Oct 24th, 2011 at 3:00PM: This year, the Cannabis Cup will take place in Amsterdam in the Netherlands from November 20-24, 2011. Pot fans will not only get to enjoy live music and performances, but will also get to sample some of the best products in the cannabis industry. Seminars will also be held to teach attendees the best tips and tricks for weed cultivation.
One of the highlights of Cannabis Cup is the contests to ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Live music and weed sampling at the 2011 Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oct 24th, 2011 at 3:00PM: This year, the Cannabis Cup will take place in Amsterdam in the Netherlands from November 20-24, 2011. Pot fans will not only get to enjoy live music and performances, but will also get to sample some of the best products in the cannabis industry. Seminars will also be held to teach attendees the best tips and tricks for weed cultivation.
One of the highlights of Cannabis Cup is the contests to ...Video of the Day: Smuggling marijuana from Amersterdam
Feb 28th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
Mr. Show with Bob and David is, arguably, the greatest sketch comedy show ever. When they took on the nerve-wracking experience of trying to smuggle marijuana back from Amsterdam, it was hilarious. While the TSA has made the airport experience stressful even if you aren't doing anything illegal, this scene hysterically captures what happens when backpackers try their hand at something that ...
Frank James and the Civil War Battle of the Hemp Bales
Nov 26th, 2010 at 2:30PM:
Jesse James must have been jealous of his older brother Frank. Jesse was only 13 when the Civil War started. Frank was 18, the perfect age to go off to war. Coming from a slave-owning farm family Frank naturally joined the Confederate army.
Many Missourians, especially city dwellers and the large German immigrant community, remained loyal to the North, while the majority of rural farmers ...The Jesse James farm
Nov 24th, 2010 at 12:30PM:
Jesse James grew up both lucky and unlucky. His father, Baptist preacher Robert Sallee James, owned a prosperous farm in Clay County. His slaves cultivated hemp and other cash crops, and Jesse and his older siblings Frank and Susan grew up in comfort. Robert kept a large library and both his sons became avid readers. Frank loved Shakespeare, while Jesse was more devoted to the Bible and ...Scratch and sniff cannabis cards distributed by Dutch police
Nov 15th, 2010 at 11:30AM: The new government of The Netherlands has been cracking down on marijuana-serving coffee shops lately, and now it's setting its sights on marijuana cultivation.
Police are distributing 30,000 scratch and sniff cards to homes in Rotterdam and The Hague to help people identify the smell of cannabis. That's right, many Dutch people apparently don't know what pot smells like. Just because ...Dutch coffee shops face crackdown
Nov 3rd, 2010 at 1:30PM: Is it the beginning of the end for Dutch tolerance of weed? The recently elected conservative coalition has promised a number of controversial measures, including curbs on immigration, banning Islamic face covering, and of more interest to travelers, cracking down on legal marijuana smoking.
The Netherlands has been a destination for pot smokers ever since marijuana was made legal in the 1970s. ...Drug tourists banned from Dutch city
Jul 19th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
Potheads take note: unless you're Dutch, you are no longer welcome in Maastricht.
The Dutch city passed a measure to ban foreigners from its coffee shops, where marijuana and hash are legal to buy and consume. Marc Josemans, chairman of the Association of Official Maastricht Coffee Shops, brought suit against the city, saying the ruling violates EU laws guaranteeing free commerce and free ...Phoenix TSA fails to detect 20 trips with 20 pounds of pot - failure or fearmongering?
Jun 3rd, 2010 at 11:30AM: Fox news in Phoenix is covering the story of two men who were running a regular pot transport scheme, delivering pot to Chicago from their home airport. The men had apparently passed through Phoenix Sky Harbor airport over 20 times, each time with almost 20 pounds of pot.
The story focuses on why the TSA failed to detect the pot, and "what else may be getting through?". Because the men used ...Amsterdam coffee shops - the inside scoop
Dec 18th, 2009 at 11:30AM:
Amsterdam is an exciting cultural center, full of houseboats and bicycles, trains, museums, a legendary red light district with legal drugs and the one thing which seems to come to many minds first: coffee shops where you can buy and smoke pot.
Cannabis is decriminalized and cheap in Amsterdam, and you can buy seeds at shops like the Sensi Seed Bank all over town. You can also buy a lot of ...Photo of the Day (11.22.09)
Nov 22nd, 2009 at 6:00PM: Today's photo comes to us from Flickr user SuBho_Photography, who caught this vibrant, dynamic shot. Though the photo doesn't say where it was taken, I picture the scene somewhere along the Ganges in India. I particularly like the sense of movement and rich colors: the arc of purple liquid, the man's outstretched arm and the tiny circular depressions from raindrops on the river surface. It's an ...Amsterdam invests millions to clean up the Red Light district
Sep 6th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Amsterdam has long been a bit of asordid playground - it is one of the only places in the world where you can go to legally smoke some pot and visit a prostitute. Because of its very liberal laws, Amsterdam created a pretty bad image of itself. To many people, the first thing they think of when you mention Amsterdam is not its many canals and beautiful architecture, but hookers and weed. It's the ...Argentina court ruling may legalize personal use of marijuana
Aug 26th, 2009 at 11:30AM: On Tuesday, the Argentina Supreme Court ruled that punishing an adult for personal use of marijuana, so long as that use doesn't harm anyone else, is unconstitutional. It's a major step towards decriminalizing the possession and use of pot in the country, and comes on the heels of Mexico's passage of a similar law that made it legal for adults to carry small amounts of pot, cocaine, heroin, LSD, ...Blue Collar comedy star arrested for smoking pot on his own plane
Apr 15th, 2009 at 2:30PM: Observant readers will notice that this piece of news is already several months old, and normally when I come across old news, I tend to ignore it. However, this article was so funny, that I just had to share it with you. Ron White, one of the members of the Blue Collar comedy lineup has made quite a decent living for himself - so decent, that he has his own private plane, and enough money left ...Nimbin: Australia's Answer to Woodstock
Mar 23rd, 2009 at 2:30PM:
A couple of weeks ago, I was in Sydney, Australia visiting my good friend Sarah. Rather than hang around in Sydney, we elected to road trip up to Byron Bay. Byron is a great little beach town in the northern portion of New South Wales and we had a great trip. But that's a post for another day. Because, while we were in Byron Bay, we took a side trip to Nimbin. Everyone in Sydney had told us ...Russian flight crew smoking pot mid-flight
Mar 13th, 2009 at 10:00AM: You really have to see this clip to believe it. It shows what appears to be the pilot and one flight attendant smoking pot from a home made bong bottle on their flight. The description says it is an Aeroflot plane, but I've seen others claim it is "just" a freight plane, which would explain why none of the passengers walked to the galley to ask about the smell (of to see if they could join the ...
110 pounds of pot found on plane and flight crew arrested
Jan 20th, 2009 at 5:30PM: After three bags filled with 110 pounds of pot -- cannabis to high brow folks -- were found on a flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow after the plane landed, fifteen members of the cabin and crew were arrested.
From the BBC article, it's not clear why all fifteen were arrested, but they are being questioned to find out what they know about how these bags ended up on their South African Airways ...You, Rolf Potts, are a Contemptible Jackass, Part I: Stoner movie redemption
Oct 9th, 2008 at 8:00AM: Around the time Marco Polo Didn't Go There was set to debut in bookstores, I began to wonder what kind of negative comments it might attract. I wondered this not because Marco Polo is a bad book (to the contrary, I'm as proud of it as anything I've written), but because some degree of knee-jerk negativity is inevitable in the instant-reaction atmosphere of the Internet Age. I learned this when I ...Denver group trying to allow pot smoking in airport lounges
Jun 25th, 2008 at 12:00PM: Denver recently approved a measure making possession of a small amount of marijuana legal, so the next logical step in opening places in which to smoke the reefer was obviously Denver International Airport. That's what a group of activists called Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) are trying to do. Their argument is that it's a great alternative to drinking at the airport, which ...Pot Fest in Amsterdam
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Nov 7th, 2007 at 12:00PM: While we here at Gadling do not advocate the use of drugs, we suspect that some of our readers might feel otherwise. And so, as a public service announcement for all you pot heads out there, we'd like to point your pie eyes in the direction of Amsterdam later this month where the 20th annual Cannabis Cup will celebrate five days of getting stoned. I'm not sure what will happen November 18 – ...Amsterdam To Go Smoke-Free?
Jun 21st, 2007 at 8:17AM: Quick: When you read the word "Amsterdam," what springs to mind?
Right! All those funny little glasses from which the Dutch drink beer. Those crazy Hollanders.
Those crazy Hollanders will soon be drinking their beer in smoke-free bars, after a smoking ban comes into effect in July 2008. The ban covers all restaurants and cafes -- including the city's 300+ coffee shops, those gezellig little ...
