Kharla Vezzetti SACRAMENTO, March 29 – The California Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings today on Mark Leno’s bill to protect employment rights for medical marijuana users, SB 129, but the vote was delayed for another week due to illness of a committee member. The committee heard powerful testimony from Peter O’Neill, who was fired as an assistant …
UPDATE: May 30, 2011 – SAN DIEGO’s BOTCHED CANNABIS ORDINANCE SUSPENDED BY REFERENDUM Congratulations to the California Cannabis Coalition and Citizens for Patients Rights for collecting over 46,000 signatures to suspend San Diego’s ill-considered medical cannabis ordinance severely restricting collectives. The ordinance was officially suspended as of 4:20 PM, Friday May 27th, when the signatures …
The conference was held on March 19, 2011 at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood. Congressional candidate Marcy Winogrand and Assemblymember Jim Beall spoke on the Public Perspectives panel. West Hollywood Mayor Pro Tempore John Duran with conference co-sponsor Dale Gieringer of California NORML. UCLA School of Public Policy professor Mark Kleiman said attending the …
Cal NORML Reports March, 2011 SACRAMENTO. Several important cannabis reform bills have been introduced to the California legislature. They include protecting Prop 215 patients from workplace discrimination, reducing cultivation penalties, legalizing industrial hemp, and establishing full-scale medical marijuana licensing schemes. In the State Senate, Mark Leno (D-SF), has re-introduced a bill to protect medical marijuana …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 23, 2011 Contact: Quintin Mecke Office: 415-557-3013; Cell: 415.505.2417 Sacramento – Sponsored by Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has introduced a bill, AB 1017, which would change section 11358 of the Health and Safety Code from a mandatory felony penalty to an alternate felony or …
Also see: Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Tehama County Cultivation Ordinance UPDATE February 20: CalNORML has filed its appeal. UPDATE February 6: California NORML will appeal a court decision upholding Tehama’s ordinance restricting patients’ right to grow medical marijuana. The ordinance, which declares it a nuisance to cultivate any marijuana at all – indoors …
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December 2009 CaNORML 2009 Accomplishments and Plans for 2010 California NORML is proud to have been on the forefront of marijuana reform in 2009, a year that marked a memorable turning point in the movement as legalization finally emerged as a serious political issue. Your support for CalNORML will help us move this issue forward …
CaNORML kicked off 2010 with a major legalization blitz in Sacramento, asking all activists to contact their Assemblymembers about AB390, Tom Ammiano’s landmark legalization bill that was sponsored by CalNORML. On January 12, the Assembly Public Safety Committee voted to approve the bill, the first time a legislative body has ever voted to repeal MJ …
See preliminary conference schedule. Dec. 15 – In the aftermath of Proposition 19, California NORML will host a statewide conference to discuss the future of marijuana reform efforts in California at the David Brower Center in Berkeley on Saturday, January 29, 2011. The conference will feature a public discussion with drug reform leaders, legislators, attorneys, …