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Britain: hash scandal and independent thinking

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

A British Scandal
British headlines throughout the festive season were full of the scandal of the cabinet minister's teenage son who sold a lump of hash to a reporter from a tabloid newspaper.

California's copter cops

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Pioneers of Military Enforcement
I'm in the back seat of a tiny jetcopter, travelling 120 miles per hour 500 feet above the rugged, forlorn terrain of Northern California's Mendocino County.

The copter has no doors. With wind chill, the temperature is about 0?C. I'm freezing.

Canada's first legal marijuana user

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

An inspiration to many others

Cannabis Comic

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Cannabis Cup '97

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Lovely Amsterdam[all photos by Barge except Bluebird Charas, Nice Nugs, and Psychoactive Plants, by Jason King]
Seed Breeder Steve reports on the smoke and seeds scene in Amsterdam at the High Times Cannabis Cup.

Happy Holland, Sad Hydro?

CC Crossword

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

The Magic Phrase: ??????????? ????????ACROSS1. Too much at one of these and you could end up behind them. (3)
4. Street where the action is. (4)
8. If you pay $40 for a gram of hash, you've been this. (3)
11. First man to taste forbidden fruit (4)
13. Whatever you're ____, herbs can make it better (4)
14. Mr Jones is in my ____. (5)

Censorship, child snatching, and expulsion

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Christmas drawings censored
"Christmas at the Zehrs Eramosa grocery store in Guelph is a time to celebrate community. Store-greeter and artist Dorothy Amey helps to put out the decorations in a unique fashion: she draws pictures of prominent community members on the store's windows.

This year her subjects included Church of the Universe Reverends Walter Tucker and Michael Baldasaro.

Dangerous business: hemp store raids in Canada

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

In our last issue, we reported on some of the ongoing raids and harassment directed at hemp store owners across Canada. Since then, there have been even more police raids, including more seizures of literature like Cannabis Canada Magazine.
However, cracks are appearing in the wall of prohibition, as many store owners and activists tenaciously fight back.

THE PLANT UPROOTED

Health Canada to approve marijuana as medicine

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Jean Parizeau: running out of time.In an astonishingly reserved series of statements, Health Canada has agreed that marijuana is a medicine, and that it will likely approve limited medicinal access to the herb sometime over the next few months.

Hemp hunting in the icefields of Ottawa

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Legal hemp is coming soon to a field near you? licensed, controlled and tightly regulated.
The Golden Heart of Hemp

The Canadian government has been discretely looking into the golden heart of hemp for a number of years. Test farms have demonstrated the safety and value of Canadian-grown hemp as an important new raw material.

Island invasion

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

The Arrival of the War Machine
A fiery August sunrise has given way to another hot summer day. A black cat named Leasha lies among the gladiolas, in ambush of running birds. Ducks by the pond at the end of the garden bask in the late morning sun, preening. There is no wind.

Some of the island children are at the school across the dirt road. The rest of the children could be anywhere. Many children here don't go to school.

Italy: getting radical

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Cannabis in Italy

Multiple med-pot challenges

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Lynn Harichy: challenging the law with a very public arrest.Canada's quintessential cannabis lawyer Alan Young is backing two separate medical marijuana challenges, in an attempt to bring the issue before the Supreme Court of Canada. He also hopes the ensuing publicity will help to "keep the issue alive in the public imagination."

Peron versus the President

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Clinton sues the clubs
In January, the Clinton Administration filed suit to close several California cannabis clubs. The move came just days after a California appeals court overturned a previous 1996 decision, which had prevented Attorney General Dan Lungren from closing the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers' Club, now called the "Cultivators' Club" (SFCCC).

Pought Thots

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Just part of the Vancouver landscapeAttitude of violation

RCMP surreal estate

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Canadian justice is peeking through the blindfold as police use their sweeping new powers of seizure to take the homes and assets of marijuana growers. A string of precedent-sealing court cases have hammered all manner of would-be pot farmers and stripped them of their homes.

Rosie Rowbotham: Canada's longest serving marijuana prisoner

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

[All uncredited photos: Rowbothan archives]
From the high-life at Rochdale College to PrisonLife Television, Rosie continues to fight for peace, love, and marijuana.

A time of change and growth

In 1967, Canada was booming with tremendous economic prosperity and cultural growth. The British Invasion dominated the rock music charts and shocked the conservative western world by singing about free love and flower power.

Snowboard to freedom

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Ross Rebagliati, Cannabis Hero!
If you haven't heard of Ross Rebagliati you must have been buried under an avalanche. The gold medal winner in the first ever Olympic snowboarding competition, Rebagliati is a long-standing member of British Columbia's legendary cannabis community. Rebagliati has been called everything from "hero" to "pot head", and to many Canadians, he is both.

Spain: activists growing their own

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Industrial hemp field in North-Eastern SpainSpanish law puts individual privacy rights over drug control concerns, which means that people can grow and smoke whatever they want in the privacy of their own homes, and other privately-owned spaces.
Spanish pro-cannabis activists have been taking advantage of this policy to promote a "grow-your-own-stone" campaign.

Spanish grower's paradise

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

A 4 inch PVC pipe forms a seemingly surreal containerTwenty-four years ago, I moved to North America from Spain, where Franco the fascist was at the helm. Franco and his Guardia Civil were feared and loathed. They were similar to the DEA, jerks with automatic weapons and a power complex.

Sweden: unleashing counter offensive

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

The Swedish ultra-prohibitionists are increasingly isolated in Europe as the legalisation movement makes political progress and becomes a high profile issue.
Swiss success and French tolerance

The success of the Swiss experiment with legal and controlled heroin distribution has led many European countries to prepare legislation for similar programs.

The birth of cannabis culture

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

That gorgeous baby you see on the cover as the centrepiece to our hempy Easter bud-basket is my new daughter, Lily.
Lily was born in the early morning of December 17, moments after the Vancouver Police had left Hemp BC and the Cannabis Caf? after their latest raid.

Was it hash or hemp?

karlis — Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 -0700

Hempseed foods cause false-positives in THC urine tests. How will the urine testers respond?
Imagine for a moment that you've never smoked marijuana, but you've been buying hemp seed oil from a health food store, because you care about your health and know about all those essential fatty acids. One day you're called into your employer's office: you've failed the latest pee test, and you're going to be fired. What happened?