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.

Mountain Medical Leaf is one such dispensary in Loveland Colorado which is having a blow out / give away sale to move their inventory on to patients.  Jason Specht is the unofficial spokesman for an advocacy group Loveland Association of Wellness (LAW) who has been following the marijuana industry in Northern Colorado.  Encouraging patients to buy product is extremely challenging, and those sales aren’t garnering much income for the dissolving shops, Specht said.  “The problem is that these are shark-infested waters,” Specht said. “Everyone knows we’re in a tough spot, so they can get the product very cheap.”  Specht said dispensary owners will sell their product even if it’s not at a very competitive price.  “It’s just a matter of ‘some money is better than no money,’ ” he said. “That’s where we’re at with that.”

High Country Caregiver takes this opportunity to allow marijuana purveyors to continue to sling the herb as a caregiver.  Caregivers are protected by law, will never be voted out of work, and have the opportunity to reach a few select patients for individual care.  If you are among the 80% of dispensaries getting shut down in Colorado, all is not a total loss, as this is an opportunity to go back to your ganja roots and the patient – caregiver model of providing cannabis to the 100,000+ patients looking to buy your weed in the great pot clown state of Colorado.  inhale.co is a marijuana caregiver website 2.0 building program to help catalyze your caregiver business and make the transition from dispensary back to caregiver.  If you haven’t built a marijuana website yet, or if you need some HTML5 templates and marijuana design ideas consider inhale.co, take a deep breathe, you can do this!  Grow your marijuana business while your plants grow, all is not a loss and you’ll be back in the dope game in no time.  Jah bless the High Country and Colorado marijuana. 

Pictured below is some organically grown Purple Trainwreck, grown by a caregiver with lots of love.  If you are a patient in Loveland in need of a new marijuana supply, remember Amendment 20 and your caregiver.  When you pass the doochie on the left be sure to mention 420.co, notice the .co domain which we are just loving in the High Country.  Jah Bless!

Purple Erckle X Trainwreck

According to GreensMan’s Page:  “You may not be able to tell what type plant you’re smoking, but you can tell what you like. Choosing marijuana seeds from high-quality marijuana will grow into high-quality marijuana plants. If you like the grass you’re smoking, you’ll like the grass you grow.”  Though the Centennial Seeds are born in Colorado, GreensMan goes on to describe the origins of cannabis and reminds us that here in Colorado we should remember that the lineage of our cannabis goes way back according to GreensMan: “The origin of your grass even if you knew it for certain, has little to do with whether it will be dynamite or worthless smoke. In both India and Brazil, hemp is grown which is worthless for marijuana. Likewise, extremely potent marijuana plants grow which are useless for hemp fiber. These plants are sometimes found growing in adjacent fields. Most of the fine-quality marijuana varieties develop in those countries nearer to the equator. How much this had to do with environmental conditions or cultural practices is unknown. In either case, marijuana traffic has been so heavy that fine varieties now grow all over the world. For example, in the United States thousands of people now grow varieties from Mexico. These fine varieties originated in Asia and Africa, and many were brought to Mexican farmers by American dealers during the 1960s. As more farmers grew these new varieties, the quality of Mexican grass seeds imported to the United States improved.” Here we are in 2011 andl people are speaking of varieties such as Roughneck, Further, and Django as if they were created in Colorado, but let’s not forget that these little ganja warriors began on the other side of the world and only now present themselves for your marijuana smoking pleasures and pain relief.

Centennial Seeds Colorado Further

Pictured below is some bud that was grown outdoors in California, a personal favorite, the Aff Goo.  Aff Goo originated in the the eastern highlands of Northern California in Grass Valley, CA.  Humboldt County, Trinity County, and Mendocino Counties compose the emerald triangle of California and supply the bulk of medical marijuana around the country, but Grass Valley is also on the weed map for the Aff Goo specifically.  What is Aff Goo?  The gooiest Afghan strain that has ever been crafted for your smoking pleasure.  Aff Goo is a unique strain of cannabis that has an amazing intoxicating smell from the moment you crack the lid on your stash jar.  Aff Goo unlike other bud has the bulk of it’s THC content on leaves which are dripping with gooey THC and are often not trimmed away like other buds leaves.  Enjoy Aff Goo for a unique marijuana experience.  This is the kind of bud that grows great outdoors, in the fresh air or California, Colorado, and other medical states free of to grow into a bountiful expression of the cannabis plant.

Growing outdoors in Colorado is possible almost anywhere, even in the High Country.  GreensMan’s Page has some excellent specifics on growing outdoors and indoors.  For Colorado cannabis consumers who have been stuck with confined indoor grown buds, free your toking experience, and blaze up some outdoor bud.  Take a break from being high and get irae.  The carbon footprint left by indoor growing can not be passed to future generations, and now is the time to bring the plants out of the closets and basements, and into the great sunny outdoors of Colorado.  Colorado has followed Cali’s lead with marijuana production, and now it’s time to bring the sunlight to Colorado.  High Country Caregiver, keeping the High in pot smoking for all the real tokers out there; get irae with some outdoor Cali Bud.

Afghan Goo outdoor grown

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.

At a time like this with so much uncertainty, we must join together with one common vision….

When children are blamed for the nations drug problems, and the finger is pointed at the sick and weak for using cannabis, it’s time to stand up and say; YES I CAN SMOKE POT

When the Colombian drug cartels have better internet access in the middle of the jungle than most Americans, take a deep inhale.

Now that I have your attention I want to say that the only way Americans will ever be safe from unjust marijuana laws is to legalize cannabis.  The madness has to end.  Out of everything that you pointed out about changes needed in our country Obama, why didn’t you mention legalizing cannabis.  So many proud, educated, able Americans have had their lives ruined by your drug laws, yet you fail to even mention it.  Every major newspaper in every major city in your country has done articles on medical marijuana, so certainly you know how we are becoming a unified nation of cannabis producers and can shut the doors on the drug problems from overseas related to cannabis with your ending the drug war.  The time is now President Obama legalize marijuana and make America a more successful prosperous nation.  We leave you tonight with a vision once had about Obama and weed that was promised and never came true.

What happend Obama?

The State of the Weed Address

Inside Leo's Smoke Shck

Leo's Shack Breckenridge

Leo’s smoke shack unfortunately has no shortage of garbage, but Mr.  Hanky from South Park is seen asking you to ‘pack it out’ of the shack.  Prayer flags adorn the high point of the near 8 foot high ceilings, the rafters are full of every utensil needed for a medicated ski break on mountain smoke shack style like only Breckenridge can serve up.  The shack builders did an excellent job of installing a stair case to the upper level, designing various lounges withing the enormous structure, and even designed more intimate side rooms for your puffing pleasures.

Mr. Hank from South Park Makes a Visit

Prayer Flags Bless this sacred Shack

Smoke shacks have a culture of their own at Breckenridge.  Skiing often has it’s own sub-cultures, but nothing is more unifying and enjoyable than the smoke shack experience.  Pass to the left, pass to the right, just keep passing, smoke shacks are not to be taken lightly and you will get your fill like it or not if you enter.  If you enter Leo’s be sure to roll them Tupac and Notorious Big are watching.  It brought to tears to the eyes of this High Country medical marijuana reporter to see such beautiful artwork totally unmolested and see the two legends of rap proudly displayed in such a marvelous structure.  Tupac and Biggie Smalls bless this cabin and it’s dwellers.

Tupac Shakur Fallen Hero

To all Biggie's Peeps in Leo's Shack

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Community Marijuana Seed Bank