El Paso NORML

Join us for this month’s meeting this Saturday. If you are not registered to vote, come out and get registered. We are gonna need all the registered voters we can get soon enough for a petition drive.

Join us Saturday at 7pm. CHeBA Hut on Sunland Park Dr.

Come join us for the first in a new monthly night market in Sunland Park, New Mexico! Looking for El Paso and Southern New Mexico artist, entertainers, farmers, bakers, produce growers, etc.! Message us for more info or fill out the vendor form through our QR code. Tables $20, Canopy space $25, food trucks $50.

Handmade or homegrown items only.
NO reselling/commercial items/MLMs.

See you all tomorrow!!!

The 2024 El Paso Ma*****na March will be held Saturday, September 28, 2024!

We will march one week before the Ft. Worth March and Freedom Fest.

The decision was made to hopefully avoid some of the heat that we have always encountered in May!

See you May 18th for the EP NORML monthly meeting. Link tagged in the comments!

Contact your federal representatives and ask them to support and sponsor the following:

Find your rep: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Ma*****na Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act - HB 5601, Introduced in the House by Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)

The MORE Act decriminalizes ma*****na by removing it from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act and removes criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses ma*****na. This act grants the federal government primary enforcement authority.

The MORE Act includes equity provisions through community reinvestment programs and expungement opportunities for certain offenses, but does not offer sentence modification processes.

Cannabis Administrative and Opportunity Act (CAOA)
To be introduced in the Senate by Charles Schumer (D-NY) in April

Like the MORE Act, CAOA proposes decriminalizing cannabis by removing It from the Controlled Substances Act. This removes criminal penalties for cannabis manufacturing, distribution, and possession. Unlike the MORE Act, CAOA grants jurisdiction over cannabis to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Alcohol and To***co Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), and the Bureau of Alcohol, To***co, and Fi****ms (ATF), so cannabis Is federally regulated similar to alcohol and to***co.
Additionally, CAOA includes equity provisions for community investment programs. It also has a process to automatically expunge any records of arrests or convictions for nonviolent federal cannabis offenses and a sentence modification program for individuals still incarcerated for cannabis related offenses.

States Reform Act (SRA) of 2023
HR 6028, Introduced in the House by Nancy Mace (R-SC)

SRA federally decriminalizes cannabis by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act and defers to state powers to determine their own prohibition statuses and commercial regulations. In doing so, this act proposes treating cannabis products like alcohol, meaning that non-legal states can continue to prohibit cannabis, but interstate commerce would be legal federally so cannabis can travel freely through all states.
SRA provides opportunities for individuals with past convictions through sentence modification, expungement, and re-entry resources.

https://www.ma*****namoment.net/virginia-bill-to-prevent-ma*****na-from-being-used-as-evidence-of-child-abuse-heads-to-governors-desk/

Virginia Bill To Prevent Ma*****na From Being Used As Evidence Of Child Abuse Heads To Governor's Desk - Ma*****na Moment Lawmakers in Virginia have given final approval to legislation to prevent the state from using ma*****na alone as evidence of child abuse or neglect. The change is meant to protect parents and guardians from discrimination around cannabis use and possession, which the commonwealth legalized in 2021....

Florida: Push for THC Potency Caps Stalls Republican-backed legislative efforts to impose arbitrary THC potency caps on certain cannabis products are likely dead for the session.