ReeferSmoke – A Marijuana Blog

Have you ever wondered what goes on inside a California medical marijuana dispensary, or cannabis collective as they call them? In this cool 4/20 special video Dave Warden of the Weed Report takes us on location to a newly open cannabis collective in Los Angeles, plus some drive by footage of a few other popular shops and shows us what specials they offer to celebrate 4/20. Great music on a very interesting film.
There’s no doubt that Dave Warden has created some of the most popular videos on the web in the cannabis culture genre. His videos have the best production quality and most amusing, often very funny, story themes. He’s even produced a feature length movie called “The Kind City” (costs $12 online) which I’ve yet to see but I’ve watched many of his videos and they’re always good for a laugh and worth checking out at the Weed Report YouTube Channel.

Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is doing a commendable job in the fight for reforming the bogus U.S. marijuana laws and by informing the public about what’s going on. Today Dan Bernath posted an article about how important this week is to the movement.

It’s never easy to know for sure, but this week could be huge for medical marijuana reform if things go just right in state legislatures across the country. The senates in Illinois, Minnesota, and New Hampshire all could vote to pass medical marijuana bills as early as tomorrow. At the same time, the Rhode Island Senate could vote on a bill creating medical marijuana compassion centers, making safe access to qualified patients in the state far less burdensome

The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is an annual rally held at different locations across the planet. It refers to cannabis-related events that occur on the first Saturday in May (this coming Saturday is May 2nd). Marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals, info-tables, etc.. The home page is at GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org
The Global Marijuana March also goes by the name of the Million Marijuana March (MMM). It began in 1999. Over 485 different cities worldwide have participated since 1999. There are local names for the event too. Such as: World Cannabis Day, Cannabis Liberation Day, Global Space Odyssey, Ganja Day, J Day, etc..
The Global Marijuana March is a celebration embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Participants unite to discuss, promote, entertain and educate both consumers and non-consumers alike. The official website has a list of every participating city world and links to leanr more information, including how to host your own rally – March ON!

When I was a teenager I met a grower from Oregon who, to me, was like a scientist. Over the years we became friends and I was able to learn allot about this intriguing man and his vocation, he told me he learned his trade in Oregon, then spent time in Northern California mastering the science of growing marijuana, before moving to a small farm he bought in BC. My friend always talked about Oregon and the great growers there.
In July of 2008 a thread was started on my favorite weed forum; Grasscity.com and it’s the best single page of dank ganja photos anywhere I’ve seen on the web. This post is my tribute to my old friend from Oregon.

This thread is also my official salute to every Oregon smoker and grower. Every caregiver and every dealer. Thank you for keeping our cannabis some of the DANKEST and CHEAPEST on the map! Keep it GREEN!

Drop by: vc77′s “Oregon Weed ROCKS” Thread – TONS of DANK Pics

Erowid.org, also called The Vaults of Erowid, is an amazing online library of information about psychoactive plants and chemicals. It provides information about legal and illegal substances, including their desired and adverse effects. The site is organized by substance, ranging from common substances like alcohol, to unusual ones such as Bromo-DragonFLY and features some great information and photos of Cannabis and my favorite section about Hashish.
According to the site, the creators’ vision includes creating a

“world where people treat psychoactives with respect and awareness; where people work together to collect and share knowledge in ways that strengthen their understanding of themselves and provide insight into the complex choices faced by individuals and societies alike”.

Erowid Center’s mission is to archive and disseminate independent accurate information. According to one study, this mission has largely been successful. The organization is based in northern California and the main servers are located in San Francisco and host Erowid.org with over 45,000 pages of information and the site receives an average of 475,000 page hits per day from 57,000 visitors viewing 8 pages each.
Erowid was founded in April 1995; the Erowid.org website appeared six months later. Since January 1, 2008, it has operated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization under the name Erowid Center. The organization is supported by donations, and its website is free of advertisements. Although its primary focus is on the website, Erowid also provides research and data for other harm reduction, health, and educational organizations.

Steven Kubby’s name kept coming up during my research for Jamaican Lamb’s Bread, as he’s one person who knows more about cannabis strains than most anyone else alive. As a matter of fact, Steven Kubby is a VIP figure in Cannabis Culture, with such an amazing background that my meager little blog post will not possibly do him justice, so I encourage you to read more about this fascinating man on his website www.kubby.com
For any of you that are reading this and enjoy the benefits of medical marijuana as a treatment for what ails you, say a little blessing to Steven Kubby the next time you administer a dose of “medical grade marijuana”. Steven Kubby may well be the single most important person in the evolution of medicinal marijuana:

“Kubby helped author Prop. 215, California’s Compassionate Use Act approved by voters in 1996 and was the Libertarian Party’s gubernatorial candidate in 1998.”

Today Steven Kubby is on the bleeding edge of medicinal marijuana, as President and CEO of Cannabis Science.
About Cannabis Science, Inc.
Cannabis Science, Inc. is at the forefront of medical marijuana research and development. The Company works with world authorities on phytocannabinoid science targeting critical illnesses, and adheres to scientific methodologies to develop, produce, and commercialize phytocannabinoid-based pharmaceutical products. In sum, we are dedicated to the creation of cannabis-based medicines, both with and without psychoactive properties, to treat disease and the symptoms of disease, as well as for general health maintenance.
Source: Cannabis Compounds Reduce Multi-Drug Resistant Infections

Another of the fabled, almost lost cannabis strains is Jamaican Lamb’s Bread (often confused with Jamaican Lamb’s Breath). Jamaican Lamb’s Bread is getting increasingly difficult to find in Jamaica or anywhere else on earth, due to the influx, popularity and profitability of the modern feminized cannabis strains which are mostly hybrid sativa/indica crosses from Dutch growers. Rumor has it that serious medicinal marijuana growers from Hawaii have kept the strain pure and very much alive but the thing is that it takes longer to grow, often produces less than the modern cannabis strains and it’s not a common name in the marketplace. Except for real weed connoisseurs, Rastafarian’s and some Jamaican’s this magnificent strain is all but lost.
My own experience with Lamb’s Bread goes way, way back to when I was in Port Antonio in Jamaica, once made famous by Errol Flynn and his Hollywood friends. I was staying at at an old hotel up on the hill overlooking the town, where at the time, even the bar staff would bring you good weed but if it weren’t for a local that I befriended I may have never heard of Lamb’s Bread, however to this day I can remember that the characteristics of this fabulous weed were far and away above the common grade of grass that could be bought just about anywhere at anytime. Bright green and sticky, as soon as you saw it you knew there was something special about this legendary herb. There’s even a strain of similar origin called “Bob Marley’s Lamb’s Bread” but I suspect it’s the same genealogy and just named as such for his famous quote:

De ability what de herb ‘ave ya call lamb’s bread. Some a dem ya call Bethlehem’s bread. ~ Bob Marley

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Hemp is such an enormous solution for our planet that I recommend that the name “Earth Day” should be changed to “Hemp Earth Day“, perfect event for following 420 Day and to keep the rally going strong. Ironically potheads and stoners are often portrayed in pop culture as dull-witted or even stupid but if you sent a reporter into a big crowd of stoners yesterday, at any one of thousands of 420 celebrations around the world, to interview and ask participants, stoned out of their minds, if they know the difference between Marijuana and Hemp, any one of them will know more than (apparently) the U.S. lawmakers know. The main thing they will tell you is that Hemp will not get you high, no matter how much you smoke.
As my contribution (on this blog) to Earth Day 2009, I decided to make the recommendation of the name change to Hemp Earth Day and to publish a list of the practical uses and advantages of Industrial Hemp.
Industrial hemp is an extraordinarily useful plant that can provide more environmentally friendly food, fiber, fuel, medicinal and building products.
Hemp is incredibly robust to the point in some places it is invasive and is considered a noxious weed. Some varieties are very hardy and able to thrive in saline and heavily degraded soils. It’s these characteristics that make it a great candidate to replace pesticide and herbicide dependent crops such as cotton. Hemp is also a water miser and can be processed into useful products with little energy and without requiring toxic chemicals.

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Except for Hawaii the last 4:20 PM Festivities have been observed by the largest number of people on record. Vancouver just lit-up and reefers will still be blazing as I write this. The parties will rock on through-out the night and well into tomorrow morning but one thing is very different this year; all the mainstream media attention, as pointed out in this New York Times report.
On YouTube there’s already a wave of new “420″ videos, so I picked one of my favorite video producers to share with you, he’s the “Urban Grower” a fellow Canadian from BC and he always produces worthy videos. Hope you like it. Happy 420!