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If you want to break federal law, it’s better to be a banker than a medical marijuana provider

Paul Marini | March 04, 2013

      According to Matt Taibbi, in his latest Rolling Stone exposé on the banking and financial industry “Too Big to Jail,” HSBC “helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel,” and also “moved...

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ASA Activist Newsletter - MARCH 2013

Paul Marini | March 01, 2013

Volume 8, Issue 3

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Social Media Roundup from Day 3 of #Unity13

Paul Marini | February 25, 2013

[View the story "Social Media Highlights - Day 3 of #Unity13" on Storify]

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Day 2 from #Unity13 Social Media Roundup

Paul Marini | February 24, 2013

[View the story "National Medical Cannabis Conference - Day 2 #Unity13" on Storify]

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Social Media Roundup - Day 1 of #Unity13

Paul Marini | February 23, 2013

[View the story "National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference #Unity13 Kick Off" on Storify]

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Unity 2013 Bridging the Gap Between Public and Policy

Geoffrey Marshall | February 22, 2013

February 22-25, 2013

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Hundreds of Medical Marijuana Advocates to Gather in Washington, D.C. for National Conference, to Change Federal Policy

Paul Marini | February 20, 2013

Washington, D.C. -- The country's leading medical marijuana advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), will host a 4-day National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference, "Bridging the Gap Between Public & Policy," this week in Washington, D.C. from February 22-25, 2013....

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My Bumpy Road To The ASA Conference in Washington D.C.

Paul Marini | February 19, 2013

I spent the last three years working as an Executive Legislative Assistant to a ranking budget chair in the Washington State Legislature, so it should come as no surprise that a trip to the Nation’s Capitol has always been high...

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Why I am Attending the National Unity Conference

Paul Marini | February 15, 2013

Americans for Safe Access (ASA) opened the eyes of this thirty-three year law enforcement veteran. Caught in the whirlpool of drug prohibition policy, prohibitionist law enforcement folks as I once was, forget the importance of maintaining an open mind. Unfortunately,...

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Congressional Champions Introduce Legislation in Advance of Patient Lobbying Day

Paul Marini | February 14, 2013

Today in Congress, Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Sam Farr introduced legislation that would reclassify cannabis (marijuana) for medical use and provide federal defendants the right to use state law compliance as evidence in medical marijuana trials, a right that patients...

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