His deputy editor was convicted for publishing one. The case ran five years, reached the Constitutional Court, and is still not finished. Hurt puts out the next issue.
The clause is called šíření toxikomanie — spreading toxicomania. Lukáš Hurt describes what it can be stretched to cover.
"You can easily apply it to anything. You can apply it to somebody who is wearing a T-shirt with the leaf on it."
Then the sentence that explains why he keeps mentioning it.
"So it's a very dangerous weapon in the hands of the police."
He is not speaking hypothetically. The man who edits alongside him has been through it.
Robert Veverka published Legalizace, the magazine Hurt worked on before starting his own. He was prosecuted for spreading toxicomania through it — for what he printed.
"It took five years and it's still not over."
Hurt draws the obvious line himself.
"So, you know, I'm publishing a magazine as well. So this can happen to me too."
He has not been charged.
"But it's still in my mind that something like this could happen to me."
And then, plainly, the thing he cannot make square.
"When you are spreading the truth and the information that can be useful to people, you shouldn't be punished for that."
He did not set out to publish anything. He set out to translate.
He studied history and English at the university in Olomouc, went into hospitality, spent six years in Ireland, and came back.
"I was approached by many people who were looking for information about how cannabis can help them with various diseases. And there was lots of information, like 15 years ago, which was appearing in scientific papers, but only in English."
So he translated the papers. Then the patient stories. Then he was working at the magazine, and then he was writing his own pieces, and then conducting his own interviews.
"I think I went through all the positions you can imagine in a cannabis magazine. So I know how it works from the beginning to the printing."
In 2018 he started his own. It is called Konopí — Czech for cannabis — and it runs an English edition under a different name.
The editorial choice that shapes it is defensive as much as it is journalistic.
"What we are trying to do with our magazine is we actually focus on the medical aspect. And we kind of think this actually plays into our hands, because it would be hard for police to criminalise a magazine which is read by patients."
He lists who fills the pages.
"We had many interviews with doctors, with patients, with scientists, with researchers. So it's hard to punish us for science."
Then the qualifier, because he knows the precedent.
"But they tried to do it with the other magazine years before."
He was clear about what the work has and has not achieved.
"The people who read our magazine and follow my work, they actually think that we have an influence even over, like, general public."
He does not think that is true.
"Most of the people who read my magazine and follow the cannabis news, they are usually already on your side. So it's really hard to get people from the other side to actually agree with you."
"It's a very long way to get there."
The concrete win he does claim is legislative, and it is specific. From the first of January 2026, adults in the Czech Republic may grow three plants.
"Which is a huge step in the right direction."
He immediately says what is wrong with it.
"But obviously, and as it usually goes, it's not without flaws. So the limit for possession is only 100 grams. And as you surely know, it's hard to harvest only 100 grams when you have three large plants."
"So there will still be issues. But at least it's the first step."
He lives in a small village between Prague and Olomouc, near what he says is the largest railway junction in central Europe. It is the detail he gives when asked where he works.
"I'm spending a lot of time working on train, which is great for being a cannabis journalist, because it's very easy to get anywhere and attend events which are happening all around the country and even in neighbouring countries."
He is a patient as well as a publisher. He was diagnosed with chronic gastritis and prescribed cannabis for it.
"It's like pain in the stomach. You feel like it's full all the time, and you need to eat very carefully and regularly. And also it's connected with lack of appetite. So cannabis is helping me with all that."
There is a second condition, and he attributes it to the job.
"In recent years, unfortunately, the writing about cannabis is taking a toll on my back. So I have chronic back pain as well."
He used to smoke. He does not now.
"In recent years I have switched to vaporising, which was one of the best things I think I did."
Asked who he admires, he names a scientist who walked the same corridors he did.
"Starting with, for example, Lumír Hanuš. Who is a very famous scientist and who actually studied at the same university as I did."
What he admires is not the discovery.
"I admire his patience and humbleness at the same time."
He names one more, and in doing so describes the kind of person he thinks the work requires.
"You need smart people who can talk with politicians, who can dress in suits. But still, you need to have this good nature in it. So you don't do all the things only for profits."
Asked what he would do with money, he does not name a project. He names a payroll.
"I would pay decent wages to all the people who have been working voluntarily for many years and trying to get people out of the prisons in the Czech Republic. Because I know it's a lot of work, and I think they would deserve to get some money."
Asked where anyone could donate to that work, he explains why they cannot.
"It's a problem, because we have only a citizen initiative. So it's not written in the books anywhere. It's just a group of people who come together and do some voluntary work. We don't have a home office and we don't have any headquarters."
"You need to lay some groundwork to it and institutionalise it, and then we can raise some capital."
He was asked for his personal definition of health and did not give a general answer.
"That's not easy, because I haven't ever been in good health for most of my adult life. So it's like a continuous struggle."
His answer starts somewhere other than the body.
"You need to be first healthy in your head and have a positive attitude. Because without it, it's very easy to become very sick even inside, physically."
The lesson he says cannabis taught him is about other people rather than himself.
"There could be two people sitting and watching the same movie, but everybody can have different memories from it, because everybody was raised differently and everybody has different experiences. So I think it allows me to judge people less harshly than I used to when I was younger."
The moment he names as the one that changed things happened a few hundred metres from where this interview was recorded.
"When I was visiting for the first time a fellow cannabis activist, thirteen years ago, he actually showed me Rick Simpson and the cannabis oil they were making to help very sick people. And I think the evening changed my life definitively, because it opened my eyes."
He is a chess player. He used to train and mentor young players and hopes to go back to it. His son starts school soon; his daughter is younger.
"So for me, cannabis and my family is my world at the moment."
Asked to leave one sentence behind, he gives three words.
"Sharing is caring."