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Ethics in Cannabis with Dr. Jonathan Newman

t the International Cannabis Policy Conference organized by FAAAT, we got to interview Dr. Jonathan Newman. Dr. Jonathan Newman is a social anthropologist at the University of Sussex, where he researches the cannabis industry in Europe. You may have heard about the Paris Agreement before, as Trump famously said he would withdraw the United States […]

Hawaii, hemp capital of the world?

or eight years, the Hawaii Farmers Union United Convention has been a key knowledge bank for farmers from Australia to Singapore, Kenya to Britain. Now, hemp and cannabis are working into the model. Doug Fine was there in the mountains farm country of Maui, Hawaii, and brings us this report about the role hemp and […]

Cannabis Light: High CBD, Low THC. A New Hype?

Cannabis Light is the latest cannabis hype coming out of Europe, where several countries have loopholes allowing the growth and sale of cannabis containing low THC (usually less than 1%) and high CBD levels. It’s already big business. Cannabis Light causing normalisation he loopholes were only discovered a couple years ago. Switzerland was the first […]

Captain Hooter (Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops Test) | Cannabis University 2018

EN: This American cannabis connoisseur and juror at countless cannabis cups has traveled and smoked for forty years all over the world and has lived in the Netherlands for two years. Because he often got the question what the best coffeeshop in Amsterdam is, he decided to visit and test all 165 of them. The […]

Masterclass Hidde Siers (Plantarium) | Cannabis University 2018

EN: Hidde Siers has been working at Growshop Plantarium in Nijmegen since 2009. When he discovered how much demand there was for scientific information about the medicinal effects of cannabis, he went deeper and deeper into this and grew from enthusiast to expert. Since April, Hidde has been touring the Netherlands with his lecture ‘Medical […]

Doug Fine: All about Hemp | Cannabis University 2018

About Doug Fine: Doug FIne is an American bestseller author, journalist, hemp expert and goat farmer has been on our wish list for a long time. In 2011, Doug Fine moved for a year to Mendocino County, an epicenter of the California cannabis culture. The book he wrote about it, ‘Too High To Fail: Cannabis […]

Interview Peter Muyshondt | Cannabis University 2018

EN: Peter is deputy chief of police and Director of Operations at the Belgian police in Brecht. For years he fought in the front line of the war on drugs and believed he was serving society doing so. Meanwhile, his brother Tom was struggling with an addiction to hard drugs. In 2006 he died of […]

Q & A / Live interview Ed Rosenthal | Cannabis University 2018

EN: Anyone who has ever grown cannabis is indebted to Ed Rosenthal, The Guru or Ganja. Whole generations of breeders gained their first knowledge from his books and his column ‘Ask Ed’, which not only appeared in High Times, but also in countless European magazines. And Rosenthal inspired Ben Dronkers to open the Hash, Marihuana […]

Debat: Cannabis reguleren, maar hoe? | Cannabis University 2018

Het advies van de commissie Knottrenus lijkt aan te sluiten op de praktijk. Met:John en Inez Meijers (modelkwekers), Bart Vollenberg (Cannabis Connect), August de Loor (Adviesburo Drugs), Peter Hendriks (Avites). Peter Hendriks EN: In relative silence, Peter Hendriks has been building a small coffeeshop empire in Limburg since the 1980s. His four coffeeshops in Sittard […]