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From prohibition to control

Paul Marini | September 05, 2018

By Jon Perez for The Saipan Tribune U.S. pro-marijuana organizations like the Americans for Safe Access, Law Enforcement Action Partnership, Marijuana Policy Project, and Americans for Safe Access endorsed H.B. 20-178. These groups are working to reform the nation’s marijuana...

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Tom Duncan, Iowa

William Dolphin | September 03, 2018

Tom Duncan, co-founder of Iowans for Safe Access and recipient of ASA’s Courage Award in 2017, passed away on August 15, 2018, after living with cancer for years. He was 60.

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Illinois Takes Huge Step Forward in Combating Opioid Crisis with Medical Cannabis

Paul Marini | August 28, 2018

Contact: David Mangone | [email protected] | 202-857-4272 ext. 5 Americans for Safe Access Calls on All States to End Pain, Not Lives by Passing Similar Legislation Chicago, IL — Today at the Chicago Recovery Alliance, a nonprofit that oversees programs...

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ASA Activist Newsletter - August 2018

Paul Marini | August 09, 2018

In the August 2018 issue ASA Brings Model Cannabis Legislation to Lawmakers Disabilities Focus of Presentation, Outreach in Chicago ASA Science and Standards Work Has International Reach Upcoming ASA Events PFC Certifying Analytic Labs and other Cannabis Businesses Missouri Voters...

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Connecting with Lawmakers at NCSL

Paul Marini | August 07, 2018

From July 29 through August 2, Americans for Safe Access attended the annual National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) in Los Angeles, California. We joined over 5,000 conference attendees (about 1,200 of which were state lawmakers or state legislative staff)...

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California Laboratory Achieves National Certification

Paul Marini | August 02, 2018

For Immediate Release: August 1st, 2018 Contact: Heather Despres | [email protected] California Laboratory Achieves National Certification Los Angeles, CA – Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is pleased to announce that Consumer Safety Analytics (AKA CannaSafe) Laboratory of Van Nuys, California has...

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Nic Easley, Denver, Colorado

William Dolphin | August 01, 2018

Nic Easley’s introduction to medical cannabis came courtesy of injuries he sustained serving his country. The doctors at the VA prescribed medications to help him, but in 2006, four years after his honorable discharge from the Air Force, Nic turned...

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One of Florida’s largest medical marijuana businesses forced to stop processing pot

Paul Marini | July 20, 2018

By Elizabeth Koh for the Tampa Bay Times "Surterra will comply with all of the regulations set forth by the Department of Health in order to ensure that Floridians continue to receive the safest, most naturally derived treatments to enable...

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ASA Activist Newsletter - July 2018

Paul Marini | July 10, 2018

In the July 2018 Issue: FDA Approves First Medicine Derived from Cannabis World Health Organization Takes First Steps to Reschedule Cannabis New Bipartisan Congressional Bill to Respect State Cannabis Laws Oklahoma Voters Pass Robust Medical Cannabis Initiative Activist Profile: Christy...

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Christy and Mark Zartler, ASA 2018 Courage Award

William Dolphin | July 02, 2018

For Christy Zartler, the breaking point came four years ago when her 14-year-old daughter’s neurologist announced that he’d exhausted all the pharmaceutical treatments available. For ten years, Christy and her husband Mark had been struggling to control Kara’s severe autism...

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