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Yolo County: Send LTEs to Woodland Daily Democrat If you (are) a patient living in Yolo County, please take a
few minutes to write a letter to the editor supporting
the county's implementation of the medical marijuana
ID card. My guest editorial on the program was
published in today's Daily Democrat, so the timing is
right to express your support....
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 4:09pm PST
DrugSense Weekly, Jan. 26, 2007 #484 (1) Berkeley Students Counter Drug Rule (2) In Clue To Addiction, A
Brain Injury Halts Smoking (3) Three Walk Free In Cannabis Chocolate
Case (4) Afghan Government Says It Won't Spray Poppies...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 11:02pm PST
ASA CA Weekly Alert from 1/26 2) Thursday, February 1st, Santa Rosa: Sonoma ASA Meeting
3) Saturday, February 3rd, Modesto: Central Valley Patients Coalition
Meeting
5) Tuesday, February 6th, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting
6) Thursday, February 8th, Sacramento: Sac ASA Meeting
7) Saturday, February 10th, Birds Landing: Solano Patients' Group Meeting...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 11:00pm PST
Medical Marijuana in the News: Weeks of 1/19 & 1/26 a.. FEDERAL: Opinion on Raids Condemns DEA Action
b.. FEDERAL: Simultaneous Raids on LA Dispensaries
c.. CALIFORNIA: ID Cards Becoming Costly
d.. VERMONT: Broader Patient Protections in Works
e.. SOUTH CAROLINA: State Considering Patient Protections
f.. WASHINGTON: Sentencing for Woman with Calif. Recommendation
g.. WASHINGTON: Implementation an Issue
h.. DISPENSARIES: Serving Patient and Community Needs
i.. CALIFORNIA: Return of Property Sometimes Sticky
j.. CANADA...
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 9:15am PST
SF: Supe wants local marijuana ID card program reinstated Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi has introduced a resolution urging the
Department of Public Health to abandon the state's Medical Marijuana
Identification Card program and reinstate the local program....
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 4:47pm PST
Sacramento City Council Approves Needle-Exchange Program The Sacramento, Calif., City Council on Tuesday
voted 8-0 to establish a needle-exchange program in
the city in an effort to reduce the spread of HIV and
other bloodborne diseases among injection drug users,
the Sacramento Bee reports....
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 4:38pm PST
Medical pot debate heats up in Tracy Though county prosecutors deem any marijuana use illegal, perhaps
nowhere in San Joaquin County is the issue burning as hot as it is in
Tracy, where one pot-selling business is fighting a city order to shut
down....
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 4:23pm PST
Update on Calling Pelosi's Office about MMJ Many of you have called Nancy Pelosi's office over the past several days, due to a rumor that if she received 10,000 calls about medical cannabis, she would hold hearings on the issue....
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 1:36pm PST
Update on Eddy Lepp's case For those interested in following the Eddy Lepp case, I have a short
update....
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 1:24pm PST
LOS ANGELES: Panel backs moratorium on new pot dispensaries A moratorium of up to one year on new medical marijuana dispensaries
was endorsed Tuesday by a City Council committee, but the panel wants
to see an ordinance drafted before sending it to the full council for
consideration....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:16pm PST
Vote Hemp Weekly News Update Our other stories this week show the great
potential of hemp, from food to fiber ? but
mostly across the rest of the globe with the U.S. just
being a consumer, not a producer. We continue to
work on getting quality legislation introduced and
passed, and things are surely progressing....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:57pm PST
Support Dustin Costa with Character Letters! Dustin Costa was active in his community and a long-time patient before
being arrested in 2004 on state charges. His case was eventually turned
over to the feds and is now the first medical marijuana patient to be
convicted at trial since the U.S. Supreme Court made its landmark
ruling, Gonzales v. Raich, in June 2005....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:48pm PST
SF March for Medical Cannabis Monday, Noon Medical cannabis patients, care providers and advocates will march on city
halls in Los Angeles and San Francisco Monday,
January 22nd, 2007 at noon in reaction to the
recent DEA raids on 11 medical cannabis
dispensaries last week in West Hollywood, Venice and the San Fernando
Valley....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 10:58am PST
Head of Britain's Tory Party, David Cameron, Calls For Legalisation of 'Medical Marijuana' David Cameron has supported calls for cannabis to be legalised for medical use provided that clear health benefits can be shown.
The Tory leader, who has refused to answer media questions about whether he used drugs before entering politics, ruled out a wider legalisation of cannabis for recreational use....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 6:54am PST
SAC PROTEST AGAINST POT RAIDS TUE NOON FED BLDG Advocates for medicinal cannabis will protest the recent Californa DEA medical marijuana raids at the Sacramento Federal Building at noon on tuesday, January 23rd, 5th & I....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 10:41pm PST
ASA Calif. Weekly Alert 3) Tuesday, January 23rd, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting
4) Thursday, January 25th, Sacramento: Sac ASA Meeting...
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 9:59pm PST
January 22 DEA "Pill Bottle Dump" at your local federal building! Monday, January 22nd, patients and advocates will gather at their local federal buildings to demand an end to federal raids on medical cannabis patients and providers....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 9:47pm PST
ASA Responds in LA - Needs Your Support What was different in Los Angeles this time was the remarkable grassroots and
media reaction to the raids...our spokespeople were on the
news statewide making sure these raids were reported from the patients’
perspective, not from the DEA’s....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 1:01pm PST
Drug War Chronicle, Issue #469 (long version) MEDICAL MARIJUANA: BILLS INTRODUCED IN MICHIGAN, SOUTH
CAROLINA, MASSACHUSETTS, VERMONT AND SOON IN NEW MEXICO...
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:57pm PST
CannaHelp holds open house, rally "We're hoping that the local officials will recognize the need (for
dispensaries)," said Ryan Michaels, one of the volunteers keeping
CannaHelp open. "I want them to take a stand."
CannaHelp is one of two Coachella Valley dispensaries that have closed
or stopped selling medical marijuana in the past week....
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:25pm PST
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