53-year-old transplant patient Jerry Duval recently received a federal surrender order to serve out 10-year sentence By Kris Hermes | April 15, 2013 Late last week, 53-year-old Michigan medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval received a Justice Department order to surrender to federal authorities on June 11th to begin serving a 10-year prison sentence at the [...]
Patient plaintiffs argue that federal appeals panel has set unreasonable standard for medical efficacy By Kris Hermes | Published in SafeAccessNow.org Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed a petition with the federal court of appeals today in a widely watched case that seeks to reclassify marijuana for medical use. Plaintiffs [...]
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 [...]
Americans for Safe Access Foundation (ASAF) has created a three-part program to address product and distribution safety in the medical cannabis industry. By Jill Lamoureux | Published in SafeAccessNow.org As states across the country have granted patients’ rights to access medical cannabis, a new industry has formed to meet these needs. Many states and localities [...]
By Americans for Safe Access | February 7, 2013 In a highly-publicized and widely-watched medical marijuana case, the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether municipalities should be able to ban local medical marijuana distribution, an activity deemed legal under state law. For all of the controversy and strenuous arguments made on both sides [...]
Cannabis Committee of the American Herbal Products Association, the only national trade association that is focused primarily on herbs and botanicals and herbal products, issues regulatory recommendations for state officials. By Americans for Safe Access | January 27, 2013 The Cannabis Committee of the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) issued recommendations this week to regulators of [...]
On the first day of a National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference, an accredited cannabinoid education program will offer a CRE to healthcare professionals. By Americans for Safe Access | January 25, 2013 At 2 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013 an accredited cannabinoid education program called “Cannabis in Medicine: A Primer for Health Care Professionals” [...]
Americans for Safe Access will seek En Banc review, continue fight to develop public health policy By Kris Hermes | Published in Americans for Safe Access The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling in the medical marijuana reclassification case, Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration. In a 2-1 [...]
California Supreme Court picks February 5th for oral arguments to decide whether municipalities can ban local distribution of medical marijuana By Kris Hermes | Published in Americans for Safe Access The California Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments this week in a case that has received widespread attention inside and outside of the medical marijuana community. [...]
Jon B. Gettman Receives ASA Spirit Award from ASA. Mr. Gettman filed a petition in 1995 to remove cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act that was eventually denied. A second petition was filed in 2002, with the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis, that remains under review by the Department of Health and Human Services By [...]
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