Justice Talking contributor Reese Erlich reports on medical marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco where the tension between state and federal laws is heating up.
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Host Margot Adler is joined by Rosalie Liccardo Pacula to discuss medical marijuana laws around the country.
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Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
is the co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. Her areas of expertise include decriminalization and medicalization of marijuana; drug markets and policy; and the social cost of drug use and abuse.
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Philadelphians weigh in on what the penalties should be for possession of marijuana.
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Host Margot Adler is joined by drug law reform advocate Ethan Nadelmann and doctor Herbert Kleber to debate whether America's marijuana laws are too strict.
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Ethan Nadelmann
is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs.
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Small business owner and hemp aficionado Kyle Pulliam gives us a tour of his all-hemp store, Hemp in the Heartland, in Sacramento, CA.
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Host Margot Adler gets the basics on hemp and what its legalization as a crop could mean for American farmers from researcher Jean Rawson.
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Jean Rawson
is a specialist in agriculture policy with the Congressional Research Service in Washington. The areas Ms. Rawson covers include agricultural research, education, and extension; organic agriculture; new and alternative crops and uses; and the fruit, vegetable, tree nut and nursery crops sector of U.S. agriculture. Her recent report on hemp as an agricultural commodity is available here.
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Public radio reporter Todd MacDonald visits the farm of North Dakota lawmaker David Monson, who is spearheading the fight to grow hemp in his state.
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Republican Representative David Monson
has been a member of the North Dakota State Legislature since 1995. He is also a farmer in Osnabrock, N.D.
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Margot Adler speaks with lawyer John Lovell about some of the problems he sees with the legalization of hemp cultivation in the U.S.
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