[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from today's NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's news alerts and legislative advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up here.] The Colorado Democratic Party on Saturday resolved to officially support Amendment 64, a statewide ballot initiative that seeks to eliminate civil and criminal penalties for the limited possession and cultivation of cannabis by adults. The Party acknowledged it support for the measure during its state convention. “This is a mainstream issue,” Cindy Lowery-Graber, chair of the Denver County Democratic Party, stated in [...]
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Colorado: State Democrats Officially Support Marijuana Regulation Initiative
April 17, 2012 | 1 views | No Comments
Debunking a Former Drug Czar
April 3, 2012 | 2 views | No Comments
Ex-Drug Czar and lifelong (selective) prohibitionist William Bennett recently took to the mainstream blogosphere to criticize Pat Robertson’s ‘born again’ public support for marijuana legalization. Bennett’s specific criticisms of legalization — that it would simultaneously allow for “open and unrestricted drug use” by all, and that the plant’s perceived social costs would outweigh any economic benefits reaped by regulation — are predictably well worn, but they are nonetheless worth addressing. An excerpt of reply to Bennett is included below. You can read the full commentary here. Health and Societal Costs [...]
This Week in Weed: March 11th-17th
March 16, 2012 | 1 views | No Comments
Click here to subscribe to NORMLtv and receive alerts whenever new content is added. The latest installment of “This Week in Weed” is now streaming on NORMLtv. This week in weed: new research looks at drinking laws and how they alter cannabis use and New Hampshire takes a step towards marijuana decriminalization. Be sure to tune in to NORMLtv every week to catch up on the latest marijuana news. Subscribe to NORMLtv or follow us on Twitter to be notified as soon as new content is added.
This Week in Weed: Feb. 26th – March 3rd
March 2, 2012 | 0 views | No Comments
Click here to subscribe to NORMLtv and receive alerts whenever new content is added. The newest installment of “This Week in Weed” is now streaming on NORMLtv. This week in weed: Colorado’s legalization initiative officially qualifies for the November ballot and a new report shows how the federal government stifles research into cannabis’ medicinal applications. Be sure to tune in to NORMLtv every week to catch up on the latest marijuana news. Subscribe to NORMLtv or follow us on Twitter to be notified as soon as new content is added.
Cannabis, Circles, Cycles, Caring And Sharing
December 26, 2011 | 4 views | No Comments
There is something inherently communal about cannabis. When used in groups, unlike with alcohol and tobacco products, cannabis is shared among willing participants (and where hogging something to oneself is frowned about: "Don’t Bogart that joint!"). A smoke circle–not a square, triangle or pentagon, comes to mind. With nearly forty one years of cannabis consumer advocacy in NORML’s rearview mirror, and fast approaching a momentous presidential election cycle–which will most likely include up to four state initiatives to either medicalize or legalize cannabis–NORML’s large grassroots network again will be relied [...]
Want to Lower Traffic Fatalities? Try Legalizing Medical Marijuana.
November 29, 2011 | 13 views | No Comments
That’s at least according to a paper published today by University of Colorado Denver Professor Daniel Rees and Montana State University Assistant Professor D. Mark Anderson. The study looked at traffic fatalities nationwide for the years 1990-2009 to see if there was any correlation between highway fatalities and liberalized medical marijuana laws. They found that, [...]
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