Some ideas and useful suggestions for parents to help PREVENT youth drug use, especially the use of the extremely HIGH POTENCY Marijuana sold today (25-90% THC). GET EDUCATED YOURSELF! The most dangerous forms of MJ (and have the highest level of THC) are Edibles.
1. Talk to your children. Have short and frequent discussions (hopefully at a family dinner meal) about the real situation that they are confronted with at school and with friends.
2. Pay attention to what is going on with your children, their friends and ask questions.
Listen to answers and what they are sharing or avoiding to talk about.
3. Be a positive role model.
Children watch what YOU do, not always what you say. If there is a party at your home for youth, do not allow drinking or areas for them to separate from the crowd. Again KNOW what is going on and intervene if necessary.
More ideas to come.
Keep your children safety, healthy and educated. Do it with LOVE.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Saturday, June 25, 2016
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MJ edibles sales are EXPLODING: Watch your children carefully
Inside
incredibles, the Willy Wonka Company of Marijuana Edibles
420 Intel - Your
Source for Global Marijuana Industry News!
June 24, 2016
Edibles sales
are exploding. Legal cannabis sales hit $5.4 billion in 2015 according to
ArcView Market Research, and dispensary owners say edibles sales might make up
as much as half of that. In Colorado alone, the state's Department of Revenue
said edibles sales jumped from more than 3.3 million infused edible units (sold
from Jan-Sept of 2014) to more than 5.6 million over the same timeframe in
2015. A big chunk of those
sales came from incredibles. Yes, their brand is spelled in all lowercase
letters (thanks, Pixar).
Along with big
names such as Dixie Elixirs, BlueKudu, Cheeba Chews, and, of course, Leafs by
Snoop (though there are countless others across Colorado, Washington, Oregon,
and California), these businesses are rapidly expanding and angling for
national exposure. If any companies are positioned to become the
Hershey's and Nestlé of legal edibles, it's brands like incredibles. We
caught up with Medically Correct LLC founder and President Bob Eschino
(Medically Correct owns incredibles) at Cannabis World Congress (CWC). In the
video above, he talks about scaling the operation nationwide while still
taking care to churn out delicious, mouthwatering chocolates and confections.
The edibles
market is a fascinating one to dissect. These big manufacturers need to mix,
process, and ship assets on a massive scale, while maintaining strict
control over THC levels and seed-to-sale compliance. The incredibles brand has deep
market saturation in Colorado (see map below), with products sold in the
lion's share of dispensaries across the state. The company has plans to expand
its recreational edibles sales in Oregon, Washington, and hopefully California
soon if this summer's key referendum passes. Though the key to building a
brand on par with Wonka Chocolates is making great-tasting edibles that sell
out of dispensaries, there are no golden tickets, but the company's foil
packaging is tough to miss on shelves.
The incredibles
brand is best known for its chocolate. In PCMag's special 4/20 Facebook live
show featuring Flowhub, we even made a mock dispensary sale featuring
incredibles products.
In the
incredibles factory, you'd see the assembly line pumping out bars of Salted
Cookies and Cream, Mile High Mint, Affogato, Boulder Bars, Black Cherry CBD,
Strawberry Crunch, Blueberry Bliss, and Peanut Butter Buddha, and more. Several of the edibles have won awards
competitions, like the THC Championship, Munchie Cup, and High Times Cannabis
Cup. The extra-special-chocolate maker also sells concentrates, vape pens, and cannabis-infused
gummies called "gum-e's."
Since its
founding in 2010 by Medically Correct, incredibles has become the leading
edibles brand in Colorado, sold in more than 760 dispensaries for both medical
and recreational use. As with all legal edibles, every product's cannabinoid
levels is tested in state-certified labs. The company is also getting into
recipes and education on safe edibles consumption.
The incredibles
factory is a grow lab, a kitchen, and a production operation all in one. The
facility currently pumps out between 5,000-7,000 per day. The kitchen and
lab area of the factory operate out of an 8,000-square-foot building employing
executive chefs experimenting with recipes. In the Class 1 Division 1
ETL-certified extraction lab, technicians are constantly tweaking purity levels
and extraction techniques. The company employs 60 employees in Colorado, and
plans to open kitchens in five other locations by the end of 2016.
As with all
cannabis businesses, the company still currently faces significant hurdles when
it comes to banking and capital access, or lack thereof, though there is a bill
called the Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act sitting in congressional
limbo. Until the banking quandary is sorted out on a federal level, incredibles
is making the most of its space and keeping the focus on consistent product and
the human touch.
"My
partners have come from large-scale commercial kitchens that produced
20,000-30,000 items a day. We know how to perfect a recipe and duplicate it
consistently all day long," Eschino told PCMag. "We are not in a
position to fully automate some of our processes because of packaging and the
quality control we have in place, thus, we are still handmade and manually
checked throughout the process. We check and double-check, test and test again
throughout manufacturing."
Medically
Correct also applied for its grow license in 2014, and incredibles now
maintains a hydroponic field of 100 flowering lights as well, with plans to
build out 400 more in the Denver, Colorado facility by year's end. The capital
restrictions have thus far kept all of the operations in one place, so imagine
walking from room to room, building to building, through fields of marijuana
plants, bustling kitchens full of bakers, labs of extraction scientists, and
the edibles manufacturing facility itself.
Faced with a
factory landscape strewn with infused chocolates and candies amidst fields of
hydroponic plant grows and—we would all hope—a rich, creamy THC chocolate
river, any self-respecting cannabis enthusiast might be apt to pull an Augustus
Gloop.
Friday, June 24, 2016
Marijuana: Business Owners Beware by Roger Morgan
MARIJUANA: BUSINESS
OWNERS BEWARE!
Marijuana is not a harmless drug. With THC
content starting at 15% and ranging as high as 96%, it is no longer a soft
drug. It doesn’t kill by overdose but it is a gateway to drugs that
currently kill 129 Americans daily, almost all of whom started their journey
with pot. But overdose isn’t the only adverse outcome of marijuana
use. If you are a business owner or operator, it behooves you to know the
following:
The Human Cost of Marijuana -
For the sake of your families and employees, it behooves you know that pot can
cause permanent brain damage and loss of IQ by up to 8 points;
psychotic breaks that have and are leading to violent acts and suicides, mental
illness including schizophrenia, paranoia, bi-polar disorder and suicidal
depression; addiction, more than for any other drug; birth defects; cancer and
respiratory problems; and is a major cause of traffic fatalities. Any or
all can adversely affect employees. Employers have a moral and possibly
legal right to expect a safe and drug-free environment.
US Post Office – A
US Post Office study revealed that marijuana users had 75% more absenteeism,
caused 55% more industrial accidents and 85% more injuries.
(NIH) Marijuana use by employees adversely affects productivity and your
insurance rates, while posing a safety problem for other employees and
potentially the general public. Employers could be held liable for
impaired drivers or machine operators who cause an injury accident while on the
job.
Marijuana Negatively Affects
attention, memory, learning and cognition. Being fat soluble, it stays in
the body and brain for 30 days, compounding with each additional hit. A
recent UC Davis study showed that young people who consume cannabis will have
lower incomes, greater welfare dependence, more criminal behavior and lower
life satisfaction, meaning they won’t be your star employees. A study in
Sweden of 45,000 reported by CBS revealed that 40% of teens who were heavy
marijuana users died before age 60.
Addiction and Mental Illness -
More people (9% of adults, 17% of adolescents) are addicted to marijuana than
any other drug. Addicts can’t work effectively, if at all. To feed
their habit they have to steal or turn to other crimes. Today’s highly
potent pot affects people differently, but roughly 30% of users have a use
disorder, which includes addiction, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, et al.
none of which can be condoned in a safe, drug-free and productive work place.
Impact on Society and Customer Base –
It is important to remember than only 8% of the adult population consumes pot,
mostly at the expense of the 92% who don’t. Cultivation sites consume
massive quantities of water (6 gallons per day per plant), pollute the earth
and water tables pesticides and fertilizers, kill animals with rodenticides and
diminish the quality of life and real estate values. Having a safe,
healthy community is more important to most businesses than catering an
industry that earns their living through illicit drugs.
Economic Impact of Drug Use
adversely impacts everyone. The life-time cost of a high school dropout
is $392,000 (UC Santa Barbara Research). A study called Shoveling Up,
done (www.casacolumbia.org)
at Columbia University showed that in 2005, 19.5% ($19.9 billion) of the
California budget was absorbed by substance abuse, of which marijuana is a
major factor. Less than 1/3rd of
1% was spent on prevention and the balance shoveling up the damage and treating
the wounded. This horrible economic policy affects us all as taxpayers
and business owners. This State policy still exists today, and needs to
change.
Employers would do well to require a drug test
before hiring, and implement a policy of random drug testing as a
deterrent. Employers have the right to reject employment for anyone who
uses marijuana. Doing so would be sound, safe and responsible
policy.
____________________________
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR ….
ROGER
MORGAN Chairman/Founder,
Take Back America Campaign,
20
year anti-drug activist dealing with drug prevention at the local, state and
national level. (www.tbac.us). Formerly Chairman and
Executive Director of the Coalition for A Drug-Free California. Owner/CEO of
Steelheart International LLC, engaged in international business development and
has been an entrepreneur and businessman in California for 35 years. He
was Founding Chairman of the Coronado SAFE Foundation in 1997, a non-profit
dealing with drug prevention; prior Board Member of the San Diego Prevention
Coalition; member of the National Coalition for Student Drug Testing; and
Special Advisor to the Golden Rule Society in Coronado.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Check out report on what is happening in CO and Washington and MJ legalization
New
SAM report documents impact of three years of marijuana legalization in
Colorado and Washington
Human
cost of industry-friendly policies include higher marijuana use among minors,
more marijuana-related DUIs, more child poisonings
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February
17, 2016
Contact:
Jeffrey Zinsmeister
+1
(415) 680-3993
[WASHINGTON,
DC] - Using data from Colorado and Washington, a new report compiled by Smart Approaches
to Marijuana (SAM) shows that marijuana use is up, driving incidents related to
marijuana have increased, and poisonings and ER admissions from THC use are on
the rise in both Colorado and Washington. The report, available in English and Spanish, is an update from its first
iteration released in January 2015. It represents an effort to compile
publicly-available information about the health and safety consequences of such
policies.
"By
almost every measure, the negative consequences in Colorado and Washington are
piling up," said Kevin Sabet, President and co-founder of SAM.
"Just because our government is not documenting the problems
systematically, it doesn't mean it can't be done. It's important people
understand what the facts say - and reject the spin coming from Big
Marijuana."
Jo McGuire, co-chair of Colorado
SAM, agreed. "We rushed to legalize marijuana in Colorado without a
full understanding of the consequences. Now that we see those
consequences, we must rethink the solution. The right policies clearly do
not include the massive commercialization and glorification of drug use for
profit of an industry."
Among the report's findings:
• Colorado now leads the country in past-month marijuana use by youth,
with Washington in 6th place.
• Past-year use rates in both states are far outpacing the national
average.
• Marijuana is now related to a record high of 33% of DUI cases in
Washington state.
• Marijuana poisonings are up 148% in Colorado since legalization, and up
153% among children 0 to 5 years old.
• In 2015, drug crimes rose 12.5% in the city and county of Denver, and
homicides were up over 74%.
• An outsized impact on minority and disadvantaged communities in Denver,
with one lower-income neighborhood reporting a marijuana business for every 47
residents.
"What we are seeing is the natural
consequence of industry-friendly policies on human health and safety,"
noted Jeffrey Zinsmeister, SAM's Executive Vice President.
"The
results will surprise no one that has seen the size and power of the marijuana lobby
in these states -- a lobby that is now seeking special treatment in other
states like Massachusetts and Maine via ballot initiatives."
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Dr. Fox & Sandra Elliots' TV SPECIAL Tomorrow June 22 airing @ 7:00pm in Marin Cty or on Youtube
EXCITING NEWS ABOUT DR. LYNN FOX AND SANDRA
ELLIOT
5-PART
WEEKLY TV SERIES:
“TEACHER EXPECTATIONS & STUDENT
SUCCESS”
Show #3 is being aired
Wednesday, June 22th @ 7:00pm PST
On Channel 26 (Comcast) & 99 (AT&T) and YouTubes:
Go to Substituteteacherhandbook.org
for more dates and times.
After 5 months of production,
Dr. Lynn Fox and Sandra Elliot’s TV
shows will be airing weekly on Wednesdays @ 7:00 pm PST
The program entitled TEACHER EXPECTATIONS
AND STUDENT SUCCESS is a 5-week series that share how teachers can
enhance all students’ academic performance, behavior and
attendance in schools regardless of age, grade (K-12), gender or
ability levels including Special Education.
PLEASE watch each Wednesday
night throughout the summer to find out about the 15 Student & Teacher Interactions that
make a HUGE difference with students/children & youth. Three (3)
interactions will be shared each week.
The series of 5 shows will continue to be
aired throughout summer June 22-September 14.
If you miss one, you can pick it up later on TV or re-watch shows or see on
YouTubes.
Series #1
Series #2:
You will see the results immediately. Be sure to watch every Wednesday night @ 7:00 pm to find out about ALL of these important
shows that provide specific strategies for teachers and others.
All teachers, educators,
parents, grandparents & other viewers will find helpful ways to support
their students/children do better in school and at home.
BROADCASTED FIVE WEDNESDAYS
JUNE 22, 29 & JULY 6 @
7:00-7:30 pm
All shows will be repeated 3
times.
July 2@2-July 23 on WEDNESDAYS @ 7:30 pm
THERE ARE 3 WAYS TO VIEW THE PROGRAMS:
1. ON
TV
Marin County in CA:
JUNE 22-SEPT 2016 Wednesday
nights @7:00-7:30 pm
CHANNELS 26 (Comcast) OR 99 (AT&T).
****The series of 5 shows
will continue to be aired throughout summer. If you miss one, you can pick it
up later on TV or re-watch shows
Pacific Coast TV in CA
Premiers July 2nd
July 2@2-July 23 on
WEDNESDAYS @ 7:30 pm
*Start on inline with a) CMCM
link, then b) Watch and then click on c) Community and d) start the tape.
Also:
PacificCoast.TV
3.
YOUTUBE VERSIONS
(Available for anyone FOR A WEEK AFTER AIRING DATE)
*Posted now IS SHOW #1 & 2 First 6 of the 15 interactions &strategies.
*Each
Wednesday 3 new interactions will be posted:
Go to www.substituteteacherhandbook.org for specific dates and
times for posting of YOUTUBE specials
Series #1
Series #2:
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Feel free to go to our website for more
information and to check out our book: Make a Difference in a Day: A pocket-size
handbook for beginning and substitute teachers and additional work we’ve
done in the education arena and beyond. www.substituteteacherhandbook.org
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