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The Greatest Modern Miracle
Let’s say it plainly: the State of Israel is the greatest modern miracle of the Jewish people. Not the kind of miracle you have to accept on faith. Not something passed down through ancient texts or debated in classrooms. This is a miracle you can see and touch. You can argue about it and criticize it…but you can’t escape it. After 2,000 years of exile and persecution, the Jewish people returned to our ancestral homeland and rebuilt a sovereign nation. That alone should amaze us.
Why Ganja Should Be Re-Legalized in India
Author Ed Rosenthal traces how international pressure criminalized a plant long woven into Indian life, and why he believes it is time to bring ganja back under regulation. Follow Ed on Instagram. When I first visited India in 1981, cannabis cultivation was still legal in certain regions. During that trip, I photographed a large, government-regulated ganja farm—an experience that left a lasting impression. The plants were grown openly, harvested responsibly, and taxed by the state.
High Quality Strains for Hobbyist Growers
PHOTO Erik Christiansen / Nugshots I asked some of my favorite seed breeders to suggest their best cultivar for home growers. The stipulations were that each was easy to grow, adapted easily to different environments, and most importantly, that it had a distinctive personality. The breeders responded with some great suggestions for quality strains. Each cultivar is handsome, above average and potently effective.
5 Ways Cannabis Harvesting Has Changed in the Last 8 Years
When we reported and edited Marijuana Harvest (2017) we had yet to see the impact freezing the crop instead of drying it would have on the world. Today, as much as half or more of the commercial crop is thought to be frozen immediately upon harvest, for use in making extracts. All that live resin and live rosin going into vape pens, jars, and now edibles comes from freezing the fresh crop instead of the traditional 2-week drying.
Ed Rosenthal’s Indian Mission: Re-Legalizing the World’s Oldest Ganja Culture
Ed Rosenthal isn’t just the “Guru of Ganja”. He’s the man who turned more people on to pot than Cheech and Chong. For more than fifty years, Rosenthal has taught the world to grow, fought the federal government in court, and pushed cannabis legalization from California to the Caribbean. Now he is looking east, to India, the birthplace of ganja culture, where a centuries-old relationship with the plant was erased under Western pressure but never truly died. Rosenthal’s connection to India runs deep.
Jewish Press of Tampa
Having just been through two hurricanes, this week’s (Nov. 2) Torah Portion, Parshat Noach, hits very close to home. We are still reeling from the devastation left in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. So many people in our community have lost so much. Some have lost everything. Piles of debris still line our streets. Homes, business, and lives have been decimated.
Spider Mites: Public Enemy #1 of the Indoor Garden
Symptoms Early symptoms include “stippling”—small necrotic (browned-out dead) spots on the tops of leaves; parched yellowing leaves that droop, turn brown, and fall off; spider-like webs, egg casings, and little black balls of fecal matter on the undersides of leaves, sometimes starting with the lower leaves and working up. The little suckers are not insects, but arachnids, the same class of animals, Arachnida, as spiders and ticks.
Increasing Oxygen in the Root Zone
By Ed Rosenthal Keeping the Roots Happy: The Importance of Oxygen Most growers know about the importance of carbon dioxide (CO2) to plant growth. Very briefly, the plants mine the gas from the air, of which it comprises about .04%. As the percentage increases or decreases, plants’ growth rate follows, increasing or decreasing. For this reason, growers often enrich the air with CO2 during the lighted period. Plants also use oxygen (O) during their life process.
From the Archives: Adventures in the Cannabis Trade (1999)
High Times @hightimes ¬∑ Apr 2, 2023 Since my early youth I had dreamed of becoming a writer and plant scientist. However, during high school and college I was drawn to other matters and studied in a totally different area. Somehow, my natural inclinations broke through. My work as a writer for HIGH TIMES has helped me live a f Media Also In ūüćÄ Cannabis Also In High Times Also In Media By Ed Rosenthal Since my early youth I had dreamed of becoming a writer and plant scientist.
What’s in a name?
A few years ago, I met a student at Eckerd College whose name was Sarah Schwartz. She was an intelligent, friendly young woman, and we were having a lovely conversation. After a while I said to her: “I’m the campus rabbi.
From the Archives: The Steps to Legalization (1989)
By Ed Rosenthal For a long time, activists have been waiting for NORML to start a political legalization drive. Years ago, California NORML had a functional organization. However, currently it’s in the hands of a Board of Directors who combine the worst qualities; uncreative amateurs who have only a marginal interest in the issue. Activists such as Dennis Peron, Jack Herer and Dr. Todd Mikuriya are consistently barred from any policy-making role.
How to Know Which Plants to Grow
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Tu B'Shevat: So much more than Jewish Arbor Day
By ohtadmin | on January 18, 2022 By RABBI ED ROSENTHAL Executive Director, Hillels of the Florida Suncoast Self-awareness is an important characteristic of any individual. So, I am well aware of the fact that when a Jewish holiday comes around, I say it’s my favorite holiday (except for Tisha B’Av), but this time I really mean it. Tu B’Shevat is my favorite holiday. Just a quick refresher for those who don’t know about this holiday which falls on Jan. 17.
Holidays: new and old
By RABBI ED ROSENTHAL Executive Director, Hillels of the Florida Suncoast When Juneteenth was signed into law last month as a national holiday, I was very happy. It represents an important day in our nation’s history and affirms the integral part that African Americans have and continue to play in the life of our country. As a happily married, heterosexual male I promote LGBTQ+ events at USF and proudly march with my students in Pride parades.
Be like Moses, not like Pharaoh
By ohtadmin | on January 18, 2021 The Torah Portion this week, Va’era begins the epic drama of the Ten Plagues of Egypt. God told Moses to tell Pharaoh to free the Jews from slavery. To prove God’s power to Pharaoh, Aaron is told to hold the staff of Moses over the Nile so that the river, and all the water in Egypt, would turn to blood. Of course, Aaron did as Moses told him to do. He stretched out the staff over the Nile and the river turned to blood, killing all the fish and animals in it.
Friday Book Club: Beyond Buds
“Beyond Buds, Next Generation: Marijuana Concentrates and Cannabis Infusions” by Ed Rosenthal and Greg Zeman Topic Focus At this point in the game, good ol’ fashioned smoking of cannabis has become a touch old-hat as more people embrace this futuristic wave of extraction methods to enjoy cleaner modes of consumption coupled with higher concentrations of THC.
Image or substance: What binds us all
Back in January, the New Year ushered in COVID-19. The world virtually shut down, and since then over 4,500,000 cases have been recorded in the US alone with over 153,000 deaths. The Economy has been eviscerated and there are currently over 40 million Americans out of work. And now, the streets of America are filled with tens of thousands of people protesting racial injustice and the murder of an unarmed black man by police in Minnesota.
Welcome to the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum
2109200 The Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum is the oldest and most distinguished museum in the world dedicated to cannabis. Since opening in 1987, the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum has welcomed over two million visitors. The museum manages and presents a unique collection that reveals the amazing versatility of the cannabis plant. Discover a colourful and creative look at the intersection between tattoos and cannabis, developed in collaboration with the compilers of the book Stay Stoned.
Building a Wick System: An Easy Way to Grow
Photos courtesy of Ed Rosenthal Leading cannabis horticulture authority Ed Rosenthal delivers useful ideas for starting your own homegrow in his book “Ask Ed: Marijuana Success.” Here, we’ve featured an excerpt about creating a wick system. Are you ready to join Rosenthal in his backyard experiments? The wick container system is an easy way to garden because it’s self-watering and removes the uncertainty of when to water.
Salvation Canyon: A True Story of Desert Survival in Joshua Tree
By Ed Rosenthal 172 pages with color search and rescue map. June 2020. Paperback. Ebook also available. $16.95 | 9781733957977 A Los Angeles poet’s hiking vacation turns deadly in soaring Mojave heat; his true survival story leaves you with chills. Ed Rosenthal, “The Poet-Broker”, advocates for historic properties in downtown Los Angeles and negotiates to save them. In 2010, after closing his biggest deal, he skips town to Joshua Tree National Park, only to find himself inexplicably lost.
Ed Rosenthal's Guide to Understanding Nutrients
When plants cannot get the nutrients they need, they do not function properly, adversely affecting growth and yield. This can occur in any growing medium, while using any planting mix or technique — coir, rock wool, soil, soil-less, hydroponic or aeroponic. Plant disorders are characterized by their symptoms, which appear more quickly in hydroponic gardens than in planting mixes or soil. An overabundance of nutrients can result in nutrient burn or toxicity and can also lock out other ingredients.
Terp Terms 101 | Cannabis Now
Photo Gracie Malley for Cannabis Now As legalization speeds (or crawls) forward and we learn more about the plant and how best to enjoy it, a whole slew of new words and scientific terms have made their way into the mainstream of cannabis culture and it can be hard to wade through the haze and keep up. But worry not — your days of working off third-rate definitions from the internet are over.
Water Hash 101 from ‘Beyond Buds, Next Generation’
Photos Ed Rosenthal, The Dank Duchess Water hash is a favorite method of making concentrates employed all over the world. Its name comes from the water process used to collect glands from the trim, leaf and buds. On a fundamental level, the process works because cannabinoids are not water-soluble, meaning that the desired resins are not damaged by contact with water and ice.
A Journey to the Heart of Moroccan Hash
Picture yourself in a valley with no other crop than cannabis. Everywhere, all you see are plants as tall as your thigh. From the hotel window, you see just the street, abandoned construction and then cannabis stretching over the valley and up the hills — the crop so valuable that even the steepest mountains are terraced for ganja. I was first here many years ago, before the European entrepreneurs changed the landscape. The hash then was so impotent I could hardly get high from it.
The Rosin Revolution
Rosin is a concentrated blend of terpenes and cannabinoids extracted using a method sometimes called “rosin tech” (RT). It’s the simplest, least-expensive way to extract concentrate from raw buds or hash for more effective dabbing. Instead of a chemical process, rosin tech relies on heat and pressure to squeeze cannabinoids and terpenes from the source material. It’s a very fast process: A batch of rosin can be produced in moments and consumed immediately.
Op-ed: Stop finning sharks. They generate more revenue in Florida in the water than in a bowl of soup
click image photo by Jeff Rotman via the Smithsonian Institution A freshly cut dorsal fin from a scalloped hammerhead shark. When I was a kid there were two movies that scared me to death: The Wizard of Oz and Jaws . The Wicked Witch of the West was the scariest thing I had ever seen – until I was 14 years old and Jaws came out in the theater. I went with some friends and the ticket line wound around the building.
10 Cannabis Books To Stock In Your Highbrary
PHOTO Pixabay No other plant has garnered quite so much attention as the humble weed plant. Throughout history it has been celebrated — even deified — for its curative and euphoric properties. But, especially in recent decades, it has also been vilified, wrongly categorized and cast into the center of raging controversy.
New Cannabis Book Releases for Fall 2018
Trying to keep up with all the new information in the cannabis industry? One of the best ways we do it here at Marylyn is to read as many of the new cannabis books and magazines as we can! Continually updating ourselves in this fast paced and every changing market is the only thing we can do to stay on top of it. Here are the new cannabis books scheduled to come out this Fall.
California Could See Cannabis Coffeeshops on the Beach
As with California adults who want to grow their own marijuana, the luck of Californians who want a convenient place to consume it varies from place to place. For adults in conservative jurisdictions who live close to a school, for example, the legal landscape will look a whole lot like prohibition from the vantage of their bedroom closet, blinds drawn, and smoke filtered through a tube of toilet paper with a napkin of fabric softener wrapped over one end.
Marco Pave Spreads Social Activism Through Music & Cannabis
The massive “cannagar” is practically billowing smoke as we pass it back and forth between us on the top-floor patio of a lodge in the outskirts of Seattle; roughly 12 grams of cannabis with 3 grams of rosin, all wrapped up in cured cannabis leaves — the cannagar is the perfect expression of decriminalization and the freedom that comes with it. My smoking partner — Memphis, Tennessee-based rapper and activist Marco Pavé — is relishing that freedom with particular gusto.
The Waldos, 420 & A Commemorative Beer
If you squint hard enough, at the right places, Marin County, California in 2018 can resemble the Marin County, California, of the early 1970s. If Hunter S. Thompson was right, and the ethos of “San Francisco in the middle sixties” was a great wave of different, resistant energy that would break, crash and recede into the hedonism, selfishness and cynicism that marked the decades to come, at least some of the refugee flotsam from that idealist crest survived.
How to Test the Moisture Content of Your Cannabis
The moisture percentage of marijuana is an important figure to know, but the shift in that percentage when buds go from drying, to curing, to packaging for sale are — for the most part — mysterious and subjective. In my book “Marijuana Harvest,” we provide various tests for determining moisture throughout the stages of post-harvest processing. None offers a truly objective measurement, but the community uses them all the time for want of a better system.
FEBRUARY Growing Culture - Culture MagazineCulture Magazine
by Ed Rosenthal | February 1, 2018 Jared, a breeder from Pakalo Seed Company, in the trial garden. Hawaii is fabled for its fine cannabis. I attended the Hawaii Cannabis Expo in February 2017 in Oahu. I expected to sample some fine entries, and I was not disappointed. The intense sun at latitude 21° (for reference, Key West, Florida is latitude 24°) and the mild island weather create great cultivation environments.
Marijuana Harvest Guide: 10 Tips for Hand-Trimming
Trimming marijuana is the preparation of the bud after it’s been cut from the plant. How and when buds are trimmed depends on the grower’s goals and strategy. The purpose of the marijuana harvest is to separate the highest-quality part of the plant, the ripe female flowers (buds), from the stems and leaves. The bud is the cannabis plant’s jewel. It’s a clutch of flowers that continues to grow for 6 to 12 weeks.
Marijuana Salves, Oils & Topicals for Healthier Skin | Cannabis Now
erbs have been used to treat skin problems for thousands of years. Five thousand years ago, Ayurvedic practitioners used marijuana preparations. Cannabis-enriched lotions, salves, and other topically applied products are still used today. Marijuana’s active ingredients — cannabinoids and terpenoid essential oils — are absorbed through the skin for direct therapeutic effect.
Cannabis Now Gets Certified Dank | Cannabis Now
athered in the front garden on the mild spring afternoon are some of the most important minds in marijuana. The table has been set with glass pipes only slightly used after enjoying the first nip of our strain tasting sections and we’re on to the next round. I take a deep, satisfying pull of a joint filled with Aficionado Seed’s In the Pines and pass it to Ed Rosenthal directly on my left.
South Dakota Hemp Bill Passes Committee, Moves to House | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet The South Dakota Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee has approved a measure that would legalize full-scale hemp production in the state, designating hemp as an oilseed, according to a South Dakota Public Radio report. The committee passed the bill 9-2. Proponents pointed to the success of North Dakota’s pilot hemp program, but opponents were concerned that the federal government could crack down on hemp farmers.
Colorado Officials Moving on Denver Social-Use Rules, Considering State-Wide Legislation | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet Members of Denver, Colorado’s Social Consumption Advisory Committee are set to hold their third meeting next week, continuing to devise rules under which the voter-approved Initiative 300 will operate in the city.
Bill Sealing Low-Level Cannabis Possession Convictions Heads to NY Senate | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet A proposal to seal criminal records of individuals arrested for possession of cannabis in public view in New York has passed the State Assembly 95-38 – if it’s approved by the Senate it could impact more than 800,000 convictions in the state. Citizens charged with possession in public view are often accused of the crime only after being subjected to controversial stop-and-frisk searches.
Jamaica Approves First Preliminary MMJ Cultivation, Processing Licenses | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet Jamaica’s Cannabis Licensing Authority has issued its first conditional licenses for medical cannabis cultivators and processors in the island nation, according to a Jamaica Observer report. The licenses were approved for two small cultivators, and one small processing facility.
Sacramento Sheriff Doesn’t Believe Sessions Will Crackdown on Legal Cannabis Industry | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet In an interview with Capital Public Radio, Sacramento, California County Sheriff Scott Jones indicated that he has had conversations with Attorney General Jeff Sessions about cannabis policy which lead him to believe that Sessions will maintain the status quo in states with legal cannabis programs.
Arizona Industrial Hemp Bill Passes First Hurdle | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet Arizona’s Senate Committee on Commerce and Public Safety voted 6-1 to approve industrial hemp production, processing, manufacturing, distribution, and commerce by licensed growers and processors in the state, according to a Capitol Media Services report. The measure must be approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee before moving to the full Senate for a vote.
Sweden Approves Two Chronic Pain Patients for MMJ | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet Two patients suffering from chronic pain have been approved for medical cannabis use in Sweden, marking the first time the condition has been deemed eligible to access the nation’s program, according to a report from The Local. The individuals both suffer from severe back injuries and their doctors appealed to the Medical Products Agency on their behalf.
Trump Spokesman Says Administration ‘Unlikely’ to Crackdown on Legal Cannabis Industry | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet President Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Sean Spicer indicated in a press conference last week that it is “unlikely” the administration will crackdown on the cannabis industry in states where it is legal, according to a report from the Joint Blog. The comment comes on the heels of the confirmation of Attorney General Jeff Session, which was met with mixed reviews from cannabis industry stakeholders, and two pieces of legislation aimed at reforming cannabis laws on the federal level.
Ireland Health Agency Working Group Releases MMJ Recommendations | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet Ireland’s Health Products Regulatory Authority working group has released a report outlining its recommendations for medical cannabis access in the country, which include just three qualifying conditions – multiple sclerosis, chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting, and severe, treatment-resistant epilepsy.
Alaska Regulators Seize CBD Products at Retail Dispensaries | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet Alaska’s Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office have seized thousands of dollars’ worth of imported CBD oil from the state’s licensed retail cannabis shops over confusion about their place in the state’s adult-use regulatory structure, the Alaska Journal reports.
Nevada Regulators Hopeful Cannabis Retail Sales Will Begin 6 Months Early | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet Nevada Department of Taxation officials have proposed a timeline for the implementation of the voter-backed adult-use cannabis industry, expecting it to launch as early as July 1, the Associated Press reports. The target is well in advance of the Jan. 1, 2018 deadline required under the law.
Jeff Sessions Attorney General Confirmation Draws Mixed Reviews from Cannabis Industry | Ganjapreneur
Republican Jeff Sessions is a staunch prohibitionist who once remarked that he thought the Ku Klux Klan “was okay” until he “found out they smoked pot” and now he’s the nation’s new top cop, confirmed in a 52 to 47 vote mostly along party lines.
New Zealand Health Officials Change MMJ Rules to Ease Access | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet Medical cannabis laws have been loosened in New Zealand as patients will no longer need to gain approval from the Minister of Health, according to a report from Stuff. Instead of patients having to bring their case all the way to the top, the Ministry of Health, as an agency, can sign-off on all applications. Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne announced that the new rule takes effect immediately.
UC Davis Study Finds Some Northern California MMJ Tainted with Fungi, Mold | Ganjapreneur
Share Tweet A University of California Davis study discovered bacteria and mold on medical cannabis samples from 20 Northern California dispensaries, according to a Sacramento Bee report. The study results were published in the journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
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