Stash for Wed, Feb 18, 2009
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 4:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
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Money… get back… I’m alright Jack, keep your hands off my stack… Article after article keep trickling across the news desk about states cutting their budgets in this economic crisis, desperate to trim wasteful spending, motivated to search for creative new revenue streams… So, congratulations, Ulysses the Marijuana Unicorn, official mascot of those incarcerated for simple, first-time, non-violent marijuana possession, you now have a friend — Elliott the Legalization Elephant!
On today’s Daily Audio Stash we get a double dose of Cannabis Science. Dr. Mitch Earleywine is here to talk about that study I brought up yesterday showing that marijuana users were less likely to get injured than alcohol drinkers. Then Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a pioneering physician in the field of medical marijuana and author of Marijuana Reconsidered and Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine, joins us to talk about his new web ventures (you’ve seen the ad banners) and the progress of medical marijuana since he began his research in the 1960s.
