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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: 

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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:

  1. ASA will sponsor and adopt the Medical Marijuana Organ Transplant Act in 2015
  2. ASA will help influence and adopt legislation to better regulate and license commercial medical cannabis activity in the state.
  3. ASA will host at least one statewide citizen lobby day in Sacramento, bring more than 300 people to participate.