Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-09-02

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It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for!  No, not the re-legalization of weed.  Less than that.  No, not the introduction of industrial hemp.  No, not even federal medical marijuana recognition.

It’s the return of the Daily Audio Stash after a two-week vacation!

(I know.  Anti-climactic.)

But hey, I’m back in your headphones, bringing you the latest news and info for the cannabis community.  Education – that’s how we bring about the real moments we’re all waiting for.

Today I catch up with Mason Tvert of SAFER.  I was rather harsh on the Democratic Convention and what I perceived to be a lack of cannabis representation at the most political event of the decade.  But Mason contends that it’s earned media, not public protests, that are the goldmine of marijuana law reform.  We talk about Speaker Pelosi’s handling of a surprise medical marijuana question as well.

Then I present my interview with the director of the new documentary, “Hempsters: Plant the Seed”.  Michael Henning talks about the activists this movie profiles, including the story of Alex White Plume, whose fight with the federal government over sovereign Oglala Sioux treaty rights to farm hemp is told in the movie.

Only four more days until the closing festival of the Pacific Northwest’s cannabis community, the Portland Hempstalk.  I’ll be speaking and presenting there; stop on by and say “high”.

Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-08-12

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Today is Government at Work day… and most of them are in recess.  So I’m bringing back the interview with Rep. Barney Frank on his HR5843 bill to end federal penalties for personal marijuana possession.

Then I’ve got the executive producer of a new film chronicling the work of hemp activists, Rod Pitman.  It’s called “Hempsters Plant the Seed” and a screening will be held this Thursday at 7pm and 10pm at Portland’s Bagdad Theater (yes, it is spelled that way).