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ASA Activist Newsletter - APRIL 2013

Paul Marini | April 01, 2013

Volume 8, Issue 4

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Massachusetts Department of Public Health Issues Draft Regulations for Medical Marijuana

Paul Marini | March 29, 2013

Boston, MA --  The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) issued draft regulations today to begin implementation of the state's first medical marijuana program, ahead of its own schedule. Today's proposed regulations are the work of weeks of deliberation, during...

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Research on Health-Related Quality of Life in Medical Cannabis-Using Patients

Paul Marini | March 27, 2013

In August 2012, I published an article based on my PhD research in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine which documented symptom relief and health-related quality of life in a surveyed series of medical cannabis using patients in Washington State who were...

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NH set to become the next medical cannabis state, while MD considers yet another symbolic bill

Paul Marini | March 22, 2013

Yesterday, the New Hampshire House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed House Bill 573, by a voted of 286-64. The bill is expected to pass the Senate, which approved similar legislation last year. In fact, the year's bill will provide patients with greater...

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Medical Marijuana Advocacy Group Petitions Full DC Circuit to Review Rescheduling Appeal

Paul Marini | March 22, 2013

Washington, D.C. -- Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed a petition with the federal court of appeals today in a widely watched case that seeks to reclassify marijuana for medical use. Plaintiffs in the case...

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San Diego prosecutor to try dispensary operator for third time

Paul Marini | March 22, 2013

Third time’s a charm? Not in the case of Navy veteran and former San Diego dispensary operator Jovan Jackson.San Diego Assistant District Attorney (ADA) Chris Lindberg decided this week to try Jackson for a third time in as many years....

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Progress in Massachusetts

Paul Marini | March 19, 2013

Following overwhelming approval of the medical marijuana ballot initiative in November, Massachusetts’ patients are waiting for safe access to their medicine as the state proceeds with implementation. We aren’t there yet, but so far progress is continuing in the right...

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Cannabinopathic Medicine: Lester Grinspoon, M.D.'s New Coinage

Paul Marini | March 14, 2013

I am honored and delighted to be able to publish here for the first time a new comprehensive piece written by Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, entitled "Cannabinopathic Medicine". Dr. Grinspoon started writing this...

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Let's Continue to Fight for Safe Access - Join ASA Today

Paul Marini | March 12, 2013

On her 30th birthday (March 19 in 2012), doctors discovered a cancerous mass in my sister's right breast.  She was rushed to the emergency room for an emergency mastectomy and was newly pregnant at the time.  For a grueling year,...

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Comprehensive Maryland Medical Marijuana Bill to be Heard by House Committees Today

Paul Marini | March 08, 2013

Annapolis, MD -- A comprehensive statewide medical marijuana bill introduced in January by Maryland House Delegate and Deputy Majority Whip Cheryl Glenn (D-Baltimore) is scheduled to be heard jointly by the House Judiciary Committee and Health and Government Operations Committees...

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