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4HESE PICS ARE FROM MY SECOND GROW ) SENT YOU PICS FROM MY FIRST WHICH WAS DISSAPOINTING BUT THESE 2HINO S FROM MY SECOND HAVE TURNED OUT A BIT BETTER ) GREW THEM IN SOIL UNDER A WATT (03 LIGHT ) USED $UTCH -ASTER IN VEG AND THEN "IO "LOOM AND 0+ IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS

PLUS TABLE SPOONS OF SUGAR P S -Y FIANCE !NNABEL LOVES GETTING HER TITS OUT FOR YOU IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE THEM IN YOUR PAPER IT WOULD MAKE HER DAY 3TEVE 4HANKS TO YOU AND !NNABEL

3TEVE 4ELL HER WE ARE HAPPY TO SEE ANYTHING SHE WANTS TO SHOW 3WEET 0ROBABLY YOU COULD HAVE INCREASED YOUR YIELD ON THIS IF YOU D USED A STERILE ROOT ZONE MEDIA SO YOU COULD TOTALLY CONTROL YOUR NUTRIENT INPUT AND GIVE YOUR ROOTS AN EASIER ENVIRONMENT TO LIVE IN THAN SOIL 4HE WATT SHOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU ENOUGH LIGHT 4HE USE OF SUGAR ISN T GOING TO HELP 9OU NEED TO LOAD CARBOS USING A PROFESSIONAL HYDROPONICS NUTRIENTS PRODUCT THAT HAS THE RIGHT SUGARS IN THE RIGHT FORMS THAT YOUR PLANTS CAN USE 9OU ALSO MIGHT WANT TO TRY DIFFERENT BRANDS OF FERTS AND USE A BLOOM BOOSTER NOT JUST A 0 + FORMULA DURING BLOOM CYCLE +EEP GROWING AND YOU WILL GET BETTER AND BETTER YIELDS

(I THERE ) WAS GIVEN A COPY OF YOUR MAG IT S GREAT ) MOVED TO 3PAIN FROM THE 5+ !PRIL ) AM SENDING A PICTURE OF MY PLANTS GROWING OUTSIDE THEY ARE FT IN TALL HAVEN T BUDDED UP YET WILL SEND A PIC WHEN IN THEIR PRIME 4HIS IS ONLY THE THIRD YEAR ) HAVE TRIED GROWING AND ) THINK QUITE WELL ) PREPARED THE GROUND IN /CTOBER WITH SOME OLD CHICKEN MANURE WELL WATERED OVER THE WINTER ) PLANTED THE PLANTS OUT IN EARLY !PRIL THIS HAS WORKED VERY WELL ) AM SENDING A PIC OF LAST YEARS CROP AS WELL *AN 9OU RE GOING TO BREAK THE HEARTS OF ALL THE 5+ GROWERS WHO ARE FORCED TO GROW INDOORS 7HEN THEY SEE THE HUGE PLANTS YOU GET OUTDOORS IN 3PAIN IT S GONNA MAKE THEM WANT TO MOVE SOUTH 0LEASE SEND US MORE PICS OF THESE PLANTS AS THEY GROW 7E RECOMMEND YOU PUT BAT GUANO BONE MEAL AND POTASH IN THE SOIL ALONG WITH SOME WELL BREWED COMPOST AND SOME BENEFICIAL MICROBES #HICKEN MANURE IS GREAT FOR NITRO BUT NOT AS MUCH FOR POTASSIUM AND PHOSPHORUS 7E ALSO RECOMMEND TAKING OFF SOME OF THOSE LARGE SHADE LEAVES SO MORE LIGHT CAN GET INTO THE INNER PARTS OF YOUR BUDS AND MAKE LARGER FLOWERS !S YOU SEE FROM YOUR PICTURE ONLY THE TOP OF YOUR PLANTS ARE PRODUCING BUDS AND IF YOU GET MORE LIGHT IN YOU CAN GET MORE BUD DEVELOPMENT FROM THE GROUND UP 3END MORE PICTURES AND TELL US HOW MUCH TOTAL YIELD YOU GOT

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(ERE S SOME PIC S OF A 7HITE 2HINO ONE WEEK BEFORE HARVEST ) PUT PLANTS UNDER SIX WATT LIGHTS 6EGGED FOR THREE MONTHS DUE TO CLONE PROBLEMS SO ) HAD TO USE MY MOTHERS 4HEY WERE IN LITRE POTS WITH ROCKWOOL AN CLAY PEBBLES &ED ON #ANNA 6EGA &LORES AND 0+ (UNG TO DRY %NDED UP WITH APPROXIMATELY G OZ ON EACH PLANT "5::). "" 7ONDERING WHAT YOU MEAN BY CLONE PROBLEMS 7E RE HEARING ABOUT NEW GENERATION CLONING GELS THAT WORK WAY BETTER THAN THE GELS AND ROOTING POWDERS ALL OF US HAVE BEEN USING 7E LIKE HOW YOU VE VENTED YOUR LIGHTS TAPED THE WALLS AND HAVE FILTRATION ON THE EXHAUST #HECK OUT ,%$ LIGHTING WHICH ELIMINATES HEAT AND WAY DECREASES ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION 'OOD JOB ON YOUR 2HINOS MATE

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&ANCY A &2%% PACKET OF (IGH 1UALITY 3EEDS 4HEN SEND US A PICTURE OF YOUR GARDEN INCLUDING A VISIBLE COPY OF 335+ AND WE LL SEND YOU THE SEEDS 3HOULD YOUR GARDEN HAPPEN TO FEATURE YOUR GIRLFRIEND OR WIFE TOPLESS

WEARING A SEXY BIKINI OR WEARING HOT LINGERIE YOU ALSO GET A PACK OF "LACK ,ABEL STOCK THE LABEL OF THE CHAMPIONS %DITOR S #HOICE RECEIVES PACKS PRIME "LACK ,ABEL STOCK % MAIL YOUR ENTRIES TO 335+ SOFTSECRETS NL OR SEND THEM TO OUR 0O"OX PHOTOS ONLY ./ DIGITAL PRINTS ./4% !LL ENTRIES ARE HANDLED WITH THE UTMOST DISCRETION 7E DON T PUBLISH OUT OF FOCUS PICS AND WE DON T LIKE PHOTOS OF PLANTS IN VEG STAGE )T S FAT BUDS HOT TITS WE WANT TO SEE

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3UPERTHRIVE THROUGHOUT .EEM REPEL IN VEG WEEK INTO BLOOM FOR BUG PREVENTION !LSO ODD BIT OF GNAT OFF INTO FEED AND HOMEMADE #O USING SUGAR YEAST AND WATER A LITRE MILK BOTTLE AND AN AIR TRAP $ON T KNOW HOW MUCH THIS ACTUALLY HELPS BUT HEY IT SEEMS TO !LL UNDER A W (03 3ON 4 WITH A STANDARD HAMMERED REFLECTOR PLANTS ARE SAT IN A 7ILMA SYSTEM THEY ALL FLOWERED IN A LITTLE UNDER WEEKS FROM SWITCH COULDN T BELIEVE MY EYES &OR OZ OF DRY DENSE HARD CRYSTALISED BUD /F CLONES THAT WERE SWITCHED TO AT ABOUT INCHES @CUS OF HEAD HEIGHT ) LOST THE MOTHER DUE TO LOCAL ACTIVITY CAUSING PARANOIA TO SET IN N I RIPPED EM OUT $/( /H YEAH AND ) ALSO USE AN INCH INLINE FAN AND CARBON FILTER FOR SMELL ELIMINATION PLANTS ON SIDE WERE STILL IN PREFLOWER LUCKILY EXILE WAS DONE IN TIME TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE OTHER PLANTS U CAN SEE ON THE SIDES OF PIC 3COT 5+

4HIS IS MY LAST CROP AND VERY NICE IT WAS TOO 7AS (ASH 0LANT BY 3ENSI 3EEDS 4HANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT INFO KEEP IT COMING 7IFE WASN T UP FOR GETTING HER TITS OUT SO IT S JUST ME WITH A -ICK *AGGER MASK ON FELT LIKE A TIT THOUGH * FROM 'LASGOW 6ERY NICE GROW 7E CAN TELL THAT YOU KEPT IT CLEAN AND ORDERLY 4HE WHITE REFLECTIVE MATERIALS ON THE WALLS IS A GREAT IDEA TO BOUNCE LIGHT BACK ONTO YOUR PLANTS ,OOKS LIKE YOU HAVE AIR FILTRATION GOOD EXHAUST VENTING AND ENOUGH LIGHTING TO MAKE A UNIFORM SEA OF GREEN .EXT TIME TELL US SOME OF THE DETAILS OF THE CROP GROWTH CYCLE WHAT FERTS YOU USED ETC !ND EVEN IF YOUR WIFE DOES T WANT TO BARE HER BREASTS WE DON T MIND IT FITS YOUR MISTRESS NEIGHBOR OR SOME GIRL YOU MET AT THE PUB AS LONG AS HER BODY IS AS NICE AS YOUR PLANTS LET S SEE IT

7E LOVE THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND CREATIVITY YOU PUT INTO YOUR GARDEN AND INTO THIS REPORT THAT ACCOMPANIED YOUR PHOTO 7E VERY MUCH ENCOURAGE ALL GROWERS TO TELL US THIS LEVEL OF DETAIL ABOUT THEIR CROPS )T HELPS ALL READERS WHEN THEY CAN SEE THE TECHNIQUES THAT YOU USE ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GROWER IS AS CREATIVE AS 3COT $ID YOU USE A SPECIAL COCO FERTILIZER 7E HEAR THAT THAT HELPS GET BIGGER YIELDS IN COCO 9OU GOT AS MUCH YIELD OUT OF THESE %XILES AS YOU COULD AND THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST MAXED OUT MINI GARDENS WE VE SEEN #ONGRATULATIONS

*ACK (ERER -Y FIRST 'ROW WEEKS INTO FLOWER AND OUR LOVELY MODEL TODAY IS MY YODA @SOAPY WATT LIGHT 3LINKY IN )RELAND 9OU RE DOING GREAT WITH YOUR FIRST GROW ,OOKS LIKE A CLEAN ROOM WITH LOTS OF LIGHT -AYBE WOULD HAVE WANTED TO TRIM THOSE PLANTS EARLY BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING VERTICAL AND STRETCHING 4HEY RE GOING TO FILL IN MORE AS YOU GO FROM WEEK TO HARVEST BUT NOT ENOUGH 9OU WANT TO USE A BLOOM BOOSTER FROM ABOUT WEEK TWO OF FLOWERING ON AND POUR ON THE LIGHT 9OUR MODEL IS CUTE BUT SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE NEEDED TO SHED SOME OF THOSE CLOTHES AND BOND WITH THE PLANTS

#"% 7E RE NOT ABLE TO SEE MUCH OF YOUR PLANTS FROM THIS MURKY SHOT

BUT YOUR LADY LOOKS NICE $EFINITELY PUT SOME MYLAR OR REFLECTIVE WHITE PLASTIC TO ACT AS CURTAINS ON YOUR WALLS SO LIGHT BOUNCES BACK 4HINK ABOUT DECREASING THE DENSITY OF THE PLANTS SO YOU GET LIGHT PENETRATION DEEPER INTO THE PLANTS

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4HIS WAS FROM A CUTTING OF 3 )T WAS GROWN IN METER SQUARE WITH A W SODIUM LIGHT )N VEG FOR WEEKS AND IN FLOWER FOR WEEKS &ED ON #ANNA 4ERRA &LORES THEN FED ON 0+ WEEKS BEFORE HARVEST 'OT OZ FROM IT DRY 3 4HANKS TO YOUR LADY 9OU DID WELL WITH THIS 4RY USING A BLOOM BOOSTER AND A CARBOLOADER DURING BLOOM PHASE FOR EXTRA CRYSTAL AND HARVEST SIZE 9OUR LEAVES ARE CURLING AND DROOPING WHICH INDICATES SOME KIND OF NUTRIENT PROBLEM !ND IF YOU NEED TO TIE SOME STEMS WITH STRING TO KEEP THEM UP THAT TOO COULD BE AN INDICATION OF NUTE PROBLEMS OR JUST REAL HEAVY BUDS 9OU HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR CURLING LEAVES AND BURNT LEAF TIPS -IGHT WANT TO CHANGE NUTRIENTS AND EXPERIMENT WITH PPM AND P( TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE GIVING PLANTS EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED

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$EAR 3OFT 3ECRETS ) HAVE A TALE OF WOE ) WAS GOING TO SEND IN SOME PIC S OF MY LATEST CROP A CROSS BETWEEN .ORTHERN ,IGHTS MALE A 4HAI LADY "UT ) HAVE HAD A TRIPLE TRAGEDY &IRSTLY IT GOT INFESTED WITH THE WORST CASE OF SPIDER MITE ) HAVE EVER HAD

BY DAY THERE WAS SO MANY THAT ) M SURE ) COULD HEAR THEM LAUGHING AS ) SPRAYED THEM "Y DAY THINGS WERE SO BAD ) DECIDED TO SPEND A DAY IN THE SHOWER WITH THEM TENDERLY WASHING AS MANY AWAY AS POSS IT DIDNT WORK BUT IT WAS A HORNY EXPERIENCE $AY THINGS HAD IMPROVED A LITTLE SO ) FELT GOOD $AY ) REALISED THE TIMER HAD FAILED HRS OF NO DARKNESS BUGGER ) FELT BAD AGAIN "Y DAY ) HAD NO CHOICE OTHER THAN CUT EM DOWN 4HEY LOOKED REALLY SAD SICK SO ) DECIDED TO HAVE A FIRE IN THE GARDEN AND ANYTHING ) COULDNT SALVAGE TO DRY ) D BURN 3O THAT EVENING ) HAD A BURN UP SAT IN THE SMOKE OF PLANTS 7ENT TO BED SMASHED AND UNHAPPY "UT AT LEAST THE PROBLEMS WERE OVER /R SO I THOUGHT 4HEY SAY TRAGEDIES COME IN THREE S ) SHOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THAT $AY AM ) WAS RUDELY WOKEN WITH BLUE FLASHING LIGHT SIRENS ) STOOD AT THE WINDOW IN DISBELIEF AS ) WATCHED MY SHED WHERE MY 6 BIKE LIVES "URNING TO THE GROUND BUGGER AGAIN ) M CERTAIN IT WAS THE LAST ACT OF DEFIANCE FROM THE BLOODY SPIDER MITES THEY WALKED THE EMBERS OF THE FIRE OVER TO MY SHED 7ELL THATS WHAT ) M GONNA PUT ON THE INSURANCE CLAIM 3O TO CHEER MYSELF UP ) SAT AT THE COMPUTER AND CODDLED TOGETHER AN OLD CROP OF SOMETHING ) GREW SO MANY YEARS AGO ) CAN T REMEMBER WHAT IT IS MY SEXY WIFE (ORNY $AWNY 3ORRY THE PIC S BEEN DIGITALY PLAYED WITH BUT IT WAS EITHER THAT OR A PHOTO OF A BURNED SHED BIKE LOADZA LAUGHING SPIDER MITE -R 0INK -ISS #ERICE &OR A COUPLE WHO VE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH YOU VE PRODUCED SOME OF THE LOVELIEST PICS WE VE EVER SEEN 9OUR DIGITAL SKILLS ARE AS GOOD AS YOUR WRITING SKILLS 9ES IT S TRUE AFTER SPIDER MITES ARE ESTABLISHED IT S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET RID OF THEM UNLESS YOU SPRAY POISON ON YOUR PLANTS 7HICH OF COURSE MEANS YOU CAN T SMOKE THEM 4HAT S WHY WE RECOMMEND DAILY INSPECTIONS OF YOUR PLANTS SO YOU CAN STOP MITES AND OTHER PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY TAKE HOLD 3PRAYS CONTAINING NEEM AND ALL NATURAL OIL SOAP CAN STOP EARLY MITES THRIPS AND OTHER PROBLEMS WITHOUT MAKING YOUR BUDS UNFIT FOR SMOKING 7E RE SORRY TO HEAR OF THE FIRES TIMER FAILURES AND OTHER MISHAPS

BUT NOW YOU LL PROBABLY HAVE ALL GOOD LUCK !ND AT THE VERY LEAST YOU KNOW WHAT ./4 TO DO AND HOW TO RUN A SAFE GROW ROOM SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE PICTURES AND HEARING THE DETAILS OF YOUR FUTURE GARDENSxTHE GARDENS THAT HAVE ./ PESTS FIRES OR TECHNO FAILURES

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AND BLOCKING PAIN SIGNALS AND IT DOES ALL THIS WITHOUT CAUSING EUPHORIA OR INTERFERING WITH THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IN ANY WAY 3INCE THE SUBSTANCE BETA CARYOPHYLLENE HAS ALL THE HALLMARKS OF A NATURALLY OCCURRING PAIN RELIEVER WHICH DOES NOT CONTAIN THE PSYCHO ACTIVE INGREDIENTS OF THE RAW CANNABIS PLANT *URG 'ERTSCH BELIEVES BETA CARYOPHYLLENE COULD BE THE NEXT hWONDER DRUGv ALTHOUGH WHERE THAT WILL TAKE THE SUBSTANCE IS ANYONES GUESS ,ARGE BLUE CHIP PHARMACEUTICAL ORGANISATIONS TEND NOT TO SEEK APPROVAL S FOR NATURALLY OCCURRING CHEMICALS WHICH IS A LARGE PART OF THE REASON CANNABIS WAS NEVER LEGALISED )TS NOT POSSIBLE TO PATENT A PLANT $OCTORS ARE RELUCTANT TO PRESCRIBE UNREGULATED DRUGS TO THEIR PATIENTS AS -ULTIPLE 3CLEROSIS PATIENTS SEEKING 3ATIVEX PRESCRIPTIONS IN THE 5+ WILL PAY WITNESS SO WHAT USE THIS NEW RESEARCH WILL BE IN THE GREATER CANNABIS DEBATE REMAINS TO BE SEEN

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ALMOST TWO DOZEN PEOPLE ARRESTED 4HURSDAY AFTER SEARCH WARRANTS WERE EXECUTED IN A CRACKDOWN ON MARIJUANA GROW OPS 4ORONTO S #HIEF OF 0OLICE "ILL "LAIR SAID HE WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED TO LEARN THAT TWO OF HIS OFFICERS WERE ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN A DRUG TRAFFICKING OPERATION THAT INVOLVED MARIJUANA ECSTASY STEROIDS AND MONEY LAUNDERING ! LITTLE CLOSER TO HOME AND THE -ETROPOLITAN 0OLICE IN ,ONDON HAVE CAUGHT ONE OF THEIR OWN OFFICERS IN A STING OPERATION STEALING CANNABIS SEIZED AS EVIDENCE FROM THE CUSTODY 3UITE AT (OLBORN 0OLICE 3TATION IN ,ONDON &ORMER MET 0OLICE /FFICER 0AUL 3MITH REPEATEDLY FOUND EXCUSES TO VISIT THE CUSTODY SUITE AREA OF THE POLICE STATION AND SURREPTITIOUSLY POCKETED SMALL AMOUNTS OF THE #LASS # SUBSTANCE WHICH HAD BEEN CONFISCATED FROM SUSPECTS 3MITH S COLLEAGUES BECAME SUSPICIOUS USED ##46 AND A BAG OF THE DRUG COVERED WITH INVISIBLE DYE TO CATCH HIM OUT 4HE MARRIED FATHER OF ONE WHO HAS SINCE RESIGNED FROM THE -ETROPOLITAN 0OLICE WAS ARRESTED AND THE CANNABIS USED AS BAIT WAS FOUND IN ONE OF HIS WARRANT CARD COMPARTMENTS (E ESCAPED A JAIL SENTENCE "UT NOT ALL 0OLICE OFFICERS HIDE THEIR CANNABIS USE *ANUARY ST SAW A NEW RULE BROUGHT INTO BEING IN !MSTERDAM 4HE !MSTERDAM 0OLICE FORCE WERE TOLD IN THE !UTUMN OF AS OF *ANUARY ST THEY WOULD NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO CONSUME CANNABIS WHILST OFF DUTY .OT SUCH A STRANGE INSTRUCTION WHEN YOU BEAR IN MIND (OLLANDS LIBERAL ATTITUDE TO CANNABIS BUT THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED THEY WANTED !MSTERDAM S 0OLICE TO TOTALLY ABSTAIN AND DIDN T THEY THE POLICE EVER COMPLAIN ABOUT IT !ND NOT WITHOUT GOOD REASON AS RETIRING PRESIDENT OF (OLLANDS LARGEST 0OLICE &EDERATION (ANS VAN $UIJN STRESSED JUST PRIOR TO HIS RETIREMENT IN -AY WHEN HE SAID h4HE CULTIVATION AND USE OF CANNABIS SHOULD BECOME LEGAL IN THE .ETHERLANDS !T THE SAME TIME THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD ORGANISE THE CONTROLLED DISTRIBUTION OF HARD DRUGS TO ADDICTS v h/NLY UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES CAN THE POLICE MAKE A SERIOUS EFFORT TO FIGHT DRUG CRIMINALSv HE CONTINUED 3O IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION h(OW DANGEROUS IS CANNABISv !CCORDING TO 0OLICE OFFICERS ALL OVER THE WORLD NOT VERY

! RESEARCH GROUP IN 3WITZERLAND HAVE IN THEIR OWN WORDS hPROVEN THAT CANNABIS COULD BE USED TO TREAT PAIN INFLAMMATION ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND OSTEOPOROSIS v WHICH IS SURE TO ADD WEIGHT TO THE ARGUEMENT FOR THE "RITISH GOVERNMENT TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNISE CANNABIS AS A BONA FIDE MEDICINE !CCORDING TO *URG 'ERTSCH %4( :URICH ALONG WITH RESEARCHERS FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES THEY LEARNED THE NATURALLY OCCURING MOLECULE WHICH IS READILY AVAILABLE IN SOME FOOD STUFFS PLUGS INTO A PROTEIN CALLED A h4YPE CANNABINOID RECEPTOR v 4HE RESEARCH TEAM HAVE SINCE PUBLISHED THEIR FINDINGS ON *UNE RD IN THE 0ROCEEDINGS OF THE .ATIONAL !CADEMY OF 3CIENCES 2ESEARCHERS FOCUSED ON THE ANTI INFLAMMATORY PROPERTIES OF THE SUBSTANCE TESTING IT ON IMMUNE

/RDINARILY THE "RITISH POLICE ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF LECTURING OUR YOUNGSTERS ON THE PERIL S ASSOCIATED WITH CANNABIS USE h/NE PUFF CAN BRING ON PSYCHOSISv THE COPPERS SAY AS THEY STOP SEARCH ANOTHER GROUP OF LAIRY YOUNGSTERS WANDERING AROUND AN INNER CITY COUNCIL ESTATE !ND WOE BETIDE THE SPOTTY LITTLE SCROAT THAT ACTUALLY TRIES TO CORRECT THE 0OLICE MAN WITH A MORE ACCURATE EXPLANATION AS TO WHY CANNABIS IS IN FACT ILLEGAL 3UCH ADVICE IS MET WITH A FROSTY RECEPTION AND WILL NO DOUBT BOOK THE WISE MOUTH A TRIP TO THE LOCAL CUSTODY SUITE "UT IN THE MEANTIME COLLEAGUES IN THE POLICE SERVICE ARE CLEARLY SINGING FROM ONE HYMN SHEET AND YET LIVING BY A VERY DIFFERENT SET OF RULES !CCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED THIS MONTH IN %UROPEAN CITIZENS USE CANNABIS 3O THATS IN DOCTORS IN TEACHERS IN POLITICIANS BUT WE ALREADY KNOW THIS AND YES IN POLICE OFFICERS ON AVERAGE HAVE USED CANNABIS IN THEIR LIVES AND BEFORE YOU START FLINGING E MAILS AT THE #ANNA :INE PLEASE REMEMBER WE DON T CREATE THE STATISTICS BUT SIMPLY TELL YOU ABOUT THEM !LMOST EVERY SINGLE WEEK WE READ ABOUT A 0OLICE OFFICER GETTING BUSTED FOR CANNABIS OR MARIJUANA AS THE MAJORITY OF THEM SEEM TO EMANATE FROM THE 53 OR #ANADA &OR INSTANCE REMEMBER /FFICER %DWIN 3ANCHEZ (E WAS THE 53 POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS BUSTED TURNING OVER STREET DEALERS AND KEEPING THE CONFISCATED DRUGS FOR HIMSELF (E WAS ALSO THE OFFICER WHO CALLED HIS OWN 0OLICE DEPARTMENT NUMBER WHEN HE HAD A PANIC ON READ 7HITEY AS A RESULT OF CONSUMING TOO MUCH STOLEN CANNABIS IN SOME BROWNIES HIS WIFE MADE 2EGULAR USERS OF CANNABIS SMILED WRYLY AS THEY KNEW 3ANCHEZ WAS IN ABSOLUTELY NO MORTAL DANGER NO MATTER HOW UNCOMFORTABLE HIM AND HIS WIFE FELT )N #ANADA PUBLISHED *ULY TH 4HE #ANADIAN 0RESS REPORTS TWO 4ORONTO POLICE OFFICERS AND THREE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS WERE AMONG

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%UROPE S ROYAL FAMILIES LAWYERS JUDGES AND POLICE OFFICERS REGULARLY FREQUENT HIS COFFEE SHOPS .AMES SUCH AS #ENT 3NOOP $OGG 7ILLIE .ELSON 1UENTIN 4ARANTINO 7ESLEY 3NIPES AND %MINEM HAVE ALL SAVOURED !RJAN S FAMED @HOSPITALITY !RJAN CONTINUED hv4HE %NGLISH !MERICANS AND *APANESE ARE OUR BIGGEST CUSTOMERS !LREADY FOR A VERY VERY LONG TIME THEY DON T SMOKE TOBACCO BECAUSE TOBACCO IS THE NUMBER ONE KILLER ON THIS PLANET v $UTCH COFFEE SHOPS ATTRACT MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TOURISM TO THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT OF !MSTERDAM WHICH HAS FOR A LONG TIME BEEN RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE TRUE CULTURAL CAPITALS OF %UROPE 7ITH TOBACCO BEING BANNED YET CANNABIS USE REMAINING TOLERATED THIS WILL NO DOUBT ADD WEIGHT TO THE PRO CANNABIS ARGUMENT IN THE 5+

WHICH OFTEN POINTS TO THE SUCCESSFUL $UTCH BUSINESS MODEL AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW A MORE LIBERAL DRUG POLICY CAN AND WILL REDUCE ILLICIT DRUG USER NUMBERS )N THE 5NITED +INGDOM THE GOVERNMENT LOOKS SET TO RECLASSIFY CANNABIS EARLY IN

TO A CLASS " DRUG WHICH CARRIES WITH IT THE POSSIBILITY OF A YEAR JAIL TERM FOR DOING NO MORE THAN IS DEEMED PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE IN !RJAN S COFFEE SHOPS )SN T IT TIME FOR SOME hPARITYv IN %UROPEAN DRUG LAWS )F WE CAN T EXPECT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD AS A RESULT OF OUR MEMBERSHIP TO THE %5 THEN WHATS THE POINT OF US PAYING TO BE IN IT

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2EMEMBER THE THREE HYDROPONIC SHOP WORKERS FROM $ERBY WHO WERE SUPPOSEDLY IMPRISONED FOR @GIVING CANNABIS GROWING ADVICE )N ANSWER TO ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONSPIRACY THEORIES ATTACHED TO THE "RITISH CANNABIS DEBATE THREE $ERBY MEN HAVE HAD THEIR CONVICTIONS OVER TURNED BY THE COUNTRY S MOST SENIOR *UDGE AT THE #OURT OF !PPEALS "ACK IN *ANUARY AND THE TALK OF THE "RITISH CANNABIS COMMUNITY WAS OF THE THREE PEOPLE FROM $ERBY WHO HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF THE CHARGE OF h!IDING AND ABETTING THE PRODUCTION OF CANNABISv 3O THE CONSPIRACY WENT OFF DUTY POLICE OFFICERS HAD BEEN GIVEN ADVICE HOW TO GROW CANNABIS AND HOW TO MAKE SURE THEY NEVER GOT CAUGHT DOING SO ,OCAL NEWS SOURCES FROM AROUND $ERBY ACTUALLY REPORTED THE STORY AS IT HAD HAPPENED BUT THEN THE ""# .EWS WEBSITE GOT INVOLVED AND THE STORY EVOLVED INTO WHAT WE SEE BEFORE US TODAY !S A RESULT TWO MEN ARE HAVING THEIR SENTENCES COMPLETELY OVER TURNED AND A THIRD REMAIN S BEHIND BARS AS HE WAS ACTUALLY FOUND IN POSSESSION OF GRAMS OF DRIED CANNABIS WHICH WAS ALLEGEDLY h"AGGED AND READY FOR SALEv !T THE #OURT OF !PPEALS ,ORD #HIEF *USTICE ,ORD 0HILLIPS RULED THAT THE OFFENCES OF CONSPIRACY TO AID AND ABET AND COUNSEL THE PRODUCTION OF CANNABIS WERE hUNKNOWN TO LAWv AND HAD TO BE QUASHED -ADE 5P #HARGE 4HE INITIAL STORY DATES BACK TO *ANUARY WHEN $AVID +ENNING OF ,OUGHBOROUGH

WAS JAILED FOR A TOTAL OF MONTHS ON A CHARGE OF h#ONSPIRACY TO !ID AND !BET

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!CCORDING TO REPORTS THE NUMBER OF UNDER S BEING TREATED FOR MENTAL ILLNESS HAS SHOT UP SINCE THE LAWS ON CANNABIS WERE RELAXED IN /VER THE PAST FOUR YEARS TREATMENT COSTS FOR THE .(3 FOR THIS AGE BRACKET HAS GONE UP BY ALMOST TWO THIRDS FROM JUST UNDER a MILLION IN TO a MILLION LAST YEAR 4HE MAJORITY OF WHICH IS SPENT ON ANTI PSYCHOTIC DRUGS 4HE PRICE OF THE DRUGS THEMSELVES HAS NOT RISEN MUCH OVER THAT PERIOD MEANING A RISING NUMBER OF YOUNG PATIENTS IS THE REASON FOR THE COST INCREASE 4HE #ONSERVATIVE -0 *AMES "ROKENSHIRE SAID h4HESE ARE SHOCKING FIGURES AND THEY SUGGEST AN INCREASE IN THE PREVALENCE OF PSYCHOSIS IN THE YOUNG SINCE CANNABIS LAWS WERE RELAXED v "UT DO THEY REALLY 4HIS REPORT COINICIDES WITH ANOTHER THIS TIME BY .ORTHERN )RELAND S #HIEF -EDICAL /FFICER WHICH GOES ON TO HIGHLIGHT THE VERY REAL DANGERS OF DRINKING ALCOHOL AND SMOKING TOBACCO DRUGS WHICH ACCOUNT FOR OF ALL DRUG RELATED DEATH S IN THE 5+ $R -ICHAEL -C"RIDE S REPORT FOUND FOUR OUT OF FIVE TEENAGERS IN .ORTHERN )RELAND HAD A DRINK BY THE AGE OF (IS RESEARCH HAS ALSO SHOWN THE AVERAGE AGE AT WHICH CHILDREN BEGIN DRINKING ALCOHOL IS AND IN 3COTLAND THE NEWS IS EVEN WORSE WHERE ITS BEEN REVEALED CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS YEARS OF AGE WERE RECEIVING REHABILITATION FOR ALCOHOL ABUSE 3UZANNE DE LA -ONTE IS A PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY NEUROPATHOLOGY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE AT 2HODE )SLAND (OSPITAL AND THE 7ARREN !LPERT 3CHOOL OF -EDICINE AT "ROWN 5NIVERSITY

!LCOHOL )NDUCED -ENTAL (EALTH )SSUES !CCORDING TO 0ROFESSOR DE LA -ONTE h)NSULIN IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HORMONES IN THE BODY v h)T HAS MANY FUNCTIONS INCLUDING REGULATION OF METABOLISM #ELLS THROUGHOUT THE BODY DEPEND UPON INSULIN JUST TO STAY ALIVE AND CARRY OUT @ORDINARY DAILY FUNCTIONS 4HE BEST KNOWN DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH ABNORMALITIES IN INSULIN S AVAILABILITY OR ACTIONS ARE 4YPE AND 4YPE DIABETES v h$URING THE PAST SEVERAL YEARSv SHE ADDED THERE HAS BEEN GROWING INTEREST IN INSULIN S EFFECTS ON BRAIN FUNCTION 3CIENTISTS NOW BELIEVE THAT DEFICIENCIES IN INSULIN AND THE LOSS OF BRAIN CELLS ABILITY TO RESPOND TO INSULIN ARE CRITICAL FACTORS LEADING TO NEURODEGENERATION ! CONDITION WHICH CAN SIGNAL THE ONSET OF !LZHEIMER S @TYPE DEMENTIA ! CONDITION WHICH ALCOHOL MAY VERY WELL EXACERBATE v

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OF ,ITTLE %ATON RECEIVED A SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR THE SAME OFFENCE AND CONSPIRACY TO COUNSEL OR ADVISE THE PRODUCTION OF THE DRUG +ENNING AND &ENWICK HAVE LANGUISHED BEHIND BARS EVER SINCE AS THEY CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED THEIR APPEAL 4ODAY HOWEVER

-R +ENNING AND -R "LACKSHAW HAD THEIR NAMES COMPLETELY CLEARED AT THE #OURT OF !PPEAL IN ,ONDON AND WERE BEGINNING TO PUT THEIR LIVES BACK TOGETHER 0AUL &ENWICK HOWEVER WHILST CLEARED OF THE AIDING ABETTING AND COUNSELLING CHARGES POTENTIALLY FACES ANOTHER TWO MONTHS BEHIND BARS AS HE STILL HAS TIME TO SERVE ON HIS SENTENCES FOR THE DRUGS POSSESSION AND FIREARM OFFENCES 4HE 4RIAL !CCORDING TO THE PROSECUTION IN THE TRIAL +ENNING AND &ENWICK TRADING THROUGH THEIR HYDROPONIC WHOLESALE BUSINESS IN $ERBY SUPPLIED EQUIPMENT TO CANNABIS GROWERS

REASONABLY FORESEEING THAT THE ITEMS WOULD BE USED ILLEGALLY &ENWICK AND -R "LACKSHAW AT THE TIME A SHOP ASSISTANT AT THEIR CENTRE HAD ALSO PROVIDED ADVICE TO UNDERCOVER POLICE OFFICERS ABOUT PRODUCING CANNABIS AND HOW TO AVOID DETECTION PROSECUTORS SAID "UT IN THE #OURT OF !PPEALS TODAY LAWYERS ACTING FOR ALL THREE MEN ARGUED THAT THEIR CONVICTIONS WERE WRONG AS THE OFFENCES THEY HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH DID NOT EXIST IN "RITISH LAW !CCORDING TO THE DEFENSE LEGAL TEAM h)N ORDER TO CONVICT A DEFENDANT OF CONSPIRACY TO AID AND ABET OR COUNSEL THE COMMISSION OF AN OFFENCE THE JURY WOULD HAVE TO BE SURE THAT THE END OFFENCE ACTUALLY OCCURRED v 4HE TRIAL JUDGE HAD BEEN WRONG IN DIRECTING THE JURY THAT THE OFFENCE COULD BE COMMITTED EVEN WHEN THE END OFFENCE COULD NOT BE PROVEN

!LCOHOL 3TUDY &OR THIS STUDY RESEARCHERS EXAMINED BRAIN TISSUE FROM SIX MALE CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS WITH A MEAN AGE OF YEARS AND SIX MALE hCONTROLSv WITHOUT ALCOHOLISM WITH A MEAN AGE OF YEARS PROVIDED THROUGH THE .EW 3OUTH 7ALES 4ISSUE 2ESOURCE #ENTRE AT 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF 3YDNEY 4WO BRAIN REGIONS WERE SELECTED FOR STUDY THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX IN THE ANTERIOR SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR VERMIS REGION AND THE ANTERIOR CINGULATE GYRUS IN THE FRONTAL LOBE AS THEY REPRESENT MAJOR TARGETS OF ALCOHOL S NEUROTOXICITY h/UR STUDY OF HUMAN ALCOHOLIC BRAINS IS REALLY THE FIRST OF ITS KIND WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC ALCOHOL ABUSE ON BRAIN DEGENERATION v SAID DE LA -ONTE h4HE SUBJECTS HAD ALL SIGNED UP TO DONATE THEIR BRAINS AND THEY WERE INCLUDED ONLY IF ALCOHOL WAS THE ONLY DRUG USED IN LIFE v

4OXIC 0OISON 4HE RESULTS SHOWED THAT IN CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS BRAINS THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT INSULIN AND )'& RESISTANCE IN THOSE REGIONS KNOWN TO BE HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO ALCOHOL S TOXIC EFFECTS h0UBLIC HEALTH WARNINGS ABOUT PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOL ABUSE ARE FAIRLY PREVALENT TODAY BUT THE MAJOR EMPHASIS SEEMS TO BE ON THE SHORT TERM EFFECTS RELATED TO IMPAIRMENTS THAT CAUSE ACCIDENTS AND PROMOTE VIOLENCE v SAID DE LA -ONTE h-OST PEOPLE ALSO SEEM TO KNOW THAT ALCOHOL ABUSE DAMAGES THE LIVER 7HAT ) BELIEVE IS NOT WELL KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC IS THAT OVER THE LONG HAUL HEAVY DRINKING WILL PERMANENTLY DAMAGE THE BRAIN AND CAUSE DEMENTIA TYPE ISSUES 3OME OF THE DEMENTIA IS CERTAINLY RELATED TO A LACK OF THIAMINE ALSO KNOWN AS 6ITAMIN " HOWEVER IN THE MAJORITY OF CASES THIAMINE DEFICIENCY IS NOT THE PRINCIPAL PROBLEM /UR STUDY INDICATES THAT CHRONIC ALCOHOL ABUSE CAUSES A 4YPE DIABETES @EFFECT IN CERTAIN BRAIN REGIONS v 0ROFESSOR $E LA -ONTE RECOMMEND S THAT READERS WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT FAMILY OR FRIENDS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MEMORY OR BEHAVIOR AND ARE CONCERNED ABOUT DEMENTIA TO CONSIDER PRIOR DRINKING HABITS AND REPORT THIS TO A PROFESSIONAL IF WARRANTED 7HICH GIVES US REASON TO BELIEVE ANY UP TURN IN PSYCHOTIC ISSUES COULD IN FACT BE A BY PRODUCT OF EARLIER DRINKING HABITS AND NOT CANNABIS USE #ANNA :INE $AILY ZINE FOR THE CANNABIS SCENE *OIN US AND HELP FORCE CHANGE HTTP CANNAZINE CO UK

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)TALY THE 'REEN (OUSE 3EED #OMPANY IS PRESENTING THE WORLD WITH A NEW RANGE OF INNOVATIVE TESTS TO HELP CANNABIS GROWERS AND USERS TO BETTER DECIDE WHAT TO GROW AND WHAT TO SMOKE #ANNABIS IS NOWADAYS USED IN MEDICINAL AND RECREATIONAL APPLICATIONS AND CANNABIS USERS ARE BECOMING AWARE THAT THE ONLY WAY TO SAFELY IDENTIFY THE STRAINS THEY USE IS SCIENTIFIC TESTING &ROM THIS NEED FOR CLARITY AND AWARENESS STEM THE NEW RANGE OF TESTS OFFERED BY 'REEN (OUSE ON ALL THE STRAINS IN THE CATALOGUE 4HE NEW TESTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED IN COOPERATION WITH VARIOUS LABORATORIES AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AND THEY ARE DIVIDED IN GROUPS CANNABINOIDS TESTS $.! TESTS AND TERPENES TESTS #ANNABINOIDS HAVE BEEN TESTED IN THE PAST USING DIFFERENT METHODS (0,#

4,# '# AND THE AIM HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO IDENTIFY QUANTITIES OF DIFFERENT CANNABINOIDS INSIDE THE CANNABIS RESIN 'AS CHROMATOGRAPHY '# IS A TYPE OF CHROMATOGRAPHY IN WHICH THE MOBILE PHASE IS A CARRIER GAS USUALLY AN INERT GAS SUCH AS HELIUM OR AN UNREACTIVE GAS SUCH AS NITROGEN AND THE STATIONARY PHASE IS A MICROSCOPIC LAYER OF LIQUID OR POLYMER ON AN INERT SOLID SUPPORT INSIDE A GLASS COLUMN 7ITH GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY THE SOLUTIONS TRAVEL THROUGH THE COLUMN IN A GAS STATE 4HE INTERACTIONS OF THESE GASES REACTS WITH THE WALLS OF THE COLUMN COATED BY DIFFERENT STATIONARY PHASES AND CAUSES DIFFERENT COMPOUNDS TO ISOLATE 4HE MAIN ACTIVE COMPONENTS IN CANNABIS RESIN 4(# #"$ AND #". HAVE BEEN ANALYZED THROUGH THE YEARS BUT NOW OTHER CANNABINOIDS ARE PROVING VERY INTERESTING FOR MEDICINAL USERS 3O WE DECIDED TO

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THEY HAVE PLENTY OF EXPERIENCE GROWING 4HEY STOCK ALL THE MAIN HYDRO GEAR ALONG WITH THEIR OWN 3ERANIS SYSTEM THAT USES CLAY GRANULES IS VERY CLEAN AND EASY TO USE AERATES WELL AND IS VERY FORGIVING PLANTS CAN CONTINUE TO FEED EVEN IF THE PUMP IS OUT OF ACTION FOR EXAMPLE h)T S SELLING REALLY REALLY WELL v SAYS *ULIE 4HOUGH THE EMPHASIS AS THE NAME SUGGESTS IS VERY MUCH ON HYDROPONICS

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PLAYS 3UPER (IGH -E FOR LAUGHS n AND ALL HIS ANTICS ARE ACTUALLY LEGAL IN #ALIFORNIA h)T WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE WHO HAS OBLIGATIONS TO DO v HE SAYS h3O ) WOULDN T BREAK THE LAW ) DIDN T OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE FOR THE DAYS OF FILMING 4HE CREW DROVE ME EVERYWHERE )T S A SHOWBUSINESS THING 3OMEONE OUTSIDE SHOWBUSINESS SHOULD TRY IT AND SEE HOW IT WORKS FOR THEM "UT NOT A BRAIN SURGEON 4HERE MAY BE CAR MECHANICS THAT ARE ALREADY DOING IT THOUGH v $URING HIS MONTH OFF THE SWEET LEAF "ENSON APPEARS SHARPER AND HARDER LIKE A CUCUMBER "ACK ON THE BONG HE S MORE LIKE A MARROW -EANWHILE THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES AND #ALIFORNIA S OWN LAWMAKERS ARE AT ODDS OVER THE SUDDEN MUSHROOMING OF DISPENSARIES WHERE THOSE WITH A RELEVANT DOCTOR S CERTIFICATE CAN OBTAIN MEDICAL MARIJUANA THAT NEBULOUS COMPLAINT hBACK PAINv SERVES FOR MANY 4HE SIGHT OF $RUG %NFORCEMENT !DMINISTRATION AGENTS SHUTTING DOWN LEGALLY REGISTERED OPENLY DECLARED (OLLYWOOD PREMISES SEEMS ABSURD THOUGH NOT LEAST WHEN LOCAL STONERS TURN UP TO FEEBLY WAIL h$%!

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!MERICAN PARLANCE 3UPPOSEDLY NAMED FOR THE AFTER SCHOOL MEETING TIME OF A GANG OF #ALIFORNIAN TEEN AGERS IN THE 3EVENTIES IS NOW A UNIVERSAL SMOKERS CODE +NOWING THAT THE FILM COULD NOT GET TELEVISION ADVERTISING OR A WIDE RELEASE THE PRODUCERS APPROACHED THE INDIE MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION SPECIALISTS B SIDE WHICH SIMPLY MADE SCREENING COPIES AVAILABLE TO ANYONE WHO WANTED ONE AND COULD OFFER PREMISES h7E THOUGHT @,ET S NOT EVEN TRY TO MAKE MONEY v SAYS #HRIS (YAMS OF B SIDE h4HE REAL QUESTION WAS @#AN YOU GET STONERS OFF THE COUCH h!NY DARK ROOM WITH PLACES TO SIT CAN BECOME A MOVIE THEATRE BUT WE WERE STUNNED BY THE ARRAY OF IDEAS AND VENUES PEOPLE CAME UP WITH v &ROM COLLEGE CAMPUSES TO COMEDY CLUBS SYMPATHISERS JOINED IN !N )LLINOIS COUPLE SHOWED THE FILM AT THEIR WEDDING RECEPTION ! 3AN &RAN CISCO hGUERILLA DRIVE INv OUTFIT PROJECTED IT ON THE WALL OF A LOCAL STORE h4HERE S HUNDREDS OF -"!S SITTING ROUND STUDIOS WONDERING HOW THEY CAN QUOTE @MAKE SOMETHING GO VIRAL v SAYS (YAMS

THE SCION OF A FILM FAMILY HIS FATHER IS DIRECTOR 0ETER HIS BROTHER *OHN AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY MAKER 4HE MARKETING BUDGET FOR 3UPER (IGH -E WAS SUPPOSEDLY THE SAME AS THE COST OF A IN ADVERTISEMENT IN 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES *UDD !PATOW S FORTHCOMING hWEED ACTION MOVIEv 0INEAPPLE %XPRESS WILL NOT COME SO CHEAP 3UPER (IGH -E IS AMUSING RATHER THAN DEEP 3OME OF THE MARIJUANA ADVOCATES FEATURED ARE SERIOUSLY INTENSE THOUGH AMONG THEM THE #ANADIAN h0RINCE OF 0OTv -ARC %MERY )T MAKES FOR A STRANGE SCENE n "ENSON CHEERFULLY DOPEY %MERY WANTED BY THE !MERICAN AUTHORITIES FOR DISTRIBUTING CANNABIS SEEDS UNDERSTANDABLY NERVOUS "ENSON WAS UNIMPRESSED h(E S A SMART GUY BUT HE S MAKING HIMSELF A MARTYR )T S LIKE HE WANTS TO GO TO JAIL ) CAN GET AND SMOKE MARIJUANA WITHOUT GOING TO JAIL )T S NOT WORTH GOING TO JAIL FOR v (E SHRUGS h-AYBE HE SMOKED TOO MUCH POT v "ENSON IS AWARE THAT SOME ON PRESCRIPTIONS FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA ARE SCAMMING THE SYSTEM h) DON T THINK THEY TURN ANYONE AWAY "UT IF IT IMPROVES SOME PEOPLE S QUALITY OF LIFE AND IT S DONE PRIVATELY IN THEIR OWN HOME WHY SHOULDN T THEY HAVE ACCESS TO IT v (E HIMSELF TOOK UP THE WEED AT THE ADVANCED AGE OF h!S AN ADULT ) SHOULD BE OVER IT BUT ) STILL LIKE IT v HE SAYS 2ECENTLY HE APPEARED IN A 46 SITCOM PLAYING A #USTOMS OFFICER WITH THE MUNCHIES PERUSING PASSPORTS WHILE EATING CEREAL STRAIGHT FROM THE BOX h) MAY BE GETTING TYPE CAST v HE WORRIES 0HYSICALLY THOUGH HE S SOUND ENOUGH h4HE DOCTOR GAVE ME A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH v HE SAYS OF HIS EXPERIMENT h3O EATING BURGERS IS WORSE FOR YOU THAN SMOKING POT v 3UPER (IGH -E WILL BE RELEASED IN "RITAIN LATER THIS YEAR 3OURCE 4HE 4IMES 4HURSDAY -AY

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AND @UNDERGROUND LITERATURE THAT WAS FLOATING ABOUT THE SECRET ATTIC AND BASEMENT LIBRARIES OF .EW 9ORK S THEN COSMOPOLITAN "OHEMIAN DISTRICTS !S HE D LATER COMMENT h! LOT OF THESE BOOKS WHERE TOO BIG TO READ LIKE GIANT SHOES FITTED FOR LARGE FOOTED PEOPLEv )T WAS HERE THAT "OB $YLAN FOUGHT OUT A CAREER IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY PLAYING GUITAR FOR AS LITTLE AS A DOLLAR A DAY BORROWING RECORDS AND PENNING NEW SONGS

)N THE AT A 3AN &RANSISCO PRESS CONFERENCE "OB $YLAN WAS INTRODUCED AS h A 0OET (E WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM !TOMIC 3CIENCE TO 2IDDLE AND 2HYMES v !T WHICH POINT ONE REPORTER ASKED "OB $YLAN ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THE 4RIUMPH T SHIRT HE WAS WEARING ON THE THEN COVER OF HIS LATEST ALBUM ! LINE OF ILLOGICAL QUESTIONS HAVE FOLLOWED SINCE 4O CONDEMN "OB $YLAN AS A hFOLK SINGERv WOULD BE WRONG !MENDMENT THAT HE WASN T A @&OLK 3INGER OR A @0OP 3INGER OR EVEN A @0OET "OB $YLAN REFERRED TO HIMSELF SIMPLY AS A h3ONG AND $ANCE -ANv 0LAYING WITH WORDS IS SOMETHING THAT "OB $YLAN EXCELS AT 7HEN CONFRONTED WITH A LONG LINE OF WORDS $YLAN DISSECTS THEM INTO MEANING AND THEM REASSEMBLES THEM WITHOUT MEANING INTO STANZAS BUILT UPON COMPLEX METAPHORS OF POETICAL HARMONY 1UOTED AS SAYING h7HEN ) M REALLY WASTED ) MAY ENTER INTO ANOTHER FIELDv ! FEMALE REPORTER ASKED h(OW WASTED IS REALLY WASTED !ND DO YOU FORESEE IT v 4O WHICH $YLAN REPLIED

h.O ) DON T FORESEE IT "UT IT IS MORE OR LESS LIKE A RUTHLESS TYPE OF FEELING 6ERY RUTHLESS AND INTOXICATED TO SOME DEGREE v 4HIS IS ONE OF THE FEW TIMES THAT $YLAN TACKLES THE ISSUE OF HIS THEN DRUG USE FRONT ON !LWAYS ADMITTING THAT HE D hWRITE WHILE ON A LOT OF THINGSv "OB $YLAN HAS NEVER ADVOCATED ANYTHING INCLUDING THE POT INDUCED LYRICS BEHIND MANY OF HIS SONG LYRICS

@"OB $YLAN IS THE STAGE NAME OF 2OBERT :IMMERMAN BORN -AY TH IN $ULUTH -INNESOTA :IMMERMAN S EARLY YEARS WERE SPENT READING THE POETRY OF $YLAN 4HOMAS ON THE LOCAL RADIO STATION @$YLAN BEING THE NAME THAT HE D LATER ADOPT AS SINGER !FTER hFREE WHEELINGv ACROSS THE 5NITED 3TATES FOR A WHILE "OB $YLAN FINALLY MOVED TO 'REENWICH 6ILLAGE .EW 9ORK (ERE $YLAN GAINED ACCESS TO SOME OF THE hACADEMICv

"Y THE TIME OF THE .EWPORT &OLK &ESTIVAL C "OB $YLAN WAS ALREADY A HOUSEHOLD NAME $YLAN HAD ALREADY ACCLAIMED CELEBRITY STATUS AMID HIS CROSS LEGGED CROWD OF "EATNIK (IPPIE FOLLOWERS ,IKEWISE TRAVELLING THE 3OUTHERN 3TATES ALONGSIDE (UMAN 2IGHTS !CTIVIST AND FOLK SINGER 0ETE 3EEGER HAD CAST A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW ONTO $YLAN S ENERGY (ERE $YLAN PERFORMED @FREE CONCERTS IN WHAT WAS THEN TERMED h!MERICA S "LACK 3OUTHv 0LAYING HARMONICA TO THE TUNE OF OLD FOLK MUSIC AS A FREEWHEELING REBEL )N $YLAN S NOW FAMOUS INTERVIEW WITH 4IME -AGAZINE HE CONDEMNED THE MAGAZINE AS hHAVING TOO MUCH TO LOOSE BY PRINTING THE TRUTHv 4HE TRUTH IN HIS EYES BEING A PLAIN PICTURE h! TRAMP VOMITING IN THE 3TREET !

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OR -R # 7 *ONES ON THE SUBWAY GOING TO WORKv $YLAN WANTED IDEAS RATHER THAN FACTS (E DIDN T QUESTION THINGS BECAUSE HE DIDN T EXPECT ANY ANSWERS )N $YLAN S TRUTH h%VERY WORD HAS ITS BIG LETTER AND ITS LITTLE LETTER

LIKE THE WORD @+ N O W %ACH OF US REALLY +NOWS NOTHING "UT WE ALL THINK WE +NOW THINGS v 4HE )NTERVIEWER WHO HAD INTERVIEWED PROMINENT PEOPLE BEFORE HAND COULDN T SAY TOO MUCH IN REPROACH !FTER WHICH "OB $YLAN STOPPED GIVING INTERVIEWS UNTIL RECENTLY !LTHOUGH NEVER 5NIVERSITY SCHOOLED "OB $YLAN WAS PART OF THE S )NTELLIGENTSIA ! FREE THINKING @0EACE !CTIVIST WHO HAD AS MUCH TO SAY IN HIS SONGS AND POEMS AS HE DID IN HIS EARLY INTERVIEWS 3OMEHOW DESPITE THE TEMPTATIONS THAT PROFIT HAD PLAGUED ON SO MANY OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES "OB

$YLAN MANAGED TO PROJECT HIS OWN MESSAGE IN A PURIST ALMOST RIGHTEOUS SENSE 7HEN REPROACHED ABOUT HIS POLITICAL SONGS IN HIS RECENT -ARTIN 3CORSESE INTERVIEW $YLAN COMMENTED h*UST BECAUSE YOU STAND UP FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE STRUGGLING FOR SOMETHING

IT DOESN T MAKE YOU POLITICALv 4HIS PERHAPS IDENTIFIES $YLAN S RESOLVE IN THE FACE OF FALSE IDOLS !S HE D LATER LAMENT h)T S EASY TO SEE WITHOUT LOOKING TOO FAR THAT NOT MUCH IS REALLY SACREDv 7HEN -ARTIN ,UTHER +ING MADE THAT FAMOUS SPEECH IN 7ASHINGTON BY THE FOUNTAIN HE WAS PROCEEDED BY "OB $YLAN SINGING @4HE 4IMES THEY ARE A #HANGING ,ATER THE 53 'OVERNMENT WOULD BRANDISH "OB $YLAN A h#OMMUNISTv FOR POINTING PEOPLE TOWARDS RADICAL SOCIAL CHANGE )N ,ONDON "OB $YLAN WAS INTRODUCED TO THE "EATLES BY HIS THEN MANAGER !LBERT 'ROSSMAN )N TURN $YLAN INTRODUCED THE "EATLES TO SMOKING MARIJUANA "OB $YLAN ROLLED A LONG JOINT 4OOK A FEW PUFFS AND PASSED IT ON TO 2INGO 3TAR WHO BEING MORE ACCUSTOMED TO SMOKING CIGARETTES SMOKED THE WHOLE JOINT TO HIMSELF WITHOUT PASSING IT ON TO *OHN 'EORGE

OR 0AUL %VER THE DIPLOMAT $YLAN THEN ROLLED EACH MEMBER OF THE "EATLES THEIR OWN SPLIFF AND SANG THEM A FEW PEACE SONGS ON HIS GUITAR 4HE "EATLES BECAME INFATUATED WITH "OB $YLAN HIS UNIQUE STYLE AND SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE AS A hSONGWRITER S SONGWRITERv &ELLOW 0OETS LIKE THE LATE !LLEN 'INSBERG WHERE PARTLY INFLUENTIAL DURING THIS TIME 7HEN RECENTLY ASKED WHICH MUSICIAN 0AUL -C#ARTNEY SHOULD MOST LIKE TO INTERVIEW HIS REPLY WAS h "OB $YLAN

HE S STILL ALIVE HE S A 'ENIUS

AND A GREAT 0OETv )N -ANCHESTER 5+ -AY TH "OB $YLAN CONDUCTED A PERFORMANCE ON AN ELECTRIC GUITAR (E WAS HECKLED

BY A MEMBER OF THE CROWD TO THE SINGLE WORD h*UDASv )MPLYING THAT

BY PICKING UP AN ELECTRIC GUITAR NOT AN ACOUSTIC ONE $YLAN HAD BETRAYED HIS FOLK SINGER ROOTS AND THE MESSAGE BEHIND THEM 4O WHICH $YLAN S REPLY WAS h) DON T BELIEVE YOU 9OU ARE A LIARv 4HE BAND PLAYED @,IKE ! 2OLLING 3TONE TO LYRICS THAT $YLAN RECORDED IN

THREE YEARS AFTER THE FORMATION OF THE BAND @4HE 2OLLING 3TONES C YET TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAGAZINE WITH THE SAME NAMESAKE WAS FORMED C 4HE TERM h2OLLING 3TONEv HAD SUMMED UP THE LIFE OF "OB $YLAN UP UNTIL THIS POINT IN HIS CAREER !FTER WHICH "OB $YLAN BECAME VERY MUCH A RECLUSE /NCE RUMORED TO BE THE LEAST PHOTOGRAPHED CELEBRITY hPOP STARv IN #ALIFORNIA THE LIMELIGHT WAS SOMETHING "OB $YLAN HAS ALWAYS AIMED TO AVOID 4HE ONE TIME TRAVELLING SPOKESPERSON OF AN ENTIRE GENERATION PACKED UP HIS SOAPBOX AND RETIRED TO A LONELY LIFESTYLE BEHIND THE GATES OF HIS SECLUDED #ALIFORNIAN RANCHES WITH ONLY HIS HORSES AND A

PACK OF HUNGRY -ASTIFFS TO KEEP HIM COMPANY 3UCH WAS THE MAGNETISM OF THE FOLK HERO "OB $YLAN THAT PEOPLE WOULD STUMBLE IN THEIR WORDS WHEN MEETING HIM ANYHOW 3OMETHING THAT $YLAN ALWAYS AIMED TO SHAKE OFF WAS THE @IMAGE THAT HE WAS SOMEHOW BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE 7ITH MORE THAN ALBUMS IN HIS DISCOGRAPHY $YLAN HOWEVER HAS ENOUGH MATERIAL IN HIS REPERTOIRE TO FILL A LIFE TIMES WORTH OF CONCERT HALLS AND STADIUMS -OST YEARS HE S STILL ON THE ROAD )F "OB $YLAN STILL SMOKES CANNABIS OR NOT IS IRRELEVANT 4HE QUESTION AS TO WHY MILLIONS OF CANNABIS SMOKERS STILL LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC AS MUSICIANS STILL COVER HIS SONGS WHILE SMOKING POT STILL RESONATED IN STAGNANT PLACES 0ERHAPS IT IS BECAUSE THE MESSAGE OF 0%!#% THAT "OB $YLAN PUTS OUT IN HIS SONG LYRICS STRIKES A CHORD DEEP WITHIN THOSE THAT ARE ALSO STRUGGLING TO GET THEIR OWN PEACEFUL MESSAGE ACROSS 4HEN AGAIN PERHAPS IT IS THE CASE THAT ONLY CANNABIS SMOKERS CAN FULLY DECODE THE ESOTERIC MEANINGS BEHIND THE MESSAGES IN HIS SONG LYRICS .OW STUDIED BY STUDENTS OF %NGLISH ,ITERATURE AS A 0OET OF THE HIGHEST CALIBRE @"OOTS OF 3PANISH ,EATHER IS CONSIDERED A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC $YLAN S MOST REVOLUTIONARY WORK STILL LAYS DEEP WITHIN THE ESSENCE OF HIS POETRY SOMETHING THAT ANYONE IS FREE TO EXPLORE "OB $YLAN HAS ALWAYS DEMONSTRATED A WAY OF PRODUCING LINES OF ELOQUENCE WITHIN HIS STANZAS THAT FEW CAN MATCH LET ALONE FELLOW MUSICIANS

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)N THIS NEW SERIES OF ARTICLES 3OFT 3ECRETS INTENDS ON TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT GROWING FOOD CROPS AT HOME 'ROWING FOOD CROPS ORGANICALLY IS ALWAYS A SEASONAL AFFAIR

WHEREBY NATURAL LIGHT CYCLES ANNUAL TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL DICTATES THE SEASONAL CHANGES OF THE GARDENING YEAR -ANY FOOD CROPS CAN BE GROWN PERFECTLY HAPPILY ALONGSIDE #ANNABIS WHILE OTHER PLANTS ARE PERHAPS MORE SPECIFIC AND REQUIRE DIFFERENT METHODS OF CULTIVATION )T IS THEREFORE APPROPRIATE THAT WE START THINGS OFF WITH h4HE (ERB 'ARDENv WITH MOST HERBS BEING EASILY GROWN AT HOME (ERB GARDENING IS PERHAPS ONE OF THE EASIEST GARDENING STYLES THAT CAN BE PRACTICED AT HOME 4HE HERB GARDEN ITSELF CAN BE BIG OR SMALL A CLOSELY MANAGED SPACE OR AN AREA THAT IS LEFT TO GROW PART WILD 4HE BEAUTY OF GROWING HERBS AT HOME IS THAT THEY OFFER A hCUT AND COME AGAINv SYSTEM OF CROPPING MEANING THAT LITTLE MAINTENANCE IS REQUIRE BETWEEN PLANTING AND HARVESTING (ERBACEOUS PLANTS MAY BE DIVIDED INTO MANY STRICT CATEGORIES FOR EXAMPLE #ULINARY AND -EDICINAL HERBS (OWEVER SINCE THE MEDICINAL VALUE OF MOST CULINARY HERBS IS OFTEN EQUAL TO THAT OF ITS CULINARY PROPERTIES SUCH DISTINCTIONS ARE OFTEN MISLEADING &OR EXAMPLE #ANNABIS IS A MEDICINAL PLANT THAT HOLDS CULINARY USES

WHILE 2OSEMARY IS A CULINARY PLANT WITH KNOWN MEDICINAL PROPERTIES "OTANIST LABEL HERBACEOUS PLANTS ACCORDING TO THEIR LIFE STYLE LONGEVITY E G HERBACEOUS ANNUALS HERBACEOUS BI ANNUALS

AND HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS AND SO ON !N ANNUAL LIVES FOR ONE YEAR FLOWERING IN THE SAME SEASON AND MAKING SEED THAT YEAR !

BI ANNUAL LIVES FOR TWO YEARS FLOWERING TO SEED IN THE SECOND SEASON ONLY ! PERENNIAL LIVES FOR MANY YEARS PRODUCING FLOWERS AND SEED IN MOST SPECIES OVER MOST YEARS #ERTAIN ROOTS BULBS AND TUBERS INCLUDING GARLIC BURDOCK AND DANDELIONS ARE ALSO

CULTIVATED FOR THEIR HERBAL PROPERTIES 4ECHNICALLY HOWEVER hHERBSv ARE CLASSIFIED AS THE STEMS LEAFS FLOWERS AND SEEDS OF SOFT WOODED SPECIES OF PLANT AND THEREFORE DO NOT INCLUDE MOSSES FUNGI AND TREES

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@(ERB ,ORE IS THE PRACTISE OF IDENTIFYING

AND THEN SELECTING PLANTS OF HERBAL VALUE FOR THE BENEFIT OF HEALTH FOOD OR WISDOM -EDIEVAL HERBALIST FROM BOTH WILDER LAND AND MONASTIC SITES RECOGNISED THE VALUE OF CULTIVATING HERBACEOUS PLANTS IN THE SECLUSION OF A PROTECTED AREAS OR hJORDANSv FROM THE ,ATIN TO GUARD 0RIOR TO AN INVASION OF MANY NON NATIVE PURELY AESTHETIC GARDEN FLOWERS FROM THE @.EW 7ORLD C TH # !$ THE TYPICAL %NGLISH #OUNTRY 'ARDEN CONTAINED AN ABUNDANCE OF MANY NATIVE %UROPEAN SPECIES OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS EACH OF WHICH HELD A DIRECT USES IN THE HOSPITAL OR KITCHEN GARDEN %ACH PLANT WAS AWARDED ITS OWN PLACE WITHIN THE HERB GARDEN ON MERIT RATHER THAN ON WHETHER IT LOOKED NICE )NDEED MUCH OF THE VANITY THAT IS NOW ASSOCIATED WITH hGARDENINGv IN THE 5+ IS A COMPLETELY MODERN CONCEPT THAT HAS OVERSHADOWED MUCH FORMER GARDENING KNOWLEDGE ,IKE CANNABIS THE REAL VALUE OF MANY PLANTS HAS BEEN LOST 4HE ROLE OF THE HERBALIST IS TO RE DISCOVER THE FORGOTTEN TRADITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HERB LORE AND PASS THESE SKILLS ON TO FUTURE GENERATIONS OF GARDENERS )N THIS RESPECT THE HERBALIST MUST BE TOTALLY UNSELFISH

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!LL HERBS CAN BE RAISED EITHER FROM SEED OR FROM NURSERY STOCK .URSERY STOCK PLANTS SOMETIMES OFFER VALUE FOR MONEY

ALTHOUGH THEY OFTEN CARRY PEST AND DISEASES DUE TO POOR NURSERY PRACTISE 3TOCK PLANTS (ERB BASKET

CAN HOWEVER BE TRANSPLANTED INTO THE HERB GARDEN DURING MOST SEASONS INCLUDING WINTER TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES THE FOLLOWING YEAR 3EMI WOODED HERBS CAN BE CULTIVATED FROM CLONES (ERBS WITH EXTENSIVE UNDERGROUND ROOT SYSTEMS ARE PROPAGATED BY DIVISION EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS 3UCH PLANTS OFTEN OFFER THE BEST VALUE FOR MONEY SINCE ONCE ESTABLISHED THEY CAN BE ENJOYED YEAR AFTER YEAR AND ARE EASILY SHARED WITH FRIENDS AND FELLOW GROWERS 'ROWING HERBS FROM SEEDS IS OF COURSE FAR MORE CHALLENGING %ACH HERB SPECIES MAY REQUIRE DIFFERENT SOWING TIMES

DIFFERENT GROWING TIMES AND A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT TO PRODUCE THE BEST RESULTS /NCE ESTABLISHED IT IS A QUESTION OF FINDING THE RIGHT POSITION IN THE GARDEN FOR EACH SPECIES OF HERB 4HE EASIEST WAY TO DO THIS IS TO FIRST DESIGN A LAYOUT FOR THE HERB GARDEN AND PUT IT INTO PRACTISE &ORMAL (ERB 'ARDENS ARE LAID OUT TO A GEOMETRIC PATTERN WITH LOTS OF STRAIGHT LINES AND CLEAN EDGES 4HE FORMALITY OF THIS TYPE OF HERB GARDEN MAKES IT EASY TO MANAGE AND MAINTAIN ! FORMAL HERB BED PROVIDES AN ATTRACTIVE FEATURE WITHIN MOST GARDEN SPACES AND CAN BE DESIGNED TO INCORPORATE LESS USEFUL PLANTS AND SPACES 4HE USE OF SLAB PAVING OR STONES MAY BE USED TO CONTRAST THE FOLIAGE AGAINST THE FLOOR AND WILL ACT AS A WORKING PATHWAY TO HARVEST HERBS ALONG ,IKEWISE A GARDEN WALL CAN BE USED AS A SUN TRAP AND BACKDROP FOR TALLER FLOWERING PLANTS 2OCKERY (ERB 'ARDENS ARE LESS FORMAL YET STILL AN ATTRACTIVE FEATURE IN THE GARDEN 2OCKERIES ALLOW A SENSE OF HEIGHT AS WELL AS DEPTH SO THAT WITH CAREFUL PLANNING AND PLANTING AN OTHERWISE BORING AREA CAN BE BOUGHT BACK TO LIVE IN UNDER A SEASON 2AISED BED ROCKERIES ALSO PROVIDE SOME OF THE BEST GROWING CONDITIONS FOR FREE DRAINING AND SUN LOVING HERBS ALTHOUGH MAY BE OVER EXPOSED TO EXTREME WIND CONDITIONS #ANNABIS PLANTS PREFER THIS TYPE OF SHELTERED FULL SUN GARDEN 7INDOW "OXES AND 0LANT 0OTS OFFER SOME OF THE BEST SPACES AND PLACES TO START CULTIVATING HERBS AT HOME 4HE BEAUTY OF CULTIVATING HERBS IN PLANT POTS IS THAT EACH SPECIES CAN BE GIVEN THE BEST GROWING CONDITIONS POSSIBLE 4HE LIGHT LEVELS AND AMOUNT OF NUTRIENTS EACH HERB RECEIVES CAN BE TAILED TO THE GARDENERS NEEDS (ERBS GROWN IN CONTAINERS CAN BE MOVED INDOORS AS TEMPERATURES RECEDE IN AUTUMN

AND OR FORCED TO BOLT BY PLACING PLANTS INTO SHADED AREAS IN SUMMER (ERBS STARTED IN CONTAINERS INDOORS GAIN A HEAD START ON THOSE GROWN STRAIGHT FROM SEED OUTDOORS ,IKEWISE PLANTS THAT BECOME INFECTED WITH ANNUAL PESTS AND DISEASES ARE EASILY REMOVED FROM THE GARDENING ENVIRONMENT WHEN GROWN IN SINGLE POTS 7ILD (ERB 'ARDENS ARE OVERGROWN 4HE IDEA IS TO MANAGE THE HERBS IN SEMBLANCE WITH ONE ANOTHER AND NATURE ALLOWING SELF SET SEEDS TO PROPAGATE THEMSELVES READILY IN THE IN BETWEEN SPACES 0LANTING HERBS OUT INTO THE OPTIMUM POSITION UNDER THE BEST CONDITIONS

BY SPACING THE PLANTS OUT

AND ALLOWING EACH PLANT TO CONTEND FOR ITS OWN PLACE IS WHAT WILD HERB GARDENING IS REALLY ALL ABOUT 3IT BACK AND LET NATURE DO THE WORK .ATURALLY THE SURROUNDING FAUNA AND FLORA BENEFITS FROM THIS TYPE OF NON INVASIVE GARDENING MOST 4HE ADDITION OF A WILD HERB GARDEN INTO ANY GARDEN ENHANCES THE POTENTIAL TO SUPPORT WILDLIFE WITHIN IT

-INT AND THEREFORE MAKES THE MOST ECOLOGICAL SENSE /NCE A LAYOUT DESIGN FOR THE HERB GARDEN HAS BEEN ACHIEVED THE NEXT THING TO CONSIDER IS THE ORIENTATION OF THE GARDEN IN RELATION TO THE SUN 0LANTS THAT PREFER DIRECT SUNLIGHT GROW AS INADEQUATELY IN THE SHADE AS SHADED VARIETIES PLACED IN FULL SUN 4HOSE VARIETIES THAT PREFER LARGE QUANTITIES OF WATER SHOULD NEVER BE PLANTED WITH THOSE THAT PREFER NONE #OMMON SENSE AND A HERBAL ENCYCLOPEDIA ARE THE HERBALISTS FAVOURITE TOOLS !LTHOUGH A SHARP KNIFE AND A BASKET TO COLLECT HERBS IN ALSO COMES ALONG HANDY

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4HE LIST OF HERBS THAT CAN BE CULTIVATED BOTH IN AND AROUND THE HOME GETS LONGER WITH EACH NEW HERBAL DISCOVERY ,AST DECADE NO ONE IN THE 5+ HAD EVER HEARD OF GOJI BERRIES THIS SEASON GROWING GOJI BUSHES AT HOME IS THE VOGUE 5NFORTUNATELY FOR EVERY NEW PLANT VARIETY ADDED INTO THE GARDEN

AN OLD ONE NORMAL GETS REMOVED !T WHICH POINT MUCH OF THE FORMER KNOWLEDGE THE VARIETY CARRIED ALONG WITH IT GETS LOST 4HE HERB GARDEN CAN REALLY BE AS SIMPLE OR AS COMPLICATED AS SPACE AND TIME ALLOWS )T OFTEN PAYS TO GROW SEVERAL DIFFERENT CULTIGENS OF THE SAME SPECIES TO ADD VARIETY TO THE HERB GARDEN 4HIS ALSO ACTS AS AN INSURANCE POLICY )T IS ALWAYS EXCITING TO PURCHASE A hNEWv OR hSPECIALv VARIETY FROM THE GARDEN CENTRE YET DISAPPOINTING WHEN IT FALLS TO ESTABLISH ITSELF IN THE GARDEN AT HOME 3OME OF THE HARDIEST VARIETIES OF HERB ARE THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED AND TESTED BY HERBALISTS OVER THE CENTURIES AND ARE USUALLY FAR MORE PREDICTABLE IN PRACTISE THAN THE LATEST CRAZES

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#HANGES IN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES AND DRAMATIC FLUCTUATIONS IN RAINFALL IN THE 5+ NOW INDICATES THAT GARDENERS CAN START GROWING SOME DIFFERENT HERB CROPS OUTDOORS 'LOBALIZATION ALSO ALLOWS SPECIES WE D ONLY NORMAL FIND IMPORTED ONTO THE SUPER MARKET SHELVES LIKE ,EMON 'RASS FROM 3OUTH %AST !SIA AND 3COTCH "ONNETS FROM *AMAICA TO BE GROWN AT HOME IN THE GLASSHOUSE OR GARDEN !DVANCEMENTS IN HORTICULTURAL PRACTISE HAS ALLOWED A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO BE EMPLOYED TO THE CULTIVATION OF HERBS WITH POSITIVE EFFECT (ERBS CAN BE GROWN QUICKLY UNDER GREEN HOUSE CONDITIONS ORGANICALLY WITHOUT LOOSING ANY OF THE QUALITY OF PRODUCE THAT FOOD CRITICS EXPECT 0OLY TUNNEL CULTURE BEING THE PARAGON OF THIS HERBAL REVOLUTION

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!IR CIRCULATION AS A CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR )N THIS ARTICLE WE WILL BE MOSTLY TAKING A LOOK AT THE CIRCULATION OF AIR

SINCE THIS IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IN DETERMINING THE QUALITY OF THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE MARIHUANA PLANT

AND IT CAN HAVE BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS )N SHORT WE WILL BE PUTTING THE ISSUE OF AIR CIRCULATION UNDER THE MAGNIFYING GLASS FOR A THOROUGH LOOK AT JUST HOW WE CAN OPTIMISE THIS CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR

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&OR THE SUCCESSFUL RAISING OF MARIHUANA THERE ARE A WIDE RANGE OF INFLUENCING FACTORS )N PREVIOUS ARTICLES A NUMBER OF THESE FACTORS HAVE LOOKED AT AND IN DOING SO WE ARRIVED AT A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO CREATE THE IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR OUR PLANTS /NE FACTOR THAT ALSO HAS A GREAT INFLUENCE IS THE WAY IN WHICH THE AIR n WHETHER FROM OUTDOORS OR INDOORS n ENTERS THE GROW SPACE TO REPLACE THE AIR THAT IS ALREADY IN IT 3INCE WE ARE GOING TO DISTRIBUTING THE AIR AROUND THE GROW SPACE THERE IS AN ALREADY NATURAL AIR STREAM WITHIN IT !N AIR STREAM DEVELOPS THANKS TO THE GROWING

EQUIPMENT WE USE TO KEEP THE AIR WITHIN THE SPACE CIRCULATING !MONG THESE ARE THE VARIETIES OF COMMONLY USED VENTILATOR VACUUM EXTRACTOR AND SOMETIMES THE USE OF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT FOR SUCKING THE FRESH AIR FROM OUTSIDE INTO THE GROW SPACE

KNOWN AS AN INTAKE FAN

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7HEREAS SMALLER GROW SPACES IN THE ATTIC OFTEN HAVE THEIR AIR SUFFICIENTLY REPLACED BY THE STREAM THAT COMES IN THROUGH THE DOOR OF THE GROW SPACE WHEN IT IS LEFT SLIGHTLY AJAR LARGER SPACES ARE OFTEN EQUIPPED WITH AN INTAKE FAN THAT SUCKS IN THE AIR FROM OUTSIDE TO ENSURE SUFFICIENT SUPPLIES OF FRESH AIR 4HE USE OF THE @DOOR ON THE LATCH TECHNIQUE CAN ACTUALLY ONLY BE USED WHEN WE CAN BE SURE THAT THE STRONGLY SMELLING HEMP ODOUR IS NOT GOING TO PERMEATE TOO BADLY INTO OTHER PARTS OF THE HOUSE OR APARTMENT IN WHICH WE RE GROWING "EARING THE LIMITATIONS OF THE DOOR ON A LATCH METHOD IN MIND IF THE SPREADING OF THE ODOUR IS NOT AN ISSUE SITUATING GROW ROOMS IN ATTICS IS OFTEN AN IDEAL

SOLUTION 4HE WEED ODOUR WILL NOT TEND TO SPREAD VERY FAR FROM THE GROW SPACE BECAUSE THE VACUUM EXTRACTORS CREATE A STRONGER AIR STREAM TOWARDS THE GROW SPACE THAN THE AIR STREAM GOING OUT OF THE DOOR TO THE OUTSIDE "UT DO NOT TAKE ANY UNNECESSARY RISKS AND ONLY USE THIS METHOD AS LONG AS THE ATTIC IS GOOD AND HIGH IN THE HOUSE 7HEN GROWING IN A CELLAR OR IN A SPACE ON THE GROUND FLOOR ) DEFINITELY DO NOT RECOMMEND THAT YOU RELY ON THE DOOR ON THE LATCH METHOD 4HE AIR PRESENT IN THE GROW SPACE WILL TEND TO BE WARM AND SO WILL HAVE A TENDENCY TO RISE EASILY AND SO OVERWHELM THE ROOMS OUTSIDE THE GROW SPACE IF IT S GIVEN ANY OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO )N THE CASE OF GROWING IN A CELLAR WE ARE BEST OFF USING AN INTAKE FAN TO BRING IN AIR FROM OUTSIDE THE HOUSE WHICH FOR THE PLANTS IS USUALLY OF A MORE WELCOME TEMPERATURE SO THAT THE PLANTS WILL NOT BE DISTURBED BY CONTACT WITH AIR OF THE WRONG TEMPERATURE !LWAYS BE ON THE ALERT FOR THAT GIVEAWAY HEMPY SMELL SINCE IT IS STILL FROM THE SMELL THAT MOST GROWERS ARE

BUSTED )N ORDER TO MINIMISE THE RISKS IT CAN EVEN BE WORTH USING A DEODORANT SPRAY AS THESE CAN BE VERY GOOD AT DISGUISING ANY LINGERING ODOUR 4HERE ARE ALSO A NUMBER OF ODOUR EATERS OR SMELL DISSIPATERS AVAILABLE IN GROW SHOPS !S WELL AS THIS THERE IS ALSO THE QUESTION OF WHETHER EVERY GROW SPACE SHOULD IN FACT BE EQUIPPED WITH AN INTAKE FAN FOR FRESH INCOMING AIR .ATURALLY THESE DO HAVE COSTS ATTACHED BUT IF THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO PROLONGING OUR LIFE AS A GROWER IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE INVESTMENT IS MORE THAN WORTH IT

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4HE ADVANTAGE OF BRINGING IN AIR FROM THE INDOORS IS THAT THIS AIR COMING IN TO THE GROW SPACE IS OFTEN MUCH WARMER THAN AIR DRAWN DIRECTLY FROM OUTDOORS AND SO IS MORE WELCOME BY THE PLANTS %SPECIALLY WHEN GROWING DURING THE WINTER MONTHS WHEN THE OUTDOOR TEMPERATURE CAN BE HOVERING AROUND FREEZING POINT THE AIR COMING IN NEEDS SOME ADJUSTMENT TO AVOID LARGE TEMPERATURE SWINGS IN THE GROW SPACE )N ADDITION AIR THAT ENTERS THE

7HEN WE MAKE SURE THAT THE EXTRACTOR IS HANGING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GROW SPACE THEN WE HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF ENSURING A DECENT AIR FLOW

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GROW SPACE FROM INDOORS IS OFTEN DRIER EXCEPT DURING THE COLD WINTER MONTHS THAN THE AIR THAT COMES DIRECTLY FROM OUTSIDE 0ARTICULARLY WHEN IT IS RAINING OUTSIDE THE DIFFERENCE IN AIR MOISTURE CAN BE ENORMOUS $UE TO THIS THE AIR MOISTURE IN THE GROW ROOM CAN RISE VERY RAPIDLY WITH ALL THE ATTENDANT CONSEQUENCES )N GENERAL HAVING A HIGH AIR MOISTURE LEVEL DURING THE GROWTH CYCLE WILL NOT DO ANY HARM ON THE CONTRARY IT CAN EVEN HELP THE TO GROW BETTER AND QUICKER "UT ONCE THE PLANTS HAVE COME INTO BLOOM AND THEREFORE WE NEED THEM TO BE ENVELOPED IN A LOW AIR MOISTURE THEN IT IS ALL THE BETTER TO DRAW DRIER AIR INTO YOUR GROW SPACE FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

)N THIS WAY THE RISK OF TOO HIGH AN AIR MOISTURE IS QUICKLY REDUCED

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!S WELL AS MAKING SURE THAT THE MARIHUANA PLANTS HAVE CONTINUOUS SUPPLIES OF FRESH AIR THE CIRCULATION OF THE AIR ONCE IT IS INSIDE IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT )T IS PART OF OUR JOB AS GROWERS TO USE FANS AND PUMPS TO CREATE AN AIR STREAM AND IT WILL MAINLY BE THE FANS THAT KEEP THE STEMS AND LEAVES OF THE PLANTS IN MOVEMENT "Y DOING SO THERE WILL OFTEN BE VERY SMALL TEARS CREATED IN THE TISSUE OF THE PLANT MAINLY WHERE THE SIDE BRANCHES MEET THE MAIN STEM THANKS

TO WHICH THE PLANTS ARE STIMULATED TO CREATE NEW TISSUE IN ORDER TO REPAIR THE TINY TEARS 4HIS PROCESS OCCURS UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS OUTDOORS THANKS TO THE ACTION OF THE WIND AND SO IT IS UP TO US AS GROWERS TO START TO SIMULATE THIS WIND AT THE MOMENT THAT WE START ON WHAT WE HOPE WILL BE A SUCCESSFUL INDOOR GROW )N DOING SO IT DOES NOT MATTER IF THE PLANTS ARE BLOWN BACK AND FORTH QUITE STRONGLY WHEN THE FANS HIT THEM WITH A STRONG GUST /F COURSE WE STILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE PLANTS BUT A BIT OF A CHALLENGE FOR THE PLANT WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT DO ANY MAJOR DAMAGE TO IT AND WILL OFTEN LEAD EVENTUALLY TO A MUCH BETTER HARVEST 4HE PLANTS WILL HAVE FAR

)N EACH OF THE CORNERS WE PLACE A FAN SO THAT THE AIR FLOW IS OPTIMISED AND THE PLANTS DEVELOP A STRONG MAIN STEM AND STURDY SIDE BRANCHES /N TOP OF THIS THE FANS ALSO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS GOOD AIR CIRCULATION AND THEREFORE THAT THE AIR MOISTURE LEVELS ARE THE SAME THROUGHOUT THE GROW SPACE

MORE FLOWERS HEADS ON THEM WHILST THE SIDE BRANCHES AND MAIN STEM WILL BE FAR BETTER DEVELOPED /UTDOOR GROWERS KNOW THIS BETTER THAN ANYONE

AND CONSEQUENTLY OFTEN ACHIEVE TOP HARVESTS THANKS TO THE OUTDOOR PLANT DEVELOPING A MASSIVE TRUNK DUE TO THE STIMULATION OF STRONG WIND GUSTS

AND ARE THEREFORE BEING MORE ABLE TO DEVELOP AND BEAR STURDY SIDE BRANCHES

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4O RETURN BRIEFLY TO THE ISSUE OF A GOOD AIR CIRCULATION IT IS MAINLY IN THE LARGER GROW SPACES THAT THANKS TO ALL THIS AIR MOVEMENT THE AIR MOISTURE IS WELL AND TRULY DISPERSED THROUGHOUT THE GROW SPACE AND THERE ARE NO SO CALLED RISK SPOTS 4HESE AREAS OF THE GROW SPACE OFTEN HAVE A HIGHER AIR MOISTURE THAN THE OTHER AREAS IN THE SPACE 4HESE MOULD FRIENDLY RISK SPOTS DEVELOP WHEN THE GROWER HAS NOT PROPERLY PLACED HIS FANS THROUGHOUT THE SPACE AND OR THE EXTRACTORS FOR EXAMPLE ARE ONLY DOING THEIR JOB SUFFICIENTLY ON ONE SIDE OF THE SPACE ,IKE IN A GROW SPACE IN WHICH THE FANS BLOW AIR ONLY IN ONE DIRECTION

TOWARDS THE EXTRACTOR "Y DOING THIS

WHAT IS USUALLY QUITE MOIST AIR IS BLOWN TOWARDS THE EXTRACTOR AND MORE MOIST AIR IS LEFT TO HANG AROUND IN THE SPOTS WHERE THERE IS NO FAN BLOWING 4HE RESULT WHEN THIS HAPPENED TO US WAS A WHOLE HEAP OF TROUBLE THE SOURCE OF WHICH WAS VERY HARD TO PIN DOWN 7E DID HAVE OUR SUSPICIONS THAT THAT IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH HIGH AIR MOISTURE AND THIS WAS OUR STARTING POINT IN FURTHER RESEARCHING THE PROBLEM 7E DID THIS BY USING A NUMBER OF AIR MOISTURE METERS PLACED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE GROW SPACE AND TAKING READINGS FROM THEM 7E SOON CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT WE WERE DEALING WITH HUGE DIFFERENCES IN AIR MOISTURE LEVELS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE GROW SPACE 7HEN THE LAMPS WERE BURNING THIS WAS NOT A PROBLEM

BUT ONCE THE DARK PERIOD BEGAN IT WAS VERY CLEAR THAT THERE WERE DEVIATIONS IN THE AIR MOISTURE IN THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE GROW SPACE

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7ITH THE AID OF CHAINS AND BOLTS WE MAKE SURE THAT THE EXTRACTOR IS FIRMLY SECURED TO THE CEILING

/NCE WE HAD DISCOVERED WHAT THE CAUSE WAS IT STRUCK AS A GOOD IDEA TO CHANGE THE AIR FLOWS IN THE GROW SPACE DRAMATICALLY %VENTUALLY WE SORTED OUT THE PROBLEM OUTLINED ABOVE BY SIMPLY MOVING THE FANS AND HANGING THE EXTRACTOR FROM THE CEILING 7E ALSO DECIDED THAT INSTEAD OF ONE BIG EXTRACTOR WE WOULD USE TWO SLIGHTLY SMALLER MODELS WHICH WHEN USED TOGETHER MADE A LARGER TOTAL CAPACITY 4HANKS TO THIS IT WAS MUCH EASIER FOR THE EXTRACTORS TO REALLY TRANSPORT THE AIR THAT WAS DESTINED FOR OUTSIDE OUT OF THE GROW SPACE EFFECTIVELY !S WELL AS THIS WE ALSO PUT VARIOUS FANS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE GROW SPACE SO THAT AN AIR STREAM WAS CREATED INSIDE AND THE MOIST AIR COULD BE DRAWN AWAY DIRECTLY BY THE EXTRACTORS THAT WERE IN TURN MUCH BETTER POSITIONED IN THE GROW SPACE HAVING BOTH BEEN SUSPENDED FROM THE CEILING 4HE PROBLEM OF POOR AIR CIRCULATION RESULTING IN TOO HIGH AIR MOISTURE WAS NOW SOLVED AND THE WAY WAS NOW CLEAR TO REACH FOR ANOTHER TOP HARVEST

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3OFT 3ECRETS LIKES TO RECOGNISE AND SUPPORT THE WORK OF YOUNG BREEDERS WHO ARE JUST VENTURING OUT INTO THE ")' WORLD OF THE SEED INDUSTRY JUST AS MUCH AS WE ENJOYING QUIZZING SOME OF THE OLD HANDS WHICH HAVE ALREADY MADE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES IN THE BUSINESS 'ERRIT AT -AGUS 'ENETICS COULD IN MANY WAYS BE DESCRIBED AS A MIX OF BOTH 'ERRIT S OWN DEDICATION TO CANNABIS AS A GROWER OFTEN TAKES SECOND PLACE TO HIS SUCCESS AS A BREEDER ON THE PODIUMS OF VARIOUS #ANNABIS #UPS WHICH SEEM TO HOLD A PLACE IN RESERVE FOR HIS SEED COMPANY @-AGUS 'ENETICS YEAR AFTER NEXT 4O SAY THAT 'ERRIT S SMALL YET OFTEN EXCLUSIVE SELECTION OF WELL WORKED GENETICS ARE hCOMMON PLACEv WOULD ALSO BE MISLEADING 3OFT 3ECRETS WAS THEN HOT ON THE CASE )N 'ERRIT FOUND SOME SEEDS IN BUDS OF COFFEESHOP @3KUNK AND @!FGHAN HE WAS THEN SMOKING 4HE FOLLOWING YEAR HE GREW THE SEEDS OUT AND THE !FGHAN MALES ACCIDENTALLY POLLINATED THE FEMALE 3KUNK PLANTS 5NKNOWINGLY 'ERRIT HAD JUST PERFORMED HIS FIRST GENERATION CROSS & !FTER SELECTING THE BEST MALE & PLANTS AND CROSSING THEM WITH A 3KUNK CLONE HE STARTED TO PRODUCE EVEN BETTER RESULTS )N FATE DECIDED THAT 'ERRIT GREW CROPS FROM HIS OWN SEED STOCKS !FTER MORE YEARS OF WORKING THE BEST PARENT PLANTS FROM CLONE WITH ONE ANOTHER IN HIS GARDENS THE "LUE "IRD #OFFEESHOP IN !MSTERDAM GOT WIND OF HIS WORK AND LABELLED THE STRAIN h7ARLOCKv #OINCIDENTALLY THE "LUE "IRD THEN ENTERED 'ERRIT S CREATION @7ARLOCK INTO THE #ANNABIS #UP WHERE IT TOOK RD PLACE !FTER WHICH -AGUS 'ENETICS WAS SOON REGISTERED AT THE #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE IN 3INCE THEN -AGUS 'ENETICS HAS GROWN FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH WHILE MAINTAINING A SMALL YET OFTEN EXCLUSIVE

RANGE OF SEED STRAINS FOR BOTH INDOOR AND OUTDOOR CULTIVATION 4HE SPELL BOUNDING NOTORIETY OF -AGUS 'ENETICS IS SUCH THAT 'ERRIT S OWN @3TARWARZ HAS NEVER BEEN RELEASED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC VIA WAY OF SEED AND WAS ONLY AVAILABLE TO ENJOY WITHIN ONE COFFEESHOP IN !MSTERDAM 3OFT

3ECRETS THEN ARRANGED AN INTERVIEW WITH 'ERRIT TO FIND OUT JUST WHERE THE -AGIC WITHIN -AGUS IS SOURCED FROM

7HEN AND WHERE DID YOU FIRST START SMOKING AND GROWING YOUR OWN CANNABIS -Y FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH CANNABIS WAS AT THE AGE OF )T DID NOT DO MUCH FOR ME

SO ) DID NOT TRY IT AGAIN UNTIL ) WAS !T THE AGE OF IT WAS A COMMON PRACTICE AMONG MY GROUP OF FRIENDS TO GO OUT AND GET DRUNK FIRST AND ONLY SMOKE SOME CANNABIS WHEN WE GOT BACK RESULTING MOST OF THE TIME IN PASSING OUT AND OR PUKING )T WAS NOT UNTIL THAT ) QUIT DRINKING AND GOT TO APPRECIATE THE HERB AS IT SHOULD BE WITHOUT THE DISTURBING EFFECT OF COMBINING IT WITH LOTS OF ALCOHOL ) STARTED GROWING MY OWN ONE YEAR AFTER THAT FROM SEEDS ) HAD SAVED FROM SOME SUPPOSEDLY 3KUNK AND !FGHAN BUDS

7HERE DOES THE NAME -AGUS 'ENETICS COME FROM 3INCE @7ARLOCK HAD BEEN BUILDING A NAME FOR ITSELF AT THE "LUEBIRD COFFEESHOP FOR A FEW YEARS ALREADY ) SEARCHED FOR A SIMILAR COMPANY NAME THAT COULD BE EASILY ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRAIN ! 7ARLOCK IS CONSIDERED A MALE WITCH SO THE NAME @-AGUS FITTED NICELY ) CHOSE h'ENETICSv INSTEAD OF THE MORE COMMON h3EEDSv

BECAUSE ) THOUGHT IT EXPRESSED A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT

)S THE NAME -AGUS ASSOCIATED THE -AGI OR -AGIC 4HE NAME IS OLD %NGLISH MEANING WISE MAN ASTROLOGER OR MAGICIAN

7HY DO SOME SEED BANKS CARRY THE NAME @-AGNUS NOT -AGUS 'ENETICS ON THEIR LISTS )S THIS THE RESULT OF A NAME CHANGE OR SIMPLY A TYPING ERROR )T HAS ALWAYS BEEN -AGUS NOT -AGNUS "UT THE ERROR HAS BEEN MADE BY MANY

0ROBABLY BECAUSE THE NAME IS BUILT UP MORE BY @WORD OF MOUTH RATHER THAN EXTENSIVE ADVERTISEMENT 3O SINCE -AGNUS IS A COMMON NAME AND -AGUS PRETTY UNKNOWN NOT USED MUCH IT IS A MISTAKE THAT CAN BE EASILY MADE !LSO THE SAME MISTAKE WAS MADE BY (IGH 4IMES IN AN ARTICLE ALTHOUGH THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER

)N -AGUS REGISTERED ITS SEED OPERATION AT THE LOCAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (OW DID THIS HELP )T DID NOT REALLY HELP ANYTHING THERE ARE PRO S AND CON S TO THAT BUT ) DON T THINK THAT IT S RELEVANT )T S JUST THE COMMON THING TO DO WHEN YOU ESTABLISH A COMPANY IN THE .ETHERLANDS "ACK THEN GROWING FOR SEEDS WAS LEGAL SO ) DID NOT FEEL THE NEED TO STAY hUNDERGROUNDv

7HEN DID -AGUS 'ENETICS FIRST GET RECOGNISED WITH ITS !WARDS AS A SEED COMPANY !LTHOUGH ) HAD PRESENTED MY COMPANY AT THE (IGH 4IMES EXPO AS WELL AS AND ) DID NOT COMPETE IN THE #ANNABIS #UP OR ANY OTHER COMPETITION UNTIL 4HE FIRST AWARD THAT WAS WON AS A SEED COMPANY WAS IN (4## ND 3ATIVA WITH "IDDY %ARLY

7HY DOES -AGUS 'ENETICS CARRY ONLY A FEW SEED VARIETIES ON ITS MENU "ECAUSE -AGUS 'ENETICS IS A SEED PRODUCER NOT A TRADING COMPANY AND THE OWNER IS A BIT OF A CONTROL FREAK ) DO NOT BUY SEEDS OR OUTSOURCE PRODUCTION 3O TO MAINTAIN FRESH STOCK PRODUCED IN MULTIPLE SMALL BATCHES RATHER THAN ONE OR A FEW BIG ONES WOULD BE PRETTY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE IF ) CARRIED MORE LINES !LSO ) USUALLY WORK ON ONE PROJECT AT THE TIME 3O IT STILL TAKES AT LEAST TWO YEARS TO MAKE SOME TEST CROSSES

EVALUATE THE OFFSPRING AND REPRODUCE THOSE THAT PERFORM WELL

(OW DOES -AGUS 'ENETICS MANAGE ITS STOCK )N CASE YOU ARE REFERRING TO BREEDING STOCK ) KEEP ALL BREEDING STOCK IN DUPLICATE LIBRARIES CLONES SO PARENTS CAN BE MULTIPLIED A SEXUALLY AND USED TO PRODUCE IDENTICAL FRESH BATCHES WHEN NEEDED

7HICH CULTIVATION METHOD DO YOU PREFER ) PERSONALLY PREFER HAND WATERING ON A PEAT PERLITE MIX OR COCO COIR "UT THAT IS MAINLY BECAUSE IT S EASIER TO MEET EACH INDIVIDUAL PLANT S DEMANDS THIS WAY

7HAT CULTIVATION METHOD WORKS BEST WITH -AGUS 'ENETICS !S WITH MOST IF NOT ALL PLANTS (YDRO WILL GIVE THE MOST CONTROL AND THEREFORE RESULT WHEN DIALLED IN PROPERLY

HIGH )T ALSO BRANCHES OUT MORE )N OTHER CHARACTERISTICS IT S MORE SIMILAR TO THE #HRONIC AS IT IS TO THE 7ARLOCK

7HAT TYPE OF PLANT IS -OTAVATION 7ELL FIRST ) WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT IT S SPELLED -OTAVATION NOT -OTIVATION )T SEEMS ) HAVE A HABIT OF PICKING NAMES THAT ARE EASILY MIS SPELLED )N THIS CASE EVEN MY OWN PRINTER MADE THIS MISTAKE WHEN DOING THE BROCHURES -OTAVATION IS SIMILAR TO 3TARWARZ

"IDDY %ARLY IS LISTED AS AN OUTDOOR VARIETY (OW DOES THIS STRAIN PERFORM INDOORS 0RETTY WELL ACTUALLY ALTHOUGH ) MUST ADMIT THAT ) VE ONLY EVALUATED A FEW OF THEM INDOORS #OMBINED WITH THE CUSTOMER FEEDBACK THAT ) VE RECEIVED OVER THE YEARS

) CAN MAKE THAT CLAIM WITHOUT ANY DOUBT 4HE ONLY THING THAT MAKES IT LESS ATTRACTIVE TO COMMERCIAL INDOOR GROWERS IS THAT BECAUSE IT S EASILY TRIGGERED INTO FLOWERING IT CAN ALSO BE HARD TO MAINTAIN MOTHERS IN A VEGETATIVE STATE #UTTING PRODUCTION WILL BE COMPROMISED EVEN WHEN THE MOTHER IS NOT FULLY FLOWERING WHICH IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR A GROWER THAT NEEDS A CONSTANT SUPPLY OF CUTTINGS "UT FOR SINGLE GROWS STRAIGHT FROM SEEDS THERE S NOTHING AGAINST IT

)S 3TARWARZ STILL ONLY AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT THE "LUE "IRD #OFFEESHOP IN FLOWER FORM ) CAN T SAY FOR SURE IF THEY STILL HAVE IT "UT IF THEY DO THEY WILL PROBABLY STILL BE THE ONLY ONE 4HEY ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT ) GAVE THE CUT TO MANY YEARS AGO AND ) DOUBT THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO SHARE IT

7ILL 3TARWARZ EVER BE RELEASED AS ITS OWN SEED LINE 4HE ANSWER TO THAT IS A BIT DOUBLE YES IT ALREADY IS AND NO IT NEVER WILL 4HE 3TARWARZ IS A SELECTED PHENO FROM A CROSS ) MADE ON "LUEBIRD S REQUEST ST GEN 3ENSI 3TAR X 7ARLOCK !T FIRST THIS WAS NOT PLANNED AS THE START OF A PROJECT BUT JUST TO OBTAIN A SINGLE PLANT THAT COULD SERVE AS A GOOD h"LUEBIRD EXCLUSIVEv 4HE 7ARLOCK INFLUENCE WAS RATHER SUBTLE IN TERMS OF BEING RECOGNISABLE AS SUCH IN THE END PRODUCT 4O BEST FIT THE PURPOSE A RELATIVE 7ARLOCK DOMINANT PHENO WAS SELECTED TO BECOME 3TARWARZ ) DID HOWEVER LIKE THE MAIN PHENO A LOT AS WELL SO ) GOT BACK WORKING ON IT A FEW YEARS LATER 4HIS EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE -OTAVATION RD GEN 3ENSI 3TAR X 7ARLOCK WHICH IS NOT REALLY THE 3TARWARZ PHENO IN SEED FORM .EITHER IS IT AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE CROSS IT WAS SELECTED FROM SO IN THAT ASPECT THE ANSWER IS hNOv "UT IT IS CLOSELY RELATED TO AND PROBABLY AS CLOSE TO THE 3TARWARZ CUT AS YOU WILL GET SO THE ANSWER IS A LITTLE BIT OF hYESv AS WELL

7HAT IS NEXT AT -AGUS 'ENETICS (OW DOES THE #HRONIC IN @$OUBLE $UTCH COMPLEMENT THE 7ARLOCK

'ERRIT ND FROM RIGHT AT THE (IGHLIFE #UP

)T S EASIER TO DESCRIBE THEM THE OTHER WAY AROUND 4HE @7ARLOCK ADDS SOME COMPLEXITY TO THE @#HRONIC AROMA AND

.OT MUCH REALLY ) HAVE MY HANDS FULL WITH KEEPING UP STOCK OF THE CURRENT MENU SO THERE IS LITTLE TIME AND SPACE FOR PROJECTS 4HERE IS ONLY ONE 3ATIVA LEFT hIN THE PIPELINEv BUT ) M NOT SURE WHEN THAT WILL BE RELEASEDx IF EVER

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)T S BEEN HALF A CENTURY SINCE ALL THOSE KIDS TUNED IN TURNED ON AND DROPPED OUT 3O WHAT HAPPENED TO THE (IPPIES LIKE *ACK +EROUAC !LAN 'INSBERG AND 7ILLIAM 3 "URROUGHS HAD ALL EMERGED

(IPPIES 4HE 3IXTIES 4HE TIMES WERE A CHANGIN REVOLUTION WAS IN THE AIR AND THE YOUNG POST WAR @"ABY "OOM 'ENERATION LOOKED ALL SET TO TAKE ON 4HE %STABLISHMENT TO REPLACE IT WITH ALTOGETHER MORE LOVING .EW 7ORLD /RDER -ILLIONS OF THEN KIDS TOOK THE "LUE 0ILL OPENED THE $OORS OF 0ERCEPTION

FOLLOWED THE 7HITE 2ABBIT DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE PASSED THE !CID 4EST AND IN DOING SO THEY CREATED A LIVING 5TOPIAxDIDN T THEY ,OOKING BACK OVER THE PAST FIFTY YEARS AND AT OUR CURRENT SITUATION IT SEEMS THAT ALL OF THAT OPTIMISM WAS A LITTLE NAÕVE AND UNFOUNDED 'RANTED THE S SAW SOME MASSIVE CHANGES TO THE WORLD MANY OF THEM FOR THE BETTER 4HE #IVIL 2IGHTS AND 7OMEN S ,IB -OVEMENTS WERE IMPORTANT CHANGES THAT DID TAKE PLACE AND YET IT HAS TAKEN A FULL FIFTY YEARS FOR !MERICA TO EVEN CONSIDER A WOMAN OR A "LACK MAN RUNNING THE COUNTRY %QUALITY IS TAKING IT S TIME -ILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD CONTINUE TO BE PUT IN PRISON IN THE DRACONIAN h4HE 7AR ON $RUGSv WHILE hSTAMP ON YOUR NEIGHBOURv #APITALISM CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE $EVELOPED 7ORLD INCREASINGLY IMPOSING ITS GREEDY SELF ON THE 'LOBAL 6ILLAGE IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT 3O WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REVOLUTION OF PEACE AND LOVE AND HARMONY )T IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK BACK AT THE #ULTURAL 2EVOLUTION THAT TOOK PLACE IN S "RITAIN AND !MERICA WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE HISTORY OF ,3$ SINCE IT BECAME THE DEFINING FEATURE OF THE ERA FOR BETTER OR WORSE )T ACTED AS BOTH CATALYST AND KILLER OF THE @(IPPIE MOVEMENT AND HAS CONTINUED TO BE THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL CONTENTIOUS AND ENIGMATIC SUBSTANCE YET DISCOVERED

BY MODERN MAN 7HAT S MORE ITS WIDESPREAD USE BY YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE NATURE OF THE ,3$ EXPERIENCE LED MANY TO BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD BRING ABOUT A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION THAT WOULD LEAD MANKIND TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS )N THE SAME WAY THAT SOME ANTHROPOLOGISTS BELIEVE THAT RELIGION

EMERGED IN EARLY CIVILISATIONS AS A DIRECT RESULT OF HUMANS INGESTING HALLUCINOGENS SUCH AS THE PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM OR PEYOTE CACTUS PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT ,3$ WOULD SHOW MANKIND THE WAY TO A HARMONIOUS FUTURE SOME EVEN SUGGESTING THAT ITS USE SHOULD BE MANDATORY FOR THE ENTIRE POPULATION )N HIS BOOK &OOD OF THE 'ODS 4ERRANCE -C+ENNA GOES SO FAR AS TO SUGGEST THAT THE PHENOMENON OF SENTIENCE THE ABILITY TO THINK ITSELF IS A FUNCTION OF A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOMO SAPIENS AND PLANTS THAT CONTAIN PSYCHOACTIVE ALKALOIDS ,3$ WAS MERELY THE RESULT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY REFINING PSYCHEDELICS )N AN ERA OF 3PACE 2ACES AND .UCLEAR %NERGY ,3$ IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHAT MODERN SCIENCE CAN DO

3O HOW DID ,3$ END UP PROPELLING THE (IPPIE MOVEMENT INTO THE WORLDWIDE CONSCIOUSNESS 4HE ANSWER TO SUCH A QUESTION LIES WITH A FEW KEY FIGURES THAT EACH PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN BRINGING ,3$ INTO THE SPHERE OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS )N RELATION TO THE (IPPIES THE MOST NOTABLE OF THESE CHARACTERS WERE 4IMOTHY ,EARY AND +EN +ESEY "OTH MEN WERE ADVOCATES OF THE DRUG AND IN THEIR OWN WAYS WERE HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL ON THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE TIME $ESPITE THEIR COMMON PURPOSE BOTH FAMOUSLY TOOK RADICALLY OPPOSING APPROACHES TO THE ,3$ EXPERIENCE ,EARY WAS 0ROFESSOR OF 0SYCHOLOGY AT (ARVARD 5NIVERSITY A RESPECTED ACADEMIC AND SERIOUS PSYCHOLOGIST +ESEY WAS A YOUNG COCKY WRITER AND

CULTURALLY AT LEAST A DIRECT HEIR TO THE "EAT 'ENERATION FROM WHERE WRITERS

!FTER EATING MAGIC MUSHROOMS ON HOLIDAY IN -EXICO 4IMOTHY ,EARY DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO THE EXPLORATION OF HALLUCINOGENIC SUBSTANCES LATER RUNNING THE (ARVARD 0SILOCYBE %XPERIMENTS INCLUDING THE NOW INFAMOUS -ARSH #HAPEL %XPERIMENT WHERE HE ATTEMPTED TO ELICIT DIVINE EXPERIENCES IN THE SUBJECTS HIS (ARVARD STUDENTS THROUGH THE USE OF PSILOCYBIN ,EARY IS CREDITED OR CHIDED DEPENDING ON YOUR STANDPOINT FOR BEING THE ORIGINAL ,3$ !POSTLE (IS DELIBERATE COURTING OF MEDIA ATTENTION AND COMMENTS ON ,3$ BEING hTHE MOST POWERFUL APHRODISIAC KNOWN TO MANv IN 0LAYBOY -AGAZINE ARE WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE THE REASON ,3$ BECAME SO POPULAR WITH YOUNG PEOPLE SO QUICKLY )T WAS HIS BELIEF THAT ,3$ SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO THE MASSES AND IT WAS HE WHO SAID h)F YOU TAKE THE GAME OF LIFE SERIOUSLY

IF YOU TAKE YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM SERIOUSLY IF YOU TAKE YOUR SENSE ORGANS SERIOUSLY IF YOU TAKE THE ENERGY PROCESS SERIOUSLY YOU MUST TURN ON

TUNE IN AND DROP OUTv 4HIS WAS A DIRECT CALL TO THE WORLD S YOUTH TO TURN AGAINST THE ESTABLISHED ORDER )T S NO SURPRISE THEN THAT THE &") WOULD CALL HIM @!MERICA S MOST DANGEROUS MAN $ESPITE ENCOURAGING THE USE OF ,3$ ,EARY AND HIS COLLEAGUE 2ICHARD !LPERT DEVELOPED THE IDEA THAT THE EXPERIENCE SHOULD BE GIVEN A KIND OF REVERENCE AND RESPECT /UT OF THIS IDEA CAME THEIR NOTIONS OF h3ET AND 3ETTINGv AS CRUCIAL TO ENSURING THE RIGHT KIND OF ,3$ EXPERIENCE -UCH ATTENTION WAS GIVEN TO THE CAREFUL PREPARATION OF A HIGHLY RITUALISED EXPERIENCE IN THE TRADITION OF THE MUSHROOM RITUALS IN -EXICO )N SO CALLED @PRIMITIVE CULTURES INTOXICATION IS ALMOST ALWAYS INCORPORATED INTO CEREMONIES WHETHER THEY BE RITES OF PASSAGE SHAMANISTIC FEATS OF AUSPICION WILLING GOOD LUCK TO HAPPEN OR THE VISIBLE EXPRESSION OF SOCIAL BONDS $ESPITE HIS LATER STATUS AS AN ,3$ !POSTLE AND PROMINENT (IPPIE SPOKESPERSON ,EARY WAS A PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY n AT (ARVARD

NO LESS (E WAS AN ACADEMIC AND THIS INFLUENCE SHOWED IN HIS APPROACH TO THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE 3IMULTANEOUSLY ON THE OPPOSITE COAST OF !MERICA NOVELIST +EN +ESEY WAS ASSEMBLING HIS BAND OF -ERRY 0RANKSTERS AND TAKING AN ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT APPROACH TO THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE +EN +ESEY IS THE AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL @/NE &LEW /VER THE #UCKOO S .EST LATER MADE INTO A PLAY AND THEN THE FILM WITH *ACK .ICHOLSON AND THE CENTRAL FIGURE OF 4OM 7OLFE S DEFINITIVE CHRONICLING OF THE 0SYCHEDELIC (IPPIE MOVEMENT

@4HE %LECTRIC +OOL !ID !CID 4EST +ESEY LIKE ,EARY BECAME A MASSIVE

CULT FIGURE AND @#HIEF OF 4HE -ERRY 0RANKSTERS A COLLECTIVE OF LIKE MINDED ACID ENTHUSIASTS MUSICIANS ARTISTS AND SOUND ENGINEERS THAT PUT ON THE INFAMOUS !CID 4ESTS 4HE %LECTRIC +OOL !ID !CID 4EST IS THE CHRONICLING OF THE EVANGELIC MISSION OF A SMALL GROUP OF DEVOUT APOSTLES 4HERE S THIS CHARISMATIC FIGURE HEAD +ESEY AND HIS DISCIPLES 4HE -ERRY 0RANKSTERS AND THEY ARE GOING AROUND SPREADING THE @'OOD .EWS WHICH IN THIS CASE IS ,3$ ENLIGHTENMENT 4HE POSTERS FOR THE PARTIES ALL CARRIED THE SLOGAN h#AN 9OU 0ASS THE !CID 4EST v CHALLENGING THE YOUTH TO TAKE ON THE EXPERIENCE FOR BETTER OR WORSE &OR MOST THE EXPERIENCE WOULD BE LIFE CHANGING AND IT DIDN T TAKE LONG FOR THE WORD TO SPREAD !S WITH ALL SUCH MOVEMENTS IT MAY HAVE BEGUN SMALL BUT QUICKLY SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE AND IN A MATTER OF MONTHS IT HAD CREATED THE h(IPPY 3CENEv IN #ALIFORNIA

FROM WHERE ALL OTHER HIPPIES TAKE THEIR CUE 4HOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE HEADED TO 3AN &RANCISCO TO LIVE THE PSYCHEDELIC DREAM 4O SAY +ESEY AND THE -ERRY 0RANKSTERS ENCOURAGED IT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT THEY PRETTY MUCH MADE IT HAPPEN 4HROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF ,3$ THERE IS A CURIOUS ELEMENT OF CHANCE AND COINCIDENCE THAT EVENTUALLY LED TO ITS WORLDWIDE CONSUMPTION ON A MASSIVE SCALE (OFFMAN S hACCIDENTALv DISCOVERY AND +EN +ESEY S INVOLVEMENT WITH ,3$ ARE SUCH EXAMPLES (OFFMAN HIMSELF SIMPLY REFERS TO THIS AS @3ERENDIPITY HAPPY COINCIDENCE RATHER THAN @FATE OR @DESTINY DESPITE THE SHEER FLUKE WITH WHICH HE HIMSELF DISCOVERED ,3$ +ESEY S INVOLVEMENT REPRESENTS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS SERENDIPITY 7HILST STUDYING #REATIVE 7RITING AT 5NIVERSITY IN #ALIFORNIA HE SIGNED UP TO DO SOME MEDICAL TRIALS AT A LOCAL MENTAL HOSPITAL TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK )T TURNED OUT THAT THESE TRIALS WERE OF @PSYCHOMIMETIC DRUGS THAT

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IS DRUGS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO MIMIC PSYCHOSIS ONE OF WHICH JUST HAPPENED TO BE (OFFMAN S YET UNKNOWN ,3$ 7OLFE DESCRIBES THE DISCOVERY IN 4HE %LECTRIC +OOL !ID !CID 4EST h4HEY WOULD PUT HIM ON A BED IN A WHITE ROOM AND GIVE HIM A SERIES OF CAPSULES WITHOUT SAYING WHAT THEY WERE /NE WOULD BE NOTHING A PLACEBOx"UT ONE OF THEM n THE FIRST THING HE KNEW ABOUT IT WAS A SQUIRREL DROPPED AN ACORN FROM A TREE OUTSIDE

ONLY IT WAS TREMENDOUSLY LOUD AND SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS NOT OUTSIDE BUT RIGHT IN THE ROOM WITH HIM AND NOT ACTUALLY A SOUND EITHER BUT A GREAT SUFFUSING PRESENCE VISUAL ALMOST TACTILE A GREAT IMPACTING OFxBLUExALL AROUND HIM AND SUDDENLY HE WAS IN A REALM OF CONSCIOUSNESS HE HAD NEVER DREAMED OF BEFORE AND IT WAS NOT A DREAM OR A DELIRIUM BUT PART OF HIS AWARENESSx,3$ )T WAS QUITE THE LITTLE

AMPLIFYING THE MUSIC LOUDER THAN ANYONE HAD HEARD BEFORE LARGELY THANKS TO *ERRY 'ARCIA AND THE 'RATEFUL $EAD !RT WORK DONE IN LUMINOUS PAINT LIGHT SHOWS AND PROJECTORS ALL ADDED TO THE ,3$ EFFECT /NE THING THAT THE (IPPIES DID DO FOR US WAS INVENTING THE WAY FESTIVALS RAVES AND PARTIES ARE AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY ,3$ QUICKLY BECAME SYNONYMOUS WITH THE (IPPIE -OVEMENT 4HE TERM @(IPPIE DERIVES FROM THE WORD HIPSTER REFERRING TO THE YOUNG JAZZ LOVING DRUG TAKING FREE LIVING FREE LOADING GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THE S AND S ALSO KNOWN COLLECTIVELY AS THE "EAT 'ENERATION 4HE "EATS SPIRITUAL HOME WAS 3AN &RANCISCO AND IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE (IPPIES FIRST APPEARED IN THE SAME CITY S TRENDY DISTRICTS )N FACT ONE MAN .EAL #ASSADY APPEARS AS THE

)CON OF THE S 7OODSTOCK SECRET TO HAVE STUMBLED ONTO A HULKING SUPERSECRET IN FACT THE TRIUMPH OF THE GUINEA PIGS n MIGHTY FINE IRONY HERE THE 7HITE 3MOCKS HAD HANDED THEM THE VERY KEY ITSELF v "OTH +ESEY AND ,EARY BEGAN TO TAKE THEIR SACRAMENT ,3$ TO A WIDER AUDIENCE ,EARY HAD BEEN CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS WITH HIS (ARVARD POST GRADUATES WHILST +ESEY AND THE -ERRY 0RANKSTERS WERE HOLDING !CID 4ESTS "OTH WERE ON A MISSION TO SPREAD ,3$ FAR AND WIDE )T WAS AT THESE !CID 4ESTS HELD IN COMMUNITY CENTRES AND HALLS ALL OVER #ALIFORNIA THAT THE COMMUNAL +OOL !ID AN !MERICAN SOFT DRINK A BIT LIKE ,UCOZADE WAS SPIKED WITH ,3$ HENCE THE TITLE OF THE BOOK -ANY OF THE PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE HAD NO IDEA OF WHAT THEY WERE TAKING OR EVEN THAT THEY HAD TAKEN ANYTHING AT ALL )N CONTRAST TO ,EARY S @3ET AND 3ETTING APPROACH AND CONSIDERING THE CAUTION ADVISED BY (OFFMAN THIS SEEMS LIKE A WILDLY IRRESPONSIBLE WAY TO SPREAD ,3$ BUT IT WAS IN KEEPING WITH THEIR OPEN FREE RADICAL BELIEFS AND THE KIDS AT THE !CID 4ESTS WERE DELIGHTING IN THE EXPERIENCE $OORS OF PERCEPTION WERE OPENING IN MINDS ALL OVER WHILE THE EXPERIENCED PIONEER 0RANKSTERS ASSAULTED THE HEIGHTENED SENSES TO INCREASE THE POWER OF THE EXPERIENCE 0SYCHEDELIC 2OCK WAS BORN WITH MASSIVE SOUND SYSTEMS

CENTRAL CHARACTER $EAN -ORIARTY IN *ACK +EROUAC S SEMINAL "EAT NOVEL

/N THE 2OAD AND THEN LATER REAPPEARS THIS TIME AS HIMSELF IN 4HE %LECTRIC +OOL !ID !CID 4EST AS A MANIACAL

BUS DRIVING SPEED FREAK MEMBER OF +ESEY S -ERRY 0RANKSTERS ACTING AS TORCH BEARER FROM ONE MOVEMENT TO THE NEXT "Y THE MID TO LATE S ,3$ WAS FLOODING THE CAMPUSES OF #ALIFORNIA AND SOON AFTER THE REST OF !MERICA

,ONDON ,3$ HAD HIT MAINSTREAM CULTURE AND PSYCHEDLIA WAS INFLUENCING ALL FORMS OF CULTURAL EXPRESSION IN BOTH !MERICA AND "RITAIN %VEN 4HE "EATLES EXPERIMENTED WITH IT AND ARE NO DOUBT RESPONSIBLE FOR MILLIONS TAKING IT DUE TO THEIR ENORMOUS POPULARITY AT THE TIME 3OON (IPPIES WERE AN ESTABLISHED AND RECOGNISABLE PART OF SOCIETY AND RAPIDLY BECOMING CLICHÏD 4HE MEDIA HAD PICKED UP ON THIS GROWING YOUTH TREND THAT REVOLVED AROUND ,3$ AND IN TRUE MEDIA FASHION WERE SENSATIONALISING ALL ASPECTS OF THE STORY ESPECIALLY THE HORROR STORIES SURROUNDING SO CALLED hBAD TRIPSv 7HAT FOLLOWED WAS MEDIA HYSTERIA AND SEEDS FOR THE INEVITABLE BACKLASH WERE SOWN )T WAS NOT LONG BEFORE ,3$ WAS GIVEN THE HIGHEST STATUS OF ILLEGALITY AVAILABLE FOR ANY DRUG GIVING POLICE AND THE AUTHORITIES THE POWER TO CLAMP DOWN HARD ON ITS USE DISTRIBUTION AND PRODUCTION !S WITH ,EARY BEING

NAMED AS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN !MERICA SO THE CHARGE FOR MAKING AND DISTRIBUTING ,3$ BECAME TANTAMOUNT TO TREASON IN THE 5NITED 3TATES SUCH WAS THE FEAR FROM THE GOVERNMENT THAT THIS hREVOLUTIONv COULD UNDERMINE THEIR AUTHORITY OWEVER IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO ATTRIBUTE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN THE S TO ,3$ )N REALITY MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FACTORS HAD ALREADY CREATED THE ENVIRONMENT FOR HIPPIES TO THRIVE IN 4HE ORIGINAL (IPPIES WERE ALL MEMBERS OF THE h"ABY "OOM 'ENERATIONv THAT GENERATION OF PEOPLE BORN TOWARDS THE END OR SHORTLY AFTER THE 3ECOND 7ORLD 7AR 3OLDIERS RETURNED FROM THE WAR AND WERE RE UNITED WITH THEIR SWEETHEARTS A POPULATION EXPLOSION FOLLOWED !S VICTORS OF THE 7AR !MERICA AND "RITAIN WERE ABLE TO RECOVER AND REBUILD THEIR ECONOMIES AT A GREAT ADVANTAGE 4HIS NEW GENERATION GROWING UP WERE TOLD OF THE SACRIFICES THEIR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS HAD MADE FOR THEM BUT WERE NEVER ASKED TO DO THE SAME )N FACT THEY HAD FOUND THEMSELVES BORN AT A RATHER FORTUITOUS MOMENT IN HISTORY AT THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA IN A TIME OF GREAT OPTIMISM AND ECONOMIC BOOM 4HE WORLD WAS THEIR OYSTER AND THERE WAS A REAL CHANCE TO SHAPE THE FUTURE AS THEY SAW FIT *OBS WERE PLENTIFUL THERE WAS MONEY TO BE MADE AND 5NIVERSITY CAMPUSES IN "RITAIN AND !MERICA FILLED UP WITH A NEW GENERATION OF @FREE SPIRITS WHO COULD AFFORD TO GET AN EDUCATION AND HAD PLENTY OF SPARE TIME TO EXPAND MINDS AT THEIR LEISURE 4HE INTRODUCTION OF THE CONTRACEPTIVE PILL GAVE WOMEN THE CHANCE TO HAVE A LIFE BEFORE HAVING A FAMILY OUT OF THIS NEW FOUND FREEDOM FREE LOVE REIGNED !LL OF THIS WAS HAPPENING WITHOUT THE INFLUENCE OF ANY NEW DRUGS BUT IT CREATED THE PERFECT ENVIRONMENT OF OPEN MINDEDNESS FOR CHANGE )NTO THIS MAELSTROM CAME ,3$ 4HE "ABY "OOM 'ENERATION IS ALL GROWN UP NOW -ANY ARE NOW AT OR PAST RETIREMENT AGE WHICH IS WHERE THE DISAPPOINTMENT EMERGES !FTER ALL THAT ENTHUSIASM ENLIGHTENMENT AND POTENTIAL IT IS SAD TO THINK THAT NOT MUCH HAS ACTUALLY CHANGED 4HE SAME PEOPLE WHO LIVED THE PSYCHEDELIC DREAM WENT ON TO SHAPE THE WORLD AS IT IS TODAY )T WAS THIS GENERATION THAT FUELLED CAPITALISM AND CREATED hFREE MARKET ECONOMICSv THAT HAVE ALLOWED THE 7EST TO RETAIN THE VAST MAJORITY OF WEALTH IN THE WORLD 5NJUST WARS ARE STILL WAGED AND WE HAVE IGNORED THE ENVIRONMENT AT NATURES COST 4HOSE WHO HAVE STAYED TRUE TO THEIR BELIEFS HAVE DONE SO ONLY TO BE MARGINALISED AND RIDICULED BY SOCIETY FOR THEIR QUIRKS AND CLICHÏS &OR THE MAJORITY THE PROBLEM STARTED AFTER THEY HAD TUNED IN AND DROPPED OUT .O ONE TOLD THEM WHERE TO GO AFTER THAT +ESEY TALKED OF AN @!CID 'RADUATION WHERE THE HIPPIES WOULD TAKE THE NEXT STEP TO ENLIGHTENMENT WITHOUT THE USE OF CHEMICALS ,3$ HAD SHOWED THEM THE DOOR BUT THEY HAD TO WALK THROUGH IT WITHOUT IT 4HIS NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED +ESEY BEING INCARCERATED BEFORE THE MEETING

+EN +ESEY S MOST FAMOUS BOOK

3OME BELIEVING SO FERVENTLY THAT ,3$ HELD THE KEY LITERALLY DESTROYED THEIR MINDS WITH FAR TOO MUCH OF THIS EXCEPTIONALLY POWERFUL MIND ALTERING SUBSTANCE /THERS SOBERED UP AND REVERTED TO TYPE BY RE INSERTING THEMSELVES BACK INTO STRAIGHT SOCIETY FOREVER MORE TO LOOK BACK DEWY EYED AND WISTFUL AT A CLICHÏD AND DECONSTRUCTED VERSION OF hTHE SWINGING SIXTIESv h0SYCHEDELICv ADVERTS ARE USED TO SELL US CARS OR COMPUTERS AND WE ARE AS FAR AWAY NOW FROM THE (IPPY IDYLL AS WE EVER WERE PERHAPS FURTHER -AYBE ,3$ WASN T THE KEY AFTER ALL -AYBE IT JUST FEELS THAT WAY WHEN YOU RE TRIPPING "UT THEN AGAINx

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)N THIS ISSUE WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT HOW TO MAKE HASHISH USING A COLD WATER METHOD OF EXTRACTION 4HE HASHISH IS COLLECTED FROM THE RESIN HEADS OR GLANDS OF THE PLANT VIA A SYSTEM OF FILTRATION 4HIS TYPE OF HASHISH IS EITHER TERMED )CE O LATOR IN (OLLAND WHERE ICE EXTRACTION IS USED AND OR "UBBLE (ASH IN THE !MERICAS WHEREBY THE HASHISH

TO SEE HOW IT WAS DONE 4O SAVE REPEATING ON ARTICLES THAT HAVE ALREADY COVERED MICRON SIZE TO RESIN GLAND RATIOS AND ALL THE COMPLICATED STUFF ASSOCIATED WITH HASH MAKING HERE WE WON T BE GETTING TOO TECHNICAL 4HE GRADE OF HASHISH AIMED TO BE PRODUCE WAS hMEDICAL GRADEv SO ONLY THE FINEST GRADE INGREDIENTS WERE USED 4HE TECHNIQUES SHOWN

HAS A SLIGHTLY WIDER GRADE SILK MESH 4HE TOP SAC IS DESIGNED TO COLLECT ALL THE UNWANTED PLANT MATERIALS .EXT THE SAC LINED BUCKET WAS FILLED WITH WATER LEAVING JUST ENOUGH SPACE TO ADD THE TRIM WASTE MATERIALS ON TOP .EXT THE PRE FROZEN TRIM WASTE MATERIALS WERE ADDED TO THE WATER 4HE MATERIALS FLOATED TO BEGIN WITH AND NEEDED SOME ENCOURAGEMENT WITH THE AID OF THE PLASTIC SPOON TO BECOME FULLY SATURATED /NCE SATURATED INTO THE WATER FULLY THE DRAWSTRINGS ON THE SACS WERE TIGHTENED ABOUT THE BASE OF THE BUCKET AND THE JOB OF STIRRING THE MIXTURE INTO HASHISH BEGAN -AKING BUBBLE HASHISH BY HAND NOT MACHINE USUALLY PRODUCES A CLEANER GRADE OF RESIN 3TIRRING THE MIXTURE BY HAND REDUCES THE AMOUNT OF UNWANTED PLANT MATERIALS THAT DETACH THEMSELVES FROM THE MATERIALS WITH HEAVY TREATMENT /NE WAY OF FULLY AGITATING THE TRIM WASTE BY HAND IS TO STIR THEM WITH A PLASTIC OR WOODEN SPOON IN A FIGURE OF EIGHT PATTERN ! CIRCULAR MOTION TENDS TO LUMP ALL THE MATERIALS INTO THE CENTRE OF THE BUCKET AND THE LARGE FAN LEAF TEND TO WRAP ABOUT ONE ANOTHER 4HE AIM WAS TO DISLODGE AS MANY OF THE GLANDULAR TRICHOMES AS POSSIBLE LEAVING THE UNWANTED PLANT MATERIALS ON THE PLANT

HERE WERE hECO FRIENDLYv IN THE SENSE THAT NO ELECTRICITY WAS USED TO MAKE THE BUBBLE HASH ALTHOUGH THE MATERIALS WERE FROZEN PRIOR TO USE THE RESULTING WASTE MATERIAL WAS COMPOSTED THE RESULTING WASTE WATER WAS USED AS ORGANIC FEED TEA IN THE GARDEN 4HE USE OF ICE CUBES AND AN ELECTRIC HAND MIXER WERE OMITTED FROM THIS METHOD ON GROUNDS OF SIMPLICITY AS MUCH AS ON GROUNDS THAT ARE ORGANIC

>ÌiÀ > Ã 4HE MATERIALS NEEDED TO MAKE THIS VERSION OF BUBBLE HASH INCLUDED BUBBLE SACS X A LARGE PLASTIC BUCKET A LARGE PLASTIC SPOON COLD WATER A PIECE OF CARDBOARD A METAL TEA SPOON THE TRIM WASTE MATERIALS FROM A PRE DRIED HARVEST PRODUCED GIVES BUBBLES UPON CONTACT WITH A NAKED FLAME 4HE PLANT MATERIAL USED IN THIS EXPERIMENT WERE SOURCED FROM THE LEAFS AND TRIM WASTE FROM A SELECT 3KUNK CLONE COLLOQUIALLY KNOWN IN THE 5+ AS #HEESE 4HERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT PRODUCTS AVAILABLE TO HOME GROWERS AIMED AT AIDING WATER EXTRACTION METHODS IN THE HOME (ERE WE ARE DEMONSTRATING THE X SAC SYSTEM FROM THE @"UBBLE 3AC RANGE 3OME OF THE SKILLS USED HERE COME FROM THE SKILLS AND TEACHINGS OF THE "UBBLEMAN 7HILE OTHER TECHNIQUES ARE THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN ADAPTED BY BUBBLE HASH MAKERS AND SHAKERS 3OFT 3ECRETS WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO SIT IN ON A BUBBLE MAKING SESSION WITH A LOCAL GROWER

4HE TRIM WASTE WAS FIRST DRIED AND THEN SORTED TO REMOVE ANY LARGE STALKS THAT MIGHT HAVE PUNCTURED THE SACS .EXT THE TRIM WASTE WAS PLACED INTO A BLACK PLASTIC BIN BAG AND DROPPED INTO THE FREEZER !FTER ALLOWING TIME FOR THE GLANDULAR TRICHOMES TO FREEZE BRITTLE ON THEIR STALKS FOR A FEW WEEKS THE MATERIALS WERE READY TO WORK

iÌ `Ê &IRSTLY THE BUBBLE SACS HAD TO BE FITTED INTO THE BUCKET THE RIGHT WAY ROUND A MISTAKE THAT MANY MAKE 4HE hCATCHING SACv WENT INTO THE BUCKET FIRST 4HE CATCHING SAC HAS A FINE GRADE SILK MESH DESIGNED TO CATCH THE GLANDULAR TRICHOMES 4HIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE SECOND TOP SAC THAT

4HE AMOUNT OF TIME AND THE FEROCITY OF THE STIRRING WILL HOWEVER DICTATE HOW MANY GLAND HEADS ARE DISLODGED FROM THE PLANT MATERIAL INTO THE WATER 4HIS ALSO DICTATES THE FINAL YIELD OF HASHISH 4HE GLANDULAR TRICHOMES ARE HEAVIER THAN WATER SO THEY SINK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BUCKET AND PASS THROUGH THE SCREEN MESH OF THE TOP SAC AND INTO THE CATCHING SAC BELOW BY THEIR OWN GRAVITY 4HE PLANT MATERIALS STAY A FLOAT IN THE WATER MAKING THE WHOLE PROCESS POSSIBLE !FTER A MIN STIR THE BUCKET WAS LEFT TO SETTLE FOR A FURTHER MINS %XPERIMENTING WITH THE LENGTH OF STIRRING TIME IN RELATION TO RESTING TIME ALSO GIVES DIFFERENT RESULTS

MIN STIRRING AND MIN RESTING

FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER MIN STIRRING AND ANOTHER MIN RESTING PRODUCES RESULTS WITH A LOW YIELD BUT A HIGHER QUALITY RESIN THAN A MIN MIN RUN 4HE BUCKET CAN BE TAPPED OCCASIONALLY DURING THE RESTING PERIOD TO HELP DISLODGE ANY OF THE LARGER TRICHOMES THAT ARE STUCK TO THE DAMP LEAF MATERIALS AT THE TOP OF THE BUCKET !S A RULE HOWEVER THE BUCKET IS BEST LEFT TO SETTLE ON ITS OWN !FTER A PERIOD OF REST THE TOP SAC INCLUDING THE TRIM WASTE MATERIAL CAN BE REMOVED FROM THE BUCKET 2EMEMBER EVERYTHING THAT DRAINS FROM THIS SAC HAS THE POTENTIAL OF HOLDING AMBER GOLD RESIN SO ALWAYS REMEMBER TO DRAIN THE TOP SAC OVER THE BUCKET CONTAINING THE CATCHING SAC BELOW !S THE WATER DRAINS FROM THE TOP SAC BUBBLE HASH MAKERS PERFORM WHAT THE "UBBLEMAN CALLS THE hJERK AND TUGv ,IFTING THE SAC SLIGHTLY LETTING ITS OWN WEIGHT FALL THEN SNATCHING IT UPWARDS IN ONE MOTION ! STREAM OF GOLDEN WATER THEN GUSHES FROM THE SAC INTO THE BUCKET BELOW /NCE THE TOP SAC HAS BEEN FILTERED OF WATER IT IS IMPORTANT TO WASH THE SAC CLEAN STRAIGHT AWAY 4HIS KEEPS THE SACS IN THE BEST CONDITION AND READY FOR USE AGAIN ANOTHER DAY 4HE DAMP WASTE MATERIAL IS NOW DEVOID OF ALL ITS FORMER PSYCHOACTIVE PROPERTIES AND CAN BE PLACED ONTO THE COMPOST HEAP TO BIO DEGRADE 4HIS ALSO ALLOWS THE CATCHING SAC TIME TO SETTLE .EXT THE CATCHING SAC CAN BE SLOWLY LIFTED FROM THE BUCKET !T THIS STAGE TRY NOT TO RUSH THINGS !LLOW THE WATER TO SLOWLY TRICKLE FROM THE CATCHING SAC INTO THE BUCKET BELOW $ON T BE TEMPTED TO SQUEEZE THE SAC OF ITS CONTENTS LIKE A SHEPHERD MILKING A COW 4HIS WILL ONLY SERVE TO CLOG THE SCREEN WITH RESIN MAKING THE SCREENS LESS PRODUCTIVE IN THE FUTURE 4HE SHAPE OF THE SAC WHEN FILLED WITH WATER IS ALSO LIKELY TO OVER SPILL AT THE TOP SPLASHING SMELLY WATER EVERYWHERE !S THE SAC REACHES EMPTY THE SCREEN CAN BE RESTED ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE WATER IN THE BUCKET !T WHICH POINT IT IS ADVISABLE TO ROLL BACK THE EDGES OF THE SAC SO THAT THE CONTENTS WITHIN ARE MADE VISIBLE

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OF ,EICESTER WAS SENTENCED TO YEARS FOR CONSPIRACY TO AID AND ABET AND COUNSEL PRODUCTION POSSESSION OF THE DRUG HIMSELF WITH INTENT TO SUPPLY AND POSSESSION OF A FIREARM ! WORKER WHO WAS EMPLOYED BY THE PAIR 0AUL "LACKSHAW

OF ,ITTLE %ATON RECEIVED A SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR THE SAME OFFENCE AND CONSPIRACY TO COUNSEL OR ADVISE THE PRODUCTION OF THE DRUG +ENNING AND &ENWICK HAVE LANGUISHED BEHIND BARS EVER SINCE AS THEY CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED THEIR APPEAL 4ODAY HOWEVER -R +ENNING AND -R "LACKSHAW HAD THEIR NAMES COMPLETELY CLEARED AT THE #OURT OF !PPEAL IN ,ONDON AND WERE BEGINNING TO PUT THEIR LIVES BACK TOGETHER 0AUL &ENWICK HOWEVER WHILST CLEARED OF THE AIDING ABETTING AND COUNSELLING CHARGES

POTENTIALLY FACES ANOTHER TWO MONTHS BEHIND BARS AS HE STILL HAS TIME TO SERVE ON HIS SENTENCES FOR THE DRUGS POSSESSION AND FIREARM OFFENCES

4HE 4RIAL !T THE #OURT OF !PPEALS ,ORD #HIEF *USTICE ,ORD 0HILLIPS CLEARLY THINKS NOT AS HE RULED THAT THE OFFENCES OF CONSPIRACY TO AID AND ABET AND COUNSEL THE PRODUCTION OF CANNABIS WERE hUNKNOWN TO LAWv AND THUS HAD TO BE QUASHED 7HICH BEGS THE QUESTION OF COMPENSATION FOR THE TWO MEN UNFAIRLY IMPRISONED ON TRUMPED UP CHARGES !S A RESULT TWO MEN ARE HAVING THEIR SENTENCES COMPLETELY OVER TURNED AND A THIRD REMAIN S BEHIND BARS AS HE WAS ACTUALLY FOUND IN POSSESSION OF GRAMS OF DRIED CANNABIS WHICH WAS ALLEGEDLY h"AGGED AND READY FOR SALEv

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MEMBER STRONG GROUP OF DOCTORS SPECIALIZING IN INTERNAL MEDICINE AND RELATED SUBSPECIALTIES INCLUDING CARDIOLOGY NEUROLOGY PULMONARY DISEASE ONCOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES SPOKE OUT PUBLICLY IN &EBRUARY GIVING ITS FULL BACKING TO THE USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA ! FACT WHICH WAS BACKED UP LATER BY 0RESIDENT "ILL #LINTONS FORMER 53 3URGEON 'ENERAL $R *OCELYN %LDERS $R %LDERS HAS CALLED FOR MORE RESEARCH BUT SHE ALSO ADDED A CRITICAL POINT WHEN SHE SAID h4HE EFFICACY OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA HAS ALREADY BEEN ESTABLISHED AND IT S TIME FOR STUDIES DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE BEST DOSE AND ROUTE OF DELIVERY v $OCTOR %LDERS ALSO WENT ON TO DEMOLISH SEVERAL MYTHS STARTING WITH THE NOTION STILL PROCLAIMED BY SOME POLITICIANS THAT MARIJUANA IS UNSAFE FOR MEDICAL USE

$R %LDERS COMMENTS h4HE #OLLEGE NOTES THAT THE MOST SERIOUS OBJECTION TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA POTENTIAL HARM TO THE LUNGS FROM SMOKING HAS LARGELY BEEN SOLVED BY A TECHNOLOGY CALLED VAPORIZATION ALREADY PROVEN IN SCIENTIFIC STUDIES v /N THE GATEWAY THEORY SHE SAYS h4HERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT PROTECTING MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS LEADS TO INCREASED DRUG ABUSE -ARIJUANA HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN TO BE THE CAUSE OR EVEN THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PREDICTOR OF SERIOUS DRUG ABUSEv

!#0 ,ARGE MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS ARE BY THEIR NATURE SLOW CAUTIOUS CREATURES THAT MOVE ONLY WHEN THE EVIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING )N THIS INSTANCE THE EVIDENCE IS INDEED OVERWHELMING THAT AS THE !#0 PUT IT THERE IS hA CLEAR DISCORDv BETWEEN WHAT RESEARCH TELLS US AND WHAT OUR LAWS SAY ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA

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ORGANISED CRIMINAL TRADE INTO A BONA FIDE MULTI MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS MODEL "UT EVEN IN -ENDOCINO THE LEGISLATORS HAVE STARTED TO GET COLD FEET AS THEY TRY TO REIGN IN 0ROPOSITION 4HE #OMPASSIONATE #AREGIVERS !CT WHICH WAS WRITTEN INTO STATUTE IN 3INCE THE PASSAGE OF 0ROPOSITION &EDERAL OFFICIALS HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING &ROM CRIMINAL RAIDS AND PROSECUTIONS TO #IVIL INJUNCTIONS TO MOST RECENTLY THREATENING TO SEIZE ANY PROPERTY LEASED FOR MEDICAL CANNABIS USES IN A BID IT WOULD SEEM TO THWART OR SLOW THE PROGRESS OF MEDICAL CANNABIS IN #ALIFORNIA 4HE *USTICE $EPARTMENTS UNDER THE #LINTON !DMINISTRATION AND THE "USH !DMINISTRATION HAVE TAKEN DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MEDICAL CANNABIS IN #ALIFORNIA .OT WANTING TO APPEAR TOO HEAVY HANDED AGAINST SICK AND DYING CANCER AND !)$3 PATIENTS THE $EPARTMENT OF *USTICE UNDER "ILL #LINTON LIMITED THEIR ENFORCEMENT TO CIVIL MEASURES SUCH AS SEEKING TO REVOKE THE &EDERAL 0RESCRIPTION LICENSES OF DOCTORS WHO RECOMMENDED CANNABIS OR FILING FOR #IVIL )NJUNCTIONS AGAINST THE MAJOR PROVIDERS UNDER 0ROPOSITION 4HE "USH !DMINISTRATION HOWEVER HAS TAKEN A MUCH STRONGER STANCE IN #ALIFORNIA /NE MONTH AFTER THE 3EPTEMBER

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!CCORDING TO THE PROSECUTION IN THE TRIAL +ENNING AND &ENWICK TRADING THROUGH THEIR HYDROPONIC WHOLESALE BUSINESS IN $ERBY SUPPLIED EQUIPMENT TO CANNABIS GROWERS REASONABLY FORESEEING THAT THE ITEMS WOULD BE USED ILLEGALLY &ENWICK AND -R "LACKSHAW AT THE TIME A SHOP ASSISTANT AT THEIR CENTRE HAD ALSO PROVIDED ADVICE TO UNDERCOVER POLICE OFFICERS ABOUT PRODUCING CANNABIS AND HOW TO AVOID DETECTION

PROSECUTORS SAID "UT IN THE #OURT OF !PPEALS TODAY LAWYERS ACTING FOR ALL THREE MEN ARGUED THAT THEIR CONVICTIONS WERE WRONG AS THE OFFENCES THEY HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH DID NOT EXIST IN "RITISH LAW !CCORDING TO THE DEFENSE LEGAL TEAM h)N ORDER TO CONVICT A DEFENDANT OF CONSPIRACY TO AID AND ABET OR COUNSEL THE COMMISSION OF AN OFFENCE

THE JURY WOULD HAVE TO BE SURE THAT THE END OFFENCE ACTUALLY OCCURRED v 4HE TRIAL JUDGE HAD BEEN WRONG IN DIRECTING THE JURY THAT THE OFFENCE COULD BE COMMITTED EVEN WHEN THE END OFFENCE COULD NOT BE PROVEN EVENTUALLY SENTENCE THE DEFENDANTS TO NO JAIL TIME AND YEAR PROBATION AND A FEE

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HOWEVER EVERY GAY PERSON HAD TO LIVE A LIE h4HE NORM WAS TO MARRY A LESBIAN

AND THEN THE WOMAN COULD ALSO FAKE RESPECTABILITY /NE OF MY FRIENDS WHO ) M PRETTY SURE IS GAY IS A MARRIED GRANDFATHERv HE SAYS (IS OWN GRANDFATHERS WERE ON OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM ONE A 2EPUBLICAN THE OTHER A $EMOCRAT ! POLITICALLY PRECOCIOUS CHILD YEAR OLD "RUCE WAS TORN BETWEEN .IXON AND *&+ (E WOULD LATER MAJOR IN POLITICS AND HAS RETAINED HIS INTEREST IN WORLD AFFAIRS (E REMEMBERS MEETING *&+ TWO MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH AND SAID THAT THE LOSS OF *&+ HURT AS BADLY AS THE LOSS OF HIS 2EPUBLICAN GRANDFATHER IN

THE YEAR +ENNEDY TOOK OFFICE 4HE MOOD OF HOPE WHICH SWEPT THE NATION SEEMS TO BE RISING AGAIN TODAY h4HE PARALLELS WITH /BAMA ARE UNBELIEVABLE WHICH IS WHY ) WON T BE HAPPY AND EXCITED WATCHING HIS INAUGERATION AND ) WILL BE DEVESTATED WHEN THEY DECIDE TO KILL HIM AND THEY WILL v HE SAYS RECALLING THAT LEADERS SUCH AS *&+ "OBBY +ENNEDY AND -ARTIN ,UTHER +ING *UNIOR AMONG MANY OTHERS WERE GUNNED DOWN THE LAST TIME HOPE WAS IN THE AIR AND CHANGE LOOKED TO BE ON THE CARDS 4HE YEAR OLD "RUCE WATCHED *&+ PATSY ,EE (ARVEY /SWALD BEING KILLED LIVE ON 46 AND AT WENT TO WORK FOR THE "OBBY +ENNEDY CAMPAIGN (IS SECOND POLITICAL ICON WAS KILLED AFTER HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE #ALIFORNIA PRIMARY WHEN HE HAD ALL BUT SECURED THE $EMOCRATIC NOMINATION (IS SISTER S WEDDING WAS PUNCTUATED WITH A TRIP TO THE TRAIN STATION TO WATCH "OBBY S BODY PASS ON ITS WAY TO 7ASHINGTON $# .EEDLESS TO SAY THE AFTER PARTY WAS A BIT OF A DOWNER -OST OF THE GUESTS ARRIVED IN TEARS )N BETWEEN THE KILLING OF THE +ENNEDY S "RUCE DISCOVERED CANNABIS

)N IN A SECLUDED WOODLAND HE WAS OFFERED HIS FIRST TASTE OF HASHISH )N COLLEGE HE WAS hTHE TYPICAL FRAT BOYv IN TERMS OF ACCESS TO CANNABIS

THOUGH THE METHOD OF TRANSPORT WAS SLIGHTLY UNUSUAL h/NCE IN A WHILE

A GUY WOULD FLY FROM /HIO TO 3AN &RANSISCO AND FILL HIS SUITCASE WITH ENOUGH POT FOR THE CAMPUS FOR MONTHS 4HOSE WERE THE DAYS BEFORE AIRPORT SECURITYv h)T WAS CONSIDERED A BIG BOOGIE MAN

OF COURSE AND EVERYBODY WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOCKED IF WE HAD BEEN CAUGHT 3OME GUYS WERE THE KIDS OF POLITICIANS AND JUDGES AND SOCIETY SAW IT AS JUST AS BAD AS HEROIN v HE SAYS RECALLING THAT HIS FAVOURITE SMOKE OF THE DAY WAS .EPALESE 4EMPLE "ALLS h7HY ANYONE ) KNEW WOULD HAVE THESE CHERISHED THINGS LOVINGLY CREATED BY "UDDHIST MONKS IN .EPAL ) DON T KNOW BUT IT SURE WAS GREAT STUFF v (E ATTRIBUTES HIS EXPLORATIONS IN CONSCIOUSNESS WITH SAVING HIM FROM A LIFE OF SUITED CONFORMITY h)F IT WASN T FOR THE INFLUENCE OF THE HIPPIES ) WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTINED TO WORK IN A SUIT LIKE MY GRANDFATHER (E USED TO WORK AS AN ENGINEER IN GOVERNMENT OFFICE BUILDING AND HE ALWAYS WORE A THREE PIECE WOOL SUIT TO WORK EVEN THOUGH THE HEAT GOT UP TO DEGREES 4HAT S WHAT IT MEANT TO BE RESPECTABLE AND EDUCATED v "RUCE WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHOSE POLITICAL VIEWS WERE BEING RADICALISED

BY EXPOSURE TO CANNABIS AND OTHER CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANDING DRUGS "ETWEEN AND THE 9IPPIES THE 9OUTH )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY ACHIEVED MORE MEDIA COVERAGE THAN EITHER MAINSTREAM PARTY h4HE 9IPPIES ARE PROBABLY BEST REMEMBERED FOR THROWING DOLLAR BILLS FROM THE GALLERY ONTO THE .EW 9ORK 3TOCK %XCHANGE FLOOR AND PHOTOGRAPHING THE BIG TIME BROKERS GROVELLING TO PICK THEM UP 6ISITORS GALLERIES THERE AND ELSEWHERE SOON BECAME SEALED OFF v 4HE FAMOUS ATTEMPT TO LEVITATE THE 0ENTAGON AND EXORCISE THE DEMONS OF WAR WAS THE CENTREPIECE OF .ORMAN -AILER S @!RMIES OF THE .IGHT 7HEN THE 9IPPIES CONVERGED ON THE $EMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN TO UNVEIL THEIR CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT

A PIG NAMED 0IGASUS IT SEEMED THAT YOUTHFUL REBELLION WAS IN THE ASCENDANCY h4HOSE WERE HEADY TIMES 4HE MUSIC WAS FABULOUS ROCK AND ROLL BEGAN TO HAVE A SOCIAL IMPORTANCE

AND IT FELT LIKE WE WERE TAKING

#HEECH #HONG

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OVER 7ITH PSYSCHEDELICS SHOWING US THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE FUTURE

AND 4IMOTHY ,EARY SUGGESTING THAT THEY COULD HAVE ARTISTIC AND THERAPEUTIC USES IT SEEMED LIKE WE WERE GOING THROUGH A BREAKTHROUGH IN CONSCIOUSNESS )NSTEAD POLICE REPRESSION SMASHED IT ALL AND WE ENDED UP WITH .IXON WHO WAS SUCH AN UPTIGHT ASSHOLE THAT HE USED TO WALK ON THE BEACH IN HIS LEATHER SHOES WITH A THREE PIECE SUIT WITH A TIE AND THE SHIRT BUTTONED RIGHT UP v HE SAYS &OLLOWING FOUR YEARS OF .IXON THE LAST ROLL OF THE POLITICAL DICE FOR THE HIPPIES CUM YIPPIES CAME IN

WITH THE DISASTEROUS -C'OVERN PRESIDENTIAL BID WHEN AN APPARENT GROUNDSWELL OF YOUNG SUPPORTERS SIMPLY FAILED TO MATERIALISE AND !MERICA RE ELECTED .IXON IN A LANDSLIDE VICTORY "Y THE TIME OF .IXON S RESIGNATION THE $EMOCRATIC PARTY HAD BEEN SO DEFLATED AND BEATEN THAT IT PUT ULTRA STRAIGHT FIERCELY RELIGIOUS *IMMY #ARTER FORWARD TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY IN %VEN HIS RELIGIOUS FERVOUR COULDN T SAVE HIM FROM THE IRE OF THE FUNDAMENTALISTS ONCE ABORTION WAS ADOPTED AS A 2EPUBLICAN WEDGE ISSUE "Y THAT TIME THE COUNTERCULTURE HAD PEAKED AND THE END OF THE 6IETNAM WAR REMOVED ONE OF THE BIGGEST RADICALISING ELEMENTS OF THE BRIEF YIPPIE INSURRECTION THE MILITARY DRAFT h) WAS EXEMPTED FROM MILITARY SERVICE BECAUSE OF A KIDNEY DISEASE SO ) FAILED THE MEDICAL BUT ) THOUGHT ) WAS GOING TO HAVE TO GO AND ) HAD LINED UP CLERGY MEN AND CONGRESSMEN TO TESTIFY THAT ) WAS A PACIFIST !

LOT OF MY FRIENDS DIED IN 6IETNAM

AND MANY OTHERS HAD TO LEAVE FOR #ANADA 3WEDEN AND )SRAEL ) BECAME

A COUNSELLOR HELPING OTHERS TO AVOID THE DRAFT )F YOU HAD SOME MEDICAL OR FAMILY REASON WE HELPED YOU TO GET OUT OF SERVICE )F YOU DIDN T WE PUT YOU IN TOUCH WITH PEOPLE WHO COULD GET FAKE DOCUMENTS TO GET YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRY v -EANWHILE THE WAR AT HOME WAS CONTINUING APACE 0OLICE BRUTALITY WAS THE ORDER OF THE DAY WITH MANY 9IPPIE GATHERINGS DESCENDING INTO RIOTS )NVARIABLY THE BLEEDING AND BEATEN ORGANISERS WERE HAULED BEFORE THE COURTS AND CHARGED WITH INCITING VIOLENCE )T WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE TO CHARGE THEM WITH INCITING PEACE THOUGH THEIR COLOURFUL ANTICS TERRIFIED CONSERVATIVE !MERICA 7HEN THEY JOKINGLY THREATENED TO PUT ,3$ IN THE #HICAGO WATER SUPPLY

THE MEDIA WERE OUTRAGED )N FACT THE SUCCESS OF THE 9IPPIES WAS BASED ON A MEDIA SAVVY PURSUIT OF CONTROVERSY !MERICA WAS FINALLY COMING FACE TO FACE WITH CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOME PEOPLE DIDN T LIKE WHAT THEY SAW 2ICHARD .IXON HATED THE HIPPIES AND YIPPIES WITH A PASSION AND ATTEMPTED TO TURN SOCIETY AGAINST POT AND PROMISCUITY $ESPITE HIS EFFORTS IT WAS STILL ACCEPTABLE TO REFER FAVOURABLY TO DRUGS ON 46 AND THE COUNTER CULTURE REMAINED COOL 2ONALD 2EAGAN CHANGED ALL THAT h)N THE S YOU HAD THE #HEECH AND #HONG MOVIES AND THE PEAK OF THE CANNABIS CULTURE BUT AFTER 2EAGAN IN IT BECAME FORBIDDEN TO TALK ABOUT THIS STUFF ON 46 IT WAS CULTURALLY TABOO AGAINv "RUCE REMEMBERS h2EAGAN WAS A REAL MILITARY INDUSTRIAL PRESIDENT HE SUCCEEDED IN PUTTING A WET BLANKET OVER THE WHOLE DRUGS THING v 2ONALD 2EAGAN IS REMEMBERED AS A VICIOUSLY ANTI DRUG PRESIDENT BUT THINGS ARE RARELY SO BLACK AND WHITE 2EAGAN S PAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH POT REFLECTED !MERICA S DYSFUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO THE PLANT (IS SON WAS A POT SMOKING BALLET DANCER WHO USED TO SMOKE JOINTS IN THE BACK OF "RUCE S HIPPY VAN h) SMOKED DOPE WITH 2ONALD 2EAGAN *UNIOR ON TWO OCASSIONS IN ,! !T THIS STAGE HIS FATHER HAD BEEN GOVERNOR

BUT WASN T YET THE PRESIDENT (E WAS GENUINELY BAFFLED BY HIS FATHER S MEANNESS ON DRUGS AND ISSUES OF COMPASSION LIKE POVERTY AND WORKERS

RIGHTS (E DID TRY TO TALK SERIOUSLY WITH HIS FATHER WHO HAD STARTED OUT AS A LIBERAL AND A $EMOCRAT BEFORE HE MARRIED .ANCY AND FELL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HER EXTREMELY RIGHT WING

WELL CONNECTED FATHER h(E KNEW HIS OWN SON WAS A POT SMOKING LIBERAL AND 2EAGAN HIMSELF HAD BEEN IN THE SHOWBIZ WORLD AND HUNG OUT WITH 3INATRA AND THE 2AT 0ACK AND OTHERS WHO WERE INTO ALL KINDS OF THINGS #ERTAINLY IF HE DIDN T PARTAKE HE AT LEAST TOLERATED THIS STUFF HE BECAME SO INTOLERANT OF WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT 2ON WAS ALWAYS BAFFLED BY ITv "RUCE RECALLS 7HETHER HIS POLITICAL VIEWS WERE HIS OWN OR NOT 2ONALD 2EAGAN WAS A TREMENDOUSLY VIOLENT AND REPRESSIVE GOVERNOR $URING ONE NOTORIOUS EPISODE HE GLEEFULLY CALLED IN THE .ATIONAL 'UARD TO CONTINUOUSLY AND VICIOUSLY ATTACK MAIM AND EVEN KILL STUDENTS IN #ALIFORNIA S SHORT LIVED @0EOPLE S 0ARK !FTER THE EVENT 2EAGAN DEFENDED HIS FATAL ACTIONS SAYING hIF IT TAKES A BLOOD BATH LET S GET IT OVER WITH .O MORE APPEASEMENTv )T LATER TRANSPIRED THAT &") AGENTS SUCH AS 2EAGAN HAD WORKED CLOSELY WITH &") HEAD * %DGAR (OOVER TO STRANGLE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION 0EOPLE BECAME TOO AFRAID TO PROTEST 4HE RULERS HAD HAD ENOUGH 0EOPLE HAD TO BE PUT BACK IN THEIR BOXES &EAR AND 46 WERE CALLED UP TO HYPNOTISE THE POPULACE AND THE DRUG WAR WIPED OUT THE ETHICS OF THE 3IXTIES h4HE EFFECT OF THE DRUG WAR HAS BEEN VERY MUCH TO MAKE IT MORE LIKE A WAR 4HE INNOCENCE IS GONE "ACK IN THE S AND S THE IDEA THAT SOMEONE WOULD FUCK WITH YOUR SHIT TO MAKE MORE MONEY WAS JUST UNHEARD OF 4HE @BAD SHIT WAS MOSTLY AN URBAN MYTHv

HE SAYS .OW CONTAMINATED DRUGS ARE A FACT OF THE STREET SCENE 4HE DRUG WAR HAS CHANGED MORE THAN THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT IT HAS ALSO SUCCESSFULLY NARROWED THE PUBLIC S UNDERSTANDING OF PSYCHEDELICS 4HE THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF PSYCHEDELICS ARE ONLY NOW SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY COMING BACK INTO VIEW h$RUGS USED TO BE SOMETHING THAT GEEK CHEMISTRY ENTHUSIASTS WERE TAKING SCIENTISTS WANTED TO GET HIGHv "RUCE SAYS .OWADAYS IT SEEMS LIKE MOST PEOPLE

DON T WANT TO EXPLORE CONSCIOUSNESS

THEY JUST WANT TO GET FUCKED UP !S 4ERENCE -C+ENNA PUT IT IN HIS CLASSIC &OOD OF THE 'ODS 4HE CHILDREN OF +EN AND "ARBIE BRIEFLY BROKE OUT OF THE TELEVISION INTOXICATION IN THE MID SIXTIES THROUGH THE USE OF HALLUCINOGENS h/OPSv RESPONDED THE DOMINATORS

AND THEY QUICKLY MADE PSYCHEDELICS ILLEGAL AND HALTED ALL RESEARCH !

DOUBLE DOSE OF 46 THERAPY PLUS COCAINE WAS ORDERED UP FOR THE ERRANT HIPPIES AND THEY WERE QUICKLY TURNED INTO CONSUMPTION ORIENTED YUPPIES /NLY A RECALCITRANT FEW ESCAPED THIS LEVELING OF VALUES .EARLY EVERYONE LEARNED TO LOVE "IG "ROTHER !ND THOSE FEW WHO DON T ARE STILL CLUCKED OVER BY THE DOMINATOR CULTURE EACH TIME IT COMPULSIVELY SCRATCHES IN THE BARNYARD DUST OF ITS PUZZLEMENT OVER hWHAT HAPPENED IN THE 3IXTIESv "UT THERE MAY BE HOPE ON THE HORIZON !MERICA S MORE "ARBIE AND +EN THAN EVER YET "ARACK /BAMA HAS STORMED THE NATION 0OLLS SHOW HIM WIPING THE FLOOR WITH THE COMICALLY OLD CREAKY

FAINTLY CREEPY *OHN -C#AIN AND ANTI WAR FEELING IS ONCE AGAIN PANDEMIC !T THE SAME TIME THE INTERNET THE ACCIDENTALLY DEMOCRATIC TECHNOLOGICAL WONDER OF THE AGE IS OVERTAKING 46 AS THE CULTURAL RESOURCE OF CHOICE FOR THIS GENERATION h)F THE INTERNET TURNS UP TO VOTE FOR /BAMA THEN HE LL WIN IT v "RUCE ASSERTS h7ITH /BAMA IN OFFICE MAYBE THERE WILL BE A TURNAROUND OF CONSCIOUSNESS AGAIN

AWAY FROM THE ATTITUDE WHICH SAYS @AS LONG AS ) GET MINE NOTHING ELSE MATTERS "UT ) M SCARED THAT THERE MIGHT NOT BE AN ELECTION )N A WAY

) FEEL RESIGNED TO THE FACT THAT THE "USHIES WILL TAKE OVER v 4HIS IS WHY "RUCE REFUSES TO SHARE IN THE RESURGENCE OF HOPE WHICH HAS ATTENDED /BAMA S METEORIC RISE TO THE BRINK OF POWER (E S SEEN HOPE KILLED MORE TIMES THAN HE HAS TIME TO REMEMBER EVEN OVER THE COURSE OF A FIVE HOUR INTERVIEW h)T S TOO MUCH TO HOPE FOR )T WILL MAKE ME SO SAD WHEN THEY GET HIM v

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7ITH A CAREER SPANNING MORE THAN YEARS WORKING AS A #ANNABIS !CTIVIST

!UTHOR #ONNOISSEUR "REEDER $EALER 0OLITICAL ,EADER 'ROWSHOP /WNER

AND #OFFEESHOP 0IONEER 7ERNARD "RUINING HAS GIVEN CANNABIS CULTURE HIS ALL ! FOREFATHER OF THE CANNABIS NORMALISATION PROCESS IN %UROPE 7ERNARD CREATED THE WORLDS VERY FIRST COFFEESHOP IN THE HEART OF !MSTERDAM 3INCE THEN 7ERNARD "RUINING HAS BEEN WORKING TOWARDS EDUCATING A MOSTLY UNCONSCIOUS SOCIETY ABOUT THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SMOKING AND GROWING WITH CANNABIS SMOKED TO MUCH (ASJ AND DROPPED TO MUCH ACID AND WEREN T DOING A GOOD JOB IN ORGANISING THE YOUTH CENTREv )N 7ERNARD S OWN WORDS h) HAD ENTERED A AS BIG A WORLD WITH LESS PEOPLE AND NO RULES ) LEARNED THAT YOU CAN ONLY ENJOY THIS FREEDOM IN THE CANNABIS WORLD BY DESIGNING YOUR OWN NEW SET OF RULESv 4HESE RULES INVOLVED CONSUMPTION OF CANNABIS AND ,3$ 4HE ESSENCE OF COFFEESHOP CULTURE WAS THEN SLOWLY STARTING TO UNFOLD

7ERNARD AT RIGHT WITH /LD %D

"Y PLACING THE LIFESTYLE OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER INTO A BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT WE DIDN T WANT TO PAY 7ERNARD ANY DISCREDIT !S THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING CANNABIS SUCH A RESPECTABLE IMAGE IT WAS ALWAYS IMPORTANT THAT WE CAPTURED HIS SIDE OF THE STORY IN HIS OWN WORDS 4HE MEASURE OF THE MAN HIMSELF TRAILS WAY BEYOND THE SURFACE OF CANNABIS CULTURE AND INTO ITS VERY POCKETS 3OFT 3ECRETS THEN ARRANGED A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW WITH 7ERNARD AT HIS HOME 7HAT FOLLOWS CAN THEREFORE ONLY BE REGARDED AS A SNIPPET OF WHAT 7ERNARD "RUINING HAS SO FAR ACHIEVED

/ iÊ* iiÀ 7ERNARD "RUINING WAS BORN IN $UTCH .EW 'UINEA NOW )NDONESIA (IS UPBRINGING IN THE FRIENDLY LAID BACK ATMOSPHERE OF THE FORMER $UTCH #OLONY IS WHAT 7ERNARD ACCREDITS MAKING HIS TRANSITION INTO THE $UTCH HIPPIE 3OCIETY SO EASY 7HILE STUDYING TO BECOME A SCHOOL TEACHER IN 7ERNARD FIRST GOT INVOLVED WITH THE 3TUDENT 2EVOLUTIONS THAT WERE OCCURRING ACROSS !MSTERDAM S 5NIVERSITIES ! YEAR LATER 7ERNARD WENT TO A .EW 9EARS %VE PARTY AT A YOUTH CLUB CALLED @ ND (OME 4HE LAIDBACK ATMOSPHERE REMINDED 7ERNARD OF THE %AST AND THAT MADE IT EASY FOR HIM TO STAY IN THIS HIPPIE WORLD 3OON THE VISITORS STAGED THEIR OWN REVOLUTION BECAUSE THE LEADERS OF THE 9OUTH #LUB h

$URING THE EARLY S 7ERNARD ADOPTED A (IPPIE LIFESTYLE LIVING IN COMMUNES WITH FRIENDS SOMETIMES AS MANY AS NINE PEOPLE TO ONE ROOM )N HE MOVED INTO A hSQUATTER HOUSEv WHERE MOST OF THE RESIDENTS WERE DEALING TO GET THEIR OWN SMOKE FOR FREE "ACK THEN HE EXPLAINS hTHE SMOKING AND DEALING WENT TOGETHERv )N 7ERNARD OPENED HIS OWN h4EA (OUSEv 4HE WORLDS FIRST OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED #ANNABIS #OFFEESHOP ON !MSTERDAM S 7EESPERZIJDE THE @-ELLOW 9ELLOW -ELLOW 9ELLOW WAS hA WAY OF ORGANISING THINGS IN A POLITE AND CIVILISED MANNERv 4HE hTEA HOUSEv ONLY ALLOWED ONE hHOUSE DEALERv WHO HAD A VARIETY OF CANNABIS PRODUCTS PREPACKED IN OR GUILDER DEALS

SO THERE WAS NEVER ANY MISTAKE ABOUT THE PRICE OR QUANTITY OF HASH OR GRASS ON OFFER 4HIS SYSTEM OF ONE DEALER

THAT WAS PROTECTED BY THE COFFEESHOP

BECAME KNOWN AS THE h'OLDEN #OFFEESHOP &ORMULAv 4HE VISITORS TO THE COFFEESHOP WERE PROTECTED AS WAS THE HOUSE OWNER SINCE THE POLICE COULD ONLY ARREST THE HOUSE DEALER 4HE 'OLDEN #OFFEESHOP &ORMULA 7ERNARD CREATED IN TURN ALLOWED OTHER COFFEESHOP TO OPEN THEIR DOORS TO THE PUBLIC OF !MSTERDAM 4HE VARIETIES OF CANNABIS AVAILABLE BACK THEN WERE MAINLY IMPORTED FROM THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES 7ERNARD EXPLAINS 4HE GRASS HAD LOTS OF SEEDS IN IT AND WAS OF AVERAGE QUALITY COMPARED WITH THE TOP QUALITY HASHISH THAT WAS AVAILABLE 7ERNARD TRAVELLED TO !MERICA IN AND DISCOVERED GROWERS USING THE @SINSEMILLIA TECHNIQUE OF FARMING CANNABIS (E THEN ASKED /LD %D A PIONEER OF THE !MERICAN POT SCENE TO COME LIVE WITH HIM IN %UROPE /VER THE NEXT YEARS /LD %D LIVED WITH 7ERNARD AT HIS HOUSE IN !MSTERDAM AND THE @'REEN 4EAM WAS FOUNDED 4HE 'REEN 4EAM HAD A VISION OF TURNING !MSTERDAM INTO THE *AMAICA

OF %UROPE $URING THOSE PIONEERING DAYS 7ERNARD DID A LOT OF GROWING AND DEALING IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE 'REEN 4EAM OPERATIONS %ACH YEAR THE 'REEN 4EAM PRODUCED MORE PRODUCT

UP TO KG A YEAR THAT 7ERNARD HAD TO SELL TO THE #OFFEESHOPS (E STARTED THE ,OWLAND 3EED #OMPANY IN (OLLAND S FIRST SEED BANK ,OWLAND 3EED #O WAS USED AS AN ADVERTISING VEHICLE TO CARRY /LD %D S SEEDS TO HOMEGROWERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD 7ERNARD CAME UP WITH THE SMART IDEA OF SELLING SEEDS BIOLOGICAL FERTILIZERS

AND AN INSTRUCTIONS POSTER IN ONE PACKET FOR GUILDERS TO CUSTOMERS 4HE MOTIVATION BEHIND THE VENTURE WAS TO ENCOURAGE SMOKERS TO START GROWING THEIR OWN CANNABIS PLANTS ALL AT THE SAME COST OF A COFFEESHOP BAG 4HE IDEA CAUGHT ON AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS %UROPE STARTING GROWING THEIR OWN CANNABIS )N 7ERNARD REALISED THAT THE hINDUSTRYv THAT HAD GROWN UP ABOUT HIM NO LONGER REALLY NEEDED HIS HELP 3O IN HE OPENED %UROPE|S FIRST GROW SHOP 0OSITRONICS !S AN ENTHUSIASTIC TABLE FOOTBALL PLAYER 7ERNARD S MOMENTOUS BEHIND OPENING 0OSITRONICS WAS TO FUND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHAT HE CALLED hTHE ULTIMATE TABLE FOOTBALL MACHINEv /RIGINALLY 0OSITRONICS SOLD SEEDS

CLONES LIGHTS AND FERTILISERS !S THE COMPANY DEVELOPED 7ERNARD STARTED TO EXPERIMENT BY DESIGNING HIS OWN REFLECTORS THAT INDOORS GROWERS STILL USE TODAY 0OSITRONICS WENT FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH ENDING UP WITH EMPLOYEES AND EVEN A NEWSPAPER CALLED @3OFT 3ECRETS 4HE ULTIMATE TABLE FOOTBALL MACHINE WAS ALSO FINALLY CONSTRUCTED FROM !MERICAN /AK COSTING AROUND

GUILDERS TO MAKE )N 7ERNARD REALISED THAT CLONES

MADE IT SO MUCH EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO GROW THEIR OWN PLANTS 3O HE DID THE NEXT LOGICAL THING AND STARTED @4HE 3ENSIMILLA &AN #LUB IN 4HE 3ENSIMILLA &AN #LUB STOCKED BETWEEN VARIETIES AND OPERATED ON TWO LEVELS &IRSTLY VISITORS HAD TO BE A MEMBER OF THE CLUB WHICH HELPED PROTECTED THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF ITS MEMBERS FROM THE POLICE 3ECONDLY THE ISSUE OF MEMBERSHIP DETERRED PROFIT HUNGRY COMMERCIAL GROWERS FROM SUBMITTING THEIR DETAILS AND ABUSING THE FACILITIES 7ERNARD WAS PROVIDING 4HE POLICE LATER RAIDED 4HE 3ENSIMILLA &AN #LUB CONFISCATED

PLANTS AND DEMANDED A LIST OF THE CLUBS MEMBERS FROM 7ERNARD 4O WHICH 7ERNARD SAID h.Ov 4HIS WAS RESPECTED BY THE POLICE WHO ADVISED HIM TO START ALL OVER AGAIN h9OU MUST HAVE COPIES OF YOUR CLONES SOMEWHERE AND WE WONT|T BE COMING BACK FOR AT LEAST A YEAR OR SO THEY SAIDv ! PROMISE THAT WAS KEPT THEY NEVER CAME BACK

/ iÊ VÌ Û ÃÌ 7ERNARD S PASSION FOR CANNABIS DIDN T STOP THERE !S ONE OF THE WORLDS LEADING CANNABIS ACTIVISTS 7ERNARD IS AS MUCH A PIONEER OF THE LIBERALISATION PROCESS AS HE IS A GROW GURU AND COFFEESHOP PIONEER /NE MORNING 7ERNARD AWOKE WITH A LINE IN HIS HEAD h-EDI 7IET IS A MUSTv (E GOT OUT OF BED AND PHONED A FEW COFFEESHOPS ASKING THEM TO SELL CANNABIS TO CERTIFIED MEDICINAL PATIENTS AT HALF THE NORMAL COFFEESHOP PRICE 4HE CHAMPAGNE WAS A SUCCESS !T LEAST COFFEESHOPS SIGNED UP TO THE IDEA UNTIL THE $UTCH 'OVERNMENT STEPPED IN AND PLACED THEIR OWN DRACONIAN LEGISLATION ON THINGS

/LD %D GIVING INSTRUCTIONS AT SOME OUTDOOR GROW OPERATION IN THE SEVENTEES

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2EALISING THAT THE ISSUE OF MEDICINAL CANNABIS FURTHER PROMOTES A RESPONSIBLE IMAGE OF CANNABIS USE WITHIN SOCIETY 7ERNARD IS STILL AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGNER FOR THE RIGHTS OF MEDI PATIENTS VIA HIS WEBSITE WWW MEDI WIET NL !S 7ERNARD PUTS IT h4HE -EDI PATIENTS ARE THE #OMMANDOS OF THE 0RO #ANNABIS !RMYv 3OME OF HIS WORK THERE IS INVOLVED IN HELPING DOCTORS TO

ACKNOWLEDGE THE LIFESTYLE OF THEIR PATIENTS ! PAPER DOWN LOADABLE FROM THE MEDI WIET WEBSITE CAN BE SUBMITTED TO A $OCTOR OR 0HYSICIAN FOR HIS HER SIGNATURE WHICH IN TURN ACTS AS A STATEMENT OF INTENT PROOF FOR THE POLICE TO ACT UPON IF THEY SO CARE (4HUS HELPING TO MAKE THE WHOLE PROCESS OF GROWING MEDICINAL WEED IN THE .ETHERLANDS A LOT MORE TRANSPARENT AND OFFICIAL 7ERNARD SUPPORTS

,EGENDS OF -ARIHUANA TOGETHER ON THIS RARE PHOTO FROM LEFT 3OMA 7ERNARD

/LD %D %D 2OSENTHAL

!DRIAAN *ANSEN S THEORY OF THE @'REEN !VALANCHE WHEREBY THE ESTIMATED UPTAKE IN HOME GROWING COUPLED ALONGSIDE THE IGNORANCE OF POLITICIANS WILL WITNESS A GREEN AVALANCHE OF DECRIMINALIZATION AND A NORMALIZATION PROCESS WILL RESULT IN THE GLOBAL EMANCIPATION OF CANNABIS 7ERNARD S PREDICTION IS THAT h)N YEARS A COMBINATION OF YOUTH THE INTERNET AND LOTS OF FREE INFORMATION WILL SEE A DIFFERENT %UROPE 4HE FOUNDATION OF #HRISTIAN BELIEFS ARE BASED ON 'OD #ANNABIS IS A ENTHEOGENE !N ENTHEOGENE OPENS PEOPLE|S EYES FOR THE 'OD IN THEMSELVES AND OTHERS 2ELIGIONS LIKE TO HOLD A MONOPOLY ON THESE THINGSv 2ELIGION TO 7ERNARD IS A FAIRYTALE OF MISGUIDED BELIEFS THAT AUTOMATICLY LEADS TO h4HE FAIRYTALE OF A DRUG FREE SOCIETYv !S THE 0OLITICAL ,EADER OF @'REEN &REE THE $UTCH #ANNABIS 0ARTY WHOSE OWN SLOGANS INCLUDE h"LOW THOSE CRAZY BALDHEADS OUT OF THE $UTCH 'OVERNMENT 7ERNARD REMAINS POLITICALLY ACTIVE !IMING TO BRIDGE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN CANNABIS USERS AND THE OF THE GENERAL $UTCH PUBLIC THAT hDISAPPROVEv OF CANNABIS

OR SIMPLY REMAIN IGNORANT TO ITS USES IS HALF HIS AIM /N THE ST *UNE

A PROPOSED BAN ON SMOKING IN COFFEESHOPS COMES INTO PLACE AND COFFEESHOPS MAY WELL BE REDUCED TO SELLING POINTS 7ERNARD SEES THAT THIS WILL ONLY FORCE THE SMOKING ONTO THE STREETS AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL FINALLY IMPOSE AN OUTRIGHT BAN !LWAYS ON THE LOOK OUT TO EXPLORE NEW IDEAS AND FORMULAS TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE CIVILISED AND THE INSANE 7ERNARD IS ALWAYS ON THE CASE h4HE ERA OF THE COFFEESHOP IS PER SE IS ALMOST PASSÏÏv 7ERNARD CHEERFULLY LAMENTS h4HE PROBLEM WITH COFFEESHOPS IS THEY OFFER SCARY ACCESS TO THE BIG PUBLIC #ANNABIS CLUBS THAT ARE ONLY OPEN TO MEMBERS WOULD BE BETTER FOR THE CANNABIS SCENE IN GENERAL %ACH DRUG IS AS SAFE AS THE SET OF RULES THAT SURROUNDS ITS CONSUMPTION #OFFEESHOPS PROVIDE #ANNABIS SUCH A SAFE SET OF RULES ! POTENTIAL CONSUMER CAN ENTER A COFFEESHOP AND SEE WHAT CANNABIS DOES TO YOU YOU EITHER LIKE IT OR YOU DON|T !T LEAST AS A CONSUMER YOU HAVE AN HONEST CHOICE 2EMEMBER #ANNABIS PRODUCTS ARE RELATIVELY INNOCENT BUT THEY ARE AT THE SAME TIME POWERFUL MIND ALTERING DRUGSv 4ODAY 7ERNARD "RUINING STILL PRODUCES HIS FAMOUS POSTCARDS AND INFORMATION FOLDERS FEATURING !MSTERDAM S FINEST COFFEESHOPS AND CANNABIS ATTRACTIONS FREELY FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE HOME WITH THEM 4ALKING WITH PEOPLE IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 7ERNARD MOST ENJOYS

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*UNE WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE BUSIEST *UNE S ON RECORD SO FAR AS THE WAR ON DRUGS IN )RELAND IS CONCERNED )T WAS ALSO THE MONTH A NEW REPORT FROM THE .ATIONAL !DVISORY #OMMITTEE ON $RUGS REVEALED A CATASTOPHIC SURGE IN DRUG USE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

AND PARTICULARLY IN THE WEST 3INCE THE REPORT ILLUSTRATES THE USE OF DRUGS AMONG ADULTS IN THE WEST OF THE COUNTRY HAS ALMOST DOUBLED TO

$RUG USE IS STILL HIGHEST IN THE MORE URBANISED EASTERN REGION WITH MORE THAN A THIRD OF ADULTS SAYING THEY VE TRIED SOME ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE AT SOME TIME

4HE STUDY SHOWS THAT CANNABIS REMAINS THE MOST POPULAR DRUG BUT COCAINE USE HAS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY AND HAS NOW OVERTAKEN THE USE OF ECSTASY AND MAGIC MUSHROOMS )N THE MEANTIME THE )SLAND AS A WHOLE FLINCH S AT THE SHEER WEIGHT OF THE hTIDEv WHICH HAS CHANGED THE COLOUR OF THE )SLE FROM EMERALD TO WHITE AS COCAINE CONTINUES TO GET A GRIP "UT CANNABIS AS ALWAYS RETAINS THE LIONS SHARE OF THE PRESS COVERAGE AND WHOEVER SAID THE WAR ON DRUGS WASN T A WAR ON DRUG USERS WILL HAVE 3IMON #OX TO ANSWER TO

#ANNABIS USERS HIT HARDEST 3IMON OF 3HANKHILL COPPED A FINE OF ª ABOUT a WHEN HE WAS FOUND IN POSSESSION OF A QUANTITY OF HERBAL CANNABIS VALUED BY THE PROSECUTION AT AROUND ª 4HE COURT WAS TOLD THAT #OX HAD A PREVIOUS CONVICTION FOR A SIMILAR OFFENCE DATING FROM LAST YEAR AND *UDGE -URROUGH #ONNELLAN REMINDED HIM THAT A THIRD CONVICTION WOULD RESULT IN IMPRISONMENT

! THIRD CONVICTION WHICH WOULD SEE 3IMON OBTAINING A CRIMINAL RECORD THREE TIMES OVER

RESULTING IN A PRISON SENTENCE FOR AROUND ª WORTH OF CANNABIS AND AT A COST TO THE PUBLIC PURSE MEASURED IN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF POUNDS 7HATS ALL THAT ABOUT 4HIS SORT OF LOW LEVEL ENFORCEMENT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE TO CANNABIS USER FIGURES SO LETS SEE IT STOPPED ONCE AND FOR ALL

4O " OR NOT TO " )N THE 5+ GOVERNMENT IS EXPECTED TO hRAMP UPv ENFORCEMENT AGAINST CANNABIS

BY RECLASSIFYING THE SUBSTANCE FROM A # TO A " CLASS BRINGING WITH THE STIFFER YEAR JAIL TERM JUST FOR POSSESSING IT

.EEDLESS TO SAY THATS GOING TO HAVE A MASSIVE IMPACT IN .ORTHERN )RELAND OVER THE COMING YEARS AS THESE NEXT STATISTICS PAY WITNESS

h-ORE THAN A QUARTER OF TEENAGERS HAVE TRIED CANNABIS BY THE AGE OF v SAY GOVERNMENT STATISTICS

h4HE PROPORTIONS REPORTING HAVING SMOKED TOBACCO AND HAVING TRIED CANNABIS WERE VERY CLOSE IN ALL THREE YEARS RISING FROM AROUND ONE IN TO MORE THAN A QUARTER ONE IN FOUR BY 9EAR v THEY SAID

IN TEENAGERS IN ADULTS 7HAT THAT MEANS IS IF THE LAW CHANGES IN OF OUR CHILDREN ARE RISKING A YEAR JAIL TERM JUST FOR DOING NO WORSE THAN "ILL #LINTON DID (OME 3ECRETARY *ACQUI 3MITH DID

DRUGS MINISTER 6ERNON #OAKER DID #ONSERVATIVE LEADER $AVID #AMERON DID AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES "ARACK /BAMA DID ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS AND 9%3

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(E LATER COMMENTED WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS PAST CANNABIS AND COCAINE USE h4HATS THE POINT RIGHT 4O )NHALE v (IS COMMENTS WERE MET WITH LOUD APPLAUSE

,OOKING TOWARDS THE CHANGE IN LAW BRINGS WITH IT A DARK SENSE OF FOREBODING &OR INSTANCE *UNE TH SAW THE STORY OF A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD BOY WHO IS FACING CHARGES OF POSSESSING ALMOST ª WORTH OF CRACK COCAINE HEROIN AND CANNABIS RESIN

4HE BOY WAS CHARGED ON *UNE TH AT THE #HILDREN S #OURT WITH POSSESSING THE DRUGS WITH INTENT TO SUPPLY NEAR HIS HOME IN NORTH $UBLIN

*UDGE 0ATRICK -C-AHON WAS TOLD THAT A BED WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR THE BOY UNTIL @NEXT 7EDNESDAY ND *ULY AND IN THE MEANTIME HE WAS RESIDING AT HIS HOME AND ABIDING BY A PM CURFEW WITH THE STRICT INSTRUCTION TO STAY AWAY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS

3O WHEN THE LAW CHANGES AND IN OF OUR YOUNGSTERS IS THREATENED WITH JAIL THERE ISN T EVEN THE PLACES FOR ONE YOUNG LAD SO WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN @HUNDREDS ARE BEING ARRESTED )N A SIMILAR VEIN TO THE 53 INVADING )RAQ WITH NO hEXIT STRATEGYv IN PLACE THE 5+ GOVERNMENT IS LOOKING TO INCREASE PENALTIES FOR CANNABIS USE WITHOUT FULLY REALIZING THE EFFECT THIS WILL HAVE ON THE @FULL TO BURSTING INSTITUTIONS IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH CONVICTED PRISONERS 4HE JAILS THEMSELVES WHICH ARE ALREADY DANGEROUSLY OVER POPULATED "UT IT DOESN T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT BUT FOR A BIT OF SOLIDARITY IN THE CANNABIS COMMUNITY

4HE 6IET "ONG )N THE MEANTIME THE #HINESE AND THE 6IETNAMESE ARE ARRIVING IN )RELAND BY THE BUS LOAD

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE DROP IN PARA MILITARY ACTIVITY TO SET UP THEIR ORGANISED CANNABIS RINGS !ND ARE THEY EVER 4HE SCALE OF THE ORIENTAL DRUG RACKET IS SLOWLY EMERGING AS ITS ANNOUNCED 03.) $RUG

3QUAD AND UNIFORMED OFFICERS HAVE RECOVERED MILLIONS OF POUNDS WORTH OF CANNABIS DURING BUSTS AT PROPERTIES IN TOWNS CITIES AND VILLAGES ACROSS .ORTHERN )RELAND

&ROM CITIES LIKE "ELFAST AND ,ONDONDERRY TO SMALL VILLAGES LIKE "ELLEEKS IN #O $OWN AND !HOGHILL IN #O !NTRIM POLICE HAVE SWOOPED ON ALMOST PROPERTIES AS PART OF THEIR MAJOR INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CANNABIS

&URTHER SUSPECT PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN EARMARKED AND ARE DUE TO BE SEARCHED OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS

4HE 03.) HAS SAID THAT TO DATE THEY HAVE SEARCHED PROPERTIES MADE ARRESTS AND CHARGED PEOPLE ALL FROM 3OUTH %AST !SIA

$URING THE SEARCHES THEY HAVE RECOVERED A STAGGERING CANNABIS PLANTS WITH A STREET VALUE OF a M AND SEIZED KILOS OF HERBAL CANNABIS WITH A STREET VALUE OF a M AS WELL AS a CASH MAKING THIS ONE OF .ORTHERN )RELANDS MOST VALUABLE COMMODITIES

4HE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATION $ETECTIVE )NSPECTOR 0ETER -OORE FROM THE 03.) $RUG 3QUAD HAS SAID THAT ORGANISED 5+ CRIME GANGS HAVE MOVED INTO .ORTHERN )RELAND BELIEVING THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO RUN THEIR DRUGS OPERATIONS WITHOUT DETECTION

"UT CLEARLY THEY DO GET DETECTED AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM THEREAFTER

)RONICALLY THEY GET HOUSED AND THEY GET SOCIAL BENEFITS LIKE MEDICAL CARE THEY CAN CLAIM DOLE AND ALL IN ALL COST THE COUNTRY A FORTUNE

!CCORDING TO THE "RITISH (OME /FFICE h7E TRY TO DEPORT CONVICTED CRIMINALS WHO ARE SENTENCED TO YEARS IN JAIL 5NDER TWO YEARS AND WE TEND NOT TO BOTHERv

!S IF THAT WASN T BAD ENOUGH NOW THE 5NITED +INGDOM ISN T EVEN TRYING TO DEPORT FOREIGN NATIONALS AND NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY ARE SENTENCED FOR 4HE REASON "ECAUSE #HINA 6IETNAM ETC REFUSE TO ACCEPT THEM BACK SAYING h7E WILL NOT ACCEPT CONVICTED PRISONERSv

3O NOW THE PEOPLE TRAFFICKERS ARE ACTUALLY USING A @CUSHY MONTH STRETCH IN A 5+ PRISON WHICH IS FULL OF OTHERS WHO HAVE COMMITTED THE SAME CRIMES EATING FOOD COOKED ESPECIALLY FOR ORIENTAL TASTES WHILE THE GOVERNMENT DECIDES WHICH COUNCIL @HELL HOLE TO HOUSE THEM ALL IN AS A MARKETING PLOY WHICH GUARANTEE S THE MISERABLE WRETCH S WHO ARE TRAFFICKED THE HOLY GRAIL ! 5+ ADDRESS

) CAN ALMOST HEAR THE SHIPPING CONTAINER DOORS BANGING SHUT IN #HINA AS ANOTHER BATCH OF !SIAN IMMIGRANTS HITS OUR SHORES LOOKING FOR A FREE HAND OUT WHICH THE 5+ GOVERNMENT LOOKS ONLY TO KEEN TO GIVE

!ND IN THE MEANTIME WHILE THESE hGARDENERS OF LITTLE OR NO RESPONSIBILITYv ARE LANGUISHING IN PRISON THE OVER LORDS ARE SITTING WELL WHERE EVER OVERLORDS SIT ARRANGING FOR ANOTHER TEN CANNABIS FACTORIES TO BE SET UP TO REPLACE THE ONE WHICH GOT BUSTED

! ,ANCASHIRE 0OLICE /FFICER WAS QUOTED AS SAYING h&OR EVERY CANNABIS FACTORY WE BUST

WE BELIEVE ANOTHER TEN WILL RUN ITS COURSE AND HARVEST THE CANNABISv AND WE HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT HIM FOR A MOMENT !ND WITH THIS IN MIND ISN T IT ABOUT TIME LAWS WERE WRITTEN WHICH GIVE LOCALS SOME PROTECTION

,AWS WHICH DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN INDIGENOUS MEMBERS OF )RISH SOCIETY WHO ARE SIMPLY GROWING SOME CANNABIS FOR THEIR OWN USE AND INVADING !SIAN IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE NO MATTER HOW LOW DOWN THE CHAIN OF COMMAND THEY MAY BE CONTRIBUTING TO A MULTI BILLION POUND EURO PROBLEM WHICH AFFECTS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US 4HE TRUTH IS EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD IS WAITING TO SEE HOW EVERY OTHER GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD DEALS WITH THE DRUG ISSUE

!S NO GOVERNMENT BAR (OLLAND IS DEALING WITH THE CANNABIS ISSUE AND WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT S THOUGHT OF THAT AS AN EXAMPLE CANNABIS IS KEPT ILLEGAL AS THE ONLY PEOPLE HAVING TO DEAL WITH IT THEN ARE THE 0OLICE !ND AS LONG AS THE POLITICIANS DON T HAVE TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE WHOLE DISTASTEFUL AFFAIR THAT LL SUIT THEM JUST FINE

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3TORE DRY BUDS IN AIR TIGHT GLASS OR PLASTIC CONTAINERS 'LASS IS GREAT FOR SMALL AMOUNTS AND LIGHT WEIGHT PLASTIC CONTAINERS WORK BEST FOR LARGE AMOUNTS /PEN CON TAINERS DURING THE FIRST FEW DAYS FOR A FEW MINUTES TO LET ANY TRAPPED MOISTURE OUT +EEP A VIGILANT EYE ON BUDS AND CHECK FOR MOLD

.O !RJAN AND 3HANTIBABA ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON 4HEY WERE PARTNERS IN THE 'REENHOUSE SEED BUSINESS SOME YEARS AGO 3HANTIBABA STARTED -R .ICE 3EED #OMPANY A FEW YEARS AGO '! 'IBBERELLIC !CID PROMOTES STEM ELONGATION AND HAS BEEN KNOWN TO PROMOTE STAMEN MALE FLOWER PRODUCTION ON FEMALE PLANTS (OWEVER THESE hSEX REVERSALv PLANTS MAKE VERY POOR SEED PARENTS 'IBERELLIC ACID IS ALSO VERY TOXIC TO HUMANS -OST PEOPLE STAY AWAY FROM IT BECAUSE OF ITS TOXIC QUALITIES AND POOR SUCCESS ) DO NOT RECOMMEND IT

$RY ICE HASH IS THEN COLLECTED AND STORED IN A CONTAINER /FTEN THE HASH IS STORED IN THE SAME FORM IN WHICH IT DRIED

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4HIS BUD OF "UBBLEGUM IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A PLANT TURNING hPURPLEv BECAUSE OF A PHOSPHORUS DEFICIENCY .ORMALLY THIS STRAIN IS GREEN AT HARVEST

*ÕÀ« iÊ Õ` -Y BUDDY AND ) WERE IN HEATED DEBATE ABOUT h0URPLE 7EED v 7E ARE REFERRING TO THE COLOR IN THE BUD OF COURSE ) WAS ARGUING THAT THE PURPLE IN THE BUD IS MERELY A NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY WHEN THE PLANT WAS BEING BUDDED AND HE SAID NO THE PURPLE GETS YOU HIGHER ) WAS JUST WONDERING WHO WAS RIGHT $URAK 0URPLE WEED IS THAT COLOR FOR TWO DIFFERENT REASONS /NE IS AS YOU SAY hHAS A NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY v USUALLY A LACK OF PHOSPHORUS DUE TO COLD TEMPERATURES 4HE OTHER CANNABIS BUD IS PURPLE AS A RESULT OF GENETIC MAKE UP ) UNDERSTAND THAT 0URPLE "UD HAS BEEN SWEEPING THE 53 MARKET BUT IS LESS IMPORTANT IN %UROPE .OW WE KNOW THAT MANY DIFFERENT STRAINS CAN TURN PURPLE UNDER THE PROPER ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS /FTEN PURPLE PLANTS THAT HAVE SUFFERED A BIT OF COLD HAVE MORE RESIN 4HEY COULD ALSO DEVELOP MORE RESIN IF PLANTED AT HIGHER ELE VATIONS !CTUALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT PLANTS ARE SMALLER BUT THEY PRODUCE THE SAME AMOUNT OF RESIN (OWEVER THESE PLANTS MUST ENDURE QUITE A FEW HARDS HIPS AND BE GROWN OUTDOORS 'ENERALLY THE PURPLE BUDS MOST PUFFERS SEE ARE GROWN INDOORS AND THE COLOR IS BROUGHT ON BY GENETIC TRAITS OR ABUSE

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7(!4 3 ).3)$% 2%3). ',!.$3 -ARIJUANA PRODUCES UNIQUE PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES AS SOON AS YOUR PLANT STARTS GROWING ,OTS OF PEOPLE THINK THAT MALE MARIJUANA PLANTS YOUNG MARIJUANA PLANTS

STEMS AND LARGE LEAVES CONTAIN ZERO PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES &ACT IS THE ENTIRE PLANT EXCEPT FOR PARTS OF SEEDS AND A PERCENTAGE OF STEM MATERIAL

CONTAINS PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES "UT IT IS VERY TRUE THAT THE MOST CONCENTRATED DOSE OF PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN MARIJUANA IS CONTAINED IN RESIN GLANDS 4HESE SUBSTANCES ARE CALLED CANNABINOIDS

-OST OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH ONE MAJOR

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CANNABIS PRODUCES CANNABINOIDS SUCH AS CANNABIDIOL #"$ CANNABINOL #".

TETRAHYDROCANNABIVARIN AND CANNABICHROMENE 3CIENTISTS HAVE SO FAR DISCOVERED AT LEAST DIFFERENT CANNABINOIDS 7HEN ISOLATED AND ADMINISTERED AS SOLO SUBSTANCES 4(# AND OTHER MAJOR CANNABINOIDS HAVE EFFECTS THAT DIFFER FROM WHAT MOST OF US EXPERIENCE WHEN WE CONSUME WHOLE MARIJUANA )NDEED THE MAIN REASON DIFFERENT TYPES OF MARIJUANA PRODUCE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HIGHS IS BECAUSE EACH TYPE OF MARIJUANA PRODUCES ITS OWN UNIQUE CANNABINOID PROFILE 4HE INTERACTING AMOUNTS TYPES

PERCENTAGES AND RATIOS OF CANNABINOIDS DETERMINE HOW THE HIGH WILL FEEL FOR YOU AND OTHER CONSUMERS 4HE GOOD NEWS IS THAT YOU CAN USE THIS KNOWLEDGE TO GREATLY INCREASE THE PLEASURE AND VARIETY OF HIGH EXPERIENCES YOU GET FROM YOUR PLANTS 4HAT S BECAUSE YOU CAN INFLUENCE THE QUANTITIES AND RATIOS OF CANNABINOIDS YOU CONSUME /NE WAY TO DO THIS IS BY FEEDING PLANTS SUBSTANCES THAT INFLUENCE RESIN GLAND AND CANNABINOID PRODUCTION !NOTHER WAY TO DO THIS IS VIA HARVEST TIMING 7E WILL NOW CAREFULLY EXPLAIN BOTH METHODS FOR YOU (/7 4/ ).#2%!3% !.$ ).&,5%.#% 2%3). ',!.$ 02/$5#4)/.

3EVERAL FACTORS UNDER YOUR CONTROL INFLUENCE THE NUMBER OF RESIN GLANDS THAT YOUR PLANTS PRODUCE AS WELL AS THE CANNABINOID CONTENT AND RATIO OF THOSE RESIN GLANDS /NE FACTOR IS YOUR PLANT ENVIRONMENT 3TUDIES SHOW THAT SOME VARIETIES OF CANNABIS WILL PRODUCE MORE RESIN GLANDS POSSIBLY THIS IS THE PLANT S WAY OF PROTECTING ITSELF WHEN PLANTS ARE SUBJECTED TO HIGHER THAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES OR MORE INTENSE LIGHT #OLD TEMPERATURES APPARENTLY LOWER THE NUMBER OF RESIN GLANDS PRODUCED 4HERE S LITTLE IF ANY EVIDENCE THAT # INCREASES RESIN GLAND PRODUCTION BUT TO THE EXTENT THAT IT CREATES LARGER FLOWERS AND INCREASED PLANT METABOLISM # CAN INCREASE THE TOTAL RESIN GLAND QUANTITY PER CROP ! MAJOR FACTOR THAT INFLUENCES RESIN GLAND PRODUCTION IS OVERALL PLANT HEALTH )F PLANTS ARE STARVED FOR NUTRIENTS STRESSED

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LIGHT STARVED OR OTHERWISE SUBJECTED TO HARMFUL CONDITIONS THEY WILL DIRECT THEIR ENERGIES TOWARDS SURVIVAL RATHER THAN TOWARDS RESIN PRODUCTION 9OUR NUTRIENT REGIMEN IS PERHAPS THE MOST DIRECT WAY THAT YOU CAN INFLUENCE THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF RESIN GLANDS 4HE BASICS OF YOUR PROGRAM START WITH APPLYING A QUALITY COMPREHENSIVE BASE FERTILIZER IN WATER

THAT IS AT THE PROPER P( SO THAT NUTRIENTS CAN BE ABSORBED BY PLANTS 0ROPER P( IN HYDROPONICS GARDENS IS TO )T IS IMPORTANT TO USE QUALITY NUTRIENTS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED AND TESTED FOR MARIJUANA -ANY COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE FERTILIZERS ARE NOT IDEAL FOR MARIJUANA PLANTS 4HEY LACK THE CORRECT RATIO AND AMOUNTS OF INDIVIDUAL NUTRIENTS THAT PLANTS NEED FOR BLOOM PHASE GROWTH /R THEY MAY HAVE BEEN IMPROPERLY MANUFACTURED SO THAT THE NUTRIENTS CANNOT BE EASILY ABSORBED BY YOUR PLANTS 4HIS RESULTS IN STARVING PLANTS THAT CANNOT GIVE YOU MAXIMUM FLOWER AND RESIN DEVELOPMENT )F YOU HAVE A QUALITY COMPREHENSIVE BASIC FERTILIZER ONE WAY TO INFLUENCE RESIN GLAND PRODUCTION IS TO MAX OUT THE PPM OF YOUR FERTILIZER REGIMEN "ASICALLY YOU JUST KEEP MAKING SLIGHT INCREASES IN THE PPM OF YOUR FERTILIZER WATER WHILE CLOSELY MONITORING THE CONDITION OF YOUR PLANTS ESPECIALLY THE LEAVES 7HAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ARE SIGNS OF OVERFERTILIZATION WHICH USUALLY MANIFESTS ITSELF AS LEAF TIP CURLING AND BURNING !S SOON AS YOU SEE SIGNS OF OVERFERTILIZATION YOU IMMEDIATELY FLUSH YOUR ROOT ZONE AND THEN YOU DECREASE THE PPM OF YOUR FERTILIZER WATER JUST ENOUGH TO AVOID THE OVERFERTILIZATION "Y MAXING OUT THE CONCENTRATION OF BASE FERTILIZER

YOU MAX OUT BLOOM PHASE PRODUCTION "ASE FERTILIZER IS IMPORTANT BUT IT S NOT THE ONLY NUTRITIONAL INPUT YOUR PLANTS NEED FOR MAXIMUM RESIN GLAND PRODUCTION 4HAT BEING SAID THERE S A NEW GENERATION OF BASE BLOOM FERTILIZERS THAT CONTAIN HORMONES AND OTHER PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS THAT DIRECTLY AFFECT THE INTERNAL METABOLIC PATHWAYS THAT PLANTS USE TO CREATE FLORAL STRUCTURE AND RESIN GLANDS 3OME OF THESE NEW GENERATION BASE FERTILIZERS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO USE UNLESS YOU ARE AN EXPERT GROWER "UT WHEN USED PROPERLY THE NEW GENERATION BASE FERTILIZERS CREATE A VARIETY OF EFFECTS THAT BENEFIT YOU /NE OF THE BENEFITS IS THAT THESE NEW BLOOM FERTILIZERS WILL HOLD PLANTS IN THE PEAK PART OF BLOOM PHASE FOR LONGER THAN PLANTS WOULD NATURALLY SUSTAIN $URING THIS ARTIFICIALLY EXTENDED PERIOD THE PLANTS DEVELOP LARGER DENSER FLOWERS WITH MORE AND LARGER RESIN GLANDS "Y INCREASING THE QUANTITY OF RESIN GLANDS AS WELL AS THE QUANTITY OF CANNABINOIDS IN EACH RESIN GLAND YOU GET A MORE POTENT CROP /4(%2 0,!.4 .542)%.43 4(!4 ).#2%!3% 2%3). ',!.$ 02/$5#4)/. !.$ 15!,)49 "ASE NUTRIENTS NO MATTER HOW NEW AND IMPROVED ARE NOT THE ONLY PLANT INPUTS THAT INCREASE RESIN GLAND QUANTITY

SIZE AND QUALITY 4HERE ARE A VARIETY OF OTHER FORMULAS THAT CAN GIVE YOU MORE POTENT CROPS 4HESE FORMULAS INCLUDE s #ARBOHYDRATE FORMULAS 9OUR PLANTS DURING BLOOM PHASE RUN OUT OF STORED CARBOHYDRATES 4HIS DECREASES ENERGY AND CAN OFTEN RESULT IN STALLED FLORAL DEVELOPMENT SO YOU GET SMALLER BUDS THAN USUAL .OT ONLY ARE THE BUDS SMALLER

BUT THE RESIN GLAND PRODUCTION IS LESS #ARBOHYDRATE BOOSTING FORMULAS THAT USE SEVERAL FORMS OF COMPLEX SUGARS ARE THE BEST FOR GIVING PLANTS SUFFICIENT ENERGY SUPPLIES SO THEY CAN GENERATE LARGER FLOWERS AND MORE QUALITY RESIN GLANDS s /RGANIC AND 3YNTHETIC (ORMONE &ORMULAS 4HERE ARE A FEW ALL ORGANIC BLOOM PHASE ADDITIVES CONTAINING KELP AND OTHER MATERIALS THAT CONTAIN NATURAL PLANT HORMONES THAT BOOST FLORAL AND

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RESIN PRODUCTIONS 4HESE FORMULAS DO NOT JUST CONTAIN POTASSIUM PHOSPHORUS AND SIMILAR MATERIALS 4HEY CONTAIN KELP AND OTHER MATERIALS THAT ARE KNOWN TO WORK ON FLORAL PATHWAYS INSIDE YOUR PLANTS $UE TO REGULATORY ISSUES MANY COMPANIES ARE UNABLE TO EXPLICITLY TELL YOU THAT THEIR PRODUCTS CONTAIN HORMONES OR HORMONE LIKE SUBSTANCES /FTEN

YOU HAVE TO CLOSELY EXAMINE PRODUCT INGREDIENTS AND READ BETWEEN THE LINES ON THE PRODUCT LABEL TO DETERMINE IF THE PRODUCT IS MEANT TO BE USED AS A RESIN GLAND BOOSTER 0LEASE NOTE THAT SOME HORMONE PRODUCTS ALSO HAVE OTHER BENEFICIAL EFFECTS INCLUDING THAT YOUR PLANTS WILL DEVELOP MORE BUDDING SITES

WILL GO INTO PEAK BLOOM PHASE EARLIER AND ADD WEIGHT AND RESINS FOR A LONGER TIME

AND WILL PRODUCE MORE TASTE AND POTENCY s 0OTASSIUM 0HOSPHORUS 0 + FORMULAS 4HESE ARE SYNTHETIC OR ORGANIC FORMULAS THAT CONTAIN FLORAL BOOSTING PLANT MACRONUTRIENTS POTASSIUM AND PHOSPHORUS !LTHOUGH MOST PROFESSIONAL GROWERS USE A BASE FERTILIZER WITH HEIGHTENED 0 + RATIOS DURING BLOOM PHASE MANY ALSO AUGMENT THEIR BLOOM PHASE BASE FERTILIZERS WITH EVEN MORE POTASSIUM AND PHOSPHORUS -OST GROWERS BELIEVE THAT DOING THIS ONLY RESULTS IN LARGER DENSER WEIGHTIER BUDS BUT STUDIES SHOW THAT EXTRA 0 + ALSO BOOSTS RESIN PRODUCTION IN SOME VARIETIES "E CAREFUL WITH 0 + PRODUCTS 3OME OF THEM ARE CONFIGURED IN RATIOS THAT ACTUALLY DEFEAT

RATHER THAN INCREASE BUD PRODUCTION s !MINO !CID &ORMULAS !MINO ACIDS ARE BUILDING BLOCKS OF PROTEINS AND PROTEINS ARE ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO PLANT LIFE (OWEVER THERE ARE SPECIFIC AMINO ACIDS SUCH AS TRYPTOPHAN AND CYSTEINE

WHICH ARE KNOWN TO BOOST FLORAL METABOLISM 0ROBLEM IS NO HYDROPONICS MANUFACTURER MAKES A PURE AMINO ACID BOOSTER FORMULA FOR YOUR GARDEN YET (OWEVER IF YOU CLOSELY EXAMINE THE PRODUCT INGREDIENTS FOR A FEW OF THE MANY hBLOOM BOOSTERv FORMULAS ON THE MARKET YOU CAN PICK THE FORMULA THAT CONTAINS THE MOST AMINO ACIDS AND THUS GET AMINO ACID BOOSTING OF RESIN GLAND PRODUCTION s "LOOM "OOSTERS 4HIS HAS BECOME A CATCH ALL CATEGORY OF FORMULAS THAT MAY CONTAIN SOME OR ALMOST ALL OF THE COMPONENTS FROM CATEGORIES LISTED ABOVE 4HE MOST CRUDE BLOOM FORMULAS ARE LITTLE MORE THAN PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM 4HE MORE SOPHISTICATED FORMULAS RELY MAINLY ON ORGANIC SOURCES TO PROVIDE 0 + HORMONES AMINO ACIDS AND CARBOS ALL IN THE SAME FORMULA

(!26%34 4)-).' 4HE 4HREE 0HASES OF &LORAL $EVELOPMENT -ARIJUANA FLOWERS USUALLY BEGIN TO DEVELOP WITHIN THREE DAYS TO TWO WEEKS AFTER YOUR PLANTS ARE SHIFTED INTO BLOOM PHASE LIGHT CYCLE 4HE EXACT TIMING OF WHEN YOUR PLANTS DEVELOP FEMALE FLOWER DEPENDS ON VARIETY WHETHER PLANTS ARE FROM CLONES OR SEED AND OTHER FACTORS )N GENERAL THERE ARE THREE DISTINCT PHASES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEMALE MARIJUANA FLOWER AND EACH PHASE PRODUCES A DIFFERENT SET OF CANNABINOIDS )N THE FIRST PHASE OF FEMALE FLOWER GROWTH

THE FLOWERS ARE IMMATURE FLORAL CLUSTERS WITH JUST A FEW WHITE HAIRS VERY SPARSE DENSITY AND NO RESIN GLANDS AT ALL 4HERE ARE CANNABINOIDS PRESENT IN ALMOST ALL PARTS OF YOUR PLANT EXCEPT FOR SEEDS AND SOME STEM STRUCTURES SO AN EARLY FLORAL CLUSTER DOES HAVE SOME ABILITY TO GET YOU HIGH 4HIS EARLY FLORAL PHASE OF FLORAL GROWTH LASTS ABOUT SEVEN DAYS !FTER THAT

THE FLOWERS BEGIN PRODUCING RESIN GLANDS !T FIRST THE GLANDS ARE IMMATURE AND ARE BARELY VISIBLE AS TINY ROUND OBJECTS ON LEAF SURFACES 9OU SHOULD GET A PHOTOGRAPHER S LOUPE OR MAGNIFYING GLASS SO YOU CAN BETTER SEE THE CONDITION OF YOUR RESIN GLANDS AS THEIR CONDITIONS IS THE KEY ELEMENT IN WHEN TO HARVEST YOUR CROPS !S RESIN GLANDS BECOME LARGER AND EXTEND ON STALKS ABOVE THE BUD SURFACE YOUR PLANTS HAVE FULLY ENTERED PHASE TWO WHICH IS CALLED THE PEAK FLORAL PHASE 4HIS SECOND PHASE IS THE LONGEST PHASE OF THE THREE AND IT IS WHEN YOUR FLOWERS ADD SIZE DENSITY

WEIGHT AND RESIN GLANDS $URING THIS PHASE THE WHITE FLORAL HAIRS ARE UPRIGHT THICK AND STURDY AND THEIR COLOR IS PURE WHITE 4HE RESIN GLANDS ARE UPRIGHT AND THEY ARE CLEAR WITH ZERO OR VERY LITTLE COLORATION 0EAK FLORAL PHASE OCCUPIES APPROXIMATELY THE MIDDLE SECOND TO SIXTH WEEK OF YOUR FLORAL DEVELOPMENT DEPENDING ON VARIETY 9OU KNOW PEAK FLORAL PHASE IS ENDING WHEN SOME OF WHITE HAIRS BEGIN CURLING AT THEIR TOPS GETTING THINNER

TURNING RED OR BROWN OR COLLAPSING ALTOGETHER 9OU ALSO RECOGNIZE THE END OF PEAK FLORAL PHASE BY THE CONDITION OF RESIN GLANDS 7HEN YOUR CROPS ARE AT THE END OF PEAK BLOOM PEAK FLOWERING PHASE THEIR RESIN GLANDS WILL START TO RUPTURE TURN AMBER OR FALL OFF THEIR STALKS 4HE CRYSTALLINE BEAUTY OF YOUR PEAK BLOOM FLOWER CLUSTERS WILL FADE !T THIS POINT YOUR CROPS ENTER THE THIRD FLORAL PHASE WHICH IS CALLED LATE BLOOM OR SENESCENCE )N THIS PHASE

YOUR CROPS STOP ADDING WEIGHT SIZE AND DENSITY 2ESIN PRODUCTION CEASES AND

RESIN GLANDS DEGRADE )F YOU HAVE LET YOUR CROPS GO MORE THAN A COUPLE OF DAYS INTO SENESCENCE YOU ARE WASTING THE RESIN POTENTIAL THAT WAS BUILT DURING PEAK BLOOM )N GENERAL THE BEST TIME TO HARVEST YOUR BUDS IS WHEN ABOUT OF THE WHITE HAIRS HAVE DEGRADED

OR WHEN ABOUT OF THE RESIN GLANDS HAVE STARTED TO DROOP DISAPPEAR OR OTHERWISE DROP )F YOU WAIT LONGER THAN THAT YOU LOSE CANNABINOIDS TASTE

WEIGHT AND HARVEST VALUE (!26%34 4)-).' 3AMPLING THE &ULL 2ANGE OF #ANNABINOID 0ROFILES !MONG THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CANNABIS HARVESTING AND PSYCHOACTIVE EFFECTS IS THAT CANNABINOIDS GO THROUGH A RIPENING PROCESS THAT CHANGES HOW THEY AFFECT YOUR HIGH 4HIS IS NOT THE SAME AS CANNABIS hPOTENCY v !LTHOUGH IT IS TRUE THAT PERCENTAGES OF 4(# ARE HIGHER NEAR THE END OF THE FLORAL CYCLE POTENCY IS IN SOME WAYS A MEANINGLESS TERM BECAUSE CANNABIS CONTAINS SEVERAL MAJOR CANNABINOIDS

SEVERAL MINOR CANNABINOIDS AND AN ARRAY OF OTHER PLANT SPECIFIC COMPOUNDS THAT CONTINUALLY SHIFT IN AMOUNT INTENSITY

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND RATIO DURING FLORAL DEVELOPMENTAL PHASES ! FLOWER IN EARLY FLORAL PHASE MAY WELL HAVE A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF CANNABINOIDS BUT THESE CANNABINOIDS WILL BE UNDEVELOPED WITH A LOWER PERCENTAGE OF 4(# THAN WOULD BE FOUND IN FLOWERS FROM LATER IN BLOOM CYCLE &LOWERS IN LATE BLOOM PHASE MIGHT HAVE A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF #$" OR #".

WHICH ARE OFTEN THOUGHT OF AS BREAK DOWN PRODUCTS THAT COME FROM THE DEGRADATION OF 4(# AND RESIN GLANDS 7HAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOUR PSYCHOACTIVE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES )T MEANS THAT IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A CLEARER MORE CEREBRAL LESS BODY CENTERED

LESS SEDATING HIGH YOU MIGHT WELL WANT TO HARVEST EARLY FLORAL CLUSTERS PROPERLY DRY THEM AND SAMPLE THEM AFTER NOT HAVING USED CANNABIS FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS SO THAT YOUR MENTAL PALETTE IS FREE AND ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE CLUSTERS WITHOUT AN OVERLAY EFFECT OF RECENT CANNABIS USE )F YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A HEAVY hCOUCH LOCKv TYPE OF HIGH THAT DOES NOT RACE YOUR MIND BUT INSTEAD PROVIDES PAIN RELIEF RELAXATION AND A SLOWING DOWN EFFECT YOU WOULD WANT TO HARVEST AT THE END OF PEAK BLOOM PHASE OR AT THE START OF LATE BLOOM WHEN 4(# S STIMULATIVE MENTAL EFFECTS ARE LIMITED AND SOMEWHAT OVERWHELMED BY THE BODY EFFECTS OF #"$ AND #". &OR MEDICAL USERS WHO ARE USING CANNABIS FOR PAIN RELIEF FOR EXAMPLE AN )NDICA

VARIETY SHOULD BE GROWN AND HARVEST SHOULD BE AT THE VERY END OF THE PEAK BLOOM PHASE &OR ARTISTS OR MUSICIANS WHO MAY BE USING CANNABIS AS A CREATIVITY ENHANCER A SATIVA DOMINANT VARIETY SHOULD BE GROWN AND SHOULD BE HARVESTED ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE THE END OF PEAK BLOOM PHASE )N EACH CASE THE MARIJUANA INTOXICATION WILL BE TARGETED FOR EFFECTS THAT ENHANCE THE REASON THAT THE USER IS GETTING HIGH .OTE THAT DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF CANNABIS

AND DIFFERENT CANNABIS PLANTS WILL PRODUCE RADICALLY DIFFERENT CANNABINOID PROFILES AND TYPES OF HIGHS DEPENDING ON GENETICS

WHAT YOU FED THEM AND WHEN THEY ARE HARVESTED )T IS ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT CANNABINOID PERCENTAGES CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND RATIOS GO UP AND DOWN THROUGHOUT THE BLOOM PHASE WITH VARIOUS RIPENINGS AND SUB RIPENINGS THAT PRODUCE AN ENDLESS PALETTE OF FLAVORS AROMAS AND INTOXICATION EFFECTS !&4%2 (!26%34 0RESERVING 9OUR 2ESIN 'LANDS AND #ANNABINOIDS /NE OF THE MOST UNWISE THINGS THAT MOST GROWERS DO IS TO HARVEST THEIR CROPS AND THEN TO IMPROPERLY DRY STORE CURE OR HANDLE THEM #ANNABIS FLOWERS AND RESIN GLANDS ARE VERY FRAGILE )F YOU CRUSH THEM

SQUEEZE THEM EXPOSE THEM TO EXCESSIVE HEAT EXPOSE THEM TO DIRECT LIGHT OR HAVE THEM IN AREAS THAT ARE TOO HUMID THEN CAN BE EASILY DAMAGED &OR EXAMPLE CROPS THAT ARE BEING CURED IN AREAS THAT ARE TOO HUMID OR WITH POOR AIR CIRCULATION CAN DEVELOP MOLDS MILDEWS AND FUNGI THAT RENDER THE CROP UNSAFE TO INHALE )F YOU CRUSH OVERHEAT OR LIGHT BOMB YOUR RESIN GLANDS THEY CAN RUPTURE !ND WHEN THEY RUPTURE THE PRECIOUS CANNABINOIDS ARE EXPOSED TO AIR 4HEY DEGRADE AND LOSE POTENCY !FTER YOUR BUDS ARE PROPERLY CURED YOU SHOULD STORE THEM IN THE FREEZER #ROPS THAT ARE PROPERLY CURED AND STORED IN A FREEZER CAN RETAIN THEIR POTENCY FOR A YEAR OR MORE 4HERE IS A GRADUAL DECREASE IN POTENCY AND SOME OF THE CANNABINOIDS DEGRADE WHICH OF COURSE CHANGES THE TYPE OF HIGH YOU GET BUT PROPERLY CURED

FREEZER STORED BUDS CAN BE AS POTENT AND FRESH AFTER A YEAR OF STORAGE AS THEY WERE WHEN THEY WERE FIRST CURED 4O GET THE BEST RESIN GLANDS FROM YOUR CROPS

WE RECOMMEND YOU STUDY ONE OF THE ALL TIME BIBLES OF CANNABIS GROWING WHICH IS 2OBERT #ONNELL #LARKE S CLASSIC WORK h-ARIJUANA "OTANY v !LTHOUGH THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN MANY YEARS AGO IT CONTAINS THE MOST PRECISE AND USEFUL DESCRIPTION OF MARIJUANA BREEDING AND HARVEST TIMING THAT YOU LL EVER READ

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WE VE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD &ROM THE RANGE OF CANNABIS SEEDS AVAILABLE TODAY IT IS POSSIBLE TO TAILOR YOUR REQUIREMENTS TO A LEVEL THAT WAS NEVER POSSIBLE BEFORE 7HETHER YOU ARE A MEDICAL PATIENT REQUIRING THE MOST EFFECTIVE PAIN RELIEF OR JUST SOMEONE THAT WANTS TO RELAX AND WATCH FOUR MOVIES IN

A ROW THERE IS THE PERFECT STRAIN AVAILABLE FOR YOU 7E SHOULD GIVE THANKS FOR ALL THE CHOICE WE CAN NOW ENJOY AND REMEMBER THOSE WHO ESTABLISHED THIS MODERN CANNABIS GENE POOL AND IN DOING SO BROUGHT ABOUT A MYRIAD OF FLAVOURS AND HIGHS FOR US ALL TO ENJOY *UST AS 3IR 7ALTER 2ALEIGH SET OFF ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY TO THE .EW 7ORLD

SO TOO DID THE (IPPIES TOWARDS THE END OF THE S AND INTO THE S ONLY THIS TIME THEY BROUGHT BACK MORE THAN JUST POTATOES 4HESE (IPPIES INSTILLED WITH A DESIRE TO TRAVEL THE WORLD EXPERIENCE NEW CULTURES AND LIVE BEYOND THE CONSTRAINTS OF hSTRAIGHTv SOCIETY IN THE 7EST HEADED EAST TO !SIA ON WHAT BECAME KNOWN THE WORLD OVER AS h4HE (IPPIE 4RAILv !S THE MADNESS OF THE S DIED DOWN IN %NGLAND AND !MERICA AND PEOPLE BEGAN TO @TUNE BACK OUT AND DROP BACK IN TO

MAINSTREAM SOCIETY THE TRUE BELIEVERS SET OFF TO WALK THE EARTH IN SEARCH OF PLACES WHERE LIFE DIDN T FOLLOW THE SAME STRAIGHT LACED MONOTONY THAT IT DOES IN THE 7EST 3UCH JOURNEYS TYPICALLY STARTED IN ,ONDON OR !MSTERDAM WITH MANY 5 3 TRAVELLERS FLYING IN TO ,UXEMBOURG ON THE INFAMOUS )CELANDIC !IRLINES FLIGHTS TO BEGIN THEIR TRAVELS THERE &ROM THERE THE (IPPIES WOULD TRAVEL ACROSS THE GLOBE ON VARIOUS ROUTES THAT WOULD TAKE IN KEY SPOTS SUCH AS )STANBUL 4URKEY

4EHRAN )RAN 0ESHAWAR !FGHANISTAN AND ,AHORE 0AKISTAN BEFORE ULTIMATELY ENDING UP IN 'OA )NDIA OR +ATHMANDU .EPAL )NDEED +ATHMANDU STILL HAS A STREET NICKNAMED @&REAK 3TREET AFTER THE NUMBER OF HIPPIES THAT ARRIVED DURING THAT TIME )N DISCOVERING THESE FAR FLUNG DESTINATIONS AND PEOPLES THE (IPPIES INEVITABLY INDULGED IN THE CANNABIS THAT WAS AVAILABLE WHEREVER THEY WENT THE TRAIL ITSELF WAS DESIGNED TO TAKE IN ALL THE BEST HASH PRODUCING AREAS "EFORE THIS POINT THE CANNABIS IN %UROPE AND !MERICA CAME LARGELY IN THE FORM OF EITHER SMUGGLED HASHISH OR ROUGH SEEDY GANJA BROUGHT UP FROM !FRICA OR #ENTRAL AND 3OUTH !MERICA 0LACES LIKE -OROCCO AND !FGHANISTAN EXPORTED RESIN WHILST THE LIKES OF -EXICO #OLUMBIA 4HAILAND AND !FRICA EXPORTED HERBAL CANNABIS NORTH INTO #ALIFORNIA AND OUT TO THE REST OF 7ORLD "Y VISITING THESE CANNABIS PRODUCING AREAS 7ESTERN TRAVELLERS BEGAN TO LEARN ABOUT HOW THE PLANTS WERE GROWN AND HOW HASHISH WAS MADE )T BECAME OBVIOUS TO THE TRAVELLERS PARTICULARLY THE ONES FROM #ALIFORNIA THAT WERE USED TO GANJA FROM -EXICO AND THE #ARIBBEAN

THAT THESE PLANTS WERE UNLIKE ANY THEY HAD SEEN BEFORE THEY WERE A DIFFERENT KIND OF CANNABIS )N AREAS SUCH AS #HITRAL IN 0AKISTAN AND THE +ULU 6ALLEY OF NORTHERN )NDIA A WILDLY DIFFERENT TYPE OF CANNABIS WAS BEING GROWN THAT PEOPLE IN THE 7EST HAD SO FAR HAD VERY LITTLE EXPOSURE TO BUT A WHOLE NEW WORLD WAS ABOUT TO OPEN UP CANNABIS INDICA

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)N THESE AREAS PLANTS HAD BEEN CULTIVATED FOR CENTURIES PERHAPS MILLENNIA FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRODUCING HASHISH )N DOING SO THE LOCAL CANNABIS FARMERS HAD BEEN SELECTING PLANTS FOR THEIR RESIN PRODUCTION 4HIS COMBINED WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS SUCH AS THE ALTITUDE TEMPERATURE AND AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT HAD PRODUCED A DISTINCT VARIANT OF THE CANNABIS PLANT FAMILY KNOWN AS CANNABIS INDICA 5NLIKE THE PLANTS THAT ORIGINALLY GROW AROUND THE EQUATOR

INDICA PLANTS WERE MUCH SHORTER DARKER AND DENSER THAN THEIR EQUATORIAL SATIVA COUSINS 7HAT S MORE THE HIGH THEY PRODUCED WAS ALSO VERY DIFFERENT 4HE (IPPIE TRAVELLERS WERE USED TO SMOKING 4HAI -EXICAN AND #OLUMBIAN SATIVA PLANTS THAT GIVE AN ENERGETIC UPLIFTING

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A SUBTLE HIGH 4HESE )NDICA PLANTS PRODUCED A MUCH STRONGER MORE PHYSICAL STONE THAT LEFT THE BODY COMPLETELY RELAXED BUT THE MIND ACTIVE AND MEDITATIVE )N )NDIA IT IS THE 3ADHU S OR HOLY MEN WHO TRADITIONALLY HEAVILY USE CANNABIS BOTH IN HERBAL AND HASH FORM

IN THE PURSUIT OF SPIRITUAL AWARENESS AND MEDITATION &OR MANY OF THE HIPPIES THIS NEW POTENT CANNABIS WAS A REVELATION -ANY OF THE 7ESTERN TRAVELLERS WOULD SIT WITH VILLAGERS AND HOLY MEN AND SMOKE CHILLUM AFTER CHILLUM OF .EPALESE 2OYAL

OR PIPES OF !FGHAN BLACK WATCHING HOW THE HASH WAS MADE AND PREPARED FOR SMOKING 7ITH THIS NEW FOUND KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THE CANNABIS PLANT GROWS AND DISCOVERY OF THIS NEW KIND OF SUPER POTENT CANNABIS A FEW TRAVELLERS BEGAN TO GATHER SEEDS TO TAKE BACK HOME 4HE MAJORITY OF THESE RETURNED TO THEIR NATIVE #ALIFORNIA WHERE THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN GROWING SEEDS FROM BUD BROUGHT IN FROM -EXICO AND #OLUMBIA 4HESE SATIVA PLANTS HAD DONE WELL IN THE #ALIFORNIAN CLIMATE &OR EXAMPLE PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS AND POPULAR 3ATIVA VARIETY (AZE COMES FROM THE CROSSING OF VARIOUS DIFFERENT 3ATIVAS

BY TWO BROTHERS IN #ALIFORNIA AT THAT TIME (OWEVER THESE NEW INDICA SEEDS THAT HAD BEEN BROUGHT BACK FROM !FGHANISTAN

)NDIA AND 0AKISTAN DID NOT THRIVE SO WELL IN THE CLIMATE ALTHOUGH THEY PRODUCED BIGGER DENSER BUDS IN MUCH SHORTER FLOWERING PERIODS 4HE )NDICA VARIETIES ALSO BROUGHT WITH THEM A WHOLE NEW ARRAY OF DELICIOUS FLAVOURS AND SMELLS 4HE GROWERS QUICKLY REALISED THAT ON ONE HAND THEY HAD TALL THIN PLANTS THAT REQUIRED A LOT OF SPACE TO GROW AND TOOK A LONG TIME TO PRODUCE OFTEN ONLY WISPY BUDS THAT WOULD GIVE A SOARING ENERGETIC HIGH /N THE OTHER HAND THEY HAD THESE SHORT STOCKY DENSE STICKY PLANTS THAT TOOK NEARLY HALF THE TIME TO FLOWER "EFORE LONG GROWERS HAD BEGUN TO EXPERIMENT WITH CROSSING THESE TWO DISTINCT CANNABIS SPECIES AND THE MODERN (YBRID WAS BORN 4HERE HAS BEEN MUCH SAID IN THE MEDIA ON THE ISSUE OF CANNABIS AND ITS POTENTIALLY HARMFUL EFFECTS ON THE MIND AND BODY THAT STATES THAT THE CANNABIS THAT THE POLICE ARE CONFISCATING ON TODAY S STREETS IS

TIMES STRONGER THAN CANNABIS WAS @BACK IN S 7HEN TALKING ABOUT THIS NEW DANGEROUS SUPER POTENT CANNABIS THEY USUALLY REFER TO IT AS @3KUNK 4HIS IS CLEARLY A MISTAKE SINCE 3KUNK IS ONLY ONE ALBEIT A SIGNIFICANT ONE OF LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF VARIETIES OF CANNABIS 4HE MEDIA HAS ADOPTED THE WORD IN THE SAME WAY WE USE THE WORD @(OOVER TO REFER TO A VACUUM CLEANER AS A BLANKET TERM FOR ALL MODERN HYBRIDS (YBRIDS ARE PLANTS THAT HAVE BOTH 3ATIVA AND )NDICA GENES IN ITS GENETIC MAKE UP 4HROUGH THE PROCESS OF SELECTIVE BREEDING THE BEST TRAITS FROM EACH SIDE OF

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AS REVOLUTIONISING THE HERBAL CANNABIS SCENE THE (IPPIE 4RAIL CAN ALSO BE SEEN AS USHERING IN THE 'OLDEN %RA OF (ASHISH THAT WE WENT THROUGH IN THE S AND S 4HE OLDER GENERATION OF SMOKERS ARE FOREVER TELLING TALES OF THE AMAZING HASHES THAT USED TO BE AVAILABLE BACK BEFORE 3OAP "AR RUINED THE HASH MARKET !S WELL AS BRINGING SEEDS AND NEW VARIETIES OF CANNABIS PLANTS BACK FROM THEIR TRAVELS SOME ENTERPRISING AND BRAVE SOULS BROUGHT BACK THE FINISHED PRODUCT FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES 0ATTIES OF !FGHAN "LACK STICKS OF 2ED ,EB BARS OF 'OLD 3EAL $OUBLE :ERO .EPALESE 4EMPLE "ALL )NDIAN #HARAS 2OYAL

ACCESSIBLE TO THE WESTERN TRAVELLER ARE NOW MILITARY OCCUPIED WAR ZONES 4O SAY THAT CANNABIS IS SO MUCH STRONGER TODAY COMPARED WITH THIRTY YEARS AGO MAY BE TRUE WHEN COMPARING SOME ROUGH OLD BUSH WEED FROM THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES WITH A BUD OF HYDROPONIC HOME GROWN HYBRID TODAY BUT NOT WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT SUPER POTENT HASHISH FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WAS READILY AVAILABLE BACK THEN 4HE ONLY THING COMPARABLE IN STRENGTH TO THOSE HASHES IS HOME MADE BUBBLE HASH WHICH AS YET IS STILL ONLY ENJOYED BY A SMALL GROUP OF CONNOISSEUR GROWERS AND RICH COFFEE SHOP PATRONS 4HE )NDICA 3ATIVA (YBRID HAS REVOLUTIONISED THE CANNABIS WORLD AS WE KNOW IT 3ELECTIVE BREEDING HAS ALLOWED US TO CREATE VARIETIES THAT CAN BE GROWN ALL OVER THE WORLD 0LANTS SMALL ENOUGH TO BE GROWN INDOORS AND OTHERS WITH QUICK ENOUGH FLOWERING PERIODS TO BE GROWN OUTDOORS IN CLIMATES AS POOR AS OUR OWN IN %NGLAND HAVE MEANT THAT HYBRIDS HAVE COMPLETELY DOMINATED THE CANNABIS MARKET TODAY AND CANNABIS HAS CONTINUED TO RISE IN POPULARITY WITH EACH NEW GENERATION

.EPALESE 4EMPLE "ALLS LATE S ARE THE ANCESTORS OF ALL MODERN HYBRIDS 6IRTUALLY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SMOKED IN THE LAST YEARS WILL HAVE ITS ROOTS IN THE SAME HANDFUL OF PLANTS )T SHOULD BE NOTED THAT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE QUITE CLEARLY IS 3ELECTIVE "REEDING n THAT IS THE CROSSING OF PLANTS AND SELECTION OF THOSE OFFSPRING WITH DESIRABLE QUALITIES 3KUNK IS NO WAY THE PRODUCT OF 'ENETICALLY -ODIFIED CANNABIS PLANTS AS SOME IN THE PRESS WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE '- CROPS HAVE HAD THEIR GENETIC MAKE UP ALTERED IN A LABORATORY AND ARE AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF GENETIC SCIENCE !S FAR AS ) AM AWARE THE LARGE "IO 3CIENCE CORPORATIONS HAVEN T TURNED THEIR ATTENTION TO CANNABIS YET

THAT CHAPTER IS STILL TO COME !S WELL

#REAM THE LIST GOES ON AND ON 3MOKERS IN %NGLAND AND %UROPE HAD NEVER HAD SO MUCH CHOICE AND BECAME LUCKY CONNOISSEURS OF HASHISH FROM AROUND THE WORLD #HARACTERS LIKE ,AURENCE #HERNIAK MADE IT HIS LIFE S WORK TO FIND SAMPLE PHOTOGRAPH AND DOCUMENT AS MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF HASH AND CANNABIS FROM LITERALLY EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBE IN HIS SEMINAL h'REAT "OOKS OF (ASHISHv "EFORE THE RISE OF HOME GROWN HERBAL CANNABIS THE !MSTERDAM #OFFEE 3HOP SCENE WAS FOUNDED ON THESE EXOTIC HASHES WHICH IS A LEGACY THAT CAN STILL BE SEEN TODAY ALTHOUGH THE VARIETY AND QUALITY HAVE STEADILY GONE DOWN AND DOWN AS BORDERS TIGHTEN UP AND PLACES LIKE !FGHANISTAN THAT WERE ONCE EASILY

)N SOME CASES HYBRIDS HAVE HAD AN UNWELCOME IMPACT ON LANDRACE ORIGINAL STRAINS /NE EXAMPLE OF THIS IS IN *AMAICA WHERE THE LEGENDARY @,AMBS "READ REGARDED BY 2ASTAFARIANS AS THE FINEST GANJA AND RESERVED FOR SPECIAL RELIGIOUS OCCASIONS HAS BEEN COMPLETELY LOST THROUGH CROSS CONTAMINATION WITH HYBRID PLANTS BRED IN %UROPE AND THEN GROWN OUTDOORS IN *AMAICA 4HIS IS PUT DOWN TO A LARGE CROP OF "LUEBERRY CANNABIS VARIETY NOT FRUIT PLANTS THAT WERE GROWN OUTSIDE 4HE POLLEN FROM THE MALE FLOWERS OF THE "LUEBERRY PLANTS HAS TRAVELLED ON THE WIND AND POLLINATED VIRTUALLY ALL THE OTHER CANNABIS PLANTS ON THE ISLAND !S A RESULT THE ORIGINAL ,AMBS "READ IN ITS TRUE FORM CAN NO LONGER BE FOUND )N THIS CASE "LUEBERRY IS THE 'REY 3QUIRREL AND ,AMBS "READ THE NATIVE 2ED 3QUIRREL 4HERE ARE THOSE OUT THERE WHO ARE TRYING TO PRESERVE LANDRACE VARIETIES AND IN MANY PLACES THEY CAN STILL BE FOUND (YBRIDS MAY BE SUPERIOR OFFSPRING OF THE LANDRACE VARIETIES BUT IT WOULD BE TRAGIC IF THEY WERE LOST ALTOGETHER 4HROUGH IT HISTORY #ANNABIS HAS BEEN ON AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY &ROM THE .EOLITHIC ERA IN WHAT IS NOW #HINA

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MORE COMPACT BUSH LIKE PLANTS WITH LARGE LEAVES TO CATCH LOWER LEVELS OF LIGHT 4HE (IPPIES ON THE (IPPIE 4RAIL BROUGHT CANNABIS INTO THE LATEST CHAPTER IN ITS HISTORY BY DOING WHAT OUR ANCIENT FOREFATHERS HAD DONE 4HEY BROUGHT IT WITH THEM TO %UROPE WHERE IT NOW GROWS IN ABUNDANCE IN GARDENS

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