Kharla Vezzetti

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Sponsor Lobby Day 2025

Read more about Lobby Day 2025

BECOME A SPONSOR TODAY! See Links below or email us.

California NORML and ASA (Americans for Safe Access) are pleased to announce Citizen Lobby Day, taking place March 24, 2025 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.…

Second Amendment

Marijuana Use and Firearms Possession — 2024 Update

C.D. Michel, Michel & Associates, P.C.

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July 2026 Update Available: What the New US Supreme Court Decision Means for Marijuana Users Who Want to Possess Guns

INTRODUCTION

In our 2021 article for California NORML, we discussed how federal gun laws intersect with California’s and other states legalization of recreational marijuana use. In that article, we examined Ninth Circuit authority holding that federal law makes it illegal for all marijuana users to possess a firearm.…

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Payment Processing that Benefits You and Cal NORML

Support Cal NORML with each Tap

Learn how you can help sustain Cal NORML’s essential advocacy and lobbying efforts in the coming years, while providing a helpful needed service to your customers that will boost your sales.

California NORML is excited to announce a new partnership with Banking and Merchant Specialist, Ian Rassman of Rassman Payments. This new collaboration will benefit our business members while generating essential funds for Cal NORML with each tap of your customers’ payment cards.

You’ll enjoy all applicable processing services at extremely competitive rates alongside personalized service from a team that understands the cannabis industry.…

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Cannabis Consumers’ Employment Rights Won in California

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View and Download this information as a Fact Sheet

Download a Fact Sheet for Employers

Starting on January 1, 2024, most Californians are protected by a Cal NORML-sponsored bill (AB 2188 – GC 12954) which states that employers may not refuse to hire, fire, or penalize an employee based on the results of hair or urine tests for marijuana. Employees may not be impaired by cannabis on the job, and may be subject to an oral swab or blood test.…

Accounts-receivable

Cannabis Collections Cash Crunch

Ron Naulls, Naulls Legal Group

Accounts-receivable

There are clear signs that the macroeconomic environment is causing some financial tightening across the board, and the cannabis industry is not immune. The uncertain times and challenging environment (i.e., lack of access to capital, taxation, regulation/compliance, the illicit market, inflation, and other macroeconomic issues like geopolitical tensions) add to the perfect storm. They are causing the industry to face a cash crunch.

Sticks and stones break bones, but there is a better way to get that pay!…

Second Amendment

Marijuana Use and Firearms Possession 2023 Update

July 2026 Update Available: What the New US Supreme Court Decision Means for Marijuana Users Who Want to Possess Guns

Marijuana Use and Firearms Possession

Are the Times A-Changin?

C.D. Michel, Michel & Associates, P.C.

Second Amendment

INTRODUCTION

In our 2021 article for California NORML, we discussed how federal gun laws intersect with California’s legalization of recreational marijuana use. In that article, we examined Ninth Circuit authority holding that federal law makes it illegal for all marijuana users to possess a firearm.

Since then, however, Second Amendment rights jurisprudence has developed rapidly.…

Dale Gieringer scholarship at Oaksterdam University

Dale Gieringer Scholarship at Oaksterdam University

Oaksterdam Dale Gieringer scholarship

In honor of California NORML’s Director Dale Gieringer, and 4/20, Cal NORML is awarding four scholarships courtesy of Oaksterdam University.

Choose from two self-paced online courses:

Home Grow
Value $420
Learn to successfully grow and harvest high-quality cannabis plants from your own garden or tent.

Budtending
Value $695
Get in on the ground floor at a dispensary and share your passion for the plant with a focus on health, wellness, and customer service.

Submit the complete form below by 5/20/2023 to be considered for selection of one of four single course scholarships.

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Can You Protect Your Business by Trademarking Your Cannabis Brand?

By Arbana Lika and Hannah Stitt, Tectonic, LLP

Trademark Symbol

Ideas, inventions, processes, original works of authorship and trademarks are eligible for protection through the United States government – even for cannabis industry operators! In this blog, we focus on trademark rights and how trademark applications for cannabis goods and services are treated.

WHERE THE LAW CURRENTLY STANDS

Trademark rights begin to accrue under California common law wherever a business sells goods or services on a county by county basis. If, for example, a company named “ABC Delivery Service” makes sales in San Francisco, San Mateo and Los Angeles counties under the trademark “Indicativa Delivery”, then that business is accumulating rights in each of those counties.…

Cal NORML 50th anniversary of CMI

Cal NORML 50th Anniversary Presentations

Hear the stories from the activists from the 1972 California Marijuana Initiative

Tickets to view the Zoom recording of the 11/12 program are available! Visit this link and click on the Zoom option. You will then be sent a link to view the 2-hour, informative and fun program featuring Keith Stroup, John Sinclair, Gordon Brownell, Michael & Michelle Aldrich and more.

Read more about the event. 

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Cannabis Display and Program and CA State Fair Continues Through July 31

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Cal NORML celebrated our 50th Anniversary at the Fair on Saturday, July 23 with two panels in the Cannabis Exhibit, where the winners are celebrated and an interactive and immersive display covers the history, culture, and pioneers of California cannabis.

Saturday, July 23

4:00 – 4:45 PM
Sustainability, Equity and More
Efforts to bring environmental sustainability, organic standards, and equity to the cannabis industry in California.…