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5 Ways You Can Help Marijuana Activists Legalize Cannabis On 4/20

The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Legalizing Pot, Legalizing Marijuana, Video, Mason Tvert, Marijuana, Activism, 420, Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, Medical Marijuana, Pot, National Weed Day, Norml, Americans for Safe Access, Slidepollajax, Impact News

April 20 may have a reputation as being something of a “high holiday,” but potheads across the country are doing a lot more than just lolling arou...

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Santa Fe School's Drug Testing a Negative for Many Parents

Annette Fuentes | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Marijuana, Drug Testing, Catholic Schools, Norml, Harry Connick Sr, Santa Fe, Education News

When St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, sent out a letter in February about a proposed random drug testing program for next school year, it ignited a controversy among parents at the private school.

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Pot Legalization Initiative Will Appear On 2012 Ballot

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Video, Legalize Pot, Sensible Colorado, Marijuana, Colorado Drug Law, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Use Marijuana, Mmj, Pot, Norml, Federal Drug Law, Legalize Marijuana, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, Denver News

DENVER -- Colorado voters will decide this fall whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use when the state becomes the second in the nation to ...

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Will Pot Legalization Question Make The Ballot?

Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Video, Legalize Pot, Sensible Colorado, Colorado Drug Law, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Mmj, Recreational Use Marijuana, Pot, Federal Drug Law, Norml, Legalize Marijuana, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, Denver News

A group of marijuana activists seeking recreational use legalization for adults in Colorado expects to hear if they gathered enough signatures for a p...

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Pot Activists To Turn In Additional 12,000 Signatures

Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Video, Legalize Pot, Sensible Colorado, Colorado Drug Law, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Mmj, Recreational Use Marijuana, Pot, Federal Drug Law, Norml, Legalize Marijuana, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, Denver News

Colorado marijuana activists seeking recreational use legalization for adults are hoping that the additional 12,000 signatures they have gathered will...

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Pot Activists Gather Nearly Double The Signatures For Legalization Measure

Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Video, Legalize Pot, Sensible Colorado, Colorado Drug Law, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Mmj, Recreational Use Marijuana, Pot, Federal Drug Law, Norml, Legalize Marijuana, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, Denver News

As the state seeks reclassification of medical marijuana to a schedule 2 drug, Colorado pot activists are seeking full recreational use legalization, ...

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The Top Ten "Reefer Madness" Stories of 2011

Russ Belville | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Norml, Glaucoma, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Psychosis, Synthetic Pot, NORML Blog, Dispensaries, Propaganda, Mental Illness, Chronic Pain, Medical Marijuana Program, Cocaine, Weird News News

Reefer Madness is the 1936 anti-pot propaganda film showing young people becoming crazed and violent on the effects of "reefer." Today, we use it as shorthand to describe the hysterical warnings by the anti-drug zealots as reported by a complacent media.

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House Reps Demand End To Crackdown On Pot Clinics

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Dana Rohrabacher, White House, California Marijuana Crackdown, Pete Stark, Lynn Woolsey, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Pot, Marijuana Legalization, Norml, Barbara Lee, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress are calling on the Obama administration to end the federal crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in California, citing...

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Feds Target Newspapers And Radio For Marijuana Ads

| Michael Montgomery | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Feds Target Marijuana, Pot Ads Radio, Pot Ads, Marijuana Ads, Drug War, Pot Ads Newspaper, Medical Marijuana, Pot Ads TV, Marijuana Ads Newspaper, Norml, Marijuana California, Marijuana Ads Radio, Marijuana Ads TV, San Francisco News

Michael Montgomery, California Watch Federal prosecutors are preparing to target newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets that advertise ...

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Former Cop, Judge Collecting Signatures To LEGALIZE Pot

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Recreational Use Pot, Denver News, Poll, Norml, Pot Legalization, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, Leap, Sensible Colorado, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Legalize Pot Colorado, Marijuana Legalization, Colorado News, Legalize Marijuana, Colorado Marijuana Laws, Video, Denver News

A former Denver Police officer and former Lafayette judge will be collecting signatures to support the new full recreational use of marijuana legaliza...

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Pot Legalization Effort Begins Today In Colorado

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 09.06.2011

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Pot activists are aiming for full legalization of marijuana in Colorado and the fight begins today in Denver. Supporters of legal recreational-use...

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Marijuana Dispensaries Struggle To Obtain Service From Banks

Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Credit-Card Companies, U.S. Bank, Federal Authorities, Alpine Herbal Wellness, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, District of Columbia, Aids, Marijuana Dispensaries, Banks, Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer, Norml, Dea, Legalize Marijuana, Bank of America Corp, See Change Strategy, Business News

ST. LOUIS, June 17 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - Marijuana dispensaries in states that have legalized medical pot are struggling to obtain service f...

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NORML Director: Things Don't Loom Good For Marijuana Dispensaries Fighting IRS

Colorado Independent | Kyle Daly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: IRS Marijuana, Federal Crackdown on Medical Marijuana, Irs, Mmj, Norml, Medical Marijuana, Colorado Medical Marijuana, Denver News

In a post on Drug War Chronicle, criminal justice journalist Clarence Walker reports that the DEA and FBI are together putting pressure on banks in no...

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Sexism in the Marijuana Trade

Steve Bloom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pot, Marijuana, Sexism, Norml, Rob Kampia, High Times, Jenna Jameson, Weed, Marijuana Policy Project, Mpp, Celebstoner, Media News

Been to a cannabis trade show lately? The floors are crawling with barely-clothed women pitching products. People shrug and say that's what happens at trade shows, but why does that have to be the case at our shows?

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MMJ Community Sound Off On Bill That Would Limit THC Levels For Drivers

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Legislature, Thc, TCH Driving, Claire Levy, Mark Waller, Norml, Medical Marijuana, Colorado Medical Marijuana, Marijuana, Denver News

DENVER — The surge of medical marijuana use in Colorado has started another debate in the state Legislature: What constitutes driving while high...

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Drug Czar Blames Rising Teen Pot Use on Medical Cannabis Laws Rather Than on His Own Failed Policies

Paul Armentano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cannabis, Monitoring the Future, Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, Norml, Drug Czar, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Gil Kerlikowske, Prohibition, Politics News

For Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske and his mindless rhetoric, never forget the words of novelist Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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Judiciary Committee Member to Block Leonhart for DEA

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Citing Michelle Leonhart's controversial position on prescription pain-killers for terminal patients suffering intractable pain, the Senate Judiciary Committee blocked her nomination to head the DEA.

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Marijuana Rights Groups Prepared for Serious Highs and Lows

Daniel Hernandez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, George Soros, Drug Policy Alliance, California, Dustin Moskovitz, Ethan Nadelmann, Prop 19, Medical Marijuana, Marijuana Legalization, Norml, Legalize Marijuana, Allen St. Pierre, Sean Parker, Marijuana, Politics News

In the coming years, NORML will join other local and national organizations in challenging the pharmaceutical remodeling of medical marijuana, a looming political trend that they call "anti-pleasure seeking, hypocritical" policy toward intoxicating drugs.

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Obama's DEA Nominee Pledges To Ignore Administration's Medical Marijuana Policy

Paul Armentano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cannabis, Medical Cannabis, Michele Leonhart, New Mexico, Norml, Marijuana, Maine, Drug Enforcement Administration, Dea, Washington DC, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Arizona, Senate, Eric Holder, Politics News

A little over a year ago, the DoJ announced that it would back away from pursuing cases against medical marijuana patients and providers acting in accordance with state and local laws. President Obama's nominee to direct the United States Drug Enforcement Administration didn't get the memo.

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Mexico's Presidents Are Considering Legalizing Drugs. Will the U.S. Join the Debate?

Daniel Robelo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico, Drug War, Drugs, Vicente Fox, Sinaloa Cartel, Calderon, Prop 19, Norml, Drug Legalization, Politics News

President Calderon's openness to debating legalization comes amid new recognition that the cartels are not just killing each other -- they are openly challenging the Mexican state.

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Where Marketing, Mission, and Marijuana Meet

Kate Rados | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 4/20, Marijuana, Norml, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Chelsea Green, Book Publicity, Books, Free eBooks, Safer, Books News

With our reputation for mission-based publishing and the 'sticking it to the man-ness' of the stunt, readers knew our free eBook wasn't just a tchotchke: this was a call to arms.

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Latest CBS News Polls Finds Majority of Western Voters, Californians, Back Marijuana Legalization

Paul Armentano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norml, Marijuana, Drugs, Obama, Cbs, Pot, Zogby, Marijuana Is Safer, Prohibition, California, Cannabis, Tax Cannabis, Angus Reid, Alcohol, Tax Marijuana, Thc, Ballot Inititiative, Tax and Regulate, Legalization, Politics News

The poll reported that a majority of West Coast residents favor legalizing the use of cannabis. In the northeast, 44% of respondents back legalization, vs. 40% in the South and 36% in the Midwest.

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Big-Pharma Backed Marijuana Spray Approved As Medicine, But Consumers Of The Natural Herb Still Face Jail

Paul Armentano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bayer, United Kingdom, Norml, Marijuana, Dea, Multiple Sclerosis, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Pot, Big Pharma, Britain, Sativex, Cannabis, Thc, Health Care, Drug Czar, Politics News

British health regulators have approved the sale and marketing of Sativex, an oral spray consisting of natural cannabis extracts as a treatment for symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

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NORML Marijuana Arrests Billboard To Debut On 4/20 In Times Square

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 4/20, Weed Billboard, Times Square Billboard, Norml, New York City, 420, Marijuana Arrests, Marijuana Day, Marijuana Billboard, Video, New York News

Just in time for 4/20, the official/unofficial marijuana holiday, the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws will debut their new digital ad h...

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Medical Marijuana Is Already Legal in Illinois, Chicago Reader Reports

Chicago Reader | Dan Savage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marijuana, Illinois Department of Human Services, Chicago, Medical Marijuana, Illinois, Marijuana Legalization, Illinois Marijuana Legalization, Norml, Chicago News

In 1978 the Illinois legislature passed a Cannabis Control Act to try to bring common sense to the state's drug laws. Though the drug causes "physical...

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