The Koos Zwart Award 2015 goes to Ben Dronkers On Sunday the 14th of June 2015 the 7th Cannabis Liberation Day took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During this festival the founder of Sensi Seeds, Ben Dronkers, was honoured with the Koos Zwart Award; an annual recognition for activists who Read more…
2015 IC 420 Growers Cup Founded in 2004, and held in Amsterdam, the IC 420 Cup is one of the oldest annual cannabis award shows in the world. These are the winners of the Amsterdam 420 IC Growers Cup 2015! Coffeeshop Cup 1st Nicole by toewmalijn 2nd SuperLemonHaze by Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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