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Herbal Education....24

Greetings readers!!!
Im Lotus Blossom.
Im 21, a mommy of one
and another on the way.
Im from the South
American country on the
Equator where warm is
the weather and the
heart of the people. Well,
ok, so there are a lot of
countries on the
Equator. But where are
the most beautiful nude
beaches, the biggest
rainforest in the world,
Samba, capoeira,
capoeira, and the
Carnaval?
Carnaval?
Only Brazil, of course!!
Ive been here since 2001.
Can
Cant say I don
dont miss Brazil
cause I do!
Can
Cant say I hate it here, but I
also don
dont love it.
My roots are in Brazil, but my
heart is everywhere on this
vast, beautiful planet.
Ive been homeless, houseless,
hippie, trendy, rich, poor, sad,
happy, sick, healthy, drunk
and sober.
Im all about natural medicine,
holistic living, ecoecofriendliness, consciousness in
every action, spirituality,

dreadlocks, traveling,
breastfeeding, unprocessed
living, truth, sustainable
farming methods, music, art,
and much much more!
As these issues go on, you
will get to know me more bit
by bit.
I will enjoy our growing
relationship, and if ever you
have anything to say to me;
whether a suggestion, a
complaint, a compliment, or a
rant, I will be more than glad
to hear it.
Please email me at
lotusblossom@hempstarmaga
zine.com!
zine.com!
Namaste.
Namaste.

Recipe for Health Conscious Brigadeiros

(Brazilian Fudge Candies)
You Will Need
1 Can of Organic Sweetened
Condensed Milk
2 Tbsp of Unsweetened
Natural Cocoa Powder
Stick of Organic Unsalted
Sweet Cream Butter
Chocolate Sprinkles
A Heavy Saucepan

What To Do
First of all, you might be
wondering why not all of
the ingredients on the list
are organic. When
shopping for a family, I try
to prioritize what need to
be and does not necessarily
need to be organic. With
the milk it is almost crucial
due to the hormones,
antibiotics, and inhumane
treatment the cows receive.
The cocoa powder should
be natural due to the heavy
preservatives and additives
that may be present in the
mix. The Organic butter is
the same as the milk, and
pure sweet cream butter
just tastes so much better!
Now you tell me where I
can get organic chocolate
sprinkles and Ill be there!

TIP: If you want to make this a medicinal

treat, just replace the regular butter with
Cannabutter and it will then be called
Brigadeironha, because Marijuana in
Portuguese is Maconha. So there ya have it! Enjoy and always
remember to use MMJ responsibly
and to abide by all your local laws
and guidelines!
Add the butter and keep mixing
for 5-10 minutes until it is well
mixed and thick.
Turn the heat off and set the
mixture aside on a plate to cool
for about 15-30 minutes or until it
is cool to the touch.
Grease your hands a bit and roll
the mixture into small balls.
Roll the balls in the chocolate
sprinkles.
Place each ball into small muffin
Okay, now were ready to or candy cases or just leave them
start the recipe! Mix the on a plate. Setting them apart just
Condensed Milk with the makes it easier to keep the
cocoa powder for about a sprinkles together.
minute.
Its ready to serve! Enjoy!

Recipe for Health Conscious Cannabutter

You Will Need
1 lb of Sweet Cream Unsalted Organic Butter
35-70 grams of Cannabis of your choice; if you use good quality
cannabis go with 20-35 grams for a high potency, if you are using
trimmings, go with 35-70 grams for high potency.
2 Cups of Water
A Crockpot or Large Pot
A Coffee Grinder
Scissors
Strainer or Cheesecloth
Container for the Butter

*There you have it, your

cannabutter is all ready for use.
You may keep it in the fridge if
you plan on using it very soon
(within the week), or you can
What To Do
freeze it for prolonged
freshness. When you are ready
*First, you will need to
to use it, take it out of the
finely grind the cannabis
refrigerator and let it sit to
of your choice. If you
soften, do not put it in the
choose high quality buds, you may not need to remove the stems since they too are
microwave as high amounts of
covered in THC. However, if you choose to use plant trimmings, you have two
heat will kill the THC in the
choices; you can leave the big stems in or remove them. If you wish to leave the stems
butter. Now you can make
in, go ahead, just make sure you use the scissors to cut them into small pieces. You
anything that takes butter and
will want to cut the leaves into smaller pieces too so you can speed up the grinding
replace the amount of regular
process and fit more leaves in at one time.
butter in the recipe for
*After you grind the cannabis, set it aside and put the 2 cups of water in the crockpot
cannabutter and you will have a
or pot until it boils.
treat you will not forget! Or
*When it is boiling, put the butter in there and wait until it melts.
will you
*Now that the butter is melted, put the cannabis in there and set the heat to the lowest
possible. Mix it up well to make sure that there are no clumps or chunks unattended to.
Dont forget to read up on the
*Leave the cannabutter to cook for 22 hours exactly. Do not overcook or undercook
next issues for more delicious
the butter. This time is required for the separation of the THC molecules into the
recipes of medicinal treats and
butter.
health conscious goodies!
*Check on it every few hours to make sure that it is not sticking to the bottom
of the crockpot. Just mix it up gently and cover it back up.
*After 22 hours, turn the heat off and leave it to sit for about 5 minutes.
-Lotus Blossom
*Please be really careful of the heat on this step! Use long sleeves and/or oven
mitts to protect your arms and hands. Now pour the cannabutter liquid through
a strainer and into a container.*note: specify the container size/ shape for easy
extraction of butter!! Make sure to squeeze through as much liquid as you can
possibly get out of the wet, soggy cannabis plant matter without breaking your
strainer.
*When you have done this, cover your container and set in the fridge for a
few hours to overnight, in order for the water to separate from the
cannabutter.*note: make sure that all the liquid and butter has seperated
*Now, this step may be a bit messy. Put saran wrap or any plastic wrap you
may have (even a cut plastic bag) over the cannabutter container and turn it
over to pour the dark water out of the container.
Finished product, frozen in a Ziploc
bag for prolonged freshness.

re you tired of using store bought, allopathic medicines to cure your cold or
flu? They are full of side effects, chemicals, preservatives, and will do
anything to your body but heal it. And when you go to the doctor with it, the
most common thing hell tell you to do is bed rest and lots of fluids. But
theres got to be something else I can do!!

First of all, lets have a talk on how holistic healing works.

Youve got to understand the process of holistic healing in
1) Exposure 2) Infection
order to fully benefit from it. In holistic or natural care,
disease is a perfectly healthy part of health. It is almost
necessary; it strengthens the immune system and builds upon
it. The immune system is exposed daily to different germs,
bacteria, and viruses. This is a healthy part of life, as we need
to be exposed to those organisms in order for our bodies to
5) Healing 3) Inflammation
build immunities to them.

The Cycle of
Disease/Sickness

Ok, now that we know that disease is

a perfectly healthy part of being a
healthy human being, we can look at
it in a different light, perhaps not
trying to completely eliminate it, but to prevent it and/or shorten its duration without
causing further side effects on other parts of our being. The key is to assist our bodies in
fighting the infection, and not to try to suppress the symptoms, as those are important
pointers, they are our bodys way of telling us what is wrong.

This is where natural medicines come into play. They do not contain preservatives,
chemicals, additives, and most important of all; they work holistically, without negatively
affecting any other parts of your body.
There are many factors that may cause disease, the two main being exposure to infected
organisms, and stress (when we are stressed we produce a hormone called cortisol, this
hormone greatly weakens and decreases our immune systems ability to fight off disease).

By Lotus Blossom

Now to cure a cold or flu, would be almost impossible since

both are caused by a virus, and we all know that viruses cannot
be killed. When you notice winter coming around, a weather
change, cold breeze, and if you are in a stressful situation or
environment, you should immediately start to take some
Echinacea and vitamin C supplements, at least 1000 mg a
day. At your local natural food store, there should be a very
convenient supplement that has both Echinacea and
vitamin C. A supplement like this works wonders, and you should
take it for approximately 2 weeks or for the duration of a cold.
Including more zinc in your diet should work wonders as well.
Goldenseal is also very useful for congestion.

Knowing how to prevent a cold can come in

very handy, but including herbs, spices, and
whole foods in your diet is crucial in
maintaining good immune health.
These are especially good for immune health (plus
other benefits):
Oregano; a pungent spice that aids in immune system function. It
is antibacterial, has potent antioxidant activity, and is very
nutrient rich.
Turmeric; a spice proven to prevent things such as diabetes and
cancer when included in daily diet. Has great antioxidant activity
and promotes whole body health.
Ginger; fresh ginger works wonders, not to mention it is delicious!
It is great for nausea, digestive health and immune health. Also
reduces cholesterol, fever, and inflammation.

Garlic; a completely natural antibiotic, works well externally as well as internally. Will greatly
boost the immune system.

Eucalyptus; a natural antiviral remedy. Great for the flu and cold.


Honey; especially Manuka honey, its expensive, but probably the most medicinal honey you
can find, very antibacterial. Works wonders, it can be used externally on wounds and
internally for things such as heartburn and digestive issues.
Green Tea; full of antioxidants, proven to prevent cancer, better organic
Acai; often called the tree of life, it offers protection against cancer, and many other
ailments. Aids in cardiovascular health as well as amazing antioxidant power and
phytonutrients. Also great for immune health.
Chamomile; has amazing antiseptic action, helping the body to get rid of infection. Reduces
fevers and irritability.
Echinacea and Vitamin C; we talked about this one. Take it through your cold to aid your
immune system in healing the body.
Onions; garlic-like characteristics as well as cleanses the blood.

The best treatment for a cold or flu really is bed rest, a calm
environment, lots of fluids (soda does NOT count), whole foods, and an
increase in zinc and vitamin C intake.
If you are really congested, place a few drops of essential oil of cinnamon, eucalyptus, or
peppermint in a steaming bowl of water. Place your head over the bowl with a towel acting
as a tent for about 5-10 minutes. This will wonderfully ease your congestion. Another option
is to sit in a warm bath with a few drops of tea tree oil or lavender oil in it. This will help to
relax you as well as bring down a fever if you have one, it will also open up your airways.
Drinking chamomile tea will help ease you to sleep. Drinking
blackcurrant tea will help clear infection and catarrh. To ease
a high fever due to infection and/or inflammation, barley
water is a classic remedy. To soothe aching limbs, drink
arnica tea or fenugreek tea with honey and lemon. You can
also massage chamomile, tea tree, or geranium oil into your
head and chest to lessen your symptoms.
Another way to ease your lungs and help to fight the infection is
to brew a handful of eucalyptus leaves into some tea, add honey, also add the juice freshly
squeezed out of a lemon. This is a wonderful remedy, I used this when I was in the forest and
caught bronchitis, and didnt have any other medicine available.
Also make sure to always (especially when youre sick) include the whole foods mentioned earlier
in your everyday foods, especially garlic and onions as they will help to fight the infection when
you have a cold or flu.

Never forget that we have a fully stocked pharmacy all around us

everywhere on this beautiful earth that was left full of resources. Nature
is our biggest and most effective and reliable pharmacy. Although we
have been destroying rainforests all over the world and along with them
many herbs and plants that couldve been the cure to even cancer! But
thats a whole different argument I dont even want to get started on.

Rainforests once covered 14% of the earths surface. Now they

cover only 6%.
Since the 1900s, over 90 Brazilian indigenous tribes have been
destroyed. All their knowledge of rainforest medicinal value
went with them. When a medicine man passes away without
passing on knowledge, it is like a library being destroyed.
In 40 years, it is expected that most rainforests will be gone.
More than 20% of the worlds oxygen is produced in the
Amazon. No wonder it is called the lungs of the world.
One of the worlds most potent anticancer drugs, Vincristine, is
extracted from Periwinkle, which is a rainforest plant.
70% of the 3000 active cancer fighting plants recognized by the
U.S. National Cancer Institute are found in the rainforest.
Be part of the solution not the cause.

By Lotus Blossom
So the entire cannabis culture revolves around the saying
420. But what does it actually mean? Many people use this
saying on a daily basis and have no idea where it actually
came from.
There are many myths about where and how the term 420
came about;
420 is a police dispatch code, or a penal code number for
the illegal use of marijuana.
FALSE
Nowhere is the number 420 a dispatch code or a penal code
number for marijuana use.
420 is Hitlers birthday.
FALSE
This is a true fact, 4/20 is Hitlers birthday, but this is not why
420 is what it is.
420 is the number of chemicals in marijuana.
FALSE
There are actually 315 chemicals in marijuana.
420 is tea time in Amsterdam.
FALSE
Tea time in Amsterdam is actually 5:30.
These are myths and actually very far from where the term
420 originated.

Art by Josie Dee

In 1971, in San Rafael High School in California, there was a group of stoner teenagers that was composed of
about twelve kids. They called themselves The Waldos. They would meet everyday at 4:20pm in front of the
Louis Pasteur campus statue to get stoned. They started using the term 420 to describe everything related to
pot as a code that the adults didnt understand. So I bet youre wondering, how did the term spread so far
beyond San Rafael, California? Well, the Waldos frequently smoked pot with The Grateful Dead, so the band
helped to spread that term beyond San Rafael. Steven Hager, the High Times magazine editor, reviewed all the
evidence submitted by the Waldos (which they did after they noticed that the term spread and became popular
everywhere). They showed him letters that were postmarked from the early 70s that show proof that they
invented the term 420.
So there ya have it! Now you know the meaning of 420! Nice to be an educated stoner, isnt it?

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- Hippie Paul
This months featured artist is Samuel
Lee Polce. Please check out his website
at www.samuelpolce.com
I want to find
enjoyment in the
journey rather
than dwell simply
on the
destination.
Surrealism and
Psychedelia have
helped me to
recognize this
world for more
reasons than the
material it is
made of. I do not
strive to have
certain
aesthetics. My
intuition grants
my work visual
characteristics
that the viewer
then associates
with me.

Generosity
2008
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in order to overflow
$20,000

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It isnt hard to find a
dispensary nowadays ever
since new legislatures
have passed. Medical
Marijuana is easily and
readily available to any
legal medical patient, but
what if youre looking for
a little more than just a
sac? Many patients find
themselves met with a poor selection of medicine, illmannered staff and a dark, stuffy environment. With
that being the case, I felt it was my duty as well as a
privilege to be able to present patients with a more
compassionate alternative to the norm.
This month I am pleased to showcase a special little
place, Colorado Care Facility. Often I find myself late
on a Sunday night looking for an open dispensary, flipping
through ad after ad looking at operating hours, only to
find - closed at 3pm - or - closed at 5pm - and usually
spend the rest of my night discouraged and without my
heavy indica for sleep. This place is a special case,
open seven days a week, 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. and is
always well-stocked with an excellent variety of quality
meds. CCF carries an average of fifteen or more strains
all high quality at low prices, available for you to take
a good look over with a back-lit magnifying glass or to
get your nose full!

Just as
important as
the quality of
product, to
me, is the
quality of
service. You
dont go back
to a
restaurant if
the waitress had an attitude so why should it
be any different with your pharmacy? CCF has a
very knowledgeable, and friendly staff. They
greet even new patients with a warm smile and a
cold drink. The waiting room is unexpectedly
comfortable, furnished with leather couches and
loveseats, and the walls hue a lifting Zen
green that is like taking a breath of fresh
air.
Once past the
double doors you
are once again
greeted with
bright faces. The
atmosphere of CCF
is inviting, you
can relax and watch TV,
read some literature,
and even
play a rousing game of chess, who says
stoners are dumb?

The menu is brightly displayed

on a Plasma screen on the wall
along with some totally unique
works of art. Now I know that
on average you would expect to
pay more for quality service
but with Colorado Care
Facility that isnt the game.
Grams average at $16 and are
never more than $20 even for
the top shelf supply!
I always leave a dispensary
happy, but I never leave CCF
without a smile (and thats a
huge difference!). This
facility provides top notch
service, A+ strains and
selections, and convenient
hours.

I would rate CCF a 5 out of 5, outstanding all

the way around! Remember guys, you should always
be responsible and respectful when obtaining your
prescriptions. Please dont unlawfully consume
marijuana on or around the premises at which you
obtain it, thats like pissing where you sleep
man, and we dont want one person to screw it up
for those of us who are honestly benefiting from
the use of Medicinal Marijuana

CCF is located at 5103 E. Colfax Ave.

Denver, CO. (303) 953-8503 WALK-INs

WELCOME!!!

Please make sure to visit CCF

CCFs website @ www.COLORADOCAREFACILITY.com

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