Posts Tagged ‘Cannabis’
Roll Call Is NORML!
Roll Call scan courtesy NORML
Roll Call Is NORML!
January 3rd, 2009 By: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director — Capitol Hill Cannabis Law Reform Lobby Highlighted Since the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, despite the government’s best, but utterly feckless efforts to suppress cannabis culture and use in America, the ‘buzz’ in Washington D.C. and nationwide these days about alternatives to cannabis prohibition is palpable. One interesting tea leaf for me to gather in this evolution towards cannabis law reforms at the national level is to see otherwise staid, Capitol Hill-based print publications such as The Hill and most recently Roll Call taking interest in the cannabis law reform lobby’s efforts in Washington—after decades of ignoring us. Is real change afoot here as indicated by these mainstream, political publications casting needed public and political attention towards NORML’s nearly 40-years of grassroots advocacy? Time, and increased public efforts by reformers, will tell…
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World’s oldest marijuana stash totally busted
Stash for the afterlife: A photograph of a stash of cannabis found in the 2,700-year-old grave of a man in the Gobi Desert. Scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it’s evident that the man was buried with a lot of it. (David Potter / Oxford University Press)
World’s oldest marijuana stash totally busted
Two pounds of still-green weed found in a 2,700-year-old Gobi Desert grave
By Jennifer Viegas updated 10:19 a.m. AKT, Wed., Dec. 3, 2008
Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world’s oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany.
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Pot Policy at the Federal Level: Time To Get To Work!
From the New Republic, Feb 26, 1972, p.7.
Pot Policy at the Federal Level: Time To Get To Work!
By Paul Armentano, NORML. Posted November 7, 2008.
Three suggestions for how Obama can take immediate, practical steps to reform America’s antiquated and punitive pot laws
We’ve had our celebrations; now the real work begins. In Massachusetts, where 65 percent of voters mandated an end to minor marijuana possession arrests, police and pundits are already calling on lawmakers to amend — or even repeal — the new law. Therefore, if you reside in Massachusetts, it is critical that you conta
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US HOUSE “CELEBRATES” END OF PROHIBITION
Prohibition Failed – Please do something about it – Anti-Prohibition poster of the 1930s, courtesy Schaffer Library of Drug Policy.
US HOUSE “CELEBRATES” END OF PROHIBITION 9/17/2008 5:13 PM (PT) Free-4-Now with NewsGator100
Today the US House of Representatives passed a resolution “commemorating” the repeal of the failed “Great Experiment,” commonly known as Prohibition. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) and cosponsored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI).
In the afternoon, before what turned out to be a very short debate on the House floor, Rep. Coble posted a note on The Hill and noted, “In 1919, following the passage of the 18th Amendment, which prohibited “the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors,” the United States experienced a dramatic increase in illegal activity including unsafe black market alcohol production, a growth in organized crime, and increasing noncompliance with alcohol laws.”
Cannabis and drug legalization advocates immediately jumped on the obvious hypocrisy and contradiction of passing this resolution while ignoring the current crime, violence, death and disease associated with today’s “War on Drugs.”
Marijuana Could Be a Gusher of Cash If We Treated It Like a Crop, Not a Crime
McCain’s VP Pick Acknowledged Marijuana Use
TREE OF LIFE – CANNABIS PLANT GROWING
time lapse film of cannabis plant growing from seed to wonder weed
