Interviews

Rollin' With The Marleys

karlis — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

?The dragonfly... it?s justlike a day in the morning,
and I woke up and went outside
and um, just I saw this
dragon y, and I started to
admire it, ya know? I noticed
that it was looking back at
me, cuz it was hoverin? and
it was looking back and
it didn?t move, and that?s
where it started from.?

? Ziggy Marley

Superbly amusing herbal music

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

Herb Superb, the Australian pot-loving songwriter, adds a healthy dose of humor to his music. Doing so, he's won weedy fans around the world and in his native homeland.
"This is the funniest stuff we've ever heard" said Michael Balderstone, spokes-person for the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, of Herb's music.

Sci-fi family Robinson

karlis — Wed, 25 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The Crazy YearsSpider and Jeanne Robinson are two renowned minds, twin jewel authors in the crown of the High Authority of World Science Fiction. So intertwined are they that they might as well be one person. They even share a single email address; address the one, and you can just as well expect the other to reply.

Bong blasting bands

karlis — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The most important thing to remember about Smoked Out Brainzzz is that this is a brand new band that has been around for eight years. The original founding members are long gone, and the band is going on to a third line-up for a third album. Yet somehow that original spark, the one that originally inspired Smoked Out Brainzzz to spontaneously combust into existence nine years ago, is still alive and blazing.

Celebrity stoners

karlis — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Dazed and sued

Dead funny

karlis — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Hicks in his signature black leather jacketMany famed comedians have made jokes about pot. From Richard Pryor to Steve Martin, from Chevy Chase to Chris Rock, from Cheech to Chong, cannabis has always been a rich source of humor.

Pot play is pick of Canada's Fringe Festival

karlis — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Canada's annual Fringe Festival is a travelling mix of eclectic plays and performances that hits most of the nation's major cities during a lengthy summer tour.
One of the most popular plays in 2004 was The Reefer Man, a moving one-man show about a young lawyer whose love for marijuana and skill at growing it leads him through a variety of adventures and relationships.

Reefer Madness: the musical movie!

karlis — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Alan CummingHold on to your baggie, your bowl, and your DVD player ? the madness is back!

Ocean's 420

karlis — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Ocean's Twelve, the much-hyped sequel to the star-studded extravaganza that was Ocean's Eleven, has been filming around Europe over the past year. The stylish heist movie from filmmaker Steven Soderbergh stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Matt Damon. Also along for the sequel ride are Andy Garcia, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, and Elliot Gould.

Bong blasting bands!

karlis — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Greenlaw Ave`s Skyla J on flute and vocals with Ozzie on bass.>> Greenlaw Ave

Michael Franti's musical evolution

karlis — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700

"How many herb smokers we got in this piece?" asks Michael Franti to an intimate crowd of a few dozen. The place erupts in knowing cheers. Although Franti has blessed stadium-size audiences with his smokin' grooves, he doesn't consider holding court in his favorite Senegalese restaurant a demotion. In fact, he performs here quite often.

Castaneda's Enigma

karlis — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Carlos Castenada: enigmatic sorcererThe film "Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer" opened yesterday in Toronto, New York and Milwaukee. Today it opens in San Francisco and Chicago.

Celebrity stoners

karlis — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800

OJ Simpson: tokes to relax
In the October issue of Playboy, OJ Simpson gave an interview where he confessed to having used marijuana to help him get over the stress of his trial. He told Playboy that, after his acquittal, he smoked marijuana in order to get to sleep.

Celebrity Stoners

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

This dog is too stoned to drive.Naomi Watts' pot dog scare
While some dogs like to hang out and get stoned with their masters, it's never wise to let your pet munch down too much bud.

Celebrity stoners

karlis — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo: perpetually seeking Scooby Snacks!Six degrees of Scooby Doo

Damian Marley

karlis — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800

I have seen his face tattooed on a shoulder in London, and painted on a crumbling shanty wall on Jamaica's impoverished coastline.
His is an angular Jamaican face, framed by chestnut brown dreadlocks, forever young, frozen in fame's spotlight, shrouded in ganja smoke and nostalgia. His shy smile is sincere, but his eyes are shot through with Rastafari prophecy and pain.

Celebrity stoners

karlis — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Brad Pitt: open about his stoner desires.Jennifer Aniston: open about her stoner desire

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CC reader poll

karlis — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Our typical reader is a single male over 30 with no children.In issue #33 we ran a reader poll, asking our readers what they liked and disliked about Cannabis Culture, and to tell us about themselves, so we could find out what kind of people enjoy our magazine.

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Cannacounsellor

karlis — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:00:00 -0800

Many readers have asked us to provide information about being happy, healthy members of the cannabis culture. Beginning with this issue, Pete Brady will be discussing some of these questions. Pete has a master's degree in counseling, and several years' experience listening to the concerns of pot people and doing marijuana journalism.
We welcome your questions, which can be sent to advice@cannabisculture.com.

Cannabis kids

Dear Cannacounselor,

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Russia's pot revolution

karlis — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:00:00 -0800

Until the 1970s, marijuana was not used much in Russia. Alcohol was Russia's national drug, and ganja was only used in the "wild" Asian republics. Average Russians considered ganja smoking as something alien and strange.

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Captain Jackson

karlis — Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:00:00 -0800

Photo: BongcasterRipping apart killer iguanas? Taking on a giant half-scorpion/half-man after hitting the local disco? Puffing down massive bong-loads of chronic? It's all in a day's work for Captain Jackson, the hero of a zany three-part series available on the Internet.

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Carl Sagan: visionary scientist

karlis — Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Carl Sagan"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reason for a Bill of Rights.

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Ed Rosenthal: marijuana's question and answer man

karlis — Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:00:00 -0700

Ed Rosenthal ? cannabis cultivation expert, book publisher and writer/photographer who has answered thousands of gardening questions in 20 years of his famous Ask Ed column for High Times magazine ? is now officially affiliated with Cannabis Culture.
International answer man

Ed Rosenthal is 55 years old; his Ask Ed column, published in High Times from August 1983 until March 2000, tutored generations of herb growers.

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Wanna Grow Some Weed? It's Not That Hard To Find Out How.

karlis — Thu, 27 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0700

(This article first appeared in the Wed Apr 19 2000 National Post.)
Now that it's spring, I've decided to get active in something that gets me closer to nature.

But first, I needed some reading material.

"Do you have High Times?" I asked the man behind the counter in a College Street magazine store. "You know, the magazine about growing pot?"

It was sold out. But under "Hobbies," in between a magazine about tattooing and another about turkey hunting, was Cannabis Culture, a Vancouver-based magazine.

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Defending the boundaries of human identity

karlis — Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:00:00 -0800

The first time I contacted Richard Glen Boire, an American attorney and author who specializes in writing about cannabis and other entheogenic substances, he reacted with caution.
"I'm a criminal defense, appellate and research attorney," Boire said, "and I have learned that you can never be too careful."

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