Tell your pothead friends.

Photo of a bhang shop in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan: Tom Maisey, Feature Photo of a guest house in Manali: ElPablo!

If they can write, that is.

YOU DON’T NEED to be a hesher for the job, but it probably helps to have a handle on the language. MatadorNights wants to bring our readers solid information about marijuana around the world. What are the laws? Is it safe to smoke out? How do you find some? You get the picture.

As a general guide, please see this post. It may be a little lackluster, but it was written by someone who rarely indulges (that would be me), so if you can tackle this topic with enthusiasm and aplomb, please send a sample by selecting a country and writing a blurb about the marijuana experience there. Paste it into the body of an email and send it on over to kate [at] matadornetwork.com with the subject line: Ganganator

The articles will be broken up by regions, so we’ll do Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Central America, South America, Northern Africa, West Africa, and so on. We can throw in country specific posts also. Want to tackle state laws in the U.S.? Great. The most important thing is factual information about the laws and the marijuana culture in each article.

There may be more than one worthy candidates, and in that case we’ll take this on a pitch to pich basis.

If you can battle the anti-motivational syndrome and bust out two of these a month, that would be ideal. Each article will pay $25 via PayPal.

In case you’re curious, Matador Network doesn’t publish under pseudonyms. If that crushes it for you, sorry.

 
 

About The Author

Kate Sedgwick

Kate Sedgwick edits Matador Nights from Buenos Aires where she organizes her live storytelling project, Second Story, and stays busy giving art tours and doing yoga. Read more about her than you might want to know at her blog YesThereIsSuchAThingAsAStupidQuestion.com.

  • http://matadortrips.com/ Hal Amen

    Love this transparent call-out, Kate. Should generate a lot of interest (this post and the ones to come).

  • http://yesthereissuchathingasastupidquestion.wordpress.com/ Kate Sedgwick

    None so far, Hal. Maybe I should have started it: Whoa! Help a bro out. We can’t have our bros getting their mels harshed, bro. Dude, man, write about the chronic so you can buy some, brah!

  • Wesley

    Hi Kate, I come from Sydney, Australia, and I was wondering if you’ve received any form of response to this post from my side of the world? My friends and I are regular tokers and between us we have more east coast cannabis experience than most Australians (except the Nimbin locals of course). I couldn’t find any other posts similar to your “Marijuana Laws in Southeast Asia” on Matador so I’m hoping that I’m not too late.

    • http://matadornights.com Kate Sedgwick

      Follow the instructions and pitch! We’re still open for pieces about pot for sure.

  • Jim Nasium

    Is this still live? Cause i could bring a The Trilogy of experience and mythical quests in pursuit of the SOURCE!

    • http://matadornights.com Kate Sedgwick

      Just follow the directions outlined in the piece and pitch your idea for an article!

      • Steve Levine

        Interesting that no one wrote about the availablity of cannabis in San Francisco. I was there a tew years ago and will be going back in a few weeks. The pot was not quite equal to what I had in Amsterdam or Negril, but it was still very good and readily available at reasonable prices. Perhaps I can interest you in a brief memoir about my trip, and the one I expect to write about the next one. If I’m not fully qualified to be a cannabis ambassador, it won’t be due to lack of enthusiasm or familiarity with the product. My ATF btw is Double Bubble Gun at The Grey Area in Amsterdam. I’ve had stronger, but this one had for me, that je ne sais quoi that a red wine lover might talk bout: taste, aroma, mellowness,smooth high. I’m not especially religious, so I won’t quote the Bible, but perhaps I can paraphrase the vinophile French poet Charles Beaudelaire: Marijuana is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. You will note that I do not require anonimity. Best regards and may San Francisco (for many reasons) become more affordable.

  • sybille

    Hi there, I sent in a little story about Cambodia – but got no reply. So do you still look for that kind of travel reports?

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