Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Here's What The Tea Party Is REALLY Saying


"Don't Tread On Me."

Instead, tread on: the poor, the unemployed, the uninsured, the gays, the Muslims, the Hispanics, the lower/working classes, the liberals and progressives, basically, everybody but us, because we're rich and white.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Friday, August 26, 2011

Hurricane Irene, Meet Biological Weapons Facility.


There are some very good reasons to hope the current predictions of Hurricane Irene weakening are true.

One of these is the fact that a U.S. government biological weapons facility, Plum Island, is in the direct path of the storm.

Note that this disquieting fact has so far escaped the attention of our mainstream media.



Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Washington Farmer's Market: Power To The Patients

Photo by Tony Wells


I'm convinced this is the future of medical marijuana access.

I love the Washington Farmer's Market, and what a beautiful place to hold it on the day this was filmed -- Hoodsport is a gorgeous little town.

The type of patient empowerment represented by farmer's markets like this is a beautiful thing.

Big kudos to the incredible Sarena Haskins for bringing safe access to patients who would otherwise suffer. Thanks to the rockin' Tony Wells for the video!

Monday, August 22, 2011

Forty Seconds of My Hempfest Speech


SAM_0507 a video by finkmoney on Flickr.

Thanks to finkmonkey for the footage!

Monday, August 15, 2011

OK, Now I'm Impressed.

Michele Bachmann eats a foot-long corn dog at the Iowa State Fair... her masterful technique is undeniably a thing of terrible beauty.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

This Bong Hit's For You, China.


The People's Republic of China had never really done anything for me until this week.

But then, man oh man, did they make up for lost time!

They refused to do the binding on my upcoming cannabis book, The Little Black Book of Marijuana, thus starting a tsunami of publicity that money couldn't have bought for the tome.

Thank you, China!

The Atlantic Wire: Chinese Censors Prohibit Printing of U.S. Pot Writer's Book

Seattle Weekly: China Censors Seattle Weekly Columnist Steve Elliott's New Book, Throwing Off Worldwide Distribution By Weeks

The Weed Blog: China Censors The Printing Of Marijuana Activist Steve Elliott's New Book

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Little Black Book of Marijuana Rises 600,000 Spots Overnight At Amazon


I'll take it as a good sign that my book The Little Black Book of Marijuana: The Essential Guide to Cannabis, which prints Monday, August 1, 2011, rose 649,000 spots on Amazon's rankings overnight.

(First screen shot above, taken the night of July 30; second screen shot taken the morning of July 31.)

The book ranked #692,613 on July 30, and had risen to #43,694 on July 31.

Grab it at Amazon, at BarnesandNoble.com, or at your favorite local independent bookstore -- it's available worldwide. If they don't have it, they can get it!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Y'all Gotta See My New Checks


I'm not a check-using person. Normally, I conduct all my banking online. But since the IRS isn't into that type of thing, I was forced to cough up 40 bucks or so to buy a batch of the old-fashioned, paper kind.

So, I think, "Hell. Might as well get some cool ones."

Oh, about that "So many weeds, so little time" slogan. They offered a whole slew of slogans to choose from, divided up into categories. So I went straight (OK, I went stoned) to the "Gardening" section and found that one, supposedly intended for the "pulling weeds OUT of my garden" variety of gardener instead of the "planting weed IN my garden" variety...

Monday, June 20, 2011

Six Weeks Until 'The Little Black Book of Marijuana'

Little Black Book of Marijuana - Peter Pauper 2011 catalog

My book, The Little Black Book of Marijuana: The Essential Guide to the World of Cannabis is coming out in August.

As listed in the current catalog of Peter Pauper Press:

This concise guide to cannabis provides the essentials of cultivating, using, and cooking with weed; identifying the many varieties of pot; and understanding legal and health issues. This Little Black Book also delves into pot culture and history, from Herodotus to the hippies, from the rise of the medical marijuana movement to decriminalization. Includes full-color photographs of marijuana varieties. Steve Elliott is a journalist and editor of the Village Voice Media blog Toke of the Town: Cannabis Culture News and Views.

What I have to add to that is that, given the size constraint of 20,000 words, I packed in as much cannabis lore as I possibly could! And had a great time doing it.

You can pre-order The Little Black Book of Marijuana at Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and just about every major retailer, as well as at your local independent bookstore.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Toke of the Town and My Opinions


  • Soccermanic12990 Today 12:57 PM
    "Why should they care if you pursue one method of treatment -- a natural, non-toxic herb -- over harsh pharmaceuticals?",
    I love the articles TOT has on their front page, but its the unnecessary added opinions that make this stuff comparable to Fox news. Yes, marijuana is on the whole rather safe. Yes, some pharmas have harsh side effects. But please, report the news and not your opinions. Ill rely on Fox and the like when I want my daily dose of subjective journalism.
  • Soccermanic, let's look at the top of this webpage together.

    There -- right under where it says "TOKE OF THE TOWN," there's something I want you to see.

    Right after where it says "Cannabis Culture News," there are two more words -- I can hardly make them out, and I guess you couldn't see them either.

    Here, let me squint real hard and see if I can read them -- YES!!

    "and Views"! those are the words!

    "Cannabis Culture News AND VIEWS"!!!!!!!

    Do you know what "Views" are? Yeah -- those are also known as OPINIONS!

    Oh, and "Thanks for your input."
:-)

Toke of the Town: American Express Classifies Medical Marijuana With Online Porn

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Cannabis March and Rally in Seattle Saturday, May 14


Cannabis Freedom March 2011

Seattle

This Saturday, May 14

Rally and March from Volunteer Park to Westlake Park

Live music, speakers, and activism in motion.

It will begin with a rally at Volunteer Park at 11 a.m., with live music until noon followed by speakers from noon unti 1 p.m.

The march itself will begin at 1 p.m. at Volunteer Park marching to Westlake Park and arriving at 2 p.m.

At Westlake the rally will continue with speakers from 2-3:30 p.m. then more live music from 3:30-5 p.m.

Please join us in ending the prohibition against cannabis.

For more information:

email: cannabisfreedommarch@gmail.com

call: 206 618 6458

Follow: www.twitter.com/cannabisfreedom

Blog: http://maryjanesgirl.com/Cannabis_Freedom_March.php