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RADIO LOVE By John Sinclair I got my life from the radio. When I was a kid growing up in the 1940s and early ’50s in the little farming community of Davison, Michigan, radio was still the primary entertainment medium in America and I listened to all sorts of programs from the Green Hornet, the [...]

Stay tuned! New program every day on Detroit Life Radio: 9/01 300 Jazz Roots with Tom Morgan 14, WWOZ-FM, New Orleans, 2006 9/02 301 The Blues Show with Bruce Pingree 08, WUNH-FM, Durham NH, May 16, 2010 9/03 302 Jazz from The Hempshopper with John Sinclair 21, Hempshopper, Amsterdam, August 20, 2010 9/04 303 *Sinclair [...]

Original Link: Cities try to define gray area in med pot laws | Times-Herald and Sunday Times Newspapers. Posted by Times-Herald Newspapers on 5/08/10 • Categorized as Stories Photo by J. Patrick Pepper Medical marijuana patient Holice P. Woods rolls a marijuana cigarette. Woods said he uses marijuana to alleviate chronic back pain. He has [...]

On April 3rd, 2010 Ann arbor, Michigan celebrated the 39th Annual Hash Bash. This year was a little different then before. This year was the first that medical marijuana was legal in Michigan. While there are still many steps in the process of defining the law and all it encompasses and there is the Federal [...]

It was oddly warm and the sun was shining. Days like that are rare in this city so it makes everyone wander the streets to soak each other in. I wanted some juice and to be outside so we headed off to the party store. As we approached the store we saw a middle aged [...]

Take a moment to read this in depth article released today, Wednesday, March 24 highlighting the reality of the Marijuana industry in Detroit.
CLICK HERE TO READ “THE BIG PUSH” @ METROTIMES.COM

Today I went to my favorite coffee shop and sat in the sun while the bees danced happily around the fresh brioche I had poorly hidden in a brown bag on the table. As I sipped my coffee I noticed a homeless man wandering by with some drum sticks. There were the few people from other neighborhoods sitting around ignoring him but the people who lived there all meandered by muttering, “Hi Larry.” as they passed…

For hours, Jay and I ran around the Heidelberg Project with his bantam child running wild, leading us through each piece of the exhibit. Her tiny frame is barely big enough to carry the monstrous curiosity she has stored up inside her. Eyes big as dinner plates, hands wide open, she wanted to touch and talk about everything. “Why did someone glue pennies to the car?” she asked as she ran her stubby, little fingers across the rusted doorframe. “Why does that lady look like the Joker?” she inquired…

Upon returning back here, I could feel the weirdness, like the Great and Powerful “Nothing” was taking over. The city took to kicking me…hard almost immediately, laying out bullshit hoops for me to leap majestically through. There was a general disgruntlement about the life that was unfolding in front of my eyes. It didn’t take long after I planted my feet firmly on the ground here that it occurred to me what had just transpired in my life…

From a writer’s perspective – especially that of a journalist – Kwame Kilpatrick is without question the gift that keeps on giving. Last year he provided the Free Press with a Pulitzer, and this year it looks like the Tales of Kilpatrick will only be getting bigger and better. If Kilpatrick was the only story [...]