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Driven by the Drug War,
the U.S. prison population is six to ten times as high as most Western
European nations. The United States is a close second only to Russia
in its rate of incarceration per 100,000 people. In 2000, more than
734,000 people were arrested in this country for marijuana-related
offenses alone.
Marijuana prohibition
causes more problems than it solves, and ruins thousands more lives
than it supposedly tries to save. The NORML Legal Department provides
legal support and assistance to victims of the current marijuana laws.
NORML also monitors developments in state and federal law, and files
appellate and amicus curiae ("friend of the court") briefs
in cases which may affect the interpretation of existing marijuana
laws, or which will, hopefully, change them.
In 2001, NORML filed an
amicus curiae brief in a case before the Supreme Court which involved
patient support groups ("buyers' clubs") that provide medical
marijuana to seriously ill patients in California. Unfortunately,
the Supreme Court's decision was not favorable to the buyers' clubs,
and now tens of thousands of seriously ill patients who use marijuana
to relieve their pain and suffering will no longer have a safe and
secure source for their medical marijuana.
In 2002, NORML filed another
amicus curiae brief in support of students at an Oklahoma public high
school who did not wish to be drug-tested prior to participating in
extra-curricular activities such as the chess club, the marching band,
and Future Farmers of America.
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