Wednesday, 04 April 2012 Coalition to President Obama: “It is time for a new approach on marijuana policy.” Contact: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, (202) 483-5500 Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director, paul@norml.org Washington, DC — In the wake of recent attacks on medical marijuana providers and patients by multiple branches of the federal government, [...]

Forty years ago today, a Congressionally mandated commission on US drug policy did something extraordinary: they told the truth about marijuana. On March 22, 1972, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse — chaired by former Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer — recommended that Congress amend federal law so that the use and possession [...]