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What is Cannabis Culture Magazine?
As of spring 2009, Cannabis Culture Magazine is no longer available as a printed publication. Read Marc Emery's explanation here. We are still recognized as one of the best sources for information due to our highest-standard journalism and news delivery about cannabis-related politics, activism, growing information, entertainment and more, so bookmark www.CannabisCulture.com!
Cannabis Culture is a magazine about marijuana and hemp around the world. Cannabis Culture is published every two months, and can be found at hemp and head shops, retail book stores, and newsstands across North America.
At Cannabis Culture we love marijuana in all its diverse forms. Each issue of is packed full of marijuana and drug war news, amazing grow stories, political and historical information, and spectacular photography from the top cannabis photographers. From fabulous budshots and cultivation advice to cutting-edge pot culture and the drug war journalism, Cannabis Culture aims to bring you nothing but the best.
We are an activist magazine dedicated to liberating marijuana, freeing pot-prisoners around the globe, and bringing an end to the vicious worldwide war on drugs. Every issue challenges prohibitionist myths and provides current and essential information pertaining to marijuana.
The History of Cannabis Culture
Cannabis Culture magazine has seen rapid growth and change in its twelve-year history. The magazine was founded in the summer of 1994 as a newsletter edited and published by Marc Emery, who also founded Hemp BC and the Cannabis Cafe (now the BC Marijuana Party Bookstore and the New Amsterdam Cafe on the "Pot Block" in downtown Vancouver). The newsletter was called "Marijuana and Hemp" and Emery printed them totally on hemp paper.
Dana Larsen took over as editor in December 1994, and in January 1995 produced the first and only issue of Marijuana and Hemp Magazine. With the next issue the title was changed to Cannabis Canada, and the new magazine continued to be printed entirely on hemp, coming out four times a year.
Cannabis Canada was one of the first websites on the Internet, with an online version of the magazine launched simultaneously with the print one in December 1994. The first issue is a good indication of how primitive the web was when we began!
In the early days of the magazine it was subsidized by publisher Emery's Hemp BC store operation. Yet Hemp BC suffered from repeated police raids, so hemp paper was discontinued after issue #3 due to the great expense involved.
The magazine continued to evolve and expand, adding colour and picking up new advertisers and contributors. At issue #13 we changed the name to Cannabis Culture to reflect our growing international coverage, and to acknowledge that 'cannabis culture' crosses all borders.
Boldly Pushing Forward
Looking at the history, Cannabis Culture is still strong today. [Up until early 2009] we still come out every two months and print about 70,000 copies per issue. Publicity has been rapidly growing, thanks to associations with Showtime's TV hit series Weeds, Showcase's Trailer Park Boys, various movies, musicians and celebrities, and more in the works.
Around the world the marijuana movement is blossoming into a unified cultural force. The legalization of hemp and medical marijuana are harbingers of the coming end of prohibition and the drug war. We are documenting a turning point in history, when cannabis will be returned to its place as a loyal friend and helper to humanity.
We hope that you'll join us in our pursuit of knowledge and justice, and enjoy being part of our magazine as we journey together towards freedom.
Peace and Pot,
Cannabis Culture Magazine
- To reach various CC staff, go to our Contacts Page.
Cannabis Culture Magazine: Moving from print to online
March 25th, 2009
Message from Cannabis Culture Publisher and Editor-In-Chief Marc Emery:
I have decided to cease publication of Cannabis Culture Magazine's print version and move to an entirely online format. Magazine advertising and circulation are predicted to fall off in the near future and matters will get worse if I continue to print a paper edition.
We printed 62,000 copies of issue #73. Soon afterward, magazine distributor Anderson News – who handles 25% (about 12,500) of our magazines that go to newsstands – went out of business. This was terrible news for all magazines, as Anderson News was one of the largest publication distributors in North America. That news led to our main distributor, Disticor, ordering 9,000 fewer copies of #75 (had we printed it), meaning our immediate future sales on newsstands would have been severely reduced. Ultimately, each issue lost about $35,000 to $45,000, and my Cannabis Culture Headquarters store in Vancouver, BC was forced to pay for the losses. That was an unsustainable burden we cannot afford going into the future.
Cannabis Culture Magazine began as the Marijuana & Hemp Newsletter (then called Cannabis Canada, then renamed Cannabis Culture) in 1994, the year the World-Wide Web debuted. In those days, all information about marijuana, hemp and our culture was available only in the monthly High Times Magazine and nothing else. We were the first web site (HempBC.com) in the world about cannabis, appearing in November 1994, and in January 2000, we began the very first cannabis video streaming website (www.Pot.tv) online.
Now there are thousands of websites devoted to cannabis information, photography, commentary, grow information, and political news on an hourly or daily basis. Our magazine, appearing once every eight weeks, simply cannot stay abreast of current events and the modern-day demand for immediate news and material. Our organizations are often being quoted, but the references are from our online material and archives, videos, movies, TV interviews and other multi-media. At the same time, feedback has dropped from readers and the effort to produce a print copy of CC Magazine required enormous manpower and a small Canadian forest for each issue.
The future of all print media is bleak. Many magazines and newspapers could go out of business by the end of the year, including The National Post, Sports Illustrated, Maxim, and many others. Check out the latest Sports Illustrated; it has only 10.5 pages of advertising in the entire issue. TIME Magazine has only eight pages of advertising. Magazines rely on advertising, and as the economy worsens, companies are not able to afford ads like they used to. The digital age is truly the future. Magazines don't have nearly the impact they once did, because all information is available faster and free online. Our www.CannabisCulture.com website gets a huge number of visitors and readers – much more than the magazine ever did – so that's where we will put all of our effort. It's clear that printed media is no longer sustainable or effective. If we focus on our online presence, we can raise revenue and be more efficient and competitive with information. We will continue our pioneering ways by taking advantage of our Pot-TV video capabilities and our extensive contacts and reputation around the world.
Here's a breakdown of CC Magazine's unsustainable costs. Of the 62,000 printed for #73, only 35,000 sold, meaning 27,000 got destroyed (which is typical with magazines, but very environmentally unfriendly). Now, with chaos in our distribution system, our potential sales would drop to under 30,000. The circulation revenue for that is a disappointing $44,000 per issue; advertising revenue is only providing $30,000 per issue, but it costs $64,000 to print 62,000 copies. It's another $10,000 to ship to distributors, stores and subscribers. Those costs are covered by revenue from all sources, but the cost of producing the magazine is approximately $16,000 for material (writers and photographers), $32,000 for the staff of six people who work in 8-week cycles to produce the magazine, $4,000 an issue in promotion, posters, subscription cards, and much more that were not covered by revenue the magazine generated. Subscriptions never made money, and we never had more than 1,400 subscribers at any one time. Each magazine cost about $2 each to produce, plus 60 cents to ship in Canada, $1.50 to ship to USA, $3.00 abroad. Envelopes and packing took another 25 cents per issue.
This huge cost of producing CC Magazine has meant our retail stores and mail order have had to pour $20,000 into the magazine each month for the past 3.5 years – ever since the Marc Emery Direct Seed catalog was canceled from CC Magazine in July 2005 (after the US Drug Enforcement Administration raided my seed business and set me up for extradition to the US – please see www.NoExtradition.net if you don't know this story, and to help me fight to stay in my home country Canada). When I had the seed business, I paid $35,000 for my 12-page catalog to appear in each issue. In those days, CC Magazine had 20 pages of additional advertising that produced $30,000, so combined, advertising generated $65,000 per issue. We're done our best to keep CC Magazine alive, but it has been a growing revenue drain.
All subscribers will get a credit in the mail worth 25% more value than what we owe you for the remainder of your subscription. The credit is redeemable for merchandise from the CC Mail Order catalogue, CC online store (www.CannabisCulture.com/store) or in our CCHQ store (307 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC, 604-682-1172). If there is no merchandise you would like to receive, then we will reimburse your remaining subscription money.
I am extremely proud of our 15 years of publishing Cannabis Culture in print. Our activist publication inspired so many people, and did numerous good things for the movement. We will continue to devote our time to changing the world and ending the war on drugs. Our Cannabis Culture and Pot-TV websites, the CCHQ retail store, the BC Marijuana Party, and CC's online mail order will all continue – and they will be able to do even more now that CC Magazine's losses won't be subsidized. It is the end of an era, and I know many readers will miss CC Magazine, but it's also a new beginning. I hope you join us on our journey into the future.
Thank you for your support over the years.
Marc Scott Emery
Publisher and Editor-In-Chief
Cannabis Culture Magazine
Cannabis Culture Magazine
307 West Hastings Street
Vancouver BC, V6B 1H6, Canada
(604) 669-9069 / (604) 689-0590
cessation of publication of CC Magazine
So sorry to hear of the cessation of publication of CC Magazine. Marc was one of my favourite employers, and his wife Jodie a really nice person. Before I resigned suddenly during Issue #70, I thoroughly enjoyed my one year at the magazine, designing the layouts and working in the vicinity of some of the nicest people I've ever met. It was a great journey for me, and I hope it continues for Marc, Jodie, Greg, and Tia and all the other wonderful people at CC. Good luck!
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Hi I was wondering if anyone out there knows about a poem that was in one of the homegrown magazines back in the day I don't know what issue it was in but it started "Like is apprehended by like" all I know it was by a 15th century poet. If anyone can help thankyou Nina.
1st Edition Cannabis Canada
Hello everyone,
I have been a follower of CC since it started, and know that alot of people here have been as well. I have the 1st Edition of Cannabis Canada from 1998, in good condition, sleeved of course, and I would like to sell it to someone who knows the value of it. Please reave a reply with your email addy and ill send you some info on it.
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I have been ripped off by the Vancouver Island Seed Company. I sent money and paid extra for a rush and it has been 3 months and they wont even answer any e-mails. So I will be e-mailing every seed company and letting them know about them ripping me off. Vancouver Seed is on their site & are either the same company or associated as well as Liberty Seeds is oviously associated in this scam. Very dissapointing.
I am sending out e-mails to all companies this morning, they should know to warn people about your scam.
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Here is a home by Stevens Lawson Architects with an original and highly interesting architecture overlooking Browns Island in the Waitemata Harbour, New Zealand. Even though its exterior is certainly unique, the first impression when looking at this home is definitely not one of comfort or coziness. But don't let the gray concrete fool you. As one steps inside, the perspective changes in an unexpected and pleasant way. A beautiful and stylish timber staircase connects the interiors. Its spiral shape has a dynamic effect on the overall interior design and is complemented by an elegant timber handrail. Karaka Bay House has a total of three floors which house the bedrooms on the upper level, the living areas situated on the middle floor and a guest room below. Large windows allow this home to be bathed in light and create an intense and inviting atmosphere.
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The house has definitely reflected lifestyle of owner. I think that the architect used gray concrete for not only cozy emotion, but surrounding green-atmosphere is also one of primary factors to accommodate living concept.
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| Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification in south Korea held the 178th action for independent reunification and peace in Seoul.
The organization said that the operation sphere of THAAD to be deployed by the U.S. in south Korea is going beyond the boundary of the Korean peninsula. But the south Korean authorities are mulling joining in the U.S. missile defense system, mocking at the people with the lie that THAAD "is aimed to intercept missiles of the north", it added.
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Because the campaigners always take it a step further and say it's more distracting to be on the phone than not even if you have a hands free kit. Usually their studies are in contrived circumstances and omit that doing anything other than focusing 100% on driving is going to increase the risk of mistakes, including just having a conversation with someone sat next to you. Are they going to campaign against car sharing lanes as they encourage people to be in the same car as each other which in turn promotes distracting conversations?
Of course not as that would be ridiculous. Likewise banning hands free mobile phones may improve accident rates slightly but doing so is absurd, and yet that is what people are campaigning for. Here in the UK we already have enough laws to cover this - using a non-hands free mobile phone whilst driving is illegal, and driving without due care and attention covers any other poor driving due to distraction of any kind, but requires you to actually be driving poorly. We're not all the same and there are plenty of god awful drivers out there who are quite oblivious to what's happening around them regardless of how much they are forced to concentrate on driving the car.


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Coastal property owners deserve protection
The California Coastal Commission currently has the power to accuse coastal property owners of violating the Coastal Act, hold a hearing, and to find them in violation. Although the Coastal Act provides for onerous fines (up to $6,000 per day), the Coastal Commission currently cannot impose the fine itself. The Coastal Commission must file a lawsuit asking a judge to impose the fine. The Legislature is considering legislation to skip this final extra step and allow the Coastal Commission to impose the fines itself.
It ought to be a concern whenever the government seeks to streamline its prosecution of its citizens by reducing their due process rights. The hearing that the Coastal Commission conducts to determine whether a violation has occurred is presided over by the coastal commissioners acting as judges. While commission membership changes from time to time, there is no requirement that commissioners be licensed attorneys. Many are not even though these cases often involve complex legal questions surrounding the interpretation of the Coastal Act and local coastal plans.
In fairness to property owners, the current Coastal Act gives them the right to have the commission's decision reviewed by a judge. Even so, judges have restrained the Coastal Commission only in the most extreme cases such as last year when an enraged commission sought $25 million in fines against a homeowner for building a three-hole golf course in his front yard.
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Most property owners never obtain any review, as a practical matter, since they must pay their own attorney fees. If the Coastal Commission were to spuriously and wrongly decide that coastal homeowners must, say, tear down a gazebo in their back yard, few homeowners can spend the $50,000 or more in attorney fees that it could cost to challenge that decision. As a practical matter, the Coastal Commission has complete dictatorial control over how coastal property owners of modest means use their land.
Serving as a coastal commissioner is not a full-time job. Most commissioners show up for the monthly meetings and receive for the first time an elephant-choking glut of background reading for all of the matters before them in their three-day-long monthly meeting. This forces commissioners to rely heavily on their staffers for advice on what to do. In a typical enforcement hearing, the chief prosecuting witness testifying against homeowners is a full-time member of the Coastal Commission's staff. In the entire history of Coastal Commission hearings on alleged violations, it is quite possible that the Coastal Commission has never ruled against its staff in any enforcement hearing. To make it worse, the fines are sometimes circulated back to the Coastal Commission to spend.
Few people understand the breadth of the Coastal Act. Technically, almost everyone who has ever visited a California beach has violated the law. The Coastal Act prohibits the "placement of solid material" in the coastal zone without a permit. Anyone who has stuck a surfboard in the sand or spread a blanket on the beach has placed solid material in the coastal zone, and thus violated the law. To its credit, the Coastal Commission rarely prosecutes such picayune violations — though the Coastal Commission has taken some surprising positions such as that lighting fireworks is "development" and, as such, requires a permit. Investing near-total discretion in unelected officials to prosecute whomever they choose is, however, an unwise policy.


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Q1 Special Report: Construction Endures Cold Start – Optimism Remains High
Today Experian Business Information Services released a special report on the construction industry, detailing a weather-related slow start to the New Year in cities east of the Rockies, and a generally positive picture out west. From New England to the Deep South, the infamous Polar Vortex sent super-frigid Canadian air careening toward the Gulf for weeks at a time, putting the deep freeze on real-estate sales and all associated construction activity. Fortunately, activity west of the Rockies helped balance this deficit to a degree, and late 2014 warming trends, both meteorological and economic, lead us to look optimistically toward the rest of 2014.
Key Credit Performance Highlights
Springfield, MA, Providence-Fall River-Warwick RI-MA and Worcester MA-CT had top credit risk scores – an indication of strong post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding, while Miami, FL, Fort Lauderdale, FL and Orlando, FL remain at the bottom. Demand is still lagging, and credit risks reflect these areas' inability to soak up existing inventories.
Nassau-Suffolk, NY, New York, NY and Miami, FL maintain the lowest bankruptcy rates while Sacramento, CA, Bakersfield, CA and Vallejo, CA remain at the bottom. As one might suspect based on credit risk patterns, bankruptcy rates in New England and the upper Mid-Atlantic States were quite low in Q1 2014. So, how do you explain overbuilt Miami's position in the number three spot? The answer: The construction industry's situation there is so dire that banks simply can't afford to foreclose. They have no one to sell to, so they do what they can to work with distressed companies to keep them alive.
Houston, TX, Salt Lake City, UT and Columbus, OH maintained low delinquency rates, while Fort Myers, FL, Tacoma WA and Cincinnati OH remain in the bottom three. For several years now, Texas has emerged as one of the country's most stable markets. Builders there managed to avoid overproduction in the last decade, and as a result, construction in the Lone Star state continues to move along at a slow, steady pace. The real curiosity here is Columbus, Ohio, which is near the top of non-delinquent cities, while nearby Cincinnati, Ohio, is just about at the bottom. The two big Ohio markets are an hour's drive from each other yet their construction numbers couldn't be less similar. We have no clear explanation for this phenomenon.
Omaha NE, Grand Rapids, MI and Milwaukee, WI emerge as the top three metros in construction for fewest number of days beyond terms bill payment. At the bottom of the list, we again find our "usual suspects": major Florida cities along with Las Vegas, NV. None of this is a surprise, with these markets in bad shape across all economic sectors.
Looking Ahead
Employment in construction increased by 32,000 jobs in April, bringing the current six-month net change to 136,000 jobs. Since reaching an employment trough in January 2011, the industry has recovered 568,000 jobs, or 24.8 percent of the jobs lost during the recent employment downturn.
American's overall state-of-mind is moving back into positive territory, according to the University of Michigan Consumer Confidence Index. With the housing and stock markets on the rise, we look forward to more job growth, household formation and overall business activity across most industries.
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Any day now, the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean will shrink to its smallest area of the year. It happens every year at about this time from the cumulative seasonal effects of higher temperatures and 24-hour-a-day sunshine in the polar regions. But the loss of ice has increased over the past couple of decades.
Last year, Arctic ice covered less area than at any time since satellites began monitoring the region back in the late 1970s. This year's ice loss won't be quite as dramatic, but it's still pretty significant. The graphic above shows that compared with the median ice cover from 1981-2010, this year's loss comes out to approximately 10 times the land area of Pennsylvania. And while each year isn't necessarily less icy than the year before, the downward trend is clear — and the plunge is happening faster than the majority of computer models predicted.
There is a natural cycle of melting and freezing that happens every year. However, the loss over recent years is starting to alter the natural melting for the worse – creating a vicious cycle. When the ice shrinks, its bright, white, reflective surface is replaced by darker ocean. The darker ocean absorbs heat and makes it more difficult for the ice to refreeze in winter. In recent years, the winter ice has also gotten thinner which makes it more prone to melting the next season. Finally, more open water means winds and ocean currents can push more ice out into the North Atlantic where storms can break it up, further reducing the amount of sea ice.
Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Nobody knows when the summer in the Arctic will be totally ice-free, but on the basis of observed trends and computer models it could happen within just a few decades—or even less. That will make polar bears unhappy, but it could affect us, too. Some climate scientists think that the warming Arctic has altered the jet stream in ways that are bringing us more extreme weather events, while others seem not to detect as strong a linkage with extremes. That's an area of active research at this point, but it is a fact that the Arctic is warming faster than any other part of the globe—and it's not crazy to think that this large change just has to have an effect on the rest of the planet.


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Bordeaux have rejected a bid from Newcastle for striker Yoan Gouffran, according to reports in France.
The Magpies, who are still searching for a replacement for Demba Ba after he moved to Chelsea earlier this month, are believed to have offered 750,000 euros to the Ligue 1 side for the 26-year-old.
However, Sud Ouest and L'Equipe both report Bordeaux have turned down the offer as they have put a price tag of one million euros on the former France Under-21 international.
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The Nets want more Travis Outlaw? Probably not.
Jul 6, 2011, 10:55 PM EDT
As a dad, I totally get the wanting and expecting the best for your kids. I understand thinking they are the best ever. Mine (all under 8) will all grow up to be doctors or the lead actress in Broadway musicals. I have no doubt.
That side of me can see where Travis Outlaw's dad is coming from, that big things are expected in Outlaw's second year with the Nets after a tough first season.
But the side of me that watched a lot of Nets basketball doesn't see what he told the Starkville Daily News he heard (via Ball Don't Lie).
Travis' father John expects better things from his son as his career with the Nets enters a second season.
In conversation with New Jersey head coach Avery Johnson, John overheard that the coaches would like for Travis to put up at least 17 shots per outing.
Even though Travis felt there weren't the opportunities to take that many shots last year, things may be different moving forward.
"(Johnson) said, 'I want you to put up those 17 shots' so this year, Travis said it's on," John Outlaw said.
Outlaw took 8.9 shots per game last season — and as he shot 37.5 percent from the floor he should have taken a lot fewer. Brook Lopez (who has a good inside offensive game) took 16 per game, Deron Williams 14.1. You think Avery Johnson wants Outlaw to take more shots than them? Johnson is a smart man. He wants his best players shooting more.
Outlaw lost his three-point touch last season, hitting 30.2 percent of his threes after hitting 37.8 the previous season. He has to find that groove again, be a stretch four. Then the shots will come.
But not 17 a game. Not ever.
- goforthanddie - Jul 7, 2011 at 12:19 AM
"In conversation with New Jersey head coach Avery Johnson, John overheard that the coaches would like for Travis to put up at least 17 shots per outing."
That's supposed to say "17 shots per season".
- purdueman - Jul 7, 2011 at 7:39 AM
If I were the Nets, I wouldn't want more Travis Outlaw any more than the Knicks wanted any more of fat, lazy Eddie Curry! (LOL). @@
- jmclarkent - Jul 7, 2011 at 8:02 AM
If the lockout allows teams to cut a player or two without cap ramifications, I think Outlaw will have taken his last shot as a Net.
- khandor - Jul 7, 2011 at 12:22 PM
If that was to happen, methinks that a sound decision-making team, like the Spurs, or Lakers, or Mavs, or Bulls, or Celtics, or Thunder, etc., will be more than happy to add a reasonably priced player like Travis Outlaw to their squad going forward.
- khandor - Jul 7, 2011 at 8:03 AM
How many games did a healthy Deron Williams get to play last season with Travis Outlaw in the line-up for the Nets?
As Williams gets further acclimated in New Jersey, highly serviceable players like Outlaw, Humphries, Lopez, Morrow and Vujacic, etc., should begin to see their efficiency improve.
When Outlaw has had the opportunity to play other solid players around him, he has shown that he is a more-than-capable starting 3/4 in the NBA who can stick open jumpers with a fair degree of consistency.
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