Can marijuana save the arts?
Posted on August 4, 2008
This fall Walkabout Jones will take participatory journalism to a new level. With the launch of Artists Collective, a Los Angeles medical marijuana service, we’ll not only take you into the world of medical marijuana, but open a true non-profit corporation with proceeds to support individual artists—thus demonstrating the multi-billion dollar potential cannabis has to bankroll social good. Whether creating opportunity grants for artists, helping the sick, or any number of worthy causes, legalized maryjane has dollars and cents ability to help solve serious social problems where government and big business have failed. There’s a lot of work to do, and for that we need your help. But more than anything, we need your enthusiasm. If you can donate time or money, awesome. If not, we’ll still think you’re fantastic if you just spread the word. Let’s keep marijuana out of the hands of tobacco corporations, and redirect millions to a host of benevolent causes.
To read more about Artists Collective, click here.
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It begins: Ever wonder what it’s like to run drugs near the Mexican border? Walkabout Jones is getting ready to show you. For the past few months, Dann’s been working as a medical marijuana delivery driver in San Diego county. (Did we mention that San Diego has the largest DEA field office in America?) It’s been hard work, exciting and dangerous, sometimes spine-shivering, other times highly satisfying.
The first of these stories, “Will Work For Bud” arrives next week. Keep an eye out for it and others, and let us know what you think.
Making our name, making our fame: Walkabout Jones dreams of becoming a thoughtful media oasis, well-removed from choppy seas besieged by pundits and paparazzi. Art, adventure, politics, and truth stranger than fiction are what get our creative juices flowing, but we’ve learned that spreading the word isn’t easy. Not with millions of websites vying for your precious eyes. To those ends, we’ve launched Myspace, Facebook, Stumbleupon, and Digg pages, with fingers crossed these digital tools will bring more readers into our realm. But we’re always looking for fresh ideas. So if you’re a budding marketeer, and wish to spread word of our mischief, please get in touch. We want you.
Walkabout Jones also welcomes collaboration with artists, writers and adventurous thinkers who want to help create a different kind of website. If interested, contact Dann at walkaboutjones@gmail.com
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I think this is a phenomenal opportunity for marijuana to become a positive influence in society, as the California Medical Marijuana Law had intended.
By compassionately serving the medical-marijuana needs of the ill and dying, at reasonable rates, and then using the monies in a non-profit for the Arts, there is a Legacy of Good being built from those who may no longer be able to contribute to society any other way.
In turn, with the marijuana non-profit’s support, artists can continue to be the Light in the ever-increasing Darkness enfolding our society.
This is a brilliant, innovative and worthy idea! It is absolutely the best use of marijuana monies that ill patients and society could have hoped for. And with a reasonable, non-profit price structure, hopefully patients will find the Artists Collective to be a life-saver, on many levels.
Bravo!
I’ll mention you soon on my blog and I support your idea! I want the strangle-hold of Big Pharma to cease, whether it’s over those with diabetes, heart “disease” or chronic pain.
With Artists Collective, you are working within existing Law, to right a serious wrong in the way the Law has been allowed to be interpreted or be unenforced. Artists Collective will be a new day and a new way — one that is better for everyone, users or non-users, as well as society as a whole. That’s really thinking-outside-the-box! Wonderful.
Best to all — Em
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