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NORML SHOW LIVE #882 – America Loves (White Corporate) Drugs
Dr. Mitch addresses drug testing inaccuracies, THC and Parkinson’s, and two live callers’ questions; Rant: The Culture Excuse; music by The Expendables
NORML SHOW LIVE #875 – Because the Choir Messes Up the Hymns
From the Baker Institute Forum: Rev. Edwin C. Sanders II, Metropolitan Interdenominational Church in Nashville, Tennessee; music by Melvin Chenault.
Fire Chief Put on Leave after Substance Found in his Locker
A fire and rescue captain from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has been placed on administrative leave after an inspection on Tuesday at his Fire Station. The locker that belongs to Captain Theodore Pertiller of Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue Station 3 had a “Brown Substance” within.
NORML SHOW LIVE #873 – Potsmoker’s Prayer
Tere Joyce with Emmy-nominated composer Gary Stockdale from Penn & Teller’s Bullshit; Rob Oates, Libertarian Candidate for Congress from Idaho; music by The K-Os.
Tennessee NORML education day fundraiser makes front page news
This Saturday, Tennessee NORML is presenting a fundraising luncheon at the Sunset Grill from 10:30am to 3pm. That evening there is a fundraiser with NORML Founder Keith Stroup running from 7pm to 10pm.
NORML SHOW LIVE #838 – Drug Testing Hypocrisy; TN NORML’s Paul Kuhn
Paul Kuhn from Tennessee NORML on Marijuana Education Day Jan 28 in Nashville; Todd’s Toker Topics – Appearances; Drug Testing rant; music by Phobos
NORML SHOW LIVE #775
Hempstalk 2011 interviews w/ Subcool of TGA Seeds & Urb Thrasher, grow panel; Todd Armstrong on Hempfest & Hempstalk; Music by Groove Junkies.
Drug Czar’s office: Prescription drug abuse is bad, so don’t legalize marijuana
Paul Armentano, NORML’s Deputy Director, and Paul Kuhn, from the NORML Board, co-wrote an op-ed for marijuana legalization in Tennessee’s largest newspaper. Usually when NORML composes these things we might get a response from “Parents United for Safe Healthy Youth” (or some-such anti-legalization group) but the Drug Czar’s office ignores us.
Apparently we’re now in the “they fight you” stage, because a deputy director at the ONDCP, David Mineta, took the time to rebut our op-ed. You can tell how desperate the prohibitionists are in the age of Google to maintain the fear-mongering over cannabis right out of the gate:
Five states considering “no home grow” medical marijuana laws
New Hampshire, Delaware, Idaho, Maryland, and New York have medical marijuana proposals that forbid home grows and require street-price dispensary shopping. Proposals in Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia would be similar to the current thirteen medical marijuana states that allow registered home cultivation.
Alcohol, not marijuana, leads to argument and shooting
Reefer Mad Media, take note. Just because somebody might be a pot smoker and then something terrible happens to them, that doesn’t mean smoking pot led to something terrible.