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Time 2 Vote YES on Prop 19!

Time 4 Hemp — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:41:00 GMT

Co-Author of CA Prop 19
and founder of
Oaksterdam University,
Richard Lee,
spoke with Joint-Host's
Mikki Norris and Chris Conrad
along with Host,
Casper Leitch,
about the importance of
voting YES on Prop 19
when they got together
and took
Time 4 Hemp.

Time For Washing A Shore

Time 4 Hemp — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:36:00 GMT

Richard Davis,
founder of the Hemp Museum,
and Kelly Kriston,
founder of KDK Distributors,
talk about the terroist organization,
British Petroleum,
and President Barack Obama's
message to the nation when taking
Time 4 Hemp

Musical artists featured:
Sheryl Crow - Chief Greenbud
Rattlesnake Annie and Amy Nelson

Time For My Medicine At Time 4 Hemp

Time 4 Hemp — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:29:00 GMT

Irv Rosenfield talks about his new book,
'My Medicine' when he takes Time 4 Hemp!

Musical artists featured:
Jet Baker - Pato Banton
Red Dirt - Elvy Musikka

Time 4 Debating the California 2010 Marijuana Tax Act!

Time 4 Hemp — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:41:00 GMT

Everyone is talking about the effort in California
to tax the recreational use of MARIJUANA!
Fire up a phatty and listen in on this national debate with:

Judge Andrew Napolitano;
Vicki Mabrey (host of the Nightline Twittercast);
Allen St. Pierre (Executive Director of NORML);
Brian Darling (Director of the
United States Senate Relations
at the Heritage Foundation);
Glenn Beck (host of the Glenn Beck show);
and Andres Rosenthal (the former Minister of Mexico).

Musical Artist Featured:

Mike Meezy - DJ Ignite
Souls Of Love - The Tall Brothers

Time For Spreading Out

Time 4 Hemp — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:39:00 GMT

Jodie Emery talks with friends,
Johnny Vee and Alison Myrden
about Marc's extradition into the
United States prison system and
what YOU can do to help when they took
Time 4 Hemp.

Musical artists featured:

Charlie B - Pato Banton
Hemp St. Rhythmz - Red Dirt

Mike Gravel takes Time 4 Hemp

Time 4 Hemp — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:58:00 GMT

Mike Gravel (former Sen. from Alaska),
Chad Nance (political editor for SKUNK Magazine)
and Ed Rosenthal take Time 4 Hemp.

Musical artists featured:
Red X - Los Marijuanaous
Sons Of A Beach - Boone Chatta

Time for paying last respects at Time 4 Hemp

Time 4 Hemp — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Gatewood Galbraith, Ed Rosenthal and Lynnette Shaw join Casper in paying tribute to THE Hemperor - Jack Herer. Included in this segment is an excerpt from a speech Jack Herer recorded in 1991 at UCLA and released as a roll-in on the Time 4 Hemp television series.

Musical artists featured:
Los Marijuanos - Human - The Echo Movement

Time 4 Ending War

Time 4 Hemp — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:16:09 GMT

Irv Rosenfeld, one of four people who receive their medical marijuana from the United States government and most likely also holds the title as being the 'World Record Joint Smoker', joins Lynnette Shaw and Casper Leitch to take Time 4 Hemp!

Also featured in this segment are Aaron Huston from the Marijuana Policy Project and Ed Rosenthal.

Musical artists featured:
Jet Baker - The Toyes
Wellis Fool - Zking of Hearts

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Time 4 Congress 2 Move!

Time 4 Hemp — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:44:00 GMT

People often ask;
'Do members of Congress know the
REAL TRUTH ABOUT MARIJUANA?"
The answer is: YES
In this segmet you hear from
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
and Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN)

Also included in this segment is:
Aaron Huston from the Marijuana Policy Project

Listen to the Truth echoe through
the halls of Congress as you take
Time 4 Hemp!

Musical artists featured:
Human
Negative Index
Red Dirt
The Toyes

Time 4 THC

Time 4 Hemp — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:51:00 GMT

Shane Eaden,. Founder of the Tucson Hemp Coalition (THC), broke open his stash and shared memories and future plans while taking Time 4 Hemp.

Musical artists featured:
Acafool
Knife
The Barney Bigard Sextet
The Major Street Project
Ron Sunshine
The Collective Elements

Time 4 The Facts

Time 4 Hemp — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:47:00 GMT

Time 4 The Facts

Kenny Estes, one of the foot-soldiers
on the front lines in the War On Drugs,
pays a visit to the show to discuss
the never ending debate over this
topic and the spotlight it holds
on the World Stage as demonstrated
the night that Joy Behar sat in as host for
CNN's Larry King and had as guests
actor, Stephen Baldwin and
Congressman Ron Paul exchange points of view.

Msical artists featured:
Ignite - E-40 - Mike Marshall
The Blaxicans - RobSawne
Total Devastation - Tone-E
J-Diggs - Missippi - Taj Ma
Ira Black - Celly Cel

Time 4 Spreading Wings

Time 4 Hemp — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT

Lynnette Shaw, one of the founders of the Medical Marijuana movement in the United States, talks about some of the exciting events that have happened in California in the War On Drugs.

Musical artists featured:

US HEMP - Sean Reefer and the Resin Valley Boys
Red Hot Chile Peppers - Muck Sticky - Lynnette Shaw

Time for Freedom NOW at Time 4 Hemp!

Time 4 Hemp — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:19:00 GMT

James Gierach, attorney in Chicago and speaker for LEAP talks about the need to end the War On Drugs. Also included is a segment from 'Garrard McClendon Live' (a local television program in Chicago) featuring Cook County Commissioner Earlean Collins,

Musical artists featured:
Hemp St. Rhythm - Oso Krazy
Billy Paul - Bobby Darin

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The Beginning of the End

Ethan Nadelmann — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:47:00 GMT

I am part of Change.org's Changemakers network, they asked that I to respond to questions.

Change.org: What cause or causes would you most like to promote as a Changemaker and why?

Nothing matters to me more than ending the war on drugs and reducing our extraordinary overreliance on the criminal justice system. I want to make marijuana legal, decriminalize all drugs for personal use, and shift our drug policies to a health-based approach.

The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but almost 25 percent of the world's prisoners, ranking first in the per capita incarceration of our fellow citizens. We have increased the number of people behind bars from roughly 500,000 people in 1980 to 2.3 million today – and altogether we now have over 7 million people under criminal justice supervision.

The drug war – the dominant role of the criminal justice system in dealing with certain drugs and the people who buy, sell, make, and use them – is driving this explosive increase in incarceration more than anything else. The U.S. arrests almost a million people for marijuana each year and over a half million people are behind bars tonight for a drug law violation.

The movement for drug policy reform stands in the footsteps of other movements for individual freedom and social justice – it currently stands where the gay rights movement stood in the 1970s, or where the civil rights movement stood in the 1950s, or where the women's rights movement stood in the early part of the 20th century.

In each case, it's about advancing freedom and justice. In each case, it's about fighting powerful vested interests in our society.

And in my case, it's specifically about articulating a core principle that underlies much of my work: that no one deserves to be punished – or discriminated against or amongst – simply for what we put in our bodies, absent harm to others.

Now, the fact of the matter is, there has never been a drug-free society in human history, and there never will be one. Our challenge therefore is not how best to build a moat between ourselves and drugs; rather, our challenge is to learn to live with drugs – the reality of drugs – so that they cause the least possible harm and the greatest possible benefit.

It's on this basis that we can build a movement for freedom and justice that ends America's exceptional reliance on incarceration and the criminal justice system – and that embraces a drug control policy grounded in science, compassion, health, and human rights.

Change.org: If you could ask 1 million people to all do 1 thing to advance your cause or causes, what would it be?

Come out of the closet about your drug use. Drug war propaganda demonizes and dehumanizes people who use drugs. Let your fellow citizens – your colleagues, your friends, and your family – know the real face of the American drug user.

We need credible people, especially public figures, to stand up and say, "I contribute to society, I work hard, I love my family, and I am an otherwise law-abiding citizen – but I do not believe that people should be treated as criminals simply because of what they put into their bodies. This law is wrong."

The war on drugs is really a war on people. Roughly half of all Americans have used an illegal drug, and the last three U.S. presidents have all used illegal drugs – in fact President Obama was quite candid about his marijuana and cocaine use. Would Obama, and our country, be better off if he had been arrested?

Think about someone you know who has used an illegal drug. Then ask yourself: would that person be better off in prison? Would that person be more likely to have become a productive member of society if they were stripped of their freedom, their property, their children, and their job?

Once the silent majority of illegal drug users begin to speak out, the stereotypes that drive the drug war will be impossible to sustain. The vast majority of Americans who use drugs illegally are doing no harm to anyone else, and in most cases are doing no harm to themselves. None of us deserve to be treated as criminals or locked up in a cage.

Change.org: If you could ask President Obama and the U.S. Congress to do one thing to advance you cause(s), what would it be?

It would be to commit – in practice, not just in rhetoric – to the principle that federal drug policies should be grounded in science. Our elected officials need new metrics to determine whether progress is being made.

Rather than measuring success based on slight fluctuations in drug use, the primary measure of effectiveness should be the reduction of drug-related harm and drug war-related harm. Despite trillions of dollars spent and millions of Americans incarcerated, the harms associated with illegal drugs – addiction, overdose, and the spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis – continue to grow. Meanwhile, the war on drugs has created new problems of its own, such as rampant racial disparities in the criminal justice system, over-incarceration, eroded civil liberties, turf violence, corruption, broken families, increased poverty, and loss of law enforcement credibility.

It's time for a new bottom line for U.S. drug policy – one that focuses on reducing the cumulative death, disease, crime, and suffering associated with both drug misuse and drug prohibition. Federal drug agencies should be judged – and funded – according to their ability to meet these goals.

Change.org: What are the greatest obstacles to change on your issue?

Our greatest obstacles are grounded in prejudice, profit, fear, and ignorance.

The ground has never been more fertile for a change in our nation’s drug policies. Still, I can’t say that we’ve reached a tipping point – at least not yet.

Three forces are at play. First, we’re up against an unholy combination of prosecutors, private prison builders, police and corrections officers unions, and other government-funded agents of the criminal justice system that have never been more powerful. I hope that we don't have to wait until January 2017 for President Barack Obama to have to give a farewell speech warning about the pernicious power of the drug war industrial complex, and the emerging homeland security industrial complex, like the speech that Eisenhower gave in January 1961 with respect to the military-industrial complex. We should not have to wait that long.

We’re also up against the fear of the unknown. It's commonly assumed that prohibition represents the ultimate form of regulation. But, in fact, prohibition represents the total absence of regulation – it is not drug control, but drug chaos. When alcohol Prohibition was repealed in 1933, most people could remember a time when alcohol was legally regulated. Unfortunately, the drug war has continued for so many decades that it is difficult to conceive of alternatives to the presumption that the criminal justice system has to be front and center in dealing with particular drugs in our society.

The final obstacle is the belief that it could never happen.

There are two mistakes we could make right now. The first is to underestimate the power and ability of our opponents, most notably in the drug war industrial complex, to undermine and reverse the progress we’re making now.

But the second mistake could prove even more fatal. That would be to underestimate the potential for rapid and major reform. Most people, a generation ago, would not have predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Union or the emergence of China as the most dynamic capitalist economy on earth. Who, just ten years ago, could have imagined the rapid progress of gay rights, and especially public support for gay marriage? Or that the country would elect as president a black man named Barack Hussein Obama?

Our struggle to end the dominant role of the criminal justice system in drug control is a multi-generational effort – but we should never underestimate the possibility of making sudden and unprecedented leaps forward.

I’m not prepared to predict that we’ll make marijuana legal or end the drug war in the next three years – but it could happen a lot sooner than most people think.

Drug War Mistaken

Dean Becker — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:13:00 GMT

In the name of all the powers that be, let us reconsider our stance regarding the policy of drug prohibition. In this hundred year effort to prevent the use of certain flowers and plant extracts we have empowered criminal elements worldwide to the tune of $400 billion per year. The US has arrested 39 million non-violent drug users at a cost of more than one trillion dollars. Despite the horrors the US inflicts on its own people in the name of the war on drugs, it is the citizens of Mexico that bear the deadliest weight of this prohibition.

Thousands of Mexicans are butchered each year in the name of fighting this first of America's eternal wars. The drug war is the pipe dream of men who have long since died and whose followers continue their efforts to destroy the law of supply and demand, to stop 100's of millions of users, to prohibit the tens of millions of growers and millions of criminals from seeking their cut of black market profits. America is addicted to drug war.

Some say the fault lies with the American users. Logic dictates that if they were to quit using cocaine, heroin and marijuana then the cartels would wither away. Those who fault the users do not take into account that the US represents only 5% of the earths population. So even if every American quit using these drugs, the Mexican cartels would still have hundreds of millions of customers worldwide and the barbarism would continue to escalate.

Through a willing or silent embrace of prohibition those proponents of eternal drug war are ensuring more death, disease, crime and addiction. Born from racial screeds and amplified by hysteria and propaganda, this policy has no basis in science, no medical data to justify its existence and in fact has no relationship with empirical data whatsoever.

Generations of politicians and law enforcement have prospered from the policy of drug prohibition and dare not allow their stance to be examined in a new light. For the rest of us, ignorance and superstition may eventually be forgiven, but the horrors the United States has promulgated on this planet in the name of drug war, will never be forgotten.

Those who seek to forestall a reinvestigation of our drug war policy have aligned themselves so as to ensure eternal profits for evil ones who mean to destroy our way of life, our freedoms, our democracy.

Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman once said to drug czar William Bennett: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken? Your mistake is failing to recognize that the very measures you favor are a major source of the evils you deplore."

Pray that we open our eyes, our hearts and our minds to the horrors we inflict on ourselves via our fear of flowers. How many Mexicans will have to die, before Americans realize they are ... mistaken?

Written by Dean Becker, producer of the Drug Truth Network radio programs heard on 72 broadcast affiliates in the US and Canada. http://www.drugtruth.net.

Time for medical care at Time 4 Hemp

Time 4 Hemp — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:54:00 GMT

Alison Myrden, one of the hardest working medical marijuana activists in Canada, talks about her involvement with the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), the War On Drugs and our need to bring it to an end when she sat down and took Time 4 Hemp.

Musical artists featured: Sean Reefer and the Resin Valley Boys - The Tall Brothers - Shakin Stevens - The Killin' Time Band

It's Time For A New Day At Time 4 Hemp

Time 4 Hemp — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:34:00 GMT

To celebrate the launch of the NEW www.Time4Hemp.com website and our NEW 1-hour program format for the series now being released through NEW rss feeds - Time 4 Hemp- TODAY has returned to its roots with a tribute to Jack Herer.

Time4Hemp.com has a new face-lift and both of the Time 4 Hemp PotCast's are being released through new rss feeds - to kick of this new beginnig, Time 4 Hemp - MUSIC rocks out with some grat tunes to smoke by.

Musical artists featured in this segment:

US HEMP - Los Marijuanos - Chris Rock
DJ Ignite - Happy Bones - Perfect Circle

Commentary by Ed Rosenthal

Thank you for checking out the Time 4 Hemp - TODAY BlogCast!

Time 4 Hemp — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:47:00 GMT

The PotCast series found on this blog is a tribute to all the amazing activists around the world who dedicate their lives to raising the voice of the Marijuana Movement.

It is a program packed with lots interviews featuring the Founders of the Marijuana Movement. Past guests have included Willie Nelson, Dr. Tim Leary, Congressman Barney Frank, Keith Stroup, Ed Rosenthal, Steve Hager, Marco Renda, Michelle Rainey, Marc Emery, Barry Cooper and Jack Herer. Be sure to check out the 'Time 4 Hemp - TODAY' archive.

It is my intent to release at least one 'Time 4 Hemp - TODAY PotCast' each Wednesday (perhaps even 2 a week if I get time) - but, like everyone on earth, I sometimes miss a deadline.

Other postings on this site will also maintain the same focus. I will from time-2-time add a text message, but my contribution to this site is the PotCast. In the future, I will ask some of hard working activists who have been featured on 'Time 4 Hemp' if they would like to do a blog posting on here and I have a hunch that many will be willing to do so.

If you are a hemp activists or an organization that would like to be featured on the series, send me an e-mail about your group or yourself and I'll see what I can do.

Please tell your friends about this site.

Casper Leitch
Host/Creator: Time 4 Hemp
Casper@Time-4-Hemp.com