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Medical
Marijuana
Rally
in
San
Francisco
3/13/98
(bulletin from California NORML)
Rally to Stop the Federal Veto of Prop 215! Defend Safe Access to
Medical Marijuana.
Tuesday March 24 -- 11 AM March from Harvey Milk Memorial Rainbow
Flag Pole (Castro and Market) to Federal Building. 12 Noon Rally at Federal
Building, 450 Golden Gate (at Polk)
Background:
In November 1996, Californians elected to give seriously ill patients
the right to use marijuana as medicine by approving Prop. 215. Now, the
federal government -- and posturing politicians -- are trying to take that
right away.
On March 24th, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco will hear a
federal lawsuit aimed at closing six medical marijuana cooperatives or
"clubs" in San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, Marin and Mendocino.
Most patients have had to rely on the growing network of medicinal cannabis
cooperatives, some of which predate passage of Prop. 215. But this is just
the latest step in the Federal war against 215. The time has come for the
federal government to declare a legal truce, halt its mindless war on California's
medical marijuana patients and providers, and attend to building the safe
and affordable distribution system called for in Prop. 215.
The defense brief in the federal case to shut down California's medical
marijuana dispensaries is posted at the California NORML web site: http://www.norml.org/canorml/.
(See our current California legislative action alert at http://www.drcnet.org/rapid/1998/3-4-2.html.)
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Issue #33, 3/13/98
Colorado: Needle Exchange Killed in Committee -- Activists Vow Civil Disobedience if Necessary | President's Advisory Commission on AIDS to Meet Next Week | A Conversation with Robert Fogel, Member of President's Advisory Commission on AIDS | Medical Marijuana Rally in San Francisco | CNN Online Poll -- 96% Favor Legalizing Medical Marijuana: The people send a message to the politicians | Special Legislative Alert -- House of Representatives to Debate the Medical Use of Marijuana | Bill in Oklahoma Would Allow the Governor to Call Out the National Guard in Drug Cases | New Drug Testing Bill Approved in Iowa Legislature | In Radio Call-In Poll, 84% of Young Brits Claim a Right to Use Drugs: Also... see this week's editorial | House of Lords to Study Cannabis: The Debate is Taken up at the Highest Levels of the British Government | Massive Cannabis Legalization March to be Held in London | Editorial: Americans, the Drug War, and the Concept of Rights
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