Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 8:55 pm | By: Radical Russ
Show 004: Three special episodes live from NORML National Conference!
NORML’s new talk radio program, NORML SHOW LIVE, will be streaming for three days at the 2009 NORML National Conference, “Yes We Cannabis”, live from the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco. These special three-hour episodes will be available at live.norml.org at the following special times and archived for download later just fifteen minutes after broadcast:
Thursday, September 24
11:00am – 2:00pm Pacific Time
Friday, September 25
11:00am – 2:00pm Pacific Time
Saturday, September 26
3:00pm – 6:00pm Pacific Time
The show will be hosted by “Radical” Russ Belville, but with very limited commercial interruption and the occasional narration. After the shows broadcast remotely in the difficult wireless environment of Portland’s Kelley Point Park and the noisy backstage of the Boston Freedom Rally, Russ is excited to present an indoor event that will take its audio directly from the conference PA system.
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 1:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
SAN FRANCISCO — Today’s thumping rejection of a series of ballot measures aimed at easing California’s hemorrhaging budget deficit adds new urgency to the drive to regulate California’s largest cash crop, marijuana, advocates said tonight.
“It’s clear that voters didn’t like the solutions put forth by the legislature on last night’s ballot,” said Aaron Smith, California policy director for the Marijuana Policy Project. “But a Field poll last month showed solid support for making marijuana a legal, regulated product and making producers and sellers pay taxes that they now avoid”.
“For the legislature to leave marijuana untaxed even as our state faces catastrophic cuts to schools, transportation, public safety and other critical services borders on the criminal.”
A 2006 study by public policy researcher Jon Gettman found marijuana to be California’s top cash crop, exceeding the value of the number two and three crops,vegetables and grapes, combined. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, two million Californians acknowledge having used marijuana in the past month. Estimates have suggested that California could save hundreds of millions in law enforcement costs and gain more than a billion in tax revenues if marijuana were taxed and regulated as proposed in legislation introduced by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco).
“Now that it seems we’ve hit the end of the road in the search for solving California’s budget mess, we need to be looking outside the box,” Smith added. “Replacing the failed policy of marijuana prohibition with a system of regulation and taxation would not only be sound public policy, but it also looks a lot more politically popular than anything else being offered up by Sacramento right now.”
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 at 9:20 am | By: Radical Russ
Public Protest on steps of Main Post Office in Manhattan, at 8th Ave & 33rd St, today at 4:20pm Eastern!
NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre with members of NY NORML in Manhattan
This morning at 8:00am, NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre presented $14,000,000,000 from the American cannabis consumers to the US Treasury, representing the money that would be saved in law enforcement costs and reaped in taxation every year from the cannabis industry, according to Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, and 500 more reputable economists.
A separate economic analysis, conducted by George Mason University senior fellow Jon Gettman in 2007, estimates that the total amount of tax revenue derived from cannabis could be far higher. According to Gettman, the retail value of the total U.S. marijuana market now stands at a whopping $113 billion per year. Using standard tax percentages obtained from the Office of Management and Budget, he calculates that the diversion of this market from the taxable economy deprives taxpayers of $31.1 billion annually.
Allen St. Pierre is interviewed by the New York FOX affiliate
Representatives from Fox News, CNN, Sirius Satellite Radio, and a few other media outlets were on hand to cover the 8am event. There will also be a 4:20pm public protest, and hopefully a few other media outlets will cover that as well.
“We represent the millions of otherwise law-abiding cannabis consumers who are ready, willing, vocal and able to contribute needed tax revenue to America’s struggling economy,” NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre said at a press conference at the steps of the general post office in New York City. “All we ask in exchange for our $14 billion is that our government respects our decision to use marijuana privately and responsibly.”
“I would like to ask all Americans to stop for a moment on tax day and ask themselves if this $14 billion could be better spent than on an endless, pointless, counterproductive â€war’ against a largely harmless plant. We’re eager to start a rational, reasonable debate about changing the marijuana laws, because that’s a debate we know we’ll win,” said David Bienenstock, author of “The Official High Times Pot Smoker’s Handbook”.
“Marijuana is unquestionably America’s number one cash crop. At a time when millions of Americans are out of work, we need to legitimize this multi-billion dollar per year industry and help families get back on their feet, instead of arresting over 800,000 of our own citizens every year for possessing a plant far less harmful than alcohol,” added Danny Danko, Senior Cultivation Editor of High Times Magazine.
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 at 7:46 pm | By: Radical Russ
Y’know how everyone’s stewing over the bonuses of $115 million paid to AIG executives whose company failed so badly due to their mismanagement and looting that the taxpayers have bailed them out to the tune of $116 billion?
I just wanted to point out that legalized marijuana in America would raise that $115 million in one day.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 10:05 pm | By: Radical Russ
The latest study by Jon Gettman at DrugScience.org documents what we all know: adult marijuana prohibition does not work – even when measured by the prohibitionist’s own standards. Â In 2002, the Bush Administration laid out their two-year goal, a 10% reduction in illegal drug use, and a five-year goal, a 25% reduction in illegal drug use. Â Gettman lays out the case for their failure using their own statistics.
The Bush Administration has failed to reduce or control marijuana use in the United States. Marginal changes in marijuana and other drug use have been distorted to support inflated claims of progress in reducing marijuana and other drug use. Marijuana use is fundamentally the same as when the Bush Administration took office, and illicit drug use overall has increased.
• In 2007 there were 14.5 million current users of marijuana in the United States, compared with 14.6 million in 2002. From 2002 to 2007 annual use of marijuana declined slightly from 25.9 to 25.1 million. The number of Americans who have used marijuana at some point in their lives actually increased, from 95 million in 2002 to over 100 million in 2007.
• Teenage marijuana use remains a serious problem in the United States. One in nine (12%) 14- and 15-year-olds and one in four (23.7%) 16- and 17-year-olds used marijuana in 2007.
• There were 35.7 million annual illicit drug users in the United States in 2007, 14.4% of the population. Individuals who only use marijuana account for 41% of all annual illicit drug users. While 10.5 million people used marijuana and at least one other illegal drug (29% of all illicit drug users), there were 10.6 million people (30%) who used illegal drugs but did not use marijuana.
• There were 472,000 12- and 13-year-olds and 627,000 14- and 15-year-olds who did not use marijuana in 2006 but still used illegal drugs. Nearly half of these individuals used inhalants and illegally obtained pain relief drugs.
RevRayGreen: I'll post a pic of me and my son....gimme a minute
Missippi Hippy: Guess what... I'm gonna be a new... ummmmm well, my pet piggie Ganja is in labor and they ain't mine in the same sense. See what your wife [...]
RevRayGreen: days they didn't talk back..or act disrespectful..
RevRayGreen: feel so lucky my son is 18 going 19 and my daughter 16 going on 17..relish the days that can't talk back
Urb Age: Congrats Spof thats awesome. My little Clara is about to hit 20 months. Im not the activist I used to be, but its made me a better man.
Urb Age: Heck I was gonna go up there, but just not feeling well this weekend..Dang it, I hate it when that happens..
RevRayGreen: wishing I was hanging at NORML cafe...
JohnH: Just a quick comment about tokin' and sperm motility....been tokin since age 14 and have 8 kids ranging in age from 30 to 9...(what can I say, I found 2 [...]
slash5city: really ..oprah 35 yr or more in the closet toker ...outed ....o my god !!
SneakerPimp: that would be huge news just imagen the headline
RevRayGreen: maybe Oprah smokes and keeps it on the DL...
SneakerPimp: and good afternoon
mr reuben: I could do without seeing Rob K. on tv. But Bruce and Eithan get a big thumbs up from me.
SneakerPimp: waitn for NSL and congrast for spofett.
mr reuben: I don't respect her opinion bluzguy.
Missippi Hippy: Something about the last year in a contract... folks become more ballsey... and Oprah has big ones.
Adam: Oprah won't actually go off air for over a year, 2011 sometime. Maybe with here leaving the network soon, she'll be more likely to speak out about MMJ.
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waitn for NSL and congrast for spofett.
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