Announcement

This is going to be a pot-luck event, so please bring a dish to share. Contact us by email if you plan to speak or perform at the service. Even if you cannot be there, send something along and we'll include somehow. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to: Tenderloin Health/Homeless Youth Alliance, Attention: Mary Howe, P.O. Box 170427, San Francisco, CA 94117.

Please come and find out what we have been working on, and our proposed direction for the future. You will be able to meet the Board members. We will be discussing our mission statement, purpose, and future sub-committees.

The Marijuana Policy Project will be working with other groups in Massachusetts to explore the possibility of placing a "decriminalization" initiative on the November 2008 ballot. To kick everything off, MPP executive director Rob Kampia will be meeting with supportive groups and individuals at a fundraising party in Boston on Thursday, February 22.

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An opportunity to hear from one of the true pioneers of the drug law reform movement will occur on Thursday February 22nd at 1:30PM. Dr. Arnold Trebach, American University professor emeritus and founder of the Drug Policy Foundation will be discussing his new book Fatal Distraction: The War on Drugs in the Age of Islamic Terror.

We are pleased to announce that the Prisons Foundation has been chosen by a blue ribbon panel as a Mayor's Arts Award Finalist in the category of Innovation in the Arts. The panel was impressed with the work done by the Prisons Foundation in allowing men and women in prison to pursue the arts and their educational development, its publishing a stunning newsmagazine Art for Justice, and its sponsorship of the Prison Art Gallery in downtown Washington.

A film by Jay Corcoran "Cautionary ...disturbing,...remarkably candor. [director] Jay Corocoran has never shied away from ...painful and political touchy aspects of gay male sexuality." --Steven Holden, New York Times

Entheogens, Enlightenment, and Experimental Humanities with Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University and Author of Psychoactive Sacramentals. Presented by the Templeton Research Lectureship Program on the Constructive Engagement Between Science and Religion (2005-2008) in Association with the Spirituality, Religion, and Health Interest Group.

On Saturday, January 20, 2007 Ploppy Palace Productions and Tobacco Road will be hosting the 9th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert to raise funds for FL NORML’s (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) medical marijuana campaign and the protection of patients’ rights. As part of this four stage extravaganza, some of South Florida's top bands, spoken word artists and community activists will join together for patients’ and physicians’ right to use medical cannabis.

Sunday, December 10, 6p.m – 9p.m. Dulcenea - 1431 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago The world's largest traveling visionary art exhibition featuring work by Robert Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, Oliver Vernon, J Garcia, Kris Davidson, Roman Villagrana, Mark Hensen and many others.