Smuggling and Adventure

Pot Smuggled by the Ton

karlis — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Westmoreland Province, Jamaica, 1978. Pot plants as far as the eye can see.In smuggling, I?ve learned three hard and fast rules. #1: Run it slick when you can ? keep under the radar. #2: Pay it off when you have to ? buy protection from authorities.

Big-time Smuggler's Blues

karlis — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700

I organized the cultivation of 40-100 acres of pot on 29 farms.American Michael Hooks, who once ran a fleet of 28 airplanes out of Sonora, Mexico into the US, from Texas to California, says he?s being jobbed by the Federal government after cooperating with them to help nail one of Mexico?s biggest drug barons, Miguel Caro-Quintero.

Summer travel ganja guide

karlis — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

European Dreaming
The unified Europe is good for pot travelers because the Union has eliminated passport controls and formal airport border crossings between most countries. Many cannatourists begin their European vacations in Holland, procure cannabis, and then travel to other European destinations.

Ganja In Ghana

karlis — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Josiah smells his sweet skunky ganja.I am an American who has had the fortune of traveling to Accra, Ghana with my wife.

Bubbleman's steampipe journey

karlis — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

On Jerusalem Mountain, inland from Negril, marijuana plants grow as far as I & I can see. After the drying and curing, my Rastafarian friend Red shows me the secret of the original Jamaican steam pipe vaporizer.

Mission to sample

karlis — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

My friend and I are on a mission to sample the world's finest. Do you have any tips for us on where to go on this journey?
Joint,
Internet

Smuggling cops

karlis — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

A job as a US homeland security nark might not be so bad. No one would suspect you, for example, if you slipped a few hundred kilos of nugs over the line every now and then.

Jamaican ganja tour

karlis — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

The road to the jungle rose up from the azure Caribbean, through shanty towns and bustling way stations, past vast sugarcane fields green with life or black from post-harvest burning.
Our ganja garden guides sat in our rental car smoking torpedo-shaped Jamaican spliffs as the road twisted and turned, their mahogany-toned fingers stained by cannabis resins.

Nol van Schaik freed from prison

karlis — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Nol Van ShaikDutch pot promoter Nol van Schaik has been released from a French prison after a total of 79 days behind bars.

Plant travel plans

karlis — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700

I am going to be moving and it will be three months before I can grow in earnest again. I have some very good strains and would like to preserve them to grow again. How can I slow down their growth and maintain the plants in suspended animation?
Traveling Man,
Topeka, Kansas

Dutch potshop guru imprisoned

karlis — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Nol Van ShaikDutch coffeeshop guru Nol Van Schaik is in France to face charges of hashish smuggling and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

Pot luck

karlis — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Among some crowds, the term "cabbage head" means someone who will smoke anything to get high, but in January one Belgian tourist may have taken the notion too far. En route from Amsterdam to Brussels by train, he was arrested for possessing 250 grams of cabbage leaves mixed with pot and given a 200 Euro fine. Police seemed unsure whether the grass was meant as a special garnish for a cabbage salad, or if he was merely trying to conceal his stash.

Dutch pot hero imprisoned

karlis — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Nol Van Schaik: now in Spanish jail awaiting extradition...Dutch cannabis coffeeshop guru Nol Van Schaik jumped off a cliff in 1989. For 15 years, he has defied gravity.
Three weeks ago, gravity finally caught up with him.

How to flee to Canada

karlis — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Proud `Cannabians` marching with their flag on Canada`s Cannabis Day.After that final garage sale, after I'd given away treasured possessions I'd had ever since I was a teenager, I sat in an empty house smoking a bowl of White Widow, contemplating the logistics of fleeing my home country, the United States.

Are you ready to leave the US?

karlis — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Issue number 46 of Cannabis Culture magazine contains an inspiring article about a reefer refugee who gives up everything to move to Canada. Before the article was published, many readers had contacted Cannabis Culture to ask about moving to Canada. Here is some general information that can help you move to Canada.

Moroccan hashish journey

karlis — Wed, 21 May 2003 00:00:00 -0700

For hardcore marijuana journalists, the kind of scribblers and photographers crazy enough to endure intrigue and danger in the seamy underworld of marijuana production and smuggling, going to Morocco is like making a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Ganja tourist

karlis — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Keep da flies away from da ganja, mon!When I visited Jamaica in 1999, I spent most of my time interviewing members of the country's professional elite who were working to liberalize the island's ganja laws.

Swiss pot trade-show

karlis — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Kautz Felix: this guy grows the best buds in all of Switzerland!Switzerland celebrated the many wonderful facets of the cannabis plant this March, with the second annual CannaTrade fair and trade show.

Rasta religion

karlis — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Bob Marley lives.According to Ganja Commission chairman Barry Chevannes, many Jamaicans use marijuana for spiritual purposes.

New ways to enjoy Holland this summer

karlis — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Cannatourists headed for Holland this summer are advised to book flights and accommodations early. Recent political developments in the Netherlands, post 9-11 air transportation changes, and even global warming are causing more people than ever to want to see the world's most weed-friendly country.

Low times in Utah

karlis — Wed, 22 May 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Dennis Peron: Pot-saint busted in the Mormon State.The "Father of Medical Marijuana," also known as "Saint Dennis of San Francisco," was in a pensive mood when Cannabis Culture caught up with him at his San Francisco home a few weeks ago.

Summer in the Netherlands

karlis — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0700

AmsterdamThe 2002 summer tourism and travel season will be especially rich for cannabis lovers.
Travel agents report that inceasing repression in North America and Australia has caused more bookings for the world's most cannabis-friendly democracy, which is also home to a menu of other freedoms unavailable in most countries.

Haarlem: hemp city central

karlis — Sat, 06 Oct 2001 00:00:00 -0700

photo: BargeIn the late summer of 1989, Nol van Schaik was hunkered down with a squadron of smugglers near the Spanish-French border. It had been a long, paranoid trip from Morocco, and even though the five men had successfully passed through several border crossings, Nol was feeling uncomfortable.

Jamaican pot paradise

karlis — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Jamaica has a well-deserved reputation as a ganja paradise. Potent, tasty varieties of outdoor weed have grown there for decades, and some Jamaicans are now running indoor grow rooms that cross-breed the best worldwide genetics with Jamaican originals.

Holland Daze

karlis — Sun, 05 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0700

The Bavogrota marketOn a beautiful oceanfront 30 minutes from Amsterdam in the beach resort of Zandvoort, 30,000 people gather most summer Sundays to celebrate music and entheogens. The weather is perfect - in the 80's - and the crowd is topless, smoking herb, eating shrooms, and dancing deliriously.