Toker Talk Radio
Toker Talk Radio 2018-04-18
As Donald Trump signals support for states’ rights to marijuana legalization and John Boehner joins a cannabusiness board, I spoke with five marijuana activists for their reactions. We hear from Justin Strekal, political director at NORML; Morgan Fox, communications director[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2018-04-11
The combination of leading Democrats being spineless on the marijuana issue and the progressive wing sabotaging candidates by voting third party will get Donald Trump re-elected… if he’s not impeached.
Toker Talk Radio 2018-04-04
MPP Founder Rob Kampia’s new website includes his thoughts on “Sexual Politics” and a template design straight out of the 1990s.
Toker Talk Radio 2018-03-28
Six ways to fix American Democracy begins with Ranked Choice Voting and increasing the size of the US House; more flashback with Bobby Platshorn just eight weeks before Florida passed medical marijuana.
Toker Talk Radio 2018-03-21
Tackling the reefer madness of anti-pot millionaire Julie Schauer; Serra Frank’s tale of holding a smoke-out protest on the steps of the Idaho capitol.
Toker Talk Radio 2018-03-14
A look at the federal law that allows the government to seek the death penalty for certain drug traffickers.
Toker Talk Radio 2018-03-07
A look at the federal law that allows the government to seek the death penalty for certain drug traffickers.
Toker Talk Radio 2018-02-28
Tragic murder of my tattoo artist’s friend in Dallas; Trump is said to regularly launch into tirade about executing drug dealers; Part 2 of Dr. Mitch’s countdown of top ten cannabis science stories; Arkansas TV anchor’s disclosure about medical cannabis;[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2018-02-21
The one good thing from the canceled show ‘Disjointed’; The sneaky secret in Virginia CBD oil law; Oklahoma lawmakers seek to make citizen initiative harder, citing legal weed; Mexican cartels shifting to heroin and meth, since legalization took their weed[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2018-02-14
Former NRA President now says medical marijuana patients should have gun rights; Joe Kennedy III knows he’s out of touch with his party on legalization, doesn’t care; Tampa Sheriff Grady Judd says fentanyl deaths start with marijuana addictions; Attorney General[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2018-02-07
Reps. Sherman (CA), Heck (WA), and Perlmutter (CO) question Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin about access to banking by legal marijuana businesses
Toker Talk Radio 2018-01-31
Clips from XM Satellite Radio, NORML Daily Audio Stash, NORML SHOW LIVE, and The Russ Belville Show
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-20
A secret meeting in Colorado to discuss marijuana policy; the cost of an NFL one-game suspension for weed; smuggling weed in Ford Fusions means big conspiracy
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-19
I take on Kevin Sabet’s claim that the half-billion in marijuana tax revenue in Colorado has been offset by $3.3 billion in social costs.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-18
More Highlights From My Time on Midnight in the Desert with Heather Wade
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-17
Explaining how the Connecticut lawyer attempting to get court to find prohibition unconstitutional is barking up the wrong tree.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-14
Update on the DiNardo weed-murder case in Bucks County, PA; 102 overdose on synthetic cannabinoids in Lancaster County, PA; Ohio NORML’s accounts at PNC Bank are closed; Michigan ahead of schedule on legalization efforts; Trump worries about Americans being pelted[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-13
Discussing the case of Michael Brooks, forced to give up medical marijuana and risk death to get his kids back; how did Nevada get in the mess of not having marijuana distributors?; why I’m applauding Hawaii getting rid of “medical[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-12
CW Hemp CEO Joel Stanley peddles his “hemp-derived CBD oil is legal” bunk in an op-ed; How often must someone smoke pot to be a pot smoker?
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-11
A former Insys employee (the company that makes sublingual fentanyl and donated $500K to stop legalization) accused of bribing doctors to overprescribe fentanyl, is now addicted to opioids and a judge has denied him use of medical marijuana.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-10
More discussion of DEA Special Agent Jeff Stamm; revealing my booking on the Midnight in the Desert talk radio show
Toker Talk Radio 2017-07-07
A new poll shows Democrats, especially younger ones, want a socialist, not a capitalist, to lead the party. So Nancy Pelosi takes that off the table.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-06-30
Grappling with whether 60,000 deaths from overdose is an “epidemic,” “crisis,” or “catastrophe,” I look at how manufacturing quotas, addiction, and overdose deaths are all correlated, kinda like guns.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-06-29
Seattle Hempfest in its fourth year post-legalization is paring back stages and struggling to survive.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-06-26
Activists in Utah are planning to launch a 2018 medical marijuana bid by initiative that bans smoking and home grow, to prod the legislature to perhaps pass something… more restrictive? As heard on The Marijuana Agenda with Russ Belville.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-05-15
New rules for forbidding medical marijuana grows registered where there is no street address threaten to end the three-decades of compassion shown by legendary medical grower John Sajo.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-05-11
Denver’s onerous regulations for social use licensing threaten to rule it out of existence before it begins.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-04-18
NEWS: Colorado marijuana DUI citations dropped by one-third, says CDOT; FOCUS: Full Remarks by DHS Secretary John Kelly; BIZ: Demitri Downing from SW Cannabis Conference & Expo this week in Dallas; GUEST: Beverly Hills Cannabis Club Founder Cheryl Shuman in[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-04-17
NEWS: Jared Kushner butting heads with Jeff Sessions over criminal justice policy, reports NY Times; FOCUS: Trump’s pick for Drug Czar took $150,000 from Big Pharma; DATA: Yahoo! News new poll called Weed & The American Family; GUEST: Boise Hempfest[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-04-13
NEWS: Canada files its legislation to legalize marijuana by July 2018; FOCUS: A fight over minority access to Maryland medical marijuana licenses; DATA: The latest state to hand medmj over to the rich; GUEST: LEAP’s Brian Chapman, former Texas corrections[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-04-12
NEWS: Guam’s Governor Drops Support for His Own Bill to Legalize, Citing Trump Threat; FOCUS: Trump’s New Drug Czar Anti-Marijuana Votes; DATA: Are People Moving To States Where Pot Is Legal?; GUEST: Dr. Jordan Tischler on Cannabis Strains; RANT: Things[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-04-11
NEWS: Kevin Sabet’s Project SAM Busted For Violations of California Campaign Laws; FOCUS: Four Crucial Marijuana Hearings This Week; DATA: A Lesson for M.A.R.K. in Reading Comprehension and Job Forecast Statistics; GUEST: Claire Kaufmann from Le’Or on the 2nd Cannabis[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-04-10
NEWS: New Mexico Gov. vetoed adding opioid use disorder as qualifying condition; FOCUS: Combatting Reefer Madness in Kenya; DATA: Illinoisans are Ready to Legalize. Lawmakers, Not So Much; GUEST: Dr. Mitch on use of cannabis to reduce benzodiazepenes; RANT: Idaho[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-04-04
NEWS: Argentina’s latest country to legalize medical cannabinoids; FOCUS: West Virginia and Utah provide contrasting religious views of pot; DATA: Maine proves drug testing for welfare is a wasteful failure; GUEST: Freedom Leaf editor Steve Bloom previews the April Issue[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-04-03
NEWS: Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones calls on the NFL to end its ban on pot; FOCUS: The last eight states with absolute marijuana prohibition; DATA: Washington teens are not using marijuana more; GUEST: Dr. Mitch Earleywine reacts to DEA[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-31
NEWS: Marijuana use by adults in their home is now decrim in South Africa; FOCUS: The last eight states with absolute marijuana prohibition; DATA: California Marijuana Dispensaries Pull Products After A Local News Team Discovers Pesticide Laced Pot; GUEST: Jules[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-30
NEWS: President Trump’s new opioid commission features four legalization opponents; FOCUS: Oregon Congressmen announce a trio of bills designed to reform federal marijuana laws; DATA: Debunking a CNN claim about Colorado drug testing; GUEST: Addiction specialist Joe Schrank on using[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-29
NEWS: We have a new interim Drug Czar in the Trump Administration; FOCUS: Project SAM·s coming after Oregon law enforcement·s report on Cole Memo violations; DATA: The obscene amount of cash the cops are stealing under civil asset forfeiture; GUEST:[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-28
NEWS: Missouri senator is calling out Insys Therapeutics over the overdose epidemic; FOCUS: Florida Officials Omitted Key Details in the Report of Inmate’s Death; DATA: No, Seeking Alpha, CBD is not an “uncontrolled substance [that] is legal in all 50[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-27
NEWS: Canada’s Liberal gov’t is set to announce cannabis legalization will happen on July 1, 2018; FOCUS: Arizona Pharma Insys That Fought Legalization Gets New Synthetic THC Drug OK; DATA: Canada cannabis stocks soar on news of legalization date announcement;[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-23
NEWS: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration placed a new THC oral solution in Sch. II; FOCUS: Gorsuch thinks corps have more religious rights than marijuana worshippers; DATA: The cannabis industry is bullish despite Jeff Sessions’ reefer madness; GUEST: Hemp expert Anndrea[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-21
NEWS: New Mexico, Nebraska, and Nevada press forward on marijuana-related bills; FOCUS: Heritage Foundation outlines how Sessions can enforce federal pot laws; DATA: Marijuana raids by police are more deadly than marijuana itself; GUEST: Dr. Jordan Tishler MD on the[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-20
NEWS: US senator is booed when he brings up the debunked gateway theory; FOCUS: latest examples of hypocrisy from Kevin Sabet’s Project SAM in Vermont; DEBUNK: Educating US Senate on the Marijuana Gateway Drug Theory; GUEST: Dr. Mitch addresses how[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-16
NEWS: Colorado Republcian Congressman Has Plan to Thwart Jeff Sessions Attacks on Marijuana; FOCUS: Sessions DIDN’T Say Marijuana Was Only Slightly Less Awful Than Heroin – It Was Worse Than That; DATA: Washington State Healthy Youth Survey Shows No Increase[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-15
NEWS: More drug testing for unemployment just needs Trump’s signature; FOCUS: Jeff Sessions Says Marijuana is “Only Slightly Less Awful” Than Heroin; DATA: Canadian Poll Shows Majority Support Legalization; GUEST: Industrial Hemp Expert, Author Doug Fine on New Mexico Hemp[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-14
NEWS: Colorado House OKs Proposals to Set Limits, Crack Down on Home Grows; FOCUS: What’s Really Inside Your Cannabis Vape Cartridge?; DATA: The US Sentencing Commission’s 2016 Report; GUEST: Stu Titus, CEO of Medical Marijuana Inc, in 2015 interview about[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-13
NEWS: New Mexico Governor vetoes industrial hemp again; FOCUS: Oklahoma legislature working to undo state ballot initiative on drug felonies; DATA: Kids who use synthetic weed take greater risks; CANNABIS Q&A w/Dr. Mitch: Pot and stroke/heart attack, Epilepsy patients marijuana[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-09
NEWS: Six Bipartisan Cosponsors for Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017; FOCUS: Scientists Say Government Marijuana Farm Has Moldy Samples And No Testing Standards; DATA: Oregon Report on Marijuana Legalizaiton and Driving; GUEST: George Zimmer replay on Shareholder Capitalism[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-08
NEWS: Los Angelenos Pass Breakthrough Measure M to Regulate Commercial Pot; FOCUS: The Return of the Guys From Responsible Ohio; WORLD: The Canadian Origins of the Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana Rumor Repeated by US Senator Rob Portman; RANT: The Inalienable Right to[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-07
Smoked Medical Cannabis Saved by Arkansas Senate; Tell Congress to Let States Decide Their Own Marijuana Policies (rad-r.us/yeshr1227); CDOT Says Most Colorado Tokers Drive Within 2 Hours of Toking; Canadian Lawyer Kirk Tousaw at last fall’s ICBC in Vancouver, British[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-06
Israel Moves to Decriminalize Marijuana; Baby Steps and Bombshell Bills in Virginia; GOP Reps. Fight for Federal Decrim for Medical and Recreational; Texas Doctor repeats long-debunked marijuana myths; Dr. Mitch Earleywine on Cannabis vs. Opiate Abuse, Psychedelics vs. Opiate Abuse,[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-03
Lessons for Marijuana Activism from LGBT Activism; A look at the Cannabis Caucus and federal bills; Clips from a decade of Radical Russ on the radio.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-02
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Recuse Himself From Trump/Russia Probes; Attorney General Jeff Sessions Committed Perjury on Sen. Franken’s Russia Question; Evolving Marijuana Policy Around the World; Private Prison Expert Patrick Nightingale from Law Enforcement Action Partnership; RANT: MPP’s Rob[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-03-01
Republican Congressman Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana Federally; Debunking Donald Trump Address on Drugs “Pouring Across Our Borders”; Massachusetts Weed Dealers Trying Every Loophole To Sell “Legally”; Cannabis CEO / Expert Todd Mitchem on New LegalizeEffort.com Project; RANT: Maybe A[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-02-28
Sessions to State AG’s “We don’t need to be legalizing marijuana”; Jeff Sessions Full Comments to State Attorneys General this morning; The Science on Marijuana and Opioids that Jeff Session Doesn’t Seem to Know; Steve Bloom, Editor-in-Chief of Freedom Leaf[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-02-24
Reactions to Sean Spicer’s Comments Yesterday; I hate to say “I Told You So”, but I Told You So; Tennessee bill fights back against the rising costs of marijuana sentencing; Addiction Specialist Joe Schrank on cannabis-assisted sobriety; Why Drug Testing[...]
Toker Talk Radio 2017-02-21
The California Cannabis Regulations Panel from the International Cannabis Business Conference featuring California Regulator Lori Ajax, Cannabis Growers Alliance head Hezekiah Allen, Cannabiz Attorney Luke Stanton and more.
Toker Talk Radio 2017-02-08
Jeff Sessions is Confirmed as Attorney General; Why Marijuana’s Not Too Big to Fail; British Press Use “Thug” in Hamster LSD Story
Toker Talk Radio 2017-02-07
Kevin Sabet plans to take back 4/20 at Marijuana Education Summit in Atlanta; Massachusetts TV station demonstrates driving while 20x legal pot limit; Debunking Reefer Mad Hilariously Inaccurate Data To Attack
Toker Talk Radio 2017-02-06
Why wouldn’t Trump go after marijuana?; Interview with Eddy Lepp at Halfway House
Toker Talk Radio 2016-03-18
Toker Talk Radio #749 – Harper’s Magazine says Legalize All Drugs [2016-03-18]
Toker Talk Radio 2016-01-29
Kevin P. Saunders Argues Against California Sean Parker Initiative to Legalize Marijuana
Toker Talk Radio 2016-01-22
Cops Can’t Understand Difference Between ‘Is it Legal’ and ‘Is it Right’
Toker Talk Radio 2016-01-15
Bombshell Allegation Fly in Two Lawsuits Against Oregon Legalization ‘Mastermind’
Toker Talk Radio 2016-01-12
Prosecutorial Shenanigans Falsely Condemn 4 in Alaska to 18 Years With No Recourse
Toker Talk Radio 2015-10-23
Jeanne from Boston on Converting Massachusetts Governor to Medical Marjuana Support
Toker Talk Radio 2015-10-02
Testing Pregnant Moms for Drugs Just Guarantees Moms Avoiding Pre-Natal Health Care
Toker Talk Radio 2015-09-14
Earl Blumenauer and Jim Gray at the Oregon Medical Marijuana Business Conference