It begins today, 3 june, at the Metro Toronto Convention Center (North Building Hall A) the second edition of the Annual Treating Yourself Expo. We will be at the booth Ministry of Cannabis, # 631. Come to visit us at the fair, along with more than 100 cannabis all around exhibitors. A great news of this year is that this event will also have a facility-approved 4,000 square foot vapor lounge to accommodate medical marijuana patients. There will also be a serie of lectures about growing, medical marijuana etc, and good live music. If in Toronto or Ontario, this weekend you can’t really miss!!!
Since long time we are using this blog only for services news, about our shop, our products, the fair that we attend etc. It wasn’t always like this, so we wanna go back to the past, starting with speaking about one of the most beautiful girls on the planet: Megan Fox. The 24 years old american actress, famous, between the other, for her role in Transformers, have many time admitted that she doesn’t dislike a good joint. Rarely a so famous beauty has admitted her “secret” so openly. And she added that, if one day marijuana would be legal, she would be the first one in line to buy a packet of joints. She would be the perfect testimonial of the Ministry of Cannabis, guys, wouldn’t she?
We are proud to announce that 3 of our strains have been selected by Ed Rosenthal, the world most famous marijuana writer, to be inserted in the new edition of the Big Book of Buds 4. This book contains Ed’s reviews of the better strains that you can find on the planet and, among these, 3 strains of the Ministry. Do you wanna know what these strains are and what Ed have written about them? You will need a lot of patience then, the Big Book of Buds won’t be published before the end of this year and we don’t wanna ruin the surprise…
Everybody in this world knows and admires Michael Phelps, the big man that with a youth of training and sacrifices and eating something like 12.000 calories a day has become one of the greatest champions ever, if not the greatest one. Now Michael is a normal guy, so normal that, after a so intense 2008, has done what we all do everyday: to inhale the beneficial steam of some weed. He used a Roor bong, ok, while we prefer the Volcano vaporizer and many of you simply use a joint. It is positively accepted that the marijuana consumption couldn’t give any advantage to Michael. We can also discuss forever about where the borders of the privacy must be traced for famous people (especially young heroes, like in this case). The truth is, the prohibition shows once again its stupid face. So boycott all the former sponsors that have broken a contract with the guy (especially the cereal brand) and all our comprehension to the big man. Michael Phelps, one of us.
A guy in Vero Beach, Florida, have been arrested by the local sheriff. The shariff was called by a McDonald’s cashier, that have just received a weird proposal, to get weed instead of cash for an hamburger. The guy was released and fined 500 dollars. We don’t know if at the end he got his meal or not.
Many people have reported that canadian doctors have increased the dosages of the prescribed marijuana. But why? Given the way that the patiences use to take marijuana, it is necessary that doctor and patience examinate constantly the effects of the therapy. And here comes the surprise, almost all the patience have asked to raise the dosages, for the simple reason that the marijuana sold into the legal circuit is much less powerfull that the one that they were used to grow themselves or to buy at the black market. Official producers have still to learn.
The Oaksterdam University has celebrated this week its first 160 graduates in “Agricultural science of the cultivation of the marijuana”. The deus-ex-machina of this operation is Richard Lee, formerly a pusher in the Oakland area, that took inspiration from similar project that exist in Amsterdam. Thanks to the proposition 215, in California is possible to grow cannabis if the purpose is to produce medical marijuana and Lee has open his school to give the right technical and egal knowledge. Different counties regulates the matter in different ways, so each city has a maximum number of plant per person, per cooperative or per company. Lee university teachs not only to grow marijuana at the higher level, but also to deal with the law in the correct way. As a law’s teachers they have hired Chris Conrad and Laurence Lichter. Lee is preparing to open another school in L.A. The full course costs 200 USD, 125 euro. This is their internet address if you want to know more: http://www.oaksterdamuniversity.com/
A few weeks ago,the first marijuana vending machine opened in L.A. These machines supply marijuana to people who are prescribed marijuana for health reasons. First the patience need to get a prescription from a doctor; then the patience is fingeprinted; then a prepaid card is issued, that also contains information about the dosage and type of drug prescribed. Once a patience has a card, whenever he need a new supply, he can access the Anytime Vending Machines. The first one of this machines was positioned at the Herbal Nutrition Centre in Los Angeles. There are strict security measures to avoid that someone else can pickup the presciption, included a live fingerprint scan.
It seems that Marc Emery, Vancouver’s Prince of Pot, has agreed to a five-year prison term in a plea bargain over U.S. marijuana seed-selling charges and money laundering. Emery has faced the prospective of a long (life) enprisonement, and now it seems that he close a deal with with US authorities to spend 5 years in a Canadian jail. Many Canadian have seen this decision as a matter of indipendence for Canada as country. Emery haven’t even been in USA, and Canadian laws aren’t so strict about cannabis seeds.Before being arrested under request of the USA, Emery was just once fine 2.000$. His tax declaration stated “marijuana seeds vendor”. We have read a beautiful reflection about this case, written by a canadian, have a read here
The war on drug is a term that define an artificial phoenomena created in USA 70 years ago. It has been a failure ever since and it didn’t help one single person on the planet to fight his problem with a substance. The war in Iraq in an artificial phoenomena too. It has been created in 2003 in violation of the UN conventions, for the only reasonto support the gluttony of the friends of a president of the country that invaded Iraq. 1937, 2003, 2008 what is changed? Nothing. There is a man that is the only one between all the american candidates that is proposing to leave Iraq instantly, to end the war on drugs instantly, to close the CIA instantly. And what Americans do? Support all the other candidates except him. Like that Barak Obama,that admitted to use weed and coke when he was younger, but that wanna drug users still in jail. Like over 1 million person in this very moment, injail for being drug users. Mostly with black skin, like him. What a squalor!
