This post might get me in trouble, might fuck up my career. But I am here to spread the truth
Sam the Skunkman is a moderator on ICmag, the largest and most heavily moderated canna forum out there. IC has a ridiculous list of rules that basically say "if they don't pay IC you can't mention their name here.". That is a rule and it is enforced. This list of off-limits topics is huge and includes: dispensaries, high times, reeferman, subcool, tga, kyle kushman, nevil, david watson*, and many more. 'Matt Rize' is banned at IC for linking to my blog, such crap. But I rule debate over there, and administration knows I use Thomkal Vwalaa.
IC is not for Americans but some are there anyways, they hate CA the most.
Sam left here (CA) in the 70s after the only seed bizank at the time here (Cultivators Choice or Sacred Seeds can't remember) was busted. He managed to get 5 lbs of those seeds to amdam and sell them to nevil with the help of ed rosenthal. There are many theories about the details. Many think Sam snitched up to get out of the hot seat, took to opportunity to snag the inventory, and came up big on the bust. This founded the modern amsterdam seed scene, he brought them haze and so much more. It is the single most historic move and is still not detailed. Ed won't talk about it, I asked. Sam has one story, Nevil another, and there are wild criminal accusations on both sides. It's a heated topic.
Sam is loudest authority on all things cannabis. We debate many topics including proper nomenclature (is it called hash or resin?) and much more including politics, the cannabinoids, safe medicine, and all concentrate topics. Sam claims to have invented bubble hash, and is mad he didn't get credit. He gets mad I call it bubble hash, lol. So I wonder... how is this guy the world authority when I read every book on cannabis and don't know his name...
*David Watson and Robert C Clarke dominate the cannabis literature. And you can talk about RCC on IC mag, but not David Watson... Sam Skunkman is David Watson. Joe Petri pulbished this in his book and started a whole drama, which I find fascinating. This David=Sam was revealed somewhat recently and has caused Sam/David some grief. So I don't like to make a big deal about it. But considering David's status in the cannabis world, and Sam's lack of disclosure on IC with regards to promoting David's work... well I think the cat is out of the bag.
David Watson of Hortapharm, aka Magic Ed Selezny aka Sam Skunkman is the man behind Sativex. He is the only one allowed to do commercial cannabis in the world and works with top scientists to make Sativex and plant derived pharma-cannabinoids. I'm not really that sure of everything he is involved in and don't really want to go into detail because I don't know what all to believe.
Sam is pro 19 because it means he can sell sativex here, and form centralized commerical pot farms to put us all out of business. He claims this is good because commercial medicine will be cheaper and safer. I think it will be of lesser quality, barely trimmed, and therefore cheaper. And growing anything commercially is not the safest path. Small organic farms working with labs like Steep Hill is ideal imo.
Take it all with a grain of salt. Sam is not a snitch from what I can tell.
http://www.mrnice.nl/forum/3-daily-news/5599-marcos-apology.html
What was apologized for, sorry for bad formatting. This is pretty much garbage should be taken with much skepticism.
