I just received notice that Cannabis Culture will be ceasing publication of their magazine with the next issue #74.
The accompanying letter said, in part:
“The future of all print media is bleak. Many magazines and newspapers could go out of business by the end of the year, including The National Post, Sports Illustrated, Maxim, and many others. Check out the latest Sports Illustrated; it has only 10.5 pages of advertising in the entire issue. TIME Magazine has only eight pages of advertising. Magazines rely on advertising, and as the economy worsens, companies are not able to afford ads like they used to. The digital age is truly the future. Magazines don’t have nearly the impact they once did, because all information is available faster and free online.”
They did that with the first issues which were called Cannabis Canada, however it was too expensive to continue even then.
"Cannabis Culture magazine has seen rapid growth and change in its twelve-year history. The magazine was founded in the summer of 1994 as a newsletter edited and published by Marc Emery, who also founded Hemp BC and the Cannabis Cafe (now the BC Marijuana Party Bookstore and the New Amsterdam Cafe on the “Pot Block” in downtown Vancouver). The newsletter was called “Marijuana and Hemp” and Emery printed them totally on hemp paper.
"Dana Larsen took over as editor in December 1994, and in January 1995 produced the first and only issue of Marijuana and Hemp Magazine. With the next issue the title was changed to Cannabis Canada, and the new magazine continued to be printed entirely on hemp, coming out four times a year.
"Cannabis Canada was one of the first websites on the Internet, with an online version of the magazine launched simultaneously with the print one in December 1994. The first issue is a good indication of how primitive the web was when we began!
“In the early days of the magazine it was subsidized by publisher Emery’s Hemp BC store operation. Yet Hemp BC suffered from repeated police raids, so hemp paper was discontinued after issue #3 due to the great expense involved.”
Effective June 22nd, the Victoria Times-Colonist will stop publishing their Monday issues. Instead they will increase the page count on Tuesdays slightly and beef up their website news coverage.
When newspapers start doing this kind of stuff, it’s getting pretty serious.
I have three magazine subscriptions, well, two now. The others are Wired and Scientific American. You might like those too. It has been getting harder and harder to get through these three mags and I am spending a lot more time on the internet reading and writing. So I understand very well why this and other publications are disappearing.
It has been getting harder and harder to get through these three mags and I am spending a lot more time on the internet reading and writing. So I understand very well why this and other publications are disappearing.