Batman
03-11-2006, 03:57 AM
Wyoming has some of the most beautiful geographic scenery in this country, if not the planet, but it's painfully obvious that the numbnuts are in charge. Can you believe this garbage.? :mad:
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Wyoming: In The News
Radio station pulls medical marijuana PSA after complaints
Associated Press; February 24, 2006
A pair of local radio stations has pulled a set of public service announcements advocating medical marijuana use after receiving complaints from the police chief and others.
A national spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, which produced the announcements, said he finds the stations’ actions shocking.
Scott Freeman, a salesman for Mount Rushmore Broadcasting in Casper, which owns KIQZ-FM and KRAL-AM in Rawlins, said he pulled the PSAs as soon as he learned about them.
A disc jockey at the stations, Jack Morgan, had run the 30-second PSAs.
“I told him it was not the practice of this station to promote that type of thing because it was illegal,†Freeman said.
Freeman said Morgan had run the PSAs without checking with station managers.
“As soon as we were made aware that it was being done, we made the change to have it canceled,†Freeman said.
The station received three PSAs from the Marijuana Policy Project.
“What on earth is broadcasting for, if not to facilitate the exchange of ideas,†Bruce Mirken, director of communications with the Marijuana Policy Project in San Francisco, said Thursday.
Mirken said pulling the spots “suggest that you could never talk about whether laws need to be changed.â€
Mirken said the PSA announcements featured comments from medical marijuana advocates, including talk show host Montel Williams.
“These spots have been played thousands of times all over the country, in big markets and small, and this is the first we’ve ever heard of a complaint,†Mirken said.
Rawlins Police Chief Mike Reed was among those who called Freeman to complain about the spots.
“For me, it was disturbing that the local radio station was running advertising that is counter to what the public and our community stand for …,†Reed said.
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Wyoming: In The News
Radio station pulls medical marijuana PSA after complaints
Associated Press; February 24, 2006
A pair of local radio stations has pulled a set of public service announcements advocating medical marijuana use after receiving complaints from the police chief and others.
A national spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, which produced the announcements, said he finds the stations’ actions shocking.
Scott Freeman, a salesman for Mount Rushmore Broadcasting in Casper, which owns KIQZ-FM and KRAL-AM in Rawlins, said he pulled the PSAs as soon as he learned about them.
A disc jockey at the stations, Jack Morgan, had run the 30-second PSAs.
“I told him it was not the practice of this station to promote that type of thing because it was illegal,†Freeman said.
Freeman said Morgan had run the PSAs without checking with station managers.
“As soon as we were made aware that it was being done, we made the change to have it canceled,†Freeman said.
The station received three PSAs from the Marijuana Policy Project.
“What on earth is broadcasting for, if not to facilitate the exchange of ideas,†Bruce Mirken, director of communications with the Marijuana Policy Project in San Francisco, said Thursday.
Mirken said pulling the spots “suggest that you could never talk about whether laws need to be changed.â€
Mirken said the PSA announcements featured comments from medical marijuana advocates, including talk show host Montel Williams.
“These spots have been played thousands of times all over the country, in big markets and small, and this is the first we’ve ever heard of a complaint,†Mirken said.
Rawlins Police Chief Mike Reed was among those who called Freeman to complain about the spots.
“For me, it was disturbing that the local radio station was running advertising that is counter to what the public and our community stand for …,†Reed said.