November 17, 2009 - by Chris Goldstein, Communications Director, and Derek Rosenzweig, Secretary of PhillyNORML

Philadelphia could save more than $3,000,000 annually by not taking pot smokers in for mugshots

Minor marijuana possession arrests in Philadelphia are handled ...

On April 20th 2009 PhillyNORML and NORML-NJ joined together for 4/20- International Cannabis Awareness Day.  These are the two local chapters of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

The NORML Freedom Forum presented speakers and videos promoting a serious discu...

By Derek Rosenzweig - 12/15/2008
PhillyNORML Co-Chairman

On December 12th, something interesting happened. A couple days before, the incoming Presidential Administration asked the American people to expand on what kind of change th...

By Derek Rosenzweig, PhillyNORML - 11/5/2008

With the astounding victory this 2008 Election of Barack Obama and Democrats in the House and Senate, the people of the United States have stood up to re-claim the American Dream. For decades the world has seen us as a beacon of hope and opport...

by Rebekah Zhuraw, FIJA - 10/29/2008

Last year, 7,300 people in Philadelphia were arrested for marijuana - a number which attests both to the widespread popular use of marijuana and to the senseless destruction of lives in this arm of the war on drugs.  And these numbers are just sym...

By Chris Goldstein, PhillyNORML


The economic meltdown in recent times is already having a profound impact around the country. Some of the hardest hit entities in the coming year will be city and municipal governments who will have to face declining tax revenue, increasing costs and ...