Travis at CC.com

As of today, I am the newest blogger at Cannabis Culture. You can see my bio here.

My first post is my letter from 'The Langley Advance' on Friday, you can view it here.

I'm excited about this. I should post a report on my meeting with Chris Summerville next week. I am looking forward to that, I think Chris is a nice guy and I feel that he will be receptive to my concerns.

Three more letters

Here I criticize H1N1 hysteria in the 'Langley Times'.

Here I criticize Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender's flat out STUPID testimony in front of the Senate hearings on bill c-15. The Mayor embarrassed Langley in front of the entire country.

Here I discuss the Vancouver Police Departments new weapon that they wish to destroy our eardrums with.

Letter writer of the month

If I may take this moment to do a little self-promotion and celebration, I have been named DrugSense Weekly's letter writer of the month for october 2009. I had 4 letters to the editor and one Op-Ed published in the past month. It is quite an honor to be named the top writer on drug policy in the world for a month.

Not bad for a kid from Langley. Although today is my last day of teenage...five minutes until I have lived two decades on this wonderful planet. It's been a scream so far and I have only just begun. Thank you for sharing some of it with me.

Three new pieces...

Well I have pretty much given up on updating this blog regularly, as you no doubt can tell. I have been extremely busy with third year classes, more responsibility at work, and all of the issues surrounding Marc Emery and David Malmo-Levine's jailing...

However, I do have two letters and one featured opinion piece that I have contributed in the past week.

The first, which can be viewed here, is my assessment of US President Barack Obama's decision to no longer prosecute medical marijuana users, as well as the possibility that the US will legalize cannabis before Canada.

The second, here, is my response to a prohibitionist letter that says legalization will increase crime. How anyone can still believe that at this point is beyond me. It really is sad how one sided this argument is...

The third is an opinion piece for the University of Guelph's independant student newspaper, 'The Ontarion'. I responded with an online comment to a piece saying that Salvia is the new drug threat and the new hot party drug. They asked me to write an opinion piece and the first comment seems to be positive. You can read my piece here.

I am particularly proud of the last one. I can't believe that anyone would want to give gangs yet another resource to exploit.

Please go to www.cannabisculture.com and read up on what YOU can do to FREE MARC EMERY. Also now we must show our support for David Malmo-Levine, who has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for running the Herb School and Museum of Drugwar History. I recommend you search youtube for 'Drugwar walking tour' or David's name and see what the tour consisted of.

Two new letters...

Sorry for neglecting you all... here are two letters from 'The Advance' this Friday...

I demand that Langley MP Mark Warawa stop lying to us

I call out hypocritical PM Harper

Nowhere Man, By Marc Emery

Here is a poem I wrote from my prison cell.

Nowhere Man (With apologies to Lennon and McCartney)

Imagine life without cannabis,
that's life here.

Imagine life without music,
that's life here.

Imagine life without fresh food,
that's life here.

Imagine life without any privacy,
that's life here.

Imagine life without any sex,
that's life here.

Imagine life in only red pants and a red shirt,
that's life here.

Imagine life in a 8 by 10 foot concrete cell,
that's life here.

Imagine never touching the sun's rays,
that's life here.

Imagine life without being with any one you know,
that's life here.

Imagine being hungry every waking hour,
that's life here.

Imagine life without love,
that's life here.

Imagine never seeing a grape or a peach or a tomato,
that's life here.

Imagine changing linens threadbare once every ten days,
that's life here.

Imagine your happy memories gradually fading away,
that's life here.

Marc Emery is an activist currently locked up at North Fraser Pretrial Center in Port Coquitlam, B.C., while he awaits extradition to the United States for selling marijuana seeds on the internet and using the money to fund anti-prohibition activism around the world.

You heard him... he gets high with a little help from his friends...

So Stephen Harper gets high with a little help from his friends. Does he throw them in jail for a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 6 months for drug trafficking after he gets high with them?

By the way, Paul McCartney still smokes cannabis every day. Harper would throw him and the rest of The Beatles in jail if he could.