Geo Location on the iPhone 4 has led to High Country Caregiver’s very popular smoke shack map.  Every time a photo is taken with the iPhone 4 built in camera, the GPS in the iPhone adds data that can be loaded into Google Maps.  Google maps gives your 420 smoke location it’s own pin on Google Maps which you can right click on and save to or create your very own map.  This is how the maps are created on 420.co.  Once you create your Google Map, Google conveniently gives you code that you can copy and paste into your website or blog as TuTone does.  Geo Located photos will continue to be fun and cool, but as marijuana evolves, so does technology which is why iPhone and Apple are so great!

Blogs are popular, Facebook is great, but a web developer must see beyond the horizon to the next big thing!  youTube is falling behind a little, iPhone 4 came with a youTube app built right in for viewing videos, which has made youTube very popular, through user generated video content.  youTube has the edge above all others for displaying content on portable devises, but uStream has youTube beat when it comes to streaming live video.  The new uStream 2.0.1 App was released on 3.12.11, and allows users to stream live, and videos are saved to the uStream.com cloud, not the local iPhone devise, saving precious iPhone drive space, thanks to cloud technology.  The uStream app on iPhone 4 allows the user to stream live, partake in chat room conversation, and post to social apps all from the live recording screen.  The possibilities for the Colorado marijuana community are growing with technology just as our medicinal plant does.  What are some of the possibilities with the iPhone 4 to bring Colorado pot to the world?

• Ge0-Locate Smoke Spots
• Stream live legalization events
• call out the pot clowns at the State Legislature

Marijuana and the technology around marijuana continue to grow in Colorado.  It’s not just the growers and the suppliers of the drug that bring you your 420.  420 Colorado now streams marijuana events to you and leaves them available for viewing on TuTone’s uStream 420 marijuana channel for archival viewing of marijuana events.

Leo's Smoke Shack from iPhone 4 camera

Great cannabis photos can be achieved with a good macro lens like the Canon 100 mm f/2.8 is ii and a DSLR camera like the Canon 7D.  A good a camera and a good macro lens are only half of the equation of good cannabis photos and macro photography work in general.  With so much marijuana in Colorado it’s about time to start documenting all of this beautiful work through decent photography.  TuTone has found that getting the flash off of the camera is key to creating great shadows and highlights in the macro kind bud photography.  A great flash to use is the Canon Speed Lite 580 EX ii for a macro flash.  The Canon 7D mounted to a Gitzo tripod, and set to wireless flash control allows the 580 EX to work wireless, off camera hand held, close to the bud being photographed.  The off camera configuration for the flash allows for wonderful cannabis photos like the Mr. Nice pictured below.

Marijuana photos are a pleasing and healing way to enjoy the cannabis plant.  If you haven’t yet, be sure to stop by our marijuana .co domain www.marijuanaphotos.co where you can register and upload your own photos, learn about marijuana photography, and download high resolution cannabis photos for your blog or Facebook page.  Cannabis should be free for all to share, and of course the photos on marijuanaphotos.co are available for your full enjoyment and download.

When marijuana is being banned, advocates often show up in hordes though out Colorado to protest.  Dispensary owners, their legal defense, and patients often give testimony at town council meeting, but unusually in Fairplay before the dispensary ban vote, when public comment was allowed, no one appeared.  Park County has among the highest percentage of patients per population in Colorado, yet no patients, caregivers, or potential dispensary owners came to speak out against the ban of retail cannabis.

Town Attorney Lee Philips reinforced the patients – caregiver model and stressed that the new law in no way effects protections given to marijuana patients under Amendment 20.  Mayor Greg Johnson said that the reason for the ban on commercial marijuana production and distribution within the town centered on the idea that it disrupts schools, teachers, and parents.  Fairplay Mayor also noted that dispensaries are having a negative effect on neighboring towns such as Alma where already one dispensary, the South Park Cannabis Club has shut down.  Existing marijuana centers in Alma such as High Country Healing 2 (HCH2), and Alma Cannabis Theraputics are likely to see an upswing in business as they are the only 2 remaining dispensaries in Northern Park County.

New laws under CO HB 10 – 1284 enabled communities like Fairplay to vote to ban cannabis.  Compared to other communities Fairplay handled the ban well as they are not shuttering any existing marijuana businesses, and they are encouraging the re-emerging patient – caregiver model of marijuana  production originally intended by Amendment 20 and the voters.  Jah Bless caregivers in the High Country.

Did you pay your tax?

A cartel is a formal (explicit) agreement among competing firms. It is a formal organization of producers and manufacturers that agree to fix prices, marketing, and production.^[1] Cartels usually occur in an oligopolistic industry, where there is a small number of sellers and usually involve homogeneous products. Cartel members may agree on such matters as price fixing, total industry output, market shares, allocation of customers, allocation of territories, bid rigging, establishment of common sales agencies, and the division of profits or combination of these. The aim of such collusion (also called the cartel agreement) is to increase individual members’ profits by reducing competition.

The current marijuana structure being a homogeneous product, in an oligopolistic industry meets the conditions to be controlled by a cartel.  Prices for a pound of marijuana in Colorado were often around $5000 2 years ago, and now they are falling to below $3000.  Dispensaries with ever increasing restrictions are starting to feel the pressure from the caregiver cartel that really sets the price of cannabis.  Dispensaries get the 7-11 type novelty customers that by a ganja soda or a few grams of the latest flavor, but marijuana is a bulk industry, and caregivers selling ounces for less than the marijuana dispensaries in Colorado will always take the bulk of the product.  Aside from cost, caregiver weed is better.  Caregivers helped to build the marijuana industry, and even though many caregivers now call themselves dispensaries, they are no longer allowed to pick up inventory from the caregivers coming out with the latest strains.

The Colorado Legislature has many meetings scheduled, and dispensary owners are currently bringing up the issue of the caregiver cartels interfering with their business and making it difficult to compete.  CO HB 10 – 1284 does nothing to regulate caregivers, only dispensaries, and the caregivers in Colorado are still the ocean of the market that the dispensary owners are forced to swim in and compete with.  The dispensary owners will continue to look out for their financial interests, even by degrading the caregivers that helped build their flourishing for profit marijuana enterprise, but the patients will make their choice.  When the choice is go to a dispensary and pay more for chemmy weed while you’re video taped vs. going to a caregiver, the choice is simple, caregivers represent the patients, Amendment 20, and most of all the cannabis plant and will always control the price of cannabis and the medical marijuana industry as a whole.  Jah Bless the caregiver and long last the cartel. Marijuana Purchase Survey

With overgrow  not as important, what’s important now is an overthrow of the government.  It’s nice to see peaceful players like ACT420.org organizing meetings and allowing patients to speak about there concerns, but this is not getting anywhere with helping patients.  Today is yet another Colorado Department of Revenue hearing where the public will be given a chance to give input on CO HB 1284 and the 99 pages of regulations that #1 Pot Clown Matt Cook is unleashing on Colorado pot heads.  ACT420 has taken the time to shred the 99 pages of regulations, especially the parts about cameras, fingerprinting patients, and other invasions of privacy.  The organization has a template for how to address the board at the DOR and be cordial at the meeting.  This has gone on for too long.  It’s predicted that ‘The Department’ will not listen to any of this the rules will be passed as they are regardless.  There is no hope of achieving anything with the Pot Clowns as the DOR ACT420, give it up and get real and quit fooling patients in Colorado.  Weed is everywhere, don’t play into the traps of the regulations that will only harm patients and violate their privacy.  The Pot Clowns will interfere with your weed, but this pot head knows when it’s Mother Nature’s Call to Arms!

Pot Clowns up in Arms

Before CO HB 10 – 1284 was passed, the State Legislature allowed the same public input, and nothing was done in favor of patients or to protect them.  The solution to the current problem is not to renew your medical marijuana card, don’t give the CDPHE or DOR any more money and don’t play their game.  Patients and caregiver’s rights are already protected under Amendment 20, and no government body shall interfere.  Since the government is interfering with cannabis in Colorado, it’s time to OVER THROW the government, not work with them in helping make rules to keep control of the people.  Thursday and Friday’s meetings don’t need peaceful input, they need a lynch mob that will put an end to those interfering.  Would you still purchase from a dispensary SURVEY HERE

UPDATE:

12:50 PM:  According the the Denver Post only about 30 people testified at the DOR medical marijuana hearing today, most of them dispensary owners, edible manufacturers, and attorneys.  According to a Westword interview with attorney Rob Corry not many patients will be going to dispensaries anymore after their purchases are recorded and tracked by law enforcement.

Medical marijuana is a drug that should be considered first for pregnant women.  Studies have shown, that cannabis does not harm the mother or the unborn child: see this popular mothering.com article.  The mothering.com article points to 9 separate studies, one involving 12,000 subjects that show no negative effects what so ever from smoking marijuana and being pregnant.  As a father of 2 and friend to many female medical marijuana patients High Country Caregiver knows from experience that marijuana is very beneficial to a mother’s comfort during pregnancy.

As with any medical marijuana healing plan, do what works best for you and makes you feel better.  It’s perfectly safe to smoke marijuana while pregnant, and we speak from experience.  If you are concerned, you may consider a vaporizer or eating your medical marijuana.  High Country wishes all the pregnant mothers a happy, safe, comfortable Holidaze.  You can’t have the rum balls but you can have the ganja balls.

Uphill Side of Windows

The windows begins with a traverse, which is all down hill, and not to bad for snowboarders searching for the shack.  There really isn’t much searching involved when High Country Caregiver provides precise coordinates in this fancy Google Map to your popular places to puff and ride.  The Windows are numbered, 1 – 4 consecutively, and Window 3 is what you want to look for when searching out the Windows shack.  The smoke shack is near the bottom of the run, and really can’t be missed, it’s large.  The Windows are steep, deep, lots of trees, and other challenges make this a shack for the worthy who know what to do with their snowboards and know how it’s worth riding through the trees to find a great place to puff while skiing.

A great place to puff while riding

Windows has undergone it’s revisions over the years, but has never been torn down.  The on mountain ski smoke spot features a large foyer entrance, seating for about 10 and room for at least 20 more standing.  There is a loft which one can climb up into which furnishes a window in case you’d like a better view of where you’re at while you puff and ride.  The Window’s Shack sees tons of traffic, so be sure to pack out your garbage.  If you don’t have any weed, or hash that same traffic will of course pack your bowl or pass you a spliff, as the Windows Shack is always a great place to smoke pot and get high.

View 4:20 Breckenridge Shacks in a larger map
Click on the colored icons on the map for precise coordinates to plug into your GPS and start the 2010 Breckenridge Smoke Shack Tour today.

Cheap herb and lots of it, who can complain?  It makes small caregivers work harder to produce fine cannabis that will make the cut with all of the competition out there.  Pictured above is White Widow X Trainwreck, a High Country original from seed, which has been healing many for over 2 years now.  Pictured below is the all time mountain favorite strain of marijuana, Purple Erkle X Trainwreck, known as Purple Wreck, this one is from Reserva Privada seed bank, one of the only seed banks from over seas that is still doing a really awesome job.

Growing, flowering, and harvesting high quality cannabis is an art that is appreciated by so many.  You won’t find cannabis of this quality at a dispensary, especially as they are getting shut down, taxed, and monitored by video all over Colorado.  The true spirit of the Colorado heirloom strains lies everywhere in Colorado, not hidden behind regulations.  Just ask, and you will find!