Marc Emery’s friends and supporters are using one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s democracy outreach projects to get the president to weigh in on the pot advocate’s stay in a U.S. prison.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The Obama Administration will be issuing a formal response to a petition calling for Canadian cannabis activist Marc Emery to be pardoned and released from American prison.
Hi Miss! This Sunday, October 2nd (in the evening, after your visit), I will perform three Bob Marley songs in concert with the reggae band: "No Woman, No Cry", "I Shot The Sheriff" and "Stir It Up". I continue to practice, learn and rehearse on the bass guitar in my own band, called "Yazoo", for 2-4 hours each day.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The White House has launched a new website giving citizens the opportunity to electronically petition President Obama, who will respond to issues that receive more than 5,000 signatures in 30 days. Sign the petition asking Obama to pardon imprisoned Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery!
CANNABIS CULTURE - Watch Cannabis Culture News LIVE for the latest news and views on pot politics and the marijuana community. In this episode: Obama's War on Marijuana. Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of NORML, joins the show to discuss the latest developments in the US government's continuing crack-down on medical marijuana.
Just days after the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) insisted that there is no medical value to marijuana, the White House appeared to contradict the position, saying in a report that there may actually be "some" medical value to "individual components of the cannabis plant" after all.
On July 6, President Obama will take questions via Twitter in another online townhall meeting. Like other Presidential Internet events of the past, questions about marijuana are sure to be popular. Will Obama again dismiss them with a laugh?