Word: norml
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...growing their own. That reliance on the domestic weed was further heightened when the DEA cracked down on the smuggling of Colombian marijuana into the U.S. Today, though many growers cultivate small quantities of pot strictly for their own or friends' use, 100,000 or so, according to NORML, the pro-pot lobby group, are commercial growers. They supply about 20% of the grass consumed annually by the nation's 25.5 million smokers...
...more efficient if the newly discovered marijuana fields were to be sprayed with paraquat. The state of Florida, in apparent agreement, has announced that it will spray some fields with the herb killer. The Florida plan has prompted critical editorials in local newspapers as well as a lawsuit from NORML. In addition, the Chevron Chemical Co., a distributor of paraquat, has fired off a warning letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the DEA: "The product label bears the word poison and the skull-and-crossbones insignia, but terrifying people in order to modify behavior is not a registered...
...there is bound to be public protest. No matter how carefully the DEA maps marijuana fields, paraquat is dangerous to other plant life because it drifts in the wind. The spraying itself may also present a public health hazard. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the legalization lobby, promises to sue if the DEA tries to spray anywhere in the U.S. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Jonathan Beaty and Evan Thomas/Washington
...last two years, NORML has been a crippled lobby. While Stroup has formed a law firm specializing in defending drug smugglers, NORML has been fighting a losing battle against the resurgence of the Reefer Madness mentality, the belief that marijuana makes you pick up an axe and kill your parents. We are hurtling backwards through a period about which we should be ashamed. Anderson concludes his narrative by observing...
However, Anderson does not follow up this way of looking at the issue on non-political grounds and quickly returns to describing the adventures of NORML, congressional committees and drug councils, and the various fights in the state legislatures. He rarely explores deeply the motivations of the pro- and anti-marijuana forces and rarely touches on the philosophical aspect of whether or not a society has the right to determine the legality of drugs...