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

This video is a good explanation for how the smoke shacks work, groups come and go, pack it up when it’s 420, and go on to keep riding.

uStream app does a fantastic job on the iPhone 4, with about 3 bars of coverage with AT&T. The movie below is from the Mushroom Shack at Breckenridge Ski Resort on Peak 10. Leo’s, Mushroom, then CJ’s is the 3 shack tour making your way north from Peak 10 to Peak 9.

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

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

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

Centennial seeds so far has been disappointing.  Their Further and Django strains are horrible hermaphrodite producers, not just a banana or two, but full on hermaphrodite plants.  Seeing hermaphrodite flowers next to female flowers is every caregivers’ worst nightmare, especially when the male flowers dumped pollen all over which will surely produce seeds.  The problem is minimized by having heavy duty activated carbon filters which neutralize the pollination problems, but the work and effort lost getting to this stage with the Django and Further is devastating.  Full of promise the Django and Further from Centennial were started with the utmost love, but seeds from weak seed banks and breeders will never produce healthy reproducing clones and flowers.

Centennial Seed's Further

Why do marijuana plants turn hermaphrodite?  When the seeds are produced under stress.  An example is when the females are forced to produce hermaphrodite flowers through stressing them by adjusting light cycles or spraying the plants with silver nitrite.  Stressing the female buds does produce hermaphrodites which produce pollen, which self-pollinate the female plant and produce seeds.  Though this can have good results, combine these techniques with limited indoor cultivation, and the results are hermaphrodites from hell that will destroy your entire garden.  Sorry Centennial Seeds Boulder, but this is a big thumbs down on Further and Django.

Centennial Django hermaphrodite

If you are growing indoor cannabis as a medical marijuana patient or caregiver and you encounter this problem, do not attempt to move the plant.  Obtain a large ‘Hefty Cinch Sack’ and work it over the entire hermie cannabis plant.  With the bag over the plant and pollen hopefully somewhat contained, you can move the plant safely out of the room with out blasting pollen all over your healthy female plants.  Django and Further are now ready for the garbage.