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Human Collective Executive Director Sarah Bennett makes a legal transfer of medical marijuana to a member of the clinic in Tigard. Patients have a choice of types from different growers, and they pay a fee that covers the cost, minus labor, to produce the crop. All of those funds go directly to growers. To be a member of Human...

Danielle Baldwin shows off strains of medical marijuana Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, kept at Puffs Smoke Shop in Ashland, Oregon, which is seeking a license as a medical marijuana dispensary. The city of Ashland is one of more than a dozen around Oregon that have imposed or are planning to impose a tax on marijuana if voters legalize it...

Erica Pilch has owned C-Nine Caregivers in Garden City, Colorado for 3 1/2 years. She’s been “at the mercy of the state” when it comes to getting all of the required documents submitted in line with the state mandates. From store reorganization to an endless paper trail and business meetings to figure out how to accommodate the surge in...

Budtenders are the social networkers, customer service representatives and the teachers. Budtenders are knowledgeable in the cannabis craft and are serviceable to clients. Clients are patients who have been prescribed marijuana by their doctors, and they go to the dispensary to purchase their medicine. Budtenders establish relationships with these clients so that they keep going back to the dispensary....

"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet." - Jack Herer - Patricia Hewitson pictured