We are happy to announce that the spanish version of our website is now complete and online. Thanks a lot to Jose for its help with the translation. We are currently working on the german translation, that we count to complete before the end of november 2007.

We are currently looking for a translator that can help us to translate our whole website from english to japanese. We need a japanese mothertongue. We offer seeds in exchange of your help, so if you wanna get free seeds,this is your chance. Please contact us at info[at]ministryofcannabis[dot]com, so we can sort something out.

We are currently looking for a translator that can help us to translate our whole website from english to french. We prefer people that are french mothertongue. We offer seeds in exchange of your help, so if you wanna get free seeds,this is your chance. Please contact us at info[at]ministryofcannabis[dot]com

Lucky Dube, the south African reggae artist, has left us. Lucky has been shot last october 18 in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville. 5 men, professional carjackers have been arrested. Lucky was born in 1964 and in his career has recorded  22 albums in 3 languages, Zulu, Africaans and English, during a period of 25 years. He brung the socio-political messages associated with Jamaican reggae to the south african audience, during the years of the apartheid.  A rastafarian one of its kind:

“If Rastafarianism is about having dreadlocks, smoking marijuana and believing that Haile Selassie is God, then I am not Rastafarian.

But if it is about political, social and personal consciousness, then, yes, I’m,”

 Goodbye Lucky!

Germinating cannabis seeds is a fairly easy task, we are sure that most of them can make it in the correct and appropriate way. For those who had problems in the past there are 3 main mistakes to avoid.

Too deep: this is a really common mistake, in this case the seed it’s several centimeters deep in the soil. If it will sproud (and mostly it won’t) it will quickly suffocate before it can even see the light. Remember to put the your seeds at 0.5 -1 cm deep in the soil, not deeper.

Too wet: there are many growers that are simply abondant with everything, but the cannabis plant doesn’t like too much water, even in this first stage of life.So once you have correctly positioned the seed at 0.5 - 1 cm deep in the soil, make the soil  nicely humid, but not wet. The seedling will need not only water, but also air: avoiding a surplus of water is the best way to ensure that the young plant can breath.

Soil too rich: this is not the moment to fertilize or use a pre-fertilized soil: most of the strains will love if you germinate them in a normal neuter soil (universal soil) and if you avoid to add fertilizers for the first 7-10 days.

California governor Schwarzenegger said last week, during an interview with GQ that marijuana is just a leaf. “That is not a drug. It’s a leaf,” Schwarzenegger told GQ. “My drug was pumping iron, trust me.” This discussion started  for a photo dated 1977, where the future california governor was a bodybuilder champion. In that pic Schwarzenegger was shown smoking a joint in the documentary “Pumping Iron.”

Iron Arnold has acknowledged using marijuana in the 1970s. The interview will be make public in the december issue of the popular magazine GQ, but we know already that it contains other interesting sentences about drugs and politicians: in particular Schwarzenegger has shown its point of view on it, saying that he prefers the politician that is able to take good decisions for his community, and that element like drug use should stay out of the evaluation of that politician.

A recent survey of the British Home Office shows that marijuana use falls from 25% in 2004 to 21% (still 1.3 million people) in 2007. The statistic is about young people between the ages of 16 and 24.  In 2004 marijuana has been reclassified and a new policy that we can define as “confiscate and warn”  has been adopted. In the mean time, the use of cocaine powder has grown in the adfult population, up to 2.6% of the population in 2007.

The West Sussex Police is afraid that a cannabis cafè that has been raided already twice could reopen soon. The building is fortified and already during the last two raids (the last one was in the biginning of october) have already used a tractor. Now the barricades has ben reinforced. New reinforcements included razor wire and electric currents. The matter is, the police has suspects and is not certain that the building is used to smoke cannabis, and the reinforcements make everything more difficult. It’s a kind of a game. This is an example of the ridiculous results lead to us by the prohibitionism, a group of man in a “military style” building, a lot of cops outside, paid with public money and why? Bacause these men have decided to smoke the flowers  of a plant? For all the people that pay taxes in UK: happy with news like this one?

According to provincial police commander, a lot of homegrown marijuana and homebrew is for sale openly at the local market in Kundiawa, Simbu. Marijuna and beer are  both illegal in Papua New Guinea. The marrket is just in front of the local police station and the chief of police wanna stop the sale sending police personnel on foot patrol. He wanna also try to stop the production, so he said he will  send the police to the surroundings villages to bust those involved  in growing cannabis for marijuana or homebrewing.

Missoula is a little county in Montana,USA. In november 2006 the population has approved an initiative asking law enforcement to ignore adult marijuana offenses. Now the County Attorney, that was an oppositor of this request, he has finally developed a policy to uphold the voters’ intentions. Now if you are catched in Missoula County with a little amount of marijuana or with parafernalia, and you are an adult, you are not going to be arrested.

“In the interest of compliance with the 2006 voter initiative on marijuana […] we are asking law enforcement officers to stop arresting individuals or writing and submitting tickets (with mandatory appearance dates) where the offense committed is solely possession of marijuana in misdemeanor amounts or possession of drug paraphernalia intended for use of marijuana […]”.

Without any doubt, a good news for a strongly prohibitionist country like US.