Congratulations to Oregon NORML's own Madeline Martinez. She has been recognized as Person of the Year by the Marijuana Business Reporter in its 2010 Medical Marijuana Honors.

Oregon NORML's 2010 Poster for the 11th Annual Global Cannabis March. Please help spread the word by printing, hanging, and distributing this poster amongst your friends!

Seasoned activists John Trudell, Tim Pate, The State of Jefferson, Jim Page, Jim Matthiessen of the Herbivores and Wy'east Drummers are doing a 6 city Oregon tour to raise funds and awareness for the

From ReadTheHook.com

Super Bowl Sunday left Crozet resident Fred Carwile “frustrated and angry,” he says. And not because the Saints won.

That was the day he discovered that his sales listings for back-issues of High Times magazine, which he’s sold for years on eBay, had been yanked without warning.

From Yahoo! News

"For the longest time, our political opponents were older Americans who were not familiar with marijuana and had lived through the 'Reefer Madness' mentality and they considered marijuana a very dangerous drug," said Keith Stroup, the founder and lawyer of NORML, a marijuana advocacy group.

"Now, whether they resume the habit of smoking or whether they simply understand that it's no big deal and that it shouldn't be a crime, in large numbers they're on our side of the issue."

by Mike Hughes via High Times.

The 15-second advertisement in question shows a bare tree that becomes verdant as marijuana leaves with dollar symbols pop up and attach to the branches. The ad then states "Money Can Grow On Trees!" and concludes with the slogan "Legalize Marijuana ­ Billions in Taxes." According to St. Pierre, NORML "wanted to make it clear during tough economic times that taxing marijuana makes sense." HIGH TIMES has obtained a copy of the ad in question (posted below).

John Trudell speaking at the 2009 Oregon NORML Medical Cannabis Awards dinner in Portland Oregon. This event was organized by the Oregon National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Transcript generated with Amazon Mechanical Turk:

JOHN TRUDELL: I won't take up a lot of time because I know there are things that have to happen here. But I want to say I appreciate being here and I'm glad to be able to be invited here and I appreciate that you're here. Because I really like the energy that comes out of your community. In my reality everything is about energy. I mean, it's in every reality, but anyway, how I see things, sometimes, everything is about energy. And I like the energy that I feel here and that is generated here. I really, really relate to what you've been doing with the whole concept of medical marijuana from getting it accepted to the way of distribution of it here in the state of Oregon, or at least in Portland where I'm at. You know, it's not about profiteering. It's truly about the medicinal need.