Word: norml
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...last year. Before he announced his candidacy for mayor, still possessing the candor of a private citizen, Bloomberg was asked by New York magazine if he had ever smoked pot. "You bet I did. And I enjoyed it," he replied. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) liked the response so much that it has used it in an ad campaign advocating relaxation of the city's laws calling for the arrest and jailing of those caught getting high--laws strenuously enforced by Bloomberg's predecessor, Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg stressed that he will continue to enforce...
Robert Robinson, a NORML staff member from New Paltz, New York, stood at the main entryway and shouted in protest of the BPD's frisking...
...NORML supports the legalization of marijuana, proposing that the government regulate its sale the way it does with alcohol and cigarettes...
...their lack of success on the ballot and in legislatures, even NORML's founders question whether the public political events, which usually result in the arrest of dozens for pot possession, are futile...
...NORML organizers said they like to hold their events in college towns. They said that some of their more successful rallies have been held in places such as Amherst, Mass., Gainesville, Fla., Austin, Texas, Madison, Wis., San Francisco, and Ann Arbor, Michigan...