Open Your Eye Ep138 with guest Dana Beal

Open Your Eye Ep138 with guest Dana Beal

Joint hosts Tarra Simpson and Kim Cooper chat with activist Dana Beal on NOK Network

Perennial activist, New York Yippie and frequent cannabis activist Dana Beal has a plan to repay the state of Idaho for arresting him while he was allegedly transporting through the state. He wants to use his case to legalize marijuana in the state.
“You know what Idaho has?” Beal recently posed the question. “It has a tremendous problem with methamphetamine and fentanyl. And you know what helps people get off of those drugs? Cannabis and ibogaine.” He’s hoping to leverage his notoriety to bring attention to his novel approach and effect change in Idaho.
“Voters in Idaho are ripe and ready to legalize marijuana but they’re afraid that it could lead to other drugs,” he continued. “By combining a tax-and-legalize cannabis bill with Ibogaine treatments funded by that legalization tax, we have a whole package that can really win there.”
All of this takes makes sense but it also takes money, of course. His trial is set for November. A recent post on his page by Paul Stanford says that Dana Beal “is hopeful that cannabis will be rescheduled before then, which would downgrade the marijuana trafficking charges he faces.”
Dana thinks a nuanced, double-bladed approach will help people understand that “some drugs are safe, some are dangerous – and some actually reduce harms.” He described it as a win-win situation, with politicians able to ride the wave of public sentiment for cannabis legalization, provide treatment for people hooked on hard drugs and fund it with new revenue without raising existing taxes.
Dana was busted in Gooding County, Idaho, near Twin Falls, on January 15, 2024. He is charged with cannabis trafficking and not having an Idaho cannabis tax stamp and was held until March 9 and is out on $250,000 bail bond thanks to 2 people, an activist in Ohio and another in the District of Columbia, who signed to guarantee the bond.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/dana-beals-idaho-bail-and-trial-expenses
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