Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

Sacrificial Lamb Evolves into Roaring Lion

This post was written by Rick Doblin, Ph.D, who is a member of ASA’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Board and who founded and leads M.A.P.S., the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a nonprofit that since 1986 has assisted scientists in designing, funding, obtaining approval for and reporting on studies into [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

ASA Weekly Alert 02-06-2009

1.  DEA Raids 4 L.A. Dispensing Collectives, Spark Community Uproar; White House Response
DEA carried out four simultaneous “smash and grab” raids on medical cannabis dispensing collectives in Los Angeles this week (Beach Center Collective, Venice Alternative Healing, Marina Caregivers, and Alternative Caregivers Discount Collective).  It was the second time that [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

Congresswoman Challenges DEA Intimidation

Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA) sent a letter to newly appointed Attorney General Eric Holder today asking the Department of Justice and the Office of the US Attorney to “immediately suspend any and all enforcement actions against said property owners in California who lease property to medical cannabis dispensing collectives in [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

State Law & the People vs. the DEA

The San Diego Union-Tribune published opposing op-eds yesterday, one from Alex Kreit, an assistant professor and director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, and another from Ralph W. Partridge, the special agent in charge of the San Diego [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

Protesters support Charles C. Lynch & call for change

More than 100 protesters gathered in at the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles today to call for leniency in the March 23 sentencing of Charles C. Lynch, who was convicted in August of operating a medical cannabis facility in Morro Bay. The protesters called on Judge Wu to keep [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

No evidence for withdrawal symptoms from cannabis based medicinal extracts

This guest post was written by Jahan Marcu, a cannabis researcher who is a member of ASA’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Board.

In a press release issued February 24th 2009, GW pharmaceuticals reported that there is no evidence of withdrawal from long term use of Sativex, an oral cannabis spray. The [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

Medical Cannabis an “American Policy”…

I wish everyone were here to see it.

As many of you know by now, on Wednesday U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters at a press conference, while standing next to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Michele Leonhart that ending federal raids on medical cannabis dispensaries “is now American policy.” [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by ASA's Medical Cannabis Feed

Call the White House Now – Urge President Obama to Immediately Suspend Bush’s DEA Raids

For the second time under President Obama’s watch, Bush’s leftover agents in the DEA raided four medical cannabis dispensaries in L.A. We need you to act NOW! [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by ASA's Medical Cannabis Feed

February 2009 Activist Newsletter

Calif. County Sued over Medical Marijuana IDs; ASA to Hold Obama Administration Accountable; ASA Ambassador Program Finds [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by california marijuana - Google News

Teachers Could Be Charged for Staging Pot Sting – MSNBC


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Teachers Could Be Charged for Staging Pot Sting
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Three administrators at Porter Middle School in Granada Hills were reassigned and could face criminal charges for allegedly using a student to conduct an informal marijuana sting against another student, police and school According to police,
LAPD probes drug sting run by school Los Angeles Times
LA student asked to buy pot as part of sting San Jose Mercury News
School officials in trouble after sting abc7.com
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