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humongous harvest
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Cannabis Legalization Comes to Mass by Christopher Keohane
Legal Weed: Illegally Healed Part 1 by Mark Ward
FEATURE ARTICLE: Crockett’s Humongous Harvest by Bobby Black
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The infamous former senior editor
of High Times shares highlights
from his hot new interview
potcast each month.
The former New Orleans Saints’ tight end turned
marijuana activist/entrepreneur talks about his
new medicated gummy bears and how cannabis
saved his life. Photos by Sly Vegas
BOBBY BLACK: How did you get the nickname
“Boo”?
BOO WILLIAMS: My aunt gave me that name
when I was a little kid, one or two years old—
before the term came out, “Hey, that's my
boo.” I was a jokester... I got the name from
jumping out and scaring people all the time. I
thought that was so hilarious, people being
scared. So my aunt just started calling me
Boo, and the name followed me… it carried
into who I was, especially on the football
field. I scared a lot of opponents.
BB: You were with the Saints for seven years,
and obviously loved football… what happened
that made you want to leave?
BW: I just seen the way the game was being
played—and when I say ‘game being played,’ I
mean the political game. I was getting to be an
older guy in the league, and when you're getting
to be an older guy they try to come up
with all these different excuses why they need
to trade you or move you or get rid of you. I
was on the fourth year of my deal when I got
hurt in 2005 and I was put on the injury reserves.
It was just a way for them to make you
give up on the game. And that's what happened—it
just made me turn off totally to football.
Sometimes guys don't get to leave the
game on their terms—the game leaves you. So
that's one thing I like, that I chose to leave the
game on my terms.
BB: Describe the pains and symptoms you experienced
from your injuries.
BW: I was experiencing not just basic pains of
being in car crashes everyday, but it was all
the headaches, the light sensitivity... just the
daily grind of crashing everyday takes a toll on
your body.
BB: At what stage in your career did you discover
that cannabis was a good medicine for
you, that it helped with the pain and other issues
you were having?
BW: I discovered that at an early age—in middle
school. I played on a great team in middle
school, and I can remember after certain
games some of my friends and I would go in
the woods, get some marijuana and smoke.
Boo shows off some medicated emu rub at Chalice 2016.
We didn’t know it was medication, we just
knew that it was something that brought us all
together and took some pain away.
BB: And you were also using it while you were
in the NFL, correct?
BW: Oh yes! Trust me—I had a joint rolled
right after practice! I would have all these different
types of injuries and the only way that
you can block them out and feel a little better
was cannabis—especially if you didn't want to
go the pharmaceutical route. I was given medicine,
but I never really took it, because I
never was a person that was into pharmaceuticals.
My pharmaceutical was cannabis.
BB: What percentage of players, in your estimation,
use cannabis medicinally?
BW: I'd say close to 65%-70%. It's really a
shame what it's come to in professional
.
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Above: Snapping a selfie with Method Man at the 2016 Boston Freedom Rally. Right: Boo and his dog.
sports, especially with cannabis. The NFL and
the NBA are the only two sports that test for
cannabis and expose your name as well as you
getting fined. Major League Baseball and National
League Hockey do not test for cannabis.
BB: It seems to me it would be in the NFL's
own best interest to allow cannabis, because if
your players are happy and in less pain,
they're going to be better players, no?
BW: I mean, that's logical…that’s what you
would think. But if doctors don't have any sick
people, they don't have any jobs, right? If guys
stay healthy all year, that means they don't
need doctors. A player has to take control of
their own body, and that's why they need to
start stepping up to the plate and protesting
for things like this to be implemented in professional
sports, so they don't have to take
that pharmaceutical out.
BB: We discussed the physical pain you went
through, but it also had a very strong effect on
you emotionally and psychologically, did it not?
BW: That's why I am where I am now—because
of the mental things that I went through.
The depression and anxiety, fearing that I'm
going to die… those are the effects that you go
through with head injuries from football. People
have no idea that head injuries trigger certain
things in you off the field that make you
erupt and be someone that you're not.
BB: In 2011, your depression became so severe
that you attempted to take your own
life. Thankfully, you were able to recover
from that dark state… how were you were
able to turn it around?
BW: I was going through a very troubling
time after football, trying to find myself.
Just like other players that had exited the
league, you're losing the identity of being on a
sports team, because you're always taught,
“Team first, yourself last.” I got caught up in
trying to find myself, and found myself suicidal.
But I went and got some help at a place
called The Crosby Center, which is where I
found myself again and realized that I had issues
that a lot of other players were also
going through.
BB: After coming through that and emerging
more empowered, you decided to use that energy
to help other people and raise awareness
for these issues. That's when you started the
United Athletes Wellness Institute, right?
BW: Yes. With me going through what I went
through, it only just helped me just spread the
love and spread my education for the guys. It
was a place to come and get natural healing.
The medical benefit that you receive from
cannabis is the best thing for athletes. Over a
span of two years, our transition program
helped over 120 former athletes with neurocognitive
issues get their lives back on
track. We helped them with all the scans, the
tests, and other benefits… helped get them the
proper treatment that they need.
BB: And now you have your own line of
cannabis products.
BW: Black Ghost Enterprises is my brand. I
have my own CBD product called BooBeary
Kares. I'm doing a Booberry Cares Caregivers
Cannabis Tour, where I'm going up and down
the coast doing promos and delivering my
products to the dispensaries. Along the way,
my team and I will also be stopping at children's
hospitals and homeless shelters. We
will be doing things to help change the world
and let people know that cannabis can not only
help you as medicine, but show them that the
cannabis industry is in the community making
a difference too.
Excerpted from Episode #25 of Blazin’ With
Bobby Black. Listen to the full, unedited interview
at revolverpodcasts.com/blazin, as well as
on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, iHeart Radio and
anywhere podcasts are found.
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By Christopher Keohane, Organic
Writer for Greenleaf Magazine
CANNABIS
LEGALIZA-
TION
COMES TO
MASS
What does it
mean for
YOU?
What does it mean
for YOU?
A CBD Strain Growing in a Light Deprivation Greenhouse
The Regulation and Taxation Marijuana Act was voted into
favor on November 8th, 2016 by the populace of the State of
Massachusetts via a ballot question. The purpose of the act
is to legalize recreational cannabis for adults 21 years and
over and to provide regulation, taxation and licensing for said
system.
Everybody already knows that. But do you know
what Mass will look like by the time 2018/2019 rolls around?
It’s go time and I am here to explain. As a Massachusetts
resident my entire life and a proponent of legalization for
many years, the time has come to tell you the truth of what
legalization means in Massachusetts now.
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Cannabis Plant Basking in the Sunshine
The Nuts and Bolts
Residents of Massachusetts will be able to grow
legally in their home beginning December 15, 2016. You can
grow outdoors too—it just cannot be seen by neighbors or be
near a school. Feeling lucky? If your neighbors rat you out
there will be a $300 civil penalty fine. That means a very
expensive parking ticket. Being near a school carries further
consequences. Simply put, do not grow cannabis outside if
you are near a school.
There are no changes to current DUI laws. That
means you cannot smoke and drive, even if you are medical.
Also involving driving, you cannot keep a bag of pot in your

pocket. The open container laws are in effect now—similar to alcohol. Basically,
keep your stash in the trunk. Don’t have a trunk? You have to put it in the
flap/pocket behind the last upright seat in your vehicle or in an area otherwise not
able to be reached by the driver or passenger.
You cannot sell the cannabis you grow. But you can donate an ounce to
a friend or up to 5 grams of concentrate. One or the other. Not both. That’s
totally cool! Also totally cool? You can possess up to ten ounces in your home
and up to 6 plants that you are growing. You can grow up to 12 if you have a
partner living in your residence. Have too much? Got caught? $100 civil penalty
and you gotta give up your stash to the man.
How about smoking? Well, simply put— you can’t outside. If you get
caught, you get a $100 civil penalty. Worse than that? What a buzz kill getting a
$100 ticket while stoned.
Cannabis from the future stores will be expensive. Taxes come in at
10%, 3.75% excise tax, 6.25% State Tax. Local towns and cities can impose a
local 2% tax on recreational cannabis as well. So, let’s plan for 12%. That would
make a $250 ounce (my fiscal projection once things calm down by 2019) a $280
ounce after taxes.
A Cannabis Control Commission will be created to execute licensing,
regulation and administration of the new law. Essentially, they are what the
Board of Health are to restaurants—a big pain in the ass. However, this commission
is necessary to have a well-regulated market.
Cannabis Shops and Cafes are Coming! (But probably late 2018 and
more like 2019) Yes, the cannabis stores are coming. Endearingly labeled “pot
shops” by our unbiased media, the law follows similar practices of other states.
The medical dispensaries will get first dibs. However, this is not a reason for
concern. Why, you ask? Because the current medical cannabis dispensaries in
Massachusetts are pretty awful.
They simply do not know what they are doing. Owned by people with
money but no experience or expertise. The cannabis is terrible, the experience is
terrible, and the overall feel of the environment is terrible. This leads me to
believe that the recreational aspect of their business will, well, be terrible as well.
But I digress. Interested in opening a retail spot? Get your
checkbook ready!
For an initial general application, $3,000
For a license for a retail marijuana store, $15,000;
For a license for a marijuana product manufacturer, $15,000;
For a license for a marijuana cultivator, $15,000;
For a license for a marijuana testing facility, $10,000.
But what does all this mean? Well, simply put, you need money to get into the industry. Want to sell pot, produce your own product and
generally keep things controlled? That will carry a price tag of $58,000.00. You will need all the licenses to have a tight-knit operation. Most
savvy business owners will operate under direct control and will require all the required licensing to operate as such.
Cafes are the Sweetest Thing
Ever been to a cannabis cafe? They are righteous. Come in, look at a wide selection of beautiful cannabis, edibles, concentrates and more.
Light up with your friends in a controlled and relaxed atmosphere. Will it be like that in Massachusetts? Kind of. Due to the outright smoking
ban in all public and private establishments in Massachusetts, what we will see are Cafes focused on vaporizer bars and edibles. These will
not open until 2018, but I do not foresee the first cannabis cafe opening until 2019.
The Future
Though the voters passed in favor of legalization, there will be many forces for you to contend with as this law rolls out. Many local authorities
will try to stop the legalization of cannabis in your town due to nothing but fear. Make sure that your voice is heard of any wrongdoings
are happening in your community. Attend your local town meetings to ensure there is a voice for the cannabis community.
Christopher Keohane, aka ‘Snafu’ is our Organic Writer.
Chris owns Northshore Organics, an organic education company
in Massachusetts and has been growing organic cannabis
for over twenty years. He can help you with your questions and
growing issues on Instagram @Snafuorganics, on Twitter
@Snafu and on Facebook.com/Snafu
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Legal Weed: Illegally Healed Part 1
Pamela Jacobsen Enjoying a Winter Day
A s of recent, I was fortunate to
be contacted by Pamela Lewis Jacobsen
and I am honored to hear
and recount her story. Speaking
to Pamela you would see and
hear a vibrant individual full of
vigor and life. This couldn’t have
been father from the case not so
very long ago. Pamela’s battle to
survive started in 2010, at the
age of 40. At the time when Pamela
should have been enjoying
watching her last child graduate
her senior year of high school and
a time that she should be starting
to relish her life in comfort, she
it.
Pamela raised her children
with pride and love of a devoted
mother, but before the last
grown could leave the nest, she
was given news no one is ready
to hear.... she had developed
squamous cell carcinoma of the
Bartholin Gland. Pamela’s cancer
specialist said that she was young
and healthy; therefore they were
going to preform treatments
quickly and aggressively. And so
they did, with seven long despairing
weeks of chemotherapy and
treatment had to been stopped
due to Pamela acquiring second
degree burns. She only took one
week to resume treatment, but
it was a devastating side effect
to encounter. Pamela was taken
from a young and healthy individual
to feeling as if she was near-
while just trying to just make it
through her daughter’s last year
of high school.
Once the treatments were
was given the fantastic news that
the cancer had been beaten and
all she had to do is go home and
get better....or so she was told.
In November she began having
severe and frequent stomach pain
with regular visits to doctors and
emergency rooms. Pamela had
lost health, 40 pounds and had
lost her mother from November
On Pamela’s birthday, she
was taken and admitted to the
hospital with infected gall bladder,
pancreatitis and a perforated
colon. Unknowingly, her colon
had been tearing and leaking,
so she was rushed to have surgeries
to be cleansed of gangrenous
areas. This repeated until
surgeons were forced to remove
half her colon and attach ostomy
bags and ileostomy bags and
hospital Pamela just lay watching
life fall apart as she knew it. Due
to trouble coping with feelings of
helplessness and despair before
and after surgery, Pamela’s
husband had left her, leaving her
Twenty plus colon surgeries
later, Pamela decided that
this was not saving her life…so
she started pilgrimages back and
forth to Colorado, so she could
access a new regimen. Pamela
had a chance to stay in Colorado,
so she had packed everything in
her car, including the meds she
had been purchasing at dispensaries.
But before she could make
the move permanent, the medical
refugee was detained by Kansas
sion
with intent to distribute and
possession of paraphernalia.
She was at bottom, or so
Pamela thought. This was until
April of that year when she was
By Mark M. Ward
then facing amputation of her
right leg. At this time she was
accepting
a fate of
cancerous
consumption,
when
Pamela
then began
a high THC
and CBD
regimen
and using
cannabis
oil only for
pain management.
Then miraculously,
her surgeons
were Infection Cannabis Helped Heal.
The Scar on Pamela’s Leg from an
amazed
at the difference in tests since
the new cannabis regimen. Even
more astounding, doctors were
even convinced it had a role in
saving her leg from amputation
and they have to admit it is working.
A once bleak existence
Months on end in the hospital Pamela
just lay watching life fall apart as she
knew it.
is now showing promise and a
new beginning. Pamela is now
completely off of her pharmaceutical
medication, a task she
was told would never be accomplished.
Also, Kansas had recently
reduced her charges to two
misdemeanors and six months
unsupervised probation. Pamela
accounts that she has been truly
blessed to have found her cure
and The Hope Grows Foundation,
whom without their generous donation
of their cannabis regimen;
she feels she would not be here
today. Pamela will now happily
cate,
to live instead of exist and
to be illegally healed.
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WORLD'S FIRST

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Crocketts
humongous
,
harvest
the tangie man and his team taCkle
their most ambitious projeCt yet:
a multi-greenhouse mega-grow
fondly niCknamed “el dorado.”
story by bobby blaCk
photos by bigness
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Walls of weed: Crockett and partner Nick of Phenotype
Farmers marvel at the fruits of their labors. Below: The
unassuming entrance to El Dorado.
There’s nothing quite like
the olfactory elation of walking into a monstrous
marijuana garden and having one’s
nostrils inundated by the intoxicating aroma
of tantalizing terpenation. Or the giddy giggle
that inescapably gurgles up from within when
you find yourself surrounded by towering
walls of weed. Such was the reaction I had
upon visiting the latest and greatest of Crockett
Family Farms’ four cultivation locations—
a massive greenhouse compound hidden
away in Central California the crew has taken
to calling “El Dorado.”
If you consider yourself a cannasseur and
haven’t yet sampled any of Crockett’s fruity
phenos, you need to pull your head out of the
proverbial sand. Over the past several years,
this humble farmer has rapidly risen from relative
obscurity to become one of the country’s
most respected and sought after breeders.
His genetics are currently carried in nearly
half of all the dispensaries in his home state
of California and have won over 100 awards to
date—most notably, the citrusy strain called
Tangie that’s catapulted him to pot stardom
and earned him the nickname “Tangie Man,”
which itself has won over 20 awards in the
past few years.
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Of course, Crockett hasn’t done it all alone—managing
multiple grows, building a brand and slinging seeds at
cannabis conventions around the world requires a top-notch
team of reliable workers and partners. In this particular case,
that team is (as the company’s name implies) Crockett’s
“Family”—both biological (wife Kristi, daughter Sierra and
son Brian all help run the company) and extended (breeding
partner Nick of Phenotype Farmers and crew Leslie and Nate).
To emphasize that point, each member of The Family has their
own personalized Crockett Family Farms work shirt. It’s this
strong familial bond and camaraderie that truly sets this particular
group and this grow apart: in stark contrast to the
many modern mechanized and sterilized grow ops controlled
from iPads or tended to by hired hands in hazmat suits, this
garden is basic, all-natural, and tended to by loving hands.
The 10-acre compound is comprised of a series of eight
open-air grow warehouses, each containing an acre of canopy;
three of these acres are owned by CFF, the other five he is
overseeing as a consultant. Each of his three greenhouses is
Before and after: One of the greenhouses
shown at its peak (above) and then
nearly cleared out (inset).
home to around 2000-2500 plants, for a total of roughly 7000
plants—averaging around 6-7 feet in height and eventually
yielding approximately one-half to three pounds each.
What follows is a brief breakdown of the means, mediums
and methods Crockett Family Farms used for El Dorado, in the
words of the Tangie Man himself:
PREPARATION
“Basically we came in and we had about 60 days to get the
place ready. These were old cut flower greenhouses, so we
had to do some maintenance and some alterations on different
things. We came in in April, decided we were going to
start doing it in May, and started planting around June 1.”
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Harvesting is
fun but messy
work.
A dense and frosty
plant nearly ripe for
the reaping.
Crockett’s son Brian tends
to a tremendous tree.
MEDIUM
“We used a blend of organic soil from
Vital Earth that he custom made us
for our specific project. We started
making all the clones and getting all
the plants ready and all that stuff,
and put them in at the right times.”
Preparing the plants
to be trimmed.
METHOD
“We ended up deciding on making raised beds. Then we put two layers of trellis,
plus side trellising, eight-foot stakes all along the beds and built like a tent that
[the plants] go in. We rowed them up and topped them at specific points to make
hedges along the rows, to fill up the entire canopy and try to put enough biomass
in the room to where it was going to make a solid canopy across.
“Generally, what I do because I love to see big plants, is I generally grow
bigger plants and stake the individual plants. If you notice that one of your
greenhouses doesn't have a ceiling that's as tall as the other greenhouses,
well you can grow taller plants in the other ones and shorter plants in this one
by using specific techniques. There are different uses for different techniques,
and being a good farmer means you can use any of them that you have to use.
Just knowing them all is the main thing; it's like a guitar player— you’ve got to
know all the chords to make a song.”
WATERING & FEEDING
“We irrigated with drip tape and hand-water…we do a lot of hand-watering
here. We also foliar fed through the vegging time and top-dressed throughout—
mostly using Myco-Fusion. He's a great guy out of Oregon that makes only the
best organic top dress filled with all kinds of good stuff.”
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The CFF Family, plus one:
Leslie, Nate, Brian, Crockett,
yours truly and Nick.
The crew uses a
series of large
fans to speed the
drying process.
GenetICs
“There’s half an acre of Tangie, half an acre of
Strawberry Banana and half an acre of Lemon, as
well as a quarter acre of Banana Pie and smaller
patches of around 54 other strains, including
many of the new strains we’re developing.
There’s White Pineapple, which smells just like a
pineapple soda, Golden Peaches, Plum Crazy,
Grape crosses…and of course, the Bob Ross.
There’s a whole bunch of different stuff that I'm
working on.”
harVest
“This harvest was a massive amount of work. It
took a crew of around 70 people close to a month
to harvest and hand-trim all of the plants, cola by
cola. We started harvesting at the end of September
and didn’t finish until around October 21st. We
worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week with no
days off. We really took it to the limit.”
Post-harVest
“Around 70% of the material was fresh frozen,
to be sold for extraction—the rest was hung to
dry and cure for around 8-12 days.”
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All in all, it took Crockett and his team approximately
two months to prepare and set up the grow,
four months to cultivate the crops to maturity and
another month to harvest—a total of around seven
months, making El Dorado a one-crop wonder, so
to speak. He says they decided to tackle the ambitious
El Dorado project for two reasons: to help
satisfy the growing market demand for his genetics
that he couldn’t meet with his existing operations,
but also because they’d yet to run a grow of
this size and simply wanted the experience.
“This was more for scale than sophistication,”
he explains. “My other, built-out greenhouses—
the ones that are fully automated, have light deprivation,
lighting, all of the bells and whistles—I
can plan on getting about four crops a year out of
them. But this is an older facility, so it serves a
great purpose for only once a year. You could do a
second crop, but it wouldn't be as good.”
Despite said age and lack of sophistication,
Crockett was apparently very pleased with the
results at the facility, as he plans to invest in
fixing it up for another run next season.
“The great thing about this facility is that [the
owners] are working with the local and state government
and having it completely licensed and all
of that, so we're going to be putting in newer
greenhouses and actually turning it around to be
built to suit specifically for cannabis,” he says.
Well… if they were able to produce such a
monster crop of mind-blowing marijuana in
such a broken-down, bare-bones facility, I can’t
wait to see what they’ll be able to do in a fully
suped-up El Dorado. Lucky for me, I know I’ll be
returning next year, as Crockett has informed
me that I too am now an honorary member of
The Family. I just hope I don’t have to wait that
long to get my personalized shirt….
by the numbers:
Number of grows Crockett
Family Farms operate: 4
Number females in CFF’s
genetic library: 180
Number of males: 36
Amount of California
dispensaries that carry CFF
genetics: Approx. 50%
Most potent strain: Hell's Fire OG
(28% THC)
Awards won by CFF genetics: 100+
Largest Grow: “El Dorado”
el dorado
Land area: 10 acres
Canopy area: 8 acres
Area owned by CFF: 3 acres
Plants per greenhouse: 2500
Total plants: 7000
Average plant yield: 1/2-3 lbs.
Prep time: 2 months
Grow time: 4 months
Harvest time: 1 month
Number of strains planted: 54
Amount of crop to be run for
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DPH Proposes Eliminating 10 Ounce
60 Day Supply
By Jeremiah MacKinnon
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B
ig changes are on the way for
Massachusetts cannabis patients
in more ways than one. Besides
amounts of non-medical marijuana
becoming legal following the passage
of Question 4, the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health
has suggested changes to the
amount of medical marijuana that
patients in the Commonwealth
are legally allowed to possess and
purchase during a 60-day period.
The proposed amendment considers
giving certifying physicians
new authority to limit patients’
60-day supply below 10 ounces.
Patients and advocates oppose the
proposal because it confuses and
complicates the medical marijuana
law voters passed in 2012. Patients
continue to fight to preserve their
rights in Massachusetts as the
state becomes fifth in the Union to
legalize recreational marijuana for
adults 21+.
These regulatory changes
were prompted by Governor Baker’s
Executive Order 562, which
made all executive state agencies
improve, streamline, and simplify
regulations. On September 14, 2016
Department of Public Health staff
presented the proposed regulatory
adjustments to the Public Health
Council. Amendments include
allowing nurse practitioners to
provide medical marijuana certifications,
allowing dispensaries
to post product prices online, and
registration of independent testing
laboratories. The Department of
Public Health said their amendments
“embody common sense
reforms to simplify and clarify the
regulation [of medical marijuana].”
The statute passed by voters
in 2012 tasked DPH with defining
the presumptive 60-day supply
of medical marijuana for patients
based on the best available evidence.
Since 2013 the regulations
have defined the 60-day supply
limit as “ten ounces, subject to 105
CMR 725.010(I).” Certifying physicians
are currently allowed under
105 CMR 725.010(I) to increase
the 60-day supply above 10 ounces
for patients requiring such an
amount. The proposed regulatory
adjustment seeks to amend 105
CMR 725.010(I) to allow flexibility
for healthcare providers to certify
patients for amounts less than 10
ounces for a 60-day supply.
Patients have raised concern
that changes to their 60-day
supply would preclude them
from obtaining the safe quality
controlled amounts of medicine
they need when they need it. “To
propose lowering the ten ounce
limit is tantamount to withholding
medicine, and something we find
to be morally objectionable,” said
Peter Bernard, President of the
Massachusetts Growers Advocacy
Council. “This makes hardship patients
suffer even more hardship,
as they cannot sustain a necessary
level of their medicine.” Fair and
consistent access for all patients
is lacking due to hiccups in implementation
of the law voters
passed.
Michael Latulippe, Development
Director of the Massachusetts
Patient Advocacy
Alliance feels that the DPH is not
being practical, “If the goal of the
Governor’s sweeping regulatory
adjustment order was to clarify
and streamline regulations, this
proposed change around limiting
the 60-day supply would do the
opposite.” Michael continued,
“Nearly half the population of patients
according to the Department
of Public Health Medical Marijuana
Program dashboard have
never visited a dispensary and
are presumably growing cannabis
under hardship cultivation rules.
Considering hardship cultivation
patients should be paramount in
the Department’s thinking when
producing regulatory changes and
we at MPAA believe this proposed
change pretends patients growing
under hardship don’t exist and assumes
all patients are purchasing
cannabis from dispensaries.”
Medical cannabis is difficult
for patients to access for a
number of reasons. The state’s
delayed medical program roll-out
has lead to only nine dispensaries
opening since the law passed four
years ago. That means thousands
of patients have either traveled
miles between dispensaries to
access what they need, grow their
own medicine, or obtain marijuana
“To propose lowering the ten ounce limit is
tantamount to withholding medicine, and
something we find to be morally objectionable,”...
from the illicit market. Currently
only one dispensary is offering
delivery services and prices at dispensaries
mirror the cost of marijuana
on the street. Patients also
pay out of pocket for certifying
physician visits and an annual fee
to DPH.
Kathleen Owens of Brookline
is a medical marijuana patient,
advocate, and cancer survivor.
Owens questioned limiting patients’
supply and whether letting
recreational users possess more
than patients is acceptable. “I
mean we’re the ones paying for
it,” she said, “our cards and all our
other stuff. Is Joe Schmoe now just
going to walk into the dispensary
and buy four ounces of this and an
ounce of that while us patients are
only allowed two ounces? Medicinal
should come before recreational.”
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Nichole Snow is Executive
Director and President
of the Massachusetts Patient
Advocacy Alliance, representing
the coalition that passed the
referendum in 2012 to legalize
medical marijuana in the Commonwealth.
MPAA has been
working with the Department
of Public Health to implement
the medical marijuana law, but
question this particular regulatory
change. “I fear that these
are the beginning stages of
diverting patients into a taxed
based system so that interested
parties can reclaim lost taxes
and revenue by limiting the
amount of medicine patients
can purchase through the Medical
Marijuana Program.” Nichole
explains, “Patients fought
to establish the 10 ounce limit
in 2013 to have the breathing
room to experiment with various
applications with certification
from their physician.” The
MPAA plans to testify before
the Public Health Council on
November 28th regarding these
changes.
“Ten ounces is what I
want,” said Jeanne Ficcardi-Sauro,
a medical marijuana patient
from Mansfield. “We need to
keep a ten ounce limit because
many people [are] making their
own concentrated medicine
such as Rick Simpson oil which
“Most doctors are not educated in this
subject and are nowhere ready to say
what amounts a patient needs.”
is high in
THC. It
takes a lot
of plant
material
to make a
small amount of oil. I use it for
my cancer treatment in tandem
with chemotherapy and it helps
me greatly.”
Barbie DeJager is a patient
in South Hamilton who
was able to wean herself off of
the prescription opiates she had
been taking for several years by
using medical marijuana. “I’m
never going back to that life I
lived,” she said, “Who is anybody
to tell me I can only have
two ounces in 60-days? That
would drive people right to the
black market especially now
that it’s recreationally legal.”
After December 15th all Massachusetts
residents 21 years and
older will be
allowed to
possess
10
ounces
of nonmedical
marijuana
under lock and
key within their
home legally as well as a limited
amount of plants one can
gow.
Sunny Rose of Cambridge
is a chronic pain patient
using medical marijuana in conjunction
with her regular therapies.
She believes the proposal
is imposed by unfamiliarity
rather than research. “To take
away a patients rights [and]
give it to the physician seems a
reversal rather than progress.”
She said, “Being able to have
enough medicine increases
patient ability to be interdependent.
The use of the cannabis
as medicine allows patients to
function, releasing them from
bondage of prescription medications
and the symptoms caused
from taking these medications.”
A physician’s recommendation
certifies a patient for
the medical use of marijuana,
potential benefits outweighing
risks. Since marijuana is still a
Schedule I drug with no accepted
medical use it is unlike
a prescription. Instead, patients
self-regulate intake and
proper
dosage within
their allotment.
Massachusetts patients experience
shortages and rationing
all too often which forces
patients to obtain
medicine from
multiple sources.
Dr. Uma
Dhanabalan is
principal physician at
Uplifting Health &
Wellness in Natick. Her
practice has overseen 800 patients.
She feels that it’s too
early for changes to the
60-day supply. “Right
now there are
different forms of

delivery systems and we don’t know what
amount is needed to produce these products,”
said Dhanabalan. Methods of ingestion vary
from edibles, topical, concentrates, vaporization,
smoking and even suppository. She adds, “Most
doctors are not educated
in this subject and are
nowhere ready to say
what amounts a patient
needs.” It’s about
titrating for the
patient what is appropriate…We are still learning,
and more than that patients are still learning
what they need.” The medical use of marijuana is
a journey of trial, error, and discovery.
Jeremiah MacKinnon is the Vice-President
of the Cannabis Society, an Advisory Board
Member at the Massachusetts Patient
Advocacy Alliance and and a writer at the
Weed Agenda. This article is produced and
syndicated through Weed Agenda & The
Boston Institute for Non-Profit Journalism’s
The Tokin Truth Column.
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NO GRASS FOR THE WICKED
Mass Could Ban Home Grows Even Though People Voted For Them
That didn’t take long. Immediately after Massachusetts
voters passed Question 4 to legalize marijuana, the top
office-holder tasked with leading the implementation
and regulation of the law, Treasurer Deb Goldberg, was
already asking to change it.
She wasn’t alone. Within a week of people passing the
initiative to tax and regulate cannabis, many other
influential Bay State politicians — and at least one
hack scribe, Boston Globe pro-business siren Shirley
Leung — were advocating to repeal parts of the law that
1,745,945 heads pulled for.
The day after the initiative passed, Goldberg kicked
it off by gesturing to extend deadlines. Later in the
week, she voiced support for the state legislature to
outlaw the 6–12 plant home grow provision and to
increase the tax rate. Goldberg said home grows would
hurt retail sales, and cut into the state’s take as well,
which is interesting since weeks ago the treasurer was
complaining that the initiative was written by the
commercial marijuana industry. Now she seemingly
supports holding consumers captive to a marketplace
that she presumably distrusts. Go figure.
And then there’s Senate President Stan Rosenberg,
who supported the initiative (when he wasn’t complaining
that lawmakers could have written it better,
that despite the fact that both the Senate and House
failed to allow a full chamber vote on any marijuana
law in the last 20-plus years). Rosenberg told the
Globe, “I believe that when voters vote on most ballot
questions, they are voting in principle. They are not
voting on the fine detail that is contained within the
proposal.” That’s quite the statement. Many voters
would dispute such a characterization. Especially in
this case, and especially as far as home grow goes.
“I absolutely voted for home grows,” says Stephen
Mandile, a local veteran. “If the ballot question
banned home grows, I would have voted [against it].”
Communicating with other readers and people in the
cannabis community, I heard the same thing.
“Home grow is very important,” says Isaac Caplan,
who also went for the initiative. “The only way to know
exactly how quality your weed is is to grow it yourself.”
A few more for good measure. Matthew Krawitz, a
voter from Swampscott, agrees. “Just as I can brew beer
in my basement, I should be able to grow a reasonable
amount of marijuana for personal use.”
BY MIKE CRAWFORD
According to Peter Bernard, director at the Massachusetts
Grower Advocacy Council, “We will fight to
keep home grows. That’s part of what the voters voted
for. Regulate? Sure. Completely ban a home grow or
arbitrarily change the tax structure? Not so fast. It’s like
giving something and then immediately taking it away
before you can even get the wrapper off.”
In a subsequent interview with a television news
station, Sen. Rosenberg edited himself, telling a reporter,
“I don’t believe people will be willing to get rid
of home grown, but there may be some changes that
would have to occur in that.”
In a remarkable moment of honesty, even Gov. Charlie
Baker, who actively campaigned against the initiative,
told the State House News Service, “That was one
piece [the home grow provision] of that 6,000-word
ballot question that I think a lot of people understood
straight out of the gate.”
As for the enduring prohibitionist forces at the Globe,
they’re only getting more relentless. A page-one story
in November gave space for police chiefs to cry foul
and repeat demonstrably nonsensical talking points
about potency and home grow electrical fires, while
Leung jabbed, “Congratulations Massachusetts, we just
passed one of the worst pot bills in the country. Now
what?”
She has one hell of a selective crystal ball; while Leung
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foresees a nightmare weedscape on the near horizon, on the subject of her beloved Boston 2024 Olympics,
the columnist once claimed “we’ll never really know” how that sunken charade would have ended
for taxpayers. Leung is pushing the same capitalist crap we are now seeing from innumerable politicians,
right down to the municipal level. They have no proof to support the claim that taxes at the rate of 3.75
percent (an excise tax on top of sales tax) won’t cover the cost of implementation, yet point to the cost of
regulation as a reason to increase the tax. At the same time, none have expressed much worry about the
financial burden of locking up growers. Spending government resources on busting micro-grows? A-OK
for this crowd. No concerns regarding those expenditures.
You’ll get a similar story from Nicholas Vita, chief executive officer of Columbia Care, which holds three
medical marijuana licenses in Massachusetts (including one for Patriot Care in Boston). Vita cited his
concerns about public safety in interviews, all while shamelessly omitting the reality that home grows
could put a substantial dent in operations like his that sell ounces for upwards of $400.
The cries of those exaggerators and alarmists considered, I turned back to those who believe that they
deserve a choice about where to obtain their legal cannabis. David Pratt, a Hyannis resident who backed
legalization, notes: “Home grow is the most important part of any legalization. Without home grow we are at the
mercy of the ‘big industry’ [prohibitionists] say they are so concerned about.”
“The will of the people has been voiced,” says Bernard of the Massachusetts Grower Advocacy Council. “Let’s
go with that before we try to break it. Nothing recreational will be out there until it all gets sorted out with the
Cannabis Commission and licensing. So really, there is no recreational market before these things are in place.
I know lots of people that would not have voted for it without the home grow provision. Changing the law this
soon is blatantly against what voters voted on.”
Mike Crawford is a medical marijuana patient,
the host of The Young Jurks on WEMF Radio, and
the author of the weekly column The Tokin’ Truth,
which is produced in coordination with the Boston
Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
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