Robert Platshorn is the HIGH TIMES Freedom Fighter of the Year for 2014! Robert Platshorn is the author of Black Tuna Diaries. He is America’s longest (30 years) imprisoned non-violent marijuana offender. Raised on South St. in downtown Philadelphia, acting ambitions earned him a supporting role in a successful off Read more…
In 2014 Marc Scott Emery receives the Lester Grinspoon Lifetime Achievement Award during the 27th High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. Marc Scott Emery (born February 13, 1958) is a Canadian activist who is famous for starting a political, capitalist cannabis movement across Canada. Marc Emery began his cannabis activism in 1990, when Read more…
The Koos Zwart Award 2014 goes to Doede de Jong Organic cannabis farmer Doede de Jong, sentenced to a confiscation order of half a million euros for cannabis cultivation, received the Koos Zwart Award during the 6th Cannabis Liberation Day in the Netherlands, in June 2014. This prize is awarded Read more…
Koos Zwart (Amsterdam 1947–2014) was a Dutch cannabis activist. He advocated for the Dutch tolerance policy, which would be shaped in part by his mother, who was Minister of Health. In the 1970s and 1980s, Zwart would read the ‘market reports’ every Saturday on national radio in a show called Read more…
Ben Dronkers inducted in the Counterculture Hall Of Fame Ben Dronkers, founder of the Sensi Seed Bank, HempFlax, and the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, was inducted in the Counterculture Hall Of Fame in 2013, during the 26th High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. The Counterculture Hall of Read more…
In 2012 Todd McCormick received the Cannabis Culture Award. Todd McCormick has been an activist, publicist and researcher for cannabis since 1994. He collaborated with Jack Herer on a new edition of his book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. During the mid-90s he lived in Amsterdam, while there he became Read more…
In 2012 Lester Grinspoon received the Cannabis Culture Award. Lester Grinspoon is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He founded the Annual Review of Psychiatry and the Harvard Mental Health Letter, of which he was editor in chief for 15 years. His interest in cannabis dates back to Read more…
In 2004 Eagle Bill Amato (April 10, 1942 – † May 22, 2005) was the first person to be awarded with the Cannabis Culture Award. He received the award on account of his pioneering work on improving and promoting cannabis vaporization. His quest to make vaporizing easily available to everyone Read more…
Ed Rosenthal (born Bronx, New York, 1944) is a California horticulturist, author, publisher, and Cannabis grower known for his advocacy for the legalization of marijuana (cannabis as a drug) use. In 2005 he received the Cannabis Culture Award in recognition of his achievements in the field of medicinal marijuana. He Read more…
During the opening ceremony of the Hemp Gallery dutch Poet Laureate Simon Vinkenoog ( July 18, 1928 – July 12, 2009) accepted the Cannabis Culture Award 2008 from Ben Dronkers. Many of his poems mention the cannabis plant and he was a lifelong advocate of cannabis legalization. His impassioned readings Read more…
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