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Ed ‘NJWeedman’ Forchion talks with Superior Court Judge Charles Delehey and Assistant Burlington County Prosecutor Michael Luciano on Thursday. / GEORGE MAST/COURIER-POST
On trial for possessing a pound of pot in 2010, activist Ed “NJWeedman” Forchion bluntly told jurors Thursday of his affinity for marijuana and then asked for a verdict of not guilty.
“I smoke marijuana just about every day,” Forchion, a champion for the legalization of marijuana said in his opening remarks in the ongoing trial in Superior Court in Mount Holly.
“I smoked a joint this morning,” said Forchion, 47. And Forchion said when the court broke for lunch later that afternoon he would probably light up again.
“I don’t regard myself as a criminal,” said Forchion, who argued that if his driver’s license is valid in both New Jersey and California, then his California-issued medical marijuana certificate should be good here as well.
But Assistant Burlington County Prosecutor Michael Luciano told jurors that when officers found a pound of carefully packaged marijuana in Forchion’s vehicle in Mount Holly on April 21, 2008, he was flat-out breaking the law.
“Whatever your personal feeling is to its use, it’s illegal in New Jersey,” Luciano said.
While Forchion admitted to jurors that the marijuana recovered that day was indeed his, he maintained that investigators’ assertions that he was intending to distribute the drug are wrong.
Luciano warned jurors that Forchion would attempt to couch his illegal activity as a legitimate action.
“Mr. Forchion is a charlatan,” Luciano said. “Mr. Forchion is a wolf in hemp clothing.”
Forchion has maintained the state shouldn’t be able to prosecute him for possessing marijuana when legislators acknowledged the drug’s value with the passage of the medical marijuana law in 2010.
Superior Court Judge Charles Delehey ruled before the trial, however, that Forchion, who is representing himself, can’t use New Jersey’s medical marijuana laws as a part of his defense. Seemingly poised to launch into New Jersey’s medical marijuana laws in his opening arguments Thursday, Delehey warned Forchion to abide by his ruling and instructed jurors that the trial isn’t a referendum about the state’s drug laws.
Forchion, a dread-locked Browns Mills native who later opened a medical marijuana dispensary in California, was indicted on charges of third-degree possession with the intent to distribute and fourth-degree possession of drug paraphernalia.
Forchion has heavily promoted his case on the Internet. Outside the courthouse Thursday, Forchion’s Weedmobile stood out against the rows of other vehicles.
The hippie van, decorated in 2009 by a Los Angeles graffiti artist, shows Forchion holding a large joint and blowing smoke into the face of Uncle Sam.
Inside the courtroom, Forchion spent a large portion of his opening argument telling the 14 jurors the story of his life.
Forchion, who described himself as a “peaceful, proud, patriotic pothead” said it was in Willingboro’s Pennypacker Park where he first smoked a joint at age 14. The pot instantly cleared his asthma-plagued chest, he recounted.
Forchion said he later served three stints with different branches of the military before becoming a truck driver.
While Forchion acknowledged he has been using marijuana for most of his life, he said he got approval for a medical marijuana license in California because of debilitating tumors in his knees.
Forchion said that in April 2010 he drove back to New Jersey to visit his children over their spring break.
While Luciano said an investigator will testify that the packaging of Forchion’s pound of marijuana was consistent with one looking to sell or distribute the drug, Forchion told the jurors it was simply for his own supply.
“I believe in buying in bulk,” said Forchion. “I’m not going to a street corner every day.”
Depending on how much he baked versus smoked, Forchion said the supply could have lasted him up to two months.
“I don’t feel I did anything wrong,” he said.
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New Jersey officials have raided four stores accused of selling synthetic marijuana over the past week — and promise more busts in a broader crackdown.
A state ban on synthetic marijuana, which is sold under brand names such as Spice and K2, took effect on Feb. 28. Shopkeepers had until March 10 to surrender the drugs they had.
Any caught selling it now are subject to five years in prison and fines up to $25,000.
The busts in the last week have been in shops in Willingboro, Northfield, Burlington City and Burlington Township.
The state Division of Consumer Affairs tells the Burlington County Times that memos have been sent to all the state’s police departments encouraging them to enforce the ban.
Cris Jagar, a lifelong Rutherford resident and a psychiatrist at Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, sent in an application last year to be a qualified physician of the New Jersey Medicinal Marijuana Program for an array of reasons. Stationed in the emergency room at the hospital and working closely with doctors of most disciplines there, he sees just about every patient imaginable: drug addicts, cancer patients, those afflicted with AIDS and some with chronic pain so bad, any treatment they undergo just doesn’t seem to work.
“As a psychiatrist, I participate in a lot of the palliative care with patients. My thinking was I was hoping to provide another treatment option for the terminally ill and patients with debilitating illnesses,” said Jagar. “A lot of patients already get it [marijuana] illegally for pain and weight loss. I work in Elizabeth; if they want it, they can get it. So that was my thinking. I may be able to do more for the patients in the hospital and for outpatients. If they want marijuana now, it’s widely available, but it’s better to have it monitored by professionals. It’s a better treatment for a person to not have to go through illegal channels to get it.”
Jagar is among four local doctors who have been approved by the state to prescribe medical marijuana, but none of the companies that were approved to dispense the marijuana when the law was passed more than two years ago have yet been permitted to do so. Most still do not have a facility to operate out of as the municipalities that they have been approved to operate in have had their zoning and planning boards turn down applications. The only one with a home, which is in Montclair, was given a permit last week to begin growing marijuana, but has not yet been permitted to sell it.
The law, which was signed in January 2010, allows for six alternative treatment centers (ATCs) across the state, two in each of the three districts (north, central and south) to dispense marijuana to qualified patients who have a prescription from a doctor who is in the program’s physician registry. The patients themselves must too hold an identification card from the program. A patient would be eligible to receive a maximum of two ounces of marijuana each month with a level of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, not exceeding 10 percent.
Among the debilitating medical conditions that would qualify a patient to receive marijuana are amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, terminal cancer, muscular dystrophy or inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn’s disease. Terminal illness also qualifies if a physician determines the patient has less than 12 months to live. Conditions that qualify if they are resistant to conventional medical therapies are seizure disorders including epilepsy, intractable skeletal muscular spasticity; or glaucoma. Cancer, AIDS and HIV patients would qualify if severe or chronic pain, severe nausea or vomiting, or wasting syndrome results from the condition or treatment of the condition.
Greenleaf Compassion Center, the only ATC to gain zoning approval from Montclair, was issued a permit last week to begin growing marijuana, which takes between three and four months, according to New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) Commissioner Mary E. O’Dowd. O’Dowd said she anticipates Greenleaf receiving a dispensary permit when the marijuana is ready. Licensing of the other approved companies can’t take place until they have zoning approvals from the towns they were approved for. Secaucus is the other town in the northern district where a company is trying to find a home.
“The patients we work with and represent are ecstatic,” said Roseanne Scotti, the New Jersey state director of Drug Policy Alliance, a group that helped lead the campaign to pass the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act. “They have waited so long for safe and legal access to medical marijuana and this gives them hope that that wait is coming to an end and relief is in sight.”
According to the NJDHSS, the physician registry opened on October 2010 and will continue to allow for new physician enrollment beyond what doctors have been allowed to the registry already. The department made available an electronic registry last week. A patient registry is in the final stages of development. Once that registry opens, which is expected in several weeks, according to the NJDHSS, physicians will go online and enter the name, address, date of birth and qualifying condition of a patient, creating a secure patient identification number that the patient can use to register electronically. The patient will be required to then register and submit a photo by mail to the state in order to obtain an identification card from the program.
“New Jersey’s Medicinal Marijuana Program is based on a medical-model which requires physicians and qualified patients to have an ongoing relationship,” said Dr. Arturo Brito, the state’s deputy commissioner for public health services. “Physicians will have to monitor patients on medicinal marijuana as part of managing their medical condition.”
Three Lyndhurst doctors, all operating out of the same practice on Rutherford Avenue, joined Jagar in making the roster of the medical marijuana physician registry. The four local physicians make up a total of over 100 statewide and 26 in Bergen County that gained approval. From Lyndhurst, the doctors are Ann Kim, Sung-Won Lee and Byong Park, all listed as physicians affiliated with United Medical PC.
Jagar said he isn’t surprised that more doctors haven’t signed onto the qualified physicians registry because of the perception that they may some how be breaking the law by prescribing the drug as medical marijuana laws are not instituted federally. He said he believes it’s also the reason many patients haven’t inquired about it.
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MONTCLAIR — Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday he didn’t want to get into a “tit for tat” with the head of the Montclair-based medical marijuana center.
But he did anyway.
Letting off steam about a troubled program that has dogged his administration for more than two years, Christie accused the head of the Greenleaf Compassion Center of “dragging his feet” and failing to meet requirements of the program.
“He should stop complaining and get back to work,” he said of Joe Stevens, the CEO of the dispensary.
By accusing Greenleaf of foot-dragging, the governor was in a sense turning the tables on the center, which was the first to gain local zoning approval and to earn a preliminary permit to grow marijuana.
Christie’s own administration has been heavily criticized for long delaying the medical marijuana program. Most of the recent criticism has come from Greenleaf, the center that’s been far ahead of the other five planned dispensaries. Greenleaf officials said it signed leases in September and has wasted time and money while waiting for the state to move forward.
Christie’s comments were the harshest public remarks he has made on the marijuana program, which was established to give relief to thousands of New Jerseyans suffering from serious and terminal illnesses but after two years has yet to deliver its first dose.
His words came in response to a reporter’s question during a news conference in Bedminster, just one day after Health Department officials awarded Greenleaf the state’s first preliminary permit for cultivation.
Governor Christie wants to be sure that proper safeguards are in place for medical marijuana facility in MontclairGovernor Christie says that Greenleaf Compassion Center, a medical marijuana center in Montclair, has not met all of the necessary requirements to begin planting. Greenleaf CEO Joe Stevens said they will hold off until they receive more guarantees from the Christie administration about the programâs future. Greenleaf becomes the first to receive a preliminary permit to cultivate but will not disclose the location of their grow facility until theyâre granted a final permit by the health department. (Video by Andre Malok / The Star-Ledger)Watch video
Stevens hasn’t greeted the permit with open arms. He told The Star-Ledger on Monday he was unsure if Greenleaf would immediately proceed with growing a crop. Lingering doubts about the program’s future, Stevens said, made him hesitant to plant without any guarantee of when patients would receive access to the program.
In late March, Stevens wrote a letter to Christie and health department officials, claiming the administration had attempted to sabotage the program.
Tuesday, Stevens issued a statement to The Star-Ledger after reading a transcript of the governor’s critical remarks.
“The health department has taken steps in the right direction and we’re pleased to see progress, he said. “Regarding the Governor’s comments, Greenleaf would welcome the opportunity to have a sit down with the Governor at his convenience to work through the issues and move toward a cooperative working relationship with him and his administration.”
Gov. Jon Corzine signed New Jersey’s Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act on his last day in office, Jan. 18, 2010. For patients to qualify for the program, they must have a qualifying debilitating condition, such as Multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease or terminal cancer, among others.
In Tuesday’s comments, Christie returned to a familiar theme: problems in the medical marijuana program are the result of Corzine signing the enacting legislation into law at the last minute.
“We’re making progress. But I’m not going to compromise the safety and the security of this program,” Christie said. “This bill was passed with no type of allowances for that type of safety and security. And Commissioner O’Dowd and I had this dumped in our laps by the last administration at 3 o’clock in the morning when Governor [Jon] Corzine signed it, and we’re not going to permit a program like this to be started unless that the appropriate safeguards are available.”
View full sizeJohn Munson/The Star-LedgerA marijuana plant is shown in this 2010 file photo.Poonam Alaigh, not Mary O’Dowd, was actually Christie’s health commissioner originally tasked with implementing the program. Alaigh resigned in March 2011, shortly after the selection of the six medical marijuana centers. Christie nominated O’Dowd as commissioner after Alaigh’s departure.
Christie also criticized legislators for hyping New Jersey’s law as the strictest in the nation.
“They were wrong,” he said. “The people who called it the strictest in the nation were the people who signed it and who sponsored it.”
Christie said his administration has been tasked with tightening up restrictions to ensure safety, he said.
“We do not want to become Colorado or California. We don’t want to have that type of program here,” he said. “I want to have a compassionate program that makes this available for people in New Jersey who have no other alternative and who can find relief from their pain. I do not want this to become a cottage industry for unscrupulous doctors who will write prescriptions no matter what and for folks who might run these facilities who care more about profit than they care about compassionate care for individual citizens who qualify for it.”
Staff writer Jenna Portnoy contributed to this report.
by Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive DirectorApril 11, 2012
From the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines
IACM-Bulletin of 8 April 2012
World: Increasing numbers of patients use cannabis for medicinal purposes
An increasing number of patients in the world are using cannabis for therapeutic reasons, with available data from countries, which have installed programs for their citizens. Good data are available for Israel, Canada, the Netherlands and many states of the US with medicinal cannabis laws and registries. In several more countries only a few patients are allowed to use cannabis for medicinal purposes, including Germany, Norway, Finland and Italy. In many other countries such as Spain and some states of the US without a registry such as California the number of medicinal users is estimated to be high, but no detailed data are available.
The numbers in California with hundreds of cannabis dispensaries and clinics that issue medical cannabis recommendations are unclear, since the state does not require residents to register as patients (see below**)
Most of the 16 states that allow the medicinal use of cannabis require a registration. Recently the press agency Associated Press published data on registered patients in different states of the USA based on state agencies responsible for maintaining patient registries:
State: Number of registered patients (per 1,000 of the whole population) –
Colorado: 82,089 (16.3)
Oregon: 57,386 (15.0)
Montana: 14,364 (14.5)
Michigan: 131,483 (13.3)
Hawaii: 11,695 (8.6)
Rhode Island: 4,466 (4.2)
Arizona: 22,037 (3.5)
New Mexico: 4,310 (2.1)
Maine: 2,708 (2.0)
Nevada: 3,388 (1.3)
Vermont: 505 (0.8)
Alaska: 538 (0.8)
Patient registration is mandatory in Delaware, New Jersey and the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), but their registries are not yet up and running. Washington State has neither voluntary nor mandatory registration.
Data from Israel show that in August 2011 6,000 patients got medicinal cannabis (0.8 patients in 1,000). It is estimated that the number increases to 40,000 in 2016 (5.2 patients in 1,000 citizens).
In Canada 12,116 patients were allowed to use cannabis on 30 September 2011 (0.35 patients in 1,000 citizens).
Numbers of patients using cannabis from the pharmacies in the Netherlands were estimated to be 1,300 in 2010 (0.08 patients in 1,000 citizens). However, many patients in the Netherlands use cannabis from the coffee shops or grow their own.
In Germany about 60 patients are currently allowed to use cannabis for medicinal purposes.
(Sources: Associated Press of 24 March 2012, website of the Israeli Prime Minister of 7 August 2011, UPI of 31 October 2011, Pharmaceutisch Weekblad No. 20, 2011)
**[Editor's note: CA NORML published a white paper last May estimating that California has 750,000 - 1,125,000 citizens who possess a physician's recommendation to use cannabis medicinally.]
- by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Members of the NORML Legal Committee filed suit yesterday against the State of New Jersey over regulators failure to implement the Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act.
First signed into law by former Gov. Jon Corzine on January 18, 2010, the law — which establishes the creation of up to six state-licensed ‘alternative treatment centers’ to provide medicinal cannabis to qualified patients — was initially scheduled to take effect in July 2010. Since that time state regulators, at the behest of present Gov. Chris Christie, haveunduly delayed the law’s implementation. To date, not a single patient in New Jersey has been afforded legal protections under the Act in the 27 months since the measure was signed into law.
On Wednesday, April 4, NORML Legal Committee attorneys William H. Buckman of Moorestown and Anne M. Davis of Brick filed a lawsuit on behalf of a New Jersey medical patient who would qualify for cannabis access. The suit also represents one of the few medical doctors who have registered with NJ to recommend medical marijuana. Named in the suit are the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Commissioner Mary O’Dowd and the newly appointed director of the Medicinal Marijuana Program John O’Brien.
Read the press release below:
CONSTITUTIONAL LAWSUIT FILED OVER FAILED NJ MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM
Trenton: Today a lawsuit was filed against the State of New Jersey over the failure to implement the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act. Named in the suit are the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Commissioner Mary O’Dowd and the newly appointed director of the Medicinal Marijuana Program John O’Brien.
Civil rights attorneys William H. Buckman of Moorestown and Anne M. Davis of Brick brought the suit on behalf of a New Jersey medical patient who would qualify for cannabis access. The suit also represents one of the few medical doctors who have registered with NJ to recommend medical marijuana.
The compassionate use law was passed in January 2010 with a six-month implementation timeline. But since 2010 a series of politically motivated regulatory, legislative and bureaucratic delays have kept the program from operating at all. None of the six approved Alternative Treatment Centers have been fully permitted by DHSS to open.
“We represent a patient who suffered actual damages as a result of these delays,” said Anne Davis, “He cannot utilize the cannabis because New Jersey’s lack of a working program means he could lose his disability pension if he tested positive for cannabis.”
Davis continued, “Our neighbors with AIDS, cancer, MS and the worst of medical conditions have testified before the legislature and changed the law. Now, patients and doctors have to go to court to win the rights that they should have already been afforded.”
The lawsuit gathers more than two years of facts demonstrating that those in charge of the implementation process for New Jersey’s medical marijuana program have been unable or unwilling to put the law into place.
“Today we are filing suit to require the DHHS to do what every other citizen must do — follow the law,” said William Buckman, “We are also insisting that pursuant to the legislature’s will, sick people have access to medical marijuana without fear of arrest.”
By Danielle Camilli Staff writer
MOUNT HOLLY — NJWeedman will have his day in court next month.
Ed Forchion, the well-known marijuana activist, was given a tentative new trial date of May 1 by Superior Court Judge Charles Delehey during a brief hearing Tuesday.
Forchion, who traveled from California to New Jersey in his colorful “Weedmobil,” was to begin his trial on marijuana possession and distribution charges Tuesday, but was given a new date because the judge began an unrelated trial that will take about three weeks.
In general, the courts schedule two or more trials for the same day, knowing that there are often delays and that one of the cases will not be ready to proceed.
Forchion, who claims dual residency in Pemberton Township and California, was indicted in August on charges of third-degree possession with the intent to distribute and fourth-degree possession of drug paraphernalia.
He readily admits he had about a pound of marijuana in the trunk of his rental car on April 1, 2010, when police stopped him on Route 38 in Mount Holly for rolling through a red light. The Rastafarian said he had the drug for his own spiritual and medicinal purposes and legally obtained it in California as a licensed, card-carry medical marijuana patient.
In Los Angeles, Forchion ran a state-approved medical marijuana dispensary, the Liberty Bell Temple, but it has been shut down since it was raided by U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on Dec. 13. No charges followed, but he has said he has not had the resources to reopen.
Since being charged, Forchion, a longtime medical marijuana activist and proponent of legalization, has waged war on the laws he was charged under, claiming the state cannot prosecute him criminally for possessing pot when it recognized the drug’s medicinal value with the passage of the medical marijuana law in 2010.
Delehey already has shot down that argument after pretrial arguments and has prohibited it as a defense at the trial. Forchion has been undeterred and hopes to find like-minded jurors in Burlington County.
“I want the jury to know exactly who I am and what I’m about, and if they support me, I want them to say, ‘Not guilty,’ “ he said last week. “I only need one.”
Despite calls for supporters to “occupy the courtroom” for his hearing Tuesday, only a few attended.
In the meantime, Forchion continues to collect signatures in the county for his planned independent run for U.S. Congress and state Assembly.
Edward Forchion in Mount Holly in 2004. The Weedman has returned to New Jersey to face… (Edward Forchion)
With much fanfare, the man who calls himself NJ Weedman left his California home last month in a painted hippie van and headed to New Jersey for his much-publicized trial on marijuana charges.
Along the way, Edward Forchion, a marijuana-legalization activist, issued invitations via Twitter urging sympathetic protesters to “occupy my courtroom” in Mount Holly on Tuesday. That’s when his trial was scheduled in state Superior Court.
Now, the trial has been delayed. But as of Wednesday, Forchion – in New Jersey, yet apparently unaware of the postponement – was still tweeting that “the most important marijuana case/trial is set to begin on April 10.”
Members of the NORML Legal Committee filed suit yesterday against the State of New Jersey over regulators failure to implement the Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act.
First signed into law by former Gov. Jon Corzine on January 18, 2010, the law — which establishes the creation of up to six state-licensed ‘alternative treatment centers’ to provide medicinal cannabis to qualified patients — was initially scheduled to take effect in July 2010. Since that time state regulators, at the behest of present Gov. Chris Christie, have unduly delayed the law’s implementation. To date, not a single patient in New Jersey has been afforded legal protections under the Act in the 27 months since the measure was signed into law.
On Wednesday, April 4, NORML Legal Committee attorneys William H. Buckman of Moorestown and Anne M. Davis of Brick filed a lawsuit on behalf of a New Jersey medical patient who would qualify for cannabis access. The suit also represents one of the few medical doctors who have registered with NJ to recommend medical marijuana. Named in the suit are the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Commissioner Mary O’Dowd and the newly appointed director of the Medicinal Marijuana Program John O’Brien.
Read the press release below:
CONSTITUTIONAL LAWSUIT FILED OVER FAILED NJ MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM
Trenton: Today a lawsuit was filed against the State of New Jersey over the failure to implement the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act. Named in the suit are the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Commissioner Mary O’Dowd and the newly appointed director of the Medicinal Marijuana Program John O’Brien.
Civil rights attorneys William H. Buckman of Moorestown and Anne M. Davis of Brick brought the suit on behalf of a New Jersey medical patient who would qualify for cannabis access. The suit also represents one of the few medical doctors who have registered with NJ to recommend medical marijuana.
The compassionate use law was passed in January 2010 with a six-month implementation timeline. But since 2010 a series of politically motivated regulatory, legislative and bureaucratic delays have kept the program from operating at all. None of the six approved Alternative Treatment Centers have been fully permitted by DHSS to open.
“We represent a patient who suffered actual damages as a result of these delays,” said Anne Davis, “He cannot utilize the cannabis because New Jersey’s lack of a working program means he could lose his disability pension if he tested positive for cannabis.”
Davis continued, “Our neighbors with AIDS, cancer, MS and the worst of medical conditions have testified before the legislature and changed the law. Now, patients and doctors have to go to court to win the rights that they should have already been afforded.”
The lawsuit gathers more than two years of facts demonstrating that those in charge of the implementation process for New Jersey’s medical marijuana program have been unable or unwilling to put the law into place.
“Today we are filing suit to require the DHHS to do what every other citizen must do — follow the law,” said William Buckman, “We are also insisting that pursuant to the legislature’s will, sick people have access to medical marijuana without fear of arrest.”
Asbury Park, NJ: A solid plurality of Americans now support legalizing and taxing the production and sale of cannabis, according to nationwide Rasmussen poll of 1,000 adults.
According to the telephone poll, 47 percent of adults “believe the country should legalize and tax marijuana in order to help solve the nation’s fiscal problems.” Forty-two percent of respondents disagree, while ten percent are undecided.
The survey of 1,000 Adults nationwide was conducted on March 24-25, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.
In 2011, a nationwide Gallup poll reported that 50 percent of Americans support legalizing the use of cannabis for adults. Forty-six percent of respondents said they opposed the idea.
The 2011 Gallup survey results marked the first time that the polling firm, which has tracked Americans’ attitudes toward marijuana since the late 1960s, reported that more Americans support legalizing cannabis than oppose it.
Commenting on the latest poll results, NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre said: “For the second time in less than a year we have pollsters from a national, well-respected firm reporting that far more Americans now support legalizing marijuana than endorse maintaining criminal prohibition. It is high time for state and federal lawmakers to acknowledge this political reality and respond to the will of their constituents.”
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500, or Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director, at: paul@norml.org.
