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Vote for Johnny Reeferseed in the High Times Unsigned Band Contest
Our Irie Wednesday music editor, Johnny Reeferseed, plays with a great band called The High Rollers. They’re in the running for the High Times Magazine Best Unsigned Band contest. Won’t you surf over there and drop them a vote? Johnny...
A Merry Christmas in Idaho
Howdy, Stashers! I say “howdy” because I am back in Idaho and that’s how we say “hello”. I’m enjoying a fine time at my folks’ place. Dad’s got huge Boise State and Green Bay banners hanging in the li...
NORML SHOW LIVE Happy Holiday Edition
This Saturday night on NORML SHOW LIVE we celebrate the holidays with NORML Founder Keith Stroup and NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre. We take a look at the events that shaped marijuana law reform in 2009 and look forward for what is ...
A local’s input on the dispensary near the McDonald’s
Last Friday I told you about the dispensary that was forced to close because it was too close to a McDonald’s Play Place… but not as close as a cocktail lounge called “Animal Crackers”. Today I received an email from a liste...
Legalization of marijuana is immoral
I know that it’s probably not worth my time to tackle an anti-marijuana piece written by a student at Citrus (Community) College in Glendora, California, especially when it appears on a website that claims it is “a first ammendment public...
NORML SHOW LIVE visits with actor Hal B. Klein and director Tao Ruspoli
Join us this weekend on Saturday at 6pm Pacific for another episode of NORML SHOW LIVE! (http://live.norml.org) We’re going to the movies, or at least a small part of the movies is coming to us. Actor Hal B. Klein from independent films “...
Oregon NORML’s Cannabis Café makes Dave Letterman’s monologue
Cue up to 2:15 in the video… nice punchline… even better follow-up! ...
Announcing New Contributors to your NORML Daily Audio Stash
I am so excited to break the news that we have four new contributors to help bring you the Daily Audio Stash! In response to my call for volunteer music editors I received a lot of applications and picked from the best of them to give you our new l...
Welcome Beverly Hills NORML 90210
I’m excited to announce the official certification of our newest NORML chapter, Beverly Hills NORML 90210. You can check out the beginnings of their website still in development at http://norml90210.org. NORML 90210 is headed by Ch...
Oregon NORML’s Cannabis Café generating local TV buzz
This Friday, Oregon NORML’s Cannabis Café opens in Northeast Portland. I’ll be there Saturday night with a live broadcast of NORML SHOW LIVE from the café. Meanwhile, the notion of medical marijuana patients having their own private c...
Halloween photos are now up
What do you mean you're not in costume? Ow! Lemme go! (Click this photo for gallery of the Friday Night THCF Halloween Party.) Scott, the Urb Age Polynesian Pot Warrior! (Click this photo for gallery of the Saturday Night NORML West Coat Media...
NJ: Wilson Trial Support Rallies Planned
Jim Miller suppporting John Ray Wilson - mycentraljersey.com Despite a public call from two state Senators for a pardon, the criminal trial against John Ray Wilson is moving ahead. John lives with MS and used cannabis therapy for treatment. He now f...
Wanted: volunteer marijuana music editor for NORML
Well, folks, I just got the email from Tam at Marijuana Music Awards that she will not be able to continue providing the Daily Toker Tunes on the Stash. It’s understandable, she’s very busy like me and she’s already given us so mu...
Day 2 at Cypress Hill Smokeout
What a day! Cypress Hill just delivered a literally smoking set to a crowd of 20,000 fans. Deftones are up next and Slipknot closes the show. I arrived today just in time to catch the musicians panel with Tommy Chong, B Real, and Lou Dog from Kottonm...
NORML SHOW LIVE Saturday – SPECIAL TIME 4:00pm Pacific – with Cheech & Chong at Cypress Hill Smokeout
Saturday Night’s episode of NORML SHOW LIVE will be at a special time – 4:00pm Pacific / 7:00pm Eastern – to take advantage of the lineup here at the Cypress Hill Smokeout in San Bernardino, California. Cheech & Chong are play...
Getting Rid of the Stigma, “Stiletto Stoner” Style
Anne Davis, Esq. and Delia Pratico - NORML New Jersey's "Stiletto Stoners" by Delia Pratico (with extra hyperlinks by “Radical” Russ) When I first read the article entitled “Stiletto Stoners” in Marie ...
“Big Daddy” among many cannabis consumers to boycott PayPal
Canceling his PayPal account with flair Cancel your PayPal accounts! Steal this graphic! Tell your friends! http://bit.ly/DumpPayPal This just in from “Big Daddy”: Just closed my PayPal account… This is what I wrote in the Comment of wh...
Coffee and Weed – Rob Cantrell & Arj Barker
New Stash… but very late
Hey, Stashers, between catching up on so many important emails, getting in the High Times Freedom Fighter article and the West Coast Cannabis article under deadline, and other tasks left over after four weeks on the road, I’ve run out of time t...
“Radical” Russ at Cypress Hill Smokeout, Oct 23 & 24, San Bernadino, Calif.
I got the call from Steve Bloom while in Orlando. “Do you want to represent NORML on a Legalization Panel at the Cypress Hill Smokeout in San Bernadino in a couple of weeks?” Uh, let’s see, hosted by Tommy Chong, guests include Cyp...
Stoner flick fave Kevin Smith says pot helped him out of creative slump
Kevin Smith (L) a.k.a. "Silent Bob" a.k.a. "Chronic" The king of stoner moviemakers, Kevin Smith, never really smoked much marijuana until Seth Rogen talked him into it last summer, he says. Now he sparks up at least three times ...
