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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 425 – “Drug Policy, Technology and Everything Else”
Description: Guest speaker: John Gilmore
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by John Gilmore.]
“I thank medical marijuana for breaking down social resistance to recreational marijuana.”
“In medical marijuana states it was the gay community that developed political skills in working for their own liberation that then applied those skills to liberate marijuana in a medical context in the aids fight. Those people blazed a trail for us.”
“I think encouraging courage among people who are in the know to actually say what they know is a way to have positive social change. It's a way that the powerful are vulnerable to the ord...