Supreme Court Takes Key Medical Marijuana Case
Posted by Americans for Safe Access · June 28, 2004 4:00 AM
Posted by Americans for Safe Access · June 28, 2004 4:00 AM
Posted by Americans for Safe Access · June 16, 2004 4:00 AM
SAN FRANCISCO – A Chico man will be before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco this morning, arguing that his 2002 conviction for conspiring to grow medical marijuana was not only unconstitutional but based on misconduct by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Sacramento. Bryan James Epis, 37, was the first person associated with a California medical marijuana dispensary to be tried under federal law. He is currently serving a mandatory ten-year sentence in federal prison.
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Posted by Americans for Safe Access · June 08, 2004 4:00 AM
Posted by Americans for Safe Access · June 02, 2004 4:00 AM
On the anniversary of a landmark federal sentencing, medical marijuana patients and activists across the country are rallying at the offices of members of Congress Friday, demanding an end to federal prosecutions.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · May 18, 2004 4:00 AM
San Francisco (Tuesday, May 18, 2004) – The medical cannabis patients who won a landmark case against John Ashcroft last December today got the legal protection they sought.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · May 04, 2004 4:00 AM
Los Angeles – Successfully defending medical marijuana patients in court will be the focus of a series of legal trainings kicking off in Los Angeles tomorrow. Public defenders and court-appointed attorneys will be on hand at the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors building tomorrow evening at 5:30pm for the first of 24 sessions presented by the medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA).
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · April 21, 2004 4:00 AM
San Francisco – The government wants to roll back the decision by a federal appeals court that the prohibition on marijuana is unconstitutional when used to prosecute people who use it medicinally. Tuesday the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Raich vs. Ashcroft, which found that the federal ban does not apply to those who use cannabis for medical purposes on their doctors' advice, obtain the medicine without buying it, and get it within their state's borders.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · April 13, 2004 4:00 AM
Posted by Americans for Safe Access · April 12, 2004 4:00 AM
Los Angeles – Arrested for growing marijuana for
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