This week we learn about the state of medical marijuana in Washington state post-502, featuring patient advocate Alison Bigelow and former state legislator Jeanne Kohl-Welles.
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This week is part three of our Seattle Hempfest Special, with Susan Squibb, Shango Los, David Nott, Dominic Corva, and Century host Doug McVay talk about cannabis and the media.
This week on part two of our Seattle Hempfest special: reform beyond Washington state, with audio from Jodie Emery (Canada), Keith Saunders (MA/NH), Rachel Kurtz (OR), Danielle Muggli (MT), and Serra Frank (ID).
This week we come to you live from Seattle Hempfest! We hear from travel guru Rick Steves, Hempfest honchos Vivian McPeak and John Davis, reformer and hemp advocate Joy Beckerman, plus activist and entrepreneur Alison Draisin.
We talk with Rick Doblin from MAPS about the DEA's new rules on cultivating marijuana for research purposes, and we talk with Lorenzo Jones of the Katal Center about police in the community and effective community policing.
Seattle Hempfest is August 19-21 this year! This week we look at marijuana legalization, and how medical, adult social (recreational), and spiritual uses of marijuana can co-exist.
This week we attended Portland's Summer Fair, a free marijuana expo, and spoke with noted author and marijuana grow expert Jorge Cervantes, attorney and agricultural best practices expert Chris Van Hook of Clean Green Certification, and Portland area entrepreneur and business owner Adrian Brown.
US Senator Tim Kaine talks about states as laboratories of democracy, and asks whether marijuana legalization has impacted heroin production; Senator Ed Markey talks about overdose deaths, and asks whether the administration has been ignoring Fentanyl coming in from China and Mexico; and Senator Marco Rubio speaks sensibly about alcohol, other drugs, and drug addiction.
This week we talk about racism, violence, and the drug war with longtime drug policy reformer and social justice activist Cliff Thornton.
The Veterans Affairs department releases a new estimate of veteran suicides -- 20 per day in 2014 -- and we speak with the authors of new research showing that medical marijuana laws are associated with a reduction in prescription medication use.