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Join us for the last show of the 2000’s! It’s our New Year’s Eve Celebration of 2009, the best year ever in marijuana law reform!
TONIGHT ALL ACROSS AMERICA – SHOW BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN AND RUNS TO MIDNIGHT PACIFIC
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ December 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
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Dear NORML Supporter:
It is not often that I feel compelled to write to NORML’s membership and supporters regarding the day-to-day operations of America’s leading marijuana lobby group. Then again, in my tenure as Executive Director of NORML and the NORML [...]
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ December 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Like the dutiful activists in Seattle protesting cannabis laws and supporting the victims of such outside of the local jail for nine straight years of Christmas days, Brazilian cannabis law reform supporters cheer the cultivator’s release from jail, celebrating, not condemning him.
A strong social indicator of governmental laws that do not enjoy mass public support–along [...]
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ December 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
(Courthouse News Service) – Two North Dakota farmers failed to convince the 8th Circuit that cannabis grown for industrial hemp is not technically marijuana and should not be regulated under federal law.
The court in St. Louis upheld dismissal of the farmers’ lawsuit seeking a declaration that the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) does not apply to [...]
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ December 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
(Courthouse News Service) – Two North Dakota farmers failed to convince the 8th Circuit that cannabis grown for industrial hemp is not technically marijuana and should not be regulated under federal law.
The court in St. Louis upheld dismissal of the farmers’ lawsuit seeking a declaration that the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) does not apply to [...]
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ December 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
#1 Obama Administration: Don’t Focus On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions
United States Deputy Attorney General David Ogden issued a memorandum to federal prosecutors in October directing them to not “focus federal resources … on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana.” The directive upheld [...]
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ December 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
UPDATE!!! In a 12/29 e-mail communication with the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Newsroom Operations Manager (in reference to their coverage below), she pledges: “I will follow up with our online staff right now. We will get it corrected or taken down.” Yet, as of 11am pst today the story still appears online in its original form. [...]
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ December 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
By Fred Gardner, Editor, O’Shaughnessy’s, the journal of cannabis in clinical practice
“You have to start somewhere.” —Willy Notcutt, MD
Fifteen members of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians -the doctors’ group founded by Tod Mikuriya in 1999 and now led by Jeffrey Hergenrather- met in Oakland Dec. 11. UCSF professor Donald Abrams recounted the obstacles he faced [...]
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ December 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Despite the bizarre claims of some prohibitionists and law enforcement representatives that ‘no one in America gets arrested or goes to jail for cannabis charges’, NORML receives hundreds of emails and letters a week from our fellow citizens who’ve been negatively impacted by cannabis prohibition laws–notably due to an encounter with law enforcement.
A few weeks [...]
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ December 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It can now be said that Uruguay is more progressive and possesses a greater sense of entrepreneurialism than the United States–at least regarding industrial hemp!
After a decade-long political and legal battle with the federal government, the state of North Dakota and their farmers are still being denied the ability to cultivate–and prosper from- industrial hemp [...]