Hey everyone this is my first grow and first grow journal. Patience please. I just wanted to give you guys an idea of what I’ve done so far, and what i plan on doing before the grow is up. I will be posting pictures and updates.

So i started out with an empty room, pulled the carpet, painted and cleaned. I bought 6mil black plastic and battoned it to the ceiling and 2 walls creating a 12′x9′ room within a room. I bought this handy item called a tarp zipper at home depot for ten bucks to use as a door, it works great. I boarded up the window and sealed any holes letting light in.

I am using a single 1000w mh for veg hps for bloom. I’m using only half of my 8′x4′ tray, I figured get it right and then go big. Starting ten clones that were three weeks old and had been topped twice. I am using ‘happy frog’ soil and ‘smartpots’. My nutes are ncs17 veg and bloom very basic. I water when top soil is drying out.

I vegged for four weeks @ 24/0 and now they are in the fourth day of bloom @ 12/12. I bent all of them and so far they are responding well. This being my first grow i could use both positive and negative feedback so let me know what you all think. Thanks for checking out my post.
hopefully I’m doing this right I’ll put pics up now.
This is two weeks ago veg.

This is today 5/21 fourth day bloom.

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There’s a new victim in the push-back against the spread of medical marijuana: lawyers.

As first reported Monday by the Denver Post, capital attorney Ann Toney (anntoneylaw.com) was told by her liability insurance provider, Hanover Insurance Group, that it was not interested in covering her for any future terms, "because of the following risk factors: Area of practice involving medical marijuana."

The Indy spoke with Toney by phone on Monday, and though she was reticent to comment too broadly, she did provide this e-mailed statement: "I had informed [Hanover] that the bulk of my practice (70%) is comprised of defending people charged with Driving under the Influence of Alcohol and Drugs. The remaining thirty percent of my business is defending people charged with criminal marijuana offenses and advising clients on the Colorado medical marijuana laws. Thus it saddens me that Hanover [made] such a decision based upon a fairly limited percent of my law practice."

Colorado Springs defense attorney Clifton Black (blackgraham.com), who also frequently represents those from the MMJ industry, was taken aback.

"An attorney’s job is to advise somebody of what the law is," he says. "So, in my opinion, Ann Toney is doing exactly what an attorney is supposed to do.

"If somebody comes and asks me what the BAC on alcohol for a DUI is, and I explain that law to them, I’m not telling them to go drink and drive, I’m just telling them what the law is."

Suthers speaks, again
When it comes to government, it often seems that if there are budget problems, medical marijuana’s the solution; if there are social problems, MMJ’s the problem. Here’s another case of the latter.

In response to a study recently released by the Partnership at drugfree.org showing a lower perception among teens of risk associated with marijuana use, as well as increased use of the substance among youths overall, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers issued a statement last week saying "the increased availability and acceptability of marijuana in Colorado has dire implications for future drug-use rates."

The study also notes use of prescription drugs among youths is plateauing, though parents are increasingly abusing the drugs themselves.

Pelosi backs patients
In response to pressure from MMJ advocates at home, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a supportive statement Friday, saying she has "strong concerns about the recent actions by the federal government that threaten the safe access of medicinal marijuana to alleviate the suffering of patients in California."

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Author: Bryce Crawford
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Website: CannaBiz: Troubles with lawyers and MMJ | CannaBiz | Colorado Springs Independent
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By Tamar Todd, the mother of three wonderful children and a staff attorney for the Drug Policy Alliance.

Last week, one of California?s oldest and most respected medical marijuana dispensaries, Berkeley Patients Group, closed its doors. It shut down because its landlord, like dozens across the state, received a letter from United States Attorney Melinda Haag threatening to seize the property for renting to a medical marijuana dispensary located within 1,000 feet of a school. My three children attend elementary school and preschool in West Berkeley, just blocks from Berkeley Patients Group. The notion that the closure of Berkeley Patients Group is going to somehow serve to protect my children is patently absurd.

Berkeley Patients Group served thousands of medical marijuana patients in the Berkeley area for 12 years. It was an industry leader and a model of compassion and legal integrity. It was in strict compliance with state and local law, and has long worked with the City of Berkeley and the local community to provide a safe and responsible service to patients in need. As a small business, it employed 75 people and was one of the top sales tax generators in the city.

Ms. Haag has claimed that one of her concerns about dispensaries that are in close proximity to schools and parks and playgrounds is the possibility they could be the target of violence or armed robbery. Banks and pharmacies are also targets of armed robberies and there are a number of them located in West Berkeley. Like Berkeley Patients Group, they have security. There is no evidence to suggest, and I have never felt, that it is dangerous to send my children to a school that happened to be near a bank, or a pharmacy.

West Berkeley is not crime-free. There have been a number of shootings in the blocks surrounding my children?s elementary school in past several years. There is also significant illicit drug traffic in the neighborhood. The two are likely connected. But thus far, Ms. Haag and the federal government have devoted few, if any, resources to protecting children from gun violence or other crime in West Berkeley.

Instead, Ms. Haag has chosen to use her presumably limited resources to deprive the thousands of patients who frequent Berkeley Patients Group a legal, regulated, secure place to purchase desperately needed medicine. Of course, the closure of Berkeley Patients Group does not mean that these thousands of people will stop buying and using medical marijuana. They are sick, in pain, and are allowed to purchase and consume marijuana under settled California law (a law that was approved by voters overwhelmingly). Ms. Haag says that she is not going after medical marijuana patients. But she must understand that patients will now simply have to find marijuana elsewhere, from the streets, and near schools and parks. Ms. Haag has not made these areas safer; she has simply increased the demand for an illegal and dangerous drug market.

Ms. Haag also claims that her crackdown on dispensaries is necessary because of problematic marijuana use by high school students. The reality is that between 1996 (when California passed its medical marijuana law) and 2008 there was an overall decrease in teens? marijuana use. An analysis commissioned by the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs found ?no evidence? to support the claim that legalization of medical marijuana in California increased marijuana use during this period. Providing thousands of new customers to illegal drug sellers on the street might increase access to marijuana by teenagers. The existence of Berkeley Patients Group, and other well-regulated small businesses across the state, does not.

Most offensive is the notion that legal access to medical marijuana sends the wrong message to kids. I find the existence of legal medical marijuana very easy to explain to my children. This is what I tell them: Research and science matter. The opinions of medical professionals matter. We should have compassion for those who are very sick, and even for those who are just a little sick; for those suffering the effects of chemotherapy or for returning veterans suffering from PTSD; that we should help meet people?s needs and ease pain as best we can (even if it goes against the conventional wisdom or drug war ideology). I tell my children that it is better for people to buy marijuana from a safe, well-regulated source, than on the street.

I tell my children that the lives of children in Mexico matter too, where United States drug policy has led to the narcotics-related murders of nearly 50,000 people over the last five years, including thousands of children. That is the harm to children caused by marijuana prohibition, and a drug market that Ms. Haag?s actions directly fuel. The ?threat? posed by Berkeley Patients Group, and other dispensaries like it, pales in comparison.

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Source: berkeleyside.com
Author: Tamar Todd
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Website: Why I want a marijuana dispensary near my kids? school | Berkeleyside
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Authorities say they seized 100 bales of marijuana found off the coast of Orange County on Sunday.

Maritime law enforcement authorities said they received a tip just before noon about suspicious bales floating off the coast of Dana Point. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department recovered the bales and turned the narcotics over to the U.S. Border Patrol.

Authorities said an investigation is under way.

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