The Choice to Legalize

“Under the measure, individuals who are 21 years old or older (adults) may possess,

use, display, purchase, and transport up to one ounce of marijuana”

“Like alcohol prohibition, marijuana prohibition has caused far more problems than it has

solved. It’s time for a more sensible approach, and that’s what Amendment 64 proposes.”

“Adults should have the choice to use marijuana, just as they have that choice with other substances such as alcohol and tobacco.”

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The Choice to LegalizeBy: Lacewing

As the coming election looms closer, sorting out the details of all of the current legislation and the changes that are going to be made is never more important. New presidents, healthcare issues, and con-troversies that have never been more hotly debated will all be decid-ed on Nov 6.

One of those controversies for Colorado is Amendment 64, which will be on the upcoming ballot.

Amendment 64 would change the Colorado constitution to allow the use and regulation of marijuana for recreational purposes. Col-orado has already legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal pur-poses, to mixed reviews across the state.

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Makes over 1 quart• ½ cups very ripe fresh local tomatoes, skinned (optional) and diced. If you have to use canned toma-toes, use the larger sized can of the “San Marzano” region, if you want the best• ½ cup sweet onion, finely chopped. Red onion is a good sec-ond choice8-10 big healthy fresh sprigs cilantro, very finely chopped• 2 cloves fresh gar-lic,finely minced. If

you can avoid it, don’t use pre-minced garlic from a jar• 1 cup sweet green, red and/or yellow peppers, finely diced.• 1 cup hot peppers, finely diced• 2 tbsp olive oil• 2 tbsp lime juice to taste• Salt and pepper to taste (optional)• Powdered Hashish or other preferred concentrate (amount depends on potency desired) to be mixed with olive oil • 2 medium or 1 very large ripe mango, dicedFeel free to use slight-ly more or less of any particular ingredient you enjoy more or less!Directions:1. Using a small food processor, process the garlic and cilantro together till fine, then add onion and pulse until desired texture in achieved. Remove and reserve.2. Here’s the tricky part, Making 420 Nu-clear Waste. First, pulverize a few hot peppers with half of the lime juice, then drizzle in the oil con-centrate and whip up until somewhat creamy. Now your concentrate has nu-clear power and do

treat it like radiation. Do not get any on your skin or eyes. It has a tendency to hurt you, especially if you leave the seeds in the pep-pers. Carefully re-move from processor and reserve. Clean up anything that touch-es the radioactive 420 waste very well with warm soapy water. 3. In a large bowl, place diced sweet pep-pers, add the radioac-tive 420 waste, and mix very well without mashing the peppers. By mixing the pep-pers with the 420 nu-clear paste first, dis-tribution of the 420 heat is more intense, essentially making all the sweet peppers hot. Then add the on-ion mixture and stir again until mixed. Then add tomatoes, remaining lime, and salt/pepper to taste. Stir, then put in re-frigerator covered for 3 hours or up to week.4. Just before serv-ing, dice your man-goes and carefully stir in 1 part mango to 2-3 parts 420 salsa. Add just enough to be eaten within 1 hour or so. If left too long, the mango begins to ferment and the fresh mango taste is lost.5. Enjoy!

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The Choice to LegalizeBy: Lacewing The goal of Amendment 64 is ultimately reg-ulation of a drug that is already widely used. The amendment stip-ulates several ways to regulate the drug, spe-cifically comparing it to alcohol.According to the 2012 State Ballot Informa-tion Booklet, “Under the measure, individu-als who are 21 years old or older (adults) may possess, use, display, purchase, and trans-port up to one ounce of marijuana. Adults may share up to one ounce of marijuana with other individuals who are at least 21 years old, but are not allowed to sell marijuana.”Public use, like with alcohol, would be pro-hibited, which includes driving under the in-fluence of marijuana. Underage access to the drug would also be strictly prohibited.This is different from the current medical marijuana laws in a couple ways. The only restriction from us-ing the drug would be age, instead of need-ing to have a red card. Also, recreational users would only be allowed one ounce, where med-ical marijuana patients are allowed up to two ounces. In both cases, parties are allowed up to six plants for grow-ing their own. Amend-

ment 64 does not mean to change or affect the current medical mari-juana laws.Marijuana has had such stigma for so many decades that even just proposing this amendment and getting it on the Colo-rado ballot is a triumph for advocates. Having been lumped with such drugs as meth and co-caine, marijuana users have worked to change the social opinion and biased sciences that have held it back for so long.There are, of course, still major concerns. In the effort to com-pare marijuana to al-cohol, the amendment has been opened up to the same problems that arise from alcohol use. Safety for anyone underage is a priority. The measure seeks to ensure only people 21 and older are allowed access, but it is nev-er so easy. “Allowing state-regulated stores to sell marijuana will make it more acces-sible, which is like-ly to increase use and may give the impres-sion that there are no health risks or nega-tive consequences to marijuana use,” argues the “against” section of Amendment 64 in the Information Booklet.“Despite the claims of proponents of legaliza-tion, restricting pos-

session of marijuana to people over 21 simply would not keep it out of our kids’ hands. The attitudes and behav-iors of adults have a profound influence on children. When adults set the example that it’s OK to use addictive substances, children are more likely to use them,” writes Ken Buck for The Denver Post.But all of that sounds more like an argument against all potentially addictive substances, alcohol included. And we all saw how prohi-bition turned out. The fact is that marijuana is already widely used, despite current laws, and a lack of regula-tion poses more poten-tial danger than having reasonable laws that will help maintain safe-ty standards.Other reasons for con-cern pertain to the cur-rent federal laws, in which marijuana use is still considered illegal, and that there are still many specifics that are not clearly addressed in the proposed Amend-ment.The pros for legalizing marijuana use revolve around money and sending a message to America. Right now, millions of dollars are made by selling mari-juana—but all of that goes to drug dealers.“Like alcohol prohibi-tion, marijuana prohi-

bition has caused far more problems than it has solved. It’s time for a more sensible approach, and that’s what Amendment 64 proposes. It would end the needless arrest and prosecution of about 10,000 Coloradans per year for marijuana-re-lated offenses; replace the uncontrolled and potentially dangerous underground marijua-na market with safe and legitimate busi-nesses; generate tens of millions of dollars in new revenues and sav-ings; and redirect our limited law enforce-ment resources toward addressing violent and otherwise harmful crimes,” claims Ma-son Tvert, a designated representative for the amendment.But what the amend-ment seems to want more than anything is to dispel the myths surrounding marijua-na use.“It all started with Richard Nixon… The president handpicked a national commission in 1971, and tasked it with taking a hard look at the substance. They approached the subject objectively and produced a compre-hensive report. Their conclusion? The harms of marijuana are quite limited, and the use of marijuana by adults should not be consid-

ered a criminal offense. Nixon promptly ignored their findings and moved forward with his plan to make marijua-na Public Enemy No. 1,” explains Betty Ald-worth for The Denver Post.Tvert looks back on his-tory, too, but for hope. “Passage of Amend-ment 64 will be truly historic. Colorado took the initiative to repeal alcohol prohibition pri-or to other states and the federal government. It has the opportunity to do the same thing with marijuana.”The Info Booklet ex-plains that “the adop-tion of Amendment 64 will send a message to the federal government and other states that marijuana should be legal and regulated… Adults should have the choice to use marijua-na, just as they have that choice with other substances such as al-cohol and tobacco.”Go to the Colorado Sec-retary of State’s website or RegulateMarijuana.org to get information on Amendment 64 and voter registration. The decision goes to the people.

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Edibles in Review:

BIGHello my dear friends, it’s me again with another great review on an edible I recently tried.

Before we get to those, I would like to thank some people that have made these reviews possible. I first would like to thank John and the staff at Nature’s Herb and Wellness Center located in Garden City and Denver for their suggestion that I write, and Ganja Gazette

for giving me a chance to do exactly that. So, thank you very much! And now, back to the reviews.I recently got to try a new

product from Cheeba Chew. I really like a lot of their edibles, but this one was very different. Many patients around Colorado have asked for a high pain relief (CBD) but with low

effects (THC) to avoid being over-medicated. Cheeba Chew and their mad scientists came up with “CBD Chews” for those patients. These things look like a small tootsie roll, but each one has 50mg of THC and 20mg of CBDs. I, like many of you, suffer from chronic pain. I suffer from lower back, knee, and shoulder pain. My back pain is the big problem for me, and that’s the main reason why I have my card. I was very excited to try this, and I

hoped it would give me relief from my back pain.

I took this little piece of heaven during the day and it really delivered on its promise of pain relief without the psycho activity. I felt really good all day and only slightly felt the effects from the THC. I still functioned at a normal level but was pain free. I think Cheeba Chew got this right, because many patients want a safe outlet for them to medicate without the severe psychoactivity

that usually come with edibles.

I highly suggest this product for anyone suffering from chronic pain and see if the chews can leave you pain free. Remember readers; this product is for pain relief from anti-inflammatory, pain, anxiety and/or spasm effects without fatigue.

Always medicate with care. Goodbye for now, but see you next month.

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LeoJuly 23 - Aug. 22It is important that you reach out to people you haven’t

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It is a month of obsession for you. Don’t give in, no matter how often the world tells you to buy the new Justin Bieber CD.

LibraSep. 23 - Oct. 22Take a moment to stand still, smell a couple of roses, listen to some soothing music. Preparation is key for some potentially troubling months. Holidays don’t come cheap, you know?

ScorpioOct. 23 - Nov. 21You follow the rules, do what you’re told, and

come away with exactly what you would expect. Jump out of your comfort zone into something new, like flying hot air balloons.

SagittariusNov.22 -Dec.21Neptune is com-manding you to take the path less traveled. Feel free to do whatever you want, less traveled or not.

CapricornDec. 22 -Jan. 19Your family is pres-suring you to make

a decision. Go get some ice cream instead, while the weather is still good.

AquariusJan. 20 - Feb. 18The stars are sug-gesting you dress up as a melted marsh-mallow for Halloween. Easy as that might be, you might consider choosing something a little more daring.

PiscesFeb.19 - Mar. 20Defy expecta-tions! Who are the planets and the stars to tell you who you are and what you should do. Be bold and make as many stupid decisions as you want.

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The Terror of the Grow RoomGROW TIPSBy: Tucker Eldridge

Spider Mites are tiny arachnids of the Acari order. They are very small, roughly half the size of a period and nearly invisible to the naked eye.

Spider Mites have three distinct life cy-cles after hatching from the egg; two ju-venile stages and one adult stage. Females lay eggs in a ratio of about three females to one male and can lie between 50 and 200 eggs at a time, depending on the spe-cies and environmen-tal conditions. In the right environmental conditions, this full cycle can occur every seven to ten days. It is this hugely prolif-ic rate of reproduc-tion that allows spi-der mites to be such a devastating grow room pest.

Spider mites feed on plants by hiding along the veins of the leaves and punctur-ing the leaves to drain out the fluid. They are sap suckers. This feeding method also makes spider mites a vector for disease as they move from plant to plant, bruis-ing cells and open-ing up wounds that

are susceptible to fungus and disease. Damage from these wounds first appears as bunches of small yellow or white dots on the top sides of the leaves. Then, as more and more fluid is drained from the leaf, it will appear to begin to wilt, and then it will die and fall off.

If a mite infestation occurs, and you are beginning to see spots on the topsides of your leaves, then the infestation is al-ready relatively severe.

There are a number of p r o d u c t s out there that are ef-fective in treating spi-der mites, but the most important part of combating an infestation is not nec-essarily the product used for control, but the procedure used for spraying said product. If you are not actively searching for mites, and your first indicators of an in-festation are webs or clustered spots, then this severe infestation requires immediate action. At this point, you are mere days from stunting the fi-nal potential of your plant and only by act-

ing quickly can a full blown infestation be prevented.

The short cycle in which spider mites reproduce means that multiple applica-tions are necessary in treatment. A grower should be more in-clined towards spray-ing with substances that are more mild. This allows for a number of things, in-cluding applications

h a p - pen-ing every two to three days as opposed to every seven or the. These closer applica-tions catch mites as they hatch, as well as allowing the grower to spray for eggs the fe-male mites may have laid as a survival re-sponse to the initial spraying (some spe-cies do this).

Another technique that increases suc-cess rates in removal

of mites is alternating sprays. This prevents the fast breeding mites from developing a resistance to a spe-cific product. Always spray in the evening, as this is when spider mites are most active. Remember that the finer the spray, the more even the cov-erage and the more affective it is. This makes a fogger the most efficient option, if available. The products I have found to be most ef-

fective in treat-ing mites are

soaps, oils, neem de-r ivat ives, pyrethrum d e r i v a -tives, and beneficial

i n s e c t s . Soaps can

range from lem-on joy, which sim-

ply acts to smother mites, to Dr. Bron-ner’s Peppermint Soap, which contains peppermint oil, a substance known to disrupt the mite life cycle. Oils can range from horticultur-al specific oils, used specifically to smoth-er mites, to products such as almond oil or sesame oil, which actually disrupts the mite’s ability to di-gest whatever it con-sumes. Neem oil is ex-tracted from the neem

tree and has been used for spider mite prevention and infes-tations for decades, although neem tends to be more effective as a preventive spray as opposed to a control. Pyrethrum is a natu-ral insecticide derived from the extract of the chrysanthemum flower. A number of products out there contain pyrethrum, including fog bombs and neem/pyrethrum combinations. I ad-vise against using py-rethrum unless all other measures fail, because although it is natural, it is the most harmful substance on this list and should never be used during flowering. All spraying should cease no later than week two of flowering. The best beneficial in-sect to introduce to any garden, and the only one worth in-vesting in, is the lace-wing larvae. These lit-tle beasties eat mites at a much higher rate than predatory mites, they can fly, and un-like lady bugs, they produce offspring that is sexually viable and can also repro-duce. Keep an eye on your plants, and we’ll be back next month with more advice!

If you think that those states in the South are all uptight about marijuana, think again. The Arkansas Supreme Court has thrown out a petition from conservative groups that sought to re-move the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act from the bal-lots in November. A coalition of conservative groups in the state said that the Act had a misleading title and that the proposal itself was difficult to un-derstand. In a unanimous ruling, Supreme Court As-sociate Justice Karen Bak-er wrote that this was pure nonsense and that the title was acceptable because it was not too long, complex or misleading.Led by Jerry Cox, the Coa-lition to Preserve Arkansas Value lodged the lawsuit in September 2012. The suit was filed even when more than 120,000 residents have signed a medical marijuana petition, reported the Ar-kansans for Compassionate Care on its blog. The State needs only around half of that to put the measure on

the ballot.Cox and others in the coa-lition complained that the measure was 8,000 words long.The ACC also said in its blog that the lawsuit was pegged on “technicalities and loop-holes” and that the SC “saw right through it.” The ACC further wrote that they are happy to get the lawsuit be-hind them and that it is time to educate the people on marijuana’s medical prop-erties and how sick people could benefit from it.This is important in light of the recent findings from TV program “Talk Business” and Hendrix College that showed that only 47% of Ar-kansans supported medical marijuana, while 46% were against it. The remaining 7% were undecided.If successful, Arkansas could be the first Southern state to make it legal for those with qualifying conditions to buy medical marijuana. At the moment, there are only 17 states, plus Washington DC, that allow the sale of medi-cal marijuana.And if the ballot is success-

ful in November, Arkansas will become the 18th state that will be able to provide humane treatment for pa-tients suffering from many painful diseases and condi-tions.States voting to legalize medical marijuana this year are Arkansas and Massa-chusetts. Washington, Col-orado, and Oregon are vot-ing to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes.

Foreign Correspondent Alvin DyElsewhere on MarijuanaCourt Backs Up MMJ in Arkansas

Government in Action!The late Pennsylvania Con-gressman John Murtha was a Capitol Hill powerhouse, and among his legacies is the federally funded airport in his district that large-ly served him and the lo-cal companies heading to Washington, D.C., to lobby for government contracts. (By contrast, the Pittsburgh airport is nearly 60 miles

away.) Murtha died in 2010, but the airport (which cost $150 million in earmarked funds to build, upgrade and maintain) still, according to an April Yahoo News dis-patch, handles only three flights a day, all from Wash-ington, D.C., and about $100 of every passenger’s ticket is subsidized by the federal government.

Great Architecture!There are big plans in the city of Chiang Rai, Thailand, for a massive Buddhist tem-ple that priests aim to make one of the most beautiful structures in the world, and have entrusted artist Chaler-mchai Kositpipat to design it in all-white with glitter-ing glass and arrangements of “rich symbolism derived

from Buddhist and Hin-du traditions.” If Kositpipat has his way, according to an April Huffington Post dis-patch, the temple will also have images of Superman, Batman and (from the mov-ie “The Matrix”) Neo -- all of which, Kositpipat said, further Lord Buddha’s “mes-sage.”

Suspicions ConfirmedIn March, WTNH-TV in New Haven, Conn., obtained an “internal” police memoran-dum referencing a challenge from state troopers in one barracks to “outperform” col-leagues in another barracks -- in writing traffic tickets. The memo, from Lt. Anthony Schirillo, refers to the need “to issue at least 60 infractions/misdemeanors each shift.” “One day Troop F issued 301 tickets. Troop G responded by issuing 345 ... We can do bet-ter.” “I am asking that every-one, myself included, contrib-ute to this effort.” “Note: If we happen to issue 350 tickets in one day that would be stellar.” (The station spoke to Lt. Paul Vance of the Connecticut state police, who denied that quotas are given.)

Creme de la WeirdThomas Parkin inherited real estate from his elderly mother before she died, but quickly lost it in a risky busi-ness venture. To get the deed back, according to New York City prosecutors, he con-cocted a scheme to pretend that Mom was still alive (it would actually be Thomas in a dress) and still owned the land (and thus that the current deedholder was a fraud). Lawyers arranged a meeting with “Mother” (conducted in a darkened room because of Mom’s “re-cent cataract surgery”), at which she mostly remained silent. Parkin improbably stayed in character, accord-ing to a trial dispatch on the Daily Beast, and jurors ap-parently kept straight faces

as Parkin testified that recent “communications” between him and his mother were “mostly one-sided.” In May, Parkin was convicted on 11 counts, and at press time, he was awaiting sentencing.

Recurring ThemesIn April, a woman in Swit-zerland identified as “Anna Gut,” in her early 50s, starved to death after trying to prove that she could survive by “consuming” only sunlight, just as had happened to sever-al others before her. An earli-er practitioner, Australian El-len Greve, died in 1999 at age 54 following a short career promoting “breatharianism,” subtitled in her books and public lectures, “Liberation from the drudgery of food and drink.” None of the ones who have made similar claims and survived have submitted to 24/7 monitoring.

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