1. As creator of the Cannabis Cup, can you tell me what inspired this event? 
I first came to Amsterdam to write about the Seed Bank, a company started by Nevil Shoemakers in the late 1980s. While I was in town to interview Nevil, I ran into some American seed merchants who had come to sell Nevil strains. They told me about the harvest festivals that had happened in California before an intensive marijuana crackdown known as C.A.M.P. (campaign against marijuana propagation) stopped them. …More