Saturday Night’s episode of NORML SHOW LIVE will be at a special time – 4:00pm Pacific / 7:00pm Eastern – to take advantage of the lineup here at the Cypress Hill Smokeout in San Bernardino, California. Cheech & Chong are playing a “4:20″ set, so I will be there live, bringing you the comedy from NORML’s favorite comedy team.

Following Cheech & Chong in the lineup are the newly re-formed band Sublime, which many will remember for their cover of “Smoke 2 Joints” among many others. We’ll bring you some of their set as well. I’ve also got an interview with “My Fair Brady’s” Adrianne Curry, Steve Bloom from Celebstoner discussing the celebrity panel, and PonyBoy from Los Marijuanos from Friday’s festivities. Calling in to the show are Kottonmouth Kings and responding to her Jay Leno snub, 2006 Miss New Jersey Georgine DiMaria. (All subject to change due to the chaotic nature of a festival!)

Interspersed with the live audio will be my interviews with many of the artists, celebrities, and just normal folks attending this two day outdoor festival. Join us live at http://live.norml.org, where you can also participate in our online chat and speak live to the host and guests – dial in to 347-994-1810 to participate.

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Hemp Headlines

1. Los Angeles County DA vows to take down “about 100%” of dispensaries “dealing marijuana illegally”
2. Health Risks of Marijuana Still Not Nailed Down… really?
3. Vallejo opinion columnist Malcolm Donahoo bashes “potheads”

Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards . com

• “Smoke that Weed” by Nice Peter

CelebStoner.com Entertainment Report with Steve Bloom, co-author of Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life

• Preview of next weekend’s Cypress Hill Smokeout
• Fall music tours
• Rickey Williams torches the NY Jets

I got the call from Steve Bloom while in Orlando. “Do you want to represent NORML on a Legalization Panel at the Cypress Hill Smokeout in San Bernadino in a couple of weeks?”

Uh, let’s see, hosted by Tommy Chong, guests include Cypress Hill, SlipKnot, the Deftones, Sublime, Method Man & Redman, Bad Brains, Kottonmouth Kings and others, plus panels with Ngaio Bealum, Sarah Diesel, Allison Margolin, Ed Rosenthal, Mikey Avalon, Adrienne Curry, Andy Milonakis, Debby Goldsberry, Shirley Halperin, Steve Bloom, RZA, and me? Is there a stronger reply than “Hell, yes!”

The whole show / expo / panels extravaganja runs Friday, October 23rd and Saturday, October 24th. I’m on the Saturday 3:00pm Legalization panel with Rosenthal, Margolin, and Goldsberry. (I’ll even provide you podcasts for that Thursday & Friday… though you may have to deal with the road noise on the Thursday one as I produce it from the laptop in the car while my wife drives.)

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:

1. Thursday, September 24
   11:00am – 2:00pm Pacific Time
2. Friday, September 25
   11:00am – 2:00pm Pacific Time
3. 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’s show will begin with a presentation by Dr Brooks J Kelly, Ph.D, Chief science officer for Genovations Laboratory, Cannabis Therapeutics, and then will feature panels on Individual Patients, Caregivers, and Small Patient Collectives in California and other medical marijuana states, including:

Patient and Caregiver rights under 215/SB420

• Possession: current caselaw and statutory law
• Cultivation: current caselaw and statutory law
• Transportation: current caselaw and statutory law
• Obtaining Cannabis: where and how to get it
• Patients Not Authorized to:
  distribute to other patients
  distribute “excess” to clubs
  engage in conduct harmful to others

Cannabis Patient rights (or lack thereof):

• No right to protection from employment discrimination
• No protection from Feds or other states
• Student loans
• Section 8 housing
• Small collectives: formation, cultivating, obtaining of medicine, money considerations
• Interaction with Law Enforcement

Your panelists will include Dr. David Bearman, Chris Conrad, Omar Figueroa, Esq., Zenia Gilg, Esq., Dr. Frank Lucido, and your moderator is William Panzer, Esq.

Friday’s show will begin with a panel on Pot Politics 2009 and Beyond.  A record number of state legislatures debated marijuana law reform in 2009; a nationwide panel of experts discusses our progress.  Our moderator is Keith Stroup, Esq., NORML, speaking on Federal Legislation, and also includes:

• Chris Goldstein, Director, Penn. For Medical Marijuana
• Rob Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project
• Dan Linn, Executive Director, Illinois NORML
• Madeline Martinez, Director, Oregon NORML, member of NORML’s board of directors
• Jesse Stout, former Director of RIPAC
• Ken Wolski, RN, Director, Coalition for Medical Marijuana NJ

We follow with a luncheon with travel author and NORML advisory board member Rick Steves presenting the ACLU DVD: ‘Marijuana: Its Time for a Conversation’, and close by asking “Has support for legalization reached a critical mass/tipping point?”  According to national polls, public support for legalizing marijuana has never been higher. Why now? And how do we mobilize this public support into political change? Leaders in the drug law reform movement discuss these trends, and what they portend for future reform efforts.  Our moderator is Dave Fratello, Coast Campaign Group, and the panel includes:

• Dale Gieringer, Ph.D, Director, CA NORML; member of NORML’s board of directors
• Rich Lee, Proprietor of ‘Oaksterdam University’ and Campaigner for ‘The Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010′
• Harry Levine, Ph.D, Queens College

Saturday’s closing show will feature a look at Marijuana Legalization As a Local, State, Federal Revenue Stream. In today’s sagging economy national, state and local leaders are looking for alternative streams of revenue. They should look no further than to America’s #1 cash crop: cannabis.  Our moderator is Dale Gieringer, Ph.D, Director, CA NORML, and the panelists include:

• Jon Gettman, Ph.D
• Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Council
• Mark Kleiman, Ph.D, UCLA

We follow with a panel on Cannabis and Athleticism. 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.  Our moderator is Steve Bloom, Author, Pot Culture; editor, celebstoner.com and the panelists include:

• Toby Grear, MMA fighter,
• Sean Neumann, Documentary Filmmaker; former ESPN producer
• Mark Stepnoski, Former All-Star NFL football player, NORML Advisory Board
• Rob Van Dam, Professional wrestler

Our three-part special show concludes with a talk from Rick Steves, TV host/best-selling travel author, NORML Advisory Board

Please join us for unparalleled access to the heart of marijuana law reform, nine total hours of content from the best and brightest minds in the movement, all absolutely free for you on the internet, courtesy of the donations of stakeholder cannabis consumers and liberty lovers all across this country who donate to and volunteer with NORML.  Mark us as a favorite on BlogTalkRadio and post us on your Twitter and Facebook with the tag #NORML.

Included that day was an exclusive interview with NORML’s Founder Keith Stroup and Associate Publisher at High Times Magazine Rick Cusick … just after their arrest for a minor marijuana violation on the Boston Common.

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Also included: Speeches from the Freedom Rally Stage from Keith Saunders of MASSCANN/NORML, Danny Danko of High Times, Steve Hagar of High Times, Keith Stroup, Steve Bloom of celebstoner.com and music from Ben Scales.

I took this shot of Keith Saunders of MASSCANN in ‘07

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Hemp Headlines

1. Mexico decriminalizes personal possession of marijuana
2. Marijuana may protect brain from binge drinking
3. Third LA-area raid: Royal Temple of Zion in Echo Park

CelebStoner.com Entertainment Report with Steve Bloom, co-author of Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life

• Exclusive interview with John Davis, who kicked Dominic Holden out of Hempfest
  

  Chris Goldstein, John Wilson, and Ken Wolski (©Chris Goldstein)

• Reply from Dominic Holden regarding Hempfest incident
• 40th Anniversary of Woodstock

Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards . com

• It’s a Rap Friday – ‘The Weed Song’ by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Cannabis Community

• Jim Miller and Ken Wolski, founders of Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey and Chris Goldstein, Executive Director of NORML New Jersey, on the trial of multiple sclerosis patient John Wilson, facing 20 years for growing 17 plants for medical purposes. Wilson is not only not allowed to mention his medical use of marijuana, the judge has forbidden him from even mentioning that he has multiple sclerosis.

Download link: NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2009-07-31

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Hemp Headlines

1. 19-year-old man murders 21-year-old man and girlfriend over “fronted” marijuana
2. Study: “10 to 20 years of marijuana use was associated with a significantly reduced risk of head and neck cancers”
3. California values prisoners more than students
4. Maine medical marijuana grower’s prison sentence upheld by Maine Supreme Court

CelebStoner.com Entertainment Report with Steve Bloom, co-author of Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life

• Death at the Gathering of the Vibes – the “nitrous scene”
• Steve pans the new Kevin Spacey dope-smoking psychologist film, “Shrink”

Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards

• It’s a Rap Friday – ‘I Get High’ by Coolie High

Cannabis Conversations

• Adam Scorgie, filmmaker behind “The Union: The Business Behind Getting High”, with revelations of growers who hope for stronger sentences against marijuana smokers, as it boosts the revenue.

Download link: NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2009-07-17

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Hemp Headlines

1. House Passes Bill That Allows Medical Marijuana In District Of Columbia, Needle Exchange, Vouchers
2. Boston Herald laments police inability to collect pot fines or lock up tokers
3. DEA Inadvertently Speeding Prohibition End
4. Monday hearing may determine fate of Colorado’s medical marijuana dispensaries

CelebStoner.com Entertainment Report with Steve Bloom, co-author of Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life

• The Tommy Chong / Michael Jackson connection
• Emmy award nominations for CelebStoners
• Stoniest summer music tours

Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards

• “Weed Man” – with a discussion about the use of the word “nigga” in stoner rap music.

Cannabis Conversations

• Danny Breeden, former Florida halfway house prison guard, on his new free book, Marijuana: Prison or Profit (http://MarijuanaPrisonorProfit.com)

Download link: NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2009-06-19

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Hemp Headlines

1. California’s EPA rules cannabis smoke is a carcinogen
2. Gun battle over marijuana plants leaves grower dead, two police wounded
3. Garden Grove, Calif. spends a quarter million dollars over eight grams of medical marijuana

Celebstoner Entertainment Report with Steve Bloom

• Report on MPP Party at the Playboy Mansion, the Los Angeles THC Expo, and a Santonio Holmes update

Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards

• It’s a Rap Friday – ‘Toke’ by Prophecy

Cannabis Conversations

• Exclusive interview with Corina Amato of Baltimore, Maryland, victim of a police terror raid where her dog was murdered in her bedroom and her entire home was demolished.  No marijuana was found, but police were told there would be some by a snitch, and a judge signed off on the warrant.

Download link: NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2009-05-15

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Hemp Headlines

1. Arianna Huffington: Ending the War on Drugs: The Moment is Now
2. Canada now pays for veterans’ medical marijuana
3. Matt Simon pwns NH Attorney General on “incorrect” and “misleading” letter about medical marijuana
4. Don’t Believe The Hype! Potent Pot, So What?

Celebstoner Entertainment Report with Steve Bloom

• Exclusive interview with Elvy Musikka, Drug Czar’s son still in jail; NBA’s Darius Miles and more celeb pot busts.

Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards

• GMMA Best Rap Song – ‘Soopah Fly’ by Neo Cartoon Lover

Cannabis Conversations

• Chris Goldstein representing Pennsylvanians for Medical Marijuana (http://pa4mmj.org) on the RJ Harris radio show (580AM WHP in Harrisburg)