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·NDP candidate hopes success of Mary Jane fantasy will see him rolling in it
Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, September 21, 2007
A federal NDP candidate has written a book that reads like something J.K. Rowling might have conjured up, if she smoked B.C. bud. It's called Hairy Pothead and the Marijuana Stone and features a character with the same name who lives an ordinary life until he's rescued by a biker, gets a glass bong and is taken to Cannabis Castle where he attends Hempwards School of Herbcraft and Weedery and smokes a tonne of marijuana. Sound vaguely familiar?
Dana Larsen has written his own version of the Harry Potter series. The potted parody of Rowling's hit Harry Potter series is written by Dana Larsen, the NDP candidate in the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast. Larsen has read all seven of the Potter fantasy novels and is a big Rowling fan. He acknowledges that others have called forth Harry or Hairy Pothead parodies, but said he's the first to roll the concept into a book.
Larsen's Hairy Pothead learns to play Qannabbi instead of Quidditch, meets Delirious Bake instead of Sirius Black -- and on it goes with other Rowlingesque characters such as Master Head Alwaze Duinthadope, Professor Moruvva McGanjagal and other stoner members of the Hempwards staff.
Larsen said he's not concerned Hairy Pothead might put off some voters who don't share his enthusiasm for weed and hemp. The New Democrat said he's always been upfront about his marijuana activism -- even during his nomination, which he won earlier this year by acclamation.
Larsen, 36, manages the Vancouver Seed Bank, which sells marijuana seeds by mail order. He is the former editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine. He is also a good friend and colleague of Marc Emery, the B.C.-based "Prince of Pot" who is being targeted by the U.S. federal government for selling marijuana seeds through the mail to U.S. customers. Emery edited and published Hairy Pothead.
Larsen's book is being sold in a magazine format, at $8.95, with an initial run of 30,000 copies. He said it will be available at both head shops and chain book stores. He said he hopes to follow Rowling's example and write sequels if his initial offering is popular. "If I attract only a tiny fraction of the audience Harry Potter got, then my book will be a bestseller."
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http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=140d0d0a-1932-4c70-acad-335dc34d03c7
http://www.hairypothead.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUy6f6LVlBA
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Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, September 21, 2007
A federal NDP candidate has written a book that reads like something J.K. Rowling might have conjured up, if she smoked B.C. bud. It's called Hairy Pothead and the Marijuana Stone and features a character with the same name who lives an ordinary life until he's rescued by a biker, gets a glass bong and is taken to Cannabis Castle where he attends Hempwards School of Herbcraft and Weedery and smokes a tonne of marijuana. Sound vaguely familiar?
Dana Larsen has written his own version of the Harry Potter series. The potted parody of Rowling's hit Harry Potter series is written by Dana Larsen, the NDP candidate in the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast. Larsen has read all seven of the Potter fantasy novels and is a big Rowling fan. He acknowledges that others have called forth Harry or Hairy Pothead parodies, but said he's the first to roll the concept into a book.
Larsen's Hairy Pothead learns to play Qannabbi instead of Quidditch, meets Delirious Bake instead of Sirius Black -- and on it goes with other Rowlingesque characters such as Master Head Alwaze Duinthadope, Professor Moruvva McGanjagal and other stoner members of the Hempwards staff.
Larsen said he's not concerned Hairy Pothead might put off some voters who don't share his enthusiasm for weed and hemp. The New Democrat said he's always been upfront about his marijuana activism -- even during his nomination, which he won earlier this year by acclamation.
Larsen, 36, manages the Vancouver Seed Bank, which sells marijuana seeds by mail order. He is the former editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine. He is also a good friend and colleague of Marc Emery, the B.C.-based "Prince of Pot" who is being targeted by the U.S. federal government for selling marijuana seeds through the mail to U.S. customers. Emery edited and published Hairy Pothead.
Larsen's book is being sold in a magazine format, at $8.95, with an initial run of 30,000 copies. He said it will be available at both head shops and chain book stores. He said he hopes to follow Rowling's example and write sequels if his initial offering is popular. "If I attract only a tiny fraction of the audience Harry Potter got, then my book will be a bestseller."
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=140d0d0a-1932-4c70-acad-335dc34d03c7
http://www.hairypothead.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUy6f6LVlBA
