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ASA and TheAnswerPage Launch New Program to Educate Doctors and Patients on Medical Cannabis

Paul Marini | December 15, 2016

Washington, DC — Today, Americans for Safe Access, a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring safe and legal access to medical cannabis for therapeutic use and research, and TheAnswerPage, an international resource for providing accredited continuing medical education since 1998, launched...

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HealthCanada Recommends Keeping Medical and Adult-use Cannabis Programs Separate

Paul Marini | December 13, 2016

Today, HealthCanada issued a report with several recommendations for how the country can implement an adult-use (recreational) cannabis program. One of the recommendations is that Canada should maintain a separate program for medical cannabis patients rather than merge the medical program...

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Congress Votes to Extend Rohrabacher-Farr Through April

Paul Marini | December 12, 2016

On Friday, the U.S. Senate  approved H.R. 2028, a continuing resolution that will fund the federal government through April 28, 2017. The House approved the bill earlier on Thursday. The continuing resolution includes the Rohrabacher-Farr language from last year's Department of Justice's...

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DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says

Paul Marini | December 12, 2016

By Bob Egelko for the San Francisco Chronicle Defending the government’s classification of marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration declares on its website that pot causes mental illness and lung cancer and leads...

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New Petition Demands DEA Correct Misinformation About Cannabis

Paul Marini | December 12, 2016

From The Daily Chronic WASHINGTON, DC — Americans for Safe Access, a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research, filed a petition with the Department of Justice (DOJ) today demanding that the...

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Medical Marijuana Policy Roadmap: Solutions for State and Federal Law Conflicts

Paul Marini | December 12, 2016

From The Daily Chronic WASHINGTON, DC — Americans for Safe Access (ASA) on Thursday released a briefing book —“Medical Cannabis in America”— calling on Congress and the Obama Administration to end the conflict between federal and state governments on medical cannabis...

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Implementation of medical marijuana amendment brings together unlikely allies

Paul Marini | December 09, 2016

By Jim Rosica for Florida Politics A recent report says Florida will rack up over $1 billion in medical marijuana sales in the next three years. Soon, the Sunshine State could be behind only California in the size of its...

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Marijuana Legalization Activist Could Lead Trump’s FDA

Paul Marini | December 09, 2016

By Tom Angell for Marijuana.com Mike Liszewski of Americans for Safe Access told Marijuana.com that FDA’s current approval process for botanicals is “unworkable” and that as a result, very few have been approved. “O’Neill’s appointment could lead to an overhaul...

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Marijuana Advocates Are Celebrating This Small Victory

Paul Marini | December 09, 2016

By Kyle Jaeger for attn: "Such reforms could ultimately lead to cannabis being removed from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act," [Mike] Liszewski said. "However, whatever progress on cannabis at FDA under the Trump Administration should not be used...

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Medical Marijuana Policy Roadmap Released by Americans for Safe Access

Paul Marini | December 08, 2016

By Steve Elliott for Toke Signals Americans for Safe Access (ASA) on Thursday released a briefing book —“Medical Cannabis in America”— calling on Congress and the Obama Administration to end the conflict between federal and state governments on medical marijuana...

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