Just saw this movie the other day at SISSY SMUT at Volksbühne Berlin and was keen to share it with you. The video work was shown among others in a programme curated by Matt Lambert and Vitium.

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And yes, it’s quoted from Gangstarr’s “You Know My Steez” but it’s important to know that it was Method Man who spitted it first on GZA’s “Shadowboxin.”

STIGMA420 No. 0—2 (2020—22)

If you are feeling lonely these days or just need a little time for yourself, please feel invited to browse (y)our new home online. Below you will find all the essentials from issue N°1 and N°2 and in the future we will provide you with new and exclusive inspirations. Starting ... on New Years Eve and 2023 with amazing behind-the-scenes material from our NYC trip.

Also we want to thank all friends, readers and supporters for the belief in 2022.

All the best to you and a peaceful world.
Uwe (STIGMA420)

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"The Best Buds Forever Issue”
Matt Lambert Edition

A Friend With Weed Is A Friend Indeed
This issue is all about friendship. And weed. Friendship with weed. Weed friendship. From having a good companion to keeping absolute distance, everyone has their very personal relationship with — or without it. Mine at this ... time, still bound to home office and lacking social touchpoints, is more like a symbiosis. Most of the time mutualistic, sometimes parasitic. We live together 24-7. Frankly, sometimes I hate it, but that might be a topic for a later output.

By the way, the title to this number is inspired by a worn-out vintage t-shirt from my personal collection. It features two red-eyed cannabis buds hugging each other saying, “best buds stick together.” And that’s what we do.
Holla at your best friends.

Yours truly,
Uwe Bermeitinger
(editor-mis-chief)

Photography: Matt Lambert

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Liebe, Gras & Zärtlichkeit

This is not the only German magazine classic we’re quoting inside STIGMA420 N°2 and this is what we got when we asked “Dr. Lambert” about the risks of gunshotting your best friend. See the commissioned photo essay featured on four pages in the middle of the ... magazine, on the double cover, and on a supplement poster accompanying this issue. Bravo, Matt.

Photography: Matt Lambert

Or here: [link]

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Photography: Matt Lambert

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
(Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility)

Photography: Heather Glazzard

This post’s only purpose is to show ... the sincere work of photographer Heather Glazzard. Frequent followers of our other publication TISSUE Magazine already know that we are quite fond of their work. This transgressive, London-based artist takes pictures quite honestly. Intimacy is a big deal in their work — they want to connect with their subjects on a higher level. “If we don’t vibe I can’t take their picture.” Heather would rather cancel the shooting. They are not interested in selling to a big audience. With their dark sense of humour and obviously immediate access to their inner child, they are on a mission to create pictures that aren’t typically seen. Look them up.

https://www.heatherglazzard.com

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Exclusively for STIGMA420 readers: here’s a 5-point emergency plan by JULIA SEESTÄDT of Cannabiskanzlei. In the worst case scenario, she highly recommends you to stay calm and follow these crucial steps:

1. Surrender — When it comes to a search, the search warrant states what the officers are looking for. ... Voluntarily hand over the searched item, if you can assume that it will be found anyway. Once they get what they are looking for, they are not allowed to search any further.

2. Disagree — It is important to file an objection to the search and the surrender. Specifically: ”Ich widerspreche.”(I disagree.)

3. Cooperate — You should be cooperative. But you don’t have to say anything and you don’t have to sign anything.

4. Get a witness — In any case, it’s better to have another witness present at the seizure e. g. a friend. It is not allowed to film the officers. However, it is allowed and important to take pictures of the search warrant and the seizure protocol.

5. Consult a lawyer — If it comes to identification service treatments, one should consult a lawyer. You do not have to appear for a police interrogation. You only have to comply with official summons from the court.

In case of utter hopelessness, don’t hesitate to call +49 4101 5387954
or visit https://cannabis-kanzlei.de

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A free supplement poster by Matt Lambert comes with every copy of STIGMA420 N°2.

This lousy t-shirt was the inspiration to our “Best Buds Forever“ issue.

“The Cannabis is Medicine Issue”

Yes, it’s true. Science says so and the inventors of traditional Chinese medicine knew it too. Only douchebags deny knowledge. Sure, everybody has to define medicine on his/her/its own.
Everyone’s pain needs a different cure. But dear reader, be aware: you won’t find the perfect formula to ... your rheuma treatment on the following twenty pages. That limited spreads are composed quite thoroughly and the magazine is stacked with much more. With the intention to help you see a plant — which you might already adore — through a different perspective. At this point I want to thank Tsehaitu Abye for big time inspiration and the title to this issue.

Pass it on,
Uwe Bermeitinger
(editor-mis-chief)

Photography: Mathias Schmitt

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“The streets are filled with ruthless hustlaz. Toxic weed is the new high — the fiends will yearn for it. Paper is gettin’ stacked sky high. U better stick with your oldschool neighbourhood dope mane if u still want that ganja ganja mane. Alles Haben Sie only smokes legit!”

Photography: Max ... Heinsch

This is a warning! Synthetic cannabinoids represent the largest group of substances currently monitored in Europe by the The European Moni­toring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. And ever since German Vice’s overproduced documentary about a flood of low quality cannabis flowers treated with synthetic cannabinoids everybody’s quite nervous – users and pushers alike. For many, this is another argument for the legalisation and control of the market. For rapper Skinny Finsta, the “German King of Memphis,” it’s a shame. The owner of Alles Haben Sie Records is a connoisseur of the business, even though his is all about cassette tapes. He’s swamping the market with his own recordings and is the number one go to address for tape productions for many fellow artists. We consider Skinny as a colleague, because he’s currently working on a zine about the phenomena and aesthetics of analoge tape recordings.

https://www.skinnyfinsta.de

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“The concept of time. In my daily life I’m always on the run — creating my future, healing my past. The now always seems to be in the background of my mind. Sometimes I can shift my consciousness to the present, but it’s like a muscle I need to train. ... With weed I can easily gain access to the here and now and enjoy everything around me — there is no jumping between the past and the future anymore. For me it only works if I smoke it occasionally. Too much of something makes my mind cloudy.”

Photography: Kim Dall‘Armi

NAS TEA, in capital letters as she prefers to write it, is a performer, video artist and musician from Hamburg in the early twenties. Sometimes she’s on stage with Ebow as her DJ and backup MC. Currently she’s working on a performance with Jada and Benson A’kuyie at Kampnagel and she’s about to release some of her own productions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMt_0cnuwYo

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An open letter to her mum written by Wondering Woman

https://linktr.ee/wondering_woman

Airbrush typography by Anna Hofmann — please see also the free poster with her lovely artwork that comes with every copy of STIMGA420 N°1 — R.I.P. Pop Smoke

A free supplement poster by Anna Hofmann comes with every copy of STIGMA420 N°1.

Photography: Steven West

This is a portrait of Gem Hale. He recently turned 21 and moved from Austin, TX to Atlanta, GA. The two images we chose for the double cover of this issue were shot by him. It’s an excerpt of an ongoing series called Slow Burn. We also heard, ... that photographer is eating vegan, grew up with family members growing weed and as well part owner of a Black-owned CBD company called Sky’s Herbal.

Gem is wearing the African-American Flag over his shoulders. It’s based on an artwork by David Hammons from 1990 originally shown at Museum Overholland in Amsterdam, later MOMA PS1 and more. He’s quite used to it, his grandmother is with the Black Panther party. In 2016, the UN stated that the U.S. owes Afro-Americans reparations over slavery. And there’s a theory to distribute profits through the legalisation of cannabis to payback Black people in the U.S. as well as the African Diaspora worldwide. This could be one of the first steps to help heal collective trauma experienced all over the world.

https://www.gemxhale.com

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Photography: Gem Hale

Photography: Gem Hale