Berkeley to Vote on Sanctuary Resolution 1/29

Friends,

Tomorrow night, the Berkeley City Council will be considering a very important
resolution. Co-sponsored by Kriss Worthington and Darryl Moore, this item would:

1. declare Berkeley a "sanctuary city" for medical cannabis in the event that the
DEA raids any of our dispensaries,

2. call on the Berkeley Police Department, the County District Attorney, the Alameda
County Sheriff's Department, and the State Attorney General not to cooperate with
the DEA in its efforts to undermine state and local medical cannabis laws,

3. urge Governor Schwarzenegger to publicly stand with the more than 200,000 medical
cannabis patients in the state and to let Congress and the Bush Administration know
that DEA interference is uncalled for and will be resisted by local and state
government, and

4. encourage the City to plan for continued safe access in Berkeley in the event of
a DEA raid on one or more of our dispensaries.

See the draft text at:
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/citycouncil/agenda-committee/agendaindex.htm
Click on the pdf for the 1/22 meeting, and look for Item 22.

This resolution has been co-sponsored by Councilmembers Moore and Worthington, and
we hope to have the full support of the Council, the City Manager and the City
Attorney tomorrow night.

Obviously this is a VERY important moment for medical cannabis patients, and I want
to encourage you to attend tomorrow's City Council meeting if at all possible. Wear
your ASA shirt, sport a medical marijuana pin, and let's fill the hall with
supporters to celebrate the moment--and thank our Berkeley elected officials for
taking this significant step to defend patients' rights!

City Council Meeting - 1/29/2008
7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way

Be well,

Becky DeKeuster
Community Liaison
Berkeley Patients Group
2747 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94702
510-540-6013 ext. 0