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Medical Marijuana Supporters Demand Meeting with DEA Nominee

Paul Marini | May 16, 2003

WASHINGTON, DC -- Medical marijuana advocates demand to know the views of President Bush’s expected nominee for head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Karen Tandy. Besides being the first woman to be named as head of the DEA, she...

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Federal Jurors Told They Must Acquit Marijuana Defendants To Stop Convictions of Medical Marijuana Patients and Providers

Paul Marini | April 07, 2003

WASHINGTON, DC -- As a growing number of medical marijuana patients and providers face federal charges, DC residents will protest the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) harassment of the seriously ill by informing jurors that the federal government has blocked all...

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Recent Medical Marijuana Convictions Spur Action from State & Federal Government

Paul Marini | February 26, 2003

US Congressman Sam Farr

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CA Representatives Announce Medical Marijuana Defense Bill

Paul Marini | February 19, 2003

Sacramento: Rep. Sam Farr (D-Carmel) will be honored in Sacramento by the families of medical marijuana growers convicted under federal law for his efforts in the struggle to decriminalize medical marijuana.

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Medical Marijuana Activists to “Evict the DEA” Feb. 18

Paul Marini | February 18, 2003

Oakland and San Francisco –Activists will “evict the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)” for criminal violations of medical marijuana patients’ and voters’ rights on the Americans for Safe Access (ASA) Nationwide Day of Direct Action, Feb. 18. Currently, 40 medical marijuana...

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Medical Marijuana Awareness Week

Paul Marini | February 14, 2003

Saturday, Feb. 15th 12:00 pm - Press conference in front of Conservatory in Golden Gate Park. Activists announce their plan to implement Prop S and plant 215,000 Marijuana seeds for medical use. Ed Rosenthal, recently convicted in federal court despite...

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Recent Medical Marijuana Convictions Spur Action from State and Federal Government

Paul Marini | February 08, 2003

In a press conference in San Francisco today, state assembly member Mark Leno released a letter co-authored by state senator Don Perata and signed by 48 of their colleagues in the state assembly and state senate urging the CA congressional...

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Statement of Steph Sherer Executive Director, Americans For Safe Access

Paul Marini | December 13, 2002

In a time of unprecedented intimidation from the Federal Government, Medical Marijuana patients and their providers won a hard fought victory today in the California Supreme Court. In a unanomous decision, the court held on Thursday that medical users who...

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BANNERS FLY FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA AT WORLD SERIES

Paul Marini | October 22, 2002

WHAT: In response to raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration on medical cannabis patients & dispensaries, a banner reading: DEFEND MEDICAL MARIJUANA will fly above PacBell Park at the beginning of Tuesday’s game. WHERE: Pacific Bell Park, San FranciscoWHEN: Tuesday,...

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O.C. case a test for medical marijuana

Paul Marini | October 15, 2002

Zaheera Wahid, The Orange County Register , LAGUNA BEACH - Ross Embry's AIDS medication causes so much nausea, he says, that the only relief is marijuana. So the 53-year-old resident of Hagan Place, an apartment complex built for HIV patients,...

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