CANNABIS CULTURE - Toronto’s annual Global Marijuana March will hit the streets on May 5 despite the cancelation of it’s sister Freedom Festival, held for the last five years at Queen’s Park at the same time as the march.
The Toronto Freedom Festival (TFF), a 30,000-strong gathering of marijuana-lovers, drug legalization activists, and pot-friendly vendors that smokes-out Queen’s Park every year, will not take place in 2012 due to planned construction by the city.
I will be joining the march tomorrow, stay tuned for some photos and video of the event. Should be interesting as many of the marchers will be looking for something to do after the march as there is no Freedom festival happening at Queens Park. If you are in the Toronto area, come out and toke with your brothers and sisters!
Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little has changed in terms of policy.
If “Northern Lights” or “Strawberry Cough” mean something to you then this might be your test. Thinking about seeking work at a coffee shop or dispensary? This might help give you a leg up on the competition. If not, just test your pot snobbery.
Young people, your age demographic has turned to these new legal “highs” because weed is sparse or too dangerous to buy legally. This synthetic crap is not a substitute, this shit is dangerous and nothing like good cannabis. Don’t bother with it, it’s as stupid as sniffing bath salts. Get high responsibly, research what your’e smoking, swallowing or taking and help get the good stuff legal and this synthetic crap outlawed. From the article:
“Synthetic cannabis is rated as more harmful than natural weed, and less likely to deliver pleasurable highs, according to one of the biggest surveys of current drug user experience ever conducted.”
“Users who had tried synthetic cannabis rated it as more likely to deliver “negative effects” while high. It was rated more likely to induce feelings of paranoia, and was more harmful on the lungs.”
“Asked which form of cannabis they would choose to use, having tried both kinds, 93% of respondents opted for natural weed.”
This happened about a week ago and needs more media attention. After a couple years of leaps forward for the cannabis community looks like we are taking a step back with the world’s governments renewed pressures on us. But knowing the strength of the tokers worldwide, we will bounce back from these attacks on our peaceful people.
Cannabis is such an amazing plant with so many applications and methods. As the plant is studied and experimented with more and more, we are being treated to even more fantastic facts to shout out and be proud of!
It’s great to see the scientific community studying the effects of psychoactives once again. During the seventies their was extensive research being done with positive findings only to be outlawed by most of the governments worldwide. I believe there is a world of possibilities in terms of mental health and addiction when using psychoactives. Though I have dabbled with mushrooms, LSD, MDMA and Ketamine I have come to learn that when they are not taken responsibly, or when the drug’s quality is questionable coming from strangers on the streets they can be dangerous. Here are some of the findings of the study:
“Ultimately, they concluded that Ketamine might be useful in treating depression because it increases brain activity instantly - so there is no need to wait weeks or months for the drug to take effect.”
“The clinical findings and current understanding of the mechanisms of action of classical hallucinogens and dissociative anesthetics converge on the idea that psychedelics might be useful in the treatment of major depression, anxiety disorders and OCD.”
With all the bad news lately in the cannabis world it’s great to have a group like Anonymous creating some much needed energy and awareness for cannabis worldwide. Along with Sir Richard Branson the billionaire extraordinaire speaking out against prohibition this is a good, positive balance we’ve all been needing lately. Lets keep up the momentum!
Very sad news for the cannabis community coming out from the Netherlands recently. I can’t believe they are actually going to go through with banning tourists from the safe haven of cannabis smoking in
their world famous cafes. From http://www.new-rules.info/index-en.html comes this info:
“As of May 1st 2012, all coffee shops in the southern provinces of the Netherlands will be forced to refuse entrance to visitors from abroad. Coffee shops in the rest of the country will follow suit on January 1st 2013. Many people expect the new rules will lead to a strong increase in the illegal drug market and an end to the separation of markets.”
This looks to be happening for real. For the first time ever the High Times Cannabis Cup was raided this past year and it was just a sign of things to come in the Netherlands. These conservative idiots in power just want to fill their empty prisons and give the illegal drug trade back to the black market and gangs. This will spell bad news for tourism and the local cannabis business community.
