(2012/09/29) Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized (Drug War)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 September 2012
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Edition #648
Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized - Lee Camp - Air Date: 01-20-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: The kids don't stand a chance - Vampire Weekend
Ch. 4: Act 2: 49 Headless Bodies - War On Drugs In Mexico Is A Failure - Young Turks - Air Date 5-14-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: I will wait - Mumford & Sons
Ch. 6: Act 3: Addiction, brain abnormalities and heredity - le Show - Air Date: 2-5-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Jailhouse rock - Elvis Presley
Ch. 8: Act 4: Drug Addict Looking For More Enabling Girlfriend - The Onion
Ch. 9: Song 4: Take the skinheads bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
Ch. 10: Act 5: DEA Won't Admit There Are Drugs Worse Than Marijuana - Majority Report - Air Date: 06-22-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Drugs tonight - Stockdale and Shapiro
Ch. 12: Act 6: Dead Kids = Winning The War On Drugs According To DEA Head - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-06-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: More and more - Captain Hollywood Project
Ch. 14: Act 7: Joe Biden - Please put your foot in your mouth about pot - Thom Hartmann - Air Date 5-24-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: The end of medicine - The New Pornographers
Ch. 16: Act 8: Guy Just Totally Smoking Weed On The Street - The Onion
Ch. 17: Song 8: High - The Cure
Ch. 18: Act 9: Time to Legalize Marijuana - The Progressive - Air Date: 3-30-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Legalize it - Peter Tosh
Ch. 20: Act 10: NY Gov. Cuomo Proposes Decriminalizing Small Amounts of Marijuana - Majority Report - Air Date: 06-06-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: President - Wyclef Jean
Ch. 22: Act 11: Obama Second Term Plan For War on Drugs - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-03-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Give up the toad - Family Guy
Ch. 24: Act 12: Is the Drug War Actually Being Won - David Pakman - Air Date: 09-20-11
Ch. 25: Song 12: Clean up - Ari Herstand
Ch. 26: Act 13: Many Doctors Say It's 'High' Time To Legalize Marijuana - The Onion
Ch. 27: Song 13: She's got you high - Mumm-Ra
Ch. 28: Act 14: What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-20-12
Ch. 30: Song 14: Not an addict - K's Choice
Ch. 31: Act 15: Paul Ryan endorses marijuana, time for Obama to do the same! - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 09-10-12
Activism links:
The War On Drugs Cannabis Prohibition Animation
http://youtu.be/bcDDrLFUrgk
Voicemails:
Ch. 32: The need for highlighting the positive - Kevin from Helena, Montana
Ch. 33: Fair Net Radio petition call to action - Mat in Reading, PA
Ch. 34: Bad art is preferable to blowing people up - Anonymous
Ch. 35: The reasons to be frustrated with Obama, including marijuana - Byron from Greensboro, NC
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 36: Final comments on a legalization video and bad art vs blowing people up
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details visit the membership tab at bestablef.com Now welcome to the award winning Best of the |
| 0:10.5 | Left Podcasts with Cups Today from comedian Lee Camp, the young Turks, La Show, the Onion |
| 0:15.2 | Radio News, the Majority Report, the Tom Harman program, the Progressive and the David |
| 0:19.2 | Pacman Show, and a note for our listeners listening to this episode may make you appear |
| 0:22.9 | cooler than you actually are. |
| 0:30.0 | Why the f*** haven't we legalized marijuana yet? |
| 0:33.7 | It lost its bit for legalization in California because they said it was a gateway drug. |
| 0:38.5 | You've heard that one before, right? |
| 0:39.8 | It's a gateway drug, it's a gateway to what? |
| 0:43.7 | People don't smoke pot and think they need crack. |
| 0:46.4 | They smoke pot and think they need cheese, cheese and a funny hat, all right? |
| 0:51.9 | And if you want to say pot is a gateway drug, you have to also say alcohol is the gateway |
| 0:56.2 | to pot and alcohol is also the gateway to pissing on your friend's couch and vomiting in |
| 1:01.5 | the back of a police car which sounds a little more dangerous. |
| 1:05.6 | So if you want to play this gateway game, you got to say pot is the gateway to harder drugs |
| 1:10.1 | and beards the gateway to pot and back and back and back until you get to the original |
| 1:14.8 | gateway drug, the original gateway drug which was eating glue when you were five years old. |
| 1:21.0 | You remember those giant buckets of pasting kindergarten? |
| 1:24.6 | You need enough of that fucking blackout and toxicated wake up pretty weeks later in |
| 1:29.6 | a warehouse in the Mary on Highlands with your pants around your ankles and attach to |
| 1:33.3 | a situation on your ass and everyone's calling you crazy carloas for some reason. |
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