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.

For today’s musical break we feature the Redheaded Stranger, longtime NORML supporter Willie Nelson, along with his family, on a tune called “Peaceful Solution”.  Willie’s still going strong at over 75 years old and the man walks the walk - his bus the Honeysuckle Rose runs on biodiesel and the people inside it run on fine cannabis sativa.

I thought it fitting to end the week that began with the death of George Carlin with a song about finding peaceful solutions to problems rather than declaring war.  Carlin spoke out against our American propensity to declare war on anything we disagree with - war on poverty, war on drugs, war on illiteracy, war on crime, etc. (but not a war on homelessness, there’s no money in that!)

If America could just make peace with drugs, especially marijuana, we would all live in a better place.  In America of 1900, there were no drug laws and about 1.3% of the population had serious drug addictions.  In America of 2000, we have draconian drug laws and about 1.3% of our population have serious drug addictions.  It’s time to come up with a different way to deal with the issue of drugs.

Download Willie Nelson & Family - “Peaceful Solution” (mp3)

NORML Blog » Blog Archive » Happy 75th Birthday To NORML Advisory Board Member Willie Nelson!
Best wishes and happy travels to one of America’s great authors of music, masters of the performance stage and American highways.

The cannabis law reform movement has never had a better, more honest or longer-serving goodwill ambassador for cannabis consumers as well as a dedicated proponent of hemp as an industrial crop that should be within the ambit of choices for the American farmer. Even on the rare occasion that Willie has been arrested on cannabis prohibition-related charges, the arresting law enforcement officers involved have oddly been embarrassed, giddy and ultimately honored to have the opportunity to meet Willie in person.

On one occasion in Texas in 1995, Willie was arrested for possessing a couple of hand-rolled cigarettes that just happen to consist of cannabis rather than tobacco, and in a totally unlikely scenario the local sheriff was the individual who bailed him out!

To the man who once smoked a joint on the roof of the White House and has donated the proceeds from events like the 2007 Austin Freedom Festival to support cannabis law reform advocacy, on behalf of NORML’s nationwide membership and chapters, as well as the board of directors, thanks for all your help and support for too many years.

Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-03-07

riday is Cannabis Community day on the Stash, and coming up after the news, we’re speaking with Steve Bloom, our regular Friday guest who brings us the latest on celebrity and cannabis from CelebStoner.com.  Steve tells us about some controversy over the new album from the Black Crowes, a look ahead to Willie Nelson’s 75^th birthday, and the unveiling of CelebStoner.com’s “Stoners for Obama” campaign.

Cannabis Karri brings us got some music from P.A.I.N. (the Propaganda and Information Network) and their song called “Grow More Weed”.

Then we wrap thing up with a replay of our conversation with Dan Viets, a Missouri attorney specializing in civil rights and the Drug War, as we examine the new record prison population in the Land of the Free.

So sit back and relax with your favorite strain and enjoy your Daily Audio Stash…