I never really blog about my personal experiences on the Internet, unless it’s on my personal Facebook wall for all (whom I choose) to see. However, lately I have had some amazing adventures with my best friend and boss, Ajia Mae Moon, travelling this past summer to get highly medicated, enjoy pot recreationally, and speak at high events such as Seattle, Washington’s 24th Annual Hempfest and the 5th annual Prairie Medicinal Harvest Cup (PMHC) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Without a doubt one of the hardest things facing organizers who want to put on a cannabis judging event these days is finding a venue where people can smoke inside. With nearly every city in Canada having no-smoking bylaws it’s become an almost impossible task. In Saskatoon, the Prairie Medicinal Harvest Cup holds their three-day party at the downtown Odeon Event Centre, where for the last four years judges have been able to vaporize or dab inside but have had to go out to a tent in the alley to smoke joints or pipes.
I’ve been to quite a few marijuana cups, contests, and bowls — and one Ganja Games — as a judge, a member of the cannabis media, and as a competitor over the last fifteen years. I’ve even won a few trophies. While each event was a unique experience some stood out more than others. Here I’ll cover some of those events and why they’re memorable.
It was an exciting moment when I booked my flight from Winnipeg to Saskatoon to attend 2014’s annual Prairie Medicinal Harvest Cup (PMHC) and work the Three Happy Cats kiosk. After being a judge at the Kush Cup back in August, I couldn’t wait to judge cannabis strains from the Prairies.
The PMHC took place at the O’Brian’s Event Centre in downtown Saskatoon, the same location where it took place the year before so I was familiar with the grounds, which I found really comforting.
I have been fighting to end marijuana prohibition since June of 2007. To some, seven and a half years seems like only a drop in the bucket against over ninety years of legal oppression. But I still offer what I have and I will continue to fight for the end of this barbaric law.
