It has been a very busy, yet exciting new year for the NORML Women’s Alliance. Over the winter, we have continued to develop the program by pushing forward with outreach events, local activism, filling leadership roles and generating media coverage.
Tag: Virginia
January 2012 marks the beginning of a new legislative session in all 50 states. Already,…
January 2012 marks the beginning of a new legislative session in all 50 states. Already,…
It’s January and once again it’s time for NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up — activists’…
It’s January 2010, and that means it is time once again for NORML’s Weekly Legislative…
It’s January 2010, and that means it is time once again for NORML’s Weekly Legislative…
prohibition laws–notably due to an encounter with law enforcement.
A few weeks ago I received a letter from a father of a young man arrested and incarcerated on minor cannabis-related charges in Arlington, Virginia. The father’s lament is deep and profound, beyond the standard pleas for help NORML so regularly receives. So much so that I asked him if he would send NORML the original letter for publication.
They’ll tell you that if hemp were legal, growers of illicit high-THC pot would hide their crops in-between the rows of hemp. Any farmer can tell you that what you’d get is cross-pollination; the hemp would ruin the high of the pot and the pot would ruin the strength of the hemp.