A New Year’s Message to All My Friends at NORML

by Gary Kopycinski on January 6, 2014

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Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 6, 2014.

By Norm Kent, Chair, NORML Board of Directors

The gravesite closest to President John Kennedy in Arlington belongs to a courageous, but assassinated congressman from Long Island, Allard Lowenstein, who fought many years to bring an end to the Vietnam War. His tombstone reads: “If a man stands his ground and there abides, the whole world will come round to him.” As the four decade long war against cannabis consumers comes…