Cannabis Chronicles

As is so often the case, some of the best coverage we’ve found concerning the Black Tuna gang comes from a weekly publication. Last month (June ‘08), the Miami New Times, covered Robert Platshorn’s release from prison with the article that actually inspired the Cannabis Chronicles’ in depth coverage/archiving of material on the Black [...]

In addition to coverage in the mainstream media, the alternative media caught on to the Black Tuna Gang story too. High Times, the oldest and most well established marijuana magazine in North America, (sorry Marc - your Cannabis Culture is a relative newcomer,) also covered some of this fish tale.
The first High Times article [...]

In somewhat the same tradition as Howard Marks, there’s a website authored by the man who was tried and convicted on a variety of charges related to his marijuana smuggling operation known as the Black Tuna Gang. Also in the tradition of Mr Nice, the Black Tuna kingpin has authored a book about his [...]

We were well known at Cannabis World for our tag line about learning and growing, “If you are learning as you grow, then you are growing too.” And, in all honesty, that’s much more than just rhetoric, it’s really the way we live. Despite being well into “middle age”, we still consider ourselves [...]

Here’s a recent news story (from near the end of June) regarding an appearance former US Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders made in North Carolina late last month. As author/interviewer Fiona Morgan indicates, Dr. Joycelyn Elders really does tell it straight, her outspoken nature is a rarity among individuals who have risen to such [...]

We found this story as a part of a long term project we’ve been working on to describe the way fertilizers are made and the impact their production has on our planet’s environment.
It’s a great human interest story that demonstrates some of the conflicts inherent in mankind’s never ending global hunger for fertilizer, and how [...]

Back in the heyday of Cannabis World, the 3LB’s were asking for some public input on naming a medicinal cannabis variety.  The cross was Herijuana x Black Domina, and it finally ended up being named Mistress Midori. During the discussion, a number of silly names were discussed. “Jack Black” was thrown out as [...]

On April 4th, 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was gunned down. In honoring the man, today’s quotes will not be directly agricultural or marijuana related, but instead rather are a smattering of the wisdom he shared.
It’s a fitting testament to the universal wisdom that Dr King shared, that these quotes [...]

We’d hoped to have finished our own version of a biography for Lady Eve Balfour by now, but a variety of personal, family, and work commitments have not allowed us to complete that goal. Rather than leave our readers hanging, we’ll provide a great short biography by Oliver C. Fox that’s better than anything [...]

While researching Lady Eve Balfour’s life, we ran across the following blog entry that was so beautifully irreverent, we just had to include it here for our readers at the Cannabis Chronicles.
Avant-garde badass Eve Balfour
I’m going to skim over the dismaying fact that Lady Eve Balfour shows up on Google approximately twenty-three million [...]

I’m planning to create a “bird’s eye” look at Lady Eve Balfour later this week, much as I did recently for Dr William Albrecht. Until that’s completed, I wanted to share a “teaser”, a classic address from a pioneering lady in organic and sustainable agriculture.
Towards a Sustainable Agriculture–The Living Soil
By Lady Eve Balfour
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As we stated in previous postings here at the Cannabis chronicles, Doctor William Albrecht was rather prolific in the number of publications and studies he had published. Not only does that leave behind the 4 volume Albrecht Papers series of books published by Acres USA, but it also leaves behind a wealth of material [...]

We’d really like to give our readers a more in depth look at Dr Albrecht and his research, but we’ve concentrated our studies primarily in the area of Albrecht’s teachings about plant nutrition. With that in mind, we can’t honestly produce a well rounded look at the entire essence of his teachings at this [...]

As we said before, it’s not exactly normal subject matter for a cannabis website, but we consider Dr Albrecht’s methods to be one secret of our past medical marijuana growing successes at the bird’s nest.
In case anyone was wondering about the variety and volume of papers produced by Dr William Albrecht, the research staff (a [...]