ABOUT

THE KING

OF CANNABIS

The King of Cannabis is Arjan, the owner and founder of the Green House Coffeeshops, Green House Seed Company, Strain Hunters and several other cannabis businesses. He is the only breeder in the world credited with winning over 38 high times cannabis cups. Arjan was crowned the King of Cannabis in the 1990's. Previously in the 1980's, Neville was considered to be The King of Cannabis. Neville brought some of the world's greatest known strains of Cannabis to the people in those days. Neville also started the first cannabis seed bank collective in Amsterdam called the Super Sativa Seed Club. In 1991 Neville retired from the cannabis seed business and left Amsterdam due to personal circumstances, he is now rumored to own a fish farm, where he now enjoys his retirement.

Arjan's vision for The King of Cannabis concept was to achieve cannabis normalization around the world, and to promote positive cannabis culture to the mainstream media. To achieve this he realized he had to offer something unique.

Most coffeeshops in those days were dark, stuffy, sold only imported Hash and Thai or Jamaican weed. In 1985 Arjan had started growing exotic strains gifted to him from friends and "strain hunted" from trips to places like Thailand, Nepal and other countries in South East Asia. The growers supplying the shops at that time were only interested in high yields and short flowering times, Arjan on the other hand started to experiment with his favorite haze strains. Since the hazes (cannabis sativa) took fairly long to flower and most growers were not interested in producing haze strains. Also the coffeeshops were not interested in selling those strains, as they were more expensive.

After many years of trying to convince other coffeeshops to sell his haze weed, Arjan later decided to start his own coffeeshop, The Green House, which he founded on the Tolstraat in 1992. In 1993, one year after opening his first coffeeshop in Amsterdam, Arjan introduced the Green House in the 6th High Times Cannabis Cup and he immediately won first prize for the overall cannabis cup. The year after that, in 1994, Arjan won almost every single cup there was to win at the high times cannabis cup. Arjan's achievements didn't go un-noticed and in 1995, High Times put him on the front cover of their magazine. This led to a great migration of smokers from all over the world to come visit the Green House to sample the worlds best cannabis created by Arjan. The first celebrities started showing up at the Green House and asked if they could pose on photographs with him, the King of Cannabis. Arjan then started hanging their pictures on the wall, and before he knew it, there was a celebrity at the Green House on a very regular basis. Today he counts more than 100 A-List celebrities that have visited the Green House.

The vision to normalize cannabis use and spread cannabis culture around world, could be realized by using the celebrities to spread Arjan's message for cannabis legalization around the world. Arjan would ask celebreties like Woody Harrelson and many others to speak out against criminalizing cannabis when they returned back home. This vision of normalization has now become a reality, cannabis is becoming more and more accepted all around the world for recreational and medicinal use. In the United States alone, more than 19 states have now legalized cannabis for medicinal use and 2 states have recently legalized cannabis for recreational use. Additionally Uruguay has completely legalized cannabis, and the majority of the European countries have decriminalized cannabis for personal use. In countries like Spain, hundreds of legal cannabis social clubs have opened up all over the country. Amsterdam was once at the center of the fight for legalization, and is now one of the many places in world where cannabis use is becoming acceptable in society.

Since opening the first Green House Coffeeshop, Arjan has established an empire of cannabis businesses, with 4 cannabis coffeeshops, the worlds most successful cannabis seed bank, an award winning cannabis film/documentary company, an award winning nutrients company, a foundation and several other cannabis businesses. He is considered one of the most important figures in the cannabis industry.

Together with Franco, Arjan was the first grower in the world to educate people on youtube with his Green House Grow Videos, in which he showed the world how to grow his cannabis strains from clone to harvest. He later released the Strain Hunters Documentary series in which he tries to educate the world, how cannabis important cannabis is to the poorest farmers in developing countries. Arjan has also been featured on the National Geographic Series "Drugs Inc." and the VICE.com episodes "Kings of Cannabis".

The King of Cannabis continues to be at the forefront of the fight for cannabis legalization around the world!

2013 ICMAG Breeders Cup 1st Place Best Indica For "Flowerbomb Kush"
2013 Private Cannabis Cup 2nd & 3rd Place For "Hawaiian Snow" Indoor Cat.
2013 Private Cannabis Cup 3rd Place For "Hawaiian Snow" In The Outdoor Category
2013 Spannabis 1st Place For "Gh Cheese" In The Outdoor Category
2013 Spannabis 2nd Place For "Exodus Cheese" In The Indoor Category
2012 HTCC 1st Place For "Flowerbomb Kush"
2012 HTCC 1st In Neder Hash Cup For "Lemon Crystal"
2012 HTCC 1st In Import Hash Cup For "Sharkberry Cream"
2012 ExpoGrow-Irún 1st In "Exodus Cheese"
2012 ExpoGrow-Irún 2nd In "K-Train"
2012 ExpoGrow-Irún 2nd In "Super Lemon Haze"
2012 Seattle Medical Cup - 1st Place Sativa - "Super Lemon Haze"
2011 HTCC 2nd In "Best Booth"
2011 HTCC 1st In Product Cup For "Greenhouse Credit Card Grinder"
2011 HTCC 2nd In Neder Hash Cup For "Hawaiian Snow ICE"
2011 HTCC 1st In Import Hash Cup For "Exodus Cream Cheese"
2011 HTCC 2st Place For "Hawaiian Snow"
2010 HTCC 2nd In Sativa Cup For "Super Lemon Haze"
2010 HTCC 1st In "Best Booth"
2010 HTCC 2nd In Product Cup For "Strainhunters India DVD"
2010 TYS 1st Place For "Bubba Kush"
2009 HTCC 1st For "Super Lemon Haze"
2009 HTCC 1st Imported Hash For "Rif Cream"
2009 HTCC 2nd In Sativa Cup For "Super Lemon Haze"
2009 HTCC 2nd In Hash Cup For "GreenHouse Ice"
2009 HTCC 3rd In Best Product For "Strain Hunter DVD"
2009 HTCC 1st For "Best Booth"
2008 HTCC 1st For "Super Lemon Haze"
2008 HTCC 2nd Imported Hash For "Super Polm"
2008 HTCC 2nd Nederhash For "Green House Ice"
2008 Cannabis Tipo Forte Expo - 2nd Prize Sativa - "Neville's Haze"
2008 Cannabis Tipo Forte Expo - Best Seed Company
2008 Soft Secrets Magazine - Plant Of The Year 2007 - "Super Silver Haze"
2007 HTCC 3rd For "Super Silver Haze"
2007 HTCC 2nd In Imported Hash Cup For "King Hassan Supreme"
2007 HTCC 3rd In Dutch Hash Cup For "Bubble Mania"
2007 ICMAG Breeders Cup 1st Place Best Sativa For "Hawaiian Snow"
2007 ICMAG Breeders Cup 2nd Place Best Hash For "The Church - Ice-O-Lator"
2007 Spannabis Barcelona 2007 2nd Place For "Hawaiian Snow"
2006 HTCC 1st In Cannabis Cup For "Arjan's Ultra Haze #1"
2006 HTCC 2nd In Hash Cup For "Caramelo Royal"
2006 HTCC 3rd In Hash Cup For "Masterkush"
2006 Highlife Festival 3rd In Seed Company Haze Bio Category For "Arjan's Ultra Haze #2"
2006 Spannabis Barcelona 2006 1st Place For "Best Stand"
2006 Highlife Festival 3rd In Seed Company Haze Hydro Category For "Hawaiian Snow"
2005 HTCC 2nd For "Arjan's Ultra Haze #2"
2005 HTCC 3rd In Imported Hash Category For "King Hassan"
2005 HTCC 3rd In Dutch Hash Category For "Arjan's Ultra Haze # 2"
2005 Spannabis Barcelona 2005 1st Place For "Best Stand"
2005 Highlife Festival 1st In Seed Co. Hydro Category For "Great White Shark"
2005 Highlife Festival 1st In SuperCup Category For "Great White Shark"
2004 HTCC 1st In People's Category For "Arjan's Haze"
2004 HTCC 3rd In Imported Hash Category For "Nepal Pollen Shoe"
2004 HTCC 2th In Sativa Cup For "Arjan's Haze"
2003 HTCC 1st For "Hawaiian Snow"
2003 HTCC 1st In "Coffeeshop Category"
2003 HTCC 3rd In Sativa Cup For "Hawaiian Snow'
2003 HTCC 2nd In "Expo Cup"
2002 HTCC 2nd In "Coffeeshop Category"
2002 HTCC 3rd For "Super Kali Mist"
2002 HTCC 3rd In Sativa Cup For "Super Silver Haze"
2001 HTCC 1st In "Coffeeshop Category"
2001 HTCC 2nd In "Expo Cup"
2000 HTCC 3rd For "Big Bang"
2000 HTCC 2nd In "Coffeeshop Category"
2000 HTCC 2nd In People's Category For "Super Silver Haze"
1999 HTCC 1st For "Super Silver Haze"
1999 HTCC 2nd In "Expo Cup"
1998 HTCC 1st For "Super Silver Haze"
1998 HTCC 1st In Bio Category For "El Niño"
1998 HTCC 1st In "Coffeeshop Category"
1998 HTCC 1st In Imported Hash For "King Hassan Elite"
1998 HTCC 1st In Hydro Category For "Super Silver Haze"
1998 HTCC 1st In Nederhash Category For "Baba's Hash"
1998 HTCC 2nd For "El Niño"
1998 HTCC 1st In "Seed Cup"
1998 HTCC 3rd In "Expo Cup"
1997 HTCC 1st In Imported Hash For "King Hassan"
1997 HTCC 1st In Hydro Category For "Super Silver Haze"
1997 HTCC 2nd In Bio Category For "Great White Shark"
1997 HTCC 2nd In Nederhash Category For "White House"
1997 HTCC 2nd In "Seed Cup"
1997 HTCC 2nd In "Expo Cup"
1997 HTCC 1st In "Coffeeshop Category"
1996 HTCC 1st In Hydro Category For "NL5 Haze Mist"
1996 HTCC 1st In Nederhash Category For "White Widow Pollen"
1996 HTCC 2nd In Bio Category For "White Rhino"
1996 HTCC 2nd In "Coffeeshop Category"
1996 HTCC 3rd In Hashish Category For "Baba's Holy Balls"
1996 HTCC 3rd In "Cannabis Cup"
1995 HTCC 1st For "White Widow"
1995 HTCC 1st In Bio Category For "White Widow"
1995 HTCC 1st In "Coffeeshop Category"
1995 HTCC 1st In Hydro Category For "Kali Mist"
1995 HTCC 2nd In Imported Hash For "Parvatti"
1995 HTCC 2nd In "Coffeshop Category"
1994 HTCC 2nd For "Citral Skunk"
1994 HTCC 1st In Bio Category For "Citral Skunk"
1994 HTCC 1st In "Coffeeshop Category"
1994 HTCC 1st In Hydro Category For "Master Kush"
1994 HTCC 1st In Imported Hash For "Indian Charas Malana"
1994 HTCC 2nd In Imported Category For "Nepalese Double Zero"
1993 HTCC 1st In "Coffeeshop Category"
1993 HTCC 2nd In Coffeeshop Cannabis Category For "Silver Pearl"