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Marijuana just got greener. OrganiCann’s sustainably grown, organic, medical cannabis is now available in environmentally friendly packaging that you can compost in your own back yard.
SANTA ROSA, CA—(PR Newswire – November 4, 2009)–Today, The Organic cannabis Foundation, LLC (OrganiCann), the largest medical cannabis dispensing collective in Northern California, announced exciting new home compostable packaging.
OrganiCann’s new packaging is made from certified-compostable film printed with water-based inks. The compostable film is made from sustainably produced wood. OrganiCann’s packaging safely biodegrades in home or commercial compost. It will even biodegrade in a wastewater environment.
“At OrganiCann, we are committed to sustainability in everything we do,” said Dona Ruth Frank, Managing Member of OrganiCann. “Whether it is how our medicine is cultivated, or how it is packaged — we are continuously developing more environmentally friendly solutions.”
Until now, most medical cannabis has been packaged in plastic. OrganiCann’s new packaging protects the quality and integrity of its medicine, while eliminating unnecessary plastic waste. Unlike many compostable packages that require the high heat and pressure of commercial compost facilities, OrganiCann’s packaging will safely biodegrade in home compost. Patients who don’t live in neighborhoods with commercial composting can place the packages in home compost piles where they typically biodegrade in just a few weeks.
“OrganiCann gave us a very clear mandate. Produce a design that first and foremost protects the medicine, but that also has the least environmental impact possible,” said Glenn Martinez, Co-Founder of Branditecture, the branding agency that developed the packaging.
OrganiCann offers home compostable packaging for a full range of products from dry cannabis and joints to concentrates and even cannabis-infused teas.
“Home compostable packaging is just one part of our overall sustainability effort,” says Frank. “We look at everything we do and ask ourselves, 'how can we do it greener?'.”
About OrganiCann
OrganiCann is a collective of patients and their primary caregivers who cultivate, exchange, and use cannabis as medicine. OrganiCann is the largest medical cannabis dispensary in Northern California. We offer the highest quality sustainably grown organic cannabis products available including the finest cannabis, concentrates and edibles. Our expert staff can help you find the right medicine to help you with your specific needs in a warm, friendly and relaxed environment. Learn more at www.organicann.com.
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HDR and Tonemapping applied with Artizen HDR.
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A single row 360 degree panorama. This is the first image I have performed the HDR and Tonemapping with Artizen HDR. I'm pleased with the results, and I enjoyed the greater range of control that Artizen has to offer compared to Photomatix.
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Same planet, a few minutes later, a few hundred yards away, and single exposure (not hdr).
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Stitched with Hugin, tonemapped with Photomatix. Reprojected using Hugin.
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I haven't taken an equirectangular panorama in quite a while. I made a few mistakes:
1) I shot with autofocus enabled. Whoops, that's a big one. Focus needs to be the same for every shot, and when it is not it sucks.
2) I forgot to level my tripod head before shooting. This is why the horizon has some humps in it that I was not able to correct.
3) I forgot to wipe my lens, so I had a few spots on every shot. No good.
Aside from that, it more or less worked to capture the cool sunset, but I felt pretty rusty. Hopefully the successive panoramas that I took later that day will be better.
View this panorama immersively: Immersive View
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14 shots taken in portrait orientation, handheld.
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"Daaaad, stop making us pose, all the action is going on over there."
I must admit, they're good girls posing like this with dozens of other pugs running all over the place.
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I know we're at the beach, and I can roam about as I wish, but did you just say walk?
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This is a mural that I was comissioned to create for the Organic Cannabis Foundation of Northern California.
The final printed mural will be 163 feet long and 10 feet tall at the peak.
Though all of the soure background photos come from my existing library, I spent approximately 120 hours compositing the images. The final Photoshop file has 250+ layers.
The black bars represent where the image will be divided by the presence of structural beams.
This is not the final version, there are still some bits that need to be cleaned up.
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