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Sativex (pharmaceutical marijuana) approved in ten more European countries
If your strategy to legalize the use of plant cannabis by all people for any reason is to preach “All use is medical/wellness”, cannabinoid pharmaceuticals is where you’ll end up. There exists a paradigm for the medical / wellness use of substances, and it lies in the realm of doctors and pharmacists and prescriptions and manufactured drugs. However, there also exists a paradigm for the recreational use of substances, and it lies in the realm of taverns and bartenders and DUI laws and ID checks and home brewing.
Irie Wednesday: DJ Skuddy – “Canabis”
This Irie Wednesday brings a buoyant electronically inspired track by Sweden’s DJ Skuddy. There isn’t much information to be found about this artist — it appears he is as underground and DIY as they come. On his YouTube page, 20-year-old Skuddy paints himself as a multigenre mixmaster and DJ who mashes together bits of reggae, electro, progressive house, happy hardcore, hip hop and more. The result is something that, strangely, leaves an irie feel.
Rockin’ Friday: Greenleaf – “10,000 Years of Revolution”
GREENLEAF has a reputation as an amazing live band with everyone giving it their all at absolutely every show. Greenleaf from Sweden, signed to Small Stone Records, can be described as KISS meets BLACK SABBATH meets ZZ TOP meets PINK FLOYD!
Electric Tuesday: Triobelisk – “Brain Traveller”
“Brain Traveller”, Triobelisk’s first full-length filled with the sounds of analog keyboards, hacked Game Boy synthesizers, space cantinas, proposed cosmogenesis events, physicists and sacred geometrical symbolism which clocks in at just under one hour has arrived to accompany you on your life’s journeys.
Electric Tuesday: Baeka – “Higher Than Before”
Named after the 70′s underground artist Baeka Buick, Baeka started out some years ago with the aim to create their own brand of psychedelic house music.
Now they are one of Sweden’s finest electronica acts with a style including dub-jazz, dub-house, cut-up-disco and cut-up-everything that listeners have described as “some of the strangest and warped house music” ever heard.
Stash for Fri, Jan 15, 2010 (partial)
Steve Bloom from CelebStoner.com discusses the breaking sexual scandal involving MPP Exec. Dir. Rob Kampia in Washington, DC.
Music: Mugwumps – “Dig the Sensation”
I. Love. Sweden. Besides the United States and the UK, I can’t think of any other country that has created so many good bands/musicians. Should I make a list? I think I should! ABBA, Ace of Base, The Cardigans, Jose Gonzalez, The Hives, I’m From Barcelona, The Knife, Jens Lekman, Lykke Li, Yngwie fricken Malmsteen!, Millencolin, Refused, [...]
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