Pubdate: Sat, 30 Jul 2016
Source: Buffalo News (NY)
Copyright: 2016 The Buffalo News
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POT GROWERS TO GATHER FOR FIRST CANNABIS FAIR

PORTLAND, Ore. - In two weeks, more than 100 of Oregon's top niche 
horticulturists will gather to celebrate their craft at a fair 
considered the first of its kind, one that promises $10,000 in prizes 
and colorful, proud ribbons to the best among them.

Farmers will be judged "4-H" style, they've been told, though their 
crops inspire categories that are far from heartland tradition. 
Sativa, indica, hybrid. These guys harvest pot. The inaugural Oregon 
Cannabis Growers' Fair, according its website, "is an opportunity to 
bring the entire industry under one roof to learn from 'master 
growers,'" and will feature the state's "first-ever cannabis live 
plant competition."

Judged on a litany of qualities, including color, shape, node 
stacking and aroma, the top nine winning pot plants will then 
graduate to a grander stage - the Oregon State Fair - a move that has 
caused some controversy among traditionalists in the Pacific Northwest.

"We are doing it 4-H style," Don Morse, chairman of the Oregon 
Cannabis Business Council, told the Oregonian. "You get a blue, 
purple or yellow ribbon. We are celebrating the plant as a farm crop 
from Oregon." Recreational marijuana was legalized in the state last year.

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