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i love AWC

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Above: a few of the several hundred new buttons I’ve made for AWC because “i love AWC”…

Compassion For Long Beach

A new collective re-opened this last month here in Long Beach called Avalon Wellness Collective, or AWC for short.

I have to tell you, the place is really awesome, and that’s not just because I got to design their logo and website, or because I’ve been able to continue taking photos of the herb at AWC, both for their website and for my collection of herb photos – I have to tell you about AWC because this place really is a great collective.

They have a very nice, re-modeled shop with handicapped access, a very clean and professional meds room, and compassion that comes from the heart.

Above: the med room at AWC – photo by Ron Woolhether

Besides the shop, AWC has a state-of-the-art growing operation that gives this collective the ability to keep the donation levels at $50 an 1/8th or below for top-grade medicine.

They have spent the last six months making the place 100% compliant with all the local Long Beach regulations as well as SB 420 and still breathes the spirit of Prop 215 – The Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

Here’s their new video made by WeedMaps…

If you live in the Long Beach area and are a medical marijuana patient I highly recommend you check out their website – awclongbeach.com, and then give them a visit. Tell them that “Jon, onehumanbeing sent you!”

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Making Buttons for the Collective

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Jon, onehumanbeing making buttons...Spending Time At The Collective…

Today was my first day behind the counter at AAC – Apothecary’s Assistants Collective – as a volunteer staff member. Before I left home this morning I made a bunch of buttons to bring in with me.

That’s me in the little movie pressing the buttons with my button machine. Tania took the photos and suggested the little movie – nice idea :) You can click on the moving image to see a larger version…

I’ll be volunteering there several times a week and learning about how a Collective works, from a budtender’s view (note: a “Budtender” is the person who hands the herb and helps members select their medicine) – a different way of seeing my project, and it has already given me some things to think about for The MMJ Project.

You can follow my project about medical marijuana at The MMJ Project – my ongoing art project about this moment in time and the unique world of medical marijuana in Southern California.

As a user of marijuana for 26 years, and a long time legal patient under Prop 215, I’ve become a solid believer in the use of marijuana as a legitimate medicine.

I have an acquaintance through the collective who is a terminally ill patient. She is still alive 4 years longer than her doctor gave her because of the herb – just one of many stories of health and wellness I’ve heard over the years.

Medical Marijuana Is No Laughing Matter

People giggle about marijuana, but for us patients that have found a safe and easy solution to some of our health issues this is no laughing matter…

Unfortunately for us we have to wait for our political leaders to grow-up and stop treating this with a snicker and wink…

And while they giggle more people get put through the legal grinder for making choices that don’t concern anyone but that person and their doctor.

There seems to be something very immoral and irresponsible for leaders like Obama to make a joke about other’s health concerns. I’m still saddened by Obama’s response and I’m starting to view his agenda with suspicion… just another politician.

Meanwhile… back to the Collective

I took a bunch of photos of AAC while I was there today, and I’ll post those over on The MMJ Project later on.

Have a great week, and remember; 420 -  The International Marijuana Day - is next Monday – April 20, 2009!

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