Tag: Marijuana

Trading Pot for Martial Arts

July 8, 2017 - Actors, Comedians, Comedy Writers

Storyteller Dylan Brody talks about how he traded pot for a black belt in martial arts. Dylan’s new show is “Driving Hollywood.”
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DAVID: Dylan, tell me your greatest night performing “Driving Hollywood” in Barcelona, Spain.

DYLAN BRODAY: In Barcelona there was a night where I got no laughs, and I swear I thought I was eating it. We had a decent house and no laughs. And then at the end of the show I did the final line. And there was the black out. And there was no applause. And then the lights came up. And I stepped forward. And there was this continued silence and then an eruption of applause. And a standing ovation! And just about everybody stayed to shake my hands! And buy a copy of my book. And I realized that, for no reason I can determine from that one night, they were just so into it, that they didn’t want to miss any words. So they were silent. But as a former comic, silence is very difficult for me while I’m performing. But as a storyteller and a humorist I have now lived in that place of fear for 80 or 90 minutes in Barcelona, Spain to discover that silence was full appreciation and engagement not absolute hatred of my show. It was such a relief, and an even bigger learning experience that I think that was my best night in Barcelona, Spain.

DAVID: And you walked away from that learning a laugh doesn’t tell you everything about how you’re doing.

DYLAN BRODY: That’s correct, that is correct.

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How Safe Is Marijuana?

November 2, 2016 - Activists, David Feldman Radio Show, David Feldman Show, Full Interviews With Our Guests, Most Recent, The News From Around The World, Top Stories

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Ten states will be voting on marijuana reform this Tuesday despite the Obama administration’s decision to keep marijuana as a schedule one drug alongside LSD and heroin. California voters will decide on Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, legalizing possession of one ounce of marijuana for adults over the age of 21. Californians will be allowed to grow up to six plants a year. And the sale of marijuana for recreational use would be taxed and regulated.

For more on this we are joined by Dr. Stanton Glantz who is often called the Ralph Nader of the anti-tobacco movement. Dr. Glantz opposes Prop 64. He’s written four books including The Cigarette Papers and is also a professor at the school of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Glantz believes tobacco and marijuana have similar chemical profiles, and that as we move towards legalization of marijuana we need to regulate it more like tobacco and less like alcohol.

 

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“Green Wednesday”

January 1, 2014 - Full Interviews With Our Guests, Journalists, Most Recent, Our Radio Shows

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It’s legal to buy pot in Colorado on January 1. We go to Denver to talk with Associated Press’ Kristen Wyatt about Colorado becoming the first state in American history where it’s legal to buy marijuana over the counter. America has lost its taste for capital punishment as 2013 turns out to have the second lowest number of executions in 40 years. We talk with Richard Dieter Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Plus Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys. Please subscribe to this show for free as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.

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Get Rich or High Trying

May 22, 2013 - Reading List

 “At this moment in history, you’ve got to choose between being in favor of legalization, or being against ‘the system.’” Mason Tvert  is leading a quick tour of what he irreverently describes as the Marijuana Manor—a genteel, three-story, historically-registered, 1880s-era brick and stained-glass building in downtown Denver that was recently converted into permanent office space for a consortium of do-gooders fighting to make legal cannabis work in America. The building […]

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