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	<title>Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines</title>
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		<title>Victory for Veterans!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late last week, ASA received word from Michael Krawitz, Executive Director of Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access , of a significant victory for veterans who utilize medical marijuana in the states that have adopted such laws.
According to a letter to Mr. Krawitz from Robert A. Petzel, MD, Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Victory for Veterans!", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=828" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The AIDS Beacon Runs 2-Part Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, The AIDS Beacon, ran a two-part series about the therapeutic use of marijuana for the treatment of symptoms related to HIV and the pharmaceutical drugs designed to keep the disease in check.  The Beacon is an independent news and information resource for people living with HIV/AIDS and their families.
Part 1: Legal Support For [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The AIDS Beacon Runs 2-Part Series", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=817" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Stacy Ruling Requires Action for Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz denied a defense for James Stacy, a San Diego-area medical marijuana provider raided in September 2009 by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),  just one month before the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a new policy concerning medical marijuana enforcement.  Tell your Member of Congress to [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Stacy Ruling Requires Action for Truth", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=806" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>CA Senate Committees Approve AB 2650</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two California Senate committees approved a bill this week that will require a 600-foot buffer zone between medical cannabis collectives and schools statewide. AB 2650 was approved by the Senate Health Committee and the Local Government Committee over the objection of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and other medical cannabis advocates. However, ASA and allies [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CA Senate Committees Approve AB 2650", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=802" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>City Attorney Joins Vigil for LA Victims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich was one of more than sixty people who gathered last night for a candlelight vigil for the victims of two violent attacks at medical cannabis collectives this week.  Two people were killed and one was seriously injured in two separate incidents on Thursday. The tragedies occurred in the midst [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "City Attorney Joins Vigil for LA Victims", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=797" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>ASA Rejects Unfair Taxes &#8211; No on SBX6 16 (CA)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update June 23 &#8211; Sen. Calderon has withdrawn SBX6 16. Thanks to everyone who helped get this done!
California Senator Ron Calderon (D-Montebello) wants to add a new tax medical cannabis in California. If adopted, SBX6 16 would tax legal medicine at the same rate as tobacco – forty one percent!  ASA opposes this unreasonable burden [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "ASA Rejects Unfair Taxes &#8211; No on SBX6 16 (CA)", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=790" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Troubling Trend of $1 Million Bails in Medical Marijuana Cases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A troubling trend of excessive bails in medical marijuana cases has begun to occur over the past month. The operators of a long-standing Santa Barbara dispensary, currently held on $1 million bail each, are the latest victims of this unprovoked attack on medical marijuana providers. On Friday, the Santa Barbara Police Department and Sheriff’s Department [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Troubling Trend of $1 Million Bails in Medical Marijuana Cases", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=786" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Calaveras Sheriff Brazenly Engages in Identity Theft to Entrap Medical Marijuana Provider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stooping to a new low, local law enforcement in California has resorted to identity theft in order to entrap, arrest and prosecute law-abiding medical marijuana providers. The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Department has admitted to using the physician’s recommendation and identity of legal medical marijuana patient Robert Shaffer in order to entrap and arrest Jay Smith, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Calaveras Sheriff Brazenly Engages in Identity Theft to Entrap Medical Marijuana Provider", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=783" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>ASA appeals LA zoning interpretation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed an appeal of the Zoning Administrator’s interpretation of the new medical cannabis ordinance in Los Angeles on Friday. The appeal challenges the Zoning Administrator’s position on parking and nonconforming use status for medical cannabis collectives.

In an interpretation published on May 6, Zoning Administrator Michael Logrande states that collectives “operate [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "ASA appeals LA zoning interpretation", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=775" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Holder Asked to Clarify DOJ Medical Marijuana Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Polis, one of the newest members of the House Judiciary Committee, asked AG Eric Holder to clarify more questions about the DOJ&#8217;s medical marijuana policy.
Building on Rep. Cohen&#8217;s questions to AG Holder,  Rep. Polis first offered his applause and support for the DOJ memo disseminated last fall to US Attorneys discouraging prosecution of individuals [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Holder Asked to Clarify DOJ Medical Marijuana Policy", url: "http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=767" });</script>]]></description>
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