ATTN: Retailers and Others
Make a significant impact for your customers and grow your business with a dependable payment processing service that also benefits California cannabis consumers.
Payment Processing for Progress is a collaboration with Rassman Payments that provides California NORML a small commission — at no additional charge to you — with each use of your customers’ cards.
This is a fantastic opportunity for all cannabis businesses and ancillary companies, as well as those outside the industry, to support ongoing and significant improvements in the daily lives of cannabis consumers in our state.
You’ll enjoy:
- All applicable card services
- The gratitude of your customers for helping Cal NORML protect and expand their rights — at no additional charge to you
- Personalized service from a team that understands and values the cannabis industry
- Free Business Membership with Cal NORML — includes a listing on the high-authority CaNORML.org and other promotional benefits — $500/year minimum value.
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.
Sign up for Cal NORML’s Payment Processing for Progress! No additional fees — personalized customer service — and a stronger cannabis community!
"We're Really Happy"

“Our experience with Payment Processing for Progress has been positive. The support we’ve received has been solid and the switch was handled without any interruption to our sales. We’re really happy to support California NORML in this way!”
— Sespe Creek Collective
Founded in 1972, California NORML is a non-profit, membership-supported organization dedicated to protecting and expanding the rights of California’s cannabis consumers.
We lobby lawmakers, publish newsletters, sponsor events, and offer legal, educational, and consumer health advice. We are funded solely from donations from within California.
Cal NORML has an impressive history of advocacy and education, and is a well respected organization in Sacramento.
We are the sole state-wide organization in California working on behalf of all your customers, and we’re effective!
Join Cal NORML and show your customers that you are invested in solutions that improve the lives of California cannabis consumers.
Cal NORML’s work directly benefits the cannabis consumer — our shared customer base — an obvious benefit to your sales now and in the future.
Here are the types of campaigns and lobbying you’ll be contributing to:
- WE DID IT! Gov. Newsom Signs AB 564 to Lower CA’s Cannabis Excise Tax Back to 15% on October 1
- Join Us at Lobby Day in Sacramento on March 24, 2025
- Cal NORML Sponsors Bill to Block Cannabis Tax Increase
- Cal NORML 2024 Accomplishments and Plans for 2025
- Governor Newsom Signs Cal NORML-Sponsored Cannabis Café Bill into Law
- Patient Compassion Programs, Cannabis Cafés, and Tax Reform Among Cannabis Bills Signed into Law in 2024
- Oakland City Council Exempts Cannabis from Residential Smoking Ban
- Employers May Not Discriminate Against Californians Due to Off-the-Job or Past Cannabis Use
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Kharla Vezzetti, Business Membership Manager
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