The all-music Stash is back by popular demand!  (And because I’m swamped with prep for three major events in two days plus an afterparty!) Last year, I used to make the “Weekend Music Hit” where I’d put the tunes from the past two weeks into on long podcast for your party pleasure.  Handling this weekly got to be too much of a chore and I discontinued it.  But now with Tam from Marijuana Music Awards serving up all this great music, I decided that I could handle one big music podcast once per month.

I'll be at Pioneer Square all day Saturday from 10am, along with Chief Greenbud from Nashville, Human and The Human Revolution, more speakers, vendors, food, and bands til 7pm!

So every month now, you’ll get your Monthly Marijuana Music podcasts featuring all the songs from the previous month.  In order to save time, I’m just going to run the songs back-to-back with no introductions.  You’ll be able to get the songlist in the Monthly Marijuana Music post (see below) including our opening bonus tune, “Tree of Life”, by a band performing at the Portland Global Cannabis March, Saturday, May 2nd, Human and the Human Revolution!

Have a happy Marijuana March in your city and enjoy Part 1 of your 2-part April 2009 Monthly Marijuana Music, brought to you by Marijuana Music Awards . com!  (Part 2 comes tomorrow at noon!)

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1. ‘Tree of Life’ by Human and the Human Revolution
2. ‘Jah Rastafarian’ by Mamasita
3. ‘4:20? by The Bigfellas
4. ‘Medicated’ by The Earthquake Institute
5. ‘Make Love Not War’ by Daddy Roots
6. ‘Keep It Burning’ by Chin
7. ‘Piece of Ganja’ by Iriepathie
8. ‘Big Bag O Reefer’ by Bradley Fish
9. ‘Skunk Butta’ by Tha Funxsouljaz
10. ‘Freedom Fighters’ by Ruffstar Family
11. ‘Sweet Hydro’ by Sean Reefer and the Resin Valley Boys
12. ‘Ganja 4 Life’ by Mr Williamz
    

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Chin, with his song ‘Keep It Burning’, brings us the music for Variety Tuesday. Part Danish, part Japanese rude boy, Chin, sings unique dancehall reggae songs about social issues like marijuana, police stupidity, and of course, songs for the girls!

Chin was the first Scandinavian reggae artist to be taken seriously in the Jamaican dancehall industry. His original flow and raw lyrics have impressed many artists and producers.

Chin works with international artists and performs at concerts and festivals around the world including Jamaica, Germany, Denmark and Scandinavia. He has opened for many top reggae stars such as Sizzla and Bucaneer.

In Jamaica Chin worked with a number of top producers on his songs, including today’s ‘Keep it Burning’, which was nominated in 2008 Global Marijuana Music Awards. Chin performed many live shows in Jamaica and was interviewed & performed on national television.

This year Chin is nominated for the Danish World Music Awards for Best World Track and he’s featured on two CDs for World Music Denmark.

Learn more about Chin at chineman.com and myspace.com/chineman

Enjoy today’s variety song, ‘Keep it Burning’ by Chin!

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News of the World in the UK is reporting that Olympic swimming sensation Michael Phelps is one of us!

THIS is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history.

In our exclusive photo Michael Phelps, who won a record EIGHT gold medals for swimming at the Beijing games last summer, draws from a bong.

And after sporting chiefs announced laws which mean four-year bans for drug-taking, Phelps’ dreams of adding to his overall 14 gold medal tally at the 2012 games in London could already be OVER.

Those dreams seemed the last thing on his mind when he puffed from the bong during two days of partying with students last November, a quiet time in the swimming calendar when athletes would not expect to get tested for drugs.

As he basked in his hero status, Phelps knocked back beers and shots of spirits. And when a student offered him the glass bong engraved with red writing, he did not hesitate, says our source.

Our source said: “You could tell Michael had smoked before. He grabbed the bong and a lighter and knew exactly what to do.

“He looked just as natural with a bong in his hands as he does swimming in the pool. He was the gold medal winner of bong hits. Michael ended up getting a little paranoid, though, because before too long he looked like he was nervous and ran out of the place.”

The US Olympics Committee, who have pledged to clamp down on drug use, refused to comment, as did USA Swimming and Phelps’ coach Bob Bowman.

More surprising still was the World Anti-Doping Agency’s refusal to comment, given that they introduced the four-year ban on sport’s drug users.

Spokesman Clifford Bloxham offered us an extraordinary deal not to publish our story, saying Phelps would become our columnist for three years, host events and get his sponsors to advertise with us.

In return, he asked that we kill Phelps’ bong picture. Bloxham said: “It’s seeing if something potentially very negative for Michael could turn into something very positive for the News of the World.”

So, you wanna explain to me how marijuana smoking will make one a lethargic, unmotivated loser who will never get anywhere in life?  This should be fun, watching sponsors and Olympic and USA Swimming officials trip all over themselves.  I expect to see a special exemption or a sudden new rule that lets firt time offenders skate with some sort of class and community service.  Does anybody really think they are going to end Michael Phelps’ career, the greatest Olympian ever, and a huge marketing and endorsement cash cow, for a picture of him doing something that isn’t even criminal in thirteen states?

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“You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963

Today our nation honors what would’ve been this week the eightieth birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of these United States.  I was sixty-four days old when an assassin’s bullet cut down Dr. King in the prime of his life.  Today I am six-hundred forty days older than Dr. King when he was killed.  Tomorrow I will see something few people my age and older thought we’d ever see, yet something Dr. King had dreamed from the start.

There remains a grave injustice to be battled, the most unjust of laws to be disobeyed, a law that by its definition is not rooted in eternal law and natural law: the man made code that declares nature itself to be illegal, the prohibition on cannabis.  Yet when I mention marijuana law reform in the context of the great civil rights struggles in America, so many are quick to dismiss me with snickers of derision.  ”You just want pot legal so you can get high!” is a common refrain.

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