San Francisco, CA: An overflow crowd of more than 500 marijuana-law reformers jammed the halls of San Francisco’s Cathedral Hill Hotel to attend last week’s 2005 national NORML Conference and call for an end to America’s criminal pot laws.
News stories on the NORML conference were featured prominently in numerous local media outlets, including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Oakland Tribune, KQED radio, The Orange County Register, KGO talk radio, The Tri-Valley Herald, and The Eureka Times-Standard, among others.
2005 NORML award recipients included: Michael Aldrich, recipient of NORML’s Lifetime Achievement Award; Dale Gieringer, recipient of the Lester Grinspoon Award (for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Marijuana Law Reform); Rick Steves, recipient of the Hunter S. Thompson/NORML Media Award; Angel McClary-Raich, Diane Monson, Gary Storck, and Jackie Rickert, recipients of the Peter McWilliams Award (for Outstanding Achievement in Advancing the Cause of Medical Marijuana); Debby Goldsberry, recipient of the Pauline Sabin Award (in Honor and Recognition for the Crucial Need and Importance of Women’s Leadership in Ending Marijuana Prohibition); Steven Epstein, recipient of NORML’s Outstanding Cannabis Advocate Award; and Chris Mulligan, recipient of NORML’s Student Activism Award.
Photos and highlights from the 2005 NORML conference will be available shortly on the NORML web site at: http://www.norml.org