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Shell casings link Skyway murder to suspect in other cases BY DEAN A. RADFORD
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Tranquility Holistic Center Manager Steven Hinch, center, helps a patient, as co-manager Ted Warren looks on. BRIAN BECKLEY, Renton Reporter
Inside a Renton collective garden Local medical-marijuana providers urge increased state regulation but worry what a potential citywide ban could mean for their patients and business BY BRIAN BECKLEY bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
While the products in the back may have names like “Casey Jones,” “diesel,” “blueberry kush” and “bubble gum,” make no mistake about it, for the providers and the clients at Tranquility Holistic Center on South Third Street, this is serious medicine. Manager Steven Hinch can tell you exactly which of the marijuana products will best alleviate your symptoms, based on the spectrometry profile of the marijuana, which reveals which cannabinoids – the chemical compounds in marijuana that react with the body – are present in the plant and therefore tell Hinch how that particular strain will affect a patient.
“Each cannabinoid has a very specific effect,” he said, noting that all of the marijuana at Tranquility is screened. For example, Hinch said there is a specific cannabinoid that helps relieve the pressure on the eyes caused by glaucoma. Some strains contain more than others and some strains contain more of the cannabinoids that get you “high.” And for many patients, Hinch said the important thing is not the buzz but the medicinal effects. That is, after all, why they are there. “Getting high is not going to help them,” he said. It’s exactly because of that knowledge of the product and the medicine and how it will affect the patients that Hinch and co-manager Ted Warren are worried about losing if the Renton City Council
opts to ban medicinal marijuana within city limits, something it appears poised to do next month when the present moratorium on the business ends. It is also why Hinch and Warren both want to see greater regulation on the state level, to not only legitimize their business but also to provide patients with the kind of information and safety testing that can protect them from bad actors in the industry just looking to sell pot and not necessarily as only medicine. “We’re not mindless stoners, like a majority of the people might think,” Warren said. Warren is not only the manager at Tranquility but also a patient. Warren is fighting leukemia and says the mari[ more GARDENS page 19 ]
Leroy Henderson regularly walked in Skyway, between his home and Skyway Bowl. He was on one of those walks at about 11:40 p.m. April 27 when he was shot 10 times. Five of those shots were clustered in the back of his right shoulder. He died at the scene on 68th Avenue South. He was 30 years old. Shell casings from a Smith and Wesson handgun were collected. His family offered a $1,000 award to anyone who might help solve his murder. In July those shell casings, stamped with FC 9 mm Lugar, were linked through ballistics tests to a violent homicide in New Jersey on June 25. The suspect in the fatal [ more CHARGES page 19 ]
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City launches ‘Ready in Renton’ for National Preparedness Month in September BY TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
On the heels of the Napa earthquake, September is “National Preparedness Month” and “Ready in Renton” in the city, highlighting the City of Renton’s emergency preparedness campaign. The city has made a number of upgrades to its Emergency Operations Center, or E.O.C., in the Highlands. Most recently the E.O.C. was used for the July 19 fire at the Regency [ more READY page 8 ]
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