Patient advocates respond with Sacramento press conference, during a lobby day for statewide regulations with a coalition of patient advocates, labor and industry, and other stakeholders By Kris Hermes | Published in Americans for Safe Access The California Supreme Court ruled today in the case City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patients Health and Wellness Center that local [...]
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“Federally-regulated Marijuana research must be implemented…” Senator Carolyn Allen (R-AZ) By Sam Sabzehzar | Americans for Scientific Freedom Watch Dr. Sisley discuss how medical marijuana may help symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Calling it a disorder is about as accurate as the scheduling of cannabis in the CSA, especially when it is war-related. [...]
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With Southern California cities closing down medical cannabis dispensaries, people like David are losing safe access to the medicine they need By Sam Sabzehzar | April 27, 2013 David has been a medical marijuana patient ever since his primary physician recommended he try it, and has experienced a much better quality of life. Currently, there [...]
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Over 1,600 attendees from 33 countries are gathering in downtown Oakland to demonstrate the successes, the strength, and the spirit of the new wave of psychedelic science and medicine. By Brad Burge | Communications Director, MAPS Psychedelic Science 2013 starts tomorrow. It is a genuinely historic moment. At Psychedelic Science 2013, over 100 of the [...]
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Order a copy of the DVD Today! By Steph Sherer | Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access Americans for Safe Access first ever National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference was a huge success! More than 250 patients, advocates, and others from thirty-four states met in Washington, DC, for three days of education, strategy, and skills building, [...]
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After erroneous claims made by a San Diego DEA Agent, the spokesperson for Mr. Sherman clarified he “is not a doctor and was not stating science, just stating the position of the DEA.” By San Diego Americans For Safe Access William R. Sherman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) San [...]
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By Kris Hermes | Published in SafeAccessNow.Org According to Matt Taibbi, in his latest Rolling Stone exposé on the banking and financial industry “Too Big to Jail,” HSBC “helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel,” and also “moved money for organizations linked to Al Qaeda and [...]
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“Given forty years of escalation of the war on drugs in the U.S. and around the world, the global consensus that the policy is a deadly and costly failure, and that policies that hurt our fragile economies must be fixed, we need a new Shafer Commission to develop and recommend a drug policy that saves [...]
By Sam Sabzehzar | March 20, 2013 Michael Krawitz is a 49-year-old resident of Elliston, Virginia, who suffered an automobile accident in 1984 while serving in the United States Air Force. Mr. Krawitz has been rated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as being totally and permanently disabled. Mr. Krawitz uses marijuana [...]
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Michael Aldrich recently spoke on a panel at the California NORML Conference, where he shared some stories he’s been collecting for the greater part of 40 plus years. Michael Aldrich is author of the first Ph.D. dissertation on cannabis in the U.S., “Marijuana Myths & Folklore,” SUNY-Buffalo, 1970. He founded the first college chapter of [...]
