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Unity 2015 Award Winners & Conference Updates

Paul Marini | January 29, 2015

ASA is proud to announce the 2015 ASA Excellence Award Winners! Since 2002, ASA has promoted excellence in the medical marijuana movement.  The ASA Excellence Awards program recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to Safe Access, programs that exemplify the...

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Will Iowa Now Become the Next Battleground for Political Pot?

Paul Marini | January 28, 2015

Marguerite Arnold, Main Street In a stunning move that started on the first working day of the new year, the Iowa Board of Pharmacy has now recommended that cannabidiol (or CBD) be classified as a Schedule II substance (with known...

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On medical marijuana in Washington

Paul Marini | January 26, 2015

By Tom Lauerman for Cannabis Chronicles It’s been a long haul and the good news is my experience of the political energies surrounding the opening of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) Patients Lobby Day in Olympia last Thursday, Jan. 22,...

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Complete the CA Discrimination Survey for Medical Cannabis Patients

Paul Marini | January 26, 2015

Although medical cannabis has been legal in California for more than eighteen years, legal patients still face pervasive discrimination. I hear from patients facing discrimination in employment, housing, parental rights, or access to health care every week. This discrimination can...

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A cosmic shift in pot hearings?

Paul Marini | January 24, 2015

Jim Camden, The Spokesman-Review If you live long enough, things that once seemed impossible will become common place.

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Reluctance of suburbs to allow dispensaries could make city lone legal place

Paul Marini | January 23, 2015

David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune With every city in the county declining to allow medical marijuana dispensaries except San Diego, the city could become a sort of mecca for legal pot in the region.

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ASA Runs Ad in USA Today NFL Superbowl Preview Announcing 3rd Annual Conference

Paul Marini | January 22, 2015

ASA formally announced its 3rd annual Unity Conference, "Wellness is Winning: Advancing Evidence Based Medical Cannabis Policy," by running an ad in the USA Today. The conference, which is being held in Washington, D.C. on March 27-31, 2015, will highlight medical and legal...

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Americans for Safe Access hosts scientists, patients, doctors, advocates, lawyers, and policymakers in effort to advance health policy reforms

Paul Marini | January 22, 2015

Washington, DC -- The country's leading medical marijuana advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), formally announced its third annual Unity Conference, "Wellness is Winning: Advancing Evidence Based Medical Cannabis Policy," by running an ad in USA Today. The conference,...

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Hundreds expected in Olympia as lawmakers weigh medical pot

Paul Marini | January 22, 2015

Gene Johnson, Associated Press The Cannabis Patient Protection Act found little support among cannabis patients Thursday as lawmakers considered the proposal for overhauling the state's medical marijuana system.

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Patients welcome regulations, but strenuously oppose efforts to roll 16-year-old state law into recreational marijuana market

Paul Marini | January 21, 2015

Olympia, WA -- More than 300 patients and advocates from nearly every legislative district in Washington State are expected to convene in Olympia this Thursday to meet with their elected officials and urge them to protect patients' rights amidst current...

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