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colorado’s premier cannabis lifestyle magazine kushFEBRUARY 15, 2010 VOLUME 2 - ISSUE 1 kushcolorado’s premier cannabis lifestyle magazine 42 24 48 34 54 features inside 24 Bud Huts 10 | Marijuana Regulatory by Noelle Leavitt Looking for a getaway on the slopes where you can escape for a recre- 14 | Strain Review: Blue Dream ational smoke – ‘bud huts’ will provide shelter from the cold and more! 18 | Grower’s Grove by Josh Kaplan 34 Cooking It Up 22 | The New MMJ Ordinance by Noelle Leavitt St. Patrick’s Day and yummy snack edible recipes from Chef Herb. 30 | How to Roll a Joint with Slightly Stoopid by Maggie St. Thomas 42 Coachella Music Festival 50 | About Me by James Vester Warm up with the desert heat and hot musical line up at one of the best 62 | Q&A with Mason Tavert by Noelle Leavitt concert festivals of the year!! 66 | Holiday Partying for Legalization by Noelle Leavitt 48 Legislature 72 | Colorado Live Music Preview Featuring Colorado’s ongoing legislative attempts to deal with medical 78 | Off-Roading By J Mark Sternberg marijuana, legal limits of possession and the control of dispensaries. 86 | We Dig This By Josh Kaplan 54 Patient’s Relief 90 | Dailybuds.com Dispensary Directory Surviving with HIV and struggling to maintain a positive lifestyle, medical marijuana’s role in Morgan Gale’s battle to overcome health hurdles. 6 kush colorado’s premier cannabis lifestyle magazine 54 from the editors kush colorado’s premier cannabis lifestyle magazine edical Marijuana Patients in Colorado are now over thirty-five thousand m A Division of Dbdotcom LLC strong with cardholders rapidly increasing by thousands each week. Dispensaries, which now number in the several hundreds throughout the state, are doing their Publishers | Dbdotcom LLC & Michael Lerner best to keep up with this hectic and fluid growth. This is all part of the Colorado Green Rush -- adding jobs, opportunities, and much needed money to an Editor-in-Chief | Michael Lerner otherwise stagnant and suffering economy. But is this new influx sustainable? Editor | Lisa Selan Associate Editor | Josh Kaplan The state legislature and many cities statewide are scurrying to write and pass medical marijuana ordinances to nip in the bud what some legislatures feel is a Business Operations Manager | Bob Selan runaway industry, but at the same time, tap into this goose that lays the golden Business Development | John Thomas Wiegman eggs. And with the lifting of moratoriums and the new laws come substantial fees Director of Marketing | Michael Lerner and costs to the medical marijuana providers here. In Denver for example, the new ordinance, which goes into effect on March first, requires dispensary owners Director of Sales | Audrey Cisneros to now pay new fees of over $5,000 to stay in business. Traffic Manager| Rachel Selan Account Representative | Denise Mickelson The state is already charging patients $90 a head for the privilege of having their constitutional right to possess and smoke their meds. Art Director | Robb Friedman Senior Designer | Coco Lloyd So where is all of this money going? Well the answer is not clear, and medical Design & Layout | Dave Azimi & Cristine Moonan marijuana proponents are crying out. In a recent letter to The Colorado Department of Health, Rob Corry, a leading medical marijuana lawyer here, asks Copy Editor | Jason Middleton just that. According to statistics dating back to September of 2009, that state had Contributing Writers collected over $1.7 million from patients, and Mr. Corry wants to know where it Chef Herb, Ryan James, Josh Kaplan, Noelle all went. Similarly in Denver, and other cities where dispensaries proliferate, there will soon be a lot of additional money changing hands. Leavitt, J Mark Sternberg, Maggie St. Thomas Accounting | Diana Bayhill Administration / Office Manager | Lisa Selan The government needs our medical marijuana revenue base General Manager Dailybuds.com | Randy Malinoff and we want them to have it. Dailybuds.com Team | JT Kilfoil & Houston Although Amendment 20 to the Colorado Constitution may be one of the more SUBSCRIPTIONS liberal medical marijuana laws in the country, as with most if not all of the other KUSH Magazine is also available by individual 13 legalized states it is vague and ambiguous. In other words, it is full of gray subscription at the following rates: in the areas. 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Kush Editorial Board, www.dailybuds.com 8 kush *ALL COUPONS ARE FOR TOP SHELF HOUSE StRAINS LOW DOCTor FEES, PluS FREE SAMplES TO NEW PREffERED MEmbERS Delicious Medicated Edibles High quality strains guaranteed massage therapy & acupuncture cooking services available HOURS M-F 11-7, Sat 12-5, Sun 12-5 2828 N. Speer Blvd. // Suite. 117 // Denver, Colorado Call 303.433.2266 for more information www.dencoalternativemedicine.com $300 OUNCE FREE GRAM Limit 2 per PERSON W/Coupon $50 Minimum Purchase w/ Coupon *not to be used with other offers, *not to be used with other offers, while supplies last while supplies last *ALL COUPONS ARE FOR TOP SHELF HOUSE StRAINS MARIJUANA REGULATORY BILL WENDS THROUGH COLORADO LEGISLATURE By NoeLLE LeaviTT A new Senate Bill hit the legislative floor in Colorado on Jan. 20, proposing new policies and restrictions regarding the way physicians prescribe medical marijuana to patients. Senate Bill 109 states that — if approved by the legislature — new rules and standards will be set forth on how doctors issue registry identification cards to medical ganja patients, and it will also create more strict sanctions against physicians who violate the bill. Additionally, the bill would create a medical marijuana review board, required to review medical marijuana requests from patients under the age of 21, to determine if the patient has a medical condition that would prompt them to use cannabis. This bill is current as we go to press. It will be amended several times before it is potentially approved by Colorado’s General Assembly. “I think there are some positives and negatives to the bill. Generally we applaud the legislature for trying to regulate the industry. Our main concern is the welfare of patients,” said Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado, a non-profit organization that lobbies on behalf of medical marijuana patients. “Our primary concern is making sure patients have access to medical marijuana. At the same time, there is a broad local and national discussion about the need to re-examine our marijuana laws for patients and non-patients.” Vicente feels that the current law does make it pretty easy for those seeking recreational use of cannabis to access the drug, therefore he thinks tighter regulations aren’t necessarily a bad idea. Yet, he also thinks the bill needs some major amendments before he completely supports the legislation. “We are absolutely opposed to that board. My understanding is that it will likely come out of the bill in committee. That board would add an additional hurdle to patients in need of medical marijuana,” he said. For example, if a 20-year-old AIDS patient needs access to medical pot, the review board would further complicate the patient’s quest to obtain the medicine. “I think it fundamentally weakens the doctor-patient relationship,” Vicente said. Essentially, the bill is trying to create ways to limit the recreational use of marijuana. Many feel that marijuana should be legal across the board. Colorado Attorney Rob Corry told Kush-Colorado that pot should be accessible to everyone, otherwise it creates a gray area that will always be questioned by the government — an issue that might also be addressed throughout this year’s legislative session and the amendment process. Advocacy groups still have ample opportunity to lobby for their initiatives. For now, Senate Bill 109 is the only bill concerning medical marijuana that’s hit the desk of Colorado legislatures. The bill has several House and Senate sponsors including Sen.
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