. Mark Mathew Braunstein's advocacy for vegetarianism & drug law reform

Hey Mark

Unless you are truly in London at the police station, your email has been hacked. Attempts to send email to cannabis.sativa@sbcglobal.net seem to be redirected, although i checked my email logs and see that the messages are indeed being sent to that address. I'm getting a response from someone else saying "no, I Really Am in London and full of panic!!" You might need to run malwarebytes (free download) to see what's going on and clean it up. Hope you are doing well!

Where will the following workshop be held?  - October 29, Saturday, 10 AM-Noon Mark Braunstein will give a workshop on Edible Houseplants: Growing Microgreens At Home. Sample about 18 of these tasty and nutritious, microgreens that are making their way from restaurants and markets into family kitchens. Microgreens, the early stages of greens such as lettuce and broccoli, are even younger than mesclun salad greens. While mescluns first appeared in produce stores 25 years ago, microgreens are even newer. In this workshop, Mark will demonstrate a clean and cheap technique for indoor gardening of microgreens that is adapted from that of professional farmers. Participants will sample many varieties of microgreens. Mark is the author of “Sprout Garden: Indoor Grower’s Guide to Gourmet Sprouts,” and his articles about sprouting have appeared in magazines such as Vegetarian Times, Natural Health, Vegetarian Gourmet and Vegetarian Voice. Cost is $16. Registration is required. To register, call 1 (860) 439-5060.

I appreciate seeing the video of you being a voice of reason in the face of ignorance so controlled by the government and other pharmaceutical companies. I have used this natural subtance in a medicinal manner for years for other forms of ailments such as anxiety attacks. For a very long time  freedom of choice and the pursuit of happiness has been plucked away by a tyrannical force that our forefathers warned us of so long ago. I believe that some of Terence Mckenna's speeches had some solidified substance to reasons why people need to learn the language of what they are saying. Not just for recreational use as alchohol is mandated legal yet kills millions in various ways along with a couple of other substances, then everything else made to be illegal. I am not trying to state that some substances are not very dangerous to use if abused, obviously. Many pharmaceutical drugs can and have killed many people. Yet we have a natural substance with so many positive aspects and uses besides medicinal use and it is illegal. What a paradox...

Hi Mark, Your brother sent me a link to your page.............I'll check it out more when I get back home from work   I hope you remember me from Violet Street, all those years ago.........I was the little chubby girl standing on a chair in your mom's kitchen waiting to lick out the cake batter bowl!  If you have a facebook account or myspace, I'm on there, so is Darlene:D.  Have a safe and wonderful Labor Day weekend! Cindy 

I just finished Sprout Garden. I found your humor hillarious!! I am gluten intolerent because I can't tolerate the challenge to be tested for celiac. I have been searching for the right 'diet' for a year now. I enjoy the sprouting which I am now newly experimenting. I am also flirting with raw foods. This has been very enriching for me as I feel much better now. I have so much to learn and can't wait until I can get a vita-mix. I truly feel like I am taking responsibility for my own health. I am looking forward to reading more of your work. I noticed on this site that you have other interests that are interesting. I may investigate. Thank you for your insite. I have enjoyed you.

Stephanie

Thanks for the advice on what to eat at Kung Foo in Norwich last Sat. nite. Hope I didn't disturb your dining. Our meal worked out fine and as I was reading your review posted in the restaurant the waitress asked me if I knew who Mark Braunstein was, and when i said no she said "he is the gentleman that you spoke with earlier"

Your comments regarding faux products in general are valid,  but what can yoo do?  It sure does work well with my 5 vegan grandchildren. My daughter, Maribeth agrees, but she keeps it to herself, and won't publicly knock the "analogies".  By the way she is a fellow speaker at the NAVS Summerfest.

I thought Kung Foo had an incredible selection and variety and really goes all out to distinguish the dishes. We live in glastonbury, about midway between China Pan and Kung Foo, but recently many of the China Pan dishes taste similarly, so I suspect our next trip will be to Norwich. especially if it is rush hour.

Enjoy Johnstown

Hi Mark Mathew Braunstein!

I have just finished reading a 2008 article by you regarding marijuana smoking and health. It was very informative and funny!  I especially appreciated the  clarification on what the healthiest/ least harmful ways to smoke / smoulder your herb. (Candles -- paraffin-alia-- and tooth pics! Pre-heating your screen!  Home-made non-filtering tubes of cardboard!  Brilliant! )

Thank you for laying that all out in one article! 

I also appreciate your focus on nutrition and drinking water straight up. Good stuff.  I have been vegetarian most of my life, vegan at times, focusing on raw as much as possible, but not 100%. I also am a wellness coach, and try to help others move toward healthier lifestyles. If it is ok with you, I'd like to share this article with some of my clients and friends.

I hope you are doing well! 

Kindly, 

Gianna

Hi!

You sure sound like the Mark I knew. Do you recall loaning me one of your paintings when you were living in NYC? The agreement was that I could keep it as long as it hung on the wall, which it has most of the past nearly 30 years. I still enjoy it, but I'm in the process of making changes in my life, contacting past friends, and I think it's time to finally return the painting.

Hope you are doing well.

Sincerely, Bess

Just wondering if you are the same Mark Braunstein with whom I briefly shared a house at 90 Englewood.  I won't say when or exactly where.  I couldn't get quite enough info to determine for sure, but your looks, your hairiness and your life style fit.  I just read your article in Vegetarian Voice about growing microgreens.  Even if you are not the Mark from my house (who was essentially "camping out" in the attic), I enjoyed the article and am starting to save my berry containers.  I look forward to getting my little garden going!! 

Cheers,

Beth

I saw you last night but didn't get a chance to speak to you - really sorry about that.  You look well and I'm glad to see that.  I had to leave early with a friend who didn't feel well.  Thank you for the cd.  We will send a check, but have forgotten your mailing address.  Please inform so we can send.

Thanks and Peace,

Margaret

Margaret

Hi Dear Mark!

First, I have to ask your apology. I use English as a second language and it is not perfect. My friend Lisa talked about you and your amazing talent to grow micro greens. I learned about raw food at Ann Wigmore institute in Puerto Ricco and I believe it works. Lisa said you have some lectures how to grow micro greens at home. I would love to take classes with you. I am from Stratford CT, and I beleive not too far from you. If you would be kind and let me know the next possible opportunity to learn from you how to grow successfully micro greens at home, I would be very delighted. Thank YOU very much and Happy New Year.....Edit Mirafiore

Dear Mark,

Greetings from long ago.  I am so pleased to find you.  I have been thinking of a friend of yours.  You introduced me to him and his wife.  He wrote a book about kabbala, numbers.  His wife gave classes to women about natural birth control.  I do not recall his name.  I think that he coined the phrase, "The crime is the punishment."  Is that correct?  Or is that your phrase?  How are you?  Somehow I seem to recall that you had an accident, quite a serious accident, and was hardly able to get around.  Is that correct?  I pray that you are well.  Yours sincerely, 
Albert

I am very sorry that you suffered so from the toxicity of buckwheat greens. Thank you for writing about it in such convincing detail and at such length. 

I was about (today or tomorrow) to purchase a large quantity (5 pounds) of sprouting buckwheat seeds and embark on a big project to grow microgreens this winter, including lots of buckwhat greens because I like the taste and they grow so quickly.  My friend Richard Raw cited your website as a resource in an article about growing sprouts and greens indoors.  I was reading through your material and found it very helpful.  The most helpful in terms of dramatic impact was the information about the toxicity of buckwheat greens. You saved me a lot of pain and confusion.  I deeply appreciate that.  I have very fair skin and our home has large widows, so I would have suffered but for you.  Thank you.

I am a 10+ year 99.99% raw foodist.  I will share with others what I learned from you about the toxicity of buckwheat greens.  Is it OK with you if I post your article on my Facebook page?  I have about 100 friends on Facebook who are raw foodists who woud benefit from knowing about the toxicity of buckwheat greens.

The raw diet is still in the pioneer phase.  I am sorry that you had a bad experience as a guinea pig.  I hope that the many benefits you derive from it more than balance out the pain you suffered.

Happiness, Health, Peace and Abundance for All!

Many Thanks and many Blessings,

Pamela Melcher

Hi Mark,

I'm sharing my alternate email address. I'll probably

now spend the next hour or two reading your stuff when

I should be cataloguing Islamic manuscripts. 

Best! Joe

In September of this year I found out that the killer of my mother was just convicted and was pending sentancing. For 12 years I didn't know that this was an unsolved crime and that the killer was never found. I saw the picture of Michelle Comeau, my biological mother, for the first time in my life in the newspaper. This was the photo that you had take of her (thank you for that). I am 21 and am looking for anything as far as information on Michelle. Through the article on that day I met one of my biological brothers for the first time, which was surreal. I know that it's a very long shot since it has been over a decade, but if you remember anything or can tell me anything about her that isn't already on your site I would so greatly appreciate it. Pedro (my biological brother) and I, got in touch with our grandmother and great grandmother on Michelle's side but they didnt have much to say since she was in jail, institutions and the state system for most of her life. I recieved a letter today that was written for me when I was 10 years old, it is Michelle saying that she had just given birth to another boy (which would make 3 of us), and that she was in jail when she gave birth to him. If you could somehow help me find out which jail or anything rather so we can find our last brother. I know it's a lot of random favor asking from someone you don't know but I would so appreciate it. Please write back to me on the provided email. I can give you proof that I am her daughter if you need it. Thank you so much for your time.

Hi, Mark!

Remember me? I thought I'd see if you were on facebook, but I should have known you wouldn't be on there! haha. Ironically enough, that is where I found the link to your site. How have you been?

Hope to hear from you soon!

Heather

HI!  I really like your website, Mr. Braunstein.  I see that you are quite a hit on Facebook as well!!!! Hah!

LOL

HEY Mark - I was just talking to my daughter, Sarah, abotu vegetarianism and I began talking about you as you were an inspiration for many in this field and the book - Radical Vegetarianism. How are you? Been years. Email me and give me an update. Are you at UCONN? I am an older student now studying gerontology. Hope you are well. Think of you often and learning art and arch history. Jean Blackmar-Lamb

Hello,

I enjoyed the powerpoint of Vegetarianism in ART. I was wondering who is the artist for the very last one with the car that has a license plate that says meat, a man in the moonlight, a butcher shop, and angry animals following him. Thank you very much.

~Roxy

Hi. Not so much interested in your weed, but in how you adapted to life in the chair......my best friends husband injured in dirt bike accident Nov. 09 been home since Jan. very troubling to me as I watch how my dear friend is having to take care of this man, who seems so lazy and unwilling to accept this life......I can't understand...want so much for him to have someone to snap him into awareness. He is 39 yrs old, and spends most of the day playing video games.....drives me crazy...his wife, by best friend, works her tail off all day.  How did you get to be where you are? I can easily communicate through Facebook....Paden Hines...look me up if you have a free moment.

just checked your site; parts of it; especially, the cannabis part; heard about it from your brother; I'm the caretaker in Pa.; love the images of you holding a full, heavy portion of dried cannabis; I look forward to legalization; such an amazing herb; I've had 3 grow in my manure garden the past two years; on their own; popping up from seeds from a previous tenant, who was a heavy user at this barn where I house my horses and cow and chickens and have a garden, heavily laden with manures.  Female plants with deep, vibrant green leaves and aromas that enter my soul; I'm not a user, but appreciate the uniqueness of this plant and love stroking it lightly and breathing it in.  all the best,

Hello Marco!  

So much to say, but I am happy to have this website, where I may visit you in cyber-space.

Thru so many journeys you are still very much with me. 

Just a quick hello, perhaps with a follow up one day soon.

Through all of life's challenges and changes, so much remains the same.

With warm thoughts

Bettina Brentano

Mark, alias MM, Mathew, MMB  etc:  I  came to your site all because I came across a quote by Steve Ruggeri on the "word a day" site.  After reading the quote I googled Steve and came to your site.  Your eulogy was lovely , touching and heartfelt.  You were a good and dear friend.  Anyway, I then went to your site and just read your bio - loved it and connected with much of what you said.  I am also a Leo , and lover of good books, nature, animals, do not participate in organized religion but do read and cherish the ideas of Zen, lean toward pantheism  but really don't embrace group activities in general.  Your humor creates laughter and I love to laugh.  Just thought I would say I understand some of your approaches to life and am always happy to k now their are people like you in this world.  As the flapping of a butterflies wings in China can affect the weather in the US,  your wonderful spirit, habits and attitudes will affect more than just the people around you - it will affect all peoples  eventually.  Keep sharing your heart and soul!     Kathleen

Thanks for running this website and congrats on the new edition of your book!

Do you know the year of birth for Steve Ruggeri? I'm using one of his quotation and wish to credit it properly.

Pretty slick site.     Hope you are doing well. I am almost done with DEP but not sure where to from here.  We hope to get out of the great state of CT at least,  I have an old video of you on the news many years ago.  If interested let me know.

Hi Mark,

I was referred to you by Tim Gilmer from New Mobility. I'm working on a piece for him regarding disability and medical marijuana, mainly is it still as much of a pain in the ass to try and use for treatment since Obama declared he would no longer raid dispensaries in states where its use is legal? I know you're story as it was written in Marijuana and Paraplegia, so I know you live in a state where it is not yet legal and I've been told you're very active in the fight. Right now, it seems more and more states are opening the issue to a vote, so that maybe the next hurdle.

I'd love to talk to you about it, along with your experiences as a user. Hopefully, we'll talk soon.

-Aaron Broverman

647-343-6956

I love your sense of humor and your beautiful photographs. Bala sent me your writing which was very insightful and helpful. I could say more in an email but here I'll just say-

Thank you.