Higher Ed's perspective: The dean of pot growing comes to town

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from the Detroit Metro Times:



Higher Ed's perspective
The dean of pot growing comes to town

By Larry Gabriel
Published: July 13, 2011


Ed Rosenthal has been the longest and strongest voice talking about how to grow marijuana over the past 30 years through his "Ask Ed" column in High Times and Cannabis Culture magazines. On top of that he has written and published more than a dozen books on the subject, with more than 2 million copies sold worldwide. What's he got to say for himself after decades of growing, writing and teaching about marijuana?

"It was a major mistake," says the self-named Guru of Ganja. "I write about marijuana a lot and people give me a lot of free marijuana. I should have been writing about gold and diamonds — I wouldn't have smoked up the take."

Rosenthal will bring that sense of humor, in addition to his enormous knowledge of growing, to Michigan this month when he teaches seminars June 23 in Traverse City and June 24 in Lansing. He teaches horticulture at Oaksterdamn University, a cannabis industry trade school in California, where his encyclopedic Marijuana Growers Handbook is a textbook.

He sees marijuana law as a crucial social issue and has served as an expert witness in a number of federal and state trials. In his book, Why Marijuana Should Be Legal, he discusses why pot is illegal and how to go about changing the law. The home page of his blog at edrosenthal.com is dedicated to legal issues and anti-drug war activism. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/mmj/higher-ed-s-perspective-1.1174578