UPDATE, 3:18 p.m.: Audio of the show below:

Weed on Forum

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This morning, KQED Radio’s “Forum” program — the best chat show in Northern California — will host a discussion on the environmental impacts of large-scale illegal marijuana production, or what Friend o’ the LoCO Mikal Jakubal proposes to label “greed weed.”

Joining host Dave Iverson will be Scott Greacen of Friends of the Eel, the Tea House Collective’s Charley Custer and Tony Silvaggio of HSU’s new Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research. You can listen live starting at 9 a.m. at this link. The page for the episode is right here — you can also put questions to the discussants by posting in the comments, there.

Over the weekend, the LA Times published the latest, scathing installment in a spate of national media stories about the environmental devastation wreaked by greed weed on the North Coast and elsewhere.