Our Mission
Statement
- Whereas
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- Federal
and state legislatures have passed
unconscionable and unconstitutional laws --
which they enforce brutally and inhumanly --
prohibiting production, sale, or possession
of certain God-given herbs;
and
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- Whereas
over a million people are in prison in the
United States for having "violated" these
evil laws; and
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- Whereas
federal and state elected officials,
employees, and their bootlickers have
promoted, and continue to promote, outright
lies about these herbs;
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- We,
the members of
South
Dakota
NORML
(affiliate of the National Organization for
the Reform of Marijuana Laws) find it
obligatory to:
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- 1.
Educate the public, to the best of our
ability, in the truth about mood-altering and
mind-altering substances in general;
and
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- 2.
Educate the public, to the best of our
ability, of the fact that the hemp plant has
over 60,000 commercial, industrial, and
medical uses, most of which are being filled
less efficiently and more environmentally
harmfully by other products;
and
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- 3.
Lobby lawmaking bodies to change the laws
concerning production, possession, and sale
of these substances to more closely align
with generally-accepted standards of human
decency and justice.
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- "Marijuana,
in its natural form, is one of the safest
therapeutically active substances known to
man. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and
capricious for the DEA to continue to stand
between those sufferers and the benefits of
this substance in light of the evidence in
this
record."
--
Francis L. Young, DEA's own Administrative
Law Judge,
1988
(Marijuana:
Not Guilty As Charged by David R. Ford,
1997, pp. 38-39.)
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- "Marijuana
doesn't kick down your door in the middle of
the night."
-- Richard Cowan, Marijuananews.com
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- "I
don't have many moral convictions. I don't.
But I know what drugs do to young
girls."
-- SD Governor Bill Janklow, to SD House of
Representatives State Affairs Committee, Mar.
1999
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