Stories by Paul Armentano
Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), and is the co-author of the book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink (2009, Chelsea Green).
Posted on Mar 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet
A pragmatic regulatory framework allowing for the limited legal use cannabis would best mitigate the potential health risks and societal costs associated with its use.
Posted on Mar 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet
A congressional commission on US drug policy did something extraordinary 40 years ago: it told the truth about marijuana.
Posted on Mar 2, 2012, Source: NORML
A federal judge in Sacramento dismissed the NORML Legal Committee's lawsuit against the Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder, and DEA Director Michele Leonhart.
Posted on Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.
Posted on Feb 2, 2012, Source: NORML
Even after the Commissioner told cops to follow the books on pot charges, small time weed arrests continued, breaking records for the past decade.
Posted on Jan 12, 2012, Source: NORML
According to a new study, exposure to cannabis smoke, even over the long-term, is not associated with adverse effects on pulmonary function.
Posted on Dec 19, 2011, Source: NORML
A new study estimates that one-third of U.S. young people will be arrested or taken into custody for illegal or delinquent offenses, including pot, by the age of 23.
Posted on Oct 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
With support for marijuana law reform growing in every demographic, politicians should no longer consider it a political liability. Unfortunately, Obama still does.
Posted on Sep 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Marijuana arrests now comprise more than one-half (52 percent) of all drug arrests in the United States.
Posted on Jul 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Despite media claims that marijuana can cause psychosis or schizophrenia, there's no science to back it up.
Posted on Jul 12, 2011, Source: NORML
The White House’s official justification for the ongoing multigenerational drug war was light on facts and heavy on rhetoric.
Posted on Jun 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
How can an employer terminate an employee for off-the-job marijuana use, even if the employee is authorized under state law to use cannabis medicinally?
Posted on May 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Even a minor pot bust can be life-altering for people unlucky enough to be arrested in one of these five states.
Posted on Apr 16, 2011, Source: NORML
‘Change we can believe in?’ Not when it comes to medical marijuana policy.
Posted on Feb 22, 2011, Source: AlterNet
We should be very wary about the DEA allowing regulation and marketing of pharmaceutical products containing plant-derived THC.
Posted on Feb 17, 2011, Source: AlterNet
So much for the American Medical Association's demand for clinical cannabis research.
Posted on Feb 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet
A review of the NIH website shows that U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse's kibosh on medical marijuana trials continues unabated.
Posted on Nov 15, 2010, Source: The Hill
There are serious issues regarding Obama's nomination of Michele Leonhart to head the DEA.
Posted on Oct 22, 2010, Source: The Hill
Despite the claims that Prop 19 would be preempted by the Feds, they haven't challenged the fact that Californians have the legal right to determine their own marijuana policies.
Posted on Oct 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
It's time to end the legal harassment, discrimination, and criminal prosecution of adult marijuana users in California simply because they are healthy -- Prop 19 will do that.
Posted on Sep 17, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Big Alcohol's decision to squash marijuana law reform to protect its bottom line is simply politics as usual.
Posted on Aug 29, 2010, Source: AlterNet
News outlets continue to ignore research that belies government anti-pot propaganda.
Posted on Jul 20, 2010, Source: LA Times
Prohibition has failed, yet Feinstein's arguments against Proposition 19 suggest she is comfortable with the unacceptable status quo.
Posted on Jul 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
For more than three decades, America's marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it's time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.
Posted on Mar 24, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Scientists have begun speculating that the root cause of disease conditions such as migraines and irritable bowel syndrome may be endocannabinoid deficiency.
Posted on Mar 18, 2010, Source: AlterNet
It's time to remove the production and distribution of marijuana out of the hands of violent criminal enterprises and into the hands of licensed businesses.
Posted on Mar 4, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Once again mainstream media are running wild with the absurd notion that marijuana use causes psychological problems, despite much evidence to the contrary.
Posted on Feb 10, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The fifteen-second ad, asserting that taxing and regulating the adult use and sale of marijuana would raise 'billions of dollars in national revenue,' was rejected out of hand
Posted on Jan 1, 2010, Source: NORML
There has been a tidal shift in politics and on Marijuana laws in America, from Obama lightening up on pot prosecutions to the recognition of cancer prevention properties.
Posted on Nov 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The government keeps pushing the BS that pot is addictive and has serious health consequences. And no wonder -- lying about pot is a lucrative business.
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
An exclusive look at the historic testimony prepared for a special hearing on legalizing marijuana to the California Assembly.
Posted on Sep 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
Posted on Sep 10, 2009, Source: NORML
41 percent of the U.S. population say they've tried cannabis at least once in their lives, 10 percent say they've used it in the last year.
Posted on Aug 20, 2009, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
The stats for death and injury tied to alcohol on campus are staggering, yet students are more harshly punished for pot -- which is far more benign.
Posted on Aug 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The authors of a new book on misconceptions about marijuana respond to the torrent of comments on an excerpt published on AlterNet.
Posted on Aug 6, 2009, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
A new book explains how we're steering people away from cannabis and toward the use of a very harmful and deadly substance: alcohol.
Posted on Jul 24, 2009, Source: NORML
Approximately 80% say they want to bring the pot industry into the city's tax base.
Posted on Jun 15, 2009, Source: NORML
Rep. Mark Kirk thinks that the magic number of 15% THC concentration in marijuana should lead to a 25-year prison penalty.
Posted on May 16, 2009, Source: NORML
The govt. "warns" us that our pot is stronger than anything Jerry Garcia ever smoked in his heyday. What do they expect?
Posted on May 7, 2009, Source: NORML
John Walters uses classic anti-drug logic to pave over Schwarzenegger's call to legalize marijuana.
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