Looks like police all around America are becoming aware of two solid, irrefutable, unimpeachable, constant truths:

1) The Law of Supply and Demand.

2) Americans everywhere like to smoke pot.

(Huffington Post) The price of marijuana in California has taken a dip over recent years, and that has motivated some to sell their cash crop out of state. As with most goods and services, pot prices are determined by supply, demand and quality.

A pound of the highest-quality marijuana could bring a grower $2,500 if sold to a dealer in Fresno, but as much as $5,500 to a dealer in Greensboro, N.C., according to the National Drug Intelligence Center, which looked at prices in mid-2010. Interviews with pot growers and others in the industry suggest the California wholesale price is closer to about $1,500 a pound if sold here.

Simone said the farther east you go, the more people are willing to pay. James Benno, director of Nor-Cal NORML, which advocates for marijuana users, doesn’t disagree.

“I’m not going to deny that kind of stuff goes on,” he said. “A lot of people are in this for the money. If you can get $4,000 for a pound in New York and $1,500 here in California, it stands to reason that people who are in this for the money are going to take it where the money’s at.”

The prohibitionists are pointing to the medical marijuana laws in California, Oregon, and Washington as fueling a flood of West Coast Weed that’s washing over their Midwestern, Southern, and Eastern states.  However, as California NORML points out, most of the dispensaries in his state are operating in a “closed loop” of supply and distribution:

“Medical marijuana is a small percentage of the California market,” he said. “The medical marijuana that’s being grown for the dispensaries is generally being done by patients in a fairly closed loop. I’m not going to say there’s no leakage there, but it’s insignificant compared to the enormous amount that’s being produced in non-medical markets.”

He’s right, in a sense, but that can’t be proven or even tested.  Marijuana is fungible.  A person isn’t a “medical marijuana grower” producing “medical marijuana” or a “drug dealer” producing “pot” – cannabis is cannabis.  Dispensary A may indeed only get its medicine from legit medical Grower B, but Grower B may be selling half to Dispensary A and letting half get trucked to Ohio to Dealer X.  Grower B may have acquired some product from illegal Grower Y and added that to his sale to Dispensary A.  There is really no possible way to know how much marijuana in a dispensary or on the street is “medical”.

Morgan Fox of MPP responds to the smuggling claims by pointing out how states need to have “dispensary systems … set up along strict guidelines“, like Maine, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.  New Jersey, Morgan?!?  Where there are six dispensaries in a state of nine million limited to producing three strains of less-than-10% THC?  Where patients aren’t allowed to grow their own plants?  With more systems like that there will be more demand among patients for that real medical-potency marijuana smuggled in from the West Coast.

I think it is foolish to try to pretend that medical marijuana on the West Coast hasn’t both depressed the retail price (“medical” and “recreational”) and contributed to interstate trafficking.  To do so is to ask the public to ignore their own common sense – they understand supply and demand.  If something’s cheap and plentiful here and not so plentiful elsewhere, someone from here will supply that demand there.

Instead, this is the opportunity we must take to pivot the discussion from medical marijuana to marijuana prohibition.  How does a pound cost $4,000 in New York and $1,500 in California?  Prohibition!  The only way to eliminate the smuggling is to make a California pound cost $4,000 or make a New York pound cost $1,500.  Since New York can’t change California’s laws, maybe it should enact its own medical marijuana law.  Nobody’s smuggling New York weed to California, after all.

We must get the public to see that marijuana use is inevitable.  They can think non-medical use is a dirty habit, a poor health choice, a moral failing, but what it is not is a crime.  Marijuana use is inextricably woven into our culture and prohibition merely criminalizes an otherwise peaceful and productive subculture and creates profit motive for smugglers.  Legalize it – nobody’s smuggling California Budweiser to New York, after all.  (They are, however, smuggling Virginia and North Carolina cigarettes to New York, thanks to extreme taxation… a lesson for post-prohibition when we begin taxing cannabis…)

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• One Million Legal Marijuana Patients in USA

At Least 1 – 1.5 Million Americans are Legal Medical Marijuana Patients

Market for these patients in sixteen states and D.C. estimated at between $2 – $6 billion annually

MAY 31, 2011 - We don’t know his or her name, but somewhere in one of sixteen states and the District of Columbia is America’s 1,000,000th legal medical marijuana patient. We estimate the United States reached the million-patients mark sometime between the beginning of the year to when Arizona began issuing patient registry identification cards online in April 2011.

16 states, the Capitol, and ONE MILLION legal marijuana users.

Between one to one-and-a-half million people are legally authorized by their state to use marijuana in the United States, according to data compiled by NORML from state medical marijuana registries and patient estimates.  Assuming usage of one-half to one gram of cannabis medicine per day per patient and an average retail price of $320 per ounce, these legal consumers represent a $2.3 to $6.2 billion dollar market annually.

Based on state medical marijuana laws, the amounts of cannabis these legal marijuana users are entitled to possess means there is between 566 – 803 thousand pounds of legal usable cannabis allowed under state law in America.  These patients are allowed to cultivate between 17 – 24 million legal cannabis plants.  There may possibly be more, as California and New Mexico “limits” may be exceeded with doctor’s permission and some California counties explicitly allow greater amounts, so there may be as much as 1 million pounds of state-legal cannabis allowed under state law in America.

Yet after fifteen years, one million patients, and a million pounds of legal marijuana, few if any of the dire predictions by opponents of medical marijuana have come to fruition.  Medical marijuana states like Oregon are experiencing their lowest-ever rates of workplace fatalities, injuries, and accidents.  States like Colorado are experiencing their lowest rates in three decades of fatal crashes per million miles driven.  In medical marijuana states for which we have data (through Michigan in 2008), use by minor teenagers is down in all but Maine and down by at least 10% in states with the greatest proportion of their population using medical cannabis.

Fourteen of the seventeen medical marijuana jurisdictions have mandatory registries while two (California and Colorado) offer optional registries and one (Washington) has no registry system.  Estimating California’s patient numbers is hampered by its registry system being on a county-by-county basis.  California NORML’s Dale Gieringer estimates between 2% – 3% of the state’s population are holding medical marijuana recommendations – meaning possibly over one million medical marijuana patients in California alone.

California’s patient population can be estimated from data from other medical marijuana states where patients are required to register, shown in the table below. The top two of these are Colorado and Montana, which, like California, have a well developed network of cannabis clinics and dispensaries, and which report usage rates of 2.5% and 3.0%, respectively. Other states, where medical marijuana is less developed, report lower rates of 1% and less. However, California is likely to be on the high side because it has the oldest and most liberal law in the nation. Significantly, California is the only state that permits marijuana to be used for any condition for which it provides relief – in particular, psychiatric disorders, such as PTSD, bipolar disorder, ADD, anxiety and depression, which account for some 20%-25% of the total patient population. Adjusting for this, usage in California could be as much as 25% to 33% higher than in Colorado and Montana, which would put it well over 3% of the population (1,125,000).

A 2%+ patient population estimate is supported by data from the Oakland Patient ID Center, which has been issuing patient identification cards to its members since 1996. The OPIDC serves patients from all over the state, but especially the greater Oakland-East Bay area of Northern California, where its cards are honored by law enforcement. As of 2010, the OPIDC had issued ID’s to 19,805 members from five East Bay cities (Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Hayward and Richmond), amounting to 2.4% of the local population.Because the cards were issued over a period of 14 years, they include numerous patients who have lapsed, moved, or deceased. On the other hand, they do not include many other local patients who have current recommendations but never registered with the OPIDC.

We have made a similar estimate for Washington State’s patients, who are the only ones in the nation with no registry system in place (Gov. Gregoire recently signed a bill that initiates a voluntary registry).  With a law very similar to Oregon’s concerning qualifying conditions, applying Oregon’s 1.04% patient population figure gives us about 69,000 patients in Washington. However, Washington State’s larger urban centers (Seattle and Spokane), combined with a more liberal law than Oregon’s regarding who can sign recommendations (osteopaths, naturopaths, and nurse practitioners can recommend in Washington) and the lack of a state registry’s burden to patient compliance with the program suggests a higher estimate of 1.5% – 2% may be appropriate.  Numbers like Colorado’s 2.5% and Montana’s 3% are improbable as Washington lacks the greater patient access to dispensaries seen in those states.

Delaware, New Jersey, and D.C.’s programs are not operational yet, so they are not shown in our data table.  Most of the other state’s programs produce reports of patient registry numbers.  With Arizona signing up over 3,600 patients since mid-April, when it’s online-only registration went into effect, Arizona is on track to register over 30,000 patients this year.

Quick Facts about Medical Marijuana States:

• The 1.1 – 1.5 million estimated and registered medical marijuana patients in America are legally entitled to cultivate 17 – 24 million cannabis plants and possess 283 –  402 tons of harvested buds.
• The seventeen jurisdictions with medical marijuana encompass over 90 million Americans and 162 votes in the 2012 Electoral College.
• Patients make up over 3% of the population of Montana, almost 2.5% of Colorado, over 2% of California. and over 1% of Oregon, and Washington.
• After Michigan at 0.76% of population, every other medical marijuana state has less than 3 in 1,000 (0.3%) patients in its population.
• California, Colorado, Washington, Michigan, Oregon, and Montana comprise over 98% of the legal medical marijuana patients in America.
• More than 3 out of four (77% – 83%) of all medical marijuana patients live on the West Coast.
• Rhode Island and Vermont, two states where over 10% of the adult population uses marijuana monthly, have patient populations of 0.29% and 0.05%, respectively.
• Monthly teen use of marijuana is down in every medical marijuana state except Maine.
• Annual highway fatalities are down in every medical marijuana state except Rhode Island.
• Incidents of workplace injuries and illnesses are down in every medical marijuana state.

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"Counter-culture" activists for NORML (L-R) Keith Stroup, Assem. Tom Ammiano, PBS Host Rick Steves... crazy hippies!

From time to time on blogs I read a complaint about NORML, like this one:

NORML hasn’t accomplish­ed anything since the disco era!  They haven’t done a damn thing in the last 30 years!  Paul A is the only good thing NORML has going; aside from him, this movement wouldn’t even notice if NORML ceased existing.

I will concur that Paul Armentano is an MVP All-Star in marijuana law reform.  You cannot find a person better educated on the science of marijuana.

But to conclude Paul is the “only good thing NORML has going” is to disparage the incredible work being done by hundreds of grassroots activists working in the NORML chapter network.  To wit:

More "counter-culture" activists with NORML

Chris Goldstein, Anne Davis, & NORML NJ – instrumental in negotiations with New Jersey lawmakers to bring about Gov. Corzine’s signature on the law making it the nation’s 15th medical marijuana state.

Derek Rosenzweig & PhillyNORML – uncovered and published research on Philadelphia’s racial bias in marijuana enforcement leading to a change in policy to end arrests of low level marijuana consumers in the city.

Another couple of "hippies"

Michigan NORML and MassCann/NORML laid the groundwork for 2008′s medical marijuana and decriminalization, respectively, in Michigan and Massachusetts by passing numerous municipal measures in support of marijuana.

Madeline Martinez and Oregon NORML led negotiations with lawmakers to set medical marijuana limits to 24 ounces and 24 plants, the highest statewide statutory limits in the nation (along with Washington State).

The "grass" in "grassroots" - so counter-culture!

Dale Gieringer, Bill Panzer, and California NORML helped co-author Prop 215 in California, worked for the clarifications found in SB420, worked with Assem. Ammiano to produce the first legalization bill in decades, helped shepherd the latest California decrim measure to Schwarzenegger’s desk, and are organizing with Prop 19′s leaders for a new legalization initiative in 2012.

Kandice Hawes and Orange County NORML held the nation’s first medical marijuana conference specifically for seniors… across the street from Disneyland!

No wonder "normal" people won't join... look at these two!

Mary Mackenzie (apologies for the original name misspell – I sure know what that’s like!), AZ4NORML, and Phoenix NORML were the foot soldiers gathering the signatures that got MPP’s Arizona Prop 203 on the ballot.

Kelly Maddy, Joplin NORML, Dan Viets, Missouri NORML, all worked in Missouri to pass lowest-law-enforcement and other municipal initiatives.

These guys have done nothing since the disco era...

Ben Masel, Gary Storck, Madison NORML all have lobbied intensively for the Jackie Rickert Medical Marijuana Act, moving it farther along in the legislative process every year.

Colorado NORML, Mile High NORML, have worked with SAFER on their initiatives, gathering signatures that lead to Denver’s legalization and other low-priority initiatives.

Obviously too tie-dyed and love-beaded to make any difference

Isaias Valdez and Idaho NORML are beginning the grassroots education and activism in one of the most anti-marijuana states in the nation; the state currently has a medical marijuana bill in the legislature and the group is following up with a citizen’s initiative.

John & Heather Masterson in Montana NORML, battling to mitigate the perception of abuse of medical marijuana created by unethical “ganjapreneurs” and most recenlty providing live coverage of the DEA raids in Montana.

Sure, they're doctors... but they're "pot" doctors!

Then there are the hundreds of attorneys who make up the NORML Legal Committee, who have donated thousands of hours of pro bono time helping average cannabis consumers avoid jail and retain voting rights, also working on new laws.  For example:

Jeff Blackburn, who kept an AIDS patient out of a Texas prison with an affirmative defense that a jury agreed with in only 11 minutes of deliberation.  The patients’ original public defender only offered a plea deal that would have meant six months of drug testing that would’ve left the patient without his medicine, wasting away.

And that whole "boobs and buds" issue turns women off to the cause...

Doug Hiatt, who fought for the life of Hep C patient Tim Garon, denied a liver transplant because his legal medical marijuana use in Washington State made him a “drug addict” in the eyes of the hospital.  Hiatt is now behind the Sensible Washington effort to fully legalize by citizen initiative.

Let’s not forget the national staff (like me) who constantly educate, advocate, interview, debate, advertise, litigate, lobby, and keep the conversation on marijuana legalization moving forward.

No wonder nobody wants to legalize pot - look at these people!

I’ve already written way too much for a comment and that is just reviewing my own memory of NORML Activism within the four years I’ve worked for NORML.  And remember, aside from the lawyers (sometimes), NONE of these activists made a single dime for performing these heroic acts.

As far as I’m concerned, all of the groups involved in marijuana law reform have an important role to play.  It’s like the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard – we have different jobs and different specializations in service of the same goal.  Sure, we have internecine grudges and rivalries.  Just as jarheads goad sailors, just as grunts tease flyboys, drug war reform groups may also grouse about each other, but when the rubber hits the road, we’re all fighting for the good ol’ U S of A.

For me personally, there are some important differences.  DPA is about drug policy – they think drug prohibition sucks.  MPP is about marijuana policy – they think marijuana prohibition sucks.  SAFER is about offering choice – they think alcohol sucks compared to marijuana.  ASA is about medical marijuana – they are silent on healthy people’s use.  LEAP is about cops’ expression of drug war failure – they think drug prohibition sucks.

NORML, of all the groups, is the one that doesn’t just think marijuana prohibition sucks, but that cannabis use is a positive.  We’re not just anti-prohibition, we’re pro-cannabis!

Finally, to the disparagement of the counter-culture you believe NORML represents: in actuality, most of our NORML Affiliate and Chapter leaders are far from what anyone would consider “hippie”.  Anne Davis, head of NORML NJ, is a successful attorney and mother of two.  Tonya Davis, head of Central Ohio NORML, is a disabled patient in a wheelchair.  Clif Deuvall, head of NORML of Waco Texas, is a disabled veteran.  Isaias Valdez, head of Idaho NORML, is a clean-cut college student.  I can’t speak to what you may have seen from NORML in the 1980′s or 90′s, but I know since my involvement I have never met a better representative group of average cannabis consumers.  In my tenure, we have instituted sixty new state, local, and college affiliates, so it seems to me plenty of people are eager to organize under the NORML banner.

There is a drug reform group for everyone.  I don’t care what acronym you want to associate with so long as you’re on this side of the battle over prohibition.  But to dismiss and disparage NORML’s role in the war is to vilify the most committed activists in the battle – the ones not doing it for some billionaire’s largess.  If you think someone might not support ending prohibition because someone in a NORML T-shirt might have long hair, piercings, or tattoos, then you aren’t very good at illustrating the need to end the drug war.

Russ Belville

NORML Outreach Coordinator

P.S. If you really want to know what is going on in grassroots reform, check out the podcasts from all around the nation and even England at The NORML Network – http://live.norml.org

(Los Angeles Times) The campaign for Proposition 19, which lost 54% to 46% in November, wants to start drafting a new initiative in the spring and to complete it by July, turning then to the expensive and time-consuming task of building support and qualifying it for the November 2012 ballot.

Saturday’s conference, sponsored by the California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, was aimed at reaching out to marijuana legalization activists, medical marijuana growers and dispensary operators, many of whom opposed the last measure.

“We knew there was a lot of dissatisfaction,” said Dale Gieringer, the organization’s California director who organized the conference, the first in more than a decade. “A lot of people felt excluded because the writing process of Proposition 19 was very closed.”

“Truly, this is a planning exercise,” Dale Sky Jones, the spokeswoman for the Proposition 19 campaign, told the crowd at the David Brower Center near the University of California campus. “We’re here to hear you. This is the building process.”

Jones said medical marijuana patients are crucial to the success of any initiative because they can reach out to voters to dispel myths about marijuana. “It’s largely going to be the messaging through the medical community and those that love them that can put this over the top,” she said.

The campaign intends to create a broad-based committee to oversee the next initiative, replacing the singular role played by Lee, who did not attend the conference. “It’s not about him anymore. It’s about the issue, which is what he always wanted,” Jones said.

Kudos to California NORML for this activism – this is exactly the kind of coalition building that is necessary for success in 2012.  All voices should be heard as we move forward with re-legalization.

However, will all voices be satisfied with being heard and, in some cases, their concerns not addressed?  Will the folks who want an 18 age limit understand why it might have to be 21?  Will those demanding the release of all pot POWs understand how that may not be immediately feasible?  Will the “Treat it like Tomatoes” crowd understand that there may have to be taxes and inspections and regulations and limits?  Is it worse to think you were never heard or is it worse to have been heard and feel like you lost?

Time will tell.  Meanwhile in the Times’ piece they quote an LA dispensary owner who reminds me that the gulf between some cannabis supporters may be too great to bridge.  ”We [medical marijuana patients] shouldn’t be stomped on or used as a stepping stone to get to where they [the legalizers] want to go.”

Hm.  So, then, were it possible to go back in time to November 1996, would the dispensary owner be satisfied if we subtracted all the Yes on Prop 215 votes from “legalizers” who were just using the initiative as a stepping stone to get where they wanted to go?  Because the only stomping on patients I see comes from law enforcement and courts that keep treating patients like the criminal I am for being healthy.

Gov. Gary Johnson at NORML National Conference (Cannabis Culture Magazine)

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Opening Remarks

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 01 – Allen St. Pierre – The Moral Imperative

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 02 – Gov. Gary Johnson – Keynote Address

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 03 – Dustin Sulak – Medical Marijuana Clinical Applications, Physiology and Patient Education

It Can’t Hurt to Ask — Research on Patient Experiences With Medical Cannabis

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 04 – Amanda Reiman, Ph.D, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Patients Group – Medical cannabis as a drug substitute

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 05 – Jenny Janichek, HHC Harm Reduction Clinical Consultant – Cannabis as an ‘exit’ drug

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 06 – Dale Gieringer, Ph.D, California NORML – Patient experiences with CBD-prominent cannabis strains

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 07 – Frank Lucido, MD, Berkeley – Cannabis and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 08 – Philippe Lucas, Vancouver Island Compassion Society – Research on Patient Experiences With Medical Cannabis

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 09 – Research on Patient Experiences With Medical Cannabis panel Questions and Answers

Not Your Father’s Medical Marijuana — Latest Breakthrough in Cannabis Science

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 10 – Mitch Earlywine, Ph.D (SUNYAlbany) – Cannabinoids therapeutics in psychiatric disorders, pros and cons

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 11 – Jahan Marcu, Temple University – Anti-cancer properties of cannabinoids and implications for clinical applications

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 12 – Paul Armentano, Deputy Director, NORML – Moving beyond symptom management

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 13 – Michelle Sexton, MD, U of WA School of Medicine – Anti-inflammatory properties of cannabinoids and implications for clinical applications

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 14 – Greg Carter, MD, U of WA School of Medicine – Cannabinoids as neuroprotectants

The Future of Medical Cannabis Distribution

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 15 – Rielle Capler, Canadians for Safe Access – Proscons of Canadian government distribution model

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 16 – Bill Panzer, Esq., NORML Board of Directors – Latest developments in CA, esp. LA ordinance and QPA v Anaheim

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 17 – Leland Berger, Esq., NORML Legal Committee – Procons of proposed Oregon dispensary measure

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 18 – Warren Edson, Esq., NORML Legal Committee – Proscons of Colorado dispensary regulations

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 19 – Matt Abel, Esq., NORML Legal Committee – Grey market for medical dispensaries in Michigan

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 20 – Cisco McSorley, New Mexico State Senator – Improvements needed in the NM distribution system

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 21 – Jill Harris, Director of Public Policy, Drug Policy Alliance – East coast, state regulated dispensary models (RI, ME, NJ)

Which Way For Medical Marijuana?

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 22 – Stephen Gutwillig, Drug Policy Alliance, California – Medical marijuana law reform inherently moves forward broader reform efforts

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 23 – Russ Belville – Do medical marijuana laws pose a ‘boxed canyon’ for broader reform efforts

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 24 – Stephen DeAngelo, CEO, Harborside Health Center – Where Is Flip The Switch Now

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 25 – Steph Sherer, Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access – Medical marijuana is, and should remain, a separate issue from broader reform efforts

Closing Remarks

NORML CON 2010 (SAT) 26 – Paul Armentano, Deputy Director, NORML – The Future of Medical Cannabis Moving Forward and Countering Our Critics

US Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) at NORML National Conference (©2010 by L.K.)

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Sabrina Fendrick has also posted a new set of conference photos from the NORML Flickr account here.

Opening Remarks

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 01 – Steve Dillon

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 02 – Allen St. Pierre

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 03 – US Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)

Panel: Just Say Now: Full Legalization, Full Steam Ahead

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 04 – Craig Reinarman, Ph.D, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 05 – David Nott, Executive Director, Reason Foundation

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 06 – Neill Franklin, Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 07 – Michael Whitney, FireDogLake.com

Panel: Pot Politics 2010 and Beyond

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 08 – John Sajo, VoterPower (OR Measure 74)

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 09 – Chris Conrad (CA Prop 19)

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 10 – Matt Abel, NORML Legal Committee, Detroit decriminalization initiative

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 11 – Dale Gieringer, CA NORML, CA SB 1449 (decrim)

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 12 – Chris Goldstein, Pennsylvanians for Medical Marijuana, PA medical use legislation

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 13 – Bill Piper, Drug Policy Alliance, Washington, DC dispensary system

Breakout Panel: Tools for Activists

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 14 – Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator, Using Data to Make Your Case for Legalization

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 15 – Garret Overstreet, Executive Director Tulsa NORML – Leveraging the Power of the Internet and Social Networks

NORML CON 2010 (THU) 16 – Anthony Johnson, Co-Chief Petitioner Oregon Measure 74 – Ballot Initiatives, Local and Statewide, from Concept to Ballot

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