Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2009-01-28

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You Stashers rock!  Plenty of comments and chatter over in the Guestbook, and 95 of you signed up on Day One.  Consider yourself the O.S. (Original Stashers) – come meet me at Seattle Hempfest and tell me you’re an O.S. and I’ll have li’l suttin suttin fo ya.  Holla!

(Oh, that sounds funnier than it types, especially coming from a translucent spud like me.)

Today on the Stash something a little different.  We talk to a lot of doctors, activists, politicians, and musicians, but every so often, we like to talk to your average everyday cannabis consumer.  Tim Carll was a student at the University of Central Florida who found himself in a Rachel Hoffman-like predicament with law enforcement: busted for weed, set up for a drug sting involving massive amounts of ecstasy pills, and a scared 20-year-old facing the possibility of death.

Not from marijuana.  From prohibition.  Could be you.  Could be your kid.  Could be a niece or nephew or even just the part-time server/student you remember from your favorite lunch hangout.  Marijuana’s never killed anyone.  Marijuana prohibition has killed quite a few.

Then stick out your toungue and say “ahh,” Dr. Mitch Earleywine is here with your Cannabis Science.  Today we look at teens and the reasons they don’t use or quit using marijuana.  Here’s a shocker: it’s not because it’s hard to get or expensive.

Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-12-01

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Welcome back, Stashers!  Did you get enough turkey this weekend?  Hey, hold on, I can just ask you with this handy dandy new Polls plug-in (some of you already noticed the polls over there on the right, right?)

Oh, I’m going to have fun with this. Let’s get existential!

Anyway, today’s Stash takes us all the way to Switzerland, home of alpenhorns, army knives, and government-prescribed heroin. PJ Wasserman joins us to discuss Swiss culture and how they can accept free heroin for addicts but reject cannabis decriminalization.  Check out PJ’s music website at SchaltkreisWasserman.com.

Then Brendan Rivard from the University of Central Florida chapter of NORML comes on to talk about the cannabis-alcohol equalization initiative that will be voted on by the student assembly.