This Thursday: US Senate Committee To Debate Reevaluating The Drug War!
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ November 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!! YOU CAN WATCH THURSDAY’S HISTORIC SENATE JUDICIARY HEARING VIA WEBCAST HERE.
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Former Deputy Drug Czar Still Looks For Marijuana Prohibition To Pay Her
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ November 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Reading a puff piece on one of the most disingenuous anti-cannabis activists in America, Dr. Andrea Barthwell of IL and VA, made my eyes roll as the contradictions and hypocrisies kept coming out–like a parade of clowns in one’s mind.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
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Andrea Barthwell, 55, provides medical consulting, forensic work and lectures for clients as [...]
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NORML SHOW LIVE visits with actor Hal B. Klein and director Tao Ruspoli
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ November 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Join us this weekend on Saturday at 6pm Pacific for another episode of NORML SHOW LIVE! (http://live.norml.org) We’re going to the movies, or at least a small part of the movies is coming to us. Actor Hal B. Klein from independent films “Nobel Son”, “Killer Movie”, and “Bottle Shock” joins us to talk about [...]
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Winds Of Marijuana Law Reform Rebuffed At White House
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ November 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
While there is a constant buzz of cannabis law reform these days in America, largely at the local and state level, unfortunately these strong winds of change do not largely penetrate the Capital Beltway.
This is made clear in a candid interview with Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Deputy Director Tom McLellan in the [...]
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The Freeman: How To End Mexico’s Deadly Drug War
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ November 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Since 2008 more than 7,000 people, including Mexican civilians, journalists, police, and public officials, have been killed in clashes with warring drug traffickers — traffickers who US government officials allege derive 60 percent of their profits from exporting marijuana north of the border.
So what are the Obama administration’s plans to quell these gangs growing influence [...]
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Parents treating children with medical marijuana cited in mainstream media
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ November 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
While covering stories for NORML’s Daily Audio Stash, I’ve noticed a trend lately in stories involving parents treating childhood mental health conditions like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism.
(ABC’s Good Morning America, click link for video) Given the many challenges involved in raising an autistic child, parents are willing to try a variety of [...]
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NORML SHOW LIVE from Oregon NORML’s Cannabis Café TONIGHT
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ November 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
NORML SHOW LIVE provides you with exclusive access to Oregon’s world-famous Cannabis Café, this Saturday Night from 6pm-8pm Pacific.
You’ve read about it on the Reuters wire, New York Times, the Times of London, and even Al Jazeera, USA Today, and the Associated Press will be bringing you the story soon, but only “Radical” Russ can [...]
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World Record Set By United States Marijuana Patient
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ November 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
November 20, 2009 Irvin Rosenfeld, a Florida stockbroker, set the world record for the consumption of cannabis cigarettes.
The United States federal government has supplied Rosenfeld and three other US citizens for decades with a smokable cannabis medicine. Irv Rosenfeld has received his medicine for 27 years and is the longest known cannabis patient.
One of four [...]
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Marijuana Law Reform Is A Political Opportunity — Not A Political Liability
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ November 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Last January I proclaimed in the The Hill’s Congress blog: “Marijuana law reform is no longer a political liability; it’s a political opportunity.” Ten months later it appears that an unprecedented number of state-elected officials are heeding the message. Here’s just a sample.
COLORADO: Last week the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice recommended legislators to [...]
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Philadelphia could save $3 million annually by ending marijuana mug shots
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ November 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
(PhillyNORML: Chris Goldstein & Derek Rosenzweig) Philadelphia could save more than $3,000,000 annually by not taking pot smokers in for mugshots.
Minor marijuana possession arrests in Philadelphia are handled with mandatory custody; this is a different process than every other county in Pennsylvania costing the city millions of dollars. A disproportionate number of citizens (84%) arrested [...]
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