Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo welcomes the attendees of the Aspen Legal Seminar.

NORML Aspen Legal Seminar - Sheriff Joe DiSalvo, Welcome [2016 - 06 - 02 Thu]

Donald Trump announced a national emergency concerning the record rates of drug overdoses in the United States, particularly from opioid painkillers. He also announced that he had an idea that all we need to do is teach kids that drugs are very, very bad through a series of really tough, really big, really great advertisements.

The Marijuana Agenda

Donald Trump - Pushing Non-Addictive Painkillers

Donald Trump - Pharma Partnership for Non-Addictive Painkillers

NEWS: AutoNation Inc no longer discriminates against marijuana smokers in hiring; WHAT: Questioning the survey about pot smokers who go to work "high"; RANT: It's the drug testing itself that's a problem, not the pot-positive results.

Maybe We Shouldn't Be So Honest On Some Of These Surveys, People

Donald Trump - SOTU Get Tougher On Dealers

Donald Trump - Opioids and Traditional Drugs Pouring Across Southern Border

Donald Trump - Opioids or Traditional (Drugs) It's Never Been Like This

Jeff Sessions - Cops Say Addiction Starts with Marijuana

Pete Sessions - Marijuana is Gateway Drug

Jeff Sessions - DEA Funding Down, Addiction And Deaths Up

Pete Sessions - Merchants of Addiction

Pete Sessions - Opioid Crisis, But We Push Illegal Drugs

Donald Trump - Drug Users Fuel Violent Orgs

Donald Trump - Harsh on Drugs Equals Less Difficulty

Donald Trump - Some countries are tough, I guess we're not

Donald Trump - Tougher we get, faster it goes away

Donald Trump - Confront Drug Culture

Jeff Sessions - Lacks-a-daisical about Drugs

The Russ Belville Show

Rob Portman - Marijuana Gateway to Heroin [2017-03-06 Mon]

Rob Portman - Marijuana Laced With Fentanyl [2017-03-06 Mon]

Congressman Pete Sessions is the chair of the House Rules Committee. Since 2016, he has been blocking any consideration of pro-marijuana amendments that come through his committee. Here are remarks from Sessions that explain just how uninformed he is on the issue of marijuana.

Pete Sessions - Strong Opinion on Drugs (FULL)

So we're going to... very much... you know, as you know, we've been, I think we've been involved more than any administration by far. It's a problem that's growing.

And drugs are a similar but different problem in the sense that we have pushers and we have drug dealers that don't... I mean, they kill hundreds and hundreds of people, and most of them don't even go to jail. You know, if you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death penalty. These people can kill two thousand, three thousand people, and nothing happens to them.

And we need strength with respect to the pushers and to the drug dealers. And if we don't do that, you're never going to solve the problem.

If you want to be weak and you want to talk about just blue-ribbon committees, that's not the answer.

The answer is that you have to have strength and you have to have toughness. The drug dealers, the drug pushers, are... they're really doing damage. They're really doing damage.

Some countries have a very, very tough penalty - the ultimate penalty. And by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. So we're going to have to be very strong on penalties...

Donald Trump - Other Countries Have Death Penalty for Drugs (FULL)

SPECIAL: Russ replays every speech he has delivered onstage at the Seattle Hempfest (since he won't be there this year).

"Radical" Russ Pre-Legalization Hempfest Speeches (2007-2012)

Mormon Church interference in the Utah medical marijuana initiative runs counter to Church's own teaching; Colorado no-gay-cakes baker now opposes pot cakes for religious reasons; DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill on the Int'l Cannabis Business Conference in Por

How Religion is Interfering with Marijuana Legalization

Retirement

The Russ Belville Show is America's premiere livestream podcast dedicated to the politics and culture of marijuana and other substances and the reform of our criminal justice policies. This podcast is hosted live every Friday at 4pm Mountain Time on RadicalRuss Radio at RadicalRuss.com by "Radical" Russ Belville, who has produced over 2,500 hours and 1,000 articles on marijuana issues since 2005. The Russ Belville Show has covered Marijuana Election Night since 2010 and has reported live from the first Cannabis Cups and marijuana business conferences since then.

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