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Finding The Happy Spot At High Times Medical Cannabis Cup

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 15, 2012 Culture, Products

All photos by Jack Rikess

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

This is going to be very hard for some people to understand.

I sometimes smoke cannabis recreationally.

Even though I am allowed to be a card-carrying Cali medical marijuana patient due to a thrown-out disc from my care-giving days — and scary migraines that, at their worst, feel like I’m a walking Munch painting — there are days when I just like to get stoned.

Here’s another little tidbit. Sometimes, when I do smoke recreationally, it takes me away from a physical place to what shrinks like to call the “Happy Spot.”

And then I open my eyes and I’m back from wherever.

Neville To Headline 14th Annual Medical Marijuana Concert In FL

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 10, 2012 Culture, Products

Revolution Live

The 14th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert will be held Sunday, February 19, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to raise funds for NORML of Florida (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), The Silver Tour, Patients Out of Time (POT) and PUFMM’s (People United For Medical Marijuana) campaign to protect medical marijuana patients’ rights. The event will be hosted by NORML of Florida, Ploppy Palace Productions and Revolution Live.

Currently a statewide campaign is underway to change the medical marijuana laws in Florida. There is legislation currently in both the state House and Senate — a first in 30 years! — as well as a statewide petition signature drive.

As part of the benefit concert — which will be a three-stage extravaganza — some of South Florida’s top bands, spoken word artists and community activists will join together to support patients’ right to use and physicians’ right to recommend medicinal cannabis.

Exclusive Interview: Cannabis Cultivation Expert Jorge Cervantes

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 8, 2012 Growing, Products

WeedMeds.org

Cultivation author Jorge Cervantes is currently writing a new book

Toke of the Town got a chance to chat with cannabis cultivation expert Jorge Cervantes, author of the legendary Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, on Wednesday. We talked about changes in cultivation, promising work with genetics, and his new book project.

Toke: So, wow. Thirty years in the growing game now. Have things gone as you expected, as far as progress is concerned, both legally and botanically?

Cervantes: Actually it has been 29 years since I published the first cannabis cultivation book, Indoor Marijuana Horticulture. Never do things go as expected! I thought cannabis would be legal worldwide two decades ago!

Firm Introduces New Technology For Medical Cannabis Industry

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 3, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, Products

QuantaCann

QuantaCann Says Its New System Delivers On-Site Safety & Potency Analysis

Steep Hill Lab says it became the nation’s first medical cannabis screening facility in collaboration with some of the industry’s stakeholders, when it opened for business in Oakland four years ago.

Now, by utilizing their industry experience and developing innovative software and scientific instrumentation, Steep Hill says it has significantly improved the ease by which cannabis can be tested for medical use on site.

Exclusive Interview: Aaron Evans of The Green Brothers

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 3, 2012 Culture, Products

Aaron Evans

Aaron Evans of The Green Brothers got a chance to sit down with Toke of the Town’s Becky Bonghits Fogarty for a good, long, in-depth talk about weed and life and music.

By Becky Bonghits Fogarty

Toke of the Town

Michigan Correspondent

Aaron Evans, founder of The Green Brothers and Dove Ink Records, is a powerful force in the legalization of marijuana as well as a constant workhorse striving to affect positive change in our world in every way he can. As an activist and artist he stands on the front lines against the twisted laws of the government, fighting daily to end the prohibition of marijuana.

Since beginning his battle, Aaron has been featured in NUG, Skunk, High Times and countless other publications in print and online. As an author/emcee, producer, designer, photojournalist, and marijuana activist, Aaron Evans, aka Claude 9 aka Eyamme, is a unique entity within the culture, carving his own lane and blazing trails along the way.

Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Aaron is currently based in San Diego, with a fan base that spans the entire globe. With a blend of free flowing, lyrical, and musical talent Aaron’s artistic styling can be described as THC-infused funk, hip hop, jazz, and soul.

You can find out more about Aaron and his eclectic talents at www.aaronevansimagination.com.

‘Dope King’? THCF’s Stanford Responds To AP Hit Piece

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 2, 2012 Medical, News, Products

Torsten Kjellstrand/The Oregonian

Paul Stanford has dedicated his life to advocating for medical marijuana. A medical marijuana cardholder, he and others involved with THCF grow marijuana for themselves and others. There is usually a surplus from this Portland garden, and most of it goes to patients who can’t grow their own or afford to buy it from others.

Medical marijuana advocate and businessman Paul Stanford, in an exclusive interview with Toke of the Town, has responded to a negative article by The Associated Press which on Sunday described his life as one “of error, missteps and regrets, one laden with betrayals and failure.”

Portland-based AP reporter Nigel Duara called Stanford and The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation (THCF) “the nation’s leading gateway to the drug,” even going so far as to label him a “Dope King” in the headline and to refer to his supporters as “dope enthusiasts” who regard Stanford as “something of a savior.”

So, how did we get back to 1970s or even 1960s style “evil weed” journalism in the blink of an eye? Wasn’t yesterday supposed to be the start of a new year? Aren’t we in the second decade of the 21st Century?

Apparently, only some of us are.

Tucson Will Be Toke Town In April: Medical Cannabis Conference

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 2, 2012 Culture, News, Products

Veterans Today

By Al Byrne

Patients Out of Time

While the U.S. federal government’s regulators and lawyers, drug czar and others are paid to say whatever is dated and wrong about therapeutic cannabis, medical and nursing professionals are in wonder that so many can so willingly display their ignorance of therapeutic cannabis in public.

On November 23, 2011, the associate director for public affairs of the Office of National Drug Policy (ONDCP), Rafael Lemaitre said, “The Food and Drug Administration has not found smoked marijuana to be either safe or effective medicine for any condition.”

This statement made by a person of responsibility for citizen health in the U.S. is apparently in denial of a decades-long study of cannabis “smokers” by Donald P. Tashkin, M.D., medical director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

At the Patients Out of Time clinical cannabis conference in Pacific Grove in April 2008, Dr. Tashkin announced his study showed that no patient, of more than 2,200, who smoked only cannabis had lung cancer, COPD or other pulmonary problem other than mild bronchitis.

Smoking cannabis results in no lung cancer.

My 86-Year-Old Mom Gave Me This Weed Piggy Bank For Xmas

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 28, 2011 Culture, News, Products

Ah, Christmas. It’s a great time to remind those for whom we care that we think about them all the time.

My 86-year-old mother did exactly that this season when she sent me, from Alabama, a weed piggy bank. Thanks for the assistance in financial planning, Mom!

Video of the Day: Marijuana Tree by Los Marijuanos

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 21, 2011 Culture, Products

Season’s greetings from Los Marijuanos, who’ve released a new video, “Marijuana Tree,” to commemorate the holidaze.
After viewing this festive bit of Kushmas Cheer, which was shot at a secret location in Las Vegas, Toke of the Town had a chance to chat with Ponyboy of Los Marijuanos about the vid, which YouTube apparently considers “mature viewing.”
“It was a blast to make the video thanks to all the volunteers that helped to make it happen,” Ponyboy told us. “You can see the video playing from one of our own websites, www.HempVisionTV.com, as well as on YouTube.”

Medical Marijuana Advocacy Group Launches iPhone App

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 21, 2011 Culture, Medical, Products

Safe Access YouTube Channel

Here’s the iPad version. The ASA Advocacy App is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Soon to come will be the Android version.

Medical marijuana patient advocates now have better access to tools for getting educated and taking action. Grassroots advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) on Wednesday launched a first-of-its-kind, free iPhone application that serves the medical marijuana community.

According to ASA, the app will make it easier for advocates to get educated and take political action. The ASA Advocate App gives users access to all the organization’s projects and programs.

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