Press Release
NORML Canada Launches Post-Legalization Platform

October 11, 2019 08:30 ET | Source: NORML Canada – www.norml.ca - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
NORML Canada launches official Post-Legalization platform to focus advocacy efforts on reforming Canada’s legal Cannabis system.
In light of the first year of legalization, NORML Canada has monitored the Canadian cannabis landscape closely, to determine the next steps for crafting achievable and functional reform of cannabis regulations.
The five key “pillars” established by NORML Canada are designed to help focus organizational resources to support our ongoing government and public outreach.
1) Increased Access
Our goal
is to ensure consumers have ease of access to legal cannabis
products, access to medical dispensaries, access to world-class
product options, as well as access to affordable legal options.
2) Transitioning “Unregulated Market” into
the legal framework
Creating avenues for the current
unlicensed market to be welcomed as part of the legal cannabis
industry in order to achieve the government's stated goal of
disincentivizing the illicit market.
3) Social discrimination protections
Putting
in place protective regulations that remove stigma barriers and
consequences for consumers in the workplace, housing, and family.
4) US relations - border & banking
Ensuring
international respect for Canada’s sovereign laws. Removal of
any unnecessary international banking/travel barriers for legal
business and cannabis entrepreneurs.
5) Expungement, apologies, reparations &
beyond
Government must acknowledge the fact that
cannabis laws were historically unjust and discriminatory in the
first place.
NORML Canada invites the public and press to join us at the historic Hotbox Lounge on Oct 17th, from 4-7pm to launch the new official platform, and to discuss the year-to-date.
NORML Canada proudly welcomes our sister chapter to the South - NORML Michigan, to share insights on Michigan’s newly passed legal recreational cannabis bill. Our combined goals are to understand how we can learn from and collaborate with one another.
About NORML Canada
NORML Canada is a non-profit, public interest, member operated and funded group, chartered at the federal level in Canada since 1978. US NORML advocates for consumers rights to access high quality, safe, convenient & affordable cannabis. NORML was founded in California, 1970.
Abi Roach
Alex Krause
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