Activism

Televised Forum for Texas Governor and Attorney General Candidates

Posted by Stephen on July 2, 2010 at 1:32 pm

On Monday, July 5th, the Kerrville Area League of Women Voters will feature candidates for Governor and Attorney General with questions from the audience at the Cailloux Theater, 910 Main St, in Kerrville. This event will be televised on KVHC-TV and statewide. The theater holds over 700 people, and Libertarians are encouraged to attend [...]

Pot Activists Enlisting Mothers for Legalization Sales Pitch

Posted by Stephen on May 9, 2010 at 11:50 am

DENVER — Moms got tougher drunk-driving laws on the books and were directly responsible for passing and then repealing alcohol Prohibition. Now marijuana activists are trying to enlist the nation’s mothers in legalization efforts with a sales pitch that pot is safer than booze.
The nation’s largest marijuana legalization lobby recently started a women’s group. The [...]

Why Students Hold The Key To Ending Marijuana Prohibition

Posted by Stephen on March 22, 2010 at 1:23 pm

The following speech was given by NORML’s Deputy Director before nearly 500 attendees on Saturday, March 13, at the opening plenary of Students for Sensible Drug Policy’s 11th International Conference, at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. To read full coverage of the conference, please see DRCNet’s report here.
My name is Paul Armentano and [...]

Activists arrested, denied first amendment rights

Posted by Stephen on March 22, 2010 at 10:49 am

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NORML’s 39th National Annual Conference Convenes In Portland, Oregon

Posted by Stephen on March 17, 2010 at 12:19 pm

Dear NORML Supporters,
At the busiest and most productive time in the cannabis law reform movement’s history, there has never been a better time to attend a national NORML conference!
The 39th annual national NORML conference will be held September 9-11, 2010 at the historic landmark Governor Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon.
This year’s annual [...]

Rick Simpson’s Hemp-oil Medicine

Posted by Stephen on December 11, 2009 at 11:24 am

From the time he was 12 years old, Rick Simpson just wanted a job so he could make some money. He was smart enough to get by in school without having to open a book, so education wasn’t something he took very seriously. After getting in trouble for supplying his ninth-grade teacher with a case [...]

Texans Trying To Legalize Medical Marijuana

Posted by Stephen on December 6, 2009 at 10:22 pm

GARLAND, Texas — Tim Timmons is not your average pot smoker.
The former risk management consultant, college professor and stand-out athlete has never considered himself a hippy or a pothead.
Even so, Timmons has been smoking marijuana nearly every day for the past six years. He doesn’t smoke to get high. According to him, he’s just taking [...]

Support The National Criminal Justice Act of 2009!

Posted by Stephen on December 2, 2009 at 4:11 pm

Over a dozen U.S. Senators, led by Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, are seeking to establish a blue-ribbon commission to review America’s criminal justice policies — and the criminalization of nonviolent drug possession in particular.
Senate Bill 714, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009, seeks to initiate a comprehensive re-evaluation of America’s drug and prison [...]

Cheech & Chong Talk Legalization on the O’Reilly Factor

Posted by Stephen on November 22, 2009 at 2:53 pm

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MassCann/NORML Medical Marijuana Lobby Day

Posted by Stephen on November 19, 2009 at 9:52 pm

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First Annual National Government Sucks Day Rally 11-7-09

Posted by Stephen on October 30, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Billed as the First Annual National Government Sucks Day Rally, the event is being held by and for small government and no government activists only.
Karen De Coster, writing from her lewrockwell.com web page, has extended an open invitation to all “Libertarians, Anarchists, Objectivists, and followers of Ron Paul. Front porch radicals and independents are free [...]

Rockefellers Fund Global-warming Protests as Earth Cools

Posted by Stephen on October 27, 2009 at 6:26 pm

All across the world, collections of global-warming protestors financed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gathered on October 24 to call for forceful “climate change” action at the United Nations summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December. Most of the gatherings were minuscule, even in big cities, but the effort did receive widespread publicity. [...]

Ron Paul on Senators Jeff Merkley and Bob Corker new bill to sabotage the Audit The Fed bill

Posted by Stephen on October 22, 2009 at 12:07 pm

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Hemp farmers arrested for planting hemp seeds on DEA lawn

Posted by Stephen on October 14, 2009 at 9:02 pm

Six of the twenty protesters outside DEA headquarters were arrested on Tuesday for trespassing when they planted hemp seeds on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s lawn. The protesters say they are arguing that the plant is a crop and not a drug, as it does not contain enough of the THC content needed to make you [...]

Paypal No Pal of Medical Marijuana

Posted by Stephen on October 13, 2009 at 11:10 am

California NORML Release – Oct 12, 2009
Paypal, the well-known internet payment company has told California NORML that it will no longer accept payments to our “type of business” because we accept listing payments from cannabis-recommending physicians.
After years of offering free listings to physicians and collectives at our website http://www.canorml.org, CaNORML began charging a yearly listing [...]