Loretta Nall

Infobox Politician
name = Loretta Nall


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candidate = Alabama gubernatorial election, 2006
eletion_date = November 7, 2006
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opponent = Bob Riley (R)
Lucy Baxley (D)
incumbent = Bob Riley
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party = United States Libertarian Party
otherparty = United States Marijuana Party
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occupation = Political Activist
religion = Atheist


website = [http://nallforgovernor.com NallForGovernor.com]
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Loretta Nall is the founder of the United States Marijuana Party (USMJP) which calls for the legalization of cannabis. She was a write-in candidate for governor of Alabama in 2006.

Nall founded the USMJP in 2002. In 2005, she co-founded Alabamians for Caring Use, a medical marijuana advocacy/lobbying group. Before his 2005 Vancouver, Canada arrest, the so-called "Prince of Pot," Marc Emery, employed Nall under the auspices of Cannabis Culture Magazine. Nall herself was booked and jailed for less than one day on September 17, 2002 for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after police made a search of her home. [Bernard, Elizabeth. "Meet Loretta Nall by Elizabeth Bernard". [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/bernard1.html] . Retrieved 9 November 2006.]

Besides advocating the legalization of cannabis in the United States, Nall is also an outspoken critic of the world-wide War on Drugs. After a 2004 visit to Colombia, she has spoken and written against the United States and Colombian militaries' aerial destruction of Colombian coca fields with herbicides, citing dangers to local human populations and the environment.

Nall also calls for tax credits for homeschoolers, American withdrawal from the Iraq War, and she opposes the No Child Left Behind, USA PATRIOT, and REAL ID acts. Nall is a contributor to LewRockwell.com. [Nall, Loretta. "Colombia." "LewRockwell.com". 17 November 2004. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/nall1.html] ] [ Nall, Loretta. "My Day in Court." "LewRockwell.com". 18 March 2005. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/nall2.html] ]

2006 Alabama gubernatorial campaign

Nall secured the Libertarian Party of Alabama's 2006 nomination for governor of Alabama at the party's 8 April 2006 convention in Montgomery, Alabama. ["Libertarians name gubernatorial candidate." "Montgomery Advertiser". 2 August 2006. [http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060410/NEWS02/604100330&SearchID=73241359473716] ] [ Davis, John. "Woman heads Libertarian ticket." "Montgomery Advertiser". 2 August 2006. [http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060412/NEWS02/604120315/1009] ] Since Nall's campaign failed to collect the 40,000+ signatures required to achieve state-wide ballot access in Alabama, she ran as a write-in candidate against Republican incumbent Bob Riley and Democratic challenger Lucy Baxley. Nall's campaign was covered by national media ["How to attract voters’ attention? Cleavage." MSNBC.com. 25 October 2006. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15392890/] ] after pictures of the candidate that revealed her buxom appearance drew comments from local political commentator Bob Ingram. Ingram concluded a 7 March 2006 op-ed in the "Shelby County Reporter" with the following comment::"Allow me to express a personal note of appreciation to Bob Martin, the editor of this newspaper, for finding a picture of gubernatorial candidate Loretta Nall to run with my column last week. I am sure it attracted a lot of readers. In 55 years of political writing, that was a first for me—a picture in my column of a woman displaying cleavage. I can only hope that my mother...and I know for a fact where she ended in the after life...didn’t see that column. She wouldn’t have approved of that picture." [Ingram, Bob. "Mask's win a sign of things to come." "Shelby Country Reporter". 7 March 2006. [http://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/articles/2006/03/12/opinion/opin03.txt] ]

The election was won by Riley, but Nall says that she will continue to run for Alabama office in the future. [Bunting, Josh. "Third Party Candidates to Run for Office Nov. 7." "The Spirit". 6 November 2006. ]

ex Toy Drive

In November 2007, Nall organized a [http://nallforgovernor.blogspot.com/2007/11/sex-toys-for-troy-king.html sex toy drive] , encouraging people to mail sex toys to Alabama Attorney General Troy King, who wants to prosecute shops that sell the devices.

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External links

* [http://www.usmjparty.org U.S. Marijuana Party]
* [http://www.nallforgovernor.com Nall's official 2006 campaign website]
* [http://www.caringuse.org Alabamians for Caring Use]
* [http://www.pot-tv.net/ Pot TV] (Nall has been a reporter for this subsidiary of Cannabis Culture Magazine)
* [http://nallforgovernor.blogspot.com/2006/05/msnbc-coverage-of-nall-campaign.html MSNBC mention] of Nall's gubernatorial campaign (YouTube video)
* [http://www.freetalklive.com/files/nallc.mp3 Downloadable audio interview] with Free Talk Live