Inhaled Marijuana ‘Clearly Has Medical Value’ For Hard to Treat Chronic Pain Conditions
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ September 2, 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.]
Inhaled cannabis reduces pain and improves sleep compared to placebo, and is well tolerated by patients with chronic neuropathy, according to clinical trial data published [...]
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NORML Action Alert: Urge California’s Gov. Schwarzenegger To Sign Marijuana Infraction Measure
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ September 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
On Monday, members of the California Assembly approved Senate Bill 1449, which reduces adult marijuana possession offenses in California from a criminal misdemeanor to an infraction, by a vote of 43 to 33.
The vote split largely along party lines, with Democrats voting 40 to 8 in favor of more lenient penalties and Republicans voting 2 [...]
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Prohibitionists Say The Darndest Things
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ August 31, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Over the weekend the Christian Science Monitor newspaper published the latest installment of their ‘one minute debates’ series. The subject of the debate: “Should California Legalize Pot?” I authored the ‘pro’ argument, which you can read here, and longtime, professional prohibitionist Calvina Fay penned the ‘con’ side.
Now anyone who is familiar with Calvina already [...]
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Prohibitionists Say The Darndest Things
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ August 31, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Over the weekend the Christian Science Monitor newspaper published the latest installment of their ‘one minute debates’ series. The subject of the debate: “Should California Legalize Pot?” I authored the ‘pro’ argument, which you can read here, and longtime, professional prohibitionist Calvina Fay penned the ‘con’ side.
Now anyone who is familiar with Calvina already [...]
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L.A. Times: Some Facts For The Drug Czar — Marijuana’s Social Costs Are Far Less Than Those Of Legal Intoxicants
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ August 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last week I posted a brief response to the Los Angeles Times commentary authored by Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske (along with five previous drug czars) condemning California’s Prop. 19.
Today the Los Angeles Times has posted my full rebuttal, which I’ve excerpted below.
Some marijuana tax revenue is better than none
via The Los Angeles Times
… Kerlikowske’s opposition [...]
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NORML Conference: Key Speakers, Agenda and Earlybird Discounts Concluding
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ August 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Key Speakers At 2010 NORML Conference in Portland, Oregon: Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Best-Selling Travel Author and TV Host Rick Steves
There are three important components in this 2010 NORML conference alert:
-Key Speakers
-Early-bird Pricing For Registration Is About To Expire
-Conference Agenda and Speakers Announced
-Key Speakers-
NORML is honored and proud to [...]
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BBC Video: Cannabis and Human Evolution
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ August 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet
While not necessarily ground-breaking science to longtime observers of cannabinoid research and cultural anthropology, the BBC video below (with about 45 seconds of pro-reform advocacy added), featuring US taxpayer-funded medical research conducted just up the road from NORML’s Washington, DC offices at the National Institute of Mental Health is very well done.
Question: When will a [...]
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Your Tax Dollars At Work
Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director @ August 25, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, along with five previous drug czars (including gambling addict William Bennett), have an op/ed in today’s Los Angeles Times condemning California’s Prop. 19.
Given that the Drug Czar is required by law to oppose any and all efforts that would seek to legalize marijuana — including “any study … relating to the [...]
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So-called Civil Forfeiture: Another Cannabis Prohibition Fiction
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ August 23, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Bear witness with me please to the end of what has been nothing less than a slow and torturous cannabis prohibition persecution, sorry, prosecution of a most decent fellow named Bernie Ellis. On his bucolic and much-loved Tennessee farm Mr. Ellis we arrested and prosecuted for growing a small amount of cannabis, much of it [...]
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District Of Cannabis: Got $200,000 To Open A Dispensary?
Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director @ August 21, 2010 # No Comment Yet
According to an article in the Washington City Paper, it appears that citizens who want to open a medical cannabis center in the nation’s capital will have to possess some reasonably deep pockets, and plenty of patience–while bona fide patients who need cannabis suffer waiting for government bureaucracies through at least January 2011 to figure out [...]
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