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The words “pot,” “cannabis,” and “marijuana” bring to mind images of problems, problems, and more problems.
Cannabis, the little weed that could, is tangled in controversy just about every place on earth.
But not every place.
In the Czech Republic, people can grow all the magical herb that they want, need and desire. Yes, they can have all the magical herb that they want, need and desire. You read that correctly.
Since growing became legal, the Czech Republic has become a better, brighter, more luminous place. That makes it a better, brighter, and more luminous destination for cannabis tourism.
So if you’re searching for a vacation hotspot, you can have Las Vegas and Disneyland; I’ll take Prague, the historical capital of Bohemia proper, a red-hot potspot where everyone’s into cannabis promotion —not cannabis prohibition.
When you combine old world charm with new world weed, then you’ve really got something.
We don’t hear much in America about the lush cannabis gardens of Prague proliferating all over the city. We don’t read much about them in newspapers or see them on TV.
I was wondering if by some odd chance there were any photographs that capture Prague’s idyllic, prohibitionless lifestyle in all its glory.
Why, yes. There are.
Petra Rösler, a Czech photographer/poet living in Barcelona, sent us her shots of life after prohibition ended in the Czech Republic. It seems a certain magazine which sponsors the Cannabis Cup couldn’t figure out what to do with them.
I felt a little differently. My official one-word review: “Wow!”
Postcards From Paradise Found is a window into the cannabis gardens sprouting up all over the Czech Republic’s rooftops, terraces and yards — and the divine females who tend them, lounge around in them, and sample them.
If these images don’t make you yearn to visit one medieval city that’s emerged from the dark ages, you may be overdue for a Czech-up.
Pot-ential cannabis tourists might want to think long and hard about buying airline tickets to old-standby Amsterdam instead of Prague; Amsterdam is Paradise Lost. The Netherlands’ reign as Europe’s #1 cannabis destination is history.
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4 comments
Paul J. von Hartmann says:
Jun 14, 2013
What’s more sacred than necessity?
Sacred beauties…
(nobody smokes the males)
…you are invited to lend your lovely youthful spirit to freedom, for a true Cannabis hero.
July 4th, Independence Day 2013, is just four days before the three year anniversary of Reverend Roger Christie’s anti-Constitutional arrest and imprisonment, for honoring the Cannabis Diva as sacred.
http://the-last-marijuana-trial.com/
If Cannabis is both unique and essential as we understand it to be and history proves, then you and I ought to be free to farm, by right of necessity. In fact, Cannabis is both unique and essential for three specific and scientifically verifiable reasons. Ecologically, economically, and socially, Cannabis is our interface with the Natural Order. Our endogenous cannabinoid system is just one inarguable proof of that. Everyone has cannabinoids in their systems because our bodies make them out of physiological necessity.
If something is necessary (meaning that you can’t do without it), then it makes perfect sense to hold it sacred and keep it far beyond the rightful permissions or arbitrary jurisdiction of any court. An “herb bearing seed” that offers as much good and health and life as Cannabis surely does, is not a reasonable cause for government intervention, let alone punishment.
We were all born into a bad choice, but it doesn’t mean we have to go along with it after we grow up and learn the truth. In choosing the values offered by the “tree of life” giving us living seed “as meat” and biomass for energy — over dead cows and even deader dinosaurs as the basis for our economic base — we claim the right of immediate necessity and demand strict scrutiny be used to nullify spurious accusations against Reverend Roger Christie; and end government interference with mankind’s relationship between each of us individually, and the Cannabis plant itself.
The simplest argument is the strongest: Drugs don’t make seeds. Herbs do. You can make a drug from an herb, but you can’t make an herb from a drug. They are not the same thing. The legal distinction between “drugs” and “herbs” is critical to the integrity of laws and traditions that are fundamental to civilization. Freedom to farm “every herb bearing seed” is the first test of religious freedom.
Our “First Freedom” is a legal constant that operates regardless of any law besides the Golden Rule. There was no complaint against you from your community. In fact public honor and appreciation have been publicly awarded and privately given, including financial support for services rendered and verbal approval by local law enforcement.
Estoppel dictates that Reverend Roger Christie be freed:
“Estoppel in its broadest sense is a legal term referring to a series of legal and equitable doctrines that preclude “a person from denying or asserting anything to the contrary of that which has, in contemplation of law, been established as the truth, either by the acts of judicial or legislative officers, or by his own deed, acts, or representations, either express or implied.
“This term appears to come from the Old French estoupail (or variation), which meant “stopper plug”, referring to placing a halt on the imbalance of the situation. The term is related to the verb “estop” which comes from the Old French term estopper, meaning “stop up, impede.” — Wikipedia
Estoppel must be invoked immediately to stop the malfeasance of a rogue authority, dominating our lives. Mere accusation of being a “danger to the community” is all that was needed to destroy the Constitutional protection for Reverend Roger Christie. It is a matter of established public record that Reverend Christie has been a valued, visionary member of the Big Island ohana for more than a quarter of a century, without a single legal complaint held against him.
It is incredible that Reverend Christie has been forced to endure indefinite imprisonment without trial, without bail, denied visitors and habeas corpus, for three years. Roger’s pre-trial punishment is what the Constitution was written to prevent!
It is unconscionable, untenable and profoundly illegal that one prosecutor, one judge and one state senator is all that’s needed to inflict such harm on society. Blatant injustice is the worst insult to immeasurable sacrifice made for freedom. I feel ashamed of these people, in witnessing such unconscious human behavior at such an elevated level of my country’s justice system. It is globally embarrassing to be from a country that insults the scared ideal of Justice; one that has motivated millions upon millions of people to achieve great things at great cost.
The contemporary Cannabis community is being given an opportunity to stand together for Roger’s immediate release before his trial. Roger’s release will decide the legitimacy of everyone’s First Amendment rights in holding all god-given herbs above the law. Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, due process of law, habeas corpus and several other fundamental constructs that comprise the integrity of our world, demand that Roger’s freedom be restored before July 4th, 2013. Failing to do so will make shameless hypocrites of anyone holding an American flag.
Paul von Hartmann
California Cannabis Ministry
Friday, June 14th, 2013
Lory Kohn says:
Jun 14, 2013
Passing state-by-state initiatives that make everyone jump for joy cause they can possess a piddling few grams while never including provisions for the freeing of jailed marijuana “offenders” is a low point in the history of American activism. As Paul points out, it’s also a global embarrassment because so many countries look to the US for clues on how to deal with cannabis. Fortunately for its free citizens, the Czech Republic is not one of them.
Paul von Hartmann says:
Jun 15, 2013
Experiencing freedom first-hand — as a twenty-one year civil disobedient working to end Cannabis prohibition in the U.S.; including ten years living in Europe participating in Green Prisoners Release, the Cannabis College Amsterdam and the Freedom to Farm campaign there, it is impossible for this Cannabis scholar to dumb-down to a false valuation of Cannabis, as the corporately corrupted American “Just Ice” system would have us do.
Problems are profitable for predators of peacemakers.
Lory Kohn says:
Jun 15, 2013
For lawyers, too — the “guys” that write the state-by-state initiatives that never stand still, don’t free any prisoners, don’t allow research on THC, and allow cities and counties to opt out, so there’s always an unending need for “legal advice.”