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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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Become a member today - Fight for your rights

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.

Or use our handy online donation forms. Your electronic donation is handled by PayPal for a safe, secure, and easy transaction. You can choose from an automatically-renewing annual membership, a one-time annual membership, or set your donation for any amount you like using our one-time donation form.

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Seriously, anything you can donate will help.

37¢ will buy us a stamp to mail a letter to President George W. Bush.

$2.00 buys enough stamps for President Bush, Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Gordon Smith, and your State Senator and Representative. And maybe an envelope or two.

$5.00 help us continue our public relations efforts on in newspapers, television, radio, and the internet.

$20.00 will help us continue our lobbying efforts at the State Capitol in Salem and our efforts to change federal laws in Washington DC.

$50.00 will pay for the hosting of this website and associated software licensing for one year.

We are a non-profit organization run entirely by volunteers, most of whom also work full-time jobs. Won't you please give what you can so our volunteers can continue to fight for your right to personal private use of marijuana? Wouldn't you like to help us help seriously ill and disabled medical marijuana patients continue to have safe access to excess medicine?

With your help, we can put an end to marijuana prohibition in Oregon and America. But it won't be done without the funds to maintain our telephone hotline, our website, our television show, our post office box, the stamps and envelopes for our letter-writing campaigns, paper and other office suppies, printing, gasoline for travel to Salem and statewide, and budgets for all our annual events. If you cannot donate your money or time, perhaps you have some of those items listed above that you would consider donating to the cause. If so, please contact us at infoornorml.org

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.