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Willie Nelson: “I Smoke Pot And It Is None of the Government’s Business”

May 15, 2012 | 5 views | No Comments

Click here to subscribe to NORMLtv and receive alerts whenever new content is added. NORML Advisory board member, and long time cannabis law reform advocate, Willie Nelson recently filmed a new PSA for NORML. Check it out below or on NORMLtv. “Let’s get the government out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let’s take a stand for personal freedom.” – Willie Nelson Be sure to tune in to NORMLtv every week to catch up on the latest marijuana news. Subscribe to NORMLtv or follow [...]

Posted in Activism, Government, Legalize It, News, Video

A Mother’s Day Declaration: “The Drug War Hurts Our Families”

May 1, 2012 | 1 views | No Comments

Mothers from around the country will join with law enforcement and students at the National Press Club on May 2nd in honor of Mother’s Day. The press conference will launch a new coalition of national organizations that will represent mothers, police and students that seek to finally end the disastrous drug war.

Posted in Activism, Drug War, Law Enforcement, Legalize It, News

City of Miami Beach Settles False Arrest Case with Marijuana Rights Activist

April 26, 2012 | 5 views | No Comments

A staple joke from late night comedians, going back to George Carlin in the 1970s, is about how cannabis law reformers are too stoned to gather signatures and turn them in, when, ironically, or not, it is usually agents of the government who more often than not interfere with the democratic process of citizens gathering signatures in public to petition their government for grievance. A case example from a local effort in Miami Beach to reform the city’s cannabis laws has resulted in NORML-affiliated lawyers procuring a monetary settlement with [...]

Posted in Activism, News

Was It The Odor Or Posted Photo On Instagram? Regardless, Wiz Khalifa Busted In Music City

April 26, 2012 | 2 views | No Comments

The Tennessean reported last night that popular musician Wiz Khalifa and a friend were busted in Nashville after police received complaints of the strong odor of cannabis apparently emanating from Wiz’s hotel room (I’m shocked!). After unsuccessfully trying to ditch a blunt out a window upon police entry, the pair were busted. Every 38 seconds in America, another cannabis consumer is busted on ganja charges (850,000 per year), and with a pro-cannabis profile as high as Wiz’s (heck, hours before he was busted he posted a photo to Instagram depicting his [...]

Posted in Law Enforcement, News

Can Fully Informed Juries Help Cannabis Prohibition?

April 23, 2012 | 1 views | No Comments

Of the many numerous peaceful and constititionally-respectful means employed for decades by which cannabis law reformers have been to try to bring about about an end to Cannabis Prohibition laws, one of the most benign, yet most powerful arrows in the activist’s quiver is jury nullification–whereby jurors are educated and informed about their right to vote not guilty in cases where they morally question the underlying law itself (and not just to cast a verdict ‘for’ or ‘against’ individuals the government has charged with ‘crimes’). For almost 20 years NORML [...]

Posted in Activism, News

Oklahoma Mom Sentenced to 12 Years In Prison For $30 Worth Of Weed May Get Parole!

April 19, 2012 | 3 views | No Comments

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history” -Gandhi Patricia Spottedcrow, a mother and first time offender from Oklahoma, was originally sentenced to 12 years behind bars for selling $30 worth of marijuana. For months, the NORML Women’s Alliance, and other organizations have been bringing attention to one of the most egregious cases of the war on drugs in recent history. After several outreach campaigns to local law enforcement and elected officials, and especially a strong grassroots effort [...]

Posted in Activism, Law Enforcement, Legalize It, News