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This Week in Weed: April 29th – May 5th

May 3, 2012 | 2 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: A new poll shows an overwhelming number of Americans are against prison for marijuana possession and two New England states move towards medical marijuana. 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.

Posted in Activism, Government, News, Video

Missouri House Approves Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform

April 13, 2012 | 1 views | No Comments

The Missouri House of Representatives Thursday approved reducing the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses. The move came as the House approved a larger judiciary bill, which now heads to …

Posted in Drug War, News

White House Responds to ‘Pardon Marc Emery’ Petition

November 18, 2011 | 2 views | No Comments

CANNABIS CULTURE – The White House has finally issued a response to the “Pardon Marc Emery” petition signed by 8,249 people calling for Obama to pardon Marc and send him home to Canada. Not surprisingly, the answer is mostly a disappointing non-respons…

Posted in Activism, News

Write to Women Behind Bars for Marijuana

August 10, 2011 | 4 views | No Comments

A few weeks ago several letters were collected for Patricia Spotted Crow (a first time offender from Oklahoma who was given 10 years behind bars for selling $30 worth of marijuana), and sent by Jil Staszewki of the NORML Women’s Alliance to the Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Oklahoma.

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Confronted And Owned: Anti-Marijuana Zealot Bill Bennett

July 6, 2011 | 5 views | No Comments

[Editor's note: Bill Bennett is an insufferable and overweight hypocrite who smoked or still smokes tobacco, drank or still drinks alcohol and has a gambling addiction!]
Let states enact their own marijuana policies
By Paul Armentano, Special to CNN
July 6, 2011
(CNN) — It is hardly surprising that former drug czar William Bennett would, in his CNN.com op-ed, [...]

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Supreme Court Upholds Order for California To Cut Prison Population

May 23, 2011 | 1 views | No Comments

A closely divided US Supreme Court Monday upheld a court order requiring California to cut its prison population by tens of thousands of inmates because the state has proven unwilling or unable to provide adequate…

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