Rasmussen Reports: Majority Of Americans Now Agree That Booze Is More Dangerous Than Pot
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ August 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
More than half of Americans agree that marijuana is safer than alcohol. Rassmussen Reports has the details here:
51% Rate Alcohol More Dangerous Than Marijuana
via Rasmussen Reports
Fifty-one percent (51%) of American adults say alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 19% disagree and say pot is worse.
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NORML CON 2009 Profiles in Cannabis: Jessica Peck Corry
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ August 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
NORML is proud to confirm that Jessica Peck Corry will be speaking at the 2009 NORML National Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Ms. Corry is a Denver-based public policy analyst and political strategist, specializing in civil rights issues. In 2008, Jessica was highlighted as one of Colorado’s most influential women by the Denver Examiner; in [...]
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Profiles in Cannabis: Jessica Peck Corry
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ August 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
NORML is proud to confirm that Jessica Peck Corry will be speaking at the 2009 NORML National Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Ms. Corry is a Denver-based public policy analyst and political strategist, specializing in civil rights issues. In 2008, Jessica was highlighted as one of Colorado’s most influential women by the Denver Examiner; in [...]
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Study Says It’s Easier For Teens To Buy Marijuana Than Beer
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ August 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It’s that time of year — time for one of America’s leading prohibitionist organizations, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (aka CASA), to once again report that seven-plus decades of criminal pot prohibition have resulted in making cannabis more readily available to teens than alcohol!
Study Says It’s Easier For Teens [...]
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Profiles in Cannabis: Norm Stamper
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ August 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
NORML is proud to confirm that Norm Stamper will be speaking at the 2009 NORML National Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Mr. Stamper was a police officer for 34 years, the first 28 in San Diego, the last six (1994-2000) as Seattle’s Chief of Police. He has a doctorate in Leadership and Human Behavior, and is [...]
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Anti-Marijuana Zealot Still Employed By Obama
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ August 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
No employee of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) sans the director has ever drawn more public and academic criticism than David Murray, ONDCP’s chief scientist.
Virtually an entire book was derived from the ONDCP’s twisting science and statistical data during Murray’s eight-year tenure—Dr. Matthew Robinson’s Lies, Damn Lies and Drug War Statistics, A [...]
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Mainstream Media Finally Does Its Job (Sort Of) — It Only Took Four Weeks!
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ August 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Well, that only took a month.
Earlier today Reuters News Wire finally took the time to report that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a reduced risk of head and neck cancer. That’s according to the findings of a population-based case control study of some 1,000 subjects, published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
But you already [...]
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SAMHSA: State-by-State Marijuana Use Report
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ August 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Recently, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a state-by-state drug use report that is both useful and informative. These government reports, like others regarding drug use, are based on surveys and the willingness of respondents to be truthful about their illicit drug use.
According to SAMHSA, what states had the highest and [...]
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Washington State Legislators Support Marijuana Decriminalization
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ August 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Hempfest’s massive crowds last weekend spurred Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Wells and former state Rep. Toby Nixon to pen a bipartisan letter in the Seattle Times on the need for Washington State to join the other 13 states that have ‘decriminalized’ possession of cannabis–as well as the state’s largest population center, King County (Seattle), which effectively [...]
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New York Times: Mexico “Legalizes” Drug Possession — Well, Not Exactly
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ August 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
According to today’s New York Times the Mexican government has “legalized” drug possession. Really? Perhaps someone at the NYT ought to inform Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
First of all, let’s explore the various connotations evoked by the word “legal.” After all, without proper context this term can mean many different things to many different people.
Oranges are [...]
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