07-04 NORML News PodCast - Jul 4, 2008
US Leads The World In Illicit Drug Use; US Drug Enforcement Administration ‘Celebrates’ 35 Years Of Failure; Marijuana, Cocaine Have Contrasting Effects On Driving Performance, Study Says; Loretta Nall on AL judge's son's special treatment for felony drug charges.

California Weekly Round Up
California Senate Passes Resolution Calling for an End to DEA Raids Yesterday, the California passed SJR 20 on a 24-15 vote. Introduced by Senator Carole Migden, this resolution urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation requiring federal law enforcement to respect state medical marijuana laws, to cease raids of medical marijuana [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "California Weekly Round Up", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=115" });

California Weekly Round Up
ASA’s Employment Rights Bill Passes the California Senate Judiciary Committee On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved AB 2279. This ASA sponsored bill, authored by Assemblyman Mark Leno, would protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of medical marijuana patients in California from employment discrimination. AB 2279, which is being co-authored by Assemblymembers Patty Berg (D-Eureka), [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "California Weekly Round Up", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=114" });

06-27 NORML News PodCast - Jun 27, 2008
Oral Pot Preparation Effective For Depression, Journal Reports; New Zealand: Most Pot Consumers Not Frequent Users; Cannabis Agonist Reduces Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Tumor Growth, Study Says; California: County Officials Finalize Mendocino Vote Count; Interview with Mason Tvert on proposal of cannabis smoking lounges in Denver airport to combat air rage incidents with alcohol.

ASA Video Testimonial - 11th Installment
Welcome to the latest installment of ASA’s video testimonial project. As many of you may remember, the video testimonial project has been designed to help educate people about medical cannabis by having patients and supporters share their stories. This project was also designed to help people like you educate your friends and family about medical cannabis [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "ASA Video Testimonial - 11th Installment", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=113" });

California Weekly Round Up
Medical Marijuana Legislation to Be Considered Next Week in the California Senate Next week, the California Senate will vote on two pieces of medical marijuana legislation. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on AB 2279, which would protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of medical marijuana patients in California from employment discrimination. Introduced by Assemblymember [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "California Weekly Round Up", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=112" });

06-20 NORML News PodCast - Jun 20, 2008
Drug Czar Responds To NORML's Refutation Of 'Potent Pot' Claim; Teen Pot Use Falling In States With Medical Marijuana Laws; Medical Pot Use Not Associated With Serious Side Effects, Study Says; Interview with Teen MJ Use study co-author Dr. Mitch Earleywine.

California Weekly Roundup
Oral Arguments Heard in Appeal of San Diego v. NORML by Joe Elford, ASA Chief Counsel On June 10, 2008, the Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District heard oral argument in the case of San Diego v. NORML, et al. The case pits the Counties of San Diego and San Bernardino against the State of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "California Weekly Roundup", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=111" });

06-13 NORML News PodCast - Jun 13, 2008
Scotland: Government Think-Tank Backs Taxing And Regulating Cannabis; California: Attorney General To Appeal Kelly Decision; Portable Oral-Fluid Tests Still Unreliable For Pot, Study Says; Allen St. Pierre on Emerging Cannabis Issues at Aspen Legal Seminar.

Drew Carey on DEA Raids & Medical Marijuana Use by Minors
reason.tv just came out with its second video on medical marijuana, featuring Drew Carey talking about one young man’s battle with cancer and use of medical marijuana. While his parents approved of his medicine, the DEA did not and shut down his local dispensary: Owen’s parents knew the idea of giving medical marijuana to a 17-year-old [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Drew Carey on DEA Raids & Medical Marijuana Use by Minors", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=110" });

ASA Video Testimonial - 10th Installment
Welcome to the latest installment of ASA’s video testimonial project. As many of you may remember, the video testimonial project has been designed to help educate people about medical cannabis by having patients and supporters share their stories. This project was also designed to help people like you educate your friends and family about medical cannabis [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "ASA Video Testimonial - 10th Installment", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=109" });

California Weekly Round Up
Malibu Planning Commission Votes to Allow and Regulate Medical Marijuana Dispensaries by Don Duncan, California Director On Tuesday, the Malibu Planning Commission rejected a recommendation by city staff to ban medical cannabis collectives and asked staff to return with a proposal to regulate as many as three facilities in the city. Commissioners heard from ASA representatives, patients, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "California Weekly Round Up", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=108" });

06-06 NORML News PodCast - Jun 6, 2008
Pot Prohibition Linked To More Potent Marijuana Use, Study Says; NORML Responds To Latest Marijuana And Brain Damage Fears; California: Mendocino County Voters Restrict Pot Possession Rules; Dan Monnat on Drug Dogs.

ASA Video Testimonial - 9th Installment
Welcome to the latest installment of ASA’s video testimonial project. As many of you may remember, the video testimonial project has been designed to help educate people about medical cannabis by having patients and supporters share their stories. This project was also designed to help people like you educate your friends and family about medical cannabis [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "ASA Video Testimonial - 9th Installment", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=106" });

California Weekly Roundup
ASA’s Bill to Protect Patients’ Employment Rights Passes Full Assembly On Wednesday, the California Assembly voted to approve legislation sponsored by Americans for Safe Access (ASA) that will protect medical cannabis patients from discrimination in the workplace! AB2279, introduced in February by Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and co-authored by Assemblymembers Patty Berg (D-Eureka), Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "California Weekly Roundup", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=105" });

05-30 NORML News PodCast - May 30, 2008
Pot Potency Claims Unfounded, Study Says "Claims ... about a 20- or 30-fold increase in cannabis potency and about adverse mental health effects are not supported by the evidence"; Idaho: City Voters Once Again Approve Pot Liberalization Measures; Last Chance To Register For The 3rd Annual NORML Aspen Legal Seminar; Interview: Ryan Davidson of Idaho Liberty Lobby.

The E-Dispensary: CA: Call Your Assemblymember Today! - May 27, 2008

Message from Aaron Smith, California Organizer for the Marijuana Policy Project: Sometime in the next few days, the full Assembly will be voting on A.B. 2743 -- MPP-sponsored legislation that would direct state and local law enforcement agencies not to assist with federal raids on state-legal medical marijuana patients and providers. I am writing to ask for a few minutes of your time to help make sure the bill passes. Even if you already e-mailed to your Assembly member, please make a personal phone call to his/her office today.

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05-23 NORML News PodCast - May 23, 2008
Past Cannabis Use Not Associated With Injury Severity, Study Says; Oral Pot Preparation Effective For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Journal Reports; Join NORML In Aspen In Two Weeks At The 3rd Annual NORML Legal Seminar; Paul Armentano on Ted kennedy and cannabis cancer research.

05-16 NORML News PodCast - May 16, 2008
Pot’s Effects On Driving Performance Contrast Alcohol’s, Study Says; Survey: One In Seven Public School Districts Drug Test Students; Hawaii: Legislature Approves Medical Marijuana Task Force Measure; Dale Geiringer on CA bills; Jesse Stout on RI bill.

05-09 NORML News PodCast - May 9, 2008
UK Parliament to vote on stiffer pot penalties; Inhaled cannabis reduces neuropathic pain; Keith Stroup goes to trial Monday, will argue constitutionality of Mass. pot laws; interview with Douglas Hiatt, attorney for Tim Garon.

05-02 NORML News PodCast - May 2, 2008
Hepatitis C Patient Denied Transplant Based on State and Doctor Approved Medi-Pot Use; New Study Indicates Cannabis-Associated Psychosis Risk Is Minimal; More Than 230 Cities, 35 Countries To Hold Marijuana Rallies This Weekend

04-25 NORML News PodCast - Apr 25, 2008
California bill to protect medmj workers heads to Assembly floor; Argentina court decriminalizes cannabis possession; NYC Bar to discuss marijuana arrests; MN State Sen. Steve Murphy on medmj bill.

04-18 NORML News PodCast - Apr 18, 2008
Federal Decriminalization Bill Introduced -- Bill Would End Federal Authority to Arrest Adults for Pot Possession; Federal Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced by Rep. Ron Paul; NORML To Hold First Annual 4/20 Moneybomb - Organization's Facebook Supporters Reach 420,000.

04-11 NORML News PodCast - Apr 11, 2008
MN House of Representatives to Consider Medical Marijuana Bill -- Despite Bi-Partisan Support, Governor Indicates He May Veto; RI Senate Committee Unanimously Approves Medical Cannabis Measure; Comedian Doug Benson Offers NORML Supporters Free Screening of "Super High Me"

04-04 NORML News PodCast - Apr 4, 2008
HIV-Positive Man Wins Acquittal In Texas’ First Cannabis Medical Necessity Defense -- NORML Legal Committee Member Leads Defense; Vermont Supreme Court Rules Search Warrant Required for Overflight Surveillance; Los Angeles City Council Tells DEA to Let City Regulate Medical Cannabis Dispensaries; Interview w/ Jeff Blackburn and Tim Stevens.

03-28 NORML News PodCast - Mar 28, 2008
Congress To Consider Legislation To End Minor Pot Arrests; Pot Decriminalization Does Not Increase Marijuana Use, Scientific Journal Says; California: Fifth National Clinical Conference On Cannabis Therapeutics To Be Held Next Week.

Colorado: New Patient Meeting on April 3, 2008

Announcing a new meeting for DENVER-COLORADO, MEDICAL MARIJUANA RESOURCES. (DAY MEETING)

When: Thursday, April 3, 3:30 PM

Where:
Blue Moon Bookstore
6th Ave. @ Garrison
Denver, CO

Who should come: An educational gathering, bringing the public, medical marijuana patients, caregivers, interested parties, and others together for the purpose of discussing answers to questions about medical marijuana in Colorado.

Why: EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY

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Doctor, wife sentenced to 5 years in prison in medical marijuana case - March 19, 2008

Doctor, wife sentenced to 5 years in prison in medical marijuana case
By Denny Walsh - dwalsh@sacbee.com
Last Updated 6:43 pm PDT Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Source: http://www.sacbee.com/102/story/798951.html

A doctor and his wife from El Dorado County were both sentenced Wednesday in Sacramento federal court to five years in prison for conspiracy to grow marijuana and manufacturing it in a medicinal marijuana case.

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Sacramento supervisors reject state's medical marijuana ID program - March 19, 2008

Sacramento supervisors reject state's medical marijuana ID program
By Ed Fletcher - efletcher@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B1

Source: http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/796247.html

Turning away pleas from an elderly glaucoma patient, a local man with AIDS and a teen with a rare bone illness, Sacramento County supervisors rejected a call to implement a program allowing medical marijuana patients to obtain a state-issued identification card.

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SacBee: Sacramento County to consider medical marijuana ID cards - March 16, 2008

Sacramento County to consider medical marijuana ID cards
By Ed Fletcher - efletcher@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, March 16, 2008
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B1

Source: http://www.sacbee.com/health/story/789189.html

It's a fight that's been settled in 40 of California's 58 counties, but Sacramento County isn't one of them.

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Sacramento: Medical Pot ID Card Debate Heads To Supes - March 18, 2008

Medical Pot ID Card Debate Heads To Supes
Most Of California's Counties Have Adopted State Program

POSTED: 5:57 am PDT March 18, 2008
Source: http://www.my58.com/news/15627994/detail.html

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Should Sacramento County issue identification cards for medical marijuana patients?

The Board of Supervisors will debate this afternoon whether to implement a state program calling for the issuance of such cards.

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Court Support Needed in Sac, Solano, and Oakland! - March 17, 2008

Wednesday, March 19, Sacramento: Sentencing for Dr. Mollie Fry and Dale Schafer: The federal sentencing of medical marijuana defendants Dr. Mollie Fry and her husband, Attorney Dale Schafer will take place on Wednesday, March 19th at the US courthouse in Sacramento (5th and I St.). The sentencing is at 2 PM. There will be a press conference before the hearing at 1PM in front of the Court House. The couple was denied the right to defend their actions that were protected under the Laws of the State of California. Please attend to show your support!

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Cal Law: A Budding Rebellion Against Forfeiture - March 10, 2008

Cal Law - California's Legal News Source - on the DEA's landlord letters
Source: http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1204937009091
A Budding Rebellion
The Recorder
By Evan Hill
March 10, 2008

When the Drug Enforcement Administration sent letters last year to California landlords who rent to marijuana dispensaries, reminding them - not so subtly - that it's a federal crime to do so, they opened another front in the battle to define how pot clubs operate in the hazy border between state and federal law.

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Meeting with Governor Schwarzenegger - March 5, 2008

Congratulations to Lanette, our Public Relations Officer, on her recent meeting with Governor Schwarzenegger!! You can read the account below, and check out the photo:

This is the kind of patient-advocacy that makes us all proud to be part of the movement!

Thanks,
Nathan Sands, Vice President
The Compassionate Coalition
1500 Oliver Road, Ste-K, P.M.B. #248, Fairfield, CA 94533
www.CompassionateCoalition.org
Email: nathan@CompassionateCoalition.org
Phone: (916) 709-2483 - Fax: (916)266-7455

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California: Important Medical Marijuana Bills Need Your Support! - March 14, 2008

Message from Aaron Smith, California Organizer for the Marijuana Policy Project:

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