Hempstalk 2010
The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation present Hempstalk 2010. Please join us in beautiful Kelley Point Park.
For more information, please see http://www.hempstalk.org/ or call 503-235-4606.
Marijuana Policy
Could Pot Drive Turnout In Key Elections?
A survey making the rounds among strategists, which has yet to be made public, indicates that pot could be just the enticement many reluctant voters need to get to the polls. Support for marijuana legalization has been ticking up over the past decade as residents of states with legal medical marijuana realize that the sky hasn't fallen. And backing has surged more recently amid deficit hysteria and a declining economy, as voters are less inclined to spend tax dollars on a drug war when instead marijuana could itself be taxed and used to create jobs.
The 39th Annual National NORML Conference: Just Say Now!
The 2010 NORML Conference will be held in beautiful Portland, Oregon...please join us!
Panel Topics:
- Just Say Now! The Case For Taxing And Controlling Cannabis
- NORML's 2009-2010 Legislative and Political Round-Up
- NORML Women's Alliance Presents: Stiletto Stoners? Not! Women, Cannabis And Respect
- Ask The Experts: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Cannabis But Were Afraid To Ask
- Lessons From The 'Dry Decade': What Cannabis Law Reformers Can Learn From Alcohol's Reformers
- High Times' Cannabis Cultivation: Ready, Set and Grow!
- Cannabis Activism, Social Networking and Community Building To Affect Legal Reforms
- Industrial Hemp: Why? How? When?
- Cannabis As An 'Exit', Not An 'Entry' Drug
- Cannabis and Mental Health: A Medical and Research Discussion About Schizophrenia, PTSD, Bi-Polarity and Abuse
- Cannabis Legalization and Medicalization: Working Together!
- Medical Cannabis and Employment Law: Legal Discrimination?
- Medical Marijuana: The New Jim Crow?
- NORML Legal Committee: Overview of State Medical Cannabis Laws
- Reefer Movie Madness: A History of Cannabis in the Movies
Medical Cannabis-only day
- Saturday, September 11
- Join America's top doctors, researchers, and lawyers as they discuss the latest developments in medical marijuana science, policy and the law.
For more information and to register, see: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=8125.
For general questions, please contact 1-888-67-NORML or [email protected].
Seattle Hempfest
Join us! Admission to Seattle Hempfest is free!
The event spans three Seattle waterfront parks: Elliott Bay Park (North Entrance), Myrtle Edwards Park, and Olympic Sculpture Park (South Entrance).
To beat the crowds, use the north entrance by crossing the Amgen Pedestrian Bridge off of W Prospect Street. It has an elevator and is wheelchair accessible, placing the avid attendee just north of Seattle Hempfest's north entrance. There is very little parking at W Prospect Street. So your best bet is to walk, bike, or take a metro bus to that location. For example, take metro bus 18 to north entrance, and 15 to south entrance. Between downtown Seattle and Leary Way. There are many other Metro buses routes that can drop you at either entrance too. Downtown Seattle has several parking garages. Bicycles should enter through the North entrance in Elliot Bay Park to utilize the bike racks. Attaching bikes to the fence at Olympic Sculpture Park is not allowed.
Park Rules:
- No Pets (Dogs, Cats, Birds, etc.) Please do not leave your pets in your car!
- No Alcohol
- No Narcotics
- No Weapons
- No Camping
- No Unauthorized Vending
- Note: It is an enhanced felony to sell marijuana, marijuana food, or other drugs in a city park
For more information, see http://hempfest.org/drupal/attendees
Forum -- Marijuana Legalization: Legal and Practical Issues in California
Please join us on for a forum addressing the legal and practical implications of the California initiatve to tax and regulate marijuana, which will be on the ballot this fall. If a state were to legalize cannabis, as California's Proposition 19, or A.B. 2254, the Ammiano bill, are attempting to do, what legal tools might the federal government use to block operation of such laws? Additional areas of law - employment law, family law, municipal law, insurance law, corrections policy - would be implicated. What are the issues?
Please join the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers and our panel of experts in addressing the legal and practical issues when a state legalizes cannabis. CD'S with comprehensive literature will be available for attendees.
Speakers:
Sheriff Thomas D. Allman - Mendocino County Sheriff
Tom Ammiano - Assemblymember, 13th District, California
Robert Hirshon, Esq. - Professor of Law, University of Michigan; former President, American Bar Association
Allen Hopper, Esq. - Legal Director, ACLU Drug Law Reform Project
Alex Kreit, Esq. - Associate Professor of Law; Director, Center for Law and Social Justice, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Theshia Naidoo, Esq. - Staff Attorney, Office of Legal Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance
Moderators:
Roger E. Goodman, Esq. - State Representative, 45th District, Washington State; Executive Director, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers
Eric E. Sterling, Esq. - President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation; President, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers
The forum is open to the public, and is followed by a reception from 6-7pm to give you a chance to meet our guest speakers and to network with attorneys and others attending.
A federal-state law inconsistency shouldn't stop Californians from legalizing marijuana (Opinion)
L.A.-based attorney Hanna Liebman Dershowitz, feels that inconsistencies in federal and state law wouldn't stop California from legalizing, regulating, and taxing marijuana if Proposition 19 passes this November.
MPP Insider Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 4
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The Marijuana Policy Project, along with a coalition of allies, has called for President Obama to withdraw the nomination of Michele Leonhart as DEA Administrator. Under Leonhart's leadership the DEA has staged medical marijuana raids in direct defiance of Attorney General Eric Holder's directive to respect state medical marijuana laws. 
Maine's medical marijuana law has taken a great stride in the right direction as the state issues the first licenses to dispensaries there. This is the implementation of a law passed last November when residents voted on an MPP-drafted initiative to add dispensaries to the state's existing medical marijuana legislation. 
The DEA, under Michele Leonhart, has once again thumbed its nose at the Obama administration's directive to not interfere with medical marijuana providers legally operating within state laws. Raids conducted in California last week on state-legal medical marijuana operations have yet to be explained by the DEA. 
University of Michigan researchers have come to the conclusion that marijuana use is associated with the lowest rate of drug-related emergency room visits. Though unlikely to change the minds of drug-warriors across America, this data is a valuable tool in countering their rhetoric. 
We do! Make sure you're following MPP on Twitter! It's fast, easy, and free to sign-up so what are you waiting for? MPP's Twitter page is a great way to get up-to-date stories related to marijuana prohibition, interact with other supporters, and stay current on all the latest in marijuana policy reform. 
Esequiel Hernandez, a U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by Marines patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border for drug smugglers.
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ACLU sues Wal-Mart for firing medical marijuana patient!
Veterans seek marijuana for PTSD treatment
Why do police target marijuana? Money.
Report reveals systematic racism in marijuana arrests
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Wal-Mart continues to find itself under pressure from medical marijuana advocates as the American Civil Liberties Union has stepped forward to file a lawsuit against the corporation for its firing of medical marijuana patient Joseph Casias. 
Colorado, long an important front for battling marijuana prohibition, is under pressure from veterans and medical marijuana advocates pressing the state to allow medical marijuana for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. 
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece titled "Strapped Police Run on Fumes, and Federal Pot-Fighting Cash" detailing the ways in which federal dollars keep police forces afloat while forcing them to pursue ineffective eradication efforts. 
Our allies at the Drug Policy Alliance recently released a study finding, among other things, that although blacks use marijuana at roughly the same rate as whites, they are being arrested at up to four times the rate as whites. This absolute lack of racial justice is just one more reason we need to end marijuana prohibition today. 
We do! Did you know that the Marijuana Policy Project is on Facebook? No? That's alright, it's never to late to join us! MPP's Facebook page is a great way to get up-to-date stories related to marijuana prohibition, interact with other supporters, and stay current on all the latest in marijuana policy reform. 
Robin Prosser, suffering from excruciating pain, took her own life when she was unable to get the medicine she desperately needed.SAVE THE DATE! VCL Forum on Marijuana Legalization, Aug. 6, San Francisco
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