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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!

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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.