Fact Sheets
In the past few years, marijuana reform advocates have won dozens of significant victories to reduce the role of the criminal justice system in marijuana policy across the U.S. – and have gained the support...
Learn about naloxone, a low-cost, non-narcotic drug that reverses the effects of opiate overdose.
Criminal justice and public health systems can work together to provide comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment inside and outside correctional facilities. Incarceration presents a window of opportunity for...
Summary Chart and details of the 17 states and DC that have enacted laws to legalize medical marijuana
These fact sheets focus on HIV prevention issues related to syringes.
NORML's Marijuana Arrests Investigator: Here you can map arrest data taken from the report Crimes of Indiscretion, Marijuana Arrests in the US
Graphs of annual marijuana arrests in the US from 1969 - 2009
Sen. David Vitter has recently introduced The Drug Free Families Act of 2011 (S. 83). This legislation would require all new applicants for TANF benefits, and all individuals currently receiving these benefits, to...
Historically, Byrne Grants have been used primarily to finance drug task forces, which have a record of racially disproportionate lowlevel drug arrests and increased local and state costs with no measurable impact...
Marijuana prohibition persists, in large part, because of out-dated, hyperbolic “Reefer Madness” claims about health impacts. The truth is that marijuana is considerably less dangerous than either...







