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Keith Stroup, Founder of NORML
  • A Founder Looks at 50

A Founder Looks at 50: Keith Stroup on Starting NORML

  • by Keith Stroup, NORML Legal Counsel
  • Posted on May 1, 2020August 3, 2020

On NORML’s 50th anniversary, NORML’s Founder Keith Stroup reflects back on a lifetime as America’s foremost marijuana smoker and legalization advocate. This is the first in a series of blogs on the history of NORML and the legalization movement covering the founding of NORML itself.

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Keith Stroup, Founder of NORML
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The Origins of NORML: How Marijuana Reform Was Born

  • by Keith Stroup, NORML Legal Counsel
  • Posted on July 14, 2014June 21, 2022

I’m sometimes asked how a midwestern farm-boy ended up starting a marijuana smokers’ lobby. I…

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