Word: norml
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most effective pro-marijuana group has been the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Founded in 1971 by an aggressive young lawyer, Keith Stroup, NORML--fueled by Stroup's vision of himself as the Ralph Nader of dope--became a legitimate lobby to be reckoned with and Stroup became a flamboyant power broker. High in America is journalist-novelist Patrick Anderson's account of NORML, the politics of pot and the rise and fall of Stroup, the man who got high for your sins...
...fast-talking, fast-moving, high energy performer, a magnetic figure, an actor who this evening, at this gaudy party, was glorying in his favorite role: Mr. Marijuana, the Man from NORML, the Prime Minister...
...party mentioned was the climax of NORML's annual conference held in December 1977. The atmosphere was such that $400-an-ounce marijuana was being passed around on silver trays at a party frequented by members of the Carter Administration and congressional staffs. At this party, Dr. Peter Bourne, Carter's adviser on health and drug issues, was seen doing cocaine. Six months later, angered by what he felt was a betrayal by Bourne on the paraquat issue (the U.S.-financed poisonous spraying of Mexican marijuana later shipped to America), Stroup leaked an account of the cocaine incident to Jack...
...also mention complaints of "irregularities in the witness selection process." As soon as I decided to hold these hearings, my staff contacted several groups, including NORML, and asked for their recommendations for witnesses. NORML recommended four witnesses from its advisory board: Doctors Whipple, Grinspoon, Zinberg, and Ungerleider. We invited all of these experts to testify, and each of them in fact did testify. I think it is important to note that each of them stated that marijuana use is indeed injurious to health...
...expect the far different issue of decriminalization to be taken up in the near future. At that time, I hope that the Judiciary Committee will hear witnesses on this issue. Many interested groups, including NORML and the American Council on Marijuana (which strongly opposes decriminalization), both of whom wanted to testify at the earlier hearings, will have their opportunity to do so at that time. Charles C. McMathias, Jr. United States Senator