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DESCRIPTION:National Candlelight Vigil to End the Drug War\nSunday, September 22nd 
 2002, 6:30 pm \nJack London Square, Oakland, 1st & Broadway\n \nWe are all 
 affected.\n \n…the hundreds of thousands of incarcerated nonviolent drug 
 offenders.\n \n…the children and other family members of these woman & 
 men.\n\n…the 87, 000 potential students who have lost college financial 
 aid since 2000 due to drug \nconvictions, the only crime that is punished 
 by such a permanent measure.\n\n…those who strive to create a society of 
 racial & social justice, knowing the drug war hits \nwomen and people of 
 color disproportionably.\n \nMedical marijuana advocates are here.\n \n… 
 because this is the night before the sentencing hearing of Bryan Epis, the 
 first Medical \nMarijuana provider individually convicted for enacting Prop 
 215. He is currently in custody, \nand faces a 10-year mandatory minimum 
 for growing medicine for himself and a few other \npatients.  \n \n… 
 because since we served 'cease & desist' orders to the DEA on June 6, a 
 number of \npatients and caregivers have been arrested by the DEA, patient 
 medicine has been seized, \nand asset forfeiture has been instituted. \n 
 \n… because the California Medical Board continues to persecute 
 physicians exercising their \nexpressed rights and responsibilities under 
 the Compassionate Use Act.\n \n… because some jurisdictions apparently 
 believe prosecutions aren't advisable since the \nMower decision 
 recognizing Prop 215, so they are forwarding potential cases to the DEA for 
 \naction in direct violation of provisions of the California Constitution.  
 \n \n... because malicious prosecutions of patients, caregivers, and 
 physicians acting in accord \nwith the Compassionate Use Act must cease!\n 
 \nBring candles, flowers, and pictures of those dead or incarcerated \ndue 
 to drug war madness to leave behind as a remaining visual \nprotest.\n 
 \nSponsored by Americans for Safe Access, and endorsed by The November 
 Coalition, \nCannabis Action Network, Drug Policy Alliance, Commonsense for 
 Drug Policy, National \nOrganization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, 
 Students for Sensible Drug Policy, \nMarijuana Policy Project, and the 
 Media Awareness Project.\n\nFor more info or to endorse: Americans for Safe 
 Access\nPhone: 510-486-8083; www.safeaccessnow.org\n \n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/10223.php
SUMMARY:Vigil to End the Drug War
LOCATION:Jack London Square, 1St & Broadway
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/10223.php
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