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Terrapin Care Station ‘Rolls’ Out New Products Sure to ‘Shake’ up Colorado’s Cannabis Market

TerraPINS

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 16, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Terrapin Care Station, with dispensaries in Boulder and Aurora, Colo., begins a new year with the launch of two cannabis products that incorporate innovative packaging design with child resistance, product protection, and portability.

The dispensary group is the first in the nation to offer pre-rolled marijuana "joints" in a durable pack serving to protect its contents while providing a child resistant feature. The pack, designed to fit easily into a pocket, is filled with 10 half-gram joints - or "pins" - and branded "TerraPINS."

The "Shell Shake" pouch joins "TerraPINS" pre-rolls in the product launch. The child resistant pouch contains a quarter ounce of strain-specific shake - sativa or indica - and is an alternative for those who prefer to roll their own or appreciate the convenience of pre-ground cannabis for vaporizing. The pouch includes a pack of rolling papers for convenience.

Chris Woods, CEO of Terrapin Care Station, tasked consultants Barbara Diner and Deb Baker of Higher Standard Packaging in Denver to find child resistant packs and pouches to accommodate his product concepts. Baker found a solution for packaging pre-rolls in the Danish-patented, "Locked4Kids" child resistant box utilized for prescription medications in Europe. The "Shell Shake" pouch employs an existing ASTM certified "pinch and seal" closure system.

"The solutions Higher Standard Packaging presented offered exactly what I envisioned for these products. The pack and pouch satisfy all Colorado regulations regarding compliant packaging while meeting our clienteles' demands for quality cannabis packaged in a manner that supports an active lifestyle. Clearly, we've fulfilled those demands, as the products just debuted in our dispensaries and sales have been brisk," Woods said.

"TerraPINS" and "Shell Shake" punctuate Woods' pioneering packaging spirit. Eighteen months ago, Woods and Higher Standard Packaging announced Terrapin Station as the first dispensary in the nation to place an order for their environmentally-friendly and child resistant "R2" jar solution. Since September 2015, Woods has packaged cannabis flower in the R2 jar manufactured from recycled milk jug plastic that uses far less energy and produces less green house gas than those containers made from virgin plastic. For the past two years, Terrapin has received the prestigious Cannabis Economy "CannAward" celebrating leadership and innovation for this eco-friendly approach to cannabis packaging.

Commenting on Woods' foresight, Diner said, "We've had the pleasure of working with the Terrapin team for the past two years. Chris Woods is constantly thinking about product innovation and challenges us to find packaging solutions for his concepts."

"Because Chris is exacting about his packaging vision, he provides us with a tremendous opportunity to research, learn, and grow our packaging product lines," Baker added.

ABOUT TERRAPIN CARE STATION:

Terrapin Care Station founder, Chris Woods, was a founding member of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) and opened one of the first licensed medical marijuana centers in the State of Colorado in October 2011. In 2014, Terrapin Care Station opened as Boulder's first retail marijuana dispensary and became the first licensed retail marijuana dispensary in the City of Aurora. Since 2014, Terrapin Care Station has opened an additional dispensary storefront in Aurora, Colo. offering free tours of their attached 20,000 square foot retail cultivation facility, which boasts being the first licensed retail cultivation facility in the City of Aurora, just 15 minutes from Denver International Airport. The dispensary group maintains cultivation facilities in Boulder, Denver, and Aurora, and currently employs 102 people. Learn more: http://www.terrapincarestation.com/.

For Terrapin Care Station:
Shawn Coleman
shawnlcoleman@gmail.com

ABOUT HIGHER STANDARD PACKAGING:

Founded in 2014, Higher Standard Packaging offers an extensive product line of ASTM/CPSC child resistant packaging for the legal medical and recreational cannabis industry. The company works with dispensary groups and marijuana infused product manufacturers to provide quality packaging that accommodates marijuana flower, concentrates, edibles, topicals, tinctures, and creams. Compliant exit packaging is also available. Higher Standard Packaging is the exclusive distributor of the R2 Eco-Friendly jar that is available in several sizes and provides compliant packaging consultation and maintains active memberships in National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) and the Cannabis Business Association (CBA). Learn more: http://higherstandardpackaging.com/.

For Higher Standard Packaging:
DEB BAKER
dbaker@higherstandardpackaging.com

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Best New Year’s Health Advice: Beware of Doctor’s Scare Tactics!

Don Harte

CORTE MADERA, Calif., Jan. 5, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Dr. Don Harte, noted California chiropractic and health activist, offers everyone the most direct health advice he can for the New Year: "Want Health? Don't fall for the scare tactics of your doctor! Pursue health instead!"

Understanding that his advice could be confusing to some, "Scare tactics are so standard in medical practice these days, that they are considered normal in society. Instead of pursuing health, Big Medicine, and its two degenerate siblings, Big Pharma and Big Government have fooled you." Dr. Harte continues, "They have convinced an already over-diagnosed, over-drugged society that doing anything and everything to avoid disease is the same as pursuing health. Imagine -- they sell drugs as 'wellness!'"

"One of the great scams of our time," Dr. Harte says, "is preventative medicine. The problem with preventative medicine is that it prevents health." He says "the whole concept of preventative medicine is a mindset of fear. Diseases that are known to be mild and non-life-threatening are deliberately labeled as dangerous. Some are just falsely pushed as killer diseases through gross manipulation of statistics. A lot of this medical propaganda serves as marketing material for unnecessary and risky vaccinations. The frenzy WILL get worse this year."

"Chiropractic is founded upon the fact that the body is capable of healing itself," according to Dr. Harte. "Chiropractic springs from a philosophy of empowerment." He contrasts this with Medicine. "The philosophy of Medicine is, clearly, a philosophy of fear. It is through this fear that they create the huge market for their vaccines, which sells their inaccurate and probably dangerous diagnostic procedures, like mammography, which puts and keeps millions on lifetime prescriptions to allegedly prevent heart attacks and strokes. They have, falsely, painted a substance that the body actually makes itself, cholesterol, as some sort of chemical killing monster. Their drugs to bring down cholesterol levels, the statins, causing far more problems than they prevent." He goes on: "But in this climate of Medicine-induced fear, logic and the facts of basic biology are thrown out of the window."

Dr. Harte notes, "The scare tactics of Big Medicine often take shape in the bigotry of those who automatically hate those with differing, more natural views of health and disease." He advises, "If you truly desire better health in the New Year, reject medical scare tactics. Respect you own body's innate capacity to heal, to function normally. Empower that capacity by liberating your own nervous system through regular, wellness chiropractic care. The only true healing is from the inside-out."

Dr. Don Harte, former medical student, is a principled, traditional chiropractor serving Marin and the Greater Bay Area since 1981. He is an activist in the struggle for free speech for chiropractors. Dr. Harte was named 2006 "Chiropractor of the Year" by the World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA). He has served on the Boards of the WCA and the Council on Chiropractic Practice. His articles have been published in OMNI magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Chiropractic Journal and Journal of the California Chiropractic Association.

More information on and from Dr. Harte: http://www.chirodrharte.com/.

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harteofchiropractic .

Twitter: @drdonharte

The Harte of Chiropractic, Prof. Corp., 21 Tamal Vista - Suite 170, Corte Madera, CA 94925.

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Opinion: The Failure of Medicine and Opioid Addiction

Don Harte

CORTE MADERA, Calif., June 15, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- "Giving voice to a growing public health problem," notes Dr. Don Harte, Marin County straight chiropractor, "a recent cover of TIME magazine bears a picture of a fishhook, with a pill as 'bait.' That cover proclaims 'They're the most powerful painkillers ever invented. And they're creating the worst addiction crisis America has ever seen.' No kidding!"

"Over the last couple of decades, Medicine and Big Pharma have been upping the ante on pain pills," explains Dr. Harte. "Government agencies had the brakes on opioids for a long time. Then came the 'cox 2 inhibitors,' Vioxx and Celebrex. Vioxx was taken off the market in 2004, after killing more people than we lost in Vietnam. Now the brakes are off the opioids, including Opana and Oxycontin."

"Over the last couple of decades," Dr. Harte goes on, "orthopedists have gotten into extremely aggressive marketing with spinal surgery. The top operation now, in this country, is spinal fusion." He goes on, "With the possible exception of unstable fractures and cancerous bone tumors, back surgery, especially spinal fusion, is barbaric. Patients end up worse, often far worse. Often, one surgery leads to the next. This is a major gateway to long-term opioid prescriptions, and then, addiction. They, the surgeons, are the cause of these drastic pain increases, and, therefore, they are the cause of the current widespread drug dependence." He emphasizes, "People in pain go to orthopedists for relief. Their patients end up worse, with untold damage to the nervous systems."

Dr. Harte explains. "Millions suffer from chronic neck and back pain, as well as pain of the hips, knees, shoulders and wrists. They go to the orthopedist for help. At best, nothing is accomplished, since, in Medicine, no one deals with causation. Only symptoms are dealt with."

He adds, "More commonly, suffering people end up with more suffering, and sicker, overall. More and more end up drug-addicted. But, then, Medicine has specialists for that, too. What a racket!"

People in pain ask Dr. Harte what they can do that is safer and more effective. "Straight chiropractic," he advises. "Not your typical pain-treating, white coat-wearing excuse-for-chiropractic care. Real chiropractors look for the cause, and then, seek to correct it, through gentle, specific, scientific chiropractic adjustments. Not only does pain typically lessen or disappear, but a person's body becomes free to function at a higher level. Overall health improves, because the nervous system is free from interference."

Dr. Harte explains that people have a choice. "You can go for 'what's accepted,' get doped up and cut up, and maybe addicted. Or, you can correct the cause, giving your body a chance, not only for pain relief, but to be well."

Dr. Don Harte, former medical student, is a straight chiropractor serving Marin and the Greater Bay Area since 1981. He is an activist in the struggle for free speech for chiropractors. Dr. Harte was named 2006 "Chiropractor of the Year" by the World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA). He has served on the Boards of the WCA and the Council on Chiropractic Practice. His articles have been published in OMNI magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Chiropractic Journal and Journal of the California Chiropractic Association.

Contact: Dr. Harte
o: (415) 460-6527
c: (415) 847-9678
harteofchiropractic@gmail.com

More information: http://www.chirodrharte.com/.

The Harte of Chiropractic, Prof. Corp., 21 Tamal Vista, Suite 170, Corte Madera, CA 94925. (415) 460-6527.

Twitter: @drdonharte

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