Marc Emery
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Marc Emery is a Canadian activist imprisoned in the United States for selling marijuana seeds through the mail and using the proceeds to finance advocacy and political campaigns in the United States and worldwide from 1994-2005. See www.FreeMarc.ca for more information.

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The Origins of 420 as a Day of Celebrating Marijuana

(9) Comments | Posted April 19, 2013 | 12:44 PM

The biggest celebration day in cannabis culture is April 20. The April 20 (4/20) celebration originally started in the mid-1970s as the time of day after school, 4:20 p.m., for high school students in San Rafael, California to meet and smoke pot. The phrase "I'll see at you at 4:20"...

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Our Missed Opportunity

(24) Comments | Posted September 4, 2012 | 8:31 AM

Another Presidential race and another disappointment in ending the war on drugs. The prohibition on cannabis, psychedelics, opiates, or whatever people want to put in their body, has really been a terrible policy for all Americans.

This worldwide prohibition, which gets its impetus and raison d'ĂȘtre almost exclusively from the...

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Origins of 4/20 as a Day of Celebration & Protests

(8) Comments | Posted April 20, 2012 | 11:49 AM

When I first began my Vancouver hemp store, HEMP BC, in July 1994, my first hires were Ian Hunter and Danna Rozek, two people I'd met in the months prior to opening my retail shop at 324 West Hastings (across from the location, 18 years later, of Cannabis Culture Headquarters)....

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