December 30th, 2009 By: Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator (Courthouse News Service) – Two North Dakota farmers failed to convince the 8th Circuit that cannabis grown for industrial hemp is
#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
December 13th, 2009 By: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director Already Four States Have Marijuana Legalization Bills In Play; Californians To Vote On Legalization in 2010 It can readily be
Activists get the DEA to remove obsolete information from its website claiming that the American Medical Association (AMA) still opposes medical marijuana By Charmie Gholson, AlterNet. Posted December 7, 2009.
The government keeps pushing the BS that pot is addictive and has serious health consequences. And no wonder — lying about pot is a lucrative business. By Paul Armentano, AlterNet.
November 17th, 2009 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Health-related costs per user are eight times higher for drinkers than they are for those who use cannabis, and are more
November 10th, 2009 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director The Schedule I federal classification of cannabis — which states that, by law, the marijuana plant and its natural compounds have
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:06:56 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Say what you will about prohibitionists — and I say plenty — but, if nothing else, they are consistent.
Obama’s drug czar has said “legalization” isn’t in his vocabulary. Here’s why it should be. By Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. Posted October 29, 2009. More members of Congress have publicly questioned
Arlington, VA: Nearly six out of ten individuals enrolled in drug treatment for marijuana were referred there by the criminal justice system, according to a new report issued by the
Majority in the West favors taxing marijuana sales to boost state revenues by Lydia Saad – October 19, 2009 PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup’s October Crime poll finds 44% of Americans
October 19th, 2009 By: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director In what can only be described as major departure in the so-called ‘war on drugs’, the Obama Administration is issuing
by William Martin Read entire article at Texas Monthly online here: http://www.texasmonthly.com/2009-10-01/feature4-1.php IN THE EARLY YEARS of the twentieth century, as they poured across the border into Texas, Mexican immigrants
By Ramon Bracamontes / El Paso Times Posted: 09/23/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT EL PASO — Legalizing marijuana in the United States would weaken Mexico’s powerful drug cartels, panelists at a
September 17, 2009 – Washington, DC, USA Washington, DC: Police arrested 847,864 persons for marijuana violations in 2008, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime report, released