UPDATE: The Assembly Appropriations Committee approved a compromise medical marijuana bill combining the features of both AB 266 (Cooley) and AB 34 (Bonta and Jones-Sawyer). The bill would create a new Governor’s Office of MMJ Regulation to oversee and coordinate three new MMJ regulatory divisions in: (1) the Dept of Food and Agriculture for cultivation, …
SACRAMENTO 4/20 – Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) sponsored a demonstration of a new oral swab drug test in the State Capitol today. Lackey is sponsoring a bill, AB 1356, that would allow CA police to use the test as an alternative to urine or blood tests for DUI stops. The tests were misleadingly billed as …
UPDATE 4/17 – Judge Mueller has issued her ruling in writing. UPDATE 4:36 PM – The motion is expected to be appealed to the 9th district appellate court. See a blog post form NORML’s Paul Armentano on the ruling. See an on-the-scene report from The Leaf Online April 15 – Judge Kimberly Mueller denied a …
CAL NORML LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT E-CIG BILL SB 140 WOULD BAN MEDICAL CANNABIS VAPORIZING IN NON-SMOKING AREAS ANTI-TOBACCO LOBBY BLOWING SMOKE ABOUT E-CIGS AND VAPORIZERS SACRAMENTO – The California legislature is considering an anti-e-cigarette bill, SB 140 by Sen. Leno (D-SF), that would perversely classify smokeless medical cannabis vaporizers as “tobacco products” and ban their …
SUPPORT MARIJUANA REFORM IN CALIFORNIA IN 2015 AND BEYOND! December 19 – This year saw California NORML active on multiple fronts while we undertook preparations for a 2016 legalization initiative with the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform. Please join Cal NORML, renew your membership, or make a year-end donation to help us with our work …
UPDATE 5/15/2015 – Clearlake City Council voted 5-0 to repeal the ordinance. 5/5/2015 – The citizens of Clearlake, with help from the Emerald Growers Association, gathered a sufficient number of signatures to block implementation of the city’s total cultivation ban. The City Council will meet on May 14 to decide whether to rescind the ordinance …
NEWS: December 8, 2017 – The VA has issued VHA Policy Directive 2017-1315 stating, “Veterans must not be denied VHA services solely because they are participating in State-approved marijuana programs.” The directive, signed by Executive in Charge Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., replaces VHA Directive 2011-004 which had the same language. The new directive is scheduled …
March 1, 2015 – This year’s legislative agenda includes several bills to regulate commercial medical marijuana cultivation and sales in California. None of them have been finalized yet, and all could be substantially changed by gutting and amending. • AB 26 by Asm. Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D – S. LA) and AB 34 by Rob Bonta …
Having failed to find evidence that Prop 215 increased teen MJ use in CA, researchers are now alleging an increase in youth marijuana use following adoption of CA’s decriminalization bill in 2011. Unfortunately, the CA AG stopped conducting its biennial surveys of student drug use, so it’s difficult to confirm these figures. If these claims …
The UCLA Simms/Mann Center for Integrative Oncology, which has offered free psychosocial care for cancer patients and their families for 22 years, kicked off its 2015 “Insights into Cancer” lecture series with a panel on medicinal marijuana and cancer on January 13. The panel featured two psychiatrists, Garth Terry and Thomas Strouse, and public policy …