Stony Awards presented a posthumous award to what American cannabis rights activist and the author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes",
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Stony Awards The "High Times" Stony Awards (a.k.a. the Stonys), sponsored by "High Times" magazine, celebrate the "highest and stoniest" movies and of the year. The "High Times" Stonys began as an annual article in "High Times" magazine conceived by Senior Editor Steve Bloom. Editor-in-Chief Steven Hager then suggested they hold an event in New York and invite the public to attend. Three "High Times" Stony Awards were held in New York City. In 2007, the "High Times" Stonys were moved to Los Angeles. Occasionally, the Stonys appears only as an article in "High Times", but most years the event is staged. In 2010, Special Stony Achievement Awards were presented to the documentary film "What if Cannabis Cured Cancer" by Len Richmond, truTV's "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura", as well as a posthumous award to Jack Herer, which was accepted by his son, Dan Herer.
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Jack Herer Jack Herer ( ; June 18, 1939 – April 15, 2010), sometimes called the "Emperor of Hemp", was an American cannabis rights activist and the author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", a book—in 2016 in its twelfth edition after having been continuously in print for 31 years—frequently cited in efforts to decriminalize and legalize cannabis and to expand the use of hemp for industrial use. Herer also founded and served as the director of the organization Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP).
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Byllye Avery Byllye Yvonne Avery (born October 20, 1937) is an American health care activist, who has worked to improve the welfare of African-American women by creating the National Black Women's Health Project in 1981. She has received the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship for Social Contribution and the Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the Advancement of Health Care from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, among other awards.
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Stephen Elliott (author) Stephen Elliott (born December 3, 1971) is an American author, activist, and poker enthusiast currently living in Los Angeles who has written and published seven books and directed two films. He is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the online literary magazine The Rumpus. In December 2014, he became Senior Editor at "Epic Magazine". He is also known for his distinctive tattoos, including one of the logo for The Rumpus.
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Jean Stein Jean Babette Stein (February 9, 1934 – April 30, 2017) was an American author and editor.
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Perdita Huston Perdita Constance Huston (May 2, 1936 – December 4, 2001) was an American journalist and women's rights activist. She is commemorated by the international Perdita Huston Human Rights Award.
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Dana Larsen Dana Albert Larsen (born April 14, 1971) is a Canadian author, politician and cannabis legalization activist.
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Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published five poetry collections. His 2010 collection, "Lighthead", won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur fellowships awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work.
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Diane Simmons Diane Simmons is an author from the U.S. state of Oregon. She won the Oregon Book Award in for her novel "Dreams Like Thunder", and the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction for "Little America". She teaches English at the City University of New York (CUNY). She published a biography of Caribbean author Jamaica Kincaid, which was based on her doctoral dissertation at CUNY.
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Mark Haskell Smith Mark Haskell Smith (born June 14, 1957) is an American writer who lives in Los Angeles. He is best known for his books, the non-fiction "Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World", published by Grove Press and "Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers and the Race for the Cannabis Cup", published by Broadway Books, as well as five novels: "Moist", "Delicious", "Salty", "Baked", and "Raw: A Love Story" published by Grove Atlantic/Black Cat.
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Nicholas Benson Nicholas Waite "Nick" Benson (born August 19, 1964) is a third generation American stone carver, stone letterer and owner of The John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island. He was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
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Victoria Riskin Victoria Riskin (born November 18, 1945) is an American psychologist, television writer and producer, and human rights activist.
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Omer Rains Omer L. Rains (born September 25, 1941) is an American politician, lawyer, author, ecologist, and humanitarian.
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George McMahon (activist) George McMahon (born 1950) is an American cannabis rights activist. McMahon is one of four surviving patients enrolled in the federal Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program, and getting marijuana from the government. He lives with extreme pain caused by a rare genetic condition called nail-patella syndrome and uses cannabis to treat its symptoms.
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Carl Hancock Rux Carl Hancock Rux is an American poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, actor, director, singer/ songwriter. He is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary Prize winning, "Pagan Operetta" , the novel "Asphalt" (novel) and the OBIE award-winning play "Talk". Rux is also a singer/songwriter with four CDs to his credit, as well as a frequent collaborator in the fields of dance, theater, film, and contemporary art . Notable collaborators include Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Bill T. Jones, Ronald K. Brown, Nick Cave, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson, Kenny Leon, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jonathan Demme, Stanley Nelson Jr., Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon and others. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Doris Duke Awards for New Works, the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, the New York Foundation for the Arts Prize, the Bessie Awards and the Alpert Award in the Arts.His archives are housed at the Billy Rose Theater Division of the New York Public Library, the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution as well as the Film and Video/Theater and Dance Library of the California Institute of the Arts.
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Thomas J. Stanley Thomas J. Stanley (1943/1944 – February 28, 2015) was an American writer and business theorist. He was the author and co-author of several award-winning books on America's wealthy, including the "New York Times"’ best sellers "The Millionaire Next Door" and "The Millionaire Mind". He served as chief advisor to Data Points, a company founded based on his research and data. He received a doctorate in business administration from the University of Georgia. He was on the faculty of the University at Albany, State University of New York. He taught marketing at the University of Tennessee, University of Georgia and Georgia State University (where he was named Omicron Delta Kappa's Outstanding Professor). He was killed by a drunk driver in 2015 at the age of 71.
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Sarah Einstein Sarah Einstein (30 November 1965 - ) is an American essayist and writer of memoir and literary nonfiction. She is a recipient of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Pushcart Prize.
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Chris Conrad (author) Chris Conrad (born March 10, 1953) is an American author, activist, curator, publisher and court-recognized expert in cannabis cultivation and use. He has played a key role in the shaping of the modern industrial and medical cannabis reform movements as the author of such seminal books as "Hemp: Lifeline to the Future" (1993) and "Hemp for Health" (1997), as well as through his activist work as the co-founder and first President of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA), founder of the Business Alliance in Commerce and Hemp (BACH), and the signature gathering coordinator for the Proposition 215 volunteer effort which made California the first US state to legalize the medical use of cannabis. The December, 1999 issue of "High Times" ranked Conrad #10 on its list of top 25 "living legends in the battle for legal cannabis."
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Randy Shaw Randy Shaw is an attorney, author and activist who lives in Berkeley, California. He is the Executive Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, a non-profit organization in San Francisco that he co-founded in 1980. Shaw also co-founded and is on the Board of Directors of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc., a nonprofit organization that spearheaded the creation of the national Uptown Tenderloin Historic District in 2009. Uptown Tenderloin, Inc. is also the driving force behind the Tenderloin Museum, which opened in the spring of 2015. Shaw is also the editor of Beyond Chron, and has written five books on activism.
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Jonathan Rauch Jonathan Charles Rauch ( ; born April 26, 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American author, journalist and activist. After graduating from Yale University, Rauch worked at the "Winston-Salem Journal" in North Carolina, for the "National Journal" magazine, and later for "The Economist" magazine and as a freelance writer. He is currently a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor of "The Atlantic".
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Cheryl B Cheryl Burke (September 19, 1972 – June 18, 2011), known professionally as Cheryl B, was an American journalist, spoken word poet, performance artist and playwright, associated with the East Village arts scene in New York City. She is best known for her autobiographical book "My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B", which was published posthumously and was co-winner, with John Irving's novel "In One Person", of the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature.
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Bruce Eisner Bruce Jay Ehrlich (February 26, 1948 – January 1, 2013), better known by his pen name Bruce Eisner, was an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book "Ecstasy: The MDMA Story".