Recent Medical Marijuana Convictions Spur Action from State & Federal Government Paul Marini | February 26, 2003 US Congressman Sam Farr Read more
CA Representatives Announce Medical Marijuana Defense Bill Paul Marini | February 19, 2003 Sacramento: Rep. Sam Farr (D-Carmel) will be honored in Sacramento by the families of medical marijuana growers convicted under federal law for his efforts in the struggle to decriminalize medical marijuana. Read more
Medical Marijuana Activists to “Evict the DEA” Feb. 18 Paul Marini | February 18, 2003 Oakland and San Francisco –Activists will “evict the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)” for criminal violations of medical marijuana patients’ and voters’ rights on the Americans for Safe Access (ASA) Nationwide Day of Direct Action, Feb. 18. Currently, 40 medical marijuana... Read more
Medical Marijuana Awareness Week Paul Marini | February 14, 2003 Saturday, Feb. 15th 12:00 pm - Press conference in front of Conservatory in Golden Gate Park. Activists announce their plan to implement Prop S and plant 215,000 Marijuana seeds for medical use. Ed Rosenthal, recently convicted in federal court despite... Read more
Recent Medical Marijuana Convictions Spur Action from State and Federal Government Paul Marini | February 08, 2003 In a press conference in San Francisco today, state assembly member Mark Leno released a letter co-authored by state senator Don Perata and signed by 48 of their colleagues in the state assembly and state senate urging the CA congressional... Read more
Statement of Steph Sherer Executive Director, Americans For Safe Access Paul Marini | December 13, 2002 In a time of unprecedented intimidation from the Federal Government, Medical Marijuana patients and their providers won a hard fought victory today in the California Supreme Court. In a unanomous decision, the court held on Thursday that medical users who... Read more
BANNERS FLY FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA AT WORLD SERIES Paul Marini | October 22, 2002 WHAT: In response to raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration on medical cannabis patients & dispensaries, a banner reading: DEFEND MEDICAL MARIJUANA will fly above PacBell Park at the beginning of Tuesday’s game. WHERE: Pacific Bell Park, San FranciscoWHEN: Tuesday,... Read more
Stop the Casualties of the Marijuana War! Paul Marini | October 09, 2002 On September 27th the Preble County SWAT team executed a search warrant at the the residence of Clayton Helriggle, 23, of Lewisburg, Ohio. Just minutes into the drug raid Clayton Helriggle lay dying in the arms of his friend from... Read more
California Governor Gray Davis Speaks Out Against Federal Busts of Medical Marijuana Clinics Throughout State Paul Marini | September 18, 2002 SACRAMENTO-Momentum and outrage continue to build in California and elsewhere in the wake of the Drug Enforcement Administration's September 6 raid of the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Santa Cruz, CA. As reported on CNN, and in The New... Read more
Bay Area Activists to Protest at Federal Buildings Paul Marini | September 05, 2002 San Francisco, CA – The Drug Enforcement Agency raided another medical marijuana dispensary today in Santa Cruz, California, arresting 2 people and shutting off safe access to life affirming medicine to 300 seriously ill patients. In response to the federal... Read more