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Bryan Epis is FREE!

Paul Marini | August 09, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO (Monday, August 9, 2004) – Bryan James Epis, 37, the first medical marijuana patient convicted in federal court after the passage of California’s Proposition 215, walked out of federal prison in Long Beach at approximately 4:00pm today, thanks...

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How Drug War Targets Most Vulnerable, Topic of Boston Meetings

Paul Marini | July 23, 2004

BOSTON – How America’s Drug War has become an attack on our country’s most disadvantaged is the topic of two talks to be delivered by the Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access. Steph Sherer, a medical marijuana patient, noted...

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Medical Marijuana Protest at Oakland California Highway Patrol Office Tuesday

Paul Marini | July 12, 2004

OAKLAND – Tuesday at Noon, medical marijuana patients and local activists will be demonstrating in front of the California Highway Patrol headquarters in Oakland. They will be protesting a June 30th incident on Market Street that ended with four suspects...

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Harris Thwarting Democracy Again, Say Medical Marijuana Protesters

Paul Marini | July 12, 2004

SARASOTA– At 2:00 pm today, medical marijuana protesters are gathering at a local Congressional office demanding an end to the federal government's refusal to respect state laws and the will of the people. They are denouncing Rep. Katherine Harris’ vote...

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Medical Marijuana Protest at Congressman's Office 10am Today

Paul Marini | July 09, 2004

FT. LAUDERDALE – Medical marijuana patients, their families and national advocates will be at the office of  Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Jr. today at 10:00 am, protesting his vote to continue imprisoning sick and suffering Americans even in states that...

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Congress Voting on Measure to End Medical Marijuana Raids

Paul Marini | July 07, 2004

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The U.S. House of Representatives will be voting today or tomorrow on a bi-partisan bill to stop the federal arrest of patients in states that allow the medical use of marijuana. Last year’s debate was impassioned, with the...

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Medical Marijuana Demonstration Today at Orlando Congressman's Office

Paul Marini | July 07, 2004

ORLANDO – At noon today medical marijuana protesters are gathering at a local Congressional office demanding an end to the federal government's refusal to respect state laws. Congress will be voting today or tomorrow on a bill to stop the...

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Supreme Court Takes Key Medical Marijuana Case

Paul Marini | June 28, 2004

The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it will take up a landmark California case that recently established a medical exception to the federal prohibition on marijuana. In December 2003, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled in the case...

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Medical Marijuana Patient’s Federal Appeal Today

Paul Marini | June 16, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO – A Chico man will be before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco this morning, arguing that his 2002 conviction for conspiring to grow medical marijuana was not only unconstitutional but based on misconduct by...

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Prison No Place for Pot Patients

Paul Marini | June 11, 2004

Since medical marijuana patient and caregiver Bryan Epis was sentenced in October 2002 to a mandatory minimum of ten years in prison, his case has become the prime example of how far – and how wrong – the federal government...

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