In the United States, for example, non-profit legal advocacy organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Landmark Legal Foundation, the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Center for Law and Justice or NORML, frequently submit such briefs to advocate for or against a particular legal change or interpretation.
In 2008, the city of Boston issued a permit for the nineteenth Freedom Rally that sought to cut-off funding for the event by redirecting donations from food vendors at the rally away from Mass Cann/NORML and to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston instead.
Unlike founder Keith Stroup and most of NORML'S senior staff, Farnham did not come from a middle-class or working-class background.
NORML was founded in 1970 by Keith Stroup funded by $5,000 from the Playboy Foundation.
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Also in early 2009, when the Kellogg Company dropped its contract with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps after pictures of him using a bong surfaced in the media, head members of NORML began boycotting Kellogg products and urging all members and supporters of NORML to boycott Kellogg, until the company reversed the decision.
The band also contributed the Black Sabbath cover "Sweet Leaf" to the Hempilation: Freedom Is NORML compilation album to benefit NORML, and the Subhumans cover "The Big Picture" appears as the B-side of the "Open Book" promotional single.