This week: Dr. Dustin Sulak and Dr. Staci Gruber speaking about medical
cannabis at the Patients Out of Time National Clinical Conference on Cannabis
Therapeutics; plus Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on
extreme poverty and human rights.
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Alpine Anderson, a former worker at REI, the iconic outdoor store coop, tells
host Jamie Partridge about REI workers struggles for living wages, benefits,
decent hours and respect.
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Isaac Butler and Dan Kois take us backstage and behind the scenes of the
iconic play, "Angels In America" in their book, The World Only Spins
Forward: The Ascent of Angels In America. The book is an oral history,
telling the story of the play and its influence from the v...
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Dry Farming is a long-proven method for growing crops with little to no
irrigation. It's a time proven method that could play a major role in
today's world going through climate change. What exactly is this valuable
process, and why haven’t we heard about it? Guest A...
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This week: Dr. Malik Burnett speaking about the social determinants of
health, stigma, cultural competency, and medical cannabis; plus Tim Pate
performs "Let's All Be Farmers".
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Oregon voters approved a medical marijuana initiative in 1998. Fifteen years
later, in 2013, the state legislature legalized medical marijuana
dispensaries -- between 100 and 200 were operating illegally in the state at
the time -- and set up a framework for regulating them...
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The Trump administration is pushing for a rule that will bar recipients of
federal family planning funding from educating women about abortion options,
a move that would allow the government to partially “defund” Planned
Parenthood. Jan Haaken talks with Laura Swerdlow, ...
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Skyrocketing global health care costs render overmedication increasingly
unaffordable. The wonders of modern medicine have also obscured the body's
ability to heal itself. Your body produces its own drugs that can treat pain
as well as a prescription. We've all heard of end...
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Frann Michel hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour with segments
on:
From Asylum to Prison: Bill Resnick talks with Dr. Anne E. Parsons about her
forthcoming work From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise
of Mass Incarceration after 1945.
Inequ...
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