By SueN
- Guests:
- Paul Chabot of the Coalition for a Drug Free California.
- Legalization proponent Jeff Wilcox joins Thom. He helped push through Oakland's new cultivation policy and is a proponent of statewide ballot initiative to legalize pot, proposition 19.
- Paul Rosenzweig of the Heritage Foundation.
- Kevin Bankston, Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who says just say no to more domestic spying.
- Topics:
- How do we rescue the American middle class?
- Could regulating/taxing pot save states from financial ruin?
- Has the government really become big brother?
- Bumper Music:
- Work To Do, The Isley Brothers.
- Birthday, Beatles.
- Workin' Day and night, Michael Jackson.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- One Toke Over The Line, Brewer and Shipley.
- No No Song, Ringo Starr.
- Because I Got High, Afroman.
- Mary Jane's Last Dance, Tom Petty.
- Every Breath You Take, Police.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "Domestic spying initiatives never die, they just get new acronyms." -- Blogger Frank Sennet.
- Member of the day was joewo, who won a copy of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" for posting "Thomas Jefferson on Corporations" world" on the message board.
