ASA in the News

In Honor of National Nonprofit Day, We Rounded Up Six Organizations Working to Support the Cannabis Industry

Brianna Wheeler | August 18, 2022

By Brianna Wheeler for Wilamette Week Consider supporting these groups the next time you have a little extra money in your weed budget.

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Should Medical Marijuana Be Allowed in Schools?

Apps Mandar Bichu | August 12, 2022

By Apoorvaa Mandar Bichu for EducationWeek “There are other policies in some places where schools allow parents to come to the school and they have to take the students out of school and off campus to administer their medication. And...

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In Race to Launch Adult-Use Market, Medical Patients and Caregivers Feel Stuck on Sidelines

Geoffrey Marshall | June 16, 2022

By Meg McIntyre for Heady Vermont As adult-use consumers and businesses gear up for the debut of Vermont’s retail market, medical patients and caregivers say they are still waiting for much-needed fixes to a program that has seen little substantial...

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NY’s medical marijuana program suffering as state focuses on a recreational market

Brad Racino | June 08, 2022

By Brad Racino for New York Cannabis Insider Americans for Safe Access, a national organization advocating for medical cannabis, scores every state’s medical program in its yearly report. At the end of 2021, it awarded New York a “D” grade after identifying problems...

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Marijuana Regulators And Stakeholders Hold Closed-Door Conference To Discuss Future Of Reform And Industry Challenges

Kyle Jaeger | June 06, 2022

By Kyle Jaeger for Marijuana Moment Interstate commerce will be among those topics, with a panel moderated by an official from the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission that will involve discussions with groups like the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), Americans...

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California medical marijuana patients can get free weed. Here’s how

| June 03, 2022

By Adam Tschorn for the Los Angeles Times Other groups that work with Eaze to coordinate compassionate deliveries include Bay Area Americans for Safe Access, Operation EVAC (which stands for Educating Veterans About Cannabis) and the veterans’ support group Weed for Warriors Project.

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Lansing Center hosts third annual Midwest iHemp Expo

Geoffrey Marshall | May 20, 2022

By Autumn Pitchure for WLNS6.com LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The third annual Midwest iHemp Expo is kicking off Friday, May 20 at the Lansing Center, and will run until Saturday, May 21. Expo sponsor, the Michigan Chapter of Americans For...

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Arizona’s Marijuana Industry Ranked As C- by ASA

| May 17, 2022

By Dan Kingston for AZmarijuana.com “For 2022, ASA recommends that Arizona’s legislature protects patients’ stake in the existing market by creating a review board staffed by patients and physicians with independent regulatory control over medical cannabis operations in the state....

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Americans for Safe Access: Continuing the Fight for Patient Access

Cara Wietstock | April 28, 2022

By Cara Wietstock for Ganjapreneur There are currently 38 states in the US with THC-inclusive medical cannabis programs and only a handful of states where patients have no access to medical cannabis products. But when Steph Sherer founded Americans for Safe...

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With a low medical marijuana score, PA fights to get at-home growing

Geoffrey Marshall | April 20, 2022

By Brittany Valentine for AL DÍA In its 2021 State of the States Report, the California-based pro-cannabis advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access, Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana program received a C+ rating.Compared with the rest of the nation, Pennsylvania’s score is lower...

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