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What the New US Supreme Court Decision Means for Marijuana Users Who Want to Possess Guns

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

In our prior articles for California NORML, we discussed how federal gun laws intersect with California’s legalization of recreational and medical marijuana use. We explained that, even though California law allows marijuana use, federal law continued to treat marijuana as a controlled substance and barred “unlawful users” of controlled substances from possessing firearms or ammunition.

That analysis has now changed in a big way. On June 18, 2026, the United States Supreme Court decided United States v.…

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Budist 2025 California Cannabis Harvest Report Released

A map of California highlights Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Nevada, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, and Trinity counties in green. Text reads: "Budist 2025 California Cannabis Harvest Report" with a cannabis leaf icon. Forest graphics border the image. Ca NORML

A well-attended event in Berkeley on Saturday, May 16 presented the Budist 2025 California Cannabis Harvest Report, with outdoor farmers represented from the report’s covered counties: Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake, Nevada and Santa Cruz. Starting from DCC dashboard numbers and adding in the number of licensees producing outdoor crops, the report highlights farmers and cultivars in each region, and looks at statewide trends.

The 2025 outdoor cannabis harvest was the largest since 2022; however all counties in the report except Mendocino lost market share in California’s outdoor market in 2025 vs.…

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California M-License Operators in a Bifurcated Federal World: A Legal Deep Dive on DOJ’s April 2026 Rescheduling Order

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by  The Law Office of Shay Aaron Gilmore

On April 22, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed the most consequential federal cannabis order in more than five decades. The order immediately moves both FDA-approved cannabis products and state-regulated medical cannabis products from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). At the same time, it launches an expedited administrative hearing — beginning June 29, 2026 — to determine whether broader rescheduling of all marijuana, including adult-use products, should follow.…

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4/20/26 Specials from Cal NORML: Gifts and Discounts for Personal and Business Memberships

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Join Cal NORML now through the end of April with a discounted $42 Gold Membership and get a free thank-you gift: Our popular gold lapel pin in the shape of a pot leaf (shown). It’s a great way to represent your support for Cal NORML and cannabis!

Join Cal NORML through 4/30 and we will send your gift to you by mail. Membership renewals qualify; email here if you are unsure of your membership status. Members receive our printed newsletter and discounts on events and items throughout the year.…

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Cal NORML Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Marijuana Decriminalization in California in July

Graph showing cannabis felonies in California from 1960–2020, peaking in 1975 at 85,757 before falling sharply after marijuana decriminalization and the Moscone Act, with Cal NORML noting $100 million annual enforcement savings. CA NormlJuly 9, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of California’s landmark marijuana decriminalization law, the Moscone Act, which reduced the penalty for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana from a felony to a citable misdemeanor punishable by a $100 fine and no jail. The law, sponsored by then-Senator George Moscone and California NORML, was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on July 9, 1975 and took effect on January 1, 1976.

The Moscone Act resulted in an 80% reduction in felony marijuana arrests, saving the state an estimated $100 million per year in enforcement costs, and saving well over a million users from a criminal record over the years.…

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Cal NORML Board of Directors

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Valerie Corral

Valerie Corral is the co-founder and the director of the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, the longest running medical marijuana collective in the US, founded in 1993 in Santa Cruz, California and now operating as . Valerie is also acting director of WAMM’s sister non-profit hospice team, Raha Kudo, Design for Dying Project.…

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Dale Gieringer

Dale Gieringer (President) has been the director of California NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) since 1987. He is also Vice-Chair of the national NORML board of directors, director of the California Drug Policy Forum (DPFCA) and was treasurer of the Oakland Civil Liberties Alliance.

Dr. Gieringer has published research on

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Shay Aaron Gilmore

Shay Aaron Gilmore is a cannabis business attorney based in San Francisco who works exclusively with operators and investors throughout the legal California cannabis and hemp supply chains. With over 20 years of experience as a California attorney, Shay advises cannabis and hemp businesses through the complexities of California’s legal markets with a commitment to expanding access to legal, reliably tested, environmentally sustainable, and socially equitable cannabis throughout every corner of California.

Shay’s law practice at The Law Office of Shay Aaron Gilmore includes outside general counsel services for cannabis and hemp operators and investors spanning business formation, financing and governance, commercial transactions, local permitting, state licensing, land use, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance across the cannabis and hemp supply chains.…

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David Goldman 

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