President
Vice President
Secretary

All those wishing to run for any board position, please contact Benjamin Morrison at admin@clevelandnorml.org Formal elections will be held at a date to be determined.

The meeting will be at Zeke’s Place on August 7th from 4-6pm. Hope to see you there!

Zeke’s Place
8188 Brecksville Road
Brecksville Ohio 44141

View Larger Map

Toke of the Town: ​In a historic decision, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will now formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in states where it is legal.
Read the rest at Toke of the Town

NORML Blog: The California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), which provides non-partisan fiscal and policy advice, has come out with their own repudiation of Sen. Feinstein’s claims. Specifically, it sets the record straight regarding opponents allegations that passage of Prop. 19 would not result in significant cost savings, and counters the senator’s groundless argument (which nevertheless will appear in the 2010 California voter guidebook) that the measure is “a jumbled legal nightmare that will make our highways, our workplaces and our communities less safe.”
Read the rest at the NORML National Blog

The DEA has gone rogue. Despite clear guidance from the Department of Justice directing them to do otherwise, agents are conducting raids of homes and businesses where the occupants are acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws.

These agents are storming onto the property of law-abiding citizens with guns drawn, destroying marijuana plants being grown for patients, stealing computers and cash, and even leaving trash on the floor behind them when they are done.

A recent raid in Mendocino County, California targeted a woman who had filed formal paperwork to grow medical marijuana, had paid a $1,050 application fee under the local ordinance, and whose operation had been inspected and approved by the local sheriff. When informed about this, the DEA agent in charge said, "I don’t care what the sheriff says."

It is only a matter of time before one of these raids ends tragically with someone seriously injured or killed.

One woman is responsible for all of this. Her name is Michele Leonhart. She became the acting-administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration under George W. Bush and was shockingly nominated by President Obama to be the permanent head of the agency. She clearly has no respect for authority at the Department of Justice and is equally willing to use federal law enforcement power to trample on states’ rights.

Yesterday, MPP and its allies called on President Obama to withdraw this nomination. I took action and I’m hoping you will join us.
MPP has set up a page where you can send an e-mail to the White House, urging the President to withdraw the nomination. The pre-written e-mail they provide — which you can modify — also mentions that Leonhart has personally obstructed research into the therapeutic benefits of marijuana by denying an application from the University of Massachusetts to cultivate marijuana for this purpose.

Michele Leonhart does not deserve to be DEA administrator. That’s why I took action using the link below so that President Obama gets this message.

Click here to sign the petition!

Physorg: Strict laws on the criminalisation of drug use and drug users are fuelling the spread of HIV and other serious harms associated with the criminal market and should be reviewed, say experts in a series of articles published in the British Medical Journal today to coincide with the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, 18-23 July 2010.
Continue Reading/Video

A PDF can be downloaded Here.

Change.org: Senator Orrin Hatch is asking for the ultimate government intrusion: a cup of your urine.

Well, only if you’re unemployed or receiving welfare. Hatch says we should drug test the unemployed and the poor before giving them benefits.

Read the rest at Change.org

A Journey into the “Emerald Triangle” from Travis Fox on Vimeo.