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 Montreal, Quebec to become SKUNK’s Senior Editor and Sales Director.

After two-and-a-half years of writing, editing and activism in Quebec, after winning a lengthy and public legal battle with the American Government who had kidnapped her son on the grounds that writing about sex & pot makes you a bad parent, Mamakind recently moved back to her hometown of Calgary to raise her children, continue her activism (as a member of Calgary420, the Canadian Cannabis Coalition and panelist for NORML Canada’s Resolving Marijuana Prohibition National Tour) and contributions to SKUNK, as well as entering the world of book writing, with her first collection of her work, “SexPot: The Marijuana Lover’s Guide to Getting’ It On,” published by Ed Rosenthal, to hit the stands in the Fall of 2011.

Mamakind continues to freelance; she was the first female blogger on Celebstoner.com; her work has appeared on Ireland’s Cannazine website and in a cover story of the May `09 issue of High Times. Mamakind has been a guest speaker at various international events, rallies and protests. She’s developed a writing course called “I Wanna Write for the Pot Magazines,” for professional and amateur journalists interested in breaking into cannabis-related publications. Mamakind is a federally-licensed medicinal cannabis consumer and cultivator and two of her favorite strains are DJ Short’s “Flo” and Sensi Seeds’ “Skunk #1.”