Stash for Thu, Feb 12, 2009

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So you’re fast asleep in the early Pacific Northwest morning when a reporter from the Associated Press on the East Coast calls you to ask about the appointment of your police chief to the position of Drug Czar and whether police have a barbecue at the world’s largest marijuana festival hosted in your city every year.  Such is today in the life of Seattle Hempfest Director Vivian McPeak, as Chief Kerlikowske was named Drug Czar today.  It’s just not right for you East Coasters to wake us Cascadians up at your 8am before we’ve had our IV drip of caffeine.  Have you been to this part of the country in February?  We’re in month three of five months worth of “40 degrees and cloudy with rain likely”!  Viv joins us to talk about the Chief, the relationship of Seattle Police Dept. and Hempfest, the Chief’s response to the I-75 lo-pri initiative, and a look at the newly expanded, “18 and barely legal” Hempfest this summer.

Chris Goldstein is churning out excellent short essays on drug war subjects for public radio exchange at PRX.org.  You can register and download these and many other readers and subjects for your podcast or public radio show.  Today Chris tackles the Boycott Kellogg’s movement and how the only people who might get hurt from Michael Phelps toking a bong are Kellogg’s workers in already economically depressed Battle Creek, Michigan.

(And The Donnas playing kick-ass rock’n'm’f'n’roll!  Urb, you down with The Donnas, or too light for ya?)