Updates for xCannabis, May 2010

May 14th, 2010 | By Reverend

This is a video about our latest updates.

Links related to the video:

www.SLU2.com

www.SensibleWashington.org Please donate to Sensible Washington!

stash.NORML.org

www.noextradition.net

420 Earth Day Benefit for I-1068

April 16th, 2010 | By Reverend

Come to the I-1068 Earth Day benefit, $5 suggested donation (to help legalize weed in WA)

Reefer Madness is so funny, especially knowing that the government seriously thought this would work, back in the 30′s! 

It probably did work on some fools!  LOL 

Lets have some laughs!

Emerald Sun will be selling shirts at the benefit, 25% of these sales go to Sensible Washington.

I-1068 Benefit Concert and Reefer Madness!

update

There wasn’t enough participation tonight to be able to give away all of the wears that we brought. So we will have all of these, and we will ad more to the raffle next time. So at least 6 raffle prizes for the next get together, which I suspect will be the NORML/Sensible WA meeting at 4pm on Saturday @ he Empyrean 171 S. Washington, Spokane. Congrats to the three winners from last night!

Roger Christie’s THC Ministry Raided by the DEA?

March 15th, 2010 | By Reverend

If what I am hearing is true, then I think Roger Christie may be facing some tribulation, and I wanted to just offer up a prayer from his home page.

God, that’s great!

Please show us the blessings in this situation…

And hurry!

We are safe. We are loved, and all is well.

http://www.thc-ministry.org/

I posted this in response to a blog at the NORML Stash.

http://slu2.com/?b2

This is something that I posted here on xCannabis last year.
http://xcannabis.com/2009/09/a-fight-for-religious-ssovereignty/

In my opinion is that Roger Christie isnt selling anything that he isn’t already giving a way for free.

In my opinion Roger Christie is giving time, resources and materials in exchange for a donation, yes.  But if someone didnt want to donate $250, then they can look on Roger Christie’s website and in his forums, and figure out how to get ordained and practicing their own faith very easily (like it should be).   It shouldn’t be difficult for us to practice our faith, if we aren’t hurting anyone else.  Period.

Marijuana is a deep part of all religion descended from Abraham, it is a deep part of Hinduism and many other smaller beleifs in the world as well.

Marijuana is both healing spiritually but also physically imho that is how religion is in most faith traditions.  Jesus, Krishna, and many other representations of G-d have been healers both physically and spiritually for all recorded history.

I don’t know a lot about it, but faith was a healing power in the oldest known writing in the world, the Epic of Gilgamesh.

So if G-d provided marijuana, and marijuana is a healing herb, then religion and medicine go hand in hand IMHO.

More news here:   http://peacefulskyalliance.org/

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Initiative 1068 inspired me

February 17th, 2010 | By Reverend

In light of Initiative 1068 in Washington, my wife and I had a serious discussion about how we can help most in this aspect.
Since we have been needing to move our home office to a different place and OUT of our home. We elected to rent a store front with monument signage and a nice location where about 60,000 cars pass by every day.

We thought it was about time that we get our feet wet, and start pursuing a legal cannabis business.
Our reasoning is this. That we can have an office, pursue a new business venture, and be able to advertise and advocate Initiative 1068 in a positive way.
I am assuming that I am within my rights under the first amendment to hand out informational pamphlets about this initiative. For me, this seems like the best way to represent.

We thought (in the future) we might sell seeds to other patients, give classes on what medication is right for which ailment. We have spoken to a few RN’s, one of which is a close relative and another who is a very educated cannabis healer in our local community and a friend of xCannabis (Bless up John). We also want to give classes on how to properly grow marijuana, and have different instructors give classes on different methods of growing.
But we will not start with that type of business. We will get our attorney to give it some extensive research before we start with that part of the business. But it will eventually happen.

But we have decided to support dispensaries with software, point of sale equipment, and accessories for a co-op/dispensary retail business. Our company Emerald Sun Inc. will be on the signage and the business license.. This company represent many sides of our artistic and business creations.
We will do retail sales of goods that we have made, such as patchwork clothing, our TM “Dope Duffel” padded bag, t-shirts, and novelties. In the back we will make custom ordered shirts, hats, shoes, whatever. We specialize in both business and personal products and we have been at it for 7 years now. My wife as ran www.ArtisticByNature.com for several years with me, and we have ran www.TechProNow.com together for almost 8 years now.

We believe our hard work, and work ethics will reflect well on the cannabis community, and may help some get over stupid stereotypes of cannabis consumers being lazy and careless. We will also be able to show how productive, average people support this initiative (I-1068).

We work hard, and we pay our bills. We aren’t rich, we aren’t poor. But we sure as hell are not lazy, careless people.
There is no reason why cannabis consumers should be feared, or chastise.

Thanks I-1068 for the inspiration. We will announce more information about our intentions soon.
We are going to incorporate a way to sponsor NORML for the next few months too, in celebration of our grand opening.
Proceeds of the sponsorship will go to WA NORML.

Returning home from Humboldt, February updates from xCannabis

February 9th, 2010 | By Reverend

We cut our vacation early to come home from Humboldt Co.
Kimi’s grandma Gene passed away and we are trying to make arrangements to get her there to be at the funeral.

I will be attending the WA NORML either way.  Here is the press release that I got in my email:

We also wanted to report that we found a Red/Rednosed pittbull in Redway WA.  The dog was being cared for partially by the Brass Rail hotel.  But she was infested with ticks, and sleeping by the highway in some bushes by the sidewalk.
She has been missing from a week to two weeks by the looks of her minor injuries including a broken/bleeding toenail.

We are caring for her here in Spokane, we put an ad on Craigslist in Humboldt Co and we brought her to the Animal Shelter in McKinleyville.   We didn’t want to leave her at the shelter because they already had a lot of homeless pitt bulls. 
We didn’t want to see her get euthanized.

We intend on making a near future visit to Southern California to visit a dispensary who ordered services from us.  So if this is your dog, or if you know someone who lost her, please send me an email describing her, and please leave a way to get in contact with the owner and we can make arrangement to return in next month.

UPDATE: We have found the owner of the dog that we found! She is driving 900 miles one way to come pick her up. She is glad that we didn’t leave her at the shelter, because pitt bull have such a high kill rate at a shelter.

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Cannabis – Canna-business – and activism

February 5th, 2010 | By Reverend

I got reprimanded today by another stoner in a chat room.

I just created a new way to ‘spread the herb’ which is via  http://SLU2.com

SLu2.com is similar to TinyURL.com, TR.IM, and Bit.Ly.

I put 2 or 3 links up at  http://stash.norml.org and asked people to help me test it.

This is the response I got:

@xcannabis, I guess I don’t see a reason for me to change to slu2.com. For one thing, tr.im lets me track hits on my links. Are you tracking hits with yours? And just what do you track? Sorry, but other than in here, I don’t know anything about you except that you’re trying to drum up business. Sortof everything you do is a little spammy.

I respond and say:

@ ******, my site SLU2.com does everything that TR.IM does. One thing that I do that TR.IM doesn’t is that I support NORML with $$. I also organize and attend pot rallies. Do whatever you want. But TR.IM does nothing for law reform.

The entire reason that I am starting these cannabis businesses, is not because I am needing more things to fill my already busy schedule up.  I’ve made enough money each year for the last 4 years that my wife has not had to work, and our bills still get paid and our life is still comfortable.   At one time my wife brought home the bacon.  But due to some good investments and a lot of hard work, I am able to take care of my family without needing a two income family anymore.

I didn’t NEED to start a few cannabis businesses, other than  wanting to be able to contribute more to the cause.

By starting these cannabis related businesses, I am able to donate more money to several of my favorite causes which are all cannabis related.

Last year we donated thousands of dollars between several orgs.
NORML, HempFest, Cannabis Culture and BongTV.

That money came right out of our pockets, and with no material benefit to us what-so-ever.

This year we have created several cannabis businesses and we are starting to advertise them.
We will do all of the same donations to the same orgs as we did last year, but this year we are also adding High Times, and possibly Treat Yourself Magazine.

I couldn’t give nearly as much money to these orgs, if I wasn’t getting something in return.  Meaning I advertise with these groups,  it fuels their agenda and it fuels mine.   This isn’t a take/take relationship, this is a give/take relationship.

Further more.  I am employing people, renting a business location, advertising with several businesses, and paying taxes in my cannabis related business and I am not even selling weed. 
This is all complimentary to the cannabis movement.  It goes to show that cannabis business is good business, it’s good for our whole community and it shows why cannabis can be legal and legitimately fix our economy and restore freedom at the same time without causing mass crime, etc..

I am a business man.  So the best way that I can contribute to the cause is by business.  When I post a link at NORML, or Cannabis Culture, or BongTV, or any of the other sites that I go to, I pay for the advertising.  I don’t just take without giving back.

So the question is.  What do YOU do to help the cause?