Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-05-01

It’s Thursday, May 1st and it’s 4:20 somewhere in the world. I’m your host, “Radical” Russ Belville and this is your NORML Daily Audio Stash.

Today is May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day. We call on labor organizations worldwide to stand up for worker’s privacy and beat back the scourge of suspicion-less and pre-employment drug testing of workers. Drug testing without probable cause essentially means that you’re assumed to be guilty of a crime until you can prove yourself innocent. It means that while the government is constitutionally restricted from unreasonable searches of your person without warrant, your employer may treat you like property. Workers of the world – unite!

Today on the Daily Audio Stash we’re speaking with Rick Doblin from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS. We’ll be discussing the life and legacy of Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, who passed away at age 102 this week.

Cannabis Karri is back with some more fantastic reggae. This time we’ve got Carlton Livingston and his song, “100lb Collie Weed”. I ‘n’ I love dis track, mon. Irie!

Then we’ll speak with Nicholas Van Dam, a doctoral candidate in psychology at State University of New York. Nicholas has just published a paper in the journal Human Psychopharmacology examining the studies of cannabis and schizotypal syndromes and how those studies are misrepresenting cannabis’ role by ignoring the use of other drugs.

We’ve got a lot to cover, so sit back and relax with a tasty beverage and your favorite strain and enjoy your NORML Daily Audio Stash…