Headline reads, "Check out NORML's fast ways to make your 4/20 even louder." Background image shows bold text over a cannabis-themed graphic.
🥳💨 Good vibes are easy. Making them matter takes 30 seconds. >> norml.org/420
We pulled together a few quick ways to support cannabis freedom, power progress, and turn today’s energy into something bigger.
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cannabisculture
🥳💨 Happy 420! Today is about good vibes, good weed, and the freedom to enjoy both. Here are a few quick ways to stand with NORML, power our progress, and make this 4/20 matter. #NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cannabisculture
Headline reads, "Most Americans say cannabis freedom is still out of reach." Background image shows layered cannabis leaves filling the frame.
🌿 For millions of Americans, cannabis freedom is still more of a pipe dream than a reality. It's time for action.
🔗 More at: norml.org/blog/2026/04...
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cannabispolicy
Headline reads, "Massachusetts bill doubling marijuana possession limits sent to Governor Healey’s desk." Background image is legal cannabis flower in a zip bag being dumped into the owner's hand.
🌿 Massachusetts lawmakers just sent bill to the governor's desk to allow adults to purchase and possess in public up to two ounces of cannabis.
🔗 Read more and tell her to sign it >> norml.org/blog/2026/04...
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana
Headline reads, "Medical cannabis patients see improved sleep quality." Background image is a person stretching in bed wearing socks printed with cannabis leaves.
😴 Medical cannabis patients report improved sleep quality, according to newly published research.
🌿 These improvements weren’t short-term — patients reported better sleep over time.
🔗 Read more: norml.org/news/2026/04...
#NORML #marijuana #cannabis #sleep
Headline reads, "Virginia Governor Spanberger’s proposal to repeal multiple decriminalization and legalization provisions endangers Black, Brown, and young Virginians in every community in the Commonwealth." Background image is a close up of the underside of a legal cannabis leaf.
🚨 Gov. @abigailspanberger.com isn't just proposing amendments. She is proposing the repeal of numerous bipartisan legislative efforts to end racially discriminatory marijuana policing in Virginia.
🔗 Read more: norml.org/blog/2026/04...
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #Virginia
🎉 "This is a significant victory for Virginia parents who consume cannabis responsibly," said NORML's JM Pedini. "It's taken seven legislative sessions to secure these most basic protections and prevent courts from needlessly separating children from their families." #NORML #cannabis #marijuana
Headline reads, "Massachusetts cannabusinesses are suing to block the wildly unpopular legalization repeal question from appearing on the ballot in November." Background image is a close-up of a hand holding the leaf of a legal cannabis plant.
🚨 Prohibitionists are trying to repeal legalization in Massachusetts. Cannabusinesses are going to court to stop it before it reaches voters.
😂 Do they really think voters want to recriminalize marijuana?
norml.org/news/2026/04...
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cannabispolicy
Headline reads: "Idaho lawmakers are so afraid voters will legalize medical cannabis that they passed a resolution begging them not to." Background image is a woman reclining on her bed smoking a legal joint and holding her hand up to cover her face while she laughs.
😱 More than 77,000 Idahoans have already signed on to put the measure before voters.
🔗 Read more: norml.org/news/2026/04...
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cannabispolicy
🌿 Is North Carolina finally going to legalize it?
A state-appointed Advisory Council on Cannabis is now recommending that lawmakers legalize & regulate marijuana.
Now the question is whether lawmakers will act.
🔗 Read more: norml.org/blog/2026/04... #NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cannabispolicy
”Virginians deserve a system that protects consumers and prevents access by those under age. That is why the governor should sign SB 542 | HB 642 as written and without further delay.”
🚨 “Any delay in implementation continues to drive consumers to the illicit market, jeopardizes public safety and delays the tools needed by law enforcement and regulators to address these concerns.”
#NORML #cannabispolicy #virginiapolitics
Headline reads "Clinical trial shows CBD supports weight recovery for anorexia patients." Image shows a cannabis plant and a medicine bottle and dropper of oil.
🌿 Clinical trial participants who consumed CBD acknowledged no serious side effects and experienced "a significant increase in BMI over time compared to the placebo group."
🔗Learn more: norml.org/news/2026/04... #NORML #cannabis #cbd #anorexia
❌ "SB56 was sold as consumer protection. For people who depend on cannabis topicals for chronic pain and skin conditions, it landed like a punishment," shares NORML Intern Tobey MacCachran. #NORML #cannabis #marijuana #eczema
🙄 Prohibitionist groups are suing to block a federal pilot program allowing Medicare coverage for certain hemp-derived products.
Yes, really.
Because apparently, even limited access is still too much for them.
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cbd
🤬 Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves vetoed two bills that would have expanded medical cannabis access, wildly claiming expansion would "extend the 'right to try medical cannabis' to every person on the planet."
🙄 Patients deserve better.
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cannabispolicy
🚒💨 Maryland lawmakers advanced legislation to protect firefighters and rescue workers from employment discrimination related to their off-duty use of state-authorized medical cannabis. No one should have to choose between their career and their medicine.
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #CannabisPolicy
🌿 Plant-derived cannabis extracts work better than synthetic THC for older patients with chronic pain.
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #medicalcannabis
📉 The evidence is clear: cannabis legalization is associated with lower crime rates.
Medical laws are linked to reduced property crime.
Adult-use laws are linked to decreases in violent crime.
#NORML #cannabis #marijuana #cannabispolicy
🇨🇦 Canadians purchased $5.5B worth of cannabis products in the last fiscal year. Adult-use cannabis sales increased 6.5% while alcohol sales revenue declined by 1.6%. #NORML #marijuana #cannabis #alcohol #Canada
✅ "These results should further reassure the public and policymakers that cannabis can be regulated for adults in a manner that doesn’t adversely impact young people." #NORML #marijuana #cannabis
🇫🇷💨 Did France's medical cannabis pilot program just go up in smoke? #NORML #cannabis #marijuana #France
😚💨 Study participants reported the greatest mitigation in their anxiety on the days they consumed cannabis. #NORML #cannabis #marijuana #anxiety
🇺🇸 While we welcome any easing of federal policies that target & discriminate against cannabis consumers, this particular policy shift appears to be largely opportunistic & not in any way reflective of a broader shift in the federal government's stance toward those who consume marijuana responsibly.
✅️ Employees at licensed cannabis dispensaries in Colorado strictly enforce the age requirement and nearly always deny entry to those without proper ID according to annual compliance data from the state's Marijuana Enforcement Division. #NORML #cannabis #marijuana #Colorado
🚨 But following the campaign's announcement that they gathered more than 77k signatures from registered voters, Idaho lawmakers introduced a resolution (SCR 127) urging voters to "reject any effort to bring the Idaho Medical Cannabis Act to the ballot." #NORML #cannabis #marijuana #Idaho
✅️ Investigators determined legalization "was associated with a significant decrease in #cannabis seizures," both in the short & long-term. "Taken together, findings support the possibility that recreational cannabis laws may help to reduce the size of the illegal cannabis market." #NORML #marijuana
📆 It's been months of silence since Trump told the DOJ to move forward with rescheduling, and longtime cannabis policy reform supporter @repcohen.bsky.social is looking for answers. #NORML #marijuana #cannabis
🌿 Excessive taxation doesn’t discourage consumers from buying marijuana, but it does discourage consumers from purchasing legal cannabis from licensed dispensaries. #NORML #cannabis #marijuana
📉 Investigators evaluated trends in 13 states following marijuana legalization and identified “striking” declines in the prevalence of daily opioid use. #NORML #cannabis #marijuana #opioids