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DOJ memo sends a chilling message

Paul Marini | June 30, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1678" align="alignnone" width="275" caption="Deputy US Attorney General James Cole"][/caption]In a move that impacts hundreds of thousands of medical cannabis patients nationwide, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a chilling message tonight to state and local officials who are...

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Call AG Holder's Office Today

Paul Marini | June 29, 2011

Don't let U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder deny your access to medical marijuana!Holder is expected to "clarify" the federal government's enforcement policy on medical marijuana.any day now. Call Holder's office today at 202-514-2001 to demand that the Justice Department leave...

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Double Your Impact

Paul Marini | June 28, 2011

We all know the fight for safe access continues. Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps recognizes the important role ASA plays in that fight and has generously offered to match every online donation, up to $20,000, that ASA receives through July 15.Double...

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Oppose SB 847 to protect local access in CA

Paul Marini | June 25, 2011

The California Assembly Committee on Local Government will vote on a bill that will make it much more difficult to establish a legal medical cannabis patients’ cooperative or collective on Tuesday, June 29. Senator Lou Correa’s (D-Santa Ana) SB 847...

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A Small Step Forward

Paul Marini | June 24, 2011

        The District of Columbia Circuit issued an order yesterday requiring the Drug Enforcement Administration to answer our petition for writ of mandamus. While this doesn't require the government to actually answer the rescheduling petition filed in 2002 by the Coalition...

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3 More Indictments in Federal Campaign Against Medical Marijuana

Paul Marini | June 24, 2011

       The federal government indicted three people yesterday in Montana, continuing its campaign to undermine medical marijuana laws across the country. The indictment against Jason Burns, Joshua Schultz, and Jesse Leland who were providing medical marijuana to state-qualified patients in Montana,...

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Congress to AG Holder: Let States Implement Medical Marijuana Laws without Federal Interference

Paul Marini | June 23, 2011

          Congressional members Barney Frank (D-MA) and Jared Polis (D-CO) wrote to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder earlier this week urging him to re-avow his commitment to an October 2009 memorandum that de-emphasized federal enforcement regarding medical marijuana.The 2009 memo was...

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Oregon Officials: What's in it for us?

Paul Marini | June 14, 2011

On June 3, Oregon officials were told by local US Attorney Dwight Holton & several other law enforcement agencies including District Attorneys and Sheriffs' offices that Medical Cannabis Dispensaries "will not be tolerated."  State officials continue to hide behind the...

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Imperial Beach to Ban Collective Cultivation; City Council Refuses to Implement State’s Medical Marijuana Laws

Paul Marini | June 13, 2011

By: Eugene Davidovich and Marcus BoydImperial Beach, CA - On June 15, 2011 at 7pm, the Imperial Beach City Council will discuss and vote to enact an outright ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and all collective cultivation efforts in the...

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Another Bad Employment Law Decision

Paul Marini | June 09, 2011

         In an 8-1 decision, a third state supreme court -- in this case, the Washington Supreme Court -- issued a negative decision regarding the employment rights of medical marijuana patients.  In Jane Roe v. TeleTech Customer Care Management, LLC, the...

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