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RICHARD EVANS BOARD MEMBER OF NORML, THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE REFORM OF MARIJUANA LAWS...
Gregory Y. Porter, director of the Washington-based National Organization to Reform the Marijuana Laws (NORML), calls the war "a government instrusion on civil liberties...
...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