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wre

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Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand
#18938489 - 10/05/13 11:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Follow link for video - http://www.3news.co.nz/Cannabis-museum-opens-in-Dunedin/tabid/423/articleID/315888/Default.aspx
New Zealand's first dedicated cannabis museum is set to open its doors the public in Dunedin today.
Dubbed Whakamana, the one-room museum will record the history of cannabis use in New Zealand and use a mannequin to show onlookers how to smoke 'spots'.
Exhibits are expected to change often – bi-monthly or quarterly – with the current centrepiece an exhibit on the history of cannabis law reform activism at the University of Otago.
Whakamana will also operate a small library with around 100 books – many, about cannabis, cannot be found in Kiwi libraries.
Museum director Abe Gray – a perennial cannabis law reform activist – says the museum has been set up to tackle a taboo in New Zealand culture.
"New Zealand has the highest rate of consumption of cannabis in Western countries, per population, but it's also very taboo," he says.
"It's not talked about even though the majority of the population uses it or has had some experience with it."
Mr Gray says his key aim is to destigmatise the issue and "educate the public".
That includes an educational display about 'spotting', a method of smoking cannabis only seen in New Zealand.
"Foreign visitors have never heard of it before," he says. "You heat two knifes on the electric element and you squeeze a little tiny piece of cannabis – or a spot – in between.
"When smoke is released the person taking the spot stands over it with a little tube, or a plastic bottle with the bottom cut off, and captures the smoke and inhales it."
Dunedin police are aware of Mr Gray's plans, but are not able to do anything to prevent it.
"The museum does not appear to be outside the law," Senior Sergeant Darryl Lennane says. "However the police's position is that they support safe and drug-free communities.
"The experience of police is that cannabis is a drug that creates a significant level of social harm in our communities and often has a strong connection to organised criminal activities."
Mr Gray is assuring the operation will stay legal too and is promising no cannabis will be sold, available or smoked on site.
"It's not that, it's just an information centre and a media centre of activists," he says.
"That would be the last thing that we would do, there are many other places where that happens in Dunedin so that's not really our goal."
The museum can be found at a house known as the 'Legalise Cannabis House' on David St, South Dunedin.
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tealeaf
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: wre]
#18938604 - 10/06/13 12:51 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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pretty damn stunning, always was under the impression that NZ was majorly against drug use of any kind.............the world is always turning
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: tealeaf]
#18940131 - 10/06/13 12:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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If the United States had one of these it'd bring some needed help.
Ahh.
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: dyb]
#18940885 - 10/06/13 03:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I totally use to take spots all the time in the us, we just called it knife hits. And we stopped when dabbers got big Great article though, I would love to visit a museum like this
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: musiclover420]
#18941461 - 10/06/13 05:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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"That includes an educational display about 'spotting', a method of smoking cannabis only seen in New Zealand."

yeah knife hits have been around for a long time. from what I understand it was popular with the "hippies" of my parents generation who used it to smoke hash along with "jar hits" where they would burn the hash in a jar and take hits off the jar.
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: TheBoomking]
#18941533 - 10/06/13 06:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah my parents to were part of the hippie generation and they definitely took some knife hits at one point or another. I havent hear of jar hits though,sounds interesting.
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: musiclover420]
#18941564 - 10/06/13 06:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah I geuss you could take a sewing needle or the like, stick it in a piece of carboard and stick a chunk of hash on the opposing end, light the chunk and cherry it, then put a jar over it till its "ready" 
there are just so many ways to smoke - that method probably died off
I still bust out the hot plate and the knives from time to time, mainly for bud
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: TheBoomking]
#18941577 - 10/06/13 06:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah its a nice way to vape, me and my friends use to take retarded amounts of knife hits, mostly hash though. Know dabbing has grown real big in my town so knife hits are pretty much forgotten about. I still have my set somewhere in my closet though xD
-------------------- Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: musiclover420]
#18941596 - 10/06/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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suckling on my g pen as we type
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musiclover420
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: TheBoomking]
#18941888 - 10/06/13 07:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nice I have friends with gpens, I would be sucking on my pen but its nail burnt out D: Thank gawd for papers xD
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: musiclover420]
#18942319 - 10/06/13 08:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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isnt it just called hotknifing?
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: kakashi68]
#18943041 - 10/07/13 12:47 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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isnt a joint just called a spliff?
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Re: Cannabis museum opens in Dunedin - New Zealand [Re: TheBoomking]
#18943916 - 10/07/13 09:39 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Haha knife hits, i wonder if it orignally came from NZ
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