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New Medical Marijuana PAC Hopes to Cultivate Scientific Freedom

Dr. Sue Sisley has been trying to work with medical marijuana on PTSD patients and has had her FDA-approved trial blocked by NIDA.

“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. [...]

Parkinson’s Patient Finds Only Marijuana to Improve His Quality of Life

David has been suffering from Parkinson's Disease for the past 13 years and only finds that medical marijuana improves his quality of life.

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 [...]

ASA Medical Cannabis Unity Conference DVD Now On Sale

Steph Sherer, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access.

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, [...]

DEA Spokesperson Clears Smoke, Special Agent Sherman Only Stating Position, Not Science

A spokesperson for Sherman confirmed the agent is not a doctor and cannot verify the claims he's made as a statement of face, rather a position.

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 [...]

If You Want to Break Federal Law, It’s Better to be a Banker Than a Medical Marijuana Provider

Last summer's Caravan For Peace took over 100 victims from Mexico's Drug War to Wall St. before reaching D.C.

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 [...]

Shafer Commission Report on Marijuana and Drugs, Issued 40 Years Ago Today, Was Ahead of its Time

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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 [...]

Veteran Michael Krawitz Explains How Medical Marijuana Helps Him Live Life

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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 [...]

Meet a Marijuana Reformer Pioneer

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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 [...]

The 100 Year War on Cannabis in California

Dale Gieringer has been the state coordinator of California NORML since 1987.

By Sam Sabzehzar  |  February 3, 2013 California state coordinator Dale Gieringer gives a lecture at this year’s California NORML Conference, marking the 100th year California has maintained a prohibition on marijuana. Dale Gieringer has been the state coordinator of California NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) since 1987. He is also [...]

Mark Twain and Other Matters on Marijuana Prior to Prohibition

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By Sam Sabzehzar  |  February 2, 2013 All were invited to California NORML’s conference marking the 100th anniversary of marijuana prohibition in California. This two-day event, held January 26 & 27 at Ft. Mason Conference Center in San Francisco, explored the history, causes and costs of the war on cannabis, and strategies for ending it. [...]

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