Ras Garreth Prince's guest appearances

Ras Garreth Prince

Cannabis Economy

Afristar Cannabis Report 

Saul Kaye

Rick Trojan

Grover Norquist

Michael Bronstein

Tulsi Gabbard

John Davis

Tommy Chong

Henry Rollins

Jesse Ventura

Melissa Etheridge

Ethan Nadelmann

Marvin Washington

Ngaio Bealum

Jim Belushi

Keith Stroup

OwlTail

Clara Norell

We have two guests today: Ras Garreth Prince and Clara Norell. We begin by speaking with Ras Garreth Prince about the history of cannabis in South Africa and the tough battle to get where they are today: "Don't treat me worse than a tobacco smoker, or an alcohol drinker. That's what I'm asking for. I'm not asking for any privileges, I'm not asking for special treatment, just give me a chance to compete fairly, that's all that I'm asking for." Clara Norell, co-founder and CEO of Nordiska Hampa Kompaniet, joins us for a discussion on hemp in Sweden: "We want to create a network of farmers in Sweden. Also, be a main supplier of a high quality, effective, for example, food production. Later on, in a long perspective, for fiber, for textiles, for building material, and for bio-plastics."

We have two guests today: Ras Garreth Prince and Clara Norell. We begin by speaking with Ras Garreth Prince about the history of cannabis in South Africa and the tough battle to get where they are today: "Don't treat me worse than a tobacco smoker, or an alcohol drinker. That's what I'm asking for. I'm not asking for any privileges, I'm not asking for special treatment, just give me a chance to compete fairly, that's all that I'm asking for." Clara Norell, co-founder and CEO of Nordiska Hampa Kompaniet, joins us for a discussion on hemp in Sweden: "We want to create a network of farmers in Sweden. Also, be a main supplier of a high quality, effective, for example, food production. Later on, in a long perspective, for fiber, for textiles, for building material, and for bio-plastics."

Ep. 511: Ras Garreth Prince and Clara Norell

Nicholas Heinamann from the Afristar Cannabis Report talks to Ras Garreth Prince one of the parties that won the landmark constitutional court ruling that the personal use of cannabis is not a criminal offense.Garreth is a campaigner and champion for cannabis at the forefront of the struggle to free cannabis to benefit all South Africans for two decades. We traverse his history with the plant and his campaigns to see cannabis legalised in South Africa exploring  how we can get the plant to work for the empowerment of our people on a material and spiritual level. "I am not apologetic for using cannabis. As an indigenous person of South Africa I would rather practice the culture of my ancestors as opposed to adopting that of those who came to colonize" "There was never any scientific or rational basis for having any laws against cannabis just as there was never any scientific or rational basis for slavery or racial segregation, those laws existed because the protagonist could do it""The human rights violation has been for the past 300 hundred years because there has been a tendency to consider the practices and traditions of the former slaves as inferior to those of the slave master. The tendency to accept that is one of the diseases of our time"Ras Garreth Prince Chairperson of the Cannabis Development Council of South Africagarreth@cidcwc.co.za

Nicholas Heinamann from the Afristar Cannabis Report talks to Ras Garreth Prince one of the parties that won the landmark constitutional court ruling that the personal use of cannabis is not a criminal offense. Garreth is a campaigner and champion for cannabis at the forefront of the struggle to free cannabis to benefit all South Africans for two decades. We traverse his history with the plant and his campaigns to see cannabis legalised in South Africa exploring  how we can get the plant to work for the empowerment of our people on a material and spiritual level. "I am not apologetic for using cannabis. As an indigenous person of South Africa I would rather practice the culture of my ancestors as opposed to adopting that of those who came to colonize" "There was never any scientific or rational basis for having any laws against cannabis just as there was never any scientific or rational basis for slavery or racial segregation, those laws existed because the protagonist could do it" "The human rights violation has been for the past 300 hundred years because there has been a tendency to consider the practices and traditions of the former slaves as inferior to those of the slave master. The tendency to accept that is one of the diseases of our time" Ras Garreth Prince  Chairperson of the Cannabis Development Council of South Africa garreth@cidcwc.co.za