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  Tennessee: Cities Move To Reduce Marijuana Possession Penalties

  by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  

  Members of the Nashville metro council and the Memphis city council have given final approval to municipal legislation providing police the discretion to cite rather than arrest minor marijuana offenders.

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  Study: Medical Marijuana Laws Associated With Greater Workforce Participation Among Older Americans

  by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  

  The enactment of statewide medicinal cannabis programs is associated with greater participation in the workforce by adults age 50 and older, according to the findings of a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-partisan think-tank.

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  Adult Use Ballot Initiatives Leading In Latest Polls

  by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  

  Voters favor legalizing the adult use of cannabis in the five states where the issue will appear on the ballot this Election Day. Here is a summary of the latest polling data.

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  Marijuana Smoking Up, Marijuana Arrests Down

  by Keith Stroup, NORML Legal Counsel
  

  It's a great time to be alive if you are a marijuana smoker. We are finally working our way out of the shadows of prohibition and into the mainstream. Following the reign of terror that resulted in more than 25 million Americans being arrested on marijuana charges since 1937, the country is at last looking for a better alternative.

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  NORML’s Legislative Round Up September 30, 2016

  by Danielle Keane, NORML Political Director
  

  Members of Congress have approved a short-term spending bill that keeps in place existing provisions protecting those who engage in the state-sanctioned use and dispensing of medical cannabis from undue prosecution by the Department of Justice. Click here to read more about this week's latest marijuana news!

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  NORML Releases Updated and Revised 2016 Congressional Scorecard

  by Danielle Keane, NORML Political Director
  

  Today is National Voter Registration Day and we are pleased to present this valuable voter education tool to the marijuana movement: NORML’s updated and revised 2016 Congressional Scorecard. The Scorecard is an all-encompassing database that assigns a letter grade of 'A' (the highest grade possible) to 'F' (the lowest grade possible) to members of Congress based on their comments and voting records on matters specific to marijuana policy.

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  FBI: Marijuana Arrests Decline Significantly In 2015

  by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  

  Marijuana-related arrests in the United States have fallen to their lowest levels since the mid-1990s, according to data released today by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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  Pharma Company Admits Opposing Marijuana Legalization to Protect Its Corporate Profits

  by Keith Stroup, NORML Legal Counsel
  

  Those of us involved in the marijuana legalization movement have long assumed that those companies that produce and sell competing products — especially alcohol and tobacco — were working behind the scenes to try to maintain marijuana prohibition and to protect their duopoly for legal recreational drugs. These industries have lobbyists who regularly work with state and federal elected officials to keep legal marijuana off the market. But we now see the pharmaceutical companies are also getting directly involved in political efforts to maintain marijuana prohibition, worried that legal marijuana will undermine their bottom line.