Yearly Accomplishments and Plans

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Cal NORML 2023 Accomplishments and Plans for 2024

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LEGISLATIVE GAINS

Once again this year, Cal NORML and its supporters actively lobbied on 40-50 bills affecting California cannabis consumers and the industry.…

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Cal NORML’s 2022 Accomplishments and Plans for 2023

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Now is the time to build on the progress we made in 2022! Please support Cal NORML with a membership donation. Click Here to Donate or see our Cal NORML store and purchase merchandise.

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It was a banner year for cannabis reform measures in 2022, in no small part due to the efforts of California NORML and our supporters.

LEGISLATIVE GAINS

Cal NORML lead a successful legislative effort to protect the employment rights of California’s cannabis consumers, along with a second bill to protect medical marijuana patients against discrimination by their doctors.…

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CAL NORML 2021 ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PLANS FOR 2022

Read about Cal NORML’s 2021/2022 activities. We are working for your rights! 

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Cal NORML PRIORITIES FOR 2022

  • Pass employment rights legislation to forbid pre-employment drug testing for marijuana using urine and hair tests.
  • Pass legislation to end discrimination against pain patients who are denied medication for using cannabis.
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Cal NORML 2020 Accomplishments and Plans for 2021

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As a special offer, some 2021 members will receive a vintage gold “California NORML” lapel magnet (pictured) to celebrate NORML’s 50th anniversary.

When 2020 began, dozens of bills addressing cannabis were introduced in Sacramento, including a Cal NORML–sponsored bill to protect employment rights of medical marijuana users, and another bill we endorsed to lower taxes on cannabis, plus a bill to help with the persistent roadblock of local licensing.

A group of people are seated in a meeting room, facing a panel of officials discussing cannabis licensing. Multiple screens display maps, and a rainbow flag is hung on the wall. One attendee holds a yellow sign saying "LET BERKELEY BE BERKELEY. CA NormlAt the end of January, we testified before Berkeley City Council at a pair of contentious meetings that pitted activists in favor of opening a vape lounge in Berkeley against anti-tobacco forces that tried to argue second-hand marijuana smoke is harmful.…

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Cal NORML’s 2019 Accomplishments and Plans for 2020

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Cal NORML keeps our members informed of cannabis news at the federal, state, and local levels through our newsletter, website, and weekly email alerts, as well as public outreach tables at events. Through NORML’s networks we generate thousands of constituent letters in favor of progressive bills, and against ones that take away our rights.

Now is not the time to stop the fight! Please support Cal NORML with a membership donation. Click Here to Donate or see our Cal NORML store and purchase merchandise.…

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Cal NORML’s 2018 Accomplishments and Plans for 2019

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As California enters new territory with the opening of adult-use sales this year, Cal NORML continues its fight to secure consumers’ rights to use cannabis freely, legally, and affordably. We are glad to have made some progress with the state’s lawmakers and regulators this year, but much work remains to be done.

While the year got off to a bang with the first legal sales on January 1, 2018, progress has been rocky, fraught with glitches and bottlenecks, costly new taxes and regulations, and a persistent shortage of legal outlets in many parts of the state.…

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Cal NORML’s 2017 Accomplishments and Plans for 2018

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Over 60 cannabis bills, most of them regulatory, were introduced in Sacramento this year, a three-fold increase from last year. Cal NORML tracked bills with a focus on consumer rights and kept our members informed of pending changes and hearings. We fought for allowing mixed premises for recreational and medical cannabis businesses, and for temporary event licenses, among other amendments.

Once more, Cal NORML protected driving rights for cannabis consumers, lobbying for changes to SB 65, which as introduced would have increased penalties for smoking while driving.…

CaNORML 2012 Accomplishments and Plans for 2013

As 2012 began, no less than five different marijuana law reform measures were aiming for the November 2012 ballot. The plethora of proposals was due in part to the success of CalNORML’s “Next Steps” conference in early 2011. CalNORML was called on to navigate the public through the proposals. However, the funding ultimately went to Washington, Oregon and Colorado, states where initiative campaigns are much less costly than in California.

Things were busy in the legislature too, as SB129 (Leno), a bill to grant employment rights to medical marijuana users, and AB1017 (Ammiano) would reduce penalties on marijuana cultivation, made their way through committees.

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CaNORML Accomplishments for 2011 and Plans for 2012

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To say 2011 was a busy year would be an understatement. Following up on the strong but losing campaign of the Prop. 19 legalization initiative, Cal NORML began the year with statewide activist conferences to plan the future of marijuana reform in California. As the year progressed, our energies were increasingly tied up in defensive efforts to combat mounting challenges from local, state, and federal authorities: bans and restrictions on dispensaries and cultivation, hostile legislation in Sacramento, and a full-fledged federal crackdown from the Obama administration.…

CaNORML 2010 Accomplishments and Plans for 2011

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 prohibition. The bill was resubmitted as AB2254 and back burnered pending the results of the vote on Prop. 19.

CalNORML was back in Sacramento in February, when in a landmark report to the state legislature, the California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research announced that its studies have shown marijuana to have therapeutic value in six different human clinical trials regarding chronic pain, spasticity and vaporization.…