Hemp Hunter

This is the story of iBake Denver. So for all those out there who say we need to make it nicer or we need to do this and that and make changes..... look where we started. You should be very proud... I am. I don't want it to change. I have made it the way that I think it should be. This is how community was on our commune. This is how community should be in the United States and the rest of the world. I don't want to change it and be fancy. I'm never going to allow that to happen. I will sit he...

Police raid at an Amsterdam-style cannabis lounge in Denver has triggered a debate over where adults can smoke pot in a state that allows recreational marijuana consumption — but not in public. Denver police showed up last week at Maryjane’s Social Club, one of dozens of private pot-smoking clubs in Colorado operating in a legal gray area. The officers handcuffed smokers, seized drug paraphernalia and ticketed the club’s owner for violating state law banning indoor cigarette smoking. Three peop...

When I was little, like too young to communicate, I began to have these night terror dreams that my mother would have to struggle to wake me from. When I was old enough to describe the dreams, they stopped. They went like this.... I can see myself in the rear view mirror as an adult, mid to late 30's maybe very early 40's. The hood of the car is stop sign red. There are people in the car I care deeply about, possibly my family. I can not see them, but know they are there. Suddenly I loose cont...

Here is the part I was in...... "While the CSO made a big splash in the press and quickly attracted the city’s attention, iBake Denver, a pipe shop and cannabis club, has been quietly operating in Denver since February 2013. Littletree Oppy & Thurlow Weed, iBake’s owners, say the business qualifies as a tobacconist and is therefore exempt from the state’s smoking ban. Smoking and hanging-out privileges are reserved for members who pay a $10 monthly fee. Oppy says iBake, which sells soft drinks...

Colorado recently attempted to pass multiple Bills that would endanger the cannabis community as a whole. The first bill that attracted the public eye was a "conversation" about a bill that would limit caregivers to only being allowed to grow up to 6 plants per patient and no more than 30 per caregiver. This Bill would also require Doctors to violate the Doctor / patient confidentiality agreement by requiring the Doctor to go into full detail to the State about the patients medical conditions. C...

This Years 4/20 Festival in Denver Civic Center Park to be The Largest Ever & iBAKE is the Official Media for Denver's 420 Rally for the 3rd year in a row! YOU CAN FIND THE 420 NURSES AT THE iBAKE BOOTH!!! The 4/20 rally is two weeks away and this year there will be big changes at Civic Center Park, according to organizers. The changes come in part because of an outbreak of gunfire last year that injured three people, and also because of the legalization of recreational marijuana on Jan. 1. E...

Butane Hash Oil’s Quality Is Largely Determined By The Quality Of Vacuum Oven Used During The Purging Process The popularity level of butane hash oil (BHO) is growing exponentially. BHO (or ‘dabs’) has been around for a long time, but in the last five years it seems like everyone I know is either consuming BHO for the first time, or consuming it more, or they making it themselves. I have a handful of friends that I would consider to be true BHO experts. My criteria for BHO expert is simple – if ...

The lines to get into the recreational dispensaries have shortened, but still not completely disappeared, and all of the Mile High City jokes have been made. Even Stephen Colbert has addressed the topic at length on The Colbert Report. But the question remains: What does Colorado’s recent legalization of recreational marijuana mean for tourists? Here are eight tips for out-of-towners to keep in mind: 1. THE CROP KEEPS ON GROWING The expansion of pot shops around Colorado seems to be increasing...

The economic threat the black market poses to legalized recreational cannabis sales may have been vastly overstated. According to a new consumer market research study from the editors of Marijuana Business Daily, more than 60% of cannabis users said their biggest concern when purchasing marijuana is buying it from legal sources. A large percentage also prefer to buy tested, labeled cannabis products or purchase from those offering a large selection of strains – two areas in which state-legal d...

It has been a sad few days here at iBAKE University Online My Harlequin grow that is in total Veg, has an infestation of Spider Mites!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Normally I would be sad, destroy the whole grow and start over.....But these are my high C-B-D Harlequin plants for Cancer and Leukemia Patients so the battle has begun. Since they are in veg, I have quite a few choices. I try to be 100% organic, so it gets really difficult to do a fast aggressive trea...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) came out in favor of medical marijuana Thursday in a Las Vegas Sun interview, becoming one of the highest elected officials in the U.S. government to give his support. “If you’d asked me this question a dozen years ago, it would have been easy to answer — I would have said no, because [marijuana] leads to other stuff,” Reid was quoted as saying. “But I can’t say that anymore.” “I think we need to take a real close look at this,” he added. “I think t...

U.S. treasury and law enforcement agencies will soon issue regulations opening banking services to state-sanctioned marijuana businesses even though cannabis remains classified an illegal narcotic under federal law, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday.Holder said the new rules would address problems faced by newly licensed recreational pot retailers in Colorado, and medical marijuana dispensaries in other states, in operating on a cash-only basis, without access to banking services or ...

With a majority of Americans now in favor marijuana legalization, President Barack Obama is now saying weed is no more dangerous to individuals’ health than alcohol. In an interview with the New Yorker’s David Remnick published Sunday, Obama said while he believes marijuana is “not very healthy,” the drug isn’t as harmful as some insist. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a youn...

With a majority of Americans now in favor marijuana legalization, President Barack Obama is now saying weed is no more dangerous to individuals’ health than alcohol. In an interview with the New Yorker’s David Remnick published Sunday, Obama said while he believes marijuana is “not very healthy,” the drug isn’t as harmful as some insist. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a youn...

The black market for weed in Colorado is still thriving, despite the existence of retail shops that sell it legally, according to exclusive interviews with growers, dealers and weed industry experts. There are a number of reasons that people still call their dealers instead of visiting one of the state’s 37 new Amsterdam-style dispensaries, which opened for business Jan. 1. Number one is the price: retail weed in Colorado sells for a whopping $65 or $70 an eighth, depending on quality. Those h...

How did you ring in your New Year? In Colorado, we celebrated the end of the era of marijuana prohibition with massive pot parties through the hazy state. Thousands upon thousands flocked to Denver to be one of the first to purchase marijuana legally in over a century. Safe to say, it wasn’t just any New Year. iBAKE Denver was Colorado’s first legal smoke shop. Not just the kind of smoke shop that sells smoking accessories, but a more of the Amsterdam coffee shop smoke shop. Although the sale ...

I went to the Retail Cannabis shop on Jan. 01 . 2014 There where 100's in the line, and since I grow my own, I asked someone if I could share their receipt on 420Nurses.com. Here is what legal weed looks like.... A historic day in history!!! It was snowing and raining, yet 1000's all around Colorado were braving the cold for legal weed. The cannabis has to be sold in an oblique container that is child resistant. Total price for 1/4 of weed... almost $90.00!!! Keep in mind that this shop...

Recreational marijuana is now legal to buy in Colorado, and it’s not cheap. But pot smokers who waited in five-hour long lines weren’t necessarily looking for a deal on Green Wednesday. “Our most expensive strains sold the quickest,” said Toni Fox, proprietor of Denver’s 3D Cannabis Center, to The Huffington Post. “We’re closing Monday and Tuesday next week to reassess after the large volume of sales we are seeing.” The Huffington Post spoke with owners at many of the roughly 30 dispensaries tha...

Throughout my life I have tended to subscribe to the view that everything “bad” could somehow be good for you. I was thoroughly vindicated in this with the discovery that red wine prevents cancer, heart disease, and wrinkles. Now it seems that cannabis is good for the skin and Medical Marijuana Inc, a publicly-quoted company, launched an anti-aging beauty products line starring super-concentrated, cannabis-enriched hemp oil starting December 2013. Now before you get too high on the idea that ca...

Denver (CNN) – Iraq war veteran Sean Azzariti described his purchase of recreational marijuana — legally — as a historic moment Wednesday. “It’s huge,” he said at a marijuana store along a light industrial corridor outside downtown Denver. “It hasn’t even sunk in how big this is yet.” Indeed, before the 3D Cannabis Center opened at 8 a.m. MT, more than 100 people were waiting in snowfall and cold under gray skies to be the next buyers of recreational pot under a landmark law voters approved in...

Uniting the Great Divide Many years ago when I was a “baby activist” I had no idea of the politics of cannabis activism. I was aware and prepared for the un-educated snide remarks and hate grenades launched out of fear. The DEA and Police did not faze me. I was fearless. The first year of my cannabis activism was F U N. Myself, along with my friends and fellow activist, we spent a year creating a movement in our area. We had rallies, petition drives, picnics, and too many education rallies t...

In the 1700s, American farmers were required by law to grow hemp in Virginia and the other colonies. It was a widely used crop for hundreds of years in the United States. Cut to 1957 when the U.S. government banned hemp over confusion about its relationship to marijuana, and the plant from which the paper for the The Declaration of Independence was sourced was gone from America’s soil. Until now. Back in May, Springfield, Colo. farmer Ryan Lofin planted 55 acres of hemp – the first hemp crop p...

Josh Sodaitis and Nick Spagnola have already spent $50,000, lined up tens of thousands more in financing and worked 100-plus hours each in an effort to win a license for a dispensary and grow site in the tiny Massachusetts town of Whately. But their money and hard work could go up in smoke instantly when Whately residents vote on a proposed MMJ business moratorium next week. “If this passes it will be the nail in our coffin,” said Sodaitis, co-founder of J.M. Farm’s Patient Group, which is vyi...

Seattle will allow both medical and recreational marijuana businesses to operate in the city – with restrictions – under a new ordinance that charts a course for the cannabis industry going forward. The measure, which city council unanimously approved on Monday, has broad business implications, affecting everyone from entrepreneurs looking to open grow sites targeting the adult-use market to the estimated 200 unregulated dispensaries scattered across Seattle. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE:

In a meeting still underway, the Seattle City Council passed a bill that could effectively ban medical marijuana dispensaries within the city limits by requiring the dispensaries to obtain a state medical-marijuana license by 2015—a license that does not exist. “Requiring medical [marijuana dispensaries] to have a license when the license does not exist is completely unfair,” said Alex Cooley, vice president of Solstice, which operates a medical-marijuana growing facility in Sodo. The counci...

America's first (known) hemp harvest in more than fifty years began this month in southeastern Colorado. This past spring, following last year's passage of Amendment 64, which legalized small amounts of marijuana for adults and paved the way for industrial hemp production, farmer Ryan Loflin planted 55 acres of marijuana's sober sister. Last week, hemp advocates from across the country came to watch as Loflin and others harvested the first plants by hand. "It felt very historic," says advocate L...

California Governor Jerry Brown has officially signed legislation into law that will allow farmers from his republic to start hoeing rows of industrial hemp as soon as spring of 2014. The decision to permit approved resident farmers to cultivate the beneficial crop has been under discussion by the state’s lawmakers since 1999. Those that supported the bill argued that the hemp business is a $500 million industry that is reportedly growing at a rate of 10 percent per year. Related bills have...

Across the country, from legal 21-and-over Denver dispensaries to black-market NYC delivery services, steeply priced strains of “killer bud”—so thick with tricome crystals they shimmer like snow-covered pine trees—are readily available. OG Ghost Train Haze, Headband, Blue Dream, Lemon Diesel, and Kosher Kush (and dozens of other similarly named varieties), pick your poison. Containing levels of THC up to 25%, a small toke of any one of these varieties will get you stoned. But for some herb conn...

I’m not going to give you that hippie garbage that pot is harmless, but it’s not heroin. It’s a drug and like any drug there are risks with using it. Started early, habitual use has been linked to decreased neurological activity over decades, and even psychosis and depression if prone to them. But don’t act like the chance of unearthing predisposed psychological problems is anything like the permanent bodily and psychological harm that results from heroin or alcohol abuse. And don’t preten...

So what are dabs? Dabbing? Is it like dabbling? Beause I dabble, but I don’t think I’m dabbing. Well, hmmm. Dab(s) is just one of the slang names for a solid, waxy substance of concentrated butane hash oil (we’ll get to this in a minute). Philly420 columnist Chris Goldstein had an article this morning,explaining how “dabs” came to be: The term derives from the most common method used today: a piece of metal resembling a large nail is held at the end of a curved glass pipe then heated until g...

DENVER – As many as 4,000 marijuana cigarettes were passed out free of charge during Monday’s anti-Proposition AA rally in Denver. Organizers of the 11 a.m. rally at Civic Center Park are trying to build opposition to the ballot measure which would impose a 25 percent state tax on recreational marijuana once it’s sold legally in Colorado in 2014. “The marijuana industry wants to pay taxes and supports these issues very well but these measures would simply be too far and out of reach for people w...

DENVER (AP) — Hundreds of people are lining up in a Denver park to get a free marijuana cigarette as part of a protest against a plan to impose high taxes on the drug, which is now legal in Colorado for recreational use. Littletree Oppy is one of two people handing out the cigarettes Monday at Civic Center Park. Oppy says she is protesting the proposed taxes because people who can't afford to pay would be forced to go to the black market. Gulf War veteran Randy Notz says he suffers traumatic b...

DENVER - Dozens of people lined up to get a free joint during a protest over taxing recreational marijuana at Denver's Civic Center Park Monday. Organizers upset about the proposed 30 percent tax on recreational marijuana are calling the event the formal launch of their "No on Proposition AA" campaign. Amendment 64 legalized the use of recreational marijuana in private for those 21 and over. But critics are upset state and local governments want to tax marijuana at a much higher rate than alc...

Colorado X-Traction Cup To Be Held November 15th – 17th In Denver, CO As if there’s not enough going on this year with 2 High Times Cannabis Cups, one in Denver back in April over the 4/20 weekend, and the other coming up September 7th and 8th in Seattle, WA. Then there was the 710 Cup back in July . . . . Well the next big hash making contest (and this time) DABBing Olympics, has been announced! The Colorado X-traction Cup is a Nationwide hash making contest open to those 21 years of age a...

Congress To Hold Hearings On State And Federal Marijuana Conflict By Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Director Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has scheduled a hearing to address the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws. “It is important, especially at a time of budget constraints, to determine whether it is the best use of federal resources to prosecute the personal or medicinal use of marijuana in states that have made such consumption legal,” Senator Leahy stated, “I believe th...

It’s not every day you read a book that blows the lid off of everything you’ve ever been taught about drugs, but Dr. Carl Hart’s recent work, “High Price,” does just that. Part memoir, part myth-buster, the fast-paced read details his journey from a violent Miami ghetto to the halls one of the world’s most prestigious universities. At the heart of “High Price” is the argument that current U.S. drug policies are not only morally wrong, but scientifically wrong as well, a game of politics and f...