Our guest is one of the most influential and best-known cannabis entrepreneurs in Dutch history.
Ben Dronkers is the founder of Sensi Smile coffeeshops, the Sensi Seeds seed company, the Hash, Marihuana, and Hemp Museum in Amsterdam and Barcelona, and industrial hemp company
Hempflax. He has always supported cannabis activism and helped many events, fairs, and campaigns get started. In this extra-long episode, Dronkers offers a rare and candid insight into his
career and his vision as we get high together. In the news segment, we discuss the failed attempt to legalize in Colombia, a new push to close down Pusher Street in Christiania, Denmark, the exhibition ‘Cannabis Japonica: Shinto & the Spirit of 麻’ in Amsterdam and more plant-related news.
Nog iets nieuws? (anything new?)
Colombia’s Senate votes against legalizing recreational cannabis market, El País, June, 21, 2023
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-06-21/colombias-senate-votes-against-legalizing-
recreational-cannabis-market.html
UN experts call for end to global ‘war on drugs’, Press release, June 23, 2023
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/06/un-experts-call-end-global-war-drugs
State and city reach agreement to close down Pusher Street, CPH Post, June 27, 2023
https://cphpost.dk/2023-06-27/news/state-and-city-reach-agreement-to-close-down-pusher-street/
We asked for a ‘cannabis legalisation timeframe’, Leonid... not a bloody lecture! Malta Today, June
22, 2023
https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/comment/blogs/123557/we_asked_for_a_cannabis_legalisation
_timeframe_leonid_not_a_bloody_lecture
Cannabis Japonica: Shinto & the Spirit of 麻
https://hashmuseum.com/en/whats-on/cannabis-japonica-shinto-and-the-spirit-of-hemp/
75 x High Tea Potcast, HighLife 3, 2023
https://softsecrets.com/nl/artikel/75-x-high-tea-potcast
Interview Ben Dronkers
Website Sensi Seeds: https://sensiseeds.com/en
Website Hash, Marihuana & Hep Museum Amsterdam: https://hashmuseum.com/en
Website Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum, Barcelona: https://hashmuseum.com/en/barcelona/
Website Hempflax: https://www.hempflax.com/en/
De Ouwe Doos (The Old Box)
'18 Juin 1993 - Première journée internationale du cannabis - Textes des intervénants', Editions Du
Lézard/Circ, 1993
Listeners responses
If you have a question, a suggestion for a guest or a cannabis adventure you want to share: send
us an email at info@highteapotcast.nl, use the comments on our Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/highteapotcast/ In every episode we choose a lucky winner from the
listeners responses who will receive a plant related prize package.
High Tea Potcast Kweekhoekje
Basic guide for growing cannabis outdoors (in Dutch): https://www.veiligthuiskweken.nl/buiten-
kweken/
Tune
Our signature tune is ‘Mary You Wanna’ by Dutch band Mooon. Website:
http://www.mooonband.com/
