Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-07-25

Enjoy the weekend and catch a stoner movie!  This is the summer for pot-friendly films, from Harold & Kumar to The Wackness.  Steve Bloom joins us to preview Seth Rogan in Pineapple Express and more cannabis cinema on the horizon with top CelebStoners Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey, and Willie Nelson.

Then we visit with Kelly Maddy of Joplin NORML and Sensible Joplin.  He’s in Round Two of his signature batte - he needs 1,033 registered Joplin, Missouri voters to sign on by August 15 to get his proposal on the ballot to decriminalize marijuana in the city.

I’ve got a Stupid Stoner Story for you that teaches the important lesson of not mixing gambling and weed, and at the very end, an extra goody - a mash-up my radio show engineer found of George W. Bush rapping the Grandmaster Flash classic, “White Lines”.

Have a great weekend - I’m leaving to appear on the Cannabis Common Sense show live here in Portland at 8pm on Comcast Cable Channel 11 and rebroadcast throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-07-11

Well we made it to another weekend, Stashers.  And me just barely - I’ve been burning the midnight bong working on research and graphics for the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act.  The news media here in Portland have been all over it; I’ve been quoted extensively by the Willamette Week.  Then I had to edit and compile audio from The Lars Larson Show here in Portland, as he has been confusing his listeners with falsehoods.  You’ll hear all about it on today’s Stash.

Steve Bloom from CelebStoner.com is back with us to discuss the latest NFL drug busts and a strange case of a kid in Texas getting busted for bringing pot-laced cookies to many local police precincts in his town.

So sit back and relax and let’s kick off the weekend with a little bit o’ the Stash…

{{Well, look what was sitting in my draft folder.  I posted the July 4 podcast to the feed, but forgot to post the on the blog.  Hey, it was a holiday and I was working, so cut me some slack, Jack…  ;-)  “R”R }}

Happy Independence Day!  Remember, the patriots who signed their name to a death sentence on July 4, 1776, faced the most insurmountable odds you can imagine.  (Picture Puerto Rico declaring independence from the US if we really didn’t want them to.)  Britain was the greatest global empire on the planet and had the best military and navy.  But dedicated freedom fighters who stuck to their principles of equality and freedom overcame the odds and established the first nation created for a purpose, not born of race, geography, religion, ethnicity, or station.

They were hemp farmers and cannabis users and they were flawed men of their times, considering the slavery, genocide, and second-class treatment of women and minorities that they accommodated, but they instituted a framework in the Declaration that aspires to a greater ideal - that we are endowed with the rights of Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness, that all men (in the “human” sense) are created equal, and that just governments rule by the consent of the governed.

We’re striving for that “more perfect Union” referred to in the Constitution.  We overcame slavery, we’re repairing Jim Crow, we’ve recognized most women’s and minorities’ rights and we’re working on recognizing them all.  We’re far more diverse and tolerant than most anyplace on Earth even though we still have our pockets of bigotry, ignorance, and hatred.  Enlightenment is not achieved overnight or even over two centuries because it is a continuous process.  We’re better every generation.  And this generation will be the one to finally restore America to her hemp roots and reassert our natural right of sovereignty of mind and consciousness.

Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-07-04

We’ve got Steve Bloom from CelebStoner.com with us with the marijuana entertainment connection, and I give you my take on the Declaration of Independence, the Drug War Revision.

Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-06-27

w00t!  It’s the Weekend… and I drink your milkshake!  (My 25-year-old brother is visiting and he tells me that is funny.)

Today we visit with Steve Bloom from CelebStoner.com for a look at the legacy of George Carlin.  Plus Steve has the latest Paris Hilton pot-fast news and the salacious marijuana details of Bill Murray’s divorce.

We get a little music from Willie and a little comedy from Carlin before it’s all done.  Grab a bubbler full of bubblegum and enjoy your NORML Daily Audio Stash.