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Sentencing in Case that Closed West Hollywood Medical Marijuana Center

Paul Marini | November 21, 2003

LOS ANGELES -- West Hollywood’s mayor and city council have asked the federal judge for leniency in a high-profile medical marijuana case. Three directors of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center, a West Hollywood medical marijuana dispensary that was a...

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Campaign Targeting Congressmen on Medical Marijuana Starts Today

Paul Marini | November 20, 2003

For the first time, a medical marijuana advocacy group is going after Congressmen where they live. Beginning today, every registered voter in four House Congressional districts will receive a phone call about their Representative’s vote against the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment, which...

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Drug Czar Tries to Duck Debate on Medical Marijuana Today

Paul Marini | November 17, 2003

Medical marijuana patients and activists are giving the nation’s drug czar another chance to debate them today, by taking their Town Hall Meeting to him at Moscone Center, where he is addressing the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting.  ...

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Drug Czar’s Visit to San Francisco Draws Community Protestors Today

Paul Marini | November 17, 2003

When the nation’s drug czar arrives in San Francisco today to take on medical marijuana and its supporters, he’ll be facing a tough crowd. As the leading spokesman for the federal government’s stated policy that there is no such thing...

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Talk Show Host Fined for Medical Marijuana in Detroit Airport

Paul Marini | November 05, 2003

DETROIT – Talk show host Montel Williams was cited and fined $100 Monday night in the Detroit Metro Airport after baggage screeners found paraphernalia and a small amount of marijuana related to his Multiple Sclerosis. Mr. Williams suffers from Multiple...

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Medical Marijuana Patients and Activists Ask California Senators for Help

Paul Marini | October 16, 2003

SAN FRANCISCO – A coalition of medical marijuana patients, doctors and supporters have today launched a statewide ad campaign aimed at California’s two senators. Americans for Safe Access is asking Senators Boxer and Feinstein to add their names to new...

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Supreme Court Upholds Medical Marijuana Rights

Paul Marini | October 14, 2003

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an attempt by the Bush Administration to punish physicians who talk with their patients about medical use of marijuana. The Supreme Court has upheld lower court rulings that the First Amendment...

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Activists to Ask Arnold to Act on Medical Marijuana in Meeting with Bush

Paul Marini | October 14, 2003

SANTA MONICA – Tomorrow morning at 10:00am, medical marijuana patients and their supporters will be at California Governor-Elect Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Santa Monica office. After a press conference out front, they will ask him to use his meeting with President Bush later...

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Medical Marijuana Rights Clarified in Law Signed by Davis

Paul Marini | October 13, 2003

SACRAMENTO – After seven years of legal limbo, the California legislature has acted to clarify and expand the rights of its citizens to obtain, possess and use marijuana for medical purposes, and Governor Gray Davis has now signed it into...

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Denied Any Defense, Medical Marijuana Suppliers Plead Guilty

Paul Marini | September 24, 2003

LOS ANGELES – Arrested for growing marijuana for a West Hollywood medical marijuana dispensary that was a model of openness and cooperation with law enforcement, Judy Osburn, 50, one of the directors of the center, and her husband, Lynn, a...

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