Your Letters: Medical Marijuana, Taco Land
Host Liane Hansen reads listener letters about medical marijuana and a former Texas music club called Taco Land.
LIANE HANSEN, host:
To Your Letters now, and first a correction.
Last week we aired a story marking the 150th anniversary of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. Karen Schaefer of member station WKSU in Kent, Ohio reported that Brown captured one of George Washington's sons. Brown actually captured Colonel Lewis Washington(ph), who was the great-grandnephew of the first president.
Denver's alternative weekly newspaper Westward launched a search for a freelance medical marijuana critic. During our conversation with the editor last week, I asked if their staff worried that a marijuana critic might miss a deadline or two. Some of you weren't fond of the question.
Donny Toff(ph) of Pinedale, Wyoming wrote: This kind of question demonstrates the unfair bias against the legal use of marijuana. I am not a marijuana user, but I am personally familiar with its useful medical properties, as it helped a member of my family get through the pain and nausea experienced due to cancer treatment.
Last week, we also broadcast a profile of Taco Land, the former San Antonio hot spot, which was once the heart of the city's underground music scene. Mark Baumgartner(ph) left a comment on our Web site. He wrote: My very first gig in San Antonio was at Taco Land on the patio. It was 1987. I had never seen anything like this place. By the end of the night, I knew I had found a home. I still keep a framed picture of Ram, the owner, in the band practice room. It inspires the music and keeps a check on reality.
And John Brady Bunton(ph) of San Antonio, Texas wrote to say he was 15 years old when he first paid a visit to Taco Land. He wrote: I will always remember opening that door for the first time and the music barreling out. I remember weaving through the mishmash of wild haired punks, leather-clad bikers and the unidentified dorks like myself to get to the front to see that there was no stage. The stage was Taco Land. The show was us.
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