TEXAS NORML INC

“Texas Seniors, with the benefit of life experience, professional knowledge and 20/20 hindsight, are potentially our strongest allies in the fight to end Marijuana prohibition.”

A recent poll shows that 56% of American adults favor the legalization of Marijuana. This shows a marked trend towards society’s acceptance of this plant’s permanent place in our culture. Almost half of the States in the Nation have existing or pending legislation supporting a citizen’s right to incorporate Cannabis into their medical treatment plan. Texas NORML needs your support to make the right to choose this reality in our great State, too!

Texas and over 20 other states in the U.S. cannot collect signatures to place an issue on the ballot for a vote to change state law. Additionally, in 1997, Texas passed a state law requiring that all drug laws be enforced and changed at the state rather than local level. Because of these limitations, Texans must rely on our state elected officials, specifically our state representatives and state senators. The Texas House of Representatives and Senate meet every two years for approximately 140 days.

Texas NORML holds regular Activist Trainings. For 2015-17 we joined forces with our coalition, Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy to expand our Trainings. We put on 16 Regional Advocacy Trainings across the state w continually updated curriculum that kept it relevant to the point in the process we were in. We have now started our 2018 workshop schedule.

Texas and over 20 other states in the U.S. cannot collect signatures to place an issue on the ballot for a vote to change state law. Additionally, in 1997, Texas passed a state law requiring that all drug laws be enforced and changed at the state rather than local level. Because of these limitations, Texans must rely on our state elected officials, specifically our state representatives and state senators (so take a close look at yours).