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Toke of the Town’s Mobile Version Goes Live

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 3, 2011 News, Products

The mobile version of Toke of the Town has gone live, so visitors coming in from smartphones and mobile devices will now see the mobile layout pictured here.

Just because you’re away from your computer is no reason to go without your Toke!

Toke of the Town had already been available on smartphones, of course, but until now it was the regular website, and not the mobile version optimized for smaller screens.

Hemp Fest Returns To Gainesville Saturday After 11 Years

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 3, 2011 Culture, News, Products

Florida Hempfest

Gainesville Hemp Fest, which was made famous when doobie tossers encouraged civil disobedience in 1993 and 1994, is returning this Saturday.

You’ve got to admire the temerity of people who insist upon their rights, even in an unfriendly environment. After 11 long years, Hemp Fest is coming back to Gainesville, Florida at high noon on Saturday.

What used to be an annual celebration of marijuana and a protest for its legalization is being brought back by activist Dennis “Murli” Watkins, who served four months in jail for organizing a “doobie toss” at the event in 1994, reports Chad Smith at The Gainesville Sun.

“Hemp has been cultivated for thousands of years,” Watkins said. “Here it is almost 2012, and we’re still fighting this same stupid battle.”

Watkins would not say whether the “doobie toss” — where someone throws a bunch of joints in the air so that they rain down onto the excited crowd — would also be held.

Police, of course, are curious about that, too.

Rally & Concert To End The War On Drugs: L.A., Nov. 3

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 31, 2011 Culture, News, Products

Punk Rock Gypsy

Arise Roots, an up and coming reggae band from L.A., will headline the No More Drug War rally in Los Angeles on Thursday, November 3.

The international movement against the War On Drugs will convene at Levitt Pavilion in historic MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, on Thursday, November 3, for the largest-ever “No More Drug War” mass protest.

Hundreds of people will gather to acknowledge this year’s 40th anniversary of Nixon’s declaring a War On Drugs, demand health-centered alternatives, and celebrate this incredible diverse moment. The event will acknowledge the violence in Mexico, California’s mass incarceration crisis, and the nation’s overdose epidemic, among other topics.

The rally and concert will feature a host of gourmet food trucks, live reggae music by Arise Roots, spoken word artists, youth performers, and international reform leaders — most prominently Javier Sicilia, the Mexican poet who lost his son to Drug War violence and who is now leading a mass movement against the Drug War that brings tens of thousands to the streets of Mexico.

Denver Medical Marijuana Patients Win With Toke Daily Deals

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 26, 2011 Dispensaries, Products

Toke Daily Deals

$20 of merchandise for $10? Count me in.

Denver Westword, an alternative weekly owned by Toke of the Town‘s parent company, Village Voice Media, has launched a dispensary promotion called Toke Daily Deals through which medical marijuana patients can receive discounted medicine.

“Toke Daily Deals works like this,” Westword tells us. “We email you one terrific deal on the best dispensaries in your city. If you’re interested, you buy the deal. If you’re not, you don’t.”

Simple enough, eh?

Phoenix Medical Marijuana Collective To Open Nov. 13

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 25, 2011 Dispensaries, Products

THC Finder

Grand Opening Festivities Feature Job Fair, Patient Fair and Open House

One year after Arizona residents voted to legalize medical marijuana, things are falling into place for patients in Phoenix to get safe access to their medicine.

The doors of Elements Caregiver Collective, which calls itself “the one-stop-shop for medical marijuana, wellness services and products,” will open with a job fair, patient fair and grand opening event on Sunday, November 13 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The caregiver collective, located 12620 N. Cave Creek Road in Phoenix, said it offers a secure, safe, environment for caregivers to provide wellness services and cannabis to patient members.

WAMM Medical Marijuana Festival Has A Serious Message

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

Brad Kava/Santa Cruz Patch

Each of these “tombstones” represents one of hundreds of WAMM patients who needed marijuana for medicinal reasons.

The first thing that visitors to the ninth annual WAMM Festival saw on Saturday was a mock graveyard. Hundreds of tombstones memorialized critically ill patients whose lives were helped by medical marijuana.

The visual gave a message to the hundreds of people who strolled through San Lorenzo Park in Santa Cruz for the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana‘s annual festival, reports Brad Kava at the Santa Cruz Patch. That message was that critically ill people need help from cannabis, which remains illegal for any purpose at the federal level, despite having been legalized for medicinal use in 16 states.

NFL Star and Former Pothead Ricky Williams Hates Weed Jokes

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

Sons Of Bill Simmons

Ricky Williams doesn’t think weed jokes are funny.

National Football League star Ricky Williams — caught multiple times for smoking weed — doesn’t think your weed jokes are funny. In fact, one of the reasons he doesn’t use Twitter much is the constant barrage of pot punchlines, the football hero tweeted on Friday.

Williams, of the Baltimore Ravens, has quite a history with marijuana himself, reports Zach Wilt at the Baltimore Sports Report. The former Miami Dolphins running back supposedly “retired from football” after facing a whopping $650,000 fine for failing a piss test in December 2003 (his second such transgression), violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy.

After taking 2004 off, he returned to the Dolphins in 2005, but failed yet another drug test after the season, which this time earned him a 16-game suspension from the NFL (that’s a full year’s worth of games, for you non-football fans).

Williams at that point took his under-appreciated talents north to Canada and played for the Canadian Football League’s Toronto Argonauts. He claimed he “found himself” during this time and returned to Miami in 2007 while following a strict drug-test regimen imposed by the NFL.

Drug Policy Reform Conference: Nov. 2-5 In Los Angeles

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 19, 2011 News, Products

Reform Conference

Will California, Washington State or Colorado vote to legalize marijuana in 2012?

Why do blacks go to jail for drugs at 13 times the rate of whites even though they use and sell drugs at similar rates?

What are the results of Portugal decriminalizing all drugs 10 years ago?

What can be done about the 50,000 prohibition-related deaths in Mexico since President Calderon ramped up the Mexican Drug War five years ago?

People will gather to answer these questions and many more at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Los Angeles, November 2-5.

Happy Buds Is Not Your Ordinary Marijuana Book

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 18, 2011 Culture, Products

Quick Trading Company

Happy Buds give guidance on marijuana strains that work best for more than 25 occasions, profiling more than 80 varieties

Happy Buds: Marijuana for Any Occasion, the latest book from ganja guru Ed Rosenthal, is unlike any other marijuana book on the market, including any of Ed’s other works. The book aims to answer the question, “What strain is good for that?” in a recreational way. As the front cover puts it, “Dance • Play • Chill • Snuggle,” and it has cannabis suggestions for all the above.

Ed picked two excellent co-authors — Anna Foster and Mamakind — for Happy Buds, and it shows, both in the increased presence of female energy and perspectives, and in a more light-hearted approach than can be found in any of Rosenthal’s grow books and coffee-table bud volumes.

Whether you plan on going out to party and live it up, if you’re feeling a little down and need to let go of your cares, if you’re stressed out and need to slow down, or even if you need to focus on a complicated task, Happy Buds has a strain for you.

Cannabis Cup Goes On In Detroit Despite Police Visits

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 18, 2011 News, Products

We Smoke Weed

Despite no fewer than three visits by Detroit Police and warnings from the officers that nobody should smoke any pot, organizers of the Detroit Cannabis Cup said on Monday that they went ahead with their contest to pick the best marijuana in Michigan.

“We absolutely had the competition” and awarded trophies, said Dan Skye, executive editor of High Times, reports Bill Laitner of the Detroit Free Press. The New York-based monthly magazine for marijuana fans has sponsored Cannabis Cups in California, Colorado and now Michigan.

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