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2002
Dec 19	Washington, DC USA	Canadian Pot Law Change To Bring Increased Border Security, U.S. Says
Dec 19	Ottawa, ON Canada	Canada's Top Court Postpones Hearing On Constitutionality Of Pot Prohibition
Dec 12	Washington, DC USA	Ad Council Challenges FCC Ruling Mandating White House Drug Office To Be Identified As Sponsor Of Anti-Drug Ads Requests Special "War On Drugs" Exemption From Federal Communications Act
Dec 12	Ottawa, ON Canada	Canadian House Committee Calls For Decriminalizing Cannabis
Dec 10	Ottawa, ON Canada	Canada To End Criminal Penalties For Pot Justice Minister Promises Legal Change May Be Only Four Months Away
Dec 3	Washington, DC USA	GAO Says State Medical Marijuana Laws Working Primarily As Voters Intended Report Says Laws Are Seldom Abused, Not A Significant Burden For Police
Dec 3	Washington, DC USA	Marijuana Not A Gateway To Hard Drug Use, Rand Study Says Conclusions Raise Serious Doubts Regarding The Legitimacy Of U.S. Drug Policy
Nov 26	Washington, DC USA	New “NORML in the Media” Page Added To Website Keep Abreast Of NORML’s Media Appearances With Just One Click
Nov 21	Washington, DC USA	NORML Responds To Pending BMJ Editorial Regarding Marijuana And Schizophrenia
Nov 21	Washington, DC USA	NORML Reiterates Stance Against Driving While Impaired By Pot; Questions Feds' Proposed Crackdown On "Drugged Driving"
Nov 14	Iselin, NJ USA	Application Filed With FDA For U.S. Clinical Trials On Pot For Head Trauma
Nov 14	St. Louis, MO USA	Twins Who Smoked Marijuana Show No Adverse Effects Compared To Non-Using Siblings, Study Says
Nov 14	Prague, Czech Republic	Nearly Half Of Parkinson's Patients Who Try Pot Experience Therapeutic Relief, Study Says
Nov 14	Washington, DC USA	NORML Head Dismisses British Lung Report As Nothing But Hot Air "Any risk presented by marijuana smoking falls within the ambit of choice we permit the individual in a free society," Stroup Says
Nov 8	Washington, DC US	FCC Rules White House Drug Office Must Be Identified As Sponsor Of Anti-Drug Ads, Television Content
Nov 6	Washington, DC USA	Election 2002 Wrap-Up Disappointing Results Provide Opportunity For Self Assessment
Oct 31	Washington, DC USA	Time/CNN Poll: Majority of Americans Support Medical Marijuana For Patients, Decriminalization For Adults Support For Legalization Rises To 40 Percent - More Than Doubling Since 1986
Oct 31	Washington, DC USA	Feds Can't Sanction Docs For Recommending Pot, Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Rules Government Threats Violate Free Speech, Exceed Congressional Authority, Court Says
Oct 28	Washington, DC USA	Special Release: Marijuana Arrests For Year 2001 Second Highest Ever Despite Feds' War On Terror, FBI Report Reveals
Oct 25	Washington, DC USA	Voters Have Unprecedented Opportunity To Amend Marijuana Laws This November State And Local Initiatives Would Distribute Medical Cannabis, Legalize Hemp And Regulate Pot For Personal Use
Oct 17	Las Vegas, NV USA	Taxing And Regulating Pot Will Add $28.6 Million To State Coffers, Nevada Study Finds
Oct 17	Washington, DC USA	Impending Canadian Pot Policy Change Will Bring U.S. Rebuttal, Drug Czar Threatens
Oct 17	San Diego, CA USA	Feds' Prosecution Of Outspoken California Medi-Pot Patient For 20 Plants Raises Free Speech Questions, NORML Head Charges
Oct 10	Oakland, CA USA	Federal Suit Charges DEA's Raids Of California Medi-Pot Patients Are Unconstitutional
Oct 10	Seattle, WA USA	Seattle Pot Liberalization Initiative Certified For November 2003 Ballot
Oct 10	Montreal, QU Canada	Inhaled Cannabis Drastically Reduces Pain And Dystonia, Case Study Reports
Oct 10	New York, NY USA	Coalition Files Federal Administrative Petition To Legalize Medical Marijuana
Oct 3	Washington, DC USA	Ballot Initiatives To Liberalize Pot Laws Enjoy Majority Support, Polls Show
Oct 3	Reno, NV USA	Pot's Ingredients Significantly Reduce Pain in MS, Spinal Cord Patients, Study Says
Oct 3	Washington, DC USA	NORML Responds To DEA Letter Defending Stepped Up Assault On California's Medical Marijuana Patients and Providers
Sep 26	San Diego, CA USA	Feds Continue California Patient Crackdown Raid Six-Patient Medicinal Pot Collective In San Diego
Sep 26	San Francisco, CA USA	Join Us In San Francisco For The Fourth Annual NORML Benefit Party
Sep 26	Sacramento, CA USA	Hundreds March On California Capitol To Demand Feds End Assault On Medi-Pot Patients
Sep 20	Washington, DC USA	Thousands To March On Sacramento Monday To Protest Feds' Attacks On California Medical Marijuana Patients!
Sep 20	Washington, DC USA	NORML Responds To Feds' New Anti-Pot Ad Campaign
Sep 20	New York City, NY USA	Marijuana Reform Party Candidates To Appear On New York State Ballot
Sep 12	Washington, DC USA	"Misinterpreted" Drug Law Denies 87,000 Students Their Financial Aid
Sep 12	Ottawa, ON Canada	Top Court Sets Date To Hear Arguments In Case To Determine Constitutionality Of Canada's Pot Laws
Sep 12	Santa Cruz, CA USA	California City Leaders To Protest Federal Pot Raids With Medical Marijuana Giveaway
Sep 12	Boston, MA USA	Boston Freedom Rally Kicks Off This Saturday At High Noon
Sep 6	Santa Cruz, CA USA	DEA Continues War On California Patients: Busts Longstanding Santa Cruz Medical Marijuana Collective Contact Your California Senator To Protest Latest DEA Raid On The Sick And Dying
Sep 5	Ottawa, ON Canada	Legalize and Regulate Cannabis, Canadian Senate Committee Says
Aug 29	San Francisco, CA USA	30,000 Californians Using Medicinal Marijuana Legally, Study Says
Aug 29	Ottawa, ON Canada	Canada: Health Minister Announces Indefinite Lockdown On Medical Marijuana
Aug 22	Clemson, SC USA	Clemson University Touted As Nation's Top School For Pot
Aug 22	San Francisco, CA USA	City Voters Likely To Approve SF Pot Cultivation Proposal
Aug 20	Washington, DC USA	Special Release: Regulation Of Marijuana Would Likely Result In Reduced Teen Use, Columbia University Survey Says
Aug 14	Phoenix, AZ USA	Initiative To Decriminalize Pot, Expand Medicinal Marijuana Law Qualifies For Arizona Ballot
Aug 14	Seattle, WA USA	World's Largest Marijuana Legalization Rally To Be Held This Weekend In Seattle
Aug 8	Manderson, SD USA	Oglala Lakota Nation Successfully Harvests Historic Hemp Crop
Aug 8	Chapel Hill, NC USA	Education Journal Gives DARE, Other Student Anti-Drug Programs Failing Grade
Aug 8	Carson City, NV USA	Cops Unanimously Back Nevada Pot Liberalization Proposal
Aug 1	Washington, DC USA	FBI Transfers 400 Agents From Narcotics to War On Terrorism
Aug 1	Washington, DC USA	More Than 2 Million Americans Behind Bars
Aug 1	Washington, DC USA	Drug Use Increases Among Military
Aug 1	Boston, MA USA	Mass. Governor Vetoes Decriminalization Provisions
Jul 24	Sacramento, CA USA	Medical Pot Patients Afforded Same Legal Protections As Other Prescription Drug Users, California's Top Court Rules
Jul 24	Washington, DC USA	Medical Marijuana Takes Center Stage On Capitol Hill
Jul 24	Washington, DC USA	Drug Czar Questions Voting Rights For Drug Users
Jul 18	Ottawa, ON Canada	Canada's Top Cop Calls For Pot Decriminalization
Jul 18	Washington, DC USA	Zogby Poll: Pot's Less Dangerous Than Alcohol Or Tobacco
Jul 18	Washington, DC USA	Members of Congress To Hold Press Conference In Support Of Medical Marijuana
Jul 10	Carson City, NV USA	Nevada Pot Liberalization Initiative Certified For November Ballot
Jul 10	Ottawa, ON Canada	Random Workplace Drug Testing Struck Down By Canadian Human Rights Commission
Jul 10	London, England	British Government Reaffirms Plans To Abolish Pot Possession Arrests
Jul 3	Montpelier, VT USA	State Task Force To Draw Legal Distinctions Between Medicinal And Recreational Pot Use
Jul 3	New York, NY USA	U.N. Report Says Global Marijuana Use, Trafficking Up Sharply In Recent Years
Jul 3	Glasgow, Scotland	Scotland, U.K. Hospitals To Prescribe Medical Marijuana Spray In Patients Trials
Jun 27	Chicago, IL USA	Pot Constituents Dramatically Reduce Sleep Apnea, Study Says
Jun 27	Washington, DC USA	Supreme Court Approves Extraordinary Expansion Of Suspicionless Student Drug Testing
Jun 27	Washington, DC USA	NORML Foundation To Discontinue Hard Copies Of Weekly Fax, Will Be Converting To All Electronic Format Starting July 1st
Jun 20	Pierre, SD USA	Hemp Cultivation, Pot Decriminalization Initiatives Appear Likely On November State Ballots
Jun 20	Washington, DC USA	Drug Czar Promises Changes In Feds' Anti-Drug Media Campaign After Congressional Grilling
Jun 13	Quebec City, QU Canada	U.S. Drug Czar Continues To Wage War On Canadian Drug Policies
Jun 13	San Francisco, CA USA	Federal Judge To Bar California Dispensaries From Distributing Medical Pot
Jun 6	Columbus, OH USA	Polls Show Americans Overwhelmingly Support Legalizing Medical Pot
Jun 6	Washington, DC USA	Patients Fight Back, Challenge Feds' Crackdown On Medical Marijuana
May 31	London, United Kingdom	London Street Crime Halved After Pot Decriminalization
May 31	Honolulu, HI USA	Ninth Circuit Recognizes Religious Use of Marijuana
May 31	Detroit, MI USA	Prenatal Marijuana Use Not Associated With Neurobehavioral Deficits, Study Finds
May 23	Washington, DC USA	June 6th Declared "Day of Action" For Medical Marijuana
May 23	London, United Kingdom	U.K. House of Commons Backs Pot Reclassification
May 16	Washington, DC USA	Unintended Consequences! Drug Czar Admits Federal Anti-Drug Ads Having Opposite Effect On Teens
May 16	Ottawa, ON Canada	Blame US! U.S. Thwarting Canada's Efforts to Liberalize Pot Policies, Government Officials Say
May 9	Missoula, MT USA	Patient's Hunger Strike For Medical Cannabis Enters Fourth Week
May 9	Portland, OR USA	Government Approval For Medical Pot Spray One Year Away
May 9	Ottawa, ON Canada	Canada: Government Study Blows Lid Off U.S. Pot Propaganda
May 2	Honolulu, HI USA	Hawaii Legislature Passes Sentencing Reform Bill Barring Jail For First Time Drug Offenders
May 2	Washington, DC USA	NORML Meets With Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Ed Thompson
May 2	Washington, DC USA	Willie Nelson, Bill Maher, Robert Altman and Others Join New NORML Advisory Board
Apr 25	San Francisco, CA USA	NORML Declares 2002 Conference "A Smashing Success"
Apr 4	Hannover, Germany	Pot Ingredient Eases Tourette's Symptoms, Study Says
Apr 4	Tenerife, Spain	Marijuana's Anti-Tumoral Effects To Be Studied In Humans
Apr 4	Ottawa, ON Canada	Past Pot Use Has No Negative Impact On Intelligence, Canadian IQ Study Says
Apr 4	Atlantic City, NJ USA	Over One In Five State Nursing Associations Say Medical Pot Should Be Legal
Mar 28	London, United Kingdom	Casual Drug Use Seldom Harmful, British Study Says
Mar 28	Berkshire, United Kingdom	Pot's Impact on Driving Negligible, Two More Studies Say
Mar 21	Washington, DC USA	Nixon Commission Report Advising Decriminalization of Marijuana Celebrates 30th Anniversary
Mar 21	Washington, DC USA	High Court Mulls Dramatic Expansion of Student Drug Testing
Mar 21	Detroit, MI USA	Administrative Petition Challenging Pot's Prohibitive Status Goes Before U.S. Court of Appeals
Mar 18	Washington, DC USA	Special Release 30 Years After Nixon's Marijuana Commission Advocated Decriminalization, Report Findings Are Still Valid Nixon Never Read His Own Report, President Bush Should
Mar 18	Washington, DC USA	Fed's Review of White House Ad Campaign Says $1.5 Billion Program Fails To Reduce Teen Drug Use "Thus far there is relatively little evidence for direct effects of the Campaign on youth," Report Concludes
Mar 18	Washington, DC USA	Woody Harrelson, Bill Maher To Speak at Upcoming National NORML Conference in San Francisco
Mar 14	Washington, DC USA	Fed's Review of White House Ad Campaign Says $1.5 Billion Program Fails To Reduce Teen Drug Use "Thus far there is relatively little evidence for direct effects of the Campaign on youth," Report Concludes
Mar 14	London, United Kingdom	British Health Experts, Liberal Democrats Back Pot Law Change
Mar 7	Washington, DC USA	Campus Drug Busts Top 11,000
Mar 7	Glasgow, Scotland	Scotland's Drug Czar Backs Pot Decrim, Declares End To "War on Drugs"
Mar 7	Washington, DC USA	Welfare Ban For Drug Offenders Denied Financial Aid To 92,000 Women Since 1996, Study Says NORML Calls Feds' Little Known Provision "Mean and Excessive"
Mar 5	Washington, DC USA	Science Challenges JAMA Report Linking Pot To Cognitive Decline Cognition Unaffected by Long-Term Marijuana Use, Previous Studies Show
Feb 28	Missoula, MT USA	Study Shows Pot's Therapeutic Benefits, Few Adverse Effects in Long-Term, Daily Marijuana Smokers Results Support Expanding Feds' Medical Pot Program
Feb 28	San Carlos, CA USA	U.S. Drug Company to Develop Inhaler for Legal Medi-Pot Pill
Feb 21	Salem, OR USA	Oregon Patients File Initiative to Expand Marijuana Access for the Sick
Feb 21	London, United Kingdom	UK Regulatory Agency Considers Medi-Pot Therapies Move Likely to Speed Up Medical Marijuana Approval Process
Feb 21	Sydney, Australia	Largest Australian State Debates Bill to Permit Dutch-Style Pot Coffee Shops
Feb 14	Kingston, Jamaica	Jamaica Parliament Ponders Marijuana Decriminalization
Feb 14	Washington, DC USA	NORML Assails Bush Anti-Drug Plan Calling for the "Compassionate Coercion" of Pot Smokers
Feb 14	Washington, DC USA	DEA Continues Terror Attacks on California Medical Marijuana Patients and Providers "These are not drug busts. The feds are trying to quash a political movement," NORML charges
Feb 11	Charleston, WV USA	West Virginia Legalizes Commercial Cultivation of Industrial Hemp State Becomes Only The Third To Legally Distinguish Between Hemp And Marijuana
Feb 11	Washington, DC USA	Pro-Pot Media Blitz! NORML Foundation Successfully Launches Largest Ever Marijuana-Friendly Ad Campaign New York City Ads Featuring Mayor Bloomberg Demand An End To City's Skyrocketing Marijuana Arrests
Feb 7	Washington, DC USA	Pot Admission Bars Former Olympian Entry to U.S.
Feb 7	Washington, DC USA	Grace Period Ends for Hemp Food Consumers
Feb 7	Washington, DC USA	NORML Files Supreme Court Brief in Student Drug Testing Case "Goal of schools should be educating students, not policing them."
Jan 31	Ottawa, ON Canada	Health Canada Announces Further Delays Before Patients Can Have Access To Government Pot
Jan 31	Washington, DC USA	Super Bust! Drug Czar's Office to Spend $3.4 Million For Super Bowl Ads NORML Head Calls Ads Linking Drug Use to Terrorism "A Colossal Waste of Taxpayers' Dollars"
Jan 24	Iselin, NJ USA	Clinical Trials on Pot for Head Trauma Planned for U.S.
Jan 24	Washington, DC USA	DEA's Hemp Foods Ban Ignores Justice Department's Findings, Failed to Assess Policy's Impact on Industry
Jan 24	Paris, France	French Justice Minister Calls for Pot Decriminalization Debate
Jan 17	Chatham, ON Canada	Canadian Firm to Sue U.S. Government Over Hemp Foods Ban "Myopic and Absurd" Policy Violates NAFTA, Company Charges
Jan 17	London, UK	UK to Test Marijuana for Cancer Pain
Jan 17	Rio De Janeiro, Brazil	Brazilian President Vetoes Landmark Legislation Decriminalizing Marijuana, Other Drugs
Jan 10	Washington, DC USA	D.C. Court of Appeals to Review Administrative Petition Challenging Pot's Prohibitive Status Court to Decide Whether DEA Erred By Not Assessing Marijuana's Low Abuse Potential Compared to Other Drugs
Jan 10	Oakland, CA USA	Oakland Cannabis Cooperative Files Brief on Remand in Federal District Court Asking For Modification of 1998 Injunction
Jan 10	San Francisco, CA USA	Hemp Industry Calls On Court to Enjoin Hemp Foods Ban
Jan 3	Washington, DC USA	Complete and Updated State-by-State Listing of Marijuana Laws in the United States New Section of NORML's Website Devoted to State-Based Information
Jan 3	Santa Fe, NM USA	New Mexico To Consider Marijuana Decriminalization and Medical Use Bills

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