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Double Chocolate Chip Cannabis Cookies

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It’s starting to feel a lot like fall, the combination of school starting and the cloudy (hazy) look outside. Because of the wild fires all around Washington and Oregon we are stuck in doors trying to pass the time. This is literally the perfect time to try a new tasty chocolate chip cannabis cookie recipe ?.

This recipe will come with an overview of how to make chewy, mouth watering chocolate chip cookies and provide some additional tips that’ll help you bake!

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WARNING… You Will Need to Make Cannabutter First!

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The main ingredient in our chocolate chip cannabis cookies is cannabis-infused butter, or commonly known as cannabutter. This butter is how you will manage to get high while enjoying these tasty treats. Cannabutter does take some time to make but is very easy, we even have a free recipe.

Our 6 steps to yummy cannabutter should be completed before making these cookies or most other baked edible desserts.

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Gathering Your Ingredients

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Once the cannabutter has been made, it is time to get our other cookie ingredients together. The difficult part is already over, the rest of this recipe is simple and easy to follow. If you follow our exact recipe you should be able to bake around 30 cookies in ~45 minutes to a hour.

Here are the necessary ingredients:

• 1/2 cup cannabutter (can add more: will make cookies more potent)
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspon fine salt
• 2 1/4 cup all-purpose flower
• 2 bag of different chocolate chips (you will use half of each bag)
  • 1/2 bag of Nestle semisweet
  • 1/2 bag of Hershey milk chocolate
• Optional: 1 cup walnuts

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Cooking Steps

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Step 1

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit

With regular butter grease two cookie sheets or line your sheets with parchment paper. If you only have one baking sheet available, make sure to allow the sheet to cool down before adding another batch of cookies.

Step 2

In a small saucepan, melt the cannabutter about 3/4 the way done. I usually use the oven or microwave to melt the butter. Let the butter cool and reach room temperature.

In a large bowl, add your eggs, sugars, vanilla and melted butter. Whisk until the contents are smooth.

Step 3

In a second separate bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt. When the dry ingredients are combined, slowly stir the first bowls wet ingredients in with the dry.

Important: Do not over mix, this will change the texture of the cookies.

Step 4 

Add your two different types of chocolate chips and our option walnuts, if you so do choose.

Scoop about 1/4 cup of cookie dough, or a little larger if you’are like me and enjoy big cookies! Make sure to keep 2-3 inches between each cookie

Step 5

Bake your Double Chocolate Chip Cookies for about 12-16 minutes, but check frequently and cook to desired softness. The shorter you allow the cookies to bake the chewier they will be.

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Additional Baking Tips

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If you want the best possible cookies follow these three tips:

1. Bake in smaller batches – reducing the amount of cookies that can get burnt and with more space they should cook evenly
2. While baking, look for the first signs of “barely browned spots” this is when you should pull the cookies. Unless you want crunchy cookies!
3. If time isn’t a factor refrigerate the cookie dough before cooking it. This helps soften the dough.

There ya have it! A recipe and fun activity to do while waiting for the sun to break the clouds!

Enjoy!!!

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5 Little-Known Uses for CBD

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Cannabidiol, known to most as CBD, is one of 113 different cannabinoids identified in cannabis. CBD is a cannabis compound that provides a significant amount of medical benefits, while also not making users feel “stoned” like THC.

CBD is non-psychoactive or less psychoactive than THC-dominant strains making it a more appealing of an option for those who are only looking to relieve medical issues.

Lets take a look at 5 uses for CBD that you might not have known about:

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1) Reduces THC side-effects

THC affects users in different ways over time and with more usage. Some of the more common “negative” side effects of THC are paranoia, anxiety, social anxiety, and memory impairment. CBD consumption on the other hand has been shown in studies to counteract the negative effects of THC. For someone who enjoys the positive effects of THC but not the negative ones could simply go for a hybrid.

To learn more click here.

2) Cigarette Addiction 

In a 2013 study testing the effect of CBD on nicotine addiction was done by the Clinical Psychophramacology Unit in London, UK. This randomized double blind placebo controlled study was done to assess the impact of CBD usage in smokers who wanted to stop smoking.

24 smokers were randomized to receive an inhaler of either CBD (12) or placebo (12) for one week. After the week there would also be some continued follow-up.

The results were as shown:

What you see in the graph is that those who smoked the CBD inhaler decreased cigarette usage by ~40% and those who had the placebo had no significant change in cigarette usage.

You can read in more depth about this study here.

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3) Helps with Fibromyalgia

Studies have shown that CBD has effectively reduced pain better than the three FDA approved medicines for Fibromyalgia. The FDA approved drugs are Cymbalta, Lyrica and Savella. These drugs generate billions of dollars each but patients have long said the medications don’t work for them.

The National Pain Report came out with a study comparing these three drugs to CBD and how it helped those with Fibromyalgia.

Patients were asked to rate the effectiveness of each drug… Here are the results:

Cymbalta – 60% of those who tried the drug said it did not work, only 8% said it was very effective and 32% said it helps a little.

Lyrica – 61% said it did not work at all, only 10% said it was very effective and 29% said it helps little.

Savella – 68% said it did not work at all, only 10% said it was very effective and 22% said it helps a little.

CBD – 5% said it did not work at all, a whopping 62% said it was very effective and 33% said it helps a little.

The difference in these statesments is crazy. A drug is obviously not working if over 60% of people say they don’t feel a difference.

For more information on this study with The National Pain Report click here.

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4) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

One pillar of PTSD is an endocannabinoid deficiency, meaning the body stops producing enough to fill receptor sites, and this is where the cannabinoids found in marijuana play a therapeutic role.

The point of CBD treating PTSD is to reduce stress and anxiety. A veteran and current CBD user described his experience as such,

It helps with daily tasks like school, work and relationships. My mind races and cannabis helps me slow down and think through the trauma rather than hide from it. I can tell it’s helping me because my sleeping patterns are normal and I don’t have anxiety attacks.

There are many veterans who are trying to accomplish the same but aren’t allowed to use CBD. Dr. Mike Hart an advocate for the use of CBD, believes this isn’t fair for our troops coming home, not fair for them to not be able to choose how to be medicated.

Dr. Hart explains that PTSD is a learned fear and when you have more learned fear its going to induce a state of hypervigilance and that can also cause nightmares and terrors at night. CBD helps these veterans get through the night by reducing learned fears.

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5) Helps with Acne

A few causes of acne are stress and inflammation, it just so happens that CBD helps reduces both of those traits. Not only does it help reduce those receptors but the hormones conducive to outbreaks.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Nation Institute on Health also found that CBD offers antiproliferative effects (meaning its able to stop the spread of cells) skin regenerating properties.

The study was based around the use of CBD on sebaceous glands, these glands are what secrete oily sebum, which is what obstructs your pores and causes outbreaks. In clinical studies CBD reduces sebum and in the process acne.

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Conclusion

This is only the tip of the iceberg for what CBD and other cannabinoids can do to help medical patients. There is still a long way to go to fully prove the effectiveness, but hey you have to start somewhere. 🙂

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How to Make Nutella Baked Brownies in 5 Steps

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Struggling to find a brownie recipe that beats the boxed brands? Especially cannabis infused brownies, which have been known to taste dry and far from what is expected. Well, we have a recipe to share, a recipe for those who enjoy rich, chocolate brownies with dense, fudgy middles and crinkly tops! 

Nutella baked brownies are not only mouth wateringly delicious, but also so simple it’s silly. 

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Who is this recipe for?

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Homemade edibles can be a delicate activity that come with questions, for example:

1. How am I supposed to know the strength of the brownies?
2. Will I be able to taste the cannabis?

To answer these questions simply, everyone is affected by cannabis differently and there is no way to know for sure how you will react until you give’m a try. The strength of the brownies will be affected by the kind of cannabis and the potency of the cannabis used. The Cannabist, has written an article about how to calculate the THC in edibles.

When it comes to being able to taste the cannabis, we are positive that you will taste nothing but brownie goodness :).

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Easy, Cannabis Nutella Brownies Recipe Made from Scratch

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PREP 30min COOK 30min Total 60min

These brownies don’t take much time to make, and you’ll find you have most of the ingredients at home already. The major preparation is making the cannabutter, this is how you will control the amount of cannabis going into your brownies and what will get you high. For those of you who don’t know how to make cannabutter, click here.

YOU WILL NEED

• 1 cup of flower
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 stick of cannabutter (read our other blog posts for information)
• Dash of salt
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons Nutella
• 2 teaspoons peanut butter
• 4 medium sized eggs

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The 5 Steps to Delicious Nutella Baked Brownies

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Step 1

Gather the necessary ingredients from the list above. Grab 2 decently sized mixing bowls and a plastic container to have ready. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Step 2

Take the first mixing bowl and add all the dry ingredients. Add the flower, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder together and mix thoroughly. Do not add your sugar yet, this will be added at a later step.

Step 3

In the second mixing bowl we will be adding our wet ingredients.

First melt your cannabutter, place the melted butter in the bowl. Next mix the granulated sugar with the melted cannabutter.

Add your eggs and the vanilla extract (precise measurements above). Whisk ingredients together well.

Step 4

Finally add your Nutella and peanut butter into the plastic container (this should be your third bowl/container) and melt them together.

Step 5

Add all three ingredient bowls together and mix thoroughly again. 

Grab a cooking pan, spray with cooking oil and add the brownie mix.

Next place cooking pan into preheated oven at 350 degrees and allow brownies to bake for 30 minutes.

Allow the brownies to cool and enjoy!!!

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How to Make Cannabutter in 6 Easy Steps

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Ever wonder how some people can make the perfect cannabis baked goods? The answer is simple and extremely easy to replicate. The baking pros use cannabutter, a cannabis infused butter that can be used for cookies, brownies, toast and so much more.

What you will need:

• Single layer baking sheet
• Medium sauce pan
• 1 Quart of water
• 4 Sticks of butter
• 1 Ounce of your favorite cannabis (ground)
• Cheesecloth
• Plastic bowl/container

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Steps for the perfect cannabutter:

Step 1

First, we must heat our cannabis to truly activate the THC, this is called decarboxylation. To do this, preheat the oven to ~240 degrees.

Next place the cannabis into a single layer baking sheet, make sure the sheet has sides.

Allow the cannabis to bake for 38-40 minutes, rotating the baking sheet a few times to ensure the cannabis is heating evenly.

This will cause the cannabis to become dry and very crumbly, this is how you know you are done with step 1 and getting closer to adding your butter!

Step 2

Grab your medium sauce pan and bring 1 quart of water to a rapid boil.

Once the water is boiling add the proportional amount of butter. Allow the butter to melt all the way.

For the purpose of this recipe use 4 sticks of butter. You will typically want to use 4 sticks of butter for every 1 ounce of ground weed.

Step 3

When the butter has melted completely, add the cannabis.

Reduce the heat to about the lowest setting, we should see a slight simmer. Let the cannabis simmer for about the next 3 hours.

This step is finished once the top of the cannabutter mix is glossing over and starting to become thick.

Note: A finished mix will not be watery!!!

Step 4

While the butter is simmering use this time to set up the bowl that will house the finished cannabutter. Use a heatproof bowl or plastic food container big enough to hold the contents.

Next, place a double layer of cheesecloth over the top of the bowl, make sure the cheesecloth is securely fastened down with string, elastic or tape.

Stick with me we are AlMOST DONE!!!

Step 5

Strain the cannabis butter over the bowl. When the pan is empty, undo the elastic, string or tape.

Pick up the cheesecloth from all four sides and squeeze out as much of the remaining butter as possible.

Allow the cannabutter to cool for a hour. Place in the fridge until the butter has risen to the top layer and is solid.

Don’t worry we are almost finished! I promise!

Step 6

Use a knife around the edges to allow yourself to lift the butter out of the container.

Place upside down and scrape off any of the remaing cooking water.

There you have it! Your professional do it your self cannabutter is now complete and ready for use!

Enjoy 🙂

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The Nation Football League: When Will Pain Be Enough To Help The Players? 

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The National Football League season officially starts this week with the first preseason game of the year. For majority of the country this is a time of excitement, as we get prepared to passionately watch our team and favorite players compete on the largest stage. But what happens behind the scenes is another story.

Over the last three decades the NFL has been giving their players a copious amount of dangerous drugs ranging from opioids to anti-inflammatory medication. Instead of trying to help make the game safer they have continued to mask the pain these players feel daily.

Newly retired All-Pro Offensive Tackle Eugene Monroe made buzz last year (March 9, 2016) as the first active NFL player to openly advocate for the use of cannabinoids to treat chronic pain and sports-related injuries. Lets just say the NFL didn’t appreciate this advocacy.

Monroe wrote an article for The Players Tribune titled Getting off the T Train. The T Train? What in the world is that? Monroe describes it in this manner,

“Before kickoff on game day, in NFL locker rooms all over the country, players wait in line to drop their pants. We call it the T Train… The T Train is nothing more than a bunch of really large guys waiting to pull their pants down to get shot in the butt with Toradol, a powerful painkiller that will help them make it through the game and its aftermath.”

The use and distribution of Toradol is to make the players feel numb so they can take the punishment they are inflicted during the NFL season. Feeling numb causes more injuries than it protects, how are the players expected to know when they are injured if they can’t feel it.

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NFL Drug & Toradol Abuse

In July of 2016, a California judge allowed a lawsuit filed by over 1,500 former players alleging that NFL teams have been illegally procuring and distributing painkillers for decades.

This is how the stories of Toradol abuse were first discovered publicly.

Former tight end Tory Sadowski has spoken out to SB Nation about how trainers and coaches handled this painkiller, not only endorsing the drug but saying it was good for him to use. SB Nation reports this complaint:

“In Pittsburgh, syringes full of Toradol were lined up in the locker room labelled with the player’s number. Mr. Sadowski was never told of the side effects of any of these drugs. In fact, he was told by a number of trainers that Toradol was good for his long-term health – it cleaned out his organs.”

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Sadly, this isn’t a rare event in the NFL, even my favorite team the Seattle Seahawks have complaints from former players in the same light.

Retired offensive tackle Jerry Wunsch who played with the Seahawks from 2002-2005 is now involved in two lawsuits against the NFL. According to SB Nation, Wunsch alleges that in 2003, then Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren pressured him into taking painkillers before a game.

Coach Holmgren asked Mr. Munsch if he could play, to which Mr. Wunsch replied “I do not think so.” Coach Holmgren then called for Sam Ramsden, the Seahawks’ trainer, and asked “what can we do to help Mr. Wunsch play today.”

From the report Wunsch had allegedly been given Vicodin twice, once before kickoff and again at halftime, to make matters worse he was also given Toradol. Wunsch has claimed he received Toradol before every game and now has an unhealthy kidney with no family history of kidney disease.

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Studying For An Alternative

For the NFL to truly care about the safety of its players it should exhaust every possibility, and leave no rock unturned. For the sake of this blog lets dive into CBD and the potential benefits it could hold.

CBD also known as Cannabidiol is one of at least 113 active cannabinoids identified in cannabis. CBD used to be called “hippie’s disappointment” because it doesn’t give you the high traditional THC would.

CBD Benefits:

• Anti-inflammatory: Fights inflammation and pain
• Anticonvulsant: Suppresses seizure activity
• Antiemetic: Reduces nausea and vomiting
• Antipsychotic: Fights psychosis
• Anti-oxidant: Fights neurodegenerative diseases
• Anti-depressant: Fights anxiety and depression
• Anti-tumoral: Fights tumor and cancer cells at the stem cell

According to Dr. Suzanne Sisley member of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation (DFCR) board and president of the Scottsdale Research Institute, that they have found CBD to also play a role in neuroprotection. Dr. Sisley told the San Francisco Chronicle:

“The bottom line is that cannabinoids are clearly neuroprotective. We have preclinical data at the receptor level that cannabinoids and cannabis are not only involved with brain repair but neurogenesis, the development of new neural tissue. It’s one of the most exciting discoveries of modern neuroscience.”

This seems rather important in helping treat CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), which in a Boston University study was found in 99% of brains of former NFL players.

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of healthiness

Football players just like anyone else deserve the right to be able to choose how to cope with their pain. They should be able to ask for second opinions and be given real research, instead of being doped up by their employers whom make millions of dollars every day in association to their pain.

Hopefully the NFL learns that times are changing, we no longer should wait for the status quo to break, we must attack this head on.

If the NFL truly cares about its players they must be proactive, not reactive.

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Rick Simpson:

The Man. The Medicine.

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Cancer and cannabis have been connected for a long time. Though its Schedule One status makes cannabis hard to study, both anecdotal and clinical research have shown that cannabis can kill cancer cells.

Rick Simpson has been lauded for helping provide education and treatment with his recipe for high-cannabinoid dosed oil extracts designed to address myriad symptoms. Rick Simpson Oil, or RSO, has helped countless medical patients find relief for years. But who is Rick Simpson? And how did he become such a leader in cannabis advocacy?

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Who’s Rick?

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Rick Simpson was working in a hospital in Canada in 1997 when he fell and sustained a serious head injury. His doctors prescribed medication after medication, leading to symptom upon symptom and still more medications. His head grew cloudier with each added chemical and his symptoms never seemed to subside. His family and friends watched his light diminish and his faculties begin to fail.

After a while of suffering and struggling, Rick remembered he had seen research in the ’70s that indicated that cannabis could help mitigate some of the symptoms of his medications and condition. Though his doctors conceded that there could be potential, they still would not prescribe him the herb.

So, he sought it out illegally.

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Did it work?

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            I think you already know the answer to that one. It didn’t just help ease the symptoms of his medications, it helped ease the symptoms of his condition! Through smoking cannabis daily, Rick Simpson returned to good health. His friends and family watched in amazement as he weened himself off every medication and his personality returned.

            But this wouldn’t be the last time Rick had to rely on the healing properties of the cannabis plant.

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The Scare of a Lifetime

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In late 2002, spots had popped up on Rick’s face and neck. By January, the doctors had surgically removed a spot next to his eye. The biopsy concluded: basal cell carcinoma—skin cancer.  They scheduled Rick for another surgery to remove the other two lesions.

But Rick couldn’t stop thinking about cannabis. He had long ago learned of cannabis killing cancer cells in mice. He had been told about a product called “hash oil.”

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            Taking the sticky, thick substance, Rick liberally smeared hash oil on the remaining two cancerous growths and covered them with Band-Aids. Four days later, Rick returned to the doctor.

The growths were gone.

The doctors were baffled, but agreed Rick was cancer-free! But when he told them he had treated his cancer with cannabis oil, they shut down. The receptionist even went so far as to begin shaking her head rigidly repeating, “The doctor won’t go there, the doctor does not prescribe [cannabis].”

Rick was baffled by the response. Here were medical professionals—who specialize in oncology—refusing to hear about a potential breakthrough for curing a devastating disease.

When he reached out to contacts from the Canadian Cancer Society and their only response was “The society does not endorse or support medical products or dietary supplements.”

After trying to work within the medical community to legitimize cannabis as a potential cure for cancer, Rick became a major advocate for access to the plant.

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The Path of Advocacy

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            By 2003, Rick had begun growing his own cannabis plants and processing it into hash oil. He had developed a recipe that provided the highest quality yield with the most consistency batch to batch. Reaching out to anyone suffering, not just from cancer, but from glaucoma, chronic pain, insomnia, blood clots with pain and swelling, hemorrhoids, arthritis and more, to provide free hash oil and education to anyone who needs it.

            Despite his outreach to help those suffering, the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) came for him. Raids confiscated over 2500 plants from 2005 to 2006.

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  In 2009 they came after him again, raiding his property and claiming to have found 70 pounds of cannabis. How did they get such a radically high number? They included the weight of his compost, which did have cannabis plant material decomposing along with the rest of his gardening waste.

They also claimed Rick had weapons on the premises, which was actually a perfectly legal pellet gun. The best claim? Booby traps. Those were curtesy of Rick’s son, who had hammered nails through a couple boards and left the boards around the garbage on the porch. Because when you live in the woods in Canada, bears are a thing.

The charges were eventually completely dropped, but it still meant that Rick had to replant and start over several times—denying patients relying on his oil access to their medication.

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What’s Rick Up To Lately?

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Rick continues to advocate for cannabis access and works with people around the world to spread knowledge about the benefits of hash oil and other cannaproducts. His passion continues to help those suffering from numerous diseases by providing his famous recipe for free for anyone who wants to check his webpage.

Rick also helped make a movie to spread awareness of the healing benefits of cannabis.

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