Tell CBS That Itâ??s Time That They â??Change Their Morals!â?�

As NORML has previously reported, representatives from the CBS Corporation and Neutron Media Screen Marketing recently rejected a paid advertisement from the NORML Foundation, the educational arm of the National Organization of Marijuana Laws (NORML), that was intended to appear on the CBS Super Screen billboard in New York Cityâ??s Times Square.

The fifteen-second ad asserts that taxing and regulating the adult use and sale of marijuana would raise â??billions of dollars in national revenue. It was scheduled to appear on CBSâ??s 42nd Street digital billboard beginning on Monday, February 1, 2010, where it would have been viewed by 1.5 million people a day.

[Click this link to watch the 15 second ad!]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeH5HrG7IfM

Earlier today NORMLâ??s friends at the online advocacy website Change.org established an online petition targeting the CBS Corporation and demanding the network to reverse their decision.

[You can sign the petition here. Just click that link! I did it and it took me less then one minute!]

http://www.change.org/actions/view/demand_cbs_reve
rse_decision_declaring_pro-marijuana_ad_too_political

Change.org intends to present the CBS brass with your petitions next week. Itâ??s up to us to make sure that they get the message. (For those keeping track, this is the second time in six months that NORML has negotiated a paid contract with the network, only to have CBS abruptly and arbitrarily cancel the deal in the final hours.)

Major media corporations like CBS have no problem airing programming that allows them to profit off the publicâ??s interest in marijuana and marijuana law reform, such as Showtimeâ??s hit series Weeds and the CBSnews.com online series â??Marijuana Nation.â?? Yet these same corporate entities balk at airing media that calls on reforming Americaâ??s criminal marijuana policies â?? policies that have led directly to the arrest of over 20 million Americans since 1965.

Tell CBS that itâ??s time they, and not NORML, â??change their morals.â?�

(Article source from home page @ http://www.norml.org/)

Now I don't know if anyone else has posted a thread about this and quite frankly I don't have the time right now to take a look and find out for myself. My apologies if I did re-post a topic that has already been posted.

signed!

Good news..



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