The John Doe Radio Show

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We bring you the Custom Silver Surfer Vaporizer Give-Away! ALl you have to do to WIN is just find me on Facebook, and yes you have to become a member if you are not one, and send me a message with your age and email address telling me what you like, or would change about JDR and ask me to give you the Custom Silver Surfer Vaporizer. It’s easy. I will then film a drawing for your names from a hat and post it online for all to see we did it fair. So look for me on Facebook and tell me what you dig about the show!

Our guest on the show this week is Co-Author of Marijuana is SAFER: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink, and Director of S.A.F.E.R. Mason Tvert. We talk about the future of S.A.F.E.R. and what Mason has been doing to promote his book.

JDR News on the L.A. City Council meetings to regulate Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, and I go off towards the end of the show on local dispensary owners who are traitors to suggest background checks for future dispensary owners. And, of coarse The Stash is included.

Featuring Music From:
Pepper – Stormtrooper
The Expendables – Ganja Smugglin’
DJ Slim – I Wanna Get High
The Individuals – High Daily

And In The Stash:
The Beautiful Girls – Don’t Wait.

I would like to announce that I will be doing the Groovin’ Thursday music selections on the NORML Daily Audio Stash with “Radical” Russ Belville.   Thanks to “Radical” Russ and NORML.  I look forward to bringing you the best Independent Hip-Hop, Rap, Funk, and R&B that’s out in the world today.   The first spliff I’m gonna light for y’all and a sneak peak for you JDR readers to what is ahead on The NORML Stash is the latest track from B-Real “Fire”.  I know you JDR listeners have jammed it on the show, but it will be nice to bring that awesome tune to the good listeners of the NORML Stash too.  It’s gonna be sweet and I see this as a huge benefit for the both of our Podcasts.  I look forward to working with Russ on future projects and media endeavors.  We at JDR also still have a few tricks up our sleeve for future plans and some other big nugs curing, waiting to be packed and lit.  Stay tuned, its gonna be a sweet 2010 for all of us.

From The NORML Audio Stash Blog:

Announcing New Contributors to your NORML Daily Audio Stash

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 2:47 pm | By: Radical Russ

I am so excited to break the news that we have four new contributors to help bring you the Daily Audio Stash!  In response to my call for volunteer music editors I received a lot of applications and picked from the best of them to give you our new lineup:

Weekday	Editor-in-Charge
Roots Monday (Blues / Country / Folk / Jazz)	Cannabis Karri
Electric Tuesday (Dance / New Age / House / Electronica)	Sahra Kant
Irie Wednesday (Reggae / Ska / Calypso / Latin)	Johnny Reeferseed
Groovin’ Thursday (Rap / Hip-Hop / R&B / Funk)	John Doe
Rockin’ Friday (Rock / Metal / Punk / Jam)	“Radical” Russ

These fine Stashers will be finding the best 420-friendly music on the web and bringing it to us each week.  You already know me and Cannabis Karri.  Sahra Kant joins us from Massachusetts; I met her up at the Boston Freedom Rally this year.  Johnny Reeferseed’s music has been featured on the Stash before.  And John Doe is the man behind John Doe Radio, another fine internet podcast.

But just because we have music editors that doesn’t mean you can’t still be involved.  If you have a band or have found a tune that you think should be on the Stash, just email it to me at stash@norml.org and I’ll pass it along to our editors.

Also join me in welcoming Amanda Bannon to our lienup of contributors.  Amanda is getting college credit as an intern working for me in NORML Chapter Outreach.  She will begin by reviving our dormant “Politicians on Pot” series, where you send us the replies you get from your elected officials when you write to them about ending marijuana prohibition.  If you haven’t written to your elected officials, visit our Take Action center and get started.  Now that the AMA has reversed its position on smoked cannabis as medicine, many of these congresspeople will need to update their form letter!  Write your congressperson and send that reply back to us at stash@norml.org.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:27:13 — 79.9MB)

From MPP:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 10, 2009

AMA Calls for Review of Medical Marijuana’s Legal Status

New Policy Marks Historic Shift From Prior Stance

CONTACT: Bruce Mirken, MPP director of communications …………… 415-585-6404 or 202-215-4205

HOUSTON, TEXAS — In a move considered historic by supporters of medical marijuana, the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates today adopted a new policy position calling for the review of marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug in the federal Controlled Substances Act. The old language in Policy H-95.952 had previously recommended that “marijuana be retained in Schedule I,” which groups marijuana with drugs such as heroin, LSD and PCP that are deemed to have no accepted medical uses and to be unsafe for use even under medical supervision.

The revised policy, adopted today, states, “Our AMA urges that marijuana’s status as a federal Schedule I controlled substance be reviewed with the goal of facilitating the conduct of clinical research and development of cannabinoid-based medicines, and alternate delivery methods.” It goes on to explain that this position should not be construed as an endorsement of state medical marijuana programs.

“This shift, coming from what has historically been America’s most cautious and conservative major medical organization, is historic,” said Aaron Houston, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, who attended the AMA meeting. “Marijuana’s Schedule I status is not just scientifically untenable, given the wealth of recent data showing it to be both safe and effective for chronic pain and other conditions, but it’s been a major obstacle to needed research.”

Drugs listed in Schedule II, for which medical use is permitted with strict controls, include cocaine, morphine and methamphetamine. A pill containing THC, the component responsible for marijuana’s “high,” is classed in Schedule III, whose looser requirements allow phoned-in prescriptions.

With more than 29,000 members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. For more information, please visit http://MarijuanaPolicy.org.

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