J Day - NZ's Annual Cannabis Festival and Protest

NORML and friends presents the 29th Annual J Day, held on the first Saturday in May every year. This year, it's May Day for cannabis reform!

The cannabis referendum didn't pass last year, but the campaign is not over for sensible and fair cannabis laws in Aotearoa. With 69% of voters backing legalisation or decriminalisation in a recent poll, and reform happening all around the world, we need to keep pushing to make change happen.

Show your support and come to J Day, a free annual community event celebrating Aotearoa's Kiwi cannabis culture and protesting against prohibition. Find out what's happening post-referendum. Learn about medicinal cannabis. Meet people and learn something new.

J Day in Albert Park features bands and DJs on the mightly JAFA Mafia sound system, with a range of informative speakers, market stalls, food trucks, and information booths. Cannabis and hemp petitions, products, hemp foods and more.

One in twenty New Zealanders use cannabis medicinally - including around 75,000 Auckland residents. J Day is where our diverse community - including patients and caregivers - can meet, share experiences, and learn more about cannabis and its associated culture.

J Day is part of a worldwide movement for law reform, held on the first Saturday in May every year. This is the 29th Annual national day of action including support for safe legal access to medicinal cannabis. NORML and our cannabis law reform friends organise free events nationwide to mark the occasion.

How you can help:
- Come to J Day a celebration of cannabis culture with free events nationwide. Dress to impress.
- Promote our key campaign themes
- Write or visit your MP - it does make a difference
- Like us on facebook (normlnz) and follow us on twitter (normlnz)
- J Day costs money to put on. Please make a donation on the day or online to NORML New Zealand Incorporated (ASB Bank) 12-3057-0594667-00
- Contact us at info@norml.org.nz

Note: J Day is for adults - R18. No alcohol. No glass. No dogs. Please take your rubbish with you.

Other centres are also holding J Day events:
- Hastings - ANZAC/Library
- Wellington - Frank Kitts Park
- Christchurch - Latimer Square
- Dunedin - The Octagon

Plus more than 100 cities all around the world!

(Other NZ locations to be confirmed. Please contact us to get involved or help in your area.)

Covid update:
J Day was postponed then cancelled in 2020 due to Covid. This year we ask everyone to act responsibly and safely, by:
- not sharing joints or pipes;
- maintaining physical distance;
- scanning the Covid QR code on entering the venue;
- staying home if unwell, symptomatic, or told to isolate.

Thank you for supporting our kaupapa! For more information please visit NORML New Zealand website.