The links are in this order: Hemp industries, cultivation, legalisation campaigns and information on government linked drug running.
Hemp industries:
Hemp news is an occasional Irish web magazine covering hemp related stories as well as other articles of general interest on spiritual and environmental topics. Well worth a read.
Sensi Seeds is the website of a reputable, tax paying, Dutch cannabis seed business. Lots of information about cannabis seeds and growing.
Hemp Union is a hemp industry website, with information and links to other hemp sites.
Hemp cyber-farm Info on hemp.
Building with cannabis with French company Isochanvre.
Growing
Basic cannabis growing This is our own
guide, which we mentioned on the front page also. It's pretty good, if
you ask me.
Mel Frank
and Ed Rosenthal's Marijuana Grower's Guide Respect to the people who
posted this - it's the entire book, available for free. Lots of detail.
High
Times Cannabis Cultivation High times is a long runing US cannabis
magazine, and they have a good question and answer format for their growing
guide. The server too ages to respond when I used the site though.
Cannabis.com They claim to be
the most visited cannabis site on the web, and it might well be true. Various
links to cannabis growing resources.
New
Zeland Hemp Nice website. Included here because of an interesting,
obviously well informed discussion on outdoor growing of hemp (not marijuana).
Campaigns:
www.legalize.org is a global website linking cannabis legalisation groups around the world. There is an Irish cannabis mailing list which you can subscribe to via this website.
Julian Heicklen's home page This fellow is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Libertarian Party. He's not a toker as such, but as part of his belief that people should be permitted to have more freedom over their behaviour, he believes that canabis should be legalised. More to the point, every week for the last year or so, he publicly smokes a joint or two after making a little speech about legalisation and the need to break unjust laws. At first he was heavily harassed by police, hauled before the courts, and very briefly jailed a couple of times, but he knows the law, and fought back vigorously in the courts, filing charges against the police and judges. Now, there's usually a cop or two watching when he has his weekly toke, but they are leaving him alone. So he has effectively managed to legalise cannabis for his use, and the use of those who join his public smoke-ins. Interesting.
Jack Herer is the website of the writer of The Emperor wears no clothes, an excellent book on the cannabis plant. It takes a positive line on cannabis, just in case you were wondering....
Cannabis Research Library is exactly what it says it is.
Media Awareness Project A very large site with articles on drugs from all over the world.
MrNice is the website of
former multi squillionaire cannabis trader Howard Marks. His book, also
called Mr Nice, is very very funny. Afer spending a long time in
a US jail, Howard has turned to campaigning for legalisation and has regular
speaking tours in the UK.
Government drug running:
www.copvcia.com is the website of a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, who got so disgusted at drug smuggling by the Central Intelligence Agency that he started to campaign publicly against it.
www.narconews.com
is an excellent Mexican/US website carrying well researched articles on
the intersection of polictics and drugs. There's a amazing, and rather
funny, story of how, at the end of the Lewinsky affair, Clinton flew to
Mexico to hold an 'anti-drugs' summit with the new Mexican president. It
was billed as back to work time for the president, after the heavy mdia
scrutiny he had suffered. The summit was held on the ranch of a local billionaire.
This billionaire was the subject of major investigative series in
Mexico's third best selling paper, which concluded that he was up to his
neck in the drugs business.
The train deaths Two teenagers
are found dead on the railway tracks in rural Arkansas during Bill Clinton's
time as Governor. Six people with evidence linking the murders to government
protected drug trafficking are killed or disappear. It's a strange world.
But the inspiring struggle by the mother of one of the kids against the
cover-up proves that one person can make a difference.
www.ciadrugs.com is a good website for an introduction to the allegations that the US government is the worlds biggest drug dealer.
Drug Money Times Entertaining and mind blowing magazine with detailed articles on various aspects of the allegations that various top US polictical dynasties have been involved in drugs since at least the 1960s - and still are.
Cocaine
Importing Agency A vast array of articles taken from mainstream publications
on alleged US Government drug running. The sheer quantity of information
is boring as hell, but if you have any lingering doubts about who really
runs the drugs trade, this site will remove them.