Download the NORML Weekend Music Stash for 2008-04-05

Every Saturday, Cannabis Karri and I put together the ten most recent songs from the Daily Audio Stash musical breaks. We’re calling it the Weekend Music Stash, and it’s a perfect setlist of toker-friendly tunes for you to jam out with over the weekend. Here’s what you’ll get:

1. “Like Smoke” by Aaron English
2. “Let it Burn” by Ivy League
3. “Get High” by Potluck
4. “Jack Herer” by The Dixon Chicks
5. “Winning the War on Drugs” by Asylum Street Spankers
6. “I’m Kinda High” by The Tallbrothers
7. “Mary Jane I’ve Smoked My Last One” by The Den Collective
8. “Relax Your Mind” by Molly & Sonny Boy
9. “I Smoke Herbs” by Ben Base
10. “P rozac Blues”* by Ernie Southern

Here’s a party hint: Since each Weekend Music Stash is the last ten songs, the first five songs on this Stash will be the last five songs on next week’s Stash. So if you want to listen to a continuous stream of unrepeated music, just cue up every other Stash one after the other.

Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-04-04

We’d like to pause for a moment in remembrance of this day forty years ago, April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King was a true patriot who stood up for civil rights and famously dreamed of a day when people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

We cannabis consumers are another minority – an invisible minority – and we regularly have our civil rights trampled upon for our use and appreciation of a plant. Cannabis users are disenfranchised by felony convictions in many states. Cannabis users’ privacy is violated by workplace urine testing. Cannabis users’ families are broken up by social services. Cannabis users are beaten and killed just for being cannabis users.

That’s not to compare the injustice suffered for 350 years by African-Americans whose ancestors were brought over in slave ships to the injustice suffered by a college kid who loses a loan, a blue collar worker who loses a job, or pot smoker who loses their freedom; they aren’t comparable. However, civil rights is not a zero-sum game and we can’t base our rights on perceived degrees of past offense. The right to one’s own mind and body are the ultimate civil right and considering how much the War on Marijuana disproportionately affects communities of color, perhaps it’s time we started thinking of it in a civil rights perspective.

Next, Cannabis Karri has unearthed a tune from a Seattle artists named Aaron English. He’s got a great big song called “Like Smoke” that’s a perfect kickoff to the weekend.

We wrap things up today with comedian Rob Cantrell, who you’ll remember from Last Comic Standing, who is joining us to promote a 420 film festival in Arlington, Virginia on April 20th, of course.

Finally, don’t forget that every Saturday we’re now posting the NORML Weekend Music Stash, where you can get all of the last ten songs from our daily musical breaks in one podcast, suitable for your weekend party pleasure. If you have a band that would like to be featured on our podcast, please send us an email at stash ‘at’ norml.org.

So sit back and relax with your favorite strain and enjoy your NORML Daily Audio Stash…

Welcome to Friday you beautiful stashers! I have the perfect tune to take us into the weekend. AARON ENGLISH is an artist from Seattle and along with his band, bring us some big sounds reminiscent of Robert Plant, post Zeppelin or Peter Gabriel post Genesis. Today’s tune “Like Smoke” showcases his sophisticated writing style that is amplified by world-beat rhythms, making this Northwest band sound exotic and intoxicating. I can already feel the stress of the work week drift away, like smoke….

Another great tune from our friends at podshow, for more information on this artist see http://music.podshow.com.

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