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DEA Removes Marijuana Misinformation from Website After Months of Public, Legal Pressure

Paul Marini | February 13, 2017

Americans for Safe Access Says Not Good Enough, Still in Violation of IQA WASHINGTON DC — After months of public pressure, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has removed factually inaccurate information from its website. The change comes after Americans for...

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Humboldt's Finest Sets the Industry Standard in Sustainable Sun Grown Cannabis

Paul Marini | February 08, 2017

By PRNewswire Humboldt's Finest farms are all PFC Verified (Patient Focused Certification), ensuring regulatory compliance and high quality product safety standards are adhered to.

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Medical Marijuana: How You Can Cash in on Pennsylvania's Program

Paul Marini | February 08, 2017

By Alicia Victoria Lozano for NBC 10 The professional tone, complete with workbooks and PowerPoint presentations, spoke to the future of weed in coming years. Once dismissed as the province of hippies and stoners, cannabis is quickly becoming big business...

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Philly To Host Medical Marijuana Training

Paul Marini | February 08, 2017

By Paul Kurtz for CBS Philadelphia “It comes with a foundation in core cannabis. What is it, how does cannabis work as a medicine, the conflict between state and federal law that’s required for all our training programs,”- Jahan Marcu...

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ASA Activist Newsletter - Feb 2017

Paul Marini | February 07, 2017

In the February 2017 Issue: ASA Petition to Fix DEA Falsehoods Passes 100k Mark Review Finds Cannabis is Medicine, More Study Needed Guam Starts Licensing Process, Mandates PFC for businesses Ohio Taking Comment on Proposed Medical Cannabis Rules Florida Officials...

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Tommy Chong, Ryan Adams, other marijuana advocates react as Jeff Sessions nomination advances

Paul Marini | February 02, 2017

By Brooke Edwards Staggs for the Cannifornian “The confirmation of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General would be a five-alarm threat to the more than 2 million medical cannabis patients and 44 state medical cannabis programs across the country. Sessions is...

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Terrie Best, San Diego - 2015 Activist of the Year

William Dolphin | February 01, 2017

ASA’s 2015 Activist of the Year, Terrie Best, has always sympathized with the victims of the drug war. After seeing firsthand the benefits of medical cannabis for patients, Terrie began doing court support for those caught up in a series...

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Lawmakers have doubts that the system to license marijuana sales in California will be in place by deadline

Paul Marini | January 31, 2017

By Patrick McGreevy for The Los Angeles Times “I don’t necessarily think it’s a catastrophe if it’s not done exactly on Jan. 1, obviously we want to get it done. If it takes an extra three or four months, that...

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Medical Marijuana in 28 States: Impact on Cancer Community

Paul Marini | January 30, 2017

By Matt Mauney for Asbestos.com “I think that the fears that this country had at the beginning of these laws proved to be unfounded,” Steph Sherer, founder and executive director of Americans For Safe Access (ASA), the nation’s leading medical...

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Interest in medical cannabis program grows

Paul Marini | January 30, 2017

By Ken Quintanilla for KUAM News "This week Public Health announced that prior to receiving an actual permit to operate, all applicants for cultivation, manufacturing, distribution and laboratory services must first begin the process of certification from the Patient Focused...

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