Personal Stories

How To Open A Compassion Club

karlis — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800

At its simplest, a compassion club can be started with an ounce of medicine, a pager, a backpack, and a skateboard. With excellent foresight, this basic setup can evolve into a storefront cannabis clinic.

Ending fear

karlis — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Steven McWilliams"I love my country, but I fear my government."

"You'll get my gun when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of it."
Every time I travel to the United States, I see those words on bumper stickers adorning motor vehicles.

Cannabis and Chemotherapy

karlis — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Recovering brain tumour patientThe most familiar legal justification for medical marijuana is associated with treating the side effects of chemotherapy.

Listen to new medical marijuana radio ads

karlis — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Turn on the radio soon, and you might hear TV host Montel Williams, author Tom Robbins, or Supreme Court plaintiff Angel Raich talking about medical marijuana.
In the first-ever campaign of its kind, the Marijuana Policy Project this week launched a series of radio public service announcements featuring all three of these VIPs.

Renee Boje ordered out of Canada

karlis — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Renee BojeIn the heady days after Californians passed Proposition 215, the precedent-setting medical marijuana law, a young artist named Renee Boje worked on cannabis literature and activism with medical cannabis advocates Peter McWilliams and Todd McCormick in Southern California.
Today, nearly ten years later, Boje is a pawn in the drug war rivalry between the United States and Canada.

Grow guru on world's most progressive TV show

karlis — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Grow guru Ed RosenthalCannabis Culture is the world's best marijuana magazine in part because the solar system's most experienced cultivation expert and pot book author, Ed Rosenthal, provides exclusive ganja growing information in every issue of the legendary magazine.

Lepp makes bail

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

Eddy Lepp: won`t be allowed to grow.Rev. Charles Eddy Lepp will be released from custody Wednesday April 20th 2005 thanks to Lynette Shaw, from the Marin Alliance. Shaw has come through with the property needed to insure Rev. Lepp?s bail.

20-acre pot farm raided in California

karlis — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Eddy Lepp: raided for being honestAccording to DEA spokesman Richard Meyer, the sprawling 20-acre farm near Upper Lake, California, contained 20,000 high-grade marijuana plants estimated at a value of $80 million.

Buors busted

karlis — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800

On November 17, 2004, Chris Buors, the 47-year-old founder of the Winnipeg Compassion Club, was sentenced to six months in jail with three years supervised probation after he was caught growing 59 plants in his home.
The plants, along with $2,500 worth of hydroponics equipment, were found when police conducted what Buors' lawyer, Bonnie MacDonald, argued was an illegal, warrantless search on Buors' home after it was invaded and robbed on August 29, 2002.

Steve Kubby denied refugee status in Canada

karlis — Fri, 28 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700

On Monday, December 8, Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator Paulah Dauns refused to give refugee status to Steve Kubby. Kubby is a US pot activist suffering from adrenal cancer, and the first American to get a license from the Canadian government to legally use and cultivate medical pot.

California doctors under attack

karlis — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Dr Tod Mikuriya: one brave doctor.Cannabis-hating US feds have boarded-up med-pot clubs, ripped up and burned medical gardens and jailed med-pot patients. Now they're going after the doctors. In the face of persecution, some doctors have buckled under the pressure and agreed to stop prescribing pot.

Medpot user busted despite constitutional exemption

karlis — Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Grant Krieger: uses pot to treat MS symptomsGrant Krieger, who lives with MS, has been fighting for years for the courts to recognize his medical use of the plant. On January 6, 2004 he was busted again, this time in Manitoba.

Jaxfest: hunted in Florida

karlis — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

I sit on a beachside bench next to my friend George McMahon, one of five US citizens granted the right to smoke federal marijuana. He uses it to provide relief from pain, spasms, and nausea. McMahon and I have just driven from Texas to Jacksonville, Florida. We've passed through plains and swamps, but we haven't left Bush country.

UK activist threatens suicide

karlis — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800

By the time you read this, 54-year-old cannabis activist Biz Ivol may be dead. Ivol lives in a small cabin in northern Scotland, and spends most of her time in bed, suffering the torments of the late stages of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Time slowdown

karlis — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Unlike most medically active botanicals, cannabis is known for being many medicines in one. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the first of about 60 therapeutically active substances in the cannabis plant. Called cannabinoids, these substances combine and interact in subtle ways, resulting in a variety of different effects on our minds and bodies.

Kubbys await refugee ruling

karlis — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800

The KubbysMedical marijuana advocates Michele and Steve Kubby are anticipating a ruling "any day now" on their historic bid to become Canada's first officially-sanctioned reefer refugees.

Confusion About Landmark Canadian Pot Ruling

karlis — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0700

There's lots of confusion about yesterday's Ontario Court of Appeals that sought to clarify the Canadian government's Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR), as well as whether possession of marijuana is generically legal.
The ruling dealt with a consolidation of several cases involving medical marijuana issues and Canada's Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Dennis Peron likely to beat Utah charges

karlis — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700

`Thank God the constitution still means something, even in Utah`In November 2001, the father of California's medical marijuana scene took a road trip to Utah to see the state's fabled canyon country.

Marc Emery jailed in Moncton

karlis — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Marc explains the legal situation in CanadaOn July 21, Cannabis Culture publisher Marc Emery was arrested for the third time during his Summer of Legalization cross-country tour. Emery was detained by police shortly after lighting up a bong in front of the Moncton police headquarters at 4:20pm.

Grow guru goes free

karlis — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0700

(l-r)Jane Klien, Ed, Steph Sheere, Justine Rosenthal.Today, Wednesday, June 4th in a San Francisco, California courtroom, Cannabis Culture grow guru Ed Rosenthal was sentenced to just ONE DAY in jail and three years probation.

Tokers Bowl 2

karlis — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Marc and judges enjoying BC`s beaches and budsThe grand ganja get-together
Flash, Jill Gordon, and George Bailey of the Drug War Vigil Group arrived early for the second annual Cannabis Culture Toker's Bowl and helped Pot-TV tech, Kyle, set up for the Film Fest in the basement of the New Amsterdam Caf?.

Judge recognizes legal 'void'

karlis — Tue, 06 May 2003 00:00:00 -0700

BC Provincial Court, Nov 13/02
Police investigating an accident near David Lange's home discovered a 230-plant operation. Lange, 36, had nine previous narcotics convictions. He pleaded guilty to a charge of producing marijuana, saying it was for the compassion club.

Kubby winning in Canada

karlis — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Steve Kubby: licensed to grow (inset) in his legal garden.Steve Kubby, US med-pot activist and former Libertarian candidate for Governor of California, has been making headlines in Canada with his recent court victories.

Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club busted

karlis — Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800

At around 4:20pm on Wednesday, Februrary 19th, 2002 police walked in the door of the Victoria, B.C. branch of the Cannabis Buyers' Clubs of Canada and started arresting people and stealing medicine.

War Down Under

karlis — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Nimbin cops: harrassing the Hemp Embassy aggressively.There's a green ganjafied place in the Southern Hemisphere that Cannabis Culture has traveled to year after year, a place called Nimbin, where Aussies are smoking locally-grown Sativa instead of drinking beer.