Stash for Mon, Feb 23, 2009
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 5:30 pm | By: Radical Russ
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Today was another one of those breaking news days where I’m juggling a couple of stories and tracking down three interviews on stuff happening in real time. Today in both Pacific and Eastern Time, at roughly the same few hours. I’m telling you, we’re riding a growing wave that is washing over a culture that has had “Enough!”.
Pictured at left is Jim Miller and Ken Wolski from the Coalition for Medical Marijuana in New Jersey. They’re inside the senate, with some of the 16 NO votes milling in the background behind them. Chris Goldstein from Active Voice Radio called in to the Stash right after the hearing and got Jim and Ken to report on the 22-16 victory on S119 in the Senate. We also have audio from testimony at that hearing on today’s Hemp Headlines. The buzzing noise you hear is either the energy of the medical marijuana boosters in the crowd or the lousy wiring in the New Jersey Senate chambers, which, as Chris notes at his blog, are the second-oldest continuously running state legislative chambers in the United States. (Good for them. Buy some mic cables.) Also notable: S119 did not pass at 4:20pm Eastern… it was 4:23pm.
Also, California NORML Coordinator Dale Gieringer joins us prompty after the press conference where Assemblyman Tom Ammiano announced AB 390, the California Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act, with his evaluation of the bill’s chances and the effect it would have on California’s budget crisis.
Hey Jim- um heck yeah on the pic!
Hey Russ, really awesome production yesterday with so much happening on both coasts….you do such a great job my friend.
The Assembly bill still has to clear a subcommittee and the full Assembly. Yet there was nothing comparable to seeing this bill pass in the NJ State House. This really is government at work:)
Folks I hope everyone can look around at all of the reform in progress around the country as a catalyst for your own participation with NORML or other groups in your area.
Chris
[...] and interviews regarding these breaking events in California and New Jersey are available here on the NORML Daily Audio Stash [...]
these diligent hard working people in NJ need a big cup of kudos
thank you for all the hard work
every bit of effort adds up
even if we lose this battle we will win the war
Good picture Chris! Aren’t you glad that I suggested Farley, Evans, and their minions as a backdrop? It was a good day.
Jim Miller
Hello all I was there, There was a overweight balding man who was wearing a bag of weed around his neck, with a sign that said 1 oz =30 joints. After the vote passed and we were leaving he said “This is a slap in the face of law enforcement” I guess he is pissed off that he won’t be able to arrest sick people? Thank you to everyone that worked so hard to get the bill passed in the senate. Thanks and Stay Free