Cannabis Chutzpah: United Nation’s Anti-Drug Agency Is Dopey
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ February 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Talk about chutzpah! The United Nation’s Anti-drug agency, International Narcotic Control Board, recently attacked the Parliament-sanctioned Canadian Medical Cannabis Program, oddly looking right past Prohibition-addled but medical cannabis-friendly America.
That’s right.
Despite the continued 73-year old federal prohibition against cannabis, with 90 million Americans currently living in 14 states and the District of Columbia that have [...]
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Why Growing Numbers of Baby Boomers and the Elderly Are Smoking Pot
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ February 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet
An excellent and thoughtful analysis appears today via Alternet.org. Below is an excerpt. To read the entire story, please visit here.
Why Growing Numbers of Baby Boomers and the Elderly Are Smoking Pot
More and more of the nation’s 78 million Boomers are discovering they’d rather smoke marijuana than reach for a pharmaceutical
Conventional wisdom dictates that as [...]
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NORML’s Weekly Legislative Update
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ February 25, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Lawmakers around the country are debating a record number of marijuana law reform bills in 2010. NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up is your one-stop guide to pending marijuana law reform legislation around the country, along with tips for influencing the policies of your state.
** A note to first time readers: NORML can not introduce legislation [...]
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Over 2,500 Subjects Since 2005 Have Used Marijuana-Based Medicines In Controlled Clinical Trials
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ February 24, 2010 # No Comment Yet
[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's media advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up for NORML's free e-zine here.]
Researchers worldwide have performed 37 separate clinical trials assessing the therapeutic safety and efficacy of inhaled cannabis and marijuana-based medicines since 2005, according to a [...]
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Nature’s (Legal) Cannabinoids
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ February 21, 2010 # No Comment Yet
“Where Do You Get ‘It’ From?”
Author: Publius*
Most patients don’t get asked where they get their medicine. That’s because everyone knows people get their medicine from a pharmacy. But I have to get my medicine otherwise. I have to safeguard my “source” because my medicine is cannabinoid based – and that makes it almost illegal. – [...]
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NORML’s Weekly Legislative Update
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ February 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Lawmakers around the country are debating a record number of marijuana law reform bills in 2010. NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up is your one-stop guide to pending marijuana law reform legislation around the country, along with tips for influencing the policies of your state.
** A note to first time readers: NORML can not introduce legislation [...]
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‘Gold Standard’ Studies Show That Inhaled Marijuana Is Medically Safe And Effective
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ February 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The results of a series of randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials assessing the efficacy of inhaled marijuana consistently show that cannabis holds therapeutic value comparable to conventional medications, according to the findings of a 24-page report issued earlier today to the California state legislature by the California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR).
Four of the five [...]
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Supposed Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link “Overstated”
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ February 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's media advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up for NORML's free e-zine here.]
Clinical evidence indicating that marijuana use may be casually linked to incidences of schizophrenia or other psychological harms is not compelling, according to a scientific [...]
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CBS rejects NORML legalization billboard, but accepts “Black Children are an Endangered Species” anti-abortion billboard
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ February 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet
This fifteen second Flash animation from NORML touting the economic benefit of marijuana legalization was too objectionable to CBS, who canceled NORML’s contract to place the following on the giant “Super Billboard” in Times Square:
We also noted the hypocrisy of telling us that NORML’s ad was too contentious an issue ad for the billboard while [...]
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Drug War’s Underbelly Examined By National Public Radio
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ February 14, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Kudos to the producers and editors at National Public Radio for the second time in a week for examining parts of the drug war’s underbelly, notably the economics of cannabis under prohibition and the immense problems created in America’s criminal justice system by its over reliance on informants.
Annually, over $30 billion in local, county, state [...]
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