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If You Have An Android And Can’t Roll Joints, This App’s For You

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 4, 2011 Culture, Products

Got tech aplenty, but still no mad rolling skills? A new Android app aims to help novice marijuana users learn how to roll a joint.

The free version of the “Joint Rolling Guide” app “includes beginner tips on rolling joints and four detailed tutorials for rolling impressive cannabis masterpieces,” according to the developers.

There’s also a paid version of the app available for $2.65 (what, not $4.20?) which includes five more tutorials.

“Should only be used by medical marijuana patients and their caregivers,” the developers caution us. “Please check local laws.”

“Experienced rollers can skip the intro,” developers tell us, “but it’s a pretty essential [sic]for beginners.” Question is, how many “experienced rollers” are going to plunk down $2.65 for an app telling them how to do something they can already do?

Click on “Similar Apps” on the MacWorld page where the Joint Rolling Guide is mentioned, and you find Apple hasn’t been left out in the cold.

Hempfest May Move To Seattle Center This Year

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

Photo: The Edge Apartments

Man, that fountain would be a great way to cool off at Seattle Hempfest this August.

Seattle Hempfest, the world’s largest pro-cannabis annual event, may be held underneath the Space Needle this year.

With the City of Seattle scheduling heavy construction this year in Myrtle Edwards Park, where Hempfest has been held for the past 15 years, the event’s promoters are currently in negotiation for a 20th Anniversary venue upgrade to Seattle Center, according to an internal email sent to supporters, members and VIPs.

“Such a move to the world renowned Seattle Center — home of the 1962 World’s Fair — would be a major step up for the visibility and legitimacy of our event (and movement, sponsors, etc.), and might attract media attention at the national level,” the Seattle Hempfest Membership Committee wrote in the email. (That “media attention at the national level” part just came true.)

Enjoy Jars Help Organize Up To 5 Strains Of Medical Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 27, 2010 Products

Photo: Enjoy Jars

The Enjoy Jar’s four separate compartments can be highly useful to the cannabis patient on the go. That’s the Nugtainer, also included with each Enjoy Jars purchase, on the upper right. You’ll have to provide your own lighter, herb and papers, man.

Enjoy Jars are new cannabis containers designed to help medical marijuana patients organize up to five different strains of medicine. Made in Orange County, California out of a lightweight, high-performance polycarbonate, Enjoy Jars have four individual sections, all sealed, which trap that familiar skunky smell.

“Label each section with a Sharpie marker and let dry for a few seconds,” Enjoy Jars advises. “When it’s time for a new strain, simply wipe off with rubbing alcohol and write in a new name.”

The innovative lid individually seals each section to ensure that the contents remain isolated and maintain their unique smell and flavor. The contents of each of the four sections will not mix with each other.

The small Nugtainer, which comes with each Enjoy Jar, is perfect for those times when you have a nug in your pocket but don’t want it collecting any lint — and it doubles as a container for a fifth strain, should you be that lucky.

New Book Tells Inside Story Of Biggest Hippie Commune In U.S.

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 23, 2010 Culture, Products

Photo: Melvyn Stiriss

Melvyn Stiriss: “The Farm collective was our attempt to create a utopia.”

Voluntary Peasants Trilogy Tells The Story of S.F.’s Monday Night Class and The Farm

When a ragtag band of hippies set out in a 20-bus caravan from San Francisco in 1970 looking to reinvent society, they rode into the history books with a psychedelic, very weird yet very American tale of idealism and do-it-yourself utopia.

And right there in the midst of things was young writer Melvyn Stiriss. Tom Brokaw once said of himself, “In the sixties, I was a young up-and-coming reporter, and I came right up to the edge of what was happening, and I backed away.”

“At that time, I too was a rising young journalist,” Stiriss said. “I came up to that same edge as Tom, only I went Wheeee! Over. And that has made all the difference.”

“The fact that I am a trained, experienced journalist placed me in a situation that was both enviable and uniquely challenging,” Stiriss said. “I never entered the hippie world with the idea of writing about it. I was never just a fly-on-the-wall, unattached observer. I was in deep, sometimes over my head.”

Big Buds Calendar Will Give You A Contact High All Year

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 21, 2010 Culture, Products

Graphic: Quick Trading Company

Just think of it: Big, juicy buds, so resplendently trichomed you can practically smell ’em, with fresh ones every month. Besides being a description of your life (if you’re lucky), this can also be a description of your calendar (if you have about eight bucks).

Marijuana expert Ed Rosenthal has brought another beautiful cannabis calendar to the waiting weed-lovers of the world, and it’s a doozy.

Every month of the Big Buds 2011 Calendar features a spectacular portrait of a different marijuana plant in full, beautiful bloom. The resins look good enough to roll, and the plant shots are enough to make any ganja gardener green with envy.

The full-color photos are accompanied by information describing the strain, and references the seed company which developed it.

Miss KushCon II? You Can Still Check Out The Top 10 Products

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 20, 2010 Culture, Products

Photo: Aaron Thackeray

This glass football bong came in at #4 on William Breathes’ list, but it’s way higher on mine.

I know, I know. You’re all bummed out because you didn’t get to attend KushCon II in Denver this past weekend. I feel your pain, brah.

But all is not lost! Intrepid Denver Westword pot reporter William Breathes has got our backs! He was there in the trenches at KushCon and he thoughtfully compiled a list — with pics! — of his 10 favorite products at the show.

“Last week I talked about how much I hated holiday shopping,” Breathes wrote.

“After going to KushCon II over the weekend, I’ve changed my mind.”

And with Xmas just around the corner — hey, stoner, it’s five days away, man! — I know some you could sure use some gift ideas right about now.

I guess you can tell which one was my favorite, from the Aaron Thackeray photo on the right.

Go on over to Westword for the complete list.

Cannabis Trade Group To Launch At KushCon II

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 15, 2010 Culture, News, Products

Graphic: NCIA

The National Cannabis Industry Association, the first national trade organization dedicated to advancing the interests of cannabis-related businesses, will formally launch its operations this week in Denver, Colorado. The leaders of the association, hailing from across the country, will gather for NCIA’s first board meeting and will set the organizations agenda for the coming year on Thursday, December 16.

“This is an historic time for the cannabis industry and we are excited to have the opportunity to help so many small businesses advance their interests,” said Aaron Smith, NCIA’s executive director. “NCIA’s board is comprised of some of the true leaders in the industry and they are dedicated to seeing the industry flourish in a manner than benefits all cannabis consumers.”

“We are past the point of debating whether cannabis should be a legal product in this country,” Smith said. “The truth is that it is a legal product in many states and it is time to treat individuals involved in the industry the same as all other business people.”

Lawyer/Author’s Blog Says Pot Prohibition Is Unconstitutional

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 14, 2010 Culture, Products

Graphic: Marijuana Prohibition Is Unconstitutional

A new blog, Marijuana Prohibition Is Unconstitutional, has been launched to showcase the work of lawyer/author Hoam Rogh, whose new legal thriller on the pot laws, The Case of US v. Yerbas, is receiving great reviews.

In Rogh’s book, marijuana is legalized by operation of law. Rogh said he took what he larned in law school and countless more hours of Constitutional legal studies to destroy the nation’s current marijuana laws.

The Marijuana Prohibition Is Unconstitutional blog was launched to help him reach an even broader audience, according to Rogh.

The blog is written with devastating clarity, and if you believe that knowledge is power, it contains some powerful stuff.

For example, such posts as “Three-Point Legalization Plan” and “Five Things To Do After Your Marijuana Arrest” kick some potent legal knowledge with which any marijuana activist or enthusiast should become familiar.

Cops Protest KushCon Pot Convention Ads On Denver Buses

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 13, 2010 News, Products

Photo: KDVR

Law enforcement groups are complaining about these marijuana convention ads found on Denver city buses, but the transportation district says the ads will stay.

Colorado law enforcement groups are complaining about ads for a marijuana convention that are on city buses in Denver.

The Colorado Drug Investigators Association — an extremist group already infamous for claiming it was funded by Starbucks, which hastily denied any connection to the group — wrote in a letter last week to the Regional Transportation District (RTD) board of directors that it worries that the ads, promoting the KushCon cannabis convention, “send the wrong message.”

“Advertising a marijuana conference, on the sides of Colorado’s main source of public transportation, will do anything but prevent further drug abuse,” sniffed Jerry Peters, CDIA’s vice president and, surprise-surprise, an investigator with the North Metro Drug Task Force, reports John Ingold at The Denver Post.

‘Earth’s Biggest Cannabis Convention’ Hits Denver Dec. 17-19

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 10, 2010 Culture, Products

Graphic: KushCon

Cannabis has captured the attention of the world. From December 17-19, 2010, the Colorado Convention Center will be buzzing with thousands of medical marijuana experts and enthusiasts in what is being billed as the largest cannabis lifestyle convention to ever take place on planet Earth – KushCon II.

The NORML Women’s Alliance fundraising weekend begins a day early with a business-to-business networking event sponsored by the Medical Marijuana Business Alliance and Kush Magazine on Thursday, December 16, where the elite of the cannabis industry will gather to celebrate the movement and to organize product and service giveaways expected to raise more than $100,000 for the charity.

The international media has extensively covered the “Stiletto Stoners” phenomenon, fascinated by professional women’s use of cannabis. Celebrities like Melissa Etheridge and Alanis Morissette are putting a new face on this controversial plant.

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