http://www.safeaccessnow.org/ Americans for Safe Access ensures safe access and legal access to medical cannabis (medical marijuana) for therapeutic uses and research. http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5768 <div class="text blurb">City Loses Lawsuit, Pays ASA $139,000; ASA Gets County to Issue ID Cards; Rhode Island Overrides Veto of Cannabis Distribution Bill; Calif. Senate Resolution Seeks Federal Law Change; Congress Considers Bill to Protect Patients </div> http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5768 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5767 <div class="text blurb">Appellate court protects collective cultivation and affirms civil actions by patients</div> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5767 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5766 <div class="text blurb">Solano County joined the rest of the Bay Area in authorizing identification cards for medical marijuana users Tuesday when supervisors voted to let patients apply for documents that protect them from arrest for carrying small amounts of the drug with their doctor's approval.</div> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5766 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5765 <div class="text blurb">It would be nice if members of the City Council, the city attorney and the police chief were required to pay the approximately $250,000 the city of Garden Grove has squandered trying to express what might best be presented as its resentment that the voters of California approved a policy toward the medicinal use of marijuana that is different from the federal government's policy. Unfortunately, the city's taxpayers will have to pay the bills for its officials' obtuseness.</div> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5765 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5764 <div class="text blurb">Other recalcitrant counties threatened with litigation by advocates unless policy change is imminent</div> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5764 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5763 <div class="text blurb">After years of just saying no, Solano County may soon join most other counties in the state in offering a medical marijuana identification card program.</div> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5763 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5762 <div class="text blurb">The city has paid out $139,000 in attorney's fees to medical marijuana advocates, bringing to an end a four-year court battle in which the city fought the return of a patient's 8 grams in spite of repeated court decisions ordering the city to give his marijuana back.</div> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5762 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5761 <div class="text blurb">Will grass get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no grass? National medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) may not have to find out, as it just received $139,000 for attorney fees by the City of Garden Grove in a landmark medicinal pot case.</div> Wed, 17 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5761 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5760 <div class="text blurb">Garden Grove spends a quarter of a million dollars, loses federal preemption argument</div> Wed, 17 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5760 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5759 <div class="text blurb">Third state to fully sanction distribution sends message of reform to federal government</div> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5759 http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org/patientprotectionact <div class="text blurb">On June 11, Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) re-introduced HR 2835, The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act. The legislation will help protect individuals who use or provide medical cannabis in accordance with their state law. Write your U.S. Representative now and urge support for Patient Protection Act!</div> http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org/patientprotectionact http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5757 <div class="text blurb">A federal judge sentenced the owner of a Central California medical marijuana dispensary to a year and a day in prison Thursday, spurning the Obama administration's push to give the defendant five years imprisonment in a test case of new federal policies toward state pot laws.</div> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5757 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5756 <div class="text blurb">A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the owner of a marijuana dispensary to a year in prison, a sign that providers of medical marijuana still face the possibility of jail time despite the Obama administration’s promise not to prosecute them if they comply with state law.</div> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5756 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5755 <div class="text blurb">Bill would reschedule marijuana for medical use, end federal interference in state laws</div> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5755 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5754 <div class="text blurb">Federal judge lenient despite additional prison time sought by DOJ</div> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5754