When Was America Great Before?
2024-08-13
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I was thinking about “MAGA”—Make America Great Again. There’s a lot in those four little words. “Make”—to compel, to force.
These are the archives of pioneering marijuana activist and podcaster "Radical" Russ Belville. From 2008–2021, Russ delivered cannabis news, interview, and comedy podcasts live from the Pacific Northwest. Russ's shows documented the fight to end America's antiquated marijuana prohibition laws for medical marijuana patients and adult cannabis consumers alike. Contained herein are interviews with the growers, researchers, businesspeople, doctors, patients, politicians, activists and more who took America from no legal states to the 24 legal states we have today.
I was thinking about “MAGA”—Make America Great Again. There’s a lot in those four little words. “Make”—to compel, to force.
This week, our headliner is someone you’ve never heard of who wrote hits you’ve definitely heard of, Mark James. We’ll take you to the Amphitheater for some experimental music from India and Germany. We’ve got some Texas pop-punk and California stoner rock in the Mosh Pit. We dedicate a new stage for Opera, featuring tenors from Peru and Czech Republic. We’ll open up the Country Bunker for some traditional Irish fiddle. We’ve got traditional French chant and French torch song in Le Cabaret. We’ll close up shop this week at the Festival Stage in Brazil.
The Grim Reaper is taking us all over the planet this week—especially Sweden—for an hour featuring our headliner, one of Frank Zappa’s incredible percussionists, Ed Mann. We’ve got pop-rock from Holland, Serbia, and Britain. We’ve got a rap pioneer from Miami along with a young rapper from Sweden. We’ll bring you Festival music from Uruguay and Brazil. We’ll go fully International with artists from Indonesia and Malaysia. We’ll head to the Amphitheater for a pair of pianists from Poland and Japan by way of Sweden, then wind things up in the Jazz Cellar once again in Sweden and then New Zealand.
Thanks for joining us for this week’s Reaper’s Rotation, featuring our headliner, the man whose song gave us one of the longest drum solos in rock history, Doug Ingle. We’ve got one half of the songwriting duo who penned beloved movie songs from the 1960s and two men who were pioneers in American punk and Brazilian rock, respectively. We’ll jet set to Italy to visit Locale Musicale, then to the Country Bunker with artists from Canada and Ireland. In the House of Blues, you’ll meet two Americans who were each a part of longtime collaborations, then to our newest stage, Samförstånd, for the unexpected arrival of a formerly married Finnish couple. We’ll conclude at Utendaji for some music from Senegal and Algeria.
We all have the right to keep and bear arms, but not necessarily to sell them. With the right gun sellers, we could end all racist mass shootings.
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My wife called to let me know that one of her brothers has been activated and is now behind the
How! High are you? My name is “Radical” Russ Belville and this is my thirteenth consecutive Global Cannabis March. I
One of my favorite blogs on the blogroll is Jesus’ General. The General’s satirical wit always leaves me laughing as
To not teach our kids America’s Racial History would be to doom them to repeat the horrific mistakes of the past and to diminish the enormous progress we have made toward a more perfect union, with liberty and justice for all Americans.
I used to be a Twitter power user, but since Elongated Muskrat has turned it into a Nazi pub, I have since migrated to Threads. Whaddaya gonna do? It’s the social media run by the lesser-evil billionaire. I’m on Mastodon (or maybe not, if that mstdn.plus server is no more), Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok as well, just not as often.
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