Hello.....Good Evening and Welcome!

[otto mayer1]

Hello everybody! I come from Brazil to learn from you! Great forum you guys have here.

 

[mobear420]

IG magazine

IG magazine

When I was in my early teens aparently I was a bit of a handfull at school....I was quick to learn at the British boarding school which I attended from just 8 years of age untill I was 12 and I was actually getting some of the best grades for my age in the school.....but then I had to leave because I refused a hydrocortisone injection for child rheumatism in my leg (I had been injected before and it was such a frightening and painfull memory) and ran away from the school because they had tried to force this upon me.....so I was a runaway boy......and they said that I was maladjusted because I always questioned authority and resisted when authority wanted to do anything with me.

I was hyperactive and became very anti-establisment as I learned more about my monarchistic/autocratic/psudo democratic society. I was placed in a 'comprehensive' school in the 2nd year of senior school and was completely bored by it because the standard of education was so much higher at the boarding school I had left, so for 2 years I knew most all of what the teachers were teaching in the comprehensive school and this bored me even more......It bored me to distraction....and I withdrew into my own world of learning what I was interested in........

They sent me to see a shrink after the ring leader of the schools bullies set upon me and I promptly put him thru the cleaning cupboard door in defense and I was suspended from school....This shrink talked down to me like a child and prescribed some medicines that gave me adverse side effects, which made me sick......

Eventually after having to take these laboratory produced psychotropic chemicals for a few months I threw them all away..........but I was still hyper untill my brother shared that first hash joint with me.......and this calmed me down and put it all into perspective. I had found my medicine...... To this day nearly 30 years later I still use cannabis medicinally to control hyperactivity and also to mask the pain in my lower back more recently....

...I have been involved in the cannabis industry since I was 17 years old on a commercial basis and started growing at 18 years old in California....By the time I was in my twenties I was smuggling large ammounts of hash around Asia but at 25 years old I was caught smuggling just a little of my own medicine into England and jailed where I was attacked by some soccer hooligans and ended up in the psycho ward.....this just pissed me off and made me determined to try and make a change for the better concerning the draconian cannabis laws....... In my 30's I founded a headshop and seed company in England called 'Gypsy Nirvana' to start a cunning plan of Overgrowing the planet with good cannabis seeds.....two years later I opened a grow shop called 'Indoor Jungle Supplies' in the U.K. and two years after that I opened a cannabis seed gallery in Amsterdam Holland called Gypsy Nirvana/Seedsdirect.....

In two weeks I will have a copy of the charter edition of 'International Cannagraphic' in my hands....this is a magazine that I have spent 3 years bringing together. This will be a platform for all in the cannabis industry worldwide to network and gain knowledge about cannabis. I hope for it to become the cannabis industries International trade magazine........and it will be a place where we can have our say in the media.


....so if you ask me how important is marijuana in my life.....I would say VERY!

I will download a copy of your magzine. If it is in PDF format I can offer you a way to convert it to a 3D page flipping ebook. Contact me if interested.

 

[leaffan]

Thank you so much

 

[lost in a sea]

This thread is a piece of history, just look what this place has done since then and how many lives it has touched... Amazing..

I really identify with your story GN, our government and schooling system is cruel, it tries to crush your spirit any way it can so you don't threaten their "order". They don't like free thinkers that can show the masses just how powerful they are as individuals and just how much change they can affect personally for good.

I really miss your input

john lennon - working class hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU

love people

 

[Payaso]

Gypsy is greatly missed, meanwhile we carry on!

 

[ashleysmith0262]

Welcome! I am also new here in the forum and I am Ashley.

 

[Vivalamatrix]

Please explain theoretically the steps president Obama could take to reclassify, assuming the folks who he says he has to compromise with just to walk through those big doors wouldn't totally object to, whenever you might have time. I would really like to know & if the two international treatys would matter?

 

[Vivalamatrix]

Hi Bootea; I see the quick reply is only for very recent posts.

Hi Bootea; I see the quick reply is only for very recent posts.

So glad I could read this very first thread of International Cannagraphic. Any News on Gypsies situation? If Obama would just de-list cannabis (marihuana), as a schedule one - controlled dangerous substance, which he has the complete power to do, the US indictment would dissolve. Looking forward to reading posts from Gypsy soon.

Please explain theoretically the steps president Obama could take to reclassify, assuming the folks who he says he has to compromise with just to walk through those big doors wouldn't totally object to, whenever you might have time. I would really like to know & if the two international treatys we signed requiring very much time to make changes, would matter?

 

[jim smoke]

Happy to be here everybody!!!!!

 

[Vlad T'inhaler]

Wotcha!

Wotcha!

Good evening, I'm from Essex. Not really just a Sir Ian Dury fan.

Nice to be here.

 

[944s2]

Good evening, I'm from Essex. Not really just a Sir Ian Dury fan.

Nice to be here.

hey vlad,,,,
a warm welcome to ic mag,,
always good to see another from Essex although I am really on the borders of east London/Essex....944s2

 

[EL ROBUSTO]

Hello everyone happy to be here!!!!!
See you all on the inside!!!!

 

[flameninja]

Awesome to read how the site began and the ethos behind it,im a bit late but still glad to be a part of it all the same

 

[Sdotnoop]

Nice to know something about the founder of this site. Shame about his current predicament. Sounds like a good guy, hope he is free asap.

 

[Boys from south]

I'm a new member on this forum but I have been reading stuff on here for a longer amount of time, what a great place to hang out Not sure my welcome post went correct so i'm just gonna try and introduce myself here really quickly xD

I go by the name of boys of the south haha Cannabis has been my passion and hoby for basicly aslong as I can remember it has always been in the family! I am from The Netherlands were it has been 'legal' for quite some time thank god! and I'm looking forward to meet all you nice people on here!

 

[konopek]

Hi, i'm grow over 6 yers. Smok about 11. Now start grow outdoors

 

[PotSnob420]

Very important

 

[Ftscustm]

The peace found from illness

The peace found from illness

I read the first post of this thread, cried my eyes out and hit the last page so that I could thank you for making me feel I am no longer alone in this world. Some seven years ago I self diagnosed myself with Bi-polar disorder. I have spent my life realising I was different from everyone else: its a little difficult not to, everyone keeps telling me so! I have never sort to gain the acceptance of others, figuring that if 7 billion of us exist on this planet, being concerned with others opinion of myself and my actions would only lead to great unhappiness. I have been nutty since a child, although managed to conceal this from others until well into my thirties and through a professional and high powered career. The medical opinion is that I must take Lithium Carbonate to control and balance my mood, this drug is one that accumulates in the system and helps to prevent the highs and lows associated with this fascinating illness. Very sadly, this drug is greatly harmful and a toxin to the body which requires me to have regular blood test to ensure too much does not build up and cause me nasties. My argument has always been that cannabis does this without the risk to health that is guaranteed with Lithium. I take the absolute minimum of this drug to pacify the quacks and so that I am able to access the medical help that I do actually need. I am standing tall and fighting for my right to puff this joyous creation in an attempt to quell the growing cycles of destructive behaviour as I age. Without doubt cannabis has kept me out of the asylum, kept me calm and prevented me from the most stupid of my endeavours. I have a simple rule, if I am to do something that maybe construed as mental, I smoke a fat one first and if after I have finished the idea still feels right and fresh, I act upon it. The reality is, in most cases, this glorious little flower sits me on my arse and whispers sweet nothings in my brain to ease the burden of rushing thought. I am whole because of this darling plant and I shall fight for my right to cultivate this magic from the shadows, or in plain sight.
Fuck the system, free the spirit. Thank you for touching my heart, I feared it had all but died to the warmth of human contact.

 

[bootea]

Please explain theoretically the steps president Obama could take to reclassify, assuming the folks who he says he has to compromise with just to walk through those big doors wouldn't totally object to, whenever you might have time. I would really like to know & if the two international treatys we signed requiring very much time to make changes, would matter?

It can be changed by executive directive. Congress set up the list, but its the executive branch that decides what goes on the list.

I didn't see your post until today. The DEA has been petitioned to change the listing of marijuana many times and they had to submit for review by th national drug abuse Institute,part of (HHS under NIH) and FDA they then happily refused to relist. In 1986 their own DEA legal review judge ruled that it did not belong on the list. The head of DEA still refused. It would take Obama to cut through the reviews with and executive order. This is internal government regulation not effecting a treaty. It wouldn't change the law even, but it would prevent the DEA from enforcing an all out ban. It could still prevent its importation. It would take it out of the hand s of DEA and the States would'nt have to wory about federal prosecution for marijuana. The treaties are already in trouble because of legalization among the States. Jamaica just legalized. So did Portugal for all drugs. Talk to the first Americans; we break treaties all the time.

 

[josher909]

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