Choogle On with Uncle Weed

A hemp-ed up guide to conscious travel in Japan as Uncle Weed (on the hoof) waxes nostalgic about backcountry squatting in abandoned villages with graves with offerings, wild mushrooms and counter-culture festivals.

He relays practical tips on getting around the islands, finding hidden cannabis culture and exploring the natural beauty from sacred sites and hemp fields in Shikoku to high in the Nagano Mountains to wild ganja harvest in Hokkaido – features some unique Okinawan folk music. 

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Ikimasho! Japanese Mountain Satori Time – Choogle on #48 (.mp3, 15:34, 14MB)

More on this topic:  

Clearinghouse of Hemp in Japan info Hemp Culture in Japan – Hemp in Japan Photo Gallery Hemp Culture in Japan (.pdf) – a 1992-7 ground-breaking treatise on the history and cultural significance of hemp in Japan. Hemp Culture in Japan is available in .html or .pdf. For alternate versions, visit Taima.org, a site dedicated to Hemp in Japan.

Published in Cannabis Culture magazine (#13 & Best of …), the Journal of International Hemp Association (V.4 N.1) as well as excerpted in several books including Hemp Horizons, Hemp for Victory and “Hanp” from Norway. Zen Rambling in Japan in Heads (VOL.6 ISS.04: The Travel/Japan Issue)

Uncleweed on Dopefiend’s Dopecast #80 (spieling on more about Japan and other countries)

cover art:  snaps by Uncle Weed, Tottori and Nagano, Nihon 1992

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On a rainyday porch, Uncle Weed and Herr Funboy field test and rate a Vapo-Cannon Vaporizer, pimp Heads magazine and UW’s Tokes on the Porch blog and offering bribes and shout outs to iTunes reviewers before moving onto a session with a prancing horse hookah from Baghdad while sampling Renee, Lui, and Sugar Mango, Bubble Gum and other fine BC ganja. 

Fire up Vapo Hookah Royal Sampler – Choogle on #47 (.mp3, 25:07, 23MB)

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Bonus: Tokes on the Porch blog thanks to Lt. Magnum

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Photos by Victoria Potter – art’ed up by Uncle Weed Music: Two Gallants “Feels Like Home to Me”

An extended length (ideal for summertime listening) features a late night walk around the heart of London Town with rambling topics from public drunkeness, Cleopatra’s Obelisk, party boats, Shakespeare’s Globe theater, Internet kiosks, Sir Drake’s Golden Hind, The Clink Jail, Millennium, Black Friars and Tower bridges, Cornish pasties, take away falafels, cellar temperature ales, Dali art, Falklands naval veterans, CCTV cameras, miscellaneous wars, royal largess, overfilled hotel baths and a spontaneous fire in Piccadilly. 

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Grab ahold of London Town Wander Night – Choogle on #46 (.mp3, 54:39, 50MB – and worth it!)

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Rolling on in NYC, Uncle Weed gets the full Manhattan street-level tour from the Meat Packing District stumbling upon a band in a bubble to Greenwich Village for tasty falafels with savory accessories, a haunted speakeasy with rich literary history plus the only house on the island.

Finally, thoughtful comparison on CBC’s The Trailer Park Boys (caution Flash) as the modern-day equivalent of (classic Canadian TV programme) Beachcombers. 

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Roll on with NYC Speakeasy Stroll ~ Choogle On! #45 (21:10, 20MB, .mp3)

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While camping at Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island last summer, Uncle Weed launches into a lengthy discourse about noted logging blockades in 1993 and talks about meditations on hemp, non-violence, compassion, clearcuts, ecology and economics of forestry and comments on a looming water shortage in Tofino (to be continued …). 

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Get your hands on Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback ~ Choogle On! #44 (39:03, .mp3, 54MB)

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On a rainy Sunday, Uncle Weed visits Happy Vappy‘s designer and entrepreneur Ferdinand at his workshop in commercial East Vancouver.

They discuss reasons for using a herbal vaporizer for enjoy ganja as well as his inspiration for his business, new improvements to the Happy Vappy, why the Vappy is handy for medical patients, what’s up with convection and temperature control plus useful Vaporizer use and maintenance tips. 

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Warm up with Happy Sunday with the Vappy Man ~ Choogle On! #43 (.mp3, 11:04, 15MB)

Music: “My Children, Be Joyful” Rock Plaza Central are we not horses (2006, CD)

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Out n’ about on London double-decker buses and underground tube to hook up for tea and joints with ethneo-pundit Max Freakout in counter-culture haven Camden Town to chat about markets and psychedelics (salvia divinorum, DMT, psilocybin) and reminiscing about two glorious summers of fungi legality in the UK.

Plus Brighton flashbacks with The Dopefiend discoursing on royals and morals and Max’s accounts of anarchist rallies and heavy handed actions by the coppers and parliamentary war-mongers. 

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Watch your head for: Anarchy and Fungi in the UK ~ Choogle On! #42 (.mp3, 24:28, 22MB)

Tripper’s Paradise: Hampstead Heath – Wikipedia, Hampstead Heath – City of London, Hampstead Heath enthusiast site

Music:  

“High Times” (.mp3) from “New Moon” by Elliott Smith – Kill Rock Stars Buy at Kill Rock Stars

Father Yod, YaHoWha 13 and the Source Family / See: Process Media – Source Family music

Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the UK” The Ukrainians “Anarchy in the UK Sex Pistols “L’Anarchie”

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