Riding the Medical Marijuana Roller Coaster
- Yesterday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution condemning the DEA's tactic of sending letters to landlords of dispensaries notifying them of the illegality of the facilities and the possibility that their property could be seized. Yet today ASA also learned that the DEA had sent out yet another round of letters to landlords.
- Last month, Northern California's new US Attorney, Joseph Russoniello, explained that he thought medical marijuana raids were wasteful, creating new hope in our movement. But this didn't bring much comfort to dozens of federal defendants who have already been charged, like Michael Martin, who had a status hearing yesterday, or Dr. Mollie Fry and Dale Schafer, who will be sentenced next week.
- In January, the California Supreme Court issued an opinion in Ross v. RagingWire that denied the rights of medical marijuana patients to work. But just last week, Assembly Member Mark Leno, along with Assembly Members Berg, Hancock, and Saldaña, introduced ASA sponsored legislation that would reaffirm this right.
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