Weed Ambassadors Sought at MatadorNights

02/24/10  Print This Post Print This Post    2 Comments      Written by Kate Sedgwick
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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, MatadorNetwork doesn’t publish under pseudonyms. If that crushes it for you, sorry.


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About the Author

Kate Sedgwick

Kate Sedgwick co-edits Matador Nights from Buenos Aires where she teaches English, learns Spanish and thoroughly enjoys herself. Her art and writing have appeared in print and on-line publications and her novel in progress will be received with prurient glee by critics of American culture if it ever gets into their grubby little hands. Find out more about her than you ever wanted to know here. (Author photo by Sebastian Santana).

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  • Hal Amen replied on February 24, 2010

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

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  • Kate Sedgwick replied on February 25, 2010

    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!

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