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WTF! SD, CA, AZ, CO, España, y todo el mundo! Viva la revolución verde! Support your NUG!
By Dion Markgraaff
World revolution is spinning faster than ever. Evolution of the revolution can be seen in San Diego’s cannabis community. Still, now is the time for more action, organization, and education, something you can do with NUG Magazine.
Technological communication, the bridge over...
September 19th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
Marijuana Advocates Strip City Council of Legislative Victory
 Article and Photos By Esther Rubio-Sheffrey
“I fought the law and the law won,†Joe Strummer sang in the late ‘70s when the Clash covered the famous rock n’ roll anthem. Generally, those lyrics tend to ring true. NUG’s previous coverage of the battle between medicinal...
September 1st, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
NUG Magazine is GROWING!
National NUG Publisher’s Letter
Welcome to your inaugural issue of NUG Magazine!
We have been receiving requests to bring our publication to other states for a long time and are excited that the time has finally arrived.
NUG Magazine is originally from San Diego, where our large monthly issue began...
August 31st, 2011 | Featured, News | Read More
The Man Behind NUG Magazine: Ben G. Rowin
By: George Alberts
NUG Magazine is a beacon and a source of information for patients and advocates that shines light on the issues surrounding patients’ rights and legalization. It is a tool that benefits a lot of aspects of our community – art, music, literature and culture – and...
August 10th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
L.E.A.P. LAWSUIT AGAINST SAN DIEGO TO BLOCK NEW DISPENSARY ORDINANCE APPEARS UNLIKELY. . . BUT
By Leo E. Laurence, J.D.; Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
When you wear a badge and carry a weapon 24/7, you look at the world differently. As a sworn officer, you ARE different! Ordinary events like going to a private party with friends can present serious ethical problems for a law enforcement...
June 3rd, 2011 | Activism | Read More
PLEASE DO NOT HARASS THE PATIENTS
Story By: Pamela Jayne
Our monthly patient profile is usually dedicated to telling the story of an individual who benefits from the use of medical cannabis. Due to the recent decision by the San Diego City Council, we have chosen to use this edition to speak on behalf of all patients.
The preamble of...
May 17th, 2011 | Featured, Patient Profile, San Diego | Read More
We’ll See You in Court!
At this point, it’s fair to say that most of the medical cannabis collectives, their patients and primary caregivers feel alone and cast aside by the city they call home. However, now is not the time to give up and walk away, it is time to bring the fight to the City of San Diego. It’s...
May 13th, 2011 | Activism, Featured | Read More
May 2011 Cooking with Kim
Written by Canna Chef Kim ~ Mother Earth Co-op ♥
Serving San Diego MMJ patients since 2005
Every month, we try to bring awareness to our readers and keep a healthy vibe going. This month, there are a few important things that we want to bring attention to. May is brain tumor, skin cancer, and...
May 11th, 2011 | Cooking, Featured | Read More
Prepare for Battle: Medicinal Marijuana Advocates vs. San Diego’s City Hall
Article and Photo By: Esther Rubio-Sheffrey
San Diego’s medicinal marijuana community is in the beginning stages of a potentially long and expensive legal battle against city hall. At stake: safe access to medicinal marijuana approved by California voters in 1996.
For over a decade, communities...
May 10th, 2011 | Activism, Featured | Read More
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition 9
PURPLE HEART (2) EX-INFANTRYMAN MAY BE DEPRIVED OF MEDICATIONS BY NEW S.D. DISPENSARY ORDINANCE
By: Leo E. Laurence, J.D., Law Enforcement Against Prohibition | leopowerhere@msn.com
The Purple Heart medal is only awarded after a soldier is wounded by hostile action in actual combat. Ben Crandall (21)...
May 9th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
May 2011 Volume 3 Issue 5 Hits the streets!
May is upon us and before we dive into anything else, I want to take a moment to say Happy Mother’s Day to ALL the moms out there! I have seen no greater love than that of a mother for her child!
We have an incredible issue for you this month! Included is an article on local artist Chris Konecki....
May 4th, 2011 | Featured, News | Read More
Hash House
Another Kind of Mind-blowing Hash
by R.J. Villa
You wake up the morning after the evening; you and your friends decided to go big. Waking up with a monster appetite or varying levels of hangovers, none of you escape the craving for a solid and hearty meal. Perhaps a Bloody Mary or Mimosa to accompany...
April 29th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
The Power of Green
By: Tiffany Janay
The color green rules the world! I’ve heard some say that green must be God’s favorite color because it’s the most dominating color that is seen everywhere, and it seems to be associated with all things of power. Of course, we all know how powerful green money is,...
April 28th, 2011 | Articles | Read More
Interview with Willie Psycho
Article by: Robert Stinson Photo by: Gio Blitz
I couldn’t help but notice the smell of premium bud emanating from a hotboxed van as we walked into the parking lot of Riley’s Sports Bar in Point Loma. The doors flew open and the band immerged freshly baked with Willie Carter (lead vocalist,...
April 28th, 2011 | Featured, Music | Read More
Interview with a West Coast Master Grower: Dru West
DRU WEST is a medical marijuana grower, caretaker and patient from Bend, Oregon who for the last 15 years has been designing, managing, and consulting numerous grow operations across the U.S. –Operating in different areas and climates has given Dru the opportunity to learn and develop a wide variety...
April 22nd, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
Patient Profile: DAVE
Story by: Pamela Jayne
It’s not only Dave’s knowledge of medical cannabis or his outgoing personality that makes him such a valuable staff member at The Green Door Collective in North Park; it is the fact that he is first and foremost a medical cannabis patient. He knows from personal experience...
April 21st, 2011 | Featured, Patient Profile, San Diego | Read More
Today I keep thinking about why I do what I do…
By: Nicole Scott
Today I keep thinking about why I do what I do….
Why start a cannabis institute devoted to teaching the laws that protect us?
Why be active in the cannabis community?
Why try to change the face of marijuana?
Why join all the activist groups and try to invoke change?
I think I do...
April 20th, 2011 | Activism | Read More
Moms United to end the war on Drugs
A New PATH-Parents for Addiction, Treatment and Healing
www.anewpathsite.org
By: Simon Eddisbury
Drug users represent the overwhelming majority of the U.S. prison population. According to a recent report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 85% of the country’s inmates have...
April 19th, 2011 | Activism, Featured | Read More
Business Profile: IGS Hydroponics
By: George Alberts
Other than gold, the one thing that we believe will help our country get back on its feet is agriculture. One of the only things our nation has going for itself and could produce for the world is agricultural resources and farm goods. These are the strong roots of our country that...
April 14th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
Popped Culture: Nicole Murray Ramirez
Article By: Robert Stinson
Photo by: Jennifer Martinez
It’s irritating when people say that the gay rights movement is a fringe issue that is instigated by the media to further divide opposite ends of the political spectrum. This was the same kind of rhetoric that was thrown around during the...
April 12th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
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Issue 31 of NUG Magazine hits the streets!
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