CC70: Spring 2008
Cannabis Culture #70 (Spring 2008)
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Favorite Bud: Trainwreck
Jason King
This issue’s profiled bud is a sweet sativa strain
Letter From The Editor
Marc Emery
It looks like an extradition hearing is going to happen, as Canada says “no deal”
Pot Shots From Spain
Oscar
Four full-page photos from gardens in Spain
Oaksterdam
Danielle Schumacher
Oakland, California’s cannabis community even has a cannabis college
Psychedelic Summer Festival Tour
Stephanie Dragonfly
A beautiful globetrotting tripper describes awesome North American festivals
More of Your Pot Tattoos
CC Readers
More readers sent in their marijuana-related ink
Too Much Marijuana
El Jefe
Blasted on brownies: what happens when you have too much
Bubble Man’s Macro Photography
Bubble Man
Incredible trichome photography to drool over, with early and later bud shots
Colors In Cannabis
G. of Vancouver Island Seed Co.
Why do marijuana plants have various colors and tones?
Valley Fever
Tommy Chong
American prisons are hotbeds of disease; Tommy tells of his time behind bars
The US Army’s Secret Cannabis Experiments
Martin A. Lee
Cannabis oil, or “Red Oil”, was tested as non-lethal weapons for warfare
Bob High
Cartoon Bob
What THC is, how it’s made, and how to get more of it
CC Reader Poll
CC Magazine
Win a Volcano vaporizer or glass pipes just for filling in this survey!
Spring & Summer Hemp Fashion
Joe Kamon, Heidi Vargas
Hemp and natural organic fabrics look and feel great
The Herb Museum
David Malmo-Levine
The “Mayor of Vansterdam” shares his huge drug history artifact collection
Barry Cooper For Congress
Barry Cooper
Meeting John McCain, how to sue police, DEA outdoor busts, and a new DVD
Ask Ed: Growing Questions & Answers
Ed Rosenthal
More questions and answers with the cannabis culture’s Guru of Ganja
Pot Puzzlers
Chris Lawson, Chris Goodwin
A weedy word search and cannabis crossword with Hot Box vaporizer prizes
Glass Masters: Korey Cotnam
Marc Emery
This glass blower’s talent and creativity are captured in this three-piece set
Editors Marc and Jodie Emery introduce CC #70
The wonders of macro photography have excited me since I first saw the amazing photography of Joop Dumas at the 1995 High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. (Macro means anything very large in scale, scope, or capability.) Dumas took incredible magnified photos with an electron scan microscope back in 1985, and to this day they are the gold standard for macro photographs in the cannabis world. full story
Whenever the subject of colors in cannabis comes up, I’m reminded of the time I was working with a grow partner near Errington in the central Vancouver Island region. We had been growing a variety of strains because we were determining what grew well in the area and had a bunch of clones that had to be tried out.It was a good grow year with plenty of sunny days, though not as much rainfall as we would have liked. full story- In the summer of 2007, my extradition lawyer (in my fight with the US Justice Department over my seed distribution days) began discussions with Washington State District Attorney Todd Greenberg. full story
Everyone who has their pot tattoo printed gets a free 6-issue subscription to Cannabis Culture Magazine! full story
Oakland hip-hop legend A-Plus would have no problem finding these three fine ingredients in his hometown of Oakland, California, a city with four approved medical cannabis dispensaries. Just a quick train or ferry ride away is San Francisco with over thirty dispensaries to choose from. Most dispensaries are worth visiting, but Oaktown is home to two of the best. full story
I began to specialize in cannabis photography two years ago, and work with several Spanish cultivation publications such as Canamo, Yerba, and Spannabis. full story
Cannabis Culture magazine presents our favorite new female fashions for sprinag and summer! The items showcased are made with environment-friendly sustainable fibers like hemp, bamboo and organic cotton, and our stylist helped to “reduce, re-use, and recycle” by buying vintage accessories. full story
During the 1960s, the U.S. Army tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon. Meet the man who ran the program. full story
Although impossible to have a toxic overdose of cannabis, it is quite possible to consume more than necessary. When you smoke too much marijuana or eat too much pot food, you may have symptoms of ataxia/dizziness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, possible crying, and sometimes a sensation of dying. full story
My stay at California s Taft Penitentiary changed me in many ways, but also exposed how terrible the US prison system healthcare crisis really is. full story
