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A new installment of ‘Ask NORML’ is now streaming on NORMLtv. This week’s topic, voted on by our Facebook fans, is marijuana’s non-psychoactive sister, hemp. In this segment, Executive Director Allen St. Pierre discusses hemp’s utility as well as its place in the overall marijuana law reform movement.

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A bill that would have allowed Illinois farmers to get permits to grow hemp was stopped dead in a House vote Thursday. The bill, House Bill 1383, was defeated 28-83.

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Last week, Moroccan human rights activist, denouncer of corruption, and marijuana legalization advocate Chakib El-Khayari began his third year in prison for "offending the Moroccan state." El-Khayari, pr…

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A US citizen jailed as a drug trafficker in Egypt in December after importing a shipment of non-drug hemp oil there was freed from jail last week when mobs of protestors overran prisons across Cairo, but remains i…

In late 2009, hemp advocates were hoping to piggyback the California vote to legalize marijuana.  The proposition would have allowed the cultivation of all cannabis, including both marijuana and hemp, but it failed to pass.  Despite hemp’s a…

Thanks to the GlobalMana Foundation and the design group Northshorecartoon for publishing a very creative, funny and spot-on political commentary in the form of a short cartoon focused on the costly absurdity of the U.S. government banning the domestic production of industrial hemp.

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