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Harry Pothead to hit stores soon
By Hempology | September 26, 2007
Edmonton Journal, AB
21 Sep 2007
NDP CANDIDATE SPOOFS HARRY POTTER
VANCOUVER – 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 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 lot of marijuana.
The 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’s Hairy Pothead learns to play Qannabbi instead of Quidditch and meets Delirious Bake instead of Sirius Black.
Larsen said he’s not concerned that Hairy Pothead might put off some voters.
The New Democrat said that he’s always been up-front about his marijuana activism — even during his nomination, which he won earlier this year by acclamation after nobody else ran.
Larsen, 36, manages the Vancouver Seed Bank, which sells marijuana seeds by mail order and is the former editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine. “I figure I know more about pot and marijuana issues than almost anyone else in the world, so I think I was uniquely qualified to write this book.”
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