Ellen Komp

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Sponsor Cal NORML’s 2024 Legal Seminar

 

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Sponsoring the sixth annual Cal NORML Legal Seminar on January 20, 2024 is a great way to raise visibility for your company among the top cannabis attorneys, businesspeople, and consumers in California.

Sponsorship will position and brand your business as one that is helping to move cannabis issues forward. We expect 50-100 attendees at the event.

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

• $5,000 Platinum

• $2,500 Gold

• $1000 Silver

• $500 Bronze

 

WHAT YOU GET 

$500 Bronze

• One free ticket to the Seminar

• Banner ad on the Legal Seminar Website Page

$1000 Silver

• All of the above, plus:

• One Cal NORML eblast sponsorship

$2,500 Gold

• All of the above, plus:

• One-year  legal referral guide listing on CaNORML.org…

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Cal NORML News of the Week – July 31, 2023

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Cal NORML director Dale Gieringer (pictured pointing out Cal NORML’s founding in 1972 on the exhibit timeline) and Deputy Director Ellen Komp attended one of the final days of the California State Fair cannabis exhibit, catching a panel from DCC titled, “Why Buy Legal?”…

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CMEs Approved for Medical Cannabis Conference on Sept. 2 at UCLA


Continuing Medical Education credits for California physicians up to 6.75 hours have been approved for the first-ever joint medical conference from the Society of Cannabis Clinicians and The ReLeaf Institute, to be held at UCLA’s Neuroscience Research Building (NRB), 635 Charles E. Young Drive South in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 2.

The conference curriculum is aimed at physicians as well as medical students, nurses, caregivers, the cannabis industry and the general public, with a sliding ticket scale for different classes of attendees.…

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Amplify Your Voice in Sacramento and DC!

Cannabis Laws Don’t Change Themselves…

…but with your help, we can and will enact the policy reforms needed for the cannabis industry to flourish and for its consumers to be treated fairly and with dignity under the law.

The National Cannabis Industry Association, the voice of Main Street Cannabis, and California NORML, the voice of the California cannabis consumer have teamed up to provide California cannabis operators a platform to support the state and federal lobbying necessary for the industry to prosper.…

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Cal NORML News of the Week – July 25, 2023

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Cal NORML News of the Week – July 17, 2023

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A bar chart comparing California state excise taxes on various products: 5 oz wine (1¢), 12 oz beer (2¢), 1.5 oz liquor (4-8¢), a single tobacco cigarette (14¢), and a 0.5 gram cannabis joint ($1.10). The cannabis joint, affected by what some deem "unfair taxation," has the highest CA Norml

Cal NORML News of the Week – July 10, 2023

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A bar chart comparing California state excise taxes on various products: 5 oz wine (1¢), 12 oz beer (2¢), 1.5 oz liquor (4-8¢), a single tobacco cigarette (14¢), and a 0.5 gram cannabis joint ($1.10). The cannabis joint, affected by what some deem "unfair taxation," has the highest CA Norml

Support SB 512, To Help End Unfair Taxation of Cannabis

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DOWNLOAD A FLYER ABOUT CANNABIS TAX FAIRNESS IN CALIFORNIA

UPDATE 7/10/2023 – SB 512 (Bradford), to end double taxation on cannabis by including state and local excise taxes when calculating other taxes, was held in the Assembly Revenue and Taxation committee and will likely not advance this year in its present form.

Committee chair Jacqui Irwin, who authored a bill to make cannabis billboards illegal in 2012 and whose current bill AB 1207 to restrict cannabis packaging and flavorings was opposed by cannabis industry groups, commented at the hearing that it’s too soon to evaluate the results of AB 195 (2022), which eliminated the cannabis cultivation tax and shifted the responsibility for paying state excise tax from the distributor to the retailer, while making the changes SB 512 sought to correct.…

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Join Us at Lobby Day on May 8, 2023 in Sacramento!

Thank you to our sponsors!

Citizen Lobby Day 2023

Cal NORML / ASA Lobby Day Coming to Sacramento on Monday, May 8

All Californians are invited to attend the California NORML/Americans for Safe Access Citizen Lobby Day on Monday, May 8 in Sacramento. The event will bring supporters from across the state to meet with their state representatives and make our voices heard on pending legislation affecting the rights of cannabis consumers in California.

Register to Attend Lobby Day.

Past lobby days have helped bring about reforms such as employment rights for cannabis consumers, medical rights for organ transplant and pain patients who use medical cannabis, and cannabis tax reform, among other ongoing issues.

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Sponsor Lobby Day – May 8, 2023 in Sacramento

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BECOME A SPONSOR TODAY!

California NORML and ASA (Americans for Safe Access) are pleased to announce Citizen Lobby Day, taking place May 8, 2023 in Sacramento, CA. Our members and coalition partners will host a lobby day and training in support of state legislation to better regulate cannabis and protect consumers in California.

The California Citizen Lobby Day offers an exciting and unique opportunity to reach out to the medical and adult-use cannabis community. Becoming a sponsor of the Citizen Lobby Day is an excellent way to maximize your visibility to full or targeted groups of conference attendees.…