CC69: Winter 2008
Cannabis Culture #69 (Winter 2008)
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Favorite Bud: Durban Poison
Jason King
This issue’s featured bud is a spectacular sativa
Letter From The Editors
Marc and Jodie Emery
Thoughts about extradition, US Elections, and the Canadian Drug War
How To Make Hash
David Strange
Skunk magazine’s former editor shares hash-making hints
Show Your Grow Part 1
CC readers
The best bud-shot submissions from CC readers and growers
Weed And Wrestling
Rob Van Dam
Do most athletes use marijuana? Does it enhance performance? RVD weighs in
Show Your Grow Part 2
Rollie & Ed
Check out this big backyard medical marijuana forest
Kenneth Affolter & his Cannabis Chocolate Factory
Bill Weinberg
This guy’s THC goodies grabbed the DEA’s attention
How to Smoke Pot and Stay Out of Jail
Ellen Forney
Illustrated bits of advice from Seattle lawyer Jeffrey Steinborn
Show Your Grow Part 3
Inner City Seed
This long-time online CC Forum member has an enormous pot photo portfolio
Hot Hemp Clothes
Heidi Vargas, Syx Langemann
Our favorites of this season’s stylish hemp and organic fashion
Show Your Grow Part 4
CC readers
Beautiful bud shots abound
Nimbin’s MardiGrass: An Illustrated Adventure
Gary Wintle
Fear & Loathing in full color at Australia’s biggest pot party
Amsterdam Coffeeshop Tour
Scott & Pauline
30 days in Amsterdam with a medical marijuana user and spouse
To Give Consent, or Not To Give Consent
Barry Cooper
This hotly contested advice needs a little explaining, but makes sense
Show Your Grow Part 5
The New Guy
This novice grower shares his fantastic plant photographs
Show Your Grow Part 6
CC readers
More marvelous pot shots from talented growers
No Extradition For The BC3 shirts
CC readers
Fans proudly wear their support to spread awareness about the BC3
Show Your Grow Part 7
CC readers
The final few photos from more ganja gardeners
Ask Ed: Grow Questions and Answers
Ed Rosenthal
Having trouble and need cannabis-growing advice? Ask Ed!
Cartoon Bob: Spot The Narc
Bob Nightingale
Enjoy this wild illustrated party and watch out for the pigs
Pot Puzzlers
Chris Lawson, Chris Goodwin, Nicole Seguin
A triple-puzzler special with an XTR-1000 hash extractor Grand Prize
Glass Masters: Patrick Stratas
Marc Emery, Milan Radovanovic
You’ll love this glassblowing pipe maker’s otherworldly touch
Editors Marc and Jodie Emery introduce CC #69
Following the US extradition requests for Canadians Marc Emery, Greg Williams and Michelle Rainey (the “BC3”) on July 29, 2005, hundreds of people have purchased ‘No Extradition’ t-shirts. full story
Every year thousands of pot people flock to cannabis paradise: Konin-krijk der Nederlanden, the Netherlands, home to Amsterdam. The central part of the Netherlands is named Holland and has two provinces, Noord Holland (North Holland) and Zuid-Holland (South Holland). This is the region with the cities of Rotterdam, Den Haag, Delft, Leiden, Haarlem and – of course – Amsterdam, a destination city for travelers seeking sublime European architecture, spectacular art museums, a lively nightlife, and sex and drugs! full story
Do you have a grow question (or answer) for Ask Ed? Send mail to: Ask Ed, PMB 147, 530 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117, USA. You can also email Ed@quicktrading.com and check out his website www.ask-ed.net. full story
Patrick Stratas has been blowing unique and unusual glass pipes for four years, off-and-on. He currently lives and works out on the fabled Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, and uses a Nortel REDMAX torch. Stratas cites influences like Banjo and Clinton as having an impact on his current work. full story
Crackdown on California’s wacky weed confections: Is Kenneth Affolter a sophomoric stoner capitalist, or political prisoner in a states’ rights struggle? full story- Welcome to Cannabis Culture #69, packed full of sexy buds and entertaining articles! As you read this, my BC Supreme Court extradition hearing scheduled for January 21-25 should have happened, and it’s possible the judge has already made a verdict. If you don’t yet know why the US Justice Department and DEA want me behind bars for life in the US, go online to the website www.NoExtradition.net and read a bit of background information, or order a copy of back-issue CC #58 for the 2005 article about what happened (pages 94-95). My friends Michelle Rainey, Greg Williams and I still need your support, so please phone the Canadian Justice Minister at (613) 957-4222 and leave a polite “No Extradition” message. You can also help spread awareness by distributing “No Extradition” pamphlets available at the website. If you’d like to contribute to my legal fees, please send a check or money order to “Ian Donaldson In Trust (Marc Emery)”, Donaldson Jetté, #490-1090 Homer St. Vancouver BC, V6B 2W9, or donate online at our website. Do you have a “No Extradition” shirt? full story
I am a patriot and proud of what America is supposed to be, but horribly saddened and disappointed by what my country has become. My father fought in the Vietnam War, my brother just finished his third tour of duty in Iraq, and I was once a proud law enforcement officer – I fought our nation’s War on Drugs from 1990 to 1998. Since then, I have realized the error of my ways and no longer do police work. You and I know that it is an unreasonable invasion of privacy to search or arrest anybody for marijuana, yet our courts and government do nothing to protect citizens from law enforcement abuse. Police do not believe that you, as a suspected law-breaker, have any rights. There was no training in constitutional law for me as a police officer. We were constantly brainwashed with the “greater good” argument when it came to discussing suspects’ rights: “It is acceptable to violate civil rights if it leads to a drug seizure because the ‘greater good’ of saving our children from drugs is more important than those rights – rights that are being misused to protect criminals, anyway.” Of course, I now know this argument is flawed and leads to dangerous mindsets. full story
Rob Van Dam is one of the world’s best-known professional wrestlers. He has fought in over 1,000 events at Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), earning 19 championship belts and an array of accolades from 1997 to 2007. Though WWE wrestling is semi-scripted sports entertainment, it nonetheless relies on extreme athleticism and injuries are common: Van Dam has suffered broken ankles and limbs, concussions, and has had surgery on one of his knees. He also used cannabis throughout his entire professional career. Van Dam was caught with a small quantity of marijuana in his car just days after a huge televised wrestling victory, and was stripped of his World Championship belt in 2006, but despite being temporarily expelled from wrestling, he has absolutely no regrets about his cannabis use and advocacy. full story
What the hell? Why can't we
What the hell? Why can't we view old articles? There are only a few that you can look at. This is crap.