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H.E.M.P. Happenings March 2018
How was your experience with us? Leave us a review to let us know how we’re doing and how we can improve.
We love hearing how your shopping experience is with us. We take time with everyone that walks through our doors to find a product that will be effective and just what each person is looking for. But, we also want to make sure that if there is something recommended that doesn’t work out for you, we want to know so we can make a better recommendation or improve our product lines or education. Our goal is to source only the best cannabis, and we are proud of the selection we offer but we want to make sure we continue to be open to suggestions of what to carry, as well as how we can improve our shop. Your feedback is much appreciated and helps us get better everyday at what we do! Please leave us a note on one of the following platforms:
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Drop by HEMP’s booth at this year’s Vancouver Women’s Show March 10th & 11th
High End Market Place is proud to sponsor this year’s Vancouver Women’s Show, featuring food, crafts, fashion and health and beauty products just for women. Come out to the Clark County Convention center on March 10th and 11th for food and drinks and to check out the awesome vendors in attendance. HEMP will be offering non infused edibles at our booth as well as educating women on the various cannabis infused products out there that may appeal to them. We’ll have information on cannabis infused tincture, topicals, edibles, female suppositories, as well as the very popular cannabis infused sensual oil, BOND.
For tickets and more information visit: https://vpshows.com/
Vendor days March 2018: Blue Roots Cannabis
Join us on March 1st for a vendor day with our friends from Blue Roots Cannabis. Blue Roots, out of Eastern Washington, has a passion for cannabis unlike any others in this market. They produce and process some of the finest cannabis flower, oil, joints and edibles, and we’re proud to partner with them. They bring consistency with everything they do including their quality bud rolled joints to their classy packaging that keeps the cannabis lasting and fresh. We’ll be offering 20% off all Blue Roots Cannabis products from 1-4pm the day of the event. Don’t miss out! Come kick it and bring your questions for Blue Roots!
March Featured artist: Bryan Helfrich
This month, the walls of HEMP feature works by local painter, Bryan Helfrich.
Local artist, Bryan Helfrich, presents a series of unflattering portraits of the most divisive world leaders in our modern times.
Questionable World Leaders, Hosted by H.E.M.P. during the month of March, featuring portraits of ruling-class riff-raff from around the world including: The rocket man himself Kim Jung Un, Colonel Qaddafi and plenty more scoundrels from years ago to present day.
Together these compelling acrylic portraits, in carefully curated vintage frames, capture a group of the most infamous, dangerous and fucking ridiculous characters in modern geopolitics.
Cannabis inspires artists of every caliber, and we are beyond excited to have the opportunity to showcase local work by some amazing creators in Clark County and Southwest Washington. If you would like to be a featured artist, or are interested in learning more about our involvement in the arts community in downtown Vancouver, WA, please email: marketing@highendmarketplace.com
Sunday Sessions: on hiatus until further notice!
We are re-working these monthly cultural events until further notice. Please check back in, and let us know what type of events you would be interested in attending here at High End Market Place by emailing marketing@highendmarketplace.com!
Upcoming Cannabis Friendly Events in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area:
Blue Roots Cannabis Vendor Day
3/1/2018 // Time 1-4pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Lifted Art: Cannabis Friendly Painting Session with Matthew Harmon
3/17/2018 // 4:20pm-7:00pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Join our friends from Lifted Events on Saturday, March 17th for a cannabis friendly art session in downtown Vancouver, WA with Matthew Harmon. Focus will be on the new trend of paint pouring! BYOC. Private 21+ Event. New lower price! Get your tickets here.
Lifted Yoga: Cannabis Friendly Yoga class with Michelle Dickey
3/18/2018 // 11:30am-12:30pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Join our friends from Lifted Events on Sunday, March 18th for a cannabis friendly yoga class in downtown Vancouver, WA with Michelle Dickey. BYOC. Private 21+ Event. New lower price! Get your tickets here.
Lifted Lit: Cannabis Friendly Writing workshop with Christopher Luna
3/24/2018 // 1:o0pm-3:00pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Join our friends from Lifted Events on Saturday March 24th for a cannabis friendly writing workshop with former Clark County Poet Laureate (2013-2017) Christopher Luna. BYOC. Private 21+ Event. Register for the event here. Suggested donation $20. Get your tickets here.
H.E.M.P. Happenings February 2018
High End Market Place sponsors inaugural I Like Comic Con event at the Clark County Event Center February 10th & 11th
We love being part of a thriving, fun, and welcoming community on Broadway in downtown Vancouver, WA. So when our friends from I Like Comics asked us to be part of the very first I Like Comic Con event happening just north of Vancouver in Ridgefield at the Clark County event center, we said YES. We are honored to sponsor this event with Dark Horse Comics and Loowit Brewing co.! The guest list includes comic legends, creators and some of the best local writers and illustrators around. Check out the full guest list here. The tickets for the two day event are only $25, so be sure to purchase yours today. Feel free to dress up as your favorite comic book characters, as there will be a cosplay contest on Saturday the 10th! Drop by our booth to say high on February 10th and 11th and feel free to ask any questions about our dispensary, the cannabis products we sell, and the state of the recreational marijuana and medical marijuana industry here in Washington State!
This type of event has never happened in our area before, and it pushes the limits of what is possible and showcases the amazing things that transpire when a community comes together for a common cause. We are proud to sponsor this event to help nurture and grow the arts scene here in Vancouver and to support our friends at I Like Comics!
Purchase your tickets today at these locations.
Vendor days February 2018: Fairwinds & JV Ranch
Join us February 2nd for a vendor day with Fairwinds Cannabis. Fairwinds Manufacturing, located here in Vancouver, WA, continues to push the envelope when it comes to medically focused cannabis products including their best selling high CBD and THC tinctures, FECO, vape cartridges, and the best topical in the market, Flow Gel. Join us on February 2nd from 2-5pm to get to know the Fairwinds team and find out what makes them different! RSVP to the event on Facebook.
Also this month, we’re excited to host JV Ranch for a vendor day at HEMP on February 16th. We’ve partnered with JV Ranch since we opened our doors in January 2015, and JV and the team continue to impress us with their consistent, responsibly produced cannabis products including flower, joints, RSO, hash, and kief. Stay tuned for the time of the event, and we hope you join us!
February Featured artist: Coty Keller
This month, the walls of HEMP feature works by local painter, Coty Keller.
‘The Celestial Seas’, is a cosmic re-imagining of our most alien, yet terrestrial sea creatures. It’s also a reminder that our (one and only) home is an island oasis amongst the in-numerous uninhabitable islands in the unfathomably vast sea of space.
Coty Keller has been moved to paint and draw since the moment he was able to hold his first crayon as a child. With the support and encouragement of his family, this interest grew into a passion. Coty’s been inspired by and has an appreciation for a wide spectrum of artists and art styles. Several of those artists include (but are not limited to) Alex Grey, M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, Frank Frazetta, and H.R. Giger. He also has a deep admiration for the Renaissance Masters, and in particular, Leonardo da Vinci, whose many contributions to the arts and science Coty’s always found amazing. Coty attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for a Media Arts and Animation degree through their online program for two years. He has however continued to study independently to develop various skills in drawing, painting, and other art forms. Check out more about Coty and his incredible work here.
Cannabis inspires artists of every caliber, and we are beyond excited to have the opportunity to showcase local work by some amazing creators in Clark County and Southwest Washington. If you would like to be a featured artist, or are interested in learning more about our involvement in the arts community in downtown Vancouver, WA, please email: marketing@highendmarketplace.com
Sunday Sessions: on hiatus until further notice!
We are re-working these monthly cultural events until further notice. Please check back in, and let us know what type of events you would be interested in attending here at High End Market Place by emailing marketing@highendmarketplace.com!
Upcoming Cannabis Friendly Events in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area:
Fairwinds Vendor Day
2/2/2018 // 2:00pm-5:00pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
JV Ranch Vendor Day
2/16/2018 // Time TBD // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Lifted Yoga
1/18/2018 // 11:30am-12:30pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Join our friends from Lifted Events on Sunday, February 18th for a cannabis friendly yoga class in downtown Vancouver, WA. New lower price! Get your tickets here.
H.E.M.P. Happenings January 2018
High End Market Place celebrates 3 Year Anniversary
We’re stoked to invite you all to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary this month! This private event will take place on January 28th from 1:00-4:20pm, and will feature our friends, and one of the highest quality cannabis producer/processors in the state of Washington: Skord Marijuana! We are also excited to welcome our neighborhood friends from I Like Comics, Mack Shack, Funky Fresh Juice, and 1709 Records to join us in celebration. Mack Shack will be providing the tastiest burritos in all of Vancouver, and Funky Fresh will be serving up fresh juice and smoothies to compliment the burritos. Chris from I like Comics will join us to raffle off some badges for the upcoming I Like Comic Con event happening February 10th & 11th in Ridgefield, (and stay tuned, cause they may even be bringing a special guest to kick it too…). Local rock band The Sindicate will play a live set, and 1709 Records will put on some pre-funk records to get us all warmed up for the band. Join us as we celebrate 3 years in business, and 3 years serving you! Thank you all for your support, and we’re looking forward to kicking it!
Space is limited! RSVP at Eventbrite here.
*This is a PRIVATE free event. 21 years and older only.
Join us for a vendor day with Avitas
Join us January 19th at 3pm for a vendor day with Avitas Agriculture. Avitas is one of the most innovative companies in the Washington State recreational cannabis and medical cannabis industry, and we are proud to carry their cannabis concentrate products. They recently came out with a new cannabis cartridge design that has one of the highest success rates of any other cartridge in the market. Their new Pax Pods are designed to pair with the newest Pax vaporizer, The Era, which is light weight, affordable, and incredibly sleek. Come visit High End Market Place Friday, January 19th for our first vendor day of 2018! RSVP to the event on Facebook.
Sunday Sessions returns February 2018
Sunday Sessions will return February 2018 due to our 3 Year anniversary celebration! But please feel free to drop by to let us know what kind of events you would like to see us host here at HEMP!
We’ve been inviting our community into the HEMP house since April 2015 for our monthly cannabis culture event, Sunday Sessions. Each month, we host a free event where we feature local musicians or artists in performances ranging from live glass blowing, live painting, screen printing or even pumpkin carving. Sunday Sessions at HEMP invites us to check in with our community often, support those around us, and gather to share ideas both about the legal weed industry, medical marijuana and life in general.
January Featured artist: Annual HEMP Employee art show
This month, the walls of HEMP feature works by our High End team including Brian, Morgan, Shawn, Suki, Stephanie, Breanna, and Silus. The works range from painting and drawing to photography and even a custom rolled Heavenly Buds joint! Be sure to drop by the shop before the end of the month to check out the pieces from our incredibly creative High End Market Place team!
Cannabis inspires artists of every caliber, and we are beyond excited to have the opportunity to showcase local work by some amazing creators in Clark County and Southwest Washington. If you would like to be a featured artist, or are interested in learning more about our involvement in the arts community in downtown Vancouver, WA, please email: marketing@highendmarketplace.com
Upcoming Cannabis Friendly Events in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area:
Avitas Vendor Day
1/19/2018 // 3:00pm-5:00pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Join us January 19th at 3pm for a vendor day with Avitas Agriculture. Avitas is one of the most innovative companies in the Washington State recreational cannabis and medical cannabis industry, and we are proud to carry their cannabis concentrate products. RSVP here.
Lifted Yoga
1/21/2018 // 11:00am-12:00pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Join our friends from Lifted Events on Sunday, January 21st for a cannabis friendly yoga class in downtown Vancouver, WA. New lower price! Get your tickets here.
H.E.M.P. Happenings December 2017
Exclusive Heavenly Buds Strain Drop coming to High End Market Place December 22nd
Our partners at Heavenly Buds have been hard at work keeping their staple strains consistent (Master Yoda, Raspberry Kush, Bruce Banner to name a few), and working on breeding new chronic strains for your enjoyment. We couldn’t be more excited to be the ONLY store in the state of Washington to get a drop of their brand new secret strain coming up on December 22nd, just in time for Christmas! This strain is so secret, we don’t even know about it! Join us for the reveal on Friday 12/22 and be the first to pick up a gram or eighth of what is sure to be another chronic cannabis strain by some of the finest clean green organic cultivators in the state: Heavenly Buds!
More about Heavenly Buds: “Heavenly Buds is a family owned & operated business. They are a recreational top-shelf cannabis producer and processor in Washington State. Their industry-leading facilities provide the plants you smoke with the cleanest and healthiest environment possible, so they can bring you the best quality marijuana and marijuana products. They are all about top of the line appearance, fragrance, flavor & potency, truly on the highest of top shelves. Heavenly Buds advocates a lifestyle of serenity and happiness, enhanced by legal cannabis!” Find out more about their strains and mission on their website here.
Opt in to our NEW text campaign, and receive 10% off!
We relaunched our text campaign at the beginning of this month! If you haven’t already opted in, do so by texting “HEMP” to 360-328-1998. Receive exclusive specials, deals on cannabis flower, oil, edibles, as well as information about upcoming events or happenings at HEMP (like the cannabis strain drop!) We will only text you once or twice a week, and you can opt out at anytime if it is not right for you.
Sunday Sessions returns February 2018
Sunday Sessions will return February 2017 due to the Holiday season! But please feel free to drop by to let us know what kind of events you would like to see us host here at HEMP!
We’ve been inviting our community into the HEMP house since April 2015 for our monthly cannabis culture event, Sunday Sessions. Each month, we host a free event where we feature local musicians or artists in performances ranging from live glass blowing, live painting, screen printing or even pumpkin carving. Sunday Sessions at HEMP invites us to check in with our community often, support those around us, and gather to share ideas both about the legal weed industry, medical marijuana and life in general.
December Featured artist: Cynthia Heuton
We are beyond excited about this month’s showcase by our very own member of the HEMP family, Cynthia Heuton. Drop by throughout the month of December to check out her incredible cannabis photography!
Cynthia’s Bio:
“A self proclaimed makeup junky, event designer, and cannabis lover, Cynthia Heuton has expressed herself and her love of life and people through photography since 2008. Beginning her career with Sassy Studios, focusing on portrait and event photography, Heuton has since embraced her love of cannabis by incorporating this newly legalized plant into her work by capturing photos of cannabis facilities, cannabis culture events, as well as smoking portraits. She formed a new cannabis oriented photography company called NW Chronic Photography in 2015.
It’s Lit is a showcase of portraits of High End Market Place employees, where Cynthia also manages, and showcases a wide spectrum of color, depth, and abstract angles that highlight her vision and love for the plant and the people she works with on the daily. By utilizing LED lasers in a unique and very dark basement setting, Heuton was able to capture both the beauty and raw nature of 20 subjects enjoying cannabis in many forms.”
Cynthia lives in Vancouver, WA and would love to shoot your cannabis products, events, or smoking portrait.
For more information, follow Cynthia on Instagram at @nwchronicphotography
Facebook at NW Chronic Photography or check out her website: nwchronicphotography.com
Cannabis inspires artists of every caliber, and we are beyond excited to have the opportunity to showcase local work by some amazing creators in Clark County and Southwest Washington. If you would like to be a featured artist, or are interested in learning more about our involvement in the arts community in downtown Vancouver, WA, please email: marketing@highendmarketplace.com
Upcoming Cannabis Friendly Events in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area:
Dogtown Pioneers Vendor day + Ugly Sweater Pub Crawl
12/9/2017 // 4:00pm-9:00pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
We’re stoked to be part of the Uptown Village Ugly Sweater pub crawl happening December 9th here in Vancouver, WA! We’ve invited our friends from Dogtown Pioneers to join us to hand out non-infused samples of their popular lemonades and other beverages. Find out more about the event here, and RSVP today
Heavenly Buds Vendor Day and Secret Strain Drop
12/22/2017 // 4:00pm-6:00pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
See more information about this exclusive strain drop above and join us for this one of a kind event with our partners at Heavenly Buds!
H.E.M.P. Happenings November 2017
Brian Lee teaches us how to roll up custom joints in the next cannabis friendly Lifted Art class
We’re very excited about this month’s Lifted Art class on November 18th at 4:20pm! Brian Lee, HEMP manager and joint roller extraordinaire, will walk us through how to roll 1g tulip flower joints and give tips and tricks on how to roll a perfect joint every time. Joint rolling materials will be provided, and are included in the ticket sale…all you need to bring is some chronic weed to roll up! Spaces are limited, so be sure to purchase your ticket today! Purchase this and all other Lifted Art tickets at eventbrite.com
Lifted Events hosts private 21+ cannabis friendly art and yoga classes in Vancouver, WA near Portland, OR. To find out more about Lifted art, go to liftedevents420.com
H.E.M.P. hosts dog and cat food drive to benefit the Humane Society for Southwest Washington
At High End Market Place, we’re proud to be a dog (and cat!) friendly establishment. Last year, we hosted a food drive in partnership with the Southwest Washington Humane Society, and we wanted to give back again this year. Please bring in bags or cans of dog or cat food (opened bags are OK) from now until January 5th, 2018. Get details of what to donate here, and thank you joining us in making a difference this holiday season.
Sunday Sessions featuring live music by Daniel Trent
Sunday November 26th // 1-4pm // FREE // 21+
About Daniel Trent:
Daniel Trent will be performing from a myriad of guitar styles from fingerpicking to bluegrass. On top of that he will be singing songs from a plethora of genres including his own soulful and poetic originals.
Find out more Daniel on his Facebook page. and RSVP today!
We’ve been inviting our community into the HEMP house since April 2015 for our monthly cannabis culture event, Sunday Sessions. Each month, we host a free event where we feature local musicians or artists in performances ranging from live glass blowing, live painting, screen printing or even pumpkin carving. Sunday Sessions at HEMP invites us to check in with our community often, support those around us, and gather to share ideas both about the legal weed industry, medical marijuana and life in general.
November Featured Artists: Reid Trevarthen & Corrin Lee
Reid Trevarthen’s artist bio:
I often say that my secret dream is to be an impressionist painter. I’m specifically fascinated by the way in which artists like Monet and Degas used light and color to not only depict their subjects, but enhance them. Their works make me feel like am actually seeing the world through their eyes, unaltered by time. These pieces are my best effort to mimic the qualities I find so evocative in their paintings using paper instead of paint.Before this body of work, I hadn’t yet attempted to use a realistic color palette in my work, under the assumption that it would take too long to hunt for just the right shade and color. Once I tried, however, I realized that using magazines that photograph reality means that I had far more realistic colors available than saturated magentas and reds. I also discovered that I only to had to approximate true color, in the same way that the Impressionists did, to achieve the degree of realism I wanted. Even the process of making these collages feels like painting.
Recently, I have been incorporating more traditional collage elements, such as inserting whole images straight from the magazine into my work. This allows me to inject humor into the pieces, and encourages impulsive choices. Including these images helps ground the work in the medium of collage, and keeps me from becoming too habitual in my process. I am excited to see what will change in my art over the next year.
Check out more of Reid’s work at his website: reidtrevarthen.com
Cannabis inspires artists of every caliber, and we are beyond excited to have the opportunity to showcase local work by some amazing creators in Clark County and Southwest Washington. If you would like to be a featured artist, or are interested in learning more about our involvement in the arts community in downtown Vancouver, WA, please email: marketing@highendmarketplace.com
Upcoming Cannabis Friendly Events in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area:
Lifted Art
11/18/2017 // 4:20pm-6:30pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Get LIFTED and learn how to make a custom flower joint with local joint artist and HEMP manager Brian Lee. Joint rolling kit included in the ticket price, but please, B.Y.O.C. !
Heavenly Buds Vendor Day at High End Market Place
11/10/2017 // 4:00pm-6:00pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
We are stoked to be the featured vendor this month for Heavenly Buds. We’re hosting the Heavenly team at the shop on November 10th from 4-6pm, where you’ll get to ask the team questions and enjoy some awesome specials on joints and flower. Also, in partnership with Heavenly, we’re offering up cannabis specials on Heavenly products throughout the month of November. We’re grateful for our partnership with a conscious cannabis producer, and can’t wait to celebrate with them! Join us!
Sunday Sessions
11/26/2017 // 1-4pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Join us for live music inside the HEMP house featuring an acoustic set by Daniel Trent. Our monthly cannabis culture event in downtown Vancouver, WA happens the last Sunday of every month. Free live music at a cannabis dispensary just 10 minutes from downtown Portland, OR.
H.E.M.P. Happenings October 2017
Have you checked out our High End glass and vaporizer selection recently?
High End Market Place not only offers the highest quality, responsibly sourced cannabis products in the State of Washington, but we also carry custom local made glass products and high quality vaporizers as well. We work with several local Vancouver, Washington and Southwest Washington glass vendors including Subliminal Glass, and Jenkins Glass to stock our shelves with badass custom glass pieces you won’t find anywhere else. We’re also proud to carry a wide selection of vaporizers to fit your needs including the Volcano, Magic Flight, DaVinci, DOPE, and Dr. Dabber.
For a more comprehensive list of our paraphernalia selection, reference our paraphernalia book here. And, to stay up to date on new pieces coming into the HEMP house, make sure to follow @Highendglass710 on Instagram!
Keep in mind, if you’re ever looking for a specific glass product (including bongs, rigs, pipes), vaporizers (flower or oil), or any accessory (dab sticks, grinders, etc.) please let us know! Email us paraphernalia@highendmarketplace.com here.
Sunday Sessions featuring live music by Dane DeLloyd
Sunday October 29th // 1-4pm // FREE // 21+
We’ve been inviting our community into the HEMP house since April 2015 for our monthly cannabis culture event, Sunday Sessions. Each month, we host a free event where we feature local musicians or artists in performances ranging from live glass blowing to live painting, screen printing or even pumpkin carving. Sunday Sessions at HEMP invites us to check in with our community often, support those around us, and gather to share ideas both about the legal weed industry, medical marijuana and life in general.
About Dane:
Dane DeLloyd is an actor/rapper/pianist/artist extraordinaire who has performed coast to coast in many different venue’s and formats. On the east coast he has opened up for acts such as The Roots, The Pharcyde, Faith Evans, and the Last Poets. On the west coast he has played every tall monster (i.e. Frankenstein, Shrek, Zombie, Ghostface Killer and others) at Universal Studio’s Hollywood 4 out of the last 5 years. He also custom designed T-shirts for several mazes at Hollywood Horror Night’s in Los Angeles. Dane has self published multiple chat books as well as two Musical CD’s
1.) 100% Organic Music
2.) Serumade Adabeigio.
He has also promoted diversity in the community working with organizations like the University of Pittsburgh and the Heinz foundation. His works have been performed in the Andy Warhol museum as well as the National Poetry Slam competition. Dane is also a well rounded visual artist as well whose
photography is featured in his books. His visual works were also sold at the Pancake and Booze Show’s in L.A.
His photography is currently on display at the Waddell & Reed bldg. in downtown Vancouver, and in limited edition photography books such as N.Y.C. circa 2010. Penned by his friends as the “Da’minted Wordsmith”, or D-Dub for short, his 100% Organic installment includes over twenty years of original music. Serumade Adabeigio (literally translated as “the healing kiss”) is his debut into the classical/jazz solo piano scene. He is an asset to his craft, and an example of perseverance through artistry.
Find out more Dane DeLloyd Facebook page. and RSVP today!
October Featured Artists: Mike Stevens and Courtney Landrus
About Michael Stevens: 7 years ago, Michael Stevens met the love of his life, and in that time was introduced by her to many new mediums of art, one of those mediums he struggled most to perfect. So, instead of perfecting his craft, he decided to rather release his horrible, ugly, fragile monstrous clay sculptures upon the world in all of their imperfect beauty. Monstrous faces are the true feelings and emotions that embodied his many moods and characteristics throughout his life. A spectacle that shows…Some of us have more demons than others. Check out Michael’s Monstrous Faces here.
Courtney Landrus is a tattoo artist in Washington state who also specializes in watercolor paintings. Learning to paint in this medium was her first step into the world of tattoo art. Her best work happens when her minds eye, hands, and her soul come together on paper to portray even the small and ordinary details of life as beautiful and exquisitely unique. She enjoys creating art in a lifted and positive state of being and has a gift of capturing the world around her through her art; sharing this gift with others is her ultimate purpose as an artist. The psychology of the human mind and the beauty that is created from our brains is a source of endless fascination for her and she hopes to lift others to see the light in this world not just as an artist but as a person living in it. Courtney is originally from Spokane, Washington and now lives in Portland, Oregon with her daughter Sailor.
Find out more about Courtney by visiting her Facebook page.
Cannabis inspires artists of every caliber, and we are beyond excited to have the opportunity to showcase local work by some amazing creators in our area. If you would like to be a featured artist, or are interested in learning more about our involvement in the arts community in downtown Vancouver, WA, please email: marketing@highendmarketplace.com
Upcoming Cannabis Friendly Events in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area:
Lifted Art
10/14/2017 // 4:20pm-6:30pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Get LIFTED and learn how to make an awesome ashtray/incense burner with our featured artist Mike Stevens! This event is a two part event as the ashtrays will need to be fired in the kiln!
Vendor Days at High End Market Place
1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
We are excited to welcome in several of our trusted cannabis partners into the HEMP house for vendor days in October. Join us to get educated on the offerings and marijuana products by our friends at Bodhi High and Craft Elixirs. Stay tuned for weed deals and promotions associated with each vendor day. Subscribe to our text campaign for more info on deals by texting “HEMPDEALS” to 33222 or sign up for our newsletter on our website’s home page.
Bodhi High: October 7th
Craft Elixirs: October 13th
Sunday Sessions
10/29/2017 // 1-4pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Join us for live music inside the HEMP house featuring live hip hop, poetry, and keyboards by the multi-talented Dane DeLloyd. Our monthly cannabis culture event in downtown Vancouver, WA happens the last Sunday of every month. Free live music at a cannabis dispensary just 10 minutes from downtown Portland, OR.
History of Cannabis as Medicine
Cannabis has long been used as a medicine in Asian, African and South American countries. The first evidence of the medicinal use of cannabis is in an herbal published during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Chen Nung 5000 years ago. It was recommended for malaria, constipation, rheumatic pains, ‘absentmindedness’ and ‘female disorders’. I’m neither a doctor nor female, but I’ve lived with both and can confirm with anecdotal evidence that cannabis can be used to treat ‘female disorders’, so Chen Nung was definitely onto something 5000 years ago.
According to “History of Cannabis as a Medicine” by Lester Grinspoon, M.D., in India cannabis has been recommended to quicken the mind, lower fevers, induce sleep, cure dysentery, stimulate appetite, improve digestion, relieve headaches, and cure venereal disease. I’m still not a doctor but that last part doesn’t sound right to me, but I don’t know enough about venereal disease to dispute it.
In the West cannabis did not come into its own as a medicine until the mid-nineteenth century. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, numerous papers were published in Western medical journals recommending it for various illnesses and discomforts. Although during that time period they were also recommending opium and cocaine to treat a wide variety of illness, like the common cold.
In the past 100 years we’ve seen the prohibition and resurgence of medical marijuana in the United States.
· 1914 – Drug use, under the Harrison Act, is officially declared a crime.
· 1937 – By now, 23 states have outlawed marijuana. The government also passes the “Marihuana Tax Act”, making the use of non-medical marijuana illegal. Cannabis was still used in various medical treatments, albeit in controlled forms.
· 1970 – Marijuana was categorized as a Schedule I drug along with more dangerous ones, and was listed as having no accepted medical use. Despite the fact that some early American medical journals had begun listing the medical uses of cannabis, the government restricted any further research.
· 1985 – Marinol, the only US FDA-approved pharmaceutical is introduced and classified as a Schedule II controlled substance.
· 1996 – Patients and advocates turned to the state level for access, passing voter initiatives in California and Arizona that allowed for legal use of cannabis with a doctor’s recommendation. These victories were followed by the passage of similar initiatives in Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Washington D.C.
· 1999 – Marinol downgraded to a Schedule III controlled substance. Yet cannabis in its natural flower form still remains a Schedule I drug for the foreseeable future.
As of 2017, cannabis still remains a Schedule I drug; along with MDMA, LSD, peyote, quaaludes and heroin these drugs are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. In August 2017 however, the FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to MDMA for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder).
WASHINGTON STATE QUALIFYING CONDITIONS
Qualifying conditions to become a medical marijuana patient in Washington include:
· Cancer
· HIV/AIDS
· Multiple sclerosis
· Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
· Spasticity disorders
· Intractable pain
· Glaucoma
· Crohn’s disease
· Hepatitis C
· Diseases, including anorexia, which result in nausea, vomiting, wasting, appetite loss, cramping, seizures, muscle spasms, or spasticity
· Chronic renal failure requiring dialysis
· Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
· Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Due to a lack of scientific evidence supporting improved health outcomes from the use of medical marijuana for mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety, the Medical Quality Assurance Commission denied requests to add to the list of qualifying conditions. For more information please visit the WA Department of Health and Services.
-KRG
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At HEMP we proudly serve both recreational and medical customers. In 2016, High End Market Place was the first cannabis dispensary to be licensed under the new WA State Department of Health medical marijuana program. Since then, we have registered thousands of patients, and have given them access to the highest quality, most ethically sourced cannabis products in the market. Our store is truly Vancouver’s one stop for the best Cannabis Dispensary.