The Ministry of Cannabis online ship will be closed for the summer holidays from 4 till 8 august. All the orders received after 12.00 (GMT +2) of friday 1 august will be processed and shipped monday 11 august. We wish you all a funny, crazy, peacefull and relaxing summer. IMPORTANT: the orders received BEFORE 1 august wil be shipped within 24 hours as usual, no delays!

If you are from Poland, you can find the feminized genetics of the Ministry of Cannabis on Sidbank.pl Our friend Jacob will be more than happy to help you to select the right strain for you. We wish to Jacob and his staff all the success that they deserve, and greetings to all our polish friends.

Ministry of Cannabis is happy to offer the African Spirit (regular seeds - 10 x bag) with a 5 euro discount for the whole month of july. In the northern emisphere this strain is perfect for everybody that is late this year. This strain grows extra fast, so even plants born from seeds germinated during the month of july have big possibilities to give a good harvest in october. The promo sale ends the 31 july 2008.

In a few days, next july 1st, the dutch law will be aligned to European Union regulation about tobacco. This mean end of the smoking in bars, clubs, restaurants and every other place opened to the public,even the traditional dutch “eetcafè” that are tipycal dutch bar when you can also eat a bread or a salad. Many people have written to us to ask what will it happen to the coffeshops, if the new ban will apply to coffeshops too. In short: no. In practical it will mean a drastical change of the habits of many people. The joint will be allowed, yes. But only pure. The purpose of the ban is to protect the workers from the conseguences of the passive tobacco smoke. And that’s it. Ab Klink, health minister, that mixing tobacco with soft drugs in coffee shops (where cannabis products can be bought over the counter) will not be permitted from July 1. Staff in these coffee shops have the same right as workers in other cafes to a tobacco-free working environment, said Klink.

Ministry of Cannabis is happy to announce that at the end of this june 2008 we are gonna release a new strain, in its regular version. The strain will be an autoflowering one. These new generation genetics allow people with little or no space to grow their own plants. In particular, this strain works indipendently from the ours of light that it receive. After less than 3 weeks from germination, each plant will automatically start to flower, so that the whole cycle, from seed to buds, will be completed in about 2 months. The final height of the plant will be a few tens of centimeters. Further, it won’t be necessary to change the number of hours of light per  day, it is possible to give 18-20 hours of light till the day of the harvest. The price will be extremely cheap as usual, and these seeds will be sold in a package of 10 seeds. The only question mark is the name, we have a few names in mind and maybe we will let you choose through a poll. Visit our website regularly to stay updated about this new,  exciting class of seeds.

The 4th edition of the fair Cannabis Tipo Forte will be held in Bologna, Italy, from tomorrow, 30 may, till next sunday, 1 june. The location is the same than the last 3 years,  the Palanord, with almost 10.000 sq. mt. of space for the exibition. The calendar of events is particularly rich this year, with a seed cup, a video area and many debates, most of them about medical cannabis. While we won’t be present with a booth, we will be widely rapresented by our new italian distributor Semitalia, and by our resellers Campo  di Canapa and Hemporium. By the booths of these companies will be possible to buy our seeds and ask detailed information about our genetics. For all the italian cannabis lovers, and for all those that are in Italy at this moment, this is event that you can’t miss.

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/

Today we read another news of the kind that pisses us off enormously, and it shows how the brainwashers of the whole world are alive and kicking. The news is: one joint is dangerous for the health like one packet of cigarettes, yes, you’ve read right, so one joint is 20x dangerous than tobacco. Do this experiment: inhalate one hit of a cigarette, and exhale the smoke through a white tissue. Repeat the experiment with a new white tissue, but this time take a hit of a joint. Now, what is more dangerous? Anotherthing: is there anybody out there that can eplain to us why the jamaican people, famous cannabis smokers, die for cirrosis rather than lung cancer? Result: there are millions of people that are trying to brainwash us in every way. Keeping the brain connected can help against them, but you can also do something to give to the tabacco industry less money, so also less money to pay these “experts” to say these bullshits: STOP TO SMOKE TOBACCO!

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.