By "Radical" Russ Belville on June 20, 2009
NORML National Conference 2009 - Yes We Cannabis! - Sep. 24-26 - Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Francisco, California
The National Conference is in San Francisco this year at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The dates are Thur. Sep. 24 through Sat. Sep. 26. Thursday is dedicated to cannabusiness, with presentations featuring Oaksterdam University, dispensary owners, and lawyers familiar with dispensary law. Friday and Saturday will feture our plenary and breakout panels dedicated to marijuana law, activism, and science. We’ll also have our legendary social event at a very special location.
This year’s theme is “Yes We Cannabis!” and we’re dedicating special focus to our state and local chapters of NORML. Local NORML activists will be eligible for deep discounts on the conference and events, including invitation to some events that are NORML-only.
Stay tuned to this blog for more information as it becomes available.
Posted in ACTIVISM, LEGISLATION, SOCIETY | Tagged California, NORML CON, San Francisco
I am the host of the NORML SHOW LIVE and The NORML Stash Blog. I'm married, live in Portland, Oregon, and I am a registered medical marijuana caregiver in this state. I've worked days as an IT geek and nights as a professional musician. Previously, I have been the host of my own political talk radio show on satellite radio. I've been the High Times "Freedom Fighter of the Month" for my work producing Oregon NORML's TV show, "A Cannabis Community Forum", and for helping to institute Portland's wildly successful medical marijuana cardholders meetings, where we help sick and disabled Oregonians acquire cannabis plant starts, learn gardening, and understand the medical marijuana law. I've dedicated my life to bringing an end to adult marijuana prohibition and re-legalizing cannabis hemp, and I'm honored to be chosen by NORML to be our daily voice.
where can a guy get a yes we cannabis tees?
don’t see anywhere on the website.adios.
Yes, NORML CON is open to the public. Official announcement (and costs) on tomorrow’s Stash.
Whoa, NormlCon ’09 will be in my neck of the woods? Nice. Will this conference be open to the general public or to just certain membership? How much is registration?
Keep us posted about this, Russ. I’ve never been to one of these and I’m pretty interested in going if I can.
Me? I’ll rejoice!
People wonder “what happens to NORML once pot is legal?”, often with an eye toward a conspiracy theory that we really don’t want it legal because then we won’t have jobs.
It makes me laugh, because everyone who works at NORML would make at least twice their salary doing the same job in the for-profit world.
But when pot is re-legalized, NORML, I believe, will still be standing while MPP, DPA, ASA, etc will fade away? Why? Because while they are about marijuana policy or drug policy or marijuana access, we are about marijuana. We are the pot smoker’s (and vapers and eaters) lobby, and after pot is legal, pot smokers will still exist.
I think of it like the cigar aficionados or wine snobs or microbrew lovers – those drugs are legal, but they have a definite community and a lobby that promotes their substance. I think NORML will be that for cannabis.
And even if the feds legalize, there will still be a need to lobby state and local jurisdictions in matters related to cannabis law – we may have more work following legal pot than now!
What will you do when we buy this stuff at $4.oo a bail +sh? Maybe lobby for the Hemp Industry providing carbon nuetral fuel,none toxic plastic food for the world OR naybe lobby for the truth
that in the late 1800′s they the government and industry made hemp illegal and proseded to poison the land,air,water and us. If you add up the deaths from being poluted and from the denial of medicine. My soul tells me it has greatly surpassed the Holocaust.