medical marijuana new jersey i'm here in the princeton community t v studios today with the owner and operator of the contemporary smoke shop outside of atlantic city called hollywood smokin kimba tesh thank you so much for coming jim thank you yes actually we're just four miles from the compound the dispensary in lenox said earn the lan of area a harbor township and what we try and do is if there's somebody has chosen to medicate using medical marijuana they can come to our store and we can teach them about the various methods in which they can choose to partake there are three basic ways that most people find the most useful one being smoke and the other being vaporizing and the third being a some a true certification but what i did do is because i do not have a reason to medicate and i do not partake i felt as though i really needed to truly understand  science behind why different people medicate and how they medicaid and how to go about the process so it's not a true certification but i went to oaksterdam university which i basically refer to as kind this college you go you learn you get educated one all different types of aspects regarding to marijuana and i actually visited oaksterdam once when i was out in oakland and it's very interesting program out there but now i understand that they they offered the same certification kind of program in various parts of the country and there was even want to know lennox city recently ye last summer exter d m started their tour going around the united states because as the medical community expands into the various different states people need more of an understanding and so what they did is they took their course on the road and i actually went again to the one in atlantic city as a refresher course this is an area where as much education as you can get you are going to be that much more successful in your endeavors so let's let's start with the basics of smoking that's probably the most common way that people use marijuana cannabis and either as a medicine or socially or religiously and so there are various ways to smoke i want to tell us about some of the me use joints and pipes yes and there one thing that i like to mention to brand new medical patients is the lowest cost investment a person in new jersey has already spent and three in the amount of time on traditional medicine  now they've had to go through all the process is to actually get reckon a recommendation from a doctor and apply for the card and possibly even a caregiver we also have to pay that fee so in order to enter the world of medicine i like to be truly respectful of somebodies budget so smoking is the least expensive way in which to try to determine whether medicine is for you in the beginnings and somebody is not used to rolling a joint or smoking out of a pipe we you know there are cones available there pre made cones and this probably is the easiest way to start out but in order to fill your cone with your medicine you should grind it up and buy you just put it right on the grinder spin it a few times and then you would open it up and there's tons of different grinders out there there's metal there's plastic there's all different i wan budget friendly options to start and then you would just lift up your medicine and fill it up and that would be the the easiest cheapest quickest way other people choose to once they know that they are going to be six ers once they know they are successful they might want to choose papers and a roll or so that you put your paper in it and you just spin the wheels i want to say wheels on this and you would roll your joint this way to make it very easy and that is not always the best for somebody who has dexterity issues when you're talking about  s or severe arthritis or different i want to say crippling conditions rolling may not be for you and there are other people that just choose to smoke using a glass  so i brought one here with me i do just for instances in our store i do like to purchase most of our glass items from united states glass artists i think that's just a nice thing to do the quality is always better but this particular piece was bathed in delaware if i can get something close to home i don't pay shipping and handling and i just feel it's nicer but so you would grind up your product again and he would just put it in the plate filling here and you would use this site hole here it's called a cart and you would light your product and you would in him now this is these meth this method of smoking is harsh ok it's harsher on your life when you're through and your lungs so just be it's not that it's too harsh it's just that something that a brand new patient should be they should know that that's one of the things when you're smoking  so once you know that medicine is working for you i decided i'd let the person know that there are other ways that aren't as harsh on your system and one of those ways is vaporizing and well before we move on to vaporizing let's let's say would smoking a little bit because now let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of the products we have are all different types of papers out there in different sizes different with so that you can find out what works for you even indeed choose to row about the holding of the breath now many people going back to i guess and chong movies they've if they use that as a model they they find that people have been holding their breath for a long period of time but i heard that after three seconds here just me you're not absorbing any more of the can abba noise into your bloodstream you're really just tars so it really really shouldn't be holding your breath when you smoke for more than three seconds he find that if you try i have heard that that is exactly correct and that at that point you're just continually depriving your brain of oxygen rain rather than you're not going to get any more medicine in essence you're just going to hold your breath right now if people find this method harsh of this method of smoking harsh how about water pipes i imagine something something like are also excellent and the reason why a lot of people do choose a water pipe over a hand pipe is that that allows the water to filter some of that tar and analogy i have a hope you get it combustion which is burning is similar to putting something on the grill tastes great it does the job i love a steak going to grow but there of and you are truly baking or a convection oven so you are still able to heat up the active ingredients are the active constituents of your medicine using a vaporizer and since you're not burning your actual profit or medicine that may have previously lasted you twenty days is now going to last you thirty days so that is really why vaporizers you truly will get your longest or your best your biggest bang for your buck over the long term after the initial investment of the electronic item vaporizers this is  from a very good company i like this coming because they have a warranty and warranties in this business are huge but a vaporizer what you would do is they have a heating cam and that would be right in the center here so again you would grind your product first and it should be ground like coffee grounds not too small not too large and you would just place your product right in here place the cap on it and then you would turn it on usually you click them five times and it turns on now a good vaporizer will have different temperatures  that being said you wouldn't cook every cut of meat at the same temperature you wouldn't cook every shereen of medicine at the same temperature so warm this unit you would just hold the  button to change the temperature the first one was a low the green is the medium and the oven temperature is blue and it's actually three hundred thirty degrees three hundred eighty degrees and four hundred twenty so this allows you to actually win this life turns green you know that the oven she never has been heated up to that temperature and that's when you know you can go ahead and in hand you know there is a lot less smoke when you're exhale is there so yes but i was on the the air and when you inhale they attach to your bloodstream quicker so it doesn't involve water molecules you know what are vapor but it's based on the trip to what's naturally in the air turns green yeah i just want to see it like takes about a minute for it to get to the highest temperature now if you've come from a smoking background where you've been combusting where it's a water pipe or a joint or a glass pipe it does take a little bit longer to adjust to vaporizing but you're getting this man out of medicine don't let anybody tell you you're no and  you know when your medicine all the active ingredients have been taken out of the medicine when it starts to taste like burnt popcorn so hot ok because you know you have to know when to stop and restart s and you do have to use a screen in between the heating element and the chamber where you put your product to prevent your product from touching the coils directly and if it touches the coils directly some people do prefer to take their medicine by eating because it will have a sustained a sustained length of time but i have to caution you it medicine and that means you heated up at a very low temperature for short period of time before you actually prepare ok there are there is one appliance out there that i truly believe in because if it does the work for you and if you are a caregiver your time is already stressed or if you are the patient you are your life is already stressed so anything to make your life easier is a little bit more convenient and that's the magical butter machine the reason why this does and and the magical butter machine is not just for edibles i do want to part  share so but what's unique about this appliance you know that you can't get anywhere else is it basically has a candy thermometer built into the system as well as in agitat r just imagine if you were at home and you had to star the preparation for forty eight hours that's time consuming and if i'm patient or caregiver i don't have that kind of time  the other thing is that you have to also be heating it up and if you heat it up too much you actually lose your active ingredients so that means your medicine that you just paid bu over or grain alcohol and this is to make a tincture and then you would just place the top on has buttons here you would press the temperature button and you would either press for eight hours and then you would walk away and then you could turn your other things then you would strain it and you put it in the refrigerator or some sort in some sort of drop or bottle and then you could make you could just do two or three drops underneath your tongue four five times a day however you feel works for you again this is where a pain chart or symptoms are really is important so that you can track your success the other thing about the magical butter machine is that you can use your sticks stems c it's a whole plant you don't burn whole plant science you that way you're dropping everything out of every part of your medicine the other thing is yes you can make your butter then you can make your ordeals and you can even make selves if you wanted to do something topical i don't know much about the top calls i don't know many people have had that much success with it and i just don't know about it but the difference between takes turn and oil you make them both with that machine yes and that's a good many people here are forced because the edible products are not available in the alternative treatment centers for their children they the parents have to make their own oils for right to control the children cesar's right and usually for children  sometimes there's a reason why a parent will choose a very small amount to eighteen sure or make them eat the whole but you can make butter  you can make oils you can make pictures and again it's all about the success of the patient and they need to where the caregiver needs to really chart what's working for them  well thank you so much for this demonstration then just one of the question then then they if they want to make brownies say that they want to they would take some of the butter that they make from this machine and them and put it into a brownie make yeah grannies and there as there are many people that do have we stings disease or issues where they are constantly trying to increase their appetite so they'll make a tub of butter ahead of time sometimes they'll treat themselves to cinnamon toast sometimes they'll use the butter in a recipe and sometimes they'll just drizzle oil into a smoothie and they're all different ways that you can use the butters and o so that you can get your full dose and when you need when you need to medicate thank you so much for this introductory lesson in the differences between smoking and vaporizing and medical preparations for medical marijuana  cannabis we're very grateful that you came into our show today totally not thanks or i feel as though there is success out there and people have to understand that it's not as difficult as you know the world would like us to believe that this there's there's a lot of great opportunity for a healthy choice and you don't  dealing with pain and erector sets in your back in tether spines you know there's all different things out there that you know you don't have to be a common terms patient stuff and one oxy codeine or something like that when you can get relief and cannabis really is a safer alternative in many instances to many of the pharmaceutical preparations and as you mention some of the surgical procedures that would deal with the same issue  for more information can be attached from hollywood smoke in the store in north field new jersey outside of atlantic city thank you can for more information about the coalition for medical marijuana new jersey join us at our free public meetings on the second tuesday of every month at the lawrence township library in mercer county new jersey from seven to nine p m snacks are served and all are welcome remember every forty two seconds someone  every forty two seconds someone is arrested for marijuana it could be you