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IN THE NEWS: Week of 4/21

ASA's Summary of Medical Marijuana Articles

 

>  CALIFORNIA: ASA Files Suit Against City of Fresno;

          San Francisco Wrestles with Regulations

          Moratoriums Run Risks for Patients and Taxpayers;

>  NATIONAL: Senior Citizens Turning to Cannabis;

          U.S. Researchers Gain Support from Civil Rights Group;
          Congress Could Exempt Patients from Prohibition
>  ALABAMA: Bill Thought Blocked Advances
>  RHODE ISLAND: State Bill Backed by Opinion Makers
>  TENNESSEE: Legislature to Study Measure for Vote Next Session
 

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CALIFORNIA: ASA Files Suit Against City of Fresno

State law directs local governments to implement procedures for 
guaranteeing safe access to medical cannabis. But some have not only 
failed to do so, they have actively blocked it, and state officials have 
done little about it. So Americans for Safe Access has joined in a 
lawsuit seeking to make Fresno live up to its obligations. 

 

	
Medical Marijuana Advocacy Group Sues Fresno 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2024>
by Tonya Alanez, The Los Angeles Times 
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-medpot26apr26,1,6639853.story?coll=la-headlines-california> 

Medical marijuana advocates sued the city of Fresno on Monday, hoping to 
overturn what they called unreasonable restrictions on medical marijuana 
dispensaries.
 
Medical Marijuana Law Challenged 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2027>
KFSN - TV30 <http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/news/042605_nw_pot.html>
State law allows the distribution and use of marijuana for medicinal 
purposes. But, plans to put a medical marijuana dispensary in Fresno's 
Tower District was shot down by the city council last year. Now, the man 
who wants to distribute pot is suing the city. He claims Fresno has 
restrictions so tough that it amounts to a ban.
 

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CALIFORNIA: San Francisco Wrestles with Regulations

Politicians and the public in San Francisco universally support 
safe, legal access for medical cannabis. But after years of providing 
little guidance and no regulation, the city is now trying to come up 
with rules that would protect patients and neighborhoods without giving 
the federal government a new tool to interfere more than they already have.

 

DEA on the Wrong Trail <http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2019>
EDITORIAL, Los Angeles Times 
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-pot29apr29,0,3397548.story>
When San Francisco's Board of Supervisors met Monday to discuss how to 
tighten oversight of the city's 43 medical marijuana dispensaries, Bush 
administration officials cheered, for all the wrong reasons.

 

Medical marijuana catch-22 for S.F. 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2028>
by Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle 
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/25/MNG9ACEIK71.DTL> 

Federal drug agents who want to crack down on marijuana use in San 
Francisco, medical or otherwise, say the city's plan to regulate the 
drug may give law enforcement what it needs to do its job: a paper trail.

 

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CALIFORNIA: Moratoriums Run Risks for Patients and Taxpayers

With a state law that defines access to medical marijuana as a right and 
directs local governments to implement plans to provide access, 
moratoriums and bans not only contravene the intent of the law but 
subject patients to unreasonable hardship and open municipalities to 
unnecessary legal liability.

 

Rohnert Park Seeks Marijuana Club Ordinance 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2033>
CBS Ch 6 
<http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2005/04/27/n/HeadlineNews/MARIJUANA/resources_bcn_html> 

Rohnert Park has joined the list of Sonoma County cities seeking to 
regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. The Rohnert Park City Council 
voted Tuesday night for a 45-day moratorium on the opening of any pot 
clubs. There are none in the city now.

 

Medical marijuana issue comes to Simi 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2029>
by Teresa Rochester, Ventura County Star 
<http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_3727189,00.html> 

Some mornings, the pain and stiffness in Donna Marron's slight body is 
so great it can take an hour to will her joints and muscles to get moving.
 

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NATIONAL: Senior Citizens Turning to Cannabis

In January, the 35-million-member AARP released survey results showing 
that nearly three fourths of America's senior citizens support legal 
access to medical marijuana. This extensive article from the Los Angeles 
Times details why. Cannabis is well suited to treating many of the 
medical conditions associated with aging, from arthritis to 
Alzheimer's, and does not present the side effect problems of 
conventional medications, particularly in combination.

 

Pot Laws Pain Some Elders <http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2021>
by Eric Bailey, Los Angeles Times 
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oldpot28apr28.story>
Betty Hiatt is, at 81, both a medical train wreck and a miracle, 
surviving cancer, Crohn's disease and the onset of Parkinson's. Each 
morning Hiatt takes more than a dozen pills. But first she turns to a 
translucent orange prescription bottle stuffed with a drug not found on 
her pharmacist's shelf: marijuana.

 

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NATIONAL: U.S. Researchers Gain Support from Civil Rights Group

Medical researchers are used to being thwarted by the federal government 
on the subject of cannabis, so it was disappointing but not surprising 
when a university scientist was rejected in his bid to obtain marijuana 
for study. But now the ACLU has entered the picture, rightly seeing the 
issue as one of civil rights for not just the professor but the millions 
of Americans who would benefit from what could be discovered. 
Meanwhile, research is moving forward in Spain, Italy, Israel and Great 
Britain, leaving the U.S. behind.

 

ACLU files medical marijuana lawsuit 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2023>
The Advocate <http://www3.advocate.com/news_detail.asp?id=16183>
The American Civil Liberties Union this week announced a legal challenge 
to the Drug Enforcement Administration's policy of obstructing private 
research that could lead to marijuana being approved as a prescription 
medicine. The ACLU filed the case on behalf of University of 
Massachusetts professor Lyle Craker, who wants to grow an alternative, 
privately funded source of research-grade marijuana.

 

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NATIONAL: Congress Could Exempt Patients from Prohibition

While state legislatures are showing increasing willingness to respond 
to public opinion by considering and passing medical cannabis 
protections, the U.S. Congress, which could resolve the problem easily, 
has refused to do so, despite their own research and reports. 
Nonetheless, some members continue the process, and one of the handful 
of patients who receive government-grown marijuana direct from the 
government testified in Washington this week.


 
 
 
	
Medical marijuana user promotes 'exemption' bill 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2022>
by Dale M. King, Boca Raton News 
<http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=11489&category=Local%20News> 

Irv Rosenfeld can do something only a handful of American citizens can 
do. The Fort Lauderdale stockbroker can smoke marijuana legally under 
federal law. He is one of only seven people in the United States allowed 
to receive medical marijuana by prescription from the government.
 
Sheriff's comments put pot club on hold 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2030>
by Vanessa Turner , Calaveras Enterprise 
<http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/articles/2005/04/29/news/news02.txt>
Kim Cue, formerly of San Andreas, was set to open the first medical 
marijuana dispensary in Calaveras County. That was until she heard 
Sheriff Dennis Downum say the feds would probably raid it once it 
opened. Now her plans are on hold.
 

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ALABAMA: Bill Thought Blocked Advances

The medical cannabis bill in Alabama is moving forward despite having 
been declared dead just last week. The bill's sponsor recognizes its 
importance to the state and, by presenting the facts to her colleagues, 
prevailed.

 

Alabama Medical marijuana bill rekindled 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2018>
by Jannell McGrew, Montgomery Advertiser 
<http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWSV5/storyV5ONPOT28.htm>
Some thought state Rep. Laura Hall's bill to make medical marijuana 
legal in Alabama had gone up in smoke, but the Huntsville Democrat has 
managed to get her much-debated measure out of a House committee.
 
Medical marijuana bill approved by House committee 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2025>
by Phillip Rawls, Tuscaloosa News 
<http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050427/APN/504270921> 

Legislation to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes got 
approved by a legislative committee Wednesday, but neither the bill's 
sponsor nor the panel's chairman expect it to get any closer to becoming 
law this year.
 

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RHODE ISLAND: State Bill Backed by Opinion Makers

Maine and Vermont have laws protecting patients, and Rhode Island may 
soon join them. There is opposition to the bill, but those in support 
are political leaders, medical associations, editorial boards and, of 
course, the public.

 

Medical marijuana's time has come 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2032>
EDITORIAL, NK Standard Times 
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1715&dept_id=73971&newsid=14422653&PAG=461&rfi=9> 

A bill that would legalize the medical use of marijuana is before the 
General Assembly, and it's drawing the support of leadership as well as 
the Rhode Island Medical Society and the Rhode Island State Nurses 
Association. We think it's time....

 

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TENNESSEE: Legislature to Study Measure for Vote Next Session

The bill before the legislature here deadlocked in committee, but will 
nonetheless be studied now for consideration before the state senate 
next year. As elsewhere, public support is strong, and lawmakers are 
waiting with interest to see if the U.S. Supreme Court will declare 
medical cannabis to be a purely state matter.

 

TN Senate shelves medical marijuana 
<http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2020>
by News Sentinel Nashville bureau , Knoxville News Sentinel 
<http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_3738050,00.html>
A Senate committee has spurned legislation to authorize use of marijuana 
for medical purposes in Tennessee, but the idea will still be officially 
studied for consideration next year. The bill by Sen. Steve Cohen, 
D-Memphis, got three yes votes and three no votes in the Senate General 
Welfare Committee. It needed five votes to pass the panel.

 

 

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medical cannabis. But some have not only failed to do so, they have
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Americans for Safe Access has joined in a lawsuit seeking to make
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      <div><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2024"><font
 color="#008800" size="2"><strong>Medical Marijuana Advocacy Group Sues
Fresno </strong></font></a><br>
      <span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font color="#333333"
 size="2">by&nbsp;Tonya Alanez</font></strong></span>,&nbsp;<span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-medpot26apr26,1,6639853.story?coll=la-headlines-california"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">The Los Angeles Times</font></strong></a></span>
      <br>
      <span class="text"><font size="2">Medical marijuana advocates
sued the city of Fresno on Monday, hoping to overturn what they called
unreasonable restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries.</font></span></div>
      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"></font></span>&nbsp;</div>
      <div><span class="text"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2027"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">Medical Marijuana Law Challenged </font></strong></a><br>
      <span class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/news/042605_nw_pot.html"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">KFSN - TV30</font></strong></a></span> <br>
      <span class="text"><font size="2">State law allows the
distribution and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. But, plans to
put a medical marijuana dispensary in Fresno's Tower District was shot
down by the city council last year. Now, the man who wants to
distribute pot is suing the city. He claims Fresno has restrictions so
tough that it amounts to a ban.</font></span></span></div>
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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">CALIFORNIA</span>:&nbsp;<span
 class="892265505-11032005">San Francisco Wrestles with Regulations</span></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em>Politicians
and the public in San Francisco universally support safe,&nbsp;legal access
for medical cannabis. But after years of providing little guidance and
no regulation, the city is now trying to come up with rules that would
protect patients and neighborhoods without giving the federal
government a new tool to interfere more than they already have.</em></span></font></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em></em></span></font>&nbsp;</p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span
 class="text"><span class="text"><font size="2"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2019"><font
 color="#008800" size="2"><strong>DEA on the Wrong Trail </strong></font></a><br>
      <span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font color="#333333"
 size="2">EDITORIAL</font></strong></span><font size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-pot29apr29,0,3397548.story"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">Los Angeles Times</font></strong></a></span><font
 size="3"> <br>
      </font><span class="text"><font size="2">When San Francisco's
Board of Supervisors met Monday to discuss how to tighten oversight of
the city's 43 medical marijuana dispensaries, Bush administration
officials cheered, for all the wrong reasons. </font></span></font></span></span></span></font></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span
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      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span
 class="text"><span class="text"><font size="2"><span class="text"><a
 class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2028"><font
 color="#008800" size="2"><strong>Medical marijuana catch-22 for S.F. </strong></font></a><br>
      <span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font color="#333333"
 size="2">by&nbsp;Wyatt Buchanan</font></strong></span><font size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/25/MNG9ACEIK71.DTL"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">San Francisco Chronicle</font></strong></a></span><font
 size="3"> <br>
      </font><span class="text"><font size="2">Federal drug agents who
want to crack down on marijuana use in San Francisco, medical or
otherwise, say the city&#8217;s plan to regulate the drug may give law
enforcement what it needs to do its job: a paper trail.</font></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></p>
      </span></span></div>
      <div><span class="text"><span class="text"><font size="2"></font></span></span>&nbsp;</div>
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      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><font face="Verdana">________________________________________________<b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></span></font></p>
      <font size="2"> </font>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">CALIFORNIA</span>:&nbsp;<span
 class="892265505-11032005">Moratoriums Run Risks for Patients and
Taxpayers</span></span></b></font></p>
      <font size="2"> </font>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><font
 face="Verdana"><font size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em>With
a state law that defines access to medical marijuana as a right and
directs local governments to implement plans to provide access,
moratoriums and bans not only contravene the intent of the law but
subject patients to unreasonable hardship and open municipalities to
unnecessary legal liability. </em></span></font></font></font></p>
      <font size="2"> </font>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><font
 face="Verdana"><font size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"></span></font></font>&nbsp;</font></p>
      <font size="2"> </font>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><font
 face="Verdana"><font size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"></span></font></font><a
 class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2033"><strong><font
 color="#008800" face="Verdana" size="2">Rohnert Park Seeks Marijuana
Club Ordinance </font></strong></a><br>
      <span class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2005/04/27/n/HeadlineNews/MARIJUANA/resources_bcn_html"><strong><font
 color="#008800" face="Verdana" size="2">CBS Ch 6</font></strong></a></span><font
 face="Verdana"> <br>
      <span class="text"><font size="2">Rohnert Park has joined the
list of Sonoma County cities seeking to regulate medical marijuana
dispensaries. The Rohnert Park City Council voted Tuesday night for a
45-day moratorium on the opening of any pot clubs. There are none in
the city now.</font></span></font></font></p>
      <font size="2"> </font>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><font
 face="Verdana"><span class="text"></span>&nbsp;</font></font></p>
      <font size="2"><font face="Verdana">
      <div><font face="Verdana"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2029"><font
 color="#008800" face="Verdana" size="2"><strong>Medical marijuana
issue comes to Simi </strong></font></a><br>
      <font face="Verdana"><span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font
 color="#333333" size="2">by&nbsp;Teresa Rochester</font></strong></span>,&nbsp;<span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_3727189,00.html"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">Ventura County Star</font></strong></a></span>
      <br>
      </font><span class="text"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Some
mornings, the pain and stiffness in Donna Marron's slight body is so
great it can take an hour to will her joints and muscles to get moving.</font></span></font></div>
      </font></font></span></span></div>
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      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"></font></span>&nbsp;</div>
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 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">NATIONAL</span>:&nbsp;<span
 class="892265505-11032005">Senior Citizens Turning to Cannabis</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em>In January,
the&nbsp;35-million-member AARP&nbsp;released survey results showing that nearly
three fourths of America's senior citizens support legal access to
medical marijuana. This extensive article from the Los Angeles Times
details why. Cannabis is well suited to treating many of the medical
conditions associated with aging, from arthritis to Alzheimer's,&nbsp;and
does not present the side effect problems of conventional medications,
particularly in combination.</em></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"></span></font>&nbsp;</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2021"><font
 color="#008800" size="2"><strong>Pot Laws Pain Some Elders </strong></font></a><br>
<span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font color="#333333" size="2">by&nbsp;Eric
Bailey</font></strong></span><font size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oldpot28apr28.story"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">Los Angeles Times</font></strong></a></span><font
 size="3"> <br>
</font><span class="text"><font size="2">Betty Hiatt is, at 81, both a
medical train wreck and a miracle, surviving cancer, Crohn's disease
and the onset of Parkinson's. Each morning Hiatt takes more than a
dozen pills. But first she turns to a translucent orange prescription
bottle stuffed with a drug not found on her pharmacist's shelf:
marijuana.</font></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"></span></span></font>&nbsp;</p>
<font size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text">
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 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">NATIONAL</span>:&nbsp;<span
 class="892265505-11032005">U.S. </span><span
 class="892265505-11032005">Researchers Gain Support from Civil Rights
Group</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em>Medical researchers are
used to being thwarted by the federal government on the subject of
cannabis, so it was disappointing but not surprising when a university
scientist was rejected in his bid to obtain marijuana for study. But
now the ACLU has entered the picture, rightly seeing the issue as one
of civil rights for not just the professor but the millions of
Americans who would benefit from what could be discovered.
Meanwhile,&nbsp;research is moving forward in Spain, Italy, Israel and Great
Britain, leaving the U.S. behind.</em></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em></em></span></font>&nbsp;</p>
</span></span></font>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"><a
 class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2023"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">ACLU files medical marijuana lawsuit </font></strong></a><br>
<span class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www3.advocate.com/news_detail.asp?id=16183"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">The Advocate</font></strong></a></span><font
 size="3"> <br>
</font><span class="text"><font size="2">The American Civil Liberties
Union this week announced a legal challenge to the Drug Enforcement
Administration's policy of obstructing private research that could lead
to marijuana being approved as a prescription medicine. The ACLU filed
the case on behalf of University of Massachusetts professor Lyle
Craker, who wants to grow an alternative, privately funded source of
research-grade marijuana.</font></span></span></span></font><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span
 class="text"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"></span></span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"><font size="2"></font></span></span></span></span></font>&nbsp;</p>
<font size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text">
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 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
<b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><span
 style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><strong><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">NATIONAL</span>:&nbsp;<span
 class="892265505-11032005">Congress Could Exempt Patients from
Prohibition</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></font></span></font></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p>
</span></span></b><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><em>While state legislatures are showing
increasing willingness to respond to public opinion by considering and
passing medical cannabis protections, the U.S. Congress, which could
resolve the problem easily, has refused to do so, despite their own
research and reports. Nonetheless, some members continue the process,
and one of the handful of patients who receive government-grown
marijuana direct from the government testified in Washington this week.</em></span></font></span></span></span></span></font><font
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em></em>
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      <td valign="top" width="100%">
      <div><span class="text"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2022"><font
 color="#008800" size="2"><strong>Medical marijuana user promotes
&#8216;exemption&#8217; bill </strong></font></a><br>
      <span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font color="#333333"
 size="2">by&nbsp;Dale M. King</font></strong></span><font size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&amp;prid=11489&amp;category=Local%20News"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">Boca Raton News</font></strong></a></span><font
 size="3"> <br>
      </font><span class="text"><font size="2">Irv Rosenfeld can do
something only a handful of American citizens can do. The Fort
Lauderdale stockbroker can smoke marijuana legally under federal law.
He is one of only seven people in the United States allowed to receive
medical marijuana by prescription from the government.</font></span></span></span></span></font></span></div>
      <div><span class="text"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"><span
 class="892265505-11032005"><span class="text"></span></span></span></span></font></span>&nbsp;</div>
      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2030"><font
 color="#008800" face="Verdana" size="2"><strong>Sheriff's comments put
pot club on hold </strong></font></a><br>
      <font face="Verdana"><span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font
 color="#333333" size="2">by&nbsp;Vanessa Turner </font></strong></span><font
 size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/articles/2005/04/29/news/news02.txt"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">Calaveras Enterprise</font></strong></a></span></font><font
 face="Verdana"><font size="3"> <br>
      </font><span class="text"><font size="2">Kim Cue, formerly of San
Andreas, was set to open the first medical marijuana dispensary in
Calaveras County. That was until she heard Sheriff Dennis Downum say
the feds would probably raid it once it opened. Now her plans are on
hold.</font></span></font></font></span></div>
      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"><span class="text"><font
 size="2"><span class="text"><font face="Verdana" size="3">&nbsp;</font>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana">________________________________________________<b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">ALABAMA</span>:&nbsp;<span
 class="892265505-11032005">Bill Thought Blocked Advances</span></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em>The
medical cannabis bill in Alabama is moving forward despite having been
declared dead just last week. The bill's sponsor recognizes its
importance to the state and, by presenting the facts to her colleagues,
prevailed. </em></span></font></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em></em></span></font><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em></em></span></font>&nbsp;</p>
      </span></font></span></font></span></div>
      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2018"><font
 color="#008800" face="Verdana" size="2"><strong>Alabama Medical
marijuana bill rekindled </strong></font></a><br>
      <font face="Verdana"><span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font
 color="#333333" size="2">by&nbsp;Jannell McGrew</font></strong></span><font
 size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWSV5/storyV5ONPOT28.htm"><font
 color="#008800" size="2"><strong>Montgomery Advertiser </strong></font></a></span><br>
      <span class="text"><font size="2">Some thought state Rep. Laura
Hall's bill to make medical marijuana legal in Alabama had gone up in
smoke, but the Huntsville Democrat has managed to get her much-debated
measure out of a House committee.</font></span></font></font></span></div>
      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><span
 class="text"></span></font></font></span>&nbsp;</div>
      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><span
 class="text"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2025"><font
 color="#008800" size="2"><strong>Medical marijuana bill approved by
House committee </strong></font></a><br>
      <span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font color="#333333"
 size="2">by&nbsp;Phillip Rawls</font></strong></span><font size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050427/APN/504270921"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">Tuscaloosa News</font></strong></a></span><font
 size="3"> <br>
      </font><span class="text"><font size="2">Legislation to legalize
the use of marijuana for medical purposes got approved by a legislative
committee Wednesday, but neither the bill's sponsor nor the panel's
chairman expect it to get any closer to becoming law this year. </font></span></span></font></font></span></div>
      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><span
 class="text"></span></font></font></span>&nbsp;</div>
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 class="text">
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana">________________________________________________<b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">RHODE ISLAND</span>:&nbsp;<span
 class="892265505-11032005">State Bill Backed by Opinion Makers</span></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em>Maine and
Vermont have laws protecting patients, and Rhode Island may soon join
them. There is opposition to the bill, but those in support are
political leaders, medical associations, editorial boards and, of
course, the public.</em></span></font></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em></em></span></font>&nbsp;</p>
      </span></font></font></span></div>
      <div><span class="text"><font size="2"><span class="text"><a
 class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2032"><font
 color="#008800" face="Verdana" size="2"><strong>Medical marijuana's
time has come </strong></font></a><br>
      <font face="Verdana"><span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font
 size="2">EDITORIAL</font></strong></span><font size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1715&amp;dept_id=73971&amp;newsid=14422653&amp;PAG=461&amp;rfi=9"><strong><font
 color="#000000" size="2">NK Standard Times</font></strong></a></span></font><font
 face="Verdana"><font size="3"> <br>
      </font><span class="text">A bill that would legalize the medical
use of marijuana is before the General Assembly, and it's drawing the
support of leadership as well as the Rhode Island Medical Society and
the Rhode Island State Nurses Association.<span
 class="892265505-11032005"> We think it's time....</span></span></font></span></font></span></div>
      <div><span class="text">
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 face="Verdana"></font>&nbsp;</p>
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 face="Verdana">________________________________________________<b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span
 style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span
 class="892265505-11032005">TENNESSEE</span>:&nbsp;<span
 class="892265505-11032005">Legislature to&nbsp;Study Measure for Vote Next
Session</span></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em>The bill
before the legislature here deadlocked in committee, but will
nonetheless be studied now for consideration&nbsp;before the state senate
next year. As elsewhere, public support is strong, and lawmakers are
waiting with interest to see if the U.S. Supreme Court will declare
medical cannabis to be a purely state matter. </em></span></font></p>
      <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
 face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><em></em></span></font>&nbsp;</p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Verdana"
 size="2"><span class="892265505-11032005"><a class="listtitle"
 href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2020"><font
 color="#008800" size="2"><strong>TN Senate shelves medical marijuana </strong></font></a><br>
<span class="bodygreystrong"><strong><font color="#333333" size="2">by&nbsp;News
Sentinel Nashville bureau </font></strong></span><font size="3">,&nbsp;</font><span
 class="bodygreystrong"><a
 href="http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_3738050,00.html"><strong><font
 color="#008800" size="2">Knoxville News Sentinel</font></strong></a></span><font
 size="3"> <br>
</font><span class="text"><font size="2">A Senate committee has spurned
legislation to authorize use of marijuana for medical purposes in
Tennessee, but the idea will still be officially studied for
consideration next year. The bill by Sen. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, got
three yes votes and three no votes in the Senate General Welfare
Committee. It needed five votes to pass the panel.</font></span></span></font></p>
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