Welcome to Episode 32 of the The Flying Sage (https://theflyingsage.ca/) Podcast! In this episode we will be speaking with David Malmo Levine on How Prohibition Creates Harm.
David became a pot activist in 1993, after having visited Holland in 1990 and Berkeley, California in 1992. Reading the book Emperor Wears No Clothes made David realize that cannabis was the co-evolutionary plant partner of humanity, and that the re-legalization of cannabis would solve many problems, including poverty (through making the emerging herbal medicine economy available to all), scapegoating (through creating a reasonable minimal standard for criminalizing behavior) and climate destabilization (through the use of hemp ethanol as a carbon-sink fuel crop).
David started helping to organize smoke-ins in 1993. In 1995 David moved to Vancouver and began selling recreational cannabis in a public manner in 1996 (the first rec pot retail store in North America), in an organization called the Harm Reduction Club, which was raided by the police in 1996 and 1997. In 2003 David appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada self-represented on pot dealing charges. In 2004 David opened up the Herb School (psychoactive herb dispensary and educational organization) and the Herb Museum in 2007. In 2008 the police raided the Herb School, and David ended up serving four months in jail.
In 2015 David opened up the Stressed And Depressed cannabis dispensary, but had to sell the dispensary to more wealthy people due to the 35,000 dollars per year in licensing fees. In 2021 David began working the Coca Leaf Cafe & Mushroom Dispensary, located at 651 East Hastings St. - the world's first LSD/DMT/magic mushroom etc psychedelic/psychoactive drug store."
**Connect with David:
www.**cannabiscultureonline.com
www.pot-shot.ca
www.pot-facts.ca
This episode was hosted by Michael Oliver and edited by Usama. Music and Sound Design by Michael.

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