Ok well then nominate and let the members their vote decide
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Maybe like 2cm? But i donāt have it in front of me
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I also donāt consider myself an OG. Iāve done some OG shit. But Iām a baby in this game. Itās only been 6 years for me.
My first extraction partner was teaching people about hydrocarbon cannabis extraction around 2001/2002. A few dumbass fires later and he stopped trying to hold hands 
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teaching folks how to fish with dynamite does have itās drawbacksā¦right @Photon_noir?
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Yes, @cyclopath. Yes, it does. But teaching them to fish is at least a worthy endeavor, Iāve always hoped! When I was ion, contributing to and eventually administrating thenook.org, I taught all things chemistry and extraction so everyone could have access to their own clean natural entheogens and plant medicines as safely as possible, without relying on street āqualityā. Before that, I was on mycotopia, erowid, and earlier, the lycaeum, hyperreal, extracting and building my library of books and other valuable published works in earnestā¦ before that was newsgroups like alt.drugs.net, rec.drugs.net, sharing knowledge and growing a collection of printouts, testing methods and burning those that were false with the weekly trashā¦ and before that was the old BBS, around the time I was concentrating cannabis resin through pyrolysis and coalescing traps, experimenting with grain alcohol distillation and cannabis extractions, hashmaking, and extracting stuff with other solvents and methods. Itās kinda funny how Iāve come full circle back to teaching and providing tools for ethanol based cannabis extraction as a legitimate career! It has been a long strange trip, indeedā¦
How about @murphymurri for all her efforts in spreading the good word on extraction and formulations?
And @Sidco_Cat for being Den Mother and an outspeaking proponent for all of us?
As far as awards go, perhaps we can symbolize his usernames with a red turtle (with 984 in his shell pattern) carrying a beaker labeled 4200ā¦ but like Fight Club, we should remember the man by his true name, post mortem. This is really the āDennis Parker Awardā. 
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I vote @Photon_noir
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I vote for @Photon_noir as well
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If these are official votes, Iām taking @photon_noir and @anon42519203 . . . Give 'em 1/2 a vote each. Maybe thatās the tiebreaker
Itās hard not to vote @Future too
Honorable mention: @ExtractNinja for breaking down walls of conventional thought and being persistent.
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At this point should we consider the contenders chosen and put up a poll for the winner?
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What about issuing awards to a full nominee list to cover past contributionsā¦then switch to one a year going forward?
Most of the folks on that list simply HAVE to be considered massive contributors.
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This is a very valid point. Undeniably.
If we opt for just one award this year I would assume the contenders who donāt win would still be up for it next year. Iām not sure how many of Beakers beakers we have for the awards themselves. That could be a possible issue.
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It would seem kind of awkward to have some of those industry leading names in nomination for 5 years, leaning mostly on contributions new operators canāt weigh the impact of. For example, @photon_noir NOT getting one would be a crimeā¦but I feel similarly about the rest of the nominees.
But, voting on one award going forward would narrow the timescale of impact. Just thoughts.
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This. RIP.
Also, can we not associate this idea with Nobel, who is rumored to have started the Nobel prize in response to an erroneous obituary naming him the merchant of death. In no way did @Beaker owe his legacy to such atrocities, and as such I move that the award be very much apart from the concept of Alfred Nobel and his prizes.
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What if we excluded ur excluding buddy? You may not have choice in this one my bro 
It may be out your hands?
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Honestly graywolf should have the first trophy. Weāre not even sure if he has been on a sleeper account and have been contributing but still stays under the radar. Regardless nobody would be in the position they are in today without him. He is The Godfather of the extraction industry. We would still be set back ages ago if it wasnāt for him.
If he could not be exempt from the non forum member rule. . My vote goes to @Photon_noir. He is in the same realm as graywolf. They have been here before extraction was even a common word. They were solely driven to provide clean medicine
for patients. In my eyes they are the only two at the top of this hierarchy.
Regardless of what people will say i think @spdking should at least be recognized due to his earlier contribution on the summit research article that gave a better understanding on extraction. For those who are unaware this article helped non chemistry operators on how everything works.
For the safety award @ExtractNinja Nobody has ever went through so much to question a a past industrial leader safety of a product. Iām sure he sustained more threats on himself than anybody else in a community. In the end he was right. He was the rogue that started everybody to be aware of what weāre putting inside our product and to put companies on accountable standards of being transparent.
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Graywolf!!
He got tired of playing middleman between pharmer joe, he, and myself yrs back with all my questions.
Lol
Iāll toss up $200.00 if needed to get the awards done. I cant afford the GLG fee, but itās the least I can do from all the knowledge Iāve gotten from here
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@hambread is Graywolf. So weāve have indeed acknowledged this.
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Say what? Dayum you been sneaking around all this time.
Thanks again for everything.
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I thought @hambred was old gold not greywolf. That would be interesting considering I thought I met the person last week! 
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Yes, youāre right. I thought I read that on the forum, but I was stoned and didnāt read your post correctly. I took a break from smoking for a while and Iām realizing that I got way more blitzed than I thought. Faux pas on my part. Well, I guess im the goat. Feel free to have a good laugh on me. Itās my Christmas gift to you, 4200 fam.
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