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DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nContact: Shona Gochenaur 
 415-240-5247\naxisoflovesf@gmail.com\n\nSan Francisco Supervisors Take Lead 
 in Safe Access Crisis,\n\nBirthplace of Medical Marijuana Prop215-Defends 
 Sanctuary Status Against DEA\n\nTuesday, February 12, 2008, 2 pm, San 
 Francisco Board of Supervisors'\nChambers\n\nThe DEA has sent letters to 
 property owners who rent to dispensaries in San\nFrancisco -- and all over 
 California -- threatening them with property\nseizure unless they evict the 
 dispensaries operating there.  The San\nFrancisco safe access community has 
 unified behind a resolution to include\nthe landowners in the city's 
 sanctuary status for medical cannabis that the\nBoard of Supervisors will 
 vote on this Tuesday, February 12 (resolution\n080152 
 http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=74605).  The\nresolution 
 calls upon Mayor Newsom to stand in solidarity with Mayor Dellums\nof 
 Oakland, who has issued a public statement in support of Chairman of 
 the\ncongressional Judiciary Committee John Conyers Jr.  Congressman 
 Conyers\ncalled for an investigative hearing to examine DEA attempts to 
 block safe\naccess for suffering patients, and their undermining state 
 law.\n\nFar from symbolic - this resolution sets the tone for political 
 resolve and\ndirects action from all local and state legislators to oppose 
 intimidation\nmeasures lodged by the DEA against sick, disabled, and dying 
 Californians\nseeking medical cannabis as a treatment.  Thus far San 
 Francisco, the\nmedical cannabis model for the nation, remains resilient 
 and steadfast -- no\nmedical cannabis co-op has shut its doors based solely 
 upon these\nterrorizing letters.  Patient advocates of San Francisco are 
 keeping their\neyes on the prize by emphasizing the need for Congressional 
 hearings to\nprotect safe access in all twelve states that have 
 compassionate use laws.\n\nThe resolution was introduced by Supervisor 
 Chris Daly and co-sponsored by\nSupervisors Ross Mirkarimi Jake McGoldrick, 
 and Tom Ammiano.  The Harvey\nMilk Democratic Club, the San Francisco Green 
 Party, and local patient\nadvocacy group ASA SF have endorsed this 
 resolution.\n\nThis follows a similar resolution passed by the Democratic 
 Central Committee\n(http://www.sfdemocrats.org/sfd/resolutions.html), and a 
 joint resolution\nintroduced in the state legislature by Senator Carole 
 Migden (\nhttp://www.americansforsafeaccess.org/downloads/SJR_20.pdf).  as 
 political\nbodies and individual politicians add their names to the growing 
 list of\nthose actively in opposition of the DEA's attacks on the medical 
 cannabis\ncommunity.\n\nDespite strong statements of support for medical 
 cannabis patients from the\nBerkeley City Council and Oakland Mayor Ron 
 Dellums, who issued a 
 statement\n(http://safeaccessnow.org/downloads/Dellums_Statement.pdf) and 
 also sent a\nletter of concern to Congressman John Conyers, Jr. 
 (\nhttp://safeaccessnow.org/downloads/Dellums_Letter_to_Conyers.pdf), 
 San\nFrancisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been relatively quiet on the issue, 
 only\nmentioning through his spokesperson, Nathan Ballard, that he's 
 concerned\nmedical cannabis patients may lose their access to their 
 medicine with the\nDEA tactics.\n\n"We are grateful the San Francisco 
 Supervisors are taking a legislative\nstand in support of safe access for 
 medical cannabis patients," says Mira\nIngram of the Marijuana Offenses 
 Oversight Committee and Axis of Love, "but\nwe're disappointed that Mayor 
 Newsom hasn't publicly affirmed support for\nproperty owners being included 
 in the city's sanctuary status, nor has he\ncome forward in support of 
 Congressman John Conyers Jr. call for an Judicial\nCommittee investigation 
 into DEA harassment of sick and disabled people.''\n\n###\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/12/18478598.php
SUMMARY:SF Board of Supes Vote on Resolution for Medical Cannabis Sanctuary
LOCATION:San Francisco Board of Supervisors'\nChambers, SF City Hall
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/12/18478598.php
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