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Auto-Farmer Grows Good Times (But the Rulebook is Tough to Dig Into)
CANNABIS CULTURE - Growing up I board games were my jam. Whether is was your typical game of life or even a campaign in D & D at the local comic book store, I spent lots of time trying different styles of games. I was delighted to try…
Hash Running Bears, The Struggles & Triumphs of Joseph Pietri as Written by his Son
CANNABIS CULTURE - Joe’s hash running business had successes and failures with dogs, if you can call a hundred pound Tibetan Mastiff a dog and not a bear, but it all ended with the bears and a worker’s rookie move. Joseph Pietri, author of…
Puff, Puff, Paint (Cannabis, Canvas & Rocky the Cancer Fighter)
CANNABIS CULTURE - Pristine lakes, gentle waterfalls, sun-kissed mountain tops, and thriving conifers are some of the natural beauty that shine out through the work of painter, Rocky, from Denver, Colorado. Rocky's chooses bright colors for…
Generation Legal (Talking to Your Kids About Cannabis)
CANNABIS CULTURE - In a town of less than 15,000 people, I now have access to 11 liquor stores, 3 cannabis stores, and tobacco is sold at every corner store. Living in Alberta, when my children turn 18 they will have unlimited access to…
Ancient Judaic Use of Cannabis for Shamanic Ecstasy Verified by Archeological Evidence
For more than a quarter century, I have been writing about a theorized role of cannabis in ancient Judaic temple worship. Cannabis Culture published one of my first articles on this in 1996, Kaneh Bosm: Cannabis in the Old Testament. Many…
Why is Cannabis Still Illegal in the UK?
CANNABIS CULTURE - There was a moment in cannabis history where it could be argued that the UK was ahead of the US! This has nothing to do with the UK supposedly being the world's largest exporter of medicinal cannabis, this goes way back…
Dr. Francois Lallemand and the Prophecies of ‘Le Hachych’
CANNABIS CULTURE - The 19th century French Physician Francois Lallemand (1790-1854) was one of the first people in France to write about his experiences with hashish in Asia. Lallemand submitted a thesis on the subject for the Doctor of…
Dante’s Hashish Infused Shamanic Journey?
Dante's Divine Comedy (1321) is one of the pioneering classics of Western literature. The archetypes and symbolism of Dante's narrated journey through heaven and Hell has lefts its mark even on those who have not read the book or are…
Haoma and Harmaline: A Critical Analysis
CANNABIS CULTURE - Just as the identification of the Fly agaric mushroom as Soma has been widely accepted, the Harmaline containing plant Syrian rue has come to be identified with the Persian Haoma, and this is largely due to the exhaustive…
‘Secret Drugs of Buddhism’, Soma, and the Sad State of Entheogenic Anthropology
CANNABIS CULTURE - In Secret Drugs of Buddhism, Mike Crowley claims the covert survival of the Vedic Soma tradition in Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as other use of psychedelic mushrooms. But is Crowley's research credible? …
