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LA patients move to stop the ban

Paul Marini | August 10, 2012

The Los Angeles City Council voted to ban medical cannabis patients’ cooperatives and collectives on July 24. Now patients are taking the case for safe access to the streets with a voter referendum to repeal the ban. If we gather...

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Medical Marijuana Patient Norman Smith Passes, But Not Without a Fight

Steph Sherer | August 09, 2012

Last Saturday, a memorial service was held for Norman Smith, 64. I never met Norman in person, but I feel like I got to know a part of him before he passed. Norman was a fighter, yet he seemed to...

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Cannabis News Around the Nation

Paul Marini | August 03, 2012

Two weeks of medical cannabis news in review. Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Protect Landlords of Compliant Medical Marijuana Businesses - ASA PR Michigan court rules localities cannot use federal law as an excuse for violating state laws protecting medical cannabis...

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Lee's HR 6335 Would End the Assault on Landlords in the War on Safe Access

Paul Marini | August 03, 2012

There are many who suffer the "collateral damage" of the war on safe access to medical cannabis. Patients who must suffer or break the law to obtain medicine, as well as their loved ones and providers are some of the...

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Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Protect Landlords of Compliant Medical Marijuana Businesses

Paul Marini | August 03, 2012

Washington, D.C. -- Late yesterday, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and eight initial co-sponsors introduced HR 6335, the States’ Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act, in an attempt to stop the seizure of property from landlords of state law-compliant medical marijuana...

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Support HR 6335 to protect patients' access

Paul Marini | August 03, 2012

 [caption id="attachment_2990" align="alignleft" width="150"] US Rep. Lee[/caption]The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to confiscate property used to cultivate or provide medical cannabis to patients, even when it is legal under state law. Americans for safe Access (ASA), the...

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SF patients get creative to protest feds

Paul Marini | August 02, 2012

Hundreds of ASA members and allies staged a funeral procession through the streets of San Francisco yesterday to protest the closing of the Vapor Room, one of the city’s venerable and legally-permitted medical cannabis patients’ collectives. Protesters with full funeral...

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ASA Activist Newsletter - AUGUST 2012

Paul Marini | August 01, 2012

Volume 7, Issue 8

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Closure of More Permitted SF Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Marked by Funeral Procession and Press Conference

Paul Marini | July 31, 2012

San Francisco, CA -- As two city-permitted dispensaries are shut down today after 9 years of service to thousands of medical marijuana patients, a coalition calling itself San Francisco United for Safe Access will stage a funeral procession with somber...

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Medical Marijuana Patients Get Their Day in Federal Court with the Obama Administration

Paul Marini | July 30, 2012

Washington, D.C. -- Late last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed to hear oral arguments in Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration, a lawsuit challenging the federal government's classification of marijuana as...

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