NORML's 2002 Weekly Media Releases

Unintended Consequences! Drug Czar Admits Federal Anti-Drug Ads Having Opposite Effect On Teens
Blame US! U.S. Thwarting Canada's Efforts to Liberalize Pot Policies, Government Officials Say

Canada: Government Study Blows Lid Off U.S. Pot Propaganda
Government Approval For Medical Pot Spray One Year Away
Patient's Hunger Strike For Medical Cannabis Enters Fourth Week

Willie Nelson, Bill Maher, Robert Altman and Others Join New NORML Advisory Board
NORML Meets With Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Ed Thompson
Hawaii Legislature Passes Sentencing Reform Bill Barring Jail For First Time Drug Offenders

NORML Declares 2002 Conference 'A Smashing Success'

Pro-Pot Media Blitz!
West Virginia Legalizes Commercial Cultivation of Industrial Hemp State Becomes Only The Third To Legally Distinguish Between Hemp And Marijuana

Past Pot Use Has No Negative Impact On Intelligence, Canadian IQ Study Says
Over One In Five State Nursing Associations Say Medical Pot Should Be Legal
Pot Ingredient Eases Tourette's Symptoms, Study Says
Marijuana's Anti-Tumoral Effects To Be Studied In Humans

Woody Harrelson, Bill Maher To Speak at Upcoming National NORML Conference in San Francisco
Pot's Impact on Driving Negligible, Two More Studies Say
Casual Drug Use Seldom Harmful, British Study Says

Nixon Commission Report Advising Decriminalization of Marijuana Celebrates 30th Anniversary
High Court Mulls Dramatic Expansion of Student Drug Testing
Administrative Petition Challenging Pot's Prohibitive Status Goes Before U.S. Court of Appeals

Fed's Review of White House Ad Campaign Says $1.5 Billion Program Fails To Reduce Teen Drug Use
British Health Experts, Liberal Democrats Back Pot Law Change

Welfare Ban For Drug Offenders Denied Financial Aid To 92,000 Women Since 1996, Study Says
Campus Drug Busts Top 11,000, U.S. Education Department Says
Scotland's Drug Czar Backs Pot Decrim, Declares End To 'War on Drugs'

February 28, 2002

Study Shows Pot's Therapeutic Benefits, Few Adverse Effects in Long-Term, Daily Marijuana Smokers
U.S. Drug Company to Develop Inhaler for Legal Medi-Pot Pill

February 21, 2002

UK Regulatory Agency Considers Medi-Pot Therapies
Oregon Patients File Initiative to Expand Marijuana Access for the Sick
Largest Australian State Debates Bill to Permit Dutch-Style Pot Coffee Shops

February 14, 2002

DEA Continues Terror Attacks on California Medical Marijuana Patients and Providers
NORML Assails Bush Anti-Drug Plan Calling for the 'Compassionate Coercion' of Pot Smokers
Jamaica Parliament Ponders Marijuana Decriminalization

February 7, 2002

NORML Files Supreme Court Brief in Student Drug Testing Case
Pot Admission Bars Former Olympian Entry to U.S.
Grace Period Ends for Hemp Food Consumers

January 31, 2002

Super Bust! Drug Czar's Office to Spend $3.4 Million For Super Bowl Ads
Health Canada Announces Further Delays Before Patients Can Have Access To Government Pot"

January 24, 2002

Clinical Trials on Pot for Head Trauma Planned for U.S.
DEA's Hemp Foods Ban Ignores Justice Department's Findings, Failed to Assess Policy's Impact on Industry
French Justice Minister Calls for Pot Decriminalization Debate

January 17, 2002

Canadian Firm to Sue U.S. Government Over Hemp Foods Ban
UK to Test Marijuana for Cancer Pain
Brazilian President Vetoes Landmark Legislation Decriminalizing Marijuana, Other Drugs

January 10, 2002

D.C. Court of Appeals to Review Administrative Petition Challenging Pot's Prohibitive Status
Oakland Cannabis Cooperative Files Brief on Remand in Federal District Court Asking For Modification of 1998 Injunction
Hemp Industry Calls On Court to Enjoin Hemp Foods Ban

January 3, 2002

Complete and Updated State-by-State Listing of Marijuana Laws in the United States
New Mexico To Consider Marijuana Decriminalization and Medical Use Bills

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