Today on the Stash NORML Founder Keith Stroup joins us to wish Dr. Lester Grinspoon a happy birthday. Keith calls him the “intellectual leader” of this movement, beginning with his groundbreaking book, Marihuana Reconsidered (back in the day before they put the “j” in!) and to this day he advocates for the medical uses of marijuana and the end of adult marijuana prohibition.
Also joining us today is Mason Tvert from SAFER in Denver. After a rash of air rage incidents involving alcohol intoxication diverted flights to Denver, Mason asks, “why not allow marijuana smoking in the airport smoking lounges as a way to relieve the stress of air travel?” A novel idea, eh?
Plus you get another dose of my pal Chief Greenbud, along with another episode of Reefer Madness coming from West Virginia.
So go get the four-footre, it’s time for your NORML Daily Audio Stash!
Today’s Daily Audio Stash is dedicated to the memory of George Carlin, a man whom I never knew, who taught me to speak truth to power; to respect the power of words; to flaunt the First Amendment; to never accept the word of authority without checking it out for yourself; to never fear pointing out the emperor wears no clothes; to laugh at ourselves through all our tragedies; to expose the hypocrisies of church and state; to stay away from cocaine; to not be afraid to be silly; and to curse like a fucking sailor, god damn it! Baseball vs. Football - A Place for Your Stuff - Four Groups That Gotta Go - Seven Dirty Words (that evolved into the Incomplete List of Impolite Words) - I’ll never forget the first time those made me laugh and it’s some of that rare comedy that makes me laugh as hard hearing the hundredth time. You’re dust now, dude. Dust, wind, dude. But the art you created lives on in so many of us.
On today’s Stash we go back to George Carlin’s hometown, New York City, for a two-part interview with Dr. Harry Levine, Professor of Sociology at Queen’s College in New York. Dr. Levine is co-author of the study, “Marijuana Arrest Crusade”, which details the skyrocketing arrest rates for marijuana between 1997-2007 and the racial disparities found in those arrests.
It’s Summer! Officially! We’ve got 70 degrees here in Portland under partly-cloudy skies… and a calendar chock full o’ summer hempfests and speaking engagements. I hope I get to meet some Stashers in Eugene, Seattle, Boise, and Denver this year. Eugene and Seattle have hempfests where I’ve been invited to speak, Boise is where my folks live, and I’ll be in Denver because I am a credentialed blogger (through an LGBT blog I contribute to called Pam’s House Blend) at the Democratic National Convention. While I will be reporting for the gay community as a “straight ally”, you can bet there will be some NORML reporting going on as well.
Today we’ve got a Stash full of entertainment. Steve Bloom from CelebStoner.com is back with a look at the new season of Weeds that just debuted on Showtime. Jonathan Levine is here to talk about the movie he wrote and directed called The Wackness, starring Academy Award™ winner Sir Ben Kingsley. And we’ve got some funky rock from the most perfectly-named band to ever hit the Stash, Johnny Reeferseed and the High Rollers.
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.
Juneteenth is a day of reflection, a day of renewal, a pride-filled day. It is a moment in time taken to appreciate the African American experience. It is inclusive of all races, ethnicities and nationalities - as nothing is more comforting than the hand of a friend.
…On Juneteenth we come together young and old to listen, to learn and to refresh the drive to achieve. It is a day where we all take one step closer together - to better utilize the energy wasted on racism. Juneteenth is a day that we pray for peace and liberty for all.
Today I’ve got one more presentation from the Aspen Legal Seminar. The president-elect of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, John Wesley Hall, elaborates on roadside traffic stops and cases in search and seizure law.
In Reefer Madness we take a look at the CASA report - not only is it not your father’s pot, but it’s driving the young people INSANE!!!
Also, some reefer rap from Japan. HANABiS is the man and it’s a really cool mix. Enjoy!
Dr. Mitch Earleywine joins us to discuss the decrease in teen marijuana use in the states that have accepted medical use of marijuana. New York State Assembly approves a medical marijuana bill while Florida institutes tough new mandatory minimums for marijuana grow houses. And NORML’s Paul Armentano was featured on the Dr. Drew radio show on Westwood One. He followed the Drug Czar, John Walters, who appeared to tout the “not your father’s pot” myth. Yours truly even got to call in to the show and peg some of Walters’ falsehoods.
I’m transcribing and eviscerating the Dr. Drew interview of the Drug Czar, John Walters. Hold tight, I’ll have this and Dr. Earleywine on the Stash later tonight. — “R”R
Did you see the one about how marijuana is twice as potent now as it was then? Every year, the ONDCP likes to trumpet the results of the Potency Monitoring Project to try and scare uneducated parents about marijuana’s potency. NORML’s Paul Armentano joins us to thoroughly debunk those rumors and explain marijuana’s relative safety.
We also look to our borders today: to Canada, where researchers in Vancouver are concerned that medical marijuana users may suffer non-serious adverse effects from using pot, like being high. Then down to Mexico, where an under-reported drug war has killed 10,000 with mostly American guns.
Our musical break today features some experimental ragga from Kush Arora. This is definitely not music for an unsupervised acid trip. Grab yourself some wacky tobaccy and enjoy!
Just a quick note to all the Stashers out there in the Midwest just trying to keep dry. We’re thinking of you and hope you didn’t lose anything or anyone precious in those floods
Today we have a special treat. NORML Board Member George Rohrbacher joins us to talk about Pot and Parenting. Seems that after 40 years of being a NORML dad, he managed to put four kids through Ivy League schools and have a successful rural farming life. George will give you his insight on good parenting that doesn’t demonize marijuana use, but explains that it isn’t for teens.
We also get a firsthand account of a story we broke earlier this month. You’ll recall the story of the New Jersey high school being locked down because of threats from an upset 45-year-old marijuana customer against his teenage dealer? Well that man, Howard Lowery, joins us to explain his side of the story, which just illustrates the cruelty medical marijuana patients in non-medical states face and the desperation they are driven to on the black market.
And we’ve also got our regular Blues Monday break with some groovy Chicago blues from Eddie “The Chief” Clearwater. Find yourself the Zig Zag Man and let’s enjoy some Daily Audio Stash!
Egads, it’s Friday the 13th! Where’s my hockey mask?
Today on your Friday Stash I wrap up the highlights from the NORML Aspen Legal Seminar last weekend. A friend of the Stash, attorney Doug Hiatt from Seattle, Washington, gave an excellent presentation on medical use issues in Washington State. He particularly described the cases he’s worked on where medical marijuana patients are denied spots on the organ transplant lists because they are “illegal drug users”. Hiatt also looks at the strange battle to determine what Washington’s “60-day supply” of usable marijuana really means.
I’ve also got a true story to tell of a middle aged couple living in a tropical paradise whose world is turned upside-down by the DEA for one 6-inch pot plant. Get in on the true crime drama with Agent Joe Monday in this episode of “Drugnet”.
We’ve got some laid-back groovy rap from Jet Baker, who is going to take us to this weekend’s Pot Party.
Finally, I got word through the latest ONDCP potency report that there was a record seizure of a strain in Vista, California, that came in at a 37.20% THC potency. The record until this quarter was a seizure in my home state of Oregon that came in at 33.12% THC. While you Californians are going to claim you’ve got the better bud, I’ll believe it when I smoke it. We Oregonians are just better at hiding our good stuff from the feds… ;-*<\\\\\\\\\\@~~~
I’m just about caught up on all the media processing. Check out the National NORML YouTube Page and you can see all the videos I’ve been uploading from the Aspen Legal Seminar. Also, check out the Aspen Legal Seminar Archive I’ve put together. I’ll be adding more audio, video, and photos as I process them.
Today I’m giving you a two-part presentation from Paul Armentano’s seminar on the latest DUID laws and the studies on cannabis and driving. Yes, they really want to take your license even if you never drive stoned.
Plus we’ve got some good new rock and roll from Skracht Apple, and a new segment on the Stash - Stupid Stoner Stories. I hope you enjoy, and take it as it’s meant - we’ve got to hold ourselves up to a, ahem, higher standard. That means no dope in court!
More from the Aspen Legal Seminar with NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre giving a great overview of the emerging issues facing the cannabis community in 2008.
Plus we’ve got some heavily sedated hip-hop for you with Green Team and “2 Gram Blunt”.
Continuing our debriefing from the Aspen Legal Seminar - today you’ll hear Paul Wright from Prison Legal News with important issues in prisoner’s rights, and Jeralyn Merritt from TalkLeft.com talking about the upcoming changes to crack cocaine sentencing laws.
Of course, you also get music - an instrumental groove from Panik & Molemen called “Puff Another Blunt”.
This week I’m featuring the highlights of the 2008 Aspen Legal Conference. Today you’ll hear Gerry Goldstein with a look at the top court decisions drug law reformers and defense attorneys need to know. It’s worth it just to hear his take on Justice Scalia!
Then you’ll get a blues break with a protegé of Sonny Boy Williamson named Billy Boy with “New Jailhouse Blues”
And I wrap it up with Dan Monnat who tells you all about the practices of drug dog detection and training that uncover the lies we’ve been told about the alleged accuracy of K-9 units.
I’m packin’ up and headin’ out - on my way to the Aspen Legal Seminar. I’ll be posting some YouTube video, some Stash audio, and performing my syndicated The Russ Belville Show live from the Rocky Mountains.
Enjoy our regular Wednesday interview with Dr. Mitch Earleywine - he’s got some new data that show that using marijuana and tobacco together, like blunts, could be more contributing more to what some are calling a “marijuana addiction epidemic”.
Then Cannabis Karri got us some traditional-style music from the Emerald Isle with a Dublin band called “Stoat” and a song called “I Wish I Were Stoned”. The singer sort of reminds me of Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. I don’t know. After I listened to this song, I just wanted to have some stash and a stout with Stoat.
To wrap things up, Ryan Ballou joins us from Spokane, Washington, to give us a preview of the Spokane Hempfest, August 2nd and 3rd.
Here we go to Aspen - the real Rocky Mountain High! ~@\|||||||||||\>
Yesterday I spoke with Dale Geiringer of California NORML and he remarked how the Mendocino County Measure B was based on language just declared unconstitutional by the California Court of Appeals. Today I talk with Omar Figueroa, a cannabis rights attorney in California, for more discussion of the People v. Kelly decision that declared Senate Bill 420’s limits on medical marijuana possession to be unconstitutional, since the Assembly cannot amend a citizen initiative like Prop 215.
We’ve got a return to the Stash for our musical guest, The Dirtball. I’ve really been digging on his groove ever since I played “Mushroom Cloud” on the Stash last month, so this month I bring you “Just a Friend”, which also features some really tight female vocals.
Then we look at industrial hemp in South Dakota and how they’re using hempcrete - a concrete and hemp blend - to provide energy efficient and environmentally-friendlier building materials. Bob Newland from South Dakota NORML joins us.
So sit back with your Gandalf and your favorite strain and enjoy your NORML Daily Audio Stash.
Dale Geiringer of California NORML joins us to discuss the Mendocino county vote on Measure B, which would eliminate the county limit of 25 plants per person; NC State Rep. Earl Jones, sponsor of a bill to form a joint subcommittee to study medical marijuana in North Carolina; a look at the upcoming Summer festival season; and Blues music by Carolyn Wonderland.
Hey, everyone, I’m back at NORML West Coast Media HQ. I’ve got an expanded edition of the Hemp Headlines for you, some music from the Tallbrothers, the winner of May’s Pass the Stash contest, and a replay of my two-part interview with Tommy Chong.
It’s Friday, May 23rd and it’s 4:20 somewhere in the world! I’m your host, “Radical” Russ Belville and this is your NORML Daily Audio Stash.
I hope you all have a great holiday this Memorial Day weekend. Monday I’ll be remembering some of our best interviews on the Daily Audio Stash over this past few months, featuring Tommy Chong, Dr. Mitch Earlywine, Douglas Hiatt, and many more.
For today’s show we visit with the E! network of cannabis news, CelebStoner.com’s Steve Bloom, who breaks down the latest cannabis celebrity news.
Then for our musical break we bring back some old friends, The Omega Project. You may remember my interview with Carlos as he and his girlfriend were facing some serious marijuana arrest charges. Well, they got by with just a fine and community service and they’re back on the Stash to make more great music. Today’s song is called simply “Leaf”.
To conclude the podcast I’m encouraging everyone to tune into my radio show on XM Satellite channel 167 tomorrow afternoon at 3pm Eastern. I’m interviewing Kevin Booth, director of the documentary “American Drug War: The Last White Hope” and we’ll be taking live calls at the bottom of the hour at 866-55-77-3-77. I’m excited to get this movie in front of my mainstream political audience.
Also, don’t forget about Pass the Stash – you can win a free autographed DVD of “Totally Baked” to be given away a week from today. You just need to send an email to stash@norml.org with your funniest first time pot smoking story. I’m going to help you get started by indulging a bit on my 75th podcast and telling you all my first time pot smoking story.
Finally, don’t forget that every Saturday we’re now posting the NORML Weekend Music Stash, where you can get all of the last ten songs from our daily musical breaks in one podcast, suitable for your weekend party pleasure. If you have a band that would like to be featured on our podcast, please send us an email at stash ‘at’ norml.org.
So sit back and relax with some White Widow and enjoy your NORML Daily Audio Stash…
It’s Thursday, May 22nd and it’s 4:20 somewhere in the world. I’m your host, “Radical” Russ Belville and this is your NORML Daily Audio Stash.
Don’t forget to get on the phone and call your Congress at 202-224-3121. Tell your representative to support Ron Paul’s HR5842, the bill to end DEA raids in medical marijuana states, and Barney Frank’s HR5843, the bill to end federal penalties for personal possession of marijuana.
Today on the Daily Audio Stash we’re traveling across the pond to speak with Steven Rolles, the research director of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation in London, England. We’re talking about the recent reclassification of cannabis from Class C back up to Class B and the overall UK reefer madness obsession with the dreaded “skunk”.
For our musical break today, Cannabis Karri brings us some smooth funky jazz from Yamasaki, with a song he calls “Herbal Remedy”.
Then we’ll finish up with Ryan Davidson from the Liberty Lobby of Idaho. Ryan’s the man behind three initiatives passed in Hailey that legalize medical marijuana and industrial hemp and direct police to treat cannabis law enforcement as the lowest priority. You’ll hear about the latest crazy twist in this story coming up in our Hemp Headlines.
We’re also playing Pass the Stash – you could win a free autographed DVD of the movie “Totally Baked” – keep listening for details.
We’ve got a lot to cover, so sit back and relax with a meeting of your Joint Subcommittee and enjoy your NORML Daily Audio Stash…
It’s Wednesday, May 21st and it’s 4:20 somewhere in the world. I’m your host, “Radical” Russ Belville.
Don’t forget to call your Congress and tell them to support HR5842 & HR5843 to end DEA raids in medical marijuana states and to legalize personal possession of marijuana. The number is 202-224-3121.
If you have a product that you would like to market to the cannabis community, you can advertise on the Daily Audio Stash. Your ad will be focused on exactly the customer base you’re seeking out; the thousands of responsible cannabis consumers who download and listen to this show. To advertise on the Daily Audio Stash, send us an email at stash @ norml.org.
Wednesday is Cannabis Science day on the Stash, and coming up after the news, we’re joined as always by Dr. Mitch Earleywine from the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Mitch is here to debunk the latest reefer madness allegation out of Scotland that cannabis use leads to impotence, and also to discuss the trend toward increased student drug testing in America.
Cannabis Karri brings us our musical break this hempday humpday with The Hot Rocks and their song, “Higher”.
Don’t forget that it’s not too late to enter our latest “Pass the Stash” contest. You could win a free DVD, autographed by AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, of the new movie, “Totally Baked”. Keep listening for details on how to win.
Welcome to the show, load up your Silly Little Love Bong and sit back with your favorite strain… This is your NORML Daily Audio Stash.
Join NORML In Berkeley For Our 2008 National Conference Register Today To Take Advantage Of Discounted Rates; Congress Fails To Adopt Appropriations Bill - No Opportunity to Vote on Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment; California: Medical Pot Statute Does Not Conflict With Federal Anti-Drug Laws; San Diego Supervisors To Appeal Ruling; interview with SSDP's Kris Krane
Members Of Congress Demand An End To Federal Pot Possession Arrests; National MS Society Makes Recommendations Regarding Therapeutic Use Of Cannabis; The Tragic Death Of Rachel Hoffman -- And The Tragedy That Is Pot Prohibition; Interview with Rep. Barney Frank.
Pot Compound Enhances Efficacy Of Anti-Cancer Agents, Study Says; California: Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act Qualifies For November Ballot; New Orleans: District Attorney Charging Minor Pot Offenders With Felonies; Kelly Maddy on Joplin MO Decrim Effort.
John Wesley Hall, president-elect of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, describes the case precendent in roadside traffic stops and search and seizure.
Seattle, Washington attorney Doug Hiatt explains the latest medical use issues in Washington State, including denial of transplant organs for medmj patients.
