ASA in the News

Mother advocates for boys who have persistent seizures

Paul Marini | January 23, 2014

Bethany Rodgers, The Frederick News-Post Shannon Moore's twin boys had their first seizures at home, when they were just 4 months old. And at the hospital, where Moore and her husband hoped to find help for their sons, doctors couldn't...

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City Attorney Mike Feuer has filed criminal charges against 70 marijuana dispensaries in less than a year and compelled several Westside clinics to shutter

Paul Marini | January 22, 2014

Gary Walker, The Argonaut Medical marijuana dispensaries operating outside the letter of the law beware: Los Angeles City Attorney Michael Feuer has you in his sights.

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Parents ask legislators for medical exception for marijuana

Paul Marini | January 19, 2014

Emma Witman, Gainesville Times For Oakwood mother of five Sarah Caruso, it’s hard to understand why a possible treatment for her daughter’s seizures is illegal.

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Forsyth family’s plight ignites Georgia medical marijuana debate

Paul Marini | January 17, 2014

Maggie Lee, The Telegraph Haleigh Cox’s seizure disorder makes all her days hard. She has up to 100 seizures a day. When her breathing stopped earlier this month, her mom, Janea Cox, thought she had lost her only child. Read...

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Medical marijuana lobbyists will be in Richmond on Monday

Paul Marini | January 17, 2014

Prue Salasky, Daily Press T.J. Thompson, chair of Safe Access Virginia, the newly formed state chapter of Americans for Safe Access, the national group advocating for medical cannabis (it prefers the "scientific" term over marijuana), will be leading a lobbying...

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Advocates push to repeal Lake County marijuana ordinance

Paul Marini | January 15, 2014

Glenda Anderson, The Press Democrat Marijuana advocates on Wednesday submitted thousands of signatures in an effort to qualify a Lake County referendum for the June ballot.

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Cherokee County mom advocating for medical marijuana in Georgia

Paul Marini | January 11, 2014

Joshua Sharpe, The Marietta Daily Journal Corey Lowe doesn’t know if medical marijuana can help her daughter, but as a mother she said she is willing to fight for a chance to make her child’s life better — no matter...

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N.Y. hospitals left out of loop on Cuomo's medical marijuana plans

Paul Marini | January 07, 2014

Jaimy Lee, Modern Healthcare Reports that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is planning to designate 20 hospitals in New York to dispense medical marijuana was news to them.

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Union hoping issue moves forward, creating middle-class jobs

Paul Marini | January 06, 2014

Rick Karlin, Times Union If there's any doubt that legalized marijuana has a future in New York and elsewhere, consider this: The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which represents thousands who work in grocery stores and food processing plants...

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State Nullification Works: Colorado Marijuana Stores Prove it

Paul Marini | January 02, 2014

Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center James Madison wrote in Federalist 46 that refusing to cooperate with unconstitutional federal acts would create “serious impediments” and “obstructions which the federal government would hardly be willing to encounter.” Yesterday, the people of Colorado...

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