I love that you guys love the Stash so much that you go through withdrawals when I cannot produce them daily. I’ve received a few emails and seen some comments to the tune of “you need more help” and “why can’t you get someone to do the Stash while you’re out of the studio”?
Really, they warm my heart, even if a couple of you get a bit demanding for your free podcast. (You know other radio hosts require subscriptions as high at $5.95/month, right?) It lets me know how important this part of my outreach work is. For example, I got an email from “CMoney” who was bummed that I haven’t had many daily episodes lately and that he couldn’t catch the live shows from the conference and Boston. Then he discovered that when he misses NORML SHOW LIVE, he doesn’t really miss it, because there is a podcast feed available through iTunes. To date there have been 12,000+ downloads of our live feed.
More help is coming. As we raise revenue through advertising, I will be able to bring on my LIVE co-host, Karri, to help handle some of the secretarial work of NORML Outreach to free me up for more online media work. Please be patient and understand that we work entirely through donations and NORML’s budget is pretty tight. Also understand that as a non-profit public advocacy organization, we can’t offer competitive salaries to acquire the talent necessary to pull off some of the stuff I’m doing; my skills would garner me twice to thrice what I’m paid now in the commercial radio / podcasting world.
I do it out of love and duty and dedication to the cause of ending adult marijuana prohibition. I’ve made more money before but I had to be miserable to do it. Money’s tight for your house-renting, 11-year-old-beater-car-driving podcast producer, but smiles are plentiful.
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Yes Russ
I’m in the M-N-W (Middle-No-Where).
You and Your stash have taught me how to talk to other folks about the Marijuana issues.
I think My 50 year old mother is starting to understand that Marijuana is not the bad plant, it was made out to be believed.
Keep up the good work we love you in M-N-W!
I like the educational and science aspect of the Stash more than the other parts of the Stash,
because it gives me ammo to use in debates about ending prohibition. Dr. Earlywine is just fantastic and I think he is a wonderful guest for the Cannabis Science section. I would be nice to have him on more than once a week.
Ding! This would be the correct answer for me. One of the reasons I listen to the Stash and several other potcasts is just to hear another human voice talking about weed for what it really is. Hell, you know how I am about pot news: if someone exhales news about anything, anywhere, I’ve already read it 3 hours ago
But, since I’m pretty much stoner buddy-less currently, the voices on the net are my only stoner pals 
I’m one that has withdraws from not having daily stashs but I totally get the time that it takes to produce even one stash let alone 5 per week, a live show on Sat and the amount of speeches and the places you have to go to deliver those speeches!
I get it, so don’t sweat it at all! We love the work you do so don’t change a thing. But just so you know, stuck where I am and the lack of support I’m getting, I really do live thru you, your chance to be so involved in the movement, the amount of events you go to and the access you give us all. I thank you very much for that.
That’s the way I take it. I also try to remember there’s someone middle-of-nowhere whose only connection to cannabis sanity is outlets like the Stash, and I respect and cherish that audience. I met so many in the past ten days who gush about getting their Stash, even one young man who told me point blank, “you are the reason I got involved in cannabis activism.” Most tender!
I get bummed because I have a Zune and the feed isn’t on the Zune marketplace.
I get bummed when there’s no podcast but I know you’re busy. I think a lot of people that only come to stash don’t see all the other things you’re involved in.
We might be demanding but it’ll sure keep you on your toes Russ, and that’s never a bad thing!