eric is originally from San Joaquin County California where his family has been commercially farming since 1862. Eric is also a Licensed contractor for earth work and paving.

He originally executed site development for greenhouse facilities prior to working for FFG. After moving to Grass Valley in 2000, Eric started a small organic farm with his wife Bridget. Together they grew wheat grass for the local co op and now have a Certified Organic Goji Berry and medicinal herb nursery. Eric has been managing Forever Flowering Greenhouses since 2007. Since starting with FFG, Eric has been actively working on understanding how summer greenhouses operate efficiently. Eric’s goal is to help improve the efficiency of light dep greenhouses and to help educate growers on how plants react in the greenhouse environment.

Luke Bruner is the business manager of Wonderland Nursery in Garberville, CA. He is a co-founder of California Cannabis Voice- Humboldt, a grassroots organizing and community education organizing in Humboldt County. the emerald cup 2015 33

Julianna Carella founded Auntie Dolores, The Every Day Edible in 2008, bringing 20+ years of culinary work with cannabis and entrepreneurship in the health space. In 2013, Julianna developed Treatibles CBD-infused pet products, which were introduced under the Auntie Dolores line of products. Julianna is an avid proponent of health freedom, a visionary, and an activist in the MMJ community. As a health food enthusiast, Julianna began incorporating cannabinoids into her own diet and sharing the benefits with friends and family members who later encouraged her to turn her passion into a business. The Auntie Dolores mission is to provide safe access to cannabinoids for all sectors of society, including animals.

Michael E. Cindrich is one of California’s top cannabis attorneys. He is an advocate for medical cannabis patients within the state of California and throughout the United States. Mr. Cindrich is the Principal Attorney at the Law Offices of Michael E. Cindrich APC, a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Green Capital Ventures, Inc., and a Co-Founder and Managing Member of Gridiron Cannabis Coalition, LLC. Additionally, he is Executive Director of the San Diego County chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), and is a lifetime member of the national NORML Legal Committee.

Rob Connell Clarke is the author of several Cannabis science books and has traveled extensively throughout Eurasia documenting traditional Cannabis production and use.

Rob’s breeding interests include selection and preservation of landrace varieties, and developing narrow-leaf drug varieties and hashish cultivars. Presently, Rob serves as an Executive Director of BioAgronomics Group consulting and is affiliated with the Phylos Bioscience Cannabis Evolution Project.

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Alex Cooley is the cofounder of Solstice, through his diligent efforts they created first ever fully permitted cannabis production facility in Washington State. In addition to this he has helped to author the “collective garden model” of safe, legal access for medical cannabis patients in 2011. As part of Alex/Solstice’s mission to be a positive catalyst in the cannabis industry and offer a new message about cannabis, Alex uses environmentally responsible practices, serves as an adviser to Washington State, and continues to advocate for patients’ rights.

Assemblyman Ken Cooley is a Joint Author of the trio of medical marijuana bills that passed the Legislature this year.

Ken was elected to the California State Assembly in November, 2012.

He started his elective public service career on Rancho Cordova’s first City Council upon its formation in 2002 and was re-elected in 2004 and 2008. Ken is the CoChair of the Special Legislative Committee on Ethics and the Chair of the Select Committee on Foster Care. Ken and his wife Sydney have been married for 40 years and have lived in the east Sacramento County community of Rancho Cordova since 1977. It is where their sons were born, grew up in local schools, sports and Scouting and live with their families.

Valerie Corral is the Executive Director and CoFounder of the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana and Raha Kudo, Design for Dying Project. As a result of her personal experience, Corral has become a nationally renowned medical marijuana activist. She helped author California’s Compassionate Use Act, and founded a hospice care center for Santa Cruz patients who use medical marijuana to alleviate symptoms associated with various terminal diseases and conditions.

Troy co-founded cannabis investment and research firm, The ArcView Group, in 2010 and serves as CEO. ArcView created the ArcView Investor Network where more than

480 high net-worth investors have pumped more than $54 million into 81 cannabis-related ventures and raised more than $675K for the legalization effort. ArcView also publishes The State of Legal Marijuana Markets, the most oft-cited market data and analysis report on the industry. ArcView co-founded Cannasure Insurance Services in 2011 and launched Canopy, a business accelerator in 2015. Troy is an elected board member of the Marijuana Policy Project and is a founding board member of the National Cannabis Industry Association. In his spare time, Troy enjoys karaoke and Burning Man.

Alec Dixon is a a veteran of the US Navy and CoFounder / Director of Client Relations of SC Laboratories. Alec frequently speaks on Cannabis science and testing, holding educational training seminars with collectives and clients of SC Labs across the west coast. Alec also serves on the Board of Directors of the Wo/Man’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM.) Alec’s combined decade of experience in an around all aspects of Cannabis has made him a leading expert in the field.

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. 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 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.

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(Hit Man Glass) From Boston, Mass. Dougie started Hitman Glass in 2009 with friend and partner Erik Weissman.

Focused on innovative scientific glass apparatus for daily use, we also are known to “hit the high notes”. In 2014, Chalice Festival was started by Dougie to celebrate Glass, Hash, Music, and Art culture in Southern California.

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. Taking Mother Nature’s lead, we grew and wild-crafted healing plants and mushrooms for medicines and food. This naturally led into healing works (home birth, midwifery, herbology, earth based body and mind health, moon cycles and organic gardening practices). 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. We thrive on education from Nature and love to share it. Stay tuned for our new book: Recipes for your Garden.

Adela Falk is a cannabis advocate and activist.

She is co-founder of POW420 - which focuses on those who have been arrested or incarcerated for cannabis. She created the Prohibition Times a quarterly newsletter sent to over 350 pot prisoners- that also features ‘people who care’ pen-pals connecting pot prisoners with other activist. Adela does a monthly event - Birthday writing drive to help encourage others to write to those unjustly incarcerated for cannabis. Adela actively finds, locates, and contacts those incarcerated for cannabis.

My passion is defending human beings facing criminal charges in federal, state and juvenile courts, specializing in cannabis, counterculture, and cybercrime cases.

I have been a criminal defense lawyer since 1998, and have represented criminal defendants in Superior Courts all over the State of California. I am a member of the California State Bar, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Sonoma County Bar Association, California NORML, Cannabis Action Network, Americans for Safe Access, Stanford Alumni Association, Association of Yale Alumni, and a lifetime member of the NORML Legal Committee. I am also a member of the Board of the ACLU of Sonoma County.

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.

Dr. Greg Gerdeman is a neuroscientist and educator with special expertise in the physiological actions of cannabis and the endocannabinoid system (ECS). His Ph.D. dissertation in Pharmacology from Vanderbilt University (2001) was one of the first studies to discover endocannabinoids acting as “retrograde messengers” that regulate synaptic plasticity in the brain, findings that have become a foundation to modern understanding of the ECS and the neuroprotective actions of cannabis. As a recipient of multiple grants

and awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. Gerdeman’s research has been published in leading scientific journals such as Nature Neuroscience and Trends in Neurosciences, and has been cited over 1,600 times in the scientific literature.

In 2008, Dr. Goldstein developed an interest in the science of medical cannabis after witnessing its beneficial effects in an ill friend. Since then she has been evaluating both adult and pediatric patients for use of medical cannabis. Dr. Goldstein has given numerous lectures to many patient support programs, including the Cancer Support Community, Southern California Prosthetics, and Pediatric Epilepsy groups. She is currently the Medical Director of Canna-Centers, a medical practice devoted to educating patients about the use of cannabis for serious and chronic medical conditions.

Mara Gordon specializes in the development of cannabis extract treatment protocols for seriously ill patients in California. She is the cofounder of Aunt Zelda’s and Zelda Therapeutics.

Prior to Aunt Zelda’s, Mara worked as a process engineer, helping Fortune 500 companies create intelligent software by utilizing the Rational Unified Process. This experience has enabled her to take a detailed and scientific approach to medical cannabis.

At the forefront of the cannabis industry for over a decade. John leads the way as an organic cultivator, breeder, and entrepreneur, legislative and regulatory consultant. As an innovator and advocate for organic cultivation practices, he sets forth intentional horticulture and continues to be a valued asset to the Oregon cannabis movement. As a member of the Oregon Marijuana Rules Advisory Committee, John’s influence and tireless efforts are shaping the future of cannabis in America. the emerald cup 2015 35

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Prior to co-founding Potbox, Austin held engineering leadership roles at several start-ups and established companies across a variety of industries. Most recently, he was Director of Engineering for Recurly, a leading subscription billing platform. Prior to that, Austin was co-founder and CTO of TinySpark, a digital marketing and sweepstakes platform for iOS and Android app developers that was accepted into the Studio 9+ Accelerator. Earlier in his career, Austin was Technical/Architect Lead at Rosetta Stone, where his work on Lingo Letter Sounds helped it win a 2014 Webby Nomination for “Best Mobile Education App” and the “Best Preschool Learning App” award from iKids.

Chris Van Hook is a nationally recognized expert on agricultural regulations, organic farming and cannabis. Chris is both a USDA Accredited Organic Certifier as well as a California cannabis compliance attorney.

Chris is the Program Director of the Clean Green Certification Program; the only Nationally recognized cannabis certification program based on the USDA National Organic Program.

Chris, a state and nationally mobile attorney, was selected as one of three attorneys representing “small town America ” by the American Bar Association published book “Attorneys in Small Town America.” He has also been a lobbyist in the fields of aquaculture, agriculture, and environmental industries.

Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather is a general practitioner specializing in cannabis consultations since 1999.

His medial experience includes 26 years in emergency medicine and private general practice that includes use of cannabis as medicine since 1977. He continues in an active consultation practice in California that includes telephone and on-line consultations in using cannabis for medical problems. Dr. Hergenrather’s practice, research, and teaching focus on the medicinal uses of cannabis through a wide range of conditions and age groups. He is a founding member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians developing educational programs and clinical studies with physician members of the Society.

Dr. Darryl Hudson received a PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Guelph, Canada in 2010.

He has published research in diverse fields including plant biology, genetics, epigenetics, DNA repair mechanisms, and carcinogenesis. With the announcement of the new commercial Cannabis program in Canada, Darryl transitioned full-time into the medical marijuana industry.

He now primarily works as a consultant and researcher helping producers in many countries to optimize genetics, cultivation processes and quality assurance protocols in the Cannabis industry.

Mowgli Holmes, PhD Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer of Phylos Bioscience. Mowgli Holmes is a biologist trained in molecular genetics, microbiology, and evolutionary theory. He received his PhD from the Columbia University Department of Microbiology and Immunology, where he was a National Research Service Award Fellow.

Named a “genius entrepreneur” by Fortune Magazine and a top businesswomen in the cannabis industry by Forbes, Jazmin Hupp is the Founder & CEO of Women Grow.

Women Grow connects, educates, and empowers diverse cannabis industry leaders. Jazmin’s goal is to have 1,000 women launch cannabis businesses at the foundation of America’s fastest growing industry. Jazmin believes that business is the strongest force of change in our world, so she works

to create responsible cannabis businesses to help us change outdated laws and stereotypes. Her passion for cannabis legalization is inherited from her parents. She’s privileged to have been educated to choose cannabis as a safer alternative to alcohol. In combination with yoga & meditation, she consumes cannabis to relax & focus.

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, CA

Jamie Kerr is the co-founder of 530 Collective and 530 Edibles. In 2013, Jamie was unanimously appointed to the City of Shasta Lake Planning Commission where she is currently fulfilling a four-year term. In 2014, 530 Collective joined the California Cannabis Industry Association and shortly thereafter Jamie was appointed to CCIA’s board of directors where she served until April 2015. In 2015, 530 Collective and 530 Edibles became a Business Partner members of California Growers Association and Jamie currently serves as CGA’s Chief Policy Advisor.

As a co-founder, Vice President and General Counsel of INDUS Holding Company, Gavin Kogan, Esq., provides leadership for the company’s business development and legal affairs reporting directly to the company’s board of directors. In this role, Kogan is involved in forming business strategy and structuring business relations with vendors, partners and customers while providing critical guidance on political and industry trends. Kogan is a co-founder and board member of the Concentrate Extractors National Trade Association (“CENTA”), the cannabis industry’s first trade association dedicated to the art and science of extraction. the emerald cup 2015 37

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Matt Kumin is a civil rights attorney with a 40-year history working on civil rights issues throughout the country.

Based in San Francisco, Matt joined the fight against the War on Drugs through his work with Tony Serra and Randy Daar in 1996 and initially counseled the few “medical cannabis clubs” in SF about their legal rights. He works with his colleagues throughout the United States to reform our drug laws and policies, to reform the criminal justice system, and to re-allocate scarce resources, currently wasted on criminalizing drugs, for education and treatment.

Kyle Kushman is an internationally renowned marijuana cultivator whose collaborations have earned 13 Medical Cannabis Cups awards. This includes three US Cannabis Cups for Best Flowers. All awards were won using Kushman’s Vegamatrix which was awarded the coveted STASH Award by High Times Magazine in 2014 as the best new nutrient on the market. Kushman’s articles have been featured in High Times Magazine for over 20 years. He has studied and used almost every nutrient, gadget and piece of equipment on the market today. An innovator of compassion and compromise, Kyle’s free information and resources have helped countless numbers of marijuana growers, and the benefits have extended to millions of patients around the globe. Kyle can be found on KyleKushman. com, Vegamatrix.net, Facebook and Instagram.

Martin A Lee is the cofounder and director of Project CBD (projectcbd. org), an educational service focusing on cannabis science and therapeutics.

He is the author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific.

The American Botanical Council gave Smoke Signals its James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award.

Historian Douglas Brinkley said of Smoke Signals: “Every American should read this landmark book.” Lee is also co-founder of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness &

Accuracy in Reporting) and author of Acid Dreams and The Beast Reawakens.

ers. He is an instructor for permaculture design courses with Klamath Knot Permaculture.

Jeff Lowenfels is one of the most humorous and entertaining lecturers on the organic gardening circuit. He is a reformed lawyer, author of Timber Press’ award winning and best selling books, Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to The Soil Food Web and Teaming With Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition.

His third book in the soils trilogy will be published in a few months. He also writes the longest running garden column, having never missed a week in 40 years. The combination of garden writing and law earned him the moniker of “America’s Dirtiest Lawyer.”

Kevin is currently the CSO of Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. Prior to joining Courtagen, Kevin was the founder and CEO of Medicinal Genomics Corporation. Medicinal Genomics made worldwide news in 2011 when it publically released the first genome sequence for Cannabis Sativa L. As a result of this work, Medicinal Genomics (MGC) launched a suite of qPCR tools for the detection of microbial contamination on Cannabis. In 2015, MGC is the largest provider of microbiological testing equipment in the cannabis space and has been selected to present on its genome sequencing, cannabis sex determination and microbiome work at ICRS 2014 and 2015.

Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Emeritus Fiona Ma was elected to the State Board of Equalization (SBOE) on November 5, 2014 and will represent close to 10 million people in 23 counties from the Oregon border to Santa Barbara County. The 5,000 person tax agency effects every taxpayer in California and has broad regulatory and adjudicatory powers and is the only elected tax board in America. In the Assembly, Ms. Ma has authored groundbreaking legislation to protect consumers, prevent the spread of Hepatitis B, and increase access to quality healthcare. As a joint author of Proposition 1-A (Nov 2008), she was the legislature’s leading advocate to bring high-speed trains to California.

Samantha Miller is President and Chief Scientist at Pure Analytics, LLC – a cannabis testing lab based in northern California. In addition to her work at Pure Analytics, Samantha is an instructor at the 707 Cannabis College. Samantha has more than 15 years’ experience in analytical chemistry. Her particular focuses include drug development, environmental analysis, materials chemistry and more. Not only can Samantha use the necessary equipment to analyze chemical compounds in cannabis, but she can build them as well.

Dan Mar is the owner of High Tide Permaculture, a regenerative land-use design company specializing in holistic property management plans, rainwater systems and watershed restoration.

He is the founder of the Watershed Conscious Property program, which seeks to take cannabis farms beyond compliancy and into the levels of sustainability and regeneration. As a retired high school science teacher High Tide’s business model is based on education and empowering property own-

My name is Jeffrey Mizanskey. I happen to be the only person in Missouri that had a life without parole sentence for a non violent cannabis only crime of acting in concert of possession with intent to distribute.

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A cannabis reform activist since 1989, Mikki Norris is best known for her award winning book, Shattered Lives: Portraits from America’s Drug War based on the traveling photo exhibit, Human Rights and the Drug War (hr95.org), which put a human face on the prisoners and victims of US drug policies. Mikki and her husband, Chris Conrad, have been spokespeople for the cause throughout the years and have done many speaking engagements and networking tours around the US, Europe, South America, and Australia.

Casey is a CSA farmer who co-operates 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 is a representative of craft cannabis farmers as Acting Board Chair of the California Growers Association and as a voice in the legalization and functional regulation movement.

Brandon grew up amongst a dying breed of freedom fighters and pioneers that have helped form me and push the envelope. By growing up around the older generation I now have skills I still use today. I am a 3rd generation cannabis farmer from Mendocino County growing up around cannabis my whole life. My family and I have earned a name for our genetics, flow-

ers and hash by winning 24 awards in the last 34 months nationwide.

Asking Jeremy Plumb about cannabis is like drinking from a firehose.

If there’s something to know about cannabis, he either already knows it or he’s in line to talk to the person who does. Known as one of the people behind the popular Cinex strain, he’s one of the few people in the cannabis industry about whom the conventional wisdom is unequivocal: He’s the smartest guy in the room, with degrees in cultural ecology and psychology, a wellregarded electronic musical project called Plumblyne, and time as a People’s Food Co-op board president and mental health counselor before he joined the cannabis industry. He’s at the forefront of agricultural sustainability and of codifying the complicated chemistry of cannabis’ uses in medicine and therapy.

Driven by a desire to make a positive contribution to society while creating American jobs Dr. Jeffrey C. Raber founded The Werc Shop in 2010, an independent laboratory focused on botanical analysis, product development and sustainability with an initial emphasis on serving the unmet public health and safety needs within the medical cannabis community. Dr. Raber’s background as an accomplished scientist, patented inventor and seasoned executive provide him with a unique perspective and skillset useful in assisting state and local regulators in the construction and implementation of effective regulatory solutions for the safe and sustainable introduction of medical cannabis products to qualified consumers.

I started growing in my parent’s back yard in the early 1970’s—Columbian and Oaxacan from those times, some bad ass smoke and easily finish in Southern California where I was born and raised. I’m basically an honest guy who has been growing for 40 years or so, and I have a lot of hands on skills I

bring to the table, I’m a straightforward kind of guy and love to share! My first book I am proud of but I think you will really-really like my newest revised edition of True Living Organics, to be out by early 2016—yay!

Joseph A Rogoway is the founder of Rogoway Law Group, a boutique criminal defense, business, and cannabis law firm headquartered in Santa Rosa, California with satellite offices in Beverly Hills and Chicago. In addition to being a prominent criminal defense attorney, Mr. Rogoway is a leader in the emerging cannabis industry where his practice includes assisting start-ups with entity formation, transactional matters, and regulatory compliance.

“Mr. Rosenthal is the pothead’s answer to Ann Landers, Judge Judy, Martha Stewart and the Burpee Garden Wizard all in one.” - The New York Times. Ed Rosenthal is recognized worldwide as a leading authority on marijuana. In his more than 30 years as the “guru of ganja,” he has written or edited more than a dozen books about marijuana cultivation and social policy that cumulatively have sold more than one million copies. Rosenthal views marijuana law as a crucial social issue. Ed has served as an expert witness on marijuana cultivation in federal and state trials and has been very active in promoting and developing policies of civil regulation for marijuana.

iGROW Induction Lighting is a Cleveland based manufacturing company established in 2009. Three individuals working on their own businesses at that time joined forces to develop and create a light that would revolutionize the agricultural industry. Ari Seaman was one of the top sustainability and commercial lighting experts in the country, and together with brothers Cary and Eric Senders, they were able to create the first full spectrum light ever developed specifically to grow plants and be used across many commercial agricultural applications. the emerald cup 2015 41

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Dr. Michelle Sexton is a Naturopathic Doctor and Executive Medical Research Director at the Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy. She is the Founder and Chief Science Officer of Phytalab, and developed the cannabis laboratory standards for WA State. She has presented her research internationally and is known for patient advocacy and industry leadership. Recent projects include documenting the natural history of parents administering Cannabis to their pediatric patients, Cannabis Use survey and developing a rapid clinic-based assay for evaluation of the endocannabinoid system.

Cheri Sicard is the author of Mary Jane: The Complete Marijuana Handbook for Women, and The Cannabis Gourmet Cookbook among other books. She writes a monthly column for Freedom Leaf Magazine and regularly contributes to other publications. She is executive director of the newly formed nonprofit group Marijuana Lifer Project: Ending Life Sentences for Marijuana.

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

Since dropping out of college in 1984 with the release of the first IBM PC’s James Slatic has been a “serial entrepreneur”. On March 28, 2009 he started Highland Medical Packaging, LLC to do packaging for the fledgling Medical Cannabis industry, and

has since become an activist in the national drug policy reform movement. James also started Med-West.com to develop cannabis medicine based on CO2 extracted cannabinoids and pure CBD products.

Swami Chaitanya grew his first plants on a south facing slope of Telegraph Hill, in the heart of San Francisco, in the late1970’s. It wasn’t until many years later, after sampling cannabis products across the globe, that he moved to Mendocino County to hone the fine art of cultivating sun grown cannabis organically. Swami has been a Judge in The Emerald Cup since it began in 2004 and is also a founding member of the Mendocino Cannabis Policy Council. “Swami Select” brand of cannabis is grown with organic methods and loving respect for the most incredible plant on earth.

Jason Sweatt is a US Army combat veteran and the director of SC Veterans Alliance (SCVA) in Santa Cruz County, California. Jason enlisted in the US Army in 1996 and was honorably discharged as a Staff Sargent in 2006. During his time in service he has flown missions with the DEA as a Blackhawk crew chief in the Bahamas to providing convoy security in Iraq.After his enlistment he finished college in Hawaii and moved to California to begin a career in horticulture and veteran advocacy.

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. When Nikka T is not processing solvent-less hash for patients through numerous Colorado Medical Marijuana Centers, innovating new ancillary products via Extract Artist, or playing music, he is traveling the world seeking knowledge.

As a former NFL football player now retired for almost a decade, Kyle personally saw the dire need for Cannabis as a medicine in sports after a lengthy addiction to prescription medication brought him to an impasse. In early 2015 Kyle made the informed decision to rid himself of synthetic medications & commit fully to treatment of his ailments through Cannabis. In finding relief beyond what the pharmaceutical world had to offer Kyle became a founding partner at the ‘Gridiron Cannabis Coalition’, determined to advance Cannabis as a medicine for his brothers in dire need of medication free from damaging negative side effects.

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 legally growing Cannabis since California’s medical marijuana law was passed in 1996. 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.

Josh has over six years of experience in cannabis analysis and has helped establish SC Labs as one of the largest testing facilities of kind.

He has a background in both analytical and synthetic chemistry and had worked in the pharmaceutical and electronic materials industries before becoming the laboratory director for the first cannabis testing lab in the United States. Through his tenure at SC Labs, Josh has overseen the analysis of almost two hundred thousand unique Cannabis samples.

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The seeds of Rebelution germinated in Santa Barbara’s college town of Isla Vista in 2004. A student named Marley D. Williams had recently switched from baseball to bass guitar when, walking to choir practice one night, he heard strains of roots-reggae coming through a door. The fellow reggae enthusiast turned out to be Eric Rachmany. a devotee of roots-reggae and dancehall, and especially the music of Don Carlos and Black Uhuru.

The nucleus of a new and innovative “California Reggae” band got rock-solid when Marley heard percussionist and drummer Wesley Finley’s impressive solos on a big African drum in a World Music class. At the same time, the bassist had befriended a local band featuring keyboardist Rory Carey, who soon became

Growing like wildfire under the canopy of live electronica and world roots music, Beats Antique have shown zero sign of slowing their creative momentum since forming as a trio in 2007.

Known for their masterful merge of modern technology and live instrumentation, the Bay Area trio combines live dance performance, brass bands, and glitch, string quartets and dubstep to create a world renown live experience all their own.

The group now headlines various music festivals across the country including Coachella, Austin City Limits, Lightening in a Bottle, Hangout, Mountain Jam, Lollapalooza, and Electric Forest as well as various international festivals.

The trio is composed of David Satori (banjo, guitar, saz, viola, andpercussion), Sidecar Tommy Cappel (keys, toy piano, drums, and percussion),and Zoë Jakes

another cornerstone of the budding Rebelution.

The acknowledgement of injustice that deepens some of Rebelution’s stories draws on the roots-reggae tradition that inspired the band in the first place.

Indeed, their love for the inspirational roots of modern Jamaican music have culminated in a collaboration with Don Carlos himself, on the jam-anthem “Roots Reggae Music.”

Still, at heart, the story of Rebelution is a pretty easy one to understand. As the band embarks on its second decade, Eric explains, “Rebelution is a great example of four friends who got together to play music for the fun of it, and still do that today. We just play music that we really enjoy.”

(belly dancer, composer, and arranger).

David Satori studied at California Institute of the Arts and Tommy Cappel studied at Berkeley School of Music before they ventured to locations such as Bali, West Africa, and Serbia. With extensive backgrounds in multicultural music production, and the passports to prove it, Satori and Cappel command the spectrum of live and digital instrumentation with skills born from Traditional Folk to Hip Hop and old school Jazz.

Beats Antique is best imagined as an innovative creature built from the cumulative heritage of the world’s music chasing its tail. However vivid that image, when a marching band groove crashes into bluesy folk chords only to be accompanied by electronic beats and Middle Eastern melodies, you’ll still be surprised and taken to a place you hadn’t previously known existed. the emerald cup 2015 45

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Light It Up, the new record from artist Collie Buddz, is momentous, gigantic and booming!

It’s immediately undeniable an awe-struck song complete with an unforgettable singalong hook, the kind of beats that pound in the chest and a vocal performance that’s as uncommon as it is infectious.

Produced by Neenyo, a protégé of hit maker J.R. Rotem, Light It Up easily goes from the car to nightclubs all over the world. Collie details his process, “As an artist, I want to expand musically. I’ll always do Reggae. I did Reggae music because I was good at it and that’s what I knew and loved growing up. But at the same time, when I put on my producer hat and I hear a riddim, it might not be in my comfort range, but whatever I hear on the track dictates what I’m going to make. I really only care about making good music. For that to happen, it can’t live in a box.”

With his independent spirit guiding his journey, Buddz has traveled as far possible from

His first album with Nahko and Medicine for the People, On The Verge, came out in 2010, reflecting this exploration. The group’s second album, Dark As Night, followed in the spring of 2013 and further expanded on Nahko’s evolving ideas about self—discovery and acceptance.

There is also an underlying theme of social and political change woven throughout the songs.

Bridging the music and activism worlds, Nahko has promoted and raised awareness with organizations that range from climate change awareness (350.org) to a myriad of projects surrounding first nation rights, energy policies, environmental and social justice issues with elders such Winona LaDuke (www.honorearth. org) and birthing clinics (Bumi Sehat, Bali) to teaching cultural respect and accountability through music at schools all over the world.

Medicine for the People is backed by the tribal hand percussion and rhythms of Hope Medford. Lead guitarist Chase Makai brings an edgy rock vibe to the Medicine sound, with his electrified 12—string acoustic guitar.

“Through the years we’ve been fine tuning the purpose behind what we’re doing,” Nahko

his little corner of the earth. He’s constantly creating new music and experimenting with it in front of live audiences almost immediately.

With support from his team at Mojiza Management and touring and merchandising backing at Ineffable Music, Collie Buddz has toured the world. He’s honed his craft while in support of several tours with artists such as Cypress Hill, Rebelution and Matisyahu. He’s performed in front of thousands at the largest music festivals such as Lollapalooza, Boomtown, Summer Jam and the California Roots Festival.

While touring, Buddz still found time to record new material and release original music independently on his own record label, Harper Digital. He’s even managed to launch a new radio station back home in Bermuda (Vibe 103) and become a father.

Armed with a tremendous record, it doesn’t appear that Collie Buddz will soon be finding time to rest.

says. “The oral tradition of storytelling is so important for our generation to bring with us.

Part of what we try to convey is accountability and empowerment. These songs direct us to look at ourselves, whether it’s about a social issue, environmental or personal issue. They embrace Bob Marley’s idea of world-bridging, bringing people together to resolve differences. For us, music is a tool to create healing and activate people to change things.”

The band has toured with SOJA, and internationally with Xavier Rudd, and performed at festivals such as Electric Forest and Wakarusa (USA), the Bali Spirit Festival (Indonesia) and Byron Spirit Festival (AUS), continually bringing a powerful catharsis to the audience.

“I think our music promotes the bridging of all tribes,” Nahko says. “The lyrics and the stories and our energy as a group break down people’s walls. You’ll find us in the most unique places on earth because it’s real, raw and honest storytelling about what we’ve been through and what we believe in. And that’s why people connect with it. I think that’s the most important thing you can do with music.”

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Revolutionary technology meets an evolutionary message in Papadosio. Melding progressive rock with psychedelia, folk with electronica, and dance music with jam, the quintet has amassed a dedicated following of thousands of likeminded individuals sowing the seeds of unity and spreading the sounds of exaltation. Singer-songwriter Anthony Thogmartin’s visionary lyrics, eclectic production, and signature guitar work are anchored by the rock solid battery of drummer Mike Healy and bassist Rob McConnell. The quintet is rounded out by brothers Billy and Sam Brouse, whose virtuosic two-headed keyboard, synth, and programming attack give the band its unmistakable complexity and intensity.

The culmination of all that writing on the

road is T.E.T.I.O.S. The follow-up to 2009’s critically acclaimed Observations finally arrived in the fall of 2012. To End the Illusion of Separation is a sprawling double album, signaling not only an evolution of the band’s sound, but a paradigm shift on a far greater scale.

The album is a call for people of all stripes to reject artificial barriers of wealth, class, and creed and come together under the flag of humanity. Themes of conservation, tolerance, and mind-expansion delicately weave their way around tribal rhythms, psychedelic excursions, and soaring melodies. The fusion of the earthly, the organic, with technological innovations and progressive sonic structure plants Papadosio’s roots firmly in the past and present with an eye turned towards the horizon.

There is an exciting resurgence of conscious, organic music in Jamaica and industry experts and observers agree that Protoje is playing an important role in what is becoming known as the “Reggae Revival.”

Leading the militant band - The Indiggnation - this powerful songwriter and philosophical thinker articulates the righteous anger of an emerging generation. Protoje reports for duty, re-establishing the standard for the decaying art of socially responsible, mentally stimulating lyricism.

After successfully releasing 2 Albums “The Seven Year Itch” and “The 8 Year Affair” which spawned Rasta Love ft Ky-Mani Marley and Kingston Be Wise; which was featured in Grand Theft Auto; Protoje releases his 3rd Studio Album titled ANCIENT FUTURE.

Fortunate Youth is a collaboration of South Bay reggae stand-outs. Rising from various bands, they’ve created a phenomenal 6-piece masterpiece bringing more fire to the stage than ever before. Combining rootsy vibes and unique bass lines united with multiple harmonies, boisterous guitar solos, and heavy keys separates Fortunate Youth from every other mainstream reggae band. With their high energy approach and positive stage presence they provide an unforgettable show to every music fan. Fortunate Youth’s objective is to ensure a performance that leaves you feeling euphoric and curious of what might happen at the next show.

Protoje’s visibility has steadily increased with articles being written in major publications ahead of his album release, and a major achievement was being named on BBC 1xtra Hot for 2015 Artiste list so he will be promoted across the BBC platform. Artistes were selected because As Mista Jams of BBC stated; “they’re producing the quality music needed to become big in the next 12 months. It’s a real cross section of really exciting new talent all currently on their A game.”

Protoje has been gaining momentum throughout the world, performing at quality venues to large audiences and will continue to tour consistently with his band The Indiggnation to promote ANCIENT FUTURE especially in Europe where several tours have already been booked as they continue to spread the music.

2013 release, “It’s All A Jam”, hit numerous charts including #1 on Billboard Reggae Charts, #10 Billboard Pacific Heatseekers Chart, #23 Billboard National Heatseeker Chart along with #1 on iTunes Reggae Charts and #46 iTunes Overall Charts. FY followed the album release with a 55-Show nationwide Spring Headline Tour seeing great response from the album’s successful release.

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If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that Kings And Queens is a synthesis of every aspect of John Brown’s Body’s storied career.

It’s as if, after close to two decades of existence, this pioneering band has finally crafted their ultimate statement, tying together styles they’ve dabbled in, paid respect to, created, or pushed forward into one tightly woven mosaic.

JBB’s Future Roots is now present tense.

John Brown’s Body formed (in Boston in the mid 1990s) at a time when there wasn’t what you’d call a U.S. reggae scene. The American bands that played reggae were regional at best, touring little, and many were primarily cover bands of the best known Jamaican reggae. JBB was one of a handful of groups that began touring nationally and created distinctly

American reggae, steeped in traditional vibes but incorporating elements from other genres.

Whereas most groups tackled typical reggae themes – religion and marijuana – JBB acted more like an indie band, writing songs that used the vocabulary of reggae to express their own experiences. Over time, this style has become the norm. The U.S. scene has grown tremendously – to the point of having two bands debut records in the Billboard Top 20 in 2012 – and many in the genre point to John Brown’s Body as a key influence.

The band’s relentless touring schedule helped pave the way for the nationwide scene, showing other bands that it was okay to be from the Northeast and still be comfortable playing in California, Hawaii, Colorado or Iowa.

The five-piece band comprised of John Asher (Drums, Vocals), John Butcher (Guitar, Vocals), Roy Fishell (Organs), Chiquis Lozoya (Bass, Vocals), and Devin Morrison (Guitar, Vocals) have been making reggae fans and critics take note with their refreshing sound that references the “golden era” of reggae. Morrison and Butcher grew up listening to the record collection of famed reggae archivist Roger Steffens, and credit much of their love and knowledge to the accessibility and education of those experiences. Becoming friends with Steffens’ son, they developed an obsession with exploring the deepest reaches of the genre.

The band is part of a burgeoning Los Angeles reggae scene that sprang in large part from The Blue Beat Lounge (the longest running

Things really started to move forward when Marv (Garrick Bushek) had a long conversation with beat maker Sage Lien at his house in the country near Eugene. The sprawling conversation naturally covered music, but the two men also gelled on broader topics and a mutual desire to change the world.

Marv has long sought to bring together people from different backgrounds. His Imaginary Friends, at its peak, was a 12-member hip-hop orchestra. There were some legendary shows, but it collapsed under its own weight and ambition. Marv moved to Portland and started to network and play regularly, forming another band, the Platform. To him, WE Tribe is what he was trying to achieve when he started those other projects but he did not have all the tools yet to articulate what he

weekly ska night that happened at the Knitting Factory) and LA’s longtime premier weekly reggae night Dub Club held at the Echoplex.

A song that was inspired by a key member of that scene is “Reggae Pops,” an infectious instrumental tune laid over a “steppers riddim” featuring John Butcher on lead guitar and Dan Hastie from Orgone on clavinet. The title was chosen as a tribute to the late-great Reggae Pops (born Nemencio Jose Andujar) who was a pillar of the Southern California reggae community for decades. Morrison states, “It’s impossible to accurately describe what he meant to reggae music in Los Angeles, but those who remember him from shows will never forget him. He was a dancer, a fan, and a presence that was always felt. He was the man!”

was going for, or needed others who were on the same page as he was. He has that now. He said this project feels like everything from his musical past is coming together. “The missing thing was me letting go,” Marv said. “Letting go of the reigns empowers everybody. That’s the ‘we,’ man. It’s something I’ve been growing to love. It just feels so good. This is the least challenging project.”

Because of their mutual vision, Sage opened up his beat library to Marv. Hundreds of beats in a raw, gritty, crunchy old-school style Sage has hewn over years of intuitive beat making on his ASR-10 sampling keyboard.

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