The 39th Annual National NORML Conference: Just Say Now!
The 2010 NORML Conference will be held in beautiful Portland, Oregon...please join us!
Panel Topics:
- Just Say Now! The Case For Taxing And Controlling Cannabis
- NORML's 2009-2010 Legislative and Political Round-Up
- NORML Women's Alliance Presents: Stiletto Stoners? Not! Women, Cannabis And Respect
- Ask The Experts: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Cannabis But Were Afraid To Ask
- Lessons From The 'Dry Decade': What Cannabis Law Reformers Can Learn From Alcohol's Reformers
- High Times' Cannabis Cultivation: Ready, Set and Grow!
- Cannabis Activism, Social Networking and Community Building To Affect Legal Reforms
- Industrial Hemp: Why? How? When?
- Cannabis As An 'Exit', Not An 'Entry' Drug
- Cannabis and Mental Health: A Medical and Research Discussion About Schizophrenia, PTSD, Bi-Polarity and Abuse
- Cannabis Legalization and Medicalization: Working Together!
- Medical Cannabis and Employment Law: Legal Discrimination?
- Medical Marijuana: The New Jim Crow?
- NORML Legal Committee: Overview of State Medical Cannabis Laws
- Reefer Movie Madness: A History of Cannabis in the Movies
Medical Cannabis-only day
- Saturday, September 11
- Join America's top doctors, researchers, and lawyers as they discuss the latest developments in medical marijuana science, policy and the law.
For more information and to register, see: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=8125.
For general questions, please contact 1-888-67-NORML or [email protected].
The Marijuana Policy Project, along with a coalition of allies, has called for President Obama to withdraw the nomination of Michele Leonhart as DEA Administrator. Under Leonhart's leadership the DEA has staged medical marijuana raids in direct defiance of Attorney General Eric Holder's directive to respect state medical marijuana laws. 
Maine's medical marijuana law has taken a great stride in the right direction as the state issues the first licenses to dispensaries there. This is the implementation of a law passed last November when residents voted on an MPP-drafted initiative to add dispensaries to the state's existing medical marijuana legislation. 
The DEA, under Michele Leonhart, has once again thumbed its nose at the Obama administration's directive to not interfere with medical marijuana providers legally operating within state laws. Raids conducted in California last week on state-legal medical marijuana operations have yet to be explained by the DEA. 
University of Michigan researchers have come to the conclusion that marijuana use is associated with the lowest rate of drug-related emergency room visits. Though unlikely to change the minds of drug-warriors across America, this data is a valuable tool in countering their rhetoric. 
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Esequiel Hernandez, a U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by Marines patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border for drug smugglers.
Wal-Mart continues to find itself under pressure from medical marijuana advocates as the American Civil Liberties Union has stepped forward to file a lawsuit against the corporation for its firing of medical marijuana patient Joseph Casias. 
Colorado, long an important front for battling marijuana prohibition, is under pressure from veterans and medical marijuana advocates pressing the state to allow medical marijuana for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. 
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece titled "Strapped Police Run on Fumes, and Federal Pot-Fighting Cash" detailing the ways in which federal dollars keep police forces afloat while forcing them to pursue ineffective eradication efforts. 
Our allies at the Drug Policy Alliance recently released a study finding, among other things, that although blacks use marijuana at roughly the same rate as whites, they are being arrested at up to four times the rate as whites. This absolute lack of racial justice is just one more reason we need to end marijuana prohibition today. 
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Robin Prosser, suffering from excruciating pain, took her own life when she was unable to get the medicine she desperately needed.
On June 1 of this year, the Arizona Secretary of State certified an initiative by the MPP-backed Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project that would bring medical marijuana to the state. This November, residents of Arizona will be able to vote for a compassionate medical marijuana law. 
Following the passage of a new ordinance by the Los Angeles City Council, more than 400 dispensaries in that city are now being forced to close down. While we may have to wait to see the long-term results, the immediate impact on patients is obvious: decreased access and convenience to their medicine. 
Citizens of Detroit are taking steps to implement sensible marijuana laws in the absence of such laws on the federal or state level. The Coalition for a Safer Detroit recently secured a measure on Novemberâs ballot that would make legal the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for personal use. 
In a landmark move, Gov Bill Ritter (D) recently signed two bills that will help to regulate Coloradoâs booming medical marijuana industry. The new law will give clear legal status to hundreds of dispensaries in the Centennial State home to the largest number of regulated dispensaries anywhere in the nation. 
Kathyryn Johnston, age 92. Shot and killed in her Atlanta home.