September 25, 2010

Two cannabis expos Saturday and Sunday

Today and tomorrow is the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo 2010 at The Cow Palace in San Francisco (well, in Daly City, along San Francisco's border). According to the website the entire public is welcome (under 18 with parent/guardian). It's $18 at the door and goes from 10AM to 6PM both days. It will have lots of vendors, a raffle, live glassblowing, and claims to have the "world's largest patient consumption area."

The Saturday main stage schedule includes presentations on media coverage, compost brewing, local community activism, medical marijuana standardization, branding cannabis, and a debate on Prop 19 with Richard Lee. The Sunday main stage schedule includes presentations on safety and insurance and liability, strains and nomenclature, a legal panel, the future of medical marijuana and healthcare by Steve DeAngelo of Harborside Health Center, the economics of cannabis, and law enforcement encounters (including Amanda Rain Brazel from Oaksterdam University). The Saturday Prop 215 stage will have presentations on whole plant juicing, bud porn by Jorge Cervantes, SubCool's super soil method, cooking with cannabis with Phil Shehata from The Farmacy, and 420Football on the outside stage. The Sunday Prop 215 stage will have presentations on power growing through early testing, the art of consuming (on the outside stage), a rolling contest with a prize by Vortex Waterpipes, the art of cloning with Bret Bogue of ApothecaryGenetics.com, and 420Football on the outside stage.

Also happening September 25 and 26th, 2010 is the Plant Medicine Expo and Healthcare Provider Conference at the downtown Denver Sheraton hotel. On September 25th, the expo runs from 11AM to 6PM; on September 26th the expo runs from 11AM to 5PM. The Healthcare Provider Conference is September 25th from 830AM to 430PM; registration and a light breakfast starts at 730AM. A Consumer Conference is September 25th from 9AM to 345PM; and on the 26th it goes from 9AM to 5PM. On September 25th at 4:30PM there will be a debate entitled "Medical Marijuana and the Colorado Amendment: What’s Right For You?", moderated by Richard Belzer. Tickets for the debate costs $10 or is free for conference attendees. The Consumer Conference costs $49. The Healthcare Provider Conference costs $250.

On September 22nd, an article appeared on HuffingtonPost where Jesse Benn interviewed Seth Ginsberg, the president and co-founder of TGI Healthworks which is producing the Plant Medicine Expo and Healthcare Provider Conference.

1 comment: