New NORML Canada website (https://www.norml-canada.org/) now active! .
Ninth Article Video Download Archive
Ninth Article Productions
tape 1 - short version - Legal Marijuana in Holland; We Aren't Criminals; The Dutch Moral Majority Speak (63 and 10 minute versions, plus many other videos).
- For Old NORML Canada website,
the one maintained by me 1996-2004, click here, but if your browser isn't ready, SCROLL DOWN.
- NEW! Another old NORML Canada website, the one maintained by another volunteer web maintainer from August 1997 to about March or April 1998, whose name was Norman Hale. During this period NORML Canada enjoyed two major successes: 1)The Cann-Abyss Bus project and a series of fund raisers partly to benefit NORML Canada and other groups, and 2)Terry Parker's legal victory, Canada's first legal marijuana user. Terry Parker's case, of course won on its own merits and defense, but NORML and Umberto Iorfida deserve some credit, especially in the earlier mid-late 1980's period. Ironically, Norman didn't post much about either event; that task fell to me who returned in March or April 1998 as a volunteer, just like Norman had been. But Norman and Umberto 3) compiled the list of NORML Canada milestones since the organization was begun in 1972, or earlier.
- Early NORML Canada BBS system. NORML Canada was on the internet prior to 1996 with a fully functional BBS system, and Umberto Iorfida, former president, just sent me a clipping of an article announcing the BBS back in 1993. BBS means Bulletin Board System. Prior to the World Wide Web, the internet existed with other media types, such as TEXT FILES in a simple directory system. Automatic multi-media presentation had not begun yet. That's what the WWW really is, of course; an automated multi-media BBS system.
Notice that the baud rate, dial up of course, was the blistering speed of 1200 baud or, hold on to your hat, 2400 baud (that's 1.2 kbs versus today's 56 kbs dial-up or much higher broadband). Broadband terminal connections in those days was very rare unless you were a giant corporation or the government, though mainframes may have already been connected by broadband. There are still vast areas of the U.S. in 2005 without routine access to broadband other than the occasonal and rare satellite broadband connection.
Email, chat, BBS file systems, various automated indexing and file functions, airline reservation systems, FAA weather reports and flight plan filings, and all sorts of news groups about drug policy reform and other subjects also already existed over the internet. AOL, Compuserve, Delphi, and many other dial-up services were available to the general public (at speeds up to 9600Kbs were routine in 1993 also by dial-up), and the general public had access to all sorts of alternative BBS systems all over the world via the internet prior to the WWW. Porno images were also being stored and retrieved by dial-up internet access. A lot of fringe journalism was starting to use the internet to get out messages that the main media had ignored up to that time. Audio files were common already, perhaps even video.
The WWW was also breaking in 1993, it was just beginning. The first browsers were just becoming available about the time that NORML Canada floundered momentarily in its police raid/court case for a few years, ultimately to prevail by winning out for free speech, supposedly, in the 462.2 court case. But how can the U.S./Canadian border be so constricted? It's a real heart attack zone.
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NORML CANADA HOMEPAGE
THIS NORML Canada website is now just an archive.
It will no longer be updated from this date.
Very Top, Top of Page, STUDIES, FEATURES, HEADLINES, CANNABIS COFFEE SHOPS, MAIN MENU, STUDY ABROAD
BEST OF NORML CANADA <<< Jan. 1996 - Jan . 2000 with a brief gap by >>> <<< this web maintainer from about Aug.'97-Mar. '98 >>>
<<< Website restarted July 30, 2002 >>>
To reach NORML Canada now :
NORML Canada
2459 Pauline St.
Abbotsford, BC V2S 3S1
Canada
Phone: (604) 852-5110
Fax: (604) 859-3361
Contact: John Conroy
E-mail: jconroy@johnconroy.com
Attorney John Conroy's web site : http://www.johnconroy.com
Canadian Prison Law : http://www.canadianprisonlaw.com
or go to the NORML U.S. web site in Washington, D.C. : norml.org
N ATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE REPEAL OF THE MARIJUANA L AWS IN CANADA (aka "National Organization for the Reform of the Marijuana Laws in Canada") 
Renee Boje, Umberto Iorfida, Ross Rebagliati, Terry ParkerFOUR NON-CRIMINAL CANADIANS WITH A NORMAL HABIT Umberto Iorfida (aka "The CoFFee_MonsTer") Says,
"Help Us Re-Legalize Marijuana." "Join and/or contribute to NORML Canada Today."
SPECIAL HEADLINES ::: REGULAR HEADLINES
(13 August 2003 Cannabis Culture/MAP/Seattle Weekly) Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, or LEAP, 
