Veteran marijuana activist and podcaster "Radical" Russ Belville records this cannabis news, interview, and comedy podcast live from the Treasure Valley on the border of America's Last Absolute Prohibition State—Idaho. Russ brings you a unique look at the thriving cannabis industry in Ontario, Oregon—Idaho's cannabis capital—and the fight to end Idaho's antiquated marijuana prohibition laws for medical marijuana patients and adult cannabis consumers alike. Hear from growers, researchers, businesspeople, doctors, patients, politicians, activists and more.
The left is so reflexively in support of any minority that’s getting an unfair shake that sometimes it fails to address whether the unfairness is actually justified.
My conclusion is that most people can only imagine what marijuana does to a regular consumer, and everything they are imagining is wrong.
It is shocking to me that the Courts could decide that Jim Crow juries are unfair, but their prior verdicts must stand because retrying those people who were unfairly convicted would just be too hard.
Thanks to a couple of forgotten blue laws, straight sex can land you in jail in Idaho, but gay sex cannot.
We’re talking about a band that had just three meaningful albums in ’81, ’82, and ’84. Only two of their singles even went Top Ten.
Anybody who gets the cuffs slapped on them and hauled off to booking “is in jail for simple possession or for just smoking pot.”
“I detect the odor of marijuana” is the magic incantation used by law enforcement to make your 4th & 5th Amendment rights disappear.
If cops can just fire their weapons at will into innocent peoples’ homes when residents like Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend use the Second Amendment to defend their homes, and cops can just shoot innocent homeowners in their backyards like Joseph Johnson when they use the Second Amendment to defend their homes, what good is the Second Amendment?
The Senate has already made national news for the efforts of an ironically-named State Sen. C. Scott Grow trying to pass a constitutional amendment to forever ban medical marijuana.
“This legislation will ensure illegal drugs stay illegal.” That’s the thrust of C. Scott Grow’s amendment to enshrine drug prohibition forever into the Idaho Constitution.
I was stunned, but not shocked. I’ve grown up among these people. This result was inevitable. I’m only surprised it’s taken until 2021 for this festering boil of unaddressed racism and willful ignorance to finally erupt in open treason.
Marijuana activists we lost in 2020 include Subcool, Charlotte Figi, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Jules Stobbs, Cliff Robinson, Kevin Zeese, and Dan Baum.
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