An annual underground 420 Celebration at Beauty Bar in 2011, which included helping patients get their NV cards, cannabis education, and punk rock bands.
*** Independent Lab Advisory Committee Meeting Wed July 1st, 2015 2PM
The next ILAC meeting is going to be at the following location with the agenda below. I highly encourage all MMEs to attend because what is decided at these meetings affects you financially and also the lives of patients that need cannabis as a medicine.
MEETING LOCATIONS
Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital
1650 Community College Dr., Room B-193
Las Vegas, NV
AGENDA:
***Bluetooth Facebook Beacons for Dispensaries
Dispensaries can install this beacon at their dispensaries to communicate via bluetooth to their customers on their facebook app and encourage social media connections. Everyone is on facebook, so I see this as a must buy / have as long as facebook is friendly to the cannabis community.
What are Beacons?
Order
***CannaEffect
Great website the tells advocates and patient stories about the benefits of cannabis as a medicine. Great place for journalists to gather more personal stories from individuals for their newspaper.
***EPA 24(C)
Interesting article about the EPA allowing for pesticide manufacturers to seek approval for pesticides starting in May. The process may be too expensive for most manufactures to go through with.
***Vegas Cannabis Magazine
Please read my article for the month about how patients can get prepared to work in the cannabis industry.
***Media for the Month - Doug Elfman, Review Journal, Las Vegas Sun, Nuglife Radio
I have had a considerable increase in interviews with the media in the last month and enjoy everything I can do to normalize cannabis use, educate, and promote the cannabis industry in Nevada.
Las Vegas Review Journal
Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas Weekly
Doug Elfman Podcast (Review Journal)
Nuglife Radio (Nationally Syndicated Radio Show About Cannabis)
Nugliferadio.com
***Edibles Safety Sheet Handout for Dispensaries
I created an edibles safety handout sheet for your dispensary, which will be necessary for you to give out to your patients to make sure, we do not have any negative consequences from uneducated edibles consumers.
***Elevate & Vegas Cannabis Magazine Please Purchase Advertisement And Support Cannabis Media
Please support these cannabis magazines with your advertising dollars. They are both instrumental in the Nevada marijuana community by informing patients, future patients, and out of town guests who are cannabis patients. They also normalize cannabis consumption for the Nevada community and the world. It is going to take a good 6 months of continued advertisement for your brand to really resonate with consumers. Each magazine allows you to reach a different segment of cannabis consumers, so I advise that you advertise in both.
***Vegas Senior Voice
I will have a published article in July’s Senior Voice talking to Las Vegas Seniors about using Cannabis as medicine. Please consider advertising in this publication to reach an important and influential segment of Nevada citizens.
****July 21st-23rd Champs Conference
If you need to purchase items for sale for your Las Vegas dispensary, this is one of the best places to do so. It is also loads of fun and a chance to find out what the newest products out there for cannabis are. The parties are pretty fun too!
***ASD Market Week Convention August 2-5th – Smoking Accessories & Free Marketing Education
This Las Vegas Convention Center features a large smoke shop area and has multiple free marketing classes for MMEs. It is free to attend if you register ahead of time as a buyer.
***Organic Dab Cup November 20th-22nd
One of the most fun and enjoyable experiences as a consumer of cannabis is to go to a cannabis cup event in your city or for tourists to visit here to attend a cup. We have had the Red Dragon Brothers Cup, the Secret Cup, and the BUS Cup in Las Vegas as private events in the past. These have to be attended as private events due to public consumption of cannabis being illegal.
***Hemp Fest & Medical Cup October 3rd Las Vegas Convention Center
Hemp Fest Las Vegas will be hosted by Tommy Chong and feature Collie Buddz and Kottonmouth Kings among many others. I have the privilege of being chosen as one of the speakers this year at the festival.
***Cannabis In Nevada – Your Opinion is Important
I am doing an anonymous marketing survey for Nevada MMEs, so I can get a better understanding of what patients want from MMEs, once they are open. This data will be published into an article once I feel I have a representative sample. Please answer the survey if you use cannabis as medicine.
***WECAN 702 Please Help Us with our 8,000 Sq Foot School & Facility (It Will Be The Largest Cannabis School In The World Once Open)
We signed the lease on a 8,000 square foot school, which will get its certificate of occupancy in August. We need financial support & office equipment donations. Please contact (Kurt@wecan702.org or JenS@wecan702.org) if interested or respond to me from this email. We will also get the word out about your NV MME facility and also help with branding. Our WECAN facebook has over 130,000 likes with 41,000 reached. We want to help connect you with the cannabis patient community. We can also give you a tax receipt because WECAN is a non-profit. Please assist us in helping more patients get their cards who can not afford them and need cannabis as a medicine.
We need your donation of the following items:
Tables: School 6’X2’ preferred
Desks: Office and Instructor
Chairs: Office, convention and school
Office Equipment:
Faxes, laminators, copiers,
Computers
Overhead projectors as well as digital projectors
Whiteboards and projections screens
***420 Yoga
If you love yoga and want to attend Nevada’s first 420 Beginner Yoga Class – it is taught by yours truly at Blue Sky Yoga inside the Arts Factory every Tuesday at 4:30PM.
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Jason Sturtsman, B.A.E., Ed.S.
Nevada Independent Cannabis Laboratory Advisory Committee Member (ILAC)
Wellness Education Cannabis Advocates of Nevada (WECAN) Board of Directors
Healthcare Options For Patients Enterprises (HOPE) Cultivation / Production
Wecan702.org
702-325-9923
JasonS@wecan702.org
