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Medical Cannabis CardHolder Network Opportunities Happening Around the State
Every Tuesday (Noon - 4PM), Wednesday, (7PM - 9PM), and Thursday (Noon - 4PM) * Meeting / Meet-Up on Medical Cannabis in Keizer, at the The Gathering Place, 7845 River Road NE, Keizer, Oregon, 97301 * Click here for map and directions.
Monday, July 6th, 7pm * Public Meeting on Medical Cannabis in Sweet Home, happens every 1st Monday of the month (except September, no meet) * Click here for map and directions.
* Call 503.363-4588 or click here for more info on Meetings and Meet-Ups around the state.

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Tired of the War on (Some!) of the Sick and Dying Pot-heads?

This fall, voters in your area elected a new representative to the U.S. Congress. Please help MPP convince your new member of Congress to vote in favor of marijuana policy reforms by visiting their action center today.

In 2007, there were more than 775,000 arrests for the simple possession of marijuana - not trafficking or production, but simple possession - and 872,720 total arrests for marijuana offenses.

These numbers represent a tremendous cost to American taxpayers ($10 to $14 billion annually by conservative estimates). And yet, despite our strict laws, America has one of the world's highest rates of marijuana use. Recent studies show that teen marijuana use is on the rise; in some demographics, marijuana use is more common than smoking cigarettes. Marijuana prohibition has failed.

It's time for Congress to rethink this wasteful and ineffective policy. Please visit the action center and send a letter to your new member of Congress today.

It's important for your new representative to hear from you, and it only takes one minute of your time. Thanx!

MERCY on the Tube
in Salem, Oregon area thru Capital Community Television, Channel 23. See it TUE @ 11 pm, THU @ 1 pm, FRI @ 11 am, SAT @ 11pm. Click here for more details. Many Thanks to CCtv, E.C. TV and volunteer Peke.

MERCY Office
We're still looking for a Place. Click here to eMail, or Call 503.363-4588 for more info or to comment. Our Monthly Meetings, held on the last Thursday of the month, will be at at Capital Community Television, 585 Liberty St SE, Salem, Oregon, 97301 – where we do our Monthly Filming of MERCY-TV * The TV Show filming and Patient MeetUp hosted by MERCY-TV at CCTV in Salem goes from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Call: 503.363-4588 or visit - mercycenters.org/tv - for more on this.

Action Alert: PLEASE Write This Lady!
Medical Cannabis Political Prisoner Stephanie Landa Sentence Extended
Dublin, CA -- Medical cannabis political prisoner Stephanie Landa is having a rough time of it in county jail and really could use your cards and letters of appreciation and love. Stephanie Landa, medical marijuana activist, failed a recent drug test administered by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and will have her sentence extended. Her new out date is listed as June 9, 2009. In 2002, after receiving the full cooperation of the SF Board of Supervisors, the SF Medical Marijuana Task Force, and San Francisco District Attorney Terrence Hallinan, Stephanie, Tom Kikuchi and Kevin Gage were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Agency by a rogue narcotics detective in the San Francisco Police Department, an action that was in a violation of the city’s Medical Marijuana Sanctuary Resolution. Because they were not allowed to present a medical defense in federal court, all three accepted a plea bargain and plead guilty. Click > here < for more.

Learn how to pass a drug test so you don’t pass up the opportunity of your life.

Support The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act of 2009

Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, along with a bipartisan coalition of 13 co-sponsors, is seeking to strengthen legal protections for state-authorized medical marijuana patients. House Bill 2835, The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act of 2009, would ensure that medical cannabis patients in states that have approved its use will no longer have to fear arrest or prosecution from federal law enforcement agencies. Thirteen states -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington -- have enacted laws protecting medical marijuana patients from state prosecution. Yet in all of these states, patients and providers still face the risk of federal sanction -- even when their actions are fully compliant with state law.

It is time that we allowed our unique federalist system to work the way it was intended. Patients and their state representatives should have the authority to enact laws permitting the medical use of cannabis -- free from federal interference. Previous versions of The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act were introduced in both the 108th and 109th Congress, but failed to receive a public hearing or a committee vote. Please write your members of Congress today and tell them to stop targeting and prosecuting medical marijuana patients and providers. Visit - http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=13532281

Support The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009

Texas Republican Ron Paul, along with ten co-sponsors, is once again seeking to allow for the commercial farming of industrial hemp. House Bill 1866, The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009, would exclude low potency varieties of marijuana from federal prohibition. If approved, this measure will grant state legislatures the authority to license and regulate the commercial production of hemp as an industrial and agricultural commodity.

Several states -- including North Dakota, Montana, and Vermont -- have enacted regulations to allow for the cultivation of hemp under state law. However, none of these laws can be implemented without federal approval. Passage of HR 1866 would remove existing federal barriers and allow states that wish to regulate commercial hemp production the authority to do so. Upon introducing the bill in Congress, Rep. Paul said: "It is unfortunate that the federal government has stood in the way of American farmers, including many who are struggling to make ends meet, from competing in the global industrial hemp market. Indeed, the founders of our nation, some of whom grew hemp, would surely find that federal restrictions on farmers growing a safe and profitable crop on their own land are inconsistent with the constitutional guarantee of a limited, restrained federal government. Therefore, I urge my colleagues to stand up for American farmers and cosponsor the Industrial Hemp Farming Act." Visit - http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=13073826

Members Of Congress Call For an End to Federal Marijuana Penalties

H.R.2943 : To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes. Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, along with co-sponsors Ron Paul (R-TX); Maurice Hinchey (D-NY); Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA); and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), has reintroduced legislation to limit the federal government's authority to arrest and prosecute minor marijuana offenders. The measure, entitled an "Act to Remove Federal Penalties for Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults," would eliminate federal penalties for the personal possession of up to 100 grams (three and one-half ounces) of cannabis and for the not-for-profit transfer of up to one ounce of pot - making the prosecutions of these offenses strictly a state matter.

Under federal law, defendants found guilty of possessing small amounts of cannabis for their own personal use face up to one year imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. Passage of this act would provide state lawmakers the choice to maintain their current penalties for minor marijuana offenses or eliminate them completely. Lawmakers would also have the option to explore legal alternatives to tax and regulate the adult use and distribution of cannabis free from federal interference. Visit - http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=13568661

when contacting your members of Congress. H.R.2943 : To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 6/18/2009) Cosponsors (4) Committees: House Judiciary; House Energy and Commerce Latest Major Action: 6/18/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. COSPONSORS(4), ALPHABETICAL Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 6/18/2009 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 6/18/2009 Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] - 6/18/2009 Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 6/18/2009

Support The National Criminal Justice Act of 2009!

Over a dozen U.S. Senators, led by Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, are seeking to establish a blue-ribbon commission to review America's criminal justice policies -- and the criminalization of nonviolent drug possession in particular. Senate Bill 714, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009, seeks to initiate a comprehensive re-evaluation of America's drug and prison policies.

Writing in Parade Magazine on March 29, Sen. Webb explained why this review is necessary:

"America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. ... The United States has by far the world's highest incarceration rate. With 5% of the world's population, our country now houses nearly 25% of the world's reported prisoners.

... Drug offenders, most of them passive users or minor dealers, are swamping our prisons. ... Justice statistics also show that 47.5% of all the drug arrests in our country in 2007 were for marijuana offenses. Additionally, nearly 60% of the people in state prisons serving time for a drug offense had no history of violence or of any significant selling activity. ... African-Americans -- who make up about 12% of the total U.S. population population -- accounted for 37% of those arrested on drug charges, 59% of those convicted, and 74% of all drug offenders sentenced to prison. Visit - http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=13046001

HELP! People Needing Medical Cannabis Across America. TAKE ACTION NOW!

This is a chain e-mail you can't refuse. Unlike most, this will actually help you - and a whole buncha others - just by passing it on. Cannabis consumer or not - from the folks just trying to take care of themselves or a loved one to those who simply see the expensive, immoral waste of making war on the sick and dying - everyone is affected by this issue.

There are a number of medical cannabis (marijuana) bills in play in states across the US. We need to get the word out and people contacting reps and officials and get this legislation into law.

To accomplish this you need to click on the following links and send a message to all the reps and media you can on the issue. Then get everybody else to do the same.

To do this you need to tell everybody you know. And can confide in.

Then/or anonymously tell everybody you don't know - or can't confide in. Yet.

Tell everybody you can by e-mailing a link to this website to them and/or printing off this info and handing out where necessary. Also phone call and visit. Take literature with you and approach businesses, organizations and even people on the street while you're out and about. Wear your pot-leaf shirt and register voters, as feasible.

Organize an event or action item to attract people in order to inform, educate and activate. Don't forget to alert the media!

Tell everybody else by Letters-to-the-Editor, displaying signage at street corners and over-passes (wear trenchcoat, fedora and sunglasses if afraid of exposure), and/or anonymously leaving literature and posting on-line at places where people are likely to find it. Coffeeshops are good places to leave printed material and you can go to the websites of the local newspapers to post items as well. More ideas and supporting tools via the links below.

And we're sure you'll come up with more. Exchange notes at the websites provided.

Help medical cannabis in Alabama - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Connecticut - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Illinois - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Massachusetts - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Minnesota - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Missouri - click > here

Help medical cannabis in New Jersey - click > here

Help medical cannabis in New York - click > here

Help medical cannabis in New Hampshire - click > here

Help medical cannabis in North Carolina - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Ohio - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Pennsylvania - click > here

Help medical cannabis in South Dakota - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Tennessee - click > here

Help medical cannabis in Texas - click > here

This info and and more at NORML’s Legislative Action Alerts page, visit - http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/

For more info on medical cannabis in America, visit - http://www.mercycenters.org/usa

Thanx! and please give us feedback.

Perry Stripling for
the Medical Cannabis Resource Center (MERCY)
503-363-4588
info@mercycenters.org

Medical Cannabis (Marijuana) in Oregon How To and Other Relevent Info

Getting with The Program ... The role of the Oregon Department of Human Services, Health Services is simply to administer the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act as approved by the voters of this State. The Department did not write the law and does not have any authority to change it or to disregard its provisions. The principal goal of the OMMP is to make the registration process work smoothly and efficiently for qualified patients.

Contacting ... The OHD/OMMP: Oregon (Dept. of Human Resources) Health Division (DHS) / Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) - which is located at 800 NE Oregon Street, #21, Portland, OR 97232-2162 - can be reached by e-mail-ing from their WEBSITE: oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp, by Phone: 971-673-1234, by Fax: 971-673-1278, by Mail: DHS/OMMP * PO Box 14450 * Portland, OR 97293-0450 or by visiting their office. Their Hours of Operation: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

How To - a Guideline for Completing the Application for Registration.

Step (1) Get Forms from the OHD/OMMP (among other sources) and begin the process of Applying. Call, fax - or - write to the OMMP for an Application Packet. Or visit. The OMMP sometimes has packets at the front desk and there are numerous organizations that also provide copies of the forms in print as well as thru their websites. Get and fill out the Application for Registration in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act Program. Learn More ...

Form Instruction NOTES: (a) Please complete Part A of the Application Form. Please provide a copy of a photo identification card as requested. If information on the front of the card is not current (for example, if your address has changed) please also photocopy the back of the id. (b) If a person over the age of 18 provides assistance to you, and you would like for that person to also receive a registration card, please complete Part B of the form, and provide a copy of photo i.d. of the primary caregiver. [Note: there is no additional fee for a primary caregiver registration card.] (c) Completion of Part C is optional. Please be sure to sign your name in Part D. (d) If you are a minor (under the age of 18), your parent or guardian must complete the Declaration of Person with Primary Custody of a Minor form. The form must also be notarized.

Step (2) Set an appointment & have your doctor sign the Oregon Health Dept. form - or - get a copy of your chart notations showing medical marijuana "may help alleviate symptoms". Your physician must be an MD or a DO licensed to practice in Oregon under ORS 677. He or she must provide signed, valid, written documentation stating that you are his/her patient, that you have been diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition covered by the Act, and that the medical use of marijuana may mitigate the symptoms or effects of your condition. This documentation may be in the form of a copy of your chart notes, a letter, or the attached Attending Physician's Statement form. [Note: chart notes or a letter must include all elements of the Attending Physician's Statement form.]

Step (3) Send in your application with registration fee. In order for your application to be complete, a fee of must be paid by check or money order. The fee is determined by the following:

* $100 for new applications; * $100 for renewal applications; * $20 for applicants who are enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan or who receive federal Supplementary Social Security Income.

To qualify for the $20 fee, applicants must submit documentation that verifies they are on the Oregon Health Plan or are receiving Supplemental Social Security income Please make payable to: Oregon Health Division and send payment with your application forms and/or other materials. All information will be verified.

Step (4) Wait. All information will be verified. Upon receipt of a complete application, you will be issued a medical marijuana registration card by the Oregon Health Division. Learn More ...

Qualifying Conditions ... Debilitating Medical Condition: your physician Checks the appropriate boxes on the ATTENDING PHYSICIAN’S STATEMENT (see form ) 1. Malignant neoplasm (Cancer); 2. Glaucoma; 3. Positive status for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS); 4. Agitation due to Alzheimer’s Disease; 5. A medical condition or treatment for a medical condition that produces for a specific patient one or more of the following: (check all that apply); a. Cachexia; b. Severe pain; c. Severe nausea; d. Seizures, including but not limited to seizures caused by epilepsy; e. Persistent muscle spasms, including but not limited to spasms caused by multiple sclerosis. Learn More ...

Doctors ... What are the requirements? Finding a physician thats right for you. Educating health care professionals and supporting doctors (as well as yours!) rights and responsibilites in the realtionship. (legal) Analysis and documentation of the proper (BME) procedures and communication of the same. (Medical) Information to educate your physician about cannabis as medicine. NOTE: Your physician must be a Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) licensed to practice medicine in Oregon. You must have an established patient/physician relationship with your "attending physician." Naturopaths, chiropractors, and nurse practitioners cannot sign the documentation. The OMMP cannot refer you to a physician. The OMMP does not have a physician referral list.

RESOURCEs: However, MERCY maintains a List of Specialists at > mercycenters.org/orgs/Clinics.html < and some of these organizations have Referral systems > Oregon Resources.

Getting a Card
- ADMIN issues
* Qualifying Conditions
* Fees
* Forms and Instructions
* Educating your Doctor
- PATIENT issues
* Finding a Doctor
Got Card
- PATIENT issues
* Getting Meds
* Finding Grower
* Growing
* Medicating
- ADMIN issues
Keeping Your Card
* Changes

More About OMMA

Basic Information ... The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act (OMMA), a ballot initiative approved by voters in 1998, allows patients to possess and grow small amounts of medical marijuana. The law required DHS to create a registry system for persons authorized to use marijuana for medicinal purposes. Applicants must provide a statement from their physician that they have a qualifying medical condition and that medical marijuana might alleviate their symptoms or disease. Once their application is approved they are issued a registration card that is renewable annually. For those who understand the utilization of cannabis as medicine, this is an invaluable option in therapy. Learn More ...

Right for You? ... Conditions and symptoms where others have experienced relief through the application of cannabis. List ailments involved and medications used along with the theraputic benefits and recommended titration (dosage) levels. Risk/s assessment - Addiction, Over-dosage and Reference for healing properties for Cost / Benefit Analysis. List Pros & Cons. What is your condition? Your current medication? Learn More ...

Cannabis is Medicine ... and has been so since mans ancestors first encountered it. Archeology tells us more about the history of this fascinating and versatile plant every day. Educate yourself and others on the issues surrounding it and its utilization. Learn More ...

Policy ... You must be an Oregon resident to be a registered patient in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP). Your physician must be a Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) licensed to practice medicine in Oregon. You must have an established patient/physician relationship with your "attending physician." Naturopaths, chiropractors, and nurse practitioners cannot sign the documentation. The OMMP cannot refer you to a physician. The OMMP does not have a physician referral list. You must list a grow site address on your application. You, or your designated primary caregiver, may grow your own medication. There is no place in the State of Oregon to legally purchase medical marijuana. The OMMP cannot find a designated primary caregiver for you. The OMMP does not keep a referral list of persons who want to be caregivers for patients. (You are not required to list a caregiver, unless you are less than 18 years old.) Your caregiver cannot be your physician. The OMMP cannot supply you with seeds or starter plants, or give you advice on how to grow medical marijuana. The application fee cannot be waived. Partial payments cannot be accepted. Learn More ...

Procedures ... Policy, laws, etc. Legal references; For legal info - State laws, rules, statues, legal decisions, etc. - click > here <. Patient rights! Ie- NO Reciprocity - you are only legal in Oregon. NOTE: You have a medical necessity defense even if you don't have your card yet. * FAQS - Frequently Asked QuestionS * The Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) receives many questions that are not answered in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act (OMMA, 1998), Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS), Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR), or the application. The information provided here, initially from the OMMP website, is an effort to help you understand the role of the OMMP, its benefits and limitations. See OMMPs FAQs Page at: Learn More ...

the Medicine ... You must list a grow site address on your application. You, or your designated primary caregiver, may grow your own medication. There is no place in the State of Oregon to legally purchase medical marijuana. The OMMP cannot supply you with seeds or starter plants, or give you advice on how to grow medical marijuana. Learn More ...

Networking ... Where to get it now? How to find a long-term source? The OMMP cannot find a designated primary caregiver for you. The OMMP does not keep a referral list of persons who want to be caregivers for patients. (You are not required to list a caregiver, unless you are less than 18 years old.) Your caregiver cannot be your physician. The OMMP cannot supply you with seeds or starter plants, or give you advice on how to grow medical marijuana. Learn More ...

Application ... How to best use (apply) it? Learn More ...

Growing ... You must list a grow site address on your application. You, or your designated primary caregiver, may grow your own medication. There is no place in the State of Oregon to legally purchase medical marijuana. The OMMP cannot find a designated primary caregiver for you. The OMMP does not keep a referral list of persons who want to be caregivers for patients. (You are not required to list a caregiver, unless you are less than 18 years old.) Your caregiver cannot be your physician. The OMMP cannot supply you with seeds or starter plants, or give you advice on how to grow medical marijuana. Learn More ...

CHANGE! ... Adding Qualifying Conditions, Networking with the Administrators and otherwise Advocating for the Program as well as Watch-Dogging the Legislature. Learn More ...

LINKs:
a medical cannabis bibliography www.omma1998.org More Links ...

ORGs:
Oregon Green Free an on-line medical cannabis community. More Orgs ...

Welcome to the Home page for the Medical Cannabis Resource Center - Me.R.Ce. - a.k.a. MERCY, or the Mercy Center.
About this page ...

Composed of a website, a few determined volunteers - and a buncha hopeful ideas - we are a Portland-metro, Oregon-area based not-for-profit medical cannabis patient support group involved in law reform activism here in the Pacific American northwest and beyond.

This is the home page and index to our site. Thru this, you can learn more about us including our mission, what action that translates into and how to contact us and/or help out and do your own thing.

Tired of paying for the War on (Some!) of the Sick and Dying Pot-heads?
GET WRITING MAD! Compose and Send a Letter to the Editor, Today!

JOIN the CAMPAIGN! Medical Cannabis for PTSD for Veterans, Police, Firefighters and Other American Citizens

Efforts are underway to add PTSD to the List of Qualifying Conditions to Register with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program. Testimony is being gathered, Send yours to action item organizer Edward Glick. Visit our PTSD action center today. And tell everybody you know. Then tell everybody you don't know. Yet.

Join the Global Marijuana Marches!

This World-wide Cannabis Liberation Action Item is happening May 2, 2009 in 200-plus cities in Oregon and all over the Planet! In Salem - High Noon at the Capital Mall, W. Summer & Center; in Eugene - (usually!) High Noon at the Federal building, 7th & Pearl; in Portland - (usually!) High Noon starting in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Learn More ...

OMMP Meeting Notes Available
One way to discuss rules or propose changes to the program is to attend the public meetings hosted by the OMMP. Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) meetings happen quarterly and as-needed around the state. Click here for Meeting Agendas, Minutes, etc. Click here for more information about OMMP Meetings.

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Multiple Sclerosis
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PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
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Tar (Resin)
Tinnitus (Ringing in the Ears)

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A World of MERCY; Medical Cannabis around the Globe
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!WANTED!
Bands and Musicians in general!!
for Cannabis Jam Sessions, events and such. Cannabis Jam Sessions! Like the MMM in Salem, May 5th, 2007, High Noon. Click here to see Band List and to register yours.

Find Out About Senate Bill 1085
Educate yourself. We have posted this analysis of SB1085 in our library as well as the SB 1085 Points document released by the OMMP along with WORD and PDF versions of the same.

We Got Newsletter!
Want One? Click here for List. Got news or a source? Update the Bulletin Board.

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Whats Happening ...

JULY 2009

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

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* Patients Meet Up in Portland (OR), by OGF-Pdx
* Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR), by MERCY 2
Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 3 4
Patients Meet Up in Medford (OR), by OGF-South

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Patients Meet Up in Portland (OR), by OMCCC 6
Patients Meet Up in Sweet Home 7
Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 8
Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 9
Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 10 11
* Patients Meet Up in LaGrande (OR), by OGF-East
* Patients Meet Up in Portland (OR), by OR-NORML
* Patients Meet Up in Eugene (OR), by OGF-Eug

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Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 15
Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 16
Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 17
Emerald Empire Hempfest in Eugene 18
* Emerald Empire Hempfest in Eugene
* Patients Meet Up in Tigard (OR), by OGF-West
* Patients Meet Up in Brookings (OR), by OGF-South Coast
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* Emerald Empire Hempfest in Eugene
* Patients Meet Up in Portland (OR), by OMCCC 20
Emerald Empire Hempfest in Eugene 21
* Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR)
* Emerald Empire Hempfest in Eugene 22
Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 23
* Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR)
* Emerald Empire Hempfest in Eugene 24
Emerald Empire Hempfest in Eugene 25
* Patients Meet Up in Seaside (OR), by OGF-North Coast
* Patients Class in Portland (OR), by OR-NORML
* W-V-NORML Public meeting in Eugene (OR)
* Patients Meet Up in Portland (OR), by OGF-Pdx East

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Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 29
Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR) 30
* Patients Meet Up in Keizer (OR)
* MERCY-TV in Salem 31

Click here for printable version of current month in WORD, click here for PDF.

What’s Happening

in Oregon state and NorthWest, and beyond – 2009

see below for details

- Action Items and Alerts -

* LEGISLATIVE Update: Bills relating to medical cannabis, hemp legalization and marijuana prohibition reform in general have been introduced at the Federal and State levels, both in Oregon State and across the nation. For example -

* There are 30+ bills relating to marijuana in the Oregon State legislature this session and there are probably more coming. Hearings are already set for bills regarding patients right to work & the state garden that takes away patients gardens, among others.

There is a web page set up with a complete list at -

http://willamettevalleynorml.org/legis/2009/

- with web pages set up for each bill in order to gather related talking points, LTE examples, Hearing notices, links and Bulletin Boards so everyone can contribute. Links and other tools on how to contact your rep, find out about bills, etc. is at - http://willamettevalleynorml.org/legis/state.html

* Need a Doctor to sign for you? > Resources > Patients > Doctors > Clinics (Specialists) Others? Let everybody know, visit: http://www.mercycenters.org/orgs/Clinics.html and Post It!

* Forums. A means to communicate and network on medical cannabis in Portland across Oregon and around the world. A list of Forums, Chat Rooms, Bulletin Boards and other Online Resources for the Medical Cannabis Patient, CareGiver, Family Member, Patient-to-Be and Other Interested Parties. * Resources > Patients (plus) > Online > Forums * Know any? Let everybody else know! Visit: http://www.mercycenters.org/orgs/Forums.html and Post It!

Events

* Stay Tuned for Next * Public Meet Up in Bend-area (Redmond), Oregon * Or any other Medical Cannabis Resource NetWork Opportunity for Patients as well as CardHolders-to-be. * whether Social meeting, Open to public –or- Cardholders Only * Let everybody know, visit: http://www.mercycenters.org/events/Meets.html and Post It! For example . . .

Saturday, June 27, 2009, 3pm to 6pm * OGF meeting in Eugene will have a lesson in making tinctures and oils from marijuana. It is open to all Oregon Medical Marijuana Program cardholders.

WHAT: Learn how to make oils & tinctures from marijuana. Get the most medicine from your plants, use the leafs.

WHO: Oregon Green Free, class lead by "Potionmaker" for Oregon Medical Marijuana Patient cardholders only. Picture & OMMP Id's are needed at the door. Proof of recent OMMP application is accepted too.

WHERE: 687 River Ave, Eugene 97405 at the Voter Power office

WHEN: This Saturday, 3 to 6P

WHY: Learn how to get the most medicine from your harvest.

TICKETS: After a short meeting. A suggested donation of $20 is requested, but give what you can.

Additional information: Contact Lance or Carol at 541 895 5729 or email bagley1@hotmail.com

* Saturday, June 27th, 2pm * Willamette Valley NORML Public meeting * Normally happens every 4th Sat. of the month and is held at Herbs Toasted Subs, 1210 Willamette, in Eugene * call: 541.517-0957 –or- visit: http://WillametteValleyNORML.org

* Saturday, June 27th at 2 pm * at Big Blue, the Oregon Green Free (OGF) Patient Resource Center 2375 SE 174th Ave., Portland * OGF-PDX-East * Meeting, open to the public. Happens every 4th Sat. of the month. Visit - http://www.oregongreenfree.org for more on OGF

* Saturday, June 27th at Noon * in the Westlake Restaurant in Seaside * OGF-North-Coast * Meeting. Open to the public. Happens every 4th Sat. of the month.

* Saturday, June 27th, at Noon * a Patient Resource NetWork Meeting in Portland hosted by Oregon NORML. The Basics: 4th Saturdays = OMMP 101 (Learn the Program, Learn the Law; Doors open at 11am, close at Noon; You must be a cardholder in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program; You must be 21 years of age or older; You must show valid Oregon Photo ID; You must sign registration form indemnifying Oregon NORML & host; You must be a member of Oregon NORML. NO BUYING OR SELLING OF CANNABIS! Visit: > http://www.ornorml.org/events/cardmtg.html < for the latest information.

Voter Power Spaghetti Feed This Weekend At Their New Office

$5 Spaghetti Feed

Sunday, June 28, 2009, 2pm to 5pm

New Voter Power Portland Office

6701 SE Foster Rd, Ste. D

the entrance is in the back parking lot, corner of SE Foster Rd. & SE 67th.

503-224-3051

OMMP card holders only. You don't have to be a VP member & they'd like for you to join them! You can always bring desserts. Come make new friends, discuss a little cannabis politics & tour their new digs.

* Every Tuesday, next is June 30th * all at 7pm * Cannabis T.V. Show filming in Eugene * Eugene Cannabis TV Weekly Production happens every Tuesday from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm at: Community TV 29 Studio behind Sheldon High School * Call 541.517-0957 or visit: http://mercycenters.org/events/Meet_CLF.htm

* Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (except Holidays), next are June 30th – July 1st, 2nd * Tue - Noon to 4:00pm, Wed - 7:00pm to 9:00pm, Thu - Noon to 4:00pm * CardHolders MeetUp hosted by MERCY at The Gathering Place in Keizer. Located at 7845 River Road NE, Keizer, Oregon, 97301, This one will happen every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. * for more info, call MERCY at: 503.363-4588 –or- visit:

http://mercycenters.org/events/Meet_Gathering.htm

* Wednesday, July 1st * Emerald Empire Hempfest (EEH) Planning volunteer core Meeting will happen 7pm, at Washington-Jefferson Park (near the Basketball Courts),. Get in on the ground floor now. It's going to be one heck of an event! call 541-517-0957 for more information. Our volunteer staff is growing and we're having a work party at the campout grounds on Saturday, 6/27/09. We meet at Normal Bean's place, 670 Hwy 99, Eugene, 10:00am and caravan from there. The campout location is I-5 Exit 163 (Curtin).

* Wednesday, July 1st, 7pm * and 1st Wed of every month * an Oregon Green Free (OGF - PDX) meeting, at Stark Street Pizza, in Portland, Oregon * Social meeting, Open to public. Visit - http://www.oregongreenfree.org for more on OGF

* Saturday, July 4th, 2009 * Fourth Of July Smoke-In / Rally, March & Concert To End Marijuana Prohibition On July 4th In Washington, D.C. * Yes, it’s the 4th of July Hemp Coalition's 40th Annual Smoke-In at the National Mall in Washington DC (23rd & Wisconsin NW). The Rally starts at "High Noon" in Lafayette Park (North side of the White House). From 12:00-3:00pm Activist speakers from the front lines of the "War On Drugs" comment on the progress and direction of ending marijuana prohibition and other aspects of drug policy reform. The Concert begins at 2pm in the Henry Bacon Ball Field located at 23rd Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Performers and activists will present a colorful message relating to our cause during the afternoon. At 4:00pm the "Peace Mile Parade" concludes it's march route at the ball field. At 8:50pm we are required by the Park Service to shut down our sound system so that it will not interfere with the National Park Service fireworks display. For more info Contact: Fourth of July Hemp Coalition (FJHC) - P O Box 5513, Washington DC 20016, phone 202-286-5586, or visit - http://www.smoke-in.org/

* Saturday, July 4th, 2pm * OGF SOUTH CHAPTER in Medford meets and hold classes for medical marijuana cardholders to learn how to become self-sufficient on the first Saturday of every month from 2pm to 4pm at the Voter Power building: 1708 W Main St in Medford OR. Visit - http://www.oregongreenfree.org - for more information

* July 5th * Oregon Medical Cannabis Cultivators Club (O.M.C.C.C.) will be holding meetings on the 1st and the 3rd Sunday of each month. Meetings will be held from 4 to 8 PM at Studio 6, which is at 6 Tillamook Street, Portland, OR 97212. Call (503) 995-6604 for more info, visit - http://www.omccc.org/intro.htm to get directions.

* Monday, July 6th, 7pm * and Every 1st Monday of the month ( except September, no meet ) * Public Meet Up of Sweet.Net, a Medical Cannabis Resource NetWork for Patients as well as CardHolders-to-be. In Sweet Home (OR) * Call 503.363-4588 –or- visit:

http://www.mercycenters.org/events/Meet_PUB_Sweet.htm

* Saturday, July 11th, 3:00pm * normally happens Every 2nd Saturday of the month * an Oregon Green Free (OGF-Eug) meeting, in Eugene * at the Voter Power office - 687 River Avenue, Eugene, Oregon.

* Saturday, July 11th, at Noon * a Patient Resource NetWork Meeting in Portland hosted by Oregon NORML. The Basics: 2nd Saturdays = OMMP Cardholders Meetings (Clones and Medicine); Doors open at 11am, close at Noon; You must be a cardholder in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program; You must be 21 years of age or older; You must show valid Oregon Photo ID; You must sign registration form indemnifying Oregon NORML & host; You must be a member of Oregon NORML. NO BUYING OR SELLING OF CANNABIS! Visit: > http://www.ornorml.org/events/cardmtg.html < for the latest information.

* July 11th * and Every 2nd Saturday of the month * at DHS building, 1607 Gekeler Lane, in LaGrande at Noon * OGF East * General Meet-Up, open to the public. Visit - http://www.oregongreenfree.org for more on OGF.

* Eugenes own Empire Empire HempFest * happening around Friday thru Sunday, July 17th-26th, 2009 * and every 3rd week-end in July at Washington-Jefferson Park, not far from the Willamette River and the city center of Eugene. Hempfest 2009 will be a multi-day event with food, guest speakers, music, activists, and live entertainment, plus vendors offering earth-friendly, hemp-based products and food.

Starts 4:20PM on Friday and goes on a 10 Day music & Peace festival - GET ON THE STAGE * Get on the Stage - Emerald Empire Hempfest Eugene, Oregon – July 17, 18 & 19 Washington - Jefferson park & ‘Pull Back The Curtain’ event, July 17 – 26, private land camping. Info: 10 Day music & Peace festival - GET ON THE STAGE - Emerald Empire Hempfest July 17th - 26th, 2009 Eugene, Oregon Family Gathering!!!! Watch for the Upcoming ads in March Issue of HIGH TIMES and get the inside scoop! The Festival part in town is free, you will need a camping pass to attend the rest of the event. Camping for the entire festival: $15.00/person ($25/family) 1st of many GET ON THE STAGE EVENTs. Normal Bean Takes Ken Kesey’s advice and takes the Family to the Next Step. Get On The Stage! PEACE RALLY!

It's not enough to just get on the bus now days! We are one people... get involved...get on the stage...and this will be the first gathering of its kind....see you there! In the Kesey day's, it was "Get On The Bus" Normal Bean say's "Get On The Stage" Was the counter-culture a success? Has enough time gone bye to judge the outcome? In the early hippy days the term "Get on the Bus" meant to take notice and tune in, be aware......... Ken Kesey's Bus, Further....was the vehicle, so to speak. With the new generation of hippies, we now need to step into a new cycle. We can no longer just take notice, we now have to get involved..... The new term for today is "Get on the stage"....meaning everyone must be involved and participate to make an effective change in our life time....... In the early days according to the history channel ...the children suffered.....did they really....look around at eveyday life in Eugene OR.....there are children of that era walking around making a difference and all are aware. They have taken on all parts of life and to most would seem quite Normal......... so get on the stage and get involved in peace brothers and sisters.....we got obama elected now lets do the next step!

This is the call you have been waiting on...........Normal Bean Artists: Normal Bean, Nick Gravenites, henry Turner & Flavor, Natasha james, Ken Petersen (plastic ono Band), Simon Babbs and woodknot, Maykers,Paul J Biondi, I-ch'ele & the Circle of Light, Hippinshlog, ISSA, Lunatics on Parole, Bad Gass, Doc-Ocular, Hannahs Field, Niyah, Johnny wilde, Specter,Just People,many more TBA. sound provided by ledgendary dead sound company - Ultra sound. Festival Website: http://www.normalbeanband.com

Visit: http://emeraldempirehempfest.com/ for more on the EEH. See all of you there! Contact organizers at: PO Box 10957, Eugene, Oregon 97440-2957 –or- Phone: 541.517-0957

* Saturday, July 18th * 12:30pm * at the Tigard Town Hall (Tigard) * OGF-PDX-West * Meeting, open to the public. Happens every 3rd Sat. of the month. Visit - http://www.oregongreenfree.org for more on OGF

* Saturday, July 18th * from 1pm til 4pm * at the Cape Ferrelo Fire Hall, north of Brookings - * OGF-South-Coast * Meeting. Open to the public. * The Cape Ferrelo Fire Hall is at 96349 Cape Ferrelo Road, Brookings, Oregon. Cape Ferrelo Road East is off HWY 101 north of Brookings, about 3 miles up on the left. Happens every 3rd Sat. of the month.

* Sunday, July 19th * Oregon Medical Cannabis Cultivators Club (O.M.C.C.C.) will be holding meetings on the 1st and the 3rd Sunday of each month. Meetings will be held from 4 to 8 PM at Studio 6, which is at 6 Tillamook Street, Portland, OR 97212. Call (503) 995-6604 for more info, visit - http://www.omccc.org/intro.htm to get directions.

* July 30th * 7:00pm to 9:00pm * TV Show filming and Patient MeetUp hosted by MERCY-TV at CCTV in Salem, at Capital Community Television, 575 Trade St SE, Salem, Oregon, 97301 – Monthly Filming and Meeting. Usually every last Thursday of the Month * call: 503.363-4588 or visit - http://mercycenters.org/tv/ - for more.

* Sat.-Sun., August 15th-16th, (third weekend in Aug.) 2009 Seattle HempFest in Seattle. Admission is FREE, it will be held at Myrtle Edwards Park, Pier 70 on the third weekend of August and goes from 10AM to 8PM, both days. Hempfest is a work-party. They want you to come to relax and enjoy their event, but they also want you to learn. When people learn the facts about Cannabis they inevitably come to our side. They want to offer the latest educational resources to help you learn about domestic production of industrial hemp, medical marijuana, pot law, and even addiction and abuse. They want to contribute to you being as informed, educated and prepared as you can be to participate in our culture and movement. Take this year's program guide home with you and study it. The brightest minds they can find have contributed to their program this year. It is a user's manual so please use it. Find more information at: http://seattlehempfest.com/

* Sat.- Sun., August 22^nd - 23^rd, 2009 * Oly HempFest in Olympia. The Olympia Hempfest is held at Heritage Park, Olympia, Washington on the fourth weekend of August and last year happened; from 11AM – 8PM on Sat. & from 11AM – 6PM on SUN. Admission is FREE, tho they suggest a $5 donation. Heritage Park is a 24-acre state-owned property adjacent to Capitol Lake and downtown Olympia, WA. It is the northern extension of the Washington state capitol campus.

Olympia Hempfest was founded in 2003 as a gathering of 500 people on the original Washington state capitol campus in downtown Olympia and has grown into one of the major Olympia events in just under its fourth year, with a annual theme of “Helping” each year Oly Hempfest strives to break down the barriers and remind people about our heritage and our responsibility to be active citizens.

Oly Hempfest 2008 will feature 16+ musical acts that are made up of regional touring bands and Olympia’s most prominent up coming artists performing. In addition there will be a disc golf course for your enjoyment. Contact: by phone: 360.456-3517 -or- Find more information at: http://www.olyhempfest.com/

* first Saturday, September 5^th, 10AM to 10PM – Sunday, September 6^th, 10AM to 10PM - 2009 * HempStalk happens in Portland, Oregon. * last year was at Eastbank Esplanade, 2 S.E. Main, between Salmon and Madison * The reason marijuana is illegal has very little to do with drugs, and is really about money and the continued centralization of economic and political control. Hemp seed oil is biodiesel and is three times more productive than any other seed oil crop, and hemp seed oil will run any diesel engine today with no modification. Hemp oil is the reason the petrochemical industry made up the "reefer madness" myth. They renamed hemp, using racist propaganda, calling it marijuana, and lied to make it illegal. There is a truth that must be heard! That's what the Hempstalk Festival is all about. To find out more about HempStalk, visit: http://hempstalk.org/ * or Contact HempStalk organizers: The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation (THCf), by phone: 1-800-723-0188 -or- visiting: http://thc-foundation.org/

* sometime in September, 2009 * usually 10:00 am to 2:30 pm * ACMM / Quarterly (OMMP) Meeting * last location: Medford Library, 205 South Central Ave, Large Conference Room, Medford, OR, 97501 * The Quarterly Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana (ACMM) is hosted by the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) – click here > http://mercycenters.org/events/Meet_OMMP.htm < for more info. * Also, you can Contact the Program at 971.673-1226 or by visiting the OMMP website at: http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp/

Upcoming Events

National NORML Conferences * Stand Up, Get Out, Speak Up For Your Rights! Where do freedom-loving citizens like YOU gather? Answer: Events hosted by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws!

It's Not Your Parents' Prohibition! The 2008 NORML Conference was held Friday, October 17 through Sunday, October 19 at the Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, CA. Stay tuned for next! And Spread the Word! Visit: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3427 for the latest on NORML conferences.

* Tuesday, October 14^th-ish, 2009 (21 days before election) * until 5pm * Voter Registration Deadline in Oregon. Call the toll-free voter information line at 1-866-ORE-VOTE (1-866-673-8683). The voter information line is available Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, se habla Espanol. TTY services for the hearing impaired are available at 1-866-350-0596. “Am I Registered to Vote?” Check Your Voter Registration On-Line! Visit - https://secure.sos.state.or.us/eim/vr/showVoterSearch.do to find out if you’re registered to vote. Voters may also call their county elections office to confirm their registration.

To receive a ballot this fall, voters must be registered no later than Oct. 14-ish. Voters should also re-register if their residence has changed, if their mailing address has changed, if their name has changed or if their signature has changed. The signature on a voter registration card is used to validate their mail-in ballots. Additional voting resources are also available online at the Elections Division website; visit: www.sos.state.or.us/elections/elechp.htm. Then * first Tuesday, November 4^th-ish (1^st Tues.) * til the Polls close * Vote! in Oregon. Read the Voting in Oregon Guide www.uhavavote.org/votingguide/index.html. Get to the link and others by visiting: www.oregonvotes.org/elec101.htm

VOTE! And be sure everybody you know does so also

* Tuesday, November 4^th-ish (1^st Tues.), 2009 * til the Polls close * Vote! in Oregon. Read the Voting in Oregon Guide www.uhavavote.org/votingguide/index.html. Get to the link and others by visiting: www.oregonvotes.org/elec101.htm

If you have any questions or problems visit www.HeadCount.org or Call - (866) OUR-VOTE.

And Vote Smart! Visit NORMLs Campaign 2008 web page - http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6966

Also, Project Vote Smart has profiles about nearly all candidates for federal and state offices, to include what the candidates have stated is their position on drug issues. Biographical Information, Voting Records, Issue Positions, Interest Group Ratings, Public Statements, Campaign Finances, Voter Registration, Ballot Measures, Issues and Legislation, Political Resources, and more. Politics is going to the Dogs! So, Bite Back with Project Vote Smart. Visit - http://www.vote-smart.org/

* Sometime in 2009 * The Oregon Medical Cannabis Awards should occur * The last Oregon Medical Cannabis Awards (OMCA), took place at the Ambridge Events Center (300 NE Multnomah, Portland) from 10am -10pm.

The event's daily activities were open to the public from 10am-5pm. Vendors of various medical cannabis and hemp-related products were for sale. Non-profit organizations offering educational materials. There was a Sustainable Fashion Show, including hemp clothing. Their legal panel examined the latest issues in medical cannabis. Speakers and demonstrations on the main stage educated and enlightened. Their special guest NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre gave the keynote address.

The 7pm-10pm evening event was a ticketed banquet honoring the leaders and achievers in the field of medical cannabis in Oregon. Visit: > http://www.ornorml.org/omca

The National Clinical Conferences on Cannabis Therapeutics, Next Conference is set for April 15-17, 2010 in Providence, RI USA * This conference presents state of the art cannabis research with faculty from the US, and around the world. Areas discussed included the use of cannabis for pain management, multiple sclerosis, mental health problems, cancer, glaucoma; use during pregnancy; an overview of the endogenous cannabinoids and their role in the human body; harm reduction measures and policy updates. Also, topics such as Providing Patients Safe Access to Therapeutic Marijuana/Cannabis, which encourages the education of registered nurses regarding current, evidence-based therapeutic use of marijuana/cannabis.

Learn about the scientific evidence supporting the therapeutic use of cannabis. Researchers from across the U.S. and around the world. NOTE! To NURSEs and other Medical Professionals - Continuing Medical Education credits available! CMEs from USCF; also CEUs for RNs, LVNs, MFTs and Reg.P./pharm.D. More information on the conference agenda, faculty, registration, and how to obtain Continuing Education credits is available at: http://www.medicalcannabis.com/conference.htm

* Friday, April 24th – Sunday, April 26th, 2010 (last week-end in April) * starts: whenever you get there * MERCYs 2nd Annual Wake-n-Bake * to be held at the North Falls Group Camp, RV area A, at the Silver Falls State Park near Silverton * We will be reserving the spot starting 4pm, Friday, so folks can get there any time after that. Communing Friday afternoon and evening, a pancake breakfast Saturday morn (8am – 10am) and Networking til 1pm, Sunday. * Donation of $10/person + $5/car is requested * To reserve your spot or, for more on MERCY, call: 503.363-4588 * for more info on the Camp, like directions, visit: http://mercycenters.org/events/Wake_n_Bake.htm

* Saturday, May 1st, 2010, High Noon * Marches for Global Cannabis Liberation * Also known as the Million Marijuana Marches, this Action is happening in Salem, Eugene, Portland and around the World. Check your local listings.

Salem plan: MERCY will assemble for this event, starting at 11am, at the far end of the mall across from the steps of the Capital Building, Salem, Oregon on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 and March at High Noon. Officially, the corner of W. Summer and Center streets. At High Noon (sharp!) we proceed down W. Summer thru the Mall to the corner of W. Summer and Court. Then west down Court Street on the north side-walk. We do not have permission ($!) to use the street, so we must stick to the sidewalks and obey pedestrian rules. We will check on being able to have bicycles and pace vehicles on the street beside us. Do not block traffic or impede other citizens attempting to use the walkway. We will march, politely and peacefully, down to Liberty Street and turn right. We'll go north up Liberty to Center and turn right. Going east down Center we'll come to W. Summer (the Mall), and return to our original rally point. Visit - http://mercycenters.org/events/MMM.html - for map and more.

Eugene: W-V-NORML is assembling at 11am at the Federal Building, 7th & Pearl, with the Rally beginning at High Noon. Speakers include, Elvy Musikka; Dr. Arthur Livermore; Allan Erickson; Ed Glick, RN.; Shawn Flury; Jen Valley; Barry Stull; and our own Dan Koozer as MC. Please bring all of the available MJ & MMJ rally signs that you can. Then there is the After Party and Fundraiser, 8PM, 687 River Ave., Eugene, to celebrate our success and plan next years action. OMMP CardHolders NOTE: There will be a place for patients to medicate. Visit - http://w-v-norml.org/events/GMM.html - for more.

Portland: Oregon-NORML, now in their tenth year, will gather at Pioneer Courthouse Square at 11am and leave the square at High Noon with a full police escort, marching through the streets of Portland to demand an end to adult marijuana prohibition. They return to the square following the march for an all-day festival to educate the public about the benefits of medical marijuana, industrial hemp, and social cannabis use as compared to alcohol. For more information, please contact Oregon NORML at 503-239-6110 or visit - http://www.ornorml.org/gcm/index.php. Come out and join what has become a staple of local Portland culture, the Global Cannabis March.

Visit: http://mercycenters.org/events/MMM.html for more on local action. For updated full list, go to http://www.globalmarijuanamarch.com There is also some international MMM networking going on at this CannabisCulture.com message forum:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=current

* Friday and Saturday, first week-end in June, 2010 * Aspen Legal Seminar * Join NORML for a two-day CLE program, usually at The Gant in Aspen, Colorado. NORML will, of course, have CLE credit for this program from all states that require continuing legal education credits for their attorneys. This annual Aspen NORML Legal Seminar weekend has become a favorite for many of the NLC members, as well as Activists, and everyone looks forward to another great weekend this June. Please mark your calendar and plan to join the revolution. Visit - http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6823 - for more.

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more details on What’s Happening

in Oregon state and the NorthWest region - 2008

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We wish to Note the availability of "Medical Marijuana Law," a book co-authored by Richard Glen Boire, of the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (www.cognitiveliberty.org), and Kevin Feeney

Medical Marijuana Law offers a complete overview of federal law and each of the 11 state medical marijuana programs. MMJ Law discusses the medical necessity defense in depth, how to qualify for each state program, the legal rights of patients and the role and legal rights of caregivers, how to deal with cops and how to remain legal under your state's law. MMJ Law also explores the rights and responsibilities of physicians who recommend marijuana, and explains how physicians can avoid legal troubles.

In addition to the above, MMJ Law contains a resource guide for each state, listing the prominent clinics and patient advocacy organizations in each state, contains the Marijuana Policy Project's Model Medical Marijuana Bill, a forward by Frank Lucido, MD, one of the prominent marijuana docs in California, and an article by Dale Gieringer (NORML) providing advice to medical marijuana providers. The book is 190 pages and retails at 14.95, but is available on Amazon at a reduced price. Clinics who wish to stock this book should visit the website of Ronin Publishing at ( http://www.roninpub.com/ord_whole.html ).

We feel that this guide will be a valuable resource for patients, caregivers and their doctors. Any and all feedback on this book from readers is appreciated. Questions are also welcome. For more information Contact: Kevin Feeney, JD (lalunaensumano@hotmail.com)

Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana (ACMM) meeting hosted by the OMMP.

Last Quarterly meet:

March, 2009

In Salem

- and was an Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana (ACMM) meeting.

We’ll get whatever documentation we can and post. Next meeting will be sometime in June and will probably be in Portland or Eugene.

See: http://mercycenters.org/ommp/meets/ for details, including any info we have, like proposed agenda, etc. We’ll get copies of documents and stuff from the meetings - and post in our online library, print out and otherwise Keep you in the loop! - as we can(!) You can also keep up on Public Meeting Notices by visiting the OMMP website at: http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp/ * Call the Program at 971.673-1226 for more info on OMMP hosted meetings. Also, see: http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp/acmm.shtml for more detail on the Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana (ACMM) or visit: http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp/mtngnotice.shtml for latest OMMP hosted meetings.

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At meeting and meet-ups hosted by these non-profit organizations –

* Patients – current and to be – can Ask Medication questions about how to apply and get answers from those who have already experienced the issues.

* Patients can meet with Caregivers - Caregivers can meet with Patients.

* Growing Patients and CareGivers can Ask grow questions and get answers from Oregon's best medical marijuana growers.

* Non-CardHolders and CardHolders alike can Learn the legal details of Oregon's Medical Marijuana Act and the most recent laws and rules changes – and what they can do about them.

* Medical Cannabis Network opportunity in Sweet Home. A Meet Up has been arranged by MERCY associate Dorothy Westofkansas at the American Legion Building, 1127 Long Street, Sweet Home, Oregon, 97386 starting at 7pm. The purpose is to establish a regular networking of Patients, Caregivers and Interested Parties in the area.

It is a public meeting and there is no medicating or open exchange of resources at the site at this time (must be “brown bagged”, out of public view). If resources available, places and times to exchange will be networked as can. Call 503.363-4588 –or- visit: http://mercycenters.org/events/Meet_PUB_Sweet.htm

This group will be meeting up on a regular basis every first Monday of the month.

Oregon Green Free (OGF) is a OMMP CardHolder-based virtual community that networks on-line and arranges meet-ups and other activity around the state. Oregon Green Free meets in Portland, Eugene and around the state. Sometimes is CARDHOLDERs ONLY! Contact info: mail to Oregon Green Free HQ, 2375 SE 174th Ave., Portland, Oregon, or phone: 503.760-2671 * or visit: http://www.oregongreenfree.com

Got a Place? Or an Idea? Post It! visit > http://www.mercycenters.org/events/Meets.html

MERCY Monthly Meetings. MERCY hosts Meetings on the Last Thursday of the Month at CCTV - Capital Community Television of Salem, Oregon. They’ll start at 7pm and go til 9pm. CCTV address and contact info:

575 Trade St SE

Salem, Oregon 97301

Phone: (503) 588-2288

web: http://www.cctvsalem.org

* Please help us help the sick and dying, let them know about this opportunity to network to resources or just get with the Program. For more info Visit: http://mercycenters.org/tv/

MERCY Office Hours. The building hosting the MERCY Office in Salem was sold. MERCY Office will NOT be Open to network patients to medicine and other resources * Looking for another Place! Call 503.363-4588 or visit: http://mercycenters.org/PubMeetSAL.htm for office details.

If you have any information or ideas, please let us know. Contact MERCY – the Medical Cannabis Resource Center by phone: 503.363-4588 or email: mercy_salem@hotmail.com

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the HomeGrown stuff

Tuesdays, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm * Eugene Cannabis T.V. (ECTV) Weekly Production. Location: Show is filmed at Community TV 29 Studio behind Sheldon High School * Visit: http://mercycenters.org/events/Meet_CLF.htm or Contact: Cannabis Liberation Front * PO Box 10957, Eugene, Oregon 97440-2957 * Check out more on the show online at:

http://eugenecannabistv.home.comcast.net

Our Media list: others? Lets us all know, Post It!

* Watch CANNABIS T.V. in EUGENE on Cable Channel 22/29 - EVERY WEEK - The Eugene Cannabis TV show schedule: Mon EVERY WEEK Wed 8:30 pm, Thurs 8:30am, Change: Fri 12:30a, 12:30p. In Salem, see CANNABIS T.V. on Cable Ch 23, TUE @ 11 pm, THU @ 1 pm, FRI @ 11 am -or- SAT @ 11pm. Also, Film footage of past Emerald Empire HempFests is being shown on Community TV Ch 22/29 on Monday at 3:30a, 3:30p and 10:30p, and Tuesday 10:30a. A special thanks to Chris (Taxi Chris) Kelsay.

MERCY on the Tube

ALSO, catch MERCY-TV in Salem, on Cable Channel 23, TUE @ 10:30 pm, THU @ 2 pm, FRI @ 11:30 am -or- SAT @ 8:30 pm. Many Thanks to CCtv, E.C. TV and volunteer Peke.

Cannabis Common Sense

ALSO, catch THCf’s Cannabis Common Sense in Salem, on Cable Channel 23, MON @ 2 pm, TUE @ 9 pm -or- FRI @ 9 am.

Radio? Printed Media? Others? Post It!

Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host To Be New Voice For NORML’s Daily Audio Stash -- Over 28,000 Daily Listeners Download Web’s Most ‘Pot-Friendly’ Political Podcast

Washington, DC, USA: The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has tapped syndicated radio talk show host Russ Belville as the new voice for its highly popular podcast, the NORML Daily Audio Stash.

Belville (aka ‘Radical Russ’) is the current host of the nationally syndicated radio show, "The Russ Belville Show," which airs on XM Satellite Radio's Air America channel 167 and on various terrestrial stations across the country. Belville also serves as the associate director for Oregon NORML.

"We are thrilled to welcome Russ on board as the new voice of NORML’s successful audio-programming," NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre said. "Five days a week, Russ will share his broadcast expertise and cannabis insight with the tens of thousands of NORML listeners who tune into the Daily Audio Stash and visit the program’s new interactive blog: http://stash.norml.org."

Belville takes over for departing Audio Stash host Chris Goldstein, who co- founded the program with NORML’s Executive Director in June 2006.

Today, NORML’s Daily Audio Stash ranks among the top 10 ‘most subscribed’ political podcasts in Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store – typically receiving more downloads than podcasts produced by the White House, the Pentagon, and US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Available for download Monday through Friday at 4:20pm eastern time at: http://www.norml.org, the Daily Audio Stash provides a forum for politicians, celebrities, physicians, scientists, and citizen activists to participate in uninhibited conversations about marijuana and legal reform. Recent guests on the Audio Stash include US Congressmen and Presidential candidates Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, noted poet and political activist John Sinclair, recording artists Fishbone and the Kottonmouth Kings, PBS travel-host and author Rick Steves, comedians Tommy Chong and Rob Cantrell (Last Comic Standing), political columnist and commentators Clarence Page and Froma Harrop, and pot cultivation expert and noted author Ed Rosenthal.

For more information or to learn how you can advertise on NORML’s top-rated podcast, please contact host Russ Belville at: radicalruss@gmail.com or Audio Stash Executive Producer Allen St. Pierre at (202) 483-5500.

MERCY Event ideas - contact MERCY - or visit their website for more info.

GlassWare Party (was Jan. 28th, 2006). Attention patients who use "glass" pipes for medical cannabis delivery devices. GlassWare Parties are an opportunity for medical cannabis patients to examine and inquire about this particular means of medicating in privacy and comfort.

For example, a GlassWare Party was held at the MERCY Center Sat., Jan. 28th, 2006 from High Noon to 4:20pm featuring the very functional glass art of Smokin' Glass of Portland. Patients were able to preview beautiful, practical "glass" products and accessories in a nice, SAFE, friendly environment where people can discuss the FAQS openly and straightforward.

Y'see, when in the store, conversations must be carefully controlled, even in the age of OMMA.

NOTE: "Smoke Shop" Protocol for Medical Cannabis Patients

Smokin' Glass sells only the finest quality functional glass art and other products. Sure, WE all know what else they can be used for, but we can't talk openly about it in the store.

OMMA didn't fix anything in this area, it's the same old drag. Anyone heard using words like: Bong, Hash-pipe or any word that implies illegal intent in the store - could be a local yokel on a boon-doggle or even a DEA agent on a fishing expedition - and the owner could be fined or even shut down. No joke.

SORRY! But federal law applies, so watch yer terminology! Yep, it's a silly game we ALL must play til we change the law.

Smokin' Glass has supported individuals and groups in the medical cannabis movement since the concept began. They help as much as they can publicly, mostly by patiently educating consumers on the law when purchasing their functional glass art for use as delivery devices while giving them the best price they can.

Now, would like to help more by offering a discount to the patient community. Mention you read it here and receive 30% off! Yes, all OMMP Cardholders get a whopping 30 percent savings on your purchase. So, stop on by their new location in Portland at -

1408 SE 39th, a half block north of Hawthorne up 39th, next to Jiffy Lube

- and ask about their water-pipes (NOT "bongs"!) and other functional glass pieces that OMMA cardholders may be interested in. Visit: http://mercycenters.org/events/GlassWare_Party.html for details.

Grow-vention (2/26/05). Growers Convention. Bring all growers together in safe environment and enable free exchange of information and resources. Have presentations and booths. Allow patients to attend in order to pick up info, resources or shop for a grower.

Independence and self sufficency are our strategies. Current focus is on protecting and supporting patients in the OMMP (Oregon Medical Marijuana Program) and in the process educate our neighbors.

One of our goals is to see local informal meetups, town hall meetings and events of, by and for the people culminating in state-wide medical cannabis patient representative congresses being held wherever they are needed. (link)

Please take a moment to check out and Sign our GuestBook and comment on the site. Drop a line, just say "hey" if nothing else.

Then, get active. And be a part of the change as you help make it happen.

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It's a matter of compassion and common sense about science, public health and human rights.

As a public service we provide access to excess medicine and other help such as researching Resources and Action information thru our website, printed media and any other outlet we can utilize - with a focus on facilitating Patient Activist Networks.

Visit our News sections to find out "What's happening?" Informing and Educating yourself and then others about why we do this.

We follow the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) and try to keep people informed of things - good, bad and ugly. Goods news - new program manager sees role as one of providing customer service. Another item; call hours restricted for a time - to better serve you - Honest! It's for our own good. See > the story.

We document basic help and try to sort, store and index by various views of interest. Goods news - new program manager sees role as one of providing customer See our OMMA section.

We do a newsletter, swipe your copy and spread it about. See also our Legislative and the Calendar and Events Pages to keep yourself updated with current status, events and actions.

For some history, ideas and general legislative tools & info, visit our web section on OMMA/2, a.k.a Measure 33. Or the library page for lists of available info.

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> involving medical aspects of cannabis?

Cannabis is medicine and has been so since mans ancestors first encountered it. Archeology tells us more about the history of this fascinating and versatile plant every day. Educate yourself and others on the issues surrounding it and its utilization.

Need help becoming a patient? Or with supply? We work to maintain lists of Medical Cannabis info and Orgs; who hold clinics, assist in medicating or growing, or help to the basics of "How to" in being a cannabis-legal patient and other relevent resource info.

For help on growing, you can check out the still-developing Grow Tipz section. A Grow guide index and interactive library for growing tips and information.

Also, Legal info and help. Laws & legal resources and references organized by State and Federal, where possible.

Take Action! "What you can do about it!" Ideas and Resources.

We utilize tools like OpdxNwoL; the Old pdx NORML website and online Library, and make an effort to share them with the community.

Check out our Bizness Associations; cannabis friendly Sources for products; potential donors, sponsors and supporters of events or ideas; and, someday, cannabis friendly employment guide (at least tell you who/how to avoid!) This will include Bizness DisAssociation, where we boycott those who support the war or any of it's tentacles.

Especially note Biz that carry newsletters, so you can stay in the loop.

We work to list all hemp resources, like sources for hemp t-shirts and such.

We believe in Hemp for Victory; Not only should we buy hemp and unilaterally support the biz, but work to get a seed planted in the US of A! > Action; see relative current Oregon Legislation.

Also our * Media networking efforts. See our lists of OMMA and cannabis friendly sources and resources. Those with info, and type. Those where you can post your info. From Letter To the Editor rules, to Ad costs and schedules of main-stream media, to TV Guide for cannabis law reform on cable, we work to research and post related info and tools.

It's up to us to get the word out. It's up to us to choose & spread cannabis friendly media and communications.

And we try to interface thru the Arts. Coming soon our ...

* A&E section. Cannabis friendly Art, Music, Theatre, Literature and all the mediums. Combining entertainment and activism when and where possible. For example, see our Cannabis Jam Sessions project.

Site Map and Index. A guide to our site and index to our resources and functions. Contact us for more information. Visit the GuestBook - our "inbox" and bulletin board - to leave a question or comment. What helped, what didn't - maybe why. This tool is only as good as WE make it.

New Mexico Patients Under Attack!

The DEA and a regional narcotics taskforce have raided the home of a paraplegic medical marijuana patient in what appears to be a cruel publicity stunt designed to intimidate New Mexico patients and policymakers.

With the help of supporters like you, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) passed legislation earlier this year in New Mexico that legalized marijuana for medical use. Since the law took effect, 38 patients have been approved by the state's Department of Health to possess and use marijuana to alleviate their conditions. The day after our medical marijuana legislation was signed into law, however, U.S. Drug Czar John Walters publicly expressed his disappointment with state policymakers. While we expected then that federal agencies would try to interfere with New Mexico's efforts to fully implement the medical marijuana law, we didn't believe they would go after those most vulnerable in the state - the patients.

Agents of the Pecos Valley Drug Taskforce in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration searched the home of a registered medical marijuana patient who has lost the use of his legs and suffers chronic pain and muscle spasms due to a spinal cord injury. They seized his medicine and are now threatening to prosecute him in federal court where there are no legal protections for medical marijuana patients. This intimidating raid comes at the very time New Mexico officials are debating the best way to develop a state-licensed production and distribution system for medical marijuana.

A press release issued by the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force illustrates the political nature of the raid, reading in part, "Citizens of New Mexico need to be aware that they can still be prosecuted on the federal level even though New Mexico has a law permitting marijuana for medicinal use." The Pecos Valley Drug Task Force is part of the Southwest Border HIDTA, a local, state, and federal law enforcement partnership financed and managed by the drug czar's office.

This cruel misuse of law enforcement resources is only the latest scandal to be connected to regional narcotics taskforces. DPA has been trying to cut off federal funding to these corruption-prone taskforces for years. From the wrongful conviction of dozens of people in Tulia, Texas to the harassment of electronic music lovers in Flint, Michigan, these taskforces are at the center of some of our country's worst civil rights abuses.

Please take a minute today to e-mail your members of Congress and ask them to protect medical marijuana patients and reform federal law enforcement grant programs. Click here to Take Action NOW and Make Your Voice Heard!

L.A. DEA Threatens Landlords of Medical Cannabis Coops With Forfeiture

Cal NORML: In an attack on access to medical marijuana in the nation's second largest city, the LA DEA office has mailed notices to landlords of Prop 215 coops warning them that they are liable to forfeiture and criminal penalties for allowing medical marijuana facilities on their property. So far, some 20 letters have been reported by dispensaries in the LA area, but the DEA is said to have sent out some 100 letters. Included are numerous well regarded, established facilities with no known complaints. The action is aimed at coercing landlords to evict medical cannabis coops despite state law allowing them.

California NORML regards this as a serious attack on patients' access to medical marijuana under Prop. 215. "The DEA has no business interfering in California's medical marijuana law," says California NORML coordinator Dale Gieringer, "This action will only serve to drive patients to the illegal market and aggravate marijuana crime." In addition to serving over 100,000 patients, medical cannabis coops currently generate thousands of legal jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenues in the LA area.

So far, all of the DEA's letters have been targeted to the LA area. No letters have been reported in surrounding counties. The operation appears timed to co-opt a pending LA dispensary ordinance that is expected to regulate and cap the number of dispensaries. At this point, Cal NORML sees no basis for expecting a larger state-wide sweep.

Cal NORML attorneys warn that there is no legal defense to federal forfeiture charges. Once landlords have received notice from the DEA, they can no longer claim to be "innocent owners." Forfeiture attorneys typically advise landlords who have received such notices to promptly insist their tenants desist from illegal activity and/or evict them. The validity of federal forfeiture has been repeatedly upheld by the federal courts, most notably in the case of the LA Cannabis Resource Center, where the government successfully forfeited $300K from the city of West Hollywood for leasing a building to the LACRC.

It is unclear to what extent the DEA is prepared to follow through on their threat of arresting landlords. Any forfeiture sweep would have to be conducted in cooperation with the LA US Attorney's office. It's unknown whether this has been arranged. The most likely scenario is that there will be widespread evictions and shutdowns, followed by a few selected forfeiture prosecutions to scare remaining landlords.

Those landlords most vulnerable are those with the most equity in their property, since the government likes to make as much money as possible on forfeitures.

The DEA's attack on medical marijuana comes just as Congress is about to vote on a measure to deny federal funding for federal medical marijuana raids, namely the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment. NOW is the time to tell Congress members to oppose the federal government's attack on medical marijuana. Visit NORML's action alert at: http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=9998376.

Cannabis cooperatives who are moving or suspending operations are urged to change their listings at Cal NORML's website http://www.canorml.org/prop/cbcllist.htm.

COPY OF DEA LANDLORD LETTER
(Sent by Certified Mail July 6, 2007)

DEA,
LA Field Division,
255 E. Temple St, 17th Fl,
LA 90012
(213) 621-6700

The DEA has determined you own, or have under your management or control, a building located at [ADDRESS]. The DEA has determined there is a marijuana dispensary, [NAME], operating on the property. This is a violation of federal law. Federal law 21 U.S.C. Sec. 56 (a) states:

"It shall be unlawful to knowingly and intentionally rent, lease or make available for use, with or without compensation, a building, room, or enclosure for the purpose of unlawfully manufacturing, storing, distributing, or using a controlled substance."

Federal law takes precedence over State law. It is not a defense to this crime or to the seizure of the property that the facility operating on the property is providing "medical marijuana" under California law including the provisions of California Prop. 215. Violation of this law is a felony crime, and carries with it a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

In addition, federal law allows for the seizure of assets, including real property, which have been used in conjunction with the distribution of controlled substances. Specifically, 21 U.S.C. 881 (a) (7) states:

"The following shall be subject to forfeiture to the United States and no property right shall exist in them: All real property, including any right, title and interest (including any leasehold interest) in the whole of any lot or tract of land which is used in any manner or part, or to facilitate the commission of, a violation of this sub-chapter."

This letter shall serve as notice that, after a thorough investigation, the DEA has determined there is a marijuana dispensary operating on the above described property. By this notice, you have been made aware of the purposes for which the property is being used. You are further advised that violations of federal laws relating to marijuana may result in criminal prosecution, imprisonment, fines and forfeiture of assets.

For further information, please contact Acting Group Supervisor Deanne Reuter at (213) 621-6789.

Sincerely, Timothy J. Landrum, Special Agent in Charge.

Drug Warriors Ramp Up Rhetoric; Claim Medical Pot People In League With Osama

First it was that marijuana smokers helped fund terrorists. Now the rhetoric from the Bush administration is that marijuana consumers ARE terrorists who also "WOULDN'T HESITATE" to help smuggle Al Queda cells into the US for the purpose of causing more Sept. 11-like attacks! Wow, and here I thought we were supposed to be a-motivated. Nice way to piggyback on Chertoff's scare-mongering earlier this week Walters. You've achieved a new low, as has the paper that blindly printed this crapola.

We encourage folks to visit this > url < to bring up the full text and also join the very lively discussion board surrounding this story.

Drug czar gives warning; Federal official calls marijuana growers dangerous terrorists

"John P. Walters, President Bush's drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn't hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties. Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an update on the 'Operation Alesia' marijuana-eradication effort." Read More >>>

POT GROUP SUES TO MAKE FEDS EAT WORDS
If Group Can Overcome Standing Challenge, Other Would-Be Litigants Might Mimic Strategy to Oppose Variety of Federal Policies

Medical marijuana advocates and federal prosecutors have never agreed on whether the drug has medical value. Now, an Oakland, Calif.-based advocacy group wants a court order that would force the feds to see it their way.

Americans for Safe Access is trying to use a little-known Clinton-era law to make federal agencies take back statements about marijuana -- for example, that pot has "no currently accepted medical use." The group says this "misinformation" costs it time and money to refute. But before the nonprofit can put any experts on the witness stand, it has to overcome a challenge to its standing to sue. The government's motion to dismiss the case is scheduled to be heard today before U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California.

ASA sued in February under the Information Quality Act. That law calls on federal agencies to maximize the "quality, objectivity, utility and integrity" of information they send out to the public, and it includes an administrative process for people who seek to correct inaccuracies.

In 2001 the Drug Enforcement Administration published a statement in the Federal Register saying marijuana has no currently accepted medical use in the United States.

ASA, claiming that the government's position on medical marijuana is "patently false," petitioned the Department of Health and Human Services, so far unsuccessfully, to correct the statements in its analysis. "Of course courts are going to be leery to jump into the politics of applying science" to public policy, said Davis Wright Tremaine partner Thomas Burke, a San Francisco lawyer who is not working on the case. The First Amendment lawyer notes that if the ASA's challenge survives the dismissal motion, activists of all stripes who oppose government policies may want to give the strategy a try. In the past Burke has helped sue to force the federal government to release records about "no fly" lists.

"The use of the statute would be very important to watch, given all of the headline-grabbing claims that the Bush administration has essentially used politics to trump science," he noted. To get any satisfaction out of the courts, though, ASA first has to overcome the government's standing argument.

In court papers, Department of Justice attorney Steven Bressler argues that Alsup should dismiss ASA v. Department of Health and Human Services, 07-01049, because ASA hadn't identified any members who suffered any harm due to the "allegedly incorrect statement," and because the group lacks standing to sue on its own behalf.

To sue for itself, and not its members, Bressler said the issue in the suit has to be "germane to the plaintiff's organizational purpose." He points the court to ASA's Web site, noting that its mission there was described as "ensur[ing] safe and legal access to cannabis (marijuana) for therapeutic uses and research." Suing over alleged "misinformation," he argues, won't further that goal.

"It would not make marijuana use any more (or less) safe. Nor would a correction change the fact that DEA continues to list marijuana as a schedule I [illegal] drug," he wrote. In an e-mail, Bressler said he wasn't authorized to discuss the case further outside of court. ASA has countered in its own court papers that its stated purpose is broader, and includes providing medical information to patients, attorneys, health and medical professionals and policymakers throughout the United States.

In a brief by its lawyer, Stanford law professor Alan Morrison, ASA argues that it can satisfy the standing requirements by alleging that the government's statements increased the resources ASA had to spend on its work.

According to Morrison, the group has spent more than $100,000 and hundreds of hours of staff time combating the government's position. A favorable decision in court would reduce the need to spend that money, he added. Even though a favorable ruling wouldn't legalize marijuana, he said it could encourage people to lobby Congress to reform the drug laws.

"There's lots of perfectly lawful uses of that information," he said.

Source: Recorder, The (CA) - Northern Californias leading daily legal newspaper. * Website: http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/index.jsp * Cited: www.AmericansforSafeAccess.org * Bookmark: Americans for Safe Access (ASA) * Bookmark: (Marijuana - Medicinal) * Bookmark: (Decrim/Legalization)

also! Federal Legislation in the works. Such as #1. U.S. Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA) - along with nine cosponsors - has introduced the "Steve McWilliams Truth in Trials Act" in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would end the federal government's gag order on medical marijuana defendants in federal court by ensuring that they can introduce evidence that their marijuana-related activity was for a valid medical purpose under state law.

Please visit this link to ask your congressperson to cosponsor just-introduced legislation to end the federal government's gag order on medical marijuana patients.

#2. also! Support H.R. 2087, States Rights to Cannabis as Medicine! Click here for details.

Voter Guides

Project Vote Smart has profiles about nearly all candidates for federal and state offices, to include what the candidates have stated is their position on drug issues.
www.vote-smart.org

A Citizen's Guide to the Oregon Legislative Process, with stuff like How to Testify in Front of Committee is at: www.leg.state.or.us/citizenguide/ * NOTE: You may call your legislators by contacting the WATS operator. Within Salem, call 503-986-1187. Outside of Salem, please call 1-800-332-2313.

Getting to the Capitol > 900 Court Street NE, Salem, Oregon 97301 * Hours: Monday-Friday: 8:00-5:30 ~ Saturday: Closed ~ Sunday: Closed * Visitor Services Phone: 503-986-1388 * For more information on How to get to the Capitol, including things like Where to Park visit: www.leg.state.or.us/capinfo/

Find Your Legislator www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/findset.htm online. Visit: www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/home.htm and fill out the form entering your home address. Then click on the "submit" button and you will then be given your state and US legislators.

Write your legislator www.leg.state.or.us/writelegsltr/ online. To send a message to your State Senator or State Representative please visit: www.leg.state.or.us/writelegsltr/ and fill out the form. By entering your information, you will be automatically matched to either your State Senator or your State Representative. Click "submit" when you are ready to send your message.

See a List of OR St. House of Reps at: www.leg.state.or.us/house/ and a List of OR St. Senate at: www.leg.state.or.us/house/ There is also the Senate and House District Listing www.sos.state.or.us/elections/other.info/shlist.pdf from Secretary of State, Elections Division which includes a table of Senators and the two corresponding Representatives for all districts see: www.sos.state.or.us/elections/other.info/shlist.pdf

Phoning Your Legislator. During a legislative session, you may call your legislators by contacting the WATS operator. Within Salem, call 503-986-1187. Outside of Salem, please call 1-800-332-2313.

Members Email Address formats
Senator's email address: sen.firstnamelastname@state.or.us
example: sen.ralphsmith@state.or.us
Representative's email address: rep.firstnamelastname@state.or.us
example: rep.betsyjones@state.or.us

To check up on bills; here is the link to the search bills page www.leg.state.or.us/searchmeas.html click on search for specific measure ...fill in the blanks on the page, hit enter and you will get the text of any bill. For example, try typing "marijuana" in the search engine for new bills. Also look for “cannabis” and we should not forget to mention “hemp” at some time. Or … If one wants PDF with changes bolded one can also go here: landru.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measures/ click on the directory like HB 2600's and find it in PDF instead of just HTML.

These web links tell you what committee a bill goes to. For senate bills: www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/pubs/senmh.html for house bills: www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/pubs/hsemh.html

If you need information regarding the legislative process, email the Legislative Liaison at help.leg@state.or.us -or- call 503-986-1000 -or- visit: www.leg.state.or.us/

* How about a Voter Registration Party? Come Together, Register and Make a Difference! Notes For Votes - music by local bands. Tunes, Food, Fun and More. Elections 101: New Voters. Thank you for your interest in voting in Oregon! Voting is how you can participate in democracy and make your voice count.

Does my vote really count? Yes. In the 2002 election, in District 28 (southern Oregon), only 42 votes came between the two candidates. That means 22 votes would have changed the outcome, and close elections like this are not unusual. Next time, the vote that changes the outcome could be yours.

Just as with any other new activity, voting for the first time comes with questions and maybe even a little anxiety. The following information should help answer any questions you may have, ease the voting process, and empower you to become an active citizen.

If you have any questions please call our toll-free voter information line at 1-866-ORE-VOTE (1-866-673-8683). The voter information line is available Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, se habla Espanol. TTY services for the hearing impaired are available at 1-866-350-0596. Additional voting resources are also available online at the Elections Division website; visit: www.sos.state.or.us/elections/elechp.htm.

Read the Voting in Oregon Guide www.uhavavote.org/votingguide/index.html. get to the link and others by visiting: www.oregonvotes.org/elec101.htm

The basics of Oregon State Voter Registration

You may register to vote in Oregon if:

1. You are a resident of Oregon.
2. You are a United States citizen.
3. You will be 18 years old by Election Day.

To register to vote or update your current registration:

(1.> Complete the Voter Registration Form (visit: www.sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/sel500.pdf. The form is in a fillable .pdf format. Open the form using the free Adobe Acrobat© Reader and complete it online by tabbing through the fields and typing in the requested information.
(2.> Print the completed form and sign it. Mail the form to your county elections office or drop it off in person.
(3.> If you do not wish to complete the voter registration form online, you may print the form and complete it using black ink.

Your county elections office will mail you a card to let you know that your registration was received. If you are registering in Oregon for the first time, your completed voter registration form must be postmarked by the 21st day before an election in order to vote in that election.

A voter who is unable, because of the disability, to sign their name should also complete the Signature Stamp Attestation form. If you have any questions, be sure to call your county elections office. Source: www.sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/vreg.htm

Oregon Voter Registration Card. you may use this card to:. gregister to vote in Oregon. The deadline to register to vote is the 21st day before an election. Visit: www.sos.state.or.us/elections/votreg/sel500.pdf

a Voting in Oregon Guide :: registering to vote If this is your first time registering to vote in Oregon, you must register at least 21 days before, and more. Visit: www.uhavavote.org/votingguide/register.html

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A directory of Oregon candidates for Governor, State Cabinet, United State Senator and Congress in the current election cycle ... state political parties ... the official state election office ... and state news sources. Find out how to register to vote, read about issues, and join the Jackson County, Oregon, Democratic Central Committee. Visit: www.jcdemocrats.org

Voting In Oregon. The following are some important facts about voting in Oregon. With the General election coming up in November, you will soon be hearing a lot about issues that will affect your life. Registering to vote in Oregon is a very simple and quick process, and now that Oregon has vote-by-mail, the whole process is even easier. Watch for the Voters Pamphlet in the mail, and make a difference by voting! Visit: www.osbar.org/public/vote/Voting.htm

A note from the League Of Women Voters Of Oregon. Voters should understand a new law, passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2005, which prohibits participating in more than one nominating process. A voter must choose whether to (1) participate in the nominating process for an independent or third party candidate or (2) vote a partisan Primary Election ballot.

If registered Democrats or Republicans vote in the Primary, they can no longer participate in the nominating process for independent candidates. If minor party members participate in their party's nominating convention for a particular office, they can no longer sign a petition for an independent candidate for that office.

If you are registered as a Republican or Democrat and wish to sign a nominating petition for an independent candidate, LWVOR suggests re-registering by the April 25 deadline with your county elections office as "Not a Member of a Party." Re-registering would allow you to still vote the on the nonpartisan offices and measures in the Primary Election; voters who are not registered as Democrats or Republicans will receive ballots containing only these offices. After the Primary, you can register again with your party of choice. If you do not want to re-register, or have missed the deadline, the only way you can legally support the nomination of an independent candidate is if you do not vote at all in the Primary Election. For more, Visit: www.lwvor.org

Multnomah County Voter Information - Frequently Asked Questions. Visit by clicking here.

Deschutes County Government, Oregon - Registering to Vote WHO MAY REGISTER TO VOTE? Anyone who is: ? A resident of Oregon;. ? A United States citizen, and. ? At least 18 years of age by Election Day. Click here.

Volunteer, read news, or register to vote on this site provided by the Democrats in Washington County, Oregon. visit: www.washcodems.org

State Voter Registration Deadlines - U.S. Government Info/Resources. This table shows the last day on which you can register to vote in each state, visit: usgovinfo.about.com/blvrdeadline.htm and State Voter Registration Requirements - U.S. Government Info/Resources visit: usgovinfo.about.com/blvrbystate.htm

BallotMeasure.com - Register to Vote in Oregon You can download the registration form from: ballotmeasure.com/others/registertovote.pdf (in PDF format). If you need the Acrobat Reader to read this file, you can get it here. Get your completed registration to your local county clerk at the address shown below. The county elections office will mail you a card to let you know that your registration was received. Please remember that for newly registered voters, the card must be postmarked by the 21st day before an election in order to vote in that election. If you have any questions, be sure to call your county elections office. Click here for more.

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* Once you sign the legal document, you will place it in an envelope they provide you that is pre-addressed to the correct state department that will process your form.

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News From NORML

Is it not amazing how scientific research continues to show us all, almost at a weekly pace, something new and potentially therapeutic about the cannabis plant? If a medical or biomedical explorer emerged from the jungle today with a plant that has numerous therapeutic benefits, was non-toxic, is an excellent source of fiber, fuel and fabric, and could possibly help medical patients worldwide with cancer, that person and plant would be cheered around the world.

Sadly, and with high irony, that plant does exist in our lives, it is called cannabis and possessing it in most of America will be met by fierce governmental opposition and intervention--not reward or recognition. However, it appears that science (and rational thinking) may just win the day here.

"Cannabinoids possess anticancer activity [and may] possibly represent a new class of anti-cancer drugs that retard cancer growth, inhibit angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels) and the metastatic spreading of cancer cells." So concludes a comprehensive review published in the October 2005 issue of the scientific journal Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry.

Not familiar with the emerging body of research touting cannabis' ability to stave the spread of certain types of cancers? You're not alone. For over 30 years, US politicians and bureaucrats have systematically turned a blind eye to scientific research indicating that marijuana may play a role in cancer prevention. Fortunately, scientists overseas have generously picked up where US researchers so abruptly left off, publishing dozens of studies on cannabinoids¹ anti-cancer properties in the past few years.

NORML highlights this research in a new report, "Cannabinoids As Cancer Hope," by NORML Senior Policy Analyst Paul Armentano. You may read the full report and citations online at: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6814

With warm regards,

Allen St. Pierre
Executive Director
Member, Board of Directors
NORML
Washington, DC
director@norml.org

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Undercover DEA Agent Mistaken For Robber

(CBS) LOS ANGELES An undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent was blocked from leaving a marijuana facility because he had a gun and employees thought he was a robber, medical marijuana advocates said Saturday.

On Wednesday, an undercover DEA agent entered the Trichome Healing Center at 7100 Van Nuys Blvd., near Sherman Way, and was prevented from leaving until additional agents came to his rescue, a DEA official said.

The DEA agent was wearing a wire during a surveillance operation shortly before 2 p.m, and the DEA officials listening outside believed the undercover agent's identity had been compromised and that he was in danger, so they rushed inside.

Patient advocate Brett Stone said that Trichome employees believed the agent was there to rob the facility.

No arrests were made. Click > here < for more.

NATIONAL NURSES GROUP BACKS MEDICAL MARIJUANA

The American Nurses Association recognizes that patients should have safe access to therapeutic cannabis - marijuana. The ANA passed such a resolution in 2004 at the request of its Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics and the nursing community supports the resolution overwhelmingly.

Part of the resolution stresses the need for the education of nurses regarding current evidence on therapeutic use of cannabis. Learn more ...

JAMA Commentary Calls For Marijuana's Rescheduling

Chicago, IL: Cannabis provides therapeutic relief for patients and should be reclassified by the federal government to allow for its legal use as a prescription medicine, according to a commentary in the August 17 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). "Sound regulation of medical marijuana requires government oversight based on public health, a rigorous research agenda, a private physician-patient relationship, and respect for patients who seek relief from suffering," the commentary states. Click here for more.

NIDA Rejects MAPS/Cal NORML Cannabis Vaporizer Study

Washington, DC: After an 18 month regulatory delay, a scientific protocol to investigate the types of emissions produced by cannabis vaporization (see: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6636 ) has been rejected by NIDA - the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Visit: http://www.nida.nih.gov/ for more about this agency. The protocol, submitted to NIDA in February 2004 on behalf of Chemic Laboratories in Massachusetts, sought to purchase 10 grams of marijuana from the agency so that researchers could conduct a chemical assessment of the cannabis vaporization process. Click here for more.

Marijuana Less Cancerous Than Tobacco

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Marijuana is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke and may even have some anti-cancer properties, new research suggests. Robert Melamede, chair of biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, reviewed studies of the illicit drug and published his findings in the Oct. 17 issue of Harm Reduction Journal. Click here for more.

Marijuana May Spur New Brain Cells

Washington, D.C. -- Scientists said Thursday that marijuana appears to promote the development of new brain cells in rats and have anti-anxiety and anti-depressant effects, a finding that could have an impact on the national debate over medical uses of the drug. Click here for more.

Cannabinoid Neuroprotective Against Cerebral Infarction, Study Says

Fukuoka, Japan: Administration of the non-psychoactive cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) is neuroprotective against cerebral infarction (localized cell death in the brain) in mice, according to clinical trial data published in the May issue of the journal Stroke.

"Treatment of cannabidiol ... significantly reduced the infarct volume ... in mice" in a dose dependent manner, a research team at Fukuoka University's Department of Neuropharmacology concluded. Authors speculated that CBD "exerts a neuroprotective effect through its anti-oxidant, anti-spasmodic, and anti-emetic activity, [as well as through] vasorelaxation."

Researchers at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) have previously reported that cannabinoids are neuroprotective in animals against brain damage caused by alcohol and/or stroke.

For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Senior Policy Analyst, at (202) 483-5500. Full text of the study, "Cannabidiol prevents cerebral infarction," is available in the May issue of the journal Stroke.

International View on Medical Cannabis News

News from Bulletins by the Transnational Radical Party [www.radicalparty.org] eBulletins system and LIAFAX, which is hosted by The International Antiprohibitionist League (www.antiprohibitionist.org)

17 MAY 2006
THE UNITED NATIONS
RESEARCH / MARKET STATISTICS
Source: Il velino - The 2005 report of the UN Office for Drug and Organised Crime Control: Thirty-one per cent of world cannabis production and eighty per cent of the cannabis smoked in Europe comes from Morocco and passes through France.

20 MAY 2006
OCEANIA / AUSTRALIA
LAWS
stopdrugwar: - Health minister Christopher Pyne has set up a uniform and very severe code for cannabis prosecutions, adhered to by all the Australian states. For Pyne, cannabis is ‘as dangerous as cocaine and heroin’. Click > here < for more.

7 FEBRUARY 2006
NON-UNION EUROPE / SWITZERLAND
POLITICS
ANSA - The Federal Chancery has officially recognised as valid the signatures collected on 13th January last that demanded a national referendum on the depenalisation of consumption, possession and acquisition of cannabis for personal use. The date for this event has yet to be set.

1 FEBRUARY 2006
EUROPE / ALBANIA
POLITICS
Ansa - The mayors and police authorities under whose jurisdiction marijuana cultivation comes to light could be charged with dereliction of duties on the principle that ‘they couldn’t not have known’ -- thus a proposal by the new interior minister, Sokol Olldashi.

13th December 2005
AUSTRIA
CONSUMPTION
Die Presse; Twenty per cent of the population have used one drug or another some time in their lives. This breaks down into: cannabis 20.1%, ecstasy 3%, amphetamines 2.4%, opiates 0.7%, hallucinogenic mushrooms 2.7%, LSD 1.7%, sniffables 2.4%. Source: Austrian Federal Institute of Public Health. Click > here < for more.

2 JUNE 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / BELGIUM
CONSUMPTION
NisNews Bulletin: Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt has expressed ‘great dissatisfaction’ with the decision of Maastricht mayor Gerard Leers to relocate seven of hid city’s ‘coffee shops’ along the Belgian-German border. Click > here < for more.

12the December 2005
CZECH REPUBLIC
PUBLIC HEALTH
CTK - Czech News Agency; The government plan to modify exiting laws to permit medically controlled administration of therapeutic cannabis. Source: Vaclav Sebor, speaker of the Health Ministry . Click > here < for more.

06/09/2005
EUROPEAN UNION / GERMANY
CURIOSITY
SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG Visit www.hanfapotheke.org to order therapeutic cannabis. ‘It gives an opportunity for relief to seriously ill sufferers who neither have nor desire access to the illegal drug market”, explains Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen. A 2004 court decision held that cannabis use can be justified by medical necessity.

7-5-2006
EUROPEAN UNION / ITALY
PUBLIC HEALTH
Reactions to the announcement by the new Public Health Minister Dr. Livia Turco that she would raise the threshold quantities of cannabis that one person may own without incurring penalties or being automatically classified as a pusher -

- Daniele Capezzone, Radicali Italiani secretary, considers the move a very positive one and expresses the hope that the new government will head toward antiprohibitionism and more damage reduction.

- Donatella Poretti, MP for the Rosa nel Pugno (Rose in the Fist) Party and member of the Chamber of Deputies Commission on Social Affairs, thinks the announcement is a small step min the right direction. During the first visit of Minister Dr. Turchi to the Commission, Poretti reiterated the need for stopping the catastrophic effects of the Italian law as it now stands.

ITALY
9th MARCH 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / ITALY
NEW IDEAS
ANSA - By way of protesting against the new Fini Law’s obscurantism, Catholic priest Andrea Gallo, a ‘rolled-up shirtsleeves’ cleric and founder of the waterfront rehab community of San Benedetto al Porto, smoked a joint in the ceremonial chambers of the City of Genoa government.

28-10-2005
EUROPEAN UNION / ITALY
PUBLIC HEALTH
ANSA - A serious study has been launched to determine the pain-relieving effectiveness of cannabis among cancer victims. Forty patients in Turin and Rome will be studied for twenty weeks. The laws and prevailing cultural prejudices are creating unnecessary obstacles.

CANNABIS DRUG FILED FOR APPROVAL

The first cannabis-based medication for MS has been filed for approval by British regulators.

GW Pharmaceuticals' Sativex, an under-the-tongue spray, can now be given on a named-patient basis.

But the company is applying to regulators across Europe for a licence to make it more widely available.

The company has been seeking a full UK licence for the spray since 2003, but regulators said they wanted to see more information before issuing one.

Eighty-five thousand people in the UK have MS. It is not yet certain how many of them would benefit from Sativex.

The spray is intended to treat the muscle spasticity associated with the degenerative disease.

Positive Data

The drug is a mouth spray containing two chemicals found in cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol.

Sativex was first approved in Canada in April 2005. It received approval for use by individual MS patients in the UK the following month. GW Pharmaceuticals has now filed licence applications in the UK, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands.

Stephen Wright, a spokesman for the company, said he was confident about new data available on the drug.

He said: "We have a sizeable body of positive clinical data to support the efficacy and safety of Sativex in MS spasticity."

A spokesman for the MS Society said: "People with MS are sourcing raw cannabis of whatever quality from goodness knows where, and running goodness knows what risks.

"It is important that we do see properly tested, effective, cannabis-based drugs."

27 MAY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / UNITED KINGDOM
LEGALISATION
The Guardian: - Two Labour MPs, Paul Flynn and Brian Iddon, came out in favour of legal therapeutic marijuana at the recent meeting of the Cannabis Education Trust. Click > here < for more.

17 MAY 2006 EUROPEAN UNION / UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH Source: News Medical: - The publication Anaesthesiology: Research undertaken by the Imperial College of London has shown that Cannador, which consists of extracts of cannabis, can be a serious reliever of post-operative pain.? Unlike traditional pain-killers, it has no side-effects. Click > here < for more.

24 MAY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / FINLAND
LEGALISATION
Adnkronos - All two hundred MPs recently received a cannabis seed in the post, accompanied by an anonymous letter asking for legalisation of cannabis consumption. A study published in 2003 by the European Drug Observatory claimed that about twenty per cent of Finns between ages fifteen and thirty-four admit to having smoked cannabis at least once.

03-10-2005
EUROPEAN UNION / FRANCE
INVESTIGATIONS - The conclusion of the first serious, scientific study of the relationship of drug use and traffic accidents is proving immensely embarrassing to the government. Whilst alcohol is a disastrous cause of accidents, cannabis is hardly involved at all, although not completely out of the picture. Click > here < for more.

6 FEBRUARY 2006
Medical Cannabis in Ireland EUROPEAN UNION / IRISH REPUBLIC
LEGALISATION
IrishHealth.com: - Two thirds of the readers of IrishHealth.com think that cannabis should be generally legalised -- not just for therapeutic use -- for all people over eighteen. Click > here < for more.

09-10-2005
EUROPEAN UNION / IRISH REPUBLIC
THERAPEUTIC MARIJUANA
IrelandOn-Line - The National Advisory Committee on Drugs wants to legalise therapeutic marijuana. Polls show that a majority of citizens support this. Click > here < for more.

Sunday: 04 JULY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / UNITED KINGDOM -- Scotland
CONSUMPTION
A study by Edinburgh University finds that rich kids smoke more joints than poor kids, a discovery on a par at least with that of soup plates and hot water. Click > here < for more.

6 JULY 2006
EUROPE / RUSSIA
LAWS
MosNews: - President Vladimir Putin said in the course of a press conference that marijuana would never be legalised in his country. Click > here < for more.

2 JUNE 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / SPAIN
PUBLIC HEALTH
Norml: According to a poll undertaken by the daily El Sur, the number of chronically or terminally ill Spaniards turning to cannabis has lately gone up by twenty per cent. Click > here < for more.

4 JANUARY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / SPAIN
PUBLIC HEALTH
El Pais: Ten patients have been selected for an experiment aimed at determining the therapeutic effects of marijuana. Four of these began treatments on 10th December, the others will begin in a few days. They are the first of six hundred participants in this invaluable pioneer project that the Region of Catalonia plans to bring to a conclusion in 2006. Click > here < for more.

27 APRIL 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / THE NETHERLANDS
PUBLIC HEALTH
NORML - Source: A study by several researchers at the University of Leyden, published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences: Administration of THC by means of the vaporiser called “Volcano” is “safe and efficient”. Click > here < for more.

2 FEBRUARY 2006
EUROPEAN UNION / NETHERLANDS
NEW IDEAS
Reuters: - The city of Groningen is planning to open a pharmacy for the sale of exclusively high-quality cannabis for therapeutic uses at reasonable prices. The idea is supported by The organisation Medicinal Cannabis Netherlands, which seeks to help seriously ill sufferers to get the very best stuff. Click > here < for more.

6 APRIL 2006
NORTH AMERICA / CANADA
CURIOSITY
The Star - Debut for Cannasat Therapeutics Inc. (CHT), one of the world’s few firms dedicated to research on and development of cannabis-based medicinals and therapeutics. During a pres conference, the firm’s directors admitted that theirs was an all-uphill road.

14/09/2005
NORTH AMERICA / CANADA
PUBLIC HEALTH
ALL HEADLINE NEWS - In 2006, Health Canada will launch a pilot programme of selling marijuana in pharmacies for therapeutic purposes. This will make Canada the second nation, after Holland, where the substance can be bought openly. Official statistics say that nine hundred sufferers of serious illnesses are legally using cannabis now.

11/07/2005
NORTH AMERICA / CANADA - Vancouver
PUBLIC HEALTH
VANCOUVER CBC - A new firm, PhytoCan Pharmaceuticals, headquartered on Vancouver Island, have been authorised by Health Canada to produce therapeutic marijuana in liquid form and as a spray. A year and a half from now they will be ready to subject both products to the laboratory tests required before commercialisation.

24/06/2005
NORTH AMERICA / CANADA
PUBLIC HEALTH
USA TODAY - Physicians may freely prescribe Sativex for sufferers from multiple sclerosis. Sativex is the new the medicinal derived from the marijuana plant that is administered by spraying it under the tongue. The principal ingredients, THC and CBD, relieve pain without inducing a typical cannabis ‘high’. Some twenty thousand people in Canada will benefit.

13 JULY 2006
NORTH AMERICA: USA
UPI - Research undertaken by Texas University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science tends to show that cannabis is an effective pain-killer. Click here for more info.

30 JUNE 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA
PUBLIC HEALTH
AP - The House of Representatives has rejected a proposal that would have granted limited exemption for users of therapeutic marijuana from prosecution by the Justice Department. Click here for more info.

16 MAY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA
PUBLIC HEALTH
Associated Press On 14 May the Food and Drug Administration bestowed its blessings on Cesamet, a synthetic version in pill form of the active ingredient of marijuana produced by Maleant Pharmaceuticals International. Click here for more info.

28th FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA
PUBLIC HEALTH
ANI - Research undertaken by Dr.Gregory I. Liou, molecular biologist in the Georgia State Medical College, has shown that marijuana could improve vision defects in diabetics. He said that ‘We are studying the effects of cannabinoids in the human body, with particular reference to combating retinal degeneration in diabetes’. Click > here < for more.

14/12/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA
CURIOSITY
Asian News International; - Rock star Melissa Etheridge said that she smoked and inhaled marijuana under medical supervision during her chemotherapy and benefited greatly from it. ‘This ought to be legalised’, she said. ‘I ask myself how that therapy would have been without this help’. Click here for more info.

06/09/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA
LEGALISATION
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL - Source: Research published by the Marijuana Policy Project. Kids living in areas where the administration of therapeutic marijuana is legal are at no greater risk than their peers elsewhere. Moreover, after a decade of rise in marijuana use, the years 200-present show a decline. Click > here < for more.

15/09/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Oregon
JUSTICE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Supreme Court will consider the appeal of a sentence that supported an employer for having fired a worker who was using marijuana for therapeutic purposes in the state or Oregon. The man was acting under proper authorisation under Oregon law to relive the muscular pains from which he suffered frequently. Several spot-checks had found him cannabis-positive.

11 APRIL 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Emeryville, California
JUSTICE
San Francisco Chronicle: - The city of Emeryville was forced to pay fifteen thousand dollars to an ill person who used marijuana for therapeutic purposes because city police had confiscated thirty plants he was growing at home. The town fathers had to come to terms when it was discovered that the confiscated plants had disappeared from police custody. Click here for more info.

27-10-2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Santa Cruz, California
Medical Cannabis in California Ansa - Santa Cruz has become America’s first city with an official bureau for supervising the ‘compassionate’ distribution of therapeutic or medicinal marijuana -- thus the decision of the town council. Mayor Mike Rotlin is looking into possible collaboration with pharmacies.

28/04/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Alabama
LAWS
AP - A state legislature committee has approved in principle a proposed law that would legalise the therapeutic use of marijuana by chronic sufferers of pain, but the final text is not expected to be approved this year.

Alabamian's for Compassionate Care is an informal network of people working together to enable treatment of the chronically ill and injured in Alabama by allowing them legal access to marijuana for medical treatment, as prescribed by a licensed physician. visit: www.compassionate-care.org for more. Click > here < for more.

No Reason To Suffer
Blog: US Marijuana Party. Where does the government get the idea it has the right to know what prescriptions my doctor prescribes for me? As a sufferer of chronic pain, I have taken many of the drugs listed in a recent article in The News. There are more I haven't taken because of government interference with a doctor's ability to "doctor" his patients. Click > here < for more.

26 MARCH 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Alaska
LEGALISATION - The state supreme court has approved of the state law that allows legal possession of four ounces or 112 grammes of marijuana for personal use. Polls show that fifty per cent of citizens agree, forty-seven per cent disagree. Click > here < for more.

1st MARCH 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Colorado
LEGALISATION
cbs4: - SAFER (Safer Alternatives for Enjoyable Recreation), a group that fought for cannabis legalisation in Denver, will extend its campaign throughout the state. Sixty-eight thousand signatures have been collected for demanding that the issue be included in November’s election. Click > here < for more.

12 FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Hawaii
PUBLIC HEALTH
Pacific Business News: - Five years after the effective start of the therapeutic-marijuana law, three thousand people are registered as authorised consumers . . . but only eight physicians can see to the needs of eighty cent of these owing to the opposition of the majority of medical personnel. Click > here < for more.

164 Doctors Can Prescribe Marijuana Medical Cannabis in Hawaii

Question: I was wondering if you can point me in the direction of two things. One, how can I contribute to the legalization of medicinal marijuana everywhere? Second, where can I find a doctor on Oahu who is participating in writing prescriptions to patients (who, of course, meet the requirements under the law) for marijuana use? Click > here < for more.

18/08/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Hawaii (Honolulu)
PUBLIC HEALTH
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The state’s first clinic for the administration of therapeutic marijuana will open in Honolulu on 7th September under the aegis of the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation of Portland, Oregon. Choice of this venue was prompted by Hawaii’s lax enforcement of the law that authorises such therapies, but it is difficult to find physicians willing to go along. To date there are 2,700 authorised candidate patients.

Daily Illini
22 FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Illinois
LEGALISATION The state senate’s Commission for Social Services has approved by a vote of six to five Bill 2568, which legalises the consumption of therapeutic marijuana. This measure must now be approved by the General Assembly. Click > here < for more.

LAWMAKERS CONSIDER MEDICAL MARIJUANA

BOSTON, 08 Jan 2006 -- Massachusetts could become the fourth New England state to legalize medical marijuana under a plan before state lawmakers

On the heels of Rhode Island's approval last week of medical marijuana use, lawmakers here are pushing a measure, with the support of some North of Boston legislators, that would allow doctors to treat patients with marijuana. Backers say people who suffer from debilitating pain and chronic diseases should be able to gain relief without fear of arrest, something 11 states have approved. Click > here < for more.

11-8-2005
Medical Cannabis in Michigan NORTH AMERICA / USA - Michigan
Two Medical Marijuana Victories In Michigan
On November 8, 2005, voters in two Michigan cities passed medical marijuana initiatives by dramatic margins, joining the growing national trend of voters who are bypassing legislators and using the ballot box to protect medical marijuana patients from arrest.

In Ferndale, by a margin of 61% to 39%, voters removed the threat of arrest and jail under city law for seriously ill people who use and grow marijuana with their doctors' recommendations. In Traverse City, by a margin of 63% to 37%, voters made the prosecution of medical marijuana patients the city's lowest law enforcement priority. Click here for more.

23rd FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Missouri
LEGALISATION
Columbia Missourian - Following the proposal of a law that would allow physicians to prescribe marijuana to seriously ill patients, the whole debate has flared up again in the House of Representatives. The law currently in effect allows the prescription of opium, cocaine and amethamphetamione, but not marijuana. Click > here < for more.

8 FEBRUARY 206
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Nevada
LEGALISATION
KVBC.com: - The campaign to legalise marijuana is under way under the aegis of the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana . In November the voters will be asked to say Yea or Nay on the controlled and taxed sale of the stuff to over-twenty-one-year-olds in special stores. Click > here < for more.

14-10-2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - New Jersey
THERAPEUTIC MARIJUANA
Join Together - All gubernatorial candidates favour therapeutic administration of marijuana. ‘When faced with certain realities we must offer every possible medical means’ says Republican Doug Forrester, and his Democratic opponent Jon Corzine echoes it with ‘We must do all we can in aid of the sufferers’. Click > here < for more.

25 JANUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / UNITED STATES - New Mexico
LAWS
The Associated Press; The State Senate Public Affairs Commission unanimously approved the law that would legalise marijuana consumption by sufferers of serious diseases. The text must now be approved by two further commissions and requires that the patients be included in a programme set up by the Health Department. Click > here < for more.

31 MARCH 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA -- Rhode Island
LEGALISATION
AP: - The state law on therapeutic marijuana, passed in January, became effective on 31st March, after the state Health Department passed the decree actual application to the state Secretary of State. The Medical Marijuana Program will issue an ID document that authorises the bearer to cultivate twelve plants or to buy two and a half ounces -- seventy-one grammes -- of marijuana. Go to: Click > here < for more on the story.

MARIJUANA NOW LEGAL FOR CHRONICALLY ILL in Rhode Island 5th JANUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Rhode Island
LAWS
Ansa - The state Legislature has overridden Governor Don Carcieri’s veto and thus made law of the therapeutic use of marijuana for victims of cancer, AIDS and other painful incurable diseases. This makes Rhode Island the eleventh state (of fifty) to take such a step.

Thu, 05 Jan 2006. Overriding the governor's veto, the Rhode Island House of Representatives voted 59-13 yesterday to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Gov. Donald Carcieri vetoed the original bill, sponsored by Rep. Thomas Slater ( D-Providence ), last year, but the Senate overrode the veto before it broke for its summer recess. The House saved the override vote for yesterday. Click > here < for more.

03/09/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Virginia
LEGALISATION
PRWEB - The Virginia Nurses’ Association, which represents 80,000 persons, recently confirmed support of legalising therapeutic uses of cannabis. The association is the first of fourteen similar ones to take this position.

18 FEBRUARY 2006
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Washington State
CULTIVATION
Neue Zuercher Zeitung - Illegal marijuana cultivation has become one of the most profitable crop of the state of Washington -- thus the local police authorities, who in 2005 confiscated a hundred and thirty-five thousand seedling plants that had a value of two hundred and seventy million dollars. Click > here < for more.

MEDICAL POT BILL WILL GET HEARING

Every day for the past 23 years, Irv Rosenfeld has smoked up to a dozen marijuana cigarettes.

On probably every one of those days, someone, somewhere, was arrested for doing the same thing. But the government not only doesn't care about Rosenfeld's drug use; it's been his supplier.

One of just seven remaining patients in the federal government's "compassionate use" program, which provides marijuana for medical uses, Rosenfeld said the drug helps him cope with the excruciating pain caused by an estimated 200 benign bone tumors that daily poke at his muscles and veins.

For more information see also:

Is My Medicine Legal YET? www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org
(Cannabis - Medicinal): www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm
(Chronic Pain): www.mapinc.org/find?232
(Irvin Rosenfeld): www.mapinc.org/people/Irvin+Rosenfeld
(Gregg Underheim): www.mapinc.org/people/Gregg+Underheim

28-09-2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA - Wisconsin
LEGALISATION
Wisconsin is ready to allow therapeutic use of marijuana. Even Bush-Republican representative Gregg Underheim is in favour, maintaining that ‘obviously people are way ahead of the politicians in this’. The Marijuana Policy Project has published a poll in which a majority of citizens of all ages and political preferences approve. Click > here < for more.

20 APRIL 2006
CENTRAL AMERICA • CARIBBEAN / BERMUDA
PUBLIC HEALTH
The Royal Gazette: The minister for national drug control, Wayne Perinchief, favours depenalising cannabis. He insists on the necessity of considering drug addiction a health matter, not a criminal one. Click > here < for more.

16/12/2005
BERMUDA
POLITICS
The Royal Gazette; The new Drug Control Minister, Wayne Perinchief, favours reviewing the laws on marijuana. He proposes alternatives to gaol, more rehab centres and prevention programmes, and severer penalties for those who profit from narcotrafficking. Click > here < for more.

28 MARCH 2006
CENTRAL AMERICA / MEXICO
LEGALISATION
El Porvenir: - Patricia Mercado, presidential candidate of the Alternativa Socialdemócrata y Campesina, said that it is now essential to initiate serious political discussions about depenalising and legalising drugs, beginning with marijuana. Click > here < for more.

7th December 2005
Medical Cannabis in Mexico NORTH AMERICA / USA
CULTIVATIONS
BBC - Mexican producers are growing cannabis in national parks in California, Arizona and Texas. Source: the National Parks Conservation Association, during testimony before the U.S. Congress. Click > here < for more on the testimony. Click > here < for more on the story.

4-11-2005
CENTRAL AMERICA / MEXICO
LEGALISATION
Elías Miguel Moreno Brizuela, president of the Senate’s Health and Social Security Commission, announced that the Commission will discuss legalisation of marijuana for therapeutic use. Click > here < for more.

17th MARCH 2006
SOUTH AMERICA / ARGENTINA
JUSTICE
stopthedrugwar - The federal Court of Appeals has squashed the conviction of a Buenos Aires woman for cannabis possession because she needed it for therapeutic use. The court also ordered re-evaluation of the case in the light of the latest researches on therapeutic cannabis. The essence of the ruling is that the right to health and pain relief must be upheld.

10 JULY 2006
OCEANIA / AUSTRALIA
CONSUMPTION
AAP - Former minister John Herron says tghat marijuana consumption is by now something more for an ageing section of the population, the youngest sectors having been influenced by anti-drug TV spots. Click > here < for more.

15/12/2005
OCEANIA / FIJI ISLANDS
CONSUMPTION
Radio New Zealand; A one-year study of two thousand adolescents between thirteen and fifteen years of age conducted by The National Drugs Council found that sixty-nine per cent had tried kava, a bushy Pacific-islands plant, fifty-one per cent alcohol, forty-two per cent cigarettes, and thirteen per cent cannabis. Click > here < for more.

13 JULY 2006
OCEANIA / NEW ZEALAND
PUBLIC HEALTH
The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has published a poll according to which two out of three New Zealanders favour making marijuana available on medical prescription.

16 JUNE 2006
OCEANIA / THE PHILIPPINES
CULTIVATION
Philippine Daily Inquirer: - The national police force would like to see yacon, a plant belonging to the sunflower family, replace the marijuana plantations in the Cordillera. Click > here < for more.

OPED: Spice of Life - Cannabis
by: Pjo Taylor, The Statesman (India) < www.thestatesman.net >

Sun, 01 Jan 2006. Almost a forbidden subject these days, but the stuff has such a long history that I feel justified in touching on the subject.

The argument nowadays is whether it is a medicine or a harmful addictive drug, and if you go back into historical record you'll find there has always been this dual role, this struggle between good and evil. Click > here < for more.

14 JUNE 2006
MIDDLE EAST / ISRAEL
RESEARCHES
Jerusalem Post: - Research by Yehoshua Maor of Jerusalem's Hebrew University suggests that cannabigerol, a synthetic derivative of cannabis, is beneficial in the treatment of hypertension Click > here < for more.

22 JANUARY 2006
AFRICA / MOROCCO
CULTIVATIONS
Morocco Times; - Mohamed Fettal, governor of the northern province of Taounate, has launched a campaign for planting six hundred thousand fruit and olive trees as replacements for cannabis plantations. A similar project is under way in Larache province. Click > here < for more.

15 APRIL 2006
AFRICA / MOZAMBIQUE
CULTIVATION
Angola Press: - In his annual report to Parliament, Justice Minister Joaquim Madeira came out against the destruction, proposed by several MPs, of cannabis plantations grown by local peasants. The proper solution would be a programme of offering them alternative crops. Click > here < for more.

3 FEBRUARY 2006
AFRICA / SWAZILAND
NEW IDEAS
IRIN: - ‘The massive hemp production could be used for making building materials’, says Andre du Plessis, an architect who works with the organisation InternAfrics . The Swaziland Council on Smoking, Drugs and Alcohol (COSAD) estimates that seventy per cent of peasant time and labour is dedicated to illegal marijuana production. Click > here < for more.

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