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Will Marketing My Marijuana Grow Charges Make Me Money?
Everyone loves good courtroom drama.
Combining this with my marijuana grow-op bust which also brings big media headlines an opportunity to market my upcoming (Summer 2009) blockbuster medical marijuana constitutional challenge appears to be
ganja golden.
Charismatic med-cannabis infused alt-weekly journalist (cannabis / war resisters beat) with a Gen X criminal defense lawyer angling to create a name with an incredibly articulate constitutional challenge is hot copy.
Especially in the middle of the dog days of July. 
Sidewalks crammed with those big media tents, with newscasters doing mid day noon hour courtroom commentary, and friends pitching in words of wisdom for the throng of print journalist seeking quotes would be awesome.
Working social media sites, learning Search Engine Optimization, with ideas on making video and potcasting, er, podcasting, I’m intending to promote the med-pot case like 2009 blockbuster movies.
Thus building plenty of media heat.
Which will turn naturally into a book deal (‘Professional Pothead: Your Cannabis Career Explained’), which is my first benchmark that getting arrested not once but twice this summer is going to pay off.
I’m putting the finishing touches on a tour guide, ‘High From Toronto’, about places to bring your own bud.
ePublishing this for the holidays, while also seeking a print publisher with guts to capitalize on the WEED television show.
My life is better drama.
As Toronto’s only pot smoking tour guide this summer I got gunned on weed daily with tourists from around the world. Mostly from the USA.
It was the best and worst of summers.
Performing cannabis strain sampling. Explaining why Skunk cannabis is nothing more than a UK media myth. Most nights I’d have five kinds of cannabis to inhale in a Storz & Bickel Volcano Vaporizer.
Unable to grow marijuana to treat my illness, which is a massive undertaking and hobby, I’m dedicating myself to promoting my medical cannabis constitutional challenge like its the next summer’s
Hollywood blockbuster. Given my growing abilities this should be a delightful task.
To do this I’ll be using my many social media profiles (love Twitter) along with a website documenting my daily struggles.
And efforts to supplement my income since I’m no longer allowed to grow marijuana.
Using various website tools I’m curious to determine whether dedicating myself to marketing will earn me the same amount of money as growing cannabis.
Marketing vs Marijuana Growing which is more profitable.
Both are borderline illegal.
Because there’s plenty of solid case law support my med cannabis claims. Making the possibility people following my cannabis case are backing with their pageviews, ePublishing purchases and print book
pickups, a weed winner.
Something akin to Roe v. Wade or R v. Morgentaler.
Will Web 2.0 make me a phenomena?
~Matt Mernagh
about the author: Matt Mernagh is writer for Toronto alt-weekly Now Magazine and a med pot user / activist who is currently mounting a case v. Crown with Charter of Rights and Freedoms-challenging implications. Mernagh is a political activist for the New Democratic Party of Canada and has covered a wide range of social justice issues. Matt had previously established the Niagara Compassion Society, whose inaugural public meeting we covered HERE.
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