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ASA’s Summary of Medical Marijuana Articles

    * FEDERAL: Patients Resist Raids on San Francisco Dispensary
    * FEDERAL: State Judge Collaborating with Feds in San Diego
    * CALIFORNIA: ID Card Program
    * CHP: Rogue Commander Refuses Return of Medicine
    * OP/ED: Protect Kids - Stop the Propaganda
    * Dispensary Regulation: Alameda, Palm Desert, Oxnard, Indian Wells
    * FEDERAL: New Questions in Epis Case

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FEDERAL: Patients Resist Raids on San Francisco Dispensary
Little more than a week after federal agents raided 13 medical cannabis 
dispensaries in San Diego, the DEA descended on Hope Net, an exemplary 
dispensary that distributes free medicine to indigent patients and has 
been working with city officials on developing regulations. More than 
100 patients and activists, including many from ASA, took to the street 
in the rain and turned back the agents after a lengthy standoff. But the 
DEA returned hours later and ransacked the dispensary, as well as the 
home of the proprietors.

DEA swoops down on SOMA pot club 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2937>
by Liz Highleyman, Bay Area Reporter 
<http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=461>
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration raided a home and buildings 
where medical marijuana was grown Tuesday, December 20, but left the 
Hope Net pot club in the South of Market District after five hours 
without raiding it, only to return in the early evening hours.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2937

Narcotics charges possible after medical marijuana raids 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2935>
by Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle 
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/22/BAGA7GBQQC1.DTL&type=health>
Federal agents are compiling evidence seized in raids on a San Francisco 
medical marijuana club and pot-growing operations in the city and Sonoma 
County, which could soon lead to narcotics charges, a Drug Enforcement 
Administration spokeswoman said Wednesday.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2935

Medical marijuana provider raided 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2941>
by Bonnie Eslinger and Marisa Lagos, San Francisco Examiner 
<http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/12/21/news/20051221_ne01_raid.txt>
Federal Drug Enforcement Agents raided a South of Market warehouse, a 
medical marijuana club and the home of the club’s owners on Tuesday, 
altogether seizing more than 600 marijuana plants.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2941

DEA raids SF pot club, home <http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2940>
by Associated Press, San Mateo Daily Journal 
<http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=52505>
Federal agents on Tuesday raided a medical marijuana club and other 
locations linked to its owners, but no arrests were made, according to a 
spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2940

DEA Raids Four Bay Area Medical Marijuana Operations 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2939>
by KTVU/Bay City News, KTVU - TV 2 
<http://www.ktvu.com/news/5601006/detail.html>
Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided four Bay Area medical 
marijuana operations seizing 839 plants worth nearly $2 million, DEA 
Public Information Officer Casey McEnry said Wednesday.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2939

SF Medical Marijuana Supporters Confront DEA Agents 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2943>
Fox Reno News <http://www.foxreno.com/news/5590136/detail.html>
Nearly 100 medical marijuana demonstrators gathered in the rain Tuesday 
to vehemently protest the pending raid of a San Francisco medical 
marijuana club.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2943

DEA Returns And Raids SF Medical Marijuana Club 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2942>
by Bay City News Service, KTVU - TV 2 
<http://www.ktvu.com/station/5592000/detail.html>
Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided a medical marijuana 
dispensary in San Francisco this evening, just hours after protesters 
celebrated scaring the DEA agents away.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2942

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FEDERAL: State Judge Collaborating with Feds in San Diego
In yet another disturbing example of a renegade official refusing to 
obey either the spirit or the letter of state law, it was revealed this 
week that the judge who signed the DEA’s warrant for the 13 raids was a 
state judge, sworn to uphold California’s legal protections for 
patients. Jurisdictional problems may render the raids moot, as no 
evidence from bad warrants can be used in court.

Pot clubs call raid warrants illegal 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2948>
by Jeff MacDonald, San Diego Union Tribune 
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20051219-9999-1m19pot.html>
The warrants federal drug agents relied on to search 13 medical 
marijuana dispensaries last week were signed by a San Diego County 
Superior Court judge, not a judge from U.S. District Court.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2948

Medical Marijuana Activists Claim Searches Were Illegal 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2945>
KFMB -TV <http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.31489.html>
Medical marijuana supporters say last week's searches of 13 dispensaries 
was illegal because the federal warrants were issued by a state judge.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2945

Medical marijuana raid affects San Marcos business 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2933>
by Jo Moreland, North County Times 
<http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/12/23/news/inland/21_15_5112_22_05.txt>
As federal agents continued to sort out evidence seized last week in 
raids at 13 medical marijuana dispensaries in San Diego County, an 
employee at a San Marcos outlet said Thursday that business has dropped.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2933

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CALIFORNIA: ID Card Program
The state legislature established the voluntary ID card system as a way 
of protecting patients from the hassle and hardship of arrest and 
seizure. It also saves taxpayers money and frees law enforcement from 
wasting time on processing legal patients. Not all counties are yet 
seeing the wisdom of such an approach, and questions remain about 
preserving patient privacy, but it’s a step toward normalizing relations.

Kern Supervisors approve marijuana ID cards 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2938>
by Bill Curtis, One Bakersfield 
<http://www.1bakersfield.com/news/read/2/58505>
The Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a medical marijuana ID 
card program today, forgoing a legal fight with the state. The vote was 
unanimous and involved little board discussion.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2938

Lassen Supervisors do not support medical marijuana ID card 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2934>
by Shayla Ashmore, Lassen County News 
<http://www.lassennews.com/News_Story.edi?sid=3021&mode=thread&order=0>
The medical marijuana identification card program is “nothing more than 
another scheme from the enemy within to destroy this society,” 
Supervisor Bob Pyle said last week.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2934

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CHP: Rogue Commander Refuses Return of Medicine
ASA prevailed on the California Highway Patrol to revise its policies on 
seizure and return of medical cannabis, but not all officers seem to 
have gotten the memo. In this case, a commander claims he would violate 
federal law by returning medical marijuana, even though numerous courts 
have affirmed that a provision in the Controlled Substances Act makes 
officers immune in such circumstances.

CHP Standoff Over Medical Marijuana 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2946>
by Brett Rowland, Gilroy Dispatch 
<http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=175123>
A legal battle erupted in the San Benito County Courthouse when the 
county's public defender demanded a court hearing to determine whether 
the local California Highway Patrol commander broke the law by refusing 
to return a man's medical marijuana confiscated during an arrest last year.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2946

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OP/ED: Protect Kids - Stop the Propaganda
Much of the propaganda used against medical cannabis concerns the threat 
that it might pose to children. This patient’s view that the truth is 
the best antidote has been proven out by research.

Kids should not use tobacco, pot or alcohol! 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2932>
by Russell Barth (OpEd), Mountain News (Canada) 
<http://www.hamiltonmountainnews.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=brabant/Layout/Article&c=Article&cid=1135291818406&call_pageid=1071061598496&col=1073476868386>
As a federal medical marijuana license holder, I resent the fact that 
the media continues the propaganda and misinformation about marijuana. 
This will make things even more confusing for teens. Why can't anyone 
just tell the truth when it comes to pot?
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2932

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CALIFORNIA: Dispensary Regulation in Alameda, Palm Desert, Oxnard, 
Indian Wells
Cities and counties around California continue to work out how to handle 
dispensary access for patients.

Area pot clubs handed mixed bag 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2931>
by Karen Holzmeister, Daily Review 
<http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_3337248>
After years of sneers that selling medical marijuana is a back-alley 
operation, Adele Morgan felt vindicated Thursday. The owner of We Are 
Hemp on Lewelling Boulevard in Cherryland got an early Christmas 
present: an Alameda County Sheriff's Department letter stating her 
business has tentative approval for a permit to sell medical marijuana 
in unincorporated areas.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2931

Emergency meeting called to discuss medical marijuana dispensaries in 
Palm Desert <http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2930>
by K. Kaufmann, Desert Sun 
<http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051223/UPDATE/512230352>
The Palm Desert City Council is set to pass an emergency moratorium on 
medical marijuana dispensaries at a hastily called meeting at 11 a.m. 
Saturday at the Civic Center, 73-510 Fred Waring Drive.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2930

Council wants report on pot dispensary soon 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2936>
Ventura County Star 
<http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/ox/article/0,1375,VCS_238_4334562,00.html>
Oxnard officials have three months to prepare a report on whether the 
city should allow a medical marijuana dispensary.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2936

City imposes moratoriums on pot dispensary licenses 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2944>
by K. Kaufmann, Desert Sun 
<http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051220/NEWS01/512200328/1006>
The possibility of a medical marijuana dispensary opening in a 
professional building on Highway 111 sparked a quick reaction from the 
Indian Wells City Council at its Dec. 15 meeting.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2944

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FEDERAL: New Questions in Epis Case
Brian Epis, who had been a medical marijuana patient and provider in 
Chico, has long maintained that his conviction and sentence was based on 
a willful distortion of the evidence, and his appellate attorney says 
she has evidence now of prosecutorial misconduct. Epis is awaiting 
resentencing under new guidelines.

Did the Feds Frame Brian Epis? 
<http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2947>
by Fred Gardner, Counter Punch 
<http://www.counterpunch.org/gardner12172005.html>
The judge who sentenced Bryan Epis to 10 years in federal prison now 
realizes that Epis was the victim of prosecutorial misconduct, according 
to Brenda Grantland, the lawyer handling Epis's appeal. Epis, 38, was 
convicted in 2002 of conspiracy to cultivate more than 1,000 cannabis 
plants. He was granted bail in August 2004, after serving more than 25 
months. The government is intent on sending him back to prison.
http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2947

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