This is episode 2 of Smoke Til It’s Gone Or Die. In this week’s episode, Patty talks about the unsolved mysterious deaths of the Yuba County Five. She will certainly leave you with more questions than answers. Rylee wraps up Pride Month by talking about the Trans Panic Defense and the murder of Nireah Johnson.
This week we ask you to visit ASAN, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, at https://autisticadvocacy.org/ Their activities include public policy advocacy, the development of autistic cultural activities, and leadership training for autistic self-advocates. They provide information about autism, disability rights, and systems change to the public through a number of different educational, cultural, and advocacy related projects.
Also visit https://www.specialolympics.org/. Donate to and volunteer with the organization that brought the Yuba County Five together as friends.
In reference to Rylee’s case, please visit https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/member-features/gay-trans-panic-defense/, where they outline what the Gay/Trans Panic Defense is, and how you can get involved in pushing for legislation in states that do not currently have laws banning this defence.
Please visit the LGBT Bar Association at lgbtbar.org, to educate yourself and make donations. The National LGBT Bar Association is a national association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliated lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender legal organizations. The LGBT Bar promotes justice in and through the legal profession for the LGBTQ+ community in all its diversity. We also recommend reading the works of W. Carsten Andresen, who has dedicated his time and resources to researching cases in which investigators do not take sexual or gender identity into account officially, but where the victim’s identity was part of the motive of the crime in the first place.
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Under Massachusetts’ Chapter 94G and California’s Proposition 64 Bills it is legal for us two assholes to possess and consume MaryJane, medically known as cannabis, in our respective states. We do NOT condone the illegal consumption, possession, or sale of cannabis in places it’s not supposed to be smoked, man handled, or acquired from a legal dispensary. But we DO condone what the awesome humans at Marijuana Policy Project are doing to support legislation at the state and federal level to decriminalize cannabis across the country, and advocate for those who have been incarcerated for cannabis possession. Visit mpp.org for more details.
