CC65: March/April 2007
Cannabis Culture #65 (March/April 2007)
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SPECIAL ACTIVIST ISSUE: Your Ultimate Guide to Getting Involved
The Crisis
America’s Most Disturbing Drug War Prison Sentences – Phil Smith
Steve Tucker: Forgotten Man – Scott Henry
Top 10 Worst Corrupt Cops: How Prohibition Creates Monsters of Law Enforcement – Phil Smith
Penalties of Pot Prohibition – Kirk Tousaw
The Response
SAFER Colorado’s Rocky Mountain High-Jinx – Mason Tvert
Retail Activism: Dom Kramer’s Yonge Street Hempire – Dom Kramer
Ending Prohibition From Within a Political Party – Dana Larsen
One Woman’s Crusade in America’s Toughest Prohibitionist State – Loretta Nall
Word Vaccine: Letter Writing as Activism – Russell Barth
The Methods
How To Hold a Pot Protest, Rally, or March – Matt Mernagh
Rally Tools – David Malmo-Levine
How To Open a Hemp Store – Marc Emery
How To Stage a Hempfest – Ryan Ballou
The Politics
US Congress 2007: The Agenda Ahead – Bill Piper
For The Presidency of the United States of America – Marc Emery
Gatewood For Governor in Kentucky – Gatewood Galbraith
Battle For The States: Medicinal Marijuana Initiatives of 2007 – Marc Emery
Drug Reform Coordination Network & StopTheDrugWar.org – David Borden
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: Are You NORML? – Paul Armentino
November Coalition: A Decade of Fighting for Those Behind Bars – Chuck Armsbury
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition – Howard Wooldridge
DrugSense & Media Awareness Project – DrugSense Team
Ale Yarok, Israel’s Green Leaf Party: Efforts For Peace In The Middle East – Michelle Levine
Ed’s Bust, Trial and Re-Trial – Ed Rosenthal
Regular Stash
Favorite Bud: The Cheese – Jason King
Letter From The Editor – Marc Emery
Ask Ed: Growing Q&A – Ed Rosenthal
Bob High: THC – Cartoon Bob
Pot Puzzlers – Chris Lawson, Chris Goodwin
Glass Masters: Jason Lee – Kris Gardner
Editors Marc and Jodie Emery introduce CC #65
America’s Most Disturbing Drug War Prison Sentences full story
The Marijuana Policy Project, the Drug Policy Alliance Network, NORML and hundreds of US activists are achieving remarkable success in getting Democrats and Republicans in the statehouses to put forth legislation that undoes some the terrible wrongs of the Drug War. full story
The Cheese is a very special phenotype of Skunk #1 that was found in the UK. In 2004, a really nice guy called ‘Big Buddha’ was at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam giving away samples of what he called “The Cheese”. The sample pictured here is a clone from an Afghani male crossed with The Cheese. full story
Jason Lee has been blowing borosilicate glass for about 12 years, and is well known for influencing more glass pipe makers’ work than other glass blowers. full story
I originally wrote this in August 1995 after I had been in cannabis retail activism only 16 months. It was first printed in Cannabis Canada #3, Fall 1995. At that time I had not yet had legal trouble. Since then, I have been arrested 22 times in 8 of 10 Canadian provinces for pot offences and jailed 17 of those times; raided 6 times (having over $1,000,000 in store assets seized); and today face a US extradition request to face life in prison for being the world’s most outspoken cannabis activist. Within a year of the original article being published in 1995, more than 60 hemp stores in Canada and over 25 in the USA opened using this article as the basis for each new store – including Dom Kramer’s Toronto Hemp Company profiled in this issue. full story
Inspired by Seattle Hempfest, Ryan Ballou started an annual Spokane Hempfest in Washington State. Here’s how he did it. full story
Entering its fifth year of existence, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) continues to expand its message to North America and beyond. Our raison d’etre (“reason to be”) is education. LEAP is made up of criminal justice professionals speaking out against the failed war on drugs. full story
There’s no financial reason to not protest insane, evil, monopolistic pot laws! You can organize a public rally with as little as $300 – below is a list of what you need, with approximate costs, in order to hold a “Basic Rally”. full story
The cannabis movement has come a long way since 1994, the year of my initiation into the “cannabis culture”, when I founded Toronto Hemp Company (THC). I began humbly at the age of 20 while finishing a torturous stint at the University of Toronto and sharing an apartment with an old high-school friend. One day he showed me an Internet announcement by – and correspondence with – Marc Emery, then owner of a “revolutionary retail” Vancouver store called HEMP BC. My graduation was quickly approaching and with no idea of what to do with myself, but inspired by Marc Emery’s own “Vansterdam Hempire”, I decided to get a pot-friendly retail business started. I looked into the city and beyond for funding, suitable space, suppliers, store fixtures, promotion, and all the other details involved in launching a store. full story
SAFER’s bid to legalize cannabis in Colorado was the top activist effort of 2006! full story
This man served 10 years in jail for selling gardening supplies, and his older brother died in prison. Is the War on Drugs worth this? full story
In early 1997 a handful of daring folks from the remote mountains of northeastern Washington State called for peace in the war on drugs. full story
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is a nonprofit public-interest lobby that has, for more than 30 years, provided a voice for citizens who oppose marijuana prohibition. full story
William S. Burroughs theorized that language was a virus, and Rudyard Kipling called it a drug. I prefer to think of language as a vaccine, and I try to use it to vaccinate the Canadian public against prohibitionist propaganda. When someone reads a letter in a newspaper and learns something new, they are forever changed. full story
