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The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the nations oldest and most well respected grassroots marijuana law reform organization, is pleased to announce the launch of the NORML Womens Alliance.
The NORML Womens Alliance is a nonpartisan coalition of prominent, educated, successful, and geographically diverse professional women who believe that cannabis prohibition is a self-destructive and hypocritical policy that undermines the American family, sends a mixed and false message to our young people, and destroys the cherished principles of personal liberty and local self-government.
Says NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre: The prominent role of women in the effort to end marijuana prohibition is pivotal, necessary, and long overdue. According to recent national opinion polls by Gallup and others, the dramatic rise in the publics support of marijuana law reform is being driven primarily by an increase in support among Americas women. The NORML Womens Alliance will bring a contemporary approach to the public policy debate, and will proudly represent the interests of modern, mainstream women who believe that the negative consequences of marijuana prohibition far outweigh any repercussions from marijuana consumption itself.
Charter members of the NORML Womens Alliance include: NORML Foundation chair and film producer Ann Druyan, attorney and political activist Jessica Corry, editor Shelby Sadler, best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich, Beverly Hills NORML director Cheryl Shuman, NORML Foundation board member Jeralyn Merritt, Esq., cannabis activist and author Mikki Norris, Cannabis Action Network and Berkeley Patients Group founder Debby Goldsberry, NORML board member and director of Oregon NORML Madeline Martinez, law professor Marjorie Russell, and former ACLU president Nadine Strossen. This founding group of women also includes medical physicians, researchers, business leaders, editors, publishers, mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers.
The NORML Womens Alliance holds the following positions:
1. The NORML Womens Alliance believes that the fiscal priorities of marijuana prohibition are wasting billions of dollars on a failed policy.
2. The NORML Womens Alliance believes that marijuana prohibition violates states rights, and improperly expands the reach of government into the families and personal lives of otherwise law-abiding citizens.
3. The NORML Womens Alliance advocates for an open, honest conversation about marijuana with Americas youth that is void of all propaganda and misleading information.
4. The NORML Womens Alliance endorses the science-based evidence regarding the therapeutic applications of medical marijuana as well as the continuation of research into the subject.
5. The NORML Womens Alliance strongly opposes the sexual exploitation and objectification of women in pot-culture and business marketing.
A marijuana policy that fosters children selling marijuana en mass must immediately change and be replaced by one that effectively stops children from trafficking in marijuana, says Sabrina Fendrick, coordinator of the NORML Womens Alliance. The NORML Womens Alliance seeks to replace a failed, tax coffer-draining and child endangering 73-year old cannabis prohibition with functional, tax-producing and youth-friendly cannabis policies consisting of legal and social controls that are not at all dissimilar to our existing and ever-evolving alcohol policies.
Further information about the NORML Womens Alliance is available online here, hxxp://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=8059
hxxp://tinyurl.com/yk3tknq
The NORML Womens Alliance is a nonpartisan coalition of prominent, educated, successful, and geographically diverse professional women who believe that cannabis prohibition is a self-destructive and hypocritical policy that undermines the American family, sends a mixed and false message to our young people, and destroys the cherished principles of personal liberty and local self-government.
Says NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre: The prominent role of women in the effort to end marijuana prohibition is pivotal, necessary, and long overdue. According to recent national opinion polls by Gallup and others, the dramatic rise in the publics support of marijuana law reform is being driven primarily by an increase in support among Americas women. The NORML Womens Alliance will bring a contemporary approach to the public policy debate, and will proudly represent the interests of modern, mainstream women who believe that the negative consequences of marijuana prohibition far outweigh any repercussions from marijuana consumption itself.
Charter members of the NORML Womens Alliance include: NORML Foundation chair and film producer Ann Druyan, attorney and political activist Jessica Corry, editor Shelby Sadler, best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich, Beverly Hills NORML director Cheryl Shuman, NORML Foundation board member Jeralyn Merritt, Esq., cannabis activist and author Mikki Norris, Cannabis Action Network and Berkeley Patients Group founder Debby Goldsberry, NORML board member and director of Oregon NORML Madeline Martinez, law professor Marjorie Russell, and former ACLU president Nadine Strossen. This founding group of women also includes medical physicians, researchers, business leaders, editors, publishers, mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers.
The NORML Womens Alliance holds the following positions:
1. The NORML Womens Alliance believes that the fiscal priorities of marijuana prohibition are wasting billions of dollars on a failed policy.
2. The NORML Womens Alliance believes that marijuana prohibition violates states rights, and improperly expands the reach of government into the families and personal lives of otherwise law-abiding citizens.
3. The NORML Womens Alliance advocates for an open, honest conversation about marijuana with Americas youth that is void of all propaganda and misleading information.
4. The NORML Womens Alliance endorses the science-based evidence regarding the therapeutic applications of medical marijuana as well as the continuation of research into the subject.
5. The NORML Womens Alliance strongly opposes the sexual exploitation and objectification of women in pot-culture and business marketing.
A marijuana policy that fosters children selling marijuana en mass must immediately change and be replaced by one that effectively stops children from trafficking in marijuana, says Sabrina Fendrick, coordinator of the NORML Womens Alliance. The NORML Womens Alliance seeks to replace a failed, tax coffer-draining and child endangering 73-year old cannabis prohibition with functional, tax-producing and youth-friendly cannabis policies consisting of legal and social controls that are not at all dissimilar to our existing and ever-evolving alcohol policies.
Further information about the NORML Womens Alliance is available online here, hxxp://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=8059
hxxp://tinyurl.com/yk3tknq