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By Hayley Fox For the last three decades, 56-year-old Alexis Bronson has been paying his bills by growing weed. His love of the plant started back in the 1980s after a trip to a Humboldt County marijuana farm, and since then he's cultivated his own grow operations in Vallejo and Oakland. He's graduated from cannabis flowers to growing seeds and clones – exact replicas made from the primo weed plants – and sold his products at one of the largest and most longstanding dispensaries in the country, Harborside Health Center. Continue reading here

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Cannabis plants, like all living things, go through a series of stages as they grow and mature. If you’re interested in cultivating cannabis, it’s especially important to understand the changes a plant undergoes during its life cycle, as each stage of growth requires different care.

Different stages call for different amounts of light, nutrients, and water. They also help us decide when to prune and train the plants. Determining a plant’s sex and overall health rely on stages of growth as well.

The life cycle of cannabis can be broken down into four primary stages from seed to harvest: germination, seedling, vegetative, and flowering. Continue reading here.

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Everyone brings something different to the table

11/21/15

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By Ron Garmon, Cannifornian contributor -------- California-born and lab-perfected early last decade, Granddad Purp is by common assent one of the all-time great indica strains and a top seller too. GDP is in range and psychoactive striking power, a classic example of the supercharged “modern” (as opposed to “hippie”) weed that upped the rhetorical ante among this nation’s oft-hysterical drug warriors.

In short, a strain for the ages and compressed here in a CO2 oil that weighs in at a brain-blistering 76.53% THC. That’s right – the 500 milligrams of gleaming black liquid inside this ruggedly built, leak-resistant cartridge are nearly three-quarters designer buzz juice. Continue reading here.

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“On the positive side, the number and size of individual investments in the cannabis industry is growing. While large institutional investors have steered clear because of the status of marijuana as an illegal drug under federal law, smaller investors have picked up the pace in cannabis investment.“ Click the link above or here for the entire article.

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Oakland's Pioneering Cannabis Equity Permits

The City of Oakland's Medical Cannabis Permit Applications are now available for cultivators, delivery-only dispensaries, distributors, testing laboratories, manufacturers and transporters. Applications are not yet available for dispensary permits, as they will be issued through a separate process later in 2017.

Please visit the City of Oakland website for the application, step-by-step instructions and required supporting documents. 

Applicants who have not yet secured a location, particularly Equity applicants, are encouraged to apply for conditional approval which includes verification of Equity status.

Oakland continues moving forward in cannabis equity and city wide participation.

To learn about and apply for a permit in Oakland, California click

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By Chip Patterson Georgia running back Elijah Holyfield was arrested early Monday morning on misdemeanor marijuana charges, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Kirby Smart is reportedly aware of the arrest, which came at 3:19 a.m. Monday, though no official statement has been released by the university.

Per the AJC, Holyfield, the son of boxing legend Evander Holyfield, was charged with possession and use of drug related objects and possession of less than one ounce of marijuana. Georgia's school drug policy calls for a one-game suspension for a marijuana arrest, so it's possible that the promising back with a legendary name will miss some time this fall.

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For many decades, law enforcement has been directed to lock up anyone who tries to make a living in this field, especially if they are black. As criminal justice scholar Michelle Alexander wrote in a 2013 op-ed for The New York Times: “We’ve spent billions of dollars, arrested and caged millions of people, destroyed countless families and futures, and yet marijuana remains as popular and plentiful as ever. Why has this insanity continued for so long?”

Well, because racism. In Oakland, California, efforts are now underway to repair what the war on drugs destroyed through mass incarceration: In May 2016, the city amended its existing local medical marijuana regulation ordinance to provide more opportunities for people of color to open their own dispensaries. Most importantly, under the new equity permit program, people with prior convictions for weed-related crimes would have first dibs on getting a city license. Continue reading more here via www.CityLab.com

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“Kimberly Cargile opened A Therapeutic Alternative Shop in 2009. She says her store serves more than 40,000 patients throughout California. In addition to buying marijuana products, patients can also take advantage of free services like massage therapy and yoga. Cargile stated, “I believe that a patient has a right to heal themselves by all means necessary. So we really are on the cutting edge.” There are 30 dispensaries in Sacramento that serve individuals with a doctor’s prescription for medical cannabis.”   

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Lawmakers appear to have reached a compromise Thursday that would expand Georgia’s medical marijuana law.

The agreement over Senate Bill 16 would add six illnesses and conditions eligible for treatment with medical marijuana in Georgia to include Alzheimer’s disease, AIDS, autism, epidermolysis bullosa, peripheral neuropathy and Tourette’s syndrome. It would additionally allow use for patients in hospice care, according to both state Sen. Ben Watson, R-Savannah, and state Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon.

It would also keep the maximum allowable THC percentage in the form of cannabis oil allowed here at 5 percent. Click the link above to continue reading.

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TEMPLE, Ga. - A Georgia city wants to reduce the penalties for people caught with small amounts of marijuana.

Temple wants to reduce the fine from a thousand dollars to $75 for anyone with less than an ounce of pot with no jail time. The city said it is because a lot of college kids drive through the city.“What I have the power to do is introduce amendments to an already existing ordinance that limits the punishment for less than an ounce of marijuana within the city of Temple,” said Council Member Penny Ransom. (Click the above link to continue reading)

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“In case you weren’t already aware, Schedule I is defined as drugs which have no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug, putting it the same class as heroin, LSD, meth and peyote. For perspective some examples of Schedule IV drugs (ones with low potential for abuse and dependency) are: Xanax, Soma, Darvocet, Valium, Ativan and Ambien, yet we know these drugs are being highly abused in America today.

As a healthcare provider who uses and understands cannabis, Schedule I is a ridiculous proposition, as cannabis has a far lower risk of dependency or abuse than many Schedule IV drugs. This is just one of the fallacies that the US Government continues to claim about cannabis as it prepares for the pharmaceutical takeover of the industry. Anything but a complete descheduling of cannabis will destroy an industry so many of us have helped to build and pioneer, not only enduring the pitfalls typical of all business startups but also risking federal prosecution, a burdensome regulatory structure and legislative obstacles.

First, let’s understand that as a Schedule I drug, cannabis has only been studied in the US by companies allowed access to cannabis grown, processed and distributed by the Federal Government. Yes you heard that correctly, the Federal Government has its own pot farm which is on the campus of Ole Miss. The only company which has been allowed unlimited access to the crop is GW Pharmaceutical. Conducting clinical research”