Pages tagged "California Citizen Lobby Day"

California fiscal committees stop a bad DUID bill, but advance medical cannabis taxation

| May 27, 2016 |

Medical cannabis patients and other stakeholders in California scored victories and suffered defeats in the state legislature today. The Appropriations Committees in the Assembly and Senate decided the fate of hundreds of bills today in their biannual “suspense hearings” –...

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Make a difference for medical cannabis in California

| May 05, 2016 |

Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is hosting our annual California Citizen Lobby Day on Monday, May 23rd, in Sacramento. This is your chance to talk face-to-face with lawmakers and staff about medical cannabis issues that affect you and your loved ones –...

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Lori Ajax, Chief of the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, will speak at the morning session

| April 18, 2016 |

It’s time to get registered for the biggest medical cannabis lobby day in California! ASA will host our 5th annual California Citizen Lobby Day in Sacramento on Monday, May 23. This is your chance to join 300 other patients and advocates to talk...

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Support AB 258 in the California Senate

| June 15, 2015 |

Hundreds of medical cannabis patients and advocates will be visiting the state Capitol this afternoon to talk with lawmakers about medical cannabis legislation. One of the most important bills on the table is AB 258, the Medical Cannabis Organ Transplant...

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AB 258 by CA Assembly Member Marc Levine (D-San Rafael)

| June 12, 2015 |

Legislation sponsored by Americans for Safe Access (ASA) entered the home stretch on Wednesday when the California Senate Health Committee approved AB 258, the Medical Cannabis Organ Transplant Act. The bill by Assembly Member Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) will protect...

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Lobby day next week, live Google Hangout tomorrow, and the petition for AB 258 today…

| June 08, 2015 |

The California Citizen Lobby Day is just one week away! That means it is time for you to get signed up on the event web page at http://CaliforniaCitizenLobbyDay.org/register using your home address, so that we have time to schedule a meeting for you...

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Only two weeks left until the California Citizen Lobby Day in Sacramento!

| June 01, 2015 |

You have a chance to shape the future of medical cannabis in California in just two weeks. That’s when hundreds of patients and advocates will be in Sacramento to talk with their lawmakers about more than a dozen bills touching almost...

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Get registered for the biggest and most important medical cannabis lobby day yet

| May 27, 2015 |

I want to invite you to get registered for the California Citizen Lobby Day on June 15 in Sacramento. Our fourth annual medical cannabis lobby day will be the biggest and most important one yet. We need hundreds of patients, advocates, industry...

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Medical cannabis news and events form around California

| May 25, 2015 |

Voters legalized medical cannabis in California when they approved the Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215) in 1996.  That was a milestone for patients, but only the beginning of a long campaign to fully implement medical cannabis laws at he local...

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Medical cannabis news and events form around California

| May 18, 2015 |

ASA believes that good public policy is created when those who are most affected by laws and regulations have a seat at the table. That is why it is so important that California lawmakers hear your voice this year –...

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