The Medical Cannabis Think Tank and Policy Shop
Welcome
to ASA’s Think Tank and Policy Shop! Although ASA has been informally
fulfilling this role for the medical cannabis movement for over nine
years, the changing political landscape and a high demand from the
grassroots for more in depth support, ASA has created this new program.
In 2010, ASA’s Executive Director began travelling across the country
hosting six-hour strategy meetings with patients and other medical
cannabis stakeholders. Each of these meetings begins with a “vision”
exercise in which attendees are asked to articulate their vision of the
perfect medical cannabis law. Their needs ranged from civil protections
to functioning access models.
ASA took this input to our staff and advisors and created “Legislating
Compassion” our guide for developing policies for our community,
developed model state and local legislation and created the Medical
Cannabis Think Tank and Policy Shop.
What is the Medical Cannabis Think Tank and Policy Shop?
While state medical cannabis laws vary
tremendously, the needs of patients remain consistent across the nation.
The need for accurate and authoritative information on crafting laws
for patient access is growing daily. While many regulations look good on
paper, their impact can be detrimental to the patients they seek to
help.
Using “Legislating Compassion” as our guide, ASA staff and our advisory
committees ASA can now offer patient advocates and policy makers
legislative and regulatory analysis, amendments for legislation and
regulations, strategy advice, campaign development and support, and
targeted lobbying materials.
Donate now to ensure that ASA can continue to offer this support.
For more information contact asa-policy@safeaccessnow.org.
How does it work?
