Mar 07
Police uncover sixty six containers of marijuana right after residence invasion, deadly shooting Robert Goupill, fifty, who has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting, is a accredited health care marijuana grower. Goupill is charged in the dying of 28-calendar year-previous Jerald Antonio Ogden of Ypsilanti, who died of a shotgun wound to the back …
Oct 29
Call it a tale of two California cities: San Francisco and Oakland. While calm reigned at the Occupy encampment in San Francisco, a sense of crisis enveloped the encampment in Oakland. The difference: just one day. Oakland – long known for its brutal police force – launched an unprovoked attack on demonstrators lawfully exercising their …
Sep 27
[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's media alerts and legislative advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up here. To watch NORML's weekly video summary of the week's top stories, click here.] New York City police officers are to cease making misdemeanor marijuana arrests …
Sep 21
Actual slide from "Summit on the Impact of California’s Medical Marijuana Laws" presentation for law enforcement in 2009. (click for entire presentation in PDF format) A new study by the RAND Corporation takes a look at the effect of the recent closure of numerous Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries. Opponents of dispensaries, most notably law …
Aug 04
NORMLtv is now streaming a new public service announcement highlighting the unfortunate consequences that arise when precious law enforcement resources are misappropriated due to enforcement of marijuana prohibition. If states were allowed to experiment with models of decriminalization and legalization they would be able to re-prioritize law enforcement to more effectively combat violent crime. Every …
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