WAMC: 51% Show # 1024 (2009-02-26)

51 % The Women's Perspective

51% Show # 1024

(2009-02-26)

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ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - BILLBOARD - Susan Barnett (:40) (Music Out)
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We're taking a serious look today at some ideas that many might call outrageous. But this is an economy in free fall - and any answer is worth putting on the table. Chris Goldstein, the host of Active Voice Radio, says we should consider a cash crop that right now doesn't pay a single penny in taxes.

4:11 Goldstein PRX

Chris Goldstein is the host of Active Voice Radio, a weekly Social Justice program.

This isn't one guy's idea - there are states all over the country that are reconsidering the marijuana issue. I spoke with marijuana reform advocates and some NY legislators.

9:43 Medical marijuana - Barnett

Coming up, another revolutionary idea - moving away from the free market economy.

If you missed part of our show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #1024. (15:04)

If decriminalizing, or even legalizing, marijuana strikes you as revolutionary - how about considering abandoning our devotion to the free market system? Robin Broad watches the international economy and she says the departure of the Bush administration is creating an opening for countries that say it's time to admit the free market just doesn't work.

7:47 Free Market Robin Broad - Barnett

Robin Broad is professor of international development at the School for International Service at American University in Washington DC. She is the co-author of Development Redefined - How the Market Met Its Match. It is published by Paradigm Publishing.
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