NORML Hosts Annual Marijuana Event in SoCal
April 8th, 2009 by Rick
The 5th Annual Joint Rolling Competition, hosted by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) at Anisq’ Oyo’ Park in Isla Vista, sparked off this past Sunday. Celebrating anything green and sticky, NORML used the festival to promote their goals of reforming marijuana laws for personal and medical use, as well as bringing industrial hemp growing back to the United States.
The competition consisted of various categories — fattest, fastest, freestyle and primo categories for both joints and blunts, and a joint-only contest for medical marijuana and one-handed specialists.
Alexander Stemplewski, a contestant that registered for every competition category, won the race with most joints rolled within 2 minutes. He also was on top for the fattest blunt and took second place for the fattest joint.
Stemplewski, a second-year financial math and statistics major said:
I think it’s an awesome competition. It brings a great group of people together.
The freestyle joint rolling competition was the “high” point of the day, bringing together imaginative rollers who went head to head crafting cross joints and braided joints. George Pelic took first place for his unique creation, the “Torpedo-Tulip.”
Pelic, a business administration major said:
I used to work in a cannabis club in L.A. rolling joints. I learned how to roll in Europe. I was the apprentice of a well-known joint roller there.
The event gathered several hundred students, vendors and marijuana enthusiasts.
Santa Barbara Gets Tough on Pot
October 9th, 2008 by Perry
In response to pressure from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Santa Barbara, CA dispensaries are shutting its doors.
The agency sent out letters to those who owned the property the dispensaries are built on threatening seizure if the clinics did not cease operations.
New Times called five Santa Barbara dispensaries for statements, but none answered. One number had been disconnected. A representative for the Santa Barbara chapter of NORML, the national group that lobbies for the legalization of marijuana—medical or otherwise—confirmed that all of the area’s dispensaries have closed their doors in response to the letters. When asked where patients would get marijuana, he said ‘probably anywhere they can.’
More gestapo tactics from our federal government sending medical marijuana patients to the streets.
