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The Leaflet – Spring 2022
It’s been our pleasure and pride over the past 6+ years to put Central Oregon’s only cannabis publication out into the world—and this time is no different. It’s a joy to bring a little dose of canna-love to Source readers, all packaged up for the cannabis lover to read at their leisure. Inside this issue,…
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People of Central Oregon Cannabis
Gary DaktylOwner/Operator At Wildflower Hemp Co. Loyal and dedicated, this friend-to-all is truly and deeply in love with the fruits of his labor. What is the hardest part of your job? The hardest part of my job is keeping up with the legal changes to the industry in parallel to the constant evolution of the…
What the FDA?
The federal government legalized agricultural hemp in 2018 after its prohibition nearly 50 years earlier. Cannabis is still considered a Schedule 1 drug by the Drug Enforcement Agency along with heroin and LSD, which is defined as not having any accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. The conflicting legal status of hemp…
Roots, Rock, Four-Twenty
Ancient lore has it that in the 1970s a group of high schoolers would meet daily at 4:20 to smoke weed. One of these kids would eventually go on to become a Grateful Dead roadie, which would propel the ritual into a mainstream event. We all know some iteration of this story, amongst other hard-to-verify…
Baking to Get Baked
TREATS + STONERS = A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN. A listener is checking in from the Kazahkstani embassy in Washington, D.C., where he’s out front smoking a joint, while the hosts of KPOV’s High Desert Co-op radio show and I start in on ingesting the ganja cookies I came here to eat. The listeners to…
Highs and Lows of Hemp
The hemp industry in 2022 is in a strange spot. The market overproduced in 2019 and has since been trying to find a sweet spot for the crop while millions of pounds of excess biomass are still stored across the country. In 2020 there were over 200 million pounds of excess hemp, but it looks…
The MORE Act is a Great Idea
On April 1, numerous news outlets reported that “Congress Legalized Cannabis.” Being a cannabis writer, my inbox was immediately inundated with emails from politicians and advocates sharing how “important” this development was, and all the “great things which were possible” with its passage. Both things are true. Congress did indeed pass the 2022 Marijuana Opportunity…
