Day 10 - Cannabis World Summit
Quick Links
Tribute to Peter McWilliams
Amanda Hitt
Shayne Metcalfe - "Bad Seed"
Honorariums, Gifts & Prizes
Missed Speakers
Closing, Thanks, & Plans for 2014
Suggest a Speaker for Next Year 2014
BONUS!!! Just received an email from Bad Kitty Smiles at 1pm (Eastern Time) and she just sent in the last video of her series, and am quickly uploading this here for all of you to enjoy. Next week I will reorganize all of her videos, placed on the Day 5 page, but for today this is being tossed up immediately minutes after receiving it myself. Kat thanks again! Please see the praises about you a bit lower down this page.
Our first featured speaker today is Julia who has created the tribute website in memory of Peter McWilliams. He was author of over 40 books, many of which were of great help to people, and towards the end of his life he became a prominent cannabis activist. Please read more about him below, and listen to the interview to understand why this great individual is being honored in this way. Furthermore, we intend to make this a yearly feature of the Summit, honoring a great person for their significant cannabis activism and/or contributions to the world. Next year we intend to do something special in honor of Jack Herer.
Amanda Hitt has been a fabulous cheerleader for the Summit, letting people know about this event with great exuberance, and she has been helpful behind the scenes. Her personal journey with breast cancer, in conjunction with her personality that devours knowledge and her passion for sharing her wisdom, has led her to becoming a great cannabis advocate. She connects with people, truly sharing herself freely, and she certainly exemplifies her favorite phrases, which she shares in her interview. She is worthy of following in her social media web to connect with other great people involved with both cannabis and cancer.
We also have a last minute addition with the interview of Filmmaker Shayne Metcalfe discussing his cannabis documentary, titled "Bad Seed", which is set to be released this summer. Below are two teaser video clips about the movie, and of course you may listen to the interview to find out even more. We need more great documentaries such as "The Union", and several others, and we are eagerly looking forward to this release.
In addition to the closing speech for the Summit, we want to express our immense gratitude to EVERYONE who was involved in the first annual Cannabis World Summit event. All in all there were 33 people interviewed for this year's event, but there were even more people who were involved in some way that you simply don't see. To all of them we blow our kisses of gratitude for all their help in whatever ways they participated (there are too many to thank individually here).
All of the speakers interviewed for the Summit, to you we give you our warmest heartfelt gratitude to you. Thank you thank you THANK YOU for sharing your wisdom & your passion with all of us, and more importantly thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the good that you have been doing in the world with the particular work that you do. You are all immensely appreciated.
Though we won't thank each of the 33 people individually here we would like to highlight a few individuals for whom we are extra grateful for.
First and foremost "Bad Kitty Smiles" deserves a tremendous amount of gratitude. Despite her own significant health and overwhelming personal challenges she has VOLUNTARILY provided for you all here an unbelievable amount of her time & energy in creating the videos presented for you on the peak day of the Summit, day 5 (which was on 4/20). She has worked for months filming & editing these videos which surely must be of great benefit to many of you. She recently told me that a part of the reason that she was doing this was to leave a legacy for all of you. This is her gift to the world. Please learn from her videos, make use of what you learn, and share these videos with others. Please email her at bks@marijuanaworldsummit.com to share with her your love & adoration, expressing your gratitude for her gift. Since she provided the Summit the "Cherry-on-top", we will be mailing her a premium "Cherry" Magic Flight Launch Box as an honorarium token of our appreciation, as well as other gifts from our sponsors, but no thing could possibly convey the immense gratitude in our hearts for Kitty.
Rick Simpson deserves not a showering of gratitude, but rather a torrential downpour. What he has done for the world demands great respect, and also his contribution of his time with the Summit has our utmost gratitude. Not only has be done the longest interview with us, sharing a vast amount of valuable words, but he's done it twice! The majority of the first epic length interview was lost, and without a moment of anything but a positive golden attitude he suggested that we do it all over again. The current leader of the Cannabis Movement, receiving the baton after Jack Herer's passing, and having cured ("allegedly", for legal reasons) more people of cancer than probably any oncologist ever did, this great man truly deserves everyones' ultimate gratitude. We will be sending a "Flower of Life" Magic Flight Launch Box as an honorarium token of our appreciation, as well as other gifts from our sponsors.
There are several more people that I'm tempted to single out for a mention of gratitude, but I shall restrain myself to just one, but it is tough because I really love you guys! Lincoln Horsley deserves an honorable mention. Sort of like a junior Rick Simpson, he has a heart of gold (perhaps due to being a son of a minister), and he is helping people with cancer in person and online at his fantastic web resource CureYourOwnCancer.org. We have formed a friendship, have started a new project together, and also he personally inspired me in a few significant ways. Thank you for being a part of the Summit Lincoln! For the many others interviewed & part of the Summit, please know that you were all enjoyed and deserve the deepest of gratitudes too.
Though somewhat awkward I shall express gratitude here to myself, Bobby, since no one else will. Normally at a conference event someone would make mention of the founder of the event, but since I literally put on this entire event myself there is no one really here to step forth to make the announcement. Yes, that is right, I have created this Summit, interviewed all the speakers, edited, wrote, and put everything together, single-handedly. For next year (2014) I definitely want more help, as I have visions on how to make this event even better, but I can't do that alone. Anyhow, I politely thank myself for the countless hours devoted to creating this entire event from passion for the plant & the desire to contribute something positive to the world. But I also thank my wife, for without her this wouldn't have happened. I am also doing this for my children, and all the children of the world, to leave them a better world (in hopes that hemp can help heal it). If you would like to share your gratitude with me, Bobby, I welcome your email sent to comments@marijuanaworldsummit.com
I would also very much like to thank our sponsors for everything that you've contributed, and to the manufacturers that sent in their products for us to review and share with everyone at the Summit. Thank you to Royal Queen Seeds, Forbidden Leaf, Green Leaf Medical Clinic, CTS Innovators, Magic Flight, Vapor Brothers, Jake's Fertilizer, Cannitrol, CannaCig, and Ed's TnT. To the manufacturers who sent in products to review, thank you for trusting that this was a legitimate project (obvious now that it was), and that I wasn't trying to score a freebie.
Tribute to Peter McWilliams
Julia - Loves Peter's Books - PeterMcWilliams.org
Julia contacted us offering to be interviewed to share a tribute in the memory of the late Peter McWilliams (1949 - 2000). What a fabulous idea! Thanks to her we now plan to have a tribute as a regular feature each year at the Summit (for 2014 we intend to honor Jack Herer). Julia travels to various cannabis conferences & events across the United States and Canada sharing her tribute for the man she obviously has a tremendous respect for, and she does this all despite the fact that she never met him (he passed away about a decade before Julia even heard of him), and she is a marijuana "virgin" (she has never used the herb, but is strongly in support of cannabis). Julia shares her story of how she was touched by Peter's words, and how it led her to reviving Peter's memory by taking over the website, then further spreading the word about this great man. Peter wrote over 40 books during his life, including numerous titles in the field of "Personal Growth" (aka "Self Help"), which we put emphasis on during the interview since some of his titles may help some of you. He has a series of Life 101 books, providing insights into important life issues, love, wealth, and others. He dealt with depression in several of his books, providing excellent strategies on how people can better cope & overcome their depression. He was extremely impressed with hypericum (St. John's Wort) and wrote a whole book on how this cheap & easy available herb can help people with depression better than pharmaceuticals. Towards the end of his life Peter became a prominent cannabis activist due to learning about the benefits of cannabis to treat his HIV / AIDS and lymphoma cancer. His first puff of cannabis was a miracle for him, it led to him putting a significant focus upon cannabis, and he became quite vocal as an advocate. He even published, with Todd McCormic, "How To Grow Medical Marijuana", and other writings on the subject. He was targeted by the DEA for his outspoken opinions, and Julia touches upon these things during the tribute interview. Unfortunately Julia was a bit under the weather for our call, but she boldly proceeded. If you haven't heard of Peter McWilliams before then hopefully she will inspire you to seek out some of his books, and if you do then her mission will be accomplished - of keeping his memory alive & his books in active use towards further helping to inspire even more people with his insights.
Amanda Hitt
Amanda Hitt - Survived Breast Cancer & Lives! - Running With Shiva & OLM2013
Amanda is recognized (by several organizations) as being an "outstanding advocate" for Cannabis, and she is involved with numerous projects & groups. She is even one of the speakers for the upcoming Medi-Cup in San Diego. Her beaming extroverted personality shines to illuminate for us the truth about how Cannabis can be of incredible benefit to us all. But she also passionately points out other incongruencies between known carcinogens, and our reckless use of those chemicals in our foods, medicines, cosmetics, and environment. Diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2009 but confirmed clear of cancer by an MRI earlier this year, she has been a peer review panelist, which is a nominated position of the CDMRP. This cancer organization of the Department of Defence is doing a lot of cancer research, and she shares some of what she has learned by being involved with them. Amanda has an effervescent personality, is quite the social butterfly, and she involves herself in numerous groups & projects pertaining to cancer and cannabis. She has already been helpful, completely voluntarily, supporting the Summit event, and with her abundance of connections it seems that she might single-handedly refer half of next year's speakers! Considering how connected & involved she is, it would definitely be worth following her on her active social media portals, which she does all from the belief that "together we are stronger".
Shayne Metcalfe - "Bad Seed"
Shane Metcalfe - Filmmaker Shot Cannabis Doc - Bad Seed
We got a very last minute opportunity to interview filmmaker Shayne Metcalfe as he discusses his current project of producing a new cannabis documentary titled "Bad Seed". Originally hired to produce videos for a cannabis fertilizer company, he quickly came to learn that cannabis wasn't the dangerous drug that he's believed it to be all his life, and soon came to question why cannabis is illegal in the first place. That question became the premise that launched his new video documentary project that took him around the country to interview cannabis experts in search for enlightening answers. The movie will be released in the summer of 2013, but here you may watch a couple of previews, and listen to him share even more during the interview. Article about "Bad Seed" documentary (PDF)
Honorariums, Gifts & Prizes
We are extremely grateful to a few suppliers for generously contributing items to be gifted to speakers as honorariums, and a few items to be used as additional gifts and/or prizes.
- We are grateful to Royal Queen Seeds who offered to send every speaker a packet of one of their fantastic seeds. We interviewed Joery Van Berkel from RQS, and their seeds were highlighted in the feature article "Joy of Cannabis Collecting" provided at the Summit. We think very highly of the Royal Queen Seed brand, would wholeheartedly recommend their seeds (please consider buying some from a supplier advertising at the Summit), and are extremely grateful to them for providing all event participants with a gift.
- Dana Dwight from Forbidden Leaf has also offered to provide our speakers with a gift of some fine Forbidden Leaf Hemp Seed Oil Skin Care products. We have had the pleasure to try these luscious products and know that the speakers who shall receive these gifts will be impressed to say the least. Be sure to listen to the interview with Dana to learn how hemp oil, which is an important ingredient in all the products, helps with various skin conditions, and you'll hear glowing opinions about these fantastic products that are great for personal use, and to give as gifts (particularly to those to whom you are attempting to introduce cannabis to).
- CTS Innovators have offered to provide 5 units of their 7 Leaf Drying Racks to be sent out for Summit speakers, and we are very grateful to them for providing these great drying racks. As we discuss in the short interview, this is absolutely fantastic for drying herbs of various sorts, including cannabis buds, but may also be used for conveniently drying any garden herbs. This product is highly recommended if you grow your own weed, or if you harvest other medicinal or flavorful weeds from the garden. Is it any surprise that we'll be sending Susun Weed one of these great contraptions? If you grow herbs, especially "the herb", then you should consider getting one of these to make your drying much easier & effective.
- The fine people over at Magic Flight sent us a few extra Launch Boxes in their product review package, which we intend to share as gifts for a select few who have gone above & beyond our expectations at the Summit. We would like to give the premium Cherry unit to "Bad Kitty Smiles" as a symbolic gesture that she has provided the cherry on top for the Summit with the video she has been working on for months for all of you to learn from her. Lincoln Horsley from Cure Your Own Cancer for multiple reasons, and one for Rick Simpson who deserves a world of gratitude. The founder of the Summit, Bobby, is keeping a premium walnut Launch Box (his old one is now a hand-me-down to another patient), and a final one is for a temporary employee (name withheld) who helped out a lot. We wish we could provide every speaker with one of these absolutely marvelous portable vaporizers. Be sure to listen to the interview with Forrest from Magic Flight, read the glowing reviews about the launch box & related products, and don't hesitate to get one of these for yourself.
The Summit purchased several "Pot Copper Coins" in order to have "tokens of appreciation" in case we weren't able to secure any gifts to use for honorariums. These will be offered as gifts & prizes for Summit related purposes.
Missed Speakers
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There are a number of people that were invited to be Summit Speakers that ended up not being here. Some of you have asked what happened to some of them, or why they aren't speaking? Here is shared the answer to some of those questions. The short answer is that we didn't receive a reply back from some of those people / organizations, and honestly, there are a few that we dropped the ball on, and to them we offer our public apologies. Hopefully some of the people we missed this year will still become speakers for next year.
Summit Closing, Thanks, and Plans for 2014
Bobby, the founder of the Summit, shares a few closing words to end the Summit. He explains how all this content is to now remain online so that people may still access this information, and why this is important. He discusses next year's Summit event, 2014, and invites YOU to participate. He thanks the Summit participants, and shares a few parting words.
Suggest a Speaker for Next Year 2014
Know of someone who should be a speaker at the 2014 Summit? Perhaps you yourself are someone who should be? Please nominate others (or yourself). Simply send us an email nominating the person (put "Nomination" in the subject line), why you think they should be considered, and if you have contact information for the person then please include that as well.
