NORML Launches iPhone Application, ‘Reefer Revolution’ Continues In Cyberspace
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ March 10, 2010 # No Comment Yet
With ‘marijuana’ already one of the most popular topics on the Internet, NORML proudly announces that the ‘Reefer Revolution’ has now found its way into the smart phone technology tsunami that is sweeping the world up into instant access and connectivity to important information and like-minded community.
Available for a .99 cent download from the iTunes [...]
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The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ March 10, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I work this issue every day and am well aware of the racist nature of the War on (Certain American Citizens Using Non-Pharmaceutical, Non-Alcoholic, Tobacco-Free) Drugs. But even I wasn’t aware of the outrageous statistics comparing the Drug War to Jim Crow era. Michelle Alexander lays it all out in her new book, [...]
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Real World Ramifications of Cannabis Legalization and Decriminalization
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ March 8, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last week Rhode Island became the fifth state this legislative session to introduce legislation seeking to legalize and regulate the adult use, possession, production, and distribution of non-medical marijuana. Also last week lawmakers in the Hawaii Senate approved legislation seeking to ‘decriminalize’ (replace criminal penalties with civil fines) marijuana possession offenses — a policy reform [...]
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Medical Marijuana’s Lost Man: Bryan Epis
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ March 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
One of the best (or worse, it depends on one’s perspective and physical location!) indicators of the total failure of a law, is when it is woefully and subjectively applied.
When trying to answer inquiries from reporters, columnists, policymakers and medical cannabis patients regarding as to ‘why specifically has Bryan Epis been compelled to return to [...]
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NORML’s Weekly Legislative Update
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ March 5, 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.
** To first time readers: NORML can not introduce legislation in your [...]
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Medical marijuana’s not getting any better – the time for RE-legalization is NOW!
Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator @ March 3, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Author’s update: the graphics in the post below have been updated to correct some minor mistakes, such as dated information that left out Rhode Island and Maine’s dispensaries and Oregon’s recent acceptance of Alzheimer’s agitation as a qualifying condition. Also, I have outlined Oregon’s attempt at legalization through the OCTA petition as it could [...]
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Weeding Through The Hype: Interpreting The Latest Warnings About Pot and Schizophrenia
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ March 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Once again members of the mainstream media are running wild with the notion that marijuana use causes schizophrenia and psychosis.
To add insult to injury, this latest dose of reefer rhetoric comes only days after investigators in the United Kingdom reported in the prestigious scientific journal Addiction that the available evidence in support of this theory [...]
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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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