1. Become a member
Join CalNORML with a personal or business membership, or make a one-time or recurring donation here. Members receive our quarterly newsletter and discounts on events and merchandise.
Companies and firms who work within, or ancillary to, the California cannabis industry are invited to join CalNORML as Business or Legal Committee members. Learn how supporting us supports your business here.
You can download CalNORML’s membership pamphlet and get others to join as well.
2. Sign up for our email alert list to get weekly news reports, event announcements, and action items. Take action when needed!
3. Follow Us and Amplify Our Messages on Social Media
Find us on Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, BlueSky
4. Support The Businesses that Support Reform
CalNORML business members are featured in our Cannabis Marketplace directories. Look here for products or services.
5. Educate yourself and others
Read CalNORML’s newsletter and website; also national NORML’s site and newsfeeds.
NORML also produces excellent printable fact sheets on various topics surrounding marijuana reform.
Attend meetings, conferences and events, and stop by the CalNORML table at events to say high and find out what we’re working on.
Write Letters to the Editor (the most read section of any newspaper) in your local papers. A good resource for letter writing and news is Drugsense.
6. Get politically involved
Attend Cal NORML Lobby Days and National Lobby Days, where you will be trained to meet with your legislators on key bills in both California and Washington.
Register to vote and make sure you vote! Check out Cal NORML’s voter guides before casting your vote to learn about candidates’ positions on cannabis.
Know who your elected officials are and what their stance and record is on cannabis legalization. Meet with them about pending bills and work for their re-election if they’re helping us, or for their opponent if the have better ones. Attend fundraising events and public meetings; be a solid citizen and a good neighbor.
Watchdog your local county supervisors’ and city council’s meeting agendas, and build relationships with them, and work with local groups who are doing so.
Every cannabis consumer and supporter should be involved on three levels: nationally (with national NORML), at the state level (California NORML) and locally. There are some local NORML chapters, or you can start a local chapter.
7. Volunteer for CalNORML
We can use help tabling at events, on campaigns, for office tasks and others. If you’re interested in contributing your time and skills, write here.
This work is hard; it’s endless, but it’s also endlessly rewarding. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and no one knows that better than Cal NORML.