Roll up for Auckland J Day – Sat 7th December in Albert Park
Show your support for cannabis law reform. Come to J Day, a free annual community event celebrating Aotearoa’s Kiwi cannabis culture and protesting against prohibition. Auckland J Day 2024 is…
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NORML’s Submission on the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill 2024
NORML's submission on the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill 2024 focusses on how this Bill and the drug driving testing regime relates to cannabis and the one-in-ten adults in…
Balance the books with $2.8b tax from legal cannabis
Making cannabis legal could balance the budget without needing to cut thousands of jobs and crucial services.
Testing times for drivers: National’s new drug-driving law won’t detect impaired drivers & could see innocents prosecuted
The Government has confirmed they will “roll out” legislation this year to enable police to randomly test the saliva of drivers using inaccurate swabs that could see thousands of people…
J Day 2024 – North and South Island Editions
This year, J Day will be held in the South on May 4th, and the North will be on Saturday 7th December >> For more info see facebook.com/nzjday
Predictions for 2024
On 95bFM’s weekly Marijuana Media show, NORML’s Chris Fowlie made a few predictions for 2024. Check the pot-cast for more! For more, check out Chris Fowlie’s Marijuana Media pot-cast on 95bFM:…
#TokeTheVote 2023: Your cannabis-based voting guide
NORML's cannabis-based guide to voting in the 2023 NZ general election includes a review of political party cannabis policies and statements by their spokespeople.
Cannabis Law Reform Roadside Rallies – Sept & Oct 2023
Roll up, roll up, Auckland! Show your support for law reform at these roadside rallies. Sept 9, Sept 23, & Oct 7. Bring a smile, sign, and your buddies!
New date for J Day in Auckland: Sat 2 Dec 2023
UPDATE: Auckland J Day (postponed due to weather) has a new date: Saturday 2 December, 2023, in Albert Park.
Changes coming to NZ’s Medicinal Cannabis Scheme
NORML has obtained a copy of changes to the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme proposed by New Zealand's Ministry of Health. These changes appear to have already had sign-off from the top…
SIGN THE PETITION: Pardon cannabis offences and decriminalise cannabis
We call on the New Zealand Government to overturn cannabis possession and use charges, pardon and apologise to those convicted, and decriminalise cannabis possession and use.
Pardon Kiwi cannabis convicts? Yes, we can.
While Americans convicted for possessing pot will soon be pardoned, some local politicians have already stubbed out the roach here, citing the 2020 cannabis referendum result. Yet there remains a…
Auckland mayoral contest: tough choice for progressive voters
As voting packs arrive in the mail, progressive voters in Auckland now face a tough choice in the contest for Mayor: should they hold their nose and vote for socially…
Should politicians be drug tested?
As long as workers are tested for drugs they may do in their own time, should politicians be tested too?
Ministry of Health reviewing the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme: here’s what works, what went wrong and how we can fix it
Last week, as New Zealand’s Medicinal Cannabis Scheme was labelled “unworkable” and the Ministry of Health finally confirmed a review of the scheme was imminent, I did two things that…
NORML presents the 30th Annual J Day on Saturday May 7, 2022.
Show your support for cannabis law reform and come to J Day, a free annual community event celebrating Aotearoa's Kiwi cannabis culture and protesting against prohibition.
New drug-driving law ignores science, targets poor
The effects of a new drug-driving law passed by Parliament yesterday, which ignores the science around testing for impairment, will be felt mostly by the poor and already oppressed.
Cannabis year in review: the referendum’s long shadow
For the second year of the zombie apocalypse, covid cast a long shadow over everything, the referendum left us in a hazy brain fog and the government wished cannabis would…
Nonsense brewing over drug driving bill
A bill aiming to curb impaired driving has been derailed and will now criminalise thousands of non-impaired drivers, especially cannabis users.
One year on from the cannabis referendum: The forgotten 48%
This weekend the Labour Party held their annual conference. It’s also one year since the announcement of the results of their cannabis referendum, in which a forgotten 48 per cent…