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U.S. Attorney General Says Justice Department Will No Longer Interfere With States’ Medical Pot Policies

February 26th, 2009 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
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Score one for the good guys!

Earlier this month, new U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder promised a clean break from the policies of the Bush administration. Yesterday, during a live interview on C-Span, he affirmed that this change includes ending the DEA raids of state-authorized medical marijuana providers!

Responding to a reporter’s question regarding the DEA’s recent actions against several California medical cannabis providers, Holder stated: “What the President said during the campaign . . . will be consistent with what we will be doing here in law enforcement. . . What [President Obama] said during the campaign . . . is now American policy.”

You can watch the video of Attorney General Holder’s remarks here.

Holder’s statement marks a dramatic shift in U.S. drug policy, and is a major victory for the 72 million Americans who reside in states where the use of medical cannabis is legal! It also lends support to the ongoing efforts in Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island — each of which are debating legislative proposals to make the production and distribution of medical cannabis legal under state law.

At this time, NORML would like to personally thank those of you who responded to our request to contact the Attorney General’s office and urge Eric Holder to call off the DEA raids. Your phone calls and e-mails have helped to change U.S. marijuana policy!

So go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back. And while you’re at it, click here to thank the new Attorney General for supporting the will of the people and the health and welfare of seriously ill patients.

“Change we can believe in?” Yes it is, and it’s about time.

I have access to Clones of the original chem-4 from JoeBrand.   My caregiver grew out this very stuff, and it was some of the most potent buds I’ve ever had. Super pungent, almost sour along with the sweet smell OG Kush has.  Immediate sensory alteration. Its has the high of a hard hitting sativa but carries along the nice subtle indica effects that most patients seek. Definitely a head stone. Be ready for your cranium to blast off of your shoulders into the stratosphere.  Be warned if your not doing much you might doze off with your shoes on. Nice thick blanketed feeling on your body.  For both, indica and sativa lovers.

This strain may benefit patients with any chronic illness, Glaucoma, Chronic Pain, Sleeping issues, eating disorders, Diabetes, Apnea, Asthma, Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, Migraines, GastroIntestinal issues, Crohns disease, Muscle spasms, Arthritis

At a Grateful Dead show at Deer Creek Amphitheatre, ‘joebrand’ (aka ‘wonkanobe’) and ‘pbud’ met ‘chemdog’ and sold him an ounce of very high quality pot for $500. joe and chemdog exchanged numbers and they later arranged for two ounces to be shipped to chemdog on the east coast. According to chemdog, one ounce was seedless and the other had 13 seeds.

In ’91, chemdog popped the first 4 seeds. From these seeds, one male was found and disposed of (chemdog was young, you can’t blame him). The 3 females were labeled ‘chemdawg’ (now ’91 chemdawg), ‘chemdawg a’ (now chemdawg’s sister), and ‘chemdawg b’. In ‘01, chemdog and his girlfriend attempted to germ 3 more seeds, labeled ‘c’, ‘d’, and ‘e’. the ‘e’ seed never germinated, ‘c’ turned out to be junk (according to chemdog), and chemdawg ‘d’ was the keeper. In ‘06, ‘chemdog’ and ‘joebrand’ reunited and joe was given 4 of the last 6 beans: Chemdawg phenos 1-4, ‘4′ being the chosen keeper. Joe thought the ‘4′ was the best representation of the original and thus dubbed it the ‘reunion pheno’. Chemdog still has two seeds left in his stash.

Chem 4 Grows very similar to OG kush only with a bit more Vigor. Super cropping is highly suggested. Chem 4 has a tight bud structure with a large cola build. Chem 4 should be taken 10 weeks. See OG Kush for more details.

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The diversity of flavors that various strains of marijuana possess are undoubtedly something of marvel; from the citric and tangy taste of Jack The Ripper to the earthy and sweet taste of Grand Master Kush, marijuana grows with an abundant variety of palette stimulating flavors.

Although the pure taste of marijuana alone is more than suffice, I do enjoy the occasional flavored rolling paper or gutted cigar wrap. However not all flavored rolling papers or wraps actually taste like the flavors they advertise-none the less-I’d like to know:

What is the best tasting rolling paper you have smoked with? (If you don’t use wraps or papers to use your medicine feel free to input your method of use.)

In terms of flavor, I personally enjoy and recommend the smooth and minty taste of Icy Mint Optimo Cigar paper.

Landrace seeds are seeds that have been grown locally in an area for…well…a long time. They are seeds that have been grown in a isolated area for several hundred generations. The longer the plant spends in that area the more acclimated it becomes to that environment. As plants breed they evolve to grow better in their environment, gaining and losing attributes giving it its own uniqueness.

All the wonderful cannabis grown today is basically a cross of maybe 10 different base genetics (South Indian, Brazilian, Laos, Cambodian, Mexican, Afghanistan, China, Russia etc). Each area providing its own unique characteristics to produce the quality we get today. These genetics all came from landrace seeds that breeders identified for certain qualities. For instance, pure Citral is a strain that came from the Pakistani town of Chitral and easily identified by its strong lemon citrus smell/flavor. Any strain with a distinct lemony citrus flavor (Super Lemon Haze anyone) has probably been derived from the original landrace seed from Chitral Pakistan. Hindu Kush is almost pure landrace and was pulled from the Hindu Kush mountain range. Its famous for its potent indica high and copious resin production.

Breeders are constantly searching new areas for landrace genetics that offer something new to our ever-expanding strains. Once a landrace seed has been selected, it has to be stabilized. This is the process of crossing desired phenotypes (of the same plant) to achieve a plant that produces uniform and consistent babys. An un-stabilized cannabis plant can have several phenotypes that can be for the better or the worse. AK-47 has a very cherry phenotype that is absolutely amazing. You may get one of these phenos after buying several packs of non-feminized seeds.

The big hit on the market today is auto-flowering strains. These strains are landrace seeds from taken from the northern hemisphere where days may have 24 hours of light. Well obviously a plant is never going to flower on 24 hours of light (since Indicas and Sativas rely on the shorter days of the years end to flower near the equator). These northern hemisphere plants basically got thrown into the ‘other’ Cannabis category named Cannabis Ruderalis. Ruderalis simply flowers after two or so weeks of growing since it has no idea what time of the year it is. Outdoor growers are reading this going…”wait…I don’t have to build a light deprivation green house to yield more than once a year”. This is indeed a fact. The problem is that Ruderalis in its native environment produces NO THC.

Breeders identified this two week flowering trait and thought “This would be awesome for outdoor growers if it got you medicated.” I don’t know exactly who (probably Dutch Passion) made the first but somebody stabilized a cross of Cannabis Ruderalis and Cannabis Indica/Sativa that produces a good amount of THC. Two months from seed to harvest pushing 5+% THC. The plants are small but with a complete grow time of two months what can you expect. Now that the genes are stabilized watch for some unique auto-flowering strains.

Purchased from:
Green Valley Collective [G.V.C.]

Genetics - ?? ?? (some purple strain?)
Review: This strain was very dark purple in color and thick yellow hairs, with some hints of light green. It has a medium amount of trichromes, not like some other strains where it is covered completely, just a medium amount. It had some leaves and was overall a nice smoke. I got a gram of this and I believe we smoked it all in one sitting. It has a strong purple taste, along with a purple smell. In my opinion, all purple strains are very similar.

Purchased from:
Greener Pastures Collective [G.P.C.]

Genetics - ?? ??
Review: I got this strain from Greener Pasture’s Collective, located in West Los Angeles. This is a pretty decent strain, the high comes on after a few minutes, definitely a creeper. The smell of this strain isn’t very strong, none of the cannabis at Greener Pasture’s smelt that strong or smelt not of medicinal quality, and the taste was that of pine/herbs. The look is very nice, thick covering of trich’s, but the smoke is pretty harsh, made me cough for awhile.

Here is the latest case on medical marijuana concentrates in California. According to the ruling, all chemical extracted THC from Marijuana is Illegal. Which means, any THC extracted using Butaine,  alcohol, or any other type of chemical is not prohibited. Here is the full case hearing:

Niall Patrick Bergen appeals from the judgment entered following his plea of (more…)

Pot O Gold is a cross between Skunk #1 and Hindu Kush, When grown and cured properly this bud will be covered in crystals.

An almost mesmerizing and very intense high, smell is very pungent, described by Flying Dutchman as “a smell like the sweetest hashish, and a taste that is hashy with some fruit.” Very stick too!

Honorable Mention, High Times Cannabis Cup 1998

Strain Review: California has now passed its new law that any Chemical extracted form of cannabis is ILLEGAL. Oils, Earwax, anything that was extracted using a chemical such as butane or alcohol is now ILLEGAL. Be advised patients!

Co-op’s such as ‘Green Angel of Malibu’ are selling this stuff called ‘Delta-9′ and I’ve asked them what it is and how it is made and the responses I’ve gotten are - “It’s crystallized kief.” & “It’s made with alcohol somehow.” - What? I didn’t understand these answers. So I did some research and found out how this ‘Delta-9′ concentrate is really made - because this is the best concentrate I have ever tried, it is very, very potent. The way it is made is with dry ice and screens, like when making kief. You use methods similar to sieving the kief and making bubble hash. Instead of ice, people use dry ice because the freezing strength is much strong then regular ice, and dry ice will not melt, it will just turn into a gas and evaporate. This type of concentrate is not made with butane or any solvents, although that doesn’t mean the person who made it didn’t use some solvent, but in general, this type of concentrate can be made without any solvents, just dry ice. It melts straight to a thick liquid once heated, like some oils do. So… with this being said, dry ice is a much better way to make a concentrated cannabis, it will freeze more trichs to be broken off, it will not turn into water and in my opinion - easier to work with in general. And the outcome between the two is an extreme difference - the dry ice will make a much more potent concentrate as more of the THC trichs will go be broken off and less contamination, I call the plant material ‘contamination’ because it serves no purpose besides to hold the THC, because less mixing will be involved. I have never actually made this style of concentrate - I have sieved kief and made bubble hash and other forms of ice water extraction but not dry ice. I honestly have had this idea long before I have ever heard of ‘Delta-9′ or dry ice hash, this idea came to me when I first made bubble hash with regular ice and thought that dry ice would be much more effecient in freezing the trichs. I don’t have much experience with concentrate making - so if there are any mistakes I have said or corrections that need to be made please let me know. Like I said I have never actually made dry ice hash just had the idea and then did some research only to find out people already do this and it works, supposedly works, very well.

[This was for information purposes only and all the information is just an opinion and I have not fully experimented with this to say it will be a 100% success, but in my opinion it is worth the try, and yes I will be trying this when I get sufficent trimmings and will be posting updates with the methods I have used and the outcome - but who knows when this will happen.]