NORML’s blog posts, press releases, and significant news are collated here.
Media: please contact our spokespeople (Chris Fowlie, Rebecca Reider or Geoff Noller) for comments or more information.
- Crappy Birthday, MoDA! 50 years of misuse of drugs laws
- Sign the Petition supporting Gandalf and other Green Fairies
- J Day 2025: 3rd May in CHCH, 6th Dec in AKLD
- NZ’s Drug Driving law passes, with only Green and Te Pati Maori MPs opposed
- Roll up for Auckland J Day – Sat 7th December in Albert Park
- NORML’s Submission on the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill 2024
- Balance the books with $2.8b tax from legal cannabis
- Testing times for drivers: National’s new drug-driving law won’t detect impaired drivers & could see innocents prosecuted
- J Day 2024 – North and South Island Editions
- Predictions for 2024
- #TokeTheVote 2023: Your cannabis-based voting guide
- Cannabis Law Reform Roadside Rallies – Sept & Oct 2023
- New date for J Day in Auckland: Sat 2 Dec 2023
- Changes coming to NZ’s Medicinal Cannabis Scheme
- SIGN THE PETITION: Pardon cannabis offences and decriminalise cannabis
- Pardon Kiwi cannabis convicts? Yes, we can.
- Auckland mayoral contest: tough choice for progressive voters
- Should politicians be drug tested?
- Ministry of Health reviewing the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme: here’s what works, what went wrong and how we can fix it
- NORML presents the 30th Annual J Day on Saturday May 7, 2022.
- New drug-driving law ignores science, targets poor
- Cannabis year in review: the referendum’s long shadow
- Nonsense brewing over drug driving bill
- One year on from the cannabis referendum: The forgotten 48%
- NORML’s advice to BPAC for medicinal cannabis information provided to health professionals
- Does medical cannabis need a supermarket-style intervention?
- Police persecute medicinal cannabis suppliers – this isn’t the kindness or reform we were promised!
- 10 years ago: the Law Commission said repeal the Misuse of Drugs Act
- Most people agree: Repeal prohibition
- NORML’s Submission on the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Bill
- Show your support at J Day, Sat 1 May 2021
- Cannabis referendum’s razor-thin result shows mandate for change
- Cannabis referendum final result and opportunities for reform
- Cannabis referendum result announcement: Compromise and consensus are needed, says NORML
- Yes or No, the roadmap for cannabis reform
- #TokeTheVote2020: ranking party cannabis policies
- Get your NORML merchandise here
- Sign up to help NORML’s campaign to make cannabis legal in Aotearoa-NZ
- NORML’s stash of “Reeferendum” campaign memes and images to share
- 3 steps to win: Enrol, Vote, Enjoy!
- Reefer Madness follows criticism of cannabis referendum bill
- Cannabis Referendum’s Volatile Polls Show Every Vote Will Count – As Scientologists and Uncle SAM Exposed Behind Bob’s “Nope” Campaign
- Cannabis referendum Bill’s recipe for success
- It’s 420 Day! How to celebrate cannabis safety under lockdown
- Survey: Has the COVID-19 Outbreak Influenced Your Cannabis Consumption?
- NZ’s medicinal cannabis scheme takes effect 1 April 2020 – here’s what it means for you
- Coronavirus tips for cannabis consumers: stop passing joints, and beware of online misinformation
- Medicinal cannabis wins and polls point to cannabis referendum’s recipe for success
- Cannabis referendum confirmed for election day, 19 September 2020
- Govt roadside drug testing shock: the proposed rules are actually pretty good!
- NZ’s medicinal cannabis scheme just got way better
- Information about the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme
- Cannabis Referendum Bill deserves your Yes vote. Here’s what it does and how we can make it even better.
- Cannabis referendum draft law welcomed, but a missed opportunity to put people before profits, says NORML
- CHOISE model is designed to win the cannabis referendum.
- NZ Drug Foundation releases cannabis model for the 2020 referendum
- Cannabis Policy Experts To Speak At Public Lectures
- Don’t panic! The only cannabis poll that counts is the Referendum itself
- Consultation on the medicinal cannabis scheme: NORML’s advice for patients
- Science will save cannabis referendum from Reefer Madness
- Medical cannabis scheme public consultation open now until 7 August
- A smart approach to the cannabis referendum, and medicinal cannabis
- New Zealand Medicinal Cannabis Use Research Survey 2019
- NORML’s submission to NZTA on drug impaired driver testing
- Fact-checking the anti-cannabis reports cited by Bob McCroskie and Family First
- Polls show how to win the cannabis referendum: social equity, social enterprise and social clubs
- Recreational cannabis law changes – Expert Q&A – Science Media Centre
- Latest Science Debunks Claim That Cannabis Significantly Harms Brain
- Cannabis reform group welcomes referendum details
- NORML’s Submission on the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill
- J Day 2019 “May the 4th be with you”
- How Patients Could Access Medicinal Cannabis by Christmas
- Cannabis Referendum Conference and NORML AGM – Wellington, 9-10 November 2018
- Pots for Patients – rally on Queen St, Auckland, Saturday 4th August
- Cross-party support needed on medicinal cannabis – response to Govt and National Party medicinal cannabis bills
- Medicinal cannabis bill: Do what is best for patients, MPs urged.
- Cannabis referendum: Bring it on, says NORML
- We’re all human: A cannabis patient’s report from Parliament By Rebecca Reider
- MEDIA RELEASE: Cannabis patients testify at Parliament
- NORML’s submission on the Govt’s medicinal cannabis bill
- The Complete Guide to Medicinal Cannabis for Seniors
- Come to J Day, Saturday 5th May 2018
- NORML’s guide to making an effective submission on the 2018 Medicinal Cannabis Bill
- Submissions now open on Medicinal Cannabis Bill (deadline 21 March 2018)
- Action alert: Medicinal cannabis reform in NZ is on the line this week – your voice is needed.
- The Greens’ Medicinal Cannabis Bill will have it’s first vote in Parliament
- Medicinal cannabis Bill a step in the right direction, but a patient-focused approach would go further
- Medicinal cannabis: good news, bad news
- When it comes to legalising medicinal cannabis, what would Helen Kelly do?
- Relaxed cats wanted
- Cannabis Armistice: 90 Years of Cannabis Prohibition – Sat 11 Nov 2017
- NORML New Zealand Inc Annual General Meeting
- New Zealand Govt to hold cannabis referendum
- Police prosecuting “Green Fairies” who provide medicinal cannabis
- #TokeTheVote: NORML NZ’s Guide to Political Party Cannabis Policies for the 2017 Election
- Medical Cannabis March – the election special! Queen St, Sat 2 Sept 2017
- Poll shows growing support for cannabis law reform
- Medical Cannabis Queen St Rally and March – Sat 2 Sept.
- Cannabidiol to remain a controlled drug: here’s what is changing
- “It’s Jacinda over Bill” say organisers of medical cannabis rally – this Saturday 5th August in Auckland