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Nice Reponse to Daily Bulletin smear Op-Ed

Paul Marini | October 01, 2007

Drug Law Blog does a nice job of taking apart a misinformed Inland Empire Op-Ed railing against medical marijuana dispensaries: Chabot (the author) spends hundreds of words repeating misinformation about medical marijuana's medical efficacy, arguing that "Marinol is a medicine...

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California Weekly Round Up

Paul Marini | September 28, 2007

DEA Raids a Sacramento Dispensary and Attacks Oakland Edible Provider, Tainted, Inc.This week, the DEA escalated their attacks on patients in California when agents raided the oldest running dispensary in Sacramento, River City Patients' Center and in a separate attack,...

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DEA Raid analysis 6/1-9/26/07

Paul Marini | September 27, 2007

As the Legal Coordinator, I recently started trying to collect all of the data on DEA raids and state-to-federal-turnovers so that we could all see how widespread and insidious this despicable war on patients really is. The results were interesting...

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Federal Agents Deny Thousands of Patients Access to Edible Medical Cannabis

Paul Marini | September 27, 2007

Oakland, CA -- The federal interference with California’s medical marijuana program escalated yesterday with raids in Oakland on a supplier of edible medicinal products. Wednesday’s paramilitary-style raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) involved five locations the DEA says are...

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DEA Gives Schwarzenegger Another Reason to Stand Up for Patients' Rights

Paul Marini | September 26, 2007

Today, on my way into the office, I got a call alerting me that the DEA was raiding River City Patient Center, a medical cannabis dispensary in Sacramento. I was immediately outraged by the DEA's continued harassment of patients and...

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Michael Teague Is Free at Last, as Federal Judge Questions Another Federal Medical Marijuana Prosecution

Paul Marini | September 25, 2007

Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge David Carter terminated the supervised release of Michael Teague fifteen months early in response to a motion filed by Americans for Safe Access.  Michael was one of the first federal medical marijuana prosecutions in California. ...

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60-Minutes Highlights Medical Cannabis Dispensaries and Interference by the Feds

Paul Marini | September 24, 2007

A 60-Minutes episode, which aired on Sunday, September 23, 2007, has finally shed some light on one of California's medical cannabis (marijuana) predicaments. The fact that 60-Minutes has chosen this moment in time to educate the U.S. public on medical...

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Congressional Vote Thursday Maintains State Control over Medical Marijuana Laws

Paul Marini | September 21, 2007

Washington, D.C. -- Both Houses of the U.S. Congress voted this week, with the Senate voting yesterday, to pass the "Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007," without a medical marijuana amendment that was objectionable to advocates. In April,...

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San Mateo County may regulate pot dispensaries

Paul Marini | September 10, 2007

Michael Manekin, San Mateo County Times (CA) Two weeks after the DEA raided three San Mateo medical marijuana dispensaries that the county district attorney said violated state law, the County Counsel's office is preparing guidelines for the distribution of medical...

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September 2007 Activist Newsletter

Paul Marini | September 09, 2007

Volume 2, Issue 9

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