Culture

Browsing: Culture

Fistful of Reefer: ‘Reeferpunk’ Novel Is Western On Weed

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 24, 2011 Culture, Products

Fistful of Reefer is a dieselpunk, weird Western pulp novel featuring goats, guns, and the camaraderie of outcasts. Marijuana was the plan, liberty the dream, revolution the result. Viva this!

David Mark Brown’s debut novel is the first in a series he calls Reeferpunk — an alternate history that explores the ramifications of an industrial revolution sans cheap oil.

Set along the Texas-Mexico border during the waning years of the Mexican Revolution, Fistful of Reefer focuses on a group of unlikely heroes and their equally unlikely foe as they stumble upon the fringes of a cabal bent on nothing short of redrawing geopolitical boundaries and world domination.

Anticipated release of this ebook exclusive is July 31. ~ Editor

By David Mark Brown

Special to Toke of the Town

If any of you are old enough, you might remember the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups commercial, “You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!” The ad ended with the tagline, “Two great tastes that taste great together.” That’s how I feel about Reeferpunk. Whether you end up preferring punk in your reefer or reefer in your punk, from now on they just gotta go together.

Interview: Legendary Marijuana Activist Pebbles Trippet

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 21, 2011 Culture

Photo: Fred Sternkof

Pebbles Trippet is a quiet hero in Mendo. She’s over 70 and works every day for the cause.

When Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board member Pebbles Trippet’s car breaks down on the way to an activist meeting, she hitchhikes — and she never says anything to anyone about needing a ride home. She goes way back in the scene and has been there, according to locals, for almost every cannabis event “since the whole thing started.” Toke of the Town‘s own Jack Rikess recently had the honor of chatting with Pebbles on our behalf. ~ Editor

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

Even when she’s preachy and almost bullying and dogmatic in her principles, there is something so exquisitely human about Pebbles Trippet, that you’ve just got to love her.

For many outside the Mendocino area Ms. Pebbles Trippet, the consummate steady-Eddy patients’ rights activist, may be an unknown commodity, but I’m sure you’re familiar with the laws that she’s impacted and personally changed.

California Senate Bill 420 expanded and redefined Proposition 215 and gave another face to medical marijuana by allowing collective associations of patients to grow for their own memberships. Prop. 215 allowed for the right to grow, possess, obtain and use cannabis for medicinal purposes.

What you couldn’t do with cannabis was transport it. Yeah, go figure.

Frontline: ‘The Pot Republic’ Airs On PBS July 26 & 29

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 21, 2011 Culture, Growing, News

Photo: Frontline

Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Randy Johnson (left) visits a marijuana farm run by Matt Cohen (right), as featured in “The Pot Republic,” airing July 26 and 29 on PBS.

Frontline is presenting “The Pot Republic,” a report on the effort to legalize marijuana in California, this month on PBS.

While the bulk of cannabis used in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Colombia, Canada and elsewhere, more than half of it is now believed to be domestically grown, much of it in California, “where an enormous black market has emerged under the cover of the state’s medical marijuana law,” at least if PBS is to be believed.

With more than a third of the U.S. now experimenting with some form of legalization and decriminalization — and several California counties attempting to openly regulate cannabis production — Frontline and the Center for Investigative Reporting teamed up to take a look at the country’s oldest, largest and most wide-open marijuana market.

The Cannabis Vote: What Are The Choices?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 20, 2011 Culture, Dispensaries, Medical

Photo: Skreened

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

Without a doubt, President Obama has let down the medical marijuana faction of his constituents. Not to go over old ground but the promises, and yes, I say promises, because when you’re campaigning on change, and the last guy lied, lied, lied — I need to believe what you’re saying is the truth.

When the President said he and his peeps would back off from the states that have voted for medical marijuana, I believed him.

And now all I think is Hillary Clinton was right. Obama is under qualified and can’t move mountains.

I voted for Obama for many reasons, medical marijuana only being one of them.

A Fitting Tribute: Wanna Coburn A Joint At My Place?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 20, 2011 Culture, News

Photo: Big Government

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) has been an implacable foe of the marijuana community. Let’s extend the hand of friendship and give this man the honor he deserves.

Coburn: The consumption of marijuana via human oral cavity by two persons gathered together.

The marijuana culture is adopting a new term, and for U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., of Oklahoma, is an honor richly deserved. You see, Coburn seems obsessed with marijuana, to the point that he has, several times, attempted to get state medical marijuana laws declared illegal under federal law.

In 2007, when the Senate approved a bill to reauthorize the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Coburn added a provision that would apply FDA regulations and fines to those who sell medical marijuana.

That didn’t work, but Sen. Coburn tried again in 2009, when he attempted to add a similar amendment to S. 982, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Frustrated by the Obama Administration’s pledge to not interfere with state medical marijuana laws, Coburn attempted to slip in legislation designed to undermine those programs.

Worth Repeating: Humans Discover Hemp, 10,000 B.C.

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 19, 2011 Culture

The Cannabis-Driven Neolithic Revolution Starts the First Civilization: Cooperation Over Conflict

Welcome to Room 420, where your instructor is Mr. Ron Marczyk and your subjects are wellness, disease prevention, self actualization, and chillin’.

Worth Repeating

By Ron Marczyk, R.N.

Health Education Teacher (Retired)

A Chinese Neolithic legend said that the gods gave humans one plant to fulfill all of their needs.

That plant was hemp.

One plant with five must-have survival products: food, rope, cloth, medicine and spiritual enlightenment.

The first contact between humans and the hemp plant are lost to history.

The following history is circumstantial; it is my attempt to reverse-engineer the missing prehistory of cannabis that hasn’t been told.

Medical Marijuana: Menace or Relief? [Infographic]

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 19, 2011 Culture, Medical

++ Click to Enlarge Image ++

Image Source: ADrugRecall.com

Embed this infographic on your site or within a blog post: (Copy Paste This Code)

<b>++ Click to Enlarge Image ++</b><br /><a href=”http://www.adrugrecall.com/infographics/medical-marijuana.php”><img src=”http://c212747.r47.cf1.rackcdn.com/MedicalMarijuanaSm.jpg” width=”500″ alt=”Infographic: Medical Marijuana – Menace to Society or Natural Source of Relief?” border=”0″ /></a><br />Image Source: <a href=”http://www.adrugrecall.com/”>ADrugRecall.com</a>

Is medical marijuana a menace to society or natural source of relief?

Reformed Nazi Twin Singers Renounce Racism; Credit Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 18, 2011 Culture

Photo: Polaris

Lamb and Lynx Gaede, formerly of the white supremacist rock group Prussian Blue.

It’s only mid-afternoon, but I’m confident this is the strangest story that’s going to cross my desk all day. A pair of twins who caused a media frenzy a few years ago by presenting themselves as the cute faces of white supremacist racism have renounced their former hatred, saying that medical marijuana has helped them see the error of their ways.

Lamb and Lynx Gaede, whose band Prussian Blue was popular back in 2005 among those inclined to like such things, ascribed their unsavory past to having been “home schooled country bumpkins” heavily influenced by their domineering white supremacist mother, reports Neurobonkers.

At Last! A Handy Visual Reference To Identify Stoners

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 15, 2011 Culture

Graphic: rehab-programs.org

If the dude’s long-haired, got a headband on, wearing a tie-dye, shooting a peace sign, and barefooted, he’s probably a damn pothead. Useful info! LOL.

It’s the only way to be sure. Here, my friends, are the tell-tale signs of “marijuana addiction.”

No, man, this isn’t from The Onion. These folks are serious!

Rehab programs nationwide are trying, you gotta give ’em that. And being businesses, they’re always working on new angles to attract new, well, business.

Hempsters Documentary Compellingly Explores A Movement

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 14, 2011 Culture, Products

Graphic: Desert Star Weekly

Going into the documentary Hempsters: Plant The Seed, I was already aware of many of the facts surrounding the hemp plant and its many uses to humanity for food, fiber, pharma and fuel.

But as a good docu tends to do, this film doesn’t just engage your intellect; it touches your heart, too, and that emotional impact took me somewhat by surprise.

The lively documentary, directed by Michael Henning and produced by Diana Oliver, explores the reasons why the United States is the only developed country on Earth that bans the cultivation of industrial hemp.

Due to its relation to marijuana, it is illegal under federal law to grow hemp in the U.S. Hemp is considered a drug under the Controlled Substances Act even though it contains minimal levels — less than one percent — of marijuana’s chief psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

Previous 1 … 102 103 104 105 106 … 157 Next