Former Senior Cultivation Editor, High Times Magazine. Author of The Official High Times Field Guide to Marijuana Strains and Cannabis: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana

Urb Thrasher is your host for the Urb Thrasher Flower Hour airing Fridays at 8pm LIVE from Portland, Oregon, on 420RADIO.org. Urb is made of metal and marijuana and brings you the latest, heaviest tracks from the masters of metal, the monsters of rock, and the hellbillies of outlaw country.

"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
~Thomas Jefferson

Combining music, law, and politics, Civil Disobedience Radio hopes to mobilize citizens for peaceful civil disobedience in the face of widespread government abuse.  While the show initially began with a focus on challenging  the criminal prohibition of cannabis, seeking to restore it to its rightful place as medicine, remove it from the criminal justice system, and create economic development and new industry from the hemp fiber,  recent events both nationally and in North Carolina have caused Civil Disobedience Radio to expand its scope.  The increasingly dangerous police state, and attacks on basic services, such as education and community welfare are the civil rights issues of our time.   

Inspired by the political essay of the same name by Henry David Thoreau, this is one of those times in history where law is wrong, government continues to abuse and imprison its citizens, and both must be opposed as our duty as citizens, lest we be responsible.

Host, Jen Foster is an outspoken, often hilarious, attorney, writer, educator, and musician. She specifically seeks to mobilize the music community for grassroots education and activation; thus, one of the main focuses on the show will be sharing the views of national and local musicians, allowing them to use their platform to affect social change. Legal musings, education, music, mobilization and even mayhem!

Jennifer holds a JD with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has enjoyed an esteemed legal career as a federal appellate law clerk, an appellate public defender, death penalty activist, criminal and immigration expert, pro bono coordinator for legal aid and private settlement and holistic healing attorney in North Carolina, Georgia and California. Jennifer left the ranks of traditional legal practice in 2010 to form NC NORML and end cannabis and hemp prohibition as an urgent priority for economic development, as well as health, safety and welfare.

Jennifer decided to launch Civil Disobedience Radio after traditional lobbying regarding cannabis as medicine and industrial hemp development yielded laughter. The urgency for direct action is apparent in this depressed economy and increasingly militarized police state. Popular Mechanics called hemp in 1938 the new “billion-dollar crop:” building materials, textiles, ropes and fibers, nutritional products, and even fuel.

We can’t wait around hoping for change any longer. We have to make it happen. And we will. 

“HEMP HEMP HOORAY!”

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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