"You gotta kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn

Like Tommy Chong, Mamakind (a/k/a Lisa Kirkman) was born in the University Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She attended the Universities of Lethbridge, Calgary and Poona (Pune, India) working toward a degree in Religious Studies.

After the birth of her first child, Mamakind moved to British Columbia to pursue her love of cannabis and passion for writing and editing with Cannabis Culture magazine, heading out on a long road of anti-prohibition activism. While in BC, she founded a medical cannabis dispensary (the Sunshine Coast Compassion Club Society), was a contributor to Cannabis Health Journal, started her own cannabis-related advertising directory, had another baby and was convicted of growing medical cannabis for her sick husband in 2005. MK started contributing to SKUNK Magazine the same year, answering stoners’ sex & relationship questions and later moved to Mo