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EDITOR'S NOTE This month, Extract takes a look backward and forward at those whom the government has called criminals but those in the cannabis space called pioneers. I would take that a step farther and call them freedom fighters. Will Foster was an Oklahoma computer scientist who was raided by police on a confidential informant’s tip searching for methamphetamine. Law officers instead found only his small bomb shelter packed with cannabis plants. He sacrificed more than four years of his life for 27 plants. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, Eddy Lepp put the pedal to the metal in cultivation for patients, including his wife who died during her fourth bout of cancer, surrendering nearly a decade in federal prison for the cause. Foster is back home growing some of the best cannabis in the state, and Lepp is now in legal limbo while on parole in the state where he has spent more than half of his life. Meanwhile, Nikita Lewchuk talks to some of our activist neighbors to the south in their attempts to bring legal cannabis to the Lone Star State and, for his first time in our pages, Dr. Lawrence Pasternack takes aim at anti-cannabis crusaders who continue to restrict and punish cannabis users even as legalization efforts continue to snowball across the world. Justin Williams informs those doing business in Oklahoma’s cannabis industry of the changes now in effect resulting from House Bill 2612 this past legislative session and Dr. Steven Ross shines a spotlight on another mysterious illness afflicting cannabis consumers this month, an affliction that has been dubbed cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and a topic that you will see again soon in these pages. You will notice this month that Extract is undergoing a makeover. I have been working closer with our creative director, Phillip Danner, to update the look of our magazine. Expect to see more of these changes as we move forward. Matt Dinger Managing Editor Extract mdinger@okgazette.com
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