otto mayer1
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Hello everybody! I come from Brazil to learn from you! Great forum you guys have here.
When I was in my early teens aparently I was a bit of a handfull at school....I was quick to learn at the British boarding school which I attended from just 8 years of age untill I was 12 and I was actually getting some of the best grades for my age in the school.....but then I had to leave because I refused a hydrocortisone injection for child rheumatism in my leg (I had been injected before and it was such a frightening and painfull memory) and ran away from the school because they had tried to force this upon me.....so I was a runaway boy......and they said that I was maladjusted because I always questioned authority and resisted when authority wanted to do anything with me.
I was hyperactive and became very anti-establisment as I learned more about my monarchistic/autocratic/psudo democratic society. I was placed in a 'comprehensive' school in the 2nd year of senior school and was completely bored by it because the standard of education was so much higher at the boarding school I had left, so for 2 years I knew most all of what the teachers were teaching in the comprehensive school and this bored me even more......It bored me to distraction....and I withdrew into my own world of learning what I was interested in........
They sent me to see a shrink after the ring leader of the schools bullies set upon me and I promptly put him thru the cleaning cupboard door in defense and I was suspended from school....This shrink talked down to me like a child and prescribed some medicines that gave me adverse side effects, which made me sick......
Eventually after having to take these laboratory produced psychotropic chemicals for a few months I threw them all away..........but I was still hyper untill my brother shared that first hash joint with me.......and this calmed me down and put it all into perspective. I had found my medicine...... To this day nearly 30 years later I still use cannabis medicinally to control hyperactivity and also to mask the pain in my lower back more recently....
...I have been involved in the cannabis industry since I was 17 years old on a commercial basis and started growing at 18 years old in California....By the time I was in my twenties I was smuggling large ammounts of hash around Asia but at 25 years old I was caught smuggling just a little of my own medicine into England and jailed where I was attacked by some soccer hooligans and ended up in the psycho ward.....this just pissed me off and made me determined to try and make a change for the better concerning the draconian cannabis laws....... In my 30's I founded a headshop and seed company in England called 'Gypsy Nirvana' to start a cunning plan of Overgrowing the planet with good cannabis seeds.....two years later I opened a grow shop called 'Indoor Jungle Supplies' in the U.K. and two years after that I opened a cannabis seed gallery in Amsterdam Holland called Gypsy Nirvana/Seedsdirect.....
In two weeks I will have a copy of the charter edition of 'International Cannagraphic' in my hands....this is a magazine that I have spent 3 years bringing together. This will be a platform for all in the cannabis industry worldwide to network and gain knowledge about cannabis. I hope for it to become the cannabis industries International trade magazine........and it will be a place where we can have our say in the media.
....so if you ask me how important is marijuana in my life.....I would say VERY!
So glad I could read this very first thread of International Cannagraphic. Any News on Gypsies situation? If Obama would just de-list cannabis (marihuana), as a schedule one - controlled dangerous substance, which he has the complete power to do, the US indictment would dissolve. Looking forward to reading posts from Gypsy soon.
hey vlad,,,,Good evening, I'm from Essex. Not really just a Sir Ian Dury fan.
Nice to be here.
It can be changed by executive directive. Congress set up the list, but its the executive branch that decides what goes on the list.Please explain theoretically the steps president Obama could take to reclassify, assuming the folks who he says he has to compromise with just to walk through those big doors wouldn't totally object to, whenever you might have time. I would really like to know & if the two international treatys we signed requiring very much time to make changes, would matter?