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Author: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director

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  • Legalization

NORML Op-Ed: Take Marijuana Off the Streets and Put It Behind the Counter

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on June 10, 2025April 30, 2026

By taking cannabis products off street corners and placing them behind the counter, lawmakers are providing cannabis consumers with safer experiences and greatly reducing their risk of being inadvertently exposed to contaminated products.

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  • Activism

NORML Op-Ed: Marijuana Legalization Advocates Are the Majority. It’s Time to Act Like It.

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on April 15, 2025May 2, 2025

Regardless of whether you live in a red or blue state, or in a jurisdiction where cannabis is legal or illicit, it’s time for legalization advocates to stand up and assert themselves.

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  • Legalization

NORML Op-Ed: Marijuana Consumers Are Under Attack in Multiple States and It’s Time To Fight Back

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on March 18, 2025April 2, 2025

Those who support legalizing marijuana are not part of the ideological fringe; we are the majority. It’s time for us to act like it and for lawmakers to treat cannabis consumers with the respect they deserve.

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  • Research

NORML Op-Ed: What We Know About Cannabis Far Exceeds What We Don’t

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on November 13, 2024November 13, 2024

Scientists’ focus on cannabis has increased exponentially in recent years, as has our understanding of the plant, its active constituents, their mechanisms of action, and their effects on the user and upon society.

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  • Legalization

NORML Op-Ed: Legalizing Marijuana Does Not Jeopardize Mental Health

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on October 25, 2024October 25, 2024

Those populations most vulnerable to cannabis-related adverse health events stand to benefit from a regulatory environment that promotes consumer education, product quality control and responsible use.

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  • Ballot Initiative

NORML Op-Ed: Cast the Fear-Mongering Aside — The Sky Won’t Fall if Florida Legalizes Marijuana

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on October 15, 2024October 15, 2024

Criminalizing cannabis is a failed Florida policy. Let’s end it.

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  • Legalization

NORML Op-Ed: Marijuana Prohibition Has Been a Fraud From the Get-Go

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on October 7, 2024October 7, 2024

Marijuana prohibition has been a fraud from the beginning — often propagated by politicians and bureaucrats who were in on the sham. It’s high time we end it.

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  • Election

NORML Op-Ed: Both Presidential Candidates Agree: We Need To Stop Arresting People for Marijuana

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on September 20, 2024October 2, 2024

At a time when voters and politicians are historically divided, there is one issue that Americans largely agree upon: It’s time to legalize marijuana.

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