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Archives: News Releases

Since 1992, every Thursday and when breaking news warrants, NORML | The NORML Foundation have been issuing weekly press releases for marijuana law supporters and the media.

NORML’s News Releases archives goes back to 1996 and serves as a valuable tool to alert citizens about cannabis-related news and legislation as well as a research tool for reviewing a chronology of marijuana law reform.

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Illinois Hemp Study Nixed by Governor

Governor George Ryan (R) vetoed legislation Friday that would have allowed the University of Illinois…

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Health Canada to Fund Clinical Trial on Smoked Cannabis and Pain

Health Canada has agreed to fund one of the first ever peer-reviewed clinical trials on…

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Cops Destroy Native Americans’ Hemp PlantsCrop Not Subject to Fed’s Drug Laws, Sioux’s Assert

Federal drug enforcement agents recently destroyed several acres of hemp growing on the Pine Ridge…

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Drug War Ultra-Hawk Confirmed as DEA Chief

By a vote of 98 to 1, Senators overwhelmingly confirmed Arkansas Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R)…

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Canada’s Legal Pot Program Up and Running

Nationwide regulations allowing patients to grow and use medicinal marijuana took effect Monday. Canada is…

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Poll Shows Americans Strongly Oppose Jailing Minor Drug Offenders

Three out of four Americans oppose jailing minor drug offenders, including those convicted of purchasing…

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Bush Not Enthusiastic About Hemp

President George Bush does not favor lifting Congress’s embargo on the domestic cultivation of industrial…

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British Government to Consider Relaxing Pot Laws

A powerful House of Commons committee is poised to begin a formal inquiry into the…

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