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Greenhouse Seed Company takes back to back Cannabis Cups with Super Lemon Haze 2009.

 

Cannabis Cup 2009 winners:

Cannabis Cup
1. Super Lemon Haze - Green House
2. Vanilla Kush - Barney's
3. Headband Kush - Green Place

Indica Cup
1. Starbud - Hortilab Seed Company
2. OG18 - Reserva Privada
3. Kush D - Allstar Genetics

Sativa Cup
1. Saris Hilton - Harvestman Seed Company
2. Super Lemon Haze - Green House Seed Co.
3. The Purps - BC Bud Depot

Imported Hash Cup
1. Rif Cream - Green House
2. Triple Zero - Barney's
3. Azilla - Amnesia

Dutch Hash Cup
1. Royal Jelly - Barney's
2. Green House Ice - Green House
3. Grey Area Chrystal - Grey Area

Previous Cannabis Cup winners since 1990

Rooted in the high mountains of the Sierras, Tim Ziegler, medical cannabis collective operator of the Casa Collective and freedom fighter of Susanville, California gets ready for cannabis harvest season. Tim gave Ajnag the honor to film and photograph his garden before being pulled. My good friend and I cruised from Los Angeles to San Francisco, trekking through Lassen State Forest and finally arriving in Susanville, also known as prison town USA. There are two correctional facilities in this town of 13,000, where the number of inmates outnumbers the cities non-inmate population.

Susanville welcomes you to the right with the Casa Collective ---->

SAN  FRANCISCO, CA -- The Tax Cannabis  2010 campaign kicked off its statewide signature gathering efforts today at a  press conference at the NORML (National Organization for the Reform of  Marijuana Laws) Convention in San  Francisco.

Proponents of the campaign to  legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis (marijuana) in California, announced that they will begin gathering the  433,000 signatures of registered California voters necessary to qualify the  initiative for the November 2010 statewide ballot. Those who spoke on  behalf of the initiative at today’s press conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel  included Mason Tvert, co-author of the book Marijuana is Safer, and Tax Cannabis  2010 proponents Richard Lee and Jeff Jones. Former California State Senate President Pro Tem Don  Perata was scheduled to appear, but had a last minute personal matter to  attend to. Perata released the following statement in support of the  initiative:

"The economy and the state budget are top concerns for  Californians. We can
’t fund what matters most: jobs, healthcare, education,  state parks, roads, transportation, environmental protection. It’s all on the  chopping block, but doesn’t need to be.

"In this time of economic  uncertainty, it's time we thought outside the box, and brought in revenue we  need to restore the California Dream.

"This is California. We are the future. We are the cutting edge. In California, we have an  opportunity, with this initiative, to stand up for a common sense policy, and  to set an example for the rest of the country and the world. It’s time to  reform our cannabis laws, and California is the perfect place to do  it."

The Tax Cannabis 2010 initiative will regulate cannabis like  alcohol, allowing adults 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of cannabis,  give local governments the ability to tax and regulate the sale of cannabis to  adults, and generate billions of dollars in much needed revenue for the state  of California. The initiative will also help  keep cannabis out of the hands of minors, by increasing the penalty for  selling to anyone under 21.

Recent polls show a majority of  Californians are ready to legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis, and the  campaign has already received strong grassroots support from up and down the  state.

Over 1,000 volunteers have already signed up on the campaign  website, _www.taxcannabis.org_ (http://www.taxcannabis.org/) , and  the campaign is signing up hundreds more at weekly volunteer meetings  throughout California. The Tax Cannabis 2010  campaign has hired a top signature gathering firm, Masterton and Wright, which  has a perfect record of qualifying statewide initiatives for the ballot in  California.  The team will now have 150 days to secure the 433,000 signatures of registered  California  voters needed to qualify for the November 2010  ballot.

Website - http://www.taxcannabis.org/

How Oaksterdam University Saved my Ass during a Medical Cannabis Raid

So, last weekend I sat through the Oaksterdam University (O.U.) 101 weekend course for the first time (believe it or not). I was really excited to take the course but I never realized how valuable the course was until I found myself in the middle of a multi-agencies task force raid. During the legal wrap up section of the course, Dale Clare, the executive Chancellor of O.U., reminded the class of their Constitutional rights and told the them to assert their rights even when a search warrant is present. Well that’s what I did. After reading the search warrant, I was asked to identify myself but my CA Driver’s license was in my purse, in my room, and I was out front of the house. An officer brought my purse down and another office began going through my purse. I said, loud and clear, “I do not consent to a search”. The officer said, “I have a search warrant”. I said, “I don’t consent to you searching my purse”. He proceeded and I tapped my roommate on the arm and said, “Did you hear me say, I don’t consent to the search?”

The officers stopped looking through my bag and began asking me where he could find my I.D. I explained to him it was in my wallet inside my purse. He pulled out my travel bag for my medical cannabis and began opening it. I stopped him & said, “My ID isn’t in there, it’s in my wallet”. He stopped unzipping my inconspicuous cannabis carrier and began looking for my wallet which he quickly found and got my ID. He however did locate some money and told me he was going to have to take my money. I explained to him that it was all the money I had and if he took it, I wouldn’t be able to eat. He somewhat used that against me to try and get me to give up my rights but I refused and ultimately he did not take my money and I believe that he didn’t take my money because I asserted my rights. And he knew if he took my money, it would be returned to me and it would have looked sloppy on his part for violating my rights. So I still have my money and some meds and my rights. Not too bad considering. Thanks Oaksterdam University for teaching me how to handle myself with law enforcement. That DEA was wrong, Oaksterdam University can really help in these situations.

CALIFORNIA - Organica Collective located on Washington Boulevard in Venice/Culver City, was raided this morning by a joint task force consisting of DEA, Culver City Police, IRS, and Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Organica was also raided last year by DEA and Culver City PD but no charges were filed. AJNAG did a video profile on Organica and interview with the Jeff Joseph, Organica's owner, after the first DEA and Culver City encounter.  Despite U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's statement to end the raids on medical cannabis facilities, they still continue.  The DEA even went as far as to shoot Jeff's dog at the time of entrance.

William Kroger, Los Angeles' premier marijuana attorney, was at the scene and said, "This will be a wake up call for many.  It shows you where things really are."

Jeff Joseph was raided at his home. He will be held at the Pacific Division 12312 Culver Blvd. 

One argument in favour of legalization I've heard fairly frequently is that recreational cannabis use is also medicinal, insomuch that it reduces stress and anxiety, lowers blood pressure, et cetera. The argument is thus: if cannabis has medicinal benefits, who is to say whether one's "recreational" use of cannabis (as part of a personal health regimen much like seniors take Aspirin daily) is less valid than how a cancer or AIDS patient uses it, and further, because the line between recreational and medicinal use is so blurry from this standpoint, recreational use should be allowed vis-à-vis full legalization.

I should back that statement up a bit. Clearly, a cancer or AIDS patient has a greater need for medicinal cannabis than a recreational user; this is not the argument, these people would clearly be much worse off without cannabis. What's being argued (Albeit less-so in, say, California) is the validity of the assertion that cannabis should be reserved for cases with critical needs, almost as a "last ditch effort" to help people suffering from the worst illnesses known to humanity.

Recently, the guy who runs WeedMaps.com got some flack from the medicinal community when he was interviewed by media and made light of California's lax requirements for medicinal cannabis. The danger of the "recreational as medicinal" approach is that the medicinal lobby has fought tooth and nail for credibility over decades of heartache, and with more and more states opting to allow at least limited medicinal cannabis usage, the last thing needed is for more conservative states to see the medicinal lobby as a Trojan Horse for full-on legalization. This is also part of why many in the medicinal community are against legalization; the U.S. federal government doesn't even acknowledge cannabis has medicinal benefit yet, much less be on board for letting everyone in the country smoke it.

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My name is Devin Calloway, and I have been inspired by cannabis my whole life. It has been a calling that I have come to no longer deny. My early “Marijuana” education or more accurately, “Marijuana” mis-education that sparked the fire was through the D.A.R.E. program in Connecticut. During elementary school, we were taught that marijuana is a dangerous and evil drug and those who use it are bad people. I listened to the D.A.R.E. instructor. After all, aren’t you supposed to listen to your teachers and police officers?

I listened so well, that when I discovered that the skunky aroma lingering in my father’s music studio and the funny smelling cigarette burning on the weekends when my brother and I went boating with my Uncle, Aunt, and their friends, was in fact the evil “Marijuana,” I literally had temper tantrums. The D.A.R.E. program taught me that those who use marijuana were destroying their health and life. I love my father and did not want to see him in any harm so I began snooping and doing whatever I could to prevent him from using “Marijuana”. I would find his pipes and throw them as far as my arm could throw. I would double flush his joints and make sure they disappeared down the toilet. The D.A.R.E. officers stooped so low, they even wanted students to snitch on their loved ones. This program had turned me against my own family for using a natural plant. Something was not right. When I was six years old, a few years before D.A.R.E., my father was diagnosed with Lupus erythematosus, a chronic inflammatory disease that attacks the connective tissues. I had no idea at the time that “Marijuana” could be used as a medicine let alone his medicine.

In 5th grade, I won the D.A.R.E. Essay on “Why you shouldn’t use drugs.” Two years later, I went to private school and I wrote my first paper on “Why Marijuana Should be Legal”. I had still never used the plant. Why did my views suddenly change? The Internet. I educated myself on Cannabis sativa L and its many potential uses, from medicine, food, clothing, fiber, to even fuel. My consciousness towards cannabis had evolved.