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#1747846 - 07/09/12 11:07 AM
Hempology 101 textbook
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Old hand
Registered: 12/03/08
Posts: 818
Loc: victoria bc
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Mon July 9, 2012 For Immediate Release: Victoria, BC: Local activist, newspaper publisher, and celebrated anti-prohibitionist Ted Smith is ready to release the long-awaited book, Hempology 101: The History and Uses of Cannabis Sativa. A book launch will be held at the Sacred Herb on Tues July 17 from noon to 2 pm, with a reading at high noon. It will be available in stores and on-line that day. Ted has written the book to accompany his weekly free, non-credit lecture series at the University of Victoria. It offers a comprehensive and holistic view of humanity’s relationship with cannabis through history into the present day. It will also be of interest to anyone who would like to know more about the solutions that this plant offers to many of the environmental and economic problems faced by the world today, from supplying renewable food, fuel, textiles, and building materials, to providing inexpensive and easily accessible medicine. Ted has been making the news regularly since he began his career of activism when he moved to Victoria to start Hempology 101 in 1995. In 1996 he founded the Cannabis Buyer’s Club of Canada and has provided cannabis products to people with permanent, physical disabilities since. As president of the International Hempology 101 Society, Ted is also the publisher of the Cannabis Digest newspaper. Hempology 101 represents the culmination of this work to date, explaining in great detail the many reasons he feels so passionately that this plant deserves to be embraced by modern society. The book will be available to purchase from www.hempology101store.ca, or likewise straight off the shelf at Sacred Herb and other stores in Canada for $24.95 on July 17. Ted will also be touring Canada this year, with book signings scheduled in Ontario from July 21 to 29 and Alberta from Aug 17-26. For more information call 250-381-4220 or see Hempology.ca. The cover can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/ted.smith.984?ref=tn_tnmn ###
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#1749118 - 07/24/12 06:53 PM
Re: Hempology 101 textbook
[Re: Doobie_Brother]
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Enthusiast
Registered: 02/11/06
Posts: 223
Loc: Vancouver Island
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Waterloo Record
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Jeff Hicks, Record staff
Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Pot 1
072412tedsmith01 Former Galt Collegiate valedictorian Ted Smith
has returned to his former stomping grounds for a book tour of his
recently published Hempology 101: The History and Uses of
Cannabis Sativa.
Chloe Ellingson/Record staff
CAMBRIDGE — Ted Smith sat under a shade tree across from his old high school and lit up a joint.
An abandoned future appeared in the wisps of smoke as the 43-year-old cannabis crusader and hemp historian gazed through the haze drifting across Dando Avenue.
Was that really him 25 years ago?
The valedictorian of Galt Collegiate Institute’s Class of 1987?
Chess club captain? Rugby team captain? Math and accounting whiz ready to ride the forever-rising tide of Reaganomics into unlimited entrepreneurial vistas?
Yes, that was Ted.
So eager to embark an excellent adventure into an Alex P. Keaton life that — happily, he would say — went up in smoke.
“I was going to become a chartered accountant,” he said.
That life wasn’t in the books for a kid raised in the farming community of Monkton, near Milverton, before his family settled on the Galt-side outskirts of Hespeler.
From Monkton to Cambridge to Victoria, B.C.
From aspiring accountant to activist to author.
Those are journeys worth reflecting on.
So, on Tuesday morning, Smith paused outside Galt Collegiate for a relaxing puff during his tour to promote his Hempology 101 book, 17 years in the making, with Southern Ontario stops this week in Kitchener, London, Toronto and Cambridge.
Above him, roofers stripped the old shingles from the school as they prepared to put a new top on a 160-year-old high school.
Galt Collegiate prepared Smith for an activist life, too. He just never suspected it on graduation night in 1987 — seven years before he was drawn west by the natural beauty of B.C. and introduced to hempology at a seminar in Vancouver.
“This school is a wonderful combination of people and space,” Smith said.
“There’s something about the architecture that’s very impressive and makes you feel like you are part of something important.”
Something that makes you feel sturdy and immovable. You can stand tall like those school towers and withstand all the storms the decades can muster.
On Tuesday, Smith sat in the grass beside his Vancouver Island girlfriend Gayle Quin, a customer of his Victoria-based Cannabis Buyer’s Club of Canada. The club has provided cannabis products to people suffering with disabilities and diseases since 1996.
It has also been repeatedly raided by police for breaking various federal cannabis laws. Smith says he has also come under scrutiny from Revenue Canada, looking for money owed. Smith, a Wilfrid Laurier University grad, seems undaunted.
This is just another scrum he’ll tackle with the rugby intensity he admires so. He says there is a bigger goal here — to help people benefit from cannabis.
“In university, I started taking philosophy courses and realized making money wasn’t the most important thing in the world.” Smith said.
Health is more important, he has learned.
His father, Warren, who suffered with heart problems, died five years ago.
Recently, Gayle lost a breast to cancer.
The cannabis products — including edible goodies from cookies to hemp milk — help her cope. One day, she hopes to be able to legally grow it in her garden.
“Right beside my tomato plants,” she said.
Smith and Gayle have been together six years. He called her Sweetheart as he sat cross-legged in his white The Reefer Man T-shirt and shorts.
The man once known as “Acid-Head Ted” during his mushroom and hash dealing days at Laurier, sees the emancipation of cannabis and hemp providers as the key to using the whole plant to solve modern problems from health to fuel to clothing.
Ted, who will be at Forbes Park in Hespeler on Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., has always had a knack for transformation.
His mom named him Leon. But he was a little prankster as a boy, just like his Great Uncle Ted. Leon was out. Ted the Trickster was unleashed on the world.
At Galt, he was everyone’s pal. Geeks. Metalheads. Preppies.
“I was a party animal,” he said.
The tie and carnation he wore as valedictorian so long ago, like his Hespeler minor hockey jersey, seem like tokens from another life.
But the memories play like the cheeriest scenes from a John Hughes movie:
Playing David Letterman at a school assembly and interviewing a teacher and a student portraying pothead comedians Cheech & Chong.
The time he held a pig for a contest-losing teacher to smooch on the snout.
Good times, like playing the Grinch in the Christmas pageant, that had little to do with his first toke at 16 or his last drink 16 years ago.
But on an October night in 1987, the Tassie Hall crowd waited for the valedictorian to speak. The words echo through 25 years into the ears of a man who likes to run 10K marathons wearing a 12-foot-high pot leaf costume.
“We are the young leaders of an entirely different world,” Smith told his classmates.
“If we follow our hearts, I’m positive nothing will go wrong.”
jhicks@therecord.com
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Newshawk Hempology101@ Medpot
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#1749190 - 07/25/12 01:43 PM
Re: Hempology 101 textbook
[Re: Ted Smith]
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Old hand
Registered: 12/03/08
Posts: 818
Loc: victoria bc
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE B.C. BASED CANNABIS ACTIVIST TED SMITH IN LONDON TO PROMOTE NEW TEXTBOOK: Hempology 101: the History and Uses of Cannabis Sativa London, ON: The International Hempology 101 Society announces that activist and author Ted Smith will be in London, home of Canada’s ‘Prince of Pot’, Marc Emery, on Thurs July 26 to promote the release of his new textbook with a book signing between 12 and 1pm at Hi Times and between 2 and 3 at the Organic Traveller. The book signings will be followed by an installment of Canada’s cannabis game show, Reach for the Pot, starting at 4:20pm at verdant Victoria Park. Hempology 101: the History and Uses of Cannabis Sativa is a monograph detailing the mutualistic relationship that exists between hemp and humanity and describes the many ways the herb can help us overcome modern problems ranging from fuel and food supply to affordable, healthy medicine. The book was both compiled from, and designed to accompany, Ted’s weekly free, non-credit Hempology 101 lectures at the University of Victoria. The society also publishes a free, quarterly newspaper, the Cannabis Digest. Ted is also the founder of the Cannabis Buyers’ Club of Canada, which has provided cannabis products to people with permanent, physical disabilities and diseases since 1996. Reach for the Pot is the only cannabis game show in the world. The game is knowledge and skill based, and will be played by two teams of four players chosen from the audience. After growing up in Monkton, a small farm town near Stratford, Ted moved with his family to Cambridge where he went to Galt Collegiate Institute and was the Valedictorian for the Class of 1987. He went on to graduate with a philosophy degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo in the early 90’s. As soon as he arrived out west, Ted dedicated his life to promoting legalization. International Hempology 101 Society 826 Johnson St. Victoria BC, V8W 1N3. (250) 381-4220 www.hempology.ca ###
Edited by Ted Smith (07/25/12 01:47 PM)
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#1752711 - 09/01/12 06:16 PM
Re: Hempology 101 textbook
[Re: Ted Smith]
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Old hand
Registered: 12/03/08
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Loc: victoria bc
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