Ep. 34 - Allen St. Pierre [NORML]
Synchronicity with Noah Lampert
Noah Lampert
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Allen St. Pierre is the Executive Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), an American non-profit organization that wishes to remove the criminal penalties for and legalize cannabis. St. Pierre was hired by NORML's Board of Directors in 1991 when he worked as a Communications Director for the organization.
St. Pierre has been the Executive Director of NORML since January 2005. He is the seventh person to be NORML's Executive Director. He also serves on the Board of Directors of NORML and the NORML Foundation.
Topics Discussed
- The genesis of marijuana prohibition
- Marijuna decriminilization
- The racial history behind cannabis prohibition
- Positive benefits of marijuana
- Amphetamine laced gummies
- Prognosis for cannabis legality and bussiness in the United States
This weeks book giveaway is Hermann Hesse's, "Demian." Join the Synchronicity community and you're automatically entered in each weeks book giveaway.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:02.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:04.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:06.0 | This is synchronicryness. |
| 0:09.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:12.0 | This is synchronicity. My guest this week is the Executive Director of Normal, which is the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, Alan St. Pierre. |
| 0:38.5 | We'll get to Alan, obviously, in just a second. |
| 0:40.9 | If you hear like a weird in the background, I don't know if you can hear that. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm talking pretty closely into the mic, but if you can, it's the sound of the baby rocker |
| 0:53.7 | with Eli, my slightly over one-month-old |
| 0:57.5 | son rocking back and forth. My wife, Alexis, who is his primary lifeline, is out for a few hours. |
| 1:05.6 | So I am in charge of taking care of him. So it is totally possible that a crying baby. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm going to try to keep this |
| 1:11.2 | intro pretty short is what I'm saying because there's a baby next to me. And, you know, who wants |
| 1:16.4 | to hear a crying baby on a podcast? That's not a great podcast. That's not something someone would sign up for. |
| 1:22.5 | Okay. So quick, quick stuff. Congratulations to Tisha, the book winner from last week, Synchronicity Book |
| 1:29.2 | Giveaway. A copy of Kindfulness is coming out to you, courtesy of the folks at Wisdom Publications. |
| 1:35.7 | I spoke about Wisdom last week. Definitely check out Wisdom Pubbs. They've got so many cool books |
| 1:41.6 | and authors, and they're just really great people. Small publishing house based out of Massachusetts, really great people. |
| 1:47.7 | So congratulations, congratulations, Tisha, on winning the book. |
| 1:53.7 | This week's book giveaway is a book called Demian by Eman Esse, Herman Hesse, for people who don't talk weird when they pronounce |
| 2:05.7 | his name. You know, author of Sadartha, also just one of my favorite philosophers, thinkers, |
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