Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, January 18, 2017
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Cannabis cowboys: Taming the wild west of marijuana
Cannaguard wants
to let you focus on
growing, they will
handle the rest.
By Dan Mancuso
IVN Staff Writer
The ever changing marijuana
marketplace is seeing new
businesses pop up and others are
transforming in hopes to cash in on
the fledgling cash crop.
Cannaguard out of Portland
area wants to be a one stop shop.
“Let the growers do what they do
best, grow the best cannabis they
can, and we will take it from there,”
said Cannaguard President and CEO
Noah Stokes.
Cannagaurd is an offspring
of Omniguard, a Beverton based
home security company. According
to Stokes he started to get calls
from marijuana growers who had
been burglarized or robbed and
the national companies would not
service “I remember meeting a
guy at a Starbucks thinking this is
unusual.” But Stokes continued,
“Word spread amongst the growing
community and here we are today.”
Stokes plans to keep adding
services to growers that ultimately
will meet the needs between plant
and point of sale. Cannaguard is
currently working with labs to come
to the distribution center to test,
saving the grower time and expense
of travel. Add the trimming and
packaging service and the grower
never needs to leave his farm, while
the whole time the product is fully
insured and protected.
Obama expands
Cascade-Siskiyou
National Monument
AP-ASHLAND -
- President Barack Obama
has expanded the Cascade-
Siskiyou National Monument
in southwestern Oregon to
protect its rich biodiversity.
He also designed three
new national monuments
to recognize the nation’s
journey from the Civil War
to the modern Civil Rights
Movement, and expanded the
California Coastal National
Monument to protect natural
and cultural resources.
The Cascade-Siskiyou
expansion adds about 48,000
acres to a landscape of rich
forests, grasslands and shrubs
that was established as a
monument in 2000. It includes
about 5,000 acres in northern
California.
Obama said in his
proclamation that the
expansion will create a
landscape that will connect
vital habitat, protect the
watershed and preserve
the area’s extraordinary
biodiversity. The monument,
originally 65,000 acres, is
home to rare plant and animal
species.
Conservation groups
and Oregon’s Democratic
U.S. senators praised the
decision.
Oregon Public
Broadcasting says detractors
have expressed concern that a
larger monument would hurt
the region’s economy with
limits on logging and grazing.
The Oregon Cattleman’s
Association said in a news
release that the decision will
have a rippling effect on
ranchers, farmers and outdoor
enthusiasts.
and take your niche. Focusing on
core competency is where you
Stokes believes in his
product, because it’s a proprietary
system, there is not a place on
the web someone can research
how to disarm our systems and
he confirmed with, “I believe that
our system can actually protect
someone.”
Once a plant is harvested
and ready for sale, a large issue is
safety during transportation and
Cannaguard Transport comes into
play to fill that need. After verifying
your manifest, Cannaguard will
safely transport your product to
their secure location in the Portland
area. When your product is sold to a
dispensary they will deliver it there.
“The transport company was
an idea to fill a void in the market;
many newcomers are treating this
like it’s any other product. Our
customers are not comfortable
driving around with hundreds of
thousands of dollars on their own,”
Stokes said.
Stokes feels they can perform
their service for half the cost
normally accrued getting the
product to market.
As for changes and the future
in the ever evolving marijuana
industry, Stokes said “It’s coming
and if you work this hard to get this
far you can’t close your eyes and get
hit by someone more professional
will succeed, how you best take
advantage of the situation.”
(Photo by Dan Mancuso, Illinois Valley News)
Asset protection guards load a van for transport Monday, Dec.
19, 2016 in rural Cave Junction.
Clatsop withdraws
from timber lawsuit
ASTORIA, Ore.
(AP) — Oregon’s Clatsop
County has dropped out
of a class-action lawsuit
involving more than a
dozen counties seeking
$1.4 billion from the state
over logging harvests on
state-managed lands.
The Daily Astorian
newspaper (http://bit.
ly/2ipCQDx ) reported that
the Clatsop County Board
of Commissioners voted
Wednesday to withdraw from
the suit.
The lawsuit alleges the state
failed to meet an agreement to
maximize timber profits.
Clatsop County’s forestland
represented 23 percent of the
land cited in the lawsuit.
The counties rely on
logging money from harvests
on state lands and say they are
owed $1.4 billion.
In voting to leave the
lawsuit, commissioners cited
concerns from residents that the
state would raise taxes if it lost
the legal battle to pay counties
the timber revenue they say
they lost.
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