Don't Leave Home Without It

As a frequent traveler to Amsterdam, I found myself spending far too much time trying to locate coffeeshops I wanted to frequent. At the very least, I had a map which I was opening and folding constantly. I don't know about you but for me folding a map over and over again drives me to smoke (o.k. maybe my subconscious was working overtime here). At any rate, I became tired of this frustration. So prior to a trip in 2007, I was able to locate the map above from a coffeeshop review website which goes into great detail all of your smoking options in this great city. I highly recommend this website not only for the map but the reviews. It's a one page map which easily slides in and out of ones back pocket for easy reference. This is the first item that goes into my carry-on bag. I would never put this map in a checked bag for fear of the luggage getting lost.

Happy Travels....

Merry Christmas From The Dewby Brothers!

From our family to yours...wishing you a very merry, safe, and happy HIGH holidays!

Dewby Butter

It has recently come up about the proper way to cook with herb. While there are many tecniques to use it as a gourmet ingredient, the easiest and most versatile way to cook with smoke is to make Dewby Butter. Making it is extremely simple. Take about a half ounce of your finest ganja and grind it up into shake. Meanwhile, heat a sauce pan over med-med high heat and melt 1 pound of butter (unsalted). Once the butter has fully melted sautee the shake in it until the butter has turned a nice shade of green, coincidentally enough, the same shade as the ganja. Place a fine mesh sieve over your clean container and strain the melted butter, pushing down with a wooden spoon to get every last crystal of heady goodness into your final product. Then let the butter solidify and refidgerate as you would normally do for butter. Whenever you have a recipe that calls for butter, use your Dewby Butter and enjoy!

Happy Friday From The Dewby-Brother-In-Chief

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Thursday Happy Hour

The idea for this blog began when two good friends decided a great way to break up the monotony of our daily work lives was to get together on Thursday nights for happy hour. During the heated political season it was an arena to discuss, debate, and share various different views on all the things in America that have many of us concerned.

Post-election, Thursday night happy hour has really turned into one weekly brainstorm, consisting of business ideas, mancations, and blogs. As a result of these brainstorms, the idea of a pot blog started to emerge as so often it seems some of the funniest, goofiest, and most interesting news headlines were related to pot and drugs in general.

The Dewby Brothers blog was developed as a way for us to share humor, head-scratching drug "policy", and any and all pot-related topics with other people who are looking for a temporary distraction from their hectic lives.

"Thursday Happy Hour" will be a weekly, recurring post which we hope you can look forward to on Thursdays at 4:20 p.m as all you can think about is making it to the weekend. We hope you enjoy, comment, and come back frequently.

Cheers to many more "Thursday Happy Hours",
The Dewby Brothers

Without further ado, we'd like to kick-off the inaugural Thursday Happy Hour by going back to where it all began...

High Holidays: Nutmeg

Getting high by any means necessary:

“In 1946, before his conversion to Islam, Malcolm X used nutmeg whilst in jail when his supplies of marijuana ran out. In his autobiography he wrote: 'I first got high in Charlestown [prison] on nutmeg. My cellmate was among at least a hundred nutmeg men who, for money or cigarettes, bought from kitchen worker inmates penny matchboxes full of stolen nutmeg. I grabbed a box as though it were a pound of heavy drugs. Stirred into a glass of cold water, a penny matchbox full of nutmeg had the kick of three or four reefers.' When the authorities became aware of such uses of nutmeg it was removed from many prison kitchens.”

When it's this easy to get drugs and a buzz once you're already in prison...it sort of calls into question the whole prison-industrial complex, dontcha think?

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Common Sense People!

In reference to the following story (who is the 1 nay vote?):


"The people who are asking us to do this today, these are people who can't play piggyback with their 3-year-old. These are people who get up every day and battle HIV/AIDS. They are people who wonder if their chemotherapy is going to work. I can't look at those folks and let them be perhaps the only ones who don't have the ability to have less pain," - New Jersey state senator, Bill Baroni, on why he voted for a medical marijuana bill.

Mumbai Attackers Were On Acid?

I'm awfully skeptical. I don't intend to make light of this tragedy, but let's be realistic: LSD can't possibly help one's aim. (Link)

The Drug Habits Of HIGHLY Effective People

The geniuses at ONDCP (no, it’s not the evil corporation from RoboCop- these are the people that set our ridiculous drug policies here in these United States) recently created an ad campaign that promised a sad future of burrito tasting, among other indignities, to those who might dare to smoke marijuana. The message: SMOKING MARIJUANA WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE!!! Except when it doesn’t: Radley Balko responded by asking his readers to help him compile a list of pot smokers that have gone on to fame, fortune and success; among them:

Barack Obama, president-elect. Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the U.S. John Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president. John Edwards, multi-millionaire, former U.S. Senator, and 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president. Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, 2008 Republican nominee for vice president. British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, and and Chancellor Alistair Darling. Josh Howard, NBA all-star. New York Governor David Paterson. Former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Oscar winner Al Gore. Former Sen. Bill Bradley, who smoked while playing professional basketball. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and former New York Governor George Pataki. Billionaire and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Now there are two conclusions one might draw from his list of the rich and famous tokers:

On the one hand, this is stone-cold evidence that the godless communists that control the reefer trade in America have infiltrated every level of our society and are creating pro-pot propaganda whose goal is to induce the youth of America to smoke the evil weed (this being simply the latest front in their campaign to corrupt our precious bodily fluids).

On the other hand, this long and growing list of HIGHLY successful people could be an indication that (barring felony arrest) smoking a bit of reefer poses little harm and no obstacle to living a happy, healthy and ultimately successful life.

Unlike our government, dear readers, I trust you to make your own decision.

Kop Busters: Why Barry Cooper Is Our New Hero

Due to urgent Dewby Brothers business, Herschel didn't have a chance to fully expound on the story of one Barry Cooper, O.G. KopBuster and Internet folk hero, in his post below, so if you will permit me I would like to explain a bit more about Barry, his show and his mission. Actually, why not hear from Barry, in his own words?

KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana. When faced with a suspected marijuana grow, the police usually use illegal FLIR cameras and/or lie on the search warrant affidavit claiming they have probable cause to raid the house. Instead of conducting a proper investigation which usually leads to no probable cause, the Kops lie on the affidavit claiming a confidential informant saw the plants and/or the police could smell marijuana coming from the suspected house.

The trap was set and less than 24 hours later, the Odessa narcotics unit raided the house only to find KopBuster's attorney waiting under a system of complex gadgetry and spy cameras that streamed online to the KopBuster's secret mobile office nearby...

...It is not illegal to grow plants under a light in your home but it is illegal to lie on an affidavit and plant drugs on a citizen. This operation was the first of its kind in the history of America. Police sometimes have other police investigating their crimes but the American court system has never dealt with a group of citizens stinging the police. Will the police file charges on the team who took down the corrupt cops? We will keep you posted.

I think it's clear now why Barry is our new hero. Just take a look at the video of the cops wandering about the "drug" house, looking rather "dazed and confused," if I do say so myself:

In The News: "Peru Seizes Three Tons Of Cocaine From Shipment Of Manure"

Yup, I heard it was some good shit.

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Dear Santa...

...please put a copy of "Dope Menace" under the Dewby Christmas tree.

Dude, You Can't Take It With You

Still green after 2,700 years...

"Stash for the afterlife: A photograph of a stash of cannabis found in the 2,700-year-old grave of a man in the Gobi Desert. Scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it's evident that the man was buried with a lot of it..."

Watching The Watchers

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