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6/28/2025 – AB 564 has passed in the Assembly, by a vote of 74-0. Our effort to get the bill’s language incorporated into a budget bill to stave off a...

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Were you arrested for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana in California before 1976?  If so, Cal NORML would like to hear your story. This year marks the 50th...

UPDATED 6/17/2025 The following bills affecting cannabis have been introduced in California, and are moving through the legislative process: KEY BILL AB 564 (Haney) – Cal NORML-sponsored bill to halt...

WRITE TO YOUR LEGISLATORS AND GOV. NEWSOM AND ASK THEM NOT TO RAISE CANNABIS TAXES IN 2025 Update 5/8/2025 – AB 564, to halt a cannabis tax increase this year,...

By Kate Dymedenko, CPA, CTC Growise CPAs Section 280E of the federal tax code looms over American cannabis operators like a dark cloud, severely impacting profitability in an already challenged...

CLICK HERE TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR AB 564 TO STOP A CANNABIS TAX INCREASE! EVERY SIGNATURE HELPS. The Cal NORML/ASA Lobby Day yesterday in Sacramento brought in a score...

A “Joint” informational hearing on March 11 before the Assembly and Senate Business and Professions committees on the CA Department of Cannabis Control’s new Condition and Health of the Cannabis...

All Californians are invited to attend the California NORML/Americans for Safe Access Citizen Lobby Day on Monday, March 24 in Sacramento. The event will bring supporters from across the state...

UPDATE 5/8/2025 – Please take action on our new alert targeted at the full legislature and the Governor, asking them not to increase cannabis taxes in 2025. California is set...

UPDATE: Read Cal NORML Director Dale Gieringer’s testimony to the DWC, and an appendix of studies on cannabis and pain. See Deputy Director Ellen Komp’s letter on ties between the...

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,...

Please donate to Cal NORML to support our advocacy work, as a regular or business member. PLEASE SUPPORT CAL NORML IN 2025 Cal NORML expects to be working harder than ever...

Interested vape companies are invited to sponsor their devices for a study of cannabis vape pen emissions by California NORML. The study will test a variety of vape devices and...

November 19, 2024 – Following a two-year process during which the Sacramento Office of Cannabis Management met with public officials and lounge owners across the state, surveyed interested parties, and...

In a victory for cannabis consumers, the Oakland City Council on Tuesday, November 12 voted to exempt cannabis from a proposed total ban on residential smoking and vaping in multi-unit...

NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, has published a Fact Sheet on CHS (Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome) , in the wake of reports of increasing prevelance of the condition. Researched...

October 30, 2024 – A new report on high-potency cannabis by the California Department of Public Health raises important concerns for the cannabis community. The report blames high-potency products for...

ACTION ALERT On Tuesday, November 12 the Oakland City Council will vote on a nonsmoking ordinance. The proposed ordinance would ban smoking or vaping of tobacco or cannabis at outdoor...

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