Texas NORML

Saturday, April 25th from 1-2pm Since our communities are currently experiencing a public health crisis, we wanted to bring Texas patients together virtually to focus on their testimonies for the upcoming 2021 Legislature. The Texas NORML Patient Advocacy Team (Akila, Brandon and Sherri) along with the Executive Director will go over the basics of how […]

Due to the public health crisis that Texas is currently experiencing, Governor Abbott has moved the Primary Election Runoff Dates. Now early voting will start on Monday, July 6th, 2020 and Primary Runoff Election day will be on Tuesday, July 14th, 2020. The Primary Runoff Elections are for candidate races where no one received more than 50% […]

ICYMI: Yesterday, Texas NORML was joined by some fabulous speakers to give an update on “the State of Cannabis”.  We started by discussing how cannabis works and veteran issues. We also covered a federal update and a Texas hemp program update. We close out with Next Steps. Watch now!  Our speakers were  Amanda Graces Hughes, Cannabis […]

No foolin’! We are REALLY having a meeting this on April Fool’s Day! We normally host these events at the iconic @Flamingo Cantina. Due to the situation surrounding COVID-19 and it’s public health impact, we will host the monthly meeting virtually. Our speakers will instead be able to connect with people across the state! Each […]

Texas NORML has been closely following the situation surrounding COVID-19 and it’s public health impact. We take our obligation to the public very seriously, especially as we have many patients and elderly that participate in our organization and our events. The City of Austin has increased the barriers for hosting public events. In order to […]

Starting tomorrow, farmers will be able to submit applications to grow hemp to the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA). The applications are available online or at the five regional offices. TDA Commissioner Sid Miller posted a video about what to expect for the application process. The Agriculture Committees in both the Texas House and Texas Senate plan to hold […]

As you may have seen, the City of Austin has issued a state of emergency and have canceled SXSW​. Since it was announced yesterday afternoon, we have been working with locations, speakers and musicians to ensure our events can move forward. Here is a status update on there events: Ask the Doctors featuring Dr Ethan Russo and […]

The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) has adopted revised rules for the Texas Hemp Program. TDA has included their summary of public comment with the agency’s responses expounding on their reasoning as to why comments were addressed with a change, clarified or maintained. These revised rules will go into effect on March 11th. It is […]

Thursday, March 19th from 3:30 – 4:30pm Hilton Austin, Downtown | Floor 4, Room 410 SXSW has been canceled by the City of Austin. Learn more here. Texas lags behind in reforming cannabis laws. Hemp regulations are rolling out, Texas’ limited low-thc cannabis medical program has added new conditions and in the next year an […]

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 from 2-4pm central UPDATE: Texas NORML has carefully thought about the implications for the patients and elderly population that call our organization home and have decided to cancel the in person Texas Cannabis Kickoff Party. Instead, we will be hosting a free, interactive webinar with our speakers! Join our distinguished speakers […]