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"It remains clear from the limited data available that marijuana seizures and prosecutions remain the primary driver of drug war enforcement in the United States and that hundreds of thousands of...

https://norml.org/blog/2022/10/05/fbi-nearly-half-of-all-drug-seizures-in-2021-involved-marijuana/

Regulators and other concerned parties should seek to provide the public with more comprehensive safety information about the effects of more potent products, and they should continue to ensure t...

https://norml.org/blog/2022/08/22/norml-op-ed-concerns-over-high-potency-thc-products-warrant-greater-education-not-criminalization/

Specifically, the data identified a 38 percent year-over-year reduction in self-reported marijuana use among eight graders, a 38 percent decline among 10th graders, and a 13 percent decrease amon...

https://norml.org/blog/2021/12/15/government-funded-study-shows-unprecedented-declines-in-marijuana-use-by-young-people/

In response to the public outrage regarding the suspension of American athlete Sha'Carri Richardson for testing positive for cannabis, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that it wi...

https://norml.org/blog/2021/09/20/world-anti-doping-agency-to-review-marijuana-policies/

Of all the policy issues discussed by pollsters, respondents’ support was strongest for legalizing cannabis. The post Poll: 61 Percent of US Adults Say Marijuana Legalization Is a “Good Ide...

https://norml.org/blog/2021/02/09/poll-61-percent-of-us-adults-say-marijuana-legalization-is-a-good-idea/

“It is mind-boggling that the federal government is revisiting this half-baked proposal now. The idea of proposing a testing procedure that will inherently deny more people of color opportuniti...

https://norml.org/blog/2020/09/15/norml-slams-proposed-changes-to-federal-drug-testing-rules-to-permit-hair-follicle-analysis/

"Just as the majority of those who consume alcohol prefer relatively low potency beer or wine over hard liquor, most adult-use cannabis consumers gravitate toward herbal cannabis preparations and...

https://norml.org/blog/2020/09/03/study-over-three-in-four-cannabis-consumers-prefer-flower-over-concentrates/

The increase in seniors' self-reported use of cannabis coincides with rising public support for marijuana legalization among older Americans. The post Marijuana Use Growing in Popularity Among ...

https://norml.org/blog/2020/09/02/marijuana-use-growing-in-popularity-among-seniors/

Even in the continually uncertain world that Nevadans find themselves in, Nevada NORML is continuing to advocate for cannabis reform despite the strange corona-world of 2020. The post A Monumen...

https://norml.org/blog/2020/06/11/a-monumental-may-for-nevada-norml/

NORML leadership today sent an open letter to Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), asking her to recognize the detrimental impact that racially-discri...

https://norml.org/blog/2020/06/08/open-letter-to-nida-demanding-that-marijuana-prohibition-be-recognized-as-more-damaging-than-marijuana-itself/