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“Radical” Russ on tour this summer with The Effinays

We are honored and excited to bring you coverage of this summer’s Western tour for The Effinays. 420RADIO’s “Radical” Russ Belville has been invited on tour to chronicle the band’s performances and to add his own presentations of marijuana facts and statistics to motivate marijuana aficionados and lovers of liberty.

Growing pot is worse than raping a mentally-and-physically-handicapped woman

Growing 30,000 marijuana plants means Uriel won’t see the outside world again until close to 2031. While he’s in prison, perhaps he’ll get to meet Marquise Montgomery.

State Medical Marijuana Registries Debunk “90% Get a Card for Pain” Talking Point

Patients that have cancer, glaucoma or HIV/AIDS in Oregon represent 6.7% of all patients or 4.6% of all conditions. But certainly, having those conditions could also result in some pain. So how many of these patients are qualifying only for pain, in absence of any other condition?

HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup in San Burn-a-Doobie 2013

An epic train journey up and down the West Coast, road trips across Southern California, and various observations of the first HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup of 2013

Nation’s largest marijuana dispensary can remain open, judge says

In a huge victory for advocates or medical cannabis in California and nationwide, a federal judge has ruled that the landlord for Harborside Health Center, America’s largest medical marijuana dispensary, abridged Harborside’s right to remain in business by filing motions to shutter the business on the grounds its federally-illegal operation endangers the market value of the property.

The Russ Belville Show #100 – Debunking Steven Crowder

Legalization debunking video from FOX News-contributor / comedian Steve Crowder, with response from “Radical” Russ; Mendo zip-tie program records headed to feds; music by Psychefunkapus.

MPP’s Rob Kampia warns Oregon not to try marijuana legalization in 2014

Oregon activists can’t wait four years and thousands of marijuana arrests later to legalize and there are now more deep pockets than just Peter Lewis who want in on the legal marijuana game.

After Marijuana Election Night 2012, Which States Will Legalize Pot Next?

It looks to me as if California is on the fast-track for marijuana legalization in 2014. But don’t discount Oregon. Our state’s largest newspaper is calling on our legislature to legalize and regulate marijuana.

The Russ Belville Show #87 – Marijuana is Legal!

Russ returns from Seattle with the results from Marijuana Election Night 2012

Marijuana Election Night – Legalization and Medical Marijuana Voting Results

Here is a breakdown of the Marijuana Election Night Results for 2012, as we learned them East to West:

Tonight We End Marijuana Prohibition

Here’s hoping that reason, sanity, and pragmatism prevails. Join us tonight from 4pm Pacific onward for our live coverage of Marijuana Election Night 2012 at radicalruss.com, on Twitter: @RadicalRuss #MJVote

The Russ Belville Show #86 – Tomorrow We Legalize Marijuana

Final look at the polls leading into marijuana legalization in WA, OR, CO and medical votes in MA, AR, MT; The 5 Reasons Stoners Vote Against Legalization; music by The Common Loon.

“Radical” Russ’s Dream: 24 lbs of marijuana found at an In-N-Out Burger

It seems these two dudes, Stephen and Trevor, had twenty-four one pound bags of marijuana in their BMW parked at an In-N-Out Burger in Glendale.

The Russ Belville Show #69 – The Unbelievably Vacuous Insensitivity of The Oregonian

Rant: How the Oregonian demonizes too many medical marijuana patients as “abuse”; Dr. Mitch Q&A; music by Human Revolution.

NORML’s Allen St. Pierre not fired in “coup attempt”

In an email to The Russ Belville Show, NORML Founder and board member Keith Stroup emphasizes that the board has not yet even considered any motion to replace the executive director, who has no intentions on resigning, and referred to the speculation as “an attempted coup by some dissidents.”

NORML Conference 2012, Day 3 – A 4/20 March on Washington DC!

NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre calls for a national march for marijuana legalization to take place in Washington DC on Saturday, April 20, 2013 on the National Mall.

NORML Conference 2012, Day 2 – The Two, Er, Three Legalization Initiatives

Day Two of the NORML National Conference in Los Angeles began with what I’m told was a fiery speech by Dominic Holden, the Seattle-based writer for The Stranger, former NORML Board Member, and this year’s winner of the Hunter S. Thompson Award.

NORML Conference 2012, Day 1 – There Will Be No Smoking!

First hand coverage of the NORML National Conference in Los Angeles,

LA City Council, fearing referendum vote, repeals ban on medical marijuana dispensaries

The outright ban on medical marijuana dispensaries that passed with a unanimous vote of the LA City Council has now been repealed in an 11-2 vote.

Police terrorize Santa Rosa neighborhood over backyard marijuana grows

This is terrorism, plain and simple, designed to push marijuana use underground, to frighten law-abiding citizens into abandoning their right to medical marijuana use in California by showing them who’s really the boss.

Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary ban headed to the ballot

Activists have submitted enough valid signatures to qualify a referendum on the ballot to overturn a Los Angeles City Council ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. The ban, instituted on September 6, follows years of the City Council failing to implement reasonable regulations that would serve the city and the patients.

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