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Tag: Oaksterdam

NORML Remembers: Richard Lee
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NORML Remembers Richard Lee

  • by NORML
  • Posted on July 28, 2025July 28, 2025

“Richard’s courage to fight when it wasn’t easy, when it wasn’t safe, and when few others dared, led to a domino effect of global change that we are still witnessing today. He didn’t wait for the system to catch up; he worked relentlessly to make it right.”

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California Marijuana Laws
  • Activism

Oaksterdam’s Richard Lee speaks out on federal raids of his university and home

  • by Russ Belville
  • Posted on April 5, 2012June 16, 2022

On today’s episode of NORML SHOW LIVE we spoke live with Richard Lee, founder of…

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California Marijuana Laws
  • Activism

Stand With Richard Lee: Tell Obama to End the Medical Marijuana Raids

  • by Erik Altieri, Former NORML Executive Director
  • Posted on April 3, 2012June 16, 2022

Earlier this week, agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the…

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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
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Federal agents with DEA, IRS, raid marijuana trade school Oaksterdam University

  • by Russ Belville
  • Posted on April 2, 2012June 16, 2022

OAKLAND — Federal agents swooped in Monday morning to search Oakland’s Oaksterdam University in Oakland, the state’s first…

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Marijuana Consumer
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Newsweek Magazine, PBS NewsHour, FOX Business News all look at mainstreaming of marijuana legalization

  • by Russ Belville
  • Posted on October 16, 2009June 15, 2022

This week we’ve seen three usually staid mainstream media outlets – Newsweek Magazine, the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and FOX Business News – examining the growing movement in California and nationwide to discuss the inevitable re-legalization of cannabis in America.

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The NORML Foundation
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Profiles in Cannabis: Richard Lee

  • by Russ Belville
  • Posted on September 12, 2009June 23, 2020

Richard Lee has been working to end cannabis prohibition for nearly two decades. In 1992 he co-founded Legal Marijuana – The Hemp Store in Houston, Texas, one of the first hemp products retail outlets in the United States.

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Take Action for Marijuana Law Reform
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Last Chance To Register For NORML’s 2008 National Conference

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on October 13, 2008June 10, 2020

NORML’s 37th annual national conference, “It’s Not Your Parents’ Prohibition,” takes place this week – on Friday, October 17 and Saturday, October 18 – at the Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Berkeley, California.

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