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Mike Tyson avoue avoir fumé un joint avant un combat

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Mike Tyson a admis avoir fumé de l’herbe juste avant son combat d’exhibition contre Roy Jones Jr en Californie.

Un combat de huit rounds qui s’est terminé par un match nul !

Iron Mike s’est exprimé dernièrement sur sa consommation quotidienne de cannabis. Lors de la conférence de presse post-exposition, il a expliqué que cette routine n’avait pas changé même dans la préparation de son combat contre Roy Jones Jr. “Je fumais tous les jours”, a déclaré Tyson aux médias, selon un reportage sur BadLeftHook.com. “Je n’ai jamais arrêté de fumer.” Les journalistes ont ensuite demandé à Mike s’il fumait juste avant un combat. “Absolument, oui”, a répondu l’ancien champion incontesté des poids lourds.

“C’est juste qui je suis, cela n’a aucun effet sur moi d’un point de vue négatif”, a ajouté Tyson. “C’est juste ce que je fais, ce que je suis et comment je vais mourir. Il n’y a pas d’explication, il n’y a pas de début, il n’y a pas de fin.”

Bien qu’il y ait eu des tests de dépistage de drogue VADA dans la préparation de l’événement, le cannabis – qui est légal en Californie – ne figurait apparemment pas sur la liste des substances interdites. Tyson a expliqué qu’à ses yeux, ce n’est certainement pas un médicament améliorant la performance.

En 2016, Tyson, aujourd’hui âgé de 54 ans, a créé sa propre société, Tyson Holistic Holdings, à travers laquelle il vend une gamme de produits  à base de cannabis. Le Tyson Ranch, hôtel de luxe de 164 hectares dédié au cannabis lui rapporte aujourd’hui environ 500 000 $ par mois.

Meet Maximillian White : le milliardaire du cannabis médical

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Maximillian White, un homme d’affaires britannique, est sur le point de devenir milliardaire grâce au cannabis médical 

Des allures de star pour la télé réalité : chemise finement coupée, jean bien taillé, tatouages bien dessinés. A première vue Maximillian White cache bien son jeu et pourtant, pour ses 40 ans, l’homme d’affaire a eu l’idée de s’offrir 40 hectares de cannabis au Portugal pour le produire à des fins médical. Quatre ans après (décidément ce chiffre 4) , Maximillian compte plusieurs clients à travers le monde et emploie des centaines de personnes. 

S’adressant au Daily Star, Maximillian a déclaré: “Pour moi, ce n’est pas une question d’argent, c’est une question de vision. Tout le cannabis que nous vendons est médical. Il peut aider les personnes atteintes de psoriasis, de sclérose en plaques, de convulsions et d’innombrables autres choses. “

«Nos plus grandes plantations sont au Portugal, mais nous en avons également en Afrique pour la qualité. Nous allons également organiser des retraites de spa où nous pouvons analyser les gens et créer une souche de marijuana pour tout ce qui se passe dans leur corps. «Nous allons cultiver beaucoup de cannabis, environ 1,5 milliard d’euros par an.»

Il est vrai que l’argent, Max n’est pas à quelques euros près. Après avoir quitté Nottingham pour Majorque afin de devenir DJ dans la vingtaine, Maximillian a co-fondé une maison de disques et a ensuite investi dans Beatport. Aujourd’hui, Maximillian possède  une collection de vins d’une valeur de 30 millions de livres sterling, 50 maisons à Dubaï et des propriétés en Thaïlande, en Espagne et au Royaume-Uni ainsi qu’une flotte de plus de 20 véhicules de luxe. Il compte 4 millions d’abonnés sur son compte Instagram «thatboyyouhate», où il partage ses instants de vie…

Selon des récentes recherches , l’industrie du cannabis médical devrait valoir 73,6 milliards de dollars (55,3 milliards de livres sterling) d’ici 2027. Au Royaume-Uni, on pense que l’industrie vaudra 2,4 milliards de livres sterling d’ici 2024. Alors oui, on peut le dire : Maximillian a misé sur le bon cheval 

Klay Thompson rebondit dans le commerce de weed pour sportifs.

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Le basketteur Klay Thompson, associé à Alex Morgan, Paul Rodriguez et Travis Pastrana, vient de lancer « Just Live », soit une ligne de produits au CBD destinée aux sportifs. Un panier gagnant et un joli pied de nez de la part du joueur star des Warriors arrêté en 2011 pour possession de cannabis.

C’est lors d’une rééducation après la rupture d’un ligament croisé en 2019 que Klay Thompson a découvert plus précisément le cannabidiol (CBD) molécule qui lui permettra une rapide convalescence. Question weed, l’arrière des Warriors de San Francisco s’y connaissait pourtant bien, puisque le jeune homme de 30 ans tâtait déjà abonnement de la chose, mais plutôt sa version planante, celle avec force THC et moult effets drôles.
Une passion pour la ganja qui lui valu une arrestation pour consommation, lors d’une soirée organisée pour fêter la victoire des Warriors contre les Cougars de Houston, nous sommes en 2011.

9 ans et une révolution cannabique plus tard,  Klay Thompson va continuer de déclarer sa flamme pour la belle plante, mais avec un business plan et un cannabis qui serait cultivée sur mesure pour les sportifs.
Plus question de  weed  taillée pour des  soirées-fumette-pompette autour de la table basse, l’idée est  d’utiliser les propriétés de la ganja pour la récupération après entraînement ou en cas de blessures.
Lancée avec d’autres figure A-list du monde sportif  comme la footballeuse Alex Morgan, le skater Paul Rodriguez et le pilote moto Travis Pastrana, la marque « Just Live » propose uniquement des produits contenant du CBD  et très peu de THC.
« Après ma blessure et considérant la direction que je souhaite donner à ma carrière, la façon avec laquelle je veux me préparer en dehors des matches et séances d’entraînement ; utiliser un produit sain pour me soulager (le cannabis NDLR) plutôt  que des opioïdes ou des médicaments s’est naturellement imposé. »
 « Cela m’aide à dormir. Je dors huit heures par nuit désormais, et j’en ai besoin. Cela aide mes performances aussi, ainsi que pour mes douleurs corporelles que j’avais au quotidien. » explique Klay dans le dossier de presse qui accompagne le lancement de « Just Live »

https://vimeo.com/472422361

Le triple champion (et toujours THC aficionados à ces heures perdues) est conscient d’une certaine image négative que peut colporter l’herbe et des inquiétudes de certains à voir des sportifs et athlètes de haut niveau en faire la promotion. Son autre mission: casser les préjugés.
« La stigmatisation vient du fait que c’est une “drogue” que l’on fume. Mais il y a tellement de formes différentes, que ce n’est pas obligatoire de le fumer. Ça peut être de la crème, des comprimés ou de la lotion. C’est une façon naturelle de soigner les athlètes de haut niveau, et d’un point de vue personnel, c’est comme prendre de l’aspirine pour un mal de tête ou du paracétamol pour les courbatures. » Et pour les maux de tête d’une toute autre nature, il y a la ligne de weed de Santana, pour des performances  de (très) haut niveau.

Qui sont les Weedtubers ?

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Véritable rock-stars du Web, les Weedtubers sont des Youtubers spécialisés dans… la weed. Conseils, tests, défis, astuces, il y en a pour tous les goûts et tous les viewers.

Le Weedtuber est un amateur de weed éclairé qui a du temps libre et une mission :  normaliser le cannabis au travers de contenus originaux, drôles et pertinents. Sur les chaines de ces critiques chevronnés de la beuh, on trouvera des tests de produits, des recettes et conseils (comment rouler un joint, faire un space cake) et beaucoup de challenges à la Jackass. C’est à MarijuanaMan2 que l’on l’on doit les premiers segment du genre.
Le canadien de 50 ans, qui se revendique comme le godfather des  Weedtubeur, a commencé sa planante carrière sur Yahoo! dans les années 90, avant de se poser sur la planète YouTube en 2005.

MarijuanaMan2

Si sa chaine est aujourd’hui désactivée pour avoir franchement franchi la ligne d’un certain bon goût, MarijuanaMan2 aura eu le temps de professer sa verte parole et faire des émules.

Ces segments Youtube étant interdites aux moins de 18 ans, il vous faudra double clicker sur les liens ci-dessous

Pour ceux qui ont la chance d’habiter dans des pays/État où le cannabis est légalisé, les Weedtubers ont trouvé refuge sur  plateforme Weedtubers.com.

Dans la grande famille des  Weedtuber, on retiendra Joel Hradecky, plus connu sous le nom de  CustomGrow420 . Depuis son premier poste, il cumule près de  2,5 million de viewers.

Joel divertit ses adeptes avec des vidéos de déballage et de révision de produits à grande vitesse, ainsi que des défis de fumée Sa vidéo la plus regardée montre un Joel sur le point de prendre 2 énormes taffs d’un bang colossal baptisé. «Le briseur de poumon – 30 pouces de malheur».  7 minutes de vidéo qui totalisent 145 millions de vues. Des chiffres qui en disent longs sur la passion vouée à l’herbe par les milléniums. Si les réseaux sociaux sont la vitrine de notre société, peut-être arriveront-ils à dédiaboliser le cannabis dans les pays où il est encore interdit.

 

This Is Tony Greenhand, The Guy Who Rolls Thousand-Dollar Joints

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Tony Greenhand makes smokable art in the shape of Pokemon, comic figures, life-size gold necklaces, and guns. With almost 400k followers on Instagram and his own TV show, Tony is a real-life weed celebrity. But his joints haven’t always been so elaborate. 

“The first joint I ever rolled was a disgrace. It was all wet and goopy. So I bought an ounce of weed and rolled for an entire weekend at a house party until I got good at it.”
That was over 15 years ago.
Today, Tony Greenhand rolls the most intricate and detailed joints on the planet.
Tony’s artwork can take the shape of a 24k smokable necklace or a 2-ounce Samurai with sheathing swords; there’s almost no task too big, challenging, or outright crazy for Tony to handle.
“I once tried to roll a 42-pound Statue of Liberty joint,” he recalls. “It was 9ft tall and stood on a custom metal frame with a fan at the base.”
Unfortunately, Tony never made it to the festival he’d built the joint for and ended up taking it apart and turning the flower into oil.
“I couldn’t find another venue that would let me smoke out a crowd with a 42-pound joint. People debated that it was a fire hazard or might be enough to kill someone,” he laughs.
There’s something about Tony’s big, hearty laugh that immediately makes you drop your guard. Although we’d never met, I felt like I was having a conversation with one of my high-school smoking buddies.

In 2016, Tony created his infamous world-record-winning 4.2-pound watermelon joint..

 

“I can’t remember that entire year due to that thing,” Tony laughs again. “We roasted marshmallows over it, which to this day is probably one of my favorite joint experiences,” he says.
Some of his other most recognized pieces include Mike Tyson, The Kraken, and an AK47. One of his latest creations is a Bulbasaur which, complete with flower-covered vine whips and concealable wooden crutch, looks more like a prized collector’s figurine than a joint.


But behind each Greenhand creation is a special design process that’s aimed at maximizing airflow to create a fluid smoking experience.
However, Tony is humble enough to admit that his joints don’t always burn as evenly as he’d like.
“When you roll something that’s complex like this, there are gonna be some mistakes, just because of the way that heat moves, how people handle the joint, and the way they hit it,” he says.
“And people usually want to hit the shit out of a joint like this. So they let out all their air and Snoop Dogg puff it into oblivion. A lot of people have lead fingers, too. I don’t know why, but they crab claw everything when they should be handling this shit like a baby,” he laughs.

There’s a lot more to Tony than his joints; he’s acted in films and on TV, runs his own seed company, and has been breeding and growing cannabis for over 10 years in Washington and Oregon.
Together with his girlfriend Courtney (who he met through an Instagram contest giving away one of his custom joints), Tony is living proof that the stoner-cliche is complete horseshit.

In 2017, he was cast for Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.
With no acting experience, Tony suddenly found himself sharing the set with Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Kim Gordon, and Jack Black.
“I took the experience a lot like when I roll one of my joints, and I just didn’ think too much about it,” Tony says.
“I didn’t think of the other actors as who they were, I just thought of who they were on the show. So I was a complete dick to Jonah Hill just because my character didn’t like him,” he laughs.
Two years after shooting for Gus Van Sant, Tony received an offer to film a TV show for Quibi titled Let’s Roll with Tony Greenhand in which he designs elaborate joints for celebrity weed lovers like Hannibal Burress, Nikki Glaser, and Blake Anderson. 

Right now, he’s in lockdown in his home in San Bernardino County, in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
“It’s absolute hell. I walk outside and it’s 112 degrees (44°C); I might step on a fucking scorpion; I might get a radiation warning on my phone; there might be an earthquake; there might be a sandstorm; there could be a fucking Black Widow in my shoe in the morning. I could literally go on for an hour about all the weird, terrible shit that’s out here,” he laughs again.
“On top of that, everybody looks like they’ve just come out of a methadone clinic, all burnt to a crisp like the last chip in a bag with no will to live. Everyone’s a fucking zombie out here.”

 But it’s not only the weather, scorpions, and zombies that Tony’s having trouble adjusting to.
“Hollywood is so fake. And I end up telling everyone ‘cause I’m stoned and I don’t have a filter. I don’t really mesh with the people out here; they are too worried about what people think and not worried enough about how they are.” This time, his laugh has a little nervous edge to it.
It seems that his brutal honesty is exactly what’s brought Tony so far, despite the fact that he still hasn’t managed to come to terms with selling his artwork. 

“I don’t even care about my business. I just do it for me. And for me, making joints and giving them to people, and creating that moment for them is invaluable. A few hundred dollars doesn’t make it more valuable for me, it just kinda fucks up the whole vibe.”  Just do it, Tony.

And although the current COVID-19 pandemic has brought Tony’s joint-rolling and TV show to a standstill, he’s happy for the downtime to be at home with Courtney, his dogs, and his garden.
“I’m just trying to chill for a minute and focus on my genetics. I might also go back to working on my movie script, which I haven’t worked on for some time”.
So next time you see Tony’s name in the credits, it might be for more than just acting and rolling.

 

 

 

Haroun Tazieff: le chaud portrait lavé d’Antoine de Caunes.

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En promotion pour la sortie de son livre “La prévision des séismes”, Haroun Tazieff est reçu en 1989 dans l’émission “Nulle part ailleurs”. Une occasion pour l’hilarant et trublion Antoine de Caunes  de brosser un explosif portrait  du vulcanologue qui dès les années 70 tenta  d’alerter l’opinion publique de la progression d’un réchauffement climatique causé par l’homme. Un grand moment de télévision que nous nous devions de partager afin de rendre hommage au plus bouillant et visionnaire des scientifiques polonais.

 

Arjan Roskam, the weed king.

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In 2001 Arjan Roskam became the self-proclaimed « King of Cannabis » – a title no-one ever tried to take from this 38 Cannabis Cup winner. Whereas 40 years ago he was homeless, nowadays, he is a Ganja business multimillionaire and is also known as the creator of the last three decades’ most remarkable weed strains. The path has made his very respected, even by his critics. Here’s the portrait of the dutch Weed giant

Arjan is 16 years old when he smokes his first joint. We are in 1981, in an Amsterdam that counts only 10 coffee shops. « We used to smoke anything we could find because we were young and we didn’t know any better. Anyway, there was only Morrocan or Afghan (hash) available on the menu. From time to time, some Jamaican or red-threads Thai (grass), but it was way too expensive », Roskam remembers.

In 1983, Arjan is travelling to Thailand with some friends. For some reason, the young man ends up in a small village near the Burmese border. « When I was there, I met a 78 year old man who treated heroin addicts with Ganja. There was a serious issue with heroin in Thailand, I myself tried some. This doctor had me try Indica infusions that were made to treat junkies’ withdrawal. »

« Seven days later, while I was packing to leave, he took my hand and placed five seeds in my palm. Then he looked into my eyes, and said solemnly : « keep those seeds. A few years from now, they will make governments fall apart. »
The Thai episode and the shaman’s prophecy would haunt Arjan until he got back to the Netherlands, two years later. Back in Holland, Arjan starts growing different marijuana strains, some donated by his friends, others gathered while travelling (in Thailand, Nepal or other south-est Asian regions). Bad call. Whenever they buy weed, coffee-shops are exclusively interested in imported strains such as Thai, Mexican Sensemilla or Jamaican grass. Indoor strains are only at their beginning and at best considered as a saturday night eccentricity. With quite a low THC content compared to hash and a considerably higher price, Weed only represents 10% of cannabis sales. Without worry, Arjan kept seeing the city in green despite Amsterdam’s people only smoking hash. He continues to frantically grow his Haze in a godforsaken greenhouse out of town, enhancing its quality by the harvests.

Between 1987 and 1989, Roskam keeps adding Coffeeshop owners to his phonebook. He gives them samples, then comes back the next morning… Quickly coming to understand that he’s not welcome there. « I showed up with something new, but they called it cat-piss. People weren’t used to it ». No-one being prescient in the Netherlands, Arjan had to deal with rejection and humiliation for two years.

« Long story short, I had no money, I had nothing. My wife and I were poor. Very poor. At some points, we were so broke that we lived in the street », confesses Roskam, whereas he is now a multimillionaire. The soon-to-be entrepreneur and his wife, Celeste, end up cruising all over Amsterdam’s center, going from petty jobs to petty jobs.« I had a good friend whose sister, Martha, owned four bars. Fancy places where all the thespians, musicians, members of the gay community, artists, and painters from Amsterdam used to hang out. » Thanks to Martha’s financial support, Roskam, still without a dime, opens The Green House in January 1992. A Coffee shop doomed to stay clientele-free for more than a year.

From 9am to 1am, Roskam spends his days lying on the store’s couch, smoking, depressed, and waiting for customers that still wouldn’t come. « On high days, I would sell maybe the equivalent of 25 dollars of beers and coffees », Roskam remembers. We are in spring 1992. Worried that no- one would ever walk through the Green House Coffee shop’s door, his partner-investor Martha gives up only three month after opening the business. « I had more than 120 000€ debts that I couldn’t pay, and a rent that I couldn’t pay as well. So I had to borrow a shitload of money from a friend in order to keep going ».

Things continue like this until a day in January 1993 when a big limo parked in front of the Green House’s door. Inside the limo a now deceased Kennedy family member was intrigued by the place. « I had no idea who he was or who those people were. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even know about the High Times’ very existence. » (the title had been redeemed by the Kennedy family). « They told me that they had heard about an unusual weed I sold, and asked if I wanted to participate to a contest happening in early November. I answered – sure, why not ? I had nothing to lose. And then, the limo went on its way ». That November, one afternoon, Arjan got a big surprise : without any obvious cause, a crowd of roughly 500 people gradually show up at Arjan’s Coffee shop. « I couldn’t understand, I hadn’t advertised in any way nor had I offered any type of discount, I even thought it was some kind of scam or a bad joke from other bud-tenders ». The next day, 700 customers came, 800 the day after…

« As a matter of fact, I had won the Cannabis Cup. But I was so out of my mind with my Ganja farming and my money issues that I had completely forgotten about the contest. And to be honest, at first when the Kennedys told me about it, I thought this whole thing was kind of a joke and a quite dodgy one at that. Anyway, long story short, there were 7 rewards to win, and I won all 7 ! Of course, with so many international TV stations looking, it was my glory day. And I wasn’t even there, I was on my sofa, in my coffee shop, freaking out. »

« En fait, j’avais  gagné la Cannabis Cup. Mais j’étais tellement à côté de mes pompes, dans mes cultures de ganja et mes problèmes de fric,  que j’avais complètement oublié cette compétition. Et pour tout dire, au début quand les Kennedy m’en ont parlé,  je croyais que c’était un peu bidon et louche, cette affaire. Bref, pour faire court, il y avait en fait 7 récompenses en lice et j’ai gagné 7 trophées! Évidemment, avec autant de télés internationales, c’était mon heure de gloire. Et je n’étais même  pas là, j’étais sur mon sofa,  dans mon café,  en train de flipper. »

« King of Cannabis »
Three years later, given this dazzling success and after Arjan won three more Cannabis cups, the High Times magazine select him for its July cover. Seeing her husband breaking into the Ganja- aficionados’ bible, Celeste says laughing that he became the « king of cannabis ». Arjan himself would adopt this silly nickname a few years later. To this day, nobody has tried to claim his crown or his title. The reason for this is that, in addition to his 38 Cannabis cup wins, he has also won 20 Highlife trophies and plenty other awards. Amongst the most hailed strains he found during his botanic journeys were the Super Silver Haze, the Hawaiian Snow, the Arjan’s Ultra Haze, the Super Lemon Haze, the Himalayan Gold, the White Rhino, the White Widow, the Great White Shark, the Doctor, the Trainwreck, the Church, and the latest Flowerbomb Kush.

High Times 237 May 1995

From 1995 to 2005, Roskam works in the education field, giving classes that bring attention to canna-business related issues. « I was training policemen, public officials, judges, prosecutors,… people who would have put me in jail twenty years ago » says Roskam with amusement. This Ganja-entrepreneur deeply cares about getting rid of the numerous wrong judgements about cannabis. Simply because Arjan Roskam is, in spite of what his critics and rivals say, passionate about Weed and gives himself the duty of evangelizing Weed’s benefits to the world as well as the necessity to legalize its consumption.

While in the Congo, where he went to shoot « Strain Hunters », Roskam, unfortunately, had the opportunity to make his point: « you have kids there who have malnutrition. Hemp oil and seeds are very, very important to these kids who often have nothing else to eat… It’s the ignorance, the idiocy of those politicians who live only by electoral deadlines, of narrow-minded Christians, of stuck-up catholics, of the pharmaceutical lobby, of alcohol industry – they are responsible for the wrong ideas people have about cannabis » Roskam says with intensity, affirming that in Vietnam, they use hemp to clean up soils contaminated with agent orange.

Reading this, we may understand why this dutchman doesn’t only make friends. But so far, after researching, we found out that indeed, hemp does absorb and filter the toxic defoliant spread by the American army during the Vietnam war and allows the land, at the end of its cycle (2 to 6 months), to be workable and harmless to humans and animals.

Roskam also built a charitable foundation (his critics and sore losers would say only for taxation purposes), in order to help the most deprived people in Africa and Asia, and in such an elegant way : on Arjan’s demand, this charity work is barely mentioned over his website or anywhere in general. Two years ago, Roskam’s team also created a factory in the Congo to feed 250 families and about 700 kids. The King declared : « We are going to produce medicine for the Congolese population, since the government seems to fail to do so ».

At the beginning of the year, Roskam teamed up with Canopy Growth and Organa Brands to introduce his brand, Green House, into the retail trade’s landscape in Canada. Now that autumn is

settling, Roskam and his team are completing a large factory in Canada. « We just acquired the first open-air licence in Ontario’s history, in Canada », he explains. « We are extending our factory and will produce 12 tons of premium Ganja over the next year, growing in the sun, as it should ». For it is the dutch expertise that the Canadians are looking for. And who could train them better than the King of Cannabis ?

Arjan’s goal in Canada is to offer the public quality and quantity at the same time, and therefore Weed at more reasonable prices than it currently is. « I am 54 years old, and will only retire on my death bed. If everything goes right, you will keep seeing me for 30 years. Now that legalization is being discussed in Europe, the adventure may really begin ».

Long live the King !

Alexis

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