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Jan 2018
Magazine
Invincible
Spirit:
Noa Lakshmi
East Coast
Cannabis
Conference
Featured
Reviews:
CB Dream
Ras Boss
Empire
Rolling
Papers
BOCA
Edibles &
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The Smugglers Issue
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Strain Review:
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Product Review:
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Product Review:
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Invincible Spirt:
The Refusal to be Broken by a
System That is
by Lauren C. Moore
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Feature: The Saltwater Cowboy
How the Saltwater Cowboy Won
the Wild, Wild War on Drugs
Lauren C. Moore
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BOCA Edibles and Infustions
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The Year in Mass Cannabis:
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WORLD'S FIRST

Invincible Spirit:
The Refusal To Be Broken
By A System
That Is
Lauren C. Moore
wordsthatwander@live.com
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Photography by Richard Marks

Noa Lakshmi is a beloved astrologist, yoga teacher, and author among a worldly yet interconnected spiritual
community. So when she and her partner were popped in Pennsylvania for 119 pounds of cannabis
in September 2017, people from across the globe began clamoring to see what could be done to support
their release.
she shares the depths of how she has been navigating the experience.
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are exploited and transported in and out of the States every day, yet Noa and her partner have been accused
and penalized for the charges of delivering plants on one account. Her perspective is rich in trusting
the highest aspects of the self in the face of systemic targeting and adversity.
So glad to hear from you Noa,
and so grateful that you are
free!
Thank you, Lauren. The case
is not closed yet, but the funny
thing is that no matter where we
I would love to start with your
healing work and your relationship
with cannabis. Are
you able to speak to that at
all?
story. I have much appreciation
for the plant itself because I
appreciate plants in general, and
medical perspective, a spiritual
partake in the plant myself on a
my healing work.
So what happened?
It was an opportunity that was
presented to us. We were in
Oregon where I have lots of
friends that do grow this plant.
My partner and I were up there
this summer after the eclipse
and we ended up staying a little
bit longer when the opportunity
was presented to us to transport
some product across the coun-
in how I ended up in that situation.
And you were pulled over for
just cruising in the left lane?
Yeah, that was the reason for
the stop. Apparently in Penn-
more than 2 miles in the left lane
share more about that when the
case is closed, but that was the
reason for the stop. Though we
just an excuse to pull us over.
What parts of your personal
experience are you interested
in sharing with the cannabis
community?
my personal experience…I feel
just as a human community, we
can all relate to the unexpected,
the unpredictable, the hardships
that are brought to us, into our
lives – especially the unexpected
ones.
still the possibility that I might
need to be back there…The sys-
ed
right now with people that are
sitting in jail for even just smok-
is being sold to anybody pretty
much, and tobacco, cigarettes,
things that are a lot harsher and
a lot more destructive than cannabis
are being sold in stores
while cannabis is still being
treated as this horrible drug.
that the plant itself, cannabis,
is really asking for us to stand
together in this and bring some
change – which has started
already.
With the legalization of cannabis,
there comes a lot of warning
mass-produced, the sacredness
of the plant is like anything else
– just like we see with the food
industry being demolished. So
attention to.
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Photography by Richard Marks
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It’s amazing to maintain such a high perspective
when the system finds any mundane
excuse to bring you down.
Well that’s exactly what I’m being asked to do, to
rise to this occasion. It’s very interesting and not a
coincidence…Just a month and a half before we
were arrested, I published my first book talking
about self-mastery, talking about soul’s journey
and how to live from a higher perspective and everything
that happens to us happens for a reason.
Writing about all this and self-mastery and loving
one’s self – ALL the things I wrote about in
my book – a month and a half later, BOOM! In
my face, here you go Noa, practice what you
preach. Like to the T. I’m doing the best I can to
move through the situation with the most amount
of grace that I can…I’m not gonna bail out when
things get hard, right?
Totally. Are you considering writing a follow-up
book?
People have been asking me that and suggesting
that…It’s been in my awareness to write about
this. If it’s not a book, it’s definitely now going be
a part of my work and what I share with people.
I had a plan after the trip cross-country; the plan
was to go on a book tour. I’m taking everything as
a blessing. This is a detour, and I trust the timing
of it all. Now, when I do go on my book tour,
and when I do share my story, there’s this whole
other level, a whole new layer to share with this
perspective to speak from, as somebody that has
really gone through a shocking, harsh experience
– and rises up from the ashes despite the circumstances.
When we zoom out, when we see the
blessings in disguise, then there’s sweetness to
every experience, no matter how bitter it tastes in
the moment.
It’s incredible that you’re able to align the
whole experience of writing this self-mastery
book and really having to apply it.
I’ve gone through the entire spectrum of the
human experience of feeling like a victim, feeling
angry at God, blaming myself because I had several
intuitive hits regarding this that I didn’t listen
to – so I definitely went through the experience of
beating myself up and then coming around to –
wait a second. I really need to love myself NOW
more than any other time in my life. This is NOT
the time for me to go into self-blame, victimhood,
or anything that is going to take me down a very

dark road. And that’s the time where I could practice
my ability to bring myself back into the light
because there’s so much darkness – especially
during that week and a half I was in prison.
It was the darkest pit I’ve ever experienced of my
environment – my internal environment, my external
environment. Everything was so dark and it’s
so easy to get pulled into that darkness. Writing
a book about self-mastery where I am still getting
practice and ability to bring myself back into the
light…it’s all being sourced from within.
There are definitely external sources that are
helping. The amount of support, of love that I’ve
been receiving from friends, from family, has been
a massive help and light at the end of the tunnel.
So I am forever grateful for so many angels in my
life. Alongside that, it’s been my own practice of
okay, self-mastery – I’m being pulled to that like
no other time in my life.
What advice might you have for others who
might find themselves in similar situations to
actually find that light within when it feels so
far away?
so caught up in the hustle, or some singular
aspect of the cannabis world in general. It’s
so easy to be blindsided and forget that it is
all interwoven – and we can witness the cyclical
perfection just within the plant itself. And
it’s so beautiful how your perspective is really
what shapes this story and makes it so profound.
I believe that every plant medicine, at the end of
the day, just like every religion, has the same exact
message. Cannabis being a heart medicine,
very expansive, shows us that in our connectivity
of this reality, that it really wants to bring us back
to a place of Love…back into our hearts, into
the bigger perspective of life, the higher mind. It
opens us up that way.
*
To keep up with Noa Lakshmi and find her book, see her
info below. Noa’s story sheds a brilliant light on the dark
truths of a suppressive system. Her courageous grace reminds
us all of the integrity that cannot be stripped away
if we do not allow it to be.
One of the things I talk about in the book is faith
in God. I see God not from the religious perspective
– to me, God is just life, is love. We are not
separate from that. To some degree, when we
look in the mirror, we say, “I’m looking at God!”
because we all are. Not from a narcissistic point
of view, like, “I’M GOD!” but who we are beyond
what meets the eyes, there’s a soul. That, to me,
is God. It’s everything. Everything, everything,
EVERYTHING – and everyone.
There’s such beauty and harmony in life and
that’s the beauty of astrology, of natural law, of
natural cycles of life, where it’s all being orchestrated
so perfectly. We don’t need to do anything
about it. We know there’s not even a question of
“I believe.” It’s “I know the Sun is gonna rise in the
morning and it’s gonna set at night.”
Even though it’s chaos, there’s a cyclical order
within all this chaos. That’s where I draw my faith
from…I know and I don’t doubt that the Sun is
going to rise – why would I doubt the beauty and
harmony and the cyclical order in my life?
So inspiring because I think a lot of people get
Connect to Noa & Her Line of Work
Master Your Life with Love available on Amazon or her website,
NoaLakshmi.com YouTube Channel Noa Lakshmi Instagram @
noalakshmi Support Noa & her partner’s cause: fundrazr.com/
supportourfreedom
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Photography by Travis Caldaro
Lauren C. Moore
The Saltwater
How the Saltwater Cow
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3men on the boat: Captain Red, second-mate
Clark, & Timmy McBride. They
traveled with 2 or 3 other vessels. It’s a 51-
foot stone crab fishing vessel, mostly deck.
They didn’t pull traps that day, just waited
10 to 12 miles offshore unseen until 2 to 3
hours before sundown. That’s when they
would run to make the call sign
that they’re approaching to unload the boats
with the last bit of daylight. Since we’re
talking no less than 20 tons of product—
sometimes 30, 40, 50 tons—the boys were
waiting for that telltale stink of burlap and
pot on the sea breeze.
This was the Ten Thousand Islands, a 40 year-old
island operation, passed down from fathers and uncles
into 3 generations of hauling. The bounty would be unloaded
into a totally gutted house, to be stocked back
to front—kitchen, bathrooms, living rooms, wall-towall
completely FULL—and then into the house next
door if necessary.
Making way toward a vessel as it came into sight, this
seemed like an ordinary job they’d done countless
times—until Red handed Timmy the binoculars saying,
“You gotta check this out, man.”
It was a cattle boat. They were all on the top of the ship
behind a rail. Then through the binoculars, Timmy
boat, I thought to myself, Holy shit! Is this really happening?”
Alongside another crabbing boat, they pulled up to
basically ask the captain of the vessel, “What the HELL
are you doing?”
The captain looked down at them from 10 or so feet
above and said, “Well we can’t get all this shit out
below deck with all these damn cattle on the boat!”
These guys made about a million a trip, transporting
cattle from South America to the States—seemingly,
the perfect cover for marijuana piracy. After a couple
weeks, this same ship came back. Here they go again.
They approached it, same things happened. This time,
pigs, chickens, sheep and goats came along with the
Cowboy
boy Won the Wild, Wild War on Drugs
Chokoloskee Island
cattle. Not to mention spider
monkeys. It was not uncommonfor
monkeys to get on these
boats. There would be military
and navy vessels to look out for,
so sometimes these boats would
wait 3 or more days onshore
waiting for a clear coast. And
saw the stern gate open—and the cows being prodded
off the back of the boat. “It was like a bovine waterfall,”
he says, “They just all began falling—splash, splash,
splash, splash! Hooves bangin’ against the hull of the
the monkeys would drop aboard from the trees.
The monkeys loved the shake and the seeds of the
pot, so they would eat them up. Imagine being a
super stoned spider monkey and waking up 40 miles
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offshore. This happened quite a bit in
the ’70s. But this time, when the monkeys
saw the cattle getting prodded off
the boat? They ran for the masts, the
antennae, the highest spots they could
reach. They knew what was coming. And
Red and his boys knew it couldn’t keep
coming in this way. Not only was it inhumane
as shit, but how were they going
to answer to the dead cattle washing up
onshore?
This time, after loading up, Red told the
other captain not to pull this any more.
Back on the beach, Timmy and the guys
told their friends about these episodes—
at least 150 drowned cows a trip. “Damn,” they said,
“Y’all are some saltwater cowboys!” And so Tim Mc-
Bride earned his name—The Saltwater Cowboy.
How Tim became a pirate lord of pot goes like this.
Growing up in North Carolina and then Wisconsin,
Tim got a gig on the west coast before making his way
down to Florida, where he still lives today. Deeming
it “insider Hollywood bootlegging,” he would basically
smuggle films to celebrities before their release,
thanks to a connection to Sammy Davis, Jr. Not a fan
of commercials, Davis would pass off a TVguide to
Tim marked up with the shows he wanted to watch so
Tim could edit out the commercials. He did this for
a couple years, but being a manual Teevo didn’t seea
promising career path, so he returned to Wisconsin for
a month.
An old neighborhood friend Clark had a family connection
running the fish house on Chokoloskee Island
in Florida and invited Tim to head down there
with him, so he packed up and went for it. This was
a 129-acre island of about 500 people, where locals
were skeptical of outsiders and secrets were held tight.
Tim got a job building a house, and as time went by,
he built connections and had heard rumors of the pot
smuggling. They all seemed like ghost stories until he
literally woke up in an opportunity to go for it.
Clark, Tim’s childhood friend and neighbor, had
already been working on a stone crab boat with Captain
Red and a second-mate from Michigan—a guy
Red did not really know or trust. There was no one
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It was used to run offshore along with the large loaded boats in case they
needed to escape when something showed up on the radar.
local to vouch for him. Red had been missing out on
the pot hauls and stone crabbing was hard work, so he
and Clark basically worked this guy from Michigan to
get him to want to quit. That was when Clark toldTim
there was an opening on their boat. Red and Tim hit it
off, and Tim went to work with them the next morning.
A day of stone crabbing starts around 3 or 4 in the
morning of course, at the first crack of dawn when
they could see the first buoy, because of the time it
takes to lay traps and pull the others. Red worked a
part of a fleet of 15 – 20 boats, the entire operation of
which pulled about 7000 traps a 10 day period. Red’s
crew would lay 700 traps here, 700 traps there, and
they were not going home until they had all 700 traps.
Timmy’s first morning waking up in the bunk though,
the sun was already up. He looked over to the Captain
in the wheelhouse, who swiveled his chair around and
said, “Well Timmy, we’re not going offshore today,
we’re not gonna pull traps. We’re just gonna hang out
here all day then go offshore in the afternoon and unload
a pot boat from Columbia.” Timmy, who did not
know about the 15 ton haul until he was already in it,
said, “Okay, cool!”
Stone crabbing went well with pot hauling because
of the rugged labor that comes with moving massive
quantities for transport. The crab traps had 4 inches of
concrete at the bottom, so when thrown off the boat,
they’d always land bottom-down, making them about
60 pounds each, just the traps. Each crewman handled

350 of these every day, with nothing to hang onto but
each trap across a 30’ deck in open ocean to load and
stack them. This is the kind of work during the day
that preps you to move a thousand 60-pound bales of
pot in one night.
Timmy had to maintain his crabbing position to be
able to continue going offshore and unloading the
freighters. Sometimes they’d split 30,000 pounds between
2 boats, or to make it really quick, they’d divide
it equally among 3. There was a hierarchy that strategized
the runs. The more boats went, the more boats
would have to get paid—in prospect, about a half a
million - $600k per boat, and then captains paid the
crew out of that share. These were first hands to handle
Tim and Clark were accepted in this niche because
one of the islanders could say, “This is my wife’s brother
and his neighbor he grew up with”—which meant
locals knew exactly where they were from and that
they weren’t cops. As Red realized he had 2 high-trust,
reliable men who wanted to work, Tim started making
about $35k for every 30,000 pounds hauled. The bigger
the haul, the bigger the money—soon Tim was making
anywhere from $40k to $100k a night.
They were working 3 to 4 times a week, so they got
pretty clever about details, becoming masters of hiding
in plain sight. Running 25 vehicles a day off the island
to & from Miami with loads from a house absolutely
jam-packed with marijuana became part of the
grind. They’d drop off at a shopping mall with one of
their partners from Cuba, who owned the ships. 99%
of the time, the runners didn’t own the ships—they
were what the government called “service providers.”
Timmy would go to Columbia, Belize, Jamaica, Panama—he’d
buy it, haul it, & deliver it to Miami for $175
a pound. If someone else could send a boat where
he’s making the deal, Timmy would take it offshore
from the vessel, smuggle it in, and deliver it for $145
a pound. No one else could beat his price. They never
lost a single load—except those turned over to law
enforcement and the government. We’ll get
there.
taking off and sunk. To this day, you can see planes
sunken to the bottom of the ocean.
Timmy’s connections all over the Caribbean served
him well with the cocaine runners in Miami. He only
knew two people in that city, and that’s all he wanted
to know. Timmy’s provider in Columbia lorded over
the entire of Guajira Peninsula, where the commercial
grade red grew that all of the US wanted. This connection
was a cousins to the Ochoas of the Cali Cartel of
Colombia, which the US DEA deems “one of the most
powerful crime syndicates in history.”
The Cali Cartel broke off from Pablo Escobar and his
Medellin associates because, as Tim says, “I know
everything there is to know about Escobar. And all
of what you read and what I’m sure you’ve been told
about Escobar is total bullshit. The guy was just a fuckup
and a fool and a total idiot. Nobody really liked the
guy. Nobody wanted to work for him—which is why
the Cali Cartel came into existence, it’s founders the
Rodriguez Orejuela brothers, Gilberto and Miguel,
and Jose Santacruz Londono left Medellin Cartel.
Pablo started getting stupid and shooting airplanes out
of the sky to kill Congressmen who weren’t even on
the plane. So they said, ‘What is this, dude,’ and they
If you’ve seen the movie Blow , you may remember a
little island in the Bahamas. That island actually exists;
it’s called Norman’s Cay. Apparently if you fly over
that island today, you can see dozens and dozens of
twin-engine aircraft that either did not make it to the
island, or did not make it because they were too heavy
Tim in prison, accepting his diploma from a fictional
writing class.
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started the Cali Cartel out of Cali, Colombia.”
Tim goes onto say that most people who think they
know the smuggling history of the States do not even
know Griselda Blanco, “The Godmother of Cocaine.”
She and her husband brought Pablo out of the street
gangs in Medellin when he was running around selling
pot as a kid and taught him how to gather the coca
paste and turn it into cocaine hydrochloride. So Pablo
was being taught, trained, and groomed to be their
conduit of cocaine into the United States. Long stories
short, Griselda kills her first two husband and becomes
“The Black Widow.” After being indicted in New York,
disappears, then shows up in Miami in the late ’70s,
early ’80s, a time and place Timmy calls “the most
deadliest place to be during any other war or conflict
of this Earth. Miami was the most dangerous place to
be—and it became that way because of her.
Tim’s Tim’s two contacts in Miami were soldiers of
Griselda’s. He explains, “She was a ruthless, killing, vindictive
bitch. If you owed her money but you paid her,
she’d kill you. If you owed her money and didn’t pay
her, she’d kill you. If she didn’t like you, for whatever
reason—you might have said something wrong to her
son or someone she knew, she’d kill you. Just like that.
Not even think about it. This is the woman who taught
Pablo to be as crazy as he was. To be the ruthless and
infamous killer that he was. He learned it from her.”
Timmy says nothing his crew ever did was violent—
they were kids, they were working with their family. If
you messed up on the crew, the punishment was “Hey
asshole, you’re not working the next three jobs.” So
there would go an easy $75,000. Instead of getting beat,
they’d lose work. And everybody was working. At $10
a pound of Colombian red, wouldn’t you? Tim would
take these cocaine-runners’ money and flip $300k for
30,000 pounds. Violence did not occur on his rung of
the ladder—do you think someone is going to shoot
at someone delivering 9 million worth of grass? If you
smoked pot in the ’70s and ’80s, these guys probably
had their hands on it. So it seems safe to say, the biggest
victim of violence in Tim’s run-ins were the cows.
Tim would take that money from Miami to drop it in
the Cayman Islands for “The Boss,” as Tim would call
his connection in Colombia, either in his account or
flying it to him personally. Tim would literally walk
through to the jungle with him and his crew, stabbing
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bale at brandom with a six foot long bamboo pole with
a piece pipecut on an angle in order to extract and
sample their contents.
“How many of those you got? Kick those down,” he’d
say, 200 or 300. A typical 20 ton load consisted of
between 800 and 1000 bales and he needed to spray
his personal mark on each of them. So when Tim rolls
up after a week on a boat, those bales better have his
fucking mark on them. That’s how they would identify
them.
This system, as Tim tells it, was adopted out of sheer
necessity. By that I mean, at times there were so many
vessels waiting to be unloaded, it was common for
them to unload the wrong boat. When you’ve got
literal mountainsides getting harvested to come into
the states, so much shit coming in, they unloaded the
wrong boat one night and the other crew unloaded
theirs—ultimately, they just swapped pay and started
marking their own bales.
So as someone who earned a bench warrant in Florida
for holding less than a gram of weed, I had to ask the
Saltwater Cowboy how he lives to tell his legend after
carrying out the marijuana empire on such a large
scale in one of America’s most conservative states.
“During the Reagan administration,” I said, “incarceration
for nonviolent drug offenses spiked from 50,000
in 1980 to over 400,000 in the ’90s; that’s like 800%. So
how did you avoid a long-term sentence?”
In essence, Tim explains the laws did not have the desired
effect for the drug trade in Southern Florida and
the federal laws regarding sentencing guidelines were
changed to mandatory minimums across the board on
September 1st 1987. They were unaware and kept operating
under the assumption that if they were caught,
they’d face a slap on the wrist and be back in a couple
of months.
Tim earned 4 indictments with 4 counts on each one—
and each one came with mandatory sentences of 10
years to life, as well as million dollar fines. Anyone who
was hauling a bale of weed faced this new reality—for
Tim, a mandatory 160 years to life and sixteen million
dollars in fines. “Never in their wildest imagination did
they think they would be putting a bunch of kids in
prison for the rest of their lives. They had no idea it
was kids. They had no idea the sheer amount we were
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moving. Those two facts coupled together made it
difficult for them to come to terms with the mandatory
minimums. That being said, since they were established,
there’s
nothing they can do about it.”
“The only thing to be done was to allow the people of
my crew an opportunity to save their asses. By cooperating.
If you cooperate with the United States government
under these mandatory minimums, there’s a
section under the USC codes, the United States Annotated
Codes, Title 18, that says if you give substantial
cooperation
to the US government, you can be released from
mandatory minimums and be sentenced accordingly.
Which means they can now have discretion—they can
send you home if they wanted. But you have to give
what they consider to be substantial cooperation. That
being said, there being so many of us, nearly three
hundred of us
ultimately after several years of investigating and
dispatching arrests, they did not want to put all these
kids—I mean literally, we were the third generation of
this—in prison for life. So they said look, what we need
you to do is cooperate. Give us the names, tell us how
it’s done, and we will give you immunity from prosecution
for everything you’ve ever done. Except for ONE
COUNT, we will hold in reserves, we can give you a
slap on the wrist, give you some time and call it quits.”
Marijuana Empire , available on Amazon.You want to
be a kingpin of cannabis, you listen to those who have
already overcome the system. Sure it’s always changing
and we’re always adapting, and here’s one of your frontier-breaking
founding fathers, explaining how drug
trade began like an old fishing story. These are some of
the last genuine pirates. And since this is an industry
in which we all do better when we know our damn
roots, there’s no juicier or more explicit inside story
than the cowboy telling of it himself.
In essence, as Florida’s pot pirates gained immunities,
they’d say, “Just give them my name/our names,”
because they were already cleared. I can’t give you all
the details of how Tim shortened his sentence to four
years, because you’ve got to fill in the gaps and read his
damn book. He writes as if you’re sitting on a beach
passing a joint and clinking Coronas, like he’s telling
the story to a friend. And I must say, after talking to
this character for 2 hours, I could easily listen to another
2 more—he’s like the living Google of that era.
All through the 80’s Tim ran these southern waters
of south Florida and the Caribbean with a band of
modern day outlaws known by locals as Saltwater
Cowboys. Tim, the original Saltwater Cowboy of the
Southern Florida drug trade, is richly sharing what the
marijuana culture looked like before it went indoors
and technical medical—when it was a work-trade, an
international smuggle game, and a hell of a historic
hustle. If marijuana is your trade, check out Tim
McBride’s Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a
Tim aka The Salt Water Cowboy
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BOCA Edibles and Infusions
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Through years of research and interest, and with
the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts,
BOCA was born. BOCA was created by two lifelong
Massachusetts residents seeking to combine
both the enjoyment and pleasure of cannabis,
as well as its health and wellness benefits.
Presently BOCA is focused on the development
of our infused edibles line through extensive R&D
and working toward a license in 2018.
Too often consumers and patients are
forced to choose between large scale commercially
produced dispensary products sitting on
shelves for months lacking flavor or quality, or,
though often fresh and tasty, untested and unverified
vendors. BOCA aims to solve this by providing
the marketplace with gourmet style, fresh,
organic infused foods and beverages.
BOCA has created its own recipes to provide
consistent dosage backed by lab testing, while
providing safe and great tasting items. Having
a fresh, hand crafted approach when creating
products sets BOCA apart from other edible
manufacturers, which commonly produce in mass
quantities and left to sit in boxes for weeks if not
months! Every product is created with a small
batch mentality where quality control is crucial,
and allowing us to use the most care while utilizing
the finest ingredients to create a consistent,
safe, and delicious experience.
Out of the kitchen, BOCA is seeking a
license for the processing & manufacturing of
cannabis products here in Massachusetts as lawmakers
are drafting the rules and regulations for
the Adult-Use Market expected to roll out 2018.
The BOCA Team is diligently working to secure
real estate and funding ahead of the April application
deadline next year, which will be essential
to qualify for licensing.
BOCA is also busy, attending Public Hearings
held by the Cannabis Control Commission
and its Advisory Board. Trying to gain a better understanding
where local entrepreneurs and startups
like ourselves, will land among a tumultuous
landscape of legislation, special interests, and a
quickly approaching application date. Massachusetts
has an opportunity to be a leader nationally
with the co-op model, and allowing craft-cannabis
companies like BOCA the opportunity to flourish
creating hundreds of small business’s and jobs
here in Massachusetts. Politics as usual, this may
be delayed-Call your rep!
Here at The BOCA team we’re all about
sharing & caring! This Holiday Season BOCA is
busy at work developing its own line of concentrate
products too! Utilizing solvent free extraction
methods to produce high quality, health
conscience extracts.
We wanted to share our Pumpkin Pie
recipe with all of you! Hoping you give the biggest
slice of joy and wellness to your friends and family
this year!

Mini Pumpkin Pie Recipe:
Makes 12 - 3” Mini Pies
Additional Supplies needed:
Muffin Tin 3” cups
4-inch round cookie cutter or bowl
if you do not have a cookie cutter
Fall Festive cookie cutters.
I purchased mine from amazon!
Crust:
2-2/3 cups Organic all-purpose
flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup Organic shortening
7 tablespoons cold water
Pie Filling:
*We use organic but feel free to use your
favorite brands!
1 can (15oz) pumpkin
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs, slightly beaten
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp salt
2 Tablespoons of Infused Coconut Oil*
*this should be in a liquid state- use a
water bath if needed to melt your oil.
Pre-Heat Oven to 350 F degrees.
Prepare pie crust by mixing together the flour and salt. Cut shortening
into flour; add cold water 1 tablespoon at a time (you may
need only 6 tablespoons, or up to 8 tablespoons). Mix dough and
repeat until dough is moist enough to hold together. With lightly
floured, hands shape dough into a ball. On a lightly floured board
roll dough out to about 1/8-inch thickness. Using a 4-inch round
cookie cutter (or bowl) cut 12 dough circles – keep your scrapes
for the decorative dough toppers. Spray your muffin tin with nonstick
spray and put 1 dough circle into each cup. Lightly press the
dough to form in the cup.
In a mixer or large bowl, beat pumpkin with evaporated milk, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and salt.
Mix well. Add in Infused Coconut Oil and mix well. Pour into the prepared crusts. Using left over dough, cut out
decorative dough pieces to top the pies (optional). Bake 20 minutes or until when a knife is inserted 1 inch from
the edge comes out clean. Enjoy your pies with friends and family!
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Title (a co-author of the legalization initiative that’s
since been named to the state’s Cannabis Control
Commission (CCC)), Shanel Lindsay, Sonia Espinosa,
Joseph Gilmour, and Kamani Jefferson—were
plugged directly into the conversation, the communities
they represent were heard at public hearings and
beyond. Furthermore, veterans like Mandile and the
others, representing other marginalized communities
through the newly founded Massachusetts Cannabis
Consumers Council, became a critical source of information
for media and lawmakers alike.
In September, the town of Milford voted to ban rec
cannabis shops, becoming the first to do so under
the new law. Other municipalities followed to different
degrees, while voters in some places—Salem,
Amesbury, and Newbury—said no to bans and yes to
moving forward on shops. In Amesbury, a local native
of the city, Scott Winters, led a coalition to a landslide
victory over the ban.
In October, Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson made
cannabis policy an issue in his losing bid for mayor
against incumbent Martin Walsh. Later that month,
New England Treatment Access, a registered medical
dispensary in Massachusetts, stepped in it by submitting
a memo, through law firm Foley Hoag, to the
state’s newly formed CCC advocating to give registered
medical dispensaries a head start on recreational
licensing, and to put co-ops and craft cannabis
programs on the back burner. The community wanted
none of that and came out in droves to testify that coops
and inclusion programs should become a priority.
In December, the CCC held public hearings to decide
priorities and to create draft regulations for the industry.
Title, who seemed to be leading the way with
positive news, reported on social media: Just presented
proposed regulations licensing cannabis cafes and
businesses (yoga studios, movie theaters, etc) that
allow cannabis use. Passed unanimously.Presenting
statewide equity program tomorrow…. The following
day, measures were voted down, 4-to-1, that would
have advanced programs that can create equity for
populations that have been harmed by prohibition.
Specifically, there will be no bring your own cannabis
licensing, single-day consumption licenses, or delivery-only
licenses. One step forward, two steps back.
MRCC, meanwhile, has created a petition to ask the
CCC to reconsider its decision.
On the personal side, a major loss was the death
of activist/entrepreneur Mickey Martin on June 20.
Martin helped open the now-shuttered Northeastern
Institute of Cannabis, while the nonprofit that he also
helped found, Parents 4 Pot, is currently gathering
funds and presents for children of parents jailed for
cannabis offenses (the struggle doesn’t end just
because Christmas is over). And in more bad news to
end December on, last week it was reported that the
two co-founders of Mass Genetics, local legends and
High Times Cannabis Cup winners, were raided by
the DEA and are being charged in federal court.
What a year for legal weed it’s been.
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Event Recap
by Kassie Kristoff
The First Annual East Coast Cannabis Conference Puts
Portland, Maine on the Map
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It is day one of the East Coast Cannabis Conference,
will continue to build throughout the day, as patients
and cannabis lovers mingle with doctors, vendors
and caregivers, all united for one common purpose:
to support the cannabis industry, and each other.
There are booths lining the room showcasing ev-
sex oils and chocolate bars. Regally positioned at
the back of the room, a case containing 41 strains of
the best smoke in the state sits proudly, housing a
drool-worthy collection of cannabis. A handful of these
spectacular specimens will later tonight be crowned
the best of the best in the much anticipated High 95
Cup, a throwback to the infamous Cannabis Cup. I
talk with Greg Matthias, an entrant in the Cup with his
as,
are growers from New Gloucester, Maine, who
also make and bake their own cannabis salves and
edibles. They share with me that they are excited to
network and to learn as much as they can, as well as
to participate in the Cup.
This appears to be the theme of the weekend;
interested onlookers come and go, milling around and
gathering information, and caregivers, medical professionals
and others in the industry remain to network
and share support and resources. The vibe is one of
interest and excitement, and the conference attracts
people from all over New England and beyond. I
speak to a couple
looking to get started in the industry from Hall,
Massachusetts, who are impressed with the conference,
comparing it favorably to others that they have
I run into a man named Andrew at a food
truck, while waiting for my fried peanut butter and
honey sandwich. As we bond over our mutual desire
exploring the medical side of cannabis that he is
involved with, along with a host of other doctors, researchers
and pharmacists across the United States,
he has traveled from Rhode Island to support a friend
speaking on a panel this weekend, as well to network
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bigger…On the medical side, this is arguably the most
ment,
or pain doctors, in one of the largest hospital
systems in the country. So this is not people just sort
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Maine Ganja Grrrl Gang

The Healing Rose
ing all over the world. It’s time for this country to get
involved a little more seriously, and that’s what I’m
working on.”
Andrew is not alone in his dedication to expanding
cannabis research and providing wider access
to patients. The panels are full of passionate and
knowledgeable speakers, discussing topics ranging
from the endocannabinoid system to genetics to politics,
with notable speakers from medical clinics such
as Intergr8 health in Falmouth, Maine, and members
of a nurse’s activist coalition and patient advocacy
group called “Patients Out of Time.” Treatment of adolescents
with cannabis is discussed on the “Medical
Cannabis, Science, Industry and Delivery” panel, as
well as treatment of the elderly population. Cannabis,
according to the doctors and nurses on the panel, is
showing itself to be a very safe and effective alternative
to the plethora of dangerous pharmaceutical
drugs that our elderly are currently prescribed, as well
as a means of treating the depression and anxiety
that many of our elderly suffer from when living in a
long term care facility. The barriers that prevent access
to cannabis are a common theme this weekend;
in any type of medical facility, caregivers are afraid
to allow or prescribe cannabis for fear of losing their
medical licenses. Though many states have passed
medical and recreational laws, cannabis is still federally
prohibited. The nurses from “Patients out of Time”
are very passionate about working to change this, and
have put aside their own fears of losing their licenses
in order to fight for a cause that they believe in, and a
medicine that is dramatically improving the quality of,
if not saving, lives.
On Saturday evening Roots of Creation takes
the stage, doing a sound check before introducing
“Crash Berry”, a very animated cannabis enthusiast
who hosts the High 95 Cup in a canary yellow smoking
jacket. Crash Berry calls a few of his fellow judges
up to the stage, and they recount their experiences
testing the proliferous amounts of cannabis entered
into the Cup. Luckily for them, elimination rounds had
previously narrowed more than 180 entries down to a
slightly more manageable 41. Had they been required
to smoke all 180 strains, it is possible that they would
still be comatose, surrounded by empty Ben and Jerry’s
containers.
The first award of the evening is entitled “Legend
of the Grow,” and it is presented to Harry Brown,
deemed the “best grower in Somerset County”. Harry
Brown, in addition to growing some mean green, is a
longtime activist, who has been hosting legalization
festivals on his farm in Starks, Maine since 1991.
Legalize Maine is presented a Certificate of Good
Citizenship for their continued political activism in
the legalization effort. East Coast Gold ties with East
Coast Gold for best concentrate with their THC isolates,
“Original Amnesia-Caviar” and “Honey Crystals.”
Jedi Ganga Warrior takes home best outdoor
for their strain “Strawberry Poptart”, as well as the
top Sun Grown Flower. Jedi Ganja Warrior doesn’t
stop there, also winning Highest THC content for their
outdoor strain “Grease Monkey”, which weighs in at a
whopping 28.06% THC. Quentin Stevens is awarded
best CBD strain for his entry “CBD OG.” Last but not
least, best Indoor goes to Portland Cannabis Company
for their strain “Ghost Dawg”. For a complete list of
all who placed in the High 95 Cup, visit www.high95.
com.
Once the awards are complete, Roots of Creation
march back onstage and end the night in style,
with a stellar musical experience full of jam, blues,
reggae and soul. I do not think that Roots of Creation
are missing a single instrument, save perhaps a
tuba and a didgeridoo. They blend their wide array of
instruments together masterfully, and the crowd is lost
in a musical haze.
I return on Sunday unsure of how day two will
measure up, and I am pleasantly surprised to find that
the speakers are just as engaging and energized,
and the crowd just as diverse. Two hopeful political
candidates join a politics discussion Sunday morning,
describing their stances on both medical and adult
use cannabis laws, as well as what we as citizens can
do to make sure that cannabis legislation is not further
stonewalled in congress. The general consensus is
that there is strength in numbers, and the more we
show up and demand action, the more congress will
be forced to listen. It is ultimately a politician’s number
one priority to be re-elected, and if we let them know
that their votes on cannabis legislation will affect our
votes in the next election, their own self- interest will
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NEVA, New England Veterans Alliance.
influence them to vote on behalf of ours. The value of
social media and public radio is discussed, as well as
the value of educating both lawmakers and others in
our lives about cannabis. Says libertarian candidate
Chris Lyons, “Be persistently, consistently knowledgeable
and civil.”
My favorite workshop (though I may be a bit
biased) is a women’s panel made up of female growers,
veterans, nurses, biologists, consultants and
business owners. Many of the powerful and passionate
women speakers from previous panels return to
form the group, with a few new faces as well. They
discuss strategies for success as a woman in the
industry, as well as the specific challenges that women
face. Empowerment, unity, and creating a support
system of like-minded female entrepreneurs are
highlighted, as well as methods to combat the sexism
that pervades virtually every business arena in this
country. Says Ellen Brown, a veteran, grower, educator,
activist and consultant, in regard to negotiating
with confidence: “Know your worth, and add tax.”
Another interesting topic that comes up during the
women’s panel is concern about how new recreational
laws will affect the medical cannabis industry, and
how to protect the patients and ensure that they are
not left behind. Maine is held up by multiple speakers
both in this panel and others as the state with perhaps
the strongest medical program in the country, and it is
suggested by speakers from other East Coast states
that they look to Maine for guidance as their own programs
continue to take shape and expand.
Veterans are also a huge focus of this conference,
and their rights to cannabis are discussed in
multiple panels. On Sunday the New England Veterans
Alliance takes the stage, and they discuss their
experiences with combat and deployment, as well as
what a miracle cannabis has been for them in terms
of treating their pain and PTSD. The barriers that
veterans face when it comes to their ability to legally
use and afford cannabis without risking their medical
insurance are highlighted by multiple speakers, all of
whom urge the cannabis community to action. Says
Ellen Brown, also a speaker on the veteran’s panel:
“[Veterans] stood up for your rights. Now stand up for
their rights, and their right to choose their own medicine.”
NEVA has a booth at the conference, and I
have the opportunity to sit down and talk with them
over the course of the weekend. They are a dedicated
group of individuals working to connect veterans with
each other, and with resources, access and education
about cannabis as an alternative to the often damaging
pharmaceutical drugs generally used to treat
their conditions. Says Derek Cloutier, NEVA President
and co-Founder, “One of the things that we want to
focus on is outreach-going to the veteran when they
need assistance or help, and then providing them with
education to better understand what they are going
through and what we can possibly help them with, or
what cannabis can help them with. Another thing is
social interaction, and activities and events…Our big
plan is eventually to have a wellness center basically
built around all of this, where cannabis is accepted
and you can socially medicate with each other, and
then go into a therapy session and talk to somebody,
and have a therapist on hand, have a doctor on hand
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The NEVA Crew showing off some Flowers.
through and what we can possibly help them
with, or what cannabis can help them with. Another
thing is social interaction, and activities
and events…Our big plan is eventually to have a
wellness center basically built around all of this,
where cannabis is accepted and you can socially
medicate with each other, and then go into a
therapy session and talk to somebody, and have a
therapist on hand, have a doctor on hand that understands
the concept of it.” Derek further explains
that NEVA is determined to show by example that
veteran cannabis users are not your typical stoner
stereotypes. They are productive members of society
just like anybody else, simply using a medicine
that helps them to function and re-integrate
into society in a meaningful way. For more information on NEVA, visit their website at NEVAUSA.org, or email
them at info@nevausa.org.
The conference concludes Sunday afternoon with a private screening of the creatively shot documentary
“Trim”, which examines the political climate of cannabis legalization through the lens of women in the
industry. The topic of what it is like to be a woman in the cannabis industry is blended well with the politics,
and the feminine energy being explored is effectively communicated through the cinematography. The movie
begins immediately following the women’s panel, tying the theme together nicely.
As I stand to leave, I notice that most of the vendors have broken down, and all that remains is the
stately cannabis display case, quietly boasting its wares until the last chair is folded and the last cannabis lover
exits the doors. I think of the pride and the dedication that has gone into the production of each and every
one of these decadent buds; the months, weeks, days and hours of hard work- tending, trimming, drying and
curing. I hope that every entrant in the Cup is proud of the care and the love that they have poured into their
plants, and of the harvests that their efforts have yielded. I have learned a lot about cannabis this weekend,
and about the industry and where it is headed. But the one fact that stands out to me more than any other is
this: Every endeavor in the cannabis industry is truly a labor of love. Cannabis is medicine, and it is medicine
grown with the intent to help and to heal. That energy is a force to be reckoned with, and it is only building
steam. This movement, which is truly a movement by the people and for the people, cannot not be stopped,
because it unfolds with the same tender care and deliberate love that goes into every step of growing these
magical and versatile plants.
In a follow-up interview after the Conference, I asked Joshua Gates, founder of the East Coast Cannabis
Conference, if there would be another Conference and Cup next year. He replied, “Yes! Everyone was
really impressed with the event. We are honored and proud of the work we have done as a community. This
event represents the hard work of our farmers and organizers. We intend to keep going and working hard to
represent those making their way in the cannabis industry. There’s so much that we can do with this particular
style of event. This year’s East Coast Cannabis Conference and High 95 Cup was a trial run for something
even greater. Our crew did a great job and we intend to come back stronger this next year.”
Cannabis as a medicine and as a viable alternative to pharmaceuticals is not going to be swept back
under the rug. The research is being done, and the
research does not lie: cannabis is a safe treatment
for so much of what ails us. As surely as cannabis will
be here next year, so shall the East Coast Cannabis
Conference, celebrating another year of hard work,
determination, and, above all else: heart.
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