With the recent watershed achievements of legalization in New Jersey, Virginia, New York, and New Mexico all occurring within the first three months of 2021, it is clear that we have won the public debate — but nonetheless nearly 60% of Americans still live outside these legal jurisdictions.
This 4/20, join NORML in calling for a day of action rather than just a day of celebration and help us #FinishTheFight.
Please use the following resources to help spread the word through your social channels about how folks can help #FinishTheFight at the federal and state level.
Since its founding in 1970, @NORML has provided a voice in the public policy debate for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition and favor an end to the practice of arresting marijuana consumers.
We’ve never been closer to the end of federal marijuana prohibition but we need your help.
Will you join #NORML and help #FinishTheFight?
#Happy420
Since its founding in 1970, @NORML has provided a voice in the policy debate for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition.
We’ve never been closer to the end of federal marijuana prohibition but we need your help.
Will you join #NORML and help #FinishTheFight?
#Happy420
Since its founding in 1970, @NORML has provided a voice in the policy debate for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition.
We’ve never been closer to the end of federal marijuana prohibition but we need your help.
Over 40% of Americans now reside in a jurisdiction where the possession of cannabis by adults is legal under state law.
Public support for legalization is at a record high, with some two-thirds of Americans – including majorities of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans – supporting adult-use legalization.
Despite the growing number of states that have legalized, over 550,000 Americans are still arrested every year for marijuana-related violations — more than the total number of people arrested for all violent crimes combined. Over 90 percent of these marijuana arrests are for possession only.
Legalizing marijuana disrupts the illicit market, ends tens of thousands of annual low-level marijuana arrests, and creates jobs and new revenue. It further promotes public health and safety by taking the cannabis trade away from criminal entrepreneurs and placing it in the hands of licensed businesses.
It is time for Congress to end its ‘Flat Earth’ mentality with regard to cannabis and amend federal law to comport with the emerging cultural consensus and with the marijuana laws of the majority of US states.
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Instead, say…
We want to legalize marijuana nationwide.
We want to repeal federal marijuana prohibition, thus allowing states to set their own cannabis policies.
Tax revenue from marijuana legalization can fix budget deficits.
Tax revenue from sales of legal marijuana can be used to undo the harm that communities have suffered historically under criminalization.
“Black market”
“Illicit market” or “illegal market”
According to a recent report by the ACLU, Black Americans are almost four times more likely to be arrested for cannabis-related crimes than white Americans.
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, over 545,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana-related crimes in 2019 alone, over 90% of those arrested were charged with mere possession.
The state-legal cannabis industry employs over 321,000 full-time workers; that is over four times the number of jobs specific to the coal industry.
