ASA in the News
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Survey Says…Higher Learning Needed At Dispensaries - Americans for Safe Access
By Jason Barker for Weed News
Seed to consumption national quality standards also now exist for the medical cannabis industry thanks to the 2011 collaboration of Americans for Safe Access, the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), and the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP).
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Medical marijuana for kids: Often, no clear path, legally and practically - Americans for Safe Access
By David Kohn for The Washington Post
“Parents who want to try this for their kids have more options than they did five years ago, but there are still a lot of hoops to jump through, a lot of hurdles to get over.” - Beth Collins
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California Considers Drug Billboard Ban…Just Kidding! Only Marijuana - Americans for Safe Access
By Russ Belville for Weed News
Broadly banning advertisements such as billboards along highways seems to be go beyond what is reasonable,” [said Michael Liszewski, Americans for Safe Access’ director of government affairs], adding “medicinal cannabis is a form of medical therapy and should not be regulated like alcohol or gambling.”
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Do Farmers have a Legal Right to Grow Cannabis? - Americans for Safe Access
By Paul Roberts for Leafly
In one case, ASA forced the California Highway Patrol to end its informal policy of confiscating the property of medical cannabis patients during traffic stops. Another ASA lawsuit stopped the California Department of Motor Vehicles from suspending the licenses of medical patients. “And as we were winning these lawsuits,” [Steph] Sherer says, “we started getting more traction in the legislature,” which gradually led to new protections for medical cannabis patients.
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The DEA’s tangled web - Americans for Safe Access
By Paul Danish for the Boulder Weekly
For the last 80 years the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and its predecessor agencies have been lying about the risks of marijuana use and getting away with it.
Now the pro-medical marijuana organization Americans for Safe Access is pushing back — with evidence the DEA itself used, amazingly enough, when it blocked a petition to change pot from a Schedule I Controlled Substance to a status more in keeping with reality.
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Pot ads along highways? Lawmakers wrangle over legalization's consequences - Americans for Safe Access
By Patrick McGreevy for the Los Angeles Times
“Broadly banning advertisements such as billboards along highways seems to be go beyond what is reasonable, medicinal cannabis is a form of medical therapy and should not be regulated like alcohol or gambling.” - Mike Liszewski
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New DEA ruling has local medical marijuana advocates, lawmakers concerned - Americans for Safe Access
By Cathy Mckitrick for the Standard-Examiner
TRUCE recently rated the pending patient-access measures using over 60 metrics developed by Americans for Safe Access. TRUCE concluded that all three fall woefully short of meeting patient needs. Bills sponsored by Rep. Brad Daw, R-Orem, and Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, scored 15 and 13 percent respectively, while a new measure put forward by Froerer came in at 22 percent.
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What We Learned at the “Innovation in the Cannabis Industry” Conference - Americans for Safe Access
By Edward Dodge for Merry Jane
Dr. Jahan Marcu of Americans for Safe Access stressed that industry participants need to be cautious as they move forward and constantly make sure of their compliance with all applicable regulations. An unfriendly administration could generate raids by the Health Department and OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and minor violations could results in fines and sanctions. Operators should expect to be inspected.
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New program launched to educate doctors and patients on medical cannabis - Americans for Safe Access
Americans for Safe Access, a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring safe and legal access to medical cannabis for therapeutic use and research, and TheAnswerPage, an international resource for providing accredited continuing medical education since 1998, on Thursday launched Cannabis Care Certification (CCC), an online program designed to provide quality information about medical cannabis to individuals who are starting or considering cannabis therapy, and healthcare professionals looking to learn about the endocannabinoid system and medical cannabis.
View more about the Cannabis Care Certification program at: www.CannabisCareCertification.org.
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Does the DEA’s website have 25 debunked statements about medical pot still listed? - Americans for Safe Access
By Brooke Edwards Staggs for The Cannabist
An organization that advocates for medical marijuana patients hopes to force the Drug Enforcement Administration to remove from its website 25 statements about the health risks of cannabis that it argues have been debunked – even by the DEA itself.
Americans for Safe Access filed a petition under the Information Quality Act arguing that the DEA is shaping public policy by promoting false statements about the gateway theory along with the link between marijuana and lung cancer, psychosis and mental decline in adults.
“We have taken this action to stop the DEA’s relentless campaign of misinformation about the health risks of medical cannabis in its tracks,” said Vickie Feeman, an attorney representing Americans for Safe Access in the federal petition.
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