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H.E.M.P. Happenings May 2017
High End Market Place gearing up for a summer filled with fun events and lots of chronic weed!
Summertime and the livin’s HIGH. We’re super excited about the summer event’s we’ve got planned for you! The High End team will be kickin’ it at this year’s Brewfest at Esther Short Park on August 11th and 12th, as well as a Connectfest at Heathen Estates in Ridgefield on July 24th. We’ll be posted up on Main Street and 19th for this year’s Cruisin’ the Gut on July 15th, and we’ll be throwing a huge house party for 7/10 concentrate festivities.
This summer’s Sunday Sessions lineup is looking killer with guest musicians and artists such as Collection of Lone Soul Jah’s, Sell the Farm, and live glass blowing by Subliminal Glass. We’ve also got 2 vendor days with our trusted partners planned each month beginning with Avitas Agriculture this month on May 12th. Remember, each event we offer huge savings on the highest quality cannabis, concentrates and edibles!
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Sunday Sessions feat. an acoustic performance by Dos Sorella
Sunday May 28th // 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 and life in general.
Featured this month: Toshina and Natasha have been playing music together for almost 20 years. They’re identical twins that were born and raised in the Northwest. Individually and together they’ve played music from folk, to blues, to contemporary, and rock.
Both of the girls play guitar and sing and along with that Tasha plays the ukulele and hand drum. They both write their own music and ran open mics for over 10 years downtown Vancouver. They’ve played shows with amazing Hawaiian musicians such as Anuhea, Mike Love and Paula Fuga. And you can catch them from time to time at open mics around town.
May 2017 Featured Artist: Thomas Alsen
As most of you know, we feature local art in the front gallery space of our recreational and medical retail shop. We do this to highlight the natural convergence between cannabis and its cultural influence over the years, which we hope elevates your shopping experience with us.
Throughout the month of May, we are stoked to be showing the work of local Vancouver resident and artist, Thomas Alsen. Thomas is a painter and collector of 70s classic rock posters.
Originally from California, Thomas has resided in the Pacific Northwest for the past 20 years.
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
This year’s 4/20 House Party was a huge success…thanks to YOU.
Last month, we had an EPIC 4/20 house party and we want to thank our community for coming out to show support for High End Market Place and legal cannabis! Bleu Door Bakery for providing delicious treats, Heavenly Buds for rocking their vendor booth (and rocking their interview with KATU news!), Subliminal glass for the awesome live glass blowing entertainment, Couve Cycle for taking us on a one of a kind 4/20 party bike experience, and Garcia Birthday Band for bringing the house down with their throwback jams! And of course thank you to our HEMP manager/cannabis photographer extraordinaire NW Chronic Photography and the crew at SL FILMS for capturing these epic events! We also want to acknowledge each of our i502 cannabis partners for consistently supplying us with only the best products in the market- we wouldn’t be where we are without you! Cheers to another successful 4/20 holiday! Sunshine Farms, Fairwinds, @Greenlabs JV Ranch, Avitas Blue Roots Cannabis, X-Tracted Laboratories, SKöRD Marijuana Green Labs LLC
Upcoming Cannabis Events in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area:
LIFTED Lit
5/20/2017 // 4:20pm // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Get LIFTED and join other creative cannabis users at this monthly art session in downtown Vancouver, WA. All art supplies included, BYOC. This is a very special edition of LIFTED art as Clark County Poet Laureate will join us to write and discuss poetry!
Lifted Yoga:
5/21/2017 // 11am // 1920 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Get LIFTED and join other health conscious cannabis users at this monthly yoga session in downtown Vancouver, WA. BYOC.
Avitas Vendor Day:
5/12/2017 // 3-6pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
Bring your questions for Avitas agriculture, processors of the highest quality co2 oil vape cartridges in the i502 market! We’ll be hosting them from 3-6pm and featuring specials on their high quality cartridges!
Sunday Sessions: 5/28/2017
5/28/2017 // 1-4pm // 1906 Broadway Vancouver, WA
We are stoked to welcome Tasha and Shina Romero to HEMP to play a very intimate acoustic set for our monthly cannabis culture event in downtown Vancouver, WA. Just 10 minutes from downtown Portland, OR.
Cannabis Lounges in Legal States
Are cannabis lounges legal in the Pacific Northwest? What about in other states that have recently legalized marijuana? What does the future for lounges in Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA look like?
Legal cannabis passed in Colorado and Washington state in 2013. And As of November 9, 2016, the use of both recreational and medicinal marijuana has been legalized in additional states of Oregon, Nevada, Maine, Alaska, Massachusetts and California. With an ever growing number of states that have legalized recreational marijuana, “Pot Tourism” is also on the rise. I think that prior to legalization, a lot of people, myself included, envisioned pot cafes on every corner similar to Amsterdam where you could purchase your flower and roll one up and just enjoy a nice cup of coffee with your legally obtained cannabis. That was in fact the only thing that I had to do when I had a 12 hour layover in Amsterdam a few years ago and I still remember it fondly to this day.
Here in Pacific Northwest, that idea was pioneered by Madeline Martinez and the World Famous Cannabis Café in Portland, OR. However, in early 2016 amid threats of daily fines, the WFCC was forced to shut its doors leaving the NW Cannabis Club the only currently operating cannabis club in the Portland area. Lawmakers expanded Oregon’s Indoor Clean Air Act in 2015 to prohibit the use of devices such as vaporizer pens and e-cigarettes in public areas and workplaces. Marijuana was also added to the law, which initially targeted only tobacco. The indoor clean air law includes exemptions for two types of businesses: cigar bars, where patrons may smoke cigars, and smoke shops, where tobacco consumption is allowed. Both kinds of businesses must be certified by the state.
Don’t expect one here in Vancouver, WA anytime soon either, as tucked inside the HB 2136 legislation, a bill hailed by the state’s marijuana industry as a way to make the heavy taxation it faces more palatable, is a provision that outlaws marijuana clubs. The new law makes operating “a club, association, or other business, for profit or otherwise, that conducts or maintains a premises for the primary or incidental purpose of providing a location where members or other persons may keep or consume marijuana on the premises” a class C felony.
Alaska has gone ahead and allowed for indoor public cannabis consumption, and the leading 2016 legalization initiatives in Maine, Massachusetts, and California all allow for some sort of on-site public consumption. So only time will tell what the state level legislation will allow. But it sadly will not happen in WA State anytime soon.
Madeline Martinez said she plans to shift her focus to lobbying for a change to the clean air statute in 2017.
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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.