Pages tagged "Congress"

We have a plan that includes YOU!

| December 30, 2016 |

Let me be frank: the next administration could be disastrous to the movement for safe and legal access.   The current federal “cease fire” on medical cannabis is based on two historic developments: a memo from the Department of Justice (DOJ)...

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Join hundreds of advocates supporting the CARERS Act in DC today by calling Congress

| March 22, 2016 |

Hundreds of medical cannabis patients, researchers, advocates and other stakeholders are visiting lawmakers in Washington, DC, this morning to support the first comprehensive bipartisan federal medical cannabis reform bill ever introduced in the US Congress. Participants in ASA’s National Medical Cannabis...

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What's next depends on you, CA

| December 15, 2014 |

Contents: Message from the CA Director: What's next depends on you, CA State & Local News: National, California, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Yuba County, San Diego, Inland Empire Public Meetings & Events: Los Angeles, Marysville, Washington DC Court Support: Redding Take Action Now: Support the...

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This is our moment to make a difference

| May 27, 2014 |

This week, a bipartisan amendment to the 2014 CJS Bill will be introduced that will cut the Department of Justice's (DOJ) funding to interfere with the implementation of state-approved medical cannabis programs. This would mean that for the next fiscal year, the...

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National Lawyers Guild Report Condemns Federal Marijuana Policy, Calls for Reclassification of Marijuana for Medical Use

| June 26, 2013 |

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) -- the country's oldest and largest public interest and human rights bar organization -- issued a report yesterday addressing the federal government's flawed policy on marijuana. According to its author NLG Senior Researcher Traci Yoder,...

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U.S. Mayors Demand Change to Federal Policy, End to Crackdown on Medical Marijuana in Their Cities

| June 25, 2013 |

Mayors from across the United States gathered in Las Vegas this past weekend for the 81st annual U.S. Conference of Mayors. In a watershed moment, mayors voted unanimously yesterday to adopt a  resolution "in support of states setting their own...

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Off to the U.S. Supreme Court We Go

| April 25, 2013 |

Sadly, but not unexpectedly, last week the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition for rehearing filed be Americans for Safe Access in ASA v. DEA. After more than a decade of legal wrangling with...

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If you want to break federal law, it’s better to be a banker than a medical marijuana provider

| March 04, 2013 |

      According to Matt Taibbi, in his latest Rolling Stone exposé on the banking and financial industry “Too Big to Jail,” HSBC “helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel,” and also “moved...

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My Bumpy Road To The ASA Conference in Washington D.C.

| February 19, 2013 |

I spent the last three years working as an Executive Legislative Assistant to a ranking budget chair in the Washington State Legislature, so it should come as no surprise that a trip to the Nation’s Capitol has always been high...

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Why I am Attending the National Unity Conference

| February 15, 2013 |

Americans for Safe Access (ASA) opened the eyes of this thirty-three year law enforcement veteran. Caught in the whirlpool of drug prohibition policy, prohibitionist law enforcement folks as I once was, forget the importance of maintaining an open mind. Unfortunately,...

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