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There has been some small movement in efforts to reform marijuana laws at the federal level recently. In mid-July, Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Stev...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 06:18
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Maine passed a medical marijuana law in 1999 with 61 percent of the vote, and in 2009 the legislature decriminalized possession of small amounts of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:07
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The Cannabis Consumers Union began operation in Denver on July, 22, 2014. CRN’s Brian Bahouth spoke with Larisa Bolivar, founding president of the...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 08:57
Caption: "Smoke Out" May 1st, 1972. University of Wisconsin, Madison., Credit: University of Wisconsin archives
Keith Stroup is Legal Counsel for NORML and recently wrote an entry on the NORML blog titled, “Pot Protestivals and the Role They Play in the Legal...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 07:57
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Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Philadelphia city council voted (13-3) to decriminalize possession of marijuana on the 19th of June, and for the month following the vote there...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 09:44

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
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China is in its own gilded age says The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, into a second generation of ultra-modern tech, a still-developing country bri...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
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With the deadly conflict in Ukraine spreading to this hitherto calm southern city, David Speedie speaks again with Dr. Nicolai Petro, professor of ...

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 31:17
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Professor Nicolai Petro, currently in Odessa, Ukraine, discusses recent developments, including the secessionist vote in the Crimean peninsula and ...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 29:12
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In the latest Security Bulletin, Russia expert Professor Nicolai Petro speaks from Odessa in southern Ukraine on the ongoing crisis, with a particu...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 27:01
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This is the third in a series of Security Bulletins on the crisis in Ukraine, and here Dr. Nicolai N. Petro gives us a view from beyond Kiev, from ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: What I Actually Said, Credit: Susan Cook
The protesters in Ukraine are showing us on a very public stage that criticism free from harassment and ridicule of the actions of public elected ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
Caption: Michael Scharf
An expert panel discusses the foreign policy implications of cyber warfare.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 59:21
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President Obama told us about the state of the union... now it's time to hear about the state of the states. Political Junkie host Ken Rudin talks...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
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Continuing where he left off in 2013, Chris Christie remains the most talked about Republican in the country ... only this time he may not like wha...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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2014 is an election year, with control of the House and Senate at stake. Host Ken Rudin talks to political analyst Stu Rothenberg about what to wa...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
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Caption: Dan Paul with his sculpture. Paul and the other Bulb residents face eviction soon, Credit: Mary Rees
On the west side of the city of Albany, there’s a peninsula jutting into San Francisco Bay. It’s beautiful there, right on the water, with hiking t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:25
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
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Republicans in Congress were prepared to agree to a fairly innocuous budget deal with the Democrats with little fuss. But many conservatives were n...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Nelson Mandela's passing brought this week's Political Junkie show back to the mid-1980s, when Washington was split over how to deal with the South...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
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We know for certain that President Obama pardoned a turkey this Thanksgiving. But is Healthcare.gov a turkey as well? Host Ken Rudin speaks with W...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The word of the week is “nuclear,” and the latest Political Junkie show is all over it. First, Political Junkie host Ken Rudin talks with Cameron ...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
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Political Junkie Ken Rudin talks with Wall Street Journal congressional correspondent Siobhan Hughes about the changing fortunes on Capitol Hill. D...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
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