Leaflet March 2019

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Welcome to The Leaflet, Central Oregon’s first—and only—local guide dedicated to all things cannabis. If you’re new here, let the following pages give you a place to start in sorting out this budding industry. If you’ve been here a while, we hope you enjoy yet another installment of our bi-annual booklet!

Inside these pages, find: −− How to Grow Outdoors in Central Oregon. The growing season here is short. Let these tips and tricks from the experts ensure you have your own productive crop in your backyard. (p 8) −− The Rub on CBD Topicals. Our team tried out some of the locally made CBD creams and lotions and tells you what’s good. (p 10) −− On the Farm with Jim Belushi. The famous actor is just one of many farmers growing cannabis for the Oregon market. We took a tour of his farm. (p 14) −− Historic Farm Bill. The 2018 Farm Bill puts hemp on par with other crops. (p.21) −− Cannabis News. When it comes to cannabis, rules, regulations and local leaders’ stances can change often. We outline some of the latest happenings in the local industry. (p 22) −− Listings of Dispensaries, Grow Shops, Accessories and More (p 25) −− What Musicians Smoke. Our longtime cannabis columnist Josh Jardine is also a tour manager who meets a lot of musicians. Find out what their favorite strains are. (p 28)

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DOMICILIARY

DOPE

Mastering home-grown cannabis outdoors in the High Desert

By KM Collins

So you want to join the rest of bourgeoisie Bend by home growing buds in a post-black market, above the board, private, small-scale venture?

The good news: you could need less than $10 to get started! The bad news: there’s no cookie cutter, one-size-fitsall approach. Still, we asked some local experts for tips to make the process as smooth as possible—and ensure you can actually grow outdoors in this harsh high desert climate.

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encourages Ashley Beaudoin, co-founder of Bend’s Indoor Garden Center. “Every plant has special requirements. Nutrients, lighting and temperature. Commit like plants together for best results… We do not recommend specific plants. We want people to take a chance and not be limited.”

Wherever you’re getting your plants or seeds, ask whether it’s a short-season variety. The faster the “finish time,” the more likely you’ll be to harvest before frost arrives. Some varieties such as Northern Lights, Early Girl, Speedy Chile and White Widow have fast flowering times of between five and eight weeks—allowing you to squeeze in a harvest even in this climate.

According to the Oregon State University Extension Service, Central Oregon’s outdoor growing season can be as short as 60 days and as long as 120 days, depending on your location. The shorter seasons will be in the area’s higher elevations and southern areas, including Sunriver and La Pine.

OUTDOORS And with that, rather than starting from seed, get a jump on the short growing season.

A representative from Wholesale Hemp and Cannabis Clones recommends, “Instead of waiting for seeds to germinate, sprout into seedlings, and get big enough to identify each plant’s gender, pre-purchasing clones allow you to skip weeks ahead of the grow process and yield high returns come harvest season.” Starters can be purchased for between $5 and $7.

transplant warm season crops until the beginning of June. But since even transplanting in June can be a risky endeavor in a climate with very cool nights, creatKnow your water’s pH ing a DIY greenhouse made from greenBeaudoin says house-grade plaspH, “is everything. tic and PVC pipes pH dictates the bent into “hoops” The happier and larger way your plant is can help those little the roots, the happier and able to uptake the plants stay warm more resilient the plant will nutrients.” overnight. During be to doubt, mistakes, cold As a general the day, open the rule, aim for a pH greenhouse or reand more. of 5.5 to 6.5, using move the plastic all a pH test kit to together. test your water. With a pH of above 7.5, Since most plants grow optimally at the roots can’t take up the available iron, temperatures between 50 and 90 degrees, copper, zinc, manganese, and boron. With OSU Extension recommends outdoor a pH of less than 6, the roots can’t take gardeners use a max-min thermometer up phosphoric acid, calcium, and magne- and record daily temperatures at home, sium. As the Cannabis Blog reminds read- so you can ensure your plants are staying ers, marijuana is a hardy herb—a weed in the ideal temp zone. in many places—that will fare well comAsk local experts pared to more delicate plants.

If you don’t know, ask. As BIGS would Start plants inside attest, local grow shops can be great re“No matter how you choose to grow sources for local knowledge, and for adthem, make sure to start them indoors,” vice on which nutrients your plants need emphasizes Beaudoin. BIGS recommends at what time. Start asking around among starting or cloning under a T5 fixture. friends and you may be surprised at who “This light keeps plants from stretching has growing knowledge. Central Oregoand gets them used to the correct inten- nian Clayton Kellogg is one such dude. sity. [Also], by starting them inside you His biggest piece of advice: stick with can weed out the plants who are not one growth plan and don’t try to as strong. The happier and larger the “Frankenstein” and cannibalize roots, the happier and more resilient several together. the plant will be to doubt, mistakes, cold and more.”

Another small-scale local home grower’s tips: using good soil, transplanting in full sun and trimming as you go. That particular grower found cutting the top of his plant bushed it out, increasing flower yield.

Avoid pests and disease Whether you’re growing organic or synthetic, all plants need to be preventively treated for disease and pests. While the dryness of the desert may eliminate the onslaught of mold and insects that plague the Willamette Valley, growing in Central Oregon can still breed some unwanted company.

“Spiders, mites, powdery mildew, thrips, root aphids and more,” can all latch on to your plants, notes Beaudoin. “In Central Oregon [growers] are in constant battle with the climate. If you see a problem, make sure to take a photo and bring it in [to us]. It’s important to be able to identify if it is a pest or fungus. There are quite a few options for treatment of both that fall in the organic realm. Prevention is key. If you acquire a plant from a friend or shop, it is a MUST to quarantine them and preventively treat them before you introduce them to your growing area.”

It’s not as expensive as you might think If cost is preventing you from considering a home grow endeavor, think again.

According to an article on Leafly, you could be small-scale outdoor growing for as low as 60 cents a gram (compared to $10-20 dispensary pricing).

Transplant when it’s warm As a general rule, plants are ready to be transplanted outside when the nights are no longer below freezing. In Central Oregon, the OSU Extension Service recommends waiting to

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THE RUB ON CBD TOPICALS

From athletic ailments to epidermal irritations, CBD topicals are the next big thing in pain relief

By KM Collins

Balms, lotions and creams are popping up like seedlings on dispensary shelves all over Oregon, featuring phrases such as “hemp derived” and “full spectrum.”

But what does it all mean?

Have no fear: we checked out a series of CBD topicals to help you decipher the products available locally that could be right for your afflictions.

PRODUCTS PRODUCED LOCALLY High Desert Pure Lotion Where to find it: Piece of Mind, Strictly CBD, Hempies and Cosmic Depot.

Contents: 500 mg CBD, mango butter, shea butter, arnica.

Excellent for: Any ailment. The chapstick, balm, lotion and relief stick offer coverage for any conceivable affliction. The products are incredibly effective and versatile.

Reviewer’s comments: The assortment of products High Desert Pure offers is outstanding. While I product tested their line of CBD, full spectrum, hemp derived topicals, they also have a line of THC/CBD topicals widely available at nearly every Central Oregon dispensary. highdesertpure.com/lotion

indiCreme (from Wild Blossom Organics) Where to find it: Orion Hyperbaric Wellness Center or direct sales.

Contents: Full spectrum hemp oil (cold press), aloe and wintergreen, plus essential oils.

Excellent for: Massage.

Reviewer’s comments: Massage therapists like the texture, as it can maintain traction as well as lubricate. wildblossomorganics.com

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Desert Green Balm (from Rainshadow Organics) Where to find it: Currently only available at Rainshadow Organics.

Contents: 480 mg CBD, lavender, chamomile.

Excellent for: Aromatherapy in conjunction with topical relief.

Reviewer’s comments: There are five organic ingredients in this product, three of which are grown onsite at Rainshadow Organics. For folks who like simplicity and the concept of local attached to their products, it doesn’t get any more downhome than this. rainshadoworganics.com

Bend Botanicals Full Spectrum Plant Extracts

Where to find it: Shibui Spa in Sisters.

Contents: 700 mg Hemp CBD in coconut oil.

Excellent for: Any and all topical uses.

Reviewer’s comments: This is a mild blend in coconut oil, contains no overwhelming odor and is also edible.

For people used to using coconut oil as a moisturizer, this product will be particularly enjoyable to use. This topical contains the most CBD concentrate of all the products reviewed. bendbotanicals.com

PRODUCTS

THIS REVIEWER’S FAVORITE BLEND THE ONE THIS REVIEWER MOST WANTS TO TRY IN THE FUTURE Dragon Balm (from Ceres)

Where to find it: Currently only available at Washington dispensaries.

Contents: 175mg CBD, 175 mg THC with menthol, camphor and mint oil.

Excellent for: Soreness or sports injury. Promotes immediate relief.

Reviewer’s comments: I like the icy/ hot sensation which accompanies the use of Dragon Balm as well as the sinus cleansing aspect of the balm. My favorite blend! ceresgarden.com/balms.html

Dragon’s Blend (from Medicine Farm Botanicals) Where to find it: Plantae Health, Dr. Jolly’s, High-Grade Organics, Higher Elevation, Jenny’s, Oregrown, DiamondTree-East, the Herb Center, Tokyo Starfish, Top Shelf Medicine.

Contents: Five flavors and ratios to choose from.

Reviewer’s comments: These products are at many dispensaries around town and the company has local roots.

They have been producing CBD/THC topicals since the beginning of Oregon medical marijuana, in 2011. Their flagship product, 10 years in the making, Dragon’s Blend, was Oregon’s best-selling topical in 2017 and 2018. mfbotanicals.com

TERMS TO KNOW

Hemp or hemp derived: Made from the non-psychoactive form of the cannabis plant.

Full spectrum: Contains all terpenes, cannabinoids, flavonoids, and fatty acids found in hemp, all of which have therapeutic value of their own and help create what's known as the entourage effect.

Cannabinoids: Any of a group of closely related compounds which include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis.

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Without the presence of THC, topicals will not get the user high. For this reason, hemp-derived versions have been able to be sold around the country and online.

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Full Spectrum CBD topicals will be slightly green and have a plant odor due to the presence of chlorophyll.

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CBD topicals work most effectively on ailments when used many times over and are thought to be best for issues requiring localized relief rather than chronic, systemic pain.

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STREET BEAT We asked locals, what’s your definition of a “stoner?”

WHAT IS A STONER?

Russ Lakin – “I think a stoner would be someone who smokes a little toooo much and doesn’t get sh*t done.”

By Isaac Biehl

After a few years of legal recreational marijuana, a lot has changed. Tie-dye is still a thing—but it’s definitely not the only uniform worn by the people consuming this plant.

Dudes in suits stroll into dispensaries to pick up treats for soccer moms. Retirees are turning to edibles and CBD topicals in droves. People are a lot more discerning about what they consume; they now know what terpenes are and how they affect the experience.

With all that evolution, we hit the snow-covered streets of downtown Bend to ask the people that one hard hitting question:

Joseph Ludwig – “Most people that live in Bend, and Oregon, in general.”

Julie Moulton – “A stoner is somebody who smokes a lot of weed.

Could be productive or not, I’ve met both. Somebody who smokes more weed than the average person.

Red eyes – unless they know how to cover that. Maybe a little slower in dialogue, laughs a lot.”

Noah Peterson – “A stoner is someone that smokes cannabis frequently… Someone that smokes regularly and is kind of into the industry. Sometimes wears funky clothing. That’s the stereotypical stoner.”

Joey Cowen – “I guess somebody who’s high all the time? Somebody who smokes in the morning, with the wake and bake. I wouldn’t say it’s a negative connotation. Just more forgetful than most.”

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ON THE FARM WITH Jim Belushi surveys his indoor “science experiment,” as he calls it, of Captain Jack, while a photo of his brother, John, looks on.

BELUSHI

A visit to the actor’s Southern Oregon farm, supplying cannabis to Central Oregon and beyond

by Nicole Vulcan

Icy niblets of snow are starting to fall from the sky when I leave Central Oregon in mid-February, headed for Jim Belushi’s cannabis farm in southern Oregon. When I get there, the fertility of spring abounds.

The sun is out, casting whitish-yellow beams onto the Rogue River. Jaunty squirrels dart across the dirt driveway leading to the 93-acre spread. A herd of mama cows have just given birth to a gaggle of calves, legs still wobbly after their recent arrivals.

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And then there’s Becca, whose presence is everywhere.

She’s the former matriarch of most of this property, who passed away a few years back—but not before making friends with her new neighbor, Belushi, who had purchased the tumbledown Elks picnic grounds next door for his own personal retreat.

“I just fell in love with the girl. She had esophageal cancer,” Belushi said. “It was just really sad—it was a neighbor that turned into a gift. She wanted me to take care of Charlie (her husband) and

she wanted me to have the farm. And so I bought the farm, and Charlie’s got a life estate there.”

Now with far more land than he started with, Belushi set out to do something more than chill out and host the occasional music show on the stage under the old Elks picnic shelter—one of the features that drew him to the land in the first place.

Southern Oregon is known as Oregon’s banana belt: lots of sun, and temperatures great for growing pears and grapes—and increasingly, cannabis. Be-

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lushi began his foray into cannabis just after Oregon voters approved the legal recreational market in 2015, using the original farm name, Rogue’s Lair. After a few seasons of experimentation, Belushi told me he felt ready to add his name (and its star power) to his product. Today, Belushi’s Farm is selling flower in dozens of Oregon dispensaries. In Central Oregon, that includes HD Botanicals, Diamond Tree and The Herb Center.

The cannabis may now bear his name, but Becca’s legacy lives on.

“This is a very warm, sweet, feminine feeling, from Becca being here—the master, the matriarch of this land,” Belushi said. “Her energy... to the cannabis plants are all feminine, to the 50 cows that are giving birth, there’s just this beautiful energy here that’s very compassionate and lovely—and that kind of love and feeling comes right through the plants.”

A Farm Tour

If Becca was also keen on hoardOur tour of Belushi’s Farm included ing stories, she was clearly good stops at the myriad outbuildings, shops at it. and barns that dot the property. Near Becca’s large, former hay barn stands the shed Belushi calls The Museum, stuffed full of old bolts, hinges, bits and bobs Becca and family saved over the years.

“I used to accuse her of being a hoarder, but she just said, no, I’m not a hoarder, I just save some precious things,” Belushi laughs, waving his ever-present cigar.

The shed was made from reclaimed materials—before reclaimed materials were in fashion—that Becca’s family obtained from the former Camp White, now called White City, near Medford. The WWIIera facility served as an Army training ground, and also the temporary home for more than 1,000 German prisoners of war. A story in Medford’s Mail-Tribune describes how the camp was also home to a top-secret project, aiming to re-educate Nazis in the “principles of democracy.”

Also clustered near the barn and The Museum is another barn, where Belushi and his team are growing over 400 Captain Jack plants—a strain from the Afghan Kush region, handed down to the legendary grower, Captain Jack, by Afghani villagers over 40 years ago. Former “Saturday Night Live” stars like Belushi called the strain the “smell of SNL.” “This is the most creative, inspiring cannabis. It was the strain of SNL,” he said. “We had some and all of a sudden we’re coming up with jokes and popping each other.” Belushi, who obtained Captain Jack’s strain on the recommendation of fellow SNL veteran, Dan Aykroyd, is working with Portland-based Phylos BioScience to develop the best-possible version of Captain Jack before he releases it next year. (cont., p. 19)

Belushi’s greenhouses stand in the background, while his favorite cow mother, who he says babysits all the babies, poses with her newborn.

“This is the most creative, inspiring cannabis. It was the strain of SNL,” he said. “We had some and all of a sudden we’re coming up with jokes and popping each other.”

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The day after our visit, he was headed to the ceremonial “groundbreaking” for the Holly Theatre, a 1930s-era Spanish Colonial movie house and Southern Oregon’s largest concert venue, whose renovation fund was greatly lacking before Belushi began adding support.

(cont. from, p. 15)

California Transplant(ish) Belushi grew up in Illinois, lived in New York during his SNL days, and names his primary residence as Los Angeles. Does that put him in the camp of other Californians, categorically mistrusted

by Oregonians?

When I asked him about this, Belushi said he hadn’t personally experienced the type of neighboring-state discrimination that you hear talked about so often—at least among Central Oregonians. Later in the afternoon, after having some time to think about that dynamic, Belushi had something to say on behalf of the Californians who transplant to Oregon.

Of California, he said, “It’s crowded.”

In other words, is it any wonder Californians want to relocate?

Belushi, as one of those (at least parttime) transplants, has certainly added to the community. The day after our

Belushi inherited Becca’s shed, built from materials from Camp White, still full of bits and pieces that might have come in handy on the farm.

visit, he was headed to the ceremonial “groundbreaking” for the Holly Theatre, a 1930s-era Spanish Colonial movie house and Southern Oregon’s largest concert venue, whose renovation fund was greatly lacking before Belushi began adding support. He was also practicing his “gruff” voice in preparation for a storytime at a local school, where he would read “The Three Billy Goats Gruff.”

Indeed, his ability to toggle between effecting the voice of a gruff billy goat, to talking about terpenes, to pontificating about the role marijuana might play in combating the opioid crisis—a notion spurred by his own brother John’s death from a combination of heroin and cocaine—may be just some of the reasons people have embraced him so fully in this part of Southern Oregon.

In any case, it’s safe to say Becca approves.

All photos by Nicole Vulcan

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FARM

BILL

Puts Hemp on Par with Other Crops

By Jeremy Dickman

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Dec. 12 brought historic news for a relatively new and lucrative agricultural market when the House passed the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, informally called “the Farm Bill.”

As a result of the Farm Bill, hemp, the non-psychoactive version of the cannabis plant, will be removed from the Controlled Substances list, and federal law will officially recognize it as a traditional, agricultural crop. The Senate approved the law Dec. 11.

This isn’t a huge surprise, and it isn’t going to be much of a change for most hemp farmers in the country.

Most U.S. states have legalized production of hemp, thanks to the 2014 Farm Bill’s authorization for states to launch pilot cultivation programs for hemp farmers, if those states so choose. Hemp and cannabidiol (CBD) distillates are shipped all over the country and the world, as most have taken advantage of this loophole to circumvent federal prohibition of hemp.

Though frowned upon by the Drug Enforcement Administration, prosecutions by the federal government have been rare. Essentially, so long as cultivators are in compliance with state law, and they harvested and processed a product that didn’t exceed .3 percent THC, they’ve been left alone.

What the 2018 Farm Bill does is remove any concern that hemp farmers, hemp processors and hemp distributors will face the same banking and tax hurdles that marijuana businesses still face. Until now, cautious hemp farmers (and many cannabis attorneys) felt that Internal Revenue Code Section 280(e), the IRS’s restriction on tax deductions for those trafficking in Controlled Substances, still applied to those within the hemp chain of commerce.

In other words, many hemp growers were advised not to deduct the vast majority of business expenses that alfalfa or potato farmers could. Those businesses covered by 280e can only deduct “Cost of Goods Sold” or “COGS” from their gross revenue. Under 280e, the “ordinary and necessary” business expenses that most entrepreneurs deduct from their gross income (depreciation, employee benefits, some salaries, insurance, etc.) would be added back into the gross income of anyone trafficking in marijuana. This drives the effective tax

rate up to 70 or 80 percent. The alternative was to hope hemp farms would be exempt from 280e in the eyes of an IRS auditor, or a Federal Tax Court judge, based on the Farm Bill’s language. This was quite a legal risk.

Likewise, many hemp farmers feared losing their bank accounts, and for good reason; most banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation flee in terror if they realize a customer is depositing cash from a pot farm, lest the banks lose their federal charter, or worse, become complicit with defendants in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act prosecution or lawsuit. In Oregon and Colorado, banks working with marijuana farms were named as co-defendants in RICO civil claims against those marijuana producers.

While hemp farms historically have not been the focus of RICO lawsuits or prosecutions, even the potential— due to hemp/CBD being listed on the Controlled Substances list—can cause many banks to deny hemp clients or close their accounts.

With the most recent iteration of the Farm Bill, those fears end for hemp farmers. It’s a seminal moment in American history that was decades in the making.

Locally, outdoor hemp farms have been legal in Deschutes County in Exclusive Farm Use zones for several years, and they’ve faced none of the controversy and political blockades witnessed by marijuana businesses. There is not even any need to apply to the County in order to obtain permission to grow. Even as Sheriff Shane Nelson and some Deschutes rural residents decry the stench of marijuana farms and their impact on livability, they have ignored the fact that hemp smells the same and is almost always grown and harvested outside.

Hemp farms are often 30 acres or more.

(The maximum-size marijuana canopy is about 1 to 2 acres—all of it indoors.)

Now, even the federal government is telling those outraged neighbors what the farmers themselves wish they could have for four years: We have a right to farm, so deal with it.

The only remaining question is when marijuana farmers—cultivating the same species of plant—get to tell their neighbors the same thing.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE

WORLD OF

WEED

Oversupply, a moratorium on growing licenses and an anti-pot Commissioner

By Chris Miller

As anyone who follows marijuana laws knows, things change often. To keep you up to date, here’s a rundown of recent events.

An effort against drug testing During the 2019 Oregon Legislative session, the Senate Interim Committee on Judiciary—chaired by Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D-Eugene)—proposed Legislative Concept 2151, which would make it against the law to require people who use “lawful tobacco products,” like marijuana, during their non-working hours from abstaining.

Senate Bill 301, which failed in 2017, generally dealt with discrimination against medical marijuana cardholders who tested positive for cannabis. In a story on Oregonlive, Prozanski said LC 2151 was a redrafted form of SB 301.

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job—nor would it permit working under the influence. As of the date of publication, LC 2151 was not yet a full bill.

The latest on oversupply According to a 2018 report from the Oregon-Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Report, Oregon’s estimated annual production is about 2 million pounds of marijuana—about $6.7 billion worth of bud. The report said Oregon’s annual consumption is between 186,000 and 372,000 pounds— leaving an oversupply between 265,000 and 1.8 million pounds, according to the Oregon State Police.

This oversupply has resulted in threats from Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum that those tasked with enforcement need to step up their game and deal with the overproduction problem before she does. It’s also affecting the old adage of supply and demand, sending prices plunging—down 50 percent last year—with predictions wholesale prices will drop again in 2019.

The Oregon Secretary of State’s office released an audit in January that noted only 3 percent of retailers and 32 percent of growers have had a compliance inspection in the Oregon Liquor Commission’s recreational marijuana program. The Oregon Health Authority, which oversees the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, isn’t faring much better. According to the audit, there are only four inspectors to handle the 14,000 OMMP grows statewide, which comes to 3,500 grows sites per inspector.

With a six-and-a-half-year oversupply in the state, and cannabis being procured for as low as $300 a pound, some are tempted to take legally grown weed out of state and sell it where it’s not currently legal. According to the HIDTA report, nearly 15,000 pounds, or roughly $48 million in cannabis from Oregon, was captured out of state from July 2015 to January 2018. The report said most of the captured buds were headed for Midwestern states, Florida, Texas and Maryland.

NEWS Between July 2017 and March 2018, cops seized over $861,000 in marijuana attempting to move through the Portland International Airport, according to the HIDTA report.

The Secretary of State’s audit said the OLCC could limit the number of licenses issued or make the licensing moratorium permanent. The report also said the OLCC could allow market forces to correct itself via business failures and consolidations—which is currently happening with brands going under and corporate buyouts.

Deschutes County Commission’s newest member Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair was sworn in this past January and hasn’t wasted any time blocking growing operations. According to a February story in the Source, Adair suggested on the record that a growing license applicant was untruthful about their application by claiming they planned to use 30,000 gallons of water, when they had listed a higher number on their written application.

“You want people, when they’re applying for a marijuana grow, to be truthful,” Adair said. Adair’s comments had nothing to do with Deschutes County Code, which only requires applicants to provide documentation proving that a water provider can and will serve the farm.

Adair then weighed in on the applicant’s ionization device, asserting that these types of odor-control devices would cause “health complications” and claimed they “aren’t effective” in eliminating odor. Adair didn’t verbally identify her source for the claims, which would directly contradict the licensed Oregon

mechanical engineer’s opinion included with the application.

Adair also worked to have her neighbor’s application denied in 2017 and 2018, going as far as putting a sign on the corner of her property that read, “Norma N Rick Don’t Bring Marijuana crime to Goodrich.” She wrote the County: “I do not understand why marijuana production was NOT limited to an industrial zone. Our rural property values will be destroyed.”

The previous Commission, made up of Tammy Baney, Phil Henderson and Tony DeBone, ultimately approved Adair’s neighbor for their growing operation. But in Adair’s first crack at listening to an applicant, she and Henderson denied another application because of the grow's proximity to a "youth activity center." Code language prohibits marijuana businesses from existing within 1,000 feet of schools, licensed day cares, and any "youth activity centers," a term not defined in the County’s code.

By a two-to-one vote, DeBone and Baney also previously approved an application that was within 1,000 feet of an unlicensed 4H activity center.

On the more recent denial, Adair said, “In this case, the proposed grow would be near a residence where the owner's children are home-schooled, and where the parents led ‘equestrian activities.’” Adair noted that children were present in photos on the equestrian center’s website.

Henderson attempted to define a ‘youth activity center’ during deliberations as “a place where youth are active,

Commissioner Patti Adair.

and it's centered there.”

The applicants argued that the ranch has no permitting, and offers training for adults as well as children. Adair and Henderson dismissed these written counter-arguments.

It’s not clear whether DeBone, had he been present or phoned in, would've swayed Henderson or Adair to reconsider.

Meanwhile, on Feb. 28, the Commission filed a motion to revise the marijuana growing regulations it had amended and adopted in November 2018, after local marijuana activists contended the new rules did not comply with Oregon's Right to Farm Act, and that the new regulations were unreasonably strict. The Commission had 180 days from Feb. 28 to re-amend those rules.

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CONSUME Musicians and cannabis go hand in hand.

We asked a few of them what they partake in

By Josh Jardine

History shows that cannabis gained widespread awareness thanks to jazz musicians from New Orleans who shared it while touring. It even spawned an entire genre of music based around cannabis, known as “Viper Jazz,” named so because of the snake-like hissing sound of someone toking on a joint. Louis Armstrong even endorsed cannabis, saying, “One reason we appreciated pot, as y’all calls it now, was the warmth it always brought forth from the other person – especially the ones that lit up a good stick of that shuzzit or gage.”

I polled musicians I know from across the country, in all genres of music, to ask them two questions: How long have you been consuming cannabis, and what’s your favorite method for doing so?

“I have been using cannabis for about 20 years. For day to day consumption, I love the Pax Pens for the stealth, convenience, flavors, science and effect. When I perform or record there is something spiritual about consuming cannabis by smoking a huge sativa flower-filled golden joint. I really like using the 24K Gold Shine Papers. I also really enjoy Satori edibles. Their chocolate blueberries are too damn good. Got to give thanks to the most high for giving us this amazing plant!”

– “BIG HAIR” DAVE, OWNER OF BIG HAIR PRODUCTIONS AND A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE DUBPLATES REGGAE BAND

“I have been using cannabis recreationally since my 20s. I enjoy fresh flower here and there but since about five years ago, I’ve suffered from chronic spinal pain due to a crippling coccydynia condition and used to take narcotic meds for it, but hated how they made me feel groggy and detached. I’ve since discovered edibles and they have been very helpful in relaxing my muscles and helping me to cope with the ever-present pain.

– FERNANDO VÉLEZ, PERCUSSIONIST, SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS

“I have been using cannabis for 53 years, and I usually smoke in a glass pipe or through a Volcano I inherited from my mother. I use it for both pleasure and pain relief.”

– TOMMY MILES, SINGER/SONGWRITER

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“On and off, mostly on, since 1986. I love a nice, fresh joint, passed around a circle of friends. If alone, I'll often just pack a bowl so that it doesn't waste a bunch and smoke up the room. I'm a flower guy. As an ex-cigarette smoker, I like that ‘lil lung tightness.

Cannabis has greatly increased my ability to enjoy my life and get things done. The medicine I use to ‘party’ is the same one I use to go in deeply to my tasks, both creative (writing music, playing gigs) and more pedestrian (doing laundry, working on the car). I generally do not partake of alcohol at all.”

– LEWI LONGMIRE, MUSICIAN, OWNER/PARTNER AND CURATOR OF THE MUSIC PROGRAM AT THE LAURELTHIRST PUBLIC HOUSE

“I’ve been using cannabis since 1990, and Seth has been using it since 1993. I'm trying more non-smoking methods, but I always love a good joint. Also, loving Seth’s new Bhang smoothie, the vegan version!”

– JENNIFER DEVEAU AND SETH MISTERKA, MUSICAL DUO DYNASTY ELECTRIK

“I started smoking when I was 16 or 17 after football practice. I gotta go with dabs— it gets you super baked really fast, and it’s easier on the throat. But that’s only when I’m chilling at home. When I’m out, I like joints.”

– BLACK JOE LEWIS, SINGER/SONGWRITER, BLACK JOE LEWIS AND THE HONEYBEARS

“Since spring 1979. Mostly smoke and some vape. Edibles tend to make me too body stoned and tired feeling, which is occasionally nice but... my fave is a joint but I can enjoy most smokable options. Love the PAX Era for its ease and mobility and it causes less lung ache than other vape options. I've cut way back in recent years due to age and lung worries but really enjoy the use I get.”

– PATTERSON HOOD, SINGER/SONGWRITER, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

“Cannabis has greatly increased my ability to enjoy my life and get things done.”

—Lewi Longmire

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MARIJUANA

RULES

Here’s how to legally buy pot and other things to know about weed in Oregon

If you’re traveling through Oregon, or you’re a resident, here’s the lowdown on the rules surrounding recreational and medical Mary Jane.

Where you can buy some of that dank stuff: Buying legal weed is easy, just check out the dispensaries listed in this Leaflet—or find other dispensaries licensed by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.

Where you can consume Right now, you can’t smoke or use marijuana in a public place—including patios and outside areas at bars and restaurants. If you do, you put the biz’s liquor license in jeopardy. According to the OLCC, public places include “hallways, lobbies and other parts of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence, and highways, streets, schools, places of amusement, parks, playgrounds and premises used in connection with public passenger transportation.” Industry advocates are working on public consumption laws, so keep up to date by reading the Source’s Smoke Signals section.

Consume your marijuana on private property. And if your landlord doesn’t allow it, that’s legit.

How Much You Can Have According to the OLCC, personal possession is limited to: • 1 ounce of usable marijuana in a public place (meaning marijuana that’s ready to smoke/consume) • 8 ounces of usable marijuana • 16 ounces of a cannabinoid product in solid form • 72 ounces of a cannabinoid product in liquid form • 5 grams of cannabinoid extracts or concentrates, sold alone or contained in an inhalant delivery system • Four immature marijuana plants • 10 marijuana seeds

The Oregon Health Authority, who manages medical marijuana, made some changes that went into affect Oct. 1, 2018 regarding the number of immature plants growers can have.

Growers in the city limits zoned residential can have no more than 72 plants fewer than 24 inches high, unless they’re grandfathered in—registered before Jan. 1, 2015—in which case they may have 144 plants. Growers outside city limits (not zoned residential and not grandfathered), can have 144 plants. Grandfathered growers may possess 288 immature plants.

If you’re heading to a dispensary, here’s what you’ll need Most dispensaries still only accept cash because of federal banking restrictions. However, some are starting to accept cards because small credit unions that are not FDIC insured are accepting transactions from dispensaries. You’ll need a legal identification to be admitted into the room selling the flower/extracts/ ect. That can include a state driver’s license, passport, tribal ID etc.—as long as the ID is valid. Don’t walk in with an expired license, or you’ll be treated the same as trying to order a drink with outdated ID.

The Legal Age You must be 21 to consume marijuana in Oregon—and that includes consuming at home.

Crossing State Lines It’s illegal to take your marijuana across state lines—do so and you risk a federal offense.

Driving on Weed According to the OLCC, “Driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII) refers to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated or drugged, including impairment from the use of marijuana.”

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