iTunes Top 25: President Obama 3 – NORML 2

NORML Daily Audio Stash places #8 in the iTunes Top 10 for Government & Organizations

I sincerely want to again thank everyone who is making this podcast such a success.  Chris Goldstein for founding it and choosing me to take it over, Allen St. Pierre and Keith Stroup for believing in me and trusting me to work at home from 3,000 miles away, and Paul Armentano for being the Google of marijuana science.

Of course there is also Steve Bloom from Celebstoner.com, Tere Joyce rounding up guests in SoCal, Tam Lee bringing us great new independent tunes from Marijuana Music Awards (and thanks to all the musicians who donate!), Dr. Mitch Earleywine providing our Cannabis Science, and lately, Eric Brenner with the California Marijuana Report, Danny Danko with Cultivator’s Corner, and David Bienenstock with High Times Newsstand Preview.  Not to mention the hundreds of activists, authors, scientists, doctors, politicians, musicians, and plain old “unicorns” we talk to in our Cannabis Conversations.

Then there are the dedicated newshawks – Mr. Spof, Dudemaster, and Justice – who track down stories from across cyberspace and always find the budly nugs amidst all the swiggity swag.  (Try typing “marijuana” into Google News sometime – it’s 95% “poor shmuck got busted for a little weed” stories and 5% “really interesting news”.)  Thanks also go out to Cannabis Karri (she’s my half-half sister; she has a different mom and I have a different dad) and Less Than Radical Josh (he’s my whole brother, all 6’4″ of him) who handled the music pre-Tam.

And of course, YOU!, the dedicated Stasher who hangs out in the Fresh Stash to the one-time visitor who hit here from Google News or some random hyperlink.  I come from a very friendly and vibrant online community (Pam’s House Blend) that she once described as a virtual coffee house, where folks feel comfortable talking issues.  Music plays in the background, it’s “community-friendly”, big news stories about our issue are discussed but also stories outside our issue are looked at from our point of view.  People contribute stories, commentray, and links and we rip a few hits and discuss.  Maybe we’re a virtual coffee shop, Amsterdam style.

Anyway, I noted below how we topped 100,000 hits for April (that’s one big bowl!… or one helluva bonghittin’ woman!) down below and while I was checking up on the iTunes feed, I noticed we broke the Top Ten at #8 (the Weekly News is at #22) in the Government & Organizations category of the iTunes store.  We have two podcasts in the Top 25 versus President Obama having three… and he doesn’t think we’re serious about legalization.

Let’s keep growing this corner of cyberspace!  I believe this summer we’ll be ready to go into full budding stage.