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Marijuana Facts

Annual US Deaths from causes:
Tobacco	435,000
Alcohol*	110,640
Prescriptions†	32,000
Overdoses‡	16,926
NSAIDS	7,600
Caffeine	2,000
Marijuana	0
* Does not include alcohol-related crashes or murders.
† Adverse reactions to prescription drugs
‡ Overdoses and poisonings from legal and illegal drugs.

Annual US Arrests for marijuana 829,625
Yr	Cannabis Possess.*	Violent Crime†
'06	738,915	611,523
'05	696,074	603,503
'04	684,319	590,258
'03	662,886	597,026
'02	613,986	620,510
'01	641,109	627,132
'00	646,042	625,132
* Arrests only include personal possession, not sales, trafficking, or manufacturing..
† includes homicide, rape, robbery, and assault.

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With an easy yearly donation, you can become a member of Oregon NORML. We are a non-profit organization, so it is your donations that help us to continue lobbying our state legislators, educate the public, and continue fighting for the reform of our state and federal marijuana laws. Please send your check or money order to:

Oregon NORML
PO Box 16057
Portland, OR 97292-0057

Be sure to include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail (if any), so we can keep you informed on the latest issues, events, rallies, bills, court decisions, news, and protests. Don't worry; your personal information is kept safe, secure, and private - we don't give your information to anyone else and we never post it on the internet or store it in any hackable electronic medium.

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Yearly Membership Options

$35 - Basic Annual Membership

You receive your laminated Oregon NORML Membership Card, with your Citizen's Rights During a Police Encounter on the reverse side. You'll also receive entry to our Cardholders' Meetings (OMMP registered patients and caregivers only.)

$60 - Sustainer Annual Membership

You receive all of the benefits of the Basic Annual Membership plus a free subscription to our quarterly newsletter, reduced prices on Oregon NORML Merchandise and merchandise from our affiliated business partners, and discounts on tickets to our events.

$120 - Friend of Oregon NORML Annual Membership

You receive all of the benefits of the Sustainer Annual Membership plus a free 55% hemp / 45% cotton black Oregon NORML T-shirt and your choice of one free item from the Oregon NORML Store.

$420 - Lifetime Benefactor Membership

You receive all of the benefits of the Friend of Oregon NORML Annual membership for life.

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About Oregon NORML

Oregon NORML began our life as PDX-NORML. As our organization grew, our mission expanded beyond the city of Portland and Multnomah County to encompass legislative activities in Salem and outreach to all of the regions of the state.

Since 1999, Oregon NORML has been under the direction of Madeline Martinez. Ms. Martinez is a former California State Correctional Officer and a registered medical marijuana patient/caregiver in the state of Oregon. She has been instrumental in negotiations with state lawmakers and law enforcement to craft Oregon's medical marijuana law and to fight harmful amendments to the law. Oregon's law is now considered the template for states considering their own medical marijuana legislation.

Oregon NORML has since been the leader in marijuana law reform efforts in the state. We present two major events each year (Million Marijuana March and Oregon Medical Cannabis Awards) and co-sponsor Oregon's biggest outdoor hemp festival (Portland Hempstalk). We host twelve meetings per year for medical marijuana cardholders and four meetings per year for the general public. We present a bi-monthly cable access TV show (Oregon NORML Presents) and present videos and audio on our website. And, of course, we constantly lobby our elected officials through meetings and letter-writing campaigns, educate the public through demonstrations and presentations, assist our community with information and networking opportunities, and fight for the day soon when America will reclaim her roots in cannabis hemp!

Our Motto

We are dedicated to promoting positive legal, social, and political change with information and action in support of cannabis (marijuana) and the many adults who use it.

Our Mission

We are leading the fight for commonsense regulation of the most useful plant ever known to mankind -- cannabis hemp.

We stand for the safe protected medicinal use of marijuana by patients legally enrolled in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program.

We stand for the industrial use of hemp to provide food, fuel, and fiber for America and a viable cash crop for Oregon farmers.

We stand for the regulated private use of cannabis by adults.

Most importantly, we work to reform state and federal laws regarding marijuana and bring an end to the harassment, arrest, and imprisonment of responsible taxpaying American citizens.