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March 12th, 2012
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NORML SHOW LIVE #870 – Houston Means I’m One Day Closer To You
Russ Belville’s presentation for marijuana legalization at The James A. Baker Institute; music by Stanley Jordan.
Roots Monday: Stanley Jordan – “Capital J”
The answer to the question: “What do you call a marijuana cigarette rolled in Washington, DC?”
Texas NORML’s Josh Schimberg comments on legalization, Pat Robertson, for Austin FOX affiliate (VIDEO)
Texas NORML’s Josh Schimberg comments on legalization, Pat Robertson, for Austin FOX affiliate (VIDEO)
Michelle Alexander: Go to trial, crash the justice system
AFTER years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I know posed during a phone conversation one recent evening gave me pause: “What would happen if we organized thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of people charged with crimes to refuse to play the game, to refuse to plea out? What if they all insisted on their Sixth Amendment right to trial? Couldn’t we bring the whole system to a halt just like that?”
Play Reefer March Madness with The NORML Network
It’s college basketball tournament (a.k.a. “March Madness”) time again and everyone is filling out their office bracket pools… so why should The NORML Network be any different? You can get involved by joining us at our Reefer March Madness Bracket Pool on CBS Sports. Just create your account on CBS Sports, then log in and visit our Reefer March Madness at http://rad-r.us/420madness. Use the password Got2B420 (capitalization matters) to access the easy online bracket, which you fill in by clicking on the team you think will win each game. Icons on each team let you get some background if you (like me) have not a single clue about college basketball.
The Silver Tour promotes medical marijuana on Florida billboards
The giant billboards are sponsored by The Silver Tour, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating senior voters about medical marijuana. The Silver Tour’s founder, and Director of NORML of Florida, Robert Platshorn is the man who convinced Lake Worth Representative Jeff Clemens to file Florida’s first bill for medical marijuana in Tallahassee. The billboards are part of a three prong plan to push for the passage of medical marijuana in Florida.
What About the Children?!? (by Wayne Reiss)
If we were truly concerned about our children, we would stop arresting them. Arrest, conviction and incarceration of youth and their parents devastate families and are far more harmful than cannabis. William F. Buckley said it best, “Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”
FDA Approval of Cannabis is a Red Herring (by Wayne Reiss)
There is no legal, medical or ethical reason for cannabis to pass FDA approval. Like cannabis, pharmaceutical drugs such as morphine, penicillin, aspirin and several others never passed FDA approval and became part of the medical pharmacopeia based on anecdotal evidence alone. For these reasons, most politicians and some physicians argue that cannabis cannot be considered medicine (despite hundreds of peer reviewed research to the contrary) until it passes FDA approval yet they make no such claims regarding any pharmaceutical medications which meet the identical criteria.
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