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Tough Times For The Marijuana Movement
Now, it seems, is the best of times, and the worst of times, for the marijuana movement. While most Americans say they support medical marijuana, the federal government has won several high-profile criminal cases against cannabis clubs and pot growers in the past year.
By Ulysses Torassa, Chronicle Health Writer Source: San Francisco Chronicle
4/21/03
With staunch social conservatives like Attorney General John Ashcroft at the helm of federal law enforcement, Keith Stroup, director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), says it’s hard to know just how much longer marijuana advocates can ride the current momentum in their favor.
"The political climate is very strange right now," said Stroup, who was in San Francisco Sunday for NORML’s annual convention, held at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero. "We’ve got more public support for our issue than we’ve ever had, but on the street level, the feds have been kicking our butts out here."
Nearly 500 people converged on San Francisco for the four-day event, scheduled to coincide with April 20, the unofficial holiday for pot smokers. The date is derived from the phrase "420," a shorthand code coined more than 30 years ago by a group of San Rafael High School students who gathered at 4: 20 p.m. to get high.
Indeed, the final day of the conference was scheduled to end precisely at 4: 20 p.m. "It’s like ‘Miller Time,’ " Stroup explained. "Time to kick up your heels and light up a joint."
Like Stroup, who founded NORML in 1970, marijuana activism has matured and aged. The movement had many successes in its early days, when several states, including California, decriminalized simple pot possession. But with the dawning of the conservative "Just Say No" 1980s, public support dried up and the movement limped along until the mid-1990s, when medical marijuana activism helped create a new atmosphere of legitimacy.
Although NORML’s official membership is just 10,000, Stroup said more than 40,000 people have signed up for the group’s Internet newsletter, up from 7, 000 just a few years ago. And while endorsing NORML’s message in public was once a kiss of death for a celebrity’s career, the group has had recent success in attracting people like actor Daniel Stern, TV host Bill Maher and former Dallas Cowboy player Mark Stepnoski to its advisory board.
And drug reform causes have also begun to attract some serious money. Financier George Soros and Peter Lewis of Progressive Auto Insurance have both poured millions into drug legalization efforts, though NORML itself hasn’t received much of that largesse. Instead, it subsists on about a $1 million annual budget and prides itself on being the voice of the average pot smoker, Stroup said.
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA) Author: Ulysses Torassa, Chronicle Health Writer Published: Monday, April 21, 2003 Copyright: 2003 San Francisco Chronicle – Page B – 1 Contact: letters@sfchronicle.com Website: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
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