Russ Belville

"Radical" Russ Belville is the Outreach Coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). He is the author of The NORML Big Book of Marijuana Facts and the host of NORML SHOW LIVE, the organization's daily one-hour talk radio program at http://live.norml.org and blogs at http://stash.norml.org. He was the winner of The Search for the Next Great Progressive Talk Radio Star, a guest host on The Bill Press Show, and hosted his own political talk radio show, The Russ Belville Show, for two years on XM Satellite. He was born on the first day of the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War in the town of Nampa in the "red" state of Idaho, where any opinion to the left of Reagan gets you labeled as "radical". Russ began his marijuana activism volunteering with Oregon NORML back in 2005. By 2007 he was elected Associate Director. In 2008 NORML hired Russ to record their daily podcast, NORML Daily Audio Stash. In 2009 NORML hired him as Outreach Coordinator. He currently resides in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon (a.k.a. "Little Beirut"), where he works in Information Technology.