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Mission:
The mission of the California Campaign for Safe Access is to protect and expand the rights of medical cannabis patients in California.
Goals:
- Adopt, implement, and improve local and state medical cannabis laws
- Watchdog: Monitor local and state medical cannabis bills and initiatives
- Direct Advocacy: Work with lawmakers and other stakeholders to craft, improve, and adopt beneficial legislation; and to stop harmful proposals
- Citizen Lobbying: Create opportunities for stakeholders to meet face-to-face with lawmakers
- Protect legal medical cannabis patients and other stakeholders from discrimination and harm
- Legislation: Adopt the Medical Marijuana Organ Transplant Act to protect legal medical cannabis patients from discrimination
- Education: Build awareness of discrimination against legal medical cannabis patients, identify solutions, and build capacity for change
- Certification: Promote and expand participation in ASA’s Patient Focused Certification program to ensure quality, safety, and integrity in the medical cannabis industry
- Build a more effective grassroots base of support for medical cannabis at the local and state level
- Education: Increase understanding of legal and clinical issues surrounding medical cannabis
- Training: Develop advocacy skills in the grassroots base
- Coalition: Develop a broad health-care oriented coalition to support medical cannabis issues
- Support the national grassroots campaign to adopt a comprehensive medical cannabis policy in the United States
- Membership: Increase membership in ASA and local chapters
- Participation: Motivate California members to participate in the national campaign for safe access
Highlights:
- ASA will sponsor and adopt the Medical Marijuana Organ Transplant Act in 2015
- ASA will help influence and adopt legislation to better regulate and license commercial medical cannabis activity in the state.
- ASA will host at least one statewide citizen lobby day in Sacramento, bring more than 300 people to participate.
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