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“LAPD Chief: Pot Clinics
Not Plagued By Crime”
Excerpt from story by Tony Cas-
tro, dailynews.com
Despite neighborhood complaints,
most medical marijuana clinics are
not typically the magnets for crime
that critics often portray, accord-
ing to Los Angeles police Chief
Charlie Beck.
“Banks are more likely to get
robbed than medical marijuana
dispensaries,” Beck said at a recent
meeting with editors and reporters
of the Los Angeles Daily News.
Opponents of the pot clinics
complain that they attract a host of
criminal activity to the neighbor-
hoods, including robberies. But a
report that Beck recently had the
department generate looking at
citywide robberies in 2009 found
that simply wasn’t the case.
“I have tried to verify that because
that, of course, is the mantra,” said
Beck. “It doesn’t really bear out.”
In 2009, the LAPD received
reports of 71 robberies at the more
than 350 banks in the city, com-
pared to 47 robberies at medical
marijuana facilities which number
at least 800, the chief said in a
follow up interview, in which he
provided statistics from the report.
Beck said he had asked for a
comparison of robberies at the
two types of businesses because
of the growing public outcry -- as
the City Council debates tighter
restrictions on clinics -- that those
facilities have become an increas-
ing target for crime.
He said he thought a comparison
of banks and medical marijuana
dispensaries was appropriate
because of their similarities as
potential targets -- both have large
10 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
sums of cash and are often
heavily fortified.
Calif. High Court Strikes
Down Medical Pot Limits
Excerpt from story by (AP) –
San Francisco
A unanimous California Su-
preme Court has struck down a
law that sought to impose lim-
its on the amount of marijuana
a medical patient can legally
possess.
The California Supreme Court
ruled Thursday that state
lawmakers were wrong to
change provisions of the voter-
approved Proposition 215.
The 1996 measure allowed
for patients with a doctor’s
recommendation to possess
an unspecified amount of
marijuana.
The Legislature, seeking to
give law enforcement guidance
on when to make marijuana
possession arrests, mandated
in 2003 that each patient could
have a maximum of 8 ounces
of dried marijuana.
The high court says only voters
can change amendments that
they’ve added to California’s
constitution through the initia-
tive process.
CA Cops Must Return 60
Pounds of Medical Mari-
juana
By: Don Duncan, Americans
for Safe Access
The outcome of legal victories
by Americans for Safe Access
(ASA) could be seen again
last week, when Los Angeles
County Superior Court Judge
William Sterling ruled that
the California Highway Patrol
(CHP) must return sixty pounds
of medical cannabis confiscated
during a traffic stop. ASA suc-
cessfully sued the CHP to stop
illegal confiscation of medical
cannabis in 2005; and secured
the right to return of property,
regardless of federal law, when
the US Supreme Court refused
to overturn our victory in Garden
Grove v. Superior Court in 2008.
The defendant in this week’s
case argued he was transporting
the confiscated medicine for his
collective in Venice. The judge
disagreed with an expert witness
from the CHP, who argued that
only a Primary Caregiver can
transport medicine under state
law. The judge acknowledged
that any member of a collective
or cooperative could transport
medicine on behalf of other
members.
Cities and counties still work-
ing to develop and implement
regulations for medical cannabis
should take note of decisions
like this, which acknowledge the
broad immunities offered to col-
lectives and cooperatives under
the Medical Marijuana Program
Act (SB 420).
Patients involved in collective
cultivation can maintain store-
fronts to provide medicine to
members (and be reimbursed for
doing so), grow medicine, pos-
sess enough for members, and
transport it. Local regulations
should respect these collective
immunities – not try to roll them
back with onerous restrictions.
New Jersey Legislature Ap-
proves Medical Marijuana
Bill
Excerpt from story by CNN
The New Jersey legislature voted
Monday to make that state the
14th in the country to approve
marijuana for medicinal use,
pending the governor’s signa-
ture. Gov. Jon Corzine, who
leaves office next week, has said
he would sign the bill.
Two years after the bill was
introduced to the legislature,
the New Jersey Compassion-
ate Medical Marijuana Act was
passed by the state Assembly in
a 48-14 vote. It received Senate
approval just hours later in a
25-13 vote.
According to the news release
from the state Senate, the bill
would allow doctors to give
to patients with state-issued
identification cards prescriptions
to buy marijuana legally from
registered alternative treatment
centers. The identification cards
would be issued by the Depart-
ment of Health and Senior
Services.
Ladies & Marijuana – The
New “NORML Women’s
Alliance”
Excerpt from story by Paul
Armentano, NORML
The National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws (NORML), the nation’s
oldest and most well respected
grassroots marijuana law
reform organization, is pleased
to announce the launch of the
NORML Women’s Alliance.
The NORML Women’s Alliance
is a nonpartisan coalition of
prominent, educated, successful,
and geographically diverse pro-
fessional women who believe
that cannabis prohibition is a
self-destructive and hypocriti-
cal policy that undermines the
American family, sends a mixed
and false message to our young
people, and destroys the cher-
ished principles of personal liberty and
local self-government.
Says NORML Executive Director Allen
St. Pierre: “The prominent role of women
in the effort to end marijuana prohibition
is pivotal, necessary, and long overdue.
According to recent national opinion
polls by Gallup and others, the dramatic
rise in the public’s support of marijuana
law reform is being driven primarily by
an increase in support among America’s
women.
The NORML Women’s Alliance will
bring a contemporary approach to the
public policy debate, and will proudly
represent the interests of modern, main-
stream women who believe that the nega-
tive consequences of marijuana prohibi-
tion far outweigh any repercussions from
marijuana consumption itself.”
Federal Government Too Stiff on
Hemp Legislation
Excerpt from story by agweek.com
Not surprisingly, two North Dakota farm-
ers have lost their appeal in an attempt to
secure approval to grow industrial hemp.
The North Dakota Legislature in 2007
made it legal to grow the crop in the
state, and Wayne Hauge and David Mon-
son received the first two licenses. But
the licenses must first be approved by the
Drug Enforcement Administration, which
steadfastly maintains that hemp, a cousin
of marijuana, is a drug and refuses to act
on the license requests.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
affirmed the case’s dismissal by U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Daniel Hovland, who threw
the case out of court and suggested the
farmers take their case to Congress. So
far, they’ve had no luck there either.
Hemp is Our History Week
Excerpt from newsletter by Hemp is Our
History Coordinator Adam Eidinger
A joint project of America’s leading
hemp advocacy organizations, Hemp is
Our History Week is looking for patriotic
Americans to anchor and organize events
in their hometown as part of a national
grassroots, media and public education
campaign.
The effort hopes to mobilize at least
50,000 letters to President Barack Obama nation.
and Attorney General Eric Holder asking
them to end the status quo and let farmers Bolivian Government to Produce
grow versatile and profitable industrial “Coca Colla” — It’s The Real Thing
hemp.
from Coca Leaves
Excerpt from story by Glenn Church,
Hemp is Our History Week wants you
foolocracy.com
to sign up ASAP to be contacted by our
coordinators to begin planning for local
Bolivian President Evo Morales an-
Town Hall meetings to present historical
nounced that his government will come
data about hemp farming in your area prior
out with a carbonated drink called “Coca
to its prohibition. You will be connected
Colla.” Yes, it will be made from coca
to other like-minded hemp advocates that
leaves.
will plan the events with you and help get
the word out that its time for change. And,
Billed as an energy drink, it will appear
you’ll receive coupons for hemp products
slightly similar to Coca Cola in packaging
as a thank you for being part of this his-
with a red label and black swoosh. Mo-
toric movement to resume hemp farming
rales hopes to produce the drink in a joint
in the U.S.
venture with a private company.
Save the Date: May 17-23, 2010 is Hemp
Bolivia’s new constitution recognizes
is Our History Week!
coca as a “cultural heritage, a natural and
Web Site: http://www.HempIndustries.org
renewable resource of biodiversity in Bo-
livia and a factor of social cohesion.”
International Stories:
Morales is known to regularly chew on
British Man Jailed Due To “Speck” coca leaves, even when he appears at inter-
Of Marijuana on Shoe national conferences around the world.
Excerpt from story by Jordan C. Alston,
hiphopwired.com
A British man that journeyed to the most
opulent city in the world has found himself
up a creek without a paddle, proverbially
speaking of course.
Keith Brown was stopped at Dubai’s
largest airport only to be detained after a
search uncovered a speck of marijuana on
his shoe.
Weighing less than a whopping 0.003
grams, the particle was so small that it was
not detectable with the human eye, requir-
ing microscopic vision tools to be utilized
for confirmation of the substance.
After sitting in a local prison for four
months, Brown was ordered to serve four
years in a United Arab Emirates jail.
The UAE has strict Zero Tolerance poli-
cies for those visiting its lands, a fact that
many travelers are unaware of.
An ignorant and equally unlucky traveler
was given a fate resembling the one given
to Brown after a search by local officials
yielded three poppy seeds from a sand-
wich in which he had previously devoured
before entering the predominately Islamic
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California’s Public Safety Committee

Approves Legalized Marijuana Bill
Source: www.csmonitor.com

Medical Marijuana use in CA is already legal, but

the new bill removes existing statues defining it as
a controlled substance and makes it legal to pos-
sess, sell, and cultivate by those 21 & older, but
with a tax imposed to fund drug abuse programs.

Won by a 4-3 committee vote, this is the first time

a legislative committee in CA has approved legal-
ized pot.

A tax of $50/oz is expected to raise over $1b annu-

ally according to a state tax board assessment.

Public support is at 84%. Tough economic times

may be influencing state and city reconsiderations
towards pot as CA’s budget deficit is a record-
smashing $60B.

NORML’s Paul Armentano argues taxing and regu-

lating it is better than banning it and battling drug
cartels.

FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 13

 As activists, we start to see which
grassroots methods work and which
do not. One of the most effective
methods is going to the courthouse
and supporting the persecuted mem-
bers of our community. Court is
very scary and technical, and if you
are not a trained attorney, it can be
quite a struggle. Defendants need all
levels of support, and making your-
self available in the courtroom gives
the defendant a friend and shows
the judge, media, jury, and public
that we are aware of the injustices
and are standing up together.

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Defendants vs. Attorneys
Often defendants are fighting against their
own lawyers, feeling as though they are not
really being represented, are being forced
into plea bargains, and that their lawyers lack
the passion and fire necessary in a courtroom
while simultaneously paying out retainer and
representation fees. Other contributing factors
are the lack of cooperation with the court
system and that medical marijuana rights
have not been recognized for about fourteen
years. In 1996, the California voters approved
the California Compassionate Use Act, also
known as Proposition 215, which states, “The
law removes criminal penalties for personal
use possession and cultivation of marijuana
for medical purposes by patients (and their
designated “primary caregiver”) who have a
physician recommendation or approval,” yet
often the medical marijuana defense is not
granted to the defendant because of the pros-
ecutors’ manipulation of the law..
Trial by Jury
Many people do not have the ability to go to
trial, and those who do often go broke going
to trial, and they will still be sen- of the persecuted until the prosecu-
tenced, with their rights taken away tions stop. The pressure from public
and freedoms lost. This battle for your opinion and the push to finally legalize
life is both an emotional and a political cannabis all-together make an impact
rollercoaster. If you remember right, on the ability of the prosecution to
Jovan Jackson was thrown in jail twice focus on these cases. Many of these
while in pre-trial hearings. As a viewer contributing factors are to our benefit.
at many of these hearings, it was an The times are changing, and in order
intense learning experience in what the to progress this movement, we must
prosecutors will try to say about you continue to come together in our com-
and your collective/co-operative; they munity and stand up for our beliefs by
will tear you apart for making a profit, supporting members going to battle
and seem to forget the basics of busi- and making changes through the judi-
ness and that the money the company cial system and court policies.
brings in is not illegal. Prosecutors’
like labeling defendants extreme crimi- Trial
nals and profiteers. Supporters in the Of the many circumstances surround-
courtroom make it a lot more difficult ing being charged with a crime, going
for attorneys to lie and judges to show to trial is the most stressful. Finan-
bias. cially, it is a minimum of $5,000-
20,000 for attorney fees, while going
Media in the Courtroom to an appellate court could cost you
And thus, the importance of court $100,000. You do have the right to
support is it shows the court that there obtain a public defender, but they are
is a presence of people who have often unequipped with the knowledge
beliefs and values about the stakes at of medical marijuana laws, which
hand. As mainstream media catches obviously has an effect on the pro-
on and becomes more ceedings; as was the case with Cletus
accepting of our Greathouse, who was thrown in jail for
message, the truth two months after an unfortunate turn
about cannabis and of events which eventually led to him
court injustices are being forced into a plea bargain. There
just a reporter away. are a few well known cases coming
With cameras rolling up. Donna Lambert and Eugene Da-
inside courtrooms, vidovich have been vocal about their
prosecutors, defen- stories’, meriting local and regional
dants, and judges all coverage and public sympathy. The
know they are subject more support, the better impression on
to scrutiny from the the media and the effect of change in
public and the threat public opinion.
of their outcry. Media
coverage gives us the Learning Experience
ability to spread pub- Trial is also an excellent place to learn
lic knowledge about what people are being prosecuted for,
the effects of prohibi- reasonable or unreasonable reasons,
tion and disregard and how you can avoid making the
for state law regard- same mistakes. As a viewer of these
ing the patients and events, one of the major benefits of go-
cannabis community. ing to a court support is the ability to
Crowds of people see the Narcotics Task Force Officers
leave an impression, and hear what qualifies clubs for court
an image of an aware problems; avoiding those mistakes is
group of people fight- a wise idea. At one case, known-un-
ing for justice and dercover officer Scott Henderson AKA
standing by the side
FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 17
Jamie Conlan was being cross-examined,
and counsel was able to establish that the
Narcotics Task Force was trained by the
California Narcotics Officers Association
which only gave a few hours of informa-
tional training on medical marijuana. The
first few sentences in the training manual
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state, “…marijuana is illegal… and has no does not establish joining a collec-
medical benefit;” which makes you wonder tive/co-op, and then they were sold
if they even know the law at all. Counsel marijuana. It would be sensible for
was then able clubs to send a representative to
to establish that learn about what has been said, what
these officers the defendant is going through, and
went to train- to not make the same mistakes.
ing, but do
not recognize Conclusion
the basics of Remember that numbers count,
the medical numbers are what make a communi-
marijuana laws ty, and with San Diego on the front-
(they couldn’t lines, we need to come together as
remember them, a community and continue to fight
didn’t know this battle more than ever. There
parts, etc.), yet will be a few members who need
arrest people the support; you can learn about
for supposedly these defendants on the news, at San
breaking those Diego ASA and NORML meetings,
laws. At another and at NugMag.com. These trials
court date, these coming up would benefit from a
undercover of- full courtroom of polite, respectable
ficers referred to community members who are there
the collective verification or sign-in process to learn and support our San Diego
as “just a piece of paper [they] signed to get Cannabis Freedom Fighters.
the stuff,” not an actual applicable agree-
ment. They also said they didn’t read it so it
Rudy Reyes:
By: Eugene Davidovich
On October 26, 2003, the
Cedar wildfire was raging through
San Diego County, claiming over a
dozen lives and taking with it thou-
sands of homes. Many believe the fire
caused the worse damage in the his-
tory of San Diego County. According
to Wikipedia, “The Cedar Fire burned
280,278  acres (1,134.2  km2) 2,820
buildings (including 2,232 homes)
and killed 15 people including one
firefighter before being contained on
November 3, making it the largest
fire in recorded California history up
to that time.”
Rudy Reyes, an Archaeol-
ogy major and instructor at several
local colleges was living near the Ba-
rona Indian Reservation of San Di-
ego County on the night of the 26th.
Watching and listening to the news
coverage of the fires, he had no idea
that the part of San Diego County
where his family lived was directly
in the path of the Cedar Fire. On that
night, the fire would change the di-
rection of his life forever.
By the time Rudy realized
his family’s home was facing immi-
nent destruction from the oncoming
tower of flames, he also realized the
firefighters themselves had already
evacuated. Rudy knew he had to act
fast. Believing that his family mem-
bers were still in their home and in
danger, Rudy jumped in his car,
rushed to the house, and managed to
evacuate everyone to safety.
Once his family was safe,
Rudy tried to get out of the way of the
fire. Unfortunately by that time, the
fire had grown exponentially stron-
ger and Rudy found himself trapped.
His car that just a few minutes ago
had run with no problems would no
longer start. Rudy explained during
the interview, “When I turned the
keys, nothing happened. It was like
the car was disabled.”
Rudy went on to explain
that the nearby flames had sucked up
all the usable oxygen in the area, and
since all internal combustion engines
require oxygen to operate, the car
wouldn’t start.
Now realizing that if he
remained in his car he would surely
not make it, Rudy got out, ran in to
the house, and jumped in the shower
in hopes the water would protect
him from the imminent threat of the
flames.
While standing in the show-
er Rudy recalled, “I looked up at the
ceiling and saw that it had become
fluid and covered in waves of blue
flames. I knew it was time to get out,
and get out fast.” After making his
way out of the house and back onto
the driveway, he found his car had
already caught on fire and that there
was only one way out of the situa-
tion; run through the fire line.
Without having much time
to ponder the issue, Rudy covered
his face with his hands and made his
way through the tunnel of flames that
appeared to have on the other side of
it a safe exit. Only a few seconds into
his escape, he felt his muscles tight-
en and “it became extremely difficult
FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 19
 to move my feet, what was an easy
walk on a paved street on a normal
day began to feel like I was walking
Rudy Reyes: Cont.
through quicksand, I felt the elastici-
ty in my muscles start to disappear.” Once out of the hospital tee City Council in 2010. Rudy told
Knowing that if he stopped he surely and in need of safe access to the NUG Magazine, “The City of Santee
would not make it till morning, Rudy only medicine that helped him live a needs a change.”
pressed on. Minutes later he miracu- normal life, Rudy found himself on In 2010 Rudy intends to
lously emerged on the other side of the frontlines in San Diego County’s bring this change, and in 2012 he in-
the fire, still conscious and in severe war like effort to eradicate access to tends to make another bid for the San
shock, yet still able to walk. medical cannabis. Rudy made the Diego County Board of Supervisors.
He made his way down to cause his own, and for years now has By 2012, Rudy will have two po-
the road and tried to wave down the lobbied in front of the Board of Su- litical races behind him and years
first truck he saw driving by. Shock- pervisors, City Council, and count- of experience in the public eye. This
ingly Rudy describes, “The truck less politicians for medical cannabis combined with his resilience, ambi-
flashed his lights, honked the horn, patients’ rights. tion, and dedication to the commu-
and passed me without stopping.” In 2008, Rudy’s efforts nity will make him a political force
Rudy kept on. brought him to the race for San Di- to be reckoned with.
As he described, what felt ego County Board of Supervisors. The County Board of Su-
like an eternity later, Rudy saw an- He ran with the San Diego Demo- pervisors and Santee City Council
other car. This time the driver pulled cratic Party’s endorsement against are just the beginning of Rudy’s po-
over, and at the sight of Rudy shout- incumbent Republican Diane Jacob litical aspirations. His ultimate goal,
ed, “Get in the back now, we have to for her seat. Although he wasn’t suc- as he told NUG Magazine, is to go to
get you to a paramedic right away.” cessful in winning the seat his first Congress where he can help address
The Good Samaritan drove Rudy to time around, he did manage to get an national issues related to interstate
the nearest ambulance and the para- unheard of 20,000+ votes. travel for medical marijuana patients
medics eased Rudy into what turned Today, dozens of surgeries as well as federal medical marijuana
out to be a two and a half month drug later and with the full support of the policy.
induced coma. community of patients in San Diego
Rudy woke up to over 70%
of his body covered in third degree
burns and the realization that he
behind him, Rudy Reyes is gearing
up for another fight. He has officially
announced his candidacy for San-
end.
now faced a lifetime of excruciating
chronic pain, countless surgeries, and
a body at the brink of overdose from
the narcotics/pain relief medication
administered to him at the hospital.
He quickly learned that the narcot-
ics prescribed by his doctors were no
longer working, and the pain became
intolerable. In hopes of saving him-
self from a life of addiction to nar-
cotics, Rudy listened to the recom-
mendation of one of his doctors at the
hospital and tried medical cannabis.
To his amazement, while an inpatient
at the hospital, he was allowed to go
outside and medicate using cannabis
cigarettes in the hospital’s gazebo,
as well as apply cannabis infused
creams to his burns which his family
brought him.

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 The S.E.P.T.I.C. System –
Bonnie DA Mantis
By: Eugene Davidovich

The fierce fight against medical marijuana in

San Diego commonly referred to as Operation
Green Rx that District Attorney (DA) Bonnie
Dumanis has been waging for years, has result-
ed in thousands of San Diego citizens outraged
at the fraud, waste, and abuse of power by her
office.

One such outraged citizen is Marcus Boyd of

Imperial Beach whose involvement in San Di-
ego Medical Marijuana policy began with his
efforts to open a collective in Imperial Beach.
Mr. Boyd, himself a medical marijuana patient,
approached the Imperial Beach City Council
with his request to open a collective last year.
The request was answered with an unequivo-
cal denial and an immediate push back which
included the council quickly voting in a mora-
torium and promising to work on the issue.

Almost a year later, Imperial Beach still has no

PHOTO: http://bonniedamantis.wordpress.com/
medical marijuana regulations, and all of Mr.
Boyd’s further attempts to start a dialogue with
the council have landed on deaf ears.
In a telephone interview, with NUG Mag- More recently, Mr. Boyd’s efforts with the
azine, Mr. Boyd explained that the reason site have been focused on the upcoming
After the 9/9/9 raids on medical marijuana col-
he started the blog was “because there is a 2010 election for San Diego County Dis-
lectives in San Diego, Mr. Boyd launched “The
real need to have a central location to look trict Attorney. He launched the first public
S.E.P.T.I.C. System / Bonnie DA Mantis” web-
up the fierce fight that we are experiencing effort in San Diego to find a replacement
site (http://bonniedamantis.wordpress.com/)
in San Diego.” for Bonnie Dumanis, and has already col-
which has attracted attention from both the me-
lected over $18,000 in pledges of campaign
dia and the community at large.
He went on to explain that the website’s contributions for the next potential San Di-
purpose is twofold; first, to track the pro- ego County DA. Mr. Boyd has interviewed
In a recent article published by San Diego City
hibition specifically related to all the San at least a half dozen candidates and has ap-
Beat, Dave Mass wrote “Patient and aspiring
Diego County municipalities and San Di- proached dozens of attorneys encouraging
collective operator Marcus Boyd specifically
ego City itself with regard to progress and them to run against Dumanis.
targets Dumanis, accusing her of using tele-
legislative development of medical mari-
vised shock and awe enforcement tactics to ef-
juana law. Second, the site focuses on in- “She is but a county District Attorney, and
fectively harass and terrorize the seriously ill
formation collection of the court cases and the fact that this DA is doing what no other
and dying patients.”
information pertaining to the denial of safe county DA is doing, stands to reason that
access for patients in San Diego. without her we wouldn’t have this prob-
The S.E.P.T.I.C. System stands for San Diego
lem.”
Electronic Prohibition Tracking & Information
“If it weren’t for Bonnie Dumanis, we
Collection System, which as Mr. Boyd put it is
would not have denial of safe access,
“a central place where we can both track the
which goes to the second name of the
prohibition/denial of safe access as well as in-
site, DA Mantis; without the DA Mantis
formation regarding court cases related to the
we wouldn’t be in this mess”, Mr. Boyd
prohibition of safe access in San Diego.”
explained.

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 Jovan Jackson, Victim registries listing all 1,649 members of
of Racial Discrimina- Answerdam. The only persons charged
by the DA’s office are black males.”
tion and Repetitive
Operation Green Rx Sebastian was bailed out by his fam-
Prosecutions
The defense argues that in addition to
the prosecutorial discrimination, the
Victim Sebastian Ma- ily shortly after his arrest, and when he
came to court on the scheduled day a By: Eugene Davidovich DA’s office investigations and prosecu-
selli Receives Order for few weeks later, he was handed a letter
Jovan Jackson of Answerdam Collec-
tions of medical marijuana patients are
discriminatory by design. Whereas over
and told that no charges would be filed
Return of Property at this time. The District Attorney’s of- tive is a medical cannabis patient, navy a dozen other medical marijuana collec-
By: Eugene Davidovich fice apparently had decided to hold off veteran, and a victim of two Operation tives were raided on 9/9/9, of those ar-
filing any charges against the 9/9/9 raid Green Rx raids, part of District Attor- rested, only two individuals have been
victims, as they wanted to see how the ney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis’ effort to prosecuted in State Court. The motion
Sebastian Maselli, a founding member
cases that were already going through overturn Proposition 215 and eradicate reads, “The District Attorney’s Office
of the Healing Dragon Collective, suf-
the court system from their previous safe access to medical cannabis in San has offered no explanation as to why
fers from Post Traumatic Stress Disor-
raids would turn out first. Diego. these two black men are the only per-
der (PTSD) and chronic back, knee and
sons currently being prosecuted.”
joint pain, all as a result of his military
Sebastian left the courthouse that day The first raid on Answerdam occurred
service with the US Marine Corps. Se-
knowing that for the next two years in August 2008, the second on Septem- Will the judge find racism and discrimi-
bastian writes, “The Marine Corps defi-
the DA could still press charges against ber 9, 2009, the same day that over a nation in the DA’s office and the Nar-
nitely kept me in good physical shape,
him. dozen other collectives were raided in cotics Task Force?
but at a cost.”
San Diego.
The raid, the fear of prosecutorial dis- At another hearing on February 11th,
“While in Iraq, I was exposed to count-
crimination and retribution by the DA, In December 2009, Mr. Jackson was Jackson’s attorney will argue Collateral
less dangers and situations no human
as well as the theft of his property by tried on charges related to the August Estoppel, which is somewhat similar to
being should have to encounter. Medi-
the NTF, did not deter Sebastian from 2008 raid and the issue went in front ‘Double Jeopardy’. That day, the court
cal marijuana has helped tremendously
standing up for his rights. of a jury. All five medical marijuana will be asked to consider that a “later
with my PTSD and it makes my back
counts were unanimously tossed out by prosecution will necessarily entail a
and knee pain tolerable.”
Sebastian researched the Americans for the jurors. Charges related to the 9/9/9 grossly absurd and unjust result”, as Mr.
Safe Access website where he found raid have not yet been litigated. Jackson has already been vindicated of
Sebastian went on to tell NUG Maga-
a sample return of property motion as all charges related to operating a legal
zine, “I was dealing with combat re-
well as other related information. After Most people in San Diego and around medical marijuana collective.
lated injuries and deaths at 1st Marine
a little encouragement and help from the state that followed Jackson’s trial
Expeditionary Force (IMEF), as well as
friends and family, Sebastian complet- were certain the DA would not continue Finally, on February 19th, Mr. Jackson
the injured Marines and their families
ed the required forms and submitted with the second prosecution. Dumanis’ will go to court for the third time this
after they came home. The most impor-
them to the San Diego Superior Court office, however, maintains they intend month to argue a Return of Property
tant lesson I learned was compassion.”
in Vista, CA. to proceed with their full prosecutorial Motion. The defense will request that
might. the Judge order the return of all prop-
With the recommendation of his physi-
In January of this year, Sebastian went erty stolen from Answerdam Collective
cian, Sebastian has been using medical
to court to argue his return of property Much like the first trial, Jackson in- by the NTF during the August 2008
cannabis to successfully treat his symp-
motion. NUG Magazine caught up with tends to fight vehemently against these raid.
toms and help deal with his daily pain.
Sebastian to find out how the hearing charges and on February 8, 2010 at
As a founding member of the collective,
went and whether the return of property his preliminary hearing for the second Many thousands of concerned citizens
he helped operate the non-profit orga-
motion was granted. Sebastian writes, trial, Jackson’s Attorney Lance Rogers, in San Diego are hoping the Judge will
nization in full compliance with state
“I am happy to report that my motion will argue a motion to dismiss the case see through the vindictive and repeti-
laws. On September 9, 2009 however,
was granted by the judge!  I have a based on prosecutorial discrimination, tive prosecutorial discrimination and
he was arrested in front of his wife and
piece of paper stating that all property otherwise known as a Murgia Motion. dismiss the second case against him, as
child, charged with felony possession
belonging to the ‘defendant’ is to be re- The defense is claiming that Jackson well as return the stolen property.
of marijuana, subjected to interrogation
turned by 02/08/10.” has been deliberately singled out for
and finally thrown in jail, all part of the
prosecution on the basis of his race. NUG Magazine caught up with Mr.
9/9/9 Operation Green Rx raids.
All of the victims of the Operation Jackson argues that the Cross Jurisdic- Jackson a couple weeks ago at Answer-
Green Rx 9/9/9 raids should demand tional Narcotics Task Force (NTF) has dam Collective where he said, “DA
San Diego District Attorney Bonnie
their property returned and San Diego been investigating Mr. Jackson for two Dumanis and her team of lawyers and
Dumanis’ Operation Green Rx is an
needs to begin holding the responsible years and as the motion describes, “at narcotics officers seem to be dedicated
ongoing effort in which the San Diego
people accountable for the continued least ten non-black suspects actively to overturning state law, but I will fight
County’s Cross Jurisdictional Narcotics
subversion of state law and persecution involved in the possession, sales, dis- as long as it takes for both mine and An-
Taskforce (NTF) systematically targets,
of legitimate patients. tribution, and transportation of mari- swerdam Collective members’ rights.”
arrests, and raids medical cannabis fa-
juana” were also investigated, yet no
cilities, doctors and patients. Undercov-
Information on the return of property charges were brought forward nor were
er officers visit local doctors, lie about
motion can be found on the Americans any other suspects prosecuted.
their symptoms and arm themselves
with legitimate recommendations. The for Safe Access Website at: http://www.
safeaccessnow.org/section.php?id=187. The motion goes on to read, “When An-
undercover agents then proceed to
swerdam was raided in 2008 and 2009,
join local collectives, purchase small
non-black individuals were detained
amounts of medicine to create a record
at the scene. However, only the black
of “buys” and then subject the members
members were arrested and prosecuted.
of the collective to a raid.
Law enforcement obtained detailed

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 //ReaderSUBMISSION
PHOTO: OLD MAN
Update from
San Diego
by James Dean Stacy
By the time you read
this, I will have gone through a
motions hearing where we have
asked to get all the discovery,
challenged the warrants, and
asked that I get to use my medi-
cine. If it is passed Feb. 3rd,
then I have had an evidentiary
hearing to show that the Move-
ment in Action Collective was
in compliance with state law.
Since I’m being charged by the
Feds in contravention of what
Pres. Obama said, I’m hoping
that the next update will be that
he has stopped this madness.
Obama said that they would not
preempt state law in a memo
dated May 20th, 2009.
It has been over four
months since I have been al-
lowed to use medical marijuana
and it has started to take its toll
on me. I have put on 20lbs from
the stress and have ground
out one filling. I used medical
marijuana for chronic pain. The
Marinol pills are very expensive
and not as effective. I applied for
my state card, and you should
know that you need two forms
of ID when you go.
NUG Magazine and
Cannabis Planet TV have start-
ed to have parties at the Can-
nabis Resource Center located
at 1050 S. Santa Fe Ave. Vista
Ca. 92084 on Saturday nights
starting at 7:00pm. In February
the parties will be on the 6th
and 20th with a special all day
concert on the 13th. For more
details, check out the calendar
page on www.movementinac-
tion.org. Chef Mike from the
show has committed to coming
24 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
out and teaching cannabis cook-
ing, as well as talking to people
about the show. We hope to be
able to contribute more about
what we are doing here in San
Diego.
Not everyone knows
that I teach martial arts and have
been training for over 21 years.
I give special discounts to medi-
cal marijuana patients. If you
saw the movie Book of Ely you
have seen some of the styles I
teach. The movies 300, Matrix
and Bourne Identity have fights
that used the styles of Kali, Silat
and even Jeet Kune Do that I
teach. You can get more infor-
mation at www.sifujames.com
We are now in a new
decade and the wind has start-
ed to blow in our direction. The
real facts of marijuana are start-
ing to come out into the light of
day, and the prohibitionist who
keep yelling lies at the top of
their lungs are being seen as
the misinformed people they
are. I ask everyone to come out
of the cannabis closet and let
the world know that marijuana
is your medicine of choice. Until
we make marijuana mainstream,
we will continue to be attacked,
ridiculed and arrested. We must
register to vote, show up for jury
duty, and elect only the people
who support our movement.
The last thing I would ask is that
you write your elected officials
and demand that they follow
state law or respect the rights of
the states. It is only through our
votes and voices that they will
listen.

Reporting from the
City of San Diego
Medical Marijuana
Task Force
Kim Twolan –Task Force
Collective Director Repre-
sentative
On December 8, 2009 at the San
Diego City Council meeting, the San
Diego Medical Marijuana (MMJ)
Task Force presented to the City
Council our recommendations that
were published in last month’s NUG
Magazine.
An enormous amount of gratitude is
expressed to my fellow Task Force
members for all their hard work
and dedication on this MMJ history
changing City Task Force. I’m proud
of everything we have managed to
accomplish so far in such a small
period of time!
On January 5th, 2010 the San Di-
ego City Council voted in favor of
passing the recommendations of the
San Diego Medical Marijuana Task
Force to the Land Use and Housing
Committee for their input. The vote
was 7-1 in favor of the issue. The no
26 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
vote was cast by Councilmember Carl
DiMaio. Mr. DiMaio stated at the be-
ginning of the council meeting that he
believed California Proposition 215
provided clear regulations regarding
medical marijuana and that there was
no need to provide further clarification
for patients and caregivers.
The City Council accepted the report
and passed it to the Land Use and
Housing (LU&H) Committee (chaired
by Councilmember Gloria). It is com-
mon that zoning issues are referred to
the LU&H Committee for input. The
LU&H Committee will have the oppor-
tunity to properly vet the recommen-
dations. By March, the LU&H Com-
mittee will provide feedback to the
City Council on the proposed recom-
mendations and hopefully propose to
amend the Zoning Code to allow for
safe access and regulations of medi-
cal cannabis collectives.
At the beginning of the council ses-
sion, representatives from Americans
for Safe Access (ASA) spoke during
public comment to encourage the
City Council to pass the regulations.
Although the item was closed for pub-
lic comment since it was heard at the
previous meeting, there were numer-
ous medical cannabis patients and
concerned citizens from a variety of
local organizations including SD ASA,
the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), and
NORML who came to demonstrate
their support for the City’s Medical
Marijuana Task Force recommenda-
tions for safe access and clear sen-
sible regulations.
A complete ordinance regulating
medical marijuana collectives will go
up for vote before the end of 2010.
MMJ patients require clarity and safe
access.
I respectfully urge you to e-mail the
San Diego City Council members and
genuinely thank them for their dedi-
cated hard work on the medical mari-
juana issue. Please share with them
how medical marijuana has benefited
you or a loved one, and advise them
to  rapidly bring the issue out of the
Land Use and Housing Committee
and back to the City Council for a
positive vote for safe access.
For your convenience, listed below
are the email addresses of San Di-
ego Council Members.
donnafrye@sandiego.gov
martiemerald@sandiego.gov
kevinfaulconer@sandiego.gov
toddgloria@sandiego.gov
anthonyyoung@sandiego.gov
carldemaio@sandiego.gov
benhueso@sandiego.gov
sherrilightner@sandiego.gov
I challenge each and everyone
one of you to take responsibility
and help educate the public with
MMJ facts and how MMJ benefits
your life at every speaking possi-
bility you have.
The next agenda item for the
MMJ Task Force is to recom-
mend the guidelines for the City
of San Diego Police Department
for enforcement regarding medi-
cal marijuana. The Task Force
will be working in conjunction with
SDPD, which I look particularly
forward to.
I also strongly advocate you to be
there and show your support for
the MMJ Task Force by attending
the planned meetings from 9:00 to
11:00 AM in the Committee Room
Friday February 5
Friday February 19
 Downtown San Diego, January 5……A
seemingly dysfunctional San Diego City
Council voted 7 to 1 at its first meeting of
the New Year to stall many more months
deciding the mere basics of regulating
medical marijuana dispensaries by re-
jecting the modest recommendations of
its own task force.
The transparency of its motives in set-
ting up the task force rather than having
staff prepare ordinances shows its smoke
and mirrors approach to the issue - pre-
tend to do something while an organizing
effort of the usual NIMBY (Not In My Back-
yard) suspects gets under way. Someone
named Grandma posted a right-on expla-
nation, “Fork tongued politicians,” she
wrote, “I may be old but I know bait and
switch.” While Fred Williams pointed out,
“This is not leadership…its cowardice.”
   With five of the councilpersons seeking
re-election or election to another office
and the two brain-dead tokens of identity
politics blabbering along, (at least Coun-
cilman Carl DeMaio is honest in his usual
right-wing, knee-jerk opposition) the
Council showed that it seems too scared
to help the many citizens who are in pain
and need a safe, legal place to obtain
medical marijuana which was approved
by California voters  through Proposition
215.
   The vote, which sent the plain and sim-
ple recommendations of the Medical Mar-
ijuana Task Force to the Council’s Land
Use and Housing Committee, is a ploy to
allow organized resistance to the use of
medical marijuana to focus on prevent-
ing the logistics of providing it  for those
in need by using zoning ordinances and
building codes as weapons, like those
used against youth arcades and adult
entertainment. Tellingly, included in that
vote was a requirement that local Plan-
ning Groups weigh in on the discussion;
which is kind of like asking the Catholic
Diocese where the abortion clinics should
be located. The city’s dozen planning
groups, for the most part, are made up
of property owners and businesspersons
wedded to land values, NIMBY’s all. (The
City Heights Area Planning Committee
where I was elected in 2001 was run by
real estate interests.)
Now, a deceitful City Council and its
big lie about wanting to really develop a
comprehensive policy on medical mari-
juana use could laughingly be passed on
as politics as usual if it were not for the
fact that many innocent San Diegans are
being persecuted and prosecuted by an
ambitious, despotic District Attorney.
Bonnie Dumanis; Republican Party
ideologue, personal tyrant, part crook
(see my upcoming book, San Diego: 1st
City of Empire) has stepped in where a
fearful City Council has failed to act and
has been busting legal, legitimate users
and dispensers of medical marijuana.
Using her prosecutional power to imple-
ment public policy in an attempt to appear
tough on crime, she steps over the ruined
lives, broken families and lost jobs of ill
people who tried to follow the law as best
they know how. Like a local version of for-
mer despot J.Edgar Hoover, without the
secret dress, Dumanis seems to bully the
Council by creating an illusion of crime
around medical marijuana by selective
prosecution and outright lies about the
defendants, thus creating a trap for any
politician who supports upholding Califor-
nia law allowing personal medical use of
cannabis.
Buried in January 5th’s cowardly Coun-
cil action was a quiet removal of any
language calling for an ordinance to be
drafted regulating the dispensaries. The
hard-working 11-member Task Force on
Medical Marijuana, established by the
Council in September, and co-chaired by
my friend and former Council candidate
Stephen Whitburn, labored to bring be-
fore the Council a set of common sense
recommendations on basic regulations
such as dispensaries had to be more than
1,000 feet from schools, playgrounds, li-
braries, areas where children frequent
and barred from being within 500 feet of
one another. Also, the storefronts would
have had to hire security and obtain ap-
propriate land-use permits as well as limit
the hours they are open and operate as
non-profits. These fairly small recommen-
dations from the Task Force were a natu-
FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 29
ral process of the thinking of its members,
mostly business persons, clergy, former
police officers and professionals, rather
than actual providers or patients.
However, one member of the task force,
Mark Robert Bluemel, a San Diego at-
torney saw the matter clearly. He said
the District Attorney’s misinterpretation
of state law “has cruelly criminalized in-
nocent medical marijuana users who not
only suffer maladies but now face arrest,
detention and federal charges.”
In early summer, the San Diego Renters
Union proposed to the City Council that it
find some statesmanship on this issue by
setting up a permanent San Diego Medi-
cal Marijuana Regulatory Board, which
would oversee the operation of the dis-
pensaries including the cost, quality, per-
sonnel and non-profitability of the coops
and cooperatives. The Renters Union
suggested that if the providing process
was taken out of individual hands and be-
came a volunteer effort on the part of an
organized group of patients, overseen by
the city, then the District Attorney could
not attack them on an individual basis as
she has in the past.
While Councilwoman Fry supports the
use of marijuana for medical purposes,
her timidity reflects an interest in running
for the County Board of Supervisors. “The
goal here is to put in some guidelines that
actually make sense and people can un-
derstand what the rules are,” she said
“the guidelines put forward by the state
are not clear.” Yet, even she did not sup-
port the humble suggestions of the task
force.
However, the average citizens in San
Diego are beginning to have their say on
the matter. In a clear rebuke to the D.A. a
Superior Court jury found Jovan Christian
Jackson, 31, not guilty of five charges of
possessing and selling marijuana illegally
from a medical marijuana dispensary in
Kearney Mesa called Answerdam Alter-
native Care.
Jackson’s attorney, Lance Rogers, suc-
cessfully showed the jury that the collec-
tive operated legally and professionally.
He said members of the collective were
asked to show a valid doctor’s recom-
mendation before obtaining any marijua-
na and sign an agreement that they abide
by the collective’s rules.
A San Diego police detective testified
that he lied to a doctor, used a false ID
and fraudulently signed a contract/agree-
ment with the collective to make two buys
in June and July 2008. Now, trying to find
out who set up this ridiculous entrapment
has been difficult. Steve Walter, the as-
sistant chief of the narcotics office in the
D.A.’s office agreed to talk to me and then
backed out (could it be because Bonnie
Dumanis has appeared on my annual
list of San Diego piss-ants 4 years in a
row?). Captain Miguel Rosario of the SD-
PD’s vice squad originally agreed to an
interview about the marijuana busts but
when I e-mailed him a list of questions
about the D.A.’s involvement, he quickly
canceled.
 
Dumanis and the San Diego
Front of the Cultural War
San Diego’s District Attorney Bonnie
Dumanis struts onto the stage, her swag-
ger, her measured pace, her menacing
stare in front of the cameras reminds me
of the persona John Wayne created on
his way to becoming an American icon.
I once overheard him tell my aunt at
breakfast that an acting advisor once told
him that he had to forget his rather sissy
name Marion and that he worked in an
ice cream parlor and find an image which
would represent the fading world of the
“Old West.” Grinding away in B-movies,
he successfully created a tough, super-
masculine, militaristic image that went to
the heart of what American Empire was
all about; whether slaughtering Indians or
carving up the ungrateful Vietnamese.
There is a popular video game circulat-
ing the Internet called “Heroes of Annihi-
lated Empires” where mythical creatures
live alongside humans in “lands which
frontiers are impossible to be located on
any world map presently” and whose
actions “are able to change the world.”
Like these “creatures,” John Wayne was
never real – I saw it trapped in his eyes, a
butchered Marion – he was a prisoner of
his own sham; trapped in the image and
the make-believe, and like that mechani-
cal dummy of Abe Lincoln in Disneyland,
wobbled through life owned by others
and was what they needed him to be.
As I watch Dumanis swagger on to the
platform, amid camera flashes and report-
ers’ shouts, my friend, who is gay, whis-
pers “Who does this tough broad think
she is – Raymond Burr in high-heels?”
“No,” I answer, “I know many really
tough gals who are lesbians; cab drivers,
construction workers, even a few rodeo
gals, whose personalities are real, they
are warm, caring persons.”
“This demeanor, this show, is not about
Freudian over-compensation or being
tough in a masculine world; it’s all about
power and ambition,” I comment as she is
book-ended on the stage by two modern
“Dukes” of bluster and armed might, San
Diego County Sheriff William B. Kolender,
who allows his deputies to shoot down
unarmed Latinos in the barrios and San
Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne
who has protected murdering police of-
ficers, tries to encourage brutality against
the homeless and uses his detectives to
circumvent city ordinances.
John Wayne, even though he provided
a cultural context, a mythical arrogance
to the national character, which continues
to drive American Empire, never person-
ally harmed anyone in his chimera; while
Dumanis wields her power as District At-
torney to enrich herself and manipulate
the legal system for personal ambition.
American Empire seems to be a
double-edged sword. It is not just bomb-
ing distant cities to protect oil pipelines
or corrupt world corporations. Empire is
also reflected in ideology and national as-
sumptions. From the Romans to the Brit-
ish to modern Corporate-Owned Capital-
ism – an emerging state without defined
borders and its own armed forces as the
movie Avatar spectacularly highlights -
the domination of others, the plunder of
national resources, was always driven by
a mind-set that depended on power and
hierarchy.
Thus, the flip side of U.S. troops making
the world safe for Wal-Mart and McDon-
alds is the other edge of the blade; nar-
rowing the parameters of freedoms and liberties in our neigh-
borhoods and in our everyday lives. Empire must own and
control its base, provide wonderful motivations for conformity
and terrible consequences for dissent and, most importantly,
make alternatives not only impossible but unthinkable. To-
day, everywhere; human beings, either individually or in as-
sociations such as governments, are increasingly incapable
of calculating possibilities because the freedom to choose is
an illusion. Like shoppers on an escalator or cattle prodded
through chutes, there is no room to maneuver. Behavior is
no longer innovative and spontaneous because conscious-
ness itself [to stand apart, the ability to give things meaning]
is hammered into a socially determined aspect of self. In a
corporate-owned world, most of us are trapped by the lack
of alternatives and increasingly, the inability to even imagine
options.
   Human praxis, the reflective process of thought and action,
has become stunted; liberty an illusion, and the notion of in-
dividuality a cruel myth. C. Wright Mills’ warnings, decades
ago, about the continuing constraints on human freedom by
those who have institutional and economic power has come
to pass. Political and economic tyranny, even the manipula-
tion of truth itself, has become commonplace, with little dis-
sent. Thus, the San Diego District Attorney can go before the
press and not only spoon feed local journalists a fraudulent
legal basis for her harassment and downright lies about her
victims’ personal affairs but is never challenged by the media
– even when her statements are not what the official court
documents say.
Dumanis, like any self-respecting addict, is hooked on the
egotism of power and the selfishness of wealth, the rewards
of Corporate-owned Capitalism, its high, its opiate, its ma-
terial comforts, its insatiable requisite for supremacy’s self-
definition and purpose.
Her place in the continuing cultural wars for economic pur-
poses where everything is made into a commodity and sold
at a price including even the health of one’s own body and
the alleviation of pain, is assured as she persecutes and pros-
ecutes medical marijuana users in San Diego. Her place at
the public trough, her personal wealth extracted from wealthy
corporate donors, especially the medical industry, overshad-
ows and is an affront to her membership in our Rainbow Co-
alition. The violence of stalking ill persons, particularly fellow
LGBT members, for personal ambition makes her addiction
to wealth and power even more sad and pitiful.
My mother advises me not to suggest a fierce District At-
torney is vindictive, deceitful, power hungry and a crook. Of
course, dear old mom lives in the far-off piney woods of the
Ozark Mountains and worries about her only son; she doesn’t
see the shattered lives and broken families that Dumanis has
scattered around San Diego neighborhoods.
My mother suggests that most politicians are dishonest
from the get-go and that the money District Attorney Du-
manis receives from selling her prosecutional powers to a
rich Chula Vista landlord to punish a local city councilman
for voting against one of his projects or to corporate lobby-
ists who reward her legal jihad against ill people who are
attempting to secure safe, legal, effective use of cannabis for
their pain - rather than expensive, dangerous, addictive pain-
killers packaged by wealthy corporations - is the reward for
being in office.
I assure my mother I have nothing personal against the
DA. In almost 20 years in San Diego, I
have never been arrested or even had
to pay a traffic fine. I can pity Dumanis;
her infirmity, her madness, the tyrannical,
autocratic abuse of authority for personal
gain, like Nixon or Abramoff, and still fight
the system that allows one person to have
so much power to destroy lives, circum-
vent state law and the will of California
voters and for great personal greed.
“The authoritarian ideology she rep-
resents, owned by corporate dollars and
backed by the armed might of all our
militarized forces is what I fight,” I tell my
mother, “not this tragic, fleshy android,
another piece of equipment in Empire’s
mechanism.”
The Love and Death of a San
Diego Hero  you to know that you can grow your own
Dumanis is, indeed, just another de-
lusional villain in a long list of San Diego
prosecutors and legal violence which,
under corporate-owned ideology and
the police power of local authorities, has
disrupted lives, harassed, entrapped and
imprisoned many innocent people and led
to the martyrdom of San Diego’s greatest
hero – Steve McWilliams.
The only time I ever saw Steve McWil-
liams laugh was in early summer of 2005;
little realizing that soon, like a Buddhist
monk wrapped in flames, he would use
his own life as a metaphor for justice and
light in a society gone blind with fear and
greed.
I stood there talking to him, as I often
did when he walked his dogs along the
sidewalk in Normal Heights, discussing
the weather, the dogs or the large garden
I tended. With great sadness, he looked
beyond my eyes, over my left shoulder,
watching the bulbous clouds as they slid
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through the blue-green brightness. As
the gray shadows moved over the dai-
sies and roses; he remarked how, as hu-
man beings, driven by either selfishness
or compassion, we can make the world
either ugly or beautiful.
On his walk back, where the street ends
at the edge of that great San Diego can-
yon, Mission Valley, he was on the oppo-
site side and watched as I came out of
the courtyard just as someone was pull-
ing their dog off the grass, leaving a large
pile of doggy doo. Now, I had a shovel
in my hand, so I scooped it up onto the
shovel and walked behind, yelling “sir,
you forgot something.” All the neighbors
came out to witness his attempt to ignore
the selfishness and contempt reflected in
this act. Steve joined in that communal
laugh.
It will take more than a shovel, even
a skip-loader, to trail behind Judge Reu-
ben Brooks or U.S. District Attorney
Carol Lam and all the other government
tyrants. Not even a freight hauler could
carry the blood, anguish, wasted lives in
prison, the pain and suffering they have
created in their obscene efforts to control
our lives.
McWilliams, nailed to a cross of pain
for his efforts, fought the power of the
state to regulate our personal freedoms
and choices, not only for himself but ev-
ery person in need of inexpensive medi-
cation without side effects. Yes, the truth
shall set you free, and the government
and media, both owned by powerful
pharmaceutical companies, don’t want
medicine in a coffee can, right there on
the table in front of the window, alongside
the geraniums and ferns.
If Steve, who suffered from severe neu-
ropathic migraines caused by a traffic ac-
cident, had continued
to quietly self-medicate
with marijuana, after
his arrival in San Diego
in 1997, he would still
be with us today. How-
ever, his integrity and
compassion drove him
to found, with his part-
ner, Barbara MacKen-
zie, Shelter from the
Storm, San Diego’s
first Medical Cannabis
Resource Information
Center.
He sought to not only
empower sick people
in pain with informa-
tion but to liberate them from the evilness
of store bought chemicals. Manufactured
dangerous pills; without long-term study,
threatening side-effects, developed pri-
marily to make others, CEO’s and wealthy
investors, richer.
He understood that the power of the
federal government has been bought;
from the President, through Congress
to the Supreme Court; ordered by their
corporate masters to make the world safe
for profit. This is what the War on Drugs
is all about, why there are over 2 million
young people, mostly of color, in our pris-
ons and jails; more than the rest of the
world combined.
Poor folks don’t have the resources
for Valium or Prozac, so they have been
criminalized, persecuted and stigmatized
by the fear mongers as an excuse, the
learning methodology, over the years,
to build the links of the chain - a prison
state, with the police and military in con-
trol, to protect the rich and to punish all
who dissent.
When President George W. Bush was
re-elected, a new phase in the clash of
freedom over corporate tyranny began.
The federal police system, using its years
of experience in the hoods and barrios,
moved its battle lines into middle-class
neighborhoods, to win the cultural war,
once and for all; to mop up the last ves-
tiges of hippie notions and free will. Us-
ing simple-minded, cruel Judges like
Reuben Brooks, who McWilliams called
“a wretched, evil little gnome” and ambi-
tious, ruthless agents of fear, like agent
Carol Lam, they sought total control of
our private lives.
And while the Obama administration
has sought to stand down a little on the
federal offense against marijuana users;
local right-wing elements and tyrannical
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ideologues, like San Diego Police Chief
Lansdowne, using his badge and taxpay-
er money to fund his goon squads, have
gone after San Diego medical marijuana
users, even though that use is protected
under city ordinances (as well as state
law).
Steve McWilliams called himself an “im-
peccable warrior” in his death letter. He
was facing the usual fascist response to
dissent - prison - and in increasing pain,
under court order not to grow or use the
natural herb of relief. Saying he refused
“to allow the government to control my
life,” his last words were that he had “giv-
en everything to the cause - all my pos-
sessions, my time and, now, my life.”
In an obituary posted on the IndyMedia
Website in July 2005, I wrote the following,
“our greatest tribute to Steve, will be our
own efforts toward overcoming hypocrisy
and selfishness; to fight this increasingly
cruel, authoritarian government on behalf
of our children and neighbors. Steve, like
all great and noble persons of history,
hands back through space and time the
courage to be free. His walk with love and
death widens that path that we all must
take; to make our lives meaningful, loving
and liberating.”
One of Dumanis’ Victims
In his brief 28 years, Eugene Davidovich
has followed all the rules, adhered to the
law and lived an exemplary life. Yet to-
day, he stands broken, alone, homeless,
persecuted and in daily pain. Clean-cut,
34 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
honest spoken, go-getting; he was a child
of the American dream, going from good
son to impressive student to serving his
country in the military. Afterward there
came a fine loving marriage, a young son
and a promising career in the computer
programming field.
When the migraines came several
years ago, he followed convention; vis-
iting his doctor, prescription after pre-
scription, with side-effects, until a friend
turned him on to the benefits of medical
cannabis.
Again, following all the rules; Davi-
dovich joined a medical marijuana col-
lective, got a doctor’s recommendation
and a city issued patient card. Self-med-
icating, effectively and cheaply, he con-
tinued his family’s support, confident that
he was a law-abiding citizen following the
guidelines issued by the California Attor-
ney General as outlined in Proposition
215 and adhering to the city codes and
ordinances that legalized and regulated
medical marijuana use.
Last year, along with other legal pa-
tients of citywide medical collectives and
cooperatives, he was swept up in what
appears to be an illicit conspiracy by the
Police Chief Lansdowne and the ambi-
tious Dumanis, to use the power of the
badge and the prosecutional muscle of
the D.A.’s office to overturn and nullify
city ordinances adopted by our elected
officials.
Representative democracy appears
to be under attack in San Diego as the
Police Department, under the apparent
orders of the D.A., has broadened a le-
gitimate campaign against drug use on
military bases and our campuses called
Operation Endless Summer into a witch
hunt against medical marijuana users,
particularly in our LGBT community.
Week after week, Davidovich and other
legal cannabis users, trudge down to City
Council meetings, hoping for fairness
and justice, using the open forum period
to plead their case. And week after week;
eight sphinxes sit, roll their eyes, study
reports and continue to ignore the per-
secution of San Diego citizens and the
usurpation of the representative process
in San Diego by dictatorial powers. Now,
they have added insult to injury by with-
drawing a mandate for city action on any
kind of protection from the predatory D.A.
and leaving the 30 or so dispensaries
in legal limbo at risk of more attacks by
Chief Lansdowne’s twisted priorities.
If the Police Chief can attack legal pro-
tected patients, as he is doing in Opera-
tion GreenRX; if the District Attorney‘s
office can tell a judge that they have ar-
bitrary and tyrannically decided that San
Diego’s ordinances and laws are invalid
[which they did at the preliminary trial of
Donna Lambert] without ever informing
the City Council or using the legal pro-
cess to go to a Superior Court or Federal
judge to get them overturned: then we
have moved ever closer to an Orwellian
state.
“I believe in our justice system, in the
rule of law,” Davidovich told me over cof-
fee when I interviewed him in late 2009,
“If I had done anything wrong, if I had
broken the law, then I would simply plead
guilty, accept a plea bargain and end this
nightmare.” His fight back is, indeed, our
struggle. If his rights, his legal protections
are not valid and can be withdrawn on a
prosecutor’s whim or ambition; then, are
any of us safe?
Davidovich, who followed the rules yet
ended up in this Kafka-like nightmare, and
all the other ill San Diegans who thought
they were protected by law, only to be at-
tacked and prosecuted by those very au-
thoritarian forces that should be protect-
ing their legal rights, need our help.
What We Can Do to Help Our
Fellow San Diegans in Pain
1.      Call, write or e-mail your Council
person and demand that they quit hiding
from the issue and develop ordinances
that protect the rights and access of legal
users of medical marijuana.
2.      Contact the District Attorney’s office
and insist that this blatant political use of
her office to persecute and prosecute le-
gitimate medical marijuana users stop.
3.      Contact San Diego Police Chief
William Lansdowne and suggest that de-
partment manpower spent lying to doc-
tors, falsifying documents, and infiltrat-
ing professional co-ops and collectives
should cease – scarce funds could better
be used to fight real crime against per-
sons and property.
Rocky Neptun is media coordinator for
the San Diego Renters Union and writes
for the website MediaLeft. He is a former
elected member of the City Heights plan-
ning board and served on the City of San
Diego’s Needle Exchange Task Force.
FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 35
 The addition of hemp in your life tendency to, such as whey.  Soy has
actually helps heal our planet and high amounts of phytic acid (anti-
our bodies! Hempseed is a high nutrient that prevents the body from
protein seed that includes all nine absorbing minerals) hemp seed
of the essential amino acids that does not.
our bodies require. Hempseed
the benefits of medical cannabis. contains a high amount of fiber, The following recipes are taken from Mother
Earth Co-op’s “Special Medicinal Recipes – A
fatty acids, vitamin E and trace Medical Cannabis Cookbook.”
Let’s do each other an enormous minerals as well as a rare protein Kim Twolan © 2008
favor and think before we speak! known as globule edestins that is
A useful mantra or acronym for very similar to the globulin found
This is a special month THINK is to ask yourself before
of love with Valentine’s Day on in human blood plasma. Hemp
you speak. Is it T=True, H=Helpful, seeds contain the most balanced
2/14, followed immediately by I=Inspirational,N=Necessary,
215. From this day forward, and richest natural single source of
K=Kind...if it’s not, don’t say it! essential oils for human consump-
let’s make a committed effort to MOTHER’S CANNA ICING
practice an assortment of unsys- tion. The essential fatty acids not (Icing)
Hemp has had multiple uses, first only help to restore wasting bodies,
tematic acts of compassion and documented in 770 AD. Since that
to bring peace and understand- but improve damaged immune 1/2 cup cannabutter
time, it has been used to make systems. 1 (16-oz) box powdered sugar
ing to each other and to our everything from rope to clothing, 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese
community! Imagine a shared paper and food. As a fabric, hemp 2 tbsp lemon juice (fresh)
vision, in which we all assume Hempseed has a balanced ratio of
filters the UV light; therefore your omega-3 to omega-6 fats, about a
responsibility for maintaining the skin is protected. It also resists Blend cannabutter and cream cheese
health of our community and three to one ratio. This will not cor- together and slowly add in the
bacterial growth. Hemp is a renew- rect your omega balance if it’s off,
truly show compassion. Let’s able resource. Hemp has four times powdered sugar (also known as Icing
celebrate what we have and but it gives you the right balance Sugar) and add a dash of salt. Blend
the strength of cotton so it won’t to start with and can help you feel thoroughly in food processor or with
dream for a time of peace. Let’s weaken when washed and softens better. The protein content of the electric mixer. Spread evenly over
appreciate everything that each the more you wash it. So buy a cake.
and every one of us is doing to hemp seed is easy to digest. Hemp
hemp T-shirt and add hemp to your seed protein does not cause gas or
assist in educating the public on diet. * Cannabutter recipe, please refer to
bloating like other proteins have a the first edition of NUG Magazine
PINA COLADA SPIKED SMOOTHIE BAKED PANAMA RED CABBAGE & APPLES * Kief recipe, please refer to the third
(Beverages) (Vegetarian) edition of NUG Magazine
1 medium red cabbage 1/2 cup seedless grapes
1 cup pineapple (crushed w/juice) 2 medium Granny Smith apples 1 medium onion (finely chopped)
1 tsp coconut extract 2 tbsp brown sugar 4 tbsp cannabutter
2 cups vanilla frozen yogurt 1/3 cup red wine 3/4 tsp white vinegar
1/2 cup ice cubes 3/4 tsp flour 1 tbsp flour
3 tbsp cannabis (very finely ground) 1 tbsp hemp seeds 1/4 tsp smoked salt
1 tbsp hemp seeds
Shred the cabbage; cook covered in small amount of boiling salted water for 5 to 8 minutes. Pare
and slice apples. Add vinegar to preserve the color. Drain and reserve 1 cup of liquid. Place layer
Combine all ingredients in blender. Process until of cabbage in greased baking dish. Combine grapes cut in halves, apples, onion, sugar, hemp-
completely smooth. Serve immediately. Makes 2 healing seeds and salt. Arrange in alternate layers with cabbage, making top layer cabbage. Add cabbage
servings. liquid and wine. Dabble with melted cannabutter. Cover and bake at 375 F for 1 hour. Shake flour
evenly over top and mix lightly with fork and bake 15 minutes longer.
Note: This healing beverage is reminiscent of a great
Note: Nutritious meal when served with brown rice and salad. Assists patients in digestion, relief of
Pina Colada with a curative twist to it. nausea and sleep.
38 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
 EFFIE’S ELECTRIC ROCKEFELLER CASSEROLE
(Casseroles)
JAMAICAN ME HOT
(Appetizers)
1 quart raw oysters 1/4 tsp anise seed
1 lb. cream cheese (room temp) 1/4 cup cannabutter 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 package crackers 1 stalk celery (chopped) 1/2 cup soft bread crumbs
1 bottle Jamaican hot pepper sauce 1 medium onion (chopped) 1/4 tsp ground pepper
1 jar mint sauce or mint jelly 1/2 cup parsley (fresh, chopped) 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp kief 1 bunch spinach (fresh, chopped) 1 cup parmesan cheese (grated)
7 mint leaves (fresh chopped)
2 tbsp hemp seeds
2 tbsp cannabis (finely chopped) 1/4 cup bread or crackers **
1 tbsp cilantro (fresh chopped) 2 tbsp hemp seeds 2 tbsp cilantro (fresh, chopped)

Place the cream cheese onto the center of a plate and
microwave for 30 seconds just to soften. Mix the kief and
hempseeds with the pepper sauce thoroughly. Pour the
hot pepper sauce over the cream cheese so that it drips
down the sides. Mix fresh chopped mint and cilantro with
jelly and pour on top of hot sauce. Serve with fresh cut
veggies and assorted breads or crackers.
Note: This is not recommended for patients with diges-
tive challenges; however this medicinal appetizer will
take away pain and help you totally relax.
GOD’S GAZPACHO TREAT
(Soups)
Preheat oven to 450 F. Grease a large casserole dish. Drain the oysters and arrange
in a single layer in bottom of casserole. Melt the cannabutter and sauté‚ the celery
and onions until they begin to soften. Add parsley, spinach, cannabis, hemp seed,
anise seed, Worcestershire Sauce, soft bread crumbs, salt, pepper and cayenne.
Spread this mixture over the oysters. BAKE casserole for 30 minutes. Remove and
if necessary, pour off water that has cooked from oysters. Sprinkle with grated
Parmesan cheese and a very thin layer of bread or cracker crumbs and cilantro.
Return to oven for 10 to 13 minutes or until slightly browned on top.
Note: If you enjoy Oyster’s Rockefeller, you will have the benefit of this medicinal
variation. If you must use frozen spinach then it should be thawed and drained. **
Cracker crumbs work great to substitute for toasted bread crumbs.

3 cups beef broth 1 tbsp dill (fresh, chopped)

2 small cucumber (peeled, sliced) 3 small plum tomatoes (chopped)
1 medium red onion (chopped) 1 small green or red bell pepper
2 bunches scallions (chopped) 2 stalks celery (chopped)
8 cloves garlic (chopped) 1/4 tsp cumin
1/4 cup cannabis (finely chopped) 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 cup cilantro (chopped) 3 cups V-8 Juice

Place all the ingredients for the soup base in a food processor or blender and
chop vegetables. Transfer to a large serving bowl or container. Stir in enough V-8
juice to give the soup a thick consistency. Cover and refrigerate for at least an
hour before serving. Serves 6 to 8

Note: Garnish with parsley and chopped vegetables.

RED VELVET SPACE CAKE
(Cake)

1 1/2 cups sugar 2 large eggs

2 tbsp cocoa 1 cup cannaoil
1 tsp coffee (ground finely) 1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda 2 oz red food coloring
1 tbsp vinegar 2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream cannabutter or cannaoil and sugar

together in a large bowl. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Sift flour, salt &
cocoa together. Add alternately with buttermilk. Beat together well, after
each ingredient is added. Sprinkle baking soda over vinegar and stir in
mixture. Pour equally into three greased and floured 8-inch cake pans.
Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Cool ten minutes and remove from pans.

Note: Although details are a bit sketchy there is a story that circulated in
the 1940’s, claiming that Manhattan’s elegant Waldorf-Astoria granted a
diner’s request for the recipe and billed her $100. The angry diner with
possible revenge in mind circulated the recipe along with her story. This
curative cake was inspired by the Waldorf’s Classic and is a deep rich
red color that is perfect for Valentines and works well topped off with our
Canna Icing recipe.
FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 39
OPEN VS.
CLOSED
LOOP GROW ROOMS
By: The Guru
2009 turned out to be a good
year for the growing community of San
Diego. Finally, the government is listen-
ing to what the people of California voted
for and is easing off the medical grow-
ing community. But what to do with all
these new people coming into the grow-
ing game, and in some cases flooding the
market? It’s simple. Be educated and pre-
pared; be a good gardener and produce
the best product you can by having the
proper grow room environment.
During winter, many growers
are having their best harvests. The envi-
ronment is the most important factor in a
grow room. If the environment is good,
then most anything will grow well. Fac-
tors such as humidity, temperature, air
quality, air circulation, ventilation or air
exchange, and CO2 levels determine an
environment. All of these factors must be
perfectly in line. There is a complete line
of environmental controllers and products
available to control all of these factors, for
the times you need it most, such as when
spring and summer approach us again.
There are two different ways to
set up a grow room. Open loop or closed
loop, also known as a sealed room. An
open loop system has open ventilation, or
a fan pushing air into the room and anoth-
er fan exhausting air out of the room. This
is known as ventilation or air exchange.
Exchanging the old air in the room with
fresh, cool CO2 enriched air. In an ideal
grow room you need to exchange the air
at least once every one to two minutes at
minimum. Personally, I like to exchange
the air about once a minute up to every
30 seconds. Some say that’s not necessary but
the more air exchange the better in an open loop
room. The air exchange is controlling three dif-
ferent elements in the grow room. It is controlling
the air temperature, the CO2 levels, and the air
quality. As the fresh air is delivered to the room
it brings cooler temperatures, flushing out the hot
air and replacing it with fresh CO2 enriched air.
The fresh air exchange, for air quality and CO2
replenishment, is one of the most critical factors
in a successful grow room.
Air circulation is just that, oscillating
fans or blowers moving and stirring up the air
constantly and keeping the plants moving gen-
tly. Bugs and molds don’t like wind and fresh air.
Somewhat like exercise, a plant works the stocks
and stems making them stronger, healthier and
larger by being gently blown around. By stirring
up the air and moving it around, the air never has
a chance to get stale or stagnant. All parts of the
garden should have air gently blowing through it.
There should be no dead spots, where air is not
moving is the most likely place that molds, fungi,
diseases and bugs will first appear and develop.
Oscillating fans should be spaced all around your
garden on the walls and at different levels en-
suring that the garden and plants have plenty of
fresh air flowing all around them.
As for the temperature, plants are most
comfortable in temperatures between 76 and 80
degrees. If temperatures get too high, even in the
mid 80s, the plant is not performing properly. Us-
ing an infrared temperature gun on the top leaves
of the plant, any hotter than 82 degrees and the
plant is not at optimal performance. A plant’s fruit
or flowers can develop airy and leafy as a result
of the plant trying to cool itself off. A plant will
stretch out and develop loose rather than tight
fruits as a method of keeping air flowing through
it. If temperatures get too hot, the plant is
not processing photosynthesis at 100%, and
molds, fungi, diseases and especially bugs are
likely to establish their colonies as they often
prefer warmer environments. If the room gets
too cold, below 70 degrees or so, then the
plant is not performing or growing to its full po-
tential. Approximately, a ten degree difference
in temperature between daytime and nighttime
is helpful in keeping the plant healthy and the
fruit or flower clusters tight and firm.
If your room is completely sealed,
and the vents bringing in and exhausting air
have filters on them, the chances of bugs and
diseases getting into the room are greatly less-
ened. As long as you don’t bring any dirty or
infected plants into the room, and don’t trans-
port something in from outside on your clothing
as you enter the room, then you will have a
bug and disease free grow room. You should
always wrap and line your walls with black and
white panda film with the white side facing in to
the grow room. Molds and fungus can’t absorb
into the plastic, as they can into wood, drywall
or any other porous surface. It’s easy to put
up using a contractors staple gun. Also make a
tight seal and cover your floors, and walls up to
the ceiling. It’s cheap and easy to put up and re-
place when sterilizing or cleaning a grow room.
Plants breathe or consume CO2
gas and convert the CO2 into oxygen. Without
plants in this world, the CO2 in the air would
kill us instantly. Plants are basically the oxygen
filters of the world. This is why it is so important
that our few rain forests left, like the Amazon,
do not get destroyed for profit any more. Day
by day, as they strip the forests of the trees,
the giant lungs of the world, they are stripping
away our natural filters. The rain forest is the
FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 41
grow cont.
perfect example of a sustainable
organic garden.
A plant must have the
proper CO2 levels in the air to be
a healthy plant, with a healthy im-
mune system, which will fight off
molds, diseases and bugs, and
produce healthy bountiful fruit.
Outside, the air we breathe has
about 400-450 ppm (parts per mil-
lion) of CO2 all the time. For plants,
this is a happy level of CO2. How-
ever, at levels around 200 ppm, a
plant can actually start choking or
suffocating. At levels this low the
plant will not be healthy and may
even die. Plants can use levels of
CO2 up to 2000 ppm, 4-5 times
that of normal ambient levels,
and achieve optimal growth and
production. Performance can be
enhanced by adding CO2 to the
room, increasing the levels sig-
nificantly. This can only be done
efficiently in a sealed or closed
room. This is why air exchange in
the room must be happening con-
stantly, ensuring the CO2 does
not drop below ambient.
In an open loop sys-
tem, supplementing with CO2 is
a bit wasteful since the fans are
constantly exchanging air in the
room, bringing it back to ambi-
ent CO2 levels in just minutes.
In most cases, especially here in
San Diego, a grower can not turn
off his exhaust and intake fans for
more than a few minutes without
the temperatures climbing too
high. Come summertime, don’t
even think about running CO2 in
an open loop system. The temper-
atures are too hot in the summer
and ventilation systems are run-
ning 24/7, constantly exchanging
the air in the grow room. There’s
really only one way to beat the
heat and other factors that affect
the grow rooms environment;
build and run a sealed room with
no exhaust!
Humidity is also a very
critical element that must be main-
tained at proper levels. The humid-
ity controls the transpiration rate
of the plant and how the nutrients
are received by the plant. Just as
with humans, if the humidity gets
too low, our skin can become dry
and flaky. We transpire by sweat-
ing more fluids out in lower humid-
42 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
ity levels. The humidity level is
like a pressure cap on the plant,
keeping the moisture in the plant,
allowing it to have proper transpi-
ration rates of the fluids. Ideal hu-
midity levels in a grow room range
between 50% to 70% in vegeta-
tive growth, and 50% to 60% for
flowering plants.
When humidity levels
drop too low, the plants transpire
at a rate much quicker than that
of nutrient uptake. The nutrients
or minerals do not transpire thru
the plant, only the water does. So
this leaves behind a concentrated
level of nutrients in the plant that
will actually cause a nutrient burn.
Most people don’t realize in situ-
ations like these that the humid-
ity could be responsible; usually
thinking that it is too many nutri-
ents in the reservoir. Just as a lack
of CO2 can cause a plant to go
dormant, low humidity can cause
a plant to have nutrient problems,
resulting from the transpiration
rate being much too high in low
humidity level environments.
Conversely, when hu-
midity levels get too high, moisture
is building up on the plants and
walls, forming whole colonies of
molds, fungi, and mildews. Even if
you had none of these developing
before the high levels, the mois-
ture would create the perfect en-
vironment for all of these to start
developing in a very short amount
of time. These pathogens will de-
stroy your garden if not taken care
of immediately. This is one more
reason why a controlled, closed
loop, sealed room is the best way
to build and run a grow room, as
you can control every element
of the environment with the right
equipment.
Compared to an open
loop room, a sealed or closed
loop system has no fresh air in-
take and no main exhaust. The
only air running into the room is
for cooling the lights and remov-
ing the heat from the room. Since
the fan is connected by ducting to
an outside fresh air source such
as a window or adjacent room,
the air never comes in contact
with the room air, as long as you
use proper air cooling lights with a
sealed glass lens. The air is sim-
ply brought in through the duct-
ing (always pushed, never pulled
through the lights) and pushes the
hot air out of the lights through fur-
ther ducting, normally up into the
attic, as heat rises.
With no fresh air ex-
change to control CO2 levels, air
quality, and humidity, how do you
control the environment? Simple,
by creating and building a sealed
closed loop grow room! By using
equipment such as air condition-
ers, humidifiers and dehumidi-
fiers, and supplemental CO2, ei-
ther a CO2 tank with a regulator or
a CO2 burner. You must also have
a CO2 monitor on both of these,
and possibly an environmental
controller to synchronize all the
components together to create the
optimal grow laboratory. Check
out www.CAPcontrollers.com to
view a complete line of environ-
mental controllers, CO2 genera-
tors and burners. The Fuzzy Logic
CO2 controller and monitor is one
of my favorites (all come with a
3 year no hassle warranty, and a
winner of the High Times Stash
Awards). A simple charcoal filter,
with an inline fan for scrubbing
and recalculating the air, is also
needed to accomplish this prop-
erly. The filter or scrubber in this
case is running through the room,
constantly cleaning the air free of
molds, fungi and diseases.
The air conditioner is
definitely the main component to
this sealed closed loop room. A
true AC is recirculating the same
air in the room. The air never
leaves the room! These types of
AC units are usually referred to
as split unit ACs. It has vents in
every room putting cold air into
the room, and also has a return
duct of equal CFM (cubic feet per
minute) creating equal pressure,
cooling the same air over and
over again. This allows CO2 to be
run efficiently and not be wasted
as the air is moving and recirculat-
ing. The only loss of CO2 is that
which the plants have consumed.
The AC also acts as a natural de-
humidifier, so you need to watch
your humidity levels in case the
AC is dropping the levels in the
room below ideal. The closed loop
and sealed room only work with
the right AC unit, one that has a
return and recirculates the air.
The amount of BTUs
produced by the AC unit that you
will need to cool the room is based
on the amount of heat that is being
produced by the lights. With qual-
ity AC units, you will need 4000
BTUs for each 1000 watt light,
even with air cooled lights. I like
to rate them at about 4500 – 5000
BTU’s per 1000 watt light to en-
sure that it covers my CO2 burn-
ers’ heat as well, and that the AC
motor is not running at max load
which is harder on the AC motor
and costs more in electricity. Any
motor running at lower than max
load will run more efficiently for
the most part. So when purchas-
ing an AC, it’s not a bad idea to
get one larger with more BTUs
than you actually need. One of the
most impressive AC units I have
seen is the Kwikool. They are por-
table and offer true recirculating at
commercial levels, and do not al-
low any of the air from the room to
contaminate the outflow exhaust
duct which could allow unwanted
odors out of the room.
Finally, you have the
CO2, the life of the plants and the
grow room. Since the tempera-
tures, humidity, and air qualities
are controlled at this point, you
just need to supplement CO2 with
a burner or tanks. But instead of
being at roughly 450 ppm of CO2
in the air as in an open loop room,
we can increase the levels up to
1500-2000 ppm with the right
equipment. By doing this, we can
enhance the plants metabolism
rate and its growth, and flower-
ing will be dramatically enhanced.
Plants don’t use CO2 when they’re
sleeping so it would not be on dur-
ing the night cycles.
So with either open or
closed loop systems, if you main-
tain high levels of CO2 and all oth-
er factors in the ideal range, you
will have the perfect grow room.
end.
 SCIENCE
HEALTH
Published
Study Shows
How Cannabis
Inhibits
Brain Cancer
This is a guest blog by cannabis
researcher and ASA Medical &
Scientific Advisory Board
Member Jahan Marcu
As a member of ASA’s Medical &
Scientific Advisory Board, I’ve been
actively engaged in pursuing further
evidence of the medical efficacy of
cannabis-based medicine. Some of
this work occurred while I was work-
ing at the California Pacific Medical
Center Research Institute (CPMCRI),
and yesterday the findings of that work
were published by the peer-reviewed
journal Molecular Cancer Therapeu-
tics. With this study, we have shown
that cannabis compounds can work to-
gether to inhibit glioblastoma (GBM),
one of the nastiest and most aggressive
of all brain cancers. GBM is the type
of brain cancer that caused the recent
death of Senator Ted Kennedy.
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the
most prevalent compound found in
the cannabis (marijuana) plant. Many
studies have focused on THC and its
therapeutic qualities; however other
compounds in the plant should not be over-
looked from a medical and scientific stand-
point. In fact, the recently published study
illustrates how THC and other compounds
(known as Cannabinoids) found in the can-
nabis plant work synergistically to kill cancer
cells and reduce tumor size. The anti-cancer
effect, which is mediated through the activa-
tion of cannabinoid receptors on cancer cells,
has been shown through both in vitro and in
vivo experimentation.
The other most abundant compound in the
cannabis plant is Cannabidiol (CBD). One of
the main findings of our research was how
THC and CBD act synergistically to inhibit
GBM brain cancer cell proliferation. The re-
search team at CPMCRI, lead by Dr. Sean
McAllister, discovered that a ratio of about
4:1 of THC to CBD resulted in a synergis-
tic or enhanced killing effect. This THC and
CBD combination was determined after as-
sessing anti-cancer activity resulting from
the interaction of THC with some of the
more-than-70 cannabinoids found in the can-
nabis plant.
Interestingly, the individual doses of THC
and CBD
had little
effect on the
cancer cells
or other pro-
teins in the cells.
However, when these
two compounds were combined,
the amount of cell death, or apoptosis,
dramatically increased. And, as if this
wasn’t enough, our research team discov-
ered another potential breakthrough from
the combined use of THC and CBD — a
decrease in the protein known as ERK (extra-
cellular signal-regulated kinase). The levels of
ERK, often associated with cancer found in the
body, were only affected by the combination
of THC and CBD, suggesting that these com-
pounds either converge on a shared pathway
or together they activate a specific response in
cancer cells.
Since these cannabinoids are relatively non-
toxic and selectively kill cancer cells, large dos-
es can be provided for in vivo studies. Hence, a
direct injection to the site of the tumor or cancer,
versus the more widely used methods of smoke
or vapor inhalation, may be the most efficient
for killing cancer cells. With more targeted ap-
plications, a much higher concentration of the
active ingredients can be used without toxic
side effects. We also speculate that other, non-
cannabinoid components of the plant may also
improve anti-cancer activity.
An improvement in the life expectancy of
people with GBM has not occurred in 50 years,
and because GBM is so aggressive and effec-
tive treatments have not yet been found, this
study may represent a major breakthrough in
the field. The next obvious step is further test-
ing of how this combination of cannabinoids
affects brain cancer and finding ways to put this
important discovery to use.
FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 45
 AMA Report Recognizes Medical
Benefits of Marijuana, Urges
Further Research
Largest and oldest U.S. physician-based
group reverses long-held position on
Houston, TX -- The American Medical Associa-
tion (AMA) voted recently to reverse its long-
held position that marijuana be retained as
a Schedule I substance with no medical
value. The AMA adopted a report drafted
by its Council on Science and Public Health
(CSAPH) entitled, “Use of Cannabis for Me-
dicinal Purposes,” which affirmed the therapeutic
benefits of marijuana and called for further research.
The CSAPH report concluded that, “short term controlled
trials indicate that smoked cannabis reduces neuropathic
pain, improves appetite and caloric intake especially in pa-
tients with reduced muscle mass, and may relieve spastici-
ty and pain in patients with multiple sclerosis.” Furthermore,
the report urges that “the Schedule I status of marijuana be
reviewed with the goal of facilitating clinical research and
development of cannabinoid-based medicines, and alternate
delivery methods.”
The change of position by the largest physician-based group in the
country was precipitated in part by a resolution adopted in June of
2008 by the Medical Student Section (MSS) of the AMA in support
of the reclassification of marijuana’s status as a Schedule I sub-
stance. In the past year, the AMA has considered three resolutions
dealing with medical marijuana, which also helped to influence the
report and its recommendations. The AMA vote on the report took
place in Houston, Texas during the organization’s annual Interim
Meeting of the House of Delegates. The last AMA position, adopted
8 years ago, called for maintaining marijuana as a Schedule I sub-
stance, with no medical value.
“It’s been 72 years since the AMA has officially recognized that mari-
juana has both already-demonstrated and future-promising medical
utility,” said Sunil Aggarwal, Ph.D., the medical student who spear-
headed the passage of the June 2008 resolution by the MSS and
was one of the CSAPH report’s designated expert reviewers. “The
AMA has written an extensive, well-documented, evidence-based
report that they are seeking to publish in a peer-reviewed journal
that will help to educate the medical community about the scientific
basis of botanical cannabis-based medicines.” Aggarwal is also on
the Medical & Scientific Advisory Board of Americans for Safe Ac-
cess (ASA), the largest medical marijuana advocacy organization in
the U.S.
medical marijuana
The AMA’s about face on medical
marijuana follows an announcement by
the Obama Administration in October
discouraging U.S. Attorneys from taking
enforcement actions in medical mari-
juana states. In February 2008, a similar
resolution was adopted by the Ameri-
can College of Physicians (ACP), the
country’s second largest physician group
and the largest organization of doctors
of internal medicine. The ACP resolution
called for an evidence-based review of
marijuana’s status as a Schedule I con-
trolled substance to determine whether
it should be reclassified to a different
schedule. “The two largest physician
groups in the U.S. have established
medical marijuana as a health care issue
that must be addressed,” said ASA Gov-
ernment Affairs Director Caren Woodson.
“Both organizations have underscored
the need for change by placing patients
above politics.”
Though the CSAPH report has not been
officially released to the public, AMA doc-
umentation indicates that it: “(1) provides
a brief historical perspective on the use
of cannabis as medicine; (2) examines
the current federal and
state-based legal envelope relevant to
the medical use of cannabis; (3) provides
a brief overview of our current under-
standing of the pharmacology and physi-
ology of the endocannabinoid system;
(4) reviews clinical trials on the relative
safety and efficacy of smoked cannabis
and botanical-based products; and (5)
places this information in perspective
with respect to the current drug regula-
tory framework.”
Sex Pot Remember The Daze
An outrageously funny comedy that delivers just what it says; pot Remember The Daze comes off as your typical,
smoking and a lot of nudity. Geeky virgin stoners, Spanky and Mert cheesy high school movie with a bunch of suburban
get caught peeping on their bi-sexual neighbors, find a stash of Afri- kids played by amateur actors, doing the best they
can magic grass that works like an aphrodisiac, and then get invited could with a horrible script. It’s the last day of school
to a party where the aforementioned neighbors will be. They set out before the summer of 1999, (I wonder where I’ve
seen this plot before). The characters were not very
on a mission to get to the party, smoke
interesting and the story does little to hold your atten-
out the neighbors, and get laid. What tion through the entire hour and forty one minutes.
could be more hilarious than two stoners Now let me be fair, if you’re under the age of 18 you
on their way to a party, with some really might find some good in this movie. It has your ran-
great, sex inducing pot? Well, throw in dom cast of high school students, who all drink and do
Mert’s older brother’s crazy ex-girlfriend drugs while they
Pinky, two prostitutes named Cherry, a figure out what
chick with a dick, and Princess who finds they are going
out that she is not good at turning tricks. to do with their
lives. If you’re
Have yourself a good time with this laugh
an older movie
out loud movie that you will want to watch watcher like
again and again. me, you should
Puff, Puff, Pass not feel too bad
One of the funnier stoner movies I have about skipping
right over this
seen, this movie takes its rightful place
film. If I can give
next to cult classic movies like Friday, any advice at all
Half Baked, and Dazed and Confused. it would be this;
It has a plot that only a pothead could just because a
love…What do two stoners do after they movie has the
decide to go into business for themselves word Daze in it,
and get evicted from their apartment all does not guar-
in the same day? Find a place to watch antee you a good movie. I smoked a lot of weed hop-
the Shawshank Redemption marathon ing it would make this movie easier to stomach, but
in the end all I ended up with was the munchies and
on TNT…With a memorable cast of
an uncontrollable urge to take a nap. I was able to
characters and a few good stoner jokes, find some kind of silver lining during the time I wasted
Puff, Puff, Pass delivers on everything watching this movie; warm chocolate brownies with
you have come to expect about a good peanut butter spread on them and a scoop of vanilla
stoner movie. This movie will have you laughing from beginning to ice cream make for one amazing dessert.
end, a must see for every pot smoker with a little time to kill.
48 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
Gone are the days of the wake up
show, The Mixx Masters and any
real live DJ-ing. What happened
to the creative process and the live
aspect of a radio show? I thought it
would be appropriate to pay hom-
age to those who have kept this vi-
tal art alive. San Diego has always
had talented DJs like DJ Fingaz, DJ
MikeSki and the great Disco Rick
(R.I.P) just to name a few. As a for-
mer radio DJ, I wanted this article to
be fair and unbiased, so I recruited
the help of my 13 year old daughter
(Sabrina) to find me some elite DJs.
After two hours of listening to tons
of music we came across giantsa-
rise.com, which led us to Sleeping
Giant Music.
NUG: Tell us about Sleeping Giant Music.
SGM: Sleeping Giant Music started some six years ago as a full
service agency for artists and DJs based out of San Diego. We
handle everything from their marketing to booking, even ordering
any supplies they need, allowing the artist to focus on being an
artist.
NUG: How did SGM come about?
SGM: Originally Blest, One Son and I started with a name; got a
logo design to brand our mix tapes and our music, and we were
always in the studio at that time just doing music. It wasn’t really a
business, maybe more of a record label than an agency, but over
the years it turned into everything you see now, a place where we
can house everybody’s materials.

This label from San Diego, has a DJ NUG: Why the name Sleeping Giant?
roster like no other; the who’s-who SGM: One Son came up with that name. He always felt that San
of the DJ community in “America’s Diego was a sleeping giant, a city with talented artists, musicians,
Finest City.” DJs like Fresh One, and DJs who were just waiting to explode on the national music
Chris Cutz, Demon, Who, the in-
scene; but nobody has ever played them. One of our goals was to
famous Mike Czech, and the ever
so skillful Mikey Beats, the premier awake the sleeping giant and put San Diego on the map.
DJ for Monster Energy Drinks. I
knew we needed to talk. After a
few e-mails and some phone tag,
I received an e-mail from Freddie
Harb (Founder) simply stating an
address and a thank you… not to
me, but to my daughter for choosing
them for the article. They must read
the magazine!

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NUG: What advice would you give to that up and coming DJ?
SGM: I would tell them to definitely be skilled in the trade, be very knowledgeable in music and have
some type of marketing presence.

NUG: The internet, love it or hate it?

SGM: We embrace the internet. Our site is the central hub of all of our stuff: social media, FREE
downloads and pod casts, and guest list access to all of our events.

NUG: With over 13 DJs on your roster, how do you keep them all happy?
SGM: Put it this way RAS, a paid DJ is a happy DJ! Make sure their checks come quickly and make
sure their needs are taken care of.

NUG: With Valentine’s Day approaching, which DJ do you recommend for my wife and me to sip
some wine and puff a J to?
SGM: I would suggest Beatnick’s pod casts for a worldly vibe if you just want to chill at home and do
your thing; each DJ offers something different, it really depends on what you’re into. We also have
music by Self Sounds, One Son and Miki Vale, which is worth looking into.

NUG: What’s the best way for a DJ to contact you?

SGM: You can contact John Chase in our A&R (Artist & Repertoire) department at john@giantsar-
ise.com or a&r@giantsarise.com.

SUPPORT YOUR



•ARTISTIC
•BEATNICK
•CHRIS CUTZ
•LSDJ’S
•MIKEY BEATS
•MIKI VALE
LOCAL DJ
NEXT MONTH PART 2:
•DEMON •MIKE CZECH
•DON DADA •ONE SON

SLEEPING GIANT DJs FRESH ONE

•FRANKIE M •SCOOTER
•FRESH ONE •STILL LIFE
•JON SAUTTER •W STEELE
•LAVELLE •WHO
and MIKEY BEATS

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FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 53
 Can You Feel the Rhythm?

NUG Magazine Interview with BY: BEN G. ROWIN

Rhythm and the Method

We have had our eye on the San Diego
music scene long before we started this
I caught up with Rhythm to ask her a few questions about the band and was surprised
to learn that she in fact is a medical marijuana patient. She knew about our magazine
publication! That is why we always bring and was excited to do an interview for the NUG readers.
our readers music coverage. San Diego
NUG: I understand you grew up in a music filled household. Tell us a bit about how that
has a reputation for launching artists. With
helped develop your passion for music.
some huge national acts coming out of
San Diego and some of the best undiscov-
Rhythm: Because my parents were playing all kinds of different old records constantly,
ered talents gracing our local venues, San
we were always surrounded by music. Not only that, my mother sang in a chorus, and
Diego has been regarded by some as one
my father has played music in San Diego since the 70s. My brother and I both played
of the top music cities.
in bands throughout our adolescence, including school concert and marching bands.
The thing that developed my passion the most was the unwavering love and support we
One local band that has always been
had from our parents, in particular our father. He was so excited that his kids were in to
on my radar is Rhythm and the Method.
music, and now he is livin’ the dream by playing along side them.
Rhythm and the Method is a San Diego
based band that is in a genre of their own.
NUG: I know your father and your brother and you have been playing music forever
Mixing rock, blues, soul and a little funk
basically, when did you officially start playing together as Rhythm and the Method?
with powerful, poetic lyrics written and
belted out by Rhythm Turner. Rhythm has
Rhythm: Rhythm and the Method began in 2005 with just the three of us. We booked
a soulful voice and an amazing stage pres-
ourselves residencies at a place called 5ifth Qtr. (now Whiskey Girl) and the Hot Monkey
ence. The band is compromised of five tal-
Love Café, which helped us build our repertoire and fan base while we looked for other
ented and accomplished musicians includ-
musicians to fill out the band.
ing Rhythm’s father and brother, keeping
the line up a family affair! Rhythm’s father
NUG: I remember reading an article in San Diego CityBEAT about the hate crime as-
“Papa Shawn” Turner and her brother
sault that happened to you last year. Can you tell our readers about what happened?
Evan both play guitar, and bassist Laura
Payne and harmonica player Nick Walsh
Rhythm: I posted a video on YouTube about it (Rhythm Turner: Hate Crime Survivor)
round out the group
that explains in more detail, but basically this guy approached me and my girlfriend at
the time outside of a bar in Mission Beach and was harassing us about us being lesbi-
Growing up in a house full of musicians,
ans. Things turned real ugly very fast and he ended up attacking me, breaking my nose
Rhythm began her love for music as a
and eye bone. Luckily, my brother was nearby and was the one who ended up appre-
small child, reaching a level of comfort
hending him and ensuring his arrest. The perpetrator was arrested on felony battery and
on stage that you would not expect from
assault charges, but not for a hate crime.
someone her age. I was really impressed
the first time I saw this young lady live!
NUG: WOW! I can’t believe that! I hope that guy does a grip of time! We at NUG are
The Method is tight to say the least, the
very supportive of the LGBT community and believe, as with the case of medical
members of the band give off the vibe that
marijuana, that ALL humans have the right to make their own choices. Whether it is the
they have been playing music together for
choice of who you love or what you use as medicine. I also understand that you had
their entire lives and some of them actu-
to have surgery and without insurance it was difficult to get together the funds, but that
ally have!
54 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010

you had an outpouring of help from the
community with some donations. Can
you tell us about that support and how
it helped you get through that troubled
time?
Rhythm: The outpour of support from
my family, my band, the LGBT com-
munity, the music community, and the
network of people, both friends and
strangers, was really the thing that kept
my hope alive through this terrifying
experience. I have been able to turn
this trauma into a catalyst for change,
and an opportunity to raise awareness
on many fronts. Although my face has
healed up very well, I am still struggling
every day to learn how to live my life as
the survivor of a violent crime. It really
does change everything…and I want
to let everyone who has gone through
something like this know that they are
never alone, and that you can reclaim
your power, self-love, and your life.
NUG: You talked in our last conversa-
tion about being a medical marijuana
patient; can you tell us about how can-
nabis has helped you?
Rhythm: After the incident happened,
I was prescribed pain medication, but
was always very interested in pursuing
alternative healing methods. Not only
do I already practice Buddhist chanting
and meditation, during this time I got re-
ally into acupuncture, chiropractic, and
tuina massage. A friend of mine who is
a medical marijuana patient suggested
that I get an evaluation. I went and was
prescribed cannabis not only for the
physical pain, but also to help deal with
the extreme anxiety associated with
my insomnia and especially my Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It
worked well for me, and did not have
the side effects of the pharmaceutical
medication originally prescribed.
NUG: What is your favorite collective?
Rhythm: My favorite is California’s
Best Meds! They have a great selection,
and more than that, the people there
are genuine and really care about their
patients. They also have great patient-
appreciation days like “Free Joint Mon-
day” and “Tasty Thursdays” where they
give a free edible with any donation.
NUG: Thank you for taking the time out
to speak with us, we wish you the best
of luck in the future and will continue to
watch you climb! Tell our readers where
they can find your music and about any
upcoming shows.
Rhythm: It was my pleasure! And thank
you, NUG Magazine, for not only sup-
porting Rhythm and the Method, but
many other notable causes including
local music, art, and politics, as well
as giving a voice to those who are in
support of the pursuit of human rights!
Also wanted to give a shout out to a
couple close friends who really made
Rhythm and the Method possible: Yuri,
Chach, Jade and Noa! They have been
our behind-the-scenes support from the
start!
Please check out our website
http://www.rhythmandthemethod.com
as well as our Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/rhythmandthemethod
for music, pics, upcoming shows and
news updates. We also have tons of
videos and press releases, which you
can browse through by simply search-
ing our name on the web in quotes (i.e.,
“rhythm and the method”). We really
hope to see you NUG readers out at a
show! Thank you so much for your sup-
port…we couldn’t do what we are doing
without you!
FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 55
Loving Hut
Mon-Fri: 11a.m.-2p.m., 5p.m.-9p.m.
Sat: 11a.m.-9p.m.
Sun: Closed
1905 El Cajon Blvd.
San Diego, Ca 92104
(619) 683-9490

Loving Hut is a unique little hole in the wall restaurant with a positive
green motif and healthy Asian-style food. Loving Hut is packed with
pleased patrons, who pour in to devour their 100% vegan menu. Loving
Hut has an appetizing variety of Asian-style dishes (with mock-meats)
and a few seafood and western specialties. I tried the Loving Hut burger
and was content with the taste, quality, and size of their burger and
yummy fries. I also treated myself to a peacefully pink drink made of,
cranberry juice, soy milk, and sprite (odd combination, yet tasty with the
perfect zing!)

Their motto is a positive message for the future, “Be veg---go green-
--save the planet,” and on the wall are positive thoughts about being
vegan. This holistic hut strives to bring in the best quality organic and
fair-trade foods. I was unable to pack away one of their good-looking
variety of desserts, but I can not wait to try one on my next adventure to
the Loving Hut. I felt the love!

Evolution

2949 5th Ave (at Quince)
Mon-Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 550-1818

Evolution, formally known as Nature’s Express, is the perfect place to follow

through with your New Year’s resolution of eating healthy and going-green!
Evolution leads the green way, using corn-based biodegradable and recyclable
to-go containers and napkins. They take all eco-friendly and health conscious
measures by providing 100% vegan food, and utilizing as many fair-trade and
organic products as they can. They have it all; from mock-burgers, pizzas,
organic soda and shakes, to a variety of buffet-style raw foods, salads, and fresh
juice bar juices, and don’t forget the wide variety of delicious raw and vegan
desserts.

There is a glossary on the buffet wall of all the alternative foods used in Evolu-
tion’s delicious menu. If indecision comes your way, I recommend the “chicken”
chipotle sandwich and their shakes, which are made with hemp milk! They too
understand the powerful health and nutritional benefits that hemp and cannabis
produce.

Across the street from Balboa Park, Evolution has a conveniently placed drive-
through (perfect for picnics), and on the other side is the restaurant and out-door
patio, armed with unique metallic life sized sculptures, created by a local artist.
Evolution is filled with inspiring cool employees and good vibes. Don’t miss
out on this scrumptious treat, and do not forget about the juice bar open from
11-6, everyday of the week, and often holidays too!
58 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
Ranchos
3910 30th St.
Mon-Sun: 8 a.m.-10 p.m.
San Diego, Ca 92104
(619) 574-1288

Hidden behind a lattice of flowers and vines is Ranchos, offering fun

Mexican style vegetarian and traditional cuisine. Full of the Hispanic
culture and littered with an assortment of pictures of inspiring artist and
revolutionary people, such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Pancho Villa,
and more. Ranchos has a wide variety of options for everyone; this place
is perfect for vegetarian options (as well as vegan ones!) along with real
meat...everyone leaves happy!

Not only do they have a few eat-in locations, they also do to-go, and ca-
tering! Their menu reads “Made fresh daily with the finest ingredients…
rice and beans made vegan…sauces made from scratch...” as well as this,
“organic fish, and coffee, and as many fruits and veggies possible,” and
they use organic soy milk for their non-dairy liquados and smoothies that
taste great!

It is great to have places to eat that are leading the way in serving more
eco-friendly foods and products. These restaurants are spreading a very
positive message of eating naturally, and giving us a place to enjoy the
good grub and cool art.

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60 NUGMAG.COM | FEB 2010
By Scott “Scotty B.” Whytsell

ebruary is here and what’s

that smell in the air? No, not
that one silly…LOVE, love
is in the air. At least that is
what the card companies
want us to believe, but as most of the
male readers out there know, this is the
month where many of us stress out and
act like robots shopping for cards, can- Southern California
dy and flowers, hopefully not at the last Los Angeles: LA Confidential
minute! Blah, blah, blah! How about a
new twist on this concept? Pack your overnight bag and don’t forget your munchies! Book online with Amtrak.
com to take a train up to LA. Round trip ticket prices for two from San Diego go
With Valentine’s Day falling on a Sun- for a mere $116 for the 2 hour and 40 minute ride.
day this year, why not celebrate LOVE
& LIFE by going out for a ROMAN- A visit to Santa Monica Beach & Pier is one of the most romantic things to do in
TIC GETAWAY WEEKEND? Whether Los Angeles. Casually exploring the pedestrian Third Street Promenade makes
you’re madly in love, or just looking for a great afternoon. The street is lined with bars, restaurants, shops and street
for mad love; here are a few creative entertainers. Just follow the fresh ocean breeze 2 blocks west, and you’re at
suggestions for you. I’ve also included Santa Monica State Beach and Pier, with its famously retro seaside amusement
what I feel to be the most appropriate, park and ferris wheel.
albeit most obvious, accompanying
bud for each destination.
Northern California
San Francisco: Chocolate Thai
Depending upon your budget, you first
should decide whether you want to stay
What goes great with California wines? Chocolate! Flights from San Diego to San
somewhat local, venture up state, out of
Francisco can be found from around $400 each. For the most romantic sunset
state or out of the country. Rather than
walk, the walking path at Crissy Field provides a west-facing view of the Golden
dealing with traffic and crowded lines
Gate Bridge. Time it right, starting about an hour or so before “official” sunset and
in shopping malls, go online from the
you can watch the lights come up in the city on your way back.
comfort of your home to websites like
Orbitz.com or Travelocity.com to book
transportation and lodging for your ex-
citing and adventurous weekend.

FEB 2010 | NUGMAG.COM 61

 Out of State
Hawaii: Maui Wowie

Airline tickets to Oahu start at about $620 per person. If snorkeling

is on your list of things you like to do, you’ll find Hanuama Bay a nice
“snorkel and sand” excursion for the day. You can rent your gear
there. The water is fairly calm, and the underwater visibility of the
coral is quite nice!

The bay is easy to get to, even if you don’t have a car. Currently, Bus
22 takes you straight through Waikiki and east to Hanuama Bay.

International
Jamaica: Skunk

Feeling a little hedonistic and have your passports ready? Take the
short 7 hour flight to Montego Bay. A driver can meet you at the airport
and transport you safely to the 7-mile white sandy beach of Negril.
Pack lightly because the average temperature for February is a very
comfortable 75 degrees. For a truly authentic taste of Jamaican hos-
pitality, I recommend staying on the beach at “Mom’s Place”. Rooms
are priced at $65 or $75 depending on whether you want air-condition-
ing, and the food they serve is to die for!

Hope the suggestions I give here spark the “travel bug” in all of you.
Happy Trails!

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420 Science
The guys at 420 Science sent us a generous package with a
sampling of their products to review. The story of the two indi-
viduals that started this company shows exactly the kind of moti-
vation to achieve one’s goals that I love to see! Two roommates,
working in totally different fields, came together to do something
that they both enjoy. If you have the time, I highly recommend
reading their story on the website.
Now on to the review…they sent over the 420 Scope. This pow-
erful mini microscope magnifies for 60-100X, getting you right in
there to see the trichromes. It is useful for growers, but also for
regular cannabis consumers. You will be able to see the ripe-
ness, potency and if there is any mold or mildew on your can-
nabis.
They also sent us an assortment of their glass jars. Air tight,
assorted sizes obviously, but they go a step further for their cus-
tomers. You can go on their website, choose the size you like,
the type of lid, and even customize it with a vast assortment of
decals! The decals aren’t just stickers either; they are painted
on and are super clean! Sizes range from an x-small that holds
1.5 grams, all the way up to a gallon size that holds up to 336
grams!
Check them out online at www.420jars.com
Enjoy Jars
Looks like this is the month for cannabis containers! We received some jars from
Enjoy Jars that are really unique! The main difference with these jars is that they are
designed with the ability to store up to 4 strains, completely separate in one odor-
proof jar! Designed for the medical cannabis user, these jars lock in the freshness
of your medical herbs and keep in the skunky smell! Another cool feature is the fact
that you can label each strain with a permanent marker and when you are ready to
add a new strain just wipe off the old label with rubbing alcohol and you have a clean
canvas to write on! Each section of the jar holds up to 5 grams of herb.
Check them out online at www.enjoyjars.com
Handguns for Hearts Clothing
100% hand printed clothing made with love in California. These guys sent
us some samples of their t-shirt line. They have really cool graphics and
are all made in house. The slight variances of each shirt make them one
of a kind! The shirts are printed on 100% cotton, and wash and wear well!
As always, we love to see individuals doing what they love, and you can
tell the guys at Handguns for Hearts love what they do!
Check them out online at www.handgunsforheartsclothing.com
To get your products reviewed send samples to:
NUG Magazine
Product Reviews
9880 N. Magnolia Ave #168
Santee, CA 92071
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 UPCOMING EVENTS
FEB 01
The Supervillains and
Mike Pinto
At The Casbah @ 8:30
 
Lady Dottie and The Diamonds
At U31 every Monday @ 9
 
Dub Monday
At The Office
Every Monday @ 9
 
Reggae Night
At Stage Bar
Every Monday @ 8
 
FEB 03
Roots Covenant
At Diamond Jim’s
Night Club @ 9
 
FEB 04
The Mighty Diamonds
At Belly Up Tavern @ 9
 
Roots Covenant
With Edi Fitzroy
At Gallagher’s @ 9
FEB 05
Medical Marijuana
Task Force Meeting
At SD City Hall @ 9am
The English Beat
At Belly Up Tavern @ 9
Michael Palmer
At 710 Club @ 9
 
Raiz Muzik
At The Leucadian @ 10
 
Badfish (Tribute to Sublime)
At House of Blues @ 7
FEB 06
Bob Marley’s “65th” Birthday!
 
Fundraiser for Haiti
At Portugalia @ 9
LA Skasifieds and
Steel Foundation
At The Flying Bridge
Reggae Night
Every Saturday @ 8
 
Fortune Youth, Tribal Theory
and HI Roots
At Winston’s @ 8
 
Four Minutes Till Midnight
and High Tide
At 710 Club @ 7
 
FEB 07
Super Bowl!
 
Tribe of Kings Presents:
Up Town Ranking At U31
Every Sunday @ 9
 
The Devastators
At RT’s Longboard Grill
Every Sunday @ 9
FEB 09
ExtravaGANJA
Howard Rover
At La Jolla Comedy Store @
8:30
FEB 11
Sound Tribe Sector 9
At House of Blues @ 7
 
FEB 12
Stranger
At Winston’s @ 10:30
G Love and Special Sauce
And Red Eye Empire
At House of Blues @ 7
 
North County American’s
 for Safe Access Meeting
At 1050 S. Sante Fe Road,
Vista @ 7
 
FEB 13
SO CAL NORML meeting
At World Beat Center,
@ 10AM
Without Papers
And Ziggens
At O’Connells @ 8
 
Rootsicali and Seedless
And Shoreline Roots
At Beachside Grill @ 8
 
Mike Pinto
At Jumping Turtle @ 9
 
Ray at Night Art Walk
in North Park @ 6
 
Babylon Saints
At The Leucadian @ 9:30
Los Lonley Boys
At Belly Up Tavern @ 8
 
FEB 14
Valentines Day!
FEB 15
President’s Day!
 
Tribute to Reggae Legends
“Bob Fest 2010”
At The Sports Arena @ 12
 
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FEBRUARY 2010
Project: Out of Bounds
FEB 26
Tomorrows Bad Seeds
At Winston’s @ 9 At Winston’s @ 8
   
Mardi Gras North County American’s
Downtown San Diego @ 6  for Safe Access Meeting
  At 1050 S. Sante Fe Road,
FEB 19 Vista @ 7 If you think your event is
Medical Marijuana NUG worthy,
Task Force Meeting 619 you can add it to our list
At SD City Hall @ 9am At Second Wind Santee @ 9 by emailing us at
 
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At The Leucadian @ 9 At Hennessey’s Tavern @ 9
   
Raiz Muzik Stick Figure
At JJ Purty Launders @ 9 And Jack Maness
  At Gallagher’s @ 9
FEB 20
Ladera Skateboards presents:
Winter Blackout.
The Expandables
And Iration
At The House of Blues @ 6
 
The Devastators
At Winston’s @ 9
 
Stick Figure
And Mystic Roots
At 710 Beach Club @ 9

FEB 23
San Diego American’s for Safe
Access
Movie Night At 6070 Mt. Alifan
@7
 
FEB 24
Rhythm And The Method
At Humphrey’s Backstage
Lounge @ 8

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