Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 2:59 pm | By: Radical Russ
Lou Dog, from Suburban Noize recording group the Kottonmouth Kings, has been named the new assistant director for the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).
“I am proud of the appointment and I am prepared to continue lending my energy and resources towards the advancement of the cause,” commented Lou Dog.
The Kottonmouth Kings have been on the frontlines fighting for the legalization of marijuana for over a decade. The group has been acknowledged for their never-ending commitment to spreading awareness and understanding about the plant, marijuana.
The group had previously helped organize a demonstration at the U.S. Federal Building, alongside other pro-cannabis organizations, to protest the federal prosecution of pot users under the federal Controlled Substances Act. The event attracted national media attention and challenged the Bush Administration’s “War on Drugs”.
You can hear Lou on the Oct 26 edition of the Stash as he was on the panel with Tommy Chong and B Real at the Cypress Hill Smokeout.
Does it seem to anyone else like FOX is trying to keep ahead of the pro-legalization curve? Their business channel hosted a weeklong look at marijuana with a fairly positive spin. They have Jessica Corry on speaking about Republican support for legalization. Could it be that Roger Ailes actually read my suggestion that Republicans could re-invigorate their brand and appeal to a brand new young demographic if they simply embraced their “government leave me alone” roots with respect to private adult marijuana use?
Watch out, Democrats, you’re getting outflanked on the legalization issue. FOX doesn’t make any move that isn’t coldly calculated to politically benefit conservatives.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pm | By: Radical Russ
(JackHerer.com) This is Jack’s wife, Jeannie. Jack had a heart attack in Portland, Oregon on September 12. I was in California waiting for him to come home. I flew to Portland, went to the hospital and was told that a woman named Joy Graves had come to the hospital with a Medical Power of Attorney that Jack had allegedly signed, naming her and Chuck Jacobs as the people in charge of Jack’s medical care. It wasn’t complete and looks like someone forged his signature. The hospital’s legal team determined it was no good.
Jack is now in a skilled nursing facililty in Eugene. Joy Graves has taken the paper to them and they have accepted it until their legal team decides what to do. In the meantime, I am not allowed to see Jack or even get news about his condition over the phone. Jack has already been neglected in the nursing home. He fell out of bed there and hit his head shortly after being admitted. He had lumps on his head from it and bruises on his upper eyelids.
I’ve had to hire an attorney to deal with this. I don’t have much money but I’ll do what I can. I love Jack very much and can’t believe this is happening to him now, when he needs me the most.
Yes, I know when I’m in the middle of a hempfest, just about ready to go up and give a rousing speech, I make sure to sign over my medical power of attorney to somebody who is not my wife.
I’ve reached out to all my contacts in the Oregon cannabis community to see if I can get more on the story. I spoke with Paul Stanford from The Hemp & Cannabis Foundation who told me that Chuck Jacobs and “a lady with some different name” (i.e., could be Joy Graves, but using a pseudonym) brought Jack to Portland and had been traveling with him. Paul is looking up his records to find Mr. Jacobs’ phone number and I will follow up as soon as I have it.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 10:31 am | By: Radical Russ
America's longest serving non-violent marijuana offender, Robert Platshorn, a.k.a. The Black Tuna, served 29 years in prison for marijuana smuggling
We’re back in studio this Saturday for our special Halloweed show! Our guest is ROBERT PLATSHORN, a.k.a. “The Black Tuna”. We’ll be discussing his life as America’s longest-imprisoned (30 years) non-violent marijuana offender, once referred to by President Carter’s attorney general as one of the “slickest, most sophisticated pot smugglers of the 70’s.” Read all about it in Platshorn’s book, “The Black Tuna Diaries”.
The original High Times cover of the Black Tuna story in 1981
We’re also broadcasting from the site of NORML’s West Coast Media HQ Halloweed party, with guests such as Oregon NORML’s Madeline Martinez and UrbAge Designs‘ Scott Gordon. Plus your calls about the scariest marijuana moments in your life. It’s live talk radio from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
The show runs from 6pm-8pm Pacific Time (9-11pm Eastern) streaming live at http://live.norml.org. You can call in with your questions and comments at 347-994-1810. Archived episodes of NORML SHOW LIVE are available for download from our site or by subscribing through iTunes.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm | By: Radical Russ
(ABC News) Convicted con man Bernard Madoff, who slept on luxury linens and dined at the finest restaurants, is now sleeping in the lower bunk of a two man cell in a federal prison, with a 21-year-old convicted drug dealer for a roommate and a child molester cooking his pizza, according to a new victims’ lawsuit filed by the lone outsider to visit him behind bars.
Which one of these three people do you think we could save some money on incarcerating?
A man who ripped people off for hundreds of millions of dollars of investments;
A man who sexually abused children;
A man who sold drugs to willing customers.
I don’t know what drugs the 21-year-old was selling and who he was selling to, but it is ridiculous to think he belongs in the same cell as Bernie Madoff.
Madoff should feel comfortable among the former drug dealers given his long association with office messengers who provided him and his wife Ruth with large amounts of marijuana over the years, according to accounts by former employee in a new book by ABC’s Brian Ross, “The Madoff Chronicles.”
As the former Madoff staffers told Ross, Bernie liked to let off steam.
“Especially in the early days, a messenger known in the office as Little Rick would be dispatched to Harlem to bring back marijuana for Bernie and others in the office.”
Well, I don’t know if you feel comfortable with a street drug dealer just because you had an in-house drug courier, but whatever. All I know is that tokers like Bernie and Ruth Madoff give the rest of us a bad name.
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SPECIAL EDITION – Full Live Audio from Tommy Chong / B Real / Lou Dog panel at Cypress Hill Smokeout, moderated by Steve Bloom from CelebStoner.com
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 8:45 pm | By: Radical Russ
What a day! Cypress Hill just delivered a literally smoking set to a crowd of 20,000 fans. Deftones are up next and Slipknot closes the show.
I arrived today just in time to catch the musicians panel with Tommy Chong, B Real, and Lou Dog from Kottonmouth Kings. B Real said he was “nervous as shit” to be on stage with Tommy Chong. Tommy spoke of his prison time and earning street cred. I got the whole panel and will play it as a two-parter for Mon and Tue Stash.
Then I did the legalization panel with Allison Margolin, Debbie Goldsberry, and Ed Rosenthal. At one point, Ed commanded everyone to stand up and shout “we are the majority!”
From there we went live at 4:00 with NORML SHOW LIVE. It was hectic trying to get to the stage where Cheech & Chong performed. Security kept moving me from place to place.
They only did their musical bits. Cheech led off with his Cousin Red character sintin’ country. Chong followed with Blind Melon Chitlin singing a song full of Michael Jackson references. Cheech did Alice Bowie and “Earache My Eye” in full pink leotard. There was also a remixed “Born in East LA”, Cheech doing “Mexican Americans” and Chong doing a new version called “(They Don’t Like Being Called) Beaners.”. They closed with “Up In Smoke” – I’ve got the whole thing on NORML SHOW LIVE.
We then spoke with Craig Beresh from Southern California NORML as we hustled from one area to another trying to find a place where our combination of wristbands would allow us to go.
I was lured into a cabana with a gentleman running a non-profit dispensary association, and later I happened upon Sarah, the owner of the Bambu company. They have a great new clothing line out at Nordstroms and she told me what it’s like to run this centuries-old company.
And that leads to now, where I’m waiting in a cabana for Cannabis Karri to find me as we party the night away. She did an amazing job hosting NORML SHOW LIVE. It’s so great that she would help me so much with the show production, but also the driving. Weed promotes strong friendships – we’ve been tight since the early ’90s. She’ll say it was worth it to chill with Adrianne Curry (Karri is a reality show fanatic.)
We’re winning and events like this prove it. Live Nation put on.a world class event here. Massive amounts of money are generated here strictly from a young hip-hop/hard rock demographic. Marijuana is everywhere, even flying around on 50-yard banners towed by airplanes. Exhibitors here have beautiful young women greeting the crowd and posing for photos like a major tech or sports car show. Pot is happening!
Life here is so far away from growing up in Nampa, Idaho, and still so far away for too many people. I hope our efforts give you a little look at what freedom looks like as we wash over this country eastward from the California Coast. It is coming faster than you think.
Posted from my BlackBerry – please forgive my big thumbs for any typos!
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 12:35 pm | By: Radical Russ
Saturday Night’s episode of NORML SHOW LIVE will be at a special time – 4:00pm Pacific / 7:00pm Eastern – to take advantage of the lineup here at the Cypress Hill Smokeout in San Bernardino, California. Cheech & Chong are playing a “4:20″ set, so I will be there live, bringing you the comedy from NORML’s favorite comedy team.
Following Cheech & Chong in the lineup are the newly re-formed band Sublime, which many will remember for their cover of “Smoke 2 Joints” among many others. We’ll bring you some of their set as well. I’ve also got an interview with “My Fair Brady’s” Adrianne Curry, Steve Bloom from Celebstoner discussing the celebrity panel, and PonyBoy from Los Marijuanos from Friday’s festivities. Calling in to the show are Kottonmouth Kings and responding to her Jay Leno snub, 2006 Miss New Jersey Georgine DiMaria. (All subject to change due to the chaotic nature of a festival!)
Interspersed with the live audio will be my interviews with many of the artists, celebrities, and just normal folks attending this two day outdoor festival. Join us live at http://live.norml.org, where you can also participate in our online chat and speak live to the host and guests – dial in to 347-994-1810 to participate.
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm | By: Radical Russ
Cannabis Karri and I rounding up Day 1 at Smokeout. The venue here is wonderful. It’s a big amphitheater just off of I-15 on the way toward Vegas, tucked up into the hills. They’ve got a big outdoor stage, a covered Expo with all the vendors, as well as food and other vendors on the main grounds.
A walk up the big bowl of a hill leads to the permanent structure amphitheater and main stage. There were no bands there today, but tonight they are showing “How High” and “Nice Dreams” on the big projector screen. Cypress Hill is playing the closing set.
We arrived around 3:30 only to find no credentials at will call. I called Steve Bloom who came through with two all-access wristbands. We head back into the VIP only area to smoke a couple fine Pacific Northwest fatties with Steve, Shirley Halperin, and Adrianne Curry. Adrianne was wonderful and gave us five minutes of her time to interview about “Stiletto Stoners” (you’ll hear it on the live show tomorrow, if I can clean up the background noise a bit.)
We visited the Expo tent. I’m immediately struck by how much the medical marijuana displays all were staffed by very attractive young women, almost like a car show. Then there was the handwritten mispelled sign offering “medical canabis referrals”. Calvina Fay would love that one.
We moved backstage and got some up close shots of Geto Boys and Bushwick Bill. We ran into actor Michael Rapaport who said, “Hey,” while rocking a Yankees cap. B Real and Sen Dog were backstage getting ready for a meet and greet.
I got cornered for an interview with the folks at Cannabis Planet TV. Behind backstage there was a big open tent lounge with plenty of couches and VIPs blazing, disco lights streaming through the haze. I even ran into Stash guest Henry Hemp and our good friend PonyBoy from Los Marijuanos.
Tomorrow I appear on the Legalization panel with Allison Margolin, Ed Rosenthal, Debby Goldsberry, and Steve Bloom moderating. Then immediately following we break in live for NORML SHOW LIVE at a special early time of 4:00pm Pacific so we can catch 4:20 with Cheech & Chong.
Today’s Stash is ready and will be uploaded in a couple of hours.
Posted from my BlackBerry – please forgive my big thumbs for any typos!
Track Snack: Mornin Stashers! Tokin on the Mean Green Martian for breakfast.
MrSpof: Maybe Dr Mitch could comment on the efficacy of reasonable amount of weed like that consumed (smoked) quickly mitigating migraine effects. I know the lowering of blood pressure would be [...]
MrSpof: Had the onset of a migraine yesterday. Immediately took 8 , moist cool washcloth on eyes, heating pad on neck and upper back, turned off lights. Migraine gone in [...]
MrSpof: As you personal non-accredited doctor, I advise the rest of you to smoke/vape/eat heavily
slash5city: frickazee'd.... Mr. Spof, thank you very much
MrSpof: Risen and roasted How the hell are you?
RevRayGreen: always Fidget......always.
Adam: Maybe in WA, judges are starting to think about the true cost of a Drug charge...
Adam: Tim Lincecum, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants will pea to a paraphernalia charge/ Possession charges DROPPED
Adam: Add some cottage cheese to your pancake batter, replace the maple with a fruit syrup! f-ing killer, YES I was stoned...
Fidget Truittelli: Good morning from beautiful Arizona! I hope you all have a happy, fun day. Remember to 'pay-it' forward. Do something nice for someone.
BenJaMin: Go NORML!!!
BenJaMin: Russ Is Tha BEst! :smokin:
SneakerPimp: oh there it is thanx russ
SneakerPimp: so whats up with today stash?
RevRayGreen: Barney Frank Present When Partner Arrested for pot-- http://bit.ly/1XpM2R
RevRayGreen: KMK 11/17/09 VAL AIR ballroom DSM
bullbog: that's crazy. I had a NORML black t-shirt on. It was hell of a show
RevRayGreen: dude I was probably 4-5 seats from you then
bullbog: 4th row center. I wish I was closer.
RevRayGreen: were in in the orchestra pit 4th row? or 4th row center, that's where I was bu slightly to the right
RevRayGreen: our show ______v'''''''
RevRayGreen: catch our chow tomorrow online Carl'sCannabis Corner
www.macswordlive.com 12-2 PM you can go there now and find archived shows
bullbog: revraygreen after looking at your pic from last nite. I'm pretty sure I seen you. I regonize you from the march in May
Just Legalize It: nothing really cool dealing with marijuana happens in massachusetts.... it sucks.... other than the boston freedom rally... but one thing a year isnt enough! i want to move to [...]
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Gallup: Majority Of West Coast Voters Back Marijuana Legalization; Pot Arrests Responsible For Majority Of Marijuana Treatment Referrals; DOJ To Federal Prosecutors: Do Not Focus Resources On Medical Marijuana. […]
Some of the nation’s top athletes discuss why today's pros are turning to cannabis — and away from alcohol and painkillers — off the field, and question why pro sports leagues are continuing to sanction those who do. Moderator: Steve Bloom, Author, Pot Culture; editor, celebstoner.com * Toby Grear, MMA fighter * Sean Neumann, Documentary Filmm […]
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LA NORML names new Assistant Director
frickazee'd.... Mr. Spof, thank you very much
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