The crazies are back in Montana

The Cannabis Agenda Podcast

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS FROM LISTENERS:

• Shakedown sent us a scoop on a grow-op bust in Cleveland. Thanks buddy! We aren’t covering it today, but we’ll get to it eventually.
• Denton emailed us with 2 op-ed pieces it looks like he wrote. Thanks Denton!
• Jordan emailed: He loves the length of our show and thinks it is the perfect time to sit back to a bowl or two. He doesn’t want us to make it any less than an hour and a half
• Krypto Man from Vermont emailed us: likes our show, saw a potential booze news worthy story occur at his local pub. Send us the scoop if it hits your paper. Also believes Vermont is really close to decriminalization.
• Mark emailed: “They are against change because they are corrupt and the Drug War gives limitless opportunities to be such. Love you guys dearly, but fuck you are naive on this. Cops LOVE the drug war, why else be a cop really?!?! Total power trip, tons of cash, people cowering before them, raiding homes, shooting pets, big rush. Guys, cops are the enemy totally and completely.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS, QUESTIONS TO LISTENERS

• Our friends a Leafly.com (we talked with Scott in Episode #34) just released their strain database in the form of an iPhone app.

• If you’re a cannabis dispensary in California, give us a holler!

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH - COLORADO/MONTANA NEWS (IDAHO?)

• Montana sees wave of medical marijuana bills in legislature
• One of those bills would allow employers to fire medical marijuana pateints [clip]
• Mormon financed group dedicated to disrupting MMJ laws
• Two year old Cash Hyde is one of Montana’s youngest medical marijuana patients [clip]
• Looks like the crazies are back in Montana: Vandals strike two medical marijuana clinics in Billings, MT [clip]

EAST COAST SCOOP

• Maryland MMJ bill suffers setback by former FDA deputy
• Maryland Health Secretary opposes medical marijuana bill [clip]
• Legalization and Medical Bills filed in Massachusetts [clip]
• Rhode Island legislators file tax & regulate bill
• Vermont lawmakers considering MMJ legislation [clip]

CALIFORNIA UPDATE

• CA bill would give DA's a choice on sentencing
• Feds attack Harborside dispensary with IRS audit

POT IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

• Seattle's first cannabis farmers market attracts large crowd [clip]
• Seattle Times endorses HB 1550, allowing sales of cannabis at liquor stores [clip]
• Bill target’s Oregon’s medical marijuana law [clip]

SOUTHWEST

• NM Lawmaker Wants To Repeal Medical Marijuana

MIDWEST MALAISE AND GLIMMERS OF HOPE

• Ethics Panel Clears Iowan Lawmaker in Marijuana Case
• Bi-partisan MMJ export bill introduced in Minnesota Minn Gov. link Here
• Uninformed Illinois house committee OKs legalizing industrial hemp

NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT

• New Poll Shows Upward Trend in Public Support for Legalization
  Cannabis Related Portion Of Pew Research Study, image here

QUIT CALLING IT “SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA”

• Retailers cited for sale of “synthetic marijuana” in New Albany, IN [clip]
• Mother speaks out about “fake pot” after child crashes car under the influence [clip]
• Over six ER visits due to spice in the Cleveland area this year [clip]
• Boca Raton, FL company stops manufacturer of “Mary Joy” [clip]

ACTIVISM SPOTLIGHT

• 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference Official website here.

FROM THE RESEARCH BIN

• It's high time you learned the history
• Schedule 1; Against the advice of national commission
  Concluding statement from Shafer Commission Report

CLIP FOR END OF SHOW

• Here’s a suggestion The War on Drugs: What a Joke!