NORML's 1996 Weekly Media Releases
- Latest High School Senior Survey Data Fuels Anti-Drug Rhetoric: NORML Responds To Calls
To Escalate Drug War
- Drug Reform Measure Signed Into Law In Arizona
- (Meanwhile) Drug Czar, Secretary Of Transportation Reaffirm Federal Drug Testing Laws
- Dennis Peron, Others To Appear In Court Next Week
- Rhetoric Mounts Over Medical Marijuana Issue
- U.S. Senate To Hold Hearing Regarding Medical Marijuana Initiatives
- Office Of National Drug Control Policy Restates Opposition To Medical Marijuana
Initiatives
- (Meanwhile) Drug Czar's Office Refuses NORML Meeting
- Supreme Court Overturns Ohio Traffic Stop Decision
- German State Plans To Sell Marijuana Over The Counter
- Drug Czar Holds Meeting With California Law Enforcement To Discuss New State Medical
Marijuana Law
- Medical Marijuana Supporters Plan 'Effective, Responsible' Procedures, Legislation To
Implement Proposition 215
- Arizona Governor May Veto Voter Approved Initiative
- Buyers' Club Activists Plead 'Morally Not Guilty' At Arraignment
- CBS MORNING NEWS WILL AIR A COMPREHENSIVE FEATURE ON STATE MARIJUANA REFORM EFFORTS THIS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, AT 8:10 AM (EDT)
- California, Arizona Voters Approve Initiatives In Favor Of Medical Marijuana
- Making The Case For Medical Marijuana
- American Nurses Association Reviews Medical Marijuana
- Iowa Man Faces Prison Term For Using Marijuana To Ease Pain
- Clinton Proposes Drug Testing Teenage Applicants For Driver's Licenses
- California Man Fired From Job After Charged With Growing Marijuana
- DEA Herbicide Under Fire From Hawaii Residents; Locals Complain Of Nausea, Other
Ailments Due To Spraying
- Drug Tax Ruled Unconstitutional By Texas Appeals Court
- Drug Enforcement Administration Attacks California Medical Marijuana Measure
- Marijuana Arrests For 1995 Most Ever; FBI Data Confirm Clinton's Marijuana War To Be
Toughest Yet
- Multiple Sclerosis Patient To Travel To Washington For Medical Marijuana; Husband To
Push Wheelchair For 250-Mile Walk
- NORML Chapter Challenges Harassment Of Students With Hemp Jewelry
- Dole Aide Reportedly Used Pot In College
- Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Aims For 1998 Election
- Political Cartoonist Supports Proposition 215, Angers State Attorney General
- Supreme Court To Rule On Drug Testing Of Political Candidates
- Ohio High School Cracks Down On Hemp
- Government Marijuana Researcher Speaks Favorably About Marijuana's Medical Utility
- House Holds Hearing On Adolescent Drug Use
- Marijuana Medicine And Hemp Exposition To Take Place This Weekend
- Mass/Cann NORML Rally Draws At Least 50,000
- Los Angeles Cannabis Buyers' Club Busted; Third Raid Since August Sparks Outrage Among
Cannabis Community
- (Meanwhile) Alternative Therapies Group Distributes Medical Marijuana To San Francisco's
Sick
- Washington State Supreme Court To Tackle Medical Marijuana Issue
- California Polls Show Voters Strongly Favor Medical Marijuana Initiative
- Los Angeles County AIDS Commission Rebukes U.S. Drug Czar, Endorses Proposition 215
- Sheriff May Have Violated Election Laws While Opposing NORML Ballot Initiative
- Mass/Cann NORML Rally Expected To Draw More Than 50,000
- Califano Attacks Attitudes Of Baby-Boomer Parents Regarding Adolescent Mariiuana Use
- Libertarian Presidential Candidate Attacks Dole Proposals To Increase Drug War
- Virginia County To Force Convicted Drug Offenders To Name Their Suppliers
- Anti-Drug Group Returns Donation After NORML Chapter Files Complaint Alleging Campaign
Finance Violations
- Case Of Medical Marijuana Activist To Be Heard September 30
- Drug Czar Says He Welcomes NORML's Participation In Drug Debate
- Senate Holds Special Hearing On Teen Drug Use
- California Re-Enacts Temporary Smoke A Joint, Lose Your License Bill
- Marijuana Activists Arrested On Trespassing Charges After Being Banned From Attending
Public Rally
- Juror Held In Contempt After Refusing To Convict Drug Offender
- State Looks Into Filing Tax Violations Against Marijuana Club Proprietors
- Governor Signs Law Reinvigorating State Medical Marijuana Research Program
- Cincinnati Buyers' Club Founder Pleads Guilty To Reduced Marijuana Charges
- NORML Chapter Files Complaint After Voters Strike Down Ballot Proposal To Decriminalize
Marijuana
- Dutch Cities Get Into The Marijuana Business
- Dole Calls For Larger Military Presence In Drug War
- America's Prison Population More Than Doubles In A Decade
- Latest Edition Of Household Survey Fuels Election Year Fodder; NORML Responds To Calls
To Escalate The Drug War
- Study To Determine Whether Marijuana Helps Individuals Suffering From AIDS Wasting
Syndrome Rejected By National Institutes of Health
- Swiss State To Legalize Marijuana
- Board Strikes Down Proposal To Declare Medical Marijuana 'Emergency' For San Francisco's
Sick
- (Meanwhile) San Francisco Church Sponsors Medical Marijuana Giveaway
- Law Enforcement Bust Cannabis Buyers' Club In Key West, Florida; Founder, One Other
Arrested On Felony Marijuana Charges
- Two State Medical Associations Endorse Proposition 215
- (Meanwhile) Judge Orders Changes in Misleading Ballot Argument Against Proposition 215
- Michigan City Residents Vote No To Local Measure To Decriminalize Marijuana
- Scottish Senior Judge Says Cannabis Decriminalization Should Be Considered
- Small Town Mayor Indicted On Marijuana Charges After Allegedly Growing Marijuana For
Educational Purposes
- San Francisco Buyers' Club Raided, Closed By State Authorities
- Buyers' Club Raid Spurs Resolution To Declare Medical Marijuana Emergency; Issue To Be
Examined At August 15 Hearing
- (Meanwhile) Oakland City Council Passes Resolution To Ensure Local Law Enforcement Do
Not Arrest Medical Marijuana Users
- Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Research Program May Breathe New Life From Assembly
Measure
- Update: Welfare Reform Bill Amendment Altered To Deny Federal Benefits To Those
Convicted On Felony Drug Charges Only
- California Law Enforcement Must Procure A Warrant Before Using Heat Scanning Devices
- Update: Partnership For A Drug Free America Agrees To Modify Ad Criticized As Patently
Homophobic
- Conservative California Readership Strongly Supports Medical Marijuana Initiative
- Welfare Reform Bill Amended To Deny Convicted Drug Users Federal Benefits
- Thousands Expected To Gather On Washington State Capitol In Support Of Marijuana
Legalization
- Anti-Drug Ad Called Homophobic By Gay Watchdog Group
- USA Today Endorses Access To Medical Marijuana
- NORML Chapter Places Advertising Billboards On Buses
- Man Sentenced To Probation After Killing Individual He Suspected Sold His Son Marijuana
- Law That Allows Citizens To Sue Drug Dealers For Damages Moves Forward In California
- PBS Special To Focus On Human Rights Violations And The Drug War
- Update: Teacher Under Fire For Hemp Presentation
- High Court Strikes Down Pennsylvania Rulings Requiring 'Exigent Circumstances' To
Justify Warrantless Searches Of Automobiles
- Washington Activists Gear Up For November Election
- License Suspension In Drug Cases Upheld By Ohio Supreme Court
- American Farm Bureau Pens Article In Support Of Hemp
- California Congressman Signs On To Federal Medical Marijuana Bill
- Religious Organization Endorses California Medical Marijuana Proposal
- American Medical Association Shelves Report Drafted By NORML Board Member; 'Harm
Reduction' Placed On Back Burner For Now
- Canadian Marijuana Reform Debate Yields Few Results
- Supreme Court Upholds Civil Forfeiture In Drug Cases
- Federal Government Unveils New Plan To Target Drug Use Among Adolescents
- California High Court Rules That Judges Are Not Mandated To Impose 'Three Strikes' Law
- Florida To Adopt Standards Regarding Hair Testing
- Canadians Nationwide Set To Celebrate Cannabis Day On July 1
- University Of Mississippi Denies Assertion Of California Narcotics Officers; Researcher
Calls Claim Of Over 10,000 Studies Documenting TheHarmful Effects Of Marijuana Groundless
- DEA Agent Specializes In Stopping Medical Marijuana Efforts
- Conference Gathers Experts To Explore Marijuana's Medicinal Value
- Legal Medical Marijuana Patients, Proponents Speak Before American Nurses Association
- Medical Marijuana Initiative Qualifies For November Ballot
- Victorian Politicians Reject Marijuana Decriminalization
- Environmentalists Voice Concern Over State's Decision To Spray Marijuana With Pesticides
- Medical Marijuana User, Activist To Be Arraigned On Felony Marijuana Charge
- Supreme Court Rules On Traffic Stops
- Chicago Bulls Coach Attributes Team's Success To Hemp
- Cheers Star Plants Hemp In Kentucky
- And Pays The Price Harrelson Hopes To Challenge Federal Law By Act Of Civil Disobedience
- Majority Of Police Chiefs Admit That War On Drugs Is Unsuccessful
- Small Town Mayor Claims She Was Unaware That Growing Marijuana Was Illegal
- Charges Dropped Against California Medical Marijuana User
- Marijuana Reform Debate In Full Force In Canadian Federal Government
- Black Motorists Subject To Stops And Searches On I-95 More Often Than Whites
- Repeat Felony Marijuana Possession Penalties Reduced In Missouri
- Dennis Peron Leaves Cannabis Buyers Club
- City Commission Urges Citizens To Just say No To NORML Ballot Proposal
- Federal Representative Continues Probe Into Potential Misuse Of Federal Power At
Anti-NORML Demonstration
- Modified Hemp Measure Becomes Law In Vermont
- South Australia's Director Of Public Prosecutions Recommends The State Grow Cannabis
- Hawaii State Legislature Passes Hemp Resolution
- California Secretary Of State Issues Raw Count For Medical Marijuana Petition
- Oregon Marijuana Initiative Approaches Required Number Of Signatures To Be Placed On
Ballot
- Railroad Accident Data Shows Few Benefits From Random Drug Testing
- Drug Czar Critical Of Amount Of Money Spent Fighting Drugs: Calls Record Setting FY 1997
Budget Lean
- Dealers Caught Close To Churches To Face Stiffer Penalties
- Federal Judge Speaks Out Against Drug WarEndorses Program To Stop Arresting Marijuana
Consumers
- Federal Medical Marijuana Bill Attracts Additional Sponsors
- Navajo Hemp Crop Under Fire From Feds
- Drug Czar Admits Most People Who Experiment With Drugs 'Walk Away' Without Problems
- White House Unveils New Drug Strategy
- Update: Judge Suspends Sentence Against Quadriplegic Who Used Marijuana As Medicine
- NORML Chapter's Marijuana Measure To Be Placed On City Ballot
- Update: Cincinnati Buyers Club Founder Pleads Not Guilty To Felony Pot Charges
- Medical Marijuana Initiative Heads For California Ballot
- Vermont Senate Approves Hemp Legislation:However, State Still A Long Ways Away From
Cultivation
- $250 Million Appropriation Request From New Drug Czar Stresses Source Reduction,
Interdiction
- Cincinnati Buyers Club Founder To Face Felony Drug Charges
- Woody Harrelson Withholds Taxes To Protest Industrial Hemp Prohibition
- DEAth In ColoradoHemp Cultivation Killed By House Agriculture Committee
- Medical Marijuana Initiative Enters Final WeekActivists Expect To Have Necessary Number
Of Signatures
- Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Civil Forfeiture
- Cincinnati Buyers Club Founder To Face Grand Jury
- California Assembly Committee Votes For Tougher Pot Penalties
- Assemblyman Vasconcellos Introduces Medical Marijuana Bill For Second Year In A Row
- Missouri Hemp Bill Heard Before Senate Agriculture Committee
- Vermont Hemp Bill Meets Unexpected Opposition In Senate
- Tax Stamp Legislation Under Fire In Arizona
- Teacher To Sue After Losing His Job Over 20 Year Old Pot Charge
- Health Committee's Recommendations To Decriminalize Marijuana Scrapped After Political
Backlash
- Colorado Senate Gives Green Light To Domestic Hemp Cultivation
- District Attorney To Take No Further Action In Medical Marijuana Distribution Case
- California Reports Record Numbers Of Marijuana Prisoners
- Prosecutors Seek To Seize Frequent-Flier Miles Of Man Convicted Of Marijuana Trafficking
- USA WEEKEND QuickPoll Indicates Majority Of Americans Favor Marijuana Decriminalization
- Federal Medical Marijuana Attracts Bi-Partisan Support; First Two Republicans Sign On To
Bill
- Funding For Study On Medical Marijuana Allocated In Washington State Budget
- Domestic Hemp Cultivation Bill Heads To Colorado Senate
- Washington State Medical Marijuana User Found Guilty Of Drug Possession And Manufacture
Charges
- Rally For Medical Marijuana To Be Held This Saturday
- Industrial Hemp Planted On American Indian Soil...DC NORML, Virginia Activists Thwart
Prohibitionist Movement In Virginia
- Court TV To Televise Medical Marijuana Trial
- Update: Charges Dismissed Against North Carolina Medical Marijuana User
- Medical Marijuana User, Quadriplegic Found Guilty Of Trafficking Charges
- Oakland City Council Issues Resolution Supporting Medical Marijuana
- Twice As Many Defendants Imprisoned For Marijuana Possession Under Tough Three Strikes
Law Than For Violent Crimes, Study Indicates
- Vocal Medical Marijuana Activist, User Busted Following Television Appearance
- Washington State Activists File 1996 Hemp Initiative
- Bill To Eliminate Arizona Tax Stamp Legislation Pulled For Time Being
- NORML Testifies Before Congress; Executive Director Keith Stroup Tells Subcommittee That
Far More Harm Is Caused By Marijuana Prohibition Than By Marijuana Itself
- New Drug Czar Sworn In; Clinton Proposes Massive Expansion Of White House Anti-Drug
Efforts
- NORML Issues Principles Of Responsible Cannabis Use
- Vermont House Of Representatives Approves Hemp Cultivation Legislation
- Hemp To Be Planted On American Indian Soil
- Illinois Supreme Court Finds Cannabis Tax Stamps Unconstitutional
- California Medical Marijuana Initiative Heads Toward November State Ballot
- Cincinnati Buyers Club Founder Takes Offensive Following Police Raid
- Law Enforcement Raids Cincinnati Buyers Club
- Missouri Medical Marijuana Bill Unanimously Passes Senate Public Health Committee
- Hemp Businessman Sentenced To More Than 8 Years In Prison
- America Online Poll Reports That 91 Percent Of Americans Favor Marijuana
Decriminalization
- Man Held In Texas Jail Begins Hunger Strike To Protest Incarceration For Marijuana
Possession
- Marin County Police Chief Supports Medical Marijuana Initiative
- Marijuana Reformers Demonstrate In New Zealand
- Update: Judge Drops Charges Against Medical Marijuana User Todd McCormick
- Medical Marijuana Sentence Reduction Bill Introduced in California
- Hemp Legislation Gathers Steam With Vermont Legislators
- Wait Till Next Year: Hawaii House Agriculture Committee Postpones Voting On Hemp
Cultivation Bill Until 1997
- Actor Woody Harrelson Endorses Industrial Hemp; Hearings For Colorado Cultivation Bill
Begin Today
- Circuit Court Ruling Allows For Religious Defense In Marijuana Cases
- Iowa Supreme Court Just Says No To Controversial License Suspension Law
- Medical Marijuana Patients To Rally On State Capitol Steps
- NORML Targets Republican Task Force: Urges Panel To Lift Ban On Medical Cannabis,
Reconsider Decriminalization Of Marijuana
- Washington State Senators Introduce Legislation To Allow Research Of Medical Marijuana
- Pot Charges Against Legal Marijuana User Dismissed
- Trial Date Set In Johann Moore Case
- Washington Human Rights Group Criticizes Incoming Drug Czar
- CNN Marijuana Special Slated To Air On February 11
- Circuit Judge's Dissent In Urinalysis Case Could Spur Supreme Court Review
- Activists Intending To Sell Marijuana At The Super Bowl Gain National Exposure
- Defense Fund Established To Aid Man Charged With Marijuana Trafficking
- NORML Deputy Director To Publicly Debate Lee Brown, Finally!
- National Review Advocates Legalizing Drugs
- NORML Chapter Debuts Hemp Store: Grand Opening To Take Place This Week
- USA Today Sunday Supplement To Feature Story On Marijuana
- U.S. Supreme Court To Review Double Jeopardy Case
- Exiting Drug Czar Takes Pot Shot At New Hemp Shoe
- Florida Schools To Consider Drug Testing Students
- Clinton Administration Close To Naming New Drug Czar
- San Francisco D.A. Refuses To Charge Drug Offenses Under The Three Strikes Law
- NORML Chapter To Run Month Long Hemp Exhibit
- Canadian Hemp Activist, Businessman Busted By Vancouver Police
- American Farm Bureau Supports Industrial Hemp Research
- U.S. Representative Criticizes Hempilation Protest Rally
- College Freshman Survey Shows Renewed Support For Marijuana Legalization
- Bipartisan Committee Set To Analyze Violent Crime In America; Issues First Report
- Marijuana Activists Sue Prosecutors: Hemp Proponents Claim Unlawful, Selective
Prosecution In Hemp Seed Case
- Canada Set To Lessen Pot Penalties
- NORML Establishes Amicus Curiae Committee
- Indiana Supreme Court Rules On Constitutionality Of Illegal Drug Excise Tax
- Despite Colorful Side Effects, FDA Panel Gives Thumbs Up To New Anti-Glaucoma Drug
Carl E. Olsen - carl-olsen@mchsi.com
P.O. Box 4091, Des Moines, IA 50333
(515) 288-5798 voice and fax
December
19, 1996