Dana Larsen

Dana Larsen

Dana Larsen is the author of "Green Buds and Hash" and "Hairy Pothead and the Marijuana Stone" and a well-known Vancouver cannabis activist, businessman and politician. He served ten years as editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine, is the co-founder of the Vancouver Seed Bank, founder of the Vancouver Dispensary Society, and Vice President of the Canadian Association of Cannabis Dispensaries. Larsen was a founding member of the BC Marijuana Party and the Canadian Marijuana Party. In 2003 he joined the NDP, running as an NDP candidate in 2008. In 2011, he ran for the Leadership of the BC NDP. Larsen is also founder and director of Sensible BC, Canada’s largest grassroots cannabis reform organization.

Activism

I founded a community program called Get Your Drugs Tested in my hometown of Vancouver, Canada. We have a storefront where anyone can come and get their drugs analyzed for free, plus we also accept samples by mail. We pay for it all with revenue from our medicinal cannabis dispensary, one of the few pre-legalization legacy weed shopsRead More
Arts & Entertainment

Popes and drugs. Do they go together like crosses and messiahs? Or more like bongwater and a plush carpet? There have been plenty of popes over the years, but since they’re supposed to be infallible, I suppose they’re also kind of interchangeable. I’m not sure I’d want to be infallible, it seems like a lotRead More

SINGAPORE: A man who imported 1kg of cannabis from Malaysia into Singapore three years ago is set to hang after his appeal against conviction and sentence was dismissed by the Apex Court on Tuesday (Oct 12). Singaporean Omar Yacob Bamadhaj, 41, was sentenced to death in February this year after being convicted of one countRead More

Whenever there’s something good, there are people who want to make a copy of that thing, but cheaper and worse, to make more of the money. Marijuana is no exception. Come with me now on a journey through the wild, wacky, and woeful world of make-believe Mary Jane … FAKE POT PHASE ONE: MISLEADING HERBALRead More
Medical

In the late 1800s, the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company was basically the biggest weed dealer in America. They promoted their cannabis medicines across the continent, proudly advertising that they rejected literal tons of shwaggy weed each year and used only the dankest primo nugs for their pot products. Cannabis’ active ingredients were not fully understood at thisRead More

You’ve heard the warnings. Today’s marijuana is stronger than ever! Weed used to be mild fun, now it’s mind-blowingly potent and dangerous! Could it be true? I’ve been running a personal trial of cannabis potency with heavy daily sampling since 1988, and my experience is that the holy herb is pretty much the same nowRead More

CANNABIS CULTURE- Canada’s health and addiction organizations have released new guidelines for cannabis users. Unfortunately their advice is biased against cannabis, and will promote heavier use of the more dangerous drug: alcohol.
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