The History

You may have already heard of Quawntay “BOSCO” Adams – a man who managed to survive and even thrive despite the inconceivable obstacles thrown in his path. When you learn about what this man has gone through,  the story is even more remarkable. Just this week he got the news that the film BOSCO, which […]

Cannabis is a plant. It’s also medicine. In addition to both of those things, cannabis is also a lens we can look through to better understand things like history, culture and religion. For instance, some suggest that the ‘miracles’ performed by Jesus in the Old Testament might have had more to do with high-quality medical […]

People who’ve been struggling in the cannabis world for decades pretty much yawned when Trump signed an executive order (EO) directing the Attorney General to expedite the process of rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).  First of all issuing an “executive order” for a matter […]

From Washington to Hollywood, American culture is engulfed by rage, hate and the desire for revenge. The New York Times Style Magazine devoted most of its December 7 issue to exploring this disturbing trend. “When They Go Low . . . We Go Lower” is a fascinating look by four different New York Times reporters […]

You know what takes a lot of guts? Admitting you were wrong about something.When a respected scientist admits they got something wrong and is willing to put their reputation and career on the line for the truth, that’s some “profiles in courage” material. This is why the late Lester Grinspoon is revered throughout the cannabis […]

At YourCanna-Club we’re still working on getting all the pieces of our cannabis multi-media project together. Click HERE to visit our new website and make sure you scroll down to check out our new PuffPuffPassTunes.com page where we are creating play lists for all the great songs inspired by weed. We’ve got everyone from Black […]

By Madicyn Marinaro  The cannabis industry is full of unbelievable tales. After all, this is a world where illegality suddenly became legal. While I’ve always championed the caregivers who risked their livelihoods during prohibition, I also know there’s a criminal element whose motives have nothing to do with helping patients. That’s not to say most […]

We humans have been messing around with cannabis for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years. The positive impact this miracle plant was and is having on people throughout the world is well known. What you may not realize is how long people have been using cannabis for healthcare & medicine, music, farming, cooking, […]

The team at YourCanna-Club has been working on a cannabis book for over 4 years. We are still looking for a print publisher (they all say it’s too expensive a print job) but we were able to get it posted as an e-book on Amazon. So if you have a Kindle you can download it […]

We have to face the fact that today we largely experience music as “content” and we spend less time thinking about what artists and songs we like than we do trying to remember our co-worker’s Spotify password or freaking out because the damn browser update somehow screwed up our iTunes settings. –  Mark Nichols Music […]

“Shorting cannabis became a billion-dollar strategy in 2019. Short selling is a tactic where investors (like the guys you see here) bet a company’s stock price will fall — and profit if it does. By spreading disinformation and publishing claims that cannabis companies were engaged in fraud, short sellers were able to tank the value […]

Meet Sir William Brooke O’Shaughnessy, an Irish doctor famous for his wide-ranging scientific work in pharmacology and chemistry in the 1800’s. His research in India led to the development of intravenous therapy and the medicinal uses of cannabis which was then introduced to Western medicine.  

From the 5th to the 15th century Europe entered a period of unprecedented colonialism. This was the time when sails, rope and cordage made from cannabis begin to appear on Italian ships. Eventually hemp sails would replace flax sails as shipbuilders began realizing that flax sails were weak and began rotting after three months while […]

Contrary to popular opinion and all these B.S. reports that weed is wrecking our brains and killing children, it turns out that regular cannabis users’ brains work better. Recently our friends at Marijuana Moment published the story written by reporter Aaron Houston. The research, published by Nature Portfolio, analyzed brain imaging and cognitive data from […]

For all you cannabis lovers – we bring some really good news. High Times, for years the best source of cannabis news everywhere in the world, is back. And man, are they ever back. Their website – https://hightimes.com – is so good it’s mind boggling. Here at YourCanna-Club we just discovered the new High Times […]

It’s starting to look like even cave-dwelling humans were into weed. And evidence is mounting it was when we started consuming cannabis (like the guy in the picture) that we began creating great art, music, literature and poetry. That’s a theory that Robyn Lawrence Griggs, explores in her terrific book, Pot in Pans: A History […]

David Johnson posted this 4th of July Day message on his “Cannabis Lovers United” Facebook Group page. It’s an important reminder to all of us that on the 4th of July – a day we celebrate our freedoms and democracy – there’s still too many people in jail for cannabis offenses. “While many will be […]

Colombian Gold is one of the most famous Sativa strains. Fans love the sharp lemony flavor and the impact which gives most users better focus and more creativity. But many cannabis experts say the subspecies Colombian Gold no longer exists. If you have any recent experiences with Colombian Gold that you would like to share, […]

This could be the most unusual musical performance ever. “It’s amazing,” noted bendenisereedy7865 on YouTube. “I’ve never seen anything like this…. a formal orchestra of very self-conscious Arabs singing the most laid-back Jamaican song ever written. It’s like asking the London Symphony Orchestra to play hip-hop.”

The  film – Weed & Wine – has been out for several years but we just discovered it. All you folks who grow and  harvest the cannabis plant are going to appreciate this film for its honest look at the joys and traumas of farming.. The story centers on two families – a grower in […]

This is a “War on Drugs” story you don’t want to miss. Rolling Stone posted an in-depth article about the relentless effort made over many decades by the media, politicians, and drug, alcohol and tobacco industries, to demonize cannabis with lies and fear-mongering propaganda. In her article, “Debunking Cannabis Myths: 3 Ways to Change the […]

The more you learn about cannabis, the more angry you get that it’s still illegal. Absolutely ridiculous. Many people believe that the power and money of businesses that will lose a lot are behind this – drug, alcohol and tobacco companies for starters. This is just one page of 210 in our new cannabis e-book. […]

Cannabis can replace plastic? Being a passionate advocate for all things cannabis, I was excited to check out Cannabis: The Untold Story of our Greatest Plant. Man, I thought I knew a lot about weed, but clearly I had a lot more to learn.Among other things,  I was not aware of the valuable role cannabis […]

The idea that cannabis is “dangerous” isn’t new and it’s not why it’s been outlawed. The “danger” narrative was and still is the marketing “hook”- Madicyn Marinaro In the 1930s, Harry Anslinger launched a propaganda campaign that tied cannabis to immigrants and black jazz musicians and then proceeded to demonize them. It was steeped in […]

People ran with “Indica puts you down, Sativa picks you up” for years. Dispensaries pushed that hard because it was what they knew at the time. Then terps started to be what all the budtenders were talking about, which helped a little, but still doesn’t tell the whole story. Now new science is showing that […]

The New York Times today ran a half page story, written by reporter Alex Williams,  about the death of Tom Shipley who was 84-years-old. Shipley, along with Michael Brewer, wrote one of the most well known weed songs of all time, “One Toke Over the Line.” Known as “Brewer and Shipley” their song “One Toke” […]

We have been overwhelmed with the response from around the world supporting our mission to spread the word about the cannabis plant with its power to reduce anxiety and depression, help us sleep, cure and prevent a long list of ailments and maybe most important – have fun and laugh more. We wish we could […]

Special Message on 4/20  to all you cannabis lovers from Ed Rosenthal: “When you light your joints today on 4/20 give thanks for your ability to do so”  “I want to wish you all a hashy 4/20. It truly is one of the greatest days of the year when we celebrate the wonderful herb that […]

The YourCanna-Club team has spent over three years working on a fancy, coffee table type book: Cannabis: The Untold Story Of Our Greatest Plant. We’re still looking for a print publisher but you can get the e-book for your Kindle or on  Apple Books. Just $14.95 for 210 beautiful pages for your computer, iPad, and […]

Most of the success you hear and read about regarding advances in medical cannabis and the repeal of race-based and destructive “drug laws” has come about as the result of a lot of hard work and sacrifice on the part of the trailblazers of the cannabis movement. Visionaries like Eddy Lepp, Jack Herer and Ed […]

A Cree Chief has more sense than all of us Americans put together.

Turns out most every religion celebrated the wonders of cannabis. We created a page about it in our new weed e-book: Cannabis: The Untold Story of our Greatest Plant. You can get it for your Amazon Kindle if you have one. We hope to have a printed book soon. This is page 16. There’s 209 […]

Suppose I told you watching the film, A Cursed Man, is an easy, affordable way to go on a fascinating, frightening, enlightening journey around the world where you’ll meet some of the world’s most revered  practitioners of “dark magic.” It’s an opportunity to learn more about people who have worshipped and celebrated the supernatural world […]

Our team has spent 3 years working on this book. 210 spectacular pages. You can see two of them on this post. So far we have not found a print publisher – they say it’s too expensive a print job. But it is available for your Amazon-Kindle. Click HERE for more information. PS: It’s cheap.

Here’s a look at just some of the content in our great new weed book – Cannabis: The Untold Story of our Greatest Plant by Mark Nichols. 210 pages like you see here. Right now only available as an e-book for the Amazon Kindle. It’s cheap and looks amazing on an iPad and even a […]

“This is a moment of maximum peril for our nation and our freedoms because if Trump and his followers really are following Hitler’s script to seize total power and turn America into an authoritarian dictatorship, the next step may well be to exploit an attack on America.” – Thom Hartmann BBC radio (British Broadcasting Company) […]

We found this post by Jason Egenberg on Substack this morning. This resonated with all of us here at YourCanna-Club and we wanted to pass it along. George Carlin Told Us the Truth. We Chose the Bullshit by Jason Egenberg George Carlin didn’t predict the future—he just noticed it early. That’s what prophets do. And Carlin, […]

From our friends at the Vera Institute, we learned that John Ehrlichman, a top assistant to President Richard Nixon, had the following comment about the “War on Drugs.” “We knew we had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either […]

The cannabis world lost one of the greats this week – David Watson, (pictured here with his wife Diane),known worldwide as “Sam The Skunkman”, was one of the most influential figures in the history of cannabis. His work not only transformed the industry but helped shape the modern cannabis strains we know today. Recognized for […]

by Dr. Peter Grinspoon Cannabis was a legal medicine in the United States a century ago, then became illegal in 1937, and now is becoming widely legal again. Cannabis was listed in the U.S. Pharmacopeia (a book that lists currently recognized medicines) in the 1850’s and then stripped from it in the 1940’s. This occurred […]

If you’re not into the history or politics of cannabis, odds are you’ve never heard of Lawrence Ringo. That’s a shame because Ringo is one of the most important figures in the modern history of medical cannabis. People who are currently familiar with medical cannabis probably learned about the topic back in 2013 when CNN […]

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To honor Bob Marley‘s 80th birthday, his estate organized a series of events to celebrate his life and work. The ‘Uprising’ Tribute was recorded by the Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica.  The line-up included a number of well known Jamaican artists including Mortimer, Bugle, Kumar Fyah, Naomi Cowan, Quan Dajai, Kelly Shane, Tanya Stephens, […]

In his first year as president, Jimmy Carter, who died recently at the age of 100, urged Congress to decriminalize low-level marijuana possession, saying “penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.” Forty-three years later, Joe Biden, who for decades had been […]

Did Old Ben Franklin invent the “joint?” One of the things that you realize when you get older is that the rich kids that founded our nation were really young. Alexander Hamilton was 21 years old in 1776. George Washington was 27.Benjamin Franklin, on the other hand, was 70 in 1776. Franklin was obviously a […]

The picture looks boring but the story is not. In the last decade archeologists made a startling discovery at a burial ground in northwest China. A man, buried over 2500 years ago, was laid out on a wooden bed with a reed pillow beneath his head with 13 cannabis plants placed diagonally across his chest. […]

A while back our friends at Leafly.com published a story: “5 reasons why Jack Herer is the godfather of modern cannabis.” It came out right before Father’s Day and started like this: “Before you light up your Father’s Day stash, remember to spark one for Jack Herer, aka the godfather of modern cannabis. A good […]

How times change, During World War II, the U.S. government actually made a film explaining all the great uses of hemp and encouraged farmers to grow as much as possible. You can watch the film and learn more HERE. The film, produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, extols the benefits of hemp. During the […]

So many of our cannabis heroes have served jail terms for growing a plant so we’re interested in any story about corruption in the U.S. prison system. The latest rip-off of  the American taxpayer is that their tax dollars are lining the pockets of the owners of private, brutal jails that have cropped up all […]

By Jodie Giesz-Ramsay.  I want to say how much I miss one of our movement’s best, most passionate, relentless and selfless activists – Neil Magnuson. Neil is no longer with us but he will never be forgotten.  I got to know Neil during my very first days as an activist in Vancouver over 21 years […]

One of the coolest things about the rediscovery of cannabis as medicine is that we can now tap into a tradition of healing that’s thousands of years old. Think of it as a kind of connection or even communication with our ancestors.  Who did the Romans get all their brilliant irrigation and city-planning ideas from? […]

  Even before the Jamaican people decriminalized cannabis, the “Island in the Sun” was known as the number one tourist destination for cannabis lovers. And now that Jamaica has joined most of the rest of the developed world and said no to the useless drug war, cannabis tourism has taken on a whole new dimension. […]

The man is a legend in the cannabis world after more than a four-decade struggle on the front lines of the movement to legalize cannabis. Steve is an author, teacher, investor, and entrepreneur. He co-founded Harborside, one of the first dispensaries licensed In the United States that’s now a publicly traded company on the Canadian […]

From our friends at 420Intel.com and Denver7ABC we came across the craziest cannabis story ever. Turns out in Colorado there is an International Church of Cannabis that has become a popular place for people to worship. And guess what sacrament the church gives out? Cannabis!  But that’s not the controversy. Turns out people are distraught […]

Long after we’re all gone, cannabis will probably still be around. Scientists think cannabis might be about 30 million years old, if not older. Evidence suggests our earliest bipedal mammalian relative/ancestor was Australopithecus. You might even know what they looked like because of Lucy (several hundred pieces of fossilized bone found by archeologists, representing 40 […]

CLICK HERE to watch the CNBC segment on a group of California nuns who have been growing cannabis for years. They are bringing a spiritual component to the cannabis industry. “We call it the “holy plant,” said Sister Kate, the founder of Sisters of the Valley.  “I say the words, ‘Holy Plant’ because this is […]

Law enforcement officials, community groups and residents from the Nepalese town of Baidam destroyed 1,500 cannabis plants back in 2018. The action took place in Sarangkot, a tourist destination in Nepal, a country that borders Tibet and China and is in the Himalayan mountain range, home to the world’s highest peaks including Mt Everest. A […]

Fifteenth-century Italian scholar Bartolomeo Platina (pictured here on the left) was a member of the Pope Pius II’s College of Abbreviators  – a group of freelance scribes and scholars who basically acted as The Vatican’s ghost writers. Platina published a cookbook called On Honorable Pleasure and Health in 1474. You can read a loosely translated, […]

In the medical cannabis world, there are very view people revered as much as Rick Simpson who has worked tirelessly to prove to the world that cannabis oil can help cure cancer and many other diseases as well.  Rick cured his own skin cancer (Basal Cell Carcinoma) taking the oil and he has spent his […]

Eddy Lepp, an iconic figure and hero throughout the cannabis community, died recently after a long battle with cancer. Lepp was a cannabis activist and grower from California who served in Vietnam, founded a church, had one of the largest grow operations in the U.S. and served time in federal prison. Back in the 90’s […]

It was back in 2700 BCE when Chinese Emperor Shen Nung (ChenNung) is said to have discovered the healing properties of cannabis as well as ginseng. Nung marveled at the plant’s powers as a medication for rheumatism, menstrual problems, gout, malaria, and hundreds of others. Nung is considered the “Father of Chinese Medicines and the […]

During the Middle Ages (5th to the late 15th century) Europe entered a period of unprecedented colonialism. This was the time when frames, sails, rope and cordage made from cannabis begin to appear on Italian shipping vessels. Eventually, hemp sails would replace flax sails as ship builders began realizing that flax sails were weak and […]

Legendary cannabis researcher, Professor Raphael Mechoulam, often referred to as the “godfather” of cannabis research, celebrated his 90th birthday recently at the 31st International Cannabis Research Symposium (ICRS) in Jerusalem, an annual event he founded. According to a report in the Jerusalem Post written by Idan Zonshine, Professor Mechoulam talked about his six-decades of research […]

At the intersection of cannabis and religion you will find Gods of all types. Almost all religious traditions feature characters like Ceres, the goddess of agriculture whose likeness you see here, Other examples include Gefjon, the Norse goddess of plowing (associated with fertility) and Ninsar, the Summerian goddess of plants. Monotheist Abarahamic religions including Christianity, […]

Jack Herer (1939- 2010) was affectionately known as the “Emperor of Hemp.” He was an American cannabis rights activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, now in its 14th edition after having been continuously in print for 35 years. The book has played an important role in past and ongoing efforts to […]

If you grew up in the culture of the drug war, you might not even know that cannabis and ‘marijuana’ are names for the same plant. Some people just think cannabis is a “hippy-thing” or part of “drug culture’ and are happy to leave it at that. But hopefully you’ve avoided the taxpayer-funded social programming […]

When archaeologists learned ancient Israelites burned cannabis as part of their religious ceremonies it was a remarkable discovery. It was in 2018 when scientists found residues of cannabis in a 2,700-year-old temple in Tel Arad just south of Tel Aviv. It was the first evidence of psychotropic drugs being used in Jewish religious ceremonies. According […]

Why do different kinds of cannabis have all these weird names and what do they mean? Here’s the deal – cannabis is the name of the plant. There are basically two types (called sub-species) of cannabis – Indica and sativa. When growers combine different plants and their genes to produce new plants, these are called […]

Charlotte Figi, a child with a catastrophic type of epilepsy who went on to inspire a CBD movement, has passed away at age 13. Charlotte had recently been hospitalized due to pneumonia, breathing problems and seizures. She was treated as a likely case of Covid-19, her mother, Paige Figi, said, although she tested negative for […]

Recently Liam Stack, writing for The New York Times, did a story on Rick Steves, a travel writer who is a passionate advocate for legalizing marijuana. Rick’s advocacy helped get the law passed in 2012 in Washington that legalized marijuana. “If you’re a rich white guy you can smoke with impunity. But we are tuned […]

Many of the people that call cannabis “marijuana” do not know when and why the term was invented or by whom. Fear is the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of any politician and they used it big time to terrify people. Not to mention that most of these crazy politicians of yesteryear were raging […]

 Here’s what Wikipedia says was happening in the 8th Century B.C.E. In Egypt, the 23rd and 24th dynasties were such a disaster they had to outsource government entirely to the Nubian Empire. The Assyrian empire conquers the Kingdom of Israel and something called “Rome” is founded in 753 B.C.E. Keep in mind the numbers […]