Hello hello and welcome welcome to Episode 9 of Smoke Til It’s Gone Or Die! This week we dive head-high first into drugs, scandal, and conspiracy. Rylee tells us about Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, who was a Mexican–American intelligence officer for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In February 1985, Camarena was kidnapped, interrogated under torture, and murdered. Through his story, Rylee gives a little background to Red Ribbon Week and how the War on Drugs has oppressed already impoverished and exploited demographics. And they make sure to keep their awesome accent just pretentious enough to bear. Patty takes a listener suggestion and covers Flordelis, a story of “Sex, Drugs, and Gospel Music: Brazil’s true crime soap opera politics that would make Game of Thrones screenwriters blush.” This one’s a doozy y’all.
For this week’s probable causes, we want to bring it home a bit. We ask you to donate to West Coast Wildfire Relief. You can do so at https://www.redcross.org/, and by choosing “Western Wildfires” in the dropdown menu.
Please also read the following article from the Marshall Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. In this article, the Marshall Project outlines the reality that incarcerated people are being put on the front lines of fighting the forest fires, for little or no pay, without having the ability to use that experience to work as a firefighter once reintegrated into society.
Read the article here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/09/02/the-former-prisoners-fighting-california-s-wildfires
Donate to the Marshall Project here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/donate
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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.
