Chris Conrad

Biography:

Chris Conrad is a court-qualified expert witness on cannabis (marijuana) who has testified more than 100 times, and directs Safe Access Now. He is author of Hemp: Lifeline to the Future, Hemp for Health and Shattered Lives: Portraits from America's Drug War, and other books. A curator of the Hash-Marijuana-Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, he grew and processed cannabis legally in Europe and worked at the famous Cannabis Castle.

He has worked with legal medical marijuana patients, caregivers and support groups in California and consults regularly with doctors, attorneys and legislators. His latest booklet, Cannabis Yields and Dosage, explains basic principles of cultivation and consumption of medical marijuana as well as the legal issues. He is also expert on industrial hemp and personal marijuana use.

Past Shows:

	Brazilian Disclosure
	Monday June 6, 2005

Journalist Paola Harris and ufologist A.J. Gevaerd (ufo.com.br) discussed the movement towards UFO disclosure in Brazil and around the world. Gevaerd detailed how he and a group of investigators had been pressuring the Brazilian military for some time to release files related to UFOs, and had gathered thousands of signatures on a petition through their UFO-related magazine. Finally on May 20, 2005, he and a group of ufologists met with Brazilian military representatives and were shown a small number of files (View this report for more details). Gevaerd highlighted two of the most significant UFO cases in Brazil, which the military turned over files to them about. One was "Operation Saucer," which took place in small communities off the Amazon over a lengthy period during the 1970s. Numerous people were attacked by "strange balls of light" that seemed to come from the sky, the water and the woods. The victims would fall unconscious, as though hit by a laser beam and there were man ... More
Host: George Noory

	Medical Marijuana
	Tuesday March 15, 2005

Cannabis expert Chris Conrad spoke in favor of medical marijuana usage. "For some people, it is nothing short of a miracle drug," offering symptomatic relief for those with health problems that cannot be adequately treated by medications or surgery, he noted. It's also been shown to increase appetite for people suffering from diseases like AIDS or cancer, who otherwise might be malnourished, he said. Conrad lined up several medical users to present their stories on the show. They included Valerie Corral, a long-term medical user for epilepsy, who works with a group of patients in Santa Cruz, CA through an organization called WAMM. She described how the DEA, armed with weapons, raided their garden in 2002. Steph Scherer, a patient who uses marijuana for chronic pain, spoke about a national campaign she's involved in called Americans for Safe Access, which seeks to resist federal efforts to clamp down on medical marijuana in states where it is currently legal.Medical marijua ... More
Host: George Noory