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Mission Statement:
Pittsburgh NORML supports NORML's mission of moving public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to criminal sanction. To that end we are working in Western Pennsylvania to build support for medicinal marijuana laws and the repeal of marijuana criminal statutes.
About Pittsburgh NORML
Pittsburgh NORML is a local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. We formed our chapter in October, 2009, after activists in Pittsburgh learned that Pennsylvania's first medicinal marijuana bill had been introduced in the Pennsylvania House. Executive Director Patrick Nightingale has testified in hearings held by the PA House Health and Human Services Committee and has frequently been asked to comment on cannabis and cannabis reform issues in the local print, radio and television media. Pittsburgh NORML is working to educate our fellow Western Pennsylvanians about marijuana, its potential medical and industrial uses, and about the current laws prohibiting marijuana possession and distribution.
Executive Director: Patrick K. Nightingale, Esquire
Board of Directors: Kevin Abromovitz, Esquire, Joseph Horowitz, Esquire, Alan Patterson, III, Esquire, Mark Lancaster, Esquire, Paul Boas, Esquire
Media Relations: Charles "Gigz" Giger
Director of Operations: Julia Johnson
Recording Secretary: Vacant
Communications: Vacant
Legislative Outreach Director Bill Anzur
Membership: Vacant
Fundraising: Vacant
Pittsburgh NORML is an officially recognized affiliate of NORML, The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.Contact
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About NORML National
Since its founding in 1970, NORML has provided a voice in the public policy debate for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition and favor an end to the practice of arresting marijuana smokers. A nonprofit public-interest advocacy group, NORML represents the interests of the tens of millions of Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly.
Because NORML lobbies state and federal legislators, donations to NORML are not tax deductible. During the 1970s, NORML led the successful efforts to decriminalize minor marijuana offenses in 11 states and significantly lower marijuana penalties in all others.
Today NORML continues to lead
the fight to reform state and federal marijuana laws, whether by voter
initiative or through the elected legislatures. NORML serves as an
informational resource to the national media on marijuana-related stories,
providing a perspective to offset the anti-marijuana propaganda from the
government; lobbies state and federal legislators in support of reform
legislation; publishes a regular newsletter; hosts, along with the NORML
Foundation, an informative web site and an annual conference; and serves as the
umbrella group for a national network of citizen-activists committed to ending
marijuana prohibition and legalizing marijuana.
Our sister organization, the NORML Foundation sponsors public advertising
campaigns to better educate the public about marijuana and alternatives to
current marijuana policy; provides legal assistance and support to victims of
the current laws; and undertakes relevant research.
The oldest and largest marijuana legalization organization in the country, NORML maintains a professional staff in Washington, DC, headed by Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, and a network of volunteer state and local NORML Chapters across the country.
Note that NORML and all affiliates neither promote nor condone illegal behavior.
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