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Tracking Sasquatch on New Year’s Day – Choogle On! #58

Tracking Sasquatch on New Year's Day – Choogle On! #58
Tracking Sasquatch on New Year’s Day – Choogle On! #58

On New Year’s Day, Uncle Weed takes a snowy ramble into the woods around Mt. Cypress encountering earnest tobogganists, snowshoe prints, and windswept Hollyburn cabins. Over a bowl of Purple Kush, he recounts tales of tasty ales, resolutions, cross country skiing, foreign expeditions, and personal documentation while remarking on the varieties of lichen and moss on the trees. 

Put on yer snowshoes Tracking Sasquatch on New Year’s Day – Choogle on #58 (.mp3, 16:17, 13MB)

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Field Trip to Herby’s Garden with Dopefiend – Choogle On! #57

Field Trip to Herby's Garden with Dopefiend – Choogle On! #57
Field Trip to Herby’s Garden with Dopefiend – Choogle On! #57

Part One of the Tokes on the DopecastField Trip to Herby’s Secret Garden in Special Service for Dopefiend.co.uk featuring Uncle Weed and Dopefiend on a North Vancouver stroll and a visit to Herby’s secret garden with candid anecdotes about growing and selling cannabis in Canada and myriad marijuana inspired hi-jinks. 

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Tokes on the Porch Returns to Herby’s Garden – Choogle On! #56

Tokes on the Porch Returns to Herby's Garden – Choogle On! #56
Tokes on the Porch Returns to Herby’s Garden – Choogle On! #56

Part two (see Dopefiend.co.uk for Tokes on the Dopecast: Field Trip to Herby’s Secret Garden) features another visit to Herby’s secret garden of Purple Kush, Magik and OG. Along with Dopefiend, Uncle Weed enjoys stories of roaches in Mexico, tips for cooking cannabis, tales from Wreck beach, and comedienne Watermelon’s bust plus lots of growing details, tips and ganja strain comparison from this hobby garden.

Tokes on the Porch Returns to Herby’s Garden – Choogle on #56 (64MB, 1:18, .mp3)

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The Numbskulz Grow Up and Rock Out – Choogle On! #55

The Numbskulz Grow Up and Rock Out – Choogle on #55
The Numbskulz Grow Up and Rock Out – Choogle on #55

In the third conversation with teenage rock savants from Pe Ell Washington, Uncle Weed catches up with brothers Nolan (vocals, bass), Seth (guitars, vocals), Graham (drums) and talk about recent gigs featuring vomiting drummers, hot days at flea markets, styling out on NYE, plus songwriting tactics, recording plans, staying dumb, police hassles and small town life. 

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Thanksgiving with Absinthe and Fungi Tea – Choogle On! #54

Thanksgiving with Absinthe and Fungi Tea – Choogle on #54
Thanksgiving with Absinthe and Fungi Tea – Choogle on #54

On Canadian Thanksgiving holiday, Uncle Weed and friends enjoy Absinthe from Barcelona, with carmelized with raw sugar and a magic mushroom tea infused nature stroll with a strawberry-grapefruit joint under the Trans Canada Highway where 2 people fell through the gaps. 

Pour a glass of Thanksgiving with Absinthe and Fungi Tea – Choogle on #54 (19:35, 17MB, .mp3)

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70 years of failed cannabis prohibition in USA

Hemp farmers

Thanks to Hemp Ed in Pe Ell who reminds us that everyone should take note of the significance of Oct. 2nd.

Indeed, October 2, 2006 was the dubious anniversary of 70 years hassle when unemployed Colorado laborer Samuel R. Caldwell was arrested for selling two marijuana cigarettes to Moses Baca and became the first federal marijuana arrest. For his crime, he was sentenced to four years of hard labor at Leavenworth Penitentiary, plus a $1,000 fine.

Hemp Ed says, “This was a bad day for America, and has lead to the arrest and incarceration of 10 of millions of Americans, and opened the door to far more reaching invasive laws into all our freedoms. When will the madness end?”

Not anytime soon it seems as 2006 set a new high (heh) for cannabis arrests. NORML kicks down some opinion and factoids in a stylish chart documenting the debacle.

Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director {give Mr. St Pierre a ring at (202) 483-5500} concluded in NORML’s report: “Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in the United States,” that:

“Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers between $10 billion and $12 billion annually and has led to the arrest of nearly 20 million Americans. Nevertheless, some 94 million Americans acknowledge having used marijuana during their lives. It makes no sense to continue to treat nearly half of all Americans as criminals for their use of a substance that poses no greater – and arguably far fewer – health risks than alcohol or tobacco. A better and more sensible solution would be to tax and regulate cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol and tobacco.”

MARIJUANA ARRESTS BY YEAR
US Marijuana Arrests 1965-2006

Producer of Marihuana tax stamp.Obligatory Wikipedia snippet from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Marihuana_Tax_Act

In the United States, the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, Pub. 238, 75th Congress, 50 Stat. 551 (Aug. 2, 1937), was one of the cornerstone bills that led to the criminalization of cannabis. It was introduced to U.S. Congress by Harry Anslinger, then Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

The act did not itself criminalize the possession or usage of cannabis, but levied a tax equaling roughly one dollar on anyone who dealt commercially in marijuana. It did, however, include penalty provisions. Violations of proper procedure could result in a fine of up to $2000 and five years’ imprisonment. The net effect was to make it too risky for anyone to deal in the substance.

 

Cannabis Cup and Nederlander Strolls – video dim sum


Nederlands Cannabis Trip 2002

Featuring Uncle Weed, The Unabonger (AKA Cosmo G Spacely), Gazoo (rip) and other friends. We judged the Cannabis Cup, put on a screening of the HempenRoad, took train trips to Deventer and Haarlem (for the Dutch Grower’s Cup) and van rides to Madurodam and other outlying areas.

Filmed in 11 second pieces at 320×280 or something on a borrowed early Sony digital camera.

For photo galleries, see:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/uncleweed/sets/72157644204389945/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/uncleweed/sets/496113

 

 

Tasty Asian Night Market Joint – Choogle On! #53

Tasty Asian Night Market Joint – Choogle on #53
Tasty Asian Night Market Joint – Choogle on #53

Long weekend outing starting with a beer on Commercial Dr. and a fresh sack of stinky weed – with Herr Meister Funbov and Cousin Herb – before heading off to the Richmond Asian Night Market to sample okonomiyaki, bacon treats, bubble tea, cheap products, Chinese singing and discussing the uniting force of meat on sticks, then finishing the movable feast with a big joint with 4 kinds of kind bud at Trout Lake Park. 

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Hemp for Victory with Author Kenyon Gibson – Choogle On! #52

Hemp for Victory with Author Kenyon Gibson – Choogle on #52
Hemp for Victory with Author Kenyon Gibson – Choogle on #52

In Camden Town London, Uncle Weed visits Hemp for Victory author Kenyon Gibson to discuss his motivations and influences for writing the book, using hemp for fuel, fiber and food, unique modern hemp products, the political pressures surrounding re-mainstreaming cannabis hemp, activism tips for emerging hempsters, his research for UK Parliament on hemp as a replacement crop for opium in Afghanistan, plus conversation on contemporary hemp production in the United Kingdom and around the globe. 

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Ross Rebagliati, Watermelon and more with Stoner Comedy

 Bake Sale Comedy fest

https://i0.wp.com/static.flickr.com/34/102803994_1693cc5620_m.jpg?w=474Excerpted from Press Release a Global Comedy Fests:

On February 8, 1998, Ross Rebagliati made Olympic history in Nagano, Japan by winning the first ever gold medal for snowboarding – fans across Canada celebrated! In 2005, Ross was inducted into the Bristish Columbia Sports Hall of Fame – supporters throughout the province cheered. Now it’s 2007 and Olympic Gold Medalist Ross Rebagliati hosts the first annual Baked Sale at the YALE and Vancouverites will laugh their asses off.

The show examines the nectar of counterculture gods – Pot. Stand up, sketch and live music will smolder throughout The Yale on September 20th at, 8PM creating clouds of laughter amid a haze of comedy. Rebagliati will be joined with a stellar line up of comics including Mike MacDonald, Doug Benson, Legendary storyteller Ron Shock, Damonde Tschritter, Wreck beach icon, “Pot Diva” Watermelon and co-creator of “Marijuana-Logues”, Tony Camin.

https://i0.wp.com/www.melongirl.com/images/gallery/photos/H2oCardFront.jpg?w=474 … and (albeit redundant) info from CJSF Radio

Vancouver’s home of rhythm and blues – The Yale will host our first annual “Baked Sale” 8pm Thursday September 20th. Burning up the stage is special guest host Olympic Gold Medalist Ross Rebagliati.

 

He will be joined by a bushel of talented comics dealing jokes about the wonders of Marijuana. The line up includes Canadian Legend Mike MacDonald, co-creators of the Marijuana-Logues Doug Benson and Tony Camin along with Wreck queen and pot diva Watermelon.