Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
WoodStone from Kansas City
WoodStone is a band out of Kansas City that brings us this experimental rock track, “Grass”. WoodStone consists of three members with multiple talents. Drawing influence from the sounds of the 60’s and 70’s garage band WoodStone gives a vintage feel that gets combined with grunge, blues, funk, and good old fashioned rock n’ roll.
Nick McEwen handles guitar and vocals, Tom Noel plays bass, and Ryan Shelledy rounds out this traditional rock three-piece on drums. This is another group whose website takes you to a dead link, so if anyone in the Kansas City area has information on WoodStone, please let us know at stash@norml.org.
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Allowing the use of marijuana (or cannabis), even for medicinal purposes, doesn’t appear to have much support among public officials in Kansas. Locally, Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski said he believes relaxing the rules would be ill-advised. Saline County Attorney Ellen Mitchell, who was deep into preparing for the third murder trial of Cameron Nelson, expressed skepticism. Salina Police Chief Jim Hill didn’t return a call seeking comment.
And Kansas Attorney General Steven Six said he would oppose it if the Legislature ever brought it up.
“The use of marijuana can lead to the use of other harder, more serious, drugs,” he said in an e-mail, via a spokesperson.
Or just offer the common sense observation that while nearly every heroin and cocaine user first tried pot, nearly every pot user doesn’t try heroin or cocaine. There are now 102 million Americans age 12 and older who have tried marijuana, yet there are only 2 million active cocaine users and 350,000 active heroin users.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 11:06 am | By: Lynnette
Thank you for contacting me in regard to ending marijuana prohibition. I greatly appreciate knowing your thoughts on this important issue, but I must respectfully disagree with you.
In 2005, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) offered an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2006 Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State Appropriations Bill that would allow states to legalize medical marijuana use. I voted against this amendment for two reasons: I am strongly opposed to the legalization of drugs on both the Federal and local level and it would have far reaching implications for drug law enforcement beyond its stated intent. This amendment was soundly defeated by a vote of 161-264.
On April 17, 2008, Rep Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced H.R.5843: Act to Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults. This resolution was referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, where it did not receive any further action in the 110th Congress.
As you may know, marijuana is listed under the Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule I drug. Therefore its manufacture, distribution, and possession is illegal under federal law. However, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the “active” ingredient in marijuana, can be obtained by prescription in pill form. I agree with the FDA who concluded, “Smoked cannabis has no acceptable medical use in treatment in the Untied States.” The FDA’s decision was based on a rational scientific approach conforming to standard drug approval mechanisms.
Thank you again for contacting my office. Please let me, or Elias Voces of my Washington staff know if I can be of assistance in the future. It is an honor to serve Kansas in the United States Congress.
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Richard Evans, former NORML Board member, author of Massachusetts SB2929 and HB1801, measures to legalize the marijuana industry in Massachusetts. Learn more at cantaxreg.org.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 3:50 pm | By: Justice
[UPDATE: Let's get on the phone and help politely educate State Rep. Kasha Kelly of Kansas. She's made it easy by providing the toll-free phone number from her website, kashakelley.com. The number is 877-79-KASHA. That's 877-79-KASHA, or 877-795-2742. Here are some talking points:
Taking away social support nets from those who fail urine screens only serves to harm the children the children of the poor with drug problems.
60% of failed urine screens are for marijuana, which is far less harmful to the users and their children than alcohol or tobacco.
Taking away benefits is not going to help any drug users get into treatment.
Implementing a costly urine screening program during these economic times is a bad idea for Kansas.
Urine screens produce false positives for marijuana at astonishingly high rates and could lead to lawsuits against the state.
Have at it, Stashers, and remember, play nice. One ranting angry hooplehead can undo the positive work of twenty of us dedicated activists. Be cool. -- "R"R]
The Kansas House has decided to punish people who are poor and smoke marijuana. Not tobacco or alcohol, no if you’re poor you can poison yourself that way. You can probably finagle a Medicaid doctor to give you a script for Valium, Percocet, Oxycontin, but under NO circumstance can you test positive for the safest drug known in the history of mankind.
The House gave first-round approval today to a bill that requires drug testing of Kansans who participate in four state public assistance programs.
After a lengthy debate on the House floor, representatives endorsed House Bill 2275. If it is approved on a final vote Wednesday, the bill would still need to be adopted by the Senate and signed by the governor to become law.
The measure sponsored by Rep. Kasha Kelley, R-Arkansas City, mandates testing of an estimated 14,000 people involved in programs managed by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. Testing would apply to recipients of financial support in the temporary aid for families, general assistance, child care support and grandparents as caregivers programs.
Yea, that last part is right, “grandparents as caregivers programs”. Not only did they single out grandparents, but they defeated an amendment that exempted them to get this piece of non-sense passed. So why would the state decide to test welfare recipients for drugs?
Money.
SRS Secretary Don Jordan said 3 percent to 8 percent of program recipients would likely test positive for marijuana, cocaine, crack or other illegal drugs. The program would cost $800,000 annually, but would not be implemented unless the Legislature made a specific appropriation for the testing. A statewide network of urine sample collection and testing centers would have to be established.
The estimate is between 420 and 1,120 recipients, at a cost of $800,000.00 giving a grand total of $714 per recipient caught (on the high end). Even at the lower 420 number the total would be a paltry $1,904. As long as you were sending benefits in excess of that amount to those people, it’s a win for the state.
The decision by the house was appalling and truly treats the poor as second class citizens who hold no rights simply because they are poor. We here at the Stash also know that this bill is directly aimed at marijuana users, and drug testing the grandparents who serve as caregivers is directly aimed at medical marijuana users. Kasha Kelley’s own website says it all.
“May we never take the great freedom we have for granted! Our freedom gives us privileges many will only ever dream of.”
And in Kansas freedom means if you’re poor you have the freedom to pee in a cup, or starve.
There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true where a man is free to do what he ought.” – Charles Kingsley
So for Kasha, government should push it’s citizens to be free to do what the state tells him to do, which doesn’t sound like any form of freedom I know of this side of the Berlin Wall.
I think that District 79 deserves better representation.
I want a NORML chapter in all fifty states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. I want double the number of chapters. So I really need your help.
Just this last two weeks, I have received emails from budding activists (pun intended) looking to start NORML Chapters in Colorado, North Carolina, Alaska, Alabama, Florida (Miami), Missouri, Virginia, Idaho, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Mississippi, Vermont, Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Kansas, as well as four new college chapter inquiries and inquiries from Australia, Japan, Guam, and Mexico (Cuidad Juarez).
I work to put the people in the same state in touch with each other because the hardest thing about forming a NORML Chapter isn’t finding the guy or gal to lead, it’s finding the other four people to form your board.
So Stashers, if you’re in one of the above-named states or countries and you’d like to get on board with a new local chapter, send me an email to stash@norml.org with the subject “Join a Chapter” and I’ll hook you up.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 at 5:25 pm | By: Radical Russ
salina.com – an online service of the Salina Journal
A Salina man who helped deliver a Christmas gift of marijuana to an inmate in the Saline County Jail on Christmas Day of 2007 was sentenced Monday to two years and eight months in prison for trafficking in contraband in a correctional institution.
Issac P. Slay Jr., 47, and Victoria Henry, 38, were identified on surveillance video as the people who threw a small package of marijuana over a fence and into a loading area at the jail. Henry is scheduled for sentencing at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 15.
Not exactly the smoothest way to smuggle pot into a jail, is it? Who could’ve imagined there would be cameras pointed at the fences around a jail?
A lone man enters a grove of giant marijuana plants, yanks them out and stacks his harvest.
But a camera hidden near the illicit field caught it all. These days, even the ground can have eyes as police and pot growers engage in a high-tech battle.
Police on both sides of the state line use covert cameras to watch outdoor fields and arrest growers. Marijuana growers in some states battle the cameras by wearing identity-hiding masks as they work their fields. Some even install their own cameras.
It’s a fight that’s going on nationwide. The U.S. Forest Service this year even bought two drone airplanes to find pot fields in California forests.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation started using a few cameras in 1995 to watch fields and now has about a dozen of them, said Jeffrey Brandau, a KBI special agent in charge.
Thanks largely to the cameras, Brandau said, “Now it’s hard to find any outdoor groves — it’s like they disappeared.”
In 2000, Kansas police confiscated 2,795 cultivated outdoor plants. Last year, they found 1,674. And from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31 of this year, they recorded only eight such plants confiscated statewide, KBI numbers show.
Police think the bad guys have responded to their field cameras — and market forces — by moving indoors and growing far stronger pot. Now, as police turn their attention and high-tech tools to those indoor marijuana-growing operations, some growers are using increasingly sophisticated means to dodge them.
So, your efforts to enforce prohibition of marijuana have led to more potent marijuana? Thank you?
The cops close down the border, so the marijuana grows move to our national parks. The cops plant cameras to watch us in the wilderness, so the marijuana grows move indoors to suburban homes. The cops use power monitoring to detect indoor grows, so the growers steal power or use generators. The cops use thermal imaging to detect indoor grows, so the growers insulate houses and dig deep basements. A big arms race between cops and growers.
And over that whole period of time, marijuana gets more potent, there’s more of it around, and the price stays relatively stable and artificially high. Cops get jobs and shiny new toys, growers get big profits, and everybody who wants to get high is getting high with the best weed ever grown. Who’s winning this Drug War, anyway?
Sometimes I like to throw a drug warrior this question: “Suppose you had a magic wand and suddenly marijuana no longer exists. How does that make the world a better place? Do you believe there would be less heroin addicts? Do you believe drug-related crime would disappear? Do you think suddenly workplace productivity would go up? Do you think SAT scores would rise? What is the problem you think you’re trying to solve by eradicating marijuana?”
Remember, this isn’t just about stopping you from smoking weed. This is also about wiping a plant species off the face off the earth! Calculated premeditated extinction. Aside from bugs like polio, I can’t think of any government in history has ever before enacting a policy for the purposeful extinction of a species.
We hope you enjoyed the Weekend Music Stash. In case you missed it, Cannabis Karri is putting together the last ten songs from our Daily shows and combining them into one weekend podcast for your partying pleasure. Tune in on the weekends and get your ganja groove on!
As usual on Monday here on the Stash, it’s Political Activism day, so we’ve got our Reformer’s Calendar right after the news. Then we’ve got the perfect set of local activists to represent tonight’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Representing the Kansas Jayhawks will be activist Laura Green from the Kansas Compassionate Care Coalition, who is fighting for a medical necessity defense bill to protect medical marijuana patients in Kansas. Then after the musical break, representing the Memphis Tigers (even though he’s from Nashville), we’ll speak with Terry Jarnigan who is announcing the formation of the brand-new Tennessee NORML chapter.
For our musical break on this Blues Monday, Cannabis Karri brings back one of our previous Stash bands, Giles from Northwest England. This traditional guitar-bass-drums trio performs their song “Mind Your Own Damn Business”, and we’d like to dedicate that song to our Federal Government!
And remember, if you are a business or non-profit who’d like your message heard on the Daily Audio Stash or the NORML Weekly News, you can advertise with us. We have rates for every budget and a 10% discount for non-profits. You can target your message to the focused audience of enlightened cannabis consumers you’re looking for. With over 28,000 daily downloads and hundreds of thousands of embedded players on websites worldwide, advertising with NORML is the most effective way of reaching your potential customers. Just send us an email at stash ‘at’ norml.org and we’ll have you on the air in no time.
So sit back and relax with your favorite strain, it’s time for your NORML Daily Audio Stash.
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 am | By: Radical Russ
Medicinal marijuana legislation dies in KS Senate committee – Local News
A proposed bill in a Kansas Senate committee that would establish a medical marijuana defense act failed to advance further nearly three weeks after its introduction.After testimony from supporters and opponents on Feb. 11, the Senate Committee on Health Care Strategies members chose to not advance the proposed bill to a stage of committee debate. The legislation is now considered “dead” for the 2007 Kansas legislative session, but those in favor and against the issue continue their debate and stances.
Health Strategies committee members had a general consent that more medically effective and legal drugs exist, [Senate Committee on Health Care Strategies vice chairman Pete] Brungardt said, and the proposed legislation received no further debate or discussion in committee.
“The impression you get with casual talk from members is that it was not supported,” Brungardt said.
Protections for the medical marijuana at this point are still relegated to the West and Northeast. Kudos to the activists who are trying so hard to get medical marijuana in the Midwest.
It’s really astounding that we still have people that believe that “more medically effective and legal drugs exist,” when so many patients report that inhaled marijuana is often the only medically effective treatment they can tolerate. Once again, legislators want to overrule doctors.
RevRayGreen: MASS TWEET THIS -@ChuckGrassley Truth is Chuck you follow Nixon's CSA full of reefer sadness. btw Chuck, Marijuana is not a drug.
RevRayGreen: @ChuckGrassley http://bit.ly/55Ejsi Truth is Chuck you follow Nixon's CSA full of reefer madness. btw Chuck, Marijuana is not a drug.
SneakerPimp: one last thing Puff puff pass to any one who wants it
SneakerPimp: i wanna here about the imminent MiniSpof sounds like time for some
SneakerPimp: im estatic and excited for NSL today.
SneakerPimp: mountain time wake n bake
SneakerPimp: oh yea also wake n bake
SneakerPimp: its central im high as a kite everybody
SneakerPimp: ill grab that WUD
WakeUpDead: @Russ, I dont think that wireless is going to work out for the show, it was choppy and studdered just like last week. Hardline may be the only way. Puff [...]
WakeUpDead: A MINI Spof, Lock up your Weed, in 18 years that is. Really Man congrats! Greatest days of my life when my kids were born, hell yeh, great news [...]
BenJaMin: Late night Stash!!!
SneakerPimp: heres a bong rip for spof
RevRayGreen: errr test over....
RevRayGreen: on hold..
RevRayGreen: @RR I'll try and lob a call to you.....
SneakerPimp: where is the first field of cannabis gonna be?
SneakerPimp: !
Radical Russ: Breaking News: MrSpof's wife's water just broke! A MiniSpof is imminent!
SneakerPimp: oh russ its not my fault that i dont understand choppy word:stoned:
SneakerPimp: @Mrspof congratulations tell us all about it tommrow
Radical Russ: OK, test over. Sorry. Only needed a half hour. Be back tomorrow afternoon.
slash5city: don't forget to watch CCS live on u-stream 8 pm west
thaistik: Local Crime Stoppers notice.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Pot shop burglars sought
Crime Stoppers is looking for information on the suspects who police say burglarized a medical marijuana dispensary and stole cash, drugs [...]
Marijuana-Related Health Costs Minimal Compared To Those Of Alcohol, Tobacco; California Medical Association Says Pot Prohibition Is A "Failed Public Health Policy"; Oregon: State NORML Affiliate Opens First 'Cannabis Café'. […]
American Medical Association Calls For Scientific Review Of Marijuana's Prohibitive Status; Dutch Marijuana Use Lower Than European Average, Study Says […]
"Truth In Trials Act" Reintroduced In Congress; Maine: Voters Approve Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Measure; Colorado: Breckenridge Voters Overwhelmingly Decide To End Pot Penalties. […]
Some of the nation’s top athletes discuss why today's pros are turning to cannabis — and away from alcohol and painkillers — off the field, and question why pro sports leagues are continuing to sanction those who do. Moderator: Steve Bloom, Author, Pot Culture; editor, celebstoner.com * Toby Grear, MMA fighter * Sean Neumann, Documentary Filmm […]
Cannabis Law Reform's Missing Link: Law Enforcement Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper; LEAP and NORML Advisory Board; Author of Breaking Rank Putting the Mexican Cartels Out of Business Mexican drug cartels now employ over 100,000 soldiers and are responsible for nearly ten thousand deaths per year. Their largest source of income is marijuana. […]
Music: Woodstone – “Grass”
sounds like time for some 
mountain time wake n bake 
don't forget to watch CCS live on u-stream 8 pm west 
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