Guess who will be at the Emerald Cup this Weekend?

Discussion in 'Marijuana Legalization' started by Storm Crow, Dec 8, 2014.

  1. #1 Storm Crow, Dec 8, 2014
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    Well, in my online commenting in the news, I was contacted by a fellow activist, Pebbles Trippet. (If you don't know about her, see http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/07/interview_legendary_marijuana_activist_pebbles_tri.php )

    And she has arranged for me to be her guest at the Emerald Cup this coming weekend- I even get a ride down there! (NO city driving for me! Yippee!) Apparently, she and some other activists really like my List and want to say thank you for the work! lol

    I know a fair number of you have wanted to meet me, and maybe share a few puffs. Well, here's your chance! I don't get coaxed out of my rural "Ivory Tower" very often. Sorry about the short notice, but I only confirmed this all literally just minutes ago!

    Here's the link to the info on the Emerald Cup- http://theemeraldcup.com/

    Last time I went to a Cup event, I ate too much of some lovely fudge and got rather giggly! I am not sure what all I will be doing- all I know is that I am going and they like me! However, I will spend at least some of the time over with some old friends from the Green Heart Dispensary (if they are there this year).

    Hope to see you there!


    Granny
     
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  2. thats awesome, and well deserved. keep up the good work and enjoy 
     
  3. congrats granny :) take pictures if you can
     
  4. Granny if run into subcool 420, (he lives in Santa Rosa) tell him Grasscity says hi!!!!
     
  5. My ride just contacted me! He will be here tonight and we will leave tomorrow morning! Hope to see a few of you at the event! I am all excited! But now I have to get back down to Earth and go do the morning dishes- sigh- the housework never ends!

    Granny
     
  6. Most of the he nor cal krew will be there. Check out # 223. That's is goldhillganja cheezquake. There ore over 600 entries. My word.
     
  7. How many people go to those events?
     
  8. Packed.
     
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  9. #9 Storm Crow, Dec 16, 2014
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    What I Did On My Weekend Vacation

    It was SOLD OUT packed! The first day was very crowded. People were so tightly packed that walking through the "Hall of Flowers" was slow going. Pebbles Trippet and I had a nice long chat and she introduced me around. John, the editor of SKUNK magazine, talked with me. And after chatting, he invited me to submit a few articles. He and Pebbles want me to start translating medical studies into plain English for SKUNK.

    And my sons are going to be SO pissed at me, but they don't know it yet. John, after some heavy persuasion (and several dabs), got me to do a spot on SKUNK TV. So "the cat will be out of the bag" soon enough! And although they did 100s of 20 second spots with random people, they actually did a mini-interview with me- so it looks like Granny will be on YouTube in a while, and maybe earning a little as a writer. (Yes, you will be able to see and hear me speak on SKUNK TV)

    I met a tech kid by the name of John, who after seeing my List, volunteered to make the app for it. He is all jazzed up about it.

    But, it was the people I talked with in the medical smoking area, that affected me most. I look at people and sometimes I know I have to talk with them. On one of my walks through the area, I spoke with 6 random people (mostly women) and 3 of the 6 were nurses! (What are the odds?)

    A second walk later on, found me talking with a lady with service dog, a basset hound mix dog. She had severe PTSD and was well medicated so she could bear being in the crowd. She was looking for medical information on her PTSD and other problems. As I explained my List to her and that it was free, this look of utter amazement came over her face. "It's FREE? You really just give it away???.... Are you the angel I have been searching for?" I said that if it was an angel with medical studies on PTSD she was looking for, then maybe I was! lol She belongs to a group of folks (mostly veterans) with PTSD and will be sharing my List with them. She was smiling as we parted ways.

    Later, I met Mikah, a red-bearded, bear of a man, dressed in a Santa suit. He wants to put on a small medical based event on the coast next year, and said he would get me there and find me a place to stay, so I could teach some of what I know. He gifted me some of the Gummy Bears that his dispensary makes.

    And then back at the SKUNK booth, I met Mikayla Comstock, a 9 year old leukemia survivor. She is a remarkably poised, very intelligent young lady, and I liked her very much. You can read her story here- http://thecannabiscure.blogspot.com/2013/07/brave-mykaylas-story.html

    Sunday, I smoked a very sticky joint with a couple of "SoCal gang-banger" types (his fingers were literally yellow with trichs after crumbling and rolling it). One of them has a rather ill, elderly mother who does NOT like the idea of smoking. He wanted to know how to give her cannabis with a minimal high and no smoke. We discussed tinctures, vaporizing and THCA, and other options. I also mentioned that he needs to show his mom the "Great Keneh Bosem Debate" since she is a devout Catholic.

    While taking a break at the SKUNK booth, I sat next to a gentleman who was somewhere around my age- maybe a bit younger. I started in on why he needed to take Omega 3 for a healthy endocannabinoid system. Much to my delight, he was versed in medical terms. Our conversation on neurons and the endocannabinoids and THC got VERY LIVELY. Turns out he is one of the doctors who has a study in my List. My observation of having unattached CB receptors as a source of disease fits right in with his work! He said I had given him a lot to think about and he was SO pleased to have talked to me!

    And I finally got to do dabs! They are fun, but it is too easy to get too stoned and get tongue-tied when discussing "endocannabinoid-mediated neuronal functions". (FYI, getting high is an "endocannabinoid-mediated neuronal function".)

    To say the least, I had fun and educated a LOT of people!

    Was the weekend perfect? No. Sunday night, there were 6 of us in a 2 person hotel room due to a small lack of communication. Pebbles and I got the beds, being the old ladies- the "kids" had their sleeping bags and got the floor. But, it was somewhat like a slumber party with vape pens,and just kind of fell into a "family on the road" mode- like a group of siblings traveling together. (If you plan to go to an event, book a room 2 months beforehand, or you may end up sleeping in your car!)

    There are somethings that need to be worked on in the cannabis community as a group! For one thing- the Emerald Cup people, on the whole, left a huge mess. Some booths were relatively clean after they left. But others were absolute pig sties! Booze bottles, half-eaten food, trash, broken glass, cigarette butts, tobacco from blunts,- just GROSS!

    How the heck can we expect to be invited back to fairgrounds (or anywhere) if we act like pigs? When stoners leave a place, it should be absolutely CLEAN! We learned this at the love-ins almost 50 years ago! Those of us who helped organize and put on the love-ins, would walk the grounds with shopping bags and trash bags, picking up what others had left. This was noted, and we were allowed to get permits for other love-ins in Balboa park and elsewhere.


    Granny
     
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