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Yellow Journalism To Blame For Pot Prohibition?

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on May 15, 2008June 14, 2022

So why does the media consistently ‘get the story wrong’ when it comes to pot? While I don’t believe there’s any grand conspiracy going on, I do believe that journalists in general engage in several bad habits that negatively skew their cannabis coverage.

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A senior couple sits on their porch smoking a legal cannabis joint
  • Activism

How To Tell If The Drug Czar Is Lying? His Lips Are Moving

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on May 12, 2008June 10, 2020

Gotta love Walters’ remark about hygiene — which he appears to have taken almost verbatim from Above The Influence’s hateful propaganda film, Stoners In The Mist.

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Smoke wafts from a green glass Sherlock pipe rating on a white table next to an open prescription-style bottle of medical cannabis
  • Activism

It's Official: Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith Have Lost Their Minds

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on May 7, 2008June 10, 2020

It is the third time in six years that the Panel has demanded that legislators classify cannabis as a Class C ‘soft’ drug, with minor, if any, criminal penalties.

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Willie Nelson
  • Activism

Happy 75th Birthday To NORML Advisory Board Member Willie Nelson!

  • by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
  • Posted on April 28, 2008June 9, 2020

Best wishes and happy travels to one of America’s great authors of music, masters of the performance stage and American highways.

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Hemp Field
  • GOVERNMENT

President Ulysses S. Grant’s Timeless Observations On “Possession Of The Weed” And Ineffectiveness Of Prohibition

  • by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
  • Posted on April 26, 2008June 9, 2020

Since the start of Nixon’s drug war in 1965, we’ve arrested nearly 20 million Americans for marijuana offenses, 89%-90% for possession only. It is time to end America’s insane war on marijuana, our long-running “unjust war”

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Leaf with bow
  • Activism

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union: First Wrong On Alcohol, Now Wrong On Cannabis

  • by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
  • Posted on April 24, 2008June 9, 2020

The WCTU was wrong-headed about fostering alcohol prohibition as a means of social control in the same way that it and numerous other so-called anti-drug organizations that exist today, are equally wrong to foster public policies that treat responsible adult cannabis consumers as violent criminals.

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Marijuana Plants
  • SOCIETY

Special Offer for NORML Supporters-25% off New Cannabis Centric Film!

  • by NORML
  • Posted on April 18, 2008August 14, 2020

NORML is pleased to announced that Salient Media is offering NORML supporters and chapters 25%…

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Marijuana Possession
  • Activism

New York Times And MSM Hype Cannabis Poisoned With Lead, But Are They Missing The Larger Point Regarding Prohibition?

  • by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
  • Posted on April 16, 2008June 9, 2020

NORML’s letter to the editor of New York Times, April 15, 2008: The April 15,…

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