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Please feel free to check out our FAQ and About Us pages to learn more about NORML, marijuana and American drug law. We encourage all members and would-be members to examine our Bylaws and read our blog below.
Announcement from the Board
Members,
The Cleveland NORML board has been reorganized and the following members currently hold interim board positions until our yearly elections.
- President and Communications Chair: Ben Morrison
- Vice President: Jme J.
- Treasurer: Shayne S.
- Secretary: Dave V.
- Senior Political Advisor: Jerry Braseman
- Ohio NORML Representative: Cher Neufer
- Membership Chair: Susan H.
A separate update on our last meeting will be posted shortly.
We look forward to a productive year of activism and progress in the fight to abolish marijuana prohibition!
Benjamin Morrison
Cleveland NORML
President and Communications Chair
September 11th, 4-6pm Meeting – Unofficial Meetup!
To all Cleveland NORML Members,
The September meeting of Cleveland NORML on September 11th will be canceled. Several members of our board will be attending the National NORML Conference in Portland Oregon! This will be a great chance for our members to gain valuable information, strategies and tools necessary to help us in the fight for marijuana legalization! Sadly, this will not leave enough board members for a full meeting.
It has been suggested that members hold an informal, unofficial get-together. The location is reserved and could not be better!
Currently, no alternative date has been scheduled for a full meeting in September. If another date is chosen we will send out notifications immediately. We thank all of our members and hope to see you at the next meeting! Oh and if members want to get together at Sunny Brook Preserve, have fun!
Benjamin Morrison
Cleveland NORML
President & Chair of Communications
Sunnybrook Preserves
12474 Heath Rd
Chesterland, OH 44026 USA
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Ohio NORML 4th Anual Harvest Fest & Fundraiser! October 1-3rd!
This years Ohio NORML Harvest Fest and fundraiser will be a real blowout! Come celebrate NORML’s fight for citizen’s rights and a great time! bands, speaks, raffles, games and more! Waterband, Poobah, Willy Mac Music, Danny Longhair and more! See our flyer below for more information!
Members $20, Non-Members $30, Under 12 w/ Adult $10, Under 5 Free!
39835 sr 684
pomeroy OH, 45769
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“Risk of marijuana’s ‘gateway effect’ overblown, research shows”
Physorg.com: Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illicit drugs as young adults has more to do with life factors such as employment status and stress, according to the new research. In fact, the strongest predictor of whether someone will use other illicit drugs is their race/ethnicity, not whether they ever used marijuana.
Conducted by UNH associate professors of sociology Karen Van Gundy and Cesar Rebellon, the research appears in the September 2010, issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior in the article, “A Life-course Perspective on the ‘Gateway Hypothesis.’ ”
“In light of these findings, we urge U.S. drug control policymakers to consider stress and life-course approaches in their pursuit of solutions to the ‘drug problem,’ ” Van Gundy and Rebellon say.
The researchers used survey data from 1,286 young adults who attended Miami-Dade public schools in the 1990s. Within the final sample, 26 percent of the respondents are African American, 44 percent are Hispanic, and 30 percent are non-Hispanic white.
The researchers found that young adults who did not graduate from high school or attend college were more likely to have used marijuana as teenagers and other illicit substances in young adulthood. In addition, those who used marijuana as teenagers and were unemployed following high school were more likely to use other illicit drugs.
However, the association between teenage marijuana use and other illicit drug abuse by young adults fades once stresses, such as unemployment, diminish.
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Irresponsible Media and Propigation of Falshoods
Below is an excerpt of an article describing a study conducted on why many Americans believe Obama is a Muslim. Whether you like him or not, it describes, scientifically, the methods that our media use to propagate falsehood. By subtly reminding viewers of why a person is different than themselves (in often completely irrelevant ways) while allowing pundits to speak with no accountability, these absurdities are reinforced and allowed to propagate. Obama is not Muslim, marijuana smokers are not just hippy, drug addicted… well you get the idea. We need to understand how we as a movement are undermined in the media in order to get traction so we can be heard by all of American society.
Physorg.com: The research by Spee Kosloff and colleagues suggests people are most likely to accept such falsehoods, both consciously and unconsciously, when subtle clues remind them of ways in which Obama is different from them, whether because of race, social class or other ideological differences.
These judgments, Kosloff argues, are illogical. He also suggests they are fueled by an “irresponsible” media culture that allows political pundits and “talking heads” to perpetuate the lies.
“Careless or biased media outlets are largely responsible for the propagation of these falsehoods, which catch on like wildfire,” said Kosloff, visiting professor of psychology. “And then social differences can motivate acceptance of these lies.”
A Pew Research Center poll in August 2010 found that 18 percent of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim – up from 11 percent in March 2009 – even though he’s a practicing Christian. Kosloff noted that the poll was conducted before Obama’s recent comments supporting the right for Muslims to build a mosque near New York’s Ground Zero.
Kosloff and colleagues launched their study prior to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, as the candidates were being bombarded with smear campaigns. It’s the first comprehensive experimental study of the psychological factors that motivate Americans to believe the lies. The findings are published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Read the rest at Physorg.com
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