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NORML is a nonprofit, public-interest lobby that for more than 30 years has provided a voice for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition. We represent the interests of the tens of millions of Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly and believe the recreational and medicinal use of marijuana should no longer be a crime.

NORML supports the removal of all criminal penalties for the private possession and responsible use of marijuana by adults, including the cultivation for personal use, and the casual nonprofit transfers of small amounts. This model, similar to that recommended to Congress by President Nixon's esteemed Shafer Commission in 1972, is called "decriminalization."

NORML additionally supports the development of a legally controlled market for marijuana, where consumers could purchase it from a safe, legal and regulated source. This model is referred to as "legalization."

NORML believes that marijuana smoking is not for kids and should only be used responsibly by adults. As with alcohol consumption, it must never be an excuse for misconduct or other bad behavior. Driving or operating heavy equipment while impaired from marijuana should be prohibited.

NORML strongly supports the right of patients to use marijuana as a medicine when their physician recommends it to relieve pain and suffering. NORML has advocated for the legal use of medicinal marijuana since 1972.

Lastly, NORML supports the right of farmers to commercially cultivate the non-psychoactive strain of cannabis known as hemp for industrial purposes, such as food and fiber production

Then get in on the ground floor of the formation of the Willamette Valley chapter of NORML here in Eugene - Oregon, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Join like-minded individuals in ending the war on Hemp and Medical Cannabis by ending prohibition in general...

Go to our Web site and get much more info about us and most of all to find out just what we have going on for us in our area; http://www.willamettevalleyNORML.org

Willamette Valley NORML
4257 Barger Dr., #241
Eugene, OR 97402

Our Next Public Meeting for the Willamette Valley NORML chapter is;

Saturday ~ March 24, 2007
2:00 PM till 4:00 PM
Growers Market
454 Willamette St.
Eugene, Oregon

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“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”
-Willie Nelson

“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?”
-Bill Hicks

“Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”
-William F. Buckley, Jr.

"We did not view marijuana as a significant health problem--as it was not....Nobody dies from marijuana. Marijuana smoking, in fact, if one wants to be honest, is a source of pleasure and amusement to countless millions of people in America, and it continues to be that way."
-Peter Bourne, President Carter's Drug Czar

"There are no long lasting ill-effects from the acute use of marijuana and no fatalities have ever been recorded ... there seems to be growing agreement within the medical community, at least, that marijuana does not directly cause criminal behaviour, juvenile delinquency, sexual excitement, or addiction."
-Dr J. H. Jaffe
The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. L.Goodman and A Gillman, 3rd edn. 1965

"Make the most of hemp seed. Sow it everywhere"
-George Washington