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 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…
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…
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…
The Cannabis Culture Award was previously known as the Cannabis Cultuur Prijs and was initiated in 2004 by philanthropist Ben Dronkers in order to honor and reward people who have made outstanding contributions to the world of hemp and cannabis. During the ceremony the 2009 Cannabis Culture Award was awarded Read more…
Cannabis Culture Award 2008 Dutch Poet Laureate Simon Vinkenoog accepted the 2008 Cannabis Culture Award from Ben Dronkers during the opening ceremony of the Hemp Gallery. He was a lifelong advocate of cannabis legalization and many of his poems mention the plant. His impassioned readings and performances stirred and inspired Read more…
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