Cannabis Culture Award Winners are: MARC AND JODIE EMERY AND HOWARD MARKS On the 27th of November 2014 the annual Cannabis Culture Awards were presented to world-famous icons of cannabis culture Howard ‘Mister Nice’ Marks of Wales (Great Britain), and ‘Prince and Princess of Pot’ Marc and Jodie Emery of Read more
Cannabis Culture Award Winners are: FRITS BOLKESTEIN AND SPUITEN EN SLIKKEN On Tuesday April 23rd 2013 in Amsterdam, Frits Bolkestein received a Cannabis Culture Award from former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dries van Agt, the founder of the Dutch tolerance policy. Spuiten en Slikken was awarded by Frederik Polak. Read more
In 2012 activist, Todd McCormick received the Cannabis Culture Award. Todd McCormick has been a cannabis researcher and publicist 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 one 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
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
In 2009 Dries van Agt received the Cannabis Culture Award. Dries van Agt was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands during three consecutive governments from 1977 to 1982 after becoming the first leader of the CDA (Christian Democratic Alliance). A controversial and charismatic politician, he was responsible for the tolerance Read more
Cannabis Culture Awards 2012 (Cannabis Cultuurprijs) Winners: The Global Commission on Drug Policy (represented by Sir Richard Branson and Thorvald Stoltenberg), Dr. Lester Grinspoon and Dr. Frederick Polak Global Commission on Drug Policy The purpose of The Global Commission on Drug Policy is to bring to the international level an informed, science-based discussion Read more
The Hemp, Hash & Museum in Amsterdam rewards those people and help bring them into the public eye at the same time. In 2004 the Cannabis Cultuur Prijs was inaugrated by the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum, and in 2012 it was presented for the first time as as the Cannabis Read more
Cannabis Culture Awards 2009 The Cannabis Culture Award, in Dutch called the ‘Cannabis Cultuurprijs’, was established in The Netherlands in 2004 to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the world of hemp and cannabis. During the 2009 ceremony, Cannabis Culture Awards were presented to Dries van Agt and Read more
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