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Cannabis Radio News #4

By September 30, 2018 No Comments

Cannabis Radio News #4

In this edition of the Cannabis Radio News we hear reaction to the New York Times series of editorials calling for the legalization of marijuana from Dean Becker, a former policeman and spokesperson for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition or LEAP. Becker is also a public policy expert with the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and host of the long-running radio show Drug Truth. Dr. Malik Burnett, Policy Manager for the Drug Policy Alliance, tells us about the significance of an initiative to legalize marijuana in the District of Columbia making it on November’s ballot. A cannabis activist in England known as “Tree” tells us about his successful “smoke-in” and the hint of marijuana law reform in the United Kingdom, and finally, Dan Linn, Executive Director of the Ilinois chapter of RML speculates on the state’s potential to grow legal cannabis …