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Marijuana Law Reform Beyond America’s Borders

by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
Posted on July 27, 2015

Marijuana law reform beyond America’s borders: Today’s round up looks at Australia, Israel, Italy, United Kingdom and Portugal

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Drug Czar Kerlikowske addresses UN report on success of decriminalization, without mentioning decriminalization

by Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator
Posted on June 24, 2009June 16, 2020

The remarks from our Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy on the release of the UN 2009 World Drug Report, which endorsed drug decriminalization in a reversal of previous policy. Guess which 17-letter D-word never gets mentioned once in our “drug czar’s” 781-word statement?

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"If A Measured, Rational Debate Over America's Extremist Drug Policies Can Take Place In Time Magazine, Then It Can Take Place Anywhere."

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Posted on April 27, 2009June 16, 2020

Just weeks after Time’s Joe Klein declared “legalizing marijuana makes sense,” the magazine is once again extolling the virtues of liberalizing cannabis prohibition.
Writing in the Sunday edition of Time.com, author (and frequent media critic) Maia Szalavitz asks, “Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?”