STATE OFFICIALS ORDER MMJ ID PROGRAM HALT DESPITE LEGAL OPINIONS

California – Medical marijuana patients and supporters across the state called in protest to Governor Schwarzenegger, after learning that the California Department of Health Services (DHS) suspended implementation of the long-awaited voluntary ID program for patients and caregivers.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENT-CAREGIVER SENTENCED TO 41 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON

San Francisco -- Robert Schmidt, a medical marijuana dispensary operator, cultivator, patient, and researcher was sentenced today by Judge Stephen Breyer to 41 months in federal prison, and 3 years supervised probabtion. Mr Schmidt's dispensary in Sonoma County, named Genesis 1:29,...

PATIENT- ADVOCATES SERVE SUIT ON FRESNO FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY BAN

FRESNO, CA – Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a medical marijuana patient-advocacy group, served a lawsuit today against the city of Fresno for restricting medical marijuana dispensing collectives from operating as enumerated in California law. (To read the lawsuit, go...

Advocates Welcome State-Issued Medical Marijuana ID Cards

Sacramento -- California Department of Health Services today launched a pilot medical marijuana ID card program as outlined by a law passed by the California legislature in 3 California counties Amador, Del Norte, and Mendocino. Trinity County will begin its...

Patient Advocacy Group Appeals HHS Evasion

Washington DC – A medical marijuana advocacy group filed an appeal with the Department of Health and Human Services after the agency declined their request to either correct or deny their petition seeking to dismiss government assertions that marijuana is...

Supreme Court Decision on Medical Marijuana Expected Anytime

NATIONWIDE – The United States Supreme Court will render its decision in the Ashcroft v. Raich case any day. In the most-watched case before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, two California women argued that the federal government does not...

Lockyer: CA Courts Must Follow State Over Federal Law

SACRAMENTO – In light of a recent statement by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, medical marijuana advocates are calling on him to issue a formal legal opinion requested by numerous public officials over the years. Americans for Safe Access, a...

Medical Marijuana Advocacy Group Sues Fresno

Fresno, CA - A medical Marijuana advocacy group has filed suit against the city of Fresno for enacting a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. The lead plaintiff, William McPike, is suing Fresno with Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a medical...

Press Conference Tuesday, February 15: Medical Marijuana Group Lawsuit Against CHP, Governor

New DEA Raids on Medical Marijuana Caregivers Stir Protests

Breaking News Advisory: December 12, 2005