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March 3, 2010
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 [...]
February 15, 2010
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 [...]
February 12, 2010
Since fourteen states have legalized the use of cannabis for sick and disabled people we here at NORML have reported on numerous stories of medical users harassed, arrested, and jailed by police. We have also reported on healthy adults in all fifty states whose lives are turned upside down by an arrest, sometimes losing [...]
February 4, 2010
(The Raw Story via InfoWars.com) “We’re not at war with people in this country,” [US Drug Czar Gil] Kerlikowske told The Wall Street Journal in May.
However, if the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) budget for fiscal year 2011 is to be believed, Kerlikowske was full of hot air.
According to 2011 funding “highlights” [...]
January 30, 2010
I’m happy to let you all know that I will be on national radio this Sunday, which just happens to be my 42nd birthday!
I’ll be the guest of Kyle Allison and Shane Bell on the CNN Radio program “Cultural Distortion” which airs Sundays at 3pm Pacific.
I’ll be on from 3:40pm – 4:20pm talking about the [...]
January 23, 2010
Recently the Los Angeles City Council held hearings on the thorny issue of medical marijuana dispensary regulation. For years city officials have abrogated their duty to create sensible regulations for the dispensaries that have proliferated across the Los Angeles basin. The number of dispensaries has ballooned to over 500 (not the 1,000+ often [...]
January 21, 2010
The pure, unadulterated, distilled essence of Reefer Madness, courtesy of California Assembly Candidate, Republican Paul Chabot:
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Let’s tear this thing up, shall we?
It’s not “a few million here and there”, unless you count one-thousand, four-hundred millions as “a few millions”. The California Board of equalization has estimated that $1.4 billion dollars [...]
January 17, 2010
Last week we began streaming our live show on Stickam and it has been a resounding success. The sound quality is crystal clear and we get the added advantage of a video-cam enabled chat room for all our listeners. Our show is live every weekday at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific and the [...]
January 4, 2010
Join us over at the new-look NORML Stash Blog to listen to our live internet talk radio show, NORML SHOW LIVE. The show airs every Monday-Friday for one hour at http://stash.norml.org.
Ken Wolski from Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey joins us to discuss trying to get medical marijuana passed before Gov. Corzine leaves office [...]
December 31, 2009
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
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